Walt Kelly’s cartoon strip, Pogo, ran in newspapers from 1948 – 1973. And although I was a kid then, one of his cartoons has always stuck with me. The text wasn’t original with Kelly, though. He borrowed the phrase from Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. After the Battle of Lake Erie, he is reported to have said to William Henry Harrison, “We have met the enemy and they are ours”.
People have differing opinions about what is going on between Russia and Ukraine depending on what they read and who they listen to. Allowances for opinions must be made (believe it or not), especially since none of us fully knows what’s going on. But when denial about bio weapon labs in Ukraine turned into an admission of their existence by Political Affairs Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, and we learned that US tax dollars were used to finance those labs, I’d say that little phrase in Pogo might need to be reintroduced.
Some sources say it is these labs (the bio weapon labs financed by your tax dollars) that Russia has been destroying with surgical strikes. Additionally, a Georgian “health center” has been used as cover for US bioweapon research close to the Russian border. At least that is an accusation leveled by Russia’s Foreign Ministry. If this is true, our dear nation is in violation of disarmament agreements. Other sources point back to 2005 when Senator Obama was part of negotiations involving biolabs. In fact, there seem to be a number of countries calling for an investigation – something the US press apparently has chosen to not share. With. The. People. Whose. Money. Was. Used.
We are not the only guilty party, at least according to the Russian Federation’s claim to the UN. “The Kiev authorities basically agreed to make their country into an experimental platform and use their citizens as guinea pigs.” Again, if this is true, the Ukrainian people have been under threat of bio weapons. What a way to live. Oh – wait.
But the 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine ousting duly elected officials and installing the current government, a video clip of Senators Lindsey Graham and John no name McCain promising to give top military leaders what they needed to defeat Russia, and that nasty little video clip of Biden actually describing his pay-for-play exchange with, I believe it was ex-President Poroshenko back when he was VP, money-laundering and trafficking (did you read about the 100 trafficked children rescued? I did, but not from mainstream media), lend an unsettling credence to corruption defying the imagination. Corruption of this magnitude appears to reach to dark corners of every nation, and it looks like there will be hell to pay one way or another. It also looks like the USA had something to do with it.
Can I clarify? Just as we are careful to say things like, “not the Chinese people, but the CCP”, can we give our nation the grace to say, “not American citizens, but its corrupt deep state political machine”? Or corrupt cabal? Or maybe not. You choose. We should’ve known. We should’ve known, and we didn’t. But we let things slide that we shouldn’t have – I’ll tell you that much. If you have a lick of moral sensibility in you, you’ll agree.
You know what bothers me most? Our money was used for it, we didn’t know it, and our standing in the world is stained with the sins of those who did.
Sources: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/russia-wants-un-meeting-over-us-biological-activities-in-ukraine/; https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/03/whats-in-the-u-s-biolabs-in-ukraine-pentagon-operated-taxpayer-funded-biolab/; https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russia-accuses-us-placing-bio-weapons-labs-its-borders/ri8082; Ron Watkins on telegram: Nunn-Lugar Report Aug 29, 2005; https://adinakutnicki.com/2022/02/28/putin-vows-to-crush-child-traffickers-in-ukraine%ef%bf%bc/; https://youtu.be/pYtcXS9zJXo