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Thank you for your insights!

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Aug 19Liked by Mick Ryan

Thank you for your explanation of a very complex situation.

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Thank you.

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Aug 20Liked by Mick Ryan

A very thoughtful discussion. Thanks

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Thank you. I appreciate the feedback

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Aug 19Liked by Mick Ryan

Thank you very much.

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The U.S.-West have used nuclear weapons and chemical weapons so please stop with this gaslighting that “Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons”…we know the Russian Nuclear Doctrine and we know the U.S.-West behaviour: and it’s factual use of WMD’s. You should worry about the West

It is the U.S.-West that cannot accept or accommodate regimes that don’t resemble them: and their imperial-colonial culture of intolerance that drives them to want to make every regime resemble themselves…the Rest are quite happy to accept your differences and live with it - it is called multipolarity.

This means that our regimes are continuously under threat from your intolerance and desire to change it: so stop the gaslighting that “PUTIN worries about the survival of the Russian regime”. We all do and we have good reason to do so: it is constantly the target of your regime change intolerance, your inability to accommodate our differences, and your expansionist desires for conquest.

The U.S. Grand Strategy remains to “ensure Primacy, Preponderance and Hegemony by Maintaining, Defending and Extending the Peace”…the latter meaning the U.S. dominated and Western biased international order.

The emphasis is on “extending the peace” which means NATO expansion; what we call Western military-economic imperialism. It is the West that is “extending” - not us - so worry about the warmongering US-West; not about the Rest, PUTIN or China…it is the U.S.-West that even openly declares it’s aggressor status as an intolerant expansionist power.

If you want to see the Western institutional bias in action, just look at Gaza: MILEIKOWSKY (a family from Poland) that calls himself NETANYAHU to try and cover up his European settler origins , is still slaughtering Gaza civilians (innocent children and women) and by the estimates of the British Medical Journal - The Lancet - about 186 000 of them, but has still not gotten an ICC Arrest Warrant.

You may think the Rest of the World will continue to tolerate this sort of flagrant injustice but I can assure the day of colonial reckoning is approaching faster than you may think: Australia and New Zealand are but settler colonies like Zionist Israel that slaughtered, dispossessed, enslaved and displaced the indigenous inhabitants that they found there when they migrated from the racist Western Europe colonising large swathes of land and completely innocent people. It is the same European racism that produces anti-Semitism; Islamophobia or Anti-Palestinian racism…four centuries of Black African slavery should tell us enough of it.

Russia is fighting the U.S.-NATO - Ukraine is but a collapsing proxy with thousands of dead soldiers and a country in ruins because of this expansionist, intolerant, and cruel U.S.-Western warmongering.

Ukraine cannot hold onto Russian territory for long - the Russian Strategy of Attrition has been too successful - just as Russia cannot occupy the whole of Ukraine. The sooner this US-NATO engineered and provoked war - as part of its suppression, containment and encirclement of Russia and China - ends the better for everyone. And the sooner the U.S. abandons its addiction to its self-delusion of being the Policeman of the world, the better: America itself is but a settler colony…which is why they, Australia, Canada and New Zealand like to delude themselves that they are “democracies fighting autocracies”.

The bottom line is: check your Eurocentric biases as they are glaring and affecting your judgment in your otherwise always interesting and insightful analyses…thank you

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Slight typo: brigades / bridges in "The dropping of the Seim brigades might also indicate an indication to widen the Ukrainian salient to the west". (And maybe indication/intention)

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