Maggie's Farm

The notion that the Ukrainian government is "old school nazis" is preposterous.

First you'd have to believe that the Obama administration--hard International Socialists would support National socialists in anything. Remember that it was the Obama Administration that claimed it had helped broker the new government.

Second, Dmitry Utkin is the leader of the Wagner Group. A Russian "Private Military Company" that happens to wind up a lot of places that Putin wants military intervention, but can't really send Russian military units. Sort of what Eric Prince wants to be for the US, but can't quite get off the leash enough.

Thing about Utkin he IS an actual "old school Nazi". As in he's got SS tattoo'd on his shoulder, and wears Nazi memorablia.

He allegedly named the Wagner Group after Hitler's supposedly favorite composer.

https://en.respublica.lt/signs-of-neo-nazi-ideology-amongst-russian-mercenaries

Propaganda? Almost certainly. But this before this set of war drums started pounding, so the question isn't whether it was propaganda, but how true that propaganda is.

Putin's a murderous thug.

Russian supported "Separatists" have been fighting in Donbass since 2014. In at least a few cases it's been the Separatists attacking civilians and then blaming it on Ukrainian forces. Which is something that Russia's done before.

Zelenskyy was fighting corruption in Ukraine, while Putin is corrupt as anything, and is trying to take over Ukraine and capture Zelenskyy.

I'll never claim to be an "ordinary" American.

Especially these days.

But I served my country in the military in 3 different decades, and on 3 continents.

And I am concerned about Ukraine. Not particularly about their government--which is almost as corrupt as the Russians (then again, when was the last time our government was clean enough that we can actually throw stones). But about their people. If Putin had succeeded in his land grab it would have been more millions of people under a corrupt totalitarian regime.

And look, I get it "the globalists" are corrupt, nepotistic, useless s*t stains. Yeah, they have their heads up their asses about "green energy" and similar nonsense, mostly to make us peasants behave. But Putin is worse.

The globalists--at least at this point--get that they have to produce. They buy the raw materials that Russia exports, and send back the technological goods that the upper classes and maybe the middle classes can afford. The lower classes live worse that the lower classes in Europe, which is about as well as the middle classes live in the US. Literally our poor live better (when you look at levels of consumerism) than their middle classes.

Our stuff *works*. Maybe it doesn't work well--Satan hired a bunch of "App Developers" and told them to make a fun park. It's now the third ring of hell, and it's where the App Developers are going to go when they die--but it works.

And we still have a chance to break their backs.