"the war can only end with more war", "When Lions Roar" and Other Essays by The Good Citizen

"Noam Chomsky, in an interview this week, says "fortunately" there is "one Western statesman of stature" who is pushing for a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine rather than looking for ways to fuel and prolong it. "His name is Donald J. Trump," Chomsky says."--Glenn Greenwald

the war can only end with more war - The Good Citizen (substack.com):

"The entirely preventable war can only end with more war. The entirely preventable deaths can only end with more death. NATO’s orders. It was always going to end the way we know it will end.

With more war.

The only thing they’re trying to prevent now is any narrative that undermines their aims to prevent it from ending.

They say World War One was fought for reasons nobody really knows. The death and devastation were so unfathomable, so inconceivable, it was to be the war to end all wars. As long as people believe only war can end wars, then the war will only end with more war.

This war is being fought for reasons nobody with a functioning brain really believes. Democracy? Freedom? Insert all the laughing, crying, rolling on the muddy death fields of Ukraine emojis in the digital universe, plus all the facepalms, and pregnant men facepalms.

Forget the Nazis, the Oligarchs, the cocaine comic, the NATO clowns, the American empire war complex, the district of corruption, the demented diapered one, the EU tyrants begging for economic and energy catastrophes a la carte.

They all stand to gain from the blood of young Ukrainians, from their sacrifice for a set of conditions that were never going to be met even when all the world knew it before a single shot was fired.

They played Russian roulette with a country and most people celebrating its sacrifice for global evil can’t point to it on a map. They all cry out in unison like one mindless drone across the earth: “Keep dying youngbloods! The war will only end with more war!” ...

The baby-faced boys of Kyiv fresh from their gaming chairs and Uber Eats delivery routes. Once giddily bouncing from school classes to casual conversations at cafes that young people have. A rifle stuffed into their hands, three days of performative training, and a swift shove to the meat grinders. Forcibly conscripted into the NATO death machine.

The war must continue and will only end with more war. Five hundred million for more war. Seven hundred million. Do I hear eight hundred million? Do I hear nine hundred?

There’s money to wash through the national laundering operations pouring forth from the U.S. Department of treasury like a fire hose plugged into the central bank of the fourth most corrupt country on earth. Too many pockets need lining before the youngbloods can be called back home from the fronts.

All wars really end with a negotiated peace. Not this one. The word peace is forbidden. So is the word diplomacy.

Even when Russia has mopped up the final villages for liberation in the Donbas and taken Odesa in the south, and the final Ukrainian Nazis are rounded up for trials and detention and a decade henceforth after all regions are flying the Trikolor flag, the Americans will be finding more weapons to send and demanding the comic find more youngbloods to sacrifice.

Their mothers and sisters sit in Polish and German refugee shelters, waiting for news. That dreaded news that no mother ever wants. It’s the waiting that’s most painful.

The mothers know the Oligarchs agreed to the war. And the mothers know that western powers created the war. And the mothers know that the cocaine comic who ran on a peace mandate acquiesced to the war before showing his bloody fangs to the parliaments of the world begging for more weapons of war and more money and more cocaine and claimed “democracy” was at stake, as he was told.

And the mothers know it will be their sons who die for the Oligarchs, the western war powers, and the cocaine comic. They all dreamed of riches that could be justified by making Russia suffer and turning half of Ukraine into a post-apocalyptic hellscape. The mothers know their sons will be the ones to make their dreams come true.

And if they don’t know all this now, they will know it very soon one day after they get that call. And start asking questions.

Why did my son have to die for this?

Didn’t his dreams ever matter?

How about my dreams for him?".......

Nazis In Ukraine - The Good Citizen (substack.com)

"The media have been busy burying these inconvenient truths since the start of the war. Please share with those who still think ‘Nazis in Ukraine’ is a Putin talking point."

                          

(To gain historical perspective, watch "Ukraine on Fire" here.)

When Lions Roar - The Good Citizen (substack.com):

"There were no lions who roared. 

Did you hear any? Are there any lions still among us?

Now they want us to rally our spirits and pride around a Cold War relic called NATO, against their new manufactured evil, and pretend the past two years of abuse and killing never happened.

They expect us to move on and forget it. To accept our new behavioral conditions, responding to the threats they tell us, when and how they want.

They want us to believe Putin is our enemy and Russians are evil.

Did Russians lock you in your home and abuse your children? Did Putin threaten your job if you didn’t get injected with a deadly bioweapon? Did he tell the FDA to spike all early and effective treatments so more people died?

The greatest evils through history were hiding in plain sight, always projecting something they were not, engineering circumstances in their favor, often cloaked by a wall of rhetorical cover.

Today’s evil parades as philanthropy, its servants the wealthiest men on the planet with utter disregard for humanity and the future. ...

They’re betting we are all sheep now, and there are no more lions among us. No more savage beasts to go hunt and tear the limbs of those responsible for our imprisonment and abuse, for the culling of the population through two bioweapons and now manufactured food and energy crises and soon another world war.

They have shown us no respect, no deference, no humanity and no mercy because what evil rulers have ever shown their disposable subjects any of those?

If they are engineering another war, they expect all the brave soldiers to fight on behalf of them, their true enemies, and against a manufactured one. What will they be defending with their ultimate sacrifice other than the ability of global evil to continue its crimes against humanity?

Bravery is not fighting for evil, against the crises they create. If courage requires that silly government label of ‘dishonor’ then go and be courageous, and be discharged. There is only honor in disobeying an evil government, some might say a moral duty.

They forced you to get injected with a deadly bioweapon they engineered in a laboratory. They were going to dishonor your service by discharging you if you didn’t surrender your bodily autonomy to an experimental injection and now you’ll go and fight their fictitious enemies alongside literal Nazis?

Walk away, soldiers. You’re wearing the uniform of your real enemies. The flags of your fathers were mostly false. The nation you've been brainwashed to serve hasn't existed for a long time. The document those in power swore an oath to uphold is detested by your superiors up the chain of command. Your chief is rotten and demented and controlled by global evil. All institutions that once existed to protect your basic human rights have abandoned you.

Your war is our war. Your enemies are our enemies and they are not in Russia.

Walk away brave soldiers or risk being sheep to a different slaughter.

You can go and be lions instead.".......

There are too many excellent posts to list, but if you somehow missed The Enemy of My Enemies, go. 

Read them all.