The following is reader submitted. Written and edited by David Sacks.
The war in Ukraine is based on lies — lies about how it started, how it’s going, and how it will end. We are told that Ukraine is winning when in fact it is losing. We are told that the war makes NATO stronger when in fact it is depleting it. We are told that Ukraine’s biggest problem is a lack of funds from the U.S. Congress when in fact the West can’t produce enough ammunition — a problem that will take years to fix.
We are told that Russia is suffering greater casualties when in fact Ukraine is running out of soldiers — another problem money can’t fix. We are told that the world is with us when in fact the Global Majority believes U.S. policy is the height of folly. We are told that there is no opportunity to make peace when in fact we have rejected multiple opportunities for a negotiated settlement. We are told that if Ukraine keeps fighting, it will improve its negotiating position when in fact the terms will only get much worse than what was already available and rejected.
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Nevertheless, the lies will succeed in dragging out the war. Congress will appropriate more funds. Russia will take more territory. Ukraine will mobilize more young men and women to feed into the meat grinder. Discontent will mount. Eventually there will be a crisis in Kiev and the Zelensky government will be toppled. And then, when the war is finally lost, when the whole country lays in smoldering ruins on a funeral pyre of their own making, the liars will say “well we tried.”
Having prevented any alternative, having smeared anyone who told the truth as puppets for the enemy, the liars will say “We did our best. We stood up to Putin.”
In fact, they will claim, we would have succeeded but for the fifth column of Putin apologists who stabbed the Ukrainians in the back. Then, having shifted blame and patted themselves on the back, they will blithely move on to the next war, as they moved onto Ukraine after their disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq. The lies are comprehensive — but they will work.
Viet Nam all over again!
But nobody remembers!
And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.
This is well written, by the way, with reference to the “FALLING DOMINOS” if Ukraine goes down, which will give Putin the opportunity to bring down the “IRON CURTAIN” on the rest of Europe to make it FORTRESS RUSSIA, except he forgot to fit in anywhere to make it more complete the “light at the end of the tunnel!”
With regard to Viet Nam:
From pp.366,367 of “A BETTER WAR, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam” by Lewis Sorley:
In 1974 (Vietnamese) President Thieu sent General Cao Van Vien to Washington to make the case for continued U.S. aid to South Vietnam.
At the Pentagon, where Vien briefed on the current military situation, complete with photographic evidence of mounting enemy violations and massive movement into South Vietnam, he was assured of full support.
On 6 May 1974 a legislative amendment proposed by Senator Edward Kennedy – one of those members of Congress most determined to pull the plug on South Vietnam – was accepted.
It cut $266 million for South Vietnam from a supplementary military aid bill and signified, suggested (Sir Robert) Thompson, “that perhaps the major lesson of the Vietnam war is: do not rely on the United States as an ally.”
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Substitute Ukraine for South Vietnam and it will be the same story all over again.
The Ukrainians must be clear out of their minds to put their trust in a senile old fool like Joe Biden who was one of the Democrats who voted to cut off aid to Viet Nam when he was feeding off the taxpayers and getting his palm greased and his pocket stuffed as a US senator, and put to a jumped-up TV comedian like Vladimere Zelensky who has trouble sounding out the word “war” because it has too many syllables in it alo0ng with a lot of consonants and vowels in charge of their war effort.
The whole farce is a tale of woe from straight out of the pages of TALES OF THE EXTREME BIZARRE!
We The People have given the Ukraine 175 Billion dollars.
How on earth do they intend to pay us back????