It’s Not About Hunter’s Laptop, It’s About Blaming Russia
The story is not about Hunter Biden’s laptop, the story is that scores of intelligence agents and the entire establishment media said it was fake and blamed the story on Russia.
The story is not that Donald Trump should have been impeached, it is that of the myriad impeachable offenses he was guilty (of which every other President was similarly guilty), they chose to impeach him on merely suggesting that he might delay the latest shipment of arms to Ukraine. The same sort of blackmailing Joe Biden bragged about when he threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid from Ukraine unless prosecutor Victor Shokin was fired.
The story is not that Joe Biden demanded prosecutor Victor Shokin be fired, it is that had Putin or Trump had a crackhead son who was raking in millions of dollars from a cushy board position he was unqualified for, all holy hell would have been raised by the media. In the U.S. media, not the slightest intimation is permitted. In fact, an election might have been flipped due to its suppression.
The story is not even that Russia invaded Ukraine, it is that in every instance the U.S. and its compliant European allies did everything in their power to foment tensions between the two nations. That the answer to every single problem was to send more arms to Ukraine while ignoring the fact that it was known to be the most corrupt country in Europe and harbored extreme right-wing militias that were unaccountable to the Kiev government. Let me repeat this last part to accentuate the point: U.S. funneled billions of dollars of money and billions of dollars in weapons into a country with a known problem with Nazis that borders Russia, the country that lost more of its population from Nazis than all other nations combined.* Did nobody imagine that that might be a recipe for disaster? Was anybody, anybody, thinking of the concerns of anyone other than the weapons manufacturers and those who work at think tanks promoting America’s “full spectrum dominance” of the entire planet?
The story is that nobody can name a single instance when the U.S. sought to de-escalate tensions in the Ukraine, whereas there are numerous instances that can be pointed to where the U.S. deliberately sought to provoke a reaction from Russia. Unless you have an argument to the contrary, it must be assumed that the U.S. has been acting as a bad faith actor during the entirety of this crisis. In other words, there was no one in the United States with which Russia could hope to work with, no agreement that would be made that could be trusted.
You only have to look at our string of recent presidents to understand this. How could any country expect to reach an agreement with the United States and hope that it might be respected? Iraq agreed to surrender its weapons and was invaded under Bush. Syria and Libya agreed to relinquish weapons under a peace deal with the U.S. and were then bombed under Obama’s watch. Obama managed to scrape together a nuclear deal with Iran but it was not respected by Trump. Ukraine itself signed on to agreements (admittedly not with the U.S. but put together with its NATO allies) which Ukraine never bothered to live up to. If Biden had wanted to exert his power in any useful way, perhaps he could have insisted Kiev live up to its treaty obligations.
Who would Russia hope to negotiate a good faith treaty with on the American side? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who bragged that in the CIA, which he for a time led, “We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training classes.” Could Russia put its faith in his successor, Antony Blinken, who is cut from the same cloth and spouts propaganda so obvious that it would be embarrassing to anyone in government that had integrity, if such a person existed? Or should Russia have put the safety and future of their country in the hands of the preceding Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, who giggled as she said, (referring to the ruler of Libya), “We came, we saw, he died,” leaving the once-most-prosperous nation on the continent of Africa prey to unending civil war and open-air slave markets.
Perhaps Russia might have been expected to have honest dealings with Colin Powell, who famously waved a vial of white powder and insisted that Iraq had chemical weapons, none of which were ever found. Or his successor, Condoleezza Rice, who equally pushed at the time for a war based on lies.
The real story is that the United States has no one in power who can be trusted. The real story is that the U.S. did everything in its power to make a Russian invasion of Ukraine inevitable. I want to stress that I am not justifying the invasion, just pointing out the obvious, that not even Pollyanna herself would believe that trusting those with power in the United States is anything other than the equivalent of national suicide. This is the real story and it is one you will never hear on the news. No, what you will hear on the news is that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, that the U.S. and NATO needed to get involved in Libya for the good of the Libyan people. That we needed to do the same in Syria, where today our military hold a third of their country (the third with the greatest oil and gas reserves) and the media never mentions it.
The real story is that the United States has been involved in a 6 year propaganda war the likes of which few of us living can even claim to have experienced before. It is a propaganda war that has worked exceedingly well on its own populace and amongst most of the white western world, but the majority of the planet is not buying it.
I don’t feel I’m being anti-American for pointing these facts out. I believe I’m doing what any self-respecting citizen of the United States should be doing by pointing out the obvious hypocrisy and recklessness of those who now direct our foreign policy. Our current trajectory endangers the entire planet. And last time I looked at a map, the United States of America was part of that planet.
*Conservative estimates put the total amount of deaths of people of the Soviet Union at 20 million. Russia did not constitute the entirety of the Soviet Union, but was the much greater part of it. Many of the people murdered by the Nazis in Ukraine were assisted by Ukrainians. The situation is complex and arguable, but to try to deny the enmity the average Russian feels toward fascism and the Nazi ideology is perverse.