Perhaps The United States Should Shut The F-ck Up About Respecting Other Countries Sovereignty by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-02-23 at 03:59:18 )

Perhaps The United States Should Shut The F-ck Up About Respecting Other Countries Sovereignty by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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So President Putin has finally made a move, issuing a decree formally recognizing the sovereignty of the separatist-held Donbas territories in eastern Ukraine known as the DPR and LPR. Russian troops are being deployed to the region in what President Putin describes as a "peacekeeping" mission amid a dramatic spike in ceasefire violations.

"The recognition of the DPR and LPR means Russias withdrawal from the Minsk agreements, which were signed in 2014 and 2015 to establish the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine," writes Antiwars Dave Decamp. "Under the Minsk agreements, Ukraine agreed to cede some autonomy to the DPR and LPR. Russia has grown increasingly frustrated over the fact that Kyiv has not fulfilled its end of the agreement."

-Putin Deploys Troops to Donbas Republics as Peacekeepers! The deployment comes after the Russian leader formally recognized the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk by Dave DeCamp(at)DecampDave-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) February 21, 2022

Needless to say, the United States empire has not been happy about this move. President Biden has already imposed strict sanctions on the DPR and LPR, saying Moscows recognition of their independence "threatens the peace, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

"Tomorrow we will be announcing new sanctions on Russia in response to their breach of international law and attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki added.

“This decision represents a complete rejection of Russias commitments under the Minsk agreements, directly contradicts Russias claimed commitment to diplomacy, and is a clear attack on Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity," adds Secretary of State Tony Blinken.

Other member states of the empire were equally upset about this unforgivable violation of Ukraines sovereignty.

"Canada strongly condemns Russias recognition of so-called "independent states" in Ukraine," tweeted Justin Trudeau. "This is a blatant violation of Ukraines sovereignty and international law. Canada stands strong in its support for Ukraine - and we will impose economic sanctions for these actions."

"Tomorrow we will be announcing new sanctions on Russia in response to their breach of international law and attack on Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity," tweeted United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

"This further undermines Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity, erodes efforts towards a resolution of the conflict, and violates the Minsk Agreements, to which Russia is a party," says NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Had Biden admin been willing to give up on making Ukraine a proxy on Russias border, it could have had a demilitarized Donbas in a neutral Ukraine. It instead shunned Minsk & targeted Nordstream 2. Rather than a Russian invasion, it got Russias recognition of breakaway republics.-Aaron Maté (aaronjmate) February 21, 2022

There are all kinds of criticisms that one can level against this move by Moscow, if one feels that the entire western political-media class screaming all of these criticisms in unison does not have enough amplification. For myself, I would just like to point out that the United States-centralized empire is the very last institution on this planet who has any business babbling about the "sovereignty" of other nations. Absolute dead last.

I say this not out of any kind of fondness for President Putin or support for his decisions, but because the absolute worst violator of national sovereignty in the entire world by a truly gargantuan margin complaining about violations of national sovereignty is bat shit insane.

Pointing out things the United States empire has done while it shrieks about the actions of a foreign government will get you accused of "whataboutism", but it is not a whataboutism.

It is pointing out that the United States is the absolute least qualified government on earth to comment on the issue at hand, so it should shut the whole entire f-ck up about it.

If the United States wants to legitimately complain about the transgressions of unaligned governments, then it must cease being the worst transgressor.

Some might say, "Two wrongs do not make a right." Okay. But inflicting ten thousand wrongs definitely means you should shut the f-ck up about anyone doing one wrong.

This would after all be the same empire that has is currently circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and waging wars which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century.

Its sanctions and blockades are starving people to death en masse every single day. It works to destroy any nation which disobeys its dictates by toppling their governments via Central Intelligence Agency coups, proxy armies, partial and full-scale invasions, and the most egregious number of election interferences in the entire world, while threatening the entire species with nuclear brinkmanship on multiple fronts.

How the hell does anyone pretend the United States of America has the moral high ground when Joe Biden is intentionally starving millions of #Afghan children????????????-Peter Daou (peterdaou) February 21, 2022

What the United States and its proxies are doing in Yemen alone is orders of magnitude worse than anything Russia is doing to Ukraine. Or what the United States is doing in Afghanistan. Or in Venezuela. Or in Syria. Hell, the Biden administration has already done worse than what Putin just did in recognizing Israels outright annexation of the Golan Heights.

To say nothing of the fact that the United States thought so little of Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014 that it was perfectly comfortable staging a coup there with the support of actual neo-Nazi militias, who the liberal media are still running Public Relations segments for to this day even after years of yelling about Donald Trumps intimacy with the far right.

The United States thinks so highly of Ukraines sovereignty that it is willing to ramp up cold war brinkmanship with a nuclear superpower to defend it, but not highly enough to refrain from backing literal Nazis to topple its government.

The United States empire criticizing Russia for violating another nations sovereignty is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticizing someone elses eating habits.

After watching the insane, erratic, dishonest way the western power alliance has been navigating the Ukraine crisis, it is clear to anyone with open eyes that this is the very last institution we should want negotiating a power struggle that could quite literally end our world. We can only hope that the empires demise arrives before it manages to get us all killed.

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