Russia is right to invade Ukraine, red lines have been crossed

[Mathanzua]

To understand the #ukrainecrisis, four dates are very important, 1962, 1989, 2008 and 2014.

(1)1962
In 1962, the Soviet Union/Russia tried to install a military hardware in Cuba, which threatened US directly because Cuba borders the US and the two countries are only separated by water. The then President of US, Kennedy,threatened Russia with World War ,if Russia does not remove their military installations. The Soviet Premier Nikiti Khrucshev rebuffed him which brought the world close to a nuclear Armageddon.It took 13 days of negotiation, military diplomacy, death of an American military pilot, destruction of an American spy plane and the removal of American missiles from Turkey, to solve the stand off. That's what we came to know as The Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

(2)1989
The Berlin wall fell in 1989 and the process of the unification of Western and Eastern Germany started. 1989 is important,because as the process of unification was going on, James Baker, the US Secretary of State then,promised the Soviet Union/Russia that NATO led by the Americans will not expand one inch towards the Russian border. This promise went a long way to facilitate the unification of Germany as we know it today. This is significant,because when the Soviet union fell in 1991, the US broke that promise in multiple ways by expanding NATO to the Russian border by including countries like Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic etc.

3.2008
In 2008 during a NATO summit held in Romania, there was a very strange push by the then President of the US, George Bush, to include Georgia and Ukraine as members of NATO. Remember that Georgia and Ukraine share a land border with Russia!Germany, France and Italy rejected the idea, but the Americans forced a very aggressive statement in the final communique, it says: 'NATO will not accept Georgia and Ukraine today, but they will be members someday'. Alarm bells rang in Moscow. Putin reacted by saying including Ukraine and Georgia in NATO will be a threat to Russian security.He reminded the world of America's reaction when the Russians tried the same thing in Cuba in 1962 Putin's statement came true because some months later, the then Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, who was emboldened by George Bush after he visited Tbilisi, fired multiple rockets towards South Ossetia, which killed six Russian soldiers who were stationed in the breakaway region. This led to war between Russia and Georgia during the Beijing Olympics.
Russia destroyed Georgia.

4. 2014
In 2014, the EU offered Ukraine a trade deal, and Russia offered Ukraine a counter trade deal. Ukrainian President then YanuKovich, accepted the Russian trade deal,saying that Ukraine and Russia has a long history of trade and it will be difficult for their companies to compete in the European market. This angered the US and they mobilized a protest against the YanuKovich using the western part of Ukraine population against him, (Ukraine is a divided country between east and west. The President was from the east, voted for by the people in the east, hated by the people in the west, and the capital is in the west. Imagine that Tanzania is not a union,and Samia is voted for by the Zanzibaris, hated by the mainlanders, and the Tanzanian capital is in the mainland).

That led to the downfall of the Ukrainian President in the early months of 2014. The eastern part of Ukraine which voted mostly for YanuKovich rejected the overthrow and said they won't be part of that Ukraine, and declared independence.
It led to a situation where Crimea declared independence from Ukraine and voted to be part of Russia, Russia accepted. Donetsk and Luhansk equally declared independence which led to a brief war with Ukraine, Russia helped them push back Ukrainian forces and the conflict was frozen, with daily skirmishes on the front lines since 2014. Putin recognized their Independence.

Today
How Putin tried to avoid this war.

In a 2007 speech made by Vladimir Putin in Munich, Germany, he warned the US that bringing Ukraine into NATO will create a war in Europe,because there's no way Russia will ever allow American military Machinery to Russian doorsteps just like US refused in 1962. The Americans laughed at him.

In 2016, he called the then President of France, Francois Hollande, to restructure the security architect of Europe because the US is trying to bring Ukraine into NATO and equally sign a bilateral military pact with Ukraine which will bring US military facilities to Russian borders. The French president acknowledged but did nothing. (This happened because Obama wanted to use that bilateral military pact to punish Putin for humiliating him with his intervention in Syria to save President Assad who the US wanted to overthrow.

Last year, 2021, Putin wrote a letter to the US and EU warning that Ukraine should become a non military aligned nation just like Finland but they laughed at him. Ukraine said they can do whatever they want because they are a sovereign nation.

Imagine what the USs' response would be if Russia was to install military weapons in Canada and Mexico.

Towards the end of last year, Joe Biden (who wants to show that he is not Trump, whom they accused of being Putin's puppet) started supplying weapons to Ukraine, installing military hardware in the name of defending Ukraine.

Those were Putins'
red lines, and they have been crossed.

The following 👇clips will give more insight into the subject.

 

[Slowly]

Wanamnyonga Putin wako soon

 

[Numbisa]

Aiseee a crisis

 

[Smart911]

Muda unaongea...

 

[Mkomavu]

Wanamnyonga Putin wako soon

Ukraine inazidi kuharibiwa kila siku

 

[Mathanzua]

Ukraine inazidi kuharibiwa kila siku

Rais Zelensky ni mjinga sana.The best he should have done is to remain neutral.Ameingiza Ukraine kwenye matatizo makubwa sana.Urusi sasa wanafikiria to strip Ukraine of its' statehood!That will rest on his shoulders.

Infact kwa sasa ni kama vita hii imeisha,askari wa Ukraine 40,000 wamezingirwa na majeshi ya Urusi na wameambiwa wajisalimishe,otherwise wata-face the consequences.

 

[Mkomavu]

Rais Zelensky ni mjinga sana.The best he should have done is to remain neutral.Ameingiza Ukraine kwenye matatizo makubwa sana.Urusi wanafikiria to strip it of its' statehood.Infact kwa sasa ni kama vita hii imeisha,askari wa Ukraine 40,000 wamezingirwa na majeshi ya Urusi na wameambiwa wajisalimishe,otherwise wata-face the consequences.

Mkuu hali ya Ukraine inatisha sana

 

[Mathanzua]

Mkuu hali ya Ukraine inatisha sana

Ni kweli unatisha,lakini Zelensky,the US and NATO are to blame for the situation Ukraine finds itself in.

 

[Proved]

Last year, 2021, Putin wrote a letter to the US and EU warning that Ukraine should become a non military aligned nation just like Finland but they laughed at him. Ukraine said they can do whatever they want because they are a sovereign nation.

Huu ni ukweli boss.... kwanini nchi moja huru iamue hatma ya nchi nyingine huru?

Hata Urusi pia itaathirika Sana na hii Vita (vikwazo), kiufupi hii Vita ikimalizika itaacha athari mbaya kila sehemu (rejea kupanda bei kwa mafuta,ngano,gesi n.k)

...War is Evil....

 

[Gilbert A Massawe]

Nipo na Beseni langu hapa nachemsha maji ya kwenda vitani

 

[Yoda]

Crap

 

[Peril22]

Kuna ukweli hapa

 

[Washawasha]

Putin kamatia hapohapo usiachie
Nalog off

 

[Somoche]

Piga hako ka comedy

 

[Castr]

Rais Zelensky ni mjinga sana.The best he should have done is to remain neutral.Ameingiza Ukraine kwenye matatizo makubwa sana.Urusi wanafikiria to strip it of its' statehood.

Infact kwa sasa ni kama vita hii imeisha,askari wa Ukraine 40,000 wamezingirwa na majeshi ya Urusi na wameambiwa wajisalimishe,otherwise wata-face the consequences.

Kama wamezungukwa majeshi ya nchi zingine yanapelekaje misaada ya vifaa?

 

[Mathanzua]

Updates:​

No wonder Russia invaded,the US has admitted that it has Bioweapon labs in Ukraine!​

Arch Neocon & Zionist Warmonger Victoria Nuland Admits to Pentagon-sponsored BioLabs in Ukraine

by Ron Unz​

Several days ago a mainstream policy analyst dropped me a note mentioning that the Russians were claiming to have discovered the existence of a network of biowarfare labs in Ukraine, funded by the American Pentagon and allegedly working with anthrax and plague. Given that much of my focus over the last two years had been on America’s biowarfare program and its possible deployment, he wondered what I thought about the matter.
I’d seen some of the same Russian accusations swirling around the Internet, and hadn’t paid much attention. On the one hand, over the decades America had spent over $100 billion dollars on “biodefense,” the euphemistic term for biowarfare development, and we had the world’s oldest and largest such program, one of the few ever deployed in real life combat. So allocating a few millions or even tens of millions to labs in Ukraine would hardly be implausible.
But on the other hand, even if we hadn’t, the Russians might certainly say we had, with those charges being almost stereotypical examples of the “black propaganda” used by an invading army to justify its attack to the world. Since I don’t read Ukrainian, the documents the Russians claimed to have found would mean nothing to me, and except for zealous partisans on each side, I doubted whether anyone else would be convinced.

However, the situation drastically changed on Tuesday, due to the Congressional testimony of Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, chief architect of our Ukraine policy. She seemed not only to acknowledge the existence of those Ukrainian biolabs but was also apparently concerned that their dangerous contents might fall into enemy hands, thereby seeming to completely confirm those shocking Russian accusations. I’ve never regarded Neocons as particularly bright, but the game-ending own-goal she scored on an issue of the greatest international importance may have set a new record for total incompetence.
I was hardly the only person to notice the massive implications of Nuland’s apparent disclosure. Glenn Greenwald ranks as one of the world’s highest-profile journalists, and he quickly released a lengthy column yesterday morning laying out the facts, and noting that our official media fact-checkers had spent a couple of weeks denouncing and ridiculing accusations that now seem to have turned out to be true.

• Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
  The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers. (Glenn Greenwald • Substack • March 9, 2022 • 2,100 Words)

Tucker Carlson devoted his top-rated show on cable to the same issue, emphasizing the shame of having to quote official Russian and Chinese government propagandists on the matter because our own American government officials had been lying.

All the facts are not yet in, but at this stage I think we should probably assume that the captured documents provided by the Russians are correct, and our Defense budget was funding the development of deadly biological weapons at Ukrainian labs near the Russian border, including anthrax and plague.
Given that Ukraine ranks as one of Europe’s most corrupt states, word of these projects surely leaked out, and it’s easy to understand why the Russians took a very dim view of it, certainly contributing to their decision to invade. How would America react if a rabidly-hostile Mexican government backed by China were developing deadly bioweapons near the American border?
Naturally, this gigantic story based upon Nuland’s inadvertent disclosure has been totally ignored by America’s mainstream media, but Carlson’s Youtube clip from last night is already approaching a million views, and the facts will continue to spread.
Kevin Barrett quickly arranged an interview with me, and released a short video outlining the story, and setting it in a broader context. In particular, he noted that back in 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin had raised serious biowarfare concerns about our collection of biological material from ethnic Russians, certainly a very suspicious project for our government to have undertaken.

In any event, I think it was an extremely reckless and foolish thing for the American government to have funded the creation of biowarfare facilities in Ukraine, a country extremely hostile to its nuclear-armed Russian neighbor.
And governments that do some extremely reckless and foolish things are much more likely to have done other extremely reckless and foolish things, possibly including those that have already had massive adverse consequences, such as a million American deaths over the last two years.
Over the last two years, I have published a lengthy series of articles outlining the strong perhaps even overwhelming evidence that the global Covid epidemic was the result of an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), with the articles having been viewed more than 400,000 total times and also collected into a freely downloadable eBook.
The evidence I have accumulated seems rather massive and the only argument anyone has effectively raised on the other side is that even rogue elements of the American government could not possibly have done anything so reckless and foolish. I think that argument seems far weaker today than it did a week ago.
Moreover, last month the New York Times reported on a couple of new scientific papers by our top researchers on the original Covid outbreak in Wuhan. Those findings indicate that the first infection probably occurred in late November or early December, somewhat later than previously believed. Meanwhile, back in April 2020 ABC News reported and Israeli TV confirmed that our Defense Intelligence Agency had produced a secret report “in the second week of November” describing a “potentially cataclysmic” disease outbreak taking place in Wuhan…a report that now appears to have been written before the first Chinese person had even become infected.
I think this inadvertent disclosure by our Intelligence officials falls into the same category as Victoria Nuland’s blunder.
All of this was discussed in three of my video interviews last month, which have now passed 170,000 total views. I suggest that people consider revisiting this material given the new disclosure of our anti-Russian biowarfare activities in Ukraine.



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Ron Unz, Ukraine and Biowarfare Conspiracy Theories

 

[Mathanzua]

Updates:​

BREAKING: RUSSIA RETALIATES; NO EXPORTS REST OF YEAR​

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced he will BAN all exports of products and raw materials from Russia until December 31. No one gets anything . . .
Initial assessments say this includes all of their oil, gas, grain, metals, and a slew of important commodities.
MORE:
Putin signs a decree restricting imports and exports of products and raw materials to "ensure the security of the Russian Federation," RIA reports. The list will be determined by the government.
(HT REMARK: Europe and the US are so screwed.)

 

[Mathanzua]

Updates:​

The West accepts the hard truth,first Blinken, Now Macron Accidentally Finds Reality . . . Sends Alarm Bells Ringing​

The US Scretary of State Antony Blinken swerved into reality when he said "Russia may win the Ukraine battle, but it will lose the war." Today, French president Macron seemed to also veer into reality -- and it is causing alarm bells to ring in NATO.
Macron hinted at the need to acknowledge Russian concerns. He stated: “There is no security for Europeans if there is no security for Russia.”
(HT REMARK: Well, that is certainly welcome to hear by those of us who are still sane.)
Macron's remark is a formulation of respect but one that also legitimizes Moscow’s demands for a new security architecture based on the Russian concept of “indivisible security." But what Macron meant was unclear.

He said he firmly opposed repeating “the mistakes of the past about spheres of influence” but then said “Russia is European. Whoever believes in Europe must know how to work with Russia and find the ways and the means to construct the European future among Europeans.”
HMMMMMMM . . . First was Turkey, now it's France, next is Germany. Some NATO countries are not following their "leader" blindly anymore. Survival instinct is starting to wake up.

 

[Mathanzua]

Updates:​

Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them​

The neocon's confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.​

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Today, the dangers of military escalation are beyond description.
What is now happening in Ukraine has serious geopolitical implications. It could lead us into a World War III scenario.
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Self-anointed “fact-checkers” in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeksmocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false.
Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapons labs came from Russia as well as China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry this month claimed: “The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that “Russia obtained documents proving that Ukrainian biological laboratories located near Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons.” Such assertions deserve the same level of skepticism as U.S. denials: namely, none of it should be believed to be true or false absent evidence. Yet U.S. fact-checkers dutifully and reflexively sided with the U.S. Government to declare such claims “disinformation” and to mock them as QAnon conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately for this propaganda racket masquerading as neutral and high-minded fact-checking, the neocon official long in charge of U.S. policy in Ukraine testified on Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and strongly suggested that such claims are, at least in part, true. Yesterday afternoon, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), hoping to debunk growing claims that there are chemical weapons labs in Ukraine, smugly asked Nuland: “Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?”
Rubio undoubtedly expected a flat denial by Nuland, thus providing further “proof” that such speculation is dastardly Fake News emanating from the Kremlin, the CCP and QAnon. Instead, Nuland did something completely uncharacteristic for her, for neocons, and for senior U.S. foreign policy officials: for some reason, she told a version of the truth. Her answer visibly stunned Rubio, who — as soon as he realized the damage she was doing to the U.S. messaging campaign by telling the truth — interrupted her and demanded that she instead affirm that if a biological attack were to occur, everyone should be “100% sure” that it was Russia who did it. Grateful for the life raft, Nuland told Rubio he was right.
But Rubio’s clean-up act came too late. When asked whether Ukraine possesses “chemical or biological weapons,” Nuland did not deny this: at all. She instead — with palpable pen-twirling discomfort and in halting speech, a glaring contrast to her normally cocky style of speaking in obfuscatory State Department officialese — acknowledged: “uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities.”
Any hope to depict such “facilities” as benign or banal was immediately destroyed by the warning she quickly added:
“we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to, uh, gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainiahhhns [sic] on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach” — [interruption by Sen. Rubio]:

Nuland’s bizarre admission that “Ukraine has biological research facilities” that are dangerous enough to warrant concern that they could fall into Russian hands ironically constituted more decisive evidence of the existence of such programs in Ukraine than what was offered in 2002 and 2003 to corroborate U.S. allegations about Saddam’s chemical and biological programs in Iraq. An actual against-interest confession from a top U.S. official under oath is clearly more significant than Colin Powell’s holding up some test tube with an unknown substance inside while he pointed to grainy satellite images that nobody could decipher.
It should go without saying that the existence of a Ukrainian biological “research” program does not justify an invasion by Russia, let alone an attack as comprehensive and devastating as the one unfolding: no more than the existence of a similar biological program under Saddam would have rendered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq justifiable. But Nuland’s confession does shed critical light on several important issues and raises vital questions that deserve answers.
Any attempt to claim that Ukraine’s biological facilities are just benign and standard medical labs is negated by Nuland’s explicitly grave concern that “Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of” those facilities and that the U.S. Government therefore is, right this minute, “working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces.”
Russia has its own advanced medical labs. After all, it was one of the first countries to develop a COVID vaccine, one which Lancet, on February 1, 2021, pronounced was “ safe and effective” (even though U.S. officials pressured multiple countries, including Brazil, not to accept any Russian vaccine, while U.S. allies such as Australia refused for a full year to recognize the Russian COVID vaccine for purposes of its vaccine mandate). The only reason to be “quite concerned” about these “biological research facilities” falling into Russian hands is if they contain sophisticated materials that Russian scientists have not yet developed on their own and which could be used for nefarious purposes — i.e., either advanced biological weapons or dual-use “research” that has the potential to be weaponized.
What is in those Ukrainian biological labs that make them so worrisome and dangerous? And has Ukraine, not exactly known for being a great power with advanced biological research, had the assistance of any other countries in developing those dangerous substances? Is American assistance confined to what Nuland described at the hearing — “working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces” — or did the U.S. assistance extend to the construction and development of the “biological research facilities” themselves?

PolitiFact, Feb. 25, 2022
For all the dismissive language used over the last two weeks by self-described “fact-checkers,” it is confirmed that the U.S. has worked with Ukraine, as recently as last year, in the “development of a bio-risk management culture; international research partnerships; and partner capacity for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures.” The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine publicly boasted of its collaborative work with Ukraine “to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can detect and report outbreaks caused by dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats.”
This joint US/Ukraine biological research is, of course, described by the State Department in the most unthreatening way possible. But that again prompts the question of why the U.S. would be so gravely concerned about benign and common research falling into Russian hands. It also seems very odd, to put it mildly, that Nuland chose to acknowledge and describe the “facilities” in response to a clear, simple question from Sen. Rubio about whether Ukraine possesses chemical and biological weapons. If these labs are merely designed to find a cure for cancer or create safety measures against pathogens, why, in Nuland’s mind, would it have anything to do with a biological and chemical weapons program in Ukraine?

The indisputable reality is that — despite long-standing international conventions banning development of biological weapons — all large, powerful countries conduct research that, at the very least, has the capacity to be converted into biological weapons. The work conducted under the guise of “defensive research” can, and sometimes is, easily converted into the banned weapons themselves. Recall that, according to the FBI, the 2001 anthrax attacks that terrorized the nation came from a U.S. Army Research scientist, Dr. Bruce Ivins, working at the U.S. Army’s infectious disease research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. The claim was that the Army was “merely” conducting defensive research to find vaccines and other protections against weaponized anthrax, but to do so, the Army had to create highly weaponized anthrax strains, which Ivins then unleashed as a weapon.
A 2011 PBS Frontline program on those anthrax attacks explained: “in October 2001, Northern Arizona University microbiologist Dr. Paul Keim identified that the anthrax used in the attack letters was the Ames strain, a development he described as ‘chilling’ because that particular strain was developed in U.S. government laboratories.” Speaking to Frontline in 2011, Dr. Keim explained why it was so alarming to discover that the U.S. Army had been cultivating such highly lethal and dangerous strains in its lab, on U.S. soil:
We were surprised it was the Ames strain. And it was chilling at the same time, because the Ames strain is a laboratory strain that had been developed by the U.S. Army as a vaccine-challenge strain. We knew that it was highly virulent. In fact, that’s why the Army used it, because it represented a more potent challenge to vaccines that were being developed by the U.S. Army. It wasn’t just some random type of anthrax that you find in nature; it was a laboratory strain, and that was very significant to us, because that was the first hint that this might really be a bioterrorism event.
This lesson about the severe dangers of so-called dual-use research into biological weapons was re-learned over the last two years as a result of the COVID pandemic. While the origins of that virus have not yet been proven with dispositive evidence (though remember, fact-checkers declared early on that it was definitively established that it came from species-jumping and that any suggestion of a lab leak was a “conspiracy theory,” only for the Biden White House in mid-2021 to admit they did not know the origins and ordered an investigation to determine whether it came from a lab leak), what is certain is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was manipulating various coronavirus strains to make them more contagious and lethal. The justification was that doing so is necessary to study how vaccines could be developed, but regardless of intent, cultivating dangerous biological strains has the capacity to kill huge numbers of people. All of this illustrates that research that is classified as “defensive” can easily be converted, deliberately or otherwise, into extremely destructive biological weapons.

Foreign Policy, Mar. 2, 2022
At the very least, Nuland’s surprising revelation reveals, yet again, just how heavily involved the U.S. Government is and for years has been in Ukraine, on the part of Russia’s border which U.S. officials and scholars from across the spectrum have spent decades warning is the most sensitive and vulnerable for Moscow. It was Nuland herself, while working for Hillary Clinton and John Kerry’s State Department under President Obama, who was heavily involved in what some call the 2014 revolution and others call the “coup” that resulted in a change of government in Ukraine from a Moscow-friendly regime to one far more favorable to the EU and the West. All of this took place as the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid $50,000 per month not to the son of a Ukrainian official but to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter: a reflection of who wielded real power inside Ukraine.
Nuland not only worked for both the Obama and Biden State Departments to run Ukraine policy (and, in many ways, Ukraine itself), but she also was Vice President Dick Cheney’s deputy national security adviser and then President Bush’s Ambassador to NATO. She comes from one of America’s most prestigious neocon royal families; her husband, Robert Kagan, was a co-founder of the notorious neocon war-mongering group Project for the New American Century, which advocated regime change in Iraq long before 9/11. It was Kagan, along with liberal icon Bill Kristol, who (next to current editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg), was most responsible for the lie that Saddam was working hand-in-hand with Al Qaeda, a lie that played a key role in convincing Americans to believe that Saddam was personally involved in the planning of 9/11.
That a neocon like Nuland is admired and empowered regardless of the outcome of elections illustrates how unified and in lockstep the establishment wings of both parties are when it comes to questions of war, militarism and foreign policy. Indeed, Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, was signaling that neocons would likely support Hillary Clinton for president — doing so in 2014, long before anyone imagined Trump as her opponent — based on the recognition that the Democratic Party was now more hospitable to neocon ideology than the GOP, where Ron Paul and then Trump’s neo-isolationism was growing.
You can vote against neocons all you want, but they never go away. The fact that a member of one of the most powerful neocon families in the U.S. has been running Ukraine policy for the U.S. for years — having gone from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton and Obama and now to Biden — underscores how little dissent there is in Washington on such questions. It is Nuland’s extensive experience in wielding power in Washington that makes her confession yesterday so startling: it is the sort of thing people like her lie about and conceal, not admit. But now that she did admit it, it is crucial that this revelation not be buried and forgotten.

 

[bernard10]

EU and NATO treating their mad puppet like stooges (no offense) but what he is doing naanza kuamini ana apply comedy in the serious issues like these that cost people's life yeye familia yake ipo UK na German wanakula good time.