Click here to access article by James Corbett and others from Global Research.
The posting as a whole provides a good review and summing up of the Empire's destabilization project in Ukraine featuring the views of James Corbett, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, F. William Engdahl, and Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in a 12:34m video. Corbett's script is provided in the rest of the article.
In the video Roberts' strongly criticizes the dangerousness of such a project and cannot understand why Empire directors have carried it out. Regarding the latter subject, it seems clear to me that the project was only a continuation of Empire policies to exert dominance over the entire world on behalf of their capitalist gang. Roberts himself acknowledges all the other actions against Russia that the Empire has pursued. And, of course, we are only beginning to see the same actions against China. So, this is only Empire business as usual in the competitive larger game of capitalist domination. It wouldn't matter in the long run whether this current dominant gang were to disappear--another gang would soon take its place threatening the world with global wars, many local wars, poverty for the 99 Percent and wealth for their One Percent. "It's the [capitalist] system, stupid!" to paraphrase one of our great presidents (sarcasm).
Regarding the project's threat of a major war, I don't share Roberts' views. However, this is only because of the current composition of the Empire directorate which consists of more prudent members. If this directorate were to be taken over by more right-wing sections, then we would be in deep shit. Also, if the existing directorate sees their Empire seriously threatened, we could see more aggressive and dangerous adventures. The odds of this happening are, in my opinion, quite high over the foreseeable future--unless, of course, if we, the people, can muster enough political awareness and guts to stop them.