Blackouts in Kyiv: DW Reports 'Locals Leaving' as West Rakes in Billions
📰 THE STORY: Deutsche Welle reports that thousands of residents are leaving Kyiv due to widespread blackouts, highlighting the hardship faced by civilians as electricity infrastructure is targeted. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current conflict in Ukraine did not begin in a vacuum. NATO expansion eastward, explicitly warned against by figures like George F. Kennan in
1997, has been a central provocation. The 2014 US-backed coup (Victoria Nuland admitted $5 billion spent to 'promote democracy') that overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected government and installed a pro-Western one, directly contributed to the current hostilities and civil war in Donbas, which killed over 14,000 before 2022. Double Standard: When US-led NATO forces destroyed Libya's
infrastructure in 2011, leading to widespread suffering and the collapse of the state, it was framed as a 'humanitarian intervention' to prevent genocide. The resulting slave markets and migrant crises were rarely attributed to NATO's actions. Here, the suffering is presented as an isolated event of war, detached from the continuous flow of Western arms and funding. Follow the Money: The US has
committed over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine since 2022, much of it in military assistance. Major defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have seen their stock prices soar, benefiting directly from the ongoing conflict. This war is pouring money into the military-industrial complex, with arms manufacturers lobbying aggressively for continued escalation. 💡 THE PATTERN: This