01/03/2022
U.S. / UKRAINE vs RUSSIA: It's about natural gas.
Did you know?: The United States has been trying to stoke conflict in Ukraine as a means to reduce Western Europe's reliance on Russian natural gas (necessary to heat people's homes during the winter), as well as other goods. The construction of the Nord Stream pipelines from Russia to Germany has been viewed as a threat to US capitalist interests, which want to maintain Europe's dependence on US exports and keep Russia isolated from Western markets.
Over the past decade, the United States has become the world's largest exporter of natural gas, but cannot produce it as cheaply as Russia does (think fracking etc). By successfully escalating a bloody anti-Russian proxy war within Ukraine, and provoking Russia into an illegal ground war, Western Europe is being forced to pick sides and align with the US. This results in ballooning energy costs for our friends and family members in Germany and other western European countries.
As United States' primacy in the world weakens, countries are realigning toward a more multi-polar world. Despite the mythology of capitalism being about healthy competition, it's really about monopolizing markets. U.S. capitalists do not want to lose monopolistic control over European markets. As usual, the U.S. military (funded by Americans' taxes), is used to intervene to protect U.S. interests abroad. The war-hungry capitalist elite meddles in horrific proxy wars all over the globe. This mass murder is usually ignored by our corporate media, who often share investor ties with these same weapons contractors.
For every million $ in military aid sent to arm Ukrainians and further escalate this conflict, we could have instead built schools, hospitals and bridges in the U.S. War is a racket that siphons off working peoples' hard-earned taxes and lines the pockets of the money hoarders. If we truly care about Ukrainian lives, we should be pushing for de-escalation, and that means NOT sending in more weapons or freezing Russia's foreign assets.
Remember that corporate media represents pro-war interests.
If you consider yourself anti-war don't waste time on corporate media.
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