US abusing taxpayer’s money, power in Ukraine
THE United States of America, which for years, has tried to package itself as the cradle of democracy, good governance and accountability, has lost its moral standing after openly latching on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
There is really nothing for the ordinary American to gain in Ukraine, as everything points to machoism, expansionism, corrupt deals and biological laboratories with Joe Biden and his son Hunter at the centre.
That is family business, albeit established in a very corrupt way.
There is no doubt that the Joe Biden administration backed by the House of Representatives have lost their moral bearing and right to lecture to other nations about abuse of power and taxpayer’s money.
In Ukraine, the US is spending billions of dollars sponsoring Neo Nazism (which all previous administrations did not want) and sponsoring dangerous biological laboratories with a capacity to wipe out entire clans and tribes hated by the administration.
Last month’s overwhelming vote in the US House of Representatives Tuesday night for nearly US$40 billion in military and financial aid to Ukraine is a watershed event.
It demonstrates the commitment by the Biden administration to supply virtually unlimited resources to a war which threatens to unleash a nuclear holocaust upon the world.
Having pushed the government of Vladimir Putin relentlessly through two decades of NATO expansion to the east, and arming Ukraine to the teeth for a proxy war with Russia, American imperialism is rushing ahead recklessly, regardless of the danger of triggering World War III.
As the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) warned in an editorial board statement on April 27, “The aims of the war are now clear.
The bloodshed in Ukraine was not provoked to defend its technical right to join NATO, but rather was prepared, instigated and massively escalated in order to destroy Russia as a significant military force and to overthrow its government. Ukraine is a pawn in this conflict, and its population is cannon fodder.”
It is not only gaining access to the vast resources of Russia — oil, gas, countless strategic minerals — that is the aim of the US-NATO intervention.
Washington views the elimination of Moscow as a significant strategic obstacle as a decisive step towards the ultimate goal, which is a military confrontation with China to establish its domination over the entire Eurasian landmass.
No less historically important are the domestic implications of the Ukraine war for the working class in the United States.
It is working people who will pay for this war, as they have paid for all the overseas acts of aggression by US imperialism.
The US$40 billion bill approved by the House of Representatives, and expected to pass the Senate within days, brings the total allocated to the war in Ukraine in less than three months to a staggering US$53 billion.
This new spending is larger than the total budget for the US Marine Corps.
It is greater than the entire budgets of five federal departments, or of all independent federal agencies combined.
It is more than total federal spending on housing and homelessness, more than total state and federal spending on public health.
What would US$53 billion buy, if this sum was devoted to the needs of working people?
It could hire 500 000 teachers at US$106,000 a year in salary and benefits, or a similar number of nurses.
It could provide a US$6 000 raise to every nurse, teacher and nursing home worker in America (9,25 million workers). It could provide a US$1 000 raise to every worker in America making less than US$15 an hour (52 million workers).
None of these things, of course, will happen because the American government operates not in the interests of working people but of the financial aristocracy.