Yes It Is A Proxy War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-03-27 at 04:16:12 )

Yes It Is A Proxy War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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To be clear, evidence is mounting that this is a proxy war deliberately instigated and perpetuated by the United States empire with the goal of ousting President Putin. Which means that, despite all the narrative window dressing and spin, this war is just more United States regime change interventionism.

Saddam Hussein was not a nice person, and he did bad things. This does not change the fact that President Bushs regime change war was a tremendous evil which unleashed unforgivable horrors, and that it was done because Saddam became inconvenient for the United States empire. The same is happening here.

As a result of deliberately provoking this war, the United States empire has:

-Manufactured international consent for unprecedented economic warfare geared toward ousting President Putin

-Drawn Moscow into another Afghanistan-like military quagmire

-Guaranteed immense profits for the war industry

-Cut in on Russias fossil fuel business

-Made Europe further subservient to United States interests

EU agrees to buy gas from the United States, reducing its dependence on Russian gas by one-third.

In case you wanted to know why Washington provoked war in Ukraine.-Sharmine Narwani (snarwani) March 25, 2022

US, EU Strike Natural Gas Deal to Undercut Russian Energy
Under the deal, US would work with allies to supply the EU with 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas this year by Dave DeCamp Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) March 25, 2022

People say "This is not a proxy war! How dare you call this a proxy war?"

Pouring billions of dollars worth of weaponry into a foreign nation to be used by Central Intelligence Agency-trained fighters with the direct ongoing assistance of United States military intelligence is in fact the exact thing that a proxy war is. That is what those words mean.

If the Ukraine war is not a proxy war, then there has never been a proxy war.

"So you think Ukraine should just GIVE President Putin the Donbas and Crimea and neutrality, to end a war that Putin started??"

No I think Ukraine should sacrifice rivers of blood serving as United States proxy cannon fodder for years to drain Moscow while you sit at home eating Pop Tarts and tweeting.

I definitely think every single Ukrainian man, woman and child should be sacrificed to this US proxy war for geostrategic dominance rather than yield some Russian-speaking parts of eastern Ukraine who want to be part of Russia anyway. Only a Putin-loving monster would disagree.

The only humanitarian position is to continue the United States plan to flood the nation with just enough weapons to bleed Russia without actually winning for years to subvert Moscow in the grand chessboard maneuverings of a few sociopaths in Washington,D.C.

-The Kremlin has announced its demands for ending the war in Ukraine:
-Ukraine must change its constitution to guarantee it will not join any "blocs", i.e. NATO + EU.
-Must recognise Crimea as part of Russia.
-Must recognise the eastern separatist regions as independent.-Patrick Reevell (Reevellp) March 7, 2022

Any Ukrainian mother who would not sacrifice her son for the remote chance of future NATO membership and control over Crimea just loves Putin and thinks Putin is awesome and is a Putler apologist.

I do not care how many Ukrainian lives must be thrown into the gears of the imperial war machine to accomplish this. Sacrifice every one of them down to the last screaming baby, because I #StandWithUkraine until the next stylish hashtag and profile pic filter come along.

There would be a lot more credibility for the argument that Russia has no right to any "sphere of influence"-even over the presence of hostile military alliances directly on its border-if the United States did not command a "sphere of influence" that looks like this:

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NATO is a "sphere of influence". It is an extension of United States imperial power. One of many.

You do not get to unilaterally create a global dynamic and then cry when other countries respond accordingly. It is like the United States making international law meaningless by continually flouting it with zero consequences and then claiming another country violated international law.

People who say "What so Russia should just get to dictate whether its neighbors can join NATO and the EU??" without addressing United States hegemony are either truly ignorant of US hegemony, willfully ignorant of US hegemony, or supportive of US hegemony. There are no other options. And there really is no way to address it in a way that makes Russias position look unreasonable. It is simply not legitimate to claim Moscow has no right to even the slightest degree of any sphere of influence while the United States empire exerts a sphere of influence the size of Earth.

Very supportive of President Bidens not-deliberately-obliterating-all-terrestrial-life-in-a-thermonuclear-holocaust policy but strongly opposed to his continually-escalating-cold-war-and-proxy-war-tensions-in-ways-that-could-easily-inadvertently-spark-a-thermonuclear-holocaust policy.

The caption is accurate. These recent press conferences make it clear that the problem is not that the American press never challenges United States officials. The reality is so much worse than that: they challenge United States officials, but only when it is to push them into starting horrific wars.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 24, 2022

I still have less than zero respect for the claim that I need to spend more time criticizing President Putin, as though the nonstop criticisms of every single one of the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world is not enough. I have no influence over President Putin.

What I do have some small degree of influence over is the western society that is cheerleading a proxy war which all evidence says is actively being prolonged by the western empire to bleed Russia at the expense of Ukrainian lives.

Saying "Well Putin could just end his war!" is about as useful a contribution to the conversation as saying "Well Ukrainians could just sprout wings and fly to another country!" We have the same amount of control over both those things. I focus my efforts where they can do most good.

Demanding that we criticize President Putin and the western powers who provoked and sustain this war equally, or anywhere near equally, is an absurd position. As badly as my empire loyalist detractors want it to be true, I do not actually have an audience with Vladimir Putin. I have a western audience.

People are going to get poorer and see their quality of life diminishing as a result of the United States empires economic war with Russia.

Our civilization has an illness.

We are like a patient wasting away as cancer spreads throughout our body. And the United States empire is the malignant tumor.

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