War

I don't know if this is a bluff, but I hope Karzai refuses to sign an agreement so all NATO forces are withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Russia puts troops on alert and orders war games near Ukraine. NATO promises to defend Ukraine from Russia.

"Meanwhile Nato defence ministers warned that they considered Ukraine’s future to be “key to Euro-Atlantic security” and assured the new government in Kiev that the alliance would back its “sovereignty, independence [and] territorial integrity.” "

This is nuts. Now we know why our rulers used the Olympics to demonize Putin to a giant audience.

Kiev's coup-meisters wasted no time in shaking down the EU for €5 billion. This is just payment for executing the west's coup.

With Afghanistan and Iraq basket cases, US-backed coups in Ukraine and Venezuela, and US backing in the Syrian civil war, this parallels WWI. The US is directly aligned against Russia in Ukraine and Syria. That kind of war would be a scapegoat for economic collapse.

"With the possible exception of Venezuela, none of these multiple crises can be considered in isolation: the key connecting factor is Russia. Vladimir Putin has set himself up as the antipode to the US and its dream of constructing a "new world order" based on unipolarity and America’s undisputed military dominance. Ideologically, Putin has positioned Russia as the conservatizing factor in world affairs, as opposed to the "progressive" and revolutionary character of American influence abroad. In effect, Washington and the Kremlin have switched positions as a new cold war breaks out, with the former leading a global effort to overturn the old order of sovereign nation-states and the latter resisting US-backed revolutionary movements throughout the world."

Upside-down world again.