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Chris Hedges (They're Destroying The Country!)

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The War in Ukraine Is a Cold War Policy

The idea, of course, with the sanctions was to destroy the Russian economy. Well, the economies that got destroyed are the German economy. But what's UK inflation's almost 10% in it. I mean, your energy bills have gone through the roof, putting even more pressure on a distressed working class. So yes, what they're seeking is, historians call it micro militarism. It's where late empire engages in military adventurism in a desperate bid to reclaim a past dominance. And that's what we're seeing. You can see the social disintegration and the very rapacious and lethal force of as I mentioned before,. these militarized police that function as internal armies of occupation

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