'Moral rhetoric is bringing us closer to World War III,' writes StuartJHooper, 'and while Americans suffer economic devastation the military industrial complex wins big.'
The United States is synonymous with war yet does everything it possibly can to avoid such a connection. Its conflicts are always couched in the language of democracy, liberal values, freedom, and the like, despite swathes of evidence that show these wars produce precisely the opposite outcomes.
Policy elites, along with the military industrial complex, claim to wage smart, ethical, responsible wars, because they have access to supposedly superior technological capabilities, which just so happen to cost trillions of dollars in the aggregate. The revelations of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, particularly thevideo, demonstrated that so-called wars of liberation waged with advanced technologies do little to change the reality of war itself.
There is cause for the legitimate use of defensive force against aggressors. However, when conflict is ruthlessly exploited by elites to further their own interests at the expense of literally everyone else on the planet, and when nuclear war is a very real threat, its continuation requires a critical examination.
Nancy Pelosi sought to apply the ideology of justifiable crusade onto the conflict in Ukraine by suggesting American taxpayers, who have just footed another bill to the order of $40 billion in weaponry, towith the Gospel of Matthew:"When I was hungry, you fed me.
Russia should not have invaded Ukraine, and immediately lost any moral high ground it may have had upon doing so, and the Ukrainians had a right to defend themselves and seek help. But this situation is qualitatively different with its potential to ignite World War III. With Russian forces clearly