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Read one of my old notes in which I documented, "patient recognizes that his life expectancy is limited." I guess this should not really be remarkable.
If you "feel a moral obligation to defend both Europe and Ukraine from Russia" the you have some waking up to do.
A terrific summary by @BioClandestine, an actual investigative journalist who has been all over this ever since the kinetic action started:
"If you don’t know who Victoria Nuland is, or what she was doing in Ukraine in 2014, then you have no idea what’s going on.
The Deep State started this war. It was the Obama CIA/State Dept that funded Nazi militant groups to…
I don’t understand the need to create conspiracy theories for why ex-Warsaw Pact populations would want to more closely align themselves with Western Europe. Look at GDP. Look at corruption indexes. Look at relative constitutional freedoms. Is there any metric whatsoever one could point to to support an argument of preferring to be in the Russian sphere of influence as opposed to Western Europe’s?
That is accurate, but it's easily verifiable history that the US made a lot of noise about not expanding NATO eastward in 1990 and 1991, and then proceeded to do just that starting in 1999. I agree, it makes perfect sense why the Warsaw Pact countries would want to be in NATO, and part of the EU. It made no sense, and was in fact highly counterproductive, for the USA to be as antagonistic towards Russia in the intervening years since the fall of the Soviets.
