AS Russia’s ‘special military operation’ in Eastern Ukraine entered its first week, it has made clear one important lesson for the world: allowing your country to be a servile state of Western (US) Imperialism, would prove disastrous in the end.
On Friday, February 25, 2022, some 24 hours after Russian troops entered Ukraine, its president, Volodymr Zelensky, was forced to concede that not a single NATO-member country—and even US Imperialism—for whom he has allowed himself and his country to be prostituted in their effort to surround and contain Russia, would come to fight along their side. Ukraine is on its own.
Western leaders like US President Joe Biden and his sidekick, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson explicitly puts it, the “retaliation” against Russia would come in the form of “sanctions”—financially and economically—claiming this would have a far better impact in debilitating Russia’s capacity to wage war in the long term.
But looking at the matter closely, we can see that there is a far more sinister, diabolical and hideous reason why in recent times, US Imperialism and its European stooges are relying more and more on economic and financial sanctions against their declared enemies and adversaries: the actual wealth they have “frozen” remains directly under their control and as time passes by, under their own power to freely dispense with any way they wish.
In other words, they get possession of other countries’ wealth without the benefit of shedding the blood of their own soldiers.
And we have seen this happened many times previously. Just look at what they did to the wealth of Libya worth over $68 billion that US and Western banks ‘froze’ in the West’s bloody campaign against Pres. Moammar Khadafy and afterwards.
The same happened in Iraq where the ‘frozen’ (read: plundered) Iraqi wealth varies from $7 billion to $30 billion.
In the case of Afghanistan, US Imperialism declared it has ‘frozen’ some $9.5 billion of Afghan assets, badly needed by the Afghan people in their effort to rebuild their lives and their country devastated by more than 40 years of war and chaos initiated by Washington in its ‘proxy war’ against the then Soviet Union and Russia.
And let us not leave out Iran whose frozen assets, in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, was estimated to be between $100 to $120 billion. Ever wonder where is this tons of money now?
Who is actually benefiting from them now? Certainly not those countries and their people dispossessed of their wealth and money!
Imperialism has been doing this for the longest time now after realizing the power they exercise thru their control of the global financial system.
Now, it is the turn of Russia. While we do not have information as to the amount of wealth that is now the target of the West’s greed, it is safe to say that it would dwarf the combined wealth of Imperialism’s other victims.
As the war in Ukraine continues, we now see that it would not be to the West’s best interest to see it concluded the soonest possible time—they would be exposed as plain thieves, criminals and global plunderers once the fighting stops and they refuse to hand over or release Russia’s wealth and assets.
This is why instead of food and other humanitarian aid, the West/US are only sending war materiel to Ukraine. The longer the war, the better for their profit margin.