Thread by @OlgaBazova

We are to the point in this conflict when it's impossible to control the Western narrative of "helping "democratic" Ukraine maintain its sovereignty". It's a classic case of 🇺🇲 proxy war against 🇷🇺 using 🇺🇦 as the battlefield and 🇺🇦 lives as the means to weaken or destroy 🇷🇺.
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"Proxy wars are armed conflicts in which one nation sends resources other than its own military personnel to support another country fighting in a war" to achieve said nation's political goals. In other words, spending 🇺🇦 lives without spending your own."
theconversation.com/the-us-isnt-at…

We now know, first hand, that NATO has been preparing for this conflict since 2014. Back in March, 2022 at NATO summit the head honcho Jens Stoltenberg stated so himself. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The neocon warmonger Lindsey Graham was a regular visitor to 🇺🇦 and its armed forces after the 🇺🇲 sponsored coup in 2014 installed the nationalist regime in Kiev.

"All of us will go back to Washington and push the case against 🇷🇺. Our fight is not with 🇷🇺 people but with Putin"

And here we have it, a clearly stated political goal for the proxy war - to remove Putin. That was then, but what about now?

Back in April 2022 the 🇺🇲 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin clearly states an even wider goal - "to weaken Russia".

And the plot thickens.

Until recently, "to the last Ukrainian" has been considered to be the fruit of 🇷🇺 propaganda... until Lindsey Graham literally said it out loud.

"As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and economic support, they will fight to the last person".

BINGO.

But what is this narrative mentioned in the beginning? Up until recently all the war media, Western propagandists and war "experts", people with 🇺🇦 and NAFO have all been telling us that Putin has used NATO expansion as an excuse to invade a sovereign nation... Until...

Until the Minister of Defense of 🇺🇦 Oleksii Reznikov has openly stated: "We are fulfilling the NATO mission today, without losing their blood, with the loss of our blood, so they need to spend their weapons"

CASE CLOSED?

In an interview with the BBC, Ukrainian defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said that Ukraine is a “member of NATO de facto.”

Essentially Ukraine is like a hired gun for NATO's ambitions to destroy Russia that have openly been stated and the price tag so far has been over $150bil.

In February 2023 Stoltenberg has reaffirmed NATO's involvement in arming and training Ukraine. "The war didn't start in February last year. The war started in 2014. And since 2014, NATO has provided support to Ukraine, with training and equipment."
nato.int/cps/en/natohq/…

On April 14th, during his visit to Kiev Sen. Joe Manchin was straight up and up front about it: "I've never seen the United States of America in a more just war"

Recent Pentagon leaks show that there are Western special forces on the ground in Ukraine. So are we still at "this is Ukraine's fight for freedom and not the US proxy war against Russia" part?
euronews.com/2023/04/12/wes…

To me this is all very tragic. A whole generation of Ukrainian men and women is being sacrificed by the dying empire to cling to the reins of remaining power and to hegemony alive. When the Ukrainian people realize it, it will be the end of it. I just hope it won't be too late.

In addition there's of course the study by the Rand Corporation titled "Nonviolent Ways the United States could exploit Russia's volnerabilities"

Screenshot #4 shows the biggest financiers of Rand Corporation.
rand.org/pubs/research_…