Ukraine War: US Defeats, Occupies, Loots, Brainwashes, and Humiliates Europe, Crushing Its Economy and Its Spirit
Ukraine War: US Defeats, Occupies, Loots, Brainwashes, and Humiliates Europe, Crushing Its Economy and Its Spirit
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Ukraine War: US Defeats, Occupies, Loots, Brainwashes, and Humiliates Europe, Crushing Its Economy and Its Spirit
By Kevin Barrett, for Crescent International
Western media portray Russia’s “Special Military Operation” as a straightforward Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. According to mainstream propagandists, Russia’s invasion was unprovoked and driven by Putin’s desire to expand the borders of the Russian empire.
Russia, for its part, argues that it invaded Ukraine in a pre-emptive war of self-defense. NATO-armed-and-trained Ukrainian forces had massed at the borders of the ethnically-Russian Donbass region and intensified their artillery attacks, which have been ongoing since 2014 and have killed more than 10,000 civilians while driving 1.5 million refugees into Russia. Moscow argues that NATO, using its Ukrainian proxies, was about to invade and finish the genocide of the Donbass—while simultaneously attacking Crimea, which is now Russian territory. Even worse, US-NATO forces had already placed biological weapons laboratories throughout Ukraine and were conducting dangerous experiments and practicing attacking Russia with militarized pathogens. Additionally, Ukraine’s NATO-owned-and-operated puppet president Zelensky, a virtual prisoner of the US-trained Ukrainian neo-Nazi movement, had threatened to obtain and use nuclear weapons. For all of these reasons, the Kremlin says, it had no choice but to disarm and denazify Ukraine.
The Russian narrative is more convincing than the Western one. But both narratives ignore the war’s crucial economic dimension…