Dear Executive Director,
The US is the most dominant country on the planet and yet it insists on encouraging a WWIII. The military budget of America is equal to the next 20 countries combined. Saying that the rights of Ukraine must be respected and Russia has no rights, is hypocrisy.
RE: Despite our conversation and your perceived patriotism, this needs to be said. “Russian Sanctions will hurt Americans!”
The United States has overthrown more countries than anyone else in new world history. Our close ally Israel has occupied another country since 1967 and continues, with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Similarly in the name of security we meddled in Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Venezuela and other places around the globe.
Atrocities committed during the Philippine-American war in 1899-1902 suggest that the US was interested in furthering American imperialism and attempted to “civilize savages”, ultimately necessitating cleansing of a “lesser race”.
The US invaded Cuba in 1898 to protect American business interests and avenge destruction of the USS Maine being blown up in the Havana waterways. Under the Treaty of Paris, the US was granted ceding of Puerto Rico and Guam.
Covert actions in Chile provided funds to support electoral candidates and run propaganda to support a military coup, which resulted in President Salvador Guillermo Allende’s death.
In 1956 the CIA and United fruit company overthrow a Democratic government in Guatemala and got advertising guy Ed Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew), to run a spin campaign.
When Iran’s democratically elected President wanted to stop selling oil, the US overthrew their democratic government, installed the Shah and taught his henchmen how to infiltrate opposition groups and throw them in prison.
At Henry Kissinger insistence, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson, backed by the CIA, oversaw an illegal war that killed over 100,000 people in Indonesia and caused the coups of governments.
President of Bolivia, Evo Morales member of the largest Indigenous population who reduced poverty by 42%, was overthrown. Now de facto president, Jeanine Anez, calls indigenous religious practices “satanic”.
When Russia sent money to Nicaragua, the Reagan administration trained death squads to kill anybody in Central America that wanted to give money to poor people, including American nuns and the Bishop of San Salvador.
For us to say that Russia needs to respect world order is a lot of self-serving hooey. NATO was a military alliance formed to counter the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed, countries once part of the Soviet Union Empire, wanted to quickly join.
Accepted, were countries bordering Russia. Now our weapons are in those countries. Think what would happen if Canada approved Russia setting up military bases 20 miles from the US border. We would not stand for that, which is why there are no Russian military bases in the Western Hemisphere.
When it comes to Ukraine, America isn’t only defending freedom or human rights. America is doing what it’s done for years—empire building. Otherwise, we’d focus on our millions of homeless people, hungry kids looking to school for that one decent meal a day and a society that is declining, decrepit, or corrupt.
Distraughtly yours, Melissa
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