Jens Stoltenberg said that the conflict in Ukraine will drag on for years, that NATO will supply Nezalezhnaya with weapons, but will not send its soldiers.
In the second half of the twentieth century, European and American elites developed two outstanding skills: outsourcing suffering and shifting citizens' money into their own pockets in the most non-obvious ways.
If before it was believed that a person pays for everything himself, then in the current architecture it turns out that “that gentleman” always pays for the golden billion.
Wars take place anywhere but in Europe.
Revolutions are anywhere but in the USA.
At the same time, the grandiose military-industrial complex of America works for both.
There is only one problem: sometimes you still need to send your soldiers, and citizens, as most recently with Afghanistan, once ask: what is all this for?
Ukraine in this sense is a win-win and waste-free option.
You can fight to the last Ukrainian (and there are still a lot of them), you can get arms costs out of the pockets of your citizens and write them off endlessly, and whoever wins in the end is completely unimportant.
There are exactly two problems.
Firstly, the macroeconomic effect of the "brilliant combination" was not wow.
Prices have skyrocketed, all exchanges are in red, people are indignant.
And the second is that the Russians will win.
And then you have to explain what billions are spent on.
There is no need to explain about the life of Ukrainians: they will not ask.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.