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The Ukraine/Russia conflict is basically 2 corrupt oligarchies, both former Soviet Republics fighting over Soviet Borders. Ukraine has no history as a state, it has been owned in various parts by virtually every state surrounding it over the centuries. This conflict was NATO/US/EU made, and the lies told to Russia about NATO not expanding East IF Russia allowed the reunification of Germany, confirmed by Der Spiegel some years ago.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-expansion-did-the-west-break-its-promise-to-moscow-a-663315.html

The UK Daily Mail writer, Peter Hitchens also has pointed out how the West caused this, and how the US creator of the "Containment of the Soviet Union", George F Kennan, warned against treating Russia as the 'beaten USSR' simply because it took over the former USSR's roles and obligations.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10540829/PETER-HITCHENS-blame-arrogant-foolish-West-Ukraine-crisis.html

There is a vast amount of academic research out there to confirm all of the above, much of it I read when helping a post-grad student with a dissertation on Putin and the Oligarchs. My job was to check that all the web links worked and to assign a date and time to my checks. The links were so fascinating I read them all. The irony of it all was Russia wanted to be friends with the West but we did what Biden's Son appeared to do in Ukraine - robbed them soft with the help of corrupt oligarchs.

Finally, if MSM articles don't convince, Author Richard Sakwa has written a book

Frontline Ukraine - Crisis in the borderlands.

Published by Bloomsbury Academic

It is a heavy read as it is basically and Academic text, but it explains what Ukraine was, is and the history behind the conflict.

Basically Ukraine is another Balkans area in Europe, and the myth that Ukraine = Goodies and Russia = Baddies is exposed for what it is, a myth.

The US would never have put up with what Russia put up with from NATO, the US would have started a war over it long ago if it had been the Warsaw Pact moving up toward US borders.

We should have accepted Russia's overtures decades ago, then we wouldn't be in the situation we are now , where we have pushed resource rich Russia into the arms of China. A situation we are certain to regret. The EU itself may not even survive the winter thanks to NATO/Clinton/Biden and its own stupidity.

Though a UK Brexiteer with no love for the EU, at least they aren't so stupid as to actually apply the sanctions they talk about. To do so would bring the EU down in months. The economic crisis Bill warns of may actually do that anyway, but so may the coming winter or even Germany's economy collapsing due to insufficient gas thanks to their insane green energy drive.

The US isn't the only western state in danger of economic catastrophe thanks to our leaders' stupidity.

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Bill, Dan and Tom provide excellent insight into what is happening to money in this world as well as the complete disintegration of governments and the global elite and the affect it is having and may have on the average citizen not only in the US but around the world. $100/year is a bargain.

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