'Fighting Nazis,
protecting democracy and waging peace are not things the US empire
actually does in real life. The US is the most tyrannical and murderous
regime on earth, by a truly massive margin, and it will happily risk the life of everyone on earth if it means securing planetary rule.'
By Caitlin Johnstone: As we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kyiv, it’s probably worth taking a moment to highlight the fact that this entire war could have been avoided if the US had simply pledged military protection for Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.
To be clear, what we are indulging in here is entirely an act of fantasy.