Take a peek at how many times the borders have changed in The Ukraine -----it's not called "The Borderland" for no reason @Smokin Joe
But, by all means let's bankrupt, starve, freeze and nuke the world over this latest shooting match in the Borderland.
Look at how our borders have changed in the last 300 years.
We haven't had the European see-saw over one line, we've had a bunch of radical, generally expansionist changes, fairly stable since 1867. How nice that it has only gone one direction so far. Europe, on the other hand has had different tribes exerting dominance militarily over patches of land for some time.
Bankrupt?
The world is bankrupt, in more ways than one.
Last year's dollar bill is the new 89 cent piece. The only reason any 'money' is accepted is because everyone is sitting on some and doesn't want to be broke.
Starving?
It's being engineered anyway. For the planet an' all that.
Freezing?
The GLOBAL attack on traditional fuels has brought us here, despite the efforts of folks like me who at least got to see us energy self-sufficient once in a 40+ year (and counting) career finding and helping develop such resources.
Nuclear weapons being used is still optional, but if Tehran doesn't have them yet, they will on short order. Russia? Meh. Watch what the other hand is doing, it's China on a crash program to develop that strategic capability, and when the time comes, it will show, while Milley is on the phone being told to ignore the incoming, it's just a test. Remember they couldn't get a satellite into orbit until the Loral deal. (Thank You, Mr. Clinton--or did Hillary broker that one?)
In the meantime, the Russians are stealing the Ukraine's wheat
AGAIN, flattening part of Eastern Europe, AGAIN, committing other atrocities,
AGAIN, and the leaders of the 'free' world are supposed to just look the other way?
All of these are self-inflicted wounds.
With a stroke of the pen, the current Administration could reverse the policies which have led to an energy shortage here, and with that change in our situation, the global shortage would be relaxed, as would inflation, as would the nonsensical hardships on farming, and there could be enough for everyone, even if that isn't as profitable as cataclysm, and does not present the opportunities for totalitarianism.
Current environmental policy is making farming harder here, and impossible in other places (Protests in Holland are rooted in this). Add to that shortages which will exist because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, theft of grain and destruction of other grain stocks, making that loot worth even more, should any nation accept the shipments (which they eventually will, if Russia is not forced by defeat to relinquish them, just because of the instability caused by desperate and starving populations--ask Louis XVI).
This is all orchestrated on a global level, but not fighting aggression is giving it a stamp of approval.
