To see how corrupt the MSM is, watch this Russell Brand video showing how the MSM is praising and selling the B-21 bomber. Selling weapons as entertainment -- what great news for America!
What's good for Northrop Grumman (and Boeing and Raytheon etc.) is good for America!
From my perspective ~ as a student of war, history, and particularly propaganda ~ the primary reason that You, Dennis and Ray, are “confused” about what Bill has been saying from the very beginning of this War is that You read everything he says thru the perspective provided by the lens furnished by Your various and sundry “Experts” that You both like to keep calling on to validate YOUR position on the matter.
Is anybody keeping track of how many of these “Experts” are saying that Ukraine is “winning,” and is going to ultimately “win” ~ whatever they mean by those terms? And is anybody keeping track of how many of these “Experts” are saying that Russia is “winning,” and is going to ultimately “win” ~ whatever they mean by those terms? And finally: Is anybody keeping track of how many of those “Experts” have changed their position and prediction over these past ten months?
And Wars are not merely “rarely” caused by one cause or man, Bill. Wars are NEVER caused by one of anything.
But one thing that every War does have in common are those who benefit and prosper by them, in terms of gains in either Power and/or Wealth; aka the “CUI BONOS.”
And the other thing all Wars have in common are those who suffer and are impoverished by them, in terms of losses in both Blood and Treasure; aka the “CUI MALOS.”
And over the course of Human history, neither the CUI BONOS or the CUI MALOS have changed very much at all.
Which leads to the ultimate conclusion that the only way War is ever going to end is when a critical mass of CUI MALOS refuse to pay for the CUI BONOS's fucking Wars anymore, in terms of either Blood or Treasure.
The military basically says either agree with us or we will provide you with no more stories. Going along with that is a lot less work for the news media.
It's difficult to investigate when you have a daily deadline for stories. It's easier just to republish what is handed to you. Unfortunately. And it's getting worse for them.
I try to be skeptical of pro-Ukrainian reports, i.e. that Ukraine is clearly winning the "war of national liberation," just as I'm skeptical of pro-Russian reports, i.e. that the war is merely a special military operation against Ukrainian "Nazis" that Putin is obviously winning.
As a historian, I also bristle at any people today being called "Nazis." There may be Neo-Nazis out there, but Nazism ended in 1945.
I watch the two Alex's from theduran regularly. I like Alex Christoforou especially because his talks include something of a mini-travelogue, mostly concerning Nicosea and Athens. As for the MSM, I assume most of the political stuff I read there is a self-serving lie. Double that for information directly from the Biden administration.
NDAA, Actually NOAA, and Quite a WHOPPER by Walt Zlotow 121622
Congress viewed Biden’s $813 billion too skimpy so they tacked on $45 billion in goodies to ravenous US defense contractors, an 8% increase over the 2022 giveaway. $813 billion goes to the Pentagon, with the rest to other departments, including $30 billion for upgraded nukes to blow up the world.
But it would be more appropriate to rename it the NATIONAL OFFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT (NOAA). WITHOUT A SINGLE EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE HOMELAND, AND NOT A SINGLE SWORN ENEMY LURKING OFFSHORE, THE BILL IS ALL ABOUT OFFENSE. IT PROVIDES A VIRTUAL BLANK CHECK TO FUEL THE ENDLESS RUSSO UKRAINE WAR NOW APPROACHING 300 DAYS WITH A HUNDRED BILLION IN US WEAPONS. IT RAMPS UP BILLIONS IN WEAPONS FOR TAIWAN TO FEND OFF AN IMAGINARY CHINESE INVASION.
What could be worse than possibly instigating nuclear confrontation with the 2 other largest nuclear powers?
As long as calling the bill by its truthful name, how bout renaming those folks building all those explosives and delivery systems who they really are…the offensive industry?
I would like to ask if you think the language used by the MICC and it's offshoots to obfuscate and manipulate the collective consciousness of 'Mericans, 'Mericants and 'fureners' has warped our national psyche until the very way that we define issues limits us from perceiving any truth, not only in government and it's whore [politics] but in our daily lives and our communities.
If that is the case, any sort of hierarchical expression, any 'command-and-control' framing must be avoided until it can be eliminated, preferably by attrition. Anyone who has theTruth is probably lying or poorly informed, anyone who has theDemocracy, theScience, theEducation, et cetera, is almost certainly using tactics developed within or alongside the MICC after looking at it's successes over decades, solely to dissuade, discourage or dismiss the first American tradition, dissent, what TheBillOfRights was supposed to protect.
In short, the wars and it's methods have not only "come home", but taken up residence in our heads, hearts & souls until submission and derision are the primary tools of "leadership". With little if any accountability and a fragile collective bargaining for any sort of influence, backing away from the 'words-as-weapons' crew in all it's variations could prevent a bad end for those who value life.
Arguments with accessible context that personalizes the issue-whatever that issue might be-is the way to win. When a person who has been conditioned to egotism can understand what her or his adovcacy could easily cost her or him, doubt will supplant arrogance, and alternatives will be considered.
Thank You Colonel and Professor Astore. and BV's Bill for the simplest, clearest, easiest-to-understand explanation of exactly WHAT the Problem ~ the Existential Crisis, if You will ~ is that is actually confronting America, and its Ultimate Root Cause and Agent.
i look forward to the MSM's reaction and response. If there even is one. And the MICC's.
And so the next Question becomes: "Roger all that. So exactly what needs to be Done about all that? And who needs to be doing it?"
Thank You again: That was a GREAT way to kick off this week.
Zelensky is enroute to D.C. to do another in person personal appeal for lots more cash.
A reliable Guesstimate is that he has lifted personally somewhere between $100 - $??? BILLION for
his personal account. All need to remember that under the Biden / Obama regime their warmonger neocon attack dog, Victoria Nuland in 2014 did the regime change in Ukraine to install their puppet president.
Hunter Biden was on the board of a natural gas company there, getting big pay, and Joe Biden is ON CAMERA stating that if they did not fire the prosecutor investigating Hunter's crimes he would not send the next BILLION dollars over. Naturally they did and he sent the cash over.
IMHO a realistic commission back to the Biden's via Hunter with 10% for "The Big Guy" is on the order of 10-20%. $100 - #200 Million.
When Obama and Valerie Jarrett loaded $150 billion of paper currency on pallets in Germany and flew it to Iran, what are the chances a few pallets were left on the plane???
I always thought Walter Duranty was somewhat misunderstood. He became famous for (falsely) reporting (1922-1936) about how Stalin was a great leader and the Soviet Union was a worker's paradise. He was chief Moscow reporter for the NY Times and his reporting was printed as fact by the Times. I can just imagine Stalin (or a henchman) coming up to him and saying, Comrade, you have a choice. Either report as we want you to in which case you will have a comfortable place to live, vodka, women, etc. Or report the truth in which case you may find yourself accidentally dead. He took the easy way out. And won the Pulitzer Prize.
I suspect his editor was an admirer of Stalin/Communism so Duranty was telling him what he wanted to hear anyway. The editor may or may not have known that what he was putting out was a lie. Which is actually how thing remain today at the New York Times. I guess.
Heh. Yeah... . Editors have a way of doing that: Of either actually not knowing that something is a lie; or ignoring the fact that it is a lie, and publishing it anyway.
And that is not a problem limited to just the NYT branch of the MSM. It is Everywhere, from the Left to the Right of print, electronic, and digital "News."
Dennis: About 16 hours ago, You posted: “But certainly, [I] do not hold Russia 100% accountable for the tragedy Zelenskyy and his henchmen have hoisted upon on all Ukrainian people.”
As i have stated here on BV and elsewhere several times before: Zelensky and his henchmen are not running The Show. All he and they are doing is reading their scripts and showing up where and doing what their handlers have recommended [ie, instructed] them to do and say.
That being the case: So how accountable DO You hold Putin/Russia for that tragedy? And Their script writers and handlers? Got a number for that?
And how accountable do You hold Biden, Trump, and Obama and their Teams for what has happened in and to Ukraine since 2014? Or Their scripters and directors? Got another number?
And then, of course: What about Xi? Do You think he and his model of ultimate auto-plutocratic/ oligarchic rule by a crony capitalist/communist/ fascist surveillance State have any play in this next Phase of The Game?
Heh. Eh, no, Dennis. i really don’t get Your drift.
If You make the numbers add up to 100, how do they read? Particularly given the fact that Zelensky and his Team are nothing but script-reading functionaries following orders.
And i never called anybody “merely” an “Expert.” Particularly Sachs, who i have linked BV readers to on a couple of occasions.
The only problem with “Experts” ~ particularly on matters concerning national defense and security [but also on economic, financial, and fiscal policy] ~ is that every side of the argument has its own team of those they call “Experts,” while dismissing the other side’s “Experts” as either amateurs, charlatans, or mere bullshitters.
And Senior Advisors to Acting Secretaries of Defense do not dictate policy; they advise on policy. Along with a whole bunch of other “Experts” who are also “advising”; some that are on the government payroll, and some that are not.
The plans for a War with Russia in Ukraine were well in place by the time the Colonel got there; and it is highly unlikely that he was in any position to actually, really influence what was going to happen down the road in the Real World. Even if Trump had stayed on the throne.
And Yes…. “New Boss same as the Old Boss… .” But don’t stop with Obama. You need to take that Rogues Gallery at least back to Carter. If not Nixon and LBJ and on thru FDR and Wilson.
WHY DOES THE US SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THE MILITARY?
In the newest episode of AMERICA: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE, we look at the warnings of Dwight Eisenhower and how World War II gave birth to the military-industrial complex. In one of the most important addresses ever given by an American president, Eisenhower warns about the dangerous economic incentives war creates by enriching big business and growing the state at the expense of the rest of the nation.
What Eisenhower was really warning about was the threat posed by military Keynesianism. In the wake of the Great Depression, FDR and most political leaders in the West adopted the economic fallacies promoted by John Maynard Keynes. These policies lingered on through World War II and its aftermath to create a new class of intellectuals who defended the virtues of government spending at the expense of the productive, private sector. The growing American empire had truly gained an important ally.
Over half a century later, the American people remain victims of the military-industrial complex, with Washington spending more on the military than the next nine [or eleven, depending on the source] countries combined. The empire and military contracts get bigger, and Americans are left footing the bill.
Click here to watch AMERICA: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE, a eight-part animated series on HOW US FOREIGN POLICY FUELS THE GROWTH OF THE STATE: https://mises.org/america-republic-empire. The MIC[C] piece is at Part 7..
Ray: My subject is the MSM and the U.S. military. My focus is on wars waged by the U.S.
The Russia-Ukraine War was started by Russia's invasion last February. It is not being waged by U.S. troops. That said, there is one acceptable narrative in the MSM: Ukraine is fighting a glorious war of liberation and Putin is fighting an immoral and criminal war of naked aggression. It follows that U.S. aid to Ukraine, mostly in the form of weapons, ammo, and the like, is good and noble and must be continued because it's in a "just cause," i.e. Ukraine's self-defense against Putin's imperial designs.
The American people should question all wars because, again, all wars generate lies and all governments lie, most especially in times of war. So I challenge readers to seek alternative perspectives, to seek reliable information, but this is made more difficult due to the MSM which allows only one interpretation, one that favors the MICC more than it does Ukraine. That's hardly accidental.
I don't think a long war in Ukraine favors Russia or Ukraine. But it does favor the MICC. The top priority for me is to end the war, especially since it could easily escalate.
To see how corrupt the MSM is, watch this Russell Brand video showing how the MSM is praising and selling the B-21 bomber. Selling weapons as entertainment -- what great news for America!
What's good for Northrop Grumman (and Boeing and Raytheon etc.) is good for America!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3mj5_TNfrc
From my perspective ~ as a student of war, history, and particularly propaganda ~ the primary reason that You, Dennis and Ray, are “confused” about what Bill has been saying from the very beginning of this War is that You read everything he says thru the perspective provided by the lens furnished by Your various and sundry “Experts” that You both like to keep calling on to validate YOUR position on the matter.
Is anybody keeping track of how many of these “Experts” are saying that Ukraine is “winning,” and is going to ultimately “win” ~ whatever they mean by those terms? And is anybody keeping track of how many of these “Experts” are saying that Russia is “winning,” and is going to ultimately “win” ~ whatever they mean by those terms? And finally: Is anybody keeping track of how many of those “Experts” have changed their position and prediction over these past ten months?
And Wars are not merely “rarely” caused by one cause or man, Bill. Wars are NEVER caused by one of anything.
But one thing that every War does have in common are those who benefit and prosper by them, in terms of gains in either Power and/or Wealth; aka the “CUI BONOS.”
And the other thing all Wars have in common are those who suffer and are impoverished by them, in terms of losses in both Blood and Treasure; aka the “CUI MALOS.”
And over the course of Human history, neither the CUI BONOS or the CUI MALOS have changed very much at all.
Which leads to the ultimate conclusion that the only way War is ever going to end is when a critical mass of CUI MALOS refuse to pay for the CUI BONOS's fucking Wars anymore, in terms of either Blood or Treasure.
The military basically says either agree with us or we will provide you with no more stories. Going along with that is a lot less work for the news media.
"Going along" = patriotic.
Pushing back and investigating = unpatriotic.
Which does the MSM choose?
It's difficult to investigate when you have a daily deadline for stories. It's easier just to republish what is handed to you. Unfortunately. And it's getting worse for them.
Dennis: No one offers 100% truth. Not even me!
I try to be skeptical of pro-Ukrainian reports, i.e. that Ukraine is clearly winning the "war of national liberation," just as I'm skeptical of pro-Russian reports, i.e. that the war is merely a special military operation against Ukrainian "Nazis" that Putin is obviously winning.
As a historian, I also bristle at any people today being called "Nazis." There may be Neo-Nazis out there, but Nazism ended in 1945.
I watch the two Alex's from theduran regularly. I like Alex Christoforou especially because his talks include something of a mini-travelogue, mostly concerning Nicosea and Athens. As for the MSM, I assume most of the political stuff I read there is a self-serving lie. Double that for information directly from the Biden administration.
Speaking of the MSM and its cozy relationship to the Pentagon, consider this article by Caitlin Johnstone:
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/12/21/us-military-thanks-and-praises-retiring-cnn-journalist-for-her-service/
NDAA, Actually NOAA, and Quite a WHOPPER by Walt Zlotow 121622
Congress viewed Biden’s $813 billion too skimpy so they tacked on $45 billion in goodies to ravenous US defense contractors, an 8% increase over the 2022 giveaway. $813 billion goes to the Pentagon, with the rest to other departments, including $30 billion for upgraded nukes to blow up the world.
But it would be more appropriate to rename it the NATIONAL OFFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT (NOAA). WITHOUT A SINGLE EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE HOMELAND, AND NOT A SINGLE SWORN ENEMY LURKING OFFSHORE, THE BILL IS ALL ABOUT OFFENSE. IT PROVIDES A VIRTUAL BLANK CHECK TO FUEL THE ENDLESS RUSSO UKRAINE WAR NOW APPROACHING 300 DAYS WITH A HUNDRED BILLION IN US WEAPONS. IT RAMPS UP BILLIONS IN WEAPONS FOR TAIWAN TO FEND OFF AN IMAGINARY CHINESE INVASION.
What could be worse than possibly instigating nuclear confrontation with the 2 other largest nuclear powers?
As long as calling the bill by its truthful name, how bout renaming those folks building all those explosives and delivery systems who they really are…the offensive industry?
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2022/12/16/ndaa-actually-noaa-and-quite-a-whopper/ [EMPHASIS added.]
I would like to ask if you think the language used by the MICC and it's offshoots to obfuscate and manipulate the collective consciousness of 'Mericans, 'Mericants and 'fureners' has warped our national psyche until the very way that we define issues limits us from perceiving any truth, not only in government and it's whore [politics] but in our daily lives and our communities.
If that is the case, any sort of hierarchical expression, any 'command-and-control' framing must be avoided until it can be eliminated, preferably by attrition. Anyone who has theTruth is probably lying or poorly informed, anyone who has theDemocracy, theScience, theEducation, et cetera, is almost certainly using tactics developed within or alongside the MICC after looking at it's successes over decades, solely to dissuade, discourage or dismiss the first American tradition, dissent, what TheBillOfRights was supposed to protect.
In short, the wars and it's methods have not only "come home", but taken up residence in our heads, hearts & souls until submission and derision are the primary tools of "leadership". With little if any accountability and a fragile collective bargaining for any sort of influence, backing away from the 'words-as-weapons' crew in all it's variations could prevent a bad end for those who value life.
Arguments with accessible context that personalizes the issue-whatever that issue might be-is the way to win. When a person who has been conditioned to egotism can understand what her or his adovcacy could easily cost her or him, doubt will supplant arrogance, and alternatives will be considered.
Right on the money as usual, Bill. I shared this to FB.
Thanks, Roger.
Thank You Colonel and Professor Astore. and BV's Bill for the simplest, clearest, easiest-to-understand explanation of exactly WHAT the Problem ~ the Existential Crisis, if You will ~ is that is actually confronting America, and its Ultimate Root Cause and Agent.
i look forward to the MSM's reaction and response. If there even is one. And the MICC's.
And so the next Question becomes: "Roger all that. So exactly what needs to be Done about all that? And who needs to be doing it?"
Thank You again: That was a GREAT way to kick off this week.
Zelensky is enroute to D.C. to do another in person personal appeal for lots more cash.
A reliable Guesstimate is that he has lifted personally somewhere between $100 - $??? BILLION for
his personal account. All need to remember that under the Biden / Obama regime their warmonger neocon attack dog, Victoria Nuland in 2014 did the regime change in Ukraine to install their puppet president.
Hunter Biden was on the board of a natural gas company there, getting big pay, and Joe Biden is ON CAMERA stating that if they did not fire the prosecutor investigating Hunter's crimes he would not send the next BILLION dollars over. Naturally they did and he sent the cash over.
IMHO a realistic commission back to the Biden's via Hunter with 10% for "The Big Guy" is on the order of 10-20%. $100 - #200 Million.
When Obama and Valerie Jarrett loaded $150 billion of paper currency on pallets in Germany and flew it to Iran, what are the chances a few pallets were left on the plane???
I'm still waiting for my pallet of money. :-)
I always thought Walter Duranty was somewhat misunderstood. He became famous for (falsely) reporting (1922-1936) about how Stalin was a great leader and the Soviet Union was a worker's paradise. He was chief Moscow reporter for the NY Times and his reporting was printed as fact by the Times. I can just imagine Stalin (or a henchman) coming up to him and saying, Comrade, you have a choice. Either report as we want you to in which case you will have a comfortable place to live, vodka, women, etc. Or report the truth in which case you may find yourself accidentally dead. He took the easy way out. And won the Pulitzer Prize.
His Editor in New York made the decision to print all his bullshit, Alex; not Duranty.
So who do You think had that chat with that Editor? Somebody from Moscow? Or somebody from Washington, DC?
I suspect his editor was an admirer of Stalin/Communism so Duranty was telling him what he wanted to hear anyway. The editor may or may not have known that what he was putting out was a lie. Which is actually how thing remain today at the New York Times. I guess.
Heh. Yeah... . Editors have a way of doing that: Of either actually not knowing that something is a lie; or ignoring the fact that it is a lie, and publishing it anyway.
And that is not a problem limited to just the NYT branch of the MSM. It is Everywhere, from the Left to the Right of print, electronic, and digital "News."
Dennis: About 16 hours ago, You posted: “But certainly, [I] do not hold Russia 100% accountable for the tragedy Zelenskyy and his henchmen have hoisted upon on all Ukrainian people.”
As i have stated here on BV and elsewhere several times before: Zelensky and his henchmen are not running The Show. All he and they are doing is reading their scripts and showing up where and doing what their handlers have recommended [ie, instructed] them to do and say.
That being the case: So how accountable DO You hold Putin/Russia for that tragedy? And Their script writers and handlers? Got a number for that?
And how accountable do You hold Biden, Trump, and Obama and their Teams for what has happened in and to Ukraine since 2014? Or Their scripters and directors? Got another number?
And then, of course: What about Xi? Do You think he and his model of ultimate auto-plutocratic/ oligarchic rule by a crony capitalist/communist/ fascist surveillance State have any play in this next Phase of The Game?
Heh. Eh, no, Dennis. i really don’t get Your drift.
If You make the numbers add up to 100, how do they read? Particularly given the fact that Zelensky and his Team are nothing but script-reading functionaries following orders.
And i never called anybody “merely” an “Expert.” Particularly Sachs, who i have linked BV readers to on a couple of occasions.
The only problem with “Experts” ~ particularly on matters concerning national defense and security [but also on economic, financial, and fiscal policy] ~ is that every side of the argument has its own team of those they call “Experts,” while dismissing the other side’s “Experts” as either amateurs, charlatans, or mere bullshitters.
And Senior Advisors to Acting Secretaries of Defense do not dictate policy; they advise on policy. Along with a whole bunch of other “Experts” who are also “advising”; some that are on the government payroll, and some that are not.
The plans for a War with Russia in Ukraine were well in place by the time the Colonel got there; and it is highly unlikely that he was in any position to actually, really influence what was going to happen down the road in the Real World. Even if Trump had stayed on the throne.
And Yes…. “New Boss same as the Old Boss… .” But don’t stop with Obama. You need to take that Rogues Gallery at least back to Carter. If not Nixon and LBJ and on thru FDR and Wilson.
AWAKENING by Caitlin Johnstone
Awakening from the lies of the news man,
the lies of the politician,
the lies of the teacher, the preacher, the pundit, the parent.
Awakening from the authorized worldviews,
the authorized narratives,
the authorized information,
the authorized ideas.
Awakening from dead thoughts written by dead men
on sheets made from dead trees.
Awakening from culture,
awakening from civilization,
from how-it-is stories,
from how-to-be stories,
from should and shouldn't stories,
from us and them stories.
Awakening from conditioning,
awakening from trauma,
awakening from subconscious dysfunction,
awakening from the heritage of pain and confusion
handed down through history from generation to generation.
Awakening from manipulation,
awakening from control,
awakening from grasping,
from pushing,
from pulling,
from hiding,
from holding life at bay,
from the inability to let life be as it is,
from the inability to let beingness play unmolested.
Awakening from identification with the body,
from identification with the mind,
from identification with any localized perspective,
from identification with the disembodied witness,
from identification with the field of consciousness,
from identification altogether.
Awakening from the illusion of separation,
from the illusion of the self,
from the illusion of the other,
from the illusion of time,
from the illusion of space,
from the illusions of the mind.
Awakening to truth,
whatever it may be.
Awakening to reality,
whatever its implications might entail.
Awakening to what is,
without caveat or precondition.
Awakening to peace.
Awakening to love.
Awakening to unconditionality.
Awakening to boundlessness.
Awakening to freedom.
Awakening for everyone.
Awakening for the whole world.
Awakening for humanity,
now and into the distant future.
Awakening together.
Awakening as one.
Opening each pair of eyelids,
one by one,
as we walk arm in arm
into the great unknown.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/awakening
WHY DOES THE US SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON THE MILITARY?
In the newest episode of AMERICA: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE, we look at the warnings of Dwight Eisenhower and how World War II gave birth to the military-industrial complex. In one of the most important addresses ever given by an American president, Eisenhower warns about the dangerous economic incentives war creates by enriching big business and growing the state at the expense of the rest of the nation.
What Eisenhower was really warning about was the threat posed by military Keynesianism. In the wake of the Great Depression, FDR and most political leaders in the West adopted the economic fallacies promoted by John Maynard Keynes. These policies lingered on through World War II and its aftermath to create a new class of intellectuals who defended the virtues of government spending at the expense of the productive, private sector. The growing American empire had truly gained an important ally.
Over half a century later, the American people remain victims of the military-industrial complex, with Washington spending more on the military than the next nine [or eleven, depending on the source] countries combined. The empire and military contracts get bigger, and Americans are left footing the bill.
Click here to watch AMERICA: FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE, a eight-part animated series on HOW US FOREIGN POLICY FUELS THE GROWTH OF THE STATE: https://mises.org/america-republic-empire. The MIC[C] piece is at Part 7..
Thank you and respects from another life-long student of war and military affairs.
Yes, it's a moral disgrace -- and it's inconsistent with democracy and democratic principles.
We are run by unelected bureaucracies and unelected judges.
Ray: My subject is the MSM and the U.S. military. My focus is on wars waged by the U.S.
The Russia-Ukraine War was started by Russia's invasion last February. It is not being waged by U.S. troops. That said, there is one acceptable narrative in the MSM: Ukraine is fighting a glorious war of liberation and Putin is fighting an immoral and criminal war of naked aggression. It follows that U.S. aid to Ukraine, mostly in the form of weapons, ammo, and the like, is good and noble and must be continued because it's in a "just cause," i.e. Ukraine's self-defense against Putin's imperial designs.
The American people should question all wars because, again, all wars generate lies and all governments lie, most especially in times of war. So I challenge readers to seek alternative perspectives, to seek reliable information, but this is made more difficult due to the MSM which allows only one interpretation, one that favors the MICC more than it does Ukraine. That's hardly accidental.
I don't think a long war in Ukraine favors Russia or Ukraine. But it does favor the MICC. The top priority for me is to end the war, especially since it could easily escalate.
The linked article cites facts created by events and timelines, backed up by documentation in the National Security Archive, for instance - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/. It puts the lie to Putin's "unprovoked aggression", and is history, not propaganda. Like all history that does not favour an official narrative, it is suppressed, and therefore unknown: https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-attempting-prevent-repeat-clinton-yeltsin-destruction-russia/5802456. Your bought and "access journalism" in action.
Ray: I suggest being careful with the idea anything is "inevitable" in history.
The fact is Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Please note how I didn't say it was "unprovoked."
? All Russia's fault? Ukraine and U.S. with "clean hands"? Please show me where I said that, in any of my numerous articles on the Russia-Ukraine War.