{"id":65460,"date":"2023-07-05T06:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65460"},"modified":"2023-07-05T06:10:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:10:01","slug":"chris-hedges-they-lied-about-afghanistan-they-lied-about-iraq-and-they-are-lying-about-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65460","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Preying for Peace \u2013 by Mr. Fish<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change. Freedom and democracy are threatened. Evil must be vanquished. Human rights must be protected. The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a \u201crules based international order\u201d is at stake. Victory is assured.<\/p>\n

The results are also the same. The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies. The cheery prognosis is false. Those on whose behalf we are supposedly fighting are as venal as those we are fighting against.<\/p>\n

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, although one that was provoked by NATO expansion and by the United States backing of the 2014 \u201cMaidan\u201d\u00a0coup<\/a>\u00a0which\u00a0ousted<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0democratically elected<\/a>\u00a0Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych\u00a0wanted<\/a>\u00a0economic integration with the European Union, but not at the expense of economic and political ties with Russia. The war will only be solved through negotiations that allow ethnic Russians in Ukraine to have autonomy and Moscow\u2019s protection, as well as Ukrainian\u00a0neutrality<\/a>, which means the country cannot join NATO. The longer these negotiations are delayed the more Ukrainians will suffer and die. Their cities and infrastructure will continue to be pounded into rubble.<\/p>\n

But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve U.S. interests. It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military and isolates Russia from Europe. What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, equipping our friends on the front lines to defend themselves is a far cheaper way \u2014 in both dollars and American lives \u2014 to degrade Russia\u2019s ability to threaten the United States,\u201d\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n

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Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine. The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. Preying for Peace \u2013 by Mr. Fish The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[9035,2864,655,33746,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-65460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-lies","tag-propaganda","tag-scheerpost","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65461,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65460\/revisions\/65461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}