Ukraine — US leadership is planet's most major war-manufacturer

25 January 2022

Today's Ukraine situation is how world wars start

A pipsqueak, abysmally corrupt, neo-Nazi leadership is causing trouble.

And the dumbtard-led United States thinks that provoking a war to protect those Hitlerian types — whom we put into power by 'couping' the previously elected government — is a good idea.

As I said yesterday:

The greatest danger to the American people, and especially to our military sons and daughters, is this country's braindead, war-chicken-hawking leadership.

Coincidentally today . . .

Matt Taibbi implicitly reached a similar conclusion:

The “core interest” of the Washington consensus is war.

It isn’t just big business, but our biggest business, one of the last things we still make and export on a grand scale.

The bulk of the people elected to congress and a lion’s share of the lobbyists, lawyers, and journalists who snuggle in a giant fornicating mass in the capital are dedicated to the upkeep of the war bureaucracy.

The truth is there’s nothing to be done at this point. We had our chance. Both Russia and Ukraine should have been economic and strategic allies.

Instead, we repeatedly blew opportunities in both places by trying to flex more and more muscle in the region (including, ironically, via election meddling). Now there’s no winning move left.

Conceding this means abandoning conventional wisdom, and the people we’re now relying on to see the light have shown little ability to do that.

Keep in mind that

If a major Ukrainian war begins and then escalates — non-Russian Europe will be too weak and too politically chickenshit to fight it effectively.

And then, it will be our troops getting killed, so as to keep the American Military Industrial Complex hauling in the bucks.

All this, over a strategically meaningless (to the United States) pseudo-nation that should not even exist, given the internally incompatible way that it was constructed.

The moral? — This is what the genuine imbeciles, who lead America, have done

As former US Army colonel Andrew Bacevich published this week, in an essay entitled, "Why Washington Can't Learn" — my emphases in italics:

[T]he fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t change everything.

Among the things it left fully intact was a stubborn resistance to learning in Washington that poses a greater threat to the wellbeing of the American people than communism or terrorism ever did.

To confirm that assertion, look no further than . . . the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Begin with the fact that neither the survival of the Republic of Vietnam in the 1960s nor the ouster of the Taliban regime after 9/11 qualified as in any way vital to this country’s national interest.

[A]dd into the mix a near total absence of competent political oversight; deficient generalship . . . unwarranted confidence in the utility of advanced military technology; an excessive reliance on firepower that killed, maimed, and displaced noncombatants in striking numbers . . . nation-building efforts that succeeded chiefly in spawning widespread corruption . . . and not least of all, determined enemies who made up for their material shortcomings by outpacing their adversaries in a willingness to fight and die for the cause.

Only if Americans abandon their fealty to the idea of American Exceptionalism and the militarism that has sustained it, might it be possible to conclude that the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan served some faintly useful purpose.

Recall that Martin Luther King Jr warned us about militarism's evil twice in 1967. See:

here — Riverside Church speech

and

here — talking to the National Conference on New Politics.

Celebrating awareness is why I wrote about Thích Nhất Hạnh (who was Vietnamese), today.

Moral sanity, like his, matters.

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Ukraine — US leadership is planet's most major war-manufacturer