Rob Urie wrote:The Americans Started the US War with Russia
...The ‘American view’ towards the war, informed domestically by an absence of the political violence that the US so regularly visits upon innocents around the globe, rank ideology, state propaganda, ignorance of world history, and the narrow economic interests of American oligarchs, imagines that it is fighting Frankenstein’s monster when it is that monster. What is the strategic interest of Ukraine to the US? More importantly, is it worth a potentially world-ending war?
In recent history, the US could have abided by the 1991 promise made by the George H.W. Bush administration to keep NATO away from Russia’s border. The US could have negotiated a security agreement with the Russians— as they have regularly requested over the last three decades. The US could have made Ukraine abide by the Minsk Accord(s) to which the Ukrainians and Russians had in principle agreed. There have been so many requests from the Russians to negotiate a lasting peace with the US that there is no convincing argument that the US didn’t want this war.
And yet the American anti-war left continues to insist, with decades of evidence to the contrary, that German and French guardians of the oligarchs (Scholz, Macron) would / could have overridden the (Joe) Biden administration’s drive to war when, as I predicted here in 2019, Biden was brought to power by the national security state to launch a war against Russia. Biden was up to his eyeballs in the US-led coup in Ukraine in 2014, was subsequently appointed to be the American prefect in Ukraine; and began preparing for war the day he entered office.
The reason why the US wants a war with Russia is first and foremost that the poor policy choices of the US political leadership over the last five decades ended American economic and political dominance somewhere around 2008. Starting in the 1970s, market fundamentalist ideology became the American tool of choice for extracting wealth from poor and working people and nations around the globe. The political class, acting at the behest of industrialists and Wall Street, believed its own fantasy that ‘nature,’ and not imperialist looting, had made rich Americans rich...
I like that Rob Urie calls out the ignorance of the general population in the USA as one of the great reasons for non-stop warring.
Rob Urie's list of things that contribute to American ignorance about this war: 1. an absence of the political violence that the US so regularly visits upon innocents around the globe
2. rank ideology
3. state propaganda
4. ignorance of world history
5. the narrow economic interests of American oligarchs
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I would add that number 5 (the interests of USA-based oligarchs) is what creates the conditions of state propaganda (3) which creates rank ideology (2) and ignorance of world history (4).
That the USA has never withstood the destruction of a world war... could change at any minute, if the American public doesn't awake soon and react violently to their manipulation.
In other words, I see the central problem of the USA as... an infestation of oligarchy.
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