by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
I grew up in a very pro-military family. For a long time, I believed that criticizing military action was hateful to the soldiers themselves because it would demoralize troops and strengthen the enemy’s morale.
Soldiers facing danger overseas do deserve support. But they also deserve well-thought-out missions. They deserve a public that holds policymakers accountable for their actions. Those of us past fighting age have an absolute responsibility to call bullsh*t where we see it.
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We who grew up surrounded by World War II stories were raised with the belief that battles were very clear and that there were hard and fast lines between the “good guys” and the “bad guys.”
But that began to change for me in the early 2000s when my best friend came back from her first tour of duty in Iraq. She was in construction and so traveled throughout Iraq and saw many villages and had many, many encounters.
Readers probably remember that liberals were regularly denouncing our efforts in Iraq as Bush’s war crimes, while conservatives were insisting that we were liberating the Iraqi people. So naturally, I was curious to hear what my trusted friend had to say. I wanted to know who was right, Fox or CNN.
My friend just shrugged and told me both sides were kind of right and both sides were kind of wrong. It really just depended on each individual village. American leadership was making assumptions about the “Iraqi people” as though they were a homogeneous group, when in reality, ideological battles were occurring at the village level. And who in Washington, D.C., can know the ins and outs of each Iraqi village?
Ukraine is different than Iraq, but not as much as you think.
The Ukrainian situation is different, but not as different as some might think. While Russia certainly was the aggressor, pro-Russian groups have existed within Ukraine for decades. If you read Anne Applebaum’s book Red Famine, you will learn how, after deliberately starving the ethnic Ukrainians, Stalin shipped Russians as well as ethnic minorities within the Soviet Union (Kazakhs, for example) into the hollowed-out country to repopulate it. Ukraine, after all, does have the best farmland in the world, and it is not only being used by ethnic Ukrainians.
Trying to find perfectly accurate battlefield information is impossible and a waste of time for anyone who is not a military commander. So, for those of us with loved ones in the military, what are we supposed to do as we watch these battles play out, as we watch our own stockpiles of military supplies depleted? Do we just take legacy media at their word?
Of course not. Daisy just wrote a fantastic article about what a waste of time that is. Sometimes, the best the rest of us can do is to try and follow money trails. Who is benefiting from this? Are we helping the Ukrainian people? Who are we sending over there to represent the United States?
This is an exhaustive subject, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed.
Let’s just look at who is getting financially involved with Ukraine.
We know that arms manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon told investors that the war was going to be good for business. We also know that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the world’s largest asset manager, has made a deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to rebuild Ukraine.
We’ve written before about Ukraine’s new “government in a smartphone.” This has been profitable for tech companies, obviously, but it’s been an interesting trial run for the American groups like USAID, who financially supported its development.
Oh, and the Clintons are getting in on it.
The Clintons have just announced that they are getting involved. Last week, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) launched the Ukraine Action Network. This is the brainchild of Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. This Action Network seeks to coordinate efforts from prior CGI participants to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine; they also want to keep Ukraine in the spotlight, because American support for intervention in Ukraine is fading fast, and they know it.
So, what kind of aid does Hillary have in mind for the Ukrainians?
Well, CGI is excited about technology for schoolchildren. Orlando Bloom is raising $20 million for 50,000 laptops. I think he should shop around a little more if he thinks that’s the best deal he can get…
But this actually just proves my point. There are some big-hearted people working within charities to change lives. But there are always wasted resources, too. It’s hard to provide any kind of oversight within disaster zones.
Which CGI is well aware of.
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