Wars for the US and the World's Best Interests

Ukraine defends Americans by weakening Russia, the war diminishes Russian energy supplies, and everyone is better off because the US controls the world.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland is a sociopath orchestrating US interests in Ukraine for over a decade. Nuland's February 4th, 2014, leaked phone call discusses the US' choice for Ukraine's government, and a few weeks later, US-backed leaders take power.

Shockingly, the media and politicians omit this information and the videos of our politicians greeting protestors in Kyiv in 2014. In contrast, when Americans protest, our government doesn't hand out food and encourage peaceful demonstrations — a militarized police beat us into submission.

Perhaps, it's a coincidence, but the US has a long history of overthrowing governments to install Western-friendly politicians. Undoubtedly, the US didn't intervene, fund, or militarize Ukraine's right-wing nationalists, provoking Russia and Ukraine like it's done throughout history.

Foreign interventions aren't democratic, but the US is, so it's ok, and a US-backed politician is better than a Russian, Chinese, or the public preference.

On January 26th, 2023, US Senators and delegates from the State and Defense departments addressed tackling Russia and China's influence in Latin America during a hearing on Countering Russian Aggression. The Homeland won't tolerate a geostrategic challenge in its hemisphere, and Nuland assures the department monitors every movement.

The American ruling class tossed out international laws protecting sovereignty and instituted a rules-based order suited to their ideology, enforcing neoliberal policies worldwide. The US oversees Latin American countries' affairs while supervising African, Asian, and European nations because no one can do anything without US approval and involvement.

In Nuland's leaked 2014 phone call discussing Ukraine's new government, she shamelessly states, f*uck the EU, but today, she cares about the Union's interests.

Nuland gloats Nord Stream 2 is a "hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea," eliminating Europe's dependency on Russian energy while increasing European power bills by 300% and US LNG exports. Indeed, Europeans wanted to dissolve their inexpensive long-term gas contracts and relationship with Russia to rely on expensive US energy imports. Fortunately, the US severed those ties for them.

Commanding governments to align with US policies creates enemies and animosity, endangering and threatening everyone. The US punishes defiant countries by implementing sanctions that cause starvation, shortages of medications and essential goods, inflation, poverty, violent military interventions, and decades of political instability.

None of this is in the public's best interests, and no intervention since WWII saved anyone, but we can't let go of the Hitler alibi. It works so well that today, every evil-doer is Hitlerian, and Americans love to relive their WWII savior glory.

• "Saddam Hussein poses the same kind of threat to the United States that Hitler posed in Germany in the mid-1930s."
• John Kerry compared Assad to Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler as he tried to drum up allied support for air strikes.
• "New Hitler" Gaddafi rounding up opponents.
• US Agency for International Development Europe and Eurasia stated, "(Putin) disturbingly mirrors traits of Hitler — cold and calculated, showing no remorse or interest in the sanctity of human life."

When Trump's White House press secretary compared Assad to Hitler in 2017, CNN reported, "Sean Spicer forgot the first rule of politics during a press briefing on Tuesday: Never, ever compare anyone or anything to Adolf Hitler." A few years later, CNN changed its stance on the Hitlerian comparison, but US media and politicians contradicting themselves is a regular occurrence.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin assured the public that Russia poses no threat to the US. Yet, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs insists support for Ukraine defends American interests and values "so clearly at stake." Who's right or wrong is anyone's guess, but I felt safer when we weren't dumping fuel on a fire.

While the world worries about affording corporate-inflated basic needs, the potential for a full-scale nuclear war is on the horizon, and Ukrainians dying to protect Americans doesn't quite sit right. Our government doesn't care about inaccessible medical care, decreased life expectancy, police brutality, labor rights, starvation, or homelessness, yet it weaponizes Ukraine to protect American values.

Ukrainians die, Europe's economy tanks, the Federal Reserve generates a global recession, the military-industrial complex expands, and Congress approves at least $113 billion of aid to Ukraine. Yet, Victoria Nuland and our Senators consider this war a triumph because it eliminated Europe's supply of Russian gas while boosting US LNG exports, reinforcing US global dominance, and defending American interests.

Perhaps, our government defines American interests as US corporate wealth and power, but who knows? US pharmaceutical companies won the War on Drugs, oil and gas won the War on Terror, Wall Street won the war against the public, and the military-industrial complex won every battle ever. The majority didn't benefit from these misadventures, but they gave us something to believe in, and that's better than nothing.

So, Putin is the New Hitler who waged an unprovoked war, and Ukraine can align with whomever it wants, but African, Asian, European, and Latin American nations cannot. NATO and the US defend the world from evil-doers, escalation is necessary to achieve peace, and the US has every right to decide the world's fate.

The US government is more trustworthy, ethical, caring, and dedicated to peaceful democracy than other nations. However, when it self-destructs, and countries abandon it, I hope we aren't treated the way we've treated the world, but I don't mind if Victoria Nuland and the like fell off the face of the planet.