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I don't see any evidence of competence in the Biden Administration's Ukraine policy - just the usual militarized statecraft devoid of any Plan B which wrecks client states in pursuit of U.S. foreign policy objectives of global dominance. The wreckage includes Europe, presently being deindustrialized or did I misinterpret the point of the U.S. blowing up the Nordstream pipelines?

Ukraine lost its sovereignty in 2014 when a U.S. backed putsch overthrew the democratically elected government and installed an ultranationalist, anti-Russian government with substantial Neo-Nazi elements which putsch triggered a civil war in the Donbass where Russian speaking Ukrainians repudiated the legitimacy of the coup government and were persecuted for it. Since the Maidan Coup, NATO led by the U.S. trained, armed, equipped, and exponentially expanded the AFU from a few thousand troops which posed no military threat to Russia to a few hundred thousand which are being destroyed in the current war. Its economy having collapsed, Ukraine is now a failed state, completely dependent on U.S. financial support for its government and military.

The argument that Russia bears the blame for the ongoing catastrophe ignores several very inconvenient facts. Most notable, the U.S. and NATO provoked this war by intentionally creating a major national security threat on Russia's borders by expanding a hostile military alliance to Russia's borders and arming a hostile power. Encirclement appears to be the goal just as it is with China. No serious effort was made to enforce the Minsk II Agreement which was endorsed by the U.N Security Council after bad faith negotiations by Ukraine, Germany, and France. And the U.S. sabotaged peace talks at the beginning of the war and has exhibited zero serious interest in pursuing a diplomatic resolution.

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