By Philip Giraldi May 31, 2022
One recalls that when war fever surged, demanding intervention by Imperial Britain in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, a song became popular in the music halls which included “We don’t want to fight, But by Jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money too.” If the refrain sounds familiar, it should as the United States has been experiencing extreme “jingoism” since 2001.
Any rejection of the “rules based international order” established and policed by “leader of the free world” Washington has resulted in immediate punishment by sanctions followed by threats of military intervention. In some cases, as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the actual armed intervention seeking regime change has been the end result.
And it is all done to spread “freedom” and “democracy,” a claim that might be disputed by the millions of dead mostly Muslims who have had to suffer the consequences.
So the United States of America has been a country, like its best friend Israel, that seems to be perpetually at war…so what else is new? What’s new is that under President Joe Biden there has been zero diplomacy and almost reflexive reliance on wielding the “big stick.”
To quote another bon mot from one of my favorite authors Raymond Chandler, creator of private eye Philip Marlowe, “…when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
Don’t worry, Chandler’s two guys and many more like them are now in Ukraine undercover and training Ukrainians to use all the nifty Raytheon and Lockheed toys Uncle Joe has sent them.
They are working together with the largely neocon advisers coaching Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is guarded by British and U.S. special forces, on what to say and do during his increasingly strident international calls to widen the war.
If they are successful and manage to sink another Russian ship or two using harpoon missiles, which Zelensky is threatening to do, the proxy U.S. war with Russia could quickly become for real.
Zelensky’s family meanwhile is reportedly safely ensconced in an $8 million villa in Israel. He also has a multi-million dollar villa property near Miami and another in Tuscany. Who would have thought that being president of the poorest country in Europe could bring such material rewards?
Australian journalist Caitlin Johnstone, who has a huge worldwide audience, opines that Biden is possibly the worst U.S. president ever, worse even than his consistently denigrated predecessor and media punching bag Donald Trump.
Her recent article succinctly addresses what makes Biden’s egregious failure both different and incredibly dangerous. She writes,
“Preventing nuclear war is the U.S. president’s single most important job. It’s so important you shouldn’t even really have to talk about it, because it’s so self-evidently the number one priority.
“And this administration is just rolling the dice on nuclear conflict with increasing frequency every day. Even if humanity survives this standoff (and the one with China that’s next in line), Biden will still have been an unforgivably depraved president for allowing it to get this close. There’s no excuse whatsoever for just casually rolling the dice on all terrestrial life like this.”
Indeed, Joe Biden’s latest tricks include declaring that the U.S. will go to war with China to protect Taiwan if Beijing should prove so bold as to want to take control of its wayward province.
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