Are Blinken and Biden’s Gaza genocide denials any different than Nazi WWII genocide denials?

 

Are Blinken and Biden’s Gaza genocide denials any different than Nazi WWII genocide denials?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the NY Times he’s not worried about history judging him as a genocide enabler.

When asked he replied, “No. It’s not (genocide), first of all. Second, as to how the world sees it, I can’t fully answer to that.”

Blinken will deny to his death his $22 billion in weapons that Israel has used to utterly destroy sustainable life for 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza’s 139 square miles is genocide. But the entire world aside from the Biden administration is correct in viewing it as genocide

It isn’t that Blinken “Can’t answer to that” (the world viewing it as genocide). He simply won’t answer to what is the most monstrous crime a national leader can commit. From Day 1 in the genocide Israel embarked upon in response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, Blinken and his boss Biden have been calling the genocide their weapons enable ‘self-defense.’

Denying genocide is what the Nazi war criminals did to a man at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials after WWII.

There will be no war crime trials for Blinken and Biden for the genocide that could not take place their tens of billions in weapons, vetoes of ceasefire resolutions in the US Security Council, public support and their endless ‘self-defense’ refrain.

In a bitter irony for humanity, it was the US which helped establish the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1998 to ferret out and prosecute war criminals. But with criminal US wars devastating Afghanistan and Iraq, the US has turned on the ICC in fear of becoming ICC war crime targets. The US has abstained from membership and has blasted the ICC indicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his Gaza genocide. President Biden called the indictment “outrageous” and declared “We will always stand with Israel.”

Is that any different than denying, even condoning WWII Nazi genocide?

Blinken and Biden, barreling toward historical infamy with their blank check enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza.

 

 

NATO membership for Ukraine a non-starter

 

NATO membership for Ukraine a non-starter

Ihor Stelmach’s Sun Times letter posing 5 reasons why Ukraine membership would be advantageous for the US is bizarre in the extreme.

His first reason is preposterous. It would not facilitate the war’s end. It would inflame it to possible nuclear confrontation between Russia and the US.

The second reason is equally absurd. Displaying unwillingness to pursue NATO membership to Ukraine Putin will not embolden Putin. Just the opposite, it might create conditions for a negotiated end to the war

The third reason, claiming NATO membership will enhance Ukraine’s security, will guarantee the opposite. Its very possibility is what provoked Russia’s invasion. Even Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky begrudgingly admitted that truth.

Reason four claims that 3 years of war has “has transformed itself (Ukraine military) into a lean, mean fighting machine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces is vast in numbers, battle-hardened, skillful, well-trained and possesses unmatched experience in the realities of modern warfare.” Stelmach is apparently unaware the Ukraine military is nearly destroyed, with over 500,000 dead and 200,000 draftees fled from Ukraine’s impending loss.

Stelmach’s fifth reason concludes that inviting Ukraine into NATO will quench Russia’s imperialistic ambitions to recreate the former Soviet empire. No reasonable historian or political scientist would concur with that hyperbolic view.

US/NATO efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO, allowing US nukes on Russia’s borders, provoked a totally unnecessary war that has largely destroyed Ukraine as a viable state. Unless the US acknowledges that reality and pivots away from NATO membership for Ukraine, America’s Ukraine proxies will continue their downward spiral of death and destruction.