REACCIÓN EN CADENA

La voz de África también importa ¿Por qué la Cumbre “Rusia-África” en San Petersburgo tiene un carácter trascendental para hallar una salida pacífica a la guerra en Ucrania?

Por Charles H. Slim

Durante todo el siglo XIX y gran parte del XX, África fue un continente huérfano de justicia sometido bajo los contantes atropellos de las metrópolis que la colonizaron y despojaron de sus riquezas. Nada nuevo para quienes conocemos la historia de saqueos, estafas y robos a mano armada de la autoproclamada “civilización occidental”.

Continente con grandes e incalculables riquezas naturales, tiene también grandes dramas humanitarios que no deberían existir si esas riquezas se explotaran y se aprovecharan por los mismos africanos. Pero la gran trampa que dejaron los europeos tras su paso por allí es la misma que dejaron en Latinoamérica y en Asia, esa que se ve en el mosaico de nacionalidades a manos de grupúsculos de serviles (Cipayos y alcahuetes anglófilos) que rompió tejidos tribales tratando de mantenerles sumisa de forma artificiosa y maquiavélicamente deliberada.

El color de piel y las creencias de los pueblos africanos no son condición para explicar el atraso y la pobreza como lo han tratado argumentar los “civilizados” del occidente. La estafa y el latrocinio ha sido la marca registrada de las relaciones de occidente con esa parte del sur global.

Esto va camino a cambiar y la Cumbre ruso-africana en San Petersburgo de la semana pasada es la prueba de ello.

Sin dudas que la muestra de unidad en los representantes africanos dejo entrever un panafricanismo vigoroso y dispuesto a cortar con la histórica relación abusiva y de explotación de las metrópolis europeas que les colonizaron. Los métodos de control y chantaje han cambiado, pero esa relación tóxica continua a nuestros días.

Si bien el intervencionismo militar ha sido una constante en el continente, el principal medio para presionar y condicionar a los gobiernos que se rebelan a los centros de poder son las sanciones económico-financiero-comerciales. Esto ha sido en los últimos treinta años hasta hoy el factor extorsivo condicionante más utilizado para escarmentar y mantener sumidos a sus jóvenes estados.

Libia fue un ejemplo aleccionador de como la Unión Europea y EEUU, usando todas las herramientas disponibles (OTAN), aplastaron a un estado árabe que era el faro del socialismo no solo del norte de África sino de todo el continente.

No nos olvidemos que desde que la OTAN con sus mercenarios, sus grupos proxies disfrazados de “yihadistas” y pagados por las petromonarquías del golfo, deshicieron una sociedad laica y avanzada como era la libia, se instauró el caos, la criminalidad y detestables prácticas como el tráfico humano y el esclavismo como lo habían hecho los franceses, los ingleses y esos simpáticos belgas.  

Las nuevas generaciones de africanos han crecido con estas sangrientas y dolorosas lecciones y siempre han estado trabajando para mejorar. No se han contentado con ese insufrible refrán “el mundo es un lugar cruel e injusto” para que los hombres de buena voluntad bajen sus brazos. Las palabras en la cumbre del presidente de Eritrea Isaias Afwerki, de Burkina Faso Ibrahim Traoré y el ugandés Yoweri Museveni son un testimonio de esa nueva y férrea voluntad, aunque ello incomode a los pragmáticos de Sudáfrica (miembro del BRICS). Los países más pobres del continente son conscientes del desprecio y del relegamiento histórico que han sufrido por su color de piel y por la dependencia creada desde las metrópolis europeas.

Hoy en las actuales circunstancias, contrario a lo que cualquiera de los gobiernos del “occidente colectivo” o más precisamente del angloamericano creen, África no solo tiene mucho para decir sobre su destino, sino que también mucho para aportar en temas trascendentes para su supervivencia y para la geopolítica y eso es lo que se vio en la Cumbre de San Petersburgo, Rusia.

¿Por qué creen ustedes que los representantes africanos presentes concurrieron con entusiasmo a esa Cumbre? Más allá de los lazos históricos que se extienden a las épocas de la URSS, esta muy claro de que lo hicieron sabiendo de que iban a ser escuchados y lo más importante, de que sus palabras serían anotadas y tomadas en cuenta para ofrecer una solución definitiva a una guerra que ya ha perdido toda explicación estratégica (salvo claro, para quienes usufructúan con ella).

¿Habrían ido a Washington, a Londres o quién sabe, a Bruselas si una cumbre similar se hubiera convocado? Sin dudas que lo habrían hecho, pero con la consciencia de que estarían tratando con un Status Quo repleto de prejuicios y una acendrada mentalidad colonialista que los europeos llevan en sus genes y que los estadounidenses replican con su “imperialismo democrático” que ya sabemos que significa.

Paradojalmente mientras los personeros de la Unión Europea y sus guionistas en Washington se desgañitan clamando por los medios sobre el respeto de los derechos humanos, la soberanía de las naciones y la legalidad internacional, siguen siendo en su comportamiento y trato absolutamente racistas y prueba de ello es el trato que se da a la Turquía musulmana, inventando cuantas excusas y argumentos políticos sean posible para que pueda ingresar al bloque.

Si esto lo trasladamos al caso africano, que casualmente en su mayoría de los miembros de la comitiva son de confesión islámica, había lugar a plantearse muchas dudas de la viabilidad que habría existido para ser tomados en consideración. La realidad de islamofobia y racismo de Europa lo precede y solo basta recordar como en algunos de lugares de “este jardín” como algunos lo llaman quemar El Sagrado Corán y perseguir a los musulmanes es una actividad recreativa.

Somos testigos de una nueva era para el protagonismo de África no ya como la víctima del colonialismo anglo-europeo del cual quedan solo estertores con ambiciones neocoloniales sino, de su potencialidad para el desarrollo genuino y pacifico y es por ello que Rusia ve mucho interés en participar.

 

 

PEACE IS DESIRABLE

Have Zelensky and his backers come to their senses about the imperative need for peace, or is this a ploy?

By Sir Charlattam

“We can't stop establishing contacts with the Kremlin for peace talks,” commented one of Volodymyr Zelensky's close aides as the ground shook from the fall of Russian missiles when they met in the armoured bunker beneath the Ministry of the Interior in Kiev in mid-December 2022.

The answer to that advice came a few weeks later when that official died in a mysterious accident. It would be very easy to accuse the Ukrainian leader of ordering this "accident" (which could be very likely) but there are other factors involved that point more accurately to the origin. It is true that this suggestion did not please Zelensky at all and even transfigured his face, but there were others in his cabinet who were not amused and surely took it as a sign of betrayal and would have acted accordingly.

But who were also present were the British and American advisers who would have been dismayed and thus would have been the masterminds of this covert execution. Whatever the case, the Americans and the British were empowering a Zelensky in doubt and worried that he would not be able to fulfil the role that the White House had scripted for him and that President Joe Biden himself had entrusted to him.

At that time peace was the last thing to be talked about, and that was not debatable. That mandate came straight down from the White House and was relayed in person by Pentagon advisers. This is how American democracy and that of its British partners works: they tell you one thing in public and do something else on the quiet. Why do they think the US signs agreements that it then rides roughshod over?

The duel between the story elaborated and disseminated by the not very credible Western media such as the BBC, CNN, The Economist and the crude reality already has a winner and it is... reality. Joe Biden and his entire Atlanticist club -in their fevered minds- were counting on the fact that they could continue to deceive people and the public around the world if they managed to strike a blow against Russia. In short, (for them) it was a matter of time to degrade the Russian economy, create widespread discontent in society, turn Russian citizens to the streets against Vladimir Putin and his government and Voila!!, as the jovial Macron would say... Toute la Russie à nos pieds!

Coincidentally and to Macron's chagrin, the Nigerians have decided that they will no longer be exploited and from now on, if France wants the mineral resources it will have to pay for them.

The reality has been harsher and crueler than NATO's brains had expected. To be more comprehensive in these considerations, we must make it clear that this reality has hit Biden, Sunak, Borrell and their minions repeatedly and in different parts of their faces and that NATO is in a virtual technical knockout and before Zelensky hits the canvas, the towel must be called in.

The latest reports of Kiev's interest in talks with Moscow on the basis of a proposal that the African representatives have put forward to Vladimir Putin on a number of points are confirmation that things have turned out worse than one might have imagined. The comedian may be dressed in khaki at the lavish meetings of his sponsors, but the real bleeders on the front line are the simple men who have had enough of this.

The blockade of grain and fertiliser supplies to the African continent and the global south in general is endangering the humanitarian conditions of its inhabitants, and not because of Russia's whim. Recall that Kiev violated the grain agreement by using it for the secret transport of weapons. At the same time, the US and NATO have been putting all kinds of obstacles in the way of Russian cargo ships, preventing the supply of grain and fertilisers free of charge.

Faced with this suspension of the agreement, the Kremlin promised free delivery of Russian grain to African countries, a proposal that choked the CEOs of corporations such as Cargill, Bunge, Midland and Dreyfus and several of the financial (futures) speculators on the Wall Street stock exchange. For these corporations that control 80 percent of the grain trade, crises and war are in their interests and the idea of being run out of business is not something they will tolerate. What matters least to them is so-called “Food Security”.

That is why a UN employee came out to snub Putin's impertinence. You will not hear such measures from the White House, 10 Downing Street and even less from the bureaucrats in Brussels, given that in addition to their colonialist past and making a business out of war, they care little about the needs and human rights of Africans.

On the contrary, the Russian government and Putin himself have shown that the African continent is on their radar, and in addition to offering free grain and fertiliser donations, they have announced their political commitment to supply military equipment to 40 African countries, thereby reducing dependence and indebtedness to the Western war industry.

So much did this offer resonate that there was no shortage of second-rate lackeys and bootlickers trying to discredit the offer. Predictably, the UN secretariat and Gutiérrez himself sided with Washington, refusing to allow Russia to implement the cost-free grain donation to Africa.

The summit in St. Petersburg between African representatives and Russian President Vladimir Putin provided a glimmer of light. China's neutral involvement in bringing the parties together was also very important.

Undoubtedly very bad news for those corporations, but even more so for Biden and his coterie of neoconservative war mongers, who could see the hostilities come to an end. The last summit, while it served to bend Erdogan's arm to stop denying Swedish entry, was not at all successful in terms of Zelensky's aspirations to raise more aid.

For the senile old man, the concern is the approaching elections and with a war encouraged by his administration, to which billions of dollars have been pumped and which, to make matters worse, has served only to line the pockets of a few cocaine addicts of the regime and its neo-Nazi officers in Azov, he can only arouse a resounding rejection from the public.

That, too, is bad news for the subjects of the European Union, but especially for Prime Minister Sunak and his bishop Ben Wallace, who most likely has no intention of keeping the NATO Secretary General's chair at this point. When the war is over, who will want to be there?

Biden is now cornered and the dirty tricks they have been trying to implement against Russia with proxy cells carrying out terrorist attacks run by the CIA, MI6 and their SBU cronies will not change the outcome. If Biden leaves the Oval Office there will be many questions coming from the House Committees of Inquiry and from the catastrophe in Afghanistan, the questions are undoubtedly countless.

 BLACKROCK

DO I BUY UKRAINE?

Why is it not in the interest of the White House, its NATO partners or Zelensky to end the war

 

By Danny Smith

One of the interests that has mobilized and continues to mobilize Volodymyr Zelensky and his supporters is money and for that he will not hesitate to sell his soul to the devil if necessary.

War is undoubtedly a calamity for ordinary citizens but a fabulous business for those who profit from it. Zelensky himself once said that he wanted to turn Ukraine into the “Israel of Europe” and not because of some fantastic theological reformulation fabricated by the Zionists who support him or because of the promise of a divinity who verbally granted them a real estate title.

The war in Ukraine has become a center of opportunity for private investors, but not for just anyone. Here too, democracy has nothing to do with it, nor is the free market a respected guideline. Only those who have the financial solvency and political clout to put themselves ahead of any other bidder can intervene.

As we have also seen, neither the White House nor its EU subjects are interested in peace. We see clearly how after the setbacks of the so-called counteroffensive they are betting on escalating the conflict and obviously not because of some insane pathology but because of very well calculated financial interests.

For Zelensky, the Russian bombings are very useful as they are serving to prepare the ground for new financial investments from the West. As is done with old buildings, demolishing them is the first step for developers of new ventures. Here, the Kiev mafia is rubbing its hands with every missile and Kamikaze Drone that destroys the country's infrastructure, as it is the condition without which the capital of those investors would not come.

The September 2022 video-conference meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, presented as a deal to bring in public and private investments, was in fact the beginning of other deals that have been going on for a deal for BlackRock to take over the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Neither BlackRock is doing this for free nor Zelensky and company are working for the future of a country that is on the verge of disintegration. Tens of thousands of men have been sacrificed in the failed counteroffensive and thousands of civilians are affected by a war that the West and the Kiev mafia do not want to stop, but that has a sinister functionality for the interests behind the scenes that are linked to Washington and London.

All the money that Joe Biden has given to Zelensky seems to have evaporated, or at least that is what can be sensed with the continuous claims of the insatiable actor. You don't have to be too smart to figure out that we are dealing with a con man who is part of a big scam and that as a junior partner in this business, he surely does not realize that his termination clause is dated.

Another issue that is not being said is who will be the financiers of this financial corporation's benevolent participation. Taking out that Ukraine has become a sewer of all kinds of dirty business and where the most ruthless mafias operate, the black money from the proceeds of these businesses is not enough to whitewash the face and intentions of Fink and his executive retinue of bloodsuckers.

To cut a long story short, a substantial part of the money that will resolve this detail comes from American and European taxpayers. That's right, it will be ordinary citizens themselves who will be giving their tax money to this mega-corporation to do business with the ultra-right-wing mafia in Kiev. As we can see, this is just a handrail of money that will have no payoff for their despised interests.

Just by analyzing what those billions of dollars, pounds sterling and euros have supposedly been invested in, one cannot explain with reasonable evidence what they have actually been spent on and by whom. The evidence on the battlefield says something quite different from that investment to assist the Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Thus we saw how a few hundred old German “Leopard” tanks, as many “Gepards”, a handful of “Bradley” tanks with missing parts, mechanical defects and an assortment of armored vehicles donated by the British, Americans, Swedes, Poles and Romanians do not explain the sidereal figures that have gone precisely to finance “the war effort”. The same goes for light armor and anti-tank systems and manpads. According to several sources on the front, they speak of shortages and defective material.

From the Western media front it is very difficult to disguise the reality and their imaginative editors no longer have any scruples about being exposed with such blatant lies and fabricating stories with twisted arguments that are summarized in an alleged unexpected delay in the results of this counteroffensive.

At the same time, they seek to continue demonizing the Russian government and especially Vladimir Putin by trying to create internal discord among the population, although Russians do not need external psychological agitation or Hollywood super productions (if we can speak of such a thing today) to know who is who and who is the worst in this whole story.

One does not have to be very perceptive to realize that while the civilian population is giving their children's lives, especially those of all men between 18 and 60 years old, and their own blood to sustain a philonazi regime, the leadership of this Status Quo, with the operational support of NATO intelligence agencies, is indulging its vices, doing shady business and diverting those funds to hide them in European banks in the hope of using them at the end of the war.

Surely Hunter Biden's business partners or those of his father, will make a place for Zelensky and his cronies in some condo in California, Miami or perhaps in Washington DC itself or who knows, maybe in Tel Aviv where several financial and sex criminals wanted in other countries take refuge.

The billions of dollars that Biden has given to Volodymyr Zelensky in accounting cash (separate from weaponry and ammunition) in a good part of all that money will be to finance the "disinterested" intervention of these financial labradors and thus closes a big package with a bow that will strangle for generations the ordinary Ukrainians

 

ESTADO

EN DESCOMPOSICION

¿Qué tan democrático es un estado militarista, colonialista y racista basado sobre una teología supremacista?

Marbuti Kalaf

La tan promocionada “democracia del Medio Oriente” va dando cabal muestra de su real naturaleza con una realidad de contrastes obscenos en la que los derechos humanos y la libertad es solo para una clase, una etnia y una religión bien determinada.

Las sociedades tienen los líderes y gobiernos que les representan y Benjamín Netanyahu sin dudas, representa muy bien a los israelíes. Israel como estado implantado mediante el terrorismo y el apoyo político-diplomático de Londres y sostenido desde 1948 por los EEUU no es el epitome de ningún milagro y todas las arbitrariedades que ha venido cometiendo ni siquiera podrían ser ocultadas por la inteligencia artificial.

La causa palestina ya retumba en las paredes y los pasillos del Capitolio estadounidense demostrando que el Lobie pro-israelí ya no puede ocultar las iniquidades del estado al que defienden.

¿Puede ser democrático un régimen que invade y ocupa territorios ajenos o amenaza de muerte o directamente asesina a quienes se ponen en su contra? La fallecida cantante irlandesa Sidney O´Connor quien se convirtió al Islam, antes de morir recordó cuando el actual ministro de seguridad israelí Itamar Ben Gvir junto a su grupo de extremistas la amenazo a ella y a todos sus músicos de muerte si tocaba en 1997 en un concierto que se llevaría a cabo en Jerusalem, o de las continuas incursiones de colonos judíos contra la mezquita “Al Aqsa” clamando por su destrucción, o de las continuas profanaciones de cementerios islámicos o directamente, de los crímenes sin justicia y cometidos con total impunidad como fue el asesinato de la periodista Shaeerin Abu Akleh.     

Desde hace meses que la sociedad israelí que no es otra cosa que un mosaico de ciudadanías extrañas a la Palestina histórica, se halla inmersa en un tironeo intestino que va profundizando las divisiones políticas por el control de un estado y un sistema mal concebido.

Esa pelea entre dos facciones del judaísmo (Askenazis y Sefaradies) es la pesadilla hecha realidad para los sionistas quienes durante todo lo que va de la existencia del estado se esforzaron por sostenerlo y presentarlo como un monolito sagrado bajo una supuesta protección divina.

El formato democrático con el que suele presentarse en occidente de esta implantación del nacionalismo judío, es un engañoso espejismo que ha servido para tratar de legitimar una situación política ilegal y anacrónica que se materializa en la ocupación y detestables usurpaciones, violaciones sistemáticas que a diario se cometen contra los derechos humanos de la población palestina que ya lleva décadas de ese martirio.

La compulsa que sacude a los israelíes solo les importa a ellos y a los sionistas diseminados alrededor del globo, pero especialmente a los que viven en EEUU, la Europa occidental y algunos países de Sudamérica. No hay otro motivo que haga que los medios de occidente le den la importancia que no tiene. Es una lucha de poder entre ellos y como es de esperar no incluye a los palestinos quienes para unos y otros (de los israelíes), siguen siendo una molestia que los sionistas en general -sin distinción de derechas ni izquierdas- quisieran exterminar.

No hay que dejarse engañar. Mientras hay protestas contra el intento de Netanyahu y sus compañeros supremacistas judíos de la extrema derecha religiosa por cortarle los pies a su Corte de Justicia, los palestinos no reconocen esa jurisdicción y no lo hacen porque no reciben los beneficios de esa “administración de justicia” y siguen siendo asediados en Gaza, Cizjordania y violentados impunemente por los colonos judíos que son acomodados en asentamientos que van contra la ley internacional.

La llamada democracia israelí es un gran embuste muy semejante a los calcos de sus benefactores occidentales caracterizados por la corrupción y la desigualdad.

Es por eso que lo que pasa en Israel puede verse desde dos ángulos muy diferentes. Si lo vemos desde el prisma de los medios occidentales, histórica y claramente influenciados por los intereses que sostienen a esa entidad política, vemos que hacen un predicamento de esta lucha entre los judíos demócratas y los judíos “duros” de la extrema derecha que pretenden cercenar uno de los poderes en un sistema militarizado disfrazado de democracia que fue implantado en 1948 con engaños, fuego y sangre.

Como se ve, los términos y las palabras son bien cuidadas. La brutalidad que ejerce este estado y sus ciudadanos contra los árabes-palestinos es suavizado con excusas y manipulaciones argumentativas que ya no engañan a nadie. En vez de llamar las cosas por su nombre, los medios occidentales notoriamente bajo la hegemonía pro-israelí han sido la lavadora de cara de sus criminalidades.

Si lo vemos desde el lado árabe-islámico y también desde los cristianos palestinos que sufren las mismas injusticias de las fuerzas sionistas, se trata de una pelea por el poder entre judíos que buscan seguir, cada uno a su modo, perpetrando la ocupación por medios más sigilosos y moderados contra otros que no les importa esconder sus metodologías ni sus intenciones.

Mientras las familias palestinas deben vivir bajo el terror de las fuerzas ocupantes y la de sus colonos implantados en territorios robados, los israelíes, quienes la mayoría tienen un pie en América o Europa, gozan de total impunidad para violar los derechos humanos, usurpar inmuebles, terrenos y territorios palestinos para hacerlos propios.

Debe quedar bien claro que mientras los medios hacen una novela dramática sobre los riesgos que corre la democracia israelí. El verdadero drama pasa por una población palestina sojuzgada y que hace más de setena años ve como la ocupación brutal, racista y que hoy toma un color de supremacísmo religioso descarado, le roba el futuro a cada generación que nace.

Mientras los medios de occidente pintan esta mascarada, los palestinos no ven otra alternativa que continuar resistiendo por todos los medios los intentos de erradicación que el invasor trata de llevar adelante mediante su campaña de apropiaciones y guerra demográfica.

 

REGIME OF ILLEGALITY

Myths and realities of Western democracy's relations with the far-right, mafia-like regime in Kiev

 

By Sidney Hey

A seemingly harmless shipment of farm implements and motorbikes being unloaded at the port of Durres, Albania concealed a consignment of arms and equipment that was not supposed to get there, but no one cares. In a place so corrupt and run by gangsters with links to the “agency” and NATO, silence is assured.

Further afield, somewhere in the Red Sea, other container ships will land on some Arab beach another ton of military equipment and weaponry that was supposed to reach Ukraine. I would not be surprised if we see a re-run of the “Islamic State 2.0” hoax using Turkish “Bayraktar” Drones, “Javelin” missiles and British “Starstreak” MANPADS, if that happens I would like to hear what the media buffoons in the West will say. Still no one in the ASIS offices in Canberra has dusted off the matter of the vans that were shipped to be handed over to “Daesh and there is a simple explanation for this: As a strategic ally in the South, Washington has a firm grip on Australian politicians and that is why they gladly participate in all operations ordered as part of the “Five Eyes”.

But other shipments that did reach the country seem to have been subject to other diversions and are lost in the mists of a state of absolute lawlessness. The reality in western Ukraine, and in Kiev in particular, is far from a state of legality. In addition to being at the mercy of a pro-Nazi regime, the inhabitants must contend with local criminal mafias that are the law in a lawless state. Someone has been making a killing on shipments to Eastern Europe and the question is: is this a stunning oversight by the Ministry of Defence (MoM), the consequence of an extraordinary and sophisticated Russian intelligence operation, or are there other Washington plans for these armaments?

Democracy is supposed to be the governance of law, so is breaking international law democratic?

I can assure you that if the government wanted to, it would not miss a nut on a tank. But it is true that in recent years the dealings between the government and private corporations, the intra-governmental corruption is so great that administrative controls that only serve to justify huge defence budgets no longer matter. The scandalous case of Hunter Biden, which the American media corporation has tried to sweep under the carpet, explains many inexplicable things in American politics.

No doubt this has partly filtered into the disaster of Kiev's failed counteroffensive that forced into the public eye the failures and shortcomings reported by many Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries (American and British) who managed to survive in the midst of what they themselves called “hell”.

The alleged shortcomings in end-use monitoring between the Pentagon and their colleagues in Kiev do not explain these gross irregularities, which are actually minuscule compared to others noted by the Russians in the liberated territories.

Why should this not be credible? Ukrainian troops have been known to steal and sell such large items as French 155mm “Caesar” guns and their ammunition to the Russians, who took no time at all to remove them from the field and reverse engineer them. Let alone the tide of rifles and machine guns that no one knows where they ended up. For those of you who can remember, remember the weapons and money that were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan?

On those occasions various military officers and intelligence contacts made their own fortunes by taking out of Iraq and selling the weapons of Saddam's dismantled army to insurgency groups and mafias around the globe. What did the Baghdad government do? Nothing if they were part of the deal. The same in Afghanistan, where many ISAF military and corrupt Afghan military and politicians loyal to Karsai got rich selling and reselling weapons to warlords and opium traffickers.

Why should things be any different in the current war in Ukraine? And yet we are only talking about this trafficking and not about the more sinister and lucrative trafficking of people and organs.

This is undoubtedly a nuisance for government bureaucrats who tend to see ghosts where there are none. They are typically useless, sitting on their chubby asses in a well-appointed office far removed from reality. So it's not surprising that these questions fall foul of them as “Russian propaganda”.

It is possible that there is another theory for creating this black hole of arms and money in Ukraine. Perhaps this seemingly uncontrolled arms surge has been planned to flood the mafias, irregular and extremist groups of all kinds into Ukraine and all of Eastern Europe to consolidate a scenario of controlled chaos that will destroy their governments and in the midst of that morass, Washington and NATO will come to the rescue.