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Even as a growing number of Western elites are waking up to the reality that Ukraine is headed toward defeat and will drag NATO down with it, so-called foreign policy intellectuals, such as the NY Times editorial board, continue to indulge in fantasies. Let's continue. And confusion. He concluded the Sunday editorial by demanding more money for Zelensky and the cause of defeat:
Mr Trump and his followers may argue that the security of Ukraine, or even Europe, is not a US affair. But the result of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine is a world in which authoritarian powerful people feel free to crush dissent or seize territory with impunity. This is a threat to the security of America and the world.
The Washington and New York establishments continue to insist that Vladimir Putin is an “authoritarian strongman.” I have one word of advice – before you get on your moral high horse and gallop off to lecture other countries on democracy and human rights, look in the mirror and pay attention to what is happening in the United States.
When I read the last sentence in the above paragraph I asked myself the question, “How many political prisoners are there in Russia?” I was not surprised by the answer.
“For political prisoners, the situation is often worse, because the state's goal is to additionally punish them, or additionally isolate them from the world, or do everything to break their spirit,” Weapon said. His group consists of 680 political prisoners in Russia.
Guess what? The United States prosecuted (and persecuted) twice as many political prisoners as Russia.
In the three years since the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, federal prosecutors in nearly all 50 states and D.C. have charged more than 1,265 defendants and sentenced more than 460 people to prison, as of recently. According to data released by the US Attorney's Office in DC
In remarks Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Justice Department's sweeping investigation into the Capitol attack “one of the largest and most complex and resource-intensive investigations in our history.”
None of these numbers account for the legal assault on former President Trump and the many people who held prominent positions during his administration. The Biden administration regularly punishes several other countries – most recently India – for prosecuting political opponents. Talk about lack of self-awareness and irony.
So spare me this nonsense that Russia is waging a soul-crushing attack on individual liberty while claiming that the United States is the bastion of liberty and justice. That's a lie. And I say that without the federal government's collaboration with social media to attack conservatives and censor articles and individuals that are not in line with Joe Biden's woke agenda, as perfectly demonstrated by the reporting of Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi. Has been documented. Then there is the proven case of the Biden administration's attack on scientists and physicians who challenged specific CDC claims and treatments for COVID, another glaring example of the rotten authoritarianism emanating from Washington, DC.
Here is the second part of my discussion with Nima. We focus on the implications for NATO and Secretary of State Blinken's crazy claim that Ukraine will get a chance to join the NATO club.