NATO is a relic of the cold war, it was initially formed as an alliance of anti-communist countries. NATO has actively undermined the sovereignty of many nations looking to delink themselves from global capitalism and imperialism through military force and invasion. The U.S. and NATO have been inserting themselves into Ukrainian affairs for decades.
One recent declassified CIA document dated July 13, 1953 described project AERODYNAMIC, stating “The purpose of Project AERODYNAMIC is to provide for the exploitation and expansion of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance for cold war and hot war purposes.” Project AERODYNAMIC funded, and provided equipment to multiple organizations who sympathized with the Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera. Today Bandera sympathizers sit in political office at all levels of government throughout Ukraine.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO encouraged former Soviet territories to join them and created division amongst those who still believed their quality of life was better with ties to Russia and those interested in joining NATO. This resulted in civil wars throughout the region, specifically in the Donbass region, a region in east Ukraine that rejected the government installed by a U.S. coup in 2014. This coup would lead to the resurfacing of many far right militias openly holding neo-nazi values, such as the Azov Brigade who is the primary militia fighting in the civil war against partisans in the Donbass region and all who oppose the puppet government. The Ukrainian government has since formally incorporated such militias into its military.
Presently, U.S. media is doing a great job of manufacturing consent. U.S. propaganda is extremely effective at shifting public opinion to favor going to war, by purposely misleading and deceiving the public. In the case of Ukraine, U.S. media is overlooking the far-right and blatant neo-Nazi tendencies of popular movements that the U.S. installed government has allowed to flourish. A U.S. war with Russia will not benefit the masses of innocent Ukrainian people who will suffer in wartime. U.S. and NATO are instigating a war that ultimately only benefits those who financially invest in war and will expand the reach of NATO’s imperialist projects.
Biden announced that the U.S. and its NATO allies put “the mother of all sanctions” on Russia which will choke out their economy and result in the suffering of millions of people not only in Russia but throughout the world. Special advisor to Joe Biden, John Gonzalez stated “the [sanctions] are so robust that they will have an impact on those governments that have economic affiliations with Russia, and that is by design… Venezuela will begin to feel that pressure, Nicaragua will feel that pressure, as will Cuba.” Economic sanctions are as brutal and violent as guns and bombs, and some who have lived through both say the sanctions were worse.
These sanctions will directly result in the expansion of gas and oil infrastructure on Native lands here in the U.S. because the U.S. is now offering domestic oil to replace Russian oil that European countries were dependent on. Land permits have already been increased under Biden, and multinational oil corporations have their sights set on expanding their infrastructure in North America, to support sanctions in Russia is to support further destruction of Native lands here.
Once again the U.S. proposes a war for profit, rising defense stocks have the richest investors eager to promote yet another brutal war. This comes back home in the form of predatory military recruitment practices which have always disproportionately targeted Native youth. Today Native people remain overrepresented in the U.S. military while remaining one of the smallest populations. When Indigenous people are the first to go to war for imperialist powers, we must demand an end to imperial expansion everywhere.
We invite anti-war and anti-imperialist coalitions to form and join upcoming calls for international action. We say, NO WAR, NO SANCTIONS, NO ENLISTMENT & RECRUITMENT, U.S. OUT OF EVERYWHERE, DISMANTLE NATO! These are our demands! It’s not enough to be anti-war, we must also be anti-Imperialists!
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