Max Blumenthal can be a pain in the ass because he's so harsh sometimes and he expresses such disgust with things that don't seem that disgusting, but the man has seen things. So, when he says that a staged a-cappella in a Kiev subway makes him sick to his stomach, it's because he knows that it's a staged operation funded by think tanks funded by the CIA, deliberately made and promulgated by the U.S. government to retain support for the war in Ukraine. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ZU_vNvILU" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/g1ZU_vNvILU" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Behind the Headlines" caption="How Zelensky Is Leading Ukraine's Massive Privatization Drive"> He says at <b>17:20</b>, <bq>Every war or color revolution now plays out on Instagram. If you're not on Instagram or you're not following it, then you won't understand how these wars or regime-change projects are being marketed. They're all marketed through influencers and, I think, one of the most important things an investigative journalist who's anti-imperialist or concerned about these kinds of events, can do is to look at how these influencers are being recruited. And that's why you're seeing, among young people, so much suppression of their traditional anti-war tendencies, [instead] you see support for these kinds of operations. You have experts doing the data-mining and the psychometric research to understand what soft spots to hit in the minds of millennials and zoomers and then they just pound it again and again.</bq> At <b>39:00</b>, Max says that Exxon Mobil's main offices in Dallas light up in yellow and blue every night in solidarity with the country whose conflict has gotten them fat revenues for European LNG contracts. At <b>55:00</b>, Max says that there are definitely factions who don't believe that Russia will go nuclear and that we can keep provoking them until we've defeated them. This may actually be true! It might take a lot longer than they think, but Russia is not going to expand the war and Russia is not going to use its nukes. I think too many people know that. So, they will take advantage of knowing that Russia is weaker militarily <i>and</i> it is more principled in that there are lines it won't cross. NATO, on the other hand, thinks nothing of blowing up the bridge to Crimea, cutting off a whole country from its food supply, or blowing up gas pipelines (haven't heard a thing about that since, so ... we know who did it), cutting off a whole continent from its energy supply. What if it succeeds? What if, because Russia would be unwilling to sink to NATO's level, NATO prevails and succeeds in dethroning Putin and shoving Russia back into 1993? Will it go better for them this time? Will it be at all beneficial for us? Will China allow a large resource supplier to be taken over by the U.S.? Will India? When you cheer for Ukraine fighting until "all of Ukraine" is taken back, you're cheering for the dismantling of Russia, because, if Russia is forced to pull back, then NATO will chase them home to Moscow. And then you might want to have thought about what will happen next. Then you might want to consider whether you're supporting the good guy or just another pirate interested in taking what it doesn't think it needs to buy.