How Can You Back a Genocide, Maria (Cantwell)?
By Donald A. Smith, with help from AI. Click on image below to watch video. You might enjoy it more in full-screen mode.
Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell voted against halting arms sales to Israel, despite it having been accused of genocide by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Criminal Court, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and others. See 37th LD Democrats condemn Sen. Cantwell for her vote pro-Israel votes.
How can you back a genocide, Maria? How can you support an apartheid regime? How can you pose with a man accused of war crimes - Of killing civilians and ethnic cleansing obscene? How do you sleep at night knowing that you helped him? How do you scrub the blood from your filthy hands? Oh, Maria — you're so bold, When children's bodies grow cold, And all your votes lift up Bibi's evil plans. How can you back a genocide, Maria? How can you scrub the blood stains from your hands?
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Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
For example, Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."
U.S. hypocrisy is absolutely stunning, since it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. Anti-Russian, far-right militias armed by the U.S. were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA tried hard to hide information about the background to the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. government lies about every war. They're lying big time about this one, too.
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