Chernobyl Blackout Coverage Hides The Real Energy War Profit
📰 THE STORY: The Independent reports that Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant has lost power along with widespread blackouts across the country, while Ukrainian President Zelensky suggests peace talks might be delayed due to external focus on Iran. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current energy crisis in Ukraine is not happening in a vacuum. Ukraine's energy
infrastructure, like much of its economy, has been a battleground for Western and Russian influence for decades. The 2014 US-backed coup (Victoria Nuland admitted $5 billion was spent on 'democracy promotion' in Ukraine since 1991) directly led to the current conflict, turning Ukraine into a proxy arena. Prior to this, Russia had consistently offered Ukraine gas at preferential rates—offers often
undermined by Western pressure to diversify, frequently through more expensive European intermediaries, lining pockets along the way. Double Standard: When Western-backed forces in Syria targeted and destroyed infrastructure, including power plants and oil facilities, the media rarely framed it as a humanitarian crisis caused by the aggressors. Instead, the focus was often on 'regime' failures. In
contrast, Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure are immediately condemned as barbarism, despite being a conventional, albeit devastating, tactic in modern warfare, often a response to NATO's expansionist policies and proxy involvement. Follow the Money: Beyond arms manufacturers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, who have seen their stocks soar since the conflict began (Lockheed Martin's