Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
They call it “ground news” because it has been through a meat grinder, right?
GOOD post
Bepis
Sorry, should have elaborated. Why bomb the piss out of Ukraine for their natural resources when the US/NATO can strongarm them into making someone else do it? Fighting to the last Ukrainian so that Exxon, BP, et. al. can swoop in and keep the pipelines running, all for the low, low cost of a few bits of mothballed US military hardware*. Ukraine is not only a pawn in this context (in the broader geopolitical rivalry with the Russian Federation and its sphere of influence), but also a fertile ground for even more capitalist plunder than what they’ve already experienced since the dissolution of the USSR.
*And countless Ukrainian lives, but NATO doesn’t give a shit about them
Israel exists solely to destabilize the middle east and act as a big stick in the event that anyone starts straying from the petrodollar.