West Refuses to Stop Arms to Ukraine
I still get astonished these days at the utter hypocrisy of the US Congress. They are screaming bloody murder about gun sales, legal gun sales, that is, here in the US and the slaughter of US children while they attend school. Then they turn around and approve a $40B deal—also legal—to send arms to Ukraine which will be used to kill school children in Ukraine. In the past we have Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., ad nauseum. Yemen is still ongoing today. The US is the largest arms dealer on Earth. Then to top that off a lot of these arms will be diverted to the black market where they will be used by criminals and terrorists and surely there will be children killed by some of these weapons. See: \/
https://alethonews.com/2022/06/06/on-the-darknet-ukrainians-flood-europe-with-nato-arms-shipments/
Now here’s my problem. I don’t see how “they”(the powers that be-inclusive) can separate the two situations. ‘They’ have been engaged with this my entire life. Wars are a constant if one lives in the USA. Either as an active participant, like the Cold War, the ‘Nam, Kuwait, etc., or supplying and endless flow of arms to conflicts that the CIA and various other off-the-books(black) agencies start in faraway lands that won’t bow to Empire’s wicked ways. Like Bush II said, “you’re either with us or against us”. My addition: ‘you can’t be a freely acting democratic capitalist, or even, a socialist/communist, state’. “We will force compliance”. As the Borg of Star Trek said, “resistance is futile”. Economic warfare in the name of sanctions is de rigueur. Of course the sanctions against Russia are having a negative effect on the rest of the world, excepting, mainly China.
I don’t have any answers except that what is happening is caused by the west’s refusal to accept the facts clearly stated by Russia as soon as they launched their ‘special military operation’ in February by invading Ukraine. Namely the Nazis and NATO on Russia’s doorstep.
I’d like to see this ballooning inflation coe to a quick halt. But this is an evil of capitalism. Boom, bust; lather, rinse, repeat. War, imperialism, constant conflict. For humans to survive past this century this must end.
I’ll leave with two links,(and a bonus or two) to some of the best analyses I’ve read on the Ukrainian situation. Also, quit selling/giving arms to the Nazis!
Be kind and stay safe. links below: \/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/06/the-world-doesnt-work-that-way-anymore/ —An overall assessment of the world and the west’s decay.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217173.html —Ukraine in particular.
https://alethonews.com/2022/06/06/beacon-of-democracy-kiev-regimes-practice-of-kidnapping-people-spirals-out-of-control/ —Thugs the west supports.
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Peace, The Ol’ Hippy—7th June, 2022
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