Washington Swaps Kyiv Air Defense for Gulf Oil Pipes #
Oksana Petrenko sat in a Kyiv basement on April 19, feeling the rhythmic thud of 700 drones and missiles shaking the concrete floor. The air smelled of ozone and damp earth. Above her, the Ukrainian capital’s power grid was being liquidated because the American Patriot missile batteries that used to protect her children are now floating in the Persian Gulf. This is the brutal mathematics of Imperial Triage: your sovereignty is a line item, and today, it was deleted to…