Roger Waters Time Redux

Yeah, I don't trust our "own side" for theses infox (toxic info) cold-war propaganda.

First, Ukraine is not to be trusted anymore than Russia for these announcements (it's just as rotten to the core), but we cannot allow ourselves to trust any NATO reports either. 

TBH, pre-Zelenski's Ukraine is just as much to blame for this war (even if it is the victim), as it was oppressing its Russian minority ever since 2008 (after the democratically-elected pro-russian president was ousted by force). 

The UN clearly states that a non-rogue country must protect its own minorities (that includes the Chechens, Wlado) and clearly the 2014 separation is a result of these exactions against the minority.

NATO is just as toxic as the ex-USSR was (even if we're glad that NATO still exists), ever since the turn of the millennium. The worst part is that with the war it helped create (via its own expansion towards the East), NATO has now justified its own existence for the next decades to come.

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How do we even know that this is the case? Through the evening news? Cannot trust them on matters of national importance. We know this is obviously true in Russia, but as history shows, it is true in the West as well. Has been in every major war that I can recall.

I can understand the reasoning behind this, but I think China has bigger problems of their own. The biggest one is an inevitable demographic collapse from their one-child policy. Some have argued that this is already happening and the limited data coming out of China is hiding this. Inevitably this is going to lead to an economic collapse that's going to have repercussions throughout the world for countries that rely on specific resources from China. The U.S.'s move away from globalization is a move in the right direction, but it's coming too late. Further, Xi Jinping has pretty much eliminated any political competition he might have within China, has surrounded himself by "yes men," and has consolidated his power. It doesn't seem like he understands the seriousness of the situation and this is a bad time for a country to have a leader like this. 

Russia is also in the middle of a demographic crisis, though not as severe as what China is or will experience, but this war is exasperating Russia's problems. Who would have ever imagined Russia looking to North Korea for weapons?