'People are going to get poorer and see their quality of life diminishing as a result of the US empire’s economic war with Russia.
Our civilization has an illness. We’re like a patient wasting away as cancer spreads throughout our body. And the US empire is the malignant tumor.'By Caitlin Johnstone: To be clear, evidence is mounting that this is a proxy war deliberately instigated and perpetuated by the US empire with the goal of ousting Putin. Which means that, despite all the narrative window dressing and spin, this war is just more US regime change interventionism.
Saddam Hussein was not a nice person, and he did bad things. This doesn’t change the fact that Bush’s regime change war was a tremendous evil which unleashed unforgivable horrors, and that it was done because Saddam became inconvenient for the US empire. The same is happening here. ...As a result of deliberately provoking this war, the US empire has:
- Manufactured international consent for unprecedented economic warfare geared toward ousting Putin
- Drawn Moscow into another Afghanistan-like military quagmire
- Guaranteed immense profits for the war industry
- Cut in on Russia’s fossil fuel business
- Made Europe further subservient to US interests