Better in their words…

My hat is off to Danny Davis. In an impassioned video today he gave a face to what Jewish Supremacism means. Here at MIH we like to deal in ideas, but ideas are the product of real, living, thinking human beings. Or, in the case of creatures like Lindsey!, Mikey Johnson, and other you may care to name, clever facsimiles of real human beings. It’s useful for perspective to see the people behind the ideas. I’ve cued up the video just after Davis plays a clip of the unspeakable Lindsey! From there to the end Davis—who served four combat deployments, and still thinks of himself as a supporter of Israel—lets loose about the lack of basic human decency that he illustrates. He also warns that anyone who knows anything about human nature—as he does from his combat deployments—also knows that this joint American/Israeli genocide in Gaza (and, generally, the Neocon war on the world that’s been ongoing since the Clintons) will not end well.

As Doug Macgregor warns Americans, there will be a price to be paid. We’re already paying that price in terms of our loss of moral standing in the world, thanks to our submission as a nation to the Israel Lobby and its Neocon supporters. Particularly sad was Davis’ playing of a clip of JFK in 1963 stating that Americans would never start a war. Well, that didn’t end well for JFK, as we know. In retrospect you could call that ironic, although the word hardly conveys the reality.

Now, sadly, Trump has jumped into this in a bad way—essentially he’s trying to gaslight the public, pandering for Jewish campaign contributions. Compare his statements to Davis’ plea for human decency in America policy:

Trump knocks Biden over condition on weapons supply to Israel

Like many readers, I voted for Trump in 2016 for various reasons, but in part because I believed his statements that he would seek a truly new relationship with Russia based on our mutual interests. Not like Hillary’s phony “reset.” I voted for Trump in 2020, again for various reasons but, in part, because of the perception (based on the Russia Hoax) that Trump did truly wish to follow out the policy he had enunciated during his 2016 campaign. Now, it appears to me, that Trump is preemptively painting himself into a corner that he—and decent Americans—will come to regret if he is elected in 2024. I find this terribly disturbing.

Now, bear with me. I’m not really shifting gears.

This morning I read a fascinating article at Zerohedge about the Opioid Crisis in America:

A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis

Authored by Matt Bivens, M.D. via Racket News,

Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially on his Substack site, The 100 Days. None of the articles in the series will be paywalled. In a normal presidential election year, the opiate addiction crisis would be a front-and-center domestic issue, but for a variety of mostly illegitimate reasons, it flies somewhat under the radar. Matt’s series chronicles the surprising and little-understood reasons contributing to this man-made, rapidly worsening disaster.

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Matt Bivens, M.D.: Full-time ER doctor. Board-certified in emergency and addiction medicine. EMS medical director for 911 services. Former Russia-based foreign correspondent, newspaper editor and Chechnya war correspondent. Reluctant student of nuclear weapons.

Bivens has a lot to say about the medical profession (with a reference to the Covid Hoax), the Sackler family, and Big Pharma more generally. However, you’ll note, as I did, Bivens’ unusual background as a former Russia-based journalist. So I followed the link to his substack. Once there I focused on this article, which looked like it would speak to the harrowing human tragedy that America has inflicted on Ukraine. I don’t intend to minimize the guilt of a substantial number of Ukrainians in their national self destruction, but it remains that this never would have come to pass but for America’s Neocons:

Ukraine’s Percolating Hatred of America

It is starting to dawn on them that we destroyed their country

Toward the beginning Bivens sets the tone:

What I want to address today is the burden of guilt that the United States bears for this pointless tragedy.

Bivens does just that, at length—we’ve heard most of this before, about how the US scuttled the Istanbul peace talks, etc. In a later passage he also raised the issue of Trump’s role in setting this up—arming Ukraine for four years, preparing for an insane war with Russia:

In other words, whenever NATO absorbs a new country — as has occurred on 19 different occasions since the alliance was originally founded after World War II — it’s a billions-of-dollars bonanza for Western defense contractors upfront, followed by a guaranteed steady annual revenue stream of billions more.

That’s a lot of money. It funds lobbyists, and it grooms war-mongering politicians, in Congress and elsewhere. It creates a political class fed on military-adjacent profiteering. That class knows all too well that adding NATO members means fat bonuses all around. And if expanding NATO ultimately provokes a war? Well, that’s profitable, too. Which is why a common saying is that “NATO exists to manage the crises created by NATO.”

Several years before the horrific Russian invasion of 2022, the U.S. government was already pouring guns and ammo into the Donbas. It was Donald Trump’s team who greenlit hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons for that Ukrainian civil war — President Barack Obama had declined to do so. Obama’s reasoning was sound: Russia will always care more about its own backyard, and thus it will always match any escalation of violence we offer; we will never win at that, but the Ukrainian people will certainly lose.

Then came Trump, and suddenly, any Obama decision was worth reversing. U.S. weapons started shipping out for the Donbas. …

There was near-zero U.S. public knowledge of our growing military entanglement with Ukraine, until Trump’s first impeachment trial(which, you may hazily remember, hinged on allegations that Trump used those weapons shipments as leverage, to pressure the Ukrainians to dig up dirt about Hunter Biden’s sketchy-looking $1 million-per-year job at a Ukrainian oil company).

Amid all of the gnashing of teeth and hyperventilating then about Trump’s call to Volodymyr Zelensky, our media-political class hardly bothered to ask if it was smart to fuel a shooting war in Eastern Europe — to send U.S. bombs and bullets to be used for killing Russians and Ukrainians.

The final year before the Russian invasion was one of escalating, tense diplomacy — a time when the Russians repeatedly asked for the U.S. and NATO to stop our CIA covert ops and other provocations and get out of Ukraine — or to at least negotiate about that situation — and Washington repeatedly brushed them off.

And when Russia finally did invade?

At that point, we rubbed our hands together gleefully, and poured exponentially more weapons and money into the conflict.The war metastasized to a far greater size and scale. Congress spent more on this new war in Ukraine than it did on roads and bridges for America. U.S. war profits soared.

And now, pivoting back to the beginning, with nods to Lindsey!, Blinken—and Trump:

Half a million young Slavic men — Russian and Ukrainian — have been killed or maimed.

Millions of families have become refugees.

Our government saw this tragedy coming and welcomed it.

And when there was a chance that cooler heads could prevail and the war end, our government made sure the war continued.

These reflections on the American Empire’s support for genocidally inclined Ukro-Nazis, and now for genocidally inclined Jewish Supremacists, is especially disturbing heading into an election that—whether Americans understand this or not—will be crucial for our future. I wish Trump were playing a positive role.