{"id":115290,"date":"2022-05-07T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=115290"},"modified":"2022-05-07T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:18:58","slug":"red-alert-theres-a-rabidly-dangerous-neocon-zionist-warmonger-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=115290","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RED ALERT:<\/span><\/b> There&#8217;s a rabidly dangerous Neocon Zionist warmonger in the house!<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Adam Kinzinger Executes Neocon Vision for Ukraine<\/h1>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_title et_pb_post_title_1_tb_body et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_center\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_title_container\">\n<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">by\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a title=\"Posts by Patrick Macfarlane\" href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/author\/patrick-macfarlane\/\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Macfarlane<\/a><br \/>\nthe Libertarian Institute<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_0_tb_body\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-242278 entered lazyloaded\" title=\"capture\" src=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1274px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture.jpg 1274w, https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture-480x270.jpg 480w\" alt=\"capture\" width=\"1274\" height=\"716\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture.jpg 1274w, https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture-480x270.jpg 480w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1274px, 100vw\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Capture.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body\">\n<p>As the war in Ukraine approaches its tenth week, the steady flow of ominous headlines has grown to a floodwater deluge. Dissenting observers are made to watch, seemingly helpless, as the broader levy of sanity threatens to break, unleashing a torrent of death and destruction across Eastern Europe, and likely, the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the bad news cycle, on Sunday, May 1, Congressman Adam Kinzinger proposed a new Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation, if passed, would allow President Joe Biden to deploy American forces to restore \u201cthe territorial integrity of Ukraine\u201d in the event that Russia uses chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. When Kinzinger announced the legislation on Meet the Press, he stated that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t think we need to be using force in Ukraine right now.\u201d However, as Antiwar.com opinion editor Kyle Anzalone ominously noted, in 2002, then-Senator Joe Biden similarly downplayed the danger of war before voting for the 2002 AUMF\u2014under which President George W. Bush later prosecuted the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>If bad Ukraine policy amounts to a downpour, Rep. Adam Kinzinger has been performing a rain dance for years now.<\/p>\n<p>Kinzinger was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. In March 2014, while sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kinzinger pledged that the House would back the Obama administration\u2019s efforts in Ukraine. Further, he stated the House would consider legislation calling for increased aid to Ukraine, up to and including adding Georgia and Ukraine into NATO. Kinzinger\u2019s pledge came soon after the conclusion of the 2014 Euromaidan Coup, where the US State Department played an instrumental role in ousting then-president Viktor Yanukovych. By April, 2014, Ukraine would launch a civil war against pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donbas region. In 2016 Kinzinger co-authored H.R. 5094, the Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act (the STAND for Ukraine Act). On September 21, 2016, the STAND for Ukraine Act passed the U.S. House unanimously by voice vote. It was engineered to \u201ccontain, reverse, and deter Russian aggression in Ukraine, to support the sovereignty of Crimea against Russia\u2019s illegal annexation, and to ultimately assist Ukraine\u2019s democratic transition.\u201d The STAND for Ukraine Act cemented sanctions as a permanent fixture of American policy by making it \u201ceffectively\u2026impossible to remove certain anti-Russian sanctions unless Crimea is returned to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia\u2019s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Kinzinger has repeatedly pushed to escalate a situation that his policy helped to create. On March 3, 2022, he publicly called for a \u201cno-fly zone\u201d over Ukraine to \u201cprevent Russian air attacks.\u201d If enforced, a no-fly zone in Ukraine would see U.S. forces shooting down Russian planes and even attacking targets in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_media_wrapper size-medium wp-image-242277 alignleft\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242277 alignleft entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0825-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"img 0825\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_0825-300x166.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_media et_social_media_hidden et_social_mobile_on\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networks et_social_autowidth et_social_simple et_social_left et_social_rounded et_social_outer_dark et_social_withnetworknames\">\n<ul class=\"et_social_icons_container\">\n<li class=\"et_social_facebook\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;t=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine\" data-social_name=\"facebook\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">Facebook<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"et_social_twitter\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;via=libertarianinst\" data-social_name=\"twitter\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">Twitter<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"et_social_pinterest\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F05%2FIMG_0825-300x166.jpg&amp;description=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine\" data-social_name=\"pinterest\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">Pinterest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"et_social_reddit\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;title=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine\" data-social_name=\"reddit\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">reddit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"et_social_linkedin\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;title=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine\" data-social_name=\"linkedin\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">LinkedIn<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"et_social_buffer\">\n<div class=\"et_social_share\" data-social_link=\"https:\/\/bufferapp.com\/add?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fadam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine%2F&amp;title=Adam%20Kinzinger%20Executes%20Neocon%20Vision%20for%20Ukraine\" data-social_name=\"buffer\" data-social_type=\"media\" data-post_id=\"242275\" data-location=\"media\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_social_network_label\">\n<div class=\"et_social_networkname\">Buffer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kinzinger\u2019s corresponding press release cited his experience piloting an intelligence aircraft in Iraq as being some sort of qualification for such a daft and dangerous proposition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Representative Kinzinger understands what being a hero means\u2026Maybe Congress and President Joe Biden should listen to him. Kinzinger thinks that war with Russia might be inevitable. We would have the advantage now when few people would die. It looks as if we will find out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kinzinger likely wouldn\u2019t state his true credentials for pushing such maniacal Ukrainian policy.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, through his years advocating\u2014near universally\u2014for an aggressive U.S. foreign policy, Kinzinger has been immersed in the neoconservative think-tank circuit.<\/p>\n<p>On March 24, 2014, Kinzinger joined the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for a panel discussion involving arch-neoconservative Fredrick Kagan. During the panel, Kinzinger \u201cunderlined the\u2026potential dangers associated with leaving [Afghanistan]\u201d in the wake of the Karzai government.<\/p>\n<p>For all the seven years of U.S. support for the Kabul government between Kinzinger\u2019s 2014 panel appearance at AEI and his April 15, 2021 reprisal, the withdrawal had the same predictable result. In a matter of weeks, the Afghan National Army washed away like water breaking upon stone. The Kabul government disintegrated with it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, nearly nine months after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the \u201cpotential dangers\u201d Kinzinger foretold have failed to materialize\u2014at least for the American public. Instead, Afghanistan has vanished from the U.S. news cycle. The AEI, who so loudly virtue-signaled for the rights of Afghanistan women, is now silent about the consequences of the twenty-year U.S. war there\u2014except to the extent that it could be used to justify even further intervention. Beyond AEI, on May 26, 2016, Kinzinger attended an event hosted by the ultra-neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative and The Hudson Institute. He stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our involvement in NATO is not because we just want to defend Europe out of the goodness of our heart, but because without NATO we never would have been able to drop the Iron Curtain and bring freedom to millions of people and make us safer\u2026Are there challenges? Of course. But that needs to be done in the context of \u201chow do we get NATO reengaged\u201d versus \u201clet\u2019s just get out of the rest of the world. That\u2019s a narcissistic foreign policy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Foreign Policy Initiative was founded in 2009 by\u00a0<em>Weekly Standard<\/em>\u00a0editor Bill Kristol and Brooking\u2019s Institute Fellow Robert Kagan. In the 1990s, Kristol and Kagan founded the now-infamous Project for a New American Century are largely credited as being architects of the Global War on Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kagan\u2019s wife, Victoria Nuland, served as assistant secretary of state during the 2014 Euromaidan Coup in Ukraine. In a leaked phone call with the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Nuland lamented the European Union\u2019s decision to limit its involvement. She then stated \u201cYats is the guy, he\u2019s got the economic experience,\u201d referring to opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The first prime minister of the post-Madian interim government was none other than Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The Hudson Institute is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>part of a closely-knit group of neoconservative institutes that champion aggressive, Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies. Founded in 1961 by several dyed-in-the-wool Cold Warriors, including Herman Kahn\u2013a one-time RAND nuclear war theorist notorious for his efforts to develop \u201cwinnable\u201d nuclear war strategies [emphasis added]. Kinzinger has also spoken at the Atlantic Council, a think tank that has long pushed increasing confrontation between the US and Russia over Ukraine. It is funded, to the tune of millions, by weapons manufacturers, the UAE, the Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, JP Morgan\u2013Chase, and Palantir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While it is unclear exactly how much influence the above-named think tanks have had on Kinzinger\u2019s policy positions, it is clear that Kinzinger has played a starring role in escalating diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Just as in the Global War on Terror, this time with Kinzinger as their thrall, the same ghouls slither forth from their crypts for another orgy of death.<\/p>\n<p>Is our best hope another twenty-year, society-eating slog? Or will the NeoConservatives\u2019 Ukrainian denouement detonate a flash ending?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/adam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine\/\">https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/adam-kinzinger-executes-necon-vision-for-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Kinzinger Executes Neocon Vision for Ukraine by\u00a0Patrick Macfarlane the Libertarian Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}