MY TAKE ON THE UKRAINE WAR
This is why we are all screwed.
This all started when we put offensive missiles in Turkey and Italy in 1959. The Soviets responded by putting missiles in Cuba. Hence the Cuban Missile Crisis. We had real statesmen back then and the crisis was resolved.
When the Soviet Union broke up, NATO pledged to not move one inch closer to Russia’s new border. NATO broke this promise almost immediately. NATO moved significantly further east with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Poland, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Most recently Sweden and Finland.
In the 90s Russian backed President Polenchko of Ukraine was overthrown by the US backed Voldomer Zelensky ( I know I am murdering the spelling of these names and I apologize.) The eastern side of Ukraine never wanted to leave Russian rule. They liked their plentiful economy and they all spoke Russian anyway. They were Russians. These areas are Luhansk, Zaporizhai, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Meiyopol and the Crimean Peninsula. Upon making their feelings known, the US backed government of Ukraine based in Kyiv decided to launch a mini civil war to prevent these areas from leaving. They launched countless attacks against these regions killing thousands of their own countrymen. Crimea had a referendum that was totally legitimate and voted over 90% to go back to Russia. Ukraine would have nothing of it. Russia invaded Crimea and took it over thus gaining a warm water port (Sevastopol) in the Black Sea. They built a beautiful bridge to Crimea from Mainland Russia. An engineering marvel to be honest.
The Ukraine then starts to have interest in joining NATO and the European Union.This pushed Russia over the edge. NATO had moved hundreds of miles closer to their territory. Missiles locations in Ukraine would have less than a 5 minute flight time to Moscow. Russia had to do something. They warned the US and NATO dozens of times to stop or they would be forced to take military action, We didn’t and they did.
Remember that stalled convoy of outdated and antique Soviet Era armor that sat outside of Kyiv for so long? It was just a diversion from Russia’s true objective of retaking the east. Eastern Ukraine is where all their valuable natural resources are,. Uranium, Titanium, Copper, Coal, and Oil and many others reside in the mountains of Eastern Ukraine. After the fighting slowed down a month or so ago, Four regions in Eastern Ukraine had a referendum. They voted to go back to Russia with a plurality of over 85%. Russia accepted them in and they are now Russian territory.
The US sanctions stole billions of dollars from Russia and Russian businessmen. By seizing legitimate funds from US and European banks WE, the United States, committed crimes. Seizing assets of Russian millionaires (Property, Cash, Yachts etc) we were in the wrong. The sanctions have destroyed the economy of Europe, Most of Europe has had all of their natural gas supplies shut off by Russia so they are going to face astronomical heating and electrical costs this winter. The Ukrainian Wheat harvest has been all but eliminated. Europe is in one hell of a mess. Gas prices in the US are going to skyrocket with Russia’s oil reserves not being on the world market. Times for the world are going to get ugly, REALLY UGLY.
Our leadership vacuum in Washington has allowed this to all happen. The whole world is going down the toilet because America is floundering under pathetic leadership. Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Armenia are all going to hell while in the US we are worried about Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter and what bathrooms school kids can use. Our Southern Border is a catastrophe our economy has been decimated and gasoline is over $6.00 a gallon in some places.
The US is sending billions of dollars we don’t have to Ukraine for this war effort. This whole mess would have been over in two weeks if we had kept our noses out of it. By sending more and more weapons and more lethal and sophisticated arms to Ukraine we are now involved. We are assisting and facilitating the killing of Russian Soldiers. This is a proxy war against Russia. It's WW III already. We just haven't joined in yet. It took us two years to get involved in WW II. Same thing here.
The Russian conventional forces cannot stand up to NATO’s more modern and lethal equipment. Putin has warned a dozen times that if NATO gets involved they will be forced to defend themselves with Nuclear Weapons. Their last line of defense. Instead of staying out of this Fray we are sending more and more weapons and money to Ukraine. Our congress is supplying Ukraine helping them kill Russians in a war that is not our concern, knowing full well that Russia will use Nuclear Weapons if they are backed into a corner or if NATO joins in. Yet we are STILL sending lethal equipment to Ukraine.
How does this make ANY sense whatsoever?
Our economy is down the toilet. During Covid we printed and gave away trillions of dollars of aide without concern of the future cost. Our economy tanked do to lost production and the labor slowdown. Our workforce demanded unreasonable wage increases and inflation went through the roof. Gas prices, Food, Utilities all are at unheard of levels. In order to keep oil prices down ahead of the midterm elections, our fool president tapped the strategic oil reserve. It’s now below half of it’s level when Trump was in office. He filled it to 100% by the way. So when we stop stealing oil from our strategic oil reserver later this month prices will start to creep back up. Creep? Hell skyrocket.
All this has been caused by our ineffective president and traitor congress. They see a war as the only way to get out of our economic mess that THEY created. If a US city gets nuked they will declare that all our debts are null and void. That is what you do in a war. They will get away with all their criminal spending and misappropriation of funds at the expense of a few million American citizens. And we voted these ass clowns into office to represent us.
We are seriously screwed and it’s all going to come to a head probably by the end of this month.
Sorry this is so long, It’s just a short synopsis of a much more complicated explanation. I have been watching this for years now and probably studied it more than most. I am a bit of a history nerd. While we have been worried about silly domestic issues like transgender education in schools and what pronouns to use with school children, Russia has been arming itself to the teeth with hypersonic weapons and new and better nuclear arms. We are in serious trouble here and I can’t see our politicians (not statesmen) willing to back down and save us all.
Don't look at the flash! You have all been warned!
