Month: October 2022

I wrote this as a Facebook post on 2nd October.

So you believe Vlad, the uniquely bad, is a warmonger and that Joe, Boris, Justin, Jacinda, Liz, Ursula, Keir and Volodimmer are righteous defenders of peace, truth, democracy justice and the European Way.

You believe that it’s a lie or that it’s right that the four million or so ethnic Russians in the Donbass have been being shelled by Ukrainian regime forces since they refused to recognise a government installed by a coup in 2014.

You believe that people who are seeing their children killed by the hundreds, have no right to call on Russia to support them when the Ukraine regime is being armed and trained by NATO.

You believe that coups are more democratic than referendums.

You refuse to see neo-Nazi flags and tattoos displayed by Ukrainian militias and see only yellow fields under blue skies, blonde hair and blue eyes.

You do not believe that Russia has reason for concern when the Ukranian government that has sworn to take back the Donbass and Crimea is increasingly armed and trained by NATO.

You believe that NATO which invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and bombed Libya into failed state where black people are sold as slaves is a defensive alliance.

You believe that the Russians bombed their own gas pipelines though it is the Americans who openly threatened to do this and had the greater motive and means to do this.

You believe your controlled and controlling media that dismisses and suppresses information and discussion as propaganda.

You believe that your political systems dominated by billionaire elites operate within systems of ethics based law and that they work for your wellbeing. You believe this even as you freeze and starve and the little that you have is taken from you.

So continue to wrap yourselves in Union Jacks and Stars and Stripes and cover your eyes with the blue and yellow bands they have given you. Find what I say ‘offensive’ or wake up. It may already be too late, but wake up, please wake up.

“investments in Ukraine are very profitable today, because for relatively little money in the interests of the United States, it is not Americans who die in the war with Russia, but Ukrainians.”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gen-jack-keane-us-investment-ukraine-denied-putin-ambitions-kept-americas-future-secure

If this doesn’t tell people that the US regards the Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns, cannon fodder, I don’t know what will. Keane is wrong or disingenuous regarding Putin’s intentions. As far as I can see Putin’s ambitions for Russian expansion were economic not military. The US cannot beat Russia and China in the economic sphere and so are choosing the military one to weaken their opponent. I’m not a particularly clever fellow and I haven’t done extensive research but I’ve listened to people like Noam Chomsky, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Cohen, Jeffery Sachs and Oliver Stone. Moreover I’ve listened to American presidents and pundits and apparatchiks. I have seen the pattern of lies that have excused wars and the consequences of those wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. I know that the US orchestrated the 2014 coup in Ukraine and that Zelensky is a corrupt politician put in place by oligarchs and kept in line by violent ultra nationalists, I know that Russia has sought peace for eight years through the Minsk accords than would have kept the now annexed provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk within Ukraine but with a measure of security, I know that these accords were not honoured and that the breakaway provinces were attacked by Kiev regime forces with civilians being targeted and killed by these forces. I know that most people only know the bits of the story that our politically controlled media permit them to see and that they consider dissenting media such as the Greyzone to be ‘conspiracy theorists’ and ‘Putin apologists’. I know these things not because I am clever but because I have questioned and looked. I urge those who have not questioned and not looked to start doing so now. You do not have to believe that Putin is our friend, I do not believe that he is, I believe that he is only the friend of the Russian people. I don’t believe that the leaders of the US, of the UK and of Germany are the friends of their own people. Do not depend on them to serve our interests or to tell us the truth.