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 Institutes 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 thats 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 todays 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 whats happening here is that the US ruling class has militarized the culture warswhile depicting Ukraine as the woke side vs. Russia as backwards and oppressive.
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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 Europes 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.
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