Assailing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine — just another bit of America's avaricious, often murdering nastiness

15 March 2021

Two news items

Both highlight the United States' anti-humanitarian viciousness.

First — why be helpful, when we can be satisfyingly death-dealing?

From page 48 of the US Department of Health & Human Services' 2020 Annual Report:

Strengthening Health Cooperation and U.S. Humanitarian Leadership

Combatting malign influences in the Americas:

OGA [HHS Office of Global Affairs] used diplomatic relations in the Americas region to mitigate efforts by states, including Cuba, Venezuela, and Russia, who are working to increase their influence in the region to the detriment of US safety and security.

OGA coordinated with other U.S. government agencies to strengthen diplomatic ties and offer technical and humanitarian assistance to dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill-intentioned states.

Examples include using OGA’s Health Attaché office to persuade Brazil to reject the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, and offering CDC technical assistance in lieu of Panama accepting an offer of Cuban doctors.

Notice that Russia's provision of its evidently effective (and apparently cheaper) Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, to pandemic-inundated Brazil, is considered "malign" activity.

Similarly so, are Cuban physicians' attempts to assist Panama.

Obviously, we cannot let other nations' humanitarian-oriented activities intrude upon the United States' ability to leech parasitic profits — from widespread human suffering — inside our zone of greed-based influence.

Plus ça change.

Second — peace is bad (really)

Of equal moral and semantic absurdity is the following US-instigated nonsense:

The Biden administration is preparing additional sanctions on the controversial Russia-Germany gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, according to officials familiar with the internal deliberations . . . .

Lawmakers from both parties have noted that the pipeline would place Russian infrastructure inside NATO territory and thereby threaten its member states, and make some European countries more dependent on Russian energy.

It would also deprive Ukraine of billions of dollars in revenue, allowing Russia to circumvent the country when transferring gas to Europe.

Analysts said the worst outcome for the Biden administration would be slapping tough sanctions on a project that is more than 90 percent complete only to see it finalized anyway.

The German government, meanwhile, has floated several potential offers to get the U.S. to lay off the pipeline . . . .

The first [US] senior administration official similarly declined to divulge details of the administration’s diplomatic talks with Germany, but said they have made clear to Berlin that Biden views the pipeline “as a clear example of Russia’s aggressive action in the region, which provides Russia with the means to use a critical natural resource for political pressure and malign influence against Europe.”

Digest this.

Germany and Russia are cooperating to build Nord Stream 2 to meet Germany's energy needs and Russia's income requirements.

The United States is sanctioning both. Evidently so, for cooperating to meet their internal requirements behind Imperial America's lucre-swilling back.

"Malign" — as Americans use it — means that economic integration, which frequently makes wars less likely, is bad for the perennially warmongering United States.

The moral? — Orwellian America is not happy . . .

. . . when other nations attempt to protect their own populations.

Ours are the convulsing death throes of an empire that has nothing of much merit left to offer humanity.

In that regard, take a look at Bill Maher's example-filled overview of the United States' lack of substance — compared to China's embodiment of it:

Real Time with Bill Maher, New Rule: Losing to China, YouTube (12 March 2021)

We can twist semantics and morality into Newspeak, but those distortions cannot hide how ineffective at 'real' things and actual helpfulness the United States has become.

Maher's description of us — as a "silly people" — is accurate.

Can institutionalized societal silliness find self-cure?

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Assailing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine — just another bit of America's avaricious, often murdering nastiness