Given the scale of the stakes for western government; and given the professed intentions of govt-aligned big tech to control the story; it is almost impossible to have an honest and open dialogue on the internet about what is happening in Ukraine. That said, for those who have been using independent resources to form their own opinion of the events in/around Ukraine, this interview highlights some important aspects.
First, notice how Prime Minister Shmyhal is not the least bit bashful about saying cash is important because American taxpayers, the working American people, have a duty to fund the pensions and retirement accounts of the Ukrainian people, including govt politicians. [03:37] Indeed, much of the financial assistance Joe Biden has been sending to Ukraine (beyond the weapons to support the proxy war) is going toward paying the wages and salaries of corrupt Ukranian leadership.
Let that first point settle in deeply, as we consider how working Americans are being financially destroyed by U.S. monetary/fiscal policy, yet the same U.S. officials wiping out your bank account are funding the bank accounts of people in Ukraine. Interview WATCH:
Second point. Notice [06:02] how Prime Minister Shmyhal hedges, pauses and thinks about the response to the question of ‘what is victory’, a stalemate or Russian exit? In the U.S. proxy war against Russia, Shmyhal is not the person who can answer that question, only the White House can.
This CBS interview is pure propaganda intended to keep the U.S. audience believing a false premise about the Russian war in Ukraine. The pearl clutching faux empathy from Margaret Brennan is enough to make an intellectually honest person very angry. This narrative engineering effort from the American corporate media is sickening, genuinely sickening.
The level of narrative control in combination with the extreme media promotion of government propaganda is totalitarian in scale. U.S. govt sponsored censorship and the collaboration with on-line Big Brother tech controls have reduced the internet discussion to a series of coded messages, and carefully scripted word assemblies in order to avoid the looming eye of Sauron.
It was only a few decades ago when the former Soviet Union was famous for their propaganda against their own citizens. Now, with the multinational corporations dictating policy to western government via the World Economic Forum, that entire dynamic has flipped.
In 2022 we have even worse media propaganda against the U.S. citizens than Pravda ever attempted over the former Soviet states. At least in the former Soviet Union the propaganda effort was laughed at by the citizens on the streets. If you point out the media dynamic today in America, you become a target for the totalitarian political state and their FBI state police units. It’s remarkable how the dynamic has flipped.
We, the free-thinking American people, are now intellectual dissidents in our own country.
New map…
Paying for Ukrainian social programs is right in-line with Democrats’ mode of operation, spend more, create more inflation, put more Americans out of work… that is create more government dependents…
Democrats do all they can to create more government dependents…
Ukraine GDP pre-war was $155 Billion; Texas GDP $2 Trillion; we are basically paying Ukraine 1/3 Ukraine GDP to fund their “social and humanitarian” programs through more spending while creating more inflation and more government dependents… see how it works?
This information jives with and somewhat validates what I have been saying for quite some time now. My theory is we, as working class taxpayers in the US, stuck in a perpetual cycle of financial/labor slavery, literally subsidize the rest of the world. For example, white collar workers in France (not sure if all, but this is based on my first hand experience with a certain company there) “take off” the entire month of August, annually. This got me thinking: how are they able to live well while not working an entire month in addition to getting to use time off at other times? We will never get the answer to the question: where does our “international aid” (billions of dollars!!) REALLY end up? Perhaps we can deduce the answers considering information like in this Sundance post.
Our corrupted congress approved funding this murderous venture prolonging another war we have no business in. Anyone thinking things will be much different should the war mongering neocon republicans take back the majority suffers from overexposure to the corrupt media.
When you step back and put this whole Ukrainian episode in the perspective as being nothing more than the preservation of a money laundering operation, this statement by the Ukrainian PM is exactly what the totality of the uniparty/globalists/EU/UN/etc. view as the primary purpose of government. To support, maintain and protect the lifestyle of the elites at the expense and well being of tax paying citizens who are considered as nothing more than a debit card to be used for whatever whims the elites desire.
Yet slavishly we continue paying when all the while this “Voluntary” system needs to be bankrupted by a nationwide tax rebellion er refusal to pay in mass. The only way to do this is by ripping the graft from our grifting political elites by root and stem. Enough is enough. Its the only solution. The time has come. You can’t get blood from a turnip. They can’t incarcerate us all.
Oh great! Give more $ to criminals. What’s wrong with this administration?fJB
I am so tired of seeing foreign leaders promoting their country’s agenda on my TV, in my country. It is so obvious that this is US Government political propaganda!
For decades public expenditures have done nothing to remain solvent and preserve wealth especially for retirement plans !
Obviously all private sector working people are screwed while forced to subsidize government employees at a cost no longer manageable !
Your representatives have screwed all of you the way industry workers got screwed . Time for government employees to bend over and spread em !
Your pensions are bankrupt and there is no wealth left to confiscate (steal) from private sector working citizens . You know it’s true and if you don’t your an idiot . If you think you still deserve what you were promised wish in one hand and shit in the other !
Let me know which one fills up first !
What you said. Ya can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
I am tired of the war mongers in DC that want to get us into another war. These DC Rats have been wanting to go to war with Russia for a long time.. They forced Russia to envade Ukraine and now have their proxy war with Russia..If things get much worse, Putin may use his NUK’s. He is willing to lose half his population to win, what are we willing to do???
The Swamp will avail itself of every opportunity to launder money through this event, but there really is only one possible outcome: Russia will successfully accomplish all of the objectives of this limited military engagement … and she will do so more-or-less on schedule. NATO and the USA and the EU will not intervene. This will not result in World War III.
Russia, and Russian-speaking Ukranian citizens, have been “putting up with far too much for far too long.” More than six years, in fact. Being attacked by their own government and by real Nazis. After wasting time on “talk,” they will accomplish all of their goals this way.
10% cut to the Big guy. “Let’s go get him” Brandon.
I fail to see why I should be forced to pay for Ukrainian anything, but especially their government and other pension plans.
I recall being taught about the Soviet Union propaganda in school, and it occurred to me at that time (yes, decades ago) that our own government is capable of the same. It’s obvious that we’re told a lot of BS to make sure we’re kept in line.
And of course, CBS and the rest of the MSM contribute to that spread of propaganda. Apparently we’re supposed to be sympathetic. I’m not.
Brennan give the impression of possessed person. Possessed by propaganda.
Israel wants money, Obama signed $45 B in 10 years, Ukraine wants money . Both countries gives their citizens free higher education and USA doesn’t. Should USA start sinking more about its citizens?
If we give money for their pensions and salaries this money will never get to ordinary people. The ona in power will get them.
The US gave Poland help of $15 M and president ( at this time) Kwasniewski said he doesn’t know where mony went.