The Cringe Worthy US Senator Lindsay Graham

Letting the cat out of the bag collapses whole empires.

War among so many other things is all about revelation. When the bombs start dropping and people dying it takes the full measure of all parties concerned. The good, the bad, the ugly and the totally insane.

War in itself can be considered a totally insane activity as it leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it and a pandemic of moral and fiscal bankruptcy which disgraces some more than others. But as members of the human race none of us can afford to be indifferent to it in a world more highly integrated and more complex than ever. We are our brothers keepers regardless of race, religion or color, in what is the “global village”on steroids.

We keep fighting wars over and over again and expect positive comes. Historians tell us in great detail how World War One led directly to World War ll. Now we are dealing with the lies, deceits and corruptions leading to World War Three which we are in by any standard. It is only a matter of how much the fools of war in Washington, London, and Brussels are determined to escalate it.

NATO was so foolish in 2022 as to use Ukraine as a proxy to provoke a war on Russia. According to the vicious propaganda of the time it was supposed to be a quick kill as “ Russia was just a gas station pretending to be a country” according to the late senator, John McCain.

NATO under the truncated leadership of Jens Stoltenberg thought they could run a “mail order” war where sock puppet Zelensky could just order what he needed as he needed it. Though what he needed too often arrived late, in insufficient quantities, or just wasn’t available. Zelensky, a former comedian, was the beggared sock puppet chasing money, arms and manpower slow to arrive.

Now,Ukraine is in ruins, and the European economy bankrupt from a war it was utterly foolish to condone, all too willing to be dupes to the Empire’s crazy ways. As Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken under Barack Obama, he agreed with his boss war against Russia was not a smart idea. Under Biden war against Russia became essential proving himself morally pliable, after botching the hurried exit from Afghanistan in 2021.

Blinken had already failed in Afghanistan before failing in Ukraine

Blinken has the unenviable task of enforcing the RBIO ( Rulers Based International Order) which he makes up over morning coffee and expects the world to follow. He so often ends up with egg on this face as his colleagues keep letting the cat out of the bag.

The president gloats publically the war in Ukraine war is really about destroying Russia, its economy and/or all of the above.

Then refers to the blowing up of the Nord stream pipeline with a supercilious smirk on his face refers to the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines. Everybody knows who did it and is terrified of saying so.

With a peace deal already initialed in April of 2022 former British prime minister Boris Johnson was dispatched to tell Zelensky the war must go on to the bitter end, yet to arrive as it is on hold until after the election.

Johnson’s successor was LIz Truss lasting an astounding 49 days before being booted out and has just come out with her new book Ten Years to Save the West, an impassioned appeal to her fellow conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. Her thesis is flawed on four major counts:

• It won’t be this generation of pseudo-conservatives but future generations of authentic progressive reformers and state crafters. The West needs a new Magna Carta, not about to arrive anytime soon.

• Secondly, it will take much more than ten years, we are looking at generational change.

• Third, depending on the political will to recover the West may go through a long slumber as a backwater to other ascendant cultures. With each passing day the tangled web of destruction and corruption deepens and the road to redemption longer and rockier.

• The present political culture of the west does not have the qualifications or integrity to undertake significant positive changes. They are historically, ethically and morally illiterate.

The Brits are having a hard time getting prime ministers to stick around. Keir Starmer is the third since Johnson and the latest PM as neoliberal bag man. Through a suspected intervention by the Pentagon he has been told after all, no, he doesn’t get to launch long range missiles into Russia and escalate the present debacle into a nuclear war.

The US Senate has become a play pen for doddering geriatrics. Where They are supposed to be the home of judicious sober second thought they have become jingoistic cheerleaders for forever wars.

Lindsey Graham suffers a foot-in-mouth disease similar to that of the president. In a visit to Kiev he referred to the war as the“best money ever spent” and “Russians are dying”. He and Zelensky try to portray the war as one of liberation for Ukraine when it is proven a imperialist war against Russia initiated by the US coup d’etat of 2014. Graham the jingoist and Zelensky re-write history with their brazen lying. Zelensky is NATO’s sock puppet and a traitor to his country.

He also decries that Russia cannot be allowed to steal Ukraine’s “10 trillion” dollars worth of lithium reserves. He conveniently forgets the reserves would never be threatened had NATO not provoked the war. He also forgets that Ukraine’s resources have already been sold off to Western investors pending the end of the war.

Nor is he so candid as to admit that Russia, the heartland of Eurasia, the West has always lusted after, is under attack to steal its vast resources. The revanchist West is bitter that it cannot own the heartland presently occupied by Russia and China which goes to the essence of the conflict the world is now suffering through.

US Senator Lindsey Graham, tireless jingoist and cheerleader for more war. .

Now that the ICC, the International Criminal Court has issued warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu, and Gallant,(his defense minister) for war crimes related to genocide the howls of the wolves are louder than ever. Graham has warned that if ICC is allowed to arrest the architects of the genocide American leaders might also be held accountable. America has never been held accountable for its war numerous international war crimes while other countries are.

At the American sponsored Nuremberg War Tribunal in1945,23 of Germany’s top war criminals were prosecuted, receiving long prison terms or death sentences. American Judge Robert Jackson presided and in his opening remarks pointed that all must stand equal before the law. Many exemptions were made especially when it came to key Nazi scientists and others of use in the post war era, as the Cold War was soon to follow.

Since that time the American empire has claimed itself exempt from prosecution. Now there is outrage the ICC is so impertinent as to hold Israel accountable, and possibly warrants issued for American officials. The ICC is only supposed to prosecute second and third world dictators and “Russian thugs".

One big reason the West is in the mess it is today is a failure of accountability and lawlessness left unchecked for so many decades. Responsible and representative government is in total collapse, social contracts shattered and the common weal abandoned.

The despots of the West are up to their asses in crocodiles with no clue on what to do.

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