As much as I detest Agent Orange, the talk with Putin to end a war that never should have happened seems to be a tragedy to finally end if the gods will it as Putin, another guy I detest, said, for years, Ukraine cannot be allowed to join NATO due to its proximity to Moscow and Russia. The expansion of NATO to enable the arms suppliers to make money goes back to 1989, facts eloquently described by Chris Hedges in 1989 and William Smith in 2014, something quoted in BRT titled
The Peter Principle clearly showing why this disaster could have been avoided without question.
Ukraine, the historic link from the west to the east
For years, this writer had discussed the catastrophic foreign policy the US has conducted with the first fubar being
Israel and Palestine in 1948 followed up by the house arrest of Iran's democratically elected
Mohammad Mosaddegh by the CIA in 1953 in order for England to gain access to Iranian oil. To do this, the US installed the
Shah, thus converting a friendly nation into a hostile one due to the shah's brutal regime, culminating in turning Iran into an enemy when
Khomeini took power while converting Iran into a theocratic state in 1979.
Summing it up ...
And we haven't discussed the cost of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza as the US is the enabler of enablers regarding ordinance to allow Israel to conduct its version of endless war in the year of our lord 2025.
The list is long and ... It's all about the money. Always has been, always will be.