Ukrainian President's "Churchillian" Speech To Congress Shakes Loose More Weapons

Comedian and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made another of his impassioned appeals to a Western elite audience and public for more war support this morning. The guilt-tripping and political pressure worked. Hours after his performance for the U.S. Congress, designed to shake loose more weapons from the U.S. armaments tree, U.S. president Joseph "Grinning Joe" Biden announced yet another weapons shipment to Ukraine, this time 800 anti-aircraft weapons. Ukraine has already received thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons- U.S. -made ones- from Germany and other NATO nations, as well as from the U.S.

Some U.S. corporate propagandists insist on invoking UK Winston Churchill's World War II address to the U.S. Congress as similar, elevating the comedian Zelensky to an absurd historical status on a par with the deified reactionary imperialist Churchill. (Specifically propagandists on the media of Michael Bloomberg Billionaire have fawningly pushed the "Ooh, he's just like Churchill!" line.) 

Zelensky has shown that his prior experience as a tv entertainer has stood him in good stead, as his performances as leader of a beleaguered nation being attacked by the Evil Putin and the Russian Bear have been nothing short of bravura. He has rallied most of the populace to resist (except the estimated 3 million who have fled the country so far). It doesn't hurt that he declared martial law, and forbade males between the ages of 18-60 from leaving the country on the first day of the war, February 24.

He has personally addressed the British parliament, the Canadian parliament, and the UN. He has insistently demanded that NATO (i.e. the U.S.) establish a no-fly zone over his country- that is, that the U.S. go to war with Russia.

 It's not surprising that he would make this move. Since the U.S. acts as if Ukraine is like a member of NATO, and indeed insisting on NATO making a formal declaration in 2008 that both Ukraine and Georgia WOULD BE taken into NATO, it makes sense that the U.S. step up to the plate.

But the U.S. is only willing to use Ukraine as a proxy to degrade the Russian army, inflict casualties as it did when it tricked the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan in 1979, and as a reason to wreck  the Russian economy with economic warfare (aka 'sanctions"). The ultimate goal is the overthrow of Putin. The U.S. has always devoted itself assiduously to making sure that every nation possible has a boss under U.S. sway. [1]

The lust to oust Putin someday was even hinted at publicly by the guy in charge of overthrowing governments, Carl Gershman, in a column he wrote in the Washington Post, the house organ of the Washington D.C. national political elite, in 2013. Gershman heads something called the "National Endowment for Democracy," which was set up to do openly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely subversion, electoral interference, creating the funding opposition groups and parties and media, and other kinds of political interference in other nations' internal affairs. As the CIA was thoroughly exposed, it was decided to do these things openly and claiming they are legitimately "supporting democracy" by doing so. The brazenness is breathtaking, yet the U.S. has gotten away with it- that is how powerful the U.S. is.

Over the years, U.S. political and media elites have frequently expressed their loathing for Putin and their desire to overthrow him. They have lionized the racist "opposition leader' Alexi Navalny. (Why not? Fascists and racists are very often the U.S.' go-to guys for satraps.)

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State and military-industrial complex profiteer Antony Blinken spent SEVEN HOURS threatening the Chinese foreign minister in a meeting in Rome, Italy, that China better not help Russia OR ELSE. Such U.S. gangster threats are referred to as "warnings" in Western propaganda coverage.

The way current talks between the Kyiv regime and Russia are going, it looks like Ukraine may finally agree to a reasonable settlement; namely Ukrainian neutrality and no NATO membership. Too bad Russia had to invade the country and kill people to get to it. 

Russia for months had military forces on Ukraine's border and tried to get these "concessions." Biden and the rest of the U.S. government adamantly ruled out EVER not including Ukraine in NATO, and insisted it would put attack missiles in NATO nations right on Russia's borders. These Russian demands were deemed "extreme" by Grinning Joe Biden himself.

Finally, U.S. obduracy left Putin almost no choice but to accept a strategically unacceptable situation, or escalate. I think a more limited invasion, to seize the Kyiv regime's Black Sea ports, would have been smarter. Apparently Putin's patience ran out.

As far as civilian casualties are concerned, they are estimated to be about 4,000 as of this writing. There will be more. I find it galling in the extreme to be subjected to Western politicians, apparatchiks, and propagandists beating their chests in moralistic denunciations of Russian "war crimes" when they were fine with the U.S. causing the deaths of around 900,000 Iraqis. Or for that matter, 4,000 Panamanian civilians when Bush the Elder invaded Panama with the specific goal of overthrowing the president, a goal attributed to Putin in Ukraine with great outrage. Or the millions murdered in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia by the U.S. and its accomplices. There is more, but the point is made.

That doesn't justify Russia's behavior in Ukraine. It means that the denunciations of blood-drenched hypocrites should carry no weight and be dismissed with contempt. Unfortunately they have great power because of the totalitarian ideological domination of the U.S. and its lackey nations. A domination which they are increasing by corporations banning any dissenting voices. Youtube brags of removing 1,000 channels and 15,000 videos in recent days. RT and Sputnik have been erased from Western communication channels. Iranis Press TV's website was stolen by the U.S. government.

Such is the arrogance of imperialists. And in a supreme act of gaslighting, they call their totalitarianism "freedom and democracy."

"I'll muscle you politically to fight my war with me!"

1] To read president James Earl Carter's "National Security Adviser" Zbigniew Brzezinsky letting the cat out of the bag about the U.S. setting a "trap" for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, go to my essay, "You Call This "Three-Dimensional Chess"? Putin's Boneheaded Invasion Of Ukraine Exposes U.S. Elites' Fatuous Blather."