Stunning Hypocrisy

What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.  
The real reasons are: access to oil or other resources, or geo-strategic competition.

Several million people died in the Vietnam War.

The U.S. aided the Indonesian military in its battles against leftists in the 1960s, 
causing about a million deaths.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Verse]
The U.S. overthrew democratically-elected governments throughout Latin America, 
often arming death squads. 
Any government that dared show independence and that dared serve its own people, 
instead of the U.S., was ripe for overthrow or invasion.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq was based totally on lies.  
And the U.S. has been occupying one third of Syria (the parts with oil) for years.

Even the war with Serbia was based on lies: 
the C.I.A. allied with the terrorist group Kosovo Liberation Army, 
whose members were later charged with war crimes.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Verse]
U.S. wars since 9/11 killed four point five million people, 
according to Brown University's Costs of War project.

The U.S. has a similar playbook worldwide: demonize some leader as the next Hitler; 
fund opposition groups and astroturf political movements; 
use the C.I.A. to arm opposition militias (often Muslim extremist groups), 
calling them freedom fighters; impose brutal sanctions;  
allege election fraud; 
and if all else fails, bomb the country or sponsor an invasion.

In Syria, the U.S. allied with Al Qaeda, 
just like they did in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

U.S. invasions, overthrows, and sanctions caused great death and suffering, 
as well as migration crises that destabilized politics in Europe and America.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Verse]
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was along its borders and in response to 
aggressive NATO expansion that included overthrowing the government of Ukraine 
in twenty-fourteen and arming far-right militias, including Azov, 
attacking Russian speakers in the east.

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, lifetime director of the Atlantic Council, 
said the U.S. "engineered" the twenty-fourteen Maidan coup.

Jack Matlock (Reagan's ambassador to the Soviet Union) agrees 
that the U.S. aided the coup and says the 
Ukrainian government's thinking is "dominated" by neo-Nazis.

According to the Washington Post and New York Times, 
the CIA was deeply involved in the run-up to the war in Ukraine.

The New Yorker reported that the C.I.A. and N.S.A. 
tried to hide their tracks in Ukraine.

Ukraine banned the official use of Russian.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Verse]
The U.S. had promised Soviet leaders that NATO would expand "not one inch" eastward.

The U.S. withdrew several from nuclear arms deals with Russia.

The war in Ukraine is like the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse.

Would the U.S. allow Russia to overthrow the government of Canada, 
arm anti-U.S. militias, and ban the official use of English?

Heck, the U.S. doesn't even allow vaguely socialist governments to develop 
anywhere in the world without trying to overthrow, sanction, or bomb them.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Verse]
The U.S. masses troops, bases, warships, missiles, and puppet states 
near its enemies' borders and meddles in their border disputes (e.g., Taiwan), 
all the while accusing them of being the aggressors.

The U.S. lies about every war.  
It's amazing and sad that they bamboozled so many Americans 
into believing lies about yet another disastrous, avoidable war --
a war which Russia is now winning. That fact raises the risk of nuclear war.

[Chorus]
What stunning hypocrisy!  
The U.S. invades, bombs, overthrows, 
and sanctions countries all over the world, 
for flimsy and dishonest reasons.

[Outro]
A negotiated solution is urgently needed.