Comments by "Major Moolah" (@majormoolah5056) on "Russia's war: no end in sight | Ian Bremmer | Quick Take" video.

  1. You should listen to Jeffrey Sachs and Ray McGovern for insight into why the Ukraine War happened in the first place. They have expertise and senior level connections into the whole situation. Then, if you want deep background into American geostrategy, you should read The Grand Chessboard by Brzezinski. And if your sanity can endure, the works of Robert Kagan. Then we should also mention Madeleine Albright and her speeches and writings in the 1990s. And finish with the leaked memo "Nyet Means Nyet" by William Burns, then diplomat, now head of CIA. Suffice to say, this war was created by 32 years of American foreign policy. Expand NATO eastwards and develop bulwarks against Russian influence in a very 19th-century way, mixed with Cold War containment. Senior American officials, Europeans, Russians and Ukrainians themselves kept saying that this is insanity. At some point expanding NATO into Ukraine will lead into war. Yet the Americans kept pressing. We have audio recordings proving that Victoria Nuland engineered the Ukrainian coup in 2014. We should also remember how the Americans funded and supported Ukrainian neo-Nazis and other far right forces. John McCain even shared a stage with them. If you know Russian politics, then you know that fascism in Eastern Europe will drive them crazy. That is very likely what the Americans intended. Then we had the 2014 peace negotiations. Obama said "count me out" and made France and Germany the guarantors of that peace. But the then-Prime Minister of Ukraine slipped a poison pill into the accords: only after the rebels disarm and surrender, can the peace talks begin. Suffice to say, that killed the whole thing. Obama also trained Ukrainian soldiers and otherwise increased NATO presence in Ukraine. Classic Obama foreign policy: find the muddled middle. I would say that Obama realised that the peace will fail and that will then fall on Merkel and Sarkozy. And that this creates divisions inside Europe. During the early months of the war, there was a massive media blitz from the American side: East Europe was right to distrust Putin, weak Western Europe is kowtowing to tyrants. There were in fact peace talks in March 2022. Zelensky literally came out and said that Ukraine can be neutral. These talks were guaranteed by Turkey and there was an Israeli negotiator involved. The peace agreement reached its sixth draft when the Americans threw it out. They said that there will be a military solution to this. So now here we are. USA does not have the industrial base to give the Ukrainians what they need to win. Biden cannot find a negotiated settlement, because after 32 years of NATO-related lies, Russians cannot trust anything he says. And in Vilnius it became crystal clear that Americans will never let Ukraine into NATO. Currently 20% of Ukrainian brigades marked for the counter-offensive are lost. 40% is still engaged and another 40% in reserve. Over the last year, the Russians have retrained, reorganised and re-equipped. In the east of Ukraine, 100,000 Russian soldiers have amassed with hundreds of tanks and vehicles and so on. Russians will very likely launch an offensive of their own, once the Ukrainians have sent in and lost their strategic reserves. There have been absolutely horrifying videos from the front, where Ukrainians are given a week of training and then sent into the fight. Putin has no reason to negotiate, because at this point he might as well go in. There is nothing to lose by pressing on, but there is very much to lose by quitting. Why would he just suddenly end the war and let Ukraine enter NATO? Military experts and those with contacts into Russian elites say that Russia will very likely take all the parts of Ukraine that have an ethnic-Russian majority. Makes sense, because the ethnic hatred created in 2014 and the related violence are one key reason for this war. So this means that Russia will push forward until the Dnepr River. Then they might very well take Odessa if they can, because this will ensure that Ukraine becomes a failed state that cannot join EU or NATO. There can be no doubt that the underlying reason for this war is NATO expansion into Ukraine. This was the American strategy, clearly laid out. The only question is, was this conflict created purposefully by the American foreign policy establishment. I believe it was. USA has a very long tradition of creating these conflicts and making regime changes. The Soviet-Afghan War was started in large part by the Islamist extreme, who the Americans were funding. We know now that they calculated that this would pull the Russians in. At no point has Biden publicly stated that he even wants to win this war and he has never given Ukraine enough to do so. Just to maintain. Ukraine winning would mean nuclear war. So why has Biden so stubbornly pushed for this? Even when he held the Ukraine portfolio during the Obama administration, he was an ultra-hawk. Smart money says that the Americans calculated that this war will weaken Russia fatally, destabilize EU with the joining of a huge and dysfunctional Ukraine, make US the energy provider of Germany and finally strengthen NATO once more. Let Europe deal with the mess. This whole thing was an American proxy war, Cold War-style, and it shows how utterly empty and violent the American foreign policy is. There is no rules-based international order because USA alone makes, enforces and breaks the rules as it sees fit. Let the horrifying parasite finally fall and die.
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