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Oped-Ukraine:Admitting the Lies, Escalating the War While We Look at Pet Eating Memes

I do not know who this author is. Perhaps some of you do? Because the pet eating memes are over the top. Save for one thing that is troublesome. Why do so many people care more about other people’s pets or strays than about living human beings?

Included below are the bits that seemed interesting.

War is a Crime- David Swanson

Even more significant is how the corporate media has reported on those seconds of foreign policy “debate,” and what the U.S. government has seized the opportunity to do under cover of election news silence and the annual militarized hoo-hah of 9-11 bloodlust glorification.

ABC “News” demanded that Trump swear his support for Ukrainian “victory.” ABC did not define “victory,” or explain how it might be possible in the real world or how many lives might be lost in continuing to senselessly pursue it, or address the growing risk that nuclear apocalypse will actually be achieved, or justify the past years of endless prediction of imminent “victory.” To the delight of many Democrats, Trump refused repeatedly to take the oath of victory-belief.

Nothing to be delighted in Trump’s refusal to swear support for some random idea of “victory”I’m not a fan of Trump’s but kudos to him for not taking bait for soundbites

Trump blurted out that negotiations are needed, that lives are being wasted, and that nuclear war is being risked. I’d love to quote a sane and respectable person saying those things on a U.S. television network, but U.S. television networks have not allowed many such voices — indeed, as far as I know, any such voice at all.

There are sane rational voices saying negotiations are needed, lives are being wasted and yes, nuclear war is being risked- But the main stream media doesn’t provide anything but bread and circuses.

Meanwhile, Victoria Nuland, who at the time was U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, has gone ahead and said openly on video that the U.S. and UK blocked a peace agreement very soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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No doubt — as Madeleine Albright would tell us — it has been worth it. But what is the “it”? Surely it is not “freedom” or “liberty” or “values” — at least not for all those killed, never mind those injured, traumatized, made homeless, made motherless, and made fatherless. Of course “it” could be weapons profits, and NATO growth, but who — outside of the most rabid partisan election fanatics — is interested in those things?

More dangerous even than Nuland’s analysis that it’s now safe to just admit to having blocked negotiations — or NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s conclusion a year ago that it had become safe to admit that insistence on NATO expansion had led to the war — is what the people conducting the war have been up to while we’ve been sharing pet-eating memes. The Guardian reported on Wednesday:

“The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private. Speaking in Kyiv alongside the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, Blinken said the US had ‘from day one’ been willing to adapt its policy as the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine changed. ‘We will continue to do this,’ he emphasised. Blinken said he and Lammy would report back to their ‘bosses’ – Joe Biden and Keir Starmer – after their talks on Wednesday with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.”

Whoever is sailing this Titanic in the absence of Biden’s full faculties is under the influence of the war machine and subject to little if any public accountability. We are likely, in the absence of a nonviolent public uprising by the tranquilized U.S. public at the height of the panem et circenses season, to see a significant escalation of the U.S.-Russian war — or not to see it (Norman Solomon says they’ve made war invisible) which may be even more dangerous still.

War escalation and all the danger that brings globally is exponentially more serious and worrisome then pet eating memes. Priorities.

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