OOPS! Bill Kristol's Propaganda Exposes Real Goal in Ukraine | SYTEM UPDATE
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back in 2005 when I began writing about
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politics there was no more hated enemy
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more hated villain for Liberal America
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than Bill Crystal he was the leader of
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what was frequently then referred to as
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the neocons
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people who had no real partisan uh
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attachments some they began as Democrats
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and they moved as part of the war on
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terror to the Republican Party knowing
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that the Republican Party would be more
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eager under the war on terror to fight
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the words they wanted to remove the
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governments of Iraq and Iran and Syria
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and their whole other warmongering list
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and they became leading Advocates of the
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war on terror of the invasion of Iraq of
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the invasion of Iran of every regime
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change war that you could possibly
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imagine ones that the US ended up
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fighting ones that they wanted the U.S
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to fight but didn't
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they're notable for all kinds of things
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including ensuring that it's always
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other people's families who fight in
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their Wars and die in their Wars but
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never them themselves nor their families
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we did an entire show on Bill Crystal on
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the unique evil uh this warmongering
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monster and what is so amazing is that
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while 15 years ago every liberal every
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Democrat every leftist agreed that bill
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Crystal was essentially the embodiment
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of all evil the root of all evil a
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neocon monster
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Bill Crystal has now completely
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resurrected his career he's never been
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more more influential in Washington and
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in media than he is now because he has
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now switched back again to being a
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Democrat he is a very popular liberal
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pundit he is funded by Pierre midiar
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where he runs all sorts of anti-trump
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news outlets like the bulwark and he has
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all kinds of groups that is funded by
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pyramid yard designed to promote Joe
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Biden's World policies in Ukraine and
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elsewhere and Bill Crystal
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who just this week gave an interview to
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the new Republic
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where he talked about his actual current
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party affiliation and the reasons for it
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there you see the new Republic article
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are never Trump Republicans actually
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just Democrats now
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you may remember that these never Trump
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Republicans claim that they were
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offended by Donald Trump that they were
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still conservative still Republicans
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they were just against Trump because
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they wanted to protect and resurrect
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American conservatism and and the
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Republican party in its honorable
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tradition of Dick Cheney and George Bush
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and Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney and
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John McCain
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and now they've given up that pretense
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entirely because the people who buy
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their books and who fund them and who
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constitute their social media fandom are
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almost entirely good roles and Democrats
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and no one wants to hear any pretenses
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that they're really still Republicans
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they don't want to ever hear any
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criticisms of Joe Biden so they
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basically have turned themselves as the
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new Republic headline suggest into just
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ordinary Democrats now that's what they
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are they're Democratic Party pundits
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and you see the sub headline there some
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are already hardcore progressives and
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pollsters politicians and analysts from
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Vault parties say it may be a matter of
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time before the rest switch parties too
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so all the people that we were told were
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the real villains of international
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Affairs and American politics these
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wretched deceitful bloodthirsty neocons
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aren't just anti-trump and haven't just
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been anti-drunk the beginning and it's
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really worth asking why are they so
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anti-trump and why have they been so
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anti-trump
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but they've now become Democrats because
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they believe that the Democratic party
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is the best vehicle
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to advance their ideology that has not
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changed at all
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what it's changed is their perception I
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think accurately
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that they find a lot of hostility to
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their warmongering agenda and the
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Republican party and a lot of
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uh positive uh welcoming of it in the
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Democratic party so here from the new
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Republic article quote when asked where
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he was politically Bill Crystal told the
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new Republic quote I'm pretty
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comfortable with the current Democratic
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Party
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my fellow never trumpers are not
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comfortable with the current Republican
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party we don't think the hopes for its
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immediate Reformation are very realistic
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we are okay with Biden we think in fact
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one thing we could do is strengthen the
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moderate Democratic party so that's
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their mission that they're being I guess
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incredibly honest about that they no
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longer even pretending to try and
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Salvage the Republican party they are
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Democrats pure and simple they're happy
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with the state of the democratic party
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they want to strengthen the Democratic
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party and is part of that effort Bill
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Crystal got two million dollars from an
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undisclosed funder I can only guess who
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it is
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to launch an ad campaign designed to
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essentially increase the support for
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Biden's War policy in Ukraine seeing the
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polls show Americans of all kinds but
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especially conservatives and
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independents are now turning against
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that war believing we've already done
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too much for Ukraine not wanting any
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more money to go to the war in Ukraine
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not seeing the benefits of it
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and so Bill Crystal has produced an ad
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ostensibly aimed at Republicans to
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convince them that the war in Ukraine is
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actually not only a nice and benevolent
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thing to do because everyone knows
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that's why we fight Wars why the CIA
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prioritizes words because we're good
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benevolent kind nice empathetic people
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who just want to help others in the
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world not those the CIA is renowned for
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all throughout the world but what Bill
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crystal is saying is it's not just that
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we're so kind and malevolent and we
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believe so deeply in spreading democracy
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it's also that the war happens to
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actually be quite good for American
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interest as well so I thought the ad was
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really worth watching because it's
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finally some Candor about the real
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reasons we're in this war let's watch
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this ad when America Arms Ukraine we get
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a lot for a little Putin is an enemy of
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America we've used five percent of our
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defense budget to arm Ukraine and build
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it they've destroyed 50 of Putin's Army
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we've done all this by sending weapons
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from Storage not our troops the more
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Ukraine weakens Russia the more it also
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awakens Russia's closest Ally China
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America needs to stand strong against
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our enemies that's why republicans in
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Congress must continue to support
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Ukraine
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so there you have it it's essentially
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saying what has been clear from the
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beginning
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which is United States has no interest
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in protecting Ukraine this war has not
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protected Ukraine this war has destroyed
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Ukraine
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and the longer the word goes on
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obviously
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the more Ukraine will be destroyed
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and we're not protecting or defending
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ukrainians the longer this war goes on
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the more ukrainians are dying
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solenski is fighting with an
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increasingly desperate untrained Army of
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conscripts who are desperately trying to
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flee the country but are being trapped
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there through a combination of military
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force and closing the borders and all
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kinds of steep punishments for those who
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try to flee people who don't want to be
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used as cannon fodder who know that's
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what they're being sent to the front for
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who are dying in gigantic numbers
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and the U.S wants this war to go on we
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have not only not pursued diplomatic
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Solutions but we have blocked the
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attempt to achieve diplomatic Solutions
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according to people like Israeli Prime
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Minister nephtali Bennett who said that
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he has tried to broker Solutions at the
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start of the war was blocked by doing so
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from the Biden Administration that Boris
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Johnson who wanted this war to go on
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precisely because it's the ad shows the
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real purpose of this war
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has nothing to do with protecting
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Ukraine it's to advance Americans
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America's geopolitical interests as they
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see it
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in weakening Russia
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by essentially saying we're not dying
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for this war we're having the ukrainians
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die in huge numbers for this war and
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we're getting the benefits
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now again I still question in what
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conceivable way does the United States
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benefit from weakening Russia how is
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that a benefit to the United States one
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that's worth a tens of billions of
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dollars or hundreds of billions of
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dollars or sending huge numbers of young
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Ukrainian men to die for
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in a war
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both President Obama and president Trump
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spoke about the ability to cooperate
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with Russia they're the fact that they
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did cooperate with Russia
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on crucial anti-terrorism policies
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including fighting Isis and Al Qaeda in
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Syria and Iraq which is a common goal of
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both Washington and Moscow they have
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cooperated in all sorts of other ways
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and yet it was really only after 2016
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when American Elites needed a villain to
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blame and they decided they were going
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to blame Vladimir Putin in Russia and
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liberals started feeding on this
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non-stop anti-russia discourse to drum
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up their hatred and anger and contempt
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and desired Revenge
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what they believed in the crimes of
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Vladimir Putin only then did Russia
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become this country who we were supposed
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to go and destroy
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but this ad at least is a step forward
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to an honest debate even though
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I don't think it really intended that I
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think what it's intending to do is to
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say to Americans look we know that you
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no longer are moved by the [ __ ]
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pretext
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that were there in Ukraine because we're
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good nice people protecting the
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ukrainians you want to know what this
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word is doing for you
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and we're here to say this word is
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actually helping you because for a very
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small price
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in the context of the trillion dollar
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budget that our military consumes every
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year even though it can't pass an audit
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we are destroying Russia now there's
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again no reason given why that benefits
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Americans it's just assume that
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Americans will be happy about that fact
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'' Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster''
jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/m6rb2a5tskpcxzesjk8hhzf96zh7w7
June 27, 2022
Jeffrey D. Sachs | June 27, 2022 | OtherNews
The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement.
The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the US, and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these US foreign policy debacles.
The neocon movement emerged in the 1970s around a group of public intellectuals, several of whom were influenced by University of Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss and Yale University classicist Donald Kagan. Neocon leaders included Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan (son of Donald), Frederick Kagan (son of Donald), Victoria Nuland (wife of Robert), Elliott Abrams, and Kimberley Allen Kagan (wife of Frederick).
The main message of the neocons is that the US must predominate in military power in every region of the world, and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge US global or regional dominance, most importantly Russia and China. For this purpose, US military force should be pre-positioned in hundreds of military bases around the world and the US should be prepared to lead wars of choice as necessary. The United Nations is to be used by the US only when useful for US purposes.
This approach was spelled out first by Paul Wolfowitz in his draft Defense Policy Guidance (DPG) written for the Department of Defense in 2002. The draft called for extending the US-led security network to the Central and Eastern Europe despite the explicit promise by German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in 1990 that German unification would not be followed by NATO’s eastward enlargement. Wolfowitz also made the case for American wars of choice, defending America’s right to act independently, even alone, in response to crises of concern to the US. According to General Wesley Clark, Wolfowitz already made clear to Clark in May 1991 that the US would lead regime-change operations in Iraq, Syria, and other former Soviet allies.
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> Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
The neocons championed NATO enlargement to Ukraine even before that became official US policy under George W. Bush, Jr. in 2008. They viewed Ukraine’s NATO membership as key to US regional and global dominance. Robert Kagan spelled out the neocon case for NATO enlargement in April 2006:
" [T]he Russians and Chinese see nothing natural in [the “color revolutions” of the former Soviet Union], only Western-backed coups designed to advance Western influence in strategically vital parts of the world. Are they so wrong? Might not the successful liberalization of Ukraine, urged and supported by the Western democracies, be but the prelude to the incorporation of that nation into NATO and the European Union – in short, the expansion of Western liberal hegemony? "
Kagan acknowledged the dire implication of NATO enlargement. He quotes one expert as saying, “The Kremlin is getting ready for the 'battle for Ukraine' in all seriousness." After the fall of the Soviet Union, both the US and Russia should have sought a neutral Ukraine, as a prudent buffer and safety valve. Instead, the neocons wanted US “hegemony” while the Russians took up the battle partly in defense and partly out of their own imperial pretensions as well. Shades of the Crimean War (1853-6), when Britain and France sought to weaken Russia in the Black Sea following Russian pressures on the Ottoman Empire.
Kagan penned the article as a private citizen while his wife Victoria Nuland was the US Ambassador to NATO under George W. Bush, Jr. Nuland has been the neocon operative par excellence. In addition to serving as Bush’s Ambassador to NATO, Nuland was Barack Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs during 2013-17, where she participated in the overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, and now serves as Biden’s Undersecretary of State guiding US policy vis-à-vis the war in Ukraine.
The neocon outlook is based on an overriding false premise: that the US military, financial, technological, and economic superiority enables it to dictate terms in all regions of the world. It is a position of both remarkable hubris and remarkable disdain of evidence. Since the 1950s, the US has been stymied or defeated in nearly every regional conflict in which it has participated. Yet in the “battle for Ukraine,” the neocons were ready to provoke a military confrontation with Russia by expanding NATO over Russia’s vehement objections because they fervently believed that Russia would be defeated by US financial sanctions and NATO weaponry.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a neocon think-tank led by Kimberley Allen Kagan (and backed by a who’s who of defense contractors such as General Dynamics and Raytheon), continues to promise a Ukrainian victory. Regarding Russia’s advances, the ISW offered a typical comment: “[R]egardless of which side holds the city [of Sievierodonetsk], the Russian offensive at the operational and strategic levels will probably have culminated, giving Ukraine the chance to restart its operational-level counteroffensives to push Russian forces back.”
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https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/m6rb2a5tskpcxzesjk8hhzf96zh7w7
The facts on the ground, however, suggest otherwise. The West’s economic sanctions have had little adverse impact on Russia, while their “boomerang” effect on the rest of the world has been large. Moreover, the US capacity to resupply Ukraine with ammunition and weaponry is seriously hamstrung by America’s limited production capacity and broken supply chains. Russia’s industrial capacity of course dwarfs that of Ukraine’s. Russia’s GDP was roughly 10X that of Ukraine before war, and Ukraine has now lost much of its industrial capacity in the war.
The most likely outcome of the current fighting is that Russia will conquer a large swath of Ukraine, perhaps leaving Ukraine landlocked or nearly so. Frustration will rise in Europe and the US with the military losses and the stagflationary consequences of war and sanctions. The knock-on effects could be devastating, if a right-wing demagogue in the US rises to power (or in the case of Trump, returns to power) promising to restore America’s faded military glory through dangerous escalation.
Instead of risking this disaster, the real solution is to end the neocon fantasies of the past 30 years and for Ukraine and Russia to return to the negotiating table, with NATO committing to end its commitment to the eastward enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia in return for a viable peace that respects and protects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
https://www.other-news.info/ukraine-is-the-latest-neocon-disaster/
Translation in Portuguese: https://alicenews.ces.uc.pt/?id=39496
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