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“In remarks at a press conference with Biden earlier in the day, Zelensky, using Nazi-like language, referred to the Russian people as “inhumans.””
[Image: 12/21/22, To our great embarrassment, representatives of US taxpayers wildly cheer Zelensky. “Zelenskiy tells US Congress Ukraine is ‘alive and kicking’ despite Russian ‘tyranny’,” UK Guardian]
12/22/2022, “Biden uses Zelensky to whip up pro-war frenzy,” Andre Damon, wsws.org
“On Wednesday [12/21], a US military aircraft flew Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington to meet with US President Joe Biden and address a joint session of Congress, where he called for [US taxpayer funded] “absolute victory” against Russia.
The prime-time speech, broadcast on all the major networks, was
a massive exercise in war propaganda. Biden invited Zelensky to Washington as part of
an effort to condition American public opinion
[Image: 11/5/22, Texas border: “For the fifth day in a row, our thermal drone team witnessed another huge group of migrants crossing illegally into Normandy, TX before sunrise this AM. Same spot & time, every day. No resistance on MX side, & on U.S. side, they crawl under a chain fence TX put up"]
to accept the White House’s escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
Zelensky gave a proxy speech, scripted by the White House, for a proxy war.
The speech aimed to tug at the heartstrings of the American public,
even evoking the Revolutionary War battle of Saratoga—
about which the former Ukrainian comedian certainly had never heard of before reading the address that had written for him by a Biden administration speechwriter.
Such appeals were accompanied by racist incitement against the Russian population, the likes of which were never heard in Washington even during the Cold War. In remarks
at a press conference with Biden earlier in the day, Zelensky, using Nazi-like language,
referred to the Russian people as “inhumans.”
Before Congress, he declared that they were “poisoned by the Kremlin” and proclaimed Russia a “terrorist state.”
This language was greeted with effusive cheers and multiple standing ovations
by the vast majority of members of both parties.
The entire speech was cynically staged
to evoke UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s December 1941 address to Congress,
with Russian President Putin cast as Adolf Hitler and
Zelensky playing the role of British prime minister.
The US media played along with and promoted this degrading and reactionary spectacle. In the extensive commentary before and after the address, none of the media pundits mentioned
the fact that “absolute victory” over Russia can only be achieved through
a full-scale war by the [taxpayers of ]United States against nuclear-armed Russia.
The purpose of this spectacle was to market the US-NATO war against Russia
as a redux of World War II, a new “good war.”
Not a single question was asked about the dangers of relentless escalation, or even the financial and social impact within the United States of the massive sums being spent.
Nor did anyone ask why members of Congress shouted “Slava Ukraini,” or “Glory to Ukraine,” a slogan used by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukraine Insurgent Army (UPA),
which were aligned with Nazi Germany during World War II and participated in the Holocaust and anti-Jewish pogroms.
For all the invocation of Churchill, the British prime minister
never got the level of unconditional support that is being handed over to the Ukrainian government.
In his press conference with Zelensky earlier in the day, Biden pledged that
the United States would support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
[Image: 12/22/22, El Paso, Texas, near border crossing, CBS News, @camiloreports]
Zelenksy’s trip was accompanied by an announcement that the [US taxpayers] Biden administration will be sending a Patriot missile system to Ukraine, the most advanced weapons deployed to the conflict to date.
Zelensky’s speech was also part of a campaign to justify a massive $45 billion infusion of weaponry to the country, currently waiting final passage by the US House and Senate.
Despite “partisan gridlock,” when it comes to handing out virtually unlimited sums
for war, the entire Congress
snaps to attention,
with the Democratic Party in the lead.
The US is drawing ever deeper and more inexorably into war. By deploying Patriot missiles to Ukraine, Washington is
giving Ukraine the ability to strike aircraft deep in Russian territory….
The administration is now plunging the population of Europe, the United States and the entire world into a new “forever war,” with potentially catastrophic consequences.
In the midst of this day-long propaganda barrage in Washington, Biden admitted that some of his European allies are concerned that the actions being carried out by the US could lead to a full-scale nuclear exchange.
Asked by a reporter why the US did not simply provide all of the weapons requested by Zelensky, Biden replied, “The idea that we would give Ukraine material that is fundamentally different than is already going there would have a prospect of breaking up NATO.”
Biden said of the US’s NATO allies, “They’re not looking to go to war with Russia. They’re not looking for a third World War.” Biden’s choice of pronouns is significant. He used “They,” not “We.”
Given that the Kremlin has declared that US Patriot launchers are a “legitimate target,” what will happen if these weapons are attacked on the territory of a NATO country? Or what will happen
if, during an attack on weapons shipments inside Ukraine,
a group of US soldiers overseeing the weapons deployment is killed?”…
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