What evidence do you or anyone else have of this bullshit conspiracy theory that this war was started by defense companies?
I guess it makes conservatives sound all "rage against the machine" but I have 200 years of Russian history of them trying to subjugate "the Little Russians" (the name Catherine the Great tried to pin on Ukrainians to get them to assimilate).
I think Biden is a clown show most of the time, but that doesn't mean everything is a conspiracy or the actual villain is hidden (as opposed to it being the obvious guy here - the former KGB agent who has wanted Ukraine for 20 years and way before NATO started talking to Ukraine - remember the Ukrainian president Putin tried to poison to death in 2002?)
And Putin has said or done things to gain control over Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. That's a fact, not a theory. I can post links if necessary.
Your response begins way off base when you said I referenced “defense companies” which I did not in any of my posts. (Or are you unfamiliar with the RAND Corp? They are not a defense company, just a think tank that has guided our foreign policy and national defense strategy since WW2 ended.) You are not any different than the libs you like to argue with when you state my post is a bullshit conspiracy because you conflate my point with things I never said.
And of course Putin influences the former USSR satellites. That is their sphere of influence and yet another reason we have ZERO business being in Ukraine, which BTW was annexed by Catherine the Great after the French revolution. It was Russia's territory 300+ years ago and the only reason the US started meddling in it was to provoke Putin.
And once again I am not a conservative nor a RINO Rebpuglican.
The US started the Maiden revelation and the coup in 2014, Nuland was the point person then and is still involved today. The US/NATO kept pushing to admit Ukraine to NATO, violating the Minsk agreements.
Why? To provoke the Russians, of course.
I thought you were a free thinker since we agreed on the virus BS/Masks/etc, but on this issue you are listening to our overlords playbook.
You ignored my question about what have you seen NATO/US militarily over the last 75 years that makes you think Russia will be defeated. And "our" side isn't winning, despite what the media propagandizes. The sanctions failed and Russia is now partnering with China, with Iran not far behind. Meanwhile, the US will not discuss peace talks, therefore there are really only 2 possible outcomes: the US/NATO loses or nuclear war.
The people in Europe are starting to wake up to the fact they are pawns in this proxy war of US vs Russia and protests will only grow. If Europe had been colder this winter the protests would have been much worse. This ridiculous propaganda by the US that Ukraine is a democracy is insane. That country is as democratic as I am a liberal.