OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #133, JULY 5, 2023.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #133, JULY 5, 2023.

Joe Lauria.   “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.”

Chris Hedges.  “They Lied….”  

Editors.  Monthly Review.  A Socialist Disarmament Strategy.

 

Joe Lauria.  Special to Consortium News.  “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.”  July 6, 2023.

Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it's impossible to understand Ukraine.  (Forwarded by E. San Juan, Jr.)

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/30/ukraine-timeline-tells-the-story/

AMERICAN EMPIRE, ANALYSIS, HISTORY, INTELLIGENCE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAGATE, UKRAINE, WIKILEAKS

The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history.

A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine.  There was no other cause, according to this version, other than unprovoked, Russian aggression against an innocent country.

Please use this short, historical guide to share with people who still flip through the funny pages trying to figure out what’s going on in Ukraine.  The mainstream account is like opening a novel in the middle of the book to read a random chapter as though it’s the beginning of the story.

Thirty years from now historians will write of the context of the Ukraine war: the coup, the attack on Donbass, NATO expansion, rejection of Russian treaty proposals — without being called Putin puppets. It will be the same way historians write of the Versailles Treaty as a cause of Nazism and WWII, but aren’t called Nazi-sympathizers.  MORE https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/30/ukraine-timeline-tells-the-story/

 

“They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.”  Chris Hedges Report (July 2, 2023).

The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.  CHRIS HEDGES . . .The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, although one that was provoked by NATO expansion and by the United States backing of the 2014 “Maidan” coup which ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych wanted economic integration with the European Union, but not at the expense of economic and political ties with Russia. The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow’s protection, as well as Ukrainian neutrality, which means the country cannot join NATO. The longer these negotiations are delayed the more Ukrainians will suffer and die. Their cities and infrastructure will continue to be pounded into rubble. But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve U.S. interests. It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military and isolates Russia from Europe. What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant. . . . MORE  https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/they-lied-about-afghanistan-they?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=132635022&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

 

The Editors (July 6, 2023).  A Disarmament Proposal.  Monthly Review.  75.3 (July-August 2023).  buy this issue DISARMAMENT Writing at the end of the nineteenth century, Frederick Engels foresaw that without disarmament, Europe would soon be plunged into war. Modern weaponry has made the question of disarmament even more urgent. In this month’s “Notes from the Editors,” the editors put forward the objectives for a contemporary socialist disarmament strategy. | more…       SHARE