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    Who does the US State Dept hate more, Russians or Ukrainians? Or everyone? Archived Message

    Posted by Ken Waldron on August 24, 2023, 8:25 pm

    Who does the US State Dept hate more, Russians or Ukrainians?
    Or everyone?


    ALISTAIR P-M

    AUG 23, 2023

    It has become abundantly apparent for those with eyes to see, that the people pulling the strings on Ukraine’s side in the Ukraine conflict, are not the Ukrainians. Zelensky has always been a figurehead, a man with an identity tailor-made to make him - and by extension, Ukraine - immune to criticism. How can Ukraine have a Nazi problem when they have a Jewish president?! Amazingly, some people still seem to fall for this.

    Those who have an attention span longer than that of a golden retriever should have realised by now, that the reason why it’s always British and American military spokespeople talking about Ukraine’s position in the war is that - duh - they’re the ones in charge. They’ve said time and time again that the stated aim of the conflict in Ukraine is to weaken Russia. Obviously that wasn’t the original plan, which was to retake Donbass with a quiet genocide that the western media wouldn’t mention, but Russia acted first to stop them, so they’ve had to retcon the narrative a few times. Ukrainian leaders like Kuleba still make absurd statements about retaking Crimea, but that surely must be for domestic consumption; telling people that their friends and family are dying for America’s long-term geopolitical ambitions wouldn’t be a popular position.

    Some western news sources have come out with some absolutely breathtaking admissions from the American military recently, for instance that high Ukrainian losses were part of the plan for the recent ‘counter offensive’. Military commanders have expressed frustration at Ukraine’s “casualty averse” tactics, and their ‘refusal’ to use NATO tactics (which rely on air support that they don’t have), instead reverting to their Soviet training, of employing artillery-based attrition warfare, which they’re still losing at.

    Some news articles have spoken about Russia building strong lines of defence, and laying huge minefields with artillery cover, as if this is somehow cheating, like they weren’t supposed to do that. Ukrainian soldiers have been sent into these minefields in German Leopard tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles anyway, where they have fallen victims to mines, and the artillery and air attacks that the Russians still have in abundance.

    One video that has stuck with me was a drone video of a soldier carefully getting out of a troop carrier in a minefield, only to step on a mine and have one of his legs blown clean off, no doubt also suffering many other horrendous injuries. Amazingly he manages to wrap a tourniquet around his leg and drag himself back to the vehicle, where other soldiers pull him inside. Nothing was achieved tactically, and a man was horribly maimed for life. This is presumably how the Americans want the Ukrainians to fight, though - i.e. not “casualty averse”.

    There can be no getting away from the fact that Russia holds all the cards in this conflict, and has done from day one of the SMO, 24th February 2022. They tried holding ceasefire talks with Ukraine, and people like Denis Kireev got killed for wanting to make a bargain with them. The talks in Istanbul in March 2022 resulted in a ceasefire, that Boris Johnson went and scuppered. So someone isn’t letting Ukraine surrender. But while Ukraine continues to terrorise Donbass, Russia won’t stop its SMO, so the western media can still write endless rubbish about Russia’s ‘brutal unprovoked full-scale invasion’.

    In the first couple of months of the conflict, I angered a lot of people simply by saying that Ukraine should surrender because they had no hope of winning, and that their people were dying for Nazis, supported by America. People who got upset with me said that they didn’t mind donating to United24 and paying more for gas, because it would be worth it to support Ukraine. This assumes that their support was somehow going to help Ukraine win, though - this line of thinking doesn’t make any sense, but people were proud to say it, even wear it on t-shirts. So many people were caught up in this magical thinking, that they affirmed each other’s belief that simply believing in Ukraine’s victory was going to manifest a Ukrainian victory. If you didn’t agree, you were “on Putin’s side”.

    In August 2023, Ukraine’s offensive hasn’t even reached Russia’s first line of defence, and they’re still asking for more weapons to replace what’s been destroyed, including F16s, as if that will help. There is simply no plan here, as some analysts have said, many times. The actual plan is that of the White House, to keep this conflict going until the 2024 elections, use it to get elected… somehow, despite it being very unpopular… and then… we’ll think of something after that. It’s all the kind of short-term thinking of politicians who’ve never had to take real responsibility for their actions.

    The people forcing Ukraine to keep fighting clearly don’t care how many of its people die, that much is obvious. But this disregard for Ukrainian lives goes much further back than 2022.

    Early in the SMO, the Russians claimed that the US (along with non-state actors, like Hunter Biden’s firm Metabiota) had been financing and running biological warfare labs - or ‘research facilities’ as Victoria Nuland called them. One of the alleged aims of these labs was to create pathogens that could target specific ethnicities, for which Ukrainian servicemen had been used as guinea pigs.

    You don’t have to be a genius to work out that if the US wanted to create weapons that could target Russians because of their ethnicity, these weapons would work just as well on Ukrainians. Genetics don’t care about lines drawn on maps, and as Putin and others have said many times, they consider Ukraine a brother nation. I don’t think it’s been proven yet whether these kind of weapons were successfully created, but some Ukrainian soldiers reportedly died in the process of trying to make them.

    The plot of the last James Bond film revolved around some British gene-targeting weapon technology that was supposed to be used to assassinate specific individuals, and their close relatives - because that’s OK - falling into the hands of a dastardly foreigner, the swarthy, sexually ambiguous cad Le Chiffre. But **shock horror!** he wanted to use it to target ethnicities! Oh no! That’s a bad thing, not like what we were going to use it for!

    If that’s a coincidence, it’s one giant coincidence. This conflict has destroyed many things, and one of those things is my ability to even watch silly action films without feeling disgusted and paranoid.

    But maybe the US government doesn’t have it in for Russians and/or Ukrainians exclusively. They’re trying to paint China as a threat because China insists on defending its territory, and won’t let the US peacefully encircle it with its arsenal of peace and democracy. The US can find a reason to invade anywhere in the world, but it doesn’t even care about Americans either - Maui is only the most recent example of a disaster that it’s failed to respond to, after Puerto Rico and New Orleans before. And fentanyl. And COVID. And the 2009 economic crash. Etc.

    The 1976 movie Network had a climactic scene in which a representative of power explains to the film’s protagonist how the world works, and it feels appropriate here:



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    • Who does the US State Dept hate more, Russians or Ukrainians? Or everyone? - Ken Waldron August 24, 2023, 8:25 pm