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The US has finally stopped pretending to be pro-peace: with China proposing a plan for a ceasefire, Secretary of War Antony Blinken announced that stopping the war is unacceptable. And when CodePink’s Medea Benjamin called for Blinken to act as a diplomat instead of a war hawk, she was dragged out of the room by security. The US does not want peace.
So to dig deeper into the US’s aggression, we asked Twitter superhero Michael Tracey to help us unearth more evidence of warmongering weapons-dealers calling themselves politicians.
What he found was a 2014 interview with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, after a trip to Ukraine with best bud John McCain, unknowingly giving away the US’s entire efforts of regime change.
“With him being forthright about the decisive role that the United States played in ousting Yanukovych from power,” Tracey explains, noting that Murphy didn’t know this would become a hot topic. “He’s talking about it as though he’s recounting just an average day’s work that wouldn’t have any noteworthy political content.”
But he tells us why Murphy’s confession is so important: “If today somebody who was not a US senator uttered the same exact words that Murphy did in these clips to describe US conduct in 2014 in Kyiv, they would be accused of being a Russian propagandist.”
Watch the full interview with Michael Tracey on the state department-funded report that Russia is kidnapping Ukraine’s children, Ron Desantis pretending not to be a war hawk, and the House hearing on TikTok, where free speech and free market are only cool if the US gets to do it.
Plus, watch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: “Suck on this!” – Thomas Friedman celebrates 20 years in Iraq.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 The Four Food Groups of News
12:15 Michael Tracey interview
Sh*t sherbet presented to Hillary at Shubert some like it steamy hot indeed
“ Mr. Putin “ ? How about Mr. Biden leave decisions up to the Ukrainians.
Whomever the powers that be these days their ultimate wet dream would be to: indict, prosecute, and incarcerate Trump and Putin in the same jail cell
The serial pooper must have a colostomy bag cuz i think someone squatting in the isle would've been too obvious😆💩🙀
42:54 Tracey’s comment about not focusing on history is EXACTLY the problem with US citizens. They have remedial knowledge of why we’re even in any particular place in the world. That’s why and how the people in our society are easily manipulated by the media! I have so little tolerance for the ignorance of people.
Not only is the US not a part of the court, they passed legislation called the "Hague Invasion Act" where they can use military force to free any American officials arrested for war crimes!
I’ve always been anti death.
"If Mr. Putin would do the right thing", i.e. surrender. That is what they are actually saying.
An unacceptable cease fire is to Russia's advantage , in the end, after Russia repatronize most of Ukraine back into the Mother Russia! LMAO
Excellent political analysis
Can a country that still has the death penalty, that still practices capital punishment, be called a pro-life country?
Your take on the castration error was hilarious Katie! 🤣
US: "We can't have peace breaking out, and threatening the rules based international order"
Um, what about the ICC arrest warrant for Bush Jr? Will he be handed over when he visits any other country? Given that his war crimes just turned 20 years old, didn't they ever had the chance to do so?
World should not listen to the this guy, The U.S. and U.N. ingested this war by breaking the treaty and started this war. don't make any mistake Russia are the bad guys here
"Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveee" and "I'm not entirely wedded to the term coup"…..( one of the many reasons Tracy makes my skin crawl…)
A child wrongfully adopted CAN be returned to his/her parents. A child killed (and we killed so many in just our latest illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), CANNOT. Whose crime is worse, Putin's or Bush's? Who is to be judged first? Or at least, why is the older crimes glossed over while pushing to punish the latest war criminal?
Are you folks thinking of replacing Matt with Aaron in the Useful Idiots avatar?
Is Kirby wearing a ministers sash?
The U.S. is doing everything wrong on all fronts. Is this North Korea that they disparage at will? From so-called democracy to demagoguery and fascism. Way to go U.S. that is about to become scary for anyone to even visit.
My younger Ukrainian friends, who are avoiding being pressed into the military, are asking me, when will the war end? While older and more thoughtful Ukrainians knew the answer even before the war started, it'll be like Afghanistan.
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McCaine Avenue is a dead end.
If Ukraine is so sovereign, How come it's Blinken who dictates all of it's policies ?
Aaron speechless about the thought of losing a penis. Seriously this is a thing you just don't wanna think about.
"We would …uhh … reject it, too."
But it's Ukraine's decision. LOL.
Lindsey Graham Talks Tuff The Days Of People Like Him Are Slowly Becoming More And More Irelivent.
Also Putins Sorrounded By 50,000 Men Women & Children Armed To The Teeth ☠️. Zelenski Won't Be Around Much Longer He Will Be Added To The Waistbin Of History 💩
Concerning hillary clinton and the ICC just remember what she said about colonel kadafi
She was the judge the jury and the executioner along with her NATO criminals.