Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain knew that Ukraine was an expendable pawn for the west. The real story is that the US will throw Europeans under the bus as well.

all the way back in 2014 in fact when the US couped their elected government

Because Europe is materially incapable of filling in America’s shoes.

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.

lol

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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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?

Right CBC, a famous Chinese nationalist source. 🤡

It looks the Ukraine served as a wake up call for Taiwan, shifting public opinion towards reunification and leaving the ruling DPP increasingly unpopular. CBC was moaning just recently that many young Taiwanese have little appetite for a military confrontation with the mainland. The most probable outcome now seems to be that the US-puppet administration will get thrown out, paving the way for the KMT’s return to power and the resumption of a direct dialogue on reunification.

A historical point that people tend to forget about is that the KMT was already advancing on a path toward peaceful reunification back in 2014. The proposed framework involved maintaining Taiwan’s autonomy, its own military, and having a representative within the mainland’s political structure. It was precisely at this juncture that the US backed the sunflower movement successfully derailed the process and brought the DPP to power. Now, with shifting public sentiment, it looks like that particular American political operation has finally run its course.