The inter-imperialist brutality in Ukraine drags on today, fully one and a half years after the NATO-provoked invasion launched by the Russian Federation (R.F.). The U.S. Empire went out looking for a fight with the R.F. and used NATO to find one. The ruling class of the U.S. has leveraged this fight to isolate the R.F. and to open new European markets for its liquid petroleum gas by cutting Germany and its allies off from the R.F. supply. The U.S. ruling class has been working to mystify and obfuscate its involvement behind the fascist battalions of the Ukrainian army and the fascists gravitating to the “defense” of Ukraine from all over Europe and the U.S.
The mass media, slaves to the ruling class, are nevertheless beating the drums of war. The Washington Post (“Democracy dies in darkness”) openly trumpets that the war in Ukraine is good for the U.S. Empire in all of the expected ways: It will “break up” the Sino-Russian alliance, it will defeat “our” enemies (who are “we” here? The editorial doesn’t say, but merely assumes that anyone reading the rag is bourgeois, upper petit-bourgeois, or otherwise aligned with the political class of the Empire), Ukraine is a good place to test experimental weapons and gear up to go to war with the People’s Republic of China, and the perennial favorite, U.S. manufacturing will return if we go to war. Of course, the author Marc Thiessen, speechwriter for some of the most evil people on the planet, doesn’t mean general domestic manufacturing — he means high-tech jobs in the murder sector like Raytheon and Northrop.
There’s more money to be made in Ukraine, though: The U.S., which pushed Ukraine into war with the R.F., can turn around and “rebuild” its infrastructure. The empire and its junior NATO partners have already committed $66 billion to do just that. This would, of course, result in significant concessions within Ukraine to these foreign investors. In June of this year, the U.S. Empire announced its intentions to own the Ukrainian energy grid with a $1 billion investment. Criminal financial monopolists like BlackRock have taken time from their busy schedule of buying all the housing stock in the U.S. to help the clown Zelenskyy raise private capital so U.S. investors can buy his entire country. The war has turned out to be a fire sale for the West. Yes, we are all aware that “[p]rivate investors see a ‘tremendous opportunity,’” as the JPMorgan ghoul Stefan Weifer cooed in an interview with CNN, in the destruction and privation of the Ukrainian people, but we thank JPMorgan for pointing out that the investment firms intend to capitalize on human misery! Of course, the mass media has called out the feeding frenzy and publicized it so no investor need miss out on this opportunity to financially colonize a country.
Reuters released the results of a poll on Wednesday June 28, 2023, showing that this media saturation has had its intended effect. The poll “charted a sharp rise in backing for arming Ukraine, with 65% of the respondents approving of the [weapons] shipments compared with 46% in a May poll.”
In foreign policy, the U.S. government represents the most rapacious elements of U.S. Capital. Anyone who bucks this trend on the all-empire scale, including those within the ranks of the reactionary far-right GOP block, is rapidly silenced. The capitalists cannot afford skepticism about Ukraine, the war, and their part in it. Left-liberal politicians, for so long pointing to the Wagner Group within the R.F. as proof that the R.F. had its fair share of Nazis, rejoiced this month when the same Russian fascist private military contractor turned on Putin and the R.F.’s government. Whichever side they fight for, the U.S. ruling class and their pet politicians seem to keep eagerly lining up with various fascists. Global fascism, in fact, traces its funding and support directly to the post-World-War-II United States intelligence agencies.
We cannot afford to be duped by the mass media, by the politicians, or by the ruling class. We must agree that we will not support the imperialist Ukraine war. We say NO to all U.S. dollars and resources being spent to see bigger piles of bodies in Eastern Europe, to see blood spread across an ever-widening arc in Ukraine. The support of the U.S. is the kiss of death, and benefits no one except the far-right elements within Ukraine. We demand an end to U.S. support for this war!
