US cares more about Ukraine's people than its own poor

 By Steve Otto

The United States has spent at least 40 $Billion[1] on Ukraine to fight the Russians. But this same country can’t afford medical care for its own poor people. So our leaders care more about the Ukraines than our own people. They don't give a shit about their own people. That’s hypocrites!

It has been a while since the US has pushed for such a heavy degree of imperialism and this country has rallied its people around this imperialist cause. People identify with the “evil Russians” (after years of vilification against the Soviet Union) coming down on the hapless Ukraine people. At first there was some legitimate outrage on what the Russians have done. But the US did the same thing in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Ironically there are Americans who served in those wars and now they take up arms in Ukraine and they talk of helping those poor Ukrainians who have suffered at the hands of the Russians who have taken their sovereignty away. Does it matter that these vets where willing to take away the sovereignty of Iraqis and Afghanistans, but now they care about Ukrainian’s loss of Sovereignty. Recently leaders from both US parties, Republican and Democrat, declared that this country will defeat the Russians— more vilification of the Russians.

This is supposed to be a free country with a free press. But our free and independently owned press seems to really support the status quo. Try finding anyone in the news media who does not vilify the Russians and champion US imperialism? That policy is firmly in place and there seems to be no real opposition to it. Sure there are critics like me, but I can’t compete with CBS, NBC and ABC. Most people listen to one of them and not me.

The country has reached a new crescendo of hypocrisy in support of Ukraine, complete with phony films and photos of Russian atrocities, while they hid such films and photos of US atrocities from our invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The public deserves better.

When it comes to foreign affairs, this country provide about as much freedom as the Nazis allowed in Germany during World War II. It is sad that US imperialism is so entrenched in the American psych. But it is and that is our reality for today.

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[1] From CSIS-

Congress has approved $40 billion in aid for Ukraine and other countries affected by the conflict―the sixth aid package since the war began. A major change is that this package looks ahead months rather than weeks.