Freedom, At What Cost?
This article came out two years ago:
The Frontier Post
US vows to fight to the last Ukrainian
by The Frontier Post
Andre Damon
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin traveled to Ukraine to pledge to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, cheering on an offensive that US forces quietly warn will lead to “massive casualties.”
“More than six months” into the war, Blinken boasted, “your counteroffensive is now underway and proving effective.”
Blinken was referring to a US-instigated offensive to retake portions of Russian-occupied territory, which has already resulted in a horrendous bloodbath. Ukr-ainian forces have claimed that hundreds of Russians are being killed each day, while Russian military spo-kesman Igor Konashenkov said: “During two days of unsuccessful attacks on the Nikolaevo-Krivoy Rog and other directions, Ukrainian troops lost … more than 1.7 thousand Ukrainian servicemen.”
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one of the Americans on the ground coordinating the Ukraine war effort as part of the “Mozart group” paramilitary force told Newsweek that Ukraine’s planned offensive will be “very bloody.”
“There’s a lot of casualties, it doesn’t matter how well trained you are,” he said. “No matter how well prepared your people are and your troops are, nobody’s ever prepared for the massive number of casualties.”
In fact, the Pentagon and their underlings in Kiev are indifferent to the loss of Ukrainian lives. The much publicized counter-offensive involves assaults on well-fortified Russian defensive positions. The Ukrainian soldiers are exposed to massive bombardment from Russian artillery and aircraft.
Even before this offensive, the war in Ukraine has been a disaster for the populations of both Ukraine and Russia. Many thousands of soldiers have been killed on both sides. Some 6.6 million people have been displaced, while over 5,500 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations.
Human life means nothing to the Washington warmongers or their stooges in Kiev. The same people warming their hands over the fires of Ukraine have presided over a COVID-19 policy that has killed over 1 million Americans and plunged US life expectancy by nearly three years. The lives of Ukraine’s youth, many of them conscripted, are being squandered, mere cannon fodder, or to use the phrase favored by Leo Tolstoy, “cannon meat.”
The recklessness of the US in escalating the war was summed up earlier this month by The Hill in an article titled “Why the US is becoming more brazen with its Ukraine support.” It concluded: “The Biden administration is arming Ukraine with weapons that can do serious damage to Russian forces, and, unlike early in the war, US officials don’t appear worried about Moscow’s reaction.”
In July, Ukrainian Defe-nse Minister Oleksii Rez-nikov openly declared that the country should be vie-wed as a “testing ground” for US defense contractors. “We are inviting arms manufacturers to test new products here,” he said.
Indeed, US defense contractors are not only “testing” their products in Ukraine, they are raking in money hand over fist. Despite the eight percent decline in the US stock market over the past year, shares of Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor, are up by 20 percent over the same period, as are the share prices of General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman.
US arms manufacturers are not only cashing in directly on the thousands of missiles, drones and other weapons being sent to Ukraine, but also on the massive rearmament of the NATO allies, who have all vowed to expand their military spending to record levels.
And they are not the only American companies enjoying record profits. As Russia has dramatically curtailed its gas deliveries to Europe as a result of the war, US natural gas exports to Europe have tripled, while the prices paid by European consumers have surged ten-fold over the past year.
US energy companies posted their largest profits ever last month, with ExxonMobil posting a record $17.85 billion in qu-arterly profits and Chevron a record $11.62 billion.
Throughout the US economy, corporate profits have surged to 15.5 percent, the highest figure reported since 1950 and double what they were 10 years ago, amid rampant corporate price-gouging and a collapse in workers’ living standards.
American companies are benefiting from a war that was deliberately provoked by Washington and a pro-NATO Ukrainian government that emerged from a US-orchestrated 2014 coup in Kiev. For all the winged phrases of “democracy” and “national sovereignty,” the real meaning of Ukraine to US imperialist strategists was spelled out bluntly by US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who called the country a “battleground for great-power competition.”
Speaking at Ramstein Air Force base in Germany, US officials pledged to “put the Russians back on their heels.”
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The Ukrainian offensive went up in flames. Russia is taking territory at the fastest pace so far. A dozen towns are falling every week.
The Russian economy is doing fine, while only warmongering oligarchs in America are continuing to enjoy lavish lifestyles, funded by the blood of Russians and Ukrainians.
American warmongers don’t care about the possibility of global annihilation, and they don’t care about the millions of people already killed and wounded in their proxy war against Russia. They only care that more American equipment is being sent to Ukraine, paid for by us, the American suckers.
Most people are ignorant and naive. They think they are affecting “change” by pushing the vote button.
For the first time in many years, that might actually happen with the election of Trump. America will finally change most things in America for the better, but at what cost?
In exchange for that, for the first time in America’s history, Republicans will side with the Democrats, helping kill millions of innocent babies. Both President Trump and his VP pick are pro-abortion. This means America will be cursed as a baby murdering country for many years to come.
Libertarians have finally taken over. Defending Conservative social issues will go the way of the dodo bird. Men in dresses will be forced on our children and baby killing will become normal.
But hey, God bless America.
Click here to read the complete article that I referenced at The Frontier Post