Merz ACHES for conflict with Russia. US refuses boots on the ground BACKSTOP (The Duran)

Merz, Macron, and Starmer, plus Zelensky, in Paris, trying to arrange for troops to be sent into Ukraine with NATO style (Article 5) defence guarantees - that the US representatives refused to support. At least the US has the good sense to avoid escalating things into a direct confrontation.

The US game seems to be to let Europe hang itself, while driving political wedges between themselves and other countries, like Russia, China and India. They're setting things up that will dismantle the globalist system, to put up walls between nations around the world, whether this is intentional or not.  

Note: The clip makes the observation that the neocons in Washington, and the CIA, are hell bent on regime change in Russia, but the longer the war drags on, and the more rabid the Americans become, via oil sanctions that hit China and India, the more likely these countries become hostile and no longer include the US, or Europe, in the globalist system. Aside from all the deaths in Ukraine, having major countries at each other's throats, without actually kicking off a war, is a good thing.  

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, January 10, 2026.]