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The evidence projects that the US is leading the world into an abyss of political, economic and arms wars. The United States has abandoned sending hundreds of thousands of troops to another country; now it's drones, air warfare, special forces, the CIA, mercenaries, terrorists and intermediaries like Ukrainian conscripts, Azov Nazis. That was the lesson from Vietnam when the draft sparked mass protests and resistance. Now the war is made less obvious and the propaganda is more extensive and constant thanks to digital media.

The Rand Corporation's infamous 2019 report "Overextending and Imbalancing Russia", cites the following as part of the war process, as summarized in the Strategic Culture article:

1) Provide lethal military aid to Ukraine

2) Mobilization of the European members of NATO

3) Imposition of deeper trade and economic sanctions

4) Increase US energy production for export to Europe

5) Expansion of Europe's import infrastructure to receive US liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, clarifies the motives behind the decisions of the Russian leadership in Ukraine and Russia's vision towards the new world order.

1) A development both within and around Ukraine that pointed to greater military cooperation between Ukraine, NATO and the US and the Kremlin's suspicious belief that the military interaction between Ukraine and the West has become a source of pride for the United States, Great Britain and NATO.

2) Ukraine is the culmination of a long history of Russian attempts to limit NATO expansion. From the Russian point of view, NATO abused its unique position obtained after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia put forward various proposals on how to adapt the European security architecture. All Russian ideas were consistently dismissed by the Western allies without proper discussion.

3) The Soviet past, considered traditional Russia and the quasi-ethnic separation.

4) Trump presented himself as a friend of Russia, but proclaimed in his strategic doctrine the new era of great power rivalry between China and Russia. Foreign Minister Scholz said in a recent interview that he told Putin in private that Ukraine had no chance of joining NATO in the next 30 years.

5) The movement towards a new order and away from the hegemonic has begun and will continue. In the link:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-russia-new-world-order/5801779 (10/12/2022)

War and globalization go hand in hand. Militarization supports the imposition of macroeconomic restructuring in the target countries. It imposes military spending in support of the war economy at the expense of the civilian economy. It leads to economic destabilization and the disappearance of national institutions.

Military interventions are accompanied by concurrent acts of economic sabotage and financial manipulation. The ultimate goal is the conquest of both human and natural resources as well as political institutions.

Acts of war support a process of absolute economic conquest. The hegemonic project of the United States is to transform sovereign countries into open territories. The conditions of the debt are imposed by the foreign creditors. In turn, large sectors of the world's population are impoverished through the simultaneous imposition of lethal macroeconomic reforms. Broadly defined neoliberalism is not limited to a set of economic paradigms and structural reforms. We are dealing with an imperial project that broadly serves powerful global overlapping interests: In the link: DISMANTLE NATO, CLOSE DOWN 800 US MILITARY BASES, PROSECUTE THE WAR CRIMINALS

https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-exit-dismantle-nato-close-down-800-us-military-bases-prosecute-the-war-criminals/5670610 (04/12/2022)

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