Flying over warzone Ukraine, The probable and Convenient Happens
Kiev’s forces were being picked apart in eastern Ukraine with several units encircled and destroyed. In the west of the country, dissent was growing by Ukrainians unwilling to march off to fight in the east. NATO’s attempts to bait Russia into moving into Ukrainian territory and shift global opinion against Moscow had repeatedly failed.
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Image: Yet another Malaysia Boeing 777 is lost under extraordinary circumstances this year. |
The final card to be played by the US was another round of sanctions
that almost immediately was ridiculed as ineffective and impotent. Even US corporate-financier interests
condemned the latest round of sanctions claiming they were “unilateral” in nature and thus limited US enterprise from interacting with Russia while leaving European competitors free to move into the void. An effective US policy of confronting, containing, and undermining Russia would require multilateral sanctions with almost universal support – but the impetus for such sweeping sanctions did not exist – until now. -
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