History is accelerating in Ukraine, as Russian advances confirm that the proxy war ginned up by the US Neocons and their counterparts in Europe to defeat and dismember Russia is a complete failure, putting the European vassals in jeopardy, creating cracks in the unity of the imperialist bloc, and showing that, as Pres. Putin had warned, Russian weapons are demonstrably superior to anything in NATO’s arsenal, not to mention Moscow’s military-industrial capacity to sustain all forms of warfare, including long wars of attrition. These facts have cemented the flight of nations away from the American Hegemon and its self-serving rules to a new world alignment comprised of sovereign nations arranged in an egalitarian, multipolar order.
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EDITOR—Russia has been observing and collecting intel on where Ukraine ammo/weapons dumps are for a long time, says Garland, and they use this constantly enhanced information to modulate the enemy’s options. In the case of the long-awaited (and announced!) “counter-offensive”, Moscow apparently has decided to decapitate the Ukrainian military’s options (read: NATO), by blowing up many of their critical logistical centers.
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RANIA KHALEK—It’s widely accepted that humans are driving climate change and environmentalism has become mainstream. But what if “humanity” in the abstract isn’t to blame? Is it true that humans are inherently bad for nature? What if the real culprit is the systems we’re forced to operate under — capitalism, imperialism, colonialism— perpetrated by particular sections of humanity over others? So who, or what is to blame is really to blame for climate change?
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EDWARD CURTIN—But it was no mistake; it was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use drafted (enslaved) American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. It’s the Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, that became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In fact, it is fair to say that there has never in history been a time when the need to forcefully oppose the warmongering of our own western governments was more urgent. The attacks on Vietnam and Iraq were horrific atrocities which unleashed unfathomable suffering upon our world, but they did not pose any major existential threat to the world as a whole. The wars in Vietnam and Iraq killed millions; we’re talking about a conflict that can kill billions.
