American interests caused a civil war in Ukraine that has taken the lives of tens of thousands, and that has displaced millions more. If you cannot come to grips with this as an American, you are free to click off of this post. For that matter, you can even stay and comment below on just how righteous and exceptional you are. The irrefutable fact remains though, our leaders are killing people like bugs in Ukraine, and all over the world. Blame it all on Putin all you want, the shrapnel tells no lies.
Every time I see a picture of a little boy named Vanya, I first cringe, and then a deep seething anger arises in me. The America I grew up in, the one my father and ancestors fought for, she cannot be supporting the killing and maiming of little kids like this Ukraine child, surely not. But she is.
“Our Lady Liberty, she’s being forever tarnished by those without honor or conscience.”
Little Vanya (seen in the tweet below), he’s one of many who’s lost almost everything to shells raining down on Donetsk from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. His father and little brother were killed, and as you can see, his life was irrevocably shattered. It’s hard to even look at poor little Vanya. Pictures like these, even 5 years ago, they would not even reach the waiting public… but they do now, and by the thousands. I know the images may hurt your tender sensibilities, they do mine, but that’s just too bad. Compared to what this little boy feels, and compared to the hundreds of thousands fleeing so-called Novorossiya feel, your discomfort is nothing. In fact, you really need to be uncomfortable. Let me just level some tough love on my American comrades and countrymen.
Your head has been in the sand and up your butts too long. It’s time.
Remember Vanya? He is bravely fighting for his future, after #Ukraine army shattered his life http://t.co/U3vuHpiUkR pic.twitter.com/kvvXmQI9TA
— rui borges (@homo_viator) February 15, 2015
I know Vanya’s dad is up there in heaven about now, begging for his son’s pain to subside. You see no one knows why this little boy was spared from a grim death. Vanya will certainly be in more pain alive than with his maker. This is why I believe YOU have to look at his condition, his sweet little smile escaping a tormented body, a broken temple, one shattered by evil and greedy, and stupid men. Diplomats like the ignorant Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, who runs amok for NATO and John Kerry, their bureaucratic brain farts, even they end up killing people. Washington think tank intellectuals spawned by the Zbigniew Brzezinskis of the western world, they should shoulder the bulk of the guilt for Ukrainians, Palestinians, Muslims, and especially for thousands of dead American soldiers. It’s undoubtedly true their grand strategies have heaped upon all our heads, the literal damnation of our once glowing creed.
We’ve betrayed ourselves in all this killing, these proxy wars for profit. You know it’s true. In the immortal words of late President John F. Kennedy:
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
Have we restrained ourselves these last 50 years? Has our wealth been invested wisely? Is their any noble purpose to having the CIA or insurgent agents operating in 130 countries worldwide? What is Crimea and Ukraine were Canada, Mexico, or Florida even? Would we tolerate English speakers being bombed or shelled to death on our doorstep? What if the pro-Russian “terrorists” (as Kiev and Washington calls them) are freedom fighters like Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, or even George Washington himself? These are very, very BIG “what if” questions.
Now for Vanya, and make no mistake he is more important in all this than you or me, life’s meaning is all about remedy, alleviating pain, simple things like a gentle touch or a soft pillow. You see how he smiles through all of this, don’s you. Well, let me be a bit more provocative here, just so you get a bit of a fire in your belly.
When Barack Obama wanted to be elected President of the United States, he told voters “the buck would stop with him.” He’s said this a dozen times since then. Well Mr. President, all I want to know is, “can you face the music?” Is there enough man, humanity, honor, or just plain arrogance in you to accept Vanya’s tears as America`s? Can you undergo the scrutiny of his loved ones, for he cannot see you to cast a hurtful eye upon you. Yes, the buck for all this perpetual war stops right there in the Oval Office. Deny it, feign democracy and freedom ringing if you will, but we know these are all lies now. Afghanistan to Benghazi or Mozambique, greedy fingers are into business all over, and the business of my country’s capital has been killing for decades. Washington, London, Berlin, and Brussels knew all along what was going to happen in Ukraine. The leaked conversation below between EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and the Estonian foreign affairs minister below is but one real piece of evidence to this, there are a great many others.
“Power with a moral purpose,” this was what Kennedy meant. The purpose of the Maidan uprising, the reason for Ukraine’s civil war, the leveling of all those sanctions on Russia, a world on the brink of another world war, it’s all too clear now Mr. President….. your desk is full to the ceiling of the White House with unaccounted for deeds. The instant the American people ask themselves some simple, elegant questions, you sir will stand to account for them. You and all those who colluded to steal liberty from the outstretched arm of Lady Liberty herself. My fellow Americans, ponder my logic if you will.
What if Senator John McCain and that Victorian Nuland person (above), and the EU’s EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton had not even visited Kiev? What if Ukraine had simply refused to join the EU, and instead joined the Eurasian Economic Union? What if the United States government and business interests had simply left Ukraine be more Russian than European? As former President Ronald Reagan once said; “would they be better off?” Would we? Ukraine would be governed by a billionaire oligarch. The country would have problems as before, but the people would be at peace. Europe would not be threatened, millions would not be affected, Crimea would be Ukrainian, Russians would be traveling to Paris and London this summer, and poor little Vanya and his family would enjoy a beach vacation. Now, instead of peace and normalcy, Ukraine and the world is subjected to the most massive propaganda campaign ever carried out. The next two images reveal this, in the most subtle, yet impactful way. The EU, the United Nations, and UNICEF by collaboration, want you to think they are the salvation of the victims of this.
Meanwhile, as BBC and other western media convey the altruism of the EU and UNICEF, a million refugees head to Russia, no Kiev, and hundreds of Russian trucks deliver medicines and even Christmas toys to war torn east Ukraine. The visual lie, this is the key component of what amounts to information warfare from London, Brussels, and Washington.
There are other simple questions one might ask, but in your heart you know who is guilty in all this. I can only accept blame for not having organized a massive peace demonstration in Washington. Or, for not snatching up my rifle and backpack, and heading to Donbass to help defend the Alamo. You, the reader who has stood by and watched, your own guilt should be established within, as mine is. As for Barack Obama, the Congress of the United States of America, the European Commission, NATO leaders, western media moguls, and all those who’ve exacerbated this conflict… you’re all guilty as hell. You had the power to stop this, to save little Vanya, and you feathered your own beds.
You’re all damned for not having stood up in the face of tyranny and lies, to tell the truth of this little child. All my friends recall please, the saying “truth, justice, and the American way.” I leave you with a quote from the indubitable Abraham Lincoln:
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
For Vanya: May God bless you in ways none of us can understand now. May the tears of a loving God sooth your pain, ease your shaken heart, and protect you all your remaining days. And may the world come to understand what sacrifices were offered for the undeserving and inherently evil among us.
How many of those multiple millions warm hearted and sympathetic people fulfilled overhead with those pretty nice liberal and democratic values have come out to rallies with something like “Je suis Vania” in their hands, I wonder?
As far as I know Vladimir, not one.
I feel indignant as well. Our leaders have become warmongers. But I’m trying to get beyond anger and simply tell the sad truth. People react to anger. Praying that the people of our nation will wake up.
While I find many things wrong with our country, President, and society, I for one would not be surprised if we did have things to do with it, and or were responsible…but, all you really did in this is rant that the US is at fault, and if we don’t believe you to go away, or I guess go to the comment section.
Now I love a good rant and all, but you didn’t supply anything any sane person can latch onto. Wanting someone to join a union is not the same as being responsible for a civil war.
Let’s say that Russia and Putin were not the way they clearly are and were willing to let Ukraine go its way. Would joining the union be beneficial to Ukraine? Did we have Russia send in phony Ukrainians to act like they needed protection, while in reality they were Russian military?
Show some proof, otherwise your really just another crazy anti-war zealot in which you actually hurt the cause by portraying anti-war people as insane.
“The irrefutable fact remains though, our leaders are killing people like bugs in Ukraine, and all over the world.”
Stating it is a fact is like Fox News stating it is fair and balanced. Any semi-intelligent person knows it is not and you come off as a propaganda artist. Yes I agree we are and have killed all sorts of people without good cause around the world for very bad reasons.
The facts are there for you to find Brooks, unlike 50,000 commentators, I’ve invested a year of my life and over 150,000 euro to try and tell the dissenting story on this. I’ve also been called everything under the sun for trying to keep my American comrades and countrymen out of the biggest war in 70 years. So, I have already presented the truth 500 times. I think I deserve this Op-Ed on my own blog suggesting you trust me enough to look.
Rant? Fair enough, take it or leave it.
I do appreciate you taking your valuable time to come and at least acknowledge I am a crazy anti-war zealot. I guess that makes the other side, fully sane warmongers or something. Sorry for being contrite, but you report from where I’ve been reporting for as long. And for free.
Always,
Phil
Thank you for your article Phil. There are many people in Europe, Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, China, Africa, Russia, Iran, etc who agree with you. In USA too just read Ron Paul. And what a great compliment Brook gave you – “crazy anti-war zealot” ! Be proud to be known as that Phil. Keep up the good work!
@Human … As you say being a crazy anti-war zealot is better than being a crazy war monger intent on killing everything that moves. Thanks for your kind words, and this is really the point. All we need to do is really want to understand and be kind to one another. If everyone pulled together, none of this would be necessary. I thought since years now, by the time the 21st century got here, we’d have solved all these problems.
Maybe these videos will give you some food for thought Brooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo_SEghkJuA&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQjmwVC_Dts
LISTEN miss that fact yous have 600billion defense budget and 500+ bases around the world says it all! What do you think all that money and hardware is for? Its for interfering in all countries around the world to tow the US way! Only yous have the right to dictate to the world and pump there oil/gas only yous have the right to sell your shit to the world! Yous have been involved in every war since world war2! Why becsuse your so nice? your a warmongering nation and the world knows it and hates yous! Spend all that money on your impoverished people and give them free health and education like most of world does instead spreading your democratic propaganda overseas! AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AMERICA
Thank you, Philip. No more words to say. Thank you..
Just the truth as I see it Yana.
As an American who has been fighting this since the start, and cannot get simple opinion pieces published pointing out some of the other side, it dawned on me the other day that the Ukrainian regime- and the rest of the world for supporting them- is indeed “Nazi” in at least the following way. Hitler considered Salvs “sub-human”…good only for slave labor. Based on some rough metrics, a smart mathematician can actually calculate how “sub” they are. Let’s start with Charlie Ebdo. 12 folks are murdered, and likely 2 billion people hear about it, and show up for marches. Over 5,000 innocent folks in the Ukraine are killed, and likely maybe 2-3 million protest. Or, one could take Western media coverage – for the 12 French killed, Western media likely “hit” the same 2 billion folks. As for the Ukraine, Western media has basically done NOTHING to cover…so, using either ratio, you would have to say an East Ukrainian (Russian heritage life) is worth maybe 1/100,000 of a “real” person. Heck, even slaves in US got a better ratio.
Hi Stephen, we use the same math system it appears. 1 million Russian speaking Ukraine refugees is not worth as much as the much maligned and hated Islamic refugee populations of the Middle East. Hell, a wild dingo shot by mistake in Australia gets more coverage than a blown to bits baby in Donetsk. BBC just did the fist report I’ve seen in months from Donetsk Airport, where wonder of wonders, Kiev’s artillery struck during the ceasefire.
I’m glad you are awake my friend! Pls keep spreading the truth, no matter how ugly and unpalatable it may be to many!
Doing my best Realist, doing my very best.
American money-monger corporate-gangs are causing this atrocities. In fact democracy in America has become a mockery as American leader are puppet of these corporate-gangs.
Russia has a dilemma. How to work for a peaceful solution of the Ukrainian conflict – and avoid larger, more terrible war – when the Russians have to negiate with demonic interlocutors, fools and vassals? I mean the American and European leaders, respectively.
The problem with trying to have a conversation with fools is that they simply are not able to see beyond the tip of their nose. They suffer from cognitive dissonance and they are proud. In fact they are more animals the more we congratulate them on their strength. Nothing can teach fools; their rude and blunt worldview prohibits their different perspective, even if it is just. They also hate corrected them, which only worsens their stupidity.
The problem when you’re dealing with vassals, that they can not change course – even if they have some ability to think for themselves and realize that the prospect that offers them is more correct or more expected.
This is the problem that Russia in its relations with Washington and its European allies on the conflict in the Ukraine
All that is written in the publication is a lie. Or the truth turned inside out. And all this is very similar to the Russian propaganda, and I saw her very much.
We in Ukraine there is no civil war. There are Russian troops and there are Ukrainians, who are fighting for money.
Take note I have approved your comment Lyubov. If you will kindly send me all your photographs of little coffins being put in the ground to the West of Donetsk, then we can chat. In the meantime, I consider several thousand dead civilians the Kiev side of this shelled and bombed to death, as my evidence. Show me Kiev with a Russian flag waving over it, and I will be on your side today.
I have kept up with current events about the Ukraine and Syria! To my disgust Europeans and Russians alike continue to place blame on Americans ego and their conscience! I didn’t have anything to do with it anymore than the average Russian or Dutchman! Our government is set up to be one by the people and for the people! It no longer represents Americans anymore than you do! It has failed us which Obama and his Muslim White House aides predicted Valerie Jarrett being the principle one! He is not my president and the members in the Senate I do not support in my area which is all you can control! He said that he would use our own constitution to destroy us through Jarrett! He supports this now! We are all suffering as a result and our honor and prestige as a country have been diminished to the point of not being in existence! We are on the verge of trying to take our country back as racial relations are the worst since 1965 he has set us back that far in history! We as a country want him and his cohorts in the progressive liberal party or it should read progressive capitalist peoples environment! Short would be Pope or people to envelop all the countries and money through a NWO! Thanks for this space!
We want the progressive liberals who support the works of Barrack Hussain Obama and Hillary Clinton to be jailed as soon as possible as Americans since they do not represent the people of America and we need help to do it!
Great article but it misses one very important point. Those devoid of all humanity who are behind all this suffering are the ones that we are electing the re-electing. As much blame for what is going on, if not more, can be parked at the doorstep of every major mainstream media outlet, especially those in the US. Remind me again who keeps digesting those lies, day after day? How do you eat an elephant? A spoonful at the time. How do you change universe? By first changing yourself. We can sit here until the sun runs out of nuclear energy and becomes white dwarf and comment all we like but things will not change one iota. Not until we wake up that is. I am very optimistic though. Mainstream media audience is in free fall and rightly so. People are simply sick and tired of being told a lie. Ignorance is a luxury that can no longer be afforded and we are witnessing awakening on a scale never seen before. Look around you if you live in EU. Do you like what you see? EU is today paying a very heavy price of its subservience to the US imperialism, and it hasn’t even started paying properly yet with the imminent arrival of another estimated million refugees this year alone. Did we really expect to illegally bomb 7 countries in 15 years and get away with it? How is that coffee smelling now?