Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
In a remarkable disjunction between voters and their elected (supposed) representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives, the members of the House voted on December 4th, by 411 \u201cYea\u201d to 10 \u201cNay,\u201d to donate U.S. weapons to the bankrupt Ukrainian Government, which is engaged in trying to eliminate the civilian population of the portion of Ukraine that had voted 90% for the former Ukrainian President whom the U.S. Government (CIA, State Department, USAID, etc.) had overthrown in a violent coup in February of this year<\/a>. (Click onto that link for full documentation.)<\/p>\n This 411 to 10 vote margin is 98%, and it contrasts starkly against the 62% of Americans who, in the most recent poll, opposed sending U.S. arms to the Ukrainian Government; 30% favored sending those weapons. (8% had no opinion.) (The above link includes also that poll-result.) So, 67% of those who had an opinion (62% divided by 92% is 67%) shared the view of the 10 members (2%) of the U.S. House who voted against this measure. Only 33% of the surveyed Americans who had an opinion on it shared the view of the 411 House members (98%) who voted in favor of this measure.<\/p>\n This is a war-and-peace issue, so the U.S. Constitution assigns it to the Congress; the President is assigned the executive function of carrying out the will of Congress, as the Commander-in-Chief and U.S. Chief Executive Officer.<\/p>\n However, the situation here is actually even a bit more extreme than that, because the way that the Pew poll of the U.S. public was phrased, it had the U.S. \u201csending arms and military supplies to the Ukrainian government,\u201d and not \u201cdonating arms and military supplies to the Ukrainian government.\u201d The Ukrainian Government cannot possibly actually pay back all of the financial obligations that it already has, much less pay those plus interest, and buy more weapons. As was documented in the first of the links within the linked report above, \u201cThe only reason that things haven\u2019t totally imploded [for the Ukrainian Government] is because of the $18 billion package of assistance from the IMF and the $9 billion in additional assistance pledged by the United States and the European Union.\u201d All of the weapons that the U.S. will be technically \u2018selling\u2019 to Ukraine will now go to the back of the line of creditors for Ukrainian debt \u2013 never be paid. U.S. arms-makers will receive payment for those arms from U.S. taxpayers (the sale won\u2019t be merely technical for them, nor for the lobbyists they pay), it won\u2019t be paid actually by the Ukrainian Government. Consequently, the U.S. taxpayer is totally funding Ukraine\u2019s bombing campaign going forward, to eliminate the residents in the area which overwhelmingly supported the previous Ukrainian President.<\/p>\n In fact, on September 18th, when the U.S.-installed new Ukrainian President was greeted with standing ovations by a special Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, he addressed them and the weapons-lobbyists to cheers as if he were a hero; he said that this was \u201cthe forefront of the global fight for democracy,\u201d and said \u201cI urge America to help us, I urge America to lead the way.”<\/a> He was doing a sell-job for them and their financial backers. Of course, those financial backers also fund the sale of these politicians to the public.<\/p>\n His use of the term \u201cdemocracy\u201d there was interesting. A secretly recorded phone conversation on 25 February 2014, right after the coup<\/a>, was subsequently uploaded to the Internet, and the discussants were Catherine Ashton, the EU\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister, and her appointed investigator into how Ukraine\u2019s President Viktor Yanukovych came to be ousted on February 22nd, Urmas Paet. In it<\/a>, was revealed that the snipers who precipitated the coup had been hired by \u201csomebody from the new coalition\u201d (perhaps the U.S. CIA) that replaced Yanukovych, and that, \u201cit\u2019s really disturbing that now the new coalition, \u2026 they don\u2019t want to investigate [since they were its beneficiaries].\u201d Paet told Ashton that, \u201cwhat was quite disturbing, the same oligarch [Poroshenko — and so when he became \u2018democratically elected\u2019 as President of all of Ukraine on May 25th, he already knew this] told [Paet] that well, all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers, from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, [this will shock Ashton, who had just said that Yanukovych had masterminded the killings] that they were the same snipers, killing people from both sides.\u201d So, Poroshenko himself knows that his regime is based on a false-flag (meaning set up so as to falsely blame the other side) U.S.-controlled coup d\u2019etat against his predecessor. So, there can be no reasonable doubt that, despite his rhetoric when speaking before the Special Joint Session of the U.S. Congress on September 18th, Poroshenko actually knew, by no later than February 25th, that the regime that replaced Yanukovych was being appointed by the United States Government, hardly a \u2018democratic Maidan\u2019 event (though it is sold as if it were).<\/p>\n Specifically, the new regime had been selected on 4 February 2014, 18 days before the coup, in yet another secretly recorded phone conversation<\/a>, this one between the U.S. State Department official who is responsible for Europe, Victoria Nuland, and the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, in which she instructed Pyatt to place \u201cYats,\u201d Arseniy Yatsenyuk in charge of Ukraine until a new Ukrainian President, acceptable to Washington, would be installed in such a way that it would seem more democratic than merely a coup-regime.<\/p>\n The Maidan demonstrations that were used as a cover for the U.S. operation were actually not for democracy, since Viktor Yanukovych had been as democratically elected as any previous Ukrainian President, but it was instead a movement against Ukraine\u2019s endemic corruption, which was embodied in Yanukovych and every other Ukrainian President. It was not a democracy movement. There is no democratic tradition in Ukraine; it doesn\u2019t exist there. What exists there instead, and has always existed there, is a population who are constantly fooled and exploited by an elite, an aristocracy, which Ukrainians call \u201coligarchs.\u201d Basically, in the new Ukrainian regime, America\u2019s aristocracy are in control of Ukraine\u2019s aristocracy who are in control of the Ukrainian public. Under Viktor Yanukovych, Russia\u2019s aristocracy were in control of Ukraine\u2019s aristocracy who were in control of the Ukrainian public.<\/p>\n This contrasts with Poroshenko\u2019s address to the U.S. Congress<\/a>, which presents himself as being the leader of a new democracy. It\u2019s not new, and it\u2019s not a democracy; but only the personnel, and the foreigners who are in ultimate control, have changed. But, of course, any member of the U.S. Congress who even cared about the matter, already knew that; and, presumably, the 421 House members who voted on the bill about donating weapons to Ukraine, knew about it, too. They are insiders; the public are outsiders. Insiders exist in order to exploit outsiders. Outsiders exist in order to be exploited by insiders. That\u2019s the system.<\/p>\n When Poroshenko delivers speeches to Ukrainians, they\u2019re very different. He tells his audiences there that the Ukrainian Army will destroy the residents in the Donbass or rebelling southeastern region<\/a>, and that those people are \u201csubhumans,\u201d<\/a> and not merely \u201cterrorists.\u201d \u201cSubhumans\u201d (in addition to \u201cterrorists\u201d) is a commonly used term for them also among the U.S.-imposed regime\u2019s other leaders<\/a>. (Of course, Germany\u2019s Nazi Party likewise used the term — \u201cUntermenschen\u201d — often.) The regime\u2019s Army (and its mercenaries who are paid per piece for the corpses they produce and dispose of<\/a>) treat them as being that (as you\u2019ll see in that video).<\/p>\n This vote in the U.S. House follows less than two weeks after the November 21st U.S. vote at the U.N.<\/a> in which the U.S. was one of only 3 countries, out of the 173 countries, which three voted against a resolution condemning nazism or racist fascism. The Ukrainian Government voted against it because their ethnic-cleansing operation<\/a> in the heavily pro-Yanukovych<\/a> area is clearly nazi<\/a>, though the proposed resolution doesn\u2019t even so much as mention Ukraine, which is the only nation in the world that is run by nazis and which was installed by nazis. The representative of Canada\u2019s far-right Premier Stephen Harper also voted against it. This was the first occasion in U.S. history in which the U.S. Government was clearly pro-nazi. The verbiage of Obama\u2019s U.N. Representative explaining the vote denied that the U.S. Government is at all pro-nazi<\/a>. Lying is now routine at the top levels, just as it was for Germany\u2019s Nazis.<\/p>\n In any case, the condition of U.S. \u2018democracy\u2019 itself comes into question when 98% of the U.S. House of Representatives vote to donate U.S.-made weapons to the world\u2019s only nazi regime \u2013 one right on the border of Russia, moreover \u2013 and when 67% of the American public (including the vast majority of the American public who don\u2019t even know that the Ukrainian Government is nazi) oppose not only the donating of these weapons, but even any sort of transmittal or \u201csending\u201d of them, including selling of them, to that Government.<\/p>\n So, the U.S. House vote about this on December 4th was a reflection of today\u2019s U.S. \u2018democracy,\u2019 whatever that is. It displays a pervasive and profound alienation between the U.S. Government and the U.S. people, and this is something that\u2019s impossible in a democracy. It cannot happen in a democracy; it disproves a \u2018democracy\u2019; but it\u2019s the case in the United States.<\/p>\n This House vote is one crucial step along the path toward a nuclear war with Russia. (To call it a renewed \u201ccold war,\u201d as some writers do<\/a>, is dangerously understating and misrepresenting the actual threat. This is not \u201cMAD.\u201d It\u2019s the opposite of that.<\/a> This is already part of a \u201chot war,\u201d that could easily get out of control.) Many more steps are yet to go, but now the direction is clear and incontrovertible, and we are already on it.<\/p>\n How can the Russian Government stand by and merely watch while Russia\u2019s supporters right next door to them in Ukraine are being exterminated<\/a>? However, now clearly, the U.S. Government seems to be overwhelmingly committed to exterminating them<\/a>. There are even cluster-bombs<\/a>, and white phosphorous<\/a>, and also more-advanced forms of incendiary munitions<\/a>, that are being used to get rid of the residents there. But mostly, it\u2019s just the routine type of military mass-murder<\/a>. (Those are the \u2018terrorists\u2019 that Ukraine and its sponsors are constantly referring to including in their standard phrase for the extermination-campaign: \u201cAnti-Terrorist Operation,\u201d or ATO for short. That\u2019s the sales-phrase by which they market it to suckers everywhere. And these are the \u2018terrorists.\u2019)<\/p>\n The U.S. is laying down the gauntlet to Russia. Perhaps the idea is that if Russia sends in their army and publicly commits to the defense of these people, the U.S. aristocracy and the ones who are in its pay will proclaim this to be a cause by \u2018the West\u2019 to attack Russia for its \u2018aggression.\u2019 Things might already be out of control.<\/p>\n On the positive side, member-nations of NATO could quit the alliance, which would considerably reduce the U.S. threat. NATO was supposed to have been set up in order to defend against communism. However, now that communism is all but dead, yet NATO has expanded and especially surrounds Russia, NATO is more clearly shown as being instead the international marketing-organization for U.S.-made weapons.<\/a> It\u2019s not only for invading Syria, etc., but especially for weakening and isolating Russia and all of its allies. Even a third world war could be highly profitable to their financial backers. And perhaps those financial backers have more clout in the U.S. Government now than the American people do. However, if that\u2019s the case, then arms-makers wouldn\u2019t be the only industry \u2013 there\u2019s also banking, oil, corporate agriculture, and others, who would also be at the feast \u2013 and perhaps Ukraine isn\u2019t more corrupt than the United States after all.<\/p>\n Perhaps Ukraine is America\u2019s future, unless America\u2019s future is World War III. The odd thing is that this time we would be leading the fascist nations, instead of leading their enemies. It could be called \u201cHitler\u2019s revenge.\u201d In case it seems not possible, consider America\u2019s vote for nazism at the U.N., and the House\u2019s vote for war against Russia. Hitler\u2019s revenge is a possibility. It is not an impossibility. However, this time, the first target is Russia, not Jews. But the conflagration could be world-wide, and far worse than last time.<\/p>\n The December 4th House vote to finance the \u201cATO\u201d; and the November 21st U.N. vote for nazism; are just two steps along the path toward that conflagration, but they are both steps that are of historical magnitude in that they indicate not just that America\u2019s aristocracy are determined to do everything to destroy Russia, but that they don\u2019t care what the American people think or feel about that, and they have the overwhelming support of the U.S. Government in doing it.<\/p>\n So, the alienation between the rulers and the ruled in the United States is bound to intensify even beyond its current 98%-versus-33% support-level, and its 2%-versus-67% opposition-level. But is that not extreme enough already? How much more would it need to be in order to consider the United States to be a dictatorship?<\/p>\n ———-<\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and of \u00a0CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse In a remarkable disjunction between voters and their elected (supposed) representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives, the members of the House voted on December 4th, by 411 \u201cYea\u201d to 10 \u201cNay,\u201d to donate U.S. weapons to the bankrupt Ukrainian Government, which is engaged in trying to eliminate the civilian population of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":141711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,524,92,523,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-142468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-warfare","17":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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