U.S. Volunteer Fighter Against Russia Speaks

Eric Zuesse

NBC News on August 21st headlined “Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Moscow” and interviewed an anonymous U.S. veteran and now volunteer fighter against Russia who had participated in Ukraine’s attack against Kursk in Russia, and he said, “We didn’t start this. We are simply helping freedom-loving people against a totalitarian regime.”

He went on to say, of the Russian people, “They don’t understand what is happening, they are betrayed by their leaders, and I think they just realize that the game is up.” So, he thinks that Russia will be defeated by Ukraine.

Does he get his ideas from the battlefields — in Ukraine and in Russia — or from somewhere else (maybe from the U.S. Government and its mainstream ‘news’-media)? Because if it’s from somewhere else, then those opinions are more reflective of his personal background than of those battlefields (in which case, there’s no actual news-value that they expressed).

On August 13th, the New York Times headlined an op-ed, “The West Clearly Doesn’t Want to Defeat Putin”, which argued that “Russia grows ever bolder, like a bully who realizes the teacher isn’t coming,” and, “By first casting its lot with Ukraine and then failing to follow through, America has lost its place as the bulwark of the West that can guarantee protection and peace to its allies.” It closed: “A small war far away from America’s borders has reshaped our world — and made America’s place in it smaller.”

Regardless of the viewpoints that are expressed, they might as well have been created in the PR agencies of Lockheed Martin and America’s other armaments manufacturers — whose sales are booming.

Some reports in America’s billionaires-backed media indicate that Russia will lose against Ukraine because Ukraine is a democracy whereas Russia is a dictatorship, and others report that Ukraine will lose against Russia because America is more like Neville Chamberlain than like Winston Churchill.

It is odd that throughout all of America’s billionaires-controlled media, the assumption is that America is a democracy — which is false — and that the war in Ukraine started on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, instead of in February 2014 when America’s coup grabbed Ukraine and started the war in Ukraine.

Numerous polls show that trust in the news-media is very low in the United States; and, so, one might hope that the misrepresentations that have been mentioned here as being represented in America’s mainstream media, won’t shape the opinions that are held by America’s voters. But these opinions are actually supported bipartisanly in not only the megadonors to both Parties, but in the voters for both Parties; so, despite Americans’ distrust of the ‘news’ that they read and hear, they actually accept the basic agenda of both the Republican and the Democratic Parties’ ‘news’-media, as-if it weren’t the propaganda that it is. In other words: overwhelmingly, Americans accept being deceived by, and on behalf of, the billionaires, whose agents have deceived them. There is no downside to lying, in and about American politics. It almost always works.

After all, if the family of that anonymous American veteran who volunteers to help Ukrainians fight against Russia in Russia will some day receive notification that he had died in that endeavor, then would they blame him for having been deceived? They’re probably deceived in the same ways that he is. So, they wouldn’t blame the deceivers. Like I said, there is no downside to lying, in and about American politics. The American people overwhemingly distrust their Government, but nonetheless they think that it’s legitimate, even if they think it’s not legitimate when “the other political Party” is running it. In other words: they see things as being “Democrats versus Republicans,” instead of as “the Government versus the people” (which it actually is). They don’t know that it’s illegitimate — lawful maybe, but certainly not at all “one person one vote.” Instead, it’s more like the way a corporation is run: one share one vote. It is actually one dollar one vote. And, so, it is actually controlled by the billionaires, not by the public. Does the man who said “We didn’t start this; we are simply helping freedom-loving people against a totalitarian regime,” likely know and understand this fact? Why not?

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.