eric zuesse

RT—After giving himself nearly unlimited power during the conflict through martial law and outsitting his official presidential term, Zelensky has cracked down on dissent, consolidated the media, and banned opposition parties. However, when he recently attempted to neuter Western-funded anti-corruption bodies, a glimpse of the nation’s pent up frustration became evident as massive protests broke out across all major cities.

But the strongest evidence for the inevitable standoff between the government and the people are the constant standoffs between military conscription police (TCC) and the public, which have been reported almost daily across Ukraine for the past several years and have been growing increasingly violent.

ERIC ZUESSE—Europeans have spent their lives under Russophobic propaganda; and, so, widely believe that NATO is necessary in order to PROTECT them from Russia. It is a deep-seated and widespread prejudice in the U.S. empire, nurtured constantly by the billionaires’ media. That BBC documentary was an exception because the Soviet Union had just ended in 1991 and there wasn’t yet enough time passed for the “not one inch to the east” pretense to start publicly to be trashed.

ERIC ZUESSE—On 25 July 1945, U.S. President Truman had decided that the U.S. Government must conquer Russia and take over the world, and that getting Ukraine would be instrumental in achieving this; and (with the exception of JFK), all subsequent U.S. Presidents have been continuing in that line — and almost all European Governments have been subservient to America’s.

But now, all European Governments are being forced to either recommit themselves with America to that war against their fellow European nation Russia, which choice would end in WW3, or else to switch sides now and defend a nation (Denmark, including Greenland) that the U.S. Government targets for take-over.

ERIC ZUESSE—The question America’s adversaries and allies are asking themselves in the aftermath of the Caracas raid is whether this embrace of 19th-century-style imperial thinking also means a pivot away from the rest of the world that would give China and Russia greater sway in their neighborhoods.

ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S. government, under Trump, is demanding capitulation from countries like Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba. This includes forcing Venezuela to partner only with the U.S. on oil and attempting to buy Greenland from Denmark. Despite these aggressive actions, U.S. allies in NATO and the EU remain silent, highlighting their complicity with the fascist-imperialist regime.