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🧵 2/5: Blumenthal claims over 150,000 lives lost in Ukraine's proxy war, with possible casualty count reaching 500,000. A monumental tragedy.

🧵 3/5: Beltway elites, motivated by anti-Russia hysteria, sink billions into Ukraine. Russia seen as responsible for bringing the "bad orange man" to power.

🧵 4/5: US defense contractors and neocon lobby firms are the true victors, having militarized the culture wars and fueled the Ukraine conflict.

🧵 5/5: The bigger vision: making Ukraine a permanently militarized state funded by the US, possessing cutting-edge tech. Democracy eroded in pursuit of this goal.