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 Checks notes: 10 years in and Russia controls more territory, has replenished its losses and keeps selling its resources to willing buyers.

When is this taking out going to start? 
 Looks like they are already setting up for the boss mob:  https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1783732740707233971 
 If you accept war is a racket you should understand the constant neccesity for boogie-men. US citizens will never go to war against Russia. Apart from a well-time false flag on the west coast, what would make them go to war against China? Certainly no Clown-in-chief or cross-dressing defsec. Nobody preparing for war targets their own military personel with poison shots or gender ideology.

The percieved risk of war is what is the goal as for a bureaucratic state machine that's all they need to keep plundering the treasury.

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 The theory that war is a racket has more evidence than any other theory. I have a hard time accepting it wholeheartedly. I thought great-power politics mattered at least somewhat, that people were trying to position the power of their own country against the power of others. But given the course of events I think at least from the US side war is just a way to launder money. I can't explain the US actions any other way, other than insanity, or that there are very significant things that are being kept secret from the public. So I'm coming around to that theory. 
 Stupidity is by far the best approach if one desires to hide malintent. Helped by the media, of course, the consumers of "news" will sooner or later start thinking that the politicians/agenrs of the "other party" are all idiots. This will help them cope with all the damage these organizations are inflicting on communities. It pacifies dissent, very effective tool for the controllers. 
 Oh RT is probably blocked in your country.  RT news posted "China threatens US with response in wake of missile deployment in Philippines".  It is probably not in your news that the US deployed missiles in the Philippines recently. 
 I don't watch "news", mate, and you shouldn't either. It's not about what is happening but about creating anxiety/fear in the audience. Look how you are percieving these events as if it is really going to happen, soonish™.

People were being manipulated similarly during the cold war, children practicing hiding under desks during nuclear attack and such. All 100% fearmongering, while the US and soviets traded technological secrets via back channels.

Modern day China is a product of the same fearmongering cucks - Kissinger, Brezinski and the like. It's just another boogie-man being prepared for the right time to scare everyone shitless and take more of their taxes. The same way the repackaged a seasonal flu and used it made hundreds of billions from taxes, money printing and market speculations, while at the same time killing off millions with experimental threatments and drugs, conditioning a lot more to constantly fear their fellow man. There's still people walking around with masks.

Don't wear a mask - it's how they know they have you.