Excellent piece by David Bromwich in @natcounterpunch! Very well worth a read!!!

“Living On A War Planet … And Mansging Not To Notice”

… which (among many others) highlights this inconvenient truth:

“The #Russian invasion of #Ukraine was an illegal and immoral act, but the adjective that usually follows illegal and immoral is ‘unprovoked.’ In truth, this war was provoked. A contributing cause, impossible to ignore, was the eastward extension of #NATO, always moving closer to the western borders of Russia, in the years from 1991 to 2022. That expansion was gradual but relentless. Consider the look of such a policy to the country – no longer Communist and barely a great power — which, in 2013, American leaders again began to describe as an adversary.”

It ends with this thought:

“Meanwhile, the lesson for the United States should be simple enough: the survival of the planet cannot wait for the world’s last superpower to complete our endless business of war.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/30/living-on-a-war-planetand-managing-not-to-notice/

#USImperium #PermanentWarComplex