Since when – in the United States of America – did it become “Un-American” or forbidden to question U.S. policy regarding the increasingly dirty and suspect war in Ukraine which could give birth to global catastrophic consequences?
Answer: Since the “Age of Trump” and the “Age of Covid.”
Before the "Age of Trump" – which warped previously seemingly sane minds on both sides of the aisle -- and the “Age of Covid-Big Pharma-Big Government” payoffs, such censorship – most especially by the “Right” -- would have been near impossible. But the hate of one man unable to be controlled by the entrenched elites in DC coupled with the desire grab as much cash and power as possible from the COVID-ATM made censorship and selling-out suddenly the new internal policy edict for many bureaucrats, “experts,” politicians, and “news” sites.
Again, to those in power, in the media, in academia, in our military and three-letter agencies, and the war-loving neocon class cheerleading the war in Ukraine, I would beg you to study the various – totally avoidable -- tripwires stepped upon which ignited World War I. A war which led to the slaughter of over 20 million human beings.
Over a century later, many of those “tripwires” are now connected to the triggers to launch either “tactical” nuclear missiles or…much worse.
And yet, the most insane game of “Chicken” in the history of our world plays on. As with the draconian dictates following the virus, Americans are being told to take the word of the “experts” with no questions asked.
Except, with each passing day, more and more Americans are beginning to question U.S. policy in Ukraine as over $140 billion of their tax-payer dollars is sent into formally one of the most corrupt nations on earth with little or no accountability.
One reason this is so, is because voices the “Pro-Ukrainian-War-Elitists” are attempting to silence, are not only breaking through, but multiplying.
If politics does indeed make “strange bedfellows,” then those united in mind to desperately warn of the exponentially escalating chances of WWIII being triggered, might be the strangest but sanest of all time.
The loudest of those voices of late being: former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson; former President Donald J. Trump; current Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the original “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
Just this week on the “All In” podcast, RFJ, Jr. warned in part:
“I supported the humanitarian aid to the Ukraine…My son, as I've mentioned, actually went over. He left law school, did not tell us he was going, and went over and joined the [Ukrainian] Foreign Legion and fought in the Kharkiv offensive with a special forces group…But he feels the same way as I do, this is no longer a humanitarian mission…My understanding of the war is…that the neocons in the White House want this war, they want regime change with the Russians. They want to exhaust the Russian army, which is what Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in 2022…And President Biden acknowledged that one of his objectives in the war is regime change in Russia, removing Vladimir Putin…This is the most violent conflict since World War Two…Over 300,000 Ukrainian dead. The Russians are killing Ukrainians…at a ratio of five-to-one, to eight-to-one. It was seven-to-one in the recently leaked whistleblower leaked Pentagon documents. The Russians cannot lose this war. This is existential for them…”
Next, talking about potential tripwires being stepped upon which could lead to WWIII, we have the biggest and most dangerous of all with the news that Ukrainians allegedly attempted to drone strike Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
Let that bit of insanity sink in for a moment. “Attempted to drone strike Putin and the Kremlin.”
Said President Trump last week when told of the alleged drone strike: "If I am President, I will end that war in one day. It’ll take 24 hours. I know Zelenskyy well. I know Putin well. It will be easy. That deal will be easy, a lot of it has to do with money, a lot of it has to do with the military that we are giving. I would get that deal done within 24 hours, that war has to be stopped, that war is a disaster."
Also last week, you have “System Update” host Glenn Greenwald mentioning that one of the main reasons Tucker Carlson may have been removed from Fox News was his loud and continual opposition to U.S. involvement in Ukraine: Said Greenwald in part: “There was a report by Ben Smith at Semafor... that shortly before FOX and the Murdochs fired Tucker Carlson, they had a call with [Ukrainian] President Zelenskyy that included Zelenskyy's concerns or anger about Tucker's views on the war in Ukraine…That person is now off the air.”
Last on this subject, over at “Democracy Now,” we have the original “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg not only warning of the rising risk of a nuclear war regarding the war in Ukraine, but stating something amazingly newsworthy which is naturally being swept under the rug. Said Ellsberg in part:
“There’s increasing information that one year ago…Zelenskyy and Putin essentially had an agreement, were within very close to an agreement, on prewar status quo…but that the U.S. and the British…went over and said, “We are not ready for that. We want the war to continue. We will not accept a negotiation.” I would say that was a crime against humanity…”
“Strange bedfellows” calling for the end of the war in Ukraine before it triggers WWIII. Will other voices with powerful platforms soon join them? In the name of sanity and the preservation of humanity, we can only hope so.
Douglas MacKinnon is a former White House and Pentagon official and author of the book: The 56 – Liberty Lessons from those who risked all to sign The Declaration of Independence.