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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

I've been reading a 2021 post by Pepe Escobar called Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel. It's remarkably prescient. It talks about the US taking desperate measures to break up the Germany-Russia-China alliance. Michael Hudson made the same point early on, that actions in Ukraine are aimed at weakening Germany and punishing it for disobedience with the pipeline and increased trade with China. I think that can't be dismissed.

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djean111's avatar

And yet - "brutal war of aggression" against the people of Donetsk, shelling and killing civilians since 2014, calling ethnic Russians "orcs" and dehumanizing and murdering them, has been literally encouraged by the US. When I was working overseas, in various countries, I was always told that other countries did not really associate American people with their murderous government. I hope this still stands.

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