The young men — the pawns in the game on both sides — die, leaving massive holes in their families and communities.

Those in power remain (or become) wealthy.

Those on the sidelines cheer on the "heroism" as if it was a sporting event.

As a US citizen (and Ukranian) who has seen the horror this empire has done over and over again all around the world - murdering millions based on lies - I know that it is not sending billions of dollars in military aid (lining the pockets of the weapons industry here) for any high ideals like democracy. It is playing power games, a proxy war with Russia, and is absolutely fine using Ukrainian blood to do this.

This country's history of invasions and manipulations in other democracies is endless, however much its citizens stick their heads in the ground like ostriches.

And anyone who doesn't know how the US kept pushing for control of Ukraine should start with the Nuland/Pyatt phone call from 2014.

I am particularly disgusted with the computer keyboard warriors - mostly boys indoctrinated by video games and Top Gun war movies - in this country who are cheering on this bloodbath.

This is all part of the never-ending War Racket.

Major General Smedly Butler in 1935 exposed the racket.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.

Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."