America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has published and promoted an interview with a renowned Neo-Nazi Ukrainian mayor, without disclosing the politician's allegiances to World War II German leader Adolf Hitler and Ukraine's own Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera. The small-town mayor was lionized for standing up to Russian soldiers. In the background of the mayor on the PBS video was a portrait of Stepan Bandera, the savage Russophobe, anti-Semite, and leader of Ukrainian Nazis.
The interview came just days after PBS published an article downplaying the links between Neo-Nazi politicians and Ukraine's current political situation.
Putin unconvincingly gives as a major reason for his 'Special Operation' invasion and attack of the Ukraine the 'deNazification of the Ukraine. Let someone ask the grieving relatives of the dead Ukrainian civilians, men, women and children, and fallen Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, whether or not the sacrifice of so many lives for Putin's designated purposes was in any way comprehensible other than murderous insanity.
President Zelinsky will continue to be encouraged by influential wider war seekers not to negotiate a cease fire agreement. Massive outside military aid will continue to be filtered in and difficult to stop. For all the Ukrainian lives already taken and Russian military lives sacrificed, a Russian withdrawal would be looked upon both inside and outside Russia as an abject defeat. The most likely development would seem to be a cease-fire and a stalemate in place until the big powers negotiate a settlement if only for the sake of normalizing the flow of food, goods and services in what most likely will be a world divided in two with an indeterminate number of nations attempting neutrality in a now or soon to be an openly bipolar planet. This is an outcome more or less predicted by Mark Sleboda at the end of his long video interview on the Grayzone.
For economic specifics the reader might consider reading Pepe Escobar quoting economist Michael Hudson March 01 2022 on how Russia will bypass western economic warfare and how the US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. "The end result could be massive commodity shortages worldwide."
US/NATO leaders seek to prolong the conflict and increase NATO's power in its long held aim to break up what was the Soviet Union and now pursues the same dissolution of the Russian Federation. How will Russia extricate itself from a dire and deadly situation wherein it has made itself a target of considerable world wide outrage? That an invasion would cause intolerably great loss of life had to have been foreseen, yet not avoided seems a mystery. It appears that the taking of human life was not in mind with sufficient seriousness during the long period of time that witnessed the menacing massive amount of deadly weaponry poised at the ready in tight proximity to Ukraine's borders.
What were China's Xi Jinping's thoughts about the huge army poised at Ukraine's border as he prominently displayed his solidarity and friendship with President Putin at the Beijing Olympics? Did the two leaders discuss the alarming and threatening positioning of the vast amount of Russian military? One would imagine they must have, but with what shared conclusion(s)?
Putin had declared that if the U.S. and its allies continued their "obviously aggressive stance," Russia would take "appropriate retaliatory military-technical measures," What were Xi Jinping's thoughts about Putin's threat and ultimate intentions? What was Xi Jinping's planned Chinese reaction to the immense world wide condemnation that US dominated world media would intensify. How would it affect China as Russia's ally.
Given the Russian abhorrence of war since experiencing the death of 28 million Soviet citizens during the WWII Nazi invasion of Russia, one would not expect President Putin to run for re-election in 2024, if he is even able to remain in office until 2024.
With the yawning disaster of an unnecessary war most probably to some degree meant to involve China, Xi Jinping's judgement of Putin is thrown in doubt and for Putin's ultimate bloody decision Xi Jinping might lose some of the consensus that backs his up to now firm and extended rule.
The insanity of the brutal loss of life in the Ukraine augers an ever widening war between US/NATO and Russia that seems to be ultimately aimed at including China in a 3rd World War wherein the use of Nuclear Weapons, could end life on Earth.
At US urging, Germany has recently announced that it will spend 2% of its gross national product on its military, and has contracted with US to buy a fleet of its F-15 war planes. No one of consequence is talking about any alternative to acquiring the latest weapons of mass destruction for war with Russia. This in spite of memories of Germany's invasion of Russia having brought death to 28 million men, women and children.
Time for citizen control over Wall Street's war investing bankers. It's entirely imaginable that the astronomical amount of money made from war might push humankind into self-destruction.
A world wide awakening to this danger will have to happen before speculative investment in war can be halted. Multi-nation war first has to become an urgent topic of conversation everywhere - in family, among friends, in the workplace, schools, on the street, in the news, and in the government.
Noam Chomsky, in "US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victory" gives us the background for Russia's blunder:
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a major war crime,"
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