< Back THE CYNICAL LIE THAT 'HELPING UKRAINE' HELPS UKRAINE Alistair P-M Jun 25, 2023 Written in June 2023, but the points all still apply - the situation is just even worse now. Since the SMO got underway, the collective West - i.e. the US, Europe and their allies, who also like to refer to themselves as The International Community - has sent Ukraine billions of dollars in cash and aid, some of which has been ‘lethal aid’, which sounds like food parcels laced with cyanide but in fact just means weapons. Western leaders love to trot out soundbites about standing with Ukraine “ for as long as it takes ”, but what do they actually mean by that? As long as what takes? Defeating Russia? Seriously? And why, exactly? Ukraine isn’t a NATO member state, so the rest of NATO has no formal reason to help them, certainly not to the extent of sending them weapons to continue fighting Russia, but that’s what we’ve been doing for well over a year now. We’re treating them like a de facto member of NATO, but one that we’re conveniently not obliged to help; we’re just doing it because we care so much about their freedom, democracy, etc . We launched the sanctions war against Russia because we were so outraged about their totally unprovoked attack on their neighbour that we felt it necessary to try and destroy their economy and ignite a coup against Putin. But because we’ve decided that we’re not a party to the conflict, we’ve decided that Russia aren’t allowed to retaliate against us either militarily or economically, so if they do then we’ve decided that that will be unprovoked too. Hmm. And what happened? The sanctions backfired spectacularly, isolating us economically and politically, and the weapons have mostly been destroyed, including on 13 May 2023 an ammunition dump near Khmelnytskyi that included the depleted uranium that the UK sent , creating a potentially radioactive cloud that may have passed over western Europe. I’m still waiting to see any mention of it in western media, but I’m not holding my breath. Asking why we’re ‘helping’ Ukraine so much, is a question that is guaranteed to be met with angry and hurt-sounding liberal types talking about protecting Europe, not giving in to Putin’s authoritarianism, and other euphemisms for “because we are”. Obviously these people also dismiss all the extensive evidence of Ukrainian war crimes against civilians and terrorism in Russia as Russian propaganda (even when Ukraine boasts about it). The most you might get is an admission that it’s real but justified by Russia’s invasion, and Russia is doing the same anyway (because the news says they are ). The fact that the Ukrainian war crimes have been going on since 2014 might be met with the rejoinder that it was all in response to Russian aggression in some form or another. In the MSNBCNN liberal worldview, Ukraine has always been the underdog and Russia has always been the giant looming on the border, arming militants. In reality, Donbass has been the underdog since the DLPR declared independence, and Ukraine has been the giant angrily punishing its upstart rebels with extremist militants armed and trained by the West. Both Russians and people from elsewhere went to Donbass to fight these militants, but Putin came under intense criticism in Russia for not coming to the aid of the Donbass people sooner, since they were explicitly being targeted for their Russian ethnicity, and the Russian audience could understand very well what the Ukrainian nationalists were saying about them . The continuing terrorism against the Donbass was a long-burning provocation that has been whitewashed in the west, one enacted with the intention of dragging Russia in militarily, which would provide justification for western sanctions, weapons supplies and maybe even military intervention. Putin and others would have been well aware of this, and they didn’t act until their hand was forced by Ukraine building up troops on the DLPR border in readiness to violently take back Donbass. When Russia eventually did act, they acted decisively, recognising the DPR and LPR as independent states, destroying most of the Ukrainian air force almost immediately and providing air and artillery support for the DLPR troops fighting the Ukraine troops that had been built up on their borders. Suddenly, the narrative of Ukraine being the underdog appeared to ring true. Formal support for Ukraine has taken the form of financial and military support, both for the country and for refugees abroad, and informal support has taken the form of aggressive media and and social media campaigns. Embarrassing memes like this one popped up, and people fell over themselves to Like and Love and Share them: The informal support has been just as important as the formal support, in that it has legitimised in the public consciousness the massive formal support for a country that, as stated earlier, we don’t have any treaty obligations to help. But the burning question is: what is our ‘help’ actually doing for Ukraine? Russia has an overwhelming military advantage (‘escalatory dominance’ as Obama put it), so the longer the conflict continues, the more the Ukraine army will be destroyed. At the end of March 2022, after most of the first iteration of the Ukraine army had been destroyed, negotiations in Istanbul resulted in a ceasefire agreement that would have put an end to the conflict, with Ukraine agreeing to cede Crimea, the DPR and the LPR. Then Boris Johnson visited his old buddy Zelensky in Kiev, and promised them more money and weapons if they kept fighting ‘for as long as it takes’. So the ceasefire went in the bin . This was probably the point at which Russia/Putin realised that Ukraine is a state with no autonomy - sometimes referred to as a zombie state or simply 404 (‘State not found’) - and by no means a sovereign country. They have said repeatedly since then, that there is no point negotiating with Ukraine, or even the EU, only the United States. But they’ve also called the US ‘ agreement-incapable ’, meaning that Russia can make an agreement with one arm of government, only to have another arm of government, or the military, break that agreement. Naturally, our media tells a very different story, one of a brave Ukraine standing up to brutish Russian aggression. What the news never says, is that ever since the start of the SMO, Ukraine hasn’t had a chance against Russia. They just keep pushing the lines that actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy keeps reading, which is that Ukraine just needs a few more tanks, a few more weapons, a few more billion dollars to keep them going long enough to take back Donbass, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Crimea. This is fantasy. They couldn’t take Donbass and Crimea back at the start of 2022, when they had all of their original army (almost the largest in Europe), and there is no reason to think they can do it now. So why do we keep supporting them, and why is Zelensky being told to keep saying this? All of the Soviet-era materiel that Eastern European countries have sent (which Ukrainians may already have been trained to use) has to be replaced at some point. NATO countries are obliged to only buy military equipment from other NATO countries, so that means big contracts for arms manufacturers in the US, UK, France and elsewhere. So what if the obsolete old Soviet tanks get blown up, along with their crew? Giving Ukraine lots of older Western weapons like the Javelins and NLAWs lets us feel good about having done something, even if they turn out to be useless because their batteries expired years ago and the people using them received bare minimum training on how to use them. So it makes the guy holding it a target, so what? As CBS reported and then withdrew , as little as 30% of military aid may have reached its intended recipient. A lot of what goes missing ends up on the black market - buyers there also complain about defunct batteries - and two French Caesar self-propelled guns even ended up in Russia . The mix of ammunition of different standards that we’ve given them might not be compatible with the weapons they have, but at least they can sell it on the dark web to someone who might have a use for it. The relatively new German Leopard tanks showed themselves to be ineffective in the disastrous Summer 2023 'counteroffensive', getting trapped in minefields and becoming sitting ducks for Russian artillery. Even the wonder-weapon US Patriot air defence systems have proven ineffective: they have been destroyed by the hypersonic Kinzhal missiles they were supposed to be able to shoot out of the sky, and their hyper-expensive missiles have fallen onto the cities they were supposed to defend (see below). The crews of these tanks and weapons systems are dead meat, but does anyone care? Ukraine is synonymous with corruption. Apart from the unaudited black hole of ‘aid to Ukraine’ that the US supposedly sends, there was the time the Ukraine parliament voted to give themselves a pay rise , and the quickly-forgotten scandal of crypto platform FTX having possibly been a conduit for funds from ‘Aid to Ukraine’ to find their way back to Democrat donors. And of course there are the Bidens , Burisma, and the other children of prominent US senators having high-paid no-show jobs in Ukraine for years. So the grift continues, but only while the fighting continues. Ukrainian lives - and almost certainly the lives of soldiers from NATO countries, whom many military commentators agree must be manning the advanced weapons systems that Ukraine has been sent, because the Ukrainians simply haven’t had time to learn how to use these systems - continue to get traded for dollars , and the media continues to tell us that this is all ‘for Ukraine’ somehow. On top of that, the men fighting are practically abducted off the street, then sent into battle with virtually no training, inadequate weapons, and the threat of being shot by their own side if they try to retreat. They are literally cannon fodder to keep the war going as long as possible. There’s always the possibility that the reason Zelensky keeps reading his lines is that he knows that his life , and maybe the lives of his family, are at risk if he drops the pantomime at any moment. He’s a Jewish , native Russian speaker, in a country where the security services are allowed to detain and disappear anyone they think might be a threat to the state, and the whole western media is on their side. If he says something off-script and suddenly winds up dead, undoubtedly his death will be blamed on Russia. It would probably even be used as an excuse for further escalation, but with a more hardline leader. How can this all end? The US was originally looking for regime change in Russia, and with the Wagner mutiny the media all got very excited thinking it might be happening , but it didn’t. Western leaders have also talked about aiming for a ‘frozen’ conflict, essentially a new Cold War era, with a DMZ splitting Ukraine into East and West. I don’t know what’s going to happen any more than anyone else, but Russia say that the SMO is going to plan, and we’ll have to wait and see what that means. If the New Cold War proposition wins out, with the current US-led regime continuing to dominate Europe west of Ukraine, the media in this bloc is bound to keep up their story about the Ukraine conflict and its causes. They don’t have a choice any more; to admit that one part was untrue would open the floodgates to the rest of the truth spilling out. The Russia-controlled east will probably get to know the truth about this conflict, and I have to think that no one in eastern Ukraine will ever trust the West again. If the US-led bloc doesn’t get the frozen conflict it wants, then it seems likely there’s no other option but for eventual regime change in Europe and a severing of ties with the US. Or maybe even more than that, since Russia has shown that they can handily defeat Western weapons, and the West barely has enough weapons to defend itself as best it can. The near future looks bleak, but I have hope that we can come through this for the better. The sooner we realise that America is not our friend, and Russia doesn’t have to be our enemy, the better. Republished from The Reluctant Dissident . Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

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< Back THE CYNICAL LIE THAT 'HELPING UKRAINE' HELPS UKRAINE Alistair P-M Jun 25, 2023 Written in June 2023, but the points all still apply - the situation is just even worse now. Since the SMO got underway, the collective West - i.e. the US, Europe and their allies, who also like to refer to themselves as The International Community - has sent Ukraine billions of dollars in cash and aid, some of which has been ‘lethal aid’, which sounds like food parcels laced with cyanide but in fact just means weapons. Western leaders love to trot out soundbites about standing with Ukraine “ for as long as it takes ”, but what do they actually mean by that? As long as what takes? Defeating Russia? Seriously? And why, exactly? Ukraine isn’t a NATO member state, so the rest of NATO has no formal reason to help them, certainly not to the extent of sending them weapons to continue fighting Russia, but that’s what we’ve been doing for well over a year now. We’re treating them like a de facto member of NATO, but one that we’re conveniently not obliged to help; we’re just doing it because we care so much about their freedom, democracy, etc . We launched the sanctions war against Russia because we were so outraged about their totally unprovoked attack on their neighbour that we felt it necessary to try and destroy their economy and ignite a coup against Putin. But because we’ve decided that we’re not a party to the conflict, we’ve decided that Russia aren’t allowed to retaliate against us either militarily or economically, so if they do then we’ve decided that that will be unprovoked too. Hmm. And what happened? The sanctions backfired spectacularly, isolating us economically and politically, and the weapons have mostly been destroyed, including on 13 May 2023 an ammunition dump near Khmelnytskyi that included the depleted uranium that the UK sent , creating a potentially radioactive cloud that may have passed over western Europe. I’m still waiting to see any mention of it in western media, but I’m not holding my breath. Asking why we’re ‘helping’ Ukraine so much, is a question that is guaranteed to be met with angry and hurt-sounding liberal types talking about protecting Europe, not giving in to Putin’s authoritarianism, and other euphemisms for “because we are”. Obviously these people also dismiss all the extensive evidence of Ukrainian war crimes against civilians and terrorism in Russia as Russian propaganda (even when Ukraine boasts about it). The most you might get is an admission that it’s real but justified by Russia’s invasion, and Russia is doing the same anyway (because the news says they are ). The fact that the Ukrainian war crimes have been going on since 2014 might be met with the rejoinder that it was all in response to Russian aggression in some form or another. In the MSNBCNN liberal worldview, Ukraine has always been the underdog and Russia has always been the giant looming on the border, arming militants. In reality, Donbass has been the underdog since the DLPR declared independence, and Ukraine has been the giant angrily punishing its upstart rebels with extremist militants armed and trained by the West. Both Russians and people from elsewhere went to Donbass to fight these militants, but Putin came under intense criticism in Russia for not coming to the aid of the Donbass people sooner, since they were explicitly being targeted for their Russian ethnicity, and the Russian audience could understand very well what the Ukrainian nationalists were saying about them . The continuing terrorism against the Donbass was a long-burning provocation that has been whitewashed in the west, one enacted with the intention of dragging Russia in militarily, which would provide justification for western sanctions, weapons supplies and maybe even military intervention. Putin and others would have been well aware of this, and they didn’t act until their hand was forced by Ukraine building up troops on the DLPR border in readiness to violently take back Donbass. When Russia eventually did act, they acted decisively, recognising the DPR and LPR as independent states, destroying most of the Ukrainian air force almost immediately and providing air and artillery support for the DLPR troops fighting the Ukraine troops that had been built up on their borders. Suddenly, the narrative of Ukraine being the underdog appeared to ring true. Formal support for Ukraine has taken the form of financial and military support, both for the country and for refugees abroad, and informal support has taken the form of aggressive media and and social media campaigns. Embarrassing memes like this one popped up, and people fell over themselves to Like and Love and Share them: The informal support has been just as important as the formal support, in that it has legitimised in the public consciousness the massive formal support for a country that, as stated earlier, we don’t have any treaty obligations to help. But the burning question is: what is our ‘help’ actually doing for Ukraine? Russia has an overwhelming military advantage (‘escalatory dominance’ as Obama put it), so the longer the conflict continues, the more the Ukraine army will be destroyed. At the end of March 2022, after most of the first iteration of the Ukraine army had been destroyed, negotiations in Istanbul resulted in a ceasefire agreement that would have put an end to the conflict, with Ukraine agreeing to cede Crimea, the DPR and the LPR. Then Boris Johnson visited his old buddy Zelensky in Kiev, and promised them more money and weapons if they kept fighting ‘for as long as it takes’. So the ceasefire went in the bin . This was probably the point at which Russia/Putin realised that Ukraine is a state with no autonomy - sometimes referred to as a zombie state or simply 404 (‘State not found’) - and by no means a sovereign country. They have said repeatedly since then, that there is no point negotiating with Ukraine, or even the EU, only the United States. But they’ve also called the US ‘ agreement-incapable ’, meaning that Russia can make an agreement with one arm of government, only to have another arm of government, or the military, break that agreement. Naturally, our media tells a very different story, one of a brave Ukraine standing up to brutish Russian aggression. What the news never says, is that ever since the start of the SMO, Ukraine hasn’t had a chance against Russia. They just keep pushing the lines that actor Volodymyr Zelenskyy keeps reading, which is that Ukraine just needs a few more tanks, a few more weapons, a few more billion dollars to keep them going long enough to take back Donbass, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Crimea. This is fantasy. They couldn’t take Donbass and Crimea back at the start of 2022, when they had all of their original army (almost the largest in Europe), and there is no reason to think they can do it now. So why do we keep supporting them, and why is Zelensky being told to keep saying this? All of the Soviet-era materiel that Eastern European countries have sent (which Ukrainians may already have been trained to use) has to be replaced at some point. NATO countries are obliged to only buy military equipment from other NATO countries, so that means big contracts for arms manufacturers in the US, UK, France and elsewhere. So what if the obsolete old Soviet tanks get blown up, along with their crew? Giving Ukraine lots of older Western weapons like the Javelins and NLAWs lets us feel good about having done something, even if they turn out to be useless because their batteries expired years ago and the people using them received bare minimum training on how to use them. So it makes the guy holding it a target, so what? As CBS reported and then withdrew , as little as 30% of military aid may have reached its intended recipient. A lot of what goes missing ends up on the black market - buyers there also complain about defunct batteries - and two French Caesar self-propelled guns even ended up in Russia . The mix of ammunition of different standards that we’ve given them might not be compatible with the weapons they have, but at least they can sell it on the dark web to someone who might have a use for it. The relatively new German Leopard tanks showed themselves to be ineffective in the disastrous Summer 2023 'counteroffensive', getting trapped in minefields and becoming sitting ducks for Russian artillery. Even the wonder-weapon US Patriot air defence systems have proven ineffective: they have been destroyed by the hypersonic Kinzhal missiles they were supposed to be able to shoot out of the sky, and their hyper-expensive missiles have fallen onto the cities they were supposed to defend (see below). The crews of these tanks and weapons systems are dead meat, but does anyone care? Ukraine is synonymous with corruption. Apart from the unaudited black hole of ‘aid to Ukraine’ that the US supposedly sends, there was the time the Ukraine parliament voted to give themselves a pay rise , and the quickly-forgotten scandal of crypto platform FTX having possibly been a conduit for funds from ‘Aid to Ukraine’ to find their way back to Democrat donors. And of course there are the Bidens , Burisma, and the other children of prominent US senators having high-paid no-show jobs in Ukraine for years. So the grift continues, but only while the fighting continues. Ukrainian lives - and almost certainly the lives of soldiers from NATO countries, whom many military commentators agree must be manning the advanced weapons systems that Ukraine has been sent, because the Ukrainians simply haven’t had time to learn how to use these systems - continue to get traded for dollars , and the media continues to tell us that this is all ‘for Ukraine’ somehow. On top of that, the men fighting are practically abducted off the street, then sent into battle with virtually no training, inadequate weapons, and the threat of being shot by their own side if they try to retreat. They are literally cannon fodder to keep the war going as long as possible. There’s always the possibility that the reason Zelensky keeps reading his lines is that he knows that his life , and maybe the lives of his family, are at risk if he drops the pantomime at any moment. He’s a Jewish , native Russian speaker, in a country where the security services are allowed to detain and disappear anyone they think might be a threat to the state, and the whole western media is on their side. If he says something off-script and suddenly winds up dead, undoubtedly his death will be blamed on Russia. It would probably even be used as an excuse for further escalation, but with a more hardline leader. How can this all end? The US was originally looking for regime change in Russia, and with the Wagner mutiny the media all got very excited thinking it might be happening , but it didn’t. Western leaders have also talked about aiming for a ‘frozen’ conflict, essentially a new Cold War era, with a DMZ splitting Ukraine into East and West. I don’t know what’s going to happen any more than anyone else, but Russia say that the SMO is going to plan, and we’ll have to wait and see what that means. If the New Cold War proposition wins out, with the current US-led regime continuing to dominate Europe west of Ukraine, the media in this bloc is bound to keep up their story about the Ukraine conflict and its causes. They don’t have a choice any more; to admit that one part was untrue would open the floodgates to the rest of the truth spilling out. The Russia-controlled east will probably get to know the truth about this conflict, and I have to think that no one in eastern Ukraine will ever trust the West again. If the US-led bloc doesn’t get the frozen conflict it wants, then it seems likely there’s no other option but for eventual regime change in Europe and a severing of ties with the US. Or maybe even more than that, since Russia has shown that they can handily defeat Western weapons, and the West barely has enough weapons to defend itself as best it can. The near future looks bleak, but I have hope that we can come through this for the better. The sooner we realise that America is not our friend, and Russia doesn’t have to be our enemy, the better. Republished from The Reluctant Dissident . Previous Next

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< Back RICHARD MEDHURST UN SPEECH IN GENEVA ON PALESTINE & THE UK'S CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH Richard Medhurst Sep 15, 2024 Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/richardmedhurst Donate on PayPal: https://paypal.me/papichulomin Donate on GoFundMe: http://tiny.cc/GoFundMe-Richard Bitcoin address: bc1qnelpedy2q6qu67485w4wnmcya5am873zwxxvvp Subscribe to Richard Medhurst on other platforms here: Rumble: https://rumble.com/richardmedhurst Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/richardmedhurst Odysee: https://odysee.com/@richardmedhurst Substack: https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/ Richard Thomas Medhurst (1992) is an independent journalist, political commentator, and analyst from the United Kingdom with a focus on international affairs, US politics, and the Middle East. Medhurst is known for his coverage of the Julian Assange extradition case in London, as one of the only journalists to report on the trial of the WikiLeaks founder from inside the court. He has also covered the Iran nuclear deal talks on the ground in Vienna. Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents served in United Nations Peacekeeping and Observer missions and were among the UN Peacekeepers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Owing to his parents’ professional mobility, he has lived in Syria, Pakistan, Switzerland, and Austria. He speaks four languages fluently: English, Arabic, French, and German. As an independent journalist, Medhurst regularly hosts live broadcasts and video reports on his YouTube channel. Previous guests include the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, the Dep Foreign Minister of Iran; the Palestinian, Russian and Cuban ambassadors to the United Nations in Vienna; the former British Ambassador to Syria; and various UN officials, journalists, and more. Medhurst’s reports and analysis on Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, Niger, Lebanon, Iran, the Israeli occupation in Palestine and its genocide in Gaza have gone viral countless times, racking up millions of views. Richard Medhurst has a combined following of roughly one million people online, and appears regularly on international news outlets including Al Jazeera, WikiLeaks, Black Agenda Report, Al Mayadeen, The Times, LBC, and others. Richard Medhurst on Twitter: / richimedhurst Richard Medhurst on Instagram: / richardtmedhurst Richard Medhurst on Substack: https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/ ________________________________________________________ #gaza #palestine #richardmedhurst #israel #Medhurst #RichardMedhurst #idf Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back RICHARD MEDHURST UN SPEECH IN GENEVA ON PALESTINE & THE UK'S CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH Richard Medhurst Sep 15, 2024 Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/richardmedhurst Donate on PayPal: https://paypal.me/papichulomin Donate on GoFundMe: http://tiny.cc/GoFundMe-Richard Bitcoin address: bc1qnelpedy2q6qu67485w4wnmcya5am873zwxxvvp Subscribe to Richard Medhurst on other platforms here: Rumble: https://rumble.com/richardmedhurst Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/richardmedhurst Odysee: https://odysee.com/@richardmedhurst Substack: https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/ Richard Thomas Medhurst (1992) is an independent journalist, political commentator, and analyst from the United Kingdom with a focus on international affairs, US politics, and the Middle East. Medhurst is known for his coverage of the Julian Assange extradition case in London, as one of the only journalists to report on the trial of the WikiLeaks founder from inside the court. He has also covered the Iran nuclear deal talks on the ground in Vienna. Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents served in United Nations Peacekeeping and Observer missions and were among the UN Peacekeepers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Owing to his parents’ professional mobility, he has lived in Syria, Pakistan, Switzerland, and Austria. He speaks four languages fluently: English, Arabic, French, and German. As an independent journalist, Medhurst regularly hosts live broadcasts and video reports on his YouTube channel. Previous guests include the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, the Dep Foreign Minister of Iran; the Palestinian, Russian and Cuban ambassadors to the United Nations in Vienna; the former British Ambassador to Syria; and various UN officials, journalists, and more. Medhurst’s reports and analysis on Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, Niger, Lebanon, Iran, the Israeli occupation in Palestine and its genocide in Gaza have gone viral countless times, racking up millions of views. Richard Medhurst has a combined following of roughly one million people online, and appears regularly on international news outlets including Al Jazeera, WikiLeaks, Black Agenda Report, Al Mayadeen, The Times, LBC, and others. Richard Medhurst on Twitter: / richimedhurst Richard Medhurst on Instagram: / richardtmedhurst Richard Medhurst on Substack: https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/ ________________________________________________________ #gaza #palestine #richardmedhurst #israel #Medhurst #RichardMedhurst #idf Previous Next

< Back IS ITS NATIONAL DEBT OF 25 TRILLION DOLLARS THE USA'S GREATEST WEAKNESS Proletarian Writers, CPGB-ML Sep 15, 2024 With debt rising exponentially year on year, and interest payments of $1tn this year alone, the US economy is poised ever closer to open bankruptcy. The USA is now spending more than $2bn per day in interest payments alone on a debt so large that it equates to $106,000 for every single US citizen. This servicing of a ballooning debt is the fastest growing part of the national budget, and a sign of the underlying bankruptcy of the US economy. No wonder the imperialists are desperate for a huge payday in Russia and/or China. Only by robbing the workers of the world even more intensively can these capitalist books ever hope to become ‘balanced’. The news that the US national debt has now topped 35 trillion dollars is not easy to digest. For starters, what is a trillion anyway? And what is the national debt? If it’s so big already, will another trillion or so make things any different? In a homely analogy, the US treasury department helpfully invites us to view the US national debt as “similar to a person using a credit card for purchases and not paying off the full balance each month. The cost of purchases exceeding the amount paid off represents a deficit, while accumulated deficits over time represents a person’s overall debt.” ( Is the Federal Reserve printing money in order to buy Treasury securities? , Federal Reserve FAQs, 25 August 2016) This folksy way of explaining the crazy reality of the USA’s national debt, firmly locating the phenomenon of indebtedness on the familiar domestic ground of shopping lists, maxed out credit cards and wobbly household budgets, has the advantage for capitalism of seeming to tame what are in fact the uncontrollable forces of the market, normalising what in any sane view would be recognised as dangerous nonsense. You just can’t keep borrowing money year after year without paying any of it back. Bankruptcy and meltdown loom large The individual consequences of accumulating too much personal debt on the domestic scale can be horrendous enough, but the consequences for a country of the national debt/GDP ratio getting so far out of hand, exposing the impossibility of generating sufficient growth to pay off the creditors, is something else again. This is the fate that the USA faced when its debt to GDP ratio surpassed 100 percent in 2013, at which time both its debt and its GDP were approximately $16.7tn. More recent figures suggest that the debt/GDP ratio has further outstripped the country’s ability to pay down its debt. The Congressional Budget Office recently reported : “The deficit for 2024 is $400bn (or 27 percent) larger than it was in the agency’s February 2024 projections, and the cumulative deficit over the 2025–34 period is larger by $2.1tn (10 percent).” How is it possible for otherwise sensible people to be persuaded that it is sustainable for the most wealthy country on earth to keep adding a new annual budgetary deficit onto the previously incurred national debt, with no realistic prospect of ever paying any of it off? To the capitalist mentality the notion of the US economy going into full meltdown is literally unthinkable, conditioned as it is by the ideological constraints of the bourgeois class perspective. Even the stunts pulled by congressmen, refusing to vote through further accumulations to the national debt unless the government makes political concessions, are mostly staged affairs, concluded by some shabby backdoor deal which always ends up incurring further unrepayable debts. But these shadow boxing clowns do not really have a clue about the true dimensions of the disaster they are courting as US imperialism sleepwalks its way through the minefield of unserviceable (let alone unrepayable) debt. Creditors looking increasingly nervous Sensitive to charges that it is stoking inflation by printing money, the federal reserve shifts its ground, claiming that “although Federal Reserve purchases of Treasury securities do not involve printing money, the increase in the Federal Reserve’s holdings of Treasury securities is matched by a corresponding increase in reserve balances held by the banking system. The banking system must hold the quantity of reserve balances that the Federal Reserve creates.” But whether the increase in the money supply and corresponding cheapening of the debt is effected simply by the fraudulent production of dollar bills or by some more subtle fiscal smoke-and-mirrors exercise, the end result can only be runaway inflation. Since involvement in WWI left the USA with a national debt of about $22bn, its expansion has been continuous, with no apparent reverse gear. Wars have been accelerants (notably in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria) as have economic crises (in 2008 and 2020, in the latter case partially masked by the Covid health emergency). From 2019 to 2021, spending increased by about 50 percent. None of this would necessarily be so bad if the USA could demonstrate a healthy enough growth rate (debt to GDP ratio) to persuade creditors to keep on buying government securities and the like. But increasingly, potential creditors are becoming wary of propping up the flagging economy of a country that starts wars it cannot end, and which threatens even ‘friendly’ countries with economic sanctions. One which tears up the United Nations charter and imposes in its place a ‘rules-based order’ answerable to the US alone, and which conducts a policy of coups, coercion, assassination and blackmail against whomsoever it chooses. The USA should not be surprised to see a flight from the dollar as countries opt to expand and deepen commercial and political relations elsewhere. As US geopolitical analyst Brandon J Weichert wrote recently in the National Interest magazine: “With a $1.5tn deficit this year (just this year!), $35tn in overall debt, and $1tn in interest payments this year (for one year alone!!), if the US dollar is no longer the primary global reserve currency and there is suddenly a true rival to the US currency, then the entire American financial system comes crashing down.” ( America’s greatest enemy isn’t China or Russia: it’s $35tn in debt , 4 June 2024) And with the US financial system would come the whole imperialist-centred world capitalist economy. No wonder Senator Lindsay Graham is keen to underline the importance of getting hold of the Donbass’s considerable resources (which he described as “a $12tn goldmine”!) via Nato’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. US imperialist strategists are clearly banking on this prospective Ukrainian payday, and considering it as a mere down payment on the bonanza they hope to enjoy when their dream of Russian regime change finally turns into reality. All (!) they have to do is to instal a pliant comprador government in place of the anti-imperialist administration of President Vladimir Putin, break the resistance of the Russian people, break the country into pieces and let the orgy begin. What happens if (when!) these dreamers are finally forced to wake up to the harsh reality of Nato ’s defeat and Russia’s victory , no one in the imperialist camp seems prepared to consider. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report