The US political and media elite are having a meltdown now that Trump is poised to bring the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to a close.

Everyone from Rachel Maddow to Bernie Sanders is freaking out over the Trump administration’s moves toward ending the war in Ukraine. David Hogg, now the vice chair of the DNC, said on Twitter that “If we abandon Ukraine — Poland is next. You know what’s going to be a lot more expensive than finishing this war and forcing Putin out of Ukraine? A third world war and a second Marshall plan.”

These histrionics are as depraved as they are ridiculous. I’m surprised Hogg didn’t invoke Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlin and Hitler, somewhere in there.

While Trump is being castigated in the corporate media for saying Ukraine started the war, he’s only somewhat truthful. Actually, it was the US who pushed Ukraine into the tragic proxy war that has decimated Ukraine and left millions dead and wounded. Ultimately, the US political, economic, and national security elite are all responsible. They only are able to amplify the outrage against peace due to their head-lock on the meta-narrative.

Going further, the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, has been accompanied by a ocean of lies, and a censorship effort the like we’ve never seen, where murderers can be transmuted into martyrs and villains into heroes. And, now, the only way the neocons and their liberal-international playmates can deal with the butt-hurt is to blame Trump and portray him as beholden to Putin and call anything that challenges their narrative–Russian propaganda. Not because the facts are wrong, but because Russia is saying it.  Essentially, Russia is never right, and the U.S. and its allies are never wrong. 

When the Americans hears these phrases like “unprovoked invasion”, “Putin is Hitler”, “beacon of democracy” over and over, day in and day out, week after week, they fall into a trancelike state, not unlike a cult or primitive religion. When the media repeated 24/7 the exact same wordings about the ‘unprovoked Russian invasion’ of ‘democratic Ukraine’, many viewers became like characters undergoing the 2-minute-hate, in Orwell’s 1984, where “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.”

Since Operation Mockingbird, the symbiotic relationship between the media and the deep state has never changed. The false narrative machine is constantly adapted to manufacture consent and serve political purposes for the ruling class. The objective is not to report facts, provide balanced analysis but to put adversaries of the US in a negative light and question their illegitimacy. Just to take one endlessly repeated slur–the idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire is childish propaganda. However, it’s been lapped up by NY Times reading liberals, flying their Ukrainian flags. 

I know it’s the way-back-machine but the US’s regime-change machinations against Russia, by way of Ukraine, were never much of a secret. There was this RAND study, that advocated overextending Russia through NATO expansion and color revolutions on the periphery. And one of the earliest threats came from Carl Gersham, the long-time director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Gershman, wrote in 2013, before the Kiev coup: “Ukraine is the biggest prize.” If it could be pulled away from Russia and into the West, he said, then “Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.”

I was blogging during this time and it was always obvious that since the Maidan coup in 2014 that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin and plunder Russia under the tender rule of a Yeltsin-clone. The Maidan coup in 2014 is what began the domino effect that led to the current proxy war.

What’s shocking and unknown, thanks to that censorship thing I mentioned, is that the 2014 Ukraine coup was galvanized by false flag event. The reason cited by the U.S. government and supporters of “Maidan” for the legitimacy of Yannakovitch’s removal was a sniper massacre that took place in Ukraine’s “Independence Square” where 48 protestors were killed and hundreds injured. However, newly released evidence researched by Ukrainian-Canadian professor of political science at the University of Ottawa Ivan Katchanovski shows that Yannakovitch did not order the massacre, Russian agents were not involved, and the killing was in fact done by far-right elements of the Maidan protests in order to give a justification for the coup against Yanukovych.

Again, we return to the wayback machine to recall State Department honcho, Victoria Nuland, bragging about the $5 billion spent to mid-wife the 2014 coup, and instructing US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt to “Fuck the EU,” while the US armed Ukraine in the civil-war against Russian separatists in the Donbass. With U.S. backing, the unconstitutional government on April 16, 2014 launched a military attack against those two provinces in the Donbass region. This is how Ukraine stated the war and the date they did it on. Trump didn’t mention the instrumental part the U.S. played in Yanukoych’s ouster and Kiev’s subsequent war on Donbass. The CIA, MI6 and the government they installed in Ukraine began covert operations against Russia from the first day after the coup, before Russia took Crimea and a revolt started in Donbas.

We should all be raging at the monsters who pushed things to this point, especially at the neocons and their corporate media mouthpieces. These psychopaths knowingly provoked an unwinnable war of unfathomable horror by first backing a regime change operation in 2014, and then amassing a proxy military threat on Russia’s border in ways the U.S. would never permit on its own border, then refusing any negotiations, both before and after Russia invaded.

Everyone who facilitated and cheered this on should be driven out of polite society.

What’s even more infuriating is that the architects of the tragedy will face no judgement or repercussions. Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland will still enjoy all the perks and status of remaining part of the foreign policy elite. Then there’s Trump, former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, NATO and the EU, who all helped throw Ukraine into the meat grinder while countless Western experts and analysts warned urgently that their actions would result in Ukraine’s destruction.

If there was any justice they all would be DOGED.

But of course we all know they won’t. None of the deep state apparatchiks, politicians, media whores, and think-tank denizens who helped destroy Ukraine will suffer any consequences of any kind for their atrocities. Nobody will even lose their career. And what’s worse is knowing that most of them will re-emerge like vampires from the grave to manufacture support with their media sycophants for the next war.

Returning to the matter at hand, Trump is deeply flawed, but he is exposing the deep state for all to see and they are not happy, as the reaction to the peace proposals demonstrate.

Restoring ties with Russia and negotiating a settlement of the Ukraine war would be big-enough blows to the deep state’s interests. Trump sought to restore US/Russian relations but was thwarted by Russia-gate.  Russia-gate also was central to the effort of drawing in liberals, whose antipathy towards Trump and Putin, made them willing participants. Trump’s proposal for a new détente with Russia was childishly belittled in mainstream media during his first term, and he was simultaneously gay-baited for his affection for Putin, and attacked for having raunchy sex with hookers who pissed on him. 

While Trump and his administration, with their actions, have taken a bat to the permanent bureaucratic state, we are still in the first innings, to overuse a baseball analogy. However, if the White House is really ready to discuss this with Moscow as part of the process of restoring normal relations between Russia and the United States, this is a truly revolutionary event for American foreign policy.

Meanwhile, all of this is quite fluid and extremely complicated, with multiple moving pieces. Trump may sound well-intentioned about ending the war. But it is concerning that his administration does not take any responsibility for starting it. He comes across as an opportunist whose lack of principles is problematic at best and treacherous at worst. However, he does have a good memory for betrayal. It seems that Trump learned some valuable lessons from his dealings with the deep state during his first term.

Geo-political analyst, Alastair Crooke, lays out the conflict–“The Deep State, it seems, were not paying attention to what a posse of ‘populist’ outliers, tucked away from the rarefied Beltway talking shop, were up to: They (the outliers) were planning a concerted attack on the Federal expenditure spigot – identified as the weak spot about which a Constitutional challenge could be mounted that would derail – in its entirety – the expenditures of the Deep State. It seems that one aspect to the surprise has been the Trump Team’s discipline: ‘no leaks’. And secondly, that those involved in the planning are not drawn from the preeminent Anglo-sphere, but rather from a strand of society that was offended by the Iraq war and which blames the ‘Anglo-sphere’ for ‘ruining’ America.

The MIC in concert with the EU’s ‘Brussels’ Technocratic State as nothing other than a pure offshoot to the American Deep State – and therefore very likely to try to torpedo and sink Trump’s initiative to normalize relations with Moscow. Then there’s the Ukrainian “tyrant”, Zelensky. As the Trump administration attempts to extricate itself from the proxy war there is a chance that Zelensky could go rogue and threaten to release compromising details of US involvement in the war.”

We need to temper our expectations for a comprehensive peace settlement. There are too many issues, including the president’s wacky mineral and rare earths demand, that threaten to derail the negotiations.

Update: The Democrats never fail to fail. Here’s Bernie parroting neocon orthodoxy. “Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”

Can’t believe I sent him $25