{"id":46584,"date":"2023-09-04T19:41:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46584"},"modified":"2023-09-04T19:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:41:33","slug":"us-officials-keep-boasting-about-how-much-the-ukraine-war-serves-us-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46584","title":{"rendered":"US Officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine War serves US interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-46585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psychopaths-300x188.png\" alt=\"Psychopaths\" width=\"736\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psychopaths-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psychopaths-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psychopaths-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psychopaths.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent article for the Connecticut Post, Senator Richard Blumenthal assured Americans that \u201cwe\u2019re getting our money\u2019s worth on our Ukraine investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor less than 3 percent of our nation\u2019s military budget, we\u2019ve enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia\u2019s military strength by half,\u201d writes Blumenthal. \u201cWe\u2019ve united NATO and caused the Chinese to rethink their invasion plans for Taiwan. We\u2019ve helped restore faith and confidence in American leadership?\u2014?moral and military. All without a single American service woman or man injured or lost, and without any diversion or misappropriation of American aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Tom: Absolutely, unquestionably, incontrovertibly criminal action on the part of the US!<\/p>\n<p>Probably fast closing in on 500,000 Ukrainians dead, plus Russians, no counting how many wounded or maimed, billions stolen from the US taxpayers to fund the military industrial carnage, European economies devastated&#8230; ..US interests? How is destroying other countries in ANYONE&#8217;S best interests? You&#8217;d have to be a psychopath to say that. Oh, but they are.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/geopolitics\/us-officials-keep-boasting-about-how-much-the-ukraine-war-serves-us-interests\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/geopolitics\/us-officials-keep-boasting-about-how-much-the-ukraine-war-serves-us-interests\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously. In a recent article for the Connecticut &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine War serves US interests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46586,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46584\/revisions\/46586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}