Then dragging Ukraine into NATO is all about pressure, pressure, pressure. Why? I think, among other things, because excessive production capacities were created. During the confrontation with the Soviet Union. There were many centers created and specialists on the Soviet Union who could not do anything else. They convinced the political leadership that it is necessary to continue chiseling Russia, to try to break it up, to create on this territory several quasi state entities, and to subdue them in a divided form, to use their combined potential for the future struggle with China. This is a mistake, including the excessive potential of those who worked for the confrontation with the Soviet Union. It is necessary to get rid of this. There should be new, fresh forces, people who look into the future and understand what is happening in the world.

This was one of the key quotes for me. The angry part of me is all for this. Yes, get rid of it. Get rid of it all. Do the JFK(?) thing. Splinter the deep state into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. But they are human beings too, and it seems like it would be more amicable and productive if we could re-organize and re-purpose all this excessive MIC manpower toward more mutually beneficial goals.

If we try to arbitrarily take away somebody's career, somebody's purpose, he/she will resist, using whatever tools they have, including the power/influence of their current position. If we give them new purpose, then it seems like a lot of new opportunities could open up. The more we convert this manpower to more cooperative efforts, the less effective the more entrenched elements would become - hopefully to a point where you could just smash the murderous diehard remnants.