The one consistent theme throughout the war has been that western analysts have solely focused on considering the negative consequences for Russia without ever stopping to think what the negative consequences for the west might be.

Amusingly, I predicted this exact scenario right at the start of the war, looks like mainstream western press finally figure it out

Nobody knows whether Russia plans to take over all of Ukraine or merely keep the areas friendly to Russia and make the rest of Ukraine west’s problem. The latter seems a more plausible scenario to me. Russia will likely take areas like Kharkov and Odessa because there is a strong pro Russian sentiment there. Then western Ukraine where the nationalists are will become a rump state without any industry or agriculture. This will become an ongoing burden for the west because the state won’t be able to function on its own, and will require constant flow of money to prevent it from collapsing.

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We are witnessing the purest expression of imperial hypocrisy. For years, the US propaganda apparatus diligently constructed a fable, a so called “debt trap” mythology, to frighten the nations of the Global South away from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It was a tale of predatory lending designed to isolate and contain a strategic competitor.

And yet, what do we find? The most eager client for these very loans, to the tune of over 200 billion dollars, was none other than the United States itself. Turns out that the entire narrative was a conscious fraud. They never believed their own warnings. They recognized that Chinese financing was a credible, attractive alternative to the stranglehold of Western financial institutions.

So, while publicly sounding the alarm to scare away other customers, the empire privately availed itself of the service. Here we see the very essence of imperial strategy. Its goal is to monopolize the very resources and opportunities it denies to others, all while cloaking its cynical self interest in the righteous language of concern.

lol I miss lemmy before reddit migration

Oh, how precious. You’re still pretending Ukraine is an independent nation “choosing” to deal with the US, when in reality it is simply a US proxy whose sovereignty begins and ends at the Pentagon’s discretion.

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This is just the proposal that the US is floating. Russia hasn’t actually agreed to any of it.

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It’s truly inspiring to watch the political theater of Western imperialism, where the supposedly sovereign government in Kyiv has its peace terms drafted by Washington in consultation with Moscow, and delivered by the US Army Secretary, with an aggressive timeline for signature that would make any colonial administrator blush. The sidelining of the delusional Kellogg, who actually believed Ukraine could win, for an envoy who produced a plan that agrees with Russia’s territorial objectives, finally pulls back the curtain on the entire charade. The key victory for the US is in engineering a situation where the puppet must publicly express his constructive and honest gratitude for the privilege of surrendering. A textbook example of a proxy war, where the client state’s role is not to win, but to lose on a schedule and with the appropriate groveling gratitude to its masters.

Nothing says “we’re the good guys” like diverting your entire explosives supply to bomb a besieged population, leaving your own arsenals empty.

They already did back in 2014 when the US ran a violent coup to overthrow the legitimately elected government.

yeah it’s a frustrating trend, if archive site ever goes away news would be completely unaccessible

wasn’t archived yet when I found it

when time comes to hang the capitalists, the capitalists themselves will sell the rope turns out to be an evergreen quote

oh look it’s NBC manufacturing consent for the latest color revolution

Does anybody take that seriously after they used negotiations with Iran as a distraction while preparing the strike?