© AP/Jose Luis MaganaFILE PHOTO: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Money that is now being invested in defense and weapons could have boosted economic development, Kristalina Georgieva has said.
"It is a global war because what it did [is] it wiped out the peace dividends we have enjoyed for 30 years," the IMF chief told a World Economic Forum's panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
Comment: Peace dividends? The West has been waging overt and covert wars across the planet since the end of WWII.
Investments that could have gone into economic development are now being spent on defense and weapons, Georgieva added.
"The result [is] more poor people, more hunger," the IMF head warned. "It is a war against prosperity around the world."
The Bulgarian economist noted that the ongoing conflict could pose a danger to the wealthier part of the world as well. "It is also a tremendous risk for confidence, [particularly] in Europe," she said.
Comment: Partly true, because, for a variety of reasons, mostly self-inflicted, the West has gotten poorer with every passing year; it's just maintained the illusion of wealth through the exploitation of the rest of the planet. It's notable that the supposedly independent IMF head is trying to pin the current collapse on this one conflict despite this trend being blatantly obvious for a decade and more.
Russia has long insisted that the conflict in Ukraine is an indirect standoff between Moscow and the West. In December, the secretary of Russia's national security council, Nikolay Patrushev, claimed that "the events in Ukraine are not a confrontation between Moscow and Kiev" but a military confrontation between NATO and Russia.
Patrushev also accused the West of sacrificing other people's lives for profit and ambition. The senior official, who previously served as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), insisted that Washington and its allies were simply using Ukrainians for their own goals because an independent Russia had "no place" in their minds.
This viewpoint was echoed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, who said that Russia was fighting the West in Ukraine.
Earlier in January, the Kremlin accused Western nations of indirectly taking part in the conflict.
"Their involvement in this conflict is obvious," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the time. Although both Washington and Brussels maintain they have no intention of getting involved in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, "de facto they have already become an indirect party" to it, he said.
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"It is a global war because what it did [is] it wiped out the peace dividends we have enjoyed for 30 years," the IMF chief told a World Economic Forum's panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.”
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"It is a global war because
what it did [is]what US/NATO/IMF Proxytutes did to themselves is it wiped out the peace dividends we have enjoyed for 30 years," the IMF chief told a World Economic Forum's panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.Fixed it.
It is exactly what it is. A NATO Nazi US Proxytute war. They decided to arm a Nazi Junta regime, commit war crimes & atrocities, use their NATO NAZI Proxytutes as a Nazi thug group for intimidation that didn’t work.
Perspective time: If Russia were to supply weapons & armed Mexico’s Cartels by sending in weapons or training a Cartel Army that were used to kill American citizens how would Americans feel about that ?
Stupefying ignorance on so many levels it boggles the mind. Smdh
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The intent of the "great war narrative" is that the sheeple will accept their hyperinflation/vax genocide/fuel shortages as caused by the "war". The reality is that the Western corrupt governments have tried to engineer the war as caused by Russia, and it is failing.