This Proxy War Can Not Be Both "Unprovoked" AND A Great Strategic Investment by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-10-04 at 01:30:15 )

This Proxy War Can Not Be Both "Unprovoked" AND A Great Strategic Investment by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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If you accept that this war is a very low-cost, high-reward means for the United States to advance its strategic interests overseas, then you would have to have tapioca for brains to also believe that the United States would not have gone out of its way to make sure the war happens.

As opposition to funding the United States proxy war in Ukraine increases on Capitol Hill, empire apologists have been frantically churning out think pieces about how much the war serves United States strategic interests in order to manufacture support for its continued backing by Washington,D.C. Such arguments flatly contradict the propaganda messaging we were inundated with at the beginning of the war that this was an "unprovoked invasion", but empire managers do not seem particularly interested in defending that narrative anymore.

The latest appearance in this new "our Ukraine proxy warfare greatly advances United States strategic interests" genre of op-ed comes to us courtesy of notorious war propagandist Max Boot via The Washington Post. Mr. Boots article was originally titled "Ukraine aid is a great investment. Do not let MAGA Republicans end it.", but the headline has since been revised to the slightly less creepy "This is what the United States is getting by aiding Ukraine.”

Claiming that funding the war is "the right thing to do strategically," Mr. Boot argues that "it is hard to think of any United States foreign policy initiative since the end of the Cold War that has been more successful or more important than United States aid to Ukraine."

Supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do not only morally but also strategically. It is hard to think of any United States foreign policy initiative since the end of the Cold War that has been more successful or more important than United States aid to Ukraine.-Max Boot(MaxBoot) October 2, 2023

"Russia has lost an estimated 120,000 soldiers and 170,000 to 180,000 have been injured," Mr. Boot writes. "Russia has also lost an estimated 2,329 tanks, 2,817 infantry fighting vehicles, 2,868 trucks and jeeps, 354 armored personnel carriers, 538 self-propelled artillery vehicles, 310 towed artillery pieces, 92 fixed-wing aircraft and 106 helicopters."

"The Russian armed forces have been devastated, thereby reducing the risk to front-line NATO states such as Poland and the Baltic republics that the United States is treaty-bound to protect," Mr. Boot continues. "And all of that has been accomplished without having to put a single United States soldier at risk on the front lines."

"That is an incredible investment," gloats Mr. Boot.

At no time in his masturbatory gushing about how many Russians this war has helped kill does Mr. Boot make any mention of the immense toll this deliberately provoked and completely unnecessary war has taken on Ukrainian lives. Their deaths and dismemberments and displacement are the largest price being paid into this "investment" by far, but Mr. Boot does not deem them worthy of even a footnote.

We have been seeing this "investment" line being promoted with increasing frequency by United States empire managers and their apologists. In an article published in the Connecticut Post last month, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured United States of Americans that "we are getting our moneys worth on our Ukraine investment." A few days prior to that Senator Mitt Romney had described the proxy war as "the best national defense spending I think we have ever done," because "We are diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money.. a weakened Russia is a good thing."

In December Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that funding the proxy war is "a direct investment in reducing Vladimir Putins future capabilities to menace the United States of America, threaten our allies and contest our core interests." Last November the imperial war machine-funded think tank Center for European Policy Analysis published a report arguing that "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."

We saw one of the most glaring examples of this new genre of empire apologia last week, when the Bill Kristol-led group "Republicans for Ukraine" put out a television ad explaining how much this war is a fantastic investment which serves United States strategic interests.

"When America arms Ukraine, we get a lot for a little," the ad said. "Putin is an enemy of America. We have used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine, and with it, they have destroyed 50% of President Putins Army. We have done all this by sending weapons from storage, not our troops. The more Ukraine weakens Russia, the more it also weakens Russias closest ally, China."

We are asked to believe a lot of very stupid things by the propagandists of the United States-centralized empire, but one of the very stupidest is the claim that this war simultaneously (A) was completely unprovoked, and (B) just coincidentally happens to massively advance United States strategic interests.

It really cannot be both. If you accept that this war is a very low-cost, high-reward means for the United States to advance its strategic interests overseas, then you would have to have tapioca for brains to also believe that the United States would not have gone out of its way to make sure the war happens!

And indeed that is exactly what occurred, which is why United States intelligence operatives and western foreign policy analysts spent years saying that the actions of the United States and its allies were going to provoke Russia to war!

The reason it matters so much that the war in Ukraine was provoked by the United States-centralized empire is because that shows you where the path to peace lies!!

When empire simps object to criticisms of western proxy warfare in Ukraine with "Oh so you are saying we should just ABANDON THE UKRAINIANS and let President Putin take over the country???", what they are missing is that this is not a war between only Russia and Ukraine, and Russia does not see it as such!

Russia believes it is fighting a war against the aggression and expansionism of the NATO alliance, which the head of NATO himself recently confirmed! What this means is that the NATO alliance can facilitate peace in Ukraine by agreeing to roll back the aggressions which led to this war in the first place!!

NATO powers have always been fully aware that they could bring about peace in Ukraine in this way, but they choose not to move NATO war machinery away from Russias borders and grant Moscow the same freedom from military threats in its immediate surroundings that Washington,D.C. insists on in its own immediate surroundings. The managers of the empire chose not to do this, and indeed actually sabotaged peace negotiations in the early days of the conflict, because they firmly believe that this war advances their interests!

This is what empire apologists are omitting from the story when they claim that President Putin can end this war by withdrawing troops from Ukraine; they are leaving out their own governments role in starting and perpetuating this war!!

To demand that Russia cease its aggressions, without the western empire ceasing the aggressions which provoked the war in the first place, is to demand that Russia lie down and submit itself to the dictates of the empire!!

People who call for an end to Russian aggressions but not the western aggressions Russia is reacting to do not really want peace, they just want the empire to conquer and subjugate the insolent curs who dared to defy it!!

It is good to be clear on this, because it shows who the obstacles to peace really are. The longer we pretend the only people keeping this war going reside in Moscow, the longer any path toward peace will elude us!!

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