Dakota Beacon

Something in the Ukraine war story is just not adding up.  Most recently we are hearing - for the last week now - about an alleged “war crime” for which Joe Biden, of all people, is calling for a tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin.  First of all, isn’t this quite a bit like the pot calling the kettle black?  America’s war crimes are mounting up.  Like Dorian Gray we pretend it’s all okay and that we look great while we’re committing them.  We don’t look all that great to a lot of people - especially the people who see our handiwork up close and personal, unlike our own people who see the fairytales on offer by our complicit press.  

Where we are told about Assad gassing his own people, the people there know full well that it is the Americans doing this, or at least America’s proxies, so as to manipulate public support to attack Assad.  America has been causing great and intense human suffering around the globe while ostentatiously wearing a big huge white hat to cover up what our country has been doing.  I should not say “our” or “we”.  The American people have no intention of doing this.   Which is precisely why it is important to deceive us with the help of a compliant press.

Right now we are being sold another bill of goods in Ukraine.  First, Ukraine is not a “democracy fighting heroically for its life”.  Not at all.  The government we seek to support in a devastating war being waged amidst the people of Ukraine, destroying their lives, is a puppet of the West, of the corrupt West, that is - the New World Order West of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Henry Kissinger and their kind, not normal Americans.  Not normal Frenchmen either, or normal Germans.  The people of other western nations have the same propaganda gushing on them that we do.  

So what is really happening in Ukraine?  Since we don’t have the truth and we are being deprived of hearing any but one side of this by the mainstream media and our political leaders, such as they are, we need to question everything.  We need to assume we are not getting the truth - that the truth is something else, maybe something quite different.  Like a jury in a courtroom we need to evaluate the evidence.  We need to be convinced of motive and opportunity as well, and consider other evidence which sheds light on these factors, peripheral  to the primary question.

For weeks there have been stories which have escaped Ukraine from independent sources as well as more sophisticated analysts who are not in the circle of benefactors of this war - experts in the history and geopolitics of that remote region.  Maybe we should listen to them.  We should take a hard, long look at motive.  

Why did Putin cross the road?  Well, he told us, and long in advance - years in advance, in fact.  He has been more than patient as NATO kept bleeding into the easternmost reaches of Europe, to the very back door of Russia.  NATO was formed as an organization hostile to Russia.  Never forget that.  It was established in the late 1940s as a buffer against Stalin’s Soviet aggression and creep into western Europe after the end of World War II.  In the 1950s and 1960s, when the Soviet Union was rattling sabers and fomenting revolutions in places like Cuba and supporting people like Mao, perhaps we felt the need of a defensive alliance.  It squared off against the Warsaw Pact, which was a group of Soviet style governments influenced, usually outright controlled, by the Soviet Union, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Baltic countries, East Germany, the Balkans, etc.  Perhaps NATO held Soviet expansion in check at the time. 

But in 1991, the Soviet Union itself collapsed.  Following this, these eastern European nations declared their independence and established governments of their own, to their own taste. Every Russian tank and soldier withdrew peacefully as they assumed their independence.  The people of Russia also sought greater freedom.  Yet after supporting one freedom fight after another, the West simply abandoned the people of Russia, seemingly blaming them for their government in a way we did not blame the people of Poland or Hungary for their governments.  

We have not really needed NATO since 1991.  

But instead of disbanding this military alliance the West continued to expand, relentlessly, until we saw it even about to solicit the membership of Ukraine.  What would be next?  Georgia?  Kazakhstan?  In 1991, in the aftermath of the demise of the old Soviet Union, there were 16 nations in NATO.  If NATO had just gone into a “holding pattern” and stopped expanding at that point, with a plan to begin dismantling itself, Russians could have become part of the constructive community of nations instead of being “othered” for their former government’s policies.  One would have thought that all of these highly-educated neocons - people like Kissinger, the Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas, et al, would have been acutely aware of the undiminished capability of nuclear war as well as the history of Europe, particularly the history of the beginning of World War I, which came about largely as a result of alliances which dragged the whole world into a regional conflict.

But that would be to assume that these “leaders” of our country really cared about promoting “peace and safety” or, to quote the motto of NATO, “a mind unfettered in deliberation”.  These people care for nothing of the kind.  The big bucks are made in war, not in peace.  Peace is only something the “little guys” want - the people who are usually sent to fight the wars, the people whose homes and families are lost, the people whose own lives are destroyed, while these neocons sit in their Armani suits and ties and figure out their next ploy to reel Americans into another ill-advised and pointless war.  

We should have had enough after VietNam, when the last helicopter struggled off the last roof in Saigon.  But while the people may have had enough, it was just the beginning for the Kissingers and the other intriguers in the CIA.  Notwithstanding our uniform failure to that point, what with the Bay of Pigs, the Hungarian Revolt and the infamous 20-year VietNam disaster, they pressed ahead with more of the same, always with some dire threat that if they “didn’t stop communism” in some African or Middle Eastern or Hindu Kush backwater that it would overtake Washington, Richmond, Sacramento, Bismarck, St. Paul.  No one would be safe from the iron grip of the Soviets.  So they made stuff up.  Basically, that was it.  They just made stuff up for the good old six-o’clock news.  We got to see some Walter Cronkite showing bits of hazy war video and the official interpretation of the same.  Then our politicians would get to work expressing outrage and how we needed to get into another armed conflict, beginning, of course, with arms and advisors, ending with thousands of American soldiers in body bags and trillions of dollars in debt  

So it should surprise no one that despite the NATO pledge to minds “unfettered in deliberation”, these NATO member governments have shut off and banned all communication from Russian leaders.  Instead of honoring promises made to stop expanding the organization, it has grown much as the old Soviet empire under Stalin, surpassing it even.  Should we really be surprised when, after 30 years of quiet forbearance by Russia, as NATO kept growing against its promises, while Russia sat on the sidelines watching, that perhaps the Ukraine’s angling to get into NATO might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back with Putin?  

This, of course, is still overlooking the abuse that the people of the Donbas region have sustained over the past eight years from the Ukrainian government.  The government of Ukraine has been hostile to Russia.  Why?  Maybe because it is a proxy of the United States.  Whose bioweapons labs does it shelter?  Whose president* has profited immensely from the corruption in that puppet government?  Not Russia’s.  At least not that we know of.  But we do know all about Hunter Biden.  And we know about John Kerry and others.  What kind of country have we become?  

Our celebrities - albeit empty shells of humans for the most part - have joined our political class in whipping up hysteria for Ukrainian “democracy”, helping to position the actor/dancer/comedian puppet president Zelenskyy as some bloodied-but-unbowed hero in a UPS tee shirt.  They are all dressed in blue and yellow - even the White House press corps.  

For what good reason?  Why not just do the simple thing and report the news?  Why become an organ of propaganda?  For decades we held up Pravda as an example of fake news, of propaganda.  What is our news service?  It has blatantly shut down any communication with the Russians.  Is this “journalism”?  

Fortunately, we do have independent reporters who are taking the trouble to get both sides of the news and objectively report what they find.  To this information we can apply some common sense and perhaps sort this out.  Instead of listening to the inarticulate and confused leadership* in Washington and Hollywood, and jumping blindly on their bandwagon and hi-ho off to war, we need to be circumspect and rational.  This is no longer the era of the Red Baron, foxholes and no-man’s land.  It is now the era of nuclear weapons.  If there is anyone we should be wary of anywhere near a nuclear trigger it should be President* Biden, not Vladimir Putin.  

We are being systematically lied to about nearly everything to do with Ukraine.  The “Ghost of Kiev” turned out to be a video game character.  But no surprise there - some of the footage we were shown of the “war” was a video game.  The Ukrainian faction is committing war crimes left and right - with orders to “take no prisoners” , shooting POWs in the knees, and threatening them with castration.  The people of Donbas know well the brutality of the Ukrainian government - they have been shelled for years now.  Zelenskyy has shut down any semblance of a free press and imprisoned his opposition - even the anti-Russian party nearest to a plurality in Ukraine.  The people there have no reason to desire international intrigue any more than the people of America should.  It costs them more, however, since it is their homes being destroyed.  If we wanted to help the people there we would not send one more bullet into the region or supply any nation that did.  

As to the recently reported “war crimes” - the people left dead in the streets of Bucha, it is more than likely that they were victims of one or another Ukrainian factions, probably the Azov Battalion, not Russians.

Here is a video by an analyst with a different perspective from our warmongering press.  Perhaps he has some pertinent points to share before we allow ourselves to be marched off to the Steppe.  Maybe instead of fixing Ukraine or fixing Russia or changing their leadership via the CIA, we ought to take a closer look at the condition of America - deeply in debt, our freedoms sacrificed to Fauci’s Chinese virus, our own border wide open, the 2020 election in dispute, our schools programming our kindergartners to seek sex change procedures while they live in angst because most of them are white, a sure sign of evil according to Miss Crabapple,  our store shelves bare and gas at upwards of $5 a gallon.  Not to mention the fact that our military has been decimated by this administration*.  Those who have declined the clot shot have been excluded, kicked out, and those who have accepted it will be keeling over like star soccer players in the midst of combat.  Their leader, General Milley, is more interested in “inclusivity” and “white supremacy” than in fitness for conducting a war.  

We need a regime change of our own and soon - before we end up in another VietNam or Afghanistan . . . or worse.

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