Bidens Visit To Saudi Arabia Exposes The Ukraine Narrative For The Sham It Is by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-06-03 at 04:23:05 )

Bidens Visit To Saudi Arabia Exposes The Ukraine Narrative For The Sham It Is by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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In a major walkback from his campaign pledge to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" for human rights abuses like the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, President Biden will reportedly visit Riyadh with the goal of persuading Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to help the United States alliance win its economic war against Russia.

The Guardian tells us the trip "suggests Biden has prioritized his need to bring oil prices down and thereby punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, over his stand on human rights."

So in order to punish Vladimir Putin for his war crimes and his assault on freedom and democracy, President Biden will be courting a tyrannical war criminal whose country has no freedom or democracy.

Washington,D.C. will be ending its brief diplomatic dry spell with a government that has been waging a horrific war against Yemen while suppressing any semblance of human rights at home in order to more effectively punish Putin for waging a horrific war against Ukraine which we are told threatens freedom and democracy throughout the western world.

I am not the first to note the risible irony of this development.

The EU literally just banned oil from Russia (mimicking the United States actions) because they do not want to give money to a "dictator". So Biden is travelling soon to Saudi Arabia to try and bring energy prices down- which is a vibrant democracy, as you all know.-Richard Medhurst (richimedhurst) June 2, 2022

"The Biden Administration is openly planning to pay homage to one [of] its closest allies - one of the most despotic and murderous tyrants on the planet, the Saudi Crown Prince - at the same time it convinces Americans its motive for fighting wars is to defend freedom and democracy," tweeted Glenn Greenwald.

"As part of mobilizing support for the great war for "freedom" in Ukraine, Biden will be visiting the great beacon of "democracy," Saudi Arabia this month. What is a little murder and dismemberment between friends?" tweeted Joseph Kishore.

Indeed, one wonders if perhaps President Putin could settle this whole conflict by staging a few mass beheadings and dismembering a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw to get on Americas good side.

A lot of people talk about the "hypocrisy" of the United States empire, as though being hypocritical is the issue. But the complete lack of moral consistency in United States imperial behavior is noteworthy not merely because of hypocrisy: it is noteworthy because it shows the United States empire has no morality.

Despite the astonishing deluge of propaganda and brazen government disinformation we are being blasted in the face with painting the war in Ukraine as a fight between good versus evil, freedom versus tyranny, democracy versus autocracy, the truth is much less flattering to the imperial ego.

In reality, the United States is waging a proxy war in Ukraine for the exact same reason it remains close with Saudi Arabia: because it advances its own interests to do so.

That is it.

That is the whole entire story.

The United States does not care about Ukrainian freedom or Ukrainian lives, it cares about strengthening its Eurasian geostrategic hegemony, and it would cheerfully incinerate every Ukrainian alive in order to accomplish that goal.

Grave mistake to go to Riyadh for this meeting. Not likely to get lasting gains while incurring risks and undermining values.-Dalia Dassa Kaye (dassakaye) June 2, 2022

A lot of commentators like to say the United States governments intimacy with Saudi Arabia undermines American values, but that is not true at all. The United States is not undermining its values by cozying up with Saudi Arabia, it is perfectly honoring and representing its values.

One only believes the United States is undermining its values by partnering with Saudi Arabia if one assumes that United States values include freedom, democracy, justice and peace.

This is not an acceptable thing for a grown adult to believe in 2022. United States values in the real world are domination and global power.

That is it.

Really if you think about it Saudi Arabia is just a more honest version of the United States.

Its tyranny is right out in the open instead of being sneakily disguised under inverted totalitarianism.

Its oligarchs and its official government are all the same people.

It never tries to pretend its wars are "humanitarian" in nature. And when it wants to murder an inconvenient journalist it simply does so instead of dishonestly framing it as an espionage case.

In truth, when you look at its overall behavior on the world stage, the United States is far more murderous and tyrannical than either Russia or Saudi Arabia .

Pretending that President Biden is lowering the United States beneath its values by visiting Saudi Arabia is highly flattering to the United States.

If anything, it is the other way around.

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