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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

NATO and its parent, the United States government, has no purpose other than to attack and destroy anything that is perceived as threatening to the U.S. government, and nearly everything is perceived as a threat by the paranoid rulers in Washington and Langley. Billions of dollars into the pockets of weapons manufacturers. Billions of dollars sent to Ukraine into the hands of Nazis. All this while the people of the United States are suffering from lack of jobs, lack of health care, privitization of education, lack of a living wage, abysmal and deadly working conditions, homelessness, deaths of despair and no support or protection from the ravages of SARS-CoV-2. The filth and corruption of the government and its revolving door to and from think tanks of the ruling class are devouring the planet for profit and an almost sexual satisfaction of wielding power for the sake of it.

But this is the last gasp of a doomed society. Unfortunately, before the capitalist hegemons are brought down, many milions of people will die, whether from war, starvation, or environmental destruction.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Facts on the ground and the academic work of Mearsheimer, Stephen Cohen, and Sachs (as well as many other Russian scholars and military and geo-political experts) can't penetrate the incredible propaganda machine that's been ginned up and sent into overdrive.

Pro-War Liberals and progressives are flying the Ukrainian flag.

Even Chomsky is baffled by all this - only a Freudian analysis seems capable of explaining the collective suicide.

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