US LAWLESSNESS

Brian discusses the weapons still being pushed on Ukraine by the West, and the many (often technical) reasons (like the sheer inadequacy in numbers and battlefield capabilities) they are not likely to change the outcome of the war.

ERIC ZUESSE—C4ADS is a ‘charity’ for ‘peace’ that is staffed largely by retired American military experts, and its arguments are founded upon the view that any nation which disobeys the U.S. Government is a ‘threat’ to American national security; in other words, it is solidly neoconservative or U.S.-imperialistic, “You’re either with us or you’re against us”; and they won’t be satisfied (i.e., they assume that there won’t be ‘peace’) until America’s empire includes each and every nation. For them, ‘peace’ can exist only upon the basis of force; everything in international relations is a zero-sum game.

ERIC ZUESSE—My disagreement with Johnstone on this matter is that it’s not primarily an issue about which side’s propaganda to support, but instead it’s about what the truth is: what the historical record is that explains, in a credible cause-and-effect way — as all of science is required to do — the U.S. regime’s grabbing of Ukraine during 20-27 February 2014, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, which finally responded to that U.S. coup, and to the rabidly anti-Russian regime it installed on Russia’s border, after Russia’s diplomatic methods of responding to that threat against Russia’s national security had failed.