i got this far into: regime change is in the air, and choose to post it;

Moreover, today we are clearly not allowed to raise these questions. If you do then the Thought Police come in to take away your Twitter account or worse.

We are seven years advanced from those halcyon days of being able to take in information and discuss it and draw our own conclusions.

Because of this the fog of war has never been thicker in my lifetime. It begs another question as to why. Why should it be verboten to question what happened at Bucha?

Or why Russia invaded in the first place?

Why we’re even contemplating expanding the official presence of NATO in Ukraine as it resists foreign occupation?

Again, it doesn’t matter if conceding to Russia’s demands on Ukraine violate some so-called Western principles of self-determination. When politicians are hiding behind principles you know there is a far different agenda lurking beneath the headlines.

That said, to my mind it is very clear why. When all aspects of this conflict are balanced it is hard to ignore the conclusion that the foundation on which the entire Western neoliberal order rests is crumbling............read more........