A lot of food for thought here; concerning not only the Ukraine war but the the future of the western nations.
[thepostil.com]
For the past 150 years or so, big finance movers and shakers have experimented with ways to run the political world as well as the financial world. They propped up various dictators and ideologies every 20 years or so, first to open the Russian empire to their control, then to counteract their communist mistake, then to eradicate their Fascist/Nazi error, etc., ad nauseum, ad infinatum.