It's clear now that there are two possible ways ahead. One involves the US voluntarily giving up the self declared mantle of "World's Policeman" or Hegemon, the single dominant "power" in the world to which none others dare to compete. The other involves that outcome happening involuntarily. The first is greatly to be preferred by all, and opens up possibility of other humanity preserving options, such as tackling global heating.
It was the pretense at World's Policeman which led to the creation of NATO in the first place. The notion is an insult to actual policemen, no matter how regressive they are. The US has never involved itself in foreign affairs except to the promotion of naked self interest, not unlike any other major European country, The US has fought major aggressive land wars for much of the time since World War II, proxy wars most of the rest of the time, overthrown 83 governments, and tried many more times than that. It maintains constant pressure on it's "allies" (vassal states) to ignore it's flouting of international law, obey the rules it invents for further self-aggrandizement, and participate endlessly in an endless war against all rising competitors.
Naturally, people raised in the US and other western countries have a narrative in which it was the West which aggrandized by Russia following the world war, and not the reverse--which is far more true.
The US has endlessly sought to destroy not only regimes which cooperate with Russia, but have sought Russian assistance in desperation, or planned to have more socialized economies than could be conveniently pillaged by Western banks. Global Hegemony is effectively Global Totalitarianism in service of financial pillage.
Russia, in contrast, has generally supported the vassal states on its periphery and helped them, sometimes with a heavy hand, resist western sponsored attempts at regime change.
This pattern goes back to nearly every example you can think of, even the Tanks in Hungary, and outrageously supporting the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, which was an unfortunately successful attempt at regime change organized by the US against a Russian vassal state which had been doing fairly well beforehand relative to what came after...a longstanding pattern. But outrageousness is not unusual, you can go on and on with such examples, such as Libya.
Now today, it appears to many, we have something different. They see it as a clear "Unprovoked Russian Invasion." The uniformity of that phrase alone should make it very clear it was not "Unprovoked" at all, in fact it was meticulously and outrageously provoked in greater and greater degrees, going back about as far as you wish.
Right after WWII the US began protecting and supporting Ukrainian Nazis for the precise reason that they would be useful for the US plan of neutralizing if not destroying Russia. And service to that goal has not stopped for one instant since.
The US was involved in the dissolution of the Soviet Union through co-opted Gorbachev and manchurian Yeltsin, and quickly moved in to move everything possible away from Russia, preventing any attempts at re-unification in highly Russian speaking areas.
The US was undeniably involved in both the 2004 and 2014 coups in Ukraine, the second being far more notorious. The US backed the Neo-Nazi militias involved there and in Odessa.
Since the Neutral (in fact having descended directly from the US-installed government of 2004) government of Yanoukovich was overthrown and replaced with what has transparently a been a US vassal state committed to an unchangeable policy of local if not global de-Russification, it's clearly been a proxy war ever since then. 14,000 in Donbass were killed after the historic Russian dominated region declared and voted for succession, which should have been their right and especially under such circumstances.
But it's hard to fight back against the western press which is little more than a Ministry of Truth operated by western intelligence sources, which inverts nearly every actual fact and replaces with a simple good (us) vs evil (them) narrative. And once you start seeing how they do this now, it's clear they have been doing the exact same thing as far back as you wish to look, all transparently in service of of global economic domination.
So the more people have kept up with "everything" and memorized each and every detail, the more they have been completely deluded, so long as never venturing into or trusting alternative sources, via comparable reactionary mechanisms in the media narrative, including the endless battle between super regressive social forces and those merely unable right now to fight them.
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