“A common criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous Friday performance in the Oval Office is that he failed to read the room,” notes Michael Goodman in Saturday’s The New York Post. “Actually, the Ukrainian president did read a room—but it was the wrong room.” Indeed. “Before meeting Trump,” Goodwin writes, “Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).”
Goodwin quotes Murphy: “Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine.” But the warmongers in Washington are not the only one desperate to prevent peace. “Unfortunately for [Zelensky], there is an audience egging him on. Beyond Washington Dems, the European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, wrote on social media that ‘the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge. We stand by Ukraine.’”
Goodwin ends his essay with the matter succinctly put: “Sure, Europe stands by Ukraine—and will continue to stand by as it gets carved up by Putin’s war machine.”
Here’s Goodwin’s piece: “Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal.” You should read it. Goodman knows what’s going on. He gets it. I watched this unfold in real time. You could see it coming days weeks ago (see Vance and Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference). Zelensky was sent to the Oval Office by neoconservatives to reject Trump’s deal. Why? To keep the conflict going to generate more profits for defense contractors and continue the project to break the will of nations who remain aloof from transnational vision of a one world corporate state.
Remember when the warmongers sent UK prime minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine to scuttle the peace deal being negotiated by Zelensky and Russia? In April 2022, Johnson played a key role in scuttling a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. During a visit to Kyiv, Johnson urged Zelensky to reject any agreement, promising him that the West would provide military support instead (this was during the Istanbul peace talks). After Johnson’s visit, the negotiations collapsed, and the war escalated. Who sent Johnson on this mission? The transnationalists with the military-industrial complex with NATO wrapped around them.
The warmongers in Congress did the same thing, February 28, 2025. The Europeans and American neoconservatives will do whatever they can to keep the war going. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions more will die, but that’s not important to the transnationalists and the military-industrial complex. A one-world corporate state is the end they seek. Millions of lives are worth this end to these psychopaths.
All these progressives with Ukrainian flags in their profiles and their posts attacking Trump and Vance for seeking peace in Eastern Europe—they stand with the War Pigs. Like those robots in that old Fleischer Superman cartoon, the signal goes out from the villainous mastermind, their antennae sparkle, and they turn zombie-like from one thing to the next. Masks. Vaccines. Black Lives Matter. Trans rights. Palestine. Ukraine. And continually: Trump is a Nazi. Musk is a Nazi. Rinse and repeat—the brainwashing cycle.
Have you even seen that cartoon? The Mechanical Monsters (1941). In the flick, the villainous mastermind creates a fleet of towering, humanoid robots to carry out daring heists across the city. The villain controls the monsters remotely from his secret laboratory, allowing him to rob banks and jewelry stores without ever leaving his lair. At one point, the villain sends out a command signal, and the antennae on the robots’ heads begin to spark and flicker as they receive his orders. In perfect synchronization, they march into action, crashing through buildings and vaults to seize piles of loot. Smash and grab in Art Deco. Only Superman can stop them.
Remember MK-ULTRA? The Cold War CIA mind-control project? The project’s primary goal was to develop methods of controlling human behavior. The CIA funded programs overseen by Sidney Gottlieb (hired by Allen Dulles, director of the CIA—mastermind of Bay of Pigs and controlled the Warren Commission in the wake of JFK’s assassination). MK-ULTRA conducted experiments on people in collaboration with hospitals, research institutions, and universities. One of the goals was creating individuals who could be remotely controlled, akin to “zombies.” Experiments aimed to alter or erase memories, implant false information, and create individuals who could be programmed to perform tasks without conscious awareness. Due to its secretive nature, participants were unaware they were subjects of government experimentation.
Just saying. (Look up Operation Mockingbird.)
For those who aren’t zombies, ask yourselves why are you supporting Ukraine? I told readers of this blog a few days after the conflict started who these people are and the goals of NATO and the US deep state in regime change and provoking war with Russia (History and Sides-Taking in the Russo-Ukrainian War). This is neoconservative warmongering (i.e., Cold War progressivism), which has a long history of working with rightwing authoritarian elements around the world (see, also War Hawks and the Ugly American: The Origins of Bush’s Middle East Policy). Russians are right to look at history and wonder why the West is so obsessed with their country. Americans would do well to ask themselves the same question.
During the Great Northern War, King Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia. He was decisively defeated at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. After Charles was defeated at Poltava, he fled to the Ottoman Empire where he tried to persuade the Ottomans to declare war on Russia. He was rebuffed. (Rumor has it that Chuck was fragged at siege of Fredriksten Fortress there in Halden, Norway.) But that’s not the end of the West’s obsession with Russia. Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia during the Patriotic War, suffering a catastrophic defeat in the end, presaged by his pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Borodino (Moscow) in 1812. Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire invaded Crimea during the Crimean War against the Russian Empire (1853–1856). During World War I, Germany invaded the Russian Empire and occupied significant territory in the west. Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and other countries intervened in the Russian Civil War, supporting counterrevolutionary forces (1918–1922). Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the largest invasion of Russia in history, but was ultimately defeated by the Soviet Union in 1945.
And now Ukraine—a proxy for war on Russia. The West wanted this war. Obama and Biden and NATO countries created the context and provoked Russia by pushing NATO ever eastward, betraying guarantees the West made to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Neo-Nazis, with the help of the CIA, harassed Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas. When Putin told you there were Nazis, he wasn’t lying. In 2014, the USA overthrew the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. The American taxpayer spent billions of dollars on the project—not just the CIA, but USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy. The US installed a puppet government, handpicked by the neoconservatives in the White House.
“Under Obama and Biden? What? That didn’t happen!” Yes, it did. Neoconservatism originates in the Democratic Party. You didn’t know that? Ever hear of Scoop Jackson? Ever hear of Victoria Nuland? No? You should investigate things. Or do people even bother to study history to find out whether a Ukrainian flag in their social media profile is the right symbol with which to virtue signal? Monkey see monkey do? It’s zombie politics (see Zombie Politics: the Corporatist Ideology of Antiracism).
I’d suggest the pro-Ukraine progressives with their blue and yellow flags go throw their own bodies at the Russians on Ukraine’s front lines, but I think walking back WWIII is probably the better option. That’s what Trump and Vance are trying to do: prevent WWIII. Whether they know it or not, those who make this about either supporting Ukraine or being a Putin puppet want war. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a big part of the driver.
There’s another option—and it’s the best option: secure a peace treaty that makes concessions to Russia and provides security guarantees with Ukraine in exchange for mineral rights that allow us to get back all the billions our psychopathic overlords spent on this folly. Make Ukraine and the Europeans pay for it. Either that or quit the damn thing and watch Russia steamroll Ukraine. The question reasonable people must ask themselves after confronting the truth (if they can even admit it afterwards) is which of the beds they made for themselves are the softest to lie down in. Do they really want to keep feeding Ukrainians to the war machine? Let me put this another way: do they have a conscience? Or are they like the psychopaths driving this conflict?
Seeing so many Americans choose Ukraine over America and peace disgusts me, frankly. These are the same people who run down America all day long. You’ve seen it. They’re constantly self-flagellating: “We’re white supremacists!” “We’re colonialists!” “We’re imperialists!” “Trump’s a fascist!” Is Trump invading Russia? Does he desire to continue exploiting Ukraine as a proxy to make war with Russia? Or is he trying to make peace? Fascist? Really?
The image of the Ukraine soldier is not an incidental hand gesture. And there’s plenty more helmets (and tattoos and insignia) where that one comes from. (Look up Azov Battalion while you’re looking into it.) That those who decry fascism resemble the fascists they decry is a feature of the zombie politics that have infected so many American and European brains.
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