Great Satan keeps saying that — America's Deep State-controlling oligarchs are the good guys

© 2022 Peter Free

 

29 March 2022

 

 

Should someone cart the United States off to a psych hospital?

 

Regarding the American propaganda enveloping the Russo-Ukrainian War — a killing conflict that the United States literally forced into existence — Peter Van Buren concluded that:

 

 

The view that war is politics by other means, the realist idea that nations pursue strategic goals with some sort of calculation of interests behind them, is not for us.

 

Americans must reduce everything to good versus evil, democracy versus autocracy, light versus dark.

 

America’s problem is we seem to actually believe it’s true.

 

In the case of Putin and Kiev, our nightly news is flooded with images of the targeting of civilians and screams in response from Washington about war crimes.

 

In an earlier war, however, the American answer was the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . where women and children were casually incinerated to save, we were told, additional casualties on the ground.

 

See, it was okay to do this because America is basically good.

 

If you twist that logic hard enough it comes out that we did the Japs a favor by nuking their cities.

 

And that action in 1945 (echoed by the destruction of whole villages in Korea and Vietnam and the bombing of Fallujah) leaves the United States in a unique position it pretends not to know about.

 

As Putin and others may talk about nuclear threats, history records that we alone actually used nuclear weapons against civilian targets.

 

© 2022 Peter Van Buren, Telling Ourselves Stories, American Conservative (28 March 2022)

 

 

Here we are in March 2022 . . .

 

. . . fervidly building an intentionally explosive Teeter Tower of economic sanctions and blanketly directed threats that are aimed at much more sanely led nations than ours.

 

See here and here, for example.

 

 

In short

 

American neocons are focused upon entirely destroying other nations, so as to benefit corporate neoliberalism's shared Ideology of Wholly Malevolent Avarice.

 

This plan begins with proxy-killing as many Ukrainians and Russians as we can.

 

Quickly dismembering Russia for American oligarchs' economic gain.

 

And afterward, moving on to doing the same with China.

 

 

The moral? — God's good guys, huh?

 

Insane Great Satan seems more like it to me.

 

Y'all warmongering, self-righteous selves really should look at yourselves in the mirror.

 

Is anything worse than a demon, who thinks that he or she is a saint?

 

There is a reason that humility is considered a virtue. The biggest Devil is always within.

 

A lot of people are going to die, if sane souls among us do not corral the march of US neocons' evil.