Carlos Velazquez @uclongarms - Twitter Profile

Russia sits atop enormous reserves of oil, gas, nickel, titanium, and rare earth minerals precisely the resources a declining West needs to sustain its technological edge and finance its green-energy fantasies. The Nord Stream pipelines were deliberately destroyed. Sanctions were never truly about “stopping the war” they were engineered to shatter the Russian economy, seize its markets, and beggar its people. Hundreds of billions in weapons poured into the meat grinder while Ukrainian men were conscripted as cannon fodder in a conflict their own government had no realistic path to win. The quiet, consistent objective from the beginning has been regime change in Moscow. Weaken Russia, fracture its vast territory, install a compliant oligarch, and open the resource spigot for Western interests. Ukraine was never being “defended.” It was selected as the disposable battlefield in a proxy war designed to keep Russia broken and the American empire dominant. This is the same playbook we’ve seen for decades but this time the human cost is apocalyptic and the strategic results have been catastrophic for the instigators. Russians understand this history all too well. They remember the chaos and looting of the 1990s. That is why a great many continue to support Putin. They see this as another attempt to humiliate and dismember their country. Ukrainians on the ground, meanwhile, are trapped in someone else’s grand strategy, bleeding for objectives set in Washington and Brussels. The people actually doing the dying and burying their sons largely want this horror to end. The loudest voices demanding “fight to the last Ukrainian” are almost always safe, comfortable, and thousands of miles from the front lines. If this were genuinely about Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, why has Ukrainian suffering only intensified while Western energy giants reposition, defense contractors post record profits, and the real strategic prize control over Russia’s wealth and geography remains the unspoken obsession? Are we “defending Ukraine”… or are we sacrificing it on the altar of containing and carving up Russia?

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