In 2023 US elites sold US taxpayers like a hanging side of beef to Ukraine warmonger Boris Johnson, another UK leech crossing the Atlantic Ocean to bleed US taxpayers. On 6/9/2023, Boris resigned his seat in UK parliament

"Johnson is “very much seen as the [unelected] architect of the Western policy” on Ukraine, Polyakova said."...“On his trip to the US this week [May 2023, Boris] Johnson has also met George W Bush, another former president, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, and Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s secretary of state.”...June 9, 2023, Boris Johnson resigns his seat in Parliament: “Resignation statement in full as Boris Johnson steps down,” BBC

May 27, 2023, “Donald Trump and Boris Johnson discuss Ukraine at golf club dinner,” Times of London, Henry Zeffman, Hugh Tomlinson

“Boris Johnson has had dinner with Donald Trump at one of the former president’s golf clubs.

“In the week it emerged that Johnson could face two more police investigations over claims of lockdown rule-breaking, he joined Trump at the Trump National golf club outside Washington on Thursday [May 25].

A spokesman for the former prime minister said that the discussions were focused on [more US taxpayer funding of] Ukraine. “Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP met President Donald J Trump to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the vital importance of Ukrainian victory,” the spokesman said.

Trump is seeking the Republican nomination to face Joe Biden again for the presidency next year. He has adopted a significantly more equivocal position on the Ukraine war than Johnson or Biden….

[Image] “Trump heads for his dinner meeting with Johnson. The pair formed a bond during their time in office, despite earlier clashes,” Rex Features”

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Trump was US president for just under half of Johnson’s three years in Downing Street. When Johnson became prime minister, Trump memorably heralded him as “Britain Trump”. Johnson was eager to forge a strong personal bond in the hopes of striking a US-UK trade deal.

They had clashed in 2015 when Johnson was London mayor. Then, Johnson said that Trump’s claim that immigration had produced no-go areas in London displayed “stupefying ignorance that makes him frankly unfit for the office of the presidency”.

On his trip to the US this week Johnson has also met George W Bush, another former president, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, and Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s secretary of state.”

[Image: Carbone frozen in meat truck, GoodFellas, 1990]

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Added: Warmonger lobbyist group CEPA finances UK’s Boris Johnson trip to US to leech off defenseless US taxpayers. And why not?

May 23, 2023, “Send for Agent BoJo! Boris Johnson dispatched to Texas to shore up Republican support for Ukraine,” Politico, Annabelle Dickson, Dallas

“Former UK prime minister takes his message to US heartlands, as skepticism simmers in run-up to 2024 election.”

[Image] “Boris Johnson tells Texan Republicans: “You are backing the right horse. Ukraine is going to win”| Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images”

“Britain might have fallen out of love with Boris Johnson. But Ukraine’s allies in the U.S. reckon the charismatic ex-prime minister is still the perfect messenger to [leech off defenseless US taxpayers] shore up support for the war in wavering Republican heartlands.

Pro-Ukraine think tankers on Monday brought Johnson to

a private lunch in Dallas, Texas, to meet two dozen

of the state’s leading conservative figures,

including politicians, donors

and captains of industry.

The message Johnson was there to deliver was simple: America must stay the course in Ukraine.

“I just urge you all to stick with it,” Johnson told those seated in the grand, wood-panelled dining room in downtown Dallas, where POLITICO was also in attendance. “It will pay off massively in the long run.”

The former U.K. prime minister flew to Texas as a growing number of conservative lawmakers, candidates and activists have started to question the size of the U.S. support package for Ukraine….

Political tensions over the war are expected to rise further as the 2024 U.S. election draws nearer….

Johnson told Texan Republicans on Monday: “You are backing the right horse. Ukraine is going to win. They are going to defeat Putin.”

The lunch was not the first time Johnson has lobbied U.S. lawmakers on Ukraine’s behalf. He visited Washington in January [2023], where he publicly urged the U.S. administration to give Ukraine fighter jets,

and privately met Republican lawmakers on the same trip.

Following that visit, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) — a bipartisan,

Ukraine-supporting think tank based in Washington — decided to enlist Johnson’s support for a broader mission.

The group wanted him to take his energetic, [alleged] pro-conservative

case for the war out of metropolitan D.C. and deep into Republican territory.

“We wanted to make that case outside of Washington — where we all live in a bubble — and to really take it to the heartland, to places like Texas, to get more support for Ukraine, and make the case to people who are skeptical about that support,” said Alina Polyakova,

CEPA’s chief executive.

“In many ways Dallas and Texas are the center of the Republican debate,” she added.

Texas will be a key battleground in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Trump held his first presidential rally in the Lone Star State in March, while DeSantis and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley have also been courting votes in Texas.

Johnson is “very much seen as the [unelected] architect of the Western policy” on Ukraine, Polyakova said, adding that “because Trump had nice things to say about him when he was the president,”

it also [allegedly] gives Johnson “a lot of credibility as well

with the base of the Republican Party.”

As well as the private lunch with Republicans in Dallas on Monday, Johnson also met with former U.S. President George W. Bush, who lives in the city with his wife Laura. Johnson is due to meet Texas Governor Greg Abbott in Austin on Tuesday.

Unusually, the former U.K. prime minister, who raked in almost £5 million from speaking fees in the first six months after leaving office, was not paid for Monday’s lunchtime speaking engagement. However, he did arrange the Dallas trip as a stopover en route to the SCALE Global Summit in Las Vegas,

an investment conference where he will be paid an expected

six-figure sum for a scheduled speech.

Man on a mission

Johnson has kept Ukraine at the top of his public agenda since being forced to resign as PM last July over a string of personal scandals, including his attendance at COVID-19 lockdown-busting parties at his Downing Street home and office.

In power, Johnson had forged a strong personal bond with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,

and played a leading role in early Western efforts to [force US taxpayers to] arm Ukraine.

His allies even mooted the idea of him becoming a formal envoy to Ukraine following his abrupt Downing Street exit, though the idea never came to fruition.

That hasn’t stopped Johnson continuing his personal lobbying push, however. He visited the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in January 2023 — despite no longer being a frontline politician — and has continued to speak in support on multiple occasions.

At the Dallas lunch on Monday, Johnson insisted Western backing for Ukraine need not be indefinite, telling those present he had “every hope that the Ukrainians will be able to deliver a very substantial counterpunch this summer,” and that he believed there was “a prospect of a complete Russian military collapse.”

And addressing [alleged] concerns in Republican quarters that the U.S. should be focusing its attention on China rather than on a land war in Eastern Europe, Johnson said victory for Putin would be “terrible in its ramifications for south-east Asia, for the South China Sea, for all the areas of potential conflict between the great powers in the decades to come.”

By contrast, he added, [alleged] Western solidarity on Ukraine had already sent a clear message to China.

“From Beijing’s point of view, they’re looking at this and they’re thinking this has massively increased the strategic ambiguity and the risk surrounding a venture against Taiwan,” Johnson said.

One businessman present pressed Johnson on corruption in Ukraine, which he said he had heard was “really bad again.”

But the former prime minister insisted the $50 billion [US taxpayer funded] spending package agreed by President Biden would prove “value for money.” The U.S. is getting a “huge, huge boost for global security for a relatively small outlay,” he said….

Whether Johnson retains the populist credentials to win over the [alleged] most ardent Trump supporters Stateside remains to be seen, however.

In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News last month, Trump said that while Johnson was a “wonderful guy” and “a friend of mine,” he had been disappointed by his time in office.

Johnson had gone “a bit on the liberal side,” Trump noted sadly. “Probably in a negative way.””

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Added: As usual, it turns out that the warmonger lobbyist group financing Boris’s trip to US is also “supported by” global chumps, US taxpayers via NED, NATO, and US State Dept.

CEPA “List of Supporters for the 2022 Fiscal Year”

• Amazon Web Services
• Bae Systems PLC
• Craig Newmark Philanthropies
• Google LLC
• Hirsch Family Foundation
• Improbable Worlds Limited
• The Davis Family Fund
• Larry Hirsch
• Leonardo US Corporation
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Mercedes-Benz North America Corporation
• Microsoft Corporation
• National Endowment for Democracy
• NATO Public Diplomacy Division
• Poses Family Foundation
• Robert S. Gelbard
• Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command
• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• Thomas Firestone
• US State Department
• Victor Ashe
• Victor Pinchuk Foundation
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“Lockdown was NOT a “policy mistake”…It was murder”-Off-Guardian…”New research” finds “the science of lockdowns is clear; data are in: deaths saved were drop in the bucket compared to staggering collateral costs imposed”-UK Telegraph

March 2020 lockdowns in UK were based on dire predictions of death made by UK computer modeler, Neil Ferguson...“Researchers for the Johns Hopkins study said the findings showed that lockdowns had been “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.”…

6/5/23, “OffG’s Quick Take: Lockdown was NOT a “policy mistake”…It was murder.” Off Guardian

“Yesterday, the Telegraph [UK] reported on “new research” which claims that lockdowns saved only 1700 lives in England and Wales. A “drop in the bucket” compared to the harms done: [6/4/23, “Lockdown benefits ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the costs’, landmark study finds,” UK Telegraph, L. Donnelly]

“The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”

This is not a revelation, it’s not an admission, it’s not the system checks-and-balances working. Rather, it is public relations, perception management. Just one more example of the revisionism we highlighted in the most recent This Week in the New Normal.

It’s a campaign which pretends to accountability and honesty, but is really about carefully managing the covid autopsy. Ensuring any and all Covid conversation is had purely on the establishment’s terms, whilst

lulling those freshly-awakened by the pandemic back into a sound sleep.

The “new research” is basically a re-statement of the fundamental lie masquerading as “confession”. It “admits” that lockdown had little to no impact on “covid deaths”, which is just a backdoor way of maintaining the fiction that “covid deaths” really happened.

It doesn’t question the efficacy of the tests, the definitions of “cases” or “deaths”, or any of the architecture of the Covid scam. It just reinforces the basic underlying assumptions:

Covid was indeed a thing, and it did kill people.

Both of which are proven lies.

The truth is lockdowns didn’t save any lives at all, and none of the “consequences” of lockdown were a surprise. We go into this in our “40 Facts” on Covid.

The poverty, the depression, despair. The shuttered stores and closed hospitals and bankrupt businesses.

They were all predictable, and all deliberate.

They knew that’s what would happen…that’s what it was for.

That’s why “Covid” was invented.

Lockdown was not a policy mistake, it was a policy success.”

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Added: Further from Telegraph article referenced above, notes March 2020 lockdowns in UK were based on dire predictions made by UK computer modeler, Neil Ferguson:

“The Telegraph recently revealed that a secretive government unit worked with social media companies during the pandemic in an attempt to curtail criticism of controversial lockdown policies.

The Covid Disinformation Unit monitored social media and asked tech companies to remove posts it considered to be “potentially harmful content”.

Britain’s first lockdown, in March 2020, was introduced on the basis of modelling exercises from Prof Neil Ferguson which had predicted there could be more than 500,000 deaths in the UK, without action to stop the spread of the virus.

His research had suggested that even with mitigations such as social distancing, and household quarantines for Covid cases, there could be at least 250,000 deaths, unless further measures were taken….

Modelling by Prof Ferguson and his colleagues from Imperial College London in March 2020 had predicted that, without action, the UK could see 510,000 deaths from Covid,

with 2.2 million in the United States. 

After lockdown was imposed, the scientist suggested that “intense social distancing and other interventions now in place” could reduce that figure to 20,000 in the UK.

The Covid Inquiry is set to examine the Government’s decision making during the pandemic but it has already been the subject of significant criticism relating to its speed, scope and transparency.

Researchers for the Johns Hopkins study said the findings showed that lockdowns had been “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.”…

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Among comments to Off Guardian article:

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“Maxwell, Jun 6, 2023 3:06 AM:

Lockdowns are crimes against humanity,

every single public leader who supports them

should be treated as a criminal.

Those who advocated for lockdowns are complicit in tearing families apart, in inflicting untold suffering on millions of people around the world, in casting the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies into

even further grinding poverty- in murder. 

Being a decent human being and supporting lockdowns are mutually exclusive.

If you supported lockdowns, you also supported:

suicide, depression, drug overdoses, domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, missed medical screenings and procedures, wealth inequality,

mass starvation and destitution.

In terms of the most horrendous acts on the part of mankind, the

Lockdown ranks up there with any of the worst events in history.

Keep in mind the impacts of these murderous policies have just started their lifecycle.”

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Added: 6/5/23,  “12. Sadism of the ruling class.

The kids were denied a year or two of school in some locations.

People missed medical diagnostics.

Weddings and funerals were on Zoom.

The aged were forced into desperate loneliness. The poor suffered. People turned to substance abuse and put on added pounds. The working classes were exploited. Small businesses were wrecked. Millions were forced to move and millions more were displaced from their jobs. The ruling class that advertised its wonderful altruism and public spiritedness became callous and completely disregarded all this suffering. Even when the data poured in about suicide ideation and mental illness from loneliness, it made no difference. They could not muster any concern. They changed nothing. The schools stayed closed and the travel restrictions stayed in place. Those who pointed this out were called terrible names. It was a form of grotesque sadism of which we did not know they were capable.“…6/5/23, Brownstone, Tucker

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Added: 11/5/2021, New Jersey truck driver Edward Durr cites voter backlash against US “pandemic” policies for his “shock” election to NJ State Senate, defeating longtime Democrat NJ State Senate head Steve Sweeney:

““It was a repudiation of the policies that have been forced down their throats

— people told

they can’t have a job,

they can’t go to church,

they can’t go to school,

they can’t go shopping,

they can’t go and eat dinner,”

Durr told NBC New York. “You can’t tell people they can’t do things when we live in the freest country in the world.””

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Added: As of Nov. 30, 2020, one third of New Jersey small businesses had closed permanently pursuant to Trump’s March 2020 declaration of National Emergency due to a virus:

“The Harvard-based data tracking project TrackTheRecovery.org recently put out numbers indicating that 31% of businesses in New Jersey have closed, a figure slightly above the national average.”…

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Added: Nationwide, as of 11/29/2020, about one third of all businesses had closed:

11/29/2020, “Nearly one-third of NY, NJ small businesses reportedly closed in 2020,” Fox Business News

“Nearly one-third of small businesses in New York and New Jersey have closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to TrackTheRecovery.org….

As of Nov. 16, [2020] 27.8 percent of small businesses in New York shut down for good – and in New Jersey the figure is 31.2 percent.

The stats are in line with the national average at 29.8 percent, The Hill reported.

During the first wave in spring,

52.5 percent of New York businesses and

53.9 percent in New Jersey closed.”…

 

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An America First Party with no apparent connection to Trump has existed in recent years, held a convention in 2002. In April 2018 it lamented Trump bombing Syria, calling it a repudiation of America First foreign policy principles

An America First Party has actually existed in recent years. In April 2018 its website lamented Trump’s 2018 bombing of Syria: “Syria Attack at Odds with an America First Foreign Policy – April 16 – It is with sadness that we witnessed President Trump’s effective repudiation of the principles of an America First foreign policy last week, with his attack on a nation which is not threatening the security interests of the United States, and which is a natural ally with us in opposing Al-Qaeda.“…The America First Party website didn’t claim any connection with Trump, his administration, or campaign.

In 2002 The America First Party invited Ohio Rep. Jim Traficant to speak at its convention. Traficant was born in and was beloved in his home town of Youngstown, Ohio. At one time he was Sheriff of Mahoning County. Sadly, he died in an accident in 2014. Traficant also spoke at a 2009 Tea Party rally in Ohio where he was greeted with cheers of “Traficant for President,” and “We’re with you Jim.” Traficant had been in prison for 7 years for financial crimes, was released on 9/2/2009. A serious advocate of enforcing a US southern border, in 1995 then Democrat Traficant proposed a bill in the House to relocate 10,000 US troops from Europe to the US southern border:

May 1996, “America First,“ James Traficant, Chronicles Magazine (subscription)

“Protecting Our Borders

Last year [1995] I introduced legislation that would authorize the Pentagon to redeploy American troops stationed in Europe to assist federal law enforcement officials patrolling America’s Southern border. Every day dangerous criminals pour into our country through our border with Mexico—unchallenged.

My bill authorizes the Secretary of Defense–at the request of the Attorney General–to transfer up to 10,000 American troops stationed in Europe back to the United States to assist the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service in preventing illegal aliens, drug traffickers, and terrorists from entering our country. The bill would also allow American troops to assist the Customs Service in inspecting cargo, vehicles, and aircraft at points of entry into the United States.

Let’s be candid. The Border Patrol has only 3,800 personnel to guard the two longest borders of one of the largest countries of the world. Reports indicate that, at any given time,

only 800 patrolmen are available to protect

our 2,000 mile border with Mexico.

Congress has failed to provide funding to enlarge the Border Patrol, and until Congress can find the money, this military option is the best short-term way to address this shortage of personnel.

We have hundreds of thousands of troops deployed throughout the world

protecting European, Asian, and Latin American nations.

If the Pentagon can send hundreds of thousands of American troops to protect our allies, it should be able to spare 10,000 military personnel to protect America.”…

Obviously, the bill didn’t pass, Jim was unpopular in the Beltway, eventually was sent to prison for financial crimes. When he got out, the Tea Party and America First Party greeted him with open arms.

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Trump was elected to end foreign wars and regime changes but did the opposite, thus proving US elections are meaningless. In April 2017 he bombed Syria, in June 2017 sent more US troops to Afghanistan, in 2019 tried to overthrow Venezuela-Tom Luongo5/1/19

Trump was elected to end US foreign wars and regime changes. Hacking group Shadow Brokers voted for Trump but wouldn’t be among current Trump sycophants cheering his depraved intervention of Venezuela and demonization of Russia. Trump bombing Syria in April 2017 so angered Shadow Brokers that it released a crucial NSA password for arsenal of NSA weapons, pw authenticated by Edward Snowden 4/8/17

Trump knows Idlib is a large Al Qaeda safe haven in Syria yet he’s forcing US taxpayers to defend them. Fine. Syria is completely justified in bombing the US in return. Until countries start bombing US in return, US taxpayers will remain enslaved to the Endless Unwinnable War and Regime Change IndustrySeptember 11, 2018"Syria should bomb the US if Trump bombs Syria"

 

 

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Many congratulations to the Syrian people and Pres. Assad who give hope to the world by defeating jihadists grotesquely funded by US taxpayers

May 16, 2023, “Syria officially reinstated in Arab League,” Voltaire Network

“Saudi Finance Minister Mohamed Al-Jaddan warmly welcomed the Syrian delegation, which included Foreign Affairs Minister Faisal Miqdad, Information Minister Boutros Al-Hallaq, Deputy Foreign Minister Ayman Soussaner, as well as the Director of the Foreign Minister’s Office, Jamal Najib.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been invited to the summit, which several Western leaders are expected to attend.

Recognition of the Syrian Arab Republic’s

victory over Western-backed jihadists

and its reintegration into the League of Arab States

marks the end of foreign domination over the region.” image from Voltaire

 

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Dr. King: “My dream has turned into a nightmare” because US government is “obsessed with guns of war” and is “greatest purveyor of violence in the world today”-May 8, 1967

May 8, 1967, “Martin Luther King Jr.: “My dream has turned into a nightmare.”…In April 1968, 11 months before his assassination, Dr. King was interviewed at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta by Sander Vanocur of NBC News.

Dr. King’s April 4, 1967 speech in which he accurately described the US government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today“ enraged the media…Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”

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May 8, 1967, Excerpts from Ebenezer Baptist Church interview

@20: “I must confess that that dream that I had that day

has in many forms

turned into a nightmare….

(1:32) When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war,

it loses its social perspective and programs the social uplift suffer.

This is just a fact of history, so that we do face many more difficulties

as a result of the war [on Asian soil]. It’s much more difficult

to really arouse the conscience during a time of war.

There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive, it dulls the conscience, it strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence. I think the biggest problem now…(2:32) we’re confronting issues that cannot be solved without costing the nation billions of dollars. I think this is where we’re getting our greatest resistance. They may put it on many other things, but we can’t get rid of slums and poverty without it costing the nation something. I feel that non-violence is really the only way we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating minimal problems for the Negro community,...you can burn down a building, but you can’t establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater but you can’t murder hate. And what we’re trying to get rid of is hate and injustice and all of these other things

that continue the long night of man’s inhumanity to man.”

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You Tube page: “Dr. King explains the war in Vietnam was undermining the fight for social justice by breeding insensitivity to the suffering of South Asians and dulling America’s collective conscience…”

He gave his “I have a dream” speech on August 27, 1963.

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Added: Whatever happened to US “Neutrality Acts”?  

The Neutrality Acts, were “a series of laws passed in the 1930s that would limit U.S. involvement in foreign wars. They passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939.”

“Neutrality Acts: Definitions,” Historyonthenet.com

“To involve America in World War Two, FDR had to overcome two major obstacles:

American public opinion and

a consistent body of neutrality legislation.

By the 1930s, 70 percent of Americans polled said that U.S. involvement in World War I had been a mistake. When war broke out again in 1939, Americans were determined to stay out of the affairs of its quarrelsome neighbors across the Atlantic. They were also

legally bound by the Neutrality Acts, a series of laws passed in the 1930s that would limit U.S. involvement in foreign wars. They passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939.

FDR’s other problem was the pesky neutrality laws from the 1930s that were designed to prevent the United States from being lured into war, and which especially sought to avoid the circumstances that had led to U.S. entry into World War I. Thus, for example, Americans on belligerent ships were at first told that they traveled at their own risk, and neutrality legislation later in the 1930s prohibited such travel altogether. The neutrality legislation also prevented the United States from selling weapons to countries at war. America could sell other goods to belligerents, but only on a cash-and-carry basis and transported in the recipient country’s ships. America’s ships could not venture into war zones to conduct wartime trade.

FDR sought to change the part of the neutrality legislation that stopped the United States from selling weapons to nations at war. As of 1939, therefore, it became legal for a belligerent (Britain, in this case) to acquire weapons from the United States on a cash-and-carry basis. The prohibition on the lending of money to belligerents was preserved, and the requirement that the equipment be transported in the belligerent’s own ships meant that American ships would not be exposed to danger.” Historyonthenet.com

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Added: To get re-elected in 1940, FDR promised not to involve the US in a foreign war. In the US, it’s not illegal to lie to get elected:

FDR “declared at Cleveland on November 3: “The first purpose of our foreign policy is to keep our country out of war.”

So much for presidential words. What about presidential actions?

American involvement in war with Germany was preceded by a long series of steps, not one of which could reasonably be represented as conducive to the achievement of

the President’s professed ideal of keeping the United States out of foreign wars.”

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Added: Famous saying: Everyone knows that “we have to fight them over there so they won’t attack us over here.” Editor of FDR Library

More “no foreign war” promises by FDR, a few days before 1940 election:

“On October 23, 1940, in Philadelphia, the President [FDR] again said:

“We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. We are arming ourselves not for any purpose of conquest or intervention in foreign disputes. I repeat again that I stand on the platform of our party:

‘We will not send our army, naval or air forces

to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas,

except in case of attack.’”

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Comment: What does “We will not send our army…except in case of attack” mean? Does it mean “if US is attacked on its soil” US will send military to foreign lands judged responsible for attacking them? That’s to be expected. Also, why does FDR use the term, “the Americas” which is defined as “North, Central, and South America and the West Indies”?

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Added: “‘[Bill] Clinton’s [1999] war on Serbia was a Pandora’s box from which the world still suffers.

Because politicians and most of the media

portrayed the war against Serbia as a moral triumph,

it was easier for the Bush administration to justify attacking Iraq,

for the Obama administration to bomb Libya, and

for the Trump administration to repeatedly bomb Syria

[and illegally annex one third of Syria: 3/23/2019, Redrawn Syrian borders seen on flag flown by US funded Kurdish “fighters,” upper right is portion seized by Trump:

3/11/2018, “In January [2018], US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that US “troops will remain in Syria” indefinitely....The SDF, or Syrian Democratic Force, is a US-constructed outfit which…is neither Syrian…nor democratic….[4] “US President Donald Trump’s rollout of an updated Syria policy,” reports Aaron Stein, writing in the unofficial journal of the US State Department, Foreign Affairs, “commits US forces to maintaining a presence” in northeast Syria in order to “hedge against” any attempt by Damascus to assert sovereignty over its own territory. [5]”] (Trump admin. prevents starving Syrians from trying to grow crops on their own land)…3/30/2018, “The (largely unrecognized) US occupation of Syria,” Stephen Gowans]

All of those interventions sowed chaos that continues cursing the purported beneficiaries….

Anti-terrorism is a flag of convenience for Washington policymakers.…In 1999, the Clinton administration designated the KLA [Kosovo Liberation Army]

as “freedom fighters” despite their horrific past

and gave them massive aid.“...6/25/2020, “Kosovo Indictment Proves Bill Clinton’s Serbian War Atrocities,” Jim Bovard

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Trump admin. uses ““wheat weapon” to starve Syria’s civilian population:”

Added:  10/23/2019, “Starving Syria of oil and wheat, the basics of survival,” Grayzone, Ben Norton. [Below, Syria map #1, gold area controlled by “Kurdish forces,” ie, the US. Syria map #2, below, light green area controlled by “Kurdish forces,” ie, the US]

“For the Syrian government, regaining control over its oil and gas reserves in the eastern part of its territory is crucial to paying for reconstruction efforts and social programs — especially at a time when suffocating US and EU sanctions have crippled the economy, caused fuel shortages, and severely hurt Syria’s civilian population.

The US has aimed to prevent Damascus from retaking profitable territory, starving it of natural resources from fossil fuels to basic foodstuffs….

US soldiers enabled Washington’s control over nearly one-third of Syrian sovereign territory — territory that just so happened to include

90 percent of Syria’s oil, as well as

70 percent of its wheat.

The US subsequently forced the Kurdish-led YPG to rebrand as the SDF, and then treated them as proxies to try to weaken the Syrian government and its allies Iran and Russia.

In June [2019], Reuters confirmed that Kurdish-led authorities had

agreed to stop selling wheat to Damascus,

after the US government pressured them to do so.

The Grayzone has reported how the Center for a New American Security, a leading Democratic Party foreign policy think tank bankrolled by the US government and NATO,

proposed using

the “wheat weapon” to starve Syria’s civilian population.

A former Pentagon researcher-turned-senior fellow at the think tank declared openly, “Wheat is a weapon of great power in this next phase of the Syrian conflict.” He added, “It can be used to apply pressure on the Assad regime, and through the regime on Russia”…

Donald Trump appeared to echo this strategy in his October 21 cabinet meeting.

“We want to keep the oil, and we’ll work something out with the Kurds so that they have some money, have some cashflow,” he said. “Maybe we’ll have one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly.”

While Trump has pledged to bring US soldiers home and end their military occupation of Syrian territory –

which is illegal under international law –

it is evident that the broader regime change war continues.

A brutal economic war on Damascus is escalating, not only through sanctions but through the

theft of Syria’s natural treasures by foreign powers.”

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