U.S. Attaches "Deaths Head" Insult Fans Flames Threatening World War in Ukraine by Martin Sieff!
(2021-04-18 at 00:54:28 )

U.S. Attaches "Deaths Head" Insult Fans Flames Threatening World War in Ukraine by Martin Sieff!

Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States has no treaty obligations - and neither does NATO - to come to Kievs aid in times of war.

The irresponsible, tasteless and plain obscene action of United States Defense Attache to Kiev Colonel Brittany Stewart in publicly wearing a Ukrainian armed forces deaths head insignia in her visit to the Donbass war zone in a time of deadly escalating tensions on April 9 defies belief. Her action suggests that under President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin the Pentagon has fallen into the hands of deadly dangerous sloppy idiots.

Ukraines Joint Forces Operation command said Ms Stewart had traveled to Donbass to assess the situation on the ground. In photos taken during her visit, Ms Stewart is seen wearing on her shoulder sleeve a "Ukraine or death" skull insignia, which is the patch of the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade.

When I first saw the reports - and photographs - of Ms Stewarts action - I automatically assumed that she must be an ignorant, impressionable amateur catapulted into a situation way out of her depth.

Out of her depth, Ms Stewart certainly is, but lack of experience should be no excuse for it. She is a presumably seasoned United States Air Force officer who previously served as Air Attaché with the United States Defense Attaché Office at the United States Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, another former Soviet republic. So this is not her first such quasi-political appointment. She should certainly have known what she was doing.

What she was doing was unprecedented.

No servicing United States armed services officer is ever permitted to wear the insignia of any other nation, however innocuous, without receiving the prior approval of the Departments of the Army, the Navy or the Air Force.

The only known exception to this rule - and it is a revealing one - was when Colonel Clare Chennault at a time when the United States was still at peace and neutral in World War II, flew his Flying Tigers group of P-40 combat aircraft against the Japanese in support of the Kuomintang regime in China. Even that was only done by the express personal approval of President Franklin Roosevelt himself. And within months, Japan had attacked the United States, sinking all its Pacific Fleet battleships at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Chennaults Flying Tigers helped convince Japans war planners in Tokyo that the United States was already their inveterate enemy set on their destruction and therefore in order to survive, Japan needed to attack the United States first. Is that really the lesson Biden and Austin want to send to the government of Russia?

Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States has no treaty obligations - and neither does NATO - to come to Kievs aid in times of war.

Yet President Donald Trump approved - and Biden now continues - the open supply of Javelin anti-armor missiles whose clear and obvious purpose, denied by no one, is to kill ethnic Russian militia forces fighting for their freedom in the two secessionist provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.

Ms Stewart not only openly displayed partiality for the crushing of the secessionist provinces, she did so in a way guaranteed to enrage all Russian and Ukrainians whose grandparents and great-grandparents fought - and all too often were mercilessly killed - by the Nazis and their collaborationist allies during World War II.

For the deaths head was the insignia of the SS, the most murderous, racist and infamous murder force of barbarians in recorded human history.

The current regime in Ukraine claims to be democratic. But it has always been ferociously anti-Russian: It came into existence in 2014 by toppling democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych in a violent, bloody coup openly and shamelessly supported by the United States government - including then Vice President Joe Biden and Bidens current Under Secretary of State for Policy Victoria Nuland. Ms Nuland even handed out cookies to the violent rioters and revolutionaries storming through the streets of Kiev at the time.

The deaths head insignia adopted by the current armed forces of Ukraine therefore has truly horrific connotations of hatred, genocide and the merciless waging of a world war dedicated to the enslavement of the Slav peoples, including Ukrainians as well as Russians.

You do not need to be a professor of European history to know that: And since the United States military repeatedly boasts of the "professionalism" and exceptionally high standards of all its senior officers, Ms Stewart in particular should have known that. Or maybe she did - and she just did not care.

In any case, her action was disgusting, shameful and stupid and senior retired United States officers are already publicly saying so.

Retired United States Army Colonel Doug Macgregor, a senior Pentagon adviser during the Trump administration, told the Sputnik News Agency that Ms Stewarts action was virtually without precedent in the history of the United States Army and armed forces.

In any competent military, Ms Stewart would be ignominiously kicked out. Instead, judging by recent patterns, she will be promoted to three star general and given the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Ms Stewarts move comes amid an escalation in tensions in Donbass and between Ukraine and Russia. On Wednesday, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic, Denis Pushilin, said the situation at the contact line was deteriorating.

Sputnik reported that the Kremlin described the situation on Russias border with Ukraine as "frightening" and vowed to bolster security in response to the increased NATO presence. Also on April 9, the Pentagon refused to comment on reports from Turkeys Foreign Ministry that the United States was deploying two warships to the Black Sea.

The Pentagon under both the Obama and Trump administrations recklessly approved the deployment of United States attaches and liaison officers to the Ukrainian armed forces who were exceptionally partisan and who often openly expressed their loathing of Russia.

Instead of sending firefighters to quench the dangerous flames of hatred and craving for war in Ukraine, the United States government persisted in sending arsonists to pour gasoline on the flames.

And they should have known full well that those flames would not stay chemical and local, they could far too easily go nuclear and engulf the entire world.

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