The Ukraine War is a Replay of the US Civil War on a Global Scale
And the Confederates are losing again
By Gregory Brundage
ABSTRACT
The 13th Amendment supposedly freed American slaves from cruel bondage and yet the US via its policy of attaining hegemony in perpetuity via full-spectrum dominance is attempting to enforce American political and military control of the entire world. The violent US led 2014 coup in Ukraine that installed the American choice for president was rather like the Confederates firing upon Fort Sumpter inaugurating the beginning of the American Civil War, except on a global scale. Given the Euro-American capitalist/colonialist existential need to maintain the status quo, the War in Ukraine is nothing more than a US provoked war in support of 500 years of Euro-American white supremacy and its more recent incarnation of white nationalism. The March 2nd 2022, UN General Assembly vote to condemn Russia for its invasion was nothing less than an American-led lynch mob. Note must be made that on September 16, 2004 then Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, in reference to the US led Iraq invasion, said, “I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN Charter. From our point of view, from the charter point of view, it was illegal,” and yet the General Assembly failed to condemn the US, nor did the UN General Assembly condemn the US for any of the other 65 coups and coup attempts it has launched just since WWII. Those undeniable facts prove beyond any doubt, bias is an inherent part of UN practices and procedures. The current “conflict” in Ukraine isn’t isolated to Ukraine, the US or Russia, but is a global crisis created by unrestrained capitalism and corrupted democracies, as national economies suffer and starvation increases around the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain breakages and national budgets being forced to increasingly invest in weapons, as compared to food, clean water, health and education. Simultaneously, the probability of thermonuclear war increases daily as Europe and the US pour more and more weapons and money into Ukraine, and the US willfully and recklessly provokes China in the South China Sea. In the conclusion, the ultra-rich western “elite” are reminded “you can’t take it with you.”
[Due to the length of this article, it is not posted in its entirety. Full drafts can be downloaded from: https://www.silkroadvirtualuniversity.org/publications-by-gcb.html]
Preface
To understand this article, one must have access to information beyond CNN, BBC, NYT and other corporate owned news outlets. Looking behind the curtain of the Oz-like illusions created to justify the Ukraine War, one finds multiple layers of corruption and lies at the foundation of that conflict - deceptions by former Vice-President and now President Biden, and his son, and woven throughout the structures of government and business in both the US and Ukraine. One must also be aware the biggest lie of the year 2022 was started in February with the endless repetition of the word “unprovoked” as in “unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.” (A perfectly salable complement to Republican President Trump’s “China Virus” lie.) In fact the current war in Ukraine was provoked in countless extreme ways over an eight-year period, starting with the Odessa Massacre, the American backed coup against the democratically elected government, leading up to the four days before the invasion during which time Kiev relentlessly and very heavily bombed civilians in Donbass, and there are OSCE reports to prove it. Lugansk and Donetsk have large numbers of Russian minorities and they are cousins to President Putin, and slaughtering them – men, women and children - en-masse like that on his doorstep during four days leading up to his invasion was just the last straw. President Putin’s motivation for a humanitarian intervention can be proved. The American motivation here is the American military-industrial-intelligence-media complex wanted a war, and they got one. As for President Biden, he already started one illegal war – in Iraq – so why not another? He is so steeped in corruption it’s astonishing he was permitted - even by corporate owned monopolistic news organizations - to run for president.
As for the innocent Ukrainian people? They were and continue to be victimized not so much by Russia, but by their “friends” the Americans who are ultimately responsible for that war. Making matters worse, is the innocent people of Ukraine also have to deal with hoards of very unpleasant, sadistic, cruel, murderous and rapacious Neo-Nazis parading around as the heroes of Ukraine, when in fact they are American funded and trained, wildly tattooed mad dogs, desperately in need of psychotherapy. The Ukrainian consistent use of human shields is beyond reprehensible, it’s illegal by international law. One other datum needs clarification. The massively over-funded and the Ukrainian military is losing the war badly (link to article by American former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter). The Russians are attaining every single strategic objective they set. They fight slowly and precisely to avoid civilian casualties, unlike the Ukrainian military that seems to have significant targeting “issues.” As per all American wars since WWII, US news always reports they are winning, until they lose, cut and run. The American “information war” is wearing thin, just like the ice President Biden has dragged Europe onto. And that dear reader is the long and short of it, enough at least to understand the rest of this article.
The USA and Forever Wars
It can legitimately be argued the USA has virtually always been at war, given the US has experienced only 17 years of peace in its entire 246 years of history. The history of the USA is one of unrelenting war.
Presidential Power and National Violence: James K. Polk's Rhetorical Transfer of Savagery, by Stephen J. Heidt
“President James Knox Polk is often lauded for his achievements as president, including the territorial acquisition of the western portion of the nation. Critical attention to this legacy mostly focuses on his rhetorical strategy for putting the nation into war with Mexico.
“To date, no studies focus on Polk’s rhetorical strategy for ending the war. In this article, I examine Polk’s end-of war rhetoric, attending to his rationalizations for exiting the war, his justification for resuming diplomatic relations with Mexico, and his identification of a new enemy requiring presidential and national attention.
“I argue that Polk’s pivot from Mexicans to Indians rhetorically transferred tropes of savagery to Indians, reenergized violence against Indians, and facilitated the institutionalization of management of Indian affairs via the creation of the Department of the Interior.
“I conclude that rhetorical critics should closely attend to the way end-of-war rhetoric enables presidents to transition from one enemy to another while reaping institutional benefits.”
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Vol. 19, Number 3, Fall 2016, pp. 365-396. Can be downloaded from: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/638217/summary
That “transfer of savagery” can also be traced through the progression of Euro-American genocides recorded in the 2021 HBO documentary series “Exterminate All the Brutes,” and is likewise outlined in the section of this article titled: “Overthrowing governments to ‘deter’ competitors.”
It is nothing less than fiendish that during the incipient USA’s anti-colonial war against England, the early Americans were committing a genocide against and otherwise colonizing the indigenous people of the Americas. Though the phrase “Manifest Destiny” wasn’t popularized until 1845, it can be argued western European Caucasian nations, and especially since WWII, the North American political leadership have relentlessly exhibited behaviors “consistent with that of people who believe” God ordained their rulership of the entire world forever. In other words, the past 500 years of western colonialization of entire continents of people of color has not gone unnoticed by the targets of that global-scale murderous aggression.
Even as the incipient USA was forming, Americans climbed up upon the high horse of the British, parroting the most awful dictum: “There are no friendships in politics, only interests.”
There can be no friendships, or win-win solutions with the USA
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
Lord Palmerston (1784–1865) speech, House of Commons, March 1, 1848
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00008130
For better or for worse, we cannot all be born Roman, British or American, and thus, we who resist the tidal forces of the Euro-American Empire suffer slavery and/or at minimum indescribable indignities and agony on our way to our individual and collective graves. And yet, resist we must, even though journalists for example who report news not in perfect syncopation with American government/corporate dicta are now labeled “terrorists.”
It is noteworthy the American “land of the free and home of the brave,” a nation that theoretically reviled a hereditary aristocracy, adopted the pithy aphorisms of a British laird to guide its eternal foreign policies of global sovereignty, or more accurately global “mastery.” The phrase: “hegemony in perpetuity,” sounds rather obscure and even most Americans don’t understand that phrase, but it means the US can, should, and is divinely ordained to rule the entire world forever, precisely what the Romans, British, and Hitler tried to do.
Folks out here in those countries that are not British or American subjects, and thus are targets of American military and covert intelligence operations might ask: “How can I get in the club?”
Oceans of cultures have tried, and nations have died, for when the interests of empire decide to take a bite of, or gobble down an entire culture or nation, historically there wasn’t much anyone could do to stop them. Certainly Africans, Latin Americans and Asians have for example tried converting to Christianity thinking it would save them from the white colonialists, but that never slowed them down for an instant. Blood is thicker than water, as they say.
Take China for example. Even in very recent times Beijing has done everything (and I mean everything) to appease the US. The US needs to borrow money? No problem! Here’s a trillion and change to get you through the rough times. Rare earth elements for your industries, and even military? No problem, here you are! Would you like some delightful young Chinese to play with? Well, we’ll fly over hundreds of thousands of our best and brightest, loaded with money too, just for your entertainment! But, alas, for nothing.
The US doesn’t “do” diplomacy. “It’s our way, or the highway” and China’s growing economy was/is seen as the worst of all possible things in the eyes of American foreign makers – a THREAT! It’s seen as a threat because everything the US does not own and completely control is a threat. Ditto for Russia. A nuclear arsenal bigger than the US? Oh no, no, NO!!!
“Our first objective is to prevent the reemergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia. There are three additional aspects to this objective: First the United States must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/1992_draft_defense_planning_guidance
Overthrowing other people’s governments
How does one “deter” potential competitors? There are many ways: strangle their economies with sanctions, direct military attack, start revolutions in their countries and overthrow their government, and/or start proxy wars against them. These are all things the UK and US have a great deal of practice at.
Overthrowing other people’s governments: The Master List by William Blum
“Instances of the United States overthrowing or attempting to overthrow a foreign government since the Second World War.”
(* indicates successful ouster of a government)
“(1)China 1949 to early 1960s, (2)Albania 1949-53, (3)East Germany 1950s, (4)Iran 1953*, (5)Guatemala 1954*, (6)Costa Rica mid-1950s, (7)Syria 1956-7, (8)Egypt 1957, (9)Indonesia 1957-8, (10)British Guiana 1953-64*, (11)Iraq 1963*, (12)North Vietnam 1945-73, (13)Cambodia 1955-70*, (14)Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960*, (15)Ecuador 1960-63*, (16)Congo 1960*, (17)France 1965, (18)Brazil 1962-64*, (19)Dominican Republic 1963*, (20)Cuba 1959 to present, (21)Bolivia 1964*, (22)Indonesia 1965*, (23)Ghana 1966*, (24)Chile 1964-73*, (25)Greece 1967*, (26)Costa Rica 1970-71, (27)Bolivia 1971*, (27)Australia 1973-75*, (29)Angola 1975, 1980s, (30)Zaire 1975, (31)Portugal 1974-76*, (32)Jamaica 1976-80*, (33)Seychelles 1979-81, (34)Chad 1981-82*, (36)Grenada 1983*, (36)South Yemen 1982-84, (37)Suriname 1982-84, (38)Fiji 1987*, (39)Libya 1980s & 2011, (40)Nicaragua 1981-90*, (41)Panama 1989* (42)Bulgaria 1990*, (3)Albania 1991*, (44)Iraq 1991, (45)Afghanistan 1980s*, (46)Somalia 1993, (47)Yugoslavia 1999-2000*, (48)Ecuador 2000*, (49)Afghanistan 2001*, (50)Venezuela 2002*, (51)Iraq 2003*, (52)Haiti 2004*, (53)Somalia 2007 to present, (54)Honduras 2009*, (55)Libya 2011* to present, (56)Syria 2012 to present, (57)Ukraine 2014*”
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
To that list one must add:
(58)Yemen 2014*, (59)Turkey 2016, (60)Venezuela 2019, (61)Bolivia 2019*, (62)Iran 2017 to present, (63)Nicaragua 2018, (64)China 2018 to present, (65)Cuba, as usual, and (66)Russia, 2022.
Russia and China? China and Russia are the big Kahunas, and everyone knows it. All the rest? Practice sessions, soup and salad for the gamesters in Langley Virginia, Pentagon, corporate boardrooms, and The Big White House.
The US has made an uninterrupted series of “mistakes”
The Vietnam War was a “mistake.”
John McCain’s shocking concession on the Iraq War: it was a “mistake” In his new memoir, McCain says he’s to blame for the war, by Tara Golshan May 25, 2018 https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17394466/john-mccain-memoir-iraq-war-mistake
Iraq war was a terrible mistake - From fighting Saddam to fighting ISIS, By Fareed Zakaria, CNN, October 26, 2015 https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/26/opinions/zakaria-iraq-war-lessons/index.html
Iraq: The Biggest Mistake in American Military History https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2011/12/15/the-biggest-mistake-in-american-military-history/?sh=76cb2f9e2d3b
Was the Afghan war a mistake too? Just ask Americans:
American Public Opinion and the Afghanistan Situation, by Frank Newport, August 27, 2021
Retrospective approval of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is at or below the majority level and appears to be getting more negative as time goes on. Americans at this point have significant doubts about the country's 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan -- the longest war in U.S. history, estimated to have cost over $2 trillion and almost 200,000 total deaths.
That’s the “soft” introduction. What they really found is:
Gallup's July 6-21 update of a trend question asking if the U.S. made a mistake sending military troops to Afghanistan found 47% saying yes and 46% saying no. This "mistake" percentage is as high as at any time since just after troops were first sent to Afghanistan in November 2001, with the exception of one 49% reading in February 2014.
It is surprising to this author 46% of Americans still believe the Afghan war was not a mistake, considering the cost in blood and tax-payer dollars, and the US’ very public and humiliating defeat.
One can presume the pollsters at Gallup didn’t ask Afghans their feelings about the war, just the same as white masters didn’t bother to ask their slaves how they felt about hanging a few to teach the rest a lesson.
But most American voters don’t think about things like that. It takes highly selective perceptions to be a “good” American. Still, Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries (in spite of being resource rich) is still small potatoes for those with imperial pretensions like the seemingly almighty USA.
Each life has dignity? Piffle.
China and Russia are the real prizes. They’re the ultimate challenges, the Mount Everest and K2 of ego-boosting, MASTERS of the UNIVERSE competition, and a Great Game it is for the builders of empire who live their lives encased in wealth, power and the limitless pleasures that go along with those riches. It’s not so great for the 100,000,000+ “displaced people, and hundreds of millions more who have lost loved ones, arms, legs, their minds, in an American sponsored “great game.” It’s not so great for a child trapped in a US bombed building that slowly suffocates, alone and terrified. It’s not so great for the 10 to 15 million people that starve to death every year so that the Euro-American wealthy classes can buy a new yacht, or island, or private jet.
But! The way mainstream news media reports it, China and Russia have committed the ultimate sins. Though they have bent the knee regularly, as protocol demands, they have also held back in some areas like China’s economic growth (a terrible, wicked, wicked thing!) and Russia’s self-defense capabilities (ergo evil horrible Russians), for no one should have the ability to defend themselves from Americans. What kind of slave does that? Only a very terrible slave, and that means an example must be made of them!
The foreign policies of the USA are really easy to understand.
https://swprs.org/us-foreign-policy/
In theory, being a “client state” should help protect a nation from the US, but that usually doesn’t work out too well for those client states either, who, being slaves get robbed of 99% of their natural resources, the virtue of their youth, and hope for any kind of meaningful future, not to mention suffering things like torture, disease, starvation and so on. Just ask the Afghans who survived The Salt Pit black site, Northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Iranians under “the Shah” etc.
The implacable forces of the USA advance with chains for the Slavs
And so, it has come to pass in the year 2022 that the US has decided to take on the biggest, baddest, toughest most obstreperous ungrateful wretch of them all, Russia!
Most will acknowledge President Putin doesn’t look African, but he’s Russian and a Slav, that is, of Slavic origin, and the word Slav, has four of the five letters needed for the word slave, and besides all that, 1) he won’t kowtow to President Biden, 2) doesn’t want his country completely surrounded by US tanks, missiles and NATO allies, 3) doesn’t like his cousins in Ukraine being wholesale slaughtered and tortured by Nazis, 4) doesn’t appreciate biological “research labs” on his doorstep, and 5) the US just hates the idea that he’s got more big tall sharp pointy flying things with thermonuclear weapons than they do.
https://www.statista.com/chart/8301/the-countries-holding-the-worlds-nuclear-arsenal
Africa and the Beltway’s murderous bullies
The acronym AFRICOM, stands for Africa Command. That’s a pretty good indicator as to what is going on there.
https://media.defense.gov/2018/May/18/2001918933/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2018-116.PDF
…one might think the white Confederate slave masters would be happy ruling an entire continent, besides their own that is, but no, they want the whole world on its knees and well oiled for easy access.
A map of starvation in Africa in 2022
Starvation, capitalism and wars
The deaths in Ukraine pale before the huge numbers of humans starving to death every day thanks to global capitalism, and western driven wars
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/g7-failure-tackle-hunger-crisis-will-leave-millions-starve
The above are “nicely” written. Aid organizations including the UN always write “threaten” or “on the brink of” but never tell the truth: “Staving to death.” Millions of humans are starving to death every year. But the rich folks who donate money (tax write-offs really) don’t want to hear the truth. “Starvation is not MY fault,” each can proclaim. They didn’t create the system; they just profit from it. And then there are the tens of millions of young boys and girls that are trafficked and have to sell their bodies so their families can eat, again due to the structure of global capitalism, and amplified by American “neo-liberal” economic policies. The upcoming civil conflicts from poverty will not be so much race based as class based, as in the French Revolution and other class struggles around the world.
Russia and China do not have histories of colonizing other nations comparable to the USA
After the end of WWII, it was Russia and China that fought wars to liberate African, Asian and Latin American, countries from the colonial powers. But, then the US, France, and the UK sent in even larger armies to bring them back into the western sphere of influence, complete with puppet dictators and fake democracies in which western intelligence organizations bought their news publishers and broadcasters, so completely dominating their media the people thought they had free choices in elections, whereas in fact, they did not. And, so they got poorer rather than enjoying the wealth of their own nations; wealth that ended up in the colonial powers, just like always during the past five centuries.
Oderint dum metuant
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.“
Lucius Accius Roman poet and scholar -170 - -84 BC From Atreus, quoted in Seneca, Dialogues, Books III–V "De Ira", I, 20, 4. (16 BC)
Along those same lines, France is now trying to cozy up to its former colony in Algeria in an attempt to get natural gas from there, however their history in Algeria is so horrific it might be a little – complicated.
One might think Russian President Putin should be considered for the title of “Honorary Black Man,” given how much the USA hates him now for the “crime” of saying “NO” to American world domination. The people of Ukraine, tragically trapped in the middle, have no say whatsoever in the deadly, absolutely toxic American version of the “Great Game.”
The NAACP however would never dub the honorable President Putin with such a noble title, as it appears to be led by the “Black misleadership class,” a polite way of suggesting sellout Uncle Toms.
In this global replay of the American Civil War, it is President Putin playing the role of Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) representing the disenfranchised poor in Africa, Asia and the Americas, and President Biden playing the role of Jefferson Davis (a Democrat, again), president of the Confederate States of America and upholder of unrestrained capitalism in the face of levels of hunger, starvation, homelessness and anger such as this world has never before seen.
What is the endgame?
Most children learn by the age of four or so how to play cooperative games. Euro-American political leaders somehow never managed to learn those skills, or at best only apply them when playing with other rich white people. People of color are excluded from that cooperative play, and exist only to raise the chickens and cows, grow and pick the cotton for clothes, an occasional porking perhaps, and so on (except for a few, very few “tokens” to “prove” the system really isn’t racist).
Any person of color, including a Slav(!) is just not welcome at that table of brotherhood because, they just ain’t white or “liberal” enough. The US liberal? Only in degenerate ways, not the ways that matter like “giving” Africa, Asia and Latin America the freedom they are guaranteed in natural and international law.
And so, the endgame becomes this: Either US foreign policy makers get down off their high horses, learn to be humble as common, po folk have to learn young to survive, and start to play fairly with the rest of the world, or there is going to be a thermonuclear war, and its game-over for everyone. Rather than belittling China’s socialist republic, the US would benefit hugely by learning from it. Life in 2022 goes on as normal in Russia and China these days, unlike Europe and US that are suffering due to blowback from their own unrestrained aggression.
Soon, as the cold of winter 2022 approaches in the north, an impasse will occur when Langley and Europe have to make up their minds: Will they give up their psychotic fantasies of white supremacism and global domination in perpetuity, or force a thermonuclear war?
China and Russia’s “Soft Power” Initiatives are lighting the way to peace and prosperity
China and Russia are leading the way to a more peaceful future with the One Belt, One Road soft-power initiatives that guarantee win-win solutions – a concept American foreign policy makers need to meditate upon at some length, and then join.
https://greenfdc.org/countries-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative-bri/
The G7’s “Build Back Better World” is a pipe-dream – their economies are on the rocks (as predictable blowback from their bad handling of COVID-19, and over-the-top investments in foreign aggression), they’re individually and collectively suffering from collapsing economies and will suffer from extreme cold this winter, and they lack the supply chains to make it work. (The same reasons the Nazis lost the last World War as well.)
China, Russia and other Silk Road countries would be happy to work with the G7, just not for them.
If it’s not a two-way street based on mutual respect, cooperation, trust, and friendship, it’s just another day on the plantation for us po folk out here in the colonies.
It isn’t that complicated – even a western politician could figure it out if he or she wanted to.
A question for Wall Street wizards and corporate boardroom execs
The ball is in Langley’s court. Presidents are just the disposable Tin Men working as marketing executives and fall-guys for outrageously expensive wars – except this time the extinction of humanity is a real possibility given that in another world war, the electrical systems of many nations will be targeted, the freezers in the 300+ US BSL labs will go off, and the ultimate Pandora’s box of deadly bacteria and viruses will escape. And so, not even the rich will survive. One can only wonder(?) if the Wall Street wizards considered: “You can’t take it with you.”
Finally, thanks to Presidents Putin and Xi, for having the cojones to stand up to the global Beltway Bullies and Wall Street Slavers with measured control, just saying “No.”
True, WWIII – the colossal global Civil War, the true war to end all wars and even humanity itself, between the white, white West, and the rest of the world can start any time, but one cannot accuse the eastern world of not having tried to harmonize with the west over very long periods of time, in peaceful, mutually profitable relationships.
As for the west, they have some soul searching to do.
…some war criminals to prosecute, and a decision to make - hopefully before its too late.