Listen to Mike Benz. The Donbass region in particular is rich with natural gas and Ukraine itself has trillions of dollars worth of minerals and other resources as Lynnsey Graham shared recently, much to his own chagrin.

The contracts to that land were bought up some time ago by BlackRock and many other top multinationals, but now that a rebuilding effort has been planned Halliburton I believe and maybe Royal Dutch Shell are in there as well. It's a whole group of the slime in any case, who had and have extensive plans to begin stripping out the country's resources.

But originally it was about Burisma and using our influence within that corporation to foster partnerships (i.e. sell our globocorpos the rights to the ownership of tracts of land in their possession) and then work through Burisma to make Ukraine a natural gas powerhouse to supply Europe and shut out Russia from a role where it could supply the bulk of European energy.

This was a broad multinational coalition of Western powers lead by our CIA attempting to institute a plan that was decades in the making. The influence campaign to rally support in Ukraine that favored the Western powers hit several snags however, and the corpos holding contracts on land that was gas and mineral rich in the Donbass region did not want Russia to hold sway over that land, nor for Ukraine to cede control of it, despite the will of the Donbass people and their history.

Even as the region became too volatile for Kiev to hold, and all common sense warned that this region was untenable to try and continue exerting control over for Ukraine's government, the US and NATO repeatedly pushed Ukraine to not validate their elections and to continue the endless guerilla warfare in the region.

In the decade leading up to Russia invading to protect the Donbass region's people, who suffered immensely and cost much human life in the constant fighting that Ukraine persisted in carrying out on behalf of the American Intel agencies, there were tons of opportunities to find ways to make peace and negotiate a settlement all sides could be happy with.

But the corporate aims were not to share this region with Russia and to cut them off from powering large parts of Europe by extracting energy from this particular region, so no deals could be reached. We pushed Ukraine on behalf of our corporate masters and they pushed the Donbass on behalf of us.

It's all naked, unabashed greed and a war of choice that we allowed to be funded by removing sanctions on a major Russian pipeline, giving them the revenue to at last finance this military campaign, where they are in part humanitarian in scope, seeking to stop the atrocities carried out by the pro-fascist Ukraine militias over the past decade in Donbass.

Then we carried out covert ops to blow up that same pipeline a couple of years later. We punished Russia by kicking them out of SWIFT, forcing them to return to a gold standard as backing for their currency, the ruble. Ironically this was a major boon for the Russians, as their increased supply of a different commodity (oil/gas) due to a restarted pipeline was well met by demand, pushing gold prices higher due to the relationship it shares with energy prices and sharply increasing the ruble value even as new billions came into Moscow coffers.

Strange indeed, that we helped our supposed enemies finance this war and our Ukranian friends are allowed to be little more than cannon fodder, but the deeper levels of complexity are harder to grasp for anyone not directly keyed in on the inner machinations of foreign policy.

Look to Mike Benz for a more complete explanation, I've just laid out some basics and I hope I was somewhat accurate.