Thread by @ggreenwald

It's nothing short of stunning how the US Govt continues to convince its journalists that its motive in places like Ukraine is to defend democracy when -- leaving aside from the coup the US engineered in Ukraine -- the US props up the tyrants of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt.

The second you step outside the US and speak with people who haven't been drowned in this propaganda their whole lives, they immediately see it. Here's a mainstream Brazilian reporter with Globo, @gugachacra, pointing this out. How do they manage to obscure this in the US???

"Yes, we go around the world toppling governments at will and propping up the most savage tyrannies -- and we have for decades -- yet you will tell Americans that our motive is always to side with pro-democracy forces and protect and defend freedom."

How does this still work???

Remember when Joe Biden was in charge of Ukraine for the Obama administration and a Ukrainian energy company paid his son Hunter $50,000/month to sit on its Board even though he had no experience or knowledge whatsoever about that industry?

Anyway...

The US has been all but running Ukraine as a colony -- to the point that Biden was dictating which prosecutors should be fired and Burisma paid Hunter $50k/month to curry favor with his dad -- but the DC class says "Russia has no right to interfere in Ukraine" and everyone nods.

And: the most grievance on left and right is the low living standard of US workers.

But DC says: hey, let's fight Russia by funding a Ukrainian insurgency, and nobody asks how much it'll cost, where the money will come from, what has to be sacrificed for it, why it's worth it.