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Robyn S's avatar

So I guess it's a good time to live rurally in Australia, or mid-southern Africa, or very southern America somewhere...away from the mess that might be WWIII?!

I don't think it's just Europe and the United States that are being 'run by reckless and malevolent nincompoops who don’t care in the least about their ordinary citizens', though. I think that describes almost every country!

Perhaps we're just living at a time with too many nincompoops, some of whom are in power.

Perhaps...

Phil Davis's avatar

My biggest fear of Trump has surfaced. He's now under complete control of the Neocons. From Israel to Ukraine, Trump has been captured by the Neocon propaganda.

All Neocons care about is war; there is no game plan or exit strategy. There is no strategy at all except bombing targets with overwhelming power and waiting for the regime change to begin.

It's insane, immoral, and burns the heart out of the US Constitution. All the signers in the above-mentioned document are screaming from the grave, but no one listens. They are too enraptured with the Neocon lies, including our supposedly peace-loving president.

DBC's avatar

Almost all your points, are in direct conflict with the truth,

i.e. Neocons might care more about war, than most all citizens - but Maga isn't built around Neocons.

i.e. there are exit plans i.e. Venezuela.

i.e. 'no strategy' ? I'd say squashing the IRGC nuke capability is a strategy. Any other Potus come close to doing that?

AdminJoe forced social media censorship - anything against their narratives, was squeezed out.. Judge Daughty explained that the Biden/admin breeched our constitutional rights -the most in USA history.

'Graves' - yea right, many of us older farts had dads that fought in WW2. Those are the bodies, rolling in their graves. Treason and/or complicity would describe your spew, from the eyes of the generation that won ww2

Phil Davis's avatar

Yep, the usual Neocon stupid rhetoric. You'd probably crap your pants if I told you Pearl Harbor was a setup to get the US into a war. Several books by high-ranking military officers who researched Pearl Harbor confirmed that FDR wanted to enter the war, but the American public opposed any war. So soldiers died at Pearl Harbor, but FDR knew the attack was coming. As a matter of fact, FDR provoked Japan by cutting off oil deliveries, those good old sanctions. It was all to create a false flag to swing American emotions to enter another world war.

But guys like you can't see any of that; it would destroy your head with the mother of all cognitive dissonance. The power of propaganda has literally rewired your brain; you can't see what is right in front of your eyes. The first casualty of war is truth - U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson in 1918.

DBC's avatar

hahaha nice deflection.... switch the target to WW2 now. Masterfully boring.

Glad Germany didn't win, are you?

Iran? Which Potus came close, to shutting down their nuke capabilities?

You might be right about FDR, the grassy knoll, 9/11, J6, covid, et al. Then again, since you can see all things and know all things, doesn't mean you're accurate.

I'll take care of my own brain. thanks though.

TruthSeeker's avatar

We are living in a time of great deception and are in many Information Wars to control the minds and hearts of the populations. There is also Mass Formation Psychosis that occurred during the Covid 19 shenanigans. So if you look at people and things with this lens than everything makes sense.

Brian's avatar

Too many boomers have been rewired.

Robyn S's avatar

I didn't think Trump was so much 'captured' by the propaganda as being rather in on it, being a business guy? But I could be wrong. It's possible he only thought SO FAR ahead, and has now been brainwashed, for want of a better word (although it may actually be correct...) to keep doing the dirty work?

War is good for business. And so long as you're in on it, fluctuations on the stock market due to deliberate oil crises/wars can bring in great financial rewards - for both you AND your rich mates! Too bad for the rest of us plebs who aren't in on in, though, right?

I am horribly aware that almost all the crises we've been sent eg world wars, covid, the war on terror etc, are all premeditated. It's sick. People, for the most part, have no idea what goes on around them, and even if they did, most would struggle to stomach the reality of it. It goes against everything they've been told (eg US Constitution etc). Easier to flag it as rubbish than come to terms with it being the truth.

Love your quote from Edmund Burke, by the way. So true!

Joewrite's avatar

Australia won't help you. You can run, but you can't hide.

Robyn S's avatar

You don't know Australia then ;-)

The people might not help you much, but the actual country is huge. Plenty of ways to hide!

Ken McLaggan's avatar

African proverb.....if you point a finger at someone, then 3 fingers are pointing back at you!

Ken McLaggan's avatar

That's why they point with an open hand!

Joseph A Gorski's avatar

Nothing is as it seems. A show is put on for public consumption while other moves are made in the shadows by the elites.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

A very risky game which can easily explode in our faces. Only insane people gamble like this. But, of course, a nuclear exchange WOULD cool off the atmosphere a bit, temporarily, if you don't care about the carnage.

Justin Santo Domingo's avatar

Rothschilds and the berserk zdogs of the MIC war machine at it….again and again and again!

KurtOverley's avatar

The Deep State is a far greater threat to the average American than any alleged “foreign adversary”

Brian's avatar

if you haven't figured out that there is no party and your government is the biggest threat to our citizens more than any foreign adversary and you have a long way before you exit the matrix

Stuffysays's avatar

I was born in 1962. I lived in a world where the old boys kept quiet about the Great War and the middle-aged men only talked about the good bits of the 2nd war. Nobody really talked about the death and destruction - one man told me no former soldier would discuss the horror of war with someone who hadn't been there. My father worried about the "Reds under the Bed". We all watched heroic films about the 2nd war. We knew "it won't happen again" because of nuclear bombs and because "Europe had finally learnt its lesson".

Well, 80-odd years from the last fuss and over 100 years from the previous one, nobody is left to remember that we had learnt our lesson.

Except the Russians. Who clearly do remember and who clearly have been trying not to repeat it all. Someone needs to remind the German government of the trouble they caused last time they put on uniforms.

Someone needs to suggest to the American government that they wouldn't sit by and watch China put its military equipment in Canada or Mexico so why would the Russians allow Ukraine to become full of western weapons pointing at Russia?

The only pathetic consolation is that we westerners could no longer fight our way out of a paper bag let alone against a professional, battle-hardened bunch of Russians. It will be short and tragic and I am scared of the western nukes not the Russian ones.

Lois Lassiter's avatar

I would not be at all surprised if Europe wanted to go to war with Russia. They made it clear during the Ukranian adventure that they wanted to destroy Russia. I'm not so sure Trump is on board with the, although many holdovers in the State Department and Pentagon may want it. Attacking Russia is like attacking Afghanistan. Russians are so used to being downtrodden and underfoot that they have more resilience and invasion of Russia becomes next to impossible to complete. Russia has been trying to be our friend since the fall of the Soviet Union and we have constantly played the role of the mean popular girls and not let them sit at the table.

As to the level of incompoopary, nothing comes close to the nimrods in NATO. They keep poking the bear, literally.

Jack Winogrodzki's avatar

They are not nincompoops, this has been a plan in action for some time by the evil cabal. The politicians are simply carrying out scripted orders like actors in a movie. They are all compromised. The cabal want Russian and Iranian resources as it’s the only way out of a bankrupt and broken west. Wait for a major false flag event!

Mike's avatar

How is the peer reviewed data coming along for the use of repurposed drugs in the treatment of your TDS?

Ben Fen's avatar

The Indoctrinated Brain by Michael Nehls has an insight that neuroinflammation from covid shots causes a syndrome similar to TDS in braindead Liberals. If you’ve ever tried to reason with them you’ll notice something is really off, as in organic brain disease off. My current liberal litmus test is to ask their opinion of Elon Musk. Prior to 2023 Musk was a hero, saint, saviour to all the Liberals. Now he is Enemy #2. They can not articulate the reasons for the shift nor can they tolerate the observation that their behavior is irrational. (Litmus test, as in a screening mechanism determining whether they are brainwashed and incapable of rational, nonemotional thought) their answer to the Musk question tells me whether I’m wasting my time or not engaging with them. Interestingly Nehls suggests that the neuroprotector and immune system regulator vitamin D may hold the key to reversing the TDS like syndrome…I cover this in my new book, The Sunlight Solution: Reclaiming Vitamin D, Reversing the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and Making America Healthy Again published by Skyhorse on June 23.

JoanneS's avatar

Rude & disrespectful to call our President a “total moron”. Intelligent people can have differences of opinion without resorting to name calling.

CB's avatar

First, freedom of speech--including rude and disrespectful--is part of the heritage we're said to be celebrating. Second, even former strong supporters of Donald Trump, like attorney Robert Barnes, are now disheartened by his growing dementia and venality. Barnes, a guy very knowledgeable on history, now believes the current administration is the most corrupt in U.S. history (despite many past presidents also having been quite corrupt).

Maha's avatar

For all the fraud, waste and abuse this Administration is removing, it seems like you should back up accusations of corruption with references, just so we in the cheap seats can get a clue.

CB's avatar

I don't own any stocks, and I'm not a student of the market. But here are a couple of small examples. First, from the July 3rd WSJ (my wife's, sitting on the kitchen counter): On Aug. 18, 2025, Trump accounts (many managed by Don Jr.) bought at least $250,000 worth of Intel. Days later, Trump announced that the government was buying a 10% stake in Intel. Since the announcement, Intel stock has risen 370%. Trump's done the same thing with other companies, including MP Materials. It's called insider trading.

Second, here's Brave's AI (I use the Brave browser, didn't check any other AI) on contracts benefitting the Trump children: "Multiple DOD contracts awarded in 2025 and 2026 have benefited companies affiliated with Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, sparking investigations into potential conflicts of interest. Notable deals include a $24 million contract for humanoid warfare robots awarded to Foundation Future Industries shortly after Eric Trump became its chief strategy adviser, and a Pentagon drone parts contract for Unusual Machines, in which Donald Trump Jr. holds a significant equity stake valued between $2.6 million and $4 million."

By all accounts, Don. Jr. and Eric know as much about robots and drones as Hunter Biden did about Ukrainian natural gas. Smells like Biden to me, but on a much larger scale. And that's not even mentioning the Trump family's "meme" crypto "coins," on which the family made hundreds of millions of dollars, while most of people who bought the "coins" are way underwater.

I'm sure anyone who wanted to spend some time could find a lot more.

Maha's avatar

Well, this is the first time in history an accusation of insider trading has been leveled against a politician.

As a billionaire, Trump has great advisers. He is buying and selling securities frequently. yes? I have a great financial planner as well. He bought some Intel just before that announcement in 2025 as well. Not many shares, but hey it went up. Do you think they should investigate me for insider trading, too?

Robert Auld's avatar

By their deeds ye shall know them. (I'm referring to our so called leaders.)

Deborah's avatar

Oh waaaah! How about something more accurate: Fraud, stooge, intellectually limited, pawn of the evil one, Apollyon the Destroyer.

Maha's avatar

Hyperbole Award.

Sergie's avatar

Dear John, much as I appreciate your writing on practically any other subject, when it comes to Russia and Ukraine you demonstrate curious blindness which, alas, I often see in people whose country never experienced an actual aggression, with foreign ghouls coming with arms, looting, raping, burning and mass murdering your people - ironically quite some British people seem unable to understand the very basic fact of ghoulishness of an armed aggressor. So, when writing on this subject, you are really close, alas, to Mr Putin's (a proven ghoul) propaganda flunkeys who ignore one simple fact - NO ONE was talking about war preparations, strengthening defense, etc, BEFORE Feb 24, 2022 when the Russian ghouls invaded Ukraine and started mass murder there. Ukraine, due to its sheer numbers and the dire state of its economy, was never ever any military threat to Russia. As simple as that. As for any war, we know very well that Russia is unable to break through Ukrainian army and in the case it decides to invade would probably be easily defeated by the Albanian Army, let alone the Polish one. As for possible Western aggression in order to grab the proverbial "Russian resources", who on earth needs that when Mr Putin will provide any at bargain basement prices, using his own population as slave labour just as he uses them as his unlimited supply of cannon fodder that Russia through the ages have been so famous for? As asked a French friend of mine, If that happens and the West wins, who exactly will fly over two-weeks shifts to the Permafrost Zone to mine coal for China for 800 bucks a month? You as a proud conqueror will?

Robert Auld's avatar

"NO ONE was talking about war preparations, strengthening defense, etc, BEFORE Feb 24, 2022..."

You need to catch up on some history. Russia's action in 2022 was NOT unprovoked. For months beforehand, Ukraine was building up the largest army in Europe in the Donbass. Since 2014 the Kiev regime had been shelling Donetsk, resulting in the deaths of over 14,000 Russian speaking people, and now it was clear they were preparing to invade the breakaway Donetsk republic.

Russia had attempted diplomacy and had been told by the western powers that what happened in Ukraine was none of their business--which is absurd, Ukraine is a former Soviet republic and right on their doorstep. Russia is vitally concerned about what happens there, and rightly so. I would further remind you that the regime in power in Ukraine in 2022 had been installed by the U.S. in 2014, when the Maidan coup overthrew the elected government of Viktor Yanukovich. The coup was directly sponsored by the U.S., with Victoria Nuland conferring with U.S. ambassador Gregory Pyatt on who should run the new government. (Their phone call discussion was famously leaked.)

So, the Russians were facing a hostile regime in a country right on their border, installed and encouraged by the U.S. They invaded, and within a week they had Ukraine's negotiators prepared to sign a peace agreement in Ankara, Turkey, which would have addressed the dispute between the two countries. And it was at that point that the U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson intervened in Kiev and persuaded them to continue the war, promising full support from NATO. That is how we got to where we are now. Ukraine has been used as a proxy to weaken Russia, in the hopes of overthrowing Putin and breaking up the country, so that the west can loot its resources.

Diana's avatar

Exactly spot on it was the betrayal of the Minsk agreement of 2o14 , along with those two faced politicians Holland n Merkel that shifted all these war drums beating away.

And when the Donbas wanted independence to save their people from being slaughtered , they called in the Russians with whom they had a treaty , to save them

The West has been trying to invade Russia for more than 2 hundred years , they are obsessed with doing this .

And they conveniently forget that without Russia WW11. Would have certainly had a different outcome ,

NATO was created to ‘ combat ‘ communism n should have dismantled when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The west are imperialistic warmongers and all this war mongering leads to a war with Russia and China in the future if we re not all blown up before

Mark's avatar

Mark Bartalmai's film of original footage and interviews from Ukraine at the start of this war, 2014, illustrates perfectly the points you are making:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-P-tX04_LA

Mike Olsen's avatar

Very well said. I vividly remember when Putin adamantly denied any plans to invade Ukraine when he was amassing his troops on the border. I also remember Biden saying Putin will invade, and then they invaded. If anything, Europe and NATO are incompetent and did nothing to stop the invasion. The whole purpose of NATO was to counter Russian aggression. In that area, they failed miserably. No wonder Trump is threatening to leave NATO. They are helpless without the US military and money. Putin has destroyed his countries next generation and you say the US and the west are run by nincompoops. Even if Russia somehow wins this war, at what cost? I am tired of all the Trump bashing and defending of Putin. He is the former head of the KGB and definitely no saint.

Brian E Houle's avatar

The propaganda has grabbed ypur brain! Not Russian though. I suggest you go to Rusdia and see for yourself. NATO has been preparing to tale Russia since its birth. We grew up watching western propaganda movies and are told total b.s about Russia. They are the only free Christian country left!

Sergie's avatar

You are funny, Mr. Houle. I AM Russian - an old Soviet, in fact, and as Russian as it gets ethnically, so unlike you I know very well what that "Christian society" looks from the inside.

As I see you are into the laudable cause of writing about the nefarious consequences of the "Covid" scam, why don't you write something on "Sputnik" being an early experimental version of AstraZeneca, the whole population generously provided as gunea pigs for it by its "Christian leadership", with official AZ (i.e. recognized in the West and thus allowing to travel internationally) manufactured in the same factories in Russia but ... for export only. No one seems to be writing about that, "for some reason". You see, the Russian version of the sadistic scam had extra sadistic and quite unique features about it.

As for the propaganda movies - I've seen them all on BOTH sides, believe me. Stiill think Firefox is one of the funniest comedies ever made, by the way.

Phil Davis's avatar

Your understanding of Ukraine stops on Feb 24, 2022. You don't understand, or refuse to accept, what led up to that date. You've completely bought into the Neocon propaganda and strategy to war with Russia, who btw, holds over 75 trillion of hard assets. Europe, especially, needs those assets and a distraction from the economic doom that is starting to fall over the EU.

Europe is about to enter a prolonged depression. Even Germany, the great EU economic engine, is sputtering, and Volkswagen is looking to lay off thousands.

You must understand that your backing of the Neocons and their rhetoric is propaganda. As in every war, propaganda reaches its peak before fighting begins.

Maha's avatar

Yet Poland is the only country to have a robust GDP growth since the COVID fiasco. Why is this one not like the others, even as it sits on the border of Ukraine?

Jason's avatar

The great Henry Ford one said “isolate the top 50 most wealthiest Jews, and all wars cease to exist”

He was not wrong.

ArnoldF's avatar

Ford hated Jews. The global spread of the russian tsarist lible of the Protocols of Zion is primarly because of Ford. The document is a total lie. If the Jews run the world as you imply tell me how then they cant put down and completely subdue a small small zone of war just outside their border?

Jason's avatar

Yes, the book was fabricated, but it just happened to predict every event and behaviour by a specific group for the next 50+ years with pinpoint accuracy 🤦🏻‍♂️

ArnoldF's avatar

The Jews are called by God to bless the nations. They were given the laws and the ways of God to be a light to the nations. And they brought forth the Saviour. But all you want to see is curses. Jason, you see what you choose to see.

The Jews will run the world some day, and so in some respects what you claim is correct—but its not yet. But it will happen when Jesus the Jew returns and sits on His throne which will be in Jerusalem. He will destroy the wicked and all the righteous of the earth will be raised from the dead. All the nations (hebrew goyim) of the world will stream to Jerusalem to worship the King of Kings. Hope you are there.

Horace the Menace's avatar

You seem to have confused the Israel of the bible (those people who accepted and followed Jesus including gentiles) with the current nation state of Israel (comprised of those people who rejected their own God, and were therefore cut off from him).

You also seem to have confused the meaning of the word Jew which is a modern word and did not exist at the time of Jesus. Jesus was indeed of the tribe of Judah. But his life was spent repudiating Judaism which is the religion of the Pharisees who today are known as rabbis. He utterly rejected their ideology, told them that they had inverted God's commandments and identified them as liars and the children of Satan.

Phil Davis's avatar

Total raw bullshit. Ironic how God completely destroyed the Jewish system, its temple, and all genealogical records in 70 CE. I don't think God views the Jews as chosen anymore. They lost that standing over 2000 years ago. The UN gave them a slice of land that was not from God, and they've been abusing even that gift.

Deborah's avatar

Amen and Amen!!

Jason's avatar

Jesus: "Jews are children of Satan." (John 8:44)

"Oh so they're your chosen people?"

Jesus: "Jews are the synagogue of Satan." (Revelation 2:9)

"But you still have a plan for them right? Gotta support Israel." Jesus: "SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN!" (Revelation 3:9)

"Alright got it, so we should support Israel."

Joewrite's avatar

Israel will be a peculiar people. Israel is the "lost" 10 tribes and the tribes associated with Judah. 12 tribes, 13 tribes (as Joseph son's are counted). An elect group will be willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of YHWH and his son, the Messiah, Yahushua (Yahu saves) and the whole world, but unfortunately not before they beat the hell out of us.

It's a drag, I know, but that seems to be the message contained in the Old and New Testaments.

Jason's avatar

MATTHEW 21:33-46 "HE SENT- HIS SON TO THEM, SAYING, 'THEY WILL RESPECT MY SON! BUT WHEN THE TENANTS SAW THE SON, THEY SAID TO THEMSELVES, "THIS IS THE HEIR;

COME, LET US KILL HIM AND HAVE HIS INHERITANCE!... THEY SAID TO HIM,

"HE WILL PUT THOSE WRETCHES TO A MISERABLE DEATH, AND LET OUT THE VINEYARD TO OTHER TENANTS WHO WILL GIVE HIM THE FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS."

Deborah's avatar

And now evil hateful anti-semitic Ford is awaiting the Great White Throne judgment seat of Christ where he won't have vehicular travel, but will be cast headlong into hell. Take heed all you uneducated dupes of the libels made up by the enemies of God's people!

Jason's avatar

Which Christ the one who criticized the Jews and called them the synagogue of Satan and said that they were no longer in God’s favour?

Matthew 21:43

“Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.”
— Jesus is speaking to the Jewish leaders here. This verse is widely interpreted to mean that the covenant blessings would extend beyond ethnic Israel to include others (i.e., believing Gentiles).

John 10:16

“I have other sheep that are not of this sheepfold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
— "Other sheep" is commonly interpreted as Gentiles, implying a future unification of Jew and Gentile under Christ.

Luke 2:32

“A light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
— Spoken by Simeon when he saw the infant Jesus. This reflects Old Testament prophecy (Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6) and affirms Jesus' mission to the Gentiles.

Romans 9:25–26 (Paul quoting Hosea)

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people... and in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
— Paul uses this to describe how Gentiles are grafted into God's promise.

Joewrite's avatar

Deborah, all of us will have a chance to know the truth in the next life. This includes some really horrible people, including the Ford you are raging against. You do not know if he will be saved in the judgment. You are judging him now?

Jason's avatar

Why would you think the great Henry Ford was a bad man?

Because he revolutionized the assembly line because he was an automotive legend, or because he recognized the behaviour of a hostile subversive group and accurately, and honestly exposed them?

Who are you to judge someone that lived a century ago?

It’s religious nuts like you that run around pontificating on how everyone else is a sinner and how everyone else is going to hell except for you.

All you can do is attack his person, but you can never refute his statements. You can never disprove him.

Joewrite's avatar

I wasn't so interested in attacking Ford. I was responding to Deborah and including the Ford she was raging against. I specifically said that we can't judge him. Not up to us and we don't know if he will be someone who "makes it" to live with YHWH and his son.

Our judgement is between us and YHWH's son. YHWH, the father gave his son this job because he became human and died for us.

John Day MD's avatar

The Strait of Hormuz has become a valve that only agreement of elites can really open. This has reduced spring planting fertilizer. Many farmers have not planted, due to poor-expected-yield losing money. This will starve millions or billions of people next year.

The time-delay between the event and the consequences lets such plans be set in motion.

"You are the carbon they want to reduce", as the saying goes.

Joewrite's avatar

Yes, someone up there is very displeased with us earthlings.

John Day MD's avatar

It is our "owners" (Carlin), I'm pretty sure. The Divine would help us all get along well if enough of us would seek and follow Divine Guidance, which cannot be "enforced";

Free-will is the Divine Right of sentient-beings, messy as it is.

Joewrite's avatar

I think we've been horrid long enough. A correction from YHWH is coming, quickly in human terms.

John Day MD's avatar

Yaweh is probably "The Demiurge", not "God the Loving Father" as taught by Jesus, nor "Dharmadatu", Universal Divine Consciousness, as in Hinduism & Buddhism.

Yahweh is therefore a "lesser-god", a "jealous god", and understandably so.

It is Yahweh's work with humans that we see in the discord of our world, and it can be mended by yourself, myself, and other autonomous entities, choosing to follow the Golden Rule, and more intimate Divine Communications, to which we are more open after we follow the Golden Rule for a while.

That's my perspective. "YMMV", as the saying goes.

Kurt's avatar

Lol.....Russia ain't preparing for war. Putin wants to be left alone. Putin went into Ukraine to destroy the bio weapons labs that the U.S. was funding and running. The real enemy is the CORRUPT and evil United States government nit Putin.

Horace the Menace's avatar

The corruption you correctly assign to the US government implies that our representatives are taking bribes from someone. The real enemy are the men paying those bribes, whose wishes the US government, and Putin too, are carrying out.

Joewrite's avatar

The persons taking the bribes are our enemies as well.

Horace the Menace's avatar

Yes. But they are unimportant. Without the men paying the bribes they would be no more than petty criminals.

Sam's avatar

Are they men though? Not of the human race, methinks...

Texaspeaches's avatar

My information says Trump, Putin and Xi are working together. We'll see.

Horace the Menace's avatar

I would pedantically suggest that they are working for the same master rather than working together.

Sam's avatar

YES 100% agree

Diana's avatar

Yes I ve heard this too but it has yet to be proven

Russia could have finished this war 3 years ago

Why is Putin dragging it out ?

To help the 2030 agenda of global politics ?

SteelJ's avatar

Maybe. But you make a point that's almost always missing from analyses of foreign policies of all countries. It's discussed as if the motivations of the leaders are in line with their countries' interests, although usually off the mark. Why assume they aren't following their own personal interests? Geopolitical strategy may have nothing to do with any of it.

Diana's avatar

I think they are all connected … The spiders web not the interest of their nations

Personal power !