They lied about Afghanistan & about Iraq. Now they’re lying about Ukraine

They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they’re lying about Ukraine

The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a “rules-based international order” is at stake. Victory is assured.

Don’t forget WMD (weapons of mass destruction).

The results are also the same. The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies. The cheery prognosis is false.

The ends justify the means?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine (was partially) provoked by NATO expansion and by U.S. backing of the 2014 “Maidan” coup which ousted democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

But how then can claim that “freedom and democracy are threatened”?

Oh right, the wrong preferred person won, so it was a threat to their New World Order.

But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve U.S. interests. It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military and isolates Russia from Europe. What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant.

Follow the money.

“Second, Ukraine’s effective defense of its territory is teaching us lessons about how to improve the defenses of partners who are threatened by China.”

Keeping people safe in Ukraine while watching the destruction of infrastructure is less important than HOW it is being done.

Third, most of the money that’s been appropriated for Ukraine security assistance doesn’t actually go to Ukraine.

So where does it go?

It gets invested in American defense manufacturing. It funds new weapons and munitions for the U.S. armed forces to replace the older material we have provided to Ukraine.

So because the US is not in enough wars of its own to use up all that older ammo and armour and vehicles and such, the Military Industrial Complex needs a proxy war do it for them.

The pimps of war who orchestrate these military fiascos migrate from administration to administration. Between posts they are ensconced in think tanks — Project for the New American Century, the American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, the Atlantic Council and the Brookings Institution — funded by corporations and the war industry. Once the Ukraine war comes to its inevitable conclusion, these Dr. Strangeloves will seek to ignite a war with China.

And the excuse of “Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected.” will be used to protect Japan and Taiwan when (not if) it happenes.

It has stopped mattering — at least to the pimps of war — whether these wars are rational or prudent.

War = money = profits.

Rebuilding loans and rebuilding contracts = money = profits.

And what of the Ukrainian democracy we are fighting to protect? Why did the Ukrainian parliament revoke the official use of minority languages, including Russian, three days after the 2014 coup? How do we rationalize the eight years of warfare against ethnic Russians in the Donbass region before the Russian invasion in February 2022? How do we explain the killing of more than 14,200 people and the 1.5 million who were displaced, before Russia’s invasion took place last year? (to protect those ethnic Russians)

Nothing to see here.  The legacy media won’t report on it, because that goes against their agenda/narrative.

How do we defend Zelenskyy’s decision to ban 11 opposition parties…

You can’t, as that is undemocratic.

How do we deal with the anti-Russian purges and arrests of supposed “fifth columnists” sweeping through Ukraine, given that 30 percent of Ukraine’s inhabitants are Russian speakers?

If it was the other way around, they would be calling it a racially/politically motivated.

…reported from Eastern and Central Europe in 1989 during the breakup of the Soviet Union. NATO, we assumed at the time, had become obsolete. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev proposed security and economic agreements with Washington and Europe.

But peace is not as profitable as war to the Military Industrial Complex.

Secretary of State James Baker, along with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assured Gorbachev that NATO would not be extended beyond the borders of a unified Germany.

And we have seen what an outright LIE that has become.

After the end of the Cold War, NATO added 15 more members from 1999 to 2023.

And all those nations had to…

…reconfigured their militaries, often through tens of millions in Western loans, to become compatible with NATO military hardware. This made the weapons manufacturers billions in profits.

Once again, it is all about the money/profits.

It was universally understood in Eastern and Central Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union that NATO expansion was unnecessary and a dangerous provocation. It made no geopolitical sense. But it made commercial sense. War is a business.

And the US is one of the biggest when it comes to profiting off war.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if the Western alliance had honored its promises not to expand NATO beyond Germany’s borders and Ukraine had remained neutral. The pimps of war knew the potential consequences of NATO expansion. War, however, is their single-minded vocation, even if it leads to a nuclear holocaust with Russia or China.

Death and destruction is their business.

They don’t care about tomorrow, so long as they profit today.

And if they think they can survive and be the last ones standing if they get their nuclear holocaust should frighten everyone.