The latest war in Europe forces us to address the issue of warmongering and the responses to it as it adds to our already perilous climate and extinction crises.
“In 2017, the US military bought about 269,230 barrels of oil a day and emitted more than 25,000 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide by burning those fuels. The US Air Force purchased US$4.9 billion worth of fuel, and the navy US$2.8 billion, followed by the army at US$947m and the Marines at US$36m.”
The US military with 800 off shore military bases and the independent states response to the threat it poses is grinding the living planet into dust.
The article below is a year old so the damage will be worse than stated. Add the emissions from the war in Ukraine to this already dire prognosis.
“If the US military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal.”
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must
William Kallfelz mentioned that the US taxpayers via the military industrial complex, are giving $33 Billion in ‘Aid’ to Ukraine. Russia will clearly see this as a declaration of war by the USA.
Glenn Greenwald has gone into some detail on the effects of warmongering;
Biden Wants $33 Billion More For the War in Ukraine. Which Americans Benefit?
Abby Martin interviewed Professor Guy McPherson in 2013; Human Extinction by 2030 Guy wasn’t as aware of the Aerosol Masking Effect when this interview was recorded.
A more recent analysis by the great anti-imperialist Abby Martin on the US military is embedded below
The US Military: Planet Earth’s Greatest Enemy, with Abby Martin
I have previously written about the inevitably of a nuclear war and subsequent nuclear winter. Included in the blog piece below is an analysis from Carl Sagan on the effects of a nuclear winter;
The Inevitability of Nuclear War and Subsequent Nuclear Winter
Our rewilding project of planting native trees on Rakino Island can be followed here; Rakino Island Nursery.
I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.
Kevin Hester 
And additional read to the previous post.
Dancing on the Edge of Hell
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/14/dancing-on-the-edge-of-hell/
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Maybe we’ll finally meet, Kevin. On the other side of the curtain.
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More great data on this crime below
https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/?fbclid=IwAR0l0AuDPhOT9oEAMDnZalZlY8oP6UHx00WgoNMUrWd2QKx93FXUfF4t_dI
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ConsortiumNews just smashed the lies from the propaganda outfit ‘NewsGuard’ with, you know, actual history. How awful is that?
On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-in-ukraine/
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These fucks that think they rule the world are sure getting close to destroying it. I guess that’s what ‘ruling’ is all about?
From a Sense of Wonder to Dread: 90 Seconds to Midnight
The Origins of Atomic Theory
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/30/from-a-sense-of-wonder-to-dread-90-seconds-to-midnight/
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The insanity seems to be getting more strident and luck tends to run out.
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And on Bio-War, this just published:
20,000 Docs Obtained by Russia Expose US Biowarfare Program in Ukraine
https://orinocotribune.com/20000-docs-obtained-by-russia-expose-us-biowarfare-program-in-ukraine/
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Madness to the left of me, insanity to the right, and no knight in shining armor rushing to the rescue from any direction. Oh wait!
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Muammar al Gaddhafi – “Ukraine is a real problem”
Submitted bytortilla onVie, 25/02/2022 – 19:32
Muammar al Gaddhafi, November 2008
By every possible means, I try to contribute to the creation of a free and secure world; so that the world’s peoples can enjoy freedom and security, my people among them, and from this starting point and principle I state my opinion on serious international issues and problems whenever I can, hoping that this will have a positive impact on international politics.
In this article I refer to Ukraine, which I consider to be a real problem.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/6/strong-earthquake-hits-southern-turkey-near-syrian-border
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Yeah, Gaddhafi was a real thorn in the US ruler’s butt. Then he tried to create a new currency that would displace the petrodollar. Obama and Hillary sure ended that quick now didn’t they?
Ukraine has been a real problem since the Fascists took over. But that never ends, either, does it?
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/14/world-war-3-us-russia-china-emmanuel-todd/
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1 Second to Lights Out, dude, not 90. The clock is too optimistic.
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“The Greatest Evil is War” Chris Hedges
https://www.c-span.org/video/?524221-1/the-greatest-evil-war&fbclid=IwAR2cRm06tyfkaFFCFPvc2wXpZ3eLMgmV5IAqJh0iStdY3fyO0pY-FWDMxPc
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And Biden flies to Fascist Ukraine to saber rattle across the border at Putin. I mean, really, another billion$ gets promised while the feds gut 40 million on food stamps? This is insanity and something has got to break and when it does, the results are going to be….really bad.
The American Empire Is A Sore Loser That Will Get Us All Killed
https://blackagendareport.com/american-empire-sore-loser-will-get-us-all-killed
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More on this topic:
‘Something Was Badly Wrong’: When Washington Realized Russia Was Actually Invading Ukraine
A first-ever oral history of how top U.S. and Western officials saw the warning signs of a European land war, their frantic attempts to stop it — and the moment Putin actually crossed the border.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history
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Recognizing The War Is Lost The ‘West’ Seeks An Exit
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/recognizing-the-war-is-lost-the-west-seeks-an-exit
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West tells Global South ‘you can’t be neutral’ in Ukraine war: You are either with us, or against us
The foreign ministers of the US, Germany, and Ukraine told the world at the Munich Security Conference, “Neutrality is not an option” in the West’s proxy war against Russia, implicitly criticizing the vast majority of Global South countries, which are independent.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/20/west-global-south-neutral-ukraine/
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Imagine the emissions and the amount of energy to run these tanks and their complex supply chains!
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On so many fronts the author nails this analysis of the dying empire.
“The key to understand this is that the overuse of resources to the point of unsustainability almost always lends a short term political advantage over those who are more reality conscious and think generations ahead.”
This is exactly the root of our predicament, short term political advantage at the expense of the youth’s future or lack thereof.
Another one of us who believes that WW3 is underway.
https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/an-empire-of-denial-e029011a00f3
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War in the East, War in the West, War up north, War down South, everywhere there’s war.
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Here’s a couple to chew on:
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https://theintercept.com/2023/01/26/ukraine-uranium-bradley-fighting-vehicle/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/27/the-global-south-refuses-pressure-to-side-with-the-west-on-russia/
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This is an invite to see the movie WAR MADE EASY streaming on 20March that came today. It’s free and this leads to the registration page:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U PUrk4ETRqmlbhHtaJByA?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=4cbe2f8c-1aa7-4a7d-ad25-fa6f5b4da8ea
Some comments about the War Made Easy film:
Howard Zinn: “Superb”
San Francisco Chronicle: “Searing”
The Nation: “Chilling”
Variety: “Damning”
Philadelphia Inquirer: “Sobering and more than a little scary”
San Francisco Bay Guardian: “Horror and humor commingle”
An Inconvenient Truth editor Jay Cassidy: “A tour de force”
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I’m going to sign up and watch it.
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“The spending will reportedly focus on replacing the munitions sent to Kiev and enhancing the US’ ability to fight China.”
Herein lies the real reason for the proxy war in Ukraine.
Ultimately, to the lunatics in the military industrial complex, it’s just “Business” and the longer the war in Ukraine continues the more these pathological lunatics will profit.
The sane amongst us can see that provoking China and Russia at the same time is insanity.
For the war profiteers it’s another “Killing”, pardon the blood drenched pun.
Let’s not forget these wars put the climate change crisis on steroids.
https://www.rt.com/news/572804-pentagon-ammo-spending-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR0NimljqHLQiKlwQZYxwntBha5ZxDetufSsinONLIFLaRMFSpVGF8hsIAs
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This just happened over the Black Sea:
‘Really Scary Stuff’: US Drone Crashes During Encounter With Russian Fighter Jet
https://www.commondreams.org/news/russia-downs-u-s-drone
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The US EUCOM propaganda is absolutely stunning in its simplicity, isn’t it? “Forced the US to bring the drone down in international waters” because one of the Russian jets “struck the propeller” of said drone.
Look at the tail configuration where the prop is. How the FUCK does a jet moving how fast manage to hit the propeller of one of these assassination machines without totally wrecking itself and also crashing?
And the rest of the memo is also ridiculous since the US claims it as reckless, environmentally unsound, unprofessional, etc etc as if anything the US is doing 8,000 miles from the US is environmentally sound and not reckless and OH SO PROFESSIONAL while warring on how many countries at the same time now? Seven, eight, ten? I can’t keep track there are so many.
WTF, ya know? Insanity.
Oh, and the US politicians just voted to keep their new piece of territory in Syria in perpetuity it seems. You know, the fucking oil fields the US is pumping and shipping out along with the most fertile farmland in that county that is guarded and completely under US army control through the huge base ‘Camp Conoco.’ The resolution to leave, get fuck out, was soundly defeated by both sides of the corporate party that rules this Fascist Empire. Holy shit, how much freaking longer is all this going to hold together before something just breaks?
Oh wait, the banks are crashing again just like 2008, another game of dominoes same people same game, and of course the federal gov will ‘bail out’ the corrupt rich just like Wbush started and Obummer continued in 2009 while throwing millions of people out of their homes under the wheels of the Capitalist bus. This is how this game is played, you know? I guess letting the ‘free market’ decide is only good for austerity of the working class? That ‘free market’ thing seems to be followed only when the wealthy are making money and not so much when the wealthy owners’ greed fucks themselves.
People are panicking and withdrawing money as I know a couple of people that just did this in the last couple of days. Emptied their accounts, literally thousands of dollars now at home in a bag.
This country is crashing. Like that one post…slowly stumbling along like a passing out drunk until suddenly you land on your face. It will happen very very fast.
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This came out two months ago:
White House Refuses to Say Whether Ukraine Will Receive Toxic Depleted Uranium Ammo
A Biden official wouldn’t disclose whether Bradley Fighting Vehicles will be equipped with the anti-tank rounds, linked to cancer and birth defects.
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/26/ukraine-uranium-bradley-fighting-vehicle/
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Then this came out a few days ago:
The US military seems to have a real hard on when it comes to irradiating other humans:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/16/uranium-weapons-residues-in-uk-air-samples-have-been-measured-since-the-ukraine-war-why-is-google-suppressing-the-evidence/
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Nothing more to be said, eh?
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“Ukraine’s allies denounce ‘cynical’ Russian meeting at UN
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed the West, particularly the US, for ‘a profound crisis’ in the UN system.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/25/ukraines-allies-denounce-cynical-russian-meeting-at-un?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3o5hzPj3x-ntKsinvN7TfjXYZGXaxhXq0aN0vPIBB_M5mDenS3Yzd6rVY
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The Ukraine war could end very quickly:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/20/2164758/-RUSSIAN-ROULETTE-Wet-Bulb-has-the-Potential-to-End-the-War-in-Ukraine-Virtually-Overnight
Link to the Guardian article in this.
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US Sold Weapons to Roughly 60% of World’s Authoritarian Nations in 2022: Analysis
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-sells-weapons-to-majority-of-authoritarian-countries
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So much for the propaganda that the US supports freedom, eh?
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And just to show the absolutely inanity and cognitive dissonance among the wealthy and their minions who lecture the rest of us as to what reality is, this is a wonderful example:
+ That Francis Fukuyama (the end of history guy) was taken seriously for even a minute by anyone is one of the great mysteries of our time, right up there with the appeal of “Ted Lasso” and the political ascent of Pete Buttigieg.
Francis Fukuyama: “The invasion of Ukraine was such a shock because in our lifetimes we’ve never witnessed one country militarily invading another.”
Chris Hayes: “Well, Iraq.”
Fukuyama: “Yeah but…well, OK.”
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The madness of these people, eh?
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This country is being run by absolute fucking madmen & women or else they are all fucking idiots. From all indications they’ve been both for a very long time. Note the remarks by Biden in the late 90s…
I don’t think I posted this elsewhere a couple of months ago but it’s worth re-reading if I did because WWIII is going…
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/24/more-evidence-emerges-that-us-wanted-russia-to-invade/
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You will notice that Ray McGovern is the 3rd reply to this incredibly informative article. Why he hasn’t suffered an ‘accidental death’ yet is surprising but the hubris of the US leaders knows no bounds…and being ex-CIA he knows what to watch for.
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Another master class from Andy helping us navigate WW3
I lived in Germany when the wall came down and NATO agreed to not spread “One Inch East”. Since that agreement 13 former Soviet states have been railroaded into NATO, the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation.
Russia and China are proud nations that have suffered tens of millions of lost lives when barbarians have attacked them previously, those memories never fade.
Russia and China have never been so united, I take great heart from that new paradigm.
WW3 is clearly underway, clearly I support the axis of resistance in opposition to what Pepe Escobar correctly calls “The Empire of Chaos.”
https://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2023/05/26/the-evil-empire-isnt-russia-its-fossil-fuel-based-capitalism-waging-apocalyptic-war-on-the-planet-and-the-whole-of-humanity/?fbclid=IwAR1qMTxcarrIQR-Ri2FcFyVa_E7E77SrHY3m9HNyO5-eCPQivmGXYqgJYzE
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