Diana Wrote:The real separation that is facing us, as far as I can tell, is not Russia vs. Ukraine (although I do not in any way mean to diminish the suffering of any country engaged in war); rather it is the global powers vs. the citizens of this planet being controlled by them (basically STS vs. STO). The story is one country vs. another, or democracy vs. other regimes, but I think it is easily seen that that is BS (one look at the US and its history of covert military involvements and resource manipulation of poor countries exposes that convoluted mess).
Yup....the story is the oldest story of our species, greed and selfishness, and in the case of entire nations, it's the story of collective greed and collective selfishness, for all players involved. On the Russian side you have Putin with an estimated personal wealth of $100 billion... but of course, he's only one side of the coin.
Here's Jonathan Pie, a British comedian, explaining (at least part of) this convoluted mess quite succinctly. Apologies for the language.