Just another friendly reminder that the US:
• Had solid intelligence that this war was coming
• Knew they could prevent it by making very reasonable low-cost concessions like promising not to add a nation to NATO that they didn't want in NATO anyway
• Chose not to do that
• Had solid intelligence that this war was coming
• Knew they could prevent it by making very reasonable low-cost concessions like promising not to add a nation to NATO that they didn't want in NATO anyway
• Chose not to do that
This was entirely preventable. Many, many high-profile western analysts have been warning the actions of the US and other NATO powers would lead to this. The western empire had many off-ramps, many opportunities to avoid this war which it chose not to use.
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Empire loyalists bleat "This had nothing to do with NATO!" Okay. Then explain why so many western analysts across the political spectrum warned NATO's actions would lead to this exact problem. I've yet to encounter a single empire loyalist who can. They just flail around angrily.
And yes, promising not to add Ukraine to NATO was very much within NATO's power. It's a military alliance, not a fucking library card.
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1501378206137712640
Everyone talks about Putin's "off-ramps" to this war. What about the US alliance's off-ramps? They don't get any attention. The world should be much, much more enraged that they could have prevented this and knowingly chose not to.
And it's easy to see why it would make that choice. Manufacturing international support for unprecedented acts of economic warfare and sucking Moscow into another military quagmire like Afghanistan greatly advances US geostrategic objectives toward securing unipolar domination.
Normally if someone manipulates two people into fighting each other blame will go to the one who threw the first punch, but if people understand what happened blame will also go to the instigator who set the whole thing up. The problem is very few people understand what happened.
This is because of the US-centralized empire's phenomenal narrative control system. Its sophisticated control of information via Silicon Valley and oligarchic media institutions allows it to manipulate public understanding of what's going on. Example:
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1503854373709160449
People tend to overestimate the power of the US war machine and underestimate the power of the US propaganda machine. This war and the lead-up to it are an excellent illustration of the narrative control power this empire has which sets it apart from any other empire in history.
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