Reply To: Ukraine’s NATO Tanks

[Jeff Marvel]

I just read a piece from author Chris Hedges in Salon magazine titled “Don’t believe the hype: Ukraine is rapidly becoming another war gone wrong” I dont necessarily subscribe to his anti American hysteria or his conclusions but his piece is worth a read.  I am gonna quote some interesting comments he makes in a very lengthy detailed article which basically touts the war as another indication of the rapid decline of the USA:

“The near-hysterical calls to support Ukraine as a bulwark of liberty and democracy by the mandarins in Washington are a response to the palpable rot and decline of the U.S. empire. America’s global authority has been decimated by well-publicized war crimes, torture, economic decline, social disintegration … The coups, political assassinations, election fraud, black propaganda, blackmail, kidnapping, brutal counter-insurgency campaigns, U.S. sanctioned massacres, torture in global black sites, proxy wars and military interventions carried out by the United States around the globe since the end of World War II have never resulted in the establishment of a democratic government. Instead, these interventions have led to over 20 million killed and spawned a global revulsion for U.S. imperialism. “

There is a lot more in his piece and you should read it for yourself, but I thought you might better appreciate his perspective if you looked at an excerpt that contrasts what all of these posters are drooling on and on about.  I am pretty sure most Americans dismiss him as a radical leftist without a clue paid for to create a Neo style Matrix trap – gather around all ye like minded dopes and trolls.

Gone is the imperative that DEBATE AND DISAGREEMENT ARE THE HALLMARKS OF A THINKING, FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY!  I am convinced we (foreigners yiikes I am Canadian) are observing these days America at the precipice in tolerance for self-examination.  The USA appears to many parts of the world as a country that can no longer tolerate disagreement in its ranks, its institutions spin a lot of charades to convince itself and the world that it is still has this capacity, in reality it does not.  Do not be misled by the inordinate amount of yak and noise parading as actionable self-examination; it is wallpaper and smoke and mirrors designed to distract and lull those who question what they see and hear into believing the system is still hot tootin like it always has.