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The Ukraine War. What's really going on?
What really amazes me about this? How there are so many people, and I've noticed this in people in my life,
who seem to be full-throated supporters of Ukraine and yet cannot come up with a single, solitary, persuasive reason why
we should be backing Ukraine with all our taxpayer money to support them, even just monetarily.
Obviously Russia would overwhelm Ukraine if we didn't support them,
but there's no American national security interest at stake there.
And so no one can really give me a reason why we should be there.
For so much pain and suffering and bloodshed and death, I just find that utterly amazing.
It's incredible, the shallowness of liberals and neocons mostly in supporting this bloody, deadly stalemate.
It's been over a year since I've done a podcast on this Ukraine War topic,
but things really haven't changed that much at all.
All the fundamentals are in Russia's favor.
They have no real interest in conquering Ukraine.
They simply don't want NATO rubbing up against Russia through Ukraine.
So this war is for Russia's very survival.
Therefore, they will never voluntarily retreat.
But Russia clearly does not want to govern Ukraine, because Ukraine is too much of a divided mess.
It's too split. It's too difficult to govern if too much of Ukraine hates Russia.
But these divisions in Ukraine culture make actual dividing lines easier,
because those differences are mostly regional.
So Russia is looking to annex roughly one-fifth of Ukraine.
Russia is still ahead in this war.
They have a 10 to 1 artillery advantage, and they have air superiority, and Ukraine has no real air defense.
Access to the Black Sea, which is on Ukraine's southern border, is existential to Russian security.
Russian national security is at great risk otherwise.
So they absolutely must maintain control of Crimea on the Black Sea.
Ukraine is very weak. They have lost some 10 million citizen refugees, and they may never come back.
In this war, relatively little ground is being conquered by the Russians, but this defect is an illusion.
Militarily speaking, holding ground is a very old-fashioned idea.
In Vietnam, for example, major battles were still being fought early in that war,
where thousands of lives were sacrificed for a hill in the middle of a jungle, for example.
A battle in which the U.S. may have won, but couldn't hold that position forever.
So a few days later, they withdrew, only to have it retaken by the Viet Cong.
That type of warfare is in vain.
So in Ukraine, the amount of ground held by Russia does not matter too much.
What matters is that Russia is still fully engaged and not retreating.
For Russia, this is a war of attrition leading inevitably to a negotiated peace.
This is a no-brainer.
I am predicting that there will be no peace negotiations until or unless President Trump is re-elected.
Vice President Brandon only wants an endless stalemate for his military-industrial complex little butt buddies.
Hard-working, middle-class taxpayer money is being wasted to continue the illusion
that simply flushing hundreds of billions of dollars down the loo will somehow buy victory for the Ukrainians.
In other words, this is dollar-cost averaging into a giant, dirty, bloody money pit.
Paid with innocent blood, both Ukraine and Russia,
those proletariat soldiers who have to die for the deep state neocon robber barons.
That's incredible.
This, to me, is proof that liberalism is dead.
Liberalism means nothing anymore.
Liberalism is what the deep state and communist-fascist China says it is.
And they buy everything they want.
If they want something, they just put enough money on the table and poof, they get whatever they want, more or less.
Liberalism can now simply be termed the path of least resistance.
Liberals have basically always been the lazy ones, the ones who emote.
They don't fight for what they believe in.
They fight for where all the billionaire bot emotion goes.
Emotion and belief are two completely different things.
Emotion can be anything that gets the blood stirring with the simpleton useful idiot fascist street rioters.
But belief should be substantiated by reason and logic.
Conservatives still hold onto classic liberalism, which is basically having an open mind.
Modern liberals hate being open-minded.
They believe in censoring anything that makes them feel uncomfortable.
Just look at all the censorship in social media today.
Next, let's look at some perspective on this Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Russia is shrinking.
It has one third of the population of its 18th century population.
And it lost half its population in 1991 after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Now it's an economy only about the size of the much, much smaller country of Spain.
As the number of pro-Western countries grow to the west of Russia and increasingly become members of NATO,
Russia understandably grows more nervous in the event of an open conflict with these Western neighbors.
There is also the paramount problem of economics.
If the Russians did not take Crimea from Ukraine back in 2014,
that would have undercut Russia's natural gas and oil reserves,
which may contain two trillion meters worth of the 14th largest reserve in the world
and driven their economy down dramatically.
That is why Russia forcibly annexed Crimea and also why Ukraine wants to take it back.
Both countries' greed for natural resources like natural gas, oil, and shell rock drives their actions.
But again, Russia would be greatly compromised if Russia completely loses Ukraine.
And Ukraine could never become the regional power that Zelensky envisions it as
if Ukraine does not achieve total victory.
NATO is bragging about Ukraine someday becoming a NATO member,
but Russia is worried because Ukraine shares a massive border with Russia.
Article 5 of the NATO Treaty states, and I quote,
If a NATO ally is the victim of an armed attack,
each and every other member of the alliance will consider this act of violence
as an armed attack against all members
and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the ally attacked.
So with NATO, if you attack one country, it's the same as attacking all.
There are 32 NATO countries. Russia obviously could never win such a war.
Thus, we now understand better Russia's obsession with maintaining some control over Ukraine.
So let me ask you this. If you, dear listener, were in Putin's shoes,
how would you play this?
Might you too have invaded Ukraine?
The great fear, obviously, in the Kremlin is that Ukraine, as a NATO nation,
will someday make conflict with Russia and force them to surrender Crimea.
Because again, Russia can't fight all 32 nations of NATO.
Therefore, Putin has three requests.
Number one, Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO.
By the way, this request is thoroughly reasonable.
Number two, NATO withdraw all armed troops back to pre-1997 boundaries to Central Europe,
no further east than Germany.
This is understandable, but way too ambitious for NATO to ever agree to it.
And number three, NATO and America agree to freeze the NATO alliance as is
and rule out any future expansion to any new members.
And no military exercises in Eastern Europe without Russian consent.
Number three is really a stretch and NATO should not agree to it.
All three together, these are highly ambitious requests and currently not likely to be accepted by NATO.
Only request number one, freezing Ukraine out of NATO, should be considered as a part of ceasefire negotiations.
Russia currently occupies that part of Ukraine, which is already more sympathetic to Russia.
It looks like a natural division based on cultural history,
regardless of this war.
The Eastern Fifth or Donbass region of Ukraine is pro-Russia.
The Western Four-Fifths is more anti-Russian.
So why not make this the new final boundary and then agree to keep Ukraine out of NATO?
It's called a compromise and it will work.
As I said earlier, in spite of Russia's problems, the fundamentals are still greatly in Russia's favor.
Vladimir Zelensky claims that, quote,
if Ukraine loses, other countries will be attacked, unquote.
The straw man fallacy here is either they win or lose.
But a negotiated peace is neither.
And it was stone cold obvious from day one that a negotiated peace treaty would be the only final solution for this war.
So why does this bloody war keep dragging on and dragging on?
If Ukraine does lose, Zelensky is finished.
That may be what he's most worried about.
If there's an armistice, Zelensky will also be finished.
So he's laser-beam focused on winning, not compromising.
On the Ukrainian side, theft is rampant.
There are massive bribes and pocketing of U.S. taxpayer funds.
The people behind the corruption reportedly feel no fear about facing any consequences.
Vice President Brandon's blank check policy for a bloody, costly war with no end in sight is currently at nearly $200 billion.
Backers have not tracked any funds, which ignores calls for transparency for what U.S. taxpayers are going into debt for.
Nearly one million soldiers and civilians have been killed or wounded, and yet Zelensky has no desire for negotiated peace.
But he tried for an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
What does that tell you?
That's a sign of him losing votes in Congress to prolong this war.
He claims that he doesn't have enough men to use all the weapons the U.S. could provide them.
And what does that tell you?
Ukraine is not releasing specific numbers, but the average number of the Ukraine soldiers is about 43 years old.
That means men from their teens to 70s are fighting.
They're pulling them off trains and buses and sending them to the front.
Those with means are bribing their way out of service.
And so now they can't even find enough people to run the draft offices because you're automatically assumed to be corrupt.
A top Zelensky advisor says, quote, people are stealing like there's no tomorrow, unquote.
That is an obvious byproduct of a going nowhere war that just grinds on and on and on.
Putin says he's ready to negotiate right now.
But is Zelensky happy with that?
No, he says Ukraine can still win.
Well, what about the American military industrial complex and international deep state providing just enough support for Ukraine to hang on but never ever win?
Just enough support so that no calls for a ceasefire is ever forced out in the open because victory is always just out of reach.
In other words, the ones with the power and money continue to win and win and win and grow richer and richer and richer at everyone else's expense.
Big surprise.
The Ukraine war is all about NATO expansion.
Putin has been begging for Ukraine not to be a part of NATO since 2008.
So his armed response to Western expansion into Ukraine was absolutely not a surprise to anyone.
The deep state knew about the coming Ukraine violence for many years and welcomed it because there's big money and armed conflict.
And the bought off media is highly paid to hide that knowledge from you, dear listener, as much as possible.
By the way, and this is fascinating, during Tucker Carlson's interview, Putin revealed that back in the 90s,
he approached President Clinton on Russia becoming a member of NATO.
Putin wanted Russia to join NATO.
Clinton said he did not know, but he would talk to his advisors.
Clinton got back to Putin and told him his advisors said no.
Now, why in the world would NATO through the US turn down the country for membership whom NATO's very existence was created to guard against?
Any ideas?
NATO was originally made to guard Western Europe from communist Soviet Russia.
But now that the Soviet Union was no more, why not welcome in Russia?
It's like NATO, led by the USA, turned down total victory saying,
Nah, we don't want to win this war against communism.
They lie when they say the Ukraine war has nothing to do with NATO.
Ukraine has everything to do with NATO expansion and nothing to do with Russian aggression.
NATO needs Russia as a scapegoat to justify its massive unjustifiable growth.
This is nothing more than the beginning of 1984's Orwellian division of the world.
They want to drive independent Russia into China's arms.
NATO must therefore grow rapidly in order to fight off this new Russia-China alliance.
But that's the very thing that NATO is trying to create.
Are you getting this?
In other words, only the power mad and their useful idiot B. Hotches support this vain war.
Action step.
Tune out all news on Ukraine except that which dives into deep analysis.
Understand how everything corrupt in this world is interlocked together to completely destroy you and your family's chances for success and happiness in this lifetime.
Totally ignore the bought-off deep state lying dog fake news agencies and that includes Fox spews.
Tune into No PC Allowed instead for alternative ways of looking at this globalist created mess.
You've been listening to No PC Allowed.
I am Matt Iverson.
We will meet again next week and every week.