Stupidity Watch 1

     Does your government lie to you? Of course it does. It is silly to think anything else. As an American I actually think more like a Russian in the sense that Russians don't think that they have any rights to know anything about what their government is doing. I feel the same. Our government has to deal with things all over the planet including many bad players, and I don't think that I have the right to know about it. Apparently most Americans think differently than me, and feel somehow that their government is telling them the truth, and should tell them the truth, and should tell them everything.      In most cases I don't even want to know what our government is doing, but when it comes to the Ukraine it's a little bit different. Our government has been lying to us for over a year, telling us that Putin is crazy, that Putin is losing the war in the Ukraine, and that the casualties are so high that it is leading to dissent among the Russian pe...

     February of 2023 sadly marks the one year anniversary of the war in the Ukraine. My first blog post in October of 2022 title A Call For Peace In The Ukraine laid out the history of how the United States backed a pro-western coup in the Ukraine in 2014 and then spent eight years arming the Ukrainians. In 2022 in only 18 days President Putin of Russia destroyed every single one of the weapons systems that the United States had given the Ukraine over 8 years, and then declared mission accomplished in March of 2022 as far as his stated goal of demilitarizing the Ukraine.      Of course the United States just sent more weapons, billions of dollars of more weapons, and so this war has dragged out for more than a year, all because of the United States, and all US government officials both current and former continue to repeat the US state department position on the Ukraine, which is that Putin is bad. Nothing more. No US official, current or former, will...