Peace Through Strength or Peace Through Escalation? NATO, Ukraine Power Blackouts, and the Dollar-War Machine Behind It Today

International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better · Feb 4, 2026 · 1h 26m · transcript

Today’s International Flavor connects the dots between “peace through strength” rhetoric and the very real escalation it fuels: NATO weapons pipelines, cross-border strikes into Russia, and Ukraine’s collapsing energy grid as power plants in Kyiv and Dnipro burn. We unpack Mark Rutte’s talk of post-deal foreign forces, the logic of “deniability” via NATO purchases, and why resource politics—oil, finance, and sanctions—keeps the machine humming. Plus: Ukraine’s Mirotvorets “kill list” targeting FIFA’s Infantino, Gaddafi’s son reported killed, and Washington’s leverage over Iraq’s oil revenues…