US/NATO War on Russia

[Lauren Johnson]

David, I agree with your response in almost every way. I was responding however to answer this sentence.

Numerous media stories over past months have western pols accussing Russia of supplying Ukrainian separatists with weapons.

In the small scheme of things, Putin's support was very significant. (And you said you agree.) Since he had become the lifeline to Novorussiya, they owed him and depended on him. When they were in severe danger to of overrunning and destroying the Ukr forces, he pulled the plug and enforced a cease fire. Bizarre. Now they are re-supplied and well dug in.

BUT in the bigger picture, as you say, this is minor. In the bigger picture the US/NATO conceived, plotted, planned, and worked for years to trigger this war. And it is certainly part of a much larger scheme to impose hegemony on both Russia and China at the expense of millions of lives. And then of course the final prize has been the unachievable one -- planetary domination in a regime of re-imposed serfdom.

Certainly I agree with you and was I guess just quibbling.

On an another note, you wrote:

Having permitted this to occur in order to line private pockets at the expense of taxpayers across the world

I am starting to hear more about the "bail-in," which was used in Cyprus in the European financial crisis to "save the banks." A bail-in appropriates depositor funds to capitalize the troubled bank in question. The rationale I recently heard for this first time event is that this is a more just way of saving a bank since it does NOT inflict pain on the taxpayer but only on the depositor -- you know, the person was stupid enough to put money in a bank that was going to fail. ::