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Why Politicians Risk War
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| Washington's bipartisan Russia bashers are determined to start a war. | |
| Russia bashing is a bipartisan activity in Washington. | |
| Both parties think it makes them look tough and pro-America. | |
| But while Republican and Democrat politicians continue to one-up each other on risk-free threats to Russia, they are increasingly risking a devastating nuclear war. | |
| It's all fun and games until the missiles start flying. | |
| And in this case, we are risking total destruction over who governs eastern Ukraine. | |
| Has so much ever been risked for so little? | |
| The problem with all this tough talk is that politicians start to believe their own rhetoric and propaganda. | |
| As a result, they don't make sound decisions based on objective facts, but instead make rash decisions based on faulty information. | |
| When U.S. politicians talk about Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border, for example, they leave out the fact that these troops are actually inside Russia. | |
| With U.S. troops in some 150 countries overseas, you'd think Washington might pause before criticizing the aggression of troops inside a country's own borders. | |
| They also leave out the reasons why Russia might be concerned over its neighbors, Ukraine. | |
| CNN reported recently that the Biden administration approved another $200 million in military aid to Ukraine last month, making nearly half a billion dollars in weapons over the past year. | |
| Imagine if China was sending half a billion dollars in weapons to Mexico to strengthen and embolden a hyper-aggressive anti-U.S. regime. | |
| Would the U.S. not be massing troops near the Mexican border? | |
| Also, there is that issue about the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014, which is the starting point of all these recent problems. | |
| And this week, Yahoo News reported that the CIA is training Ukrainian paramilitaries on U.S. soil. | |
| Recent talks between U.S. and Russia failed before they even began with the U.S. Styd refusing to even consider ending useless and provocative NATO expansion eastward. | |
| NATO is a Cold War relic that should have been disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact. | |
| It serves no purpose and its constant saber rattling puts us at risk in conflicts that have nothing to do with U.S. national security. | |
| How embarrassing it was to hear Blinken ridiculing Russia for coming to the aid of ally Kazakhstan as a color revolution with likely U.S. backing was brewing. | |
| I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it's sometimes very difficult to get them to leave, Blinken told reporters. | |
| He said this with a straight face, even as the U.S. continues to illegally occupy a large part of Syria, continues to occupy part of Iraq against the will of the country's parliament, and occupied a good part of Afghanistan for 20 years. | |
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Stop Backing Regime Change
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| Incidentally, as soon as the regime change attempt was put down in Kazakhstan, Russia and Allied troops began leaving the country. | |
| But of course, the reflexively pro-war U.S. media doesn't report anything outside the narrative. | |
| What to do about Russia? | |
| Stop backing regime change along Russian borders, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere. | |
| Stop meddling in foreign elections. | |
| Look at how we wasted four years on false claims that the Russians meddled in ours. | |
| and weapons shipment and all aid to Ukraine and sanctions. | |
| Reimagine the U.S. defense budget as a budget to actually defend the United States. | |
| It's really not that complicated. | |
| Let's stop trying to rule the world. | |