In an interesting speech about the way US imperial aggression provokes violence around the world, antiwar commentator Scott Horton made reference to an April 2022 article from Yahoo News that had previously escaped my attention. The article is titled “
I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it.
The first choice leads to dread and the challenging one's own intellect, the second to cheap relief and delaying an inevitably even worse . Since this is the U.S., you can guess which most people would opt for. It's tragic. And the bigger the estates on the edge of town, the gaudier the UKR and other Wokish displays. These are also "climate activists" with 5 acres of continually watered, perfectly manicured lawn strictly for their own pleasure -- well, and that of runners using the paths in the nearby open space.
Shared reality continues to diverge. Thank you for supplying yet another bookmarkable post for those still sliding off the other way.
"If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. "
And I do believe it's getting more and more difficult to maintain the status quo in the West and keep the public on the pro-NATO side. Every day there's another mainstream outlet mention of how the Ukrainian offensive isn't succeeding as planned... And more and more people agree whenever I post a pro-peace message on social media. The propaganda isn't working like the monsters want it to. There's hope. Keep pushing against the propagandists and sharing articles like this with as many readers as you can. I will if you will. #PeaceInOurTime
Anyone who knows anything about the history and pre-history of this conflict even from before 1991--because at its core is a civil war between Galicians and Russian Ukrainians--knows that this was engineered, not just provoked. It was desired, planned, and set up, at least since 2014 when the Minsk agreements were signed in order to dissemble the real intentions of the fanatic right-wing Ukrainians and their Nato and American patrons. And all with increasing clarity and decision after 2020, as Feb 2022 approached. Graham and McCain went to Ukraine in 2015 or 16 virtually promising them the war they devoutly desired because they stupidly thought Hillary would win. When Biden came back into office--he who tied his whole career and legacy to Ukraine, probably without realizing it at the time, and who so aptly epitomizes the moral rot at the heart of the whole business--that plan for war was moved back to the front burner.
The dirty little secret of the Maidan coup we orchestrated is hidden by the foreground theater of a popular uprising against a Russia-leaning president. That was bad enough, because Yanukovich was relatively good for Ukraine besides being legitimately elected. In the second half of the drama, because it was a two-step, the Galician ultra-nationalists, extremists up to and including neo-nazis, captured the Overton window (to put it far too gently) of Ukrainian politics and inflicted their crazy anti-Russian animus on a nation that preferred a diplomatic solution to conflicts with Donbas and Russia.
The Galician hijacking of Ukrainian politics was absolutely key to our ambitions to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia (and indirectly against Europe too!). Without our alliance with the most unsavory elements of Ukraine we could not count on Zelensky to abandon his promise to negotiate when he won 75% of the vote give or take when he was elected.
Only inhuman monsters would put humanity at risk of nuclear war to advance the narrow interests of the one percent. The war is not to protect your "freedom". It is to protect the freedom of the vested interests in this nation to continue to rape and pillage the world for their own benefit. Caitlin, thank you for calling out these monsters.
The off ramp for this war may be another "walk away", just as in Afghanistan and Vietnam. NATO spent 20 years and 2. 3 trillion dollars in Afghanistan and left behind 80 billion dollars worth of equipment. granting a modern military to the Taliban. As Western domestic economies decline foreign wars are going to be harder than ever to sustain. Populations of the NATO countries are facing some dark times as Washington is going to cannibalize their economies more than ever to feed the MICC and NATO-- as long as this marriage from hell exists the West is screwed.
How far the fall before the West has a sane moment?
It simply does not matter to Victoria - fuck the EU - Nuland who ends up in the White House - somehow she'll end up flip flopping from a Republican to a Democrat administration as easily as a prostitute changes clientele.
"In the 90's Secretary of State Baker promised Gorbachev NATO wouldn't expand into Ukraine." But really "always wanted to take Ukraine in NATO." Because, "look, times change," and you've "gotta be flexible." "It doesn't really matter what the promise was."
Yes. Provoked. Deliberately:
Fake Zelensky Tricks George Bush To Admit That USA Promise To Russia Not To Expand NATO
Excellent newsletter & the speech by Mr. Horton was spot on. I worry more & more about nuclear war with these nut jobs that are running the government in the U.S. and it seems the people around me, including my loved ones can’t see it. This war started in 2014 with the Maidan Coup & the US and the collective West who supported Nazi factions in Ukraine. These people are descendants of the Western Ukrainians(Galicians?) who fought along side the Nazis when former Soviet Union was invaded in 1941. Most of my family doesn’t even know this part of the history of Western Ukraine. Yes, most definitely this was deliberately provoked. Most of these American politicians & elites are just plain EVIL, truly monsters. They are literally knowing people are dying in this war & don’t care, just keep sending more weapons, aid to Ukraine and as long as those Ukrainians kill more Russians they are happy even if that means more Ukrainians have to die to do it(“to the last Ukrainian”). SICK!!!! And the sad part is both Russians & Ukrainians are Slavic people/share similar history of Slavic culture.
There is no off-ramp to this either. Is Russia going to give back the territories? No way, never... Is America going to stop funding it? No way, never.. Ukraine is nearly out of soldiers so it cannot last “years” wo nato being directly involved (as we saw yesterday with German soldiers dying in German tanks in RUSSIA!!! This has no choice but escalate to a full on war between nato and Russia simply bc of manpower. All those American soldiers sitting in Poland waiting and Zelensky is beating down senior homes and Girl Scouts for bodies to throw in the meant grinder. wont last much longer before we’re fully involved.
The US, as the shining light of democracy is the major instigator in the majority of world issues today and in the last 50 years. We are simply a tool used by the evil in the world to create havoc. It’s all about money and linked to the Fed and IMF. The road will run out soon.
Scott Horton is also a certified Truth-teller like Caitlin Johnstone. "Manifest Infamy" seems to be the Western strategy here--or Manifest Entropy. The Collective West's (meaning the Elite's) Death Wish is the thing to be most concerned about. Otherwise, the World will work the way it's always worked, by fits and starts...
I live in a mid-sized American university town trending heavily toward smug, shitlib politics. Everything you wrote would utterly confound almost every one of them. It's all sourced and irrefutable as well as clearly not authored by an incoherent loon, so they would be either forced to accept a glimmer of reality and investigate further or try to pretend they never even saw it.
The first choice leads to dread and the challenging one's own intellect, the second to cheap relief and delaying an inevitably even worse . Since this is the U.S., you can guess which most people would opt for. It's tragic. And the bigger the estates on the edge of town, the gaudier the UKR and other Wokish displays. These are also "climate activists" with 5 acres of continually watered, perfectly manicured lawn strictly for their own pleasure -- well, and that of runners using the paths in the nearby open space.
Shared reality continues to diverge. Thank you for supplying yet another bookmarkable post for those still sliding off the other way.
''Dorfman writes that initial support provided to Ukraine during the Obama administration had been “calibrated to avoid aggravating Moscow''
Nonsense - in the end OBAMA admitted the US role orchestrating the Kiev coup ....there's Nuland caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
"If all westerners deeply understood all the suffering and danger that has been unleashed upon our world by this war, and deeply understood the fact that their own governments played a role in starting it, the political status quo of the western world would be impossible to maintain. "
And I do believe it's getting more and more difficult to maintain the status quo in the West and keep the public on the pro-NATO side. Every day there's another mainstream outlet mention of how the Ukrainian offensive isn't succeeding as planned... And more and more people agree whenever I post a pro-peace message on social media. The propaganda isn't working like the monsters want it to. There's hope. Keep pushing against the propagandists and sharing articles like this with as many readers as you can. I will if you will. #PeaceInOurTime
Anyone who knows anything about the history and pre-history of this conflict even from before 1991--because at its core is a civil war between Galicians and Russian Ukrainians--knows that this was engineered, not just provoked. It was desired, planned, and set up, at least since 2014 when the Minsk agreements were signed in order to dissemble the real intentions of the fanatic right-wing Ukrainians and their Nato and American patrons. And all with increasing clarity and decision after 2020, as Feb 2022 approached. Graham and McCain went to Ukraine in 2015 or 16 virtually promising them the war they devoutly desired because they stupidly thought Hillary would win. When Biden came back into office--he who tied his whole career and legacy to Ukraine, probably without realizing it at the time, and who so aptly epitomizes the moral rot at the heart of the whole business--that plan for war was moved back to the front burner.
The dirty little secret of the Maidan coup we orchestrated is hidden by the foreground theater of a popular uprising against a Russia-leaning president. That was bad enough, because Yanukovich was relatively good for Ukraine besides being legitimately elected. In the second half of the drama, because it was a two-step, the Galician ultra-nationalists, extremists up to and including neo-nazis, captured the Overton window (to put it far too gently) of Ukrainian politics and inflicted their crazy anti-Russian animus on a nation that preferred a diplomatic solution to conflicts with Donbas and Russia.
The Galician hijacking of Ukrainian politics was absolutely key to our ambitions to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia (and indirectly against Europe too!). Without our alliance with the most unsavory elements of Ukraine we could not count on Zelensky to abandon his promise to negotiate when he won 75% of the vote give or take when he was elected.
Only inhuman monsters would put humanity at risk of nuclear war to advance the narrow interests of the one percent. The war is not to protect your "freedom". It is to protect the freedom of the vested interests in this nation to continue to rape and pillage the world for their own benefit. Caitlin, thank you for calling out these monsters.
The off ramp for this war may be another "walk away", just as in Afghanistan and Vietnam. NATO spent 20 years and 2. 3 trillion dollars in Afghanistan and left behind 80 billion dollars worth of equipment. granting a modern military to the Taliban. As Western domestic economies decline foreign wars are going to be harder than ever to sustain. Populations of the NATO countries are facing some dark times as Washington is going to cannibalize their economies more than ever to feed the MICC and NATO-- as long as this marriage from hell exists the West is screwed.
How far the fall before the West has a sane moment?
It simply does not matter to Victoria - fuck the EU - Nuland who ends up in the White House - somehow she'll end up flip flopping from a Republican to a Democrat administration as easily as a prostitute changes clientele.
President George W. Bush admitted it last year:
"In the 90's Secretary of State Baker promised Gorbachev NATO wouldn't expand into Ukraine." But really "always wanted to take Ukraine in NATO." Because, "look, times change," and you've "gotta be flexible." "It doesn't really matter what the promise was."
Yes. Provoked. Deliberately:
Fake Zelensky Tricks George Bush To Admit That USA Promise To Russia Not To Expand NATO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SxvBKZMcY
Excellent newsletter & the speech by Mr. Horton was spot on. I worry more & more about nuclear war with these nut jobs that are running the government in the U.S. and it seems the people around me, including my loved ones can’t see it. This war started in 2014 with the Maidan Coup & the US and the collective West who supported Nazi factions in Ukraine. These people are descendants of the Western Ukrainians(Galicians?) who fought along side the Nazis when former Soviet Union was invaded in 1941. Most of my family doesn’t even know this part of the history of Western Ukraine. Yes, most definitely this was deliberately provoked. Most of these American politicians & elites are just plain EVIL, truly monsters. They are literally knowing people are dying in this war & don’t care, just keep sending more weapons, aid to Ukraine and as long as those Ukrainians kill more Russians they are happy even if that means more Ukrainians have to die to do it(“to the last Ukrainian”). SICK!!!! And the sad part is both Russians & Ukrainians are Slavic people/share similar history of Slavic culture.
The most succinct, honest and important article on the Ukraine War for some time.
There is no off-ramp to this either. Is Russia going to give back the territories? No way, never... Is America going to stop funding it? No way, never.. Ukraine is nearly out of soldiers so it cannot last “years” wo nato being directly involved (as we saw yesterday with German soldiers dying in German tanks in RUSSIA!!! This has no choice but escalate to a full on war between nato and Russia simply bc of manpower. All those American soldiers sitting in Poland waiting and Zelensky is beating down senior homes and Girl Scouts for bodies to throw in the meant grinder. wont last much longer before we’re fully involved.
The US, as the shining light of democracy is the major instigator in the majority of world issues today and in the last 50 years. We are simply a tool used by the evil in the world to create havoc. It’s all about money and linked to the Fed and IMF. The road will run out soon.
Scott Horton is also a certified Truth-teller like Caitlin Johnstone. "Manifest Infamy" seems to be the Western strategy here--or Manifest Entropy. The Collective West's (meaning the Elite's) Death Wish is the thing to be most concerned about. Otherwise, the World will work the way it's always worked, by fits and starts...
Macgregor, Ritter, Sachs,. Mearsheimer et al have been saying this for a year and a half. But cannot be said too often.
US foreign policy can be summed up as "we will bury you."
Megaprovoked.