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A Dire Warning:
The US Plan To Make Ukraine Into Europe's 'Big Israel'
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, SEP 03, 2023 - 02:00 PM
In his famous anti-Vietnam War speech, the late
senator from South Dakota George McGovern told fellow Congressional
leaders, "This chamber reeks of blood." On Saturday, journalist Max
Blumenthal opened a hard-hitting talk at the Ron Paul Institute's
"Which Way America...?" conference in D.C. by quoting those words,
but applied them to the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
Blumenthal said that in Ukraine, Washington continues "wasting the
lives and bodies of over 150,000 men, and that's according to the
Pentagon." Citing recent studies on the immense numbers of
Ukrainians who have lost limbs after a year-and-a-half of fighting
(which could be surpassing WWI rates), he said the true Ukraine
casualty count could be closer to 500,000 - which marks a monumental
tragedy and disaster.
The GrayZone journalist then said of today's Congress that "this
chamber" not only "reeks of blood" but.. "they have wasted Ukrainian
society on the mantle of anti-Russia hysteria" - as lawmakers in
lockstep with the Biden administration continue to sink billions
into Kiev.
Beltway liberal elites, Blumenthal asserted, still think Russia must
be punished given they see Moscow as having brought the "bad orange
man" to power in 2016. This is a big ideological aspect to what
motivates the hawks, he said.
Further, Blumenthal explained that what's happening here is that the
US ruling class has "militarized the culture wars while depicting
Ukraine as the 'woke side' vs. Russia as backwards and oppressive."
But more importantly, the real "victors" are the major US defense
contractors and their appendages like the K street neocon lobbying
firms. Blumenthal highlighted that these, and the Biden
administration, are operating with the bigger vision in mind of
turning Ukraine into Europe's "big Israel".
By this is meant a permanently militarized 'Spartan' wartime state,
which is funded and weaponized by Washington in perpetuity, and
possesses all the latest cutting edge Western defense tech. But like
with the state of things long evident inside Israel (in particular
oppression of both Palestinians and Israeli political dissenters),
democracy must be eroded at home for this to happen. Still, the
defense tech peddlers in the military-industrial complex will 'win'
no matter how much Ukrainian society and its people are sacrificed.
"In order to defend democracy in Ukraine, democracy must be
curtailed at home," Blumenthal emphasized, drawing lessons from
current examples of oppression of free speech in the West,
particularly related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
He noted here that his own investigative media outlet, The GrayZone,
has had the bulk of its funding frozen by the popular platform
GoFundMe. The outlet explained days ago [emphasis ZH]:
By this point, we had raised over $90,000 from over 1100
contributors. The generous contributions from our audience were
accompanied by hundreds of messages of effusive support for our
factual journalism holding imperial power to account.
And now, Gofundme is holding the donations hostage, refusing to
transfer them to us, while failing to inform donors that it has
effectively seized their money. The for-profit site has similarly
refused to explain its freezing of their donations, issuing nothing
more than a vague allusion – “some external concerns” – to pressure
from powerful outside forces.
Gofundme’s financial sabotage follows the de facto sanctions imposed
by Venmo and Paypal on our managing editor, Wyatt Reed, after he
reported on the Ukrainian military’s targeting of civilians from the
separatist side of the Donbas region.
Again, this is why Blumenthal could draw on recent personal
experience in telling the Ron Paul conference audience that
"democracy must be curtailed" in America in order to keep unlimited
taxpayer dollars flowing into the Zelensky government's coffers.
Blumenthal continued... but "now Russia has no incentive to
negotiate" given they have the clear military momentum amid a
failing Ukraine counteroffensive. The US and UK likely had a window
of opportunity in the initial months of the war to more easily open
up serious diplomatic peace negotiations, but this was actively
thwarted.
"We cannot have peace negotiations while war is being incentivized
[by Washington interests] to this point," he continued while also
referencing neocons like Bill Kristol, who has been leading a charge
to silence any dissenting views from among Republican nominees and
politicians on Ukraine.
"These operatives need constant opportunities" which a permanent
proxy war in Europe enables, Blumenthal continued - just like with
the constant and historic billions in aid flowing to Israel, which
serves to cyclically fuel the accompanying global reach and outsized
influence of the Israel lobby.
On this question of whether negotiations are possible even from
Kiev's perspective, Zero Hedge asked Blumenthal what he thinks would
happen in the unlikely scenario that Zelensky himself suddenly
pursued peace talks with the Russians. Blumenthal responded as
follows:
"If Zelensky were to pursue peace talks now before he's
re-elected... due to the kind of social forces that have been
unleashed by Maidan, he will face a far-right Nazi insurgency in his
own country, and he will become public enemy number one among some
of the most violent and militarized forces.
...Which is why he went and met with Andriy Biletsky, the founder of
Azov. Zelensky was elected on a platform of peace by 73% of the
population because you still had the ethnic Russian population
participating in Ukrainian society. They have been completely driven
out and the constituency he's working with is completely different
now."
Below: Last month, Ukrainian President Zelensky held court with one
of the most notorious neo-Nazis in modern Ukrainian history, Azov
Battalion founder Andriy Biletsky.
Turning Ukraine into "a big Israel" will involve long-term funding
to shape and place "America's unsinkable aircraft carrier not in the
Middle East but in Europe," Blumenthal said.
But as Ukrainians continue to be slaughtered, it won't be a happy
situation for a country to become a "big Israel", Blumenthal
concluded.
* * *
Former US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro (from 2011 to 2017) is
helping to push this Ukraine as "big Israel" concept forward,
Blumenthal pointed out.
A partial list of key elements of Shapiro's road map for Ukraine was
previously published by The Atlantic Council as follows:
Security first: Every Israeli government promises, first and
foremost, that it will deliver security—and knows it will be judged
on this pledge. Ordinary citizens, not just politicians, pay close
attention to security threats—both from across borders and from
internal sources— and much of the public chooses who to elect by
that metric alone.
The whole population plays a role: The Israeli model goes further
than Zelenskyy’s vision of security services deployed to civilian
spaces: Most young Israeli adults serve in the military, and many
are employed in security-related professions following their
service. A common purpose unites the citizenry, making them ready to
endure shared sacrifice. Civilians recognize their responsibility to
follow security protocols and contribute to the cause. Some even arm
themselves (though under strict supervision) to do so. The
widespread mobilization of Ukrainian society in collective defense
suggests that the country has this potential. In his comments,
Zelenskyy reflected this reality when he said security would “come
from the strength of every house, every building, every person.”
Self-defense is the only way: If there’s any single principle that
animates Israel’s security doctrine, it’s that Israel will defend
itself, by itself—and rely on no other country to fight its battles.
The tragedies of Jewish history have embedded that lesson deep in
the nation’s soul. Ukraine’s own trauma, forced to fight alone
against a larger aggressor, reinforces a similar conclusion: Don’t
depend on the guarantees of others.
But maintain active defense partnerships: Self-defense doesn’t mean
total isolation. Israel maintains active defense partnerships,
chiefly with the United States, which provides generous military
assistance, but also with other nations with whom it shares
intelligence, technology, and training. While Ukraine will probably
not join NATO any time soon, it can deepen security partnerships
with Alliance members and receive aid, weaponry, intelligence, and
training to bolster its self-defense.
Intelligence dominance: From its earliest days, Israel has invested
deeply in its intelligence capabilities to ensure that it has the
means to detect and deter its enemies—and, when needed, act
proactively to strike them. Ukraine will need to upgrade its
intelligence services to compete against Russian capabilities and
ensure that it’s prepared to prevent and repulse Russian attacks.
Technology is key: Although it relies on US assistance, Israel also
chooses homegrown technology solutions for many of its greatest
challenges. Multi-layer rocket and missile defenses, counter-drone
systems, and tunnel detection technology are just recent examples.
Ukraine—already home to bright technological minds—will know what
threats it faces more than any partner; investing in its own
solutions will allow it to be most responsive and adapt to new
threats.
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Neocon
Warmonger Advocates Nukes to Nazis in Ukraine
June 13, 20230334
by Kurt Nimmo, Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics:
Violent Russian-hating Nazis wouldn’t nuke Moscow, would they?
Maybe you may remember Michael Rubin. He worked with Douglas Feith’s
Office of Special Plans (OSP), a neocon pro-war outfit set-up in the
Pentagon by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The OSP’s
objective was to create a series of false pretenses to invade Iraq
in 2003.
According to Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Air Force Lieutenant
Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk
officer, the Office of Special Plans represented a “subversion of
constitutional limits on executive power and a co-option through
deceit of a large segment of the Congress.”
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Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney used the OSP to publicize
“hot garbage” from a cast of dubious characters produced by Ahmed
Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, including “Curveball” (Rafid
Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, a German intelligence asset pretending to be
an Iraqi chemical engineer).
The lies that killed over a million Iraqis were dismissed as
“intelligence failures” and swept under the rug. Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Feith, Rubin, and other neocons were never held
responsible for the massive war crimes they perpetuated.
On June 9, Rubin, a “senior fellow” at the American Enterprise
Institute (and former “fellow” at the Council on Foreign Relations),
penned “Can Biden Deter a Russia Nuclear Attack on Ukraine? Yes, if
He Gives Ukraine Tactical Nukes.”
Rubin demands the nazified post-coup government of Ukraine receive
nukes. Rubin believes the 1994 Budapest Memorandum (exchanging
Soviet-era nukes deployed to Ukraine in exchange for sovereignty)
was a monumental error. “The simple fact is this: United States
maintains nuclear weapons because they are an effective deterrent
against other nuclear states. Ukraine should have the same right,”
Rubin writes.
Rubin and his neocon co-conspirators are not interested in “an
effective deterrent” in Ukraine; they are interested in destroying
the Russian state, the same as they destroyed the Iraqi state.
However, Iraq, despite neocon lies, never had nuclear weapons (and
the chemical weapons they did possess were supplied US
corporations). Russia controls the largest arsenal of nukes in the
world.
The non-proliferation mafia might howl with outrage, but the West
must gear its nuclear policy toward reality, not wishful thinking or
an empty façade of a treaty regimen by which revisionist states no
longer abide.
Please read between the lines. According to this entitled “senior
fellow,” the neocon “reality” envisions nuclear war as the most
effective way to overthrow Putin and dismember the Russian
Federation. Rubin, of course, does not call directly for nuclear
war. However, his demand that Ukraine be allowed to acquire nuclear
weapons will result in precisely that outcome. Imagine Ukraine’s
Azov Battalion neo-nazis using nukes to target the Kremlin instead
of hit-or-miss drones.
Rubin’s clarion call for nuclear destruction was crossposted on
19FortyFive, a “center-right” website that has produced neocon
propaganda subsequently picked up by The New York Times, Newsweek,
The Washington Post, The Hill, Reuters, and Voice of America (CIA
propaganda), among others. It should be noted that 19FortyFive was
until very recently a “regional defense publication.”
With the Ukrainian counter-offensive underway, the threat that
Russia might use tactical nuclear weapons is increasingly a
likelihood. It would be unfair to blame Kyiv. There is no moral
equivalence. Russia invaded Ukraine; not the other way around. So
long as Ukraine was on the verge of victory, Putin would arrive at
this point of nuclear retaliation.
Nonsense. Zelenskyy’s “counter-offensive” has thus far failed
miserably, a fact even the war propaganda media is obliged to admit.
Thus, Russia does not need to use nuclear weapons. Rubin, however,
is able to make his bogus claim thanks to the fiction of Russian
desperation over defeat, a false narrative telegraphed daily by a
mendacious and cynically fantasist corporate propaganda media.
As should be expected, Rubin completely ignores the fact Russia went
into eastern Ukraine to prevent the ethnic cleansing and slaughter
of ethnic Russians. For the neocons, responsible for massive war
crimes in the Middle East (Iraq, Syria, Libya), human life is
expendable. Disease, malnutrition, infant mortality, DU-produced
cancer—these are the preferred tools for regime change and the
destruction of targeted societies resistant to neoliberal serfdom.
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