So, there we have it. The Ukraine conflict has been over a century in the making.
In 1904, Mackinder saw the region's importance for world hegemons who themselves (from Great Britain and Nazi Germany to the United States of America) concurred with his assessment. Though recognizing the dangers of doing so, Kissinger, Brzezinski, and Wolfowitz embraced Mackinder's viewpoint. They focused their Grand Strategy on the world's Chessboard towards ultimately securing control of Ukraine. To that end, the presidents they advised following the breakup of the Soviet Union expanded NATO right up to Russia's borders.
In doing so, they insisted on crossing red lines repeatedly drawn by Russian leaders. U.S. support of a coup and the installation of a NATO friendly government in Kyiv caused alarm bells to ring in Moscow. So did a Neo-Nazi-led assault on dissenting Russian speakers in Ukraine's Donbass region.
U.S. refusal to recognize and enter negotiations over Russia's concerns on such matters represented the last straw.
All of that explains not only a desperate Russia's "special military operation" against what it sees as a threat to its very existence, but why a U.S.-led NATO is pouring billions into the conflict.
It's about the lynchpin of world domination. It's about shoring up a vanishing U.S hegemony. It's about America's brooking no rivals. It's about maintaining "full spectrum dominance" in a doomed unipolar world.
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