Victoria Nuland

Senator Joni Ernst sends an email each week keeping us informed of her work in DC. Last week she informed us that she has secured continued support from the Army for a $1.5 billion addition to the Middletown, Iowa munitions plant. She says our allies rely on us. Before I go on, allies help each other, right? Please readers, let me know one thing our allies have done for us. (Mercedes workers voting against the United Auto Workers doesn't count. They are Americans.)

She wants Iowa and the United States to continue to “serve as the arsenal of democracy worldwide.” The so-called conservatives have joined the so-called liberals in ignoring where the money comes from. I think she actually believes that these munitions are being used in defense. Really? Ukraine is at the front of a Russian invasion of the United States? Hogwash. It seems that the whole of DC is living in some kind of fairy tale where they relish the role of good guy with no idea of our reduction of wealth and the scattered body parts in Ukraine and Israel.

I asked a friend who has strong opinions on current affairs about a person that I mentioned in last week's Alternative. He had never heard of her. With all the hubbub over the importance of elections you'd think it would be important for people to know what's going on. But they don't. The mainstream news is a mere propaganda arm of the military/industrial complex and voting is a flimsy charade to convince people they can make a difference.

The person I'm referring to is Victoria Nuland. She held various diplomatic and administrative jobs from Bill Clinton's administration through Joe Biden's, always with a focus on meddling in the affairs of foreign governments. Victor Yanukovych had been elected President of Ukraine in 2010 and tended to be friendlier with Russia than with Western European countries. Trade is always essential for peace. We are prosperous because of people making useful things in peacetime. Industry that makes destructive things needs to influence politicians to realize profit. They need to convince the politicians that we are not as important as the conflict that enriches them.

Nuland admitted publicly that while working with the CIA she spent $5 billion of our money to incite anti-Russian sentiment in Ukraine. Eventually leading to the Maidan Revolution which overthrew Ukraine's elected president. He fled the country and Petro Poroshenko was elected. But he was not sufficiently pro-West either. The comedian, Volodymyr Zlelenkyy, was elected in 2019, proving that getting elected and running a country are two distinctly different skills.

Not knowing who Victoria Nuland is is no personal deficiency. It is a product of a massive and sophisticated propaganda campaign. Little by little we are finding different news sources, or at least questioning suspicious narratives. But calling Israel or Ukraine allies is plainly nuts and our representatives should know better than to drain our economy to prop-up these corrupt regimes.

Facts to consider: Secretary of State James Baker promised Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand east “one inch” if Germany was allowed to unify after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro have since proven Baker's promise to be like a pie crust. The Kiev government had killed about 14,000 people in the Russian speaking Donbas region since the 2014 coup d'etat.

And then some figures as we contemplate how high prices affect our lifestyle:

Americans were living the good life after WWI and WWII. Defense (?) spending dropped 94% and 92% respectively. Combined with the other assaults on Americans through climate and diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, Ernst and her donors are playing us for fools while callously looking the other way while children are blown to bits only to profit a bloated and parasitic industry.