"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev that if a United Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved Eastward"
(Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviets 1987-1991 speaking 30 years ago)
Another video from Kyiv. A man is grabbed on the street and dragged off by force. He is screaming that they didn’t even look at his documents. This is how Ukrainian men live now. You can be walking, and suddenly you are not a person anymore. Just a body they need. Zelenskyy’s government stopped pretending there are rules. Documents don’t matter, human rights don’t matter either. When the state takes you without even looking at your papers, it is not mobilization. It is hunting. And every man knows that tomorrow he could be the next prey.
Soviet Union collapsed because no one was prepared to challenge the establishment from the inside and everyone inside had to keep cheerleading that the Soviet Union was powerful and successful. Anyone on the outside could see it was collapsing very rapidly.
The US is doing precisely what that Soviet Union did. Those inside the system will not challenge the establishment either becasue they are thoroughly brainwashed or out of fear of being cancelled and thrown to the wolves. Everyone inside the establishment continues to cheerlead the notion that the US empire is here to stay, exceptionalism reigns supreme, the dollar can't be challenged, we are the greatest military and economic / financial power in the world. Anyone looking in from the outside knows this is utter nonsense.
Rather like even the day before the Soviet Union collapsed the delusional cheerleading continued, the same will also happen in the US. In both cases they didn't and won't see the writing on the wall, 24 hours before it is officially over.
@PhilipIngMBE@DailyMail Telling British people the need to prepare to fight a war. There was no problem until 2008 Munich security conference where Bush Jr announced plans for Ukraine to join NATO. The Euro maidan protests where much more of riots like in France and were no supported in Eastern Ukraine.
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