Oddbean

Ukrainian war, objective facts. - Russia has invaded Ukrainian territory. - Ukraine has massacred Russians on Ukrainian territory for years (Dombas). - NATO has reneged on its promises of non-expansion. - The U.S. has used Ukraine to confront Russia and Europe, taking two pieces off the board, leaving it with China. - The US through intelligence agencies has done everything possible to make the war break out, starting with the Maidan protests. - Ukraine and the allies are using the same strategy that Britain used against Germany, rejecting all peace agreements and provoking an escalation of the war. So the sad reality is that Ukraine is being used by the military-industrial complex and as a linchpin for the preservation of the status quo of the U.S. empire. That Russia is the one who has invaded? Yes, but neither can we ignore the quite logical reasons to understand the conflict, and understand that there have been two parties interested in the war, we must also be clear that both Russia and China want to see the hegemony of the Yankee empire fall. As with WWII, there can only be one left, Ukraine and its allies or Russia. As an ordinary man there is little you can do, if you promote more violence in an initial state of war like the current one, that violence will end up in the opposite direction, against you, because it will escalate more and more on both sides until the annihilation of one of the two. Really if you find yourself in a territory of war the only thing you can do is to leave, it is sad but it is so, do not enter into that game, material things are restored, life is not.

- Ukraine and the allies are using the same strategy that Britain used against Germany, rejecting all peace agreements and provoking an escalation of the war. Interesting little fact this. Any suggestion where I can find out more about it?

You have a lot of literature about it, first this great book and here is a short animated film that also explains why England never wanted peace. https://m.primal.net/LAnx.png https://youtu.be/fejFRfsPED8

NATO never promised not to expand: https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-enlarge-nato/ Ukraine has killed Russians in Dombas since Russia invaded there in 2014 as part of their hybrid warfare campaign, so yes, a long time. Russia has no interest in fair peace agreements and has said many times internally that Ukraine naturally belongs to Moscow: https://united24media.com/anti-fake/a-long-history-of-how-russia-systematically-violates-peace-agreements-1471 There is no proof that US intelligence was behind the Maidan revolution in any way. The last point is true, although the US is not an empire. Ukraine is important to NATO as a buffer zone. If Russia takes Ukraine then they will claim that NATO is aggressing them simply by having existing defenses on their own border.

You have a very biased opinion, recently documents were published in Spiegel magazine showing a declassified document from 1991 where the non-expansion agreement is in writing. Just by telling you that the United States is not an empire we have little to talk about.

And even if there was nothing signed, NATO is clearly expansionist and all NATO countries serve the interests of the United States, if this is not being an empire? I am of a certain age, I want honest speeches, I don't gain or lose anything, just engage in a serious conversation.