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The grocery store shelves are partially empty, thanks largely to the Covid lockdowns and restrictions, but if Joe Biden and his warmongering neocons have their way, the shelves will be almost completely empty. Americans are about to pay for the ruling elite’s decision to sanction Russia.

Biden said the other day people will suffer under the escalating sanctions imposed on Russia.

“It’s going to be real,” the president said about the impact of sanctions.

“The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia; it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well,” Biden said.

“Both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example — just to give you one example.”

You heard that right. Biden expects you to sacrifice for the sake of the Azov Battalion, a gaggle of ultra-nationalists and Neo-Nazis that have killed untold numbers of ethnic Russians in Donbas since 2014 and the “Revolution of Dignity” sponsored and funded by the US State Department and the neocon Victoria Nuland.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said not to worry, Americans will not go hungry.

She did not mention many Americans are already going hungry and homeless due to over two years of draconian Covid restrictions, broken globalist “just in time” supply chains of essential goods, rising inflation the government downplays, and unemployment due to the strangulation of business, particularly small business. Biden told the truth and Psaki tried to rollback the fallout.

The government routinely lies about the actual shape of the economy. As the corporate media attempts to downplay the real condition of the economy—relying on fudged numbers put out by the state—alternative economic monitors put the real inflation rate at 16.05%, the worst inflation rate since the end of WWII. According to the government, however, the inflation rate was 7.9% in February.

The Federal Reserve, primarily responsible for much of our economic pain, has predictably shifted the blame to Russia. “We have seen a very meaningful increase in gas prices, and my guess is that next month we’ll see further evidence of an impact on U.S. inflation of Putin’s war on Ukraine,” said former Fed boss Janet Yellen.

The “V-shaped recovery” touted by the state and its corporate media in the wake of Covid turned out to be a wishful thinking (more likely a flimsy palliative to placate shell-shocked citizens).

Biden is now in Poland rallying the troops, eating pizza, and embarrassing everyone with his cognitive decline. The day before, NATO held a summit in secret “with not only cameras and phones prohibited but even aides,” writes Andre Damon, “the leaders of the Western powers met to plan out the unthinkable: A full-scale war between nuclear-armed states.”

Following the summit, Biden pledged he will work to remove Russia from the G-20, or Group of Twenty.

“The single most important thing is for us to stay unified and the world to continue to focus on what a brute this guy is and all the innocent people’s lives that will be lost and ruined and what’s going on,” Biden said hypocritically.

Biden, as then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, voted to invade Iraq and kill over a million people.

Like many Democrats, Biden later declared he was against the war. In 2020, a video surfaced showing Biden praising George W. Bush’s neocon inspired invasion of Iraq. “In the 45-second clip, Biden can be seen taking a highly optimistic viewpoint toward the war and he also makes no effort to distance himself from the president who orchestrated it. Instead, he chastises fellow Democrats for their skepticism and pledges support and patience for Bush,” writes Reed Richardson for Mediaite.

During the Obama administration, he was part of the effort to undermine Syria, and not long after his disputed election victory he bombed Syria, a direct violation of international law. “The president’s decision appeared aimed at sending a signal to Iran and its proxies in the region that Washington would not tolerate attacks on its personnel in Iraq, even at a sensitive diplomatic moment,” never mind the unanimous demand of the Iraqi people that the US get its troops out of their country.

Joe Biden is and always has been an eager tool for the ruling elite and the neocon faction.

“In 2019, Robert Kagan, a prominent neoconservative, along with Antony Blinken [now Biden’s Secretary of State] wrote an article urging the US to abandon Trump’s America First policies and continue the policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Specifically, they called for a policy of ‘preventive diplomacy and deterrence’ against ‘US adversaries,’ calling for containment of Russia and China. According to The Daily Sabah columnist Hakki Öcal, ‘preventive diplomacy and deterrence’—‘is shorthand for sending boys and tanks wherever they can,” reports United World International.

Kagan’s wife is Victoria Nuland, Biden’s Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. “This is currently the third-ranking position in the United States Department of State, after the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary. This way, Nuland will be promoted and will be able to pursue neoconservative policies more aggressively,” UWI continues.

“In a recent Foreign Affairs article, she called for a more ‘activist’ policy toward Russia, including ‘speaking directly to the Russian people about the benefits of working together and the price they have paid for (President Vladimir) Putin’s hard turn away from liberalism’,” which is corporatocracy, the very essence of fascism.

“The only important intellectual difference between neoconservatives and liberal interventionists is that the former have disdain for international institutions (which they see as constraints on US power), and the latter see them as a useful way to legitimate American dominance. Both groups extol the virtues of democracy, both groups believe that US power—and especially its military power—can be a highly effective tool of statecraft,” notes Stephen M. Walt.

Back in 2003, as the invasion of Iraq was gaining steam, Danny Postel quoted Shadia Drury, then professor of political theory at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. “The people will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right –,” Drury told Postel, “the right of the superior to rule over the inferior, the master over the slave.” The “masters” are the neocons and their associates, and the slaves are you and me.

Drury said leading neocon thinkers believe

“that man’’s humanity depend(s) on his willingness to rush naked into battle and headlong to his death. Only perpetual war can overturn the modern project, with its emphasis on self-preservation and “creature comforts… The combination of religion and nationalism is the elixir that [Leo] Strauss [the late guru of the neocons] advocates as the way to turn natural, relaxed, hedonistic men into devout nationalists willing to fight and die for their God and country.”

As it now stands, people deluded by the philosophy of Leo Strauss have packed the Biden administration. “In early June [2020], a group of former officials from the George W Bush administration launched a political action committee (PAC) in support of Biden’s candidacy. The group, 43 Alumni for Biden, boasts nearly 300 former Bush officials and is seeking to mobilize disaffected Republicans nationwide,” write Marshall Auerback and James Carden.

Thus, as political operative Karl Rove bragged,

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

The Biden-neocon “liberal hawk” coterie occupying the White House has long sought to confront Russia, as well as Iran and China. If they are serious about going to war with Russia over Ukraine, this will require great sacrifice on the part of every American. The sanctions placed on Russia alone will produce misery for millions who believe they live in a democracy and have a say in their “representative” government.

This is, unfortunately, the greatest delusion.

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