Category Archives: Food for thought
Ex-top investor in Russia explains what’s really driving Putin
“A desperate little man who is afraid of being killed. A small little man who is worried about the people rising up against him.” – Bill Browder
Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
“I think is important for people to understand, is that Vladimir Putin, for whatever reasons he made the decision to do this in Ukraine, ultimately has created conditions that the U.S. has long wished were there for the United States to assert total dominance over European decision-making on issues of militarism. It also is an enormous boondoggle for the war industry.”
How does the war in Ukraine end ?
Fareed Zakaria: Will Putin hinder right-wing populist leaders?
Ukraine War: West ‘spooked’ by Kremlin and a ‘robust’ response is needed
“There is so much more we need to do. We continue to leave Ukraine to do all the heavy lifting. We need to provide greater weapons systems, and stop having simply daft arguments about whether weapons systems are indeed defensive or offensive.”
Obama says Putin has changed since he was in office
“Part of our complacency grew out of the notion that once the Berlin Wall fell, and Mandela was released, and the world was flat and we had McDonald’s everywhere … and now suddenly, that was it, we were done.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4bDuFJuriw
Perspective
I estimate the chances of WW III starting to be pretty high. At this rate I can’t see Putin slowing down, and he is at war with the free world. Ukraine is fighting on behalf of all democracies. Yes, the West/America is helping but it is the bare minimum, in my view.
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