Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Rich McCormick Foreign Policies Disastrous for America and Ukraine
Recently, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in our nation’s capitol to address a joint session of Congress, a privilege afforded few. Similarly, last December, Ukraine’s President Zelenski arrived to speak to the same body, the members, seen below, interrupting Zelenski, showering him with standing applause over and over. And each head-of-state had one purpose in mind. That purpose is the subject of this commentary.
Ukraine’s Desire for US Tax Dollars
After the Obama State Department orchestrated a coup overthrowing the democratically-elected Government of Ukraine in 2014, the governing bodies of Donetsk and Lugansk, Ukrainian provinces located against Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia, declared independence, a right which became theirs under international law. Soon, Ukraine began an 8-year policy of genocide against Russian-speaking peoples in those regions, finally resulting in President Vladimir Putin’s decision to involve Russia on behalf of the two fledgling republics, incorporating them as protectorates upon their request in February of 2022. The resulting Russian invasion began a war persisting to this day.
To protect Obama’s purposes installing and supporting a puppet Ukrainian regime, last year Congress approved $113 billion in various forms of aid for Zelenski, earmarking those dollars as aid for the American puppet to fight a proxy war against Russian adversaries several hundred miles east of the capital of Kiev. Zelenski’s purpose during last December’s visit was to cement US support for the war.
Rich McCormick’s Support of US Aid to Fight a Proxy War in Ukraine
During the 2022 primary campaign for 6th District US Representative, then candidate Rich McCormick spoke openly about his support for US taxpayers funding a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. When asked what the US policy in Ukraine should be, rather than considering whether America should be involved at all, McCormick answered only to list weapons systems the US should send Zelenski, the assumption being that US nonmilitary-involvement was not an option.
In the video, McCormick admits the conflict in Ukraine is a “proxy war.” That means the warring participants are actually the United States and Russia, Ukraine playing its part as America’s “proxy.” McCormick tells the crowd he is not willing to send his sons to fight in Ukraine. But because it is a proxy war, McCormick demonstrates his willingness for Ukrainians to fight, and die, as US proxies, so that his own sons don’t have to. McCormick’s support for US aid to Ukrainians fighting an American war against Russia also shows his willingness for Ukraine to be utterly destroyed, hoping that in doing so Russia’s ability to make war might degrade over time, weakening Russia as a world power. The video comes to a close when candidate McCormick is asked whether there should be any limit to what America should spend on the proxy war against Russia, the candidate seemingly “saved by the bell.”
Earlier this Spring, now 6th District Representative Rich McCormick traveled to Ukraine to meet with President Zelenski. Informing his constituents about the trip, McCormick claimed responsibility for all that eventuates in Ukraine, writing, “I will have a pivotal role in shaping how we as a country address this conflict and react to Russian and Chinese aggression." In his next breath, McCormick makes an outlandish claim, that he, “witnessed firsthand the accountability of US equipment,” vouching that American military assets are being effectively protected and managed, having himself been on the ground only a very short time, and confined within the central district of Kiev, Ukraine’s capital city.
The Tragedy of Ukraine
To be clear, Russia is decisively winning the war in Ukraine. Russia possesses over 20% of the land formerly under Ukrainian control. In a year-long battle for the heavily-fortified city of Bakhmut in Donetsk, Russian forces now occupy 90% of the city. In terms of a proxy war, Russia is continually advancing against the US at strategic frontal positions such as in Bakhmut, making total waste of the money and military resources the American taxpayers have been forced to invest through taxation and additional US debt. NATO is a paper tiger. Europe wants no part of this war. Germany has been emasculated by Biden, afraid to even complain that Biden ordered the destruction of a major source of cheap energy, the Nordstream II gas pipeline connecting Germany to Russia.
So Representative McCormick’s proxy war, for which he claims to own a pivotal role in shaping the outcome, is a disaster by every measure. There is nothing good about any of this. Obama started the ball rolling in 2014. Having no good alternatives, Biden chose to bail a sinking ship with $113 billion in aid, while Rich McCormick claims, “Biden hasn’t gone far enough.”
How is any of this disastrous policy in Ukraine, which Representative Rich McCormick owns and wants to accelerate, good for the people of the 6th District?
It’s not.
Representative Rich McCormick refuses to acknowledge that Ukraine is not, and never was, America’s business. America has no mutual defense treaties with Ukraine. Ukraine is not part of NATO. America’s involvement fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is a geopolitical and financial disaster, is against the US Constitution and against International Law. Rich McCormick should use his moral authority to help end the senseless killing and destruction in Ukraine.
South Korea Secures Its Position in Line for American Tax Dollars
And that brings us to the recent visit of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose nation each year receives over $50 billion in US military aid. Yeol’s recent visit was not a pleasure trip. It was all business, designed to make sure South Korea has its line items in the upcoming federal budget. The budget appropriations process for the fiscal year starting in October began last Monday, May 1, thus the timing of Yeol’s visit. And 6th District Representative Rich McCormick is 'all in' to give South Korea whatever it wants, and indebt the American people to pay for it.
Why is it America’s responsibility to protect South Korea, a wealthy nation by most standards, when South Korea has the resources to pay for its own protection? The answer is that a South Korea paying for its own protection would not make Wall Street happy. And Wall Street runs this country. Wall Street owns the money in your wallet, and in every account you have. Even if it’s not you, someone is paying interest on every dollar you have. Wall Street banks make money issuing more dollars than they retire. If South Korea pays for its own defense, the dollars it repatriates to the US Treasury go to decrease the number of dollars Wall Street banks can issue. That means Wall Street banks make less profit and the money supply grows consequently slower. As the money supply growth slows, the wealth transfer system operating with the US Treasury as its central processing center, transfers less American wealth to Wall Street banks. That’s how all this works.
But when you and I pay for South Korea’s protection, we have to borrow new Wall Street dollars into circulation. There are not enough dollars circulating otherwise. To maintain and even increase the US budget for South Korean defense, which is just another profit center for Wall Street, is why President Yeol visited to address Congress at this time. And because there is no military expenditure too large that 6th District Representative Rich McCormick won’t support it, that is why South Korean President Yeol is so happy to meet him.
The irony of all of this is no more apparent than in a video of President Yeol singing a song to a gathering at the White House State dinner in his honor. What song did he sing? Symbolic of all his visit represents, the President of South Korea sang, “Bye Bye Miss American Pie.” If these policies do not change for the better, yes, we will all be singing bye bye to America.
What Rich didn't tell you is that, in 2014 the US began executing the first of two known material violations the Budapest Memorandum to which you refer, signed in 1994 by the US, Great Britain and Russia. In February of that year, the US State Department, coordinated by Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, violated point #1 of the agreement, which was to "Respect the Ukraine's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders." Acting on behalf of the President of the United States, using private contractors and very likely multinational intelligence assets, Nuland instigated a coup against the legitimately-elected government of Ukraine, overthrowing the government and installing a puppet government under a puppet prime minister, Yatzenuk. That occurred on the heals of the Ukrainian government awarding a major energy contract to Russian state gas giant Gazprom. Nuland and the State Department wanted the contract to go to any number of western corporations, Chevron leading the pack. Shortly thereafter, the puppet Ukranian government reversed the decision and went with western energy companies. So in essence, the US Government worked on behalf of private interests in overthrowing the legitimate Ukrainian government. (That's also the pattern of what happened in 1953 when the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected government of Iran and installed the Shaw who ruled for the next 25 years. The elected government of Iran had cancelled a contract giving BP rights to the oil fields, opting to extract oil using a state-owned entity. So what I'm describing here is nothing new. The Iraq invasion of 2003 was over control of oil fields and using Federal Reserve currency to purchase Iraqi oil.) It was that event, the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government in 2014, which triggered authority necessary for Donetsk and Lugansk to declare independence under international law. They were under no obligation to remain under the control of a US puppet government. I was studying these events as they happened over nine years ago, and in May of that year gave a talk on the subject, which is on video you can watch here https://youtu.be/gc7Pukqtlug , explaining what was really happening in Ukraine at the time. In 2019, I wrote a article describing these events, which you can find here https://hanksullivan.substack.com/p/ukraine-what-really-happened. Once the events of February 2014 unfolded, the US under Obama effectively negated the agreement Rich spoke about. But it was the US, not Russia, who violated the agreement. The violations presented an existential threat to Russia, which Putin merely responded to. If the US would overthrow the government of Russia's neighbor, they would overthrow the government of Russia, given the opportunity.
But that's not all. Point #3 of the 1994 agreement required all parties to refrain from economic coercion against Ukraine. We know the US violated that part of the agreement, and likely made it an ongoing policy. Remember, VP Joe Biden in on video bragged about violating that part of the 1994 agreement, making $5 billion in economic aid to Ukraine contingent on the Ukrainian President firing the prosecutor investigating son Hunter.
As far as NATO countries voting unanimously to support Ukraine against Russia, NATO is the United States. The other NATO countries do as the United States says. The United States under Joe Biden attacked the infrastructure of Germany, blowing up the Nordstream II pipeline, and Germany has not uttered a whisper of an objection. NATO is a paper tiger, as I say in this article. NATO will do as its told because the US financial system, meaning Wall Street, dictates terms to the Eurozone through the ECB, including the choices of who sits in prominent positions in NATO. NATO will do as it is told. After the economic collapse of 2008-9, the Fed manufactured $16 trillion out of the air and bailed out the banks of Europe. The Fed has that power. The Eurozone lives in fear of not pleasing the US Government.
Rich knows Putin has no designs on rolling over Moldova, the Balkans, etc. Russia has lived peacefully alongside the nations of Eastern Europe for the last 30 years. The few exceptions to peace, such as the uprising in Georgia, have been manufactured by US and western intelligence agencies, the official policy of NATO since the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit being for both Ukraine and Georgia to become NATO countries, in violation of well-documented, however unofficial commitments by Bill Clinton to Boris Yeltsin when the Soviet Union broke up.
Regarding the last point Rich made to you, saying it is "wrong" for America to back out of supporting a country once it makes a commitment, wow, there is so much wrong in the premise of his argument that I could write all day. First of all, an agreement means both parties make commitments to each other, sacrificing something. What do the American people get out of this agreement from Ukraine? The only thing the American people receive is the right to have its tax dollars and future wealth sent to Ukraine to be used to support an unwinnable war and to be redistributed among Ukrainian oligarchs who bribe each other for that perk. What do we get? Nothing. Therefore, this commitment Rich talks about is not even valid. Secondly, it is private interests who are the beneficiaries of US support, not the American people. Ukraine is the money-laundering capital of the world. To be able to send massive amounts of money to Ukraine, to then be sent back to various political entities, supporting political candidates in the US has been one major function fulfilled by Ukraine. Furthermore, Ukraine has provided a haven for biological warfare research to be conducted, US bio-labs dotted all over the countryside, AS ADMITTED BY VICTORIA NULAND (real name NUDELMAN) in her testimony to Senator Marco Rubio, which yo can find on YouTube. These research facilities exist(ed), now destroyed by Russia, only in violation of international law. Again, there is nothing in this for the American people. Private interests related to the US and world financial systems are the beneficiaries of this twisted research. Think World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, World Heath Organization, etc.
Finally, Rich tells you if America does not fulfill its commitments referred above, American credibility on the world stage will be severely damaged. American credibility dissolved during the 2020 election. America has no legitimate government. The world knows it. The US Government is now operated by rogues for private purposes. The thought that if American does not persist in going along with our rogue government's private purposes would be laughable, if not one of the saddest situations since the British burned Washington DC to the ground during the War of 1812.
And I warned of all this on the eve of the Russian invasion. On February 23, 2022, I made the following post, that Greenscreen (Biden) had really "stepped in it." Please read what I wrote moments before these events of war were about to unfold: https://www.facebook.com/hank.sullivan1/posts/pfbid02SzgbS422eBvbVu2Pf4rBi5ngwzVryFX3aLQhayDGLvt175rgryENhcgg765aLC5Cl
There is nothing in this for you and me. There is nothing in this for the American people. The US Government is using the wealth confiscated from the American people, you and me, and future wealth of our progeny, to further the diabolical purposes of private parties and institutions who have over time taken control of our government. That's what is going on here , and that is what 6th district US Representative Rich McCormick is supporting. Remember what Rich says in the video above. After he describes his MILITARY policy in Ukraine, I say, "Then you agree with Biden." Rich finishes his remarks saying, "I agree with a lot of people...I don't think Biden goes far enough." He cointinues, "We went halfway in Vietnam, that didn't go very well...We went halfway in Afghanistan, that didn't go very well." Understand, neither of those US military ventures had anything to do with you or me or the American people. They furthered the private interests of those who make money and accrue power by such things.
I Thank you very much for the question. I know you will think about what I have told you.
Actually this is pretty accurate