Biden knew Ukraine would lose proxy war with Russia….provoked it anyway

 

Biden knew Ukraine would lose proxy war with Russia….provoked it anyway

 

The US proxy war against Russia destroying Ukraine has largely disappeared from mainstream news. US warfare with Venezuela, possible renewed war with Iran, seizing Greenland from Denmark have put a virtual blackout on Ukraine war reporting.

 

But a bigger reason is the war is lost with no chance of reversing the destruction of Ukraine short of nuclear war with Russia. If that happens we’re all destroyed.

 

So Trump, his advisors, the national security state (A.K.A. war party) and the aforementioned mainstream news have moved on. They realize the war has become a spectacular defeat for America’s goal of bringing Ukraine into NATO to further weaken Russia and isolate it from the European political economy. Publically admitting defeat and failure is something none of them will dare not speak its name.

 

Trump, to his credit, is trying to get both Ukraine and NATO to give up and settle on Russia’ sensible terms: no NATO for Ukraine, Ukraine to be forever neutral between Europe and Russia, no return of land containing mainly Russian leaning Ukrainians brutalized by Kyiv for 8 years before Russia intervened.

 

How badly has Ukraine lost? Over a million and a half dead, wounded or MIA, a quarter million soldiers deserted and over 9 million fled to safer climes. The economy down by a third surviving on European life support. Reconstruction costs once war ends at a half trillion dollars and rising.

 

Russia meanwhile is thriving, economy up by pivoting away from trade with Europe to the Global South and others only too happy to degrade both US and European hegemony. Result is a tripling of NATO energy costs, collapse of leaders support with nationalist, antiwar opposition poised to take over next election.

 

Could it get any worse for Ukraine and NATO?  

 

Yet..and yet, President Zelensky is refusing to accept the reality of Ukraine’s defeat, even demanding return of territory lost forever. NATO countries led by delusional leaders Starmer in UK, Merz in Germany and Macron in France, claiming they’re Russia’s next target, are still pledging war resources they don’t have and never will

 

The only logical explanation is that they know the inevitable defeat facing Ukraine and NATO but are terrified to admit it and do the right thing. Trump, while sensibly pushing Ukraine and NATO, refuses to pull all US support for the lost war. He’s cynically telling NATO to keep the weapons flowing…just as long as they buy them from America. For Trump, lost war can still be a profitable business deal. He’s also refuses to pull the plug on massive weapons Biden foolishly authorized in his last days knowing Trump had no stomach to continue the war.

 

Speaking of Biden, he knew Ukraine could not prevail when he provoked the Russian Special Military Operation in February, 2022. But he viewed Ukraine’s destruction as collateral damage to so degrading Russia in the process that they would be forever weakened and out of the European political economy. Biden likely viewed US/NATO Ukraine support as a repeat of US meddling that defeated Russia in Afghanistan in 1989. Big mistake as history didn’t repeat.

 

Biden’s Mother of all Sanctions and $150 billion in weapons backfired spectacularly. So not only did Biden destroy Ukraine by provoking war, he’s likely destroyed America’s dominance leading NATO in Europe. In fact he may have put NATO on the path to history with their impending defeat flailing away at a lost cause.

 

The only question, besides how badly the rump state of Ukraine will end up at war’s end, is whether Ukraine and NATO’s futile perseverance will end up in nuclear war with Russia still possible every day this nightmare continues.

 

However it ends, Joe Biden’s legacy will be making the greatest foreign policy mistake so far in America’s 250 years.

 

Say it wasn’t so, Joe.

 

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL

Errol Flynn and the Cuban Rebel Girls

 Errol Flynn’s 58^th and last film Cuban Rebel Girls was universally panned upon its 1960 release shortly after his death at 50 in 1959. The LA Times review was typical: “The storyline is weak and poor direction and editing merely add to the confusion. The remainder of the cast is inconsequential and their acting, if it can be called that, is on a par with the over-all production, which is uniformly bad. It is a sad ending to one of the most flamboyant actors of our times.” FilmInk agazine went further saying “the film compels interest mostly by virtue of showing Flynn on death’s door, and the weirdness of such a pro-Castro film (even though he wasn’t a confirmed commie then) coming from a Hollywood movie star.”^[

But the film is a must see for Flynn fans like myself who has seen all but a couple of Flynn’s flicks, and anyone interested in US Cuban relations.

It might be the most interesting of all Flynn’s films for several reasons. First, it’s a most unique film of art imitating life showing Flynn as himself in his last great real life adventure covering Castro’s revolution as a Hearst correspondent. When the victorious rebels entered Havana on Jan 2, 1959, Flynn was the only US correspondent on the ground with them. Quite a late in life scoop for the adventurous Errol Flynn. It’s fascinating because Flynn is clearly in support of Castro seeking to overthrow the brutal quarter century US supported Batista regime. Not a hint of Castro communism or anti-Americanism in his telling.

Secondly, Flynn wove in a fictional story of American girl Beverly Woods who travels to Cuba with her girlfriend Jacqueline to hook up with Jacqueline’s brother fighting wth Castro who is Beverly’s boyfriend. And playing Beverly Woods is Flynn’s 16 year old real life gal pal Beverly Aadland. Flynn and Aadland have 2 touching scenes together that show more chemistry between them than that between Aadland and her much younger fictional boyfriend.

Third, tho Flynn was on death’s door from lifelong carousing, he doesn’t show it in his few scenes as he chooses to showcase his last love Aadland. And his voice is still terrific in his movie long narration. He pops up in the end to give a shout out to the Cuban rebels, Cuban people and peoples resisting brutal repression worldwide. The film should make us all ponder America’s stupidity to embark on a now 66 yearlong failed campaign to overturn the Cuban revolution.

Cuban Rebel Girls…not a bad way for Flynn to exit stage left

Is US preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as US puppet?

Is US preparing to install another Shah to run Iran as US puppet?

Nationwide protests are wracking Iran with over 500 killed and 10,000 detained. The US political establishment is ecstatic about the possibility of regime change of the hated Iranian Islamic government which in 1979 toppled the American puppet Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran) the US installed in 1953.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi pounced on this statement by former US Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo that implied both the US and Israel are involved in fomenting the protest.

"The Iranian regime is in trouble. Bringing in mercenaries is its last best hope. Riots in dozens of cities. 47 years of this regime; POTUS 47. Coincidence? Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them."

Araghchi responded: "According to the US Government, Iran is 'delusional' for assessing that Israel and the US are fueling violent riots in our country. There is only one problem: President Trump's own former CIA Director has openly and unashamedly highlighted what Mossad and its American enablers are really up to.”

Araghchi is well aware of historical precedence for US regime change in Iran. Seventy-three years ago the US joined Britain’s Operation TP-Ajax, the US-British coup that deposed Iran's legitimate ruler Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh in August, 1953. The Brits conceived the coup in 1952 and presented it to 'Give 'Em Hell' Harry Truman, who told the Brits to go to Hell.

A year later newbie Prez Ike greenlighted TP-AJAX to allow Britain to grab back its Iranian oil monopoly nationalized by elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh. For Ike, it was a chance to make his bones as a stanch anti-communist, due to Mosaddegh's unwillingness to crush Iranian communist influence. Leading this first official CIA coup against a foreign leader who wouldn't do our bidding was TR's grandson Kermit Roosevelt Jr., following a family tradition of senseless and bellicose militarism.

Our handpicked successor was Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, son of the first Pahlavi monarch Reza Shah Pahlavi. His reluctance and indecision almost wrecked Uncle Sam's best laid plans, but our CIA Iranian operatives, masquerading as commies, shed enough blood to turn the tide against Mosaddegh. The Shah ruled Iran for another 26 years, with his CIA trained secret police killing thousands who dared speak out against his tyrannical rule.

And guess who has jumped into the current chaos in Iran….Reza Pahlavi, the US-based son of Iran’s ousted Shah whom the US installed after deposing Mosaddegh in 1953. Pahlavi praised the protests as “magnificent” and urged Iranian to plan more targeted actions “to seize and hold city centers.” He’s likely salivating at a chance to reclaim his father’s rule in Iran to once again do America’s bidding. Back then it was to protect British, US oil interests and counter communist influence in Iran. If installed today Pahlavi would complete both Israel and America’s decade’s long goal of weakening, destabilizing Iran to cement Israel’s Middle East hegemony.

Maybe the US has nothing to do with current unrest that may topple the Iranian regime. But based on US regime change history with Iran and numerous other countries, it would not surprise if the US was all in aiding it.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL