Strategic and necessary aggression for Russia? Yes.
Justifiable? Not under current international law.
Being a Pariah and a rogue state is preferable for Russia to full encirclement by hostile states, and losing access to the warm water ports that are technically Ukrainian.
This is good analysis.
One factor I'd like to add, for collective consideration:
Petrodollars maintain value primarily because they are used to buy oil, and the west crushes alternatives.
When Russian Golden Rubles start being used to buy/trade oil, That's when shit will hit the fan-- or we will see an actual WW3.
I hear you. It's a lesson from history lost on most people. The last American politicians advocating for that type of constitutionalist anti-National Bank stance with any fervor went down with the Titanic.
Every politician since has kissed the ring. Lickspittles, the lot of them.
It is also a good bet that we would not have had an endless string of wars if the cartel never got a hold of control of the US currency. Oh well, if it didn't happen here it would have happened elsewhere I suppose.
Yep. All the destruction of war, from the bombs, to the collateral damage, to the debt, must be financed with rented money. Imagine collecting compounding interest on even a single war's worth of debt for the rest of time.
The cartels have-- and they will continue to do so.
... the banking cartels were explicitly never supposed to be the house.
On the contrary, monopolizing positions of power in finance to gain control akin to 'The House' vs. gamblers is the whole point of banks organizing into cartels in the first place. That level of organization exists explicitly to rig the financial game.
For example: in it's highest form of expression, 'banking cartels' equates to the organization of the central banks-- which exists to control the power of the mint; they are 'the house' because they own the chips. If they are losing, then they can mint money until they aren't-- paid for by the public via inflation. Add in fractional reserve banking and the management/milking of every boom/bust cycle, and you wind up with a truism: The House always wins.
I really was seriously disappointed by 3rd Edition Exalted-- both in terms of the content itself and how long it took to reach fruition. I love the setting, but I have quite thoroughly fallen out of love with the creators.
The tale ending in a tragedy is basically the only ideologically consistent resolution, given those themes you mentioned.
Whether that tragedy is GRRM's death being a full Viking funeral pyre on a raft made of HBO's money, or the story not getting an ending... I really no longer care.
I tried to reread the first book when Dances came out, couldn't, and dropped the 4 I owned in a used book bin. Detaching early strikes me as an optimal outcome, given the shit show that's happened since.
"Warhammer is for everyone"™
a PSA that ended with "If not, you will not be missed."
She's brown enough to count as politically black, but is actually totally unrelated to urban black America, culturally-- so the perfect choice to sell that constituency down the river after getting their votes because she looks like them.
Leftist as revolutionary? Yes. Leftist as collectivist? Yes. Leftist as government control of the economy? Yes. Leftist as cosmopolitan? No. Leftist as internationalist? No. Leftist culturally? No.
TBH Nazism is weird. The more I learn about it, the deeper I think it should be studied by the right, just to understand why it resisted so fiercely and why it failed. Instead its a bogeyman, and taboo to talk about it in detail. It's evil and verboten. Hitler word! Turn off brain!
Your bone with Nazism is the government role in central organization and puppeteering the economy. Fair point.
My bone is that it's a revolutionary ideology, and with the possible exception of the American Revolution, which was trying to conserve colonial self-rule in the face of British consolidation of power, revolutions are fucking messy, The odds are stacked against revolutions doing anything more than creating a pile of bodies and causing turnover in the elites. Revolutions destroy tradition, which is deeply ironic in the case of Nazism; in their attempt to 'save' the German tradition, the Nazis managed to poison and destroy it.
Nazism's failures are seriously fucking cautionary and mandatory study for anyone trying to oppose the current world order.