There is a thread of truth in th e attached article about...

There is a thread of truth in th e attached article about denying a source of revenue to Russia and the prospect of growing economic and political ties between Russia and Germany. I haven't yet figured out why the US is promoting hysteria of war when it has no territorial skin the game. The EU is largely silent as a group, the political rise of France and Germany is being muted in their region. If war does break out, then who will fund and rebuild Ukraine? Probably China. Western Europe needs to find a way to rise as a political and economic block and lead the region, but that would imply a federal system like the US and Australia. I am not sure the current system where each European country is responsible for its own external affairs, with the exception of the military instrument of power subordinated to NATO, makes sense. The other instruments of power, political and economic are not aggregated in the same way. US military dominance through NATO (including limiting the use of US military equipment to tasks approved by it) and economic dominance through sanctions applying equally to allies and adversaries alike diminishes the sovereign power of EU nations. Huntington's Schism comes into play too, as the fault line between Roman Christianity and Eastern Orthodox Christianity passes through Ukraine. That Christian boundary doesn't limit trade and good relations. Even the recent Romanov wedding in Russia could herald a return to its roots and a pathway to improved European relations. In the meantime, improved political and economic relations and land-connections between Eastern and Western Europe and the greater Eurasian landmass (Mackinder's Heartland theory) is still being attacked by the US, who adheres to Spykman's Rimland theory (controlling the sea boundaries) through the policy of preventing the emergence of regional hegemony in Eurasia (which justifies the world-wide reach of its armed forces), refer Congress Research Report IF10485. Earlier iterations of the report are quite interesting too.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/crisis-ukraine-not-about-ukraine-about-germany/5770269