U.S. officials are exactly who you think they are—immoral, power-hungry, war mongers. From Norman Solomon at antiwar.com:
“When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time.”
That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you who they are, time after time.
Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Supposedly dedicated to defense and diplomacy, those officials have worked to implement and disguise Washington’s war policies, which have taken more lives than any other government in this century.
Among the weapons of war, cluster munitions are especially horrific. That’s why 67 Democrats and an equal number of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted last week to prevent the U.S. government from continuing to send those weapons to armies overseas.
But more than twice as many House members voted the other way. They defeated a Pentagon funding amendment that would have prohibited the transfer of cluster munitions to other countries. The lawmakers ensured that the U.S. can keep supplying those weapons to the military forces of Ukraine and Israel.
As of now, 124 nations have signed onto a treaty banning cluster munitions, which often wreck the bodies of civilians. The “bomblets” from cluster munitions “are particularly attractive to children because they resemble a bell with a loop of ribbon at the end,” the Just Security organization explains.
But no member of Congress need worry that one of their own children might pick up such a bomblet someday, perhaps mistaking it for a toy, only to be instantly killed or maimed with shrapnel.
The Biden administration correctly responded to indications (later proven accurate) that Russia was using cluster munitions in Ukraine. On Feb. 28, 2022, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told journalists that if the reports of Russian use of those weapons turned out to be true, “it would potentially be a war crime.”
Back then, the front page of the New York Times described “internationally banned cluster munitions” as “a variety of weapons – rockets, bombs, missiles and artillery projectiles – that disperse lethal bomblets in midair over a wide area, hitting military targets and civilians alike.”
Haven’t they been WAR mongering for the past 25 years?
And more going back to Balkans War.
Victories? Yea, not so much.
And they got a little too excited over kicking the shit out of Iraq in Sand Box I.
This EU having Hungary take over for six months is a good sign and the International Power Elites (H/T-LFP) don’t care for him.
Maybe the battered red headed step child rump vassals have had enough?
White phosphorus bombs have been used in Gaza and they don’t make those in indispensable land.
The Luftwaffe came up those bombs and they were used on airstrips before blast pens were made more durable.
In the first few days of Operation Barbarossa starting on June 22, 1941, 2000 CCCP aircraft were destroyed on the ground for the loss of 35 Luftwaffe planes.
Most were the obsolete Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes of WWI vintage, and Polikarpov I-16 Rata.
MIC Warpigs always dodge the grisly realities and have no skin in the game, humans are just pawns on the chessboard…fortunate suns will never get drafted.
H/T to Antiwar for making the UKE “disinformation” shitlist.
Breaking from Mystic Merlin:
Just Can’t Give You Up
The mean girls of the batthouse rainbow should attack Russia today and call it Brandonrossa!
The whole rotten edifice will come crashing down as Uncle Adi said.
Come on big bad ruff n’ tuff Warmasters show us a lil’ somethin.
The O’Brandon glorious victories cupboard is bare.
Yes we can, si se puede!