Officially, US debt stands at more than $17 trillion. In reality, it is many
times more. The cost of the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq may be more
than six trillion dollars. President Obama's illegal invasion of Libya cost
at least a billion dollars and left that country devastated. The costs of US
regime change efforts in Syria are likely thus far enormous, both in dollars
and lives. That's still a secret.
So who in his right mind would think it is a good time to start a war with
Russia over Ukraine? And worse, who would commit the United States to bail
out a Ukraine that will need at least $35 billion to survive the year?
Who? The president and Congress, backed by the neocons and the so-called humanitarian
interventionists!
The House voted overwhelmingly last week to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees
to Ukraine. That is just the beginning, you can be sure. But let's be clear:
this is not money for the population of that impoverished country. The Administration
is sending a billion dollars from US taxpayers to wealthy international bankers
who hold Ukrainian debt. It is an international bank bailout, not aid to Ukrainians.
And despite the escalating anti-Russia rhetoric, ironically some of that money
will likely go to Russia for Ukraine's two billion dollar unpaid gas bill!
