The US is up to its old colonialist “nation-building” tricks in Ukraine

The US is hell-bent on doing to Ukraine what we did to Afghanistan, Iraq and others, and at a scale not seen before.

Ukraine is, in many ways, the culmination and the pinnacle of modern US hegemonic ambitions. It encompasses and embraces every facet of the American Empire, from the economic to the geostrategic.

Never before have the interests of all the American oligarchs — from Wall Street, the military industrial complex, the political and media establishment, and the corporate plutocracy — been able to join together on one single project that will benefit them all equally.

ICYMI — A 2014 Princeton study proved that “ordinary” Americans have no say in their government. [Source: BBC]

Making Ukraine “the 51st state”

It is no secret that the US has been trying to use Ukraine to attack Russia for the past 75 years. Beginning with operation Red Sox in the 1950’s and operation Aerodynamic in the 1960’s, Ukraine (and Ukrainian nationalists) has always been seen by the US deep state as a lever and/or a battering ram which they could use against the USSR.

But the real value of Ukraine to the US Empire emerged after the fall of the Soviet Union — that is when the US corporate oligarchy realised the tremendous financial and economic potential…