After Ukraine and NATO Are Spun Off, Who’s Next?
Moon of Alabama observes that Trump’s mineral deal with Ukraine creates indefinite indentured servitude for western Ukraine. Trump seems to see himself as General MacArthur to Zelensky’s Hirohito, after a great defeat, rather than two losers who a provoked – and lost – a war with Russia. As some have noted, a deal like this with the Americans may make unconditional surrender to a wealthy and Slav-sympatico Russia a far better alternative for the average Ukrainian.
Inauthentic leadership, corruption and cowardice all lead to failure in war, and in everything else. NATO, long afflicted with a lack of defensive mission, roams incoherently creating chaos. The European ruling elite sustains itself by losing wars slowly and endlessly for profit, and to stay out of prison or the gallows.
The New York Times “expose on Ukraine” revealed Western contempt for the Russian Army, as well as a Western sense of superiority vis a vis Ukrainians. Former Zelensky advisor Oleksiy Arestovych says European and American elites see Ukrainians as “monkeys with grenades.” After lying for over a decade about Ukraine, the Times now graces us with a pseudo-intellectual explanation of how the US elite and CIA constructed, fueled and guided this proxy war with Russia. Not a single neocon is mentioned in their shady mea culpa, nor does the Times own their part selling another Congressionally unauthorized war against a nuclear armed power. In a nutshell, this is the story of US foreign policy for over 70 years.
Congress cheers the smooth diversion of defense profiteering from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and now from Ukraine to Gaza, Yemen, and Iran. Sun Tzu may not have said “follow the money,” but he did say “there is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.” Government media like the Times can see this in Ukraine, but refuses to acknowledge how 70 years of non-stop conflict, war and proxy war has destroyed the Constitution and impoverished the United States.
Notwithstanding its limited value to the US, or even to Europe, restoration and development costs to “fix” what the war damage has done to Ukraine is estimated at over $500 billion. That’s ten times the cost to “fix” the damage US bombs have done to Gaza, estimated at a paltry $53 billion. No wonder Trump would rather build prof
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