Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), in a speech to Congress earlier this week, refused Senate approval of a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. He likened the story to the propaganda used to drag the United States into the Iraq war.
He believes that history is repeating itself. And the same level of incompetence is repeated in dealing with the region.
“There is another historical analogy that I think is worth pointing out, and that is a historical analogy from the early 2000s,” Vance charged.
“In 2003, I was a senior in high school and at the time I had a political stance. I believed the George W. Bush administration’s propaganda that we should invade Iraq, and that it was a war for freedom and democracy. “Those who appease Saddam Hussein are creating a broader regional conflict.”
“Does anything we’re hearing today sound familiar?” he asks. “Twenty years later, the name may be different, but it is the same topic. But have we learned anything in the last 20 years? No, I don’t think so.”
sen. @JDVance1 Compare the propaganda of the institutions that got us into the Iraq war with the propaganda that drives unlimited funding and expansion in Ukraine today 🔥🔥🔥
“Twenty years later, it’s still the same topic, just with a different name.” pic.twitter.com/XZuQF62PiN
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) April 23, 2024
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Are Ukraine and Iraq war propaganda the same?
Senator Vance said today’s Ukrainian propaganda is similar to the propaganda surrounding the Iraq War. The idea is to achieve success by beating the drums of war rather than through competent diplomacy.
“We have learned that constantly talking about World War II can annoy people, cause them to ignore basic moral impulses, and lead a country straight into a disastrous conflict,” he laments.
Congress today said we must provide endless military aid to Ukraine to avoid further war and prevent greater death and destruction.
In the early 2000s, the excuse was that it was a ‘weapon of mass destruction’. A story about having to fight to prevent greater death and destruction. That claim led to a nearly nine-year war in Iraq that claimed the lives of scores of soldiers and civilians.
Likewise, the war in Afghanistan has lasted so long that some of the people who fought in it weren’t even born yet at the time of 9/11.
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The Iraq War also received bipartisan support.
Criticism of previous intelligence failures related to the Iraq War and weapons of mass destruction became more widespread.
The war effort was approved in a bipartisan vote by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in October 2002.
The Iraq war resolution passed 296 to 133 in the House and 77 to 23 in the Senate.
But that vote was based on misinformation. Are we operating in Ukraine based on the same incorrect points and information?
Former President George W. Bush made one of the most Freudian mistakes of all time when he accidentally stepped on a pitchfork while trying to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Former President George W. Bush: “It was one man’s decision to launch a completely unjust and brutal invasion of Iraq. “I mean Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/UMwNMwMnmX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 19, 2022
On the subject of democracy, President Bush criticized Russia for “rigging elections” and “imprisoning or excluding political opponents from the electoral process.”
Sound familiar?
“The result is that there are no checks and balances in Russia and one person decided to invade Iraq, which was completely unjust and brutal,” he said. I’m calling Dr. Freud.
There are currently no checks and balances on U.S. aid to foreign countries. There are no checks and balances in protecting our borders.
Vance, meanwhile, criticized European countries for not taking greater responsibility for supporting Ukraine. maybe their Propaganda is not as effective as ours.
“For the past three years, Europeans have been saying that President Vladimir Putin is an existential threat to Europe,” the senator said. “And for three years they have failed to respond as if it were true.”
But the U.S. Congress has consistently been tricked into openly giving taxpayers’ money to one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.
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