I Defy any of you War Lovers to Dispute the Points Raised Herein

[Yagoda]

I foubd this analysis of the Russian Ukraine war in the context of the American foreign policy establishment to be not only cogent, but right on point.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-takes-on-the-blob-in-the-oval-office/

 

(If you dont know what the Blob is, guess you arent an American)

 

"Since the 2022 invasion, blob propaganda went into overdrive. Zelensky is “Churchill,” Putin is “Hitler” was a message drilled in thousands of times in the American media. If Putin wasn’t stopped, he would march to the English Channel, said the blob. (Putin’s armies couldn’t manage to take Kiev, and for a while seemed as if they might lose the war entirely.)  And once Zelensky’s forces, outmanned and outgunned, began to lose, Zelensky faced a dilemma. Probably the only way he could survive was to bring America into the war—survive not just politically but physically.  Zelensky could be killed by pro-Russian forces, or by the neo-Nazi formations that are more powerful in Ukraine than in any country. So Zelensky had an objective interest in escalating the war, bringing America in. One could feel sorry for him—he didn’t choose the war, but objectively his interest was in a wider war. 

Somehow it took Donald Trump to recognize that a wider war against a nuclear-armed Russia was very much not in America’s interest. No other American candidate for president did. (J.D. Vance, however, did—he said early on that he didn’t “care that much” about Ukraine, and since our “caring for” Ukraine has led to hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed Ukrainians, surely there are some in that country—probably millions— who wished the blob hadn’t cared so much as well.)"