{"id":265696,"date":"2023-02-28T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T07:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265696"},"modified":"2023-03-02T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T06:51:10","slug":"america-goes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=265696","title":{"rendered":"America Goes to War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi — The Unz Review Feb 28, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

At last week\u2019s Rage Against the War Machine<\/a> peace rally in Washington there was no shortage of speakers who denounced the Biden Administration\u2019s hypocritical foreign policy, which essentially judges any violent action undertaken by the United States and its friends as good by definition while anything done by rivals or competitors, sometimes conveniently referred to as \u201cenemies,\u201d as \u201cevil.\u201d In the current context of Ukraine versus Russia, where the US is engaged in proxy warfare, speakers were able to cite and compare the formidable list of America\u2019s armed interventions worldwide since World War Two ended. Neither Russia nor any other nation comes anywhere near the United States in terms of constant bellicosity, conflicts which hardly ever reflect any real vital national interest or imminent foreign threat. Throw into the hopper the 800-plus US military bases scattered around the world and a growing defense budget larger than those of the next nine nations combined, including China and Russia, and the reader will obtain some idea of the real problem: the United States has become a nation that is best described as a warfare state. That is where the tax money goes to disproportionately and the corruption it feeds produces a willingness to engage in \u201cone more war\u201d on the part of the coddled, protected and richly remunerated political class which in turn supports the carnage by overwhelming majorities.<\/p>\n

Several speakers last week also cited as the real problem the media, which once upon a time sought to expose lies and subterfuges by government but now has become a partner with the White House in shaping and promoting a preferred narrative. It should also be pointed out that that media is overwhelmingly Democratic in terms of its ownership and sympathies, so much so that it collaborated in efforts to label Donald Trump and his staff as \u201cRussian agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes this promotion of a particular point of view is best accomplished using silence, i.e. by not sharing or following up on a story. There was virtually no coverage of last week\u2019s peace rally even though speakers included a number of well-known public figures, three of whom were former congressmen. Likewise, apart from a brief mention<\/a> in The Washington Post<\/em>, there has been virtually no follow-up in the mainstream media on Seymour Hersh\u2019s carefully researched and documented investigation of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines by the United States hidden behind the plausible deniability of a covert operation carried out last September.<\/p>\n

Much of the press ignored the clear investigative line on day one when the pipeline exploded that the White House had previously been warning that it would \u201cdo something\u201d to stop Nord Stream and that it had both the means and motive to follow through on its threat. Likewise, after the Hersh story broke and Russia sought and obtained<\/a> a hearing featuring Professor Jeffrey Sachs and former CIA Officer Ray McGovern<\/a> testifying before the United Nations Security Council to initiate investigation of the matter, the US media ignored the story on the evening news and did not follow-up on it on the next day or subsequently.<\/p>\n

A major story involving what were war crimes committed both against adversary Russia and NATO ally Germany and which had nuclear conflict potential was thus made to disappear, but the US and its propaganda machine were not finished yet. The White House predictably denied any role in the pipe line destruction and Vice President Kamala Harris sought to turn the tables by declaring at the Munich Security Conference that it is Russia that is guilty of \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d She claimed that<\/a> \u201cFirst, from the starting days of this unprovoked war, we have witnessed Russian forces engage in horrendous atrocities and war crimes. [They] have pursued a widespread and systemic attack against a civilian population \u2013 gruesome acts of murder, torture, rape, and deportation. Execution-style killings, beating and electrocution. Russian authorities have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine to Russia, including children. They have cruelly separated children from their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris concluded that \u201cwe\u201d must continue to \u201cstrongly support Ukraine\u2026for as long as it takes!\u201d One might observe that Harris has been unable to secure the actual US borders over the course of more than two years, so \u201cas long as it takes\u201d by her reckoning might well run into the 2050s. And she is hardly known for her ability to discern what is and isn\u2019t true. She might well have added spice to her tale by joking how it must keep Vladimir Putin and his cabinet up until late at night coming up with new atrocities to carry out.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Joe Biden doubled down on the Harris remarks in a speech in Warsaw a few days later, delivered on his return from the Kiev photo op with the man he loves more than any other, Volodymyr Zelensky, where he gave the diminutive comedian another half billion dollars of US taxpayer money and promised that the US will never give up until Russia is defeated. He commented somewhat hyperbolically to Zelensky that after a year of fighting \u201c\u2026Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. The Americans stand with you and the world stands with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden told the Poles<\/a> just before the February 24 anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine that it was a just war pitting \u201cdemocracy\u201d against \u201ctotalitarianism.\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201ccraven lust for land and power\u201d had only served to unite democracies around the world. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just Ukraine being tested. The whole world faced a test for the ages \u2026. And the questions we face are as simple as they are profound: Would we respond, or would we look the other way? One year later, we know the answer. We did respond. We would be strong, we would be united, and the world would not look the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demonstrating that delusion is bipartisan, the Biden visit to Kiev was followed by a group of Republican congressmen repeating the feat and traveling to Ukraine<\/a> to fawn over Zelensky at his presidential palace on the following day. One wonders if there is anyone still \u201cat home\u201d trying to alleviate the huge toxic spill that appears about to consume Ohio? One might well ask where the US federal government gets these idiots from? Dancing around to the tune of a conflict that could have been negotiated away and winding up at the brink of a nuclear war which would in all likelihood destroy the planet is \u201ca test for the ages?\u201d And who pays for these useless congressional trips? More\u2019s the pity, this is not just going on in Eastern Europe. The US is currently cooperating with France in what looks like what will become another military intervention in a perennially unstable Haiti and, of course, China is also in the cross hairs.<\/p>\n

And then there is always the Middle East, where Israel benefits from \u201cironclad\u201d commitments and \u201cunbreakable bonds\u201d rhetoric from Washington. When Israel commands \u201cJump!\u201d the Biden regime only asks \u201cHow high?\u201d Since the media avoids any provocative reporting about the Jewish state, how many Americans know that self-declared Zionist Joe Biden\u2019s Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides has just given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the green light for attacking Iran with US support for any action taken? Nides told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem last Sunday that \u201cIsrael can and should do whatever they need to deal with [in regards to Iran] and we\u2019ve got their back<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is already a precedent as Israel has in fact been attacking neighboring Syria repeatedly without any comment from Washington, which actually has troops based in that country stealing Syrian oil. Nor has Washington objected when the Israeli army raided two Palestinian camps during the past month, killing respectively 10 and 11 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. To set the stage for what comes next vis-\u00e0-vis the wag the dog relationship, after Israel struck a defense compound in Iran on January 29th<\/sup>, the Biden administration suggested to reporters that the Israeli attack was part of a new \u201cjoint effort\u201d by Washington and Jerusalem to contain Tehran\u2019s nuclear and military ambitions<\/a>. Secretary of State Tony Blinken elaborated on the shift on the next day while offering no criticism or concern for the destabilizing potential of the strikes, let alone a condemnation. Instead, he defended the Israeli attack, saying \u201c[It is] very important that we continue to deal with and work against as necessary the various actions that Iran has engaged in throughout the region and beyond that threaten peace and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nides\u2019 comment reveals that he is ignorant regarding who is causing trouble in the Middle East. It also confirms that even if there is a military action initiated by Israel that does grave damage to US interests, the White House will support the Israelis. That should surprise no one as the top three officials at the State Department are Jews, as are the top two on the National Security Staff, the Head of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, the Deputy Director at CIA, and the president\u2019s Chief of Staff. The policy shift, for that is what it is, also gives Israel the green light to attack Iranian targets with impunity<\/a>. Nides also stated that the United States is pledged to deny nuclear weapons to Iran, implying that if it believes such a development is imminent it would destroy the facilities used to create or store the weapons. He also mentioned that the US will not engage in any possible negotiations with Iran as long as it is selling weapons to Russia. Though Nides has no problem with freely killing Palestinian children, he is rather more inflexible when Persians are somehow involved, saying that \u201cThe Iranians are providing drones to Russia and those drones are killing innocent Ukrainians. There is no chance today of us going back to the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what do we have? Does anyone remember the famous quote attributed to British statesman Lord Palmerston, that \u201cNations have no permanent friends or allies. They only have permanent interests.\u201d The United States, uniquely, does not even appear to have interests, apart from pandering to the various constituencies and groups that have bought or stealthily acquired control over the political system and media. So the American public, less safe and prosperous now than at any time since the Second World War, is kept in the dark about what is important and is lied to about almost everything. That is why we are on the brink of destruction in Ukraine and are slaves to the power brokers who hate Russia and favor Israel above all nations. Raging against the war machine will do little good if we are incapable of first figuring out who is screwing us and then developing the courage to put a stop to it. Starting with cutting the current tie that binds with Ukraine and Israel would be a good beginning followed by bringing the troops home from nearly everywhere. Trying the Biden Administration officials who initiated an illegal war by destroying Nord Stream and putting them all in jail would be even better. Yes, every one of them in jail with no parole, starting with mumbling Joe himself.<\/p>\n

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Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is <\/em>councilforthenationalinterest.org,<\/em><\/strong> address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.or<\/strong><\/a>g<\/p>\n

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