The men and women on all sides, of violence, war, of arms manufacturing and trading are wholly to blame for our Western-backed war in Yemen and Ukraine that is accelerating global ecocide and the slaughter of the innocents.
We could have dissolved NATO at the same time as the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in the 1990s. It was all take and no give as we took full advantage of the Russian break up of the USSR. We cashed in on their discomfiture and rapidly took over nearly all the former satellite states of the USSR and welcomed them with open arms into the American-led, Western fold. This was far too good an opportunity to let slip, as we expanded eastwards. But restraint could have been shown and membership of NATO and the EU could have been declined or, better, the invitation not made at all.
We should have been more circumspect then, as we are now over Ukraine's membership of NATO. We are now more conscious of Russia's feelings on the matter. But that was sadly lacking thirty years ago, twenty years and certainly ten years ago as Western firebrands overthrew a properly and fairly elected pro-Russian President in February 2014. The straw that broke the camel's back. These Western/American enthusiasts could not wait for the next nationwide election. So another Western coup d'état was added to the worldwide list.
We could have taken up Putrid's offer of help in the wake of 9/11 in 2001 but, no way could we show weakness and give this Russian nationalist, our traditional enemy and wicked, nasty Communist any slight idea that we were compromising our principles and accepting his help.
So the weapons of destruction to add to our own mass destruction from burning up all the finite fossil fuels we can lay our hands on, pour into Ukraine to hasten ecocide.
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