U.S. weapons now killing Russians instead of Ukrainians

Most Americans likely think we first provided Ukraine with the $1 billion in weapons swiftly provided since the February 24, Russian war started. What were not told by our government and mainstream media is that the U.S. has long been providing Ukraine with several billions in weaponry and warfare training by CIA paramilitaries to fight against the separatist forces in the breakaway Donbass provinces. Over 13,000 Russian speaking and leaning Ukrainians lay dead from the new Ukraine government we midwifed into existence in February, 2014.

U.S. support for the coup which ousted Russian leaning Ukraine president Victor Yanukovych represents a crime against the Ukraine people. The deaths of Ukrainians in the resulting civil war were totally avoidable. No coup, no civil war, no 13,000 dead if only the U.S. kept its imperialist nose out of Ukraine affairs. More importantly, there would be no criminal Russian invasion 8 years later to keep a NATO armed Ukraine off Russia’s doorstep.

Once the war began, the U.S. and NATO again did the wrong thing; flooding Ukraine with weaponry which cannot defeat Russia, merely prolong a war in which neither side can prevail. That will result in thousands more dead on both sides, millions more refugees, and further driving the poorest country in Europe deeper into failed state status.

The first right thing the U.S. and NATO should have done was negotiate the December 17, 2021 Russian security demands a full 2 months before the invasion. The second right thing? Once the war started, was to put the full weight of diplomacy at work to obtain a prompt settlement, saving thousands of lives and massive physical destruction.

But 23 days later the U.S. and NATO continue to denigrate negotiations while endlessly filling the pipeline of weaponry.

When it comes to criminal war, whether started by the U.S. or Russia, the U.S. is consistent. They always get it wrong.