{"id":121245,"date":"2022-04-13T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/04\/13\/ukraine-a-new-battle-in-the-old-war-of-the-new-normal\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T17:28:13","slug":"ukraine-a-new-battle-in-the-old-war-of-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/ukraine-a-new-battle-in-the-old-war-of-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: A New Battle in the Old War of the \u201cNew Normal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one sense, I don\u2019t have much to say about the newest chapter in the eight-year-old American war against the people of Ukraine \u2013 nothing that you can\u2019t learn from an array of sources as politically diverse as George Galloway<\/a> and Peter Hitchens<\/a>, Tariq Ali<\/a> and John Mearsheimer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After all, the facts really aren\u2019t complicated. Russia\u2019s recent invasion, far from being \u201cunprovoked\u201d (as shamelessly claimed in mainstream media), follows eight years of the US-backed Ukrainian regime\u2019s deadly shelling of ethnic Russians near the border of Russia itself, in fighting that has killed more than 13,000 civilians in territory Vladimir Putin\u2019s administration pledged to protect long ago.<\/p>\n

And that carnage had a fairly obvious cause, too: it was precipitated by the US-supported coup<\/a> that toppled Ukraine\u2019s elected government in 2014, ostensibly because of human rights abuses but more fundamentally because that government had refused to convert the former Soviet republic into a vassal state of NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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