Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

I made a colossal blunder yesterday when I described this Ukrainian flag in the hands of the U.S. Vice President and Speaker of the House as being signed by members of Congress. My bad. The flag is actually signed by Ukrainian soldiers and was presented by, not to, President Zelensky.

What Congress actually gave him was a standing ovation.

And the promise of another $44 billion or so for Ukrainians to keep fighting our proxy war against Russia.

Blogger Caitlin Johnstone published a good piece today examining the contradiction between claiming Russia's entry into the war was "unprovoked" and simultaneously claiming that this war is the perfect opportunity for the U.S. to weaken Russia without a single U.S. soldier freezing or dying. 

Notwithstanding the fact that vast numbers of children in poverty are freezing as climate chaos sends temperatures  + wind chill plunging into the negative numbers in Texas and the Deep South. And never mind the millions in the U.S. who've died without adequate or any health care while Congress goes ka-ching for Raytheon, which just announced a new $412.6 million contract from the Air Force.

Looks like support for Ukraine pays off handsomely!

That weapons manufacturers are showing robust growth while the rest of the stock market is in a slump, and climate crisis largely fueled by militarism spirals out of control, is a snapshot of the state of U.S. empire as 2022 draws to a close.