Meanwhile Russia diverts civilian production capacity to military use because of the existential threat that can only be solved by invading a sovereign nation.
An ethnically divided nation that is so corrupt and dysfunctional that it lets itself be infiltrated by a foreign power from overseas so that it can be used as a proxy to weaken a neighbouring semi-foreign power, is far from sovereign.
Ukraine, that prior to 1990 never existed as a nation and was thus called
the Ukraine, had its chance of becoming a real country, by becoming a neutral between West and East. This opportunity was squandered due to wide-scale corruption and the return of the Galician Nazis from the US and Canada, where they were welcomed with open arms when WW2 ended and the Cold War started.
Ukraine is now nothing more than a cog in one of the many war racket schemes that the American MIC runs to transfer wealth into concentrated hands. What remains of the country has already been neoliberalised and thus sold to Wall Street, its social welfare system decimated, its culture on life support (in the form of Russophobia, radical nationalism and misguided dreams of becoming part of the superior West).
Developing countries around the world will have to hope they're not the next in line, once the Ukrainian lemon has been squeezed dry.
For instance:
It appears that the aid has passed, with another $50B towards American MIC interests and $10B 'loaned' to Ukraine to spend as they please. The kayfabe has been incredibly successful, the rest of the civilized world has begged the United States in their infinite generosity to spend billions of dollars on themselves in order to advance their own interests.
That's exactly right. All it will do, is prolong the destruction and misery, pushing back the inevitable negotiations at the end of the ride. Anyone who thinks this 'aid' is a good thing, is an evil sadist.
