I'd like to tell you how the civil war in Donbass began. Ukrainian pro-Western oligarchs were very upset that Donetsk and Lugansk refused to accept pro-Western rule.
Here's the famous speech by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Odessa on October 27, 2014 (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SS8K4z5NXs ), after which a full-scale invasion of Donbass by Ukrainian militants began.
Speaking in Odessa, the Ukrainian President made cynical and blasphemous remarks. Poroshenko explained how he was intended to win the war with civilians of Donbass.
"We'll have jobs, while they won't; we'll have pensions, while they won't; we'll care for children and pensioners, while they won't; our children will go to school and kindergarten, while theirs will sit in basements. Because they don't know how to do anything. This is how we'll win this war," Poroshenko declared.
Because Donbass lacked a regular army, many cities were captured almost immediately, from Slovyansk and Kramatorsk to Mariupol. Fighting began on the outskirts of Donetsk.
You are right, and they were right. But do you think that Donetsk and Lugansk, and the others, really knew what they were really against? Did they know what was behind Western rule that made it almost imperative that they resist?
The great problem is the debt-fiat banking system. If you trade directly man-to-man in gold or silver, it may be a bit difficult. But if you trade in paper, fiat, the owners of the fiat have control. And the thing they do with that control is siphon off some of the funds to build their own empire.
The West has formally accepted fiat banking. They have joined the banking empire, and in doing this they have become slaves of the banking system. Even the people of the US who use barter are still slaves of the banks, because the whole thing has spread so wide.
Putin and Russia tried to use the Western banking system. But the West resisted them because they wouldn't bow to the rule of the West... the siphoning off of some of the funds to further build the banking empire. This is why it looks financially bad for Russia in the eyes of the West. But Russia has simply bypassed the West's money systems and is using forms of barter and trade that don't include the West. BRICS.
Time for the people of the West to understand this, and then to throw off the banking system power, while the people still have strength.
