United States Officials Are Lying Too on Ukraine by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-02-18 at 03:49:09 )

United States Officials Are Lying Too on Ukraine by Jacob G. Hornberger!

United States officials are declaring unequivocally that Russian officials were lying when Russia stated that it was withdrawing troops from the Russia-Ukraine border. United States officials say that it is the exact opposite - that Russia is actually bringing more troops to the border.

Russian officials might well be lying about Russian troop movements. It certainly should not surprise anyone, especially if Russia is in fact going to actually invade the country.

Unfortunately, however, the Russians would not be the only ones lying about what is going on with Ukraine. So are United States officials. But of course that should not surprise anyone either, given that lying has always been a foundation stone of the United States national-security establishment, at least when "national security" is at stake.

As Russia has made clear, its objective is to prevent Ukraine from becoming a member of NATO. If Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, that would enable the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to install United States missiles, tanks, and troops along Russias border. That is precisely what Russia opposes, in much the same way that United States officials would (and did) oppose Russian missiles, troops, and weaponry in Cuba.

In other words, if the United States provided assurances to Russia that Ukraine would not become a NATO member, the crisis would be over and Russian troops would be withdrawn. But the problem is that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency do not want to give Russia that assurance. They are insistent on making Ukraine a member of NATO, an old Cold War dinosaur bureaucratic entity, so that they can station their missiles, troops, and tanks on Russias border.

Soldiers from 357th Air and Missile Defense Detachment, 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, ALPHA Battery conduct drills on the Patriot Missile systems in Morag, Poland, June 1. The purpose of the drills is to show joint cooperation between United States and Polish forces. Source: Wikicommons.

United States officials claim that Russia has nothing to worry about because, they say, the United States government is a peace-loving, non-aggressive regime.

That is a lie.

In fact, the United States government is the most aggressive regime on this planet. Just ask the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries against which the United States government waged wars of aggression and killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

During the Cold War, Poland was aligned with the Soviet Union as a member of the Warsaw Pact.

After the ostensible end of the Cold War, the United States absorbed Poland into NATO, thereby enabling the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to station missiles, troops, and tanks closer to Russias border, which is precisely what they want to do in Ukraine.

In fact, as the New York Times reported yesterday, the Pentagon has installed missiles near the Polish village of Redzikowo, which is only about 100 miles from Russian territory. United States officials say that those missiles are situated there to protect Eastern Europe from Iran.

That is just another lie and a ridiculous one at that.

Iran is no more a threat to Eastern Europe than Paraguay is. The fact that United States officials feel the need to lie about why their missiles are in Poland would obviously concern anyone in Russia.

Today, the Pentagon is sending thousands of United States troops into Romania and Poland, which gives everyone a very good picture of what would happen if Ukraine were absorbed into NATO.

As soon as United States officials stoked any new crisis with Russia, there is no doubt that the Pentagon would do what they are doing today in Romania and Poland - they would be rushing thousands of troops into Ukraine along with missiles, tanks, other weaponry being positioned on Russias border.

In fact, it is a virtual certainty that if NATO absorbs Ukraine, the Pentagon will expand its worldwide system of permanent military bases to Ukraine. It is not difficult to imagine a string of sprawling military bases in Ukraine, along with the bars, brothels, corruption, pollution, and violent crimes that inevitably come with them.

As with anything that pertains to the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency, the mainstream press is playing its standard deferential and supportive role in the Ukraine crisis, blinding themselves from seeing the critical role that the United States national-security establishment has played in producing this crisis.

It is that blindness that then causes the mainstream press to continue endorsing ever-increasing budgets, power, and influence for the national-security establishment and its army of well-heeled "defense" contractors.

The only way out of this statist and highly dangerous morass is for the United States of American people to come to the realization of what a horrific mistake it was to convert the United States government to a national-security state after World War II, which thereby enabled the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency to wage their Cold War racket and, later, their global war-on-terrorism racket.

If United States of Americans were to come to that realization, we could then have our founding constitutional system of a limited-government republic back and no more perpetual foreign-policy crises.

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Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!