U.S. Government Hypocrisy is Stunning
The U.S. government regards the entire world as its legitimate sphere of influence.
The U.S. invaded, bombed, and sanctioned nations worldwide. It armed militias and launched regime change operations. Since just 9/11 the U.S. invaded or bombed Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Yemen, Iran, Somalia, and Niger. The Trump administration is now bombing Venezuelan boats and is preparing for a land invasion. The U.S. aided war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. The U.S. has occupied 1/3rd of Syria, the parts with oil, since about 2015, with help from a proxy army, the SDF. The U.S. allied with al Qaeda-linked extremist groups in Syria, as reported here, here and here; it killed 100s of thousands of Syrians through brutal sanctions.
Prior to 9/11 the U.S. fought proxy wars and launched coups throughout Latin America, supporting autocratic regimes. In Indonesia it helped kill about a million leftists.
The U.S. lied about most of these wars. They even lied about the war in Yugoslavia, as documented in Harper’s Magazine, here, and here. In short, the Kosovo Liberation Army that the U.S. supported was, basically, a terrorist organization funded by the CIA. Likewise, The U.S. backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia. U.S. propaganda greatly overstated the nobility of the U.S. intervention.
The U.S. has over 750 overseas military bases. It withdrew from multiple nuclear arms treaties (ABM, INF, START II, JCPOA, and Open Skies Treaty).
According to the U.S. government, Russia’s and China’s spheres of influence don’t even include their own borderlands.
The U.S. is preparing for war with China over Taiwan, with massive arms buildups near China. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, violating multiple verbal promises given to Soviet leaders. The CIA and its sister organization, the NED, sponsored color revolutions in multiple former Soviet bloc countries. The CIA “engineered” the 2014 coup in Ukraine, according to former U.S. ambassador Chas W. Freeman. The U.S. armed the Azov battalion that was killing Russian speakers in the east of Ukraine. (See also this and this.) In 2019 RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia; RAND predicted the actions would result in a war in which Russia would have the advantage. The NY Times and Washington Post reported on extensive CIA meddling in Ukraine since at least 2014. The New Yorker reported on CIA and NSA efforts to hide what they had done in Ukraine.
Jack Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador the the USSR, said in a 2024 interview: “Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?” Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and “Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea.” Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are “dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying.” And Matlock wrote: “I have been appalled that a succession of American presidents and European leaders discarded the diplomacy that ended the Cold War, abandoned the agreements that curbed the nuclear arms race, and provoked a new cold war which has now become hot.”
See this for dozens of mainstream news articles about the presence Nazis in Ukraine and U.S. support for them.
The U.S. stymied peace deals both before and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Would the U.S. allow Russia to expand a military alliance to include Cuba and Mexico and then overthrow the government of Canada, install the new Prime Minister, arm anti-U.S. militias, ban the official use of English, and station missiles and bases near U.S. borders?
See The Ukraine Papers for more information about the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. shares responsibility for the war in Ukraine. Senior U.S. diplomats, secretaries of Defense and other warned that NATO expansion was unnecessary and provocative. But the neocons who run U.S. foreign policy are committed to aggressive expansionism. They used the poor Ukrainians as pawns in a nasty geopolitical chess game. U.S. policies killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, devastated Ukraine’s infrastructure, damaged European economies, and diverted trillions of dollars towards military buildups.
It’s time for Americans to wise up to the lies told about this war; to oppose the trillion dollar budget for the Department of War; to demand the closing of overseas bases; to oppose the trillion dollar expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal; and to demand an end to endless wars, proxy wars, regime change operations, and provocations. Our country is 38 trillion dollars in debt and we have numerous pressing needs to address domestically.
U.S. Hypocrisy is Stunning concerning wars
Warnings by diplomats, secretaries of defense, academics, journalists and others about NATO expansion into Ukraine:
