It seems the US is on a warpath. They really do want china to invade. Hopefully this game of chicken doesn’t end in nuclear annihilation.

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    The only being able to plan 3 months at a time is very apt, since I’m pretty convinced the US thought that when Russia invaded they would gather a coalition of the “international community” and implement as many sanctions as possible on Russia, and that they would soon yield and be forced to the negotiating table because of it. That failed, and they seemingly have no plan B at all. The only plan now seems to be to try and keep it going as long as possible, because a Ukrainian defeat is not going to be good for the current ruling political establishment in the US, so they want to kick that can down the road hoping it’ll fall when a different ruling party is in power. Just like Afghanistan.

    People like to think of western elites as sinister and shrewd schemers, but really they’re just egotistical numbskulls.

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        It’s multi pronged. Ukraine will be forced to borrow from the IMF and World Bank in the same endless debt-cycle that has created the entire “Third World”. Their resources will be given to the global corps to squeeze as much profit as possible while the majority of Ukranians will work ever harder for less and less.

        At the end of the day it’s all backed by the missile and the jet, so there really is no objection that will stand.

        Such is the playbook that has worked so well for the parasitic capitalist class

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      They probably want Ukraine to keep fighting for 2 more years so they can campaign on that in 2024 for the election

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        I have a feeling after the mid terms Ukraine will completely drop out of the western media consciousness except for maybe a couple isolated incidents and “victories” that make it to the press. Again, just like Afghanistan.

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        I mean, they’re encouraging the Ukraine to blow up a nuclear power plant and cause a nuclear disaster on a scale unseen since Chernobyl so… I dunno what the hell they are thinking.