It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
Ralph Nadar, Ukraine: Senseless Conflict
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U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, center, with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, October 2021. (NATO)
Scott Ritter: The Back Channel
US Empire Views Ukrainians and Russians as Lab Rats for Weapons Testing
By Caitlin Johnstone / CaitlinJohnstone.com ScheerPost November 21, 2022
A surprisingly frank article by The New York Times titled “Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons” describes how the imperial war machine is capitalising on the US proxy war to test its weapons for future use.
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Nuclear Threats in Ukraine: Hyped or Real?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
The United States, Russia, France and the UK, possess most of the world’s nuclear weapons. Since “nuclear war cannot be won” — as the heads of these states have repeatedly admitted — the same countries should be racing to ratify the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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7 Things You Can Do to Stop the War in Ukraine
Photo by Christian Wiediger
Regardless of which party controls the House and Senate, one thing is certain. The war in Ukraine and the US intervention will continue in the short-term, as a lame-duck Congress considers another $50 billion for Ukraine, with much of the money earmarked for weapons…
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The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin
Medea talks about her new book on the Ukraine-Russia War. What the war means and was it
avoidable.
War as Presentation, by Patrick Lawrence
Now we have the Ukraine case, and we need not bother with “ample reason.” It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
Image by One More Time
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