United States Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves United States Interests by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-09-03 at 00:26:52 )

United States Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves United States Interests by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way United States officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the United States is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve United States interests tremendously.

In a recent article for the Connecticut Post, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured United States of Americans that "we are getting our moneys worth on our Ukraine investment."

"For less than 3 percent of our nations military budget, we have enabled Ukraine to degrade Russias military strength by half," writes Blumenthal. "We have united NATO and caused the Chinese to rethink their invasion plans for Taiwan. We have helped restore faith and confidence in United States of American leadership - moral and military. All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost, and without any diversion or misappropriation of American aid."

Sen. Blumenthal: United States Getting Its "Moneys Worth" in Ukraine Because Americans Are Not Dying

Fresh from a trip to Kyiv, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is arguing that the United States is getting its "moneys worth" in Ukraine because Russia is taking losses and no Americans are dying.-Dave DeCamp (DecampDave) August 30, 2023

As Antiwars Dave DeCamp recently observed, this type of "investment" talk about Ukraine has been getting more common. Last weekend Senator Mitt Romney called the war "the best national defense spending I think we have ever done."

"We are losing no lives in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are fighting heroically against Russia," Romney said. "We are diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money - a weakened Russia is a good thing."

Last month Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued that Americans should support the United States governments proxy warfare in Ukraine because "we have not lost a single American in this war," adding that the spending is helping to employ Americans in the military-industrial complex.

"Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the United States, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons," McConnell said. "So it is actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead."

McConnell has been talking about how much this war benefits the United States since last year. During a speech back in December the ailing swamp monster argued that "the most basic reasons for continuing to help Ukraine degrade and defeat the Russian invaders are cold, hard, practical American interests."

"Helping equip our friends in Eastern Europe to win this war is also a direct investment in reducing Vladimir Putins future capabilities to menace America, threaten our allies and contest our core interests," McConnell said.

Continuing our support for Ukraine is morally right, but it is not only that. It is also a direct investment in cold, hard, American interests.-
Leader McConnell (LeaderMcConnell) December 24, 2022

As we have discussed previously, United States empire managers have been talking about how much this war serves United States interests ever since it began.

In May of last year Congressman Dan Crenshaw said on Twitter that "investing in the destruction of our adversarys military, without losing a single American troop, strikes me as a good idea."

"It is in Americas national security interests for Putins Russia to be defeated in Ukraine," tweeted the perpetually war-horny senator Lindsey Graham.

Last November the imperial war machine-funded think tank Center for European Policy Analysis published an article titled "It is Costing Peanuts for the United States to Defeat Russia," subtitled "The cost-benefit analysis of United States support for Ukraine is incontrovertible. It is producing wins at almost every level."

"United States spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russias conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment," gushed the articles author Timothy Ash. "If we divide out the United States defense budget to the threats it faces, Russia would perhaps be of the order of $100bn-150bn in spend-to-threat. So spending just $40bn a year, erodes a threat value of $100–150bn, a two-to-three time return. Actually the return is likely to be multiples of this given that defense spending, and threat are annual recurring events."

I am probably going to be regularly reminding my readers of this paragraph from IgnatiusPost for the remainder of my writing career.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) August 20, 2023

And of course the mass media have been all aboard the same messaging. A few weeks ago The Washington Posts David Ignatius wrote an article explaining why westerners should not "feel gloomy" about how things are going in Ukraine, writing the following about how much this war is doing to benefit United States interests overseas:

"Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost (other than for the Ukrainians). The Wests most reckless antagonist has been rocked. NATO has grown much stronger with the additions of Sweden and Finland. Germany has weaned itself from dependence on Russian energy and, in many ways, rediscovered its sense of values. NATO squabbles make headlines, but overall, this has been a triumphal summer for the alliance."

I suspect I will be periodically reminding my readers of that paragraph - and Ignatius parenthetical "other than for the Ukrainians" aside - for the remainder of my writing career.

So on one hand the western political-media class have been hammering us in the face with the message that the invasion of Ukraine was "unprovoked" and that the United States and its allies played no antagonistic role in paving the road to this conflict whatsoever, and on the other hand you have got all these empire managers enthusing about how much this war benefits United States interests.

Those two narratives seem a wee bit contradictory, do they not???

A critical thinker can reconcile this contradiction in one of two ways. First, they can believe that the worlds most powerful and destructive government is just a passive, innocent witness to the violence in Ukraine, and is only benefitting immensely from the war as a complete coincidence. Second, they can believe the United States intentionally provoked this war with the understanding that it would benefit from it.

From where I am sitting, it is not difficult to determine which of these is more likely!!

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