The US government and corporate media speaks with one voice against Russia, just as they did against Saddam Hussein and the fake news of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. There is no mention that the US commanded NATO military alliance pumped tons of lethal weapons and US advisors into Ukraine, on Russia’s western border, for eight years.
There is no mention of the US and NATO rejection of Russia’s demand that Ukraine does not join NATO, returns to being a neutral state, and that Ukraine stops military attacks on the mainly Russian-speaking Ukrainians of the Donbass region.
The 2014 US backed coup in Ukraine, which overthrew Ukraine’s elected government, caused the more Russian speaking areas of Ukraine to later separate. (One in six Ukrainians is an ethnic Russian, and one in three Ukrainians speak Russian as a native language). The US has aided Ukrainian forces in shelling these areas of Ukraine adjacent to Russia, killing over 14,000 people in this Donbass region. The US and Ukraine signed and then refused to abide by the Minsk Agreement ceasefire, which would have demilitarized the area. This led to the present war.
The Ukraine war did not begin two weeks ago, but months before when Ukraine increased its attacks in the Donbass. The US government and corporate media and do not tell us that. They do not tell us that neo-Nazis forces are in the Ukrainian military (Azoz Battalion) and government. They do not tell us Ukraine President Zelensky banned opposition media and political leaders, encouraged to do so by the US.
If they were telling us the truth about the war, they wouldn’t be censoring Russian media.
One hidden purpose of the US instigating this war is that it disrupts economic integration of Russia with the rest of Europe. Europe buys 40% of its gas from Russia, and the US is trying to force them to buy more expensive US gas. As with the Iraq war, the people of the United States are being lied into a war, in part over fossil fuels. The US rulers felt their control threatened by Russia becoming integrated into Europe, becoming partners with Germany, France, and Italy.
NATO now spends a trillion dollars a year in arms and facilities, and much of that has been thrust into eastern European border nations next to Russia. US-dominated NATO has held war maneuvers near Russia’s borders and coastlines for years.
This war would end today if the US would commit to stop aggressive military actions on Russia’s border, and if the Ukraine agreed not to join NATO, and existed as a neutral state. The US military is using Ukraine as a pawn to attack Russia.
War in Ukraine could lead to a major nuclear confrontation between the US and Russia, akin to the Cuban missile crisis, which almost caused a world holocaust.
The US people have nothing to gain from a new US war. Only the big banks and corporations, especially the arms industry, stand to benefit, as President Eisenhower warned when he identified the military-industrial complex more than 60 years ago.
Sanctions on Russia will hurt us, not just the Russian people. Already we are experiencing a falling stock market, inflation and record gas prices, which will soon drive up prices for most goods and services. Already we are experiencing a falling stock market, inflation and rising gas prices, which will soon drive up prices for all those goods and services that contemporary life relies on.
Shouldn’t the US be spending billions on ending global warming, not on feeding a new war? Would it be an exaggeration to say that war with Russia over Ukraine is tantamount to global suicide? We need money for health care, for jobs, $15 an hour minimum wage, infrastructure, education, and action to combat global warming. No US war with Russia over Ukraine!
This emergency protest is organized by people from different anti-war organizations. For more information, Stan Smith 773-322-3168, stansfieldsmith100@gmail.com
For statements from the ALBA countries on the conflict:
Venezuela & ALBA News 3.4.2022: ALBA Countries Statements on Ukraine
Meeting # 3,657 – Stansfield Smith returns with another detailed analysis of foreign affairs
The speaker maintains that: “The US helped engineer an anti-Russia coup against the elected government of Ukraine in 2014. Heavily Russian populated areas of the Ukraine chose to separate from Ukraine. Ukraine, armed with US weapons, and has been attacking these areas for the last eight years, killing 14,000. It refused to obey a ceasefire, and recently escalated attacks. The US corporate media hides this background. Ukraine also planned to join NATO, putting US missiles on Russia’s borders. Russia responded to these threats with a military counterattack. Other aims of this US provoked war is to stop the European Union’s economic integration with Russia, and destroy Russia as a world power.”
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