Implications of the Ukrainian bio lab story are huge.
Russia claims US has been developing bioweapons. US denies--but then Victoria Nuland's testimony suggests the US is in fact hiding something. But US establishment can't admit anything because then *Russia* is more truthful.
A cornerstone of the US foreign policy establishment is that countries like Russia are incapable of telling the truth. This is used to justify DC's meddling.
But this risks blowing all of that up, which is why Republicans and Democrats will go on lockstep here.
This also isn't like Iraq with WMDs. Nuland admitted that there is something there that we don't want the Russians to get...but it's purely defensive/benign?
All this is speculative. With things like this it's doubtful the truth is ever clear. Ukraine is a black hole of intrigue pretending to be a country.
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Zelensky said the West is partly to blame for the war in Ukraine. He's right, and few people bear as much blame as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.
Nuland is married to Robert Kagan, a neoconservative who has never disliked a war he didn’t have to fight. Before serving under Obama, she was a staffer in President Bill Clinton’s administration.
From 2003 to 2005, Nuland played an influential role during the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq as a top advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Russia can guarantee civilian evacuation corridors only in the east
Ukraine rejects Russia's offer to evacuate civilians to the east as Zelensky continues to demand a no-fly zone
Zelensky essentially uses civilians as human shields
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Russias renews ceasefire but Ukraine rejects proposal to evacuate civilians to the east
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The NYT story about civilians getting killed noted that Ukrainians were firing from a nearby civilian area on Russians and that inaccurate Russian return fire killed civilians
Chances of this happening would be much smaller in the east but Ukraine says that's unacceptable
Putin invaded Ukraine. But an alliance of bad actors, the U.S. foreign policy establishment, and NGOs paved the road that made the present crisis inevitable.
My latest column is a deep dive into the origins of the war.
If the first casualty in war is truth, then all the rest are those from whom the truth is kept.
We are now dealing with the symptoms rather than the cause of the war.
Some stuff that I found really wild:
Between 1991 and 2013, the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy pumped more than $5 billion into Ukraine to promote civil society. But its real function is as a vehicle for regime change.
The Ukrainian government, including Zelensky, *lied* about Russians critically damaging the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in a way that caused radiation levels to rise, which they used to justify getting US/NATO involved.
The Ukrainian government is actively trying to start WWIII.
I'm not pro Russia, I'm not pro Ukraine, but lying like this is irresponsible and despicable because Ukrainian officials know Western media will just repeat whatever they say.
I don't care that Ukraine’s government and Zelensky have been sanctified by the media and morons in both parties--they're a threat to the United States at this point and any other country they try to emotionally blackmail and morally manipulate into escalating this conflict.
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came with both a Ukrainian themed pocket square and a Ukrainian flag lapel pin. That's about as Ukrainian as you can get. Even the president of Ukraine doesn’t do that very often."
lmao nobody tell Jonah Goldberg and David French
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"What McCarthy conspicuously didn’t do was don an American flag. Because within the context of last night, the American flag was literally irrelevant. Lots of our leaders feel that way all of a sudden."
The message: nationalism is OK for everyone except Americans 3/