Dakota Beacon

This is for all of you out there who have been waving Ukrainian flags, spouting Ukrainian slogans, fawning over your little hero, Zelenskyy and hating Russians for purely xenophobic reasons and all but eleven U.S. Senators - those who, for various reasons have ot supported our reckless spending on the war in Ukraine.  It is for all of you who even own one of those little Ukrainian flag lapel pins.  

Last week, we all learned of another western deception.  Russian President Putin showed us a signed peace agreement between his nation and Ukraine.  It all took place in Turkey way back in April of 2022.  Some may recall that leaders met there.  But not just those parties immediately concerned with the conflict.  Boris Johnson, erstwhile Prime Minister of Britain, showed up there too.  Apparently, after an agreement was reached to end this costly and deadly war, so hideous and cruel not only to Ukrainians but to all of Europe and so hugely expensive to America, Johnson put a stop to the peace.  Quite obviously, Britain’s government was not acting alone in this.  This was demanded by the U.S., because these days everything is.  There is no way a western European nation would or could have stopped a peace agreement without the express consent and encouragement of the United States.

Now, for just a moment, think what this means.  These peace terms were agreed to in April, 2022.  The war over there began in February, 2022.  This war could have ended within about two months of its beginning.  How many have died since then?  We know that the war has claimed casualties of at least 354,000 (according to Reuters, at least) so far.  We know that the Ukrainian army is so depleted that people are being dragged out of the workplace, out of cafes (wherever they may still exist), off the street - old men in their 60s, teenage boys - and thrown on the front lines without even benefit of time to train.  They are literally cannon fodder.  A whole generation of young men has been killed by this war.  It could have been stopped.  Where was the front back in April of 2022?  Basically, the Donbass - a region overwhelmingly ethnically and culturally Russian.  The battle was nowhere near Kiev or Odessa.  Back in April, the Nord Stream pipelines were still fine and supplying Europe with needed energy.  We didn’t blow them up until September of 2022.  The Kakhovka Dam was still sound.  Ukraine hadn’t blown that up yet either.  

In case you think you are on the right side when you support this war, remember these facts.  Remember that western and central Europe had ample energy to heat their homes and continue their industries.  Think how dark and cold life has become in many parts of Europe, how poverty has visited itself upon a whole continent.  Think of the future of Ukraine washed away in its own blood.  All of this could have been stopped in April of 2022.  Two months into the conflict.  How many would be alive today?  How much of our wealth could we have returned to taxpayers in the U.S.?  How much could have been diverted to our national debt, to our border crisis, to “save Social Security”?  What is our interest in keeping this horrible devastation going?

We should ask our leaders.  Ask people like Senator Kennedy.  I like Kennedy.  He’s usually honest.  He’s usually perceptive.  His folksy humor is entertaining.  But he backs this carnage.  So does Ted Cruz.  In Cruz’s case it might have to do with his family ties to Goldman-Sachs.  Who knows?  We can imagine a Mitch McConnell having no problem with killing people.  We know Lindsey Graham is certifiably insane.  They want to kill Russians.  That’s all they care about.  Killing Russians has been declared the most important goal America has, according to Graham (“Russians are dying.  Best money we’ve ever spent.”).  It’s not just us, of course.  Paul Joseph Watson recounts the miseries his homeland has suffered in pursuit of this killing.In Germany, hard hit by the fallout from this terrible war, their Foreign Minister has said this:  “. . . no matter what my German voters think, but I want to deliver to the people of Ukraine.”  Where does she get off?  Where does the German government get off?  What kind of morality is this?  Who has asked the Ukrainians?  Remember, Zelenskyy has silenced all dissenting press and politicians there.  He has jailed priests, he has closed churches.  In fact, he is now saying he will cancel elections.  And all on our dime, by the way.  The great American push for “democracy”.  

Do you have one of the little blue and yellow flags?  Do you wear it or fly it?  Maybe you want to think about what it stands for today.  Think of the needless bloodshed, the lost and destroyed lives, the maiming.  Think of the devastation to that nation’s economy as well as the damage to ours and to Europes.  To Germany’s, where their government doesn’t care what they think.  Our government doesn’t care what we think either.  Only about 8% of Americans today think our aim should be to “weaken or defeat Russia”.  And it’s more or less bipartisan.  True, it has taken some time for American citizens to weary of this, but then it is on the other side of the world and we’re always expected to send gobs of money off for these emergencies, right?  It will be interesting to see what difference the revelation of this peace agreement makes in our thinking.  

I was expecting some sort of refutation by Zelenskyy or others in the west of Putin’s evidence of a peace agreement, but none was forthcoming.  We can safely assume that indeed, Putin’s government and Zelenskyy met in Turkey, came to terms acceptable to both sides and signed an agreement to end the war and go back to peaceful enterprises on both sides.  If both sides wanted peace, why is there war?  Why have over 350,000 people been killed?  Why the irreparable damage to the infrastructure?  Why have we come to the brink of nuclear world war?  These are very good questions to ask.  Ask your senator.  Remember?  Once upon a time, America was not allowed to declare war without it coming from a vote by the Senate.  Now we just send money and supplies (and perhaps “advisors” like we did in Viet Nam) to any war anywhere in the world.  War is business.  It’s big business, obviously.  And we should question closely any U.S. Senator who is supporting this outrageous investment in pointless killing.  Ask Cruz.  Ask Kennedy.  Who is advising them?  Their accountants or brokers?  General Milley? Maybe ask them if they even know where the money was spent.

America is not the good guy anymore.  America has become wicked in its abundance and prosperity.  We can afford to encourage suffering and killing around the world.  We could do better things with our money.  We could use our defense materiel to defend America and maintain our strength for good things, but we don’t.  Our Congress and Senate are in lockstep with the White House and the mentally deranged, off-the-rails military.  They, like Germany’s Foreign Minister, don’t particularly care about Americans.  Perhaps they felt that they had convinced us, that their propaganda was working and that we didn’t object.  But in the light of what Putin revealed we need to revise this.

And when we do want peace, when we have had enough of war, when it no longer suits our own interests or those of the stakeholders in the Senate and White House, can we ever offer a peace agreement that Russia will trust?  

Think about this.  Merkel informed us all that the famous Minsk agreement, whereby NATO pledged not to expand, was a ruse to fool the Russians.  If you were the Russian leader, how would this sit with you?  How would you feel about other promises?  Other treaties?  When we do not honor our pledges and treaties, when we consistently and reliably break our promises, what does this do to us?  No one has any business trusting us.  Certainly Russia has no reason to believe any offers of peace now from Ukraine.    Russia went into Ukraine because of a broken promise made in MInsk.  Because of evidence of our duplicity in developing and maintaining on-going bioweapons research and development on their border.  Aimed at them.  They were ready to make peace in April of 2022.  They signed a peace treaty with Ukraine’s leadership.  They believed it.  They were willing to trust it - they withdrew from areas within Ukraine on their own.  And we sent Boris Johnson over there to throw a wrench in it and consign hundreds of thousands of Ukraininans and Russians to death.  To prosecute a war intended to make money for some investors while causing severe hardship elsewhere.  To try to harm Russia - which has not given reason for us to consider an enemy since 1991.  That was 30 years ago.  The Russians have kept peace far better than the U.S.  How many wars have we been involved in since 1991?  How many people are we responsible for killing in our wars?  (And what glory has it ever brought us?)  

If we don’t send a clear message to our leaders from the grassroots, then we, too, are culpable in this slaughter and devastation.  We are up to our own elbows in Ukrainian blood.  We are complicit in our own economic destruction.  Call your Senators.  Call your Congressmen.  Tell them that this must be stopped.  On any terms at this point.  We have been lied to consistently by our own government and our press.  Ukraine has not been "winning" this war and Russia has sought peaceful resolution.  And we have gone on killing.

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