Blackrock taking over the country? That's one of the most bizarre narratives I've ever read. That's almost up there along with flat earth theories!
And so much of your narrative is really unfair on the West and makes Putin's Russia sound like some peaceful country that was minding its business until provoked past the point of no return. Yes you could argue that NATOs expansion was provocative, but in no way does the expansion of a purely defensive (thus far) alliance justify, or gives a valid excuse for Russia to behave the way it has. Putin's actions are only valid, if you sincerely believe that if he had taken no action then Russia was going to be invaded, or that Russia had a right to attempt to invade and conquer independent democratic countries that once made up the USSR or had some other historical links.
This is not how great power relationship works. The U.S. started a war with Cuba back then just because the Soviet Union placed a few ballistic missiles in Cuba. What seems to be menial from the lens of an ordinary person would be met with sobering alarm by statesmen and political leadership of a country, because they know what's at stake.
People who has the slightest understanding of geopolitics would understand just how big of a deal Ukraine is. Ukraine (and Belarus) is situated in the heart of the Great Central European Plain, historically a gateway for invading forces to invade the Russian state at its various forms.
en.wikipedia.org
German panzers made their way in Ukraine (1941)
Having a hostile country with allegiance to state at the other side of the Atlantic is a big Natsec issue for the Kremlin, this is what most people forget, they prefer to hear the "but but but muhhh democratic kontriiii" excuse to downplay the significance of this entire conflicts and what is at stake.
The West until Putin began showing what a maniac he is, had stopped viewing Russia as the 'enemy' and wanted nothing more for them to join them in the group of nations trying to keep the world on an even keel. They had no intentions of ever invading, or taking over Russia, and so enlarging the NATO alliance just seemed like a natural thing to do that shouldn't have felt threatening to any right thinking person. It is in fact, only threatening, to a country that harbours ambitions of future wars and new conquests on the continent. Some people make it sound like Russia was being a perfectly reliable and peaceful international partner until big evil NATO dared to invite more nations into its alliance.
Oh it's that easy for you ? Putin at various times in history actually tried to join NATO, only to be turned back. You know the West might seems harmless at times, but that doesn't mean they're truly sincere. How many countries have the West collectively invaded after declaring the new world right after the end of the Cold War ? Iraq, Libya anyone ?
Putin is not stupid, the very reason he manages to get on top is that he happens to know how politics work, add that to his advance knowledge of the habitual Western practice of regime change to depose people who do not adopt their ideology and wallaaaaa.
When the USSR collapsed, the moment of victory for the Western powers, did the West march in? Did the West take over, swoop in, secure the nukes and plant a pro western puppet in the Kremlin? No they didn't. They probably could have, and its certainly what USSR would have tried had roles been reversed. When the USA nuked Japan, did we stay and keep their territory and claim it as our own?
You are downplaying the entire thing again, even at its nadir, the Russian Federation still commands a huge stockpile of nuclear warheads ready to be launched at any second once the survival of the Russian state is in danger. Technically once the entire Union collapsed, there's nothing for the Russians to stop the agglomeration of NATO troops from marching East towards Moscow, nut something tells me Russia's nuke makes that plan a no-go from a cost-benefit analysis standpoint.
Did they hold onto Iraq and Afghanistan regardless of the cost? No. For a moment, just consider Russia in those situations, and ask yourself what would they have done? Russia would have bombed / invaded just the same if they were in Americas position, but what came afterwards would have been very very different. If you can give an honest answer to that question, then you can never claim that Western regimes are comparable to Putin's. In fact, if Moscow and the Kremlin had been attacked like New York was on 9/11, my hunch is that Putin would have simply just dropped a nuke on Afghanistan.
Oh no, the U.S didn't hold on into Iraq, they simply has their bases there, their president could make an unannounced visit to their military outpost like they own the land.
President Trump’s first visit to forces in a combat zone came after criticism that he had not made such a trip — and days after his defense secretary resigned.
www.nytimes.com
The Japanese might not have an American headquarters in the Middle of Tokyo, but sure as hell the foreign policy of their govt must conform toWashington, not to mention 80 years after the end of hostilities, Japanese airspace are still controlled by the US.
A good portion of the airspace over central Japan has been reserved for the exclusive use of the U.S. military since the end of World War II, a fact that isn't widely known in Japan.
A good portion of the airspace over central Japan has been reserved for the exclusive use of the U.S. military since the end of World War II, a fact that isn't widely known in Japan. Over the past several weeks, however, it has become a sudden reality to thousands of Tokyoites and residents of...
www.japantimes.co.jp
In comparison, I don't think Russia even wants something like this in a future Russian liberated Ukraine, they only want two things basically :
- De-nazification
- Demilitarization
Nothing out of the ordinary. Russians aren't interested in killing Ukrainians, because Ukrainians are their little brothers, fellow Slavs that need to be guided whenever they're heading in the wrong direction. What they want is pretty straightforward, no extremist in power sitting in Kyiv, no hyper-militarized society that is trained to hate your neighbor, no basing for hostile power near the Russian border. That's it.
You could argue the West were naïve, and a little stupid, but blaming them for starting this war by their expansion of NATO is just a ridiculous perspective unless viewed through an extremely pro-Russian pro-Putin lens. If your thinking is correct, then why did Putin not make clear that any further expansion would be viewed as a declaration of war and force him into offensive actions? The answer is pretty obvious, because instead he preferred to use it as a convenient excuse to try and gobble up the remaining non-NATO countries while he still could.
Because it will allow another Poland like situation, where you have brainwashed anti-Russian population who could provoke Russians, but this time under the protective wings of a faraway state on the other side of the Ocean. Poland is bad enough, but in Ukraine you have literal Nazis and Banderites gaining traction and the prospect of Nazis with NATO's protective umbrella is a national security issues that needs to be fixed, not later but sooner. Russia is a country built on the Paranoia of Nazism, so it's no surprise that they eventually take the matter into their own hands
I can also disagree that Russia will ever enter Kiev, at least not in this war / decade / life time. If they couldn't do it at the start of the war, with Ukraine in chaos, caught unprepared, how on earth will Russia do it now? Its another huge red flag about your posts, that you never mention, discuss, or post about the horrific Russian losses and unbelievably embarrassing performance of their armed forces thus far. I could have missed it, but its the biggest talking point of this whole conflict, and you gloss over it like a paid Russian troll would.
Kyiv is saved by the agility of its young soldiers, the underestimating attitude of Russia and the complex warfighting technique of Urban warfare that most Russian units participating aren't familiar with.
None of these still exist and Russia is fixing the remaining deficiencies...also now the average age of Ukrainian soldiers are 43...yikes. It's going tp be slow at the start, but when everything crumbles, it crumbles pretty fast.
Then you mention Zelenskys hard headed attitude? He is literally the ideal war leader from what i have seen. He is someone i would want in charge of my nation if it were ever invaded without cause. It sounds like if you were a Ukrainian national you would be perfectly happy to roll over when your country got invaded and not resist at all? I can presume that your own country could never count on your service if your own country was ever invaded and you would be happily waving the white flag and welcoming your new overlords with open arms instead of being 'hard headed' and god forbid actually put up a fight. Will you not admit that their war performance so far has been incredible, against terrible odds, and has been so far a success that no-one would have predicted?
Zelensky is what I would like to call a war pig, he took a great deal of personal fame for playing the 'war leader' actor (whoops) while throwing his men into slaughter like the last summer offensive. He did not care that his young were vanishing in record numbers, he only wants to take credit
He should've reached a peace agreement with the Russians like Arestovich recently revealed, but he prefers to listen to Boris Johnson, the then-British Prime Minister. He clearly doesn't have an independent foreign policy, rather he uses his men to advance the interest of foreign state. Now Ukrainians are waking up to the terrible prospect of getting sent to the front by Zelensky's marauding Meat collectors brigade and many of them are trying (some in vain) to cross the icy rivers in the Carpathian mountains towards Romania. Zelensky a huge national disatser, a traitor to the well-being of his people.
My country would never fight for extremist ideology and figures like Bandera and my countrymen would not shed their blood for foreign corporations like Blackrock and the US MIC. We do not provoke our neighbor with threats and dangerous political maneuvering. Ukraine finds itself in this situation because of the short-sightedness of its leadership and the false hope of liberal democracy that instead of turning them rich it turns them gay, they don't want to be gay, stop it.\
I hate targeting a persons posting like this, but so many of your views are so extreme, so black and white, and seem to be deducing grand conspiracies and sweeping plans of domination and western hegemony out what is instead an unbelievably entangled messy and complex global political legacy we are currently dealing with. Its a mixture of western incompetence, poor communication, and Russia refusing to give up dreams of conquering more territory that led us to this point, and funnily enough its similar thinking and faulty logic like your own that fuels the fire and the cycle of madness that you mention.
You are acting like a spineless inverte*ratae, what do you want ? Dead Ukrainians is not enough for you? Oh I see, you prefer to see them without their limbs because that satisfy you so much. The huge tols of Ukrainian dead doesn't bother you, rather you find it amusing that MIC shares are skyrocketing.
You want Ukraine to make peace. How on earth does that work? You basically want them to surrender huge swathes of their land, and put trust that Putin in the future wont try some similar and grab even more land? Can you not see what an impossible ask that is? If you were in Zelenskys shoes, are you really telling me you would just give up, and just cross your fingers that in a few years time you wont just be facing the same thing again once Russia has made up its losses? So much of what you said just doesnt make any sense to me whatsoever!
How do you think that would work? Make peace as soon as possible and this entire carnage would have stopped, the Ukrainians wanted to live a normal life, with the dignity a human being should have, they do not want to fear for their lives going to the grocery stores for fear that Zelensky meat collecting brigades might ambush them and dragged them inside a van to be sent to meat grinder at the front. They want to live in peace. How hard is it to make peace ?
While they die or even worse incapacitated for life, the Western MIC and Corporations are having the time of their lives, the huge NATO money laundering operations that is Ukraine finally gives the return they always wanted in the first place, they don't care if the average Vasilli is dead or wounded or taken prisoner, they're probably serving champagne for each other right now.
Just make peace, right now and this entire circus stopped. In the end, it's the Ukrainians that need to laugh and cherish, not Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Monsanto, Lego etc.
"The whole district has been damaged. There were thousands of flats": 
The first minutes after the missile attack on Kharkiv in the morning of January 23
