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By Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor
\nVeterans Today<\/p>\n
The former environmental lawyer and writer entered the race for the Democratic Party nomination for president in April, touting himself as a peace candidate who will talk with US adversaries, and fight against government overreach and the security state at home. Recent opinion polling showed him enjoying between 12-19 percent support in his party.<\/p>\n
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has characterized the Russia-US proxy war in Ukraine as an \u201cabattoir\u201d that has killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops for a geopolitical goal which has \u201cnothing to do with Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing in Ukraine now is just a massive assault on Ukrainians. We have trapped Ukraine in a proxy war against [Russia] and they are being devoured by the geopolitical machinations of neocons in the White House who have this comic book depiction that a lot of Americans have swallowed about what is happening,\u201d\u00a0RFK Jr. said<\/a>, speaking to Canadian psychologist and media commentator Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n Explaining what separates his position on Ukraine from that of the incumbent, Joe Biden, RFK Jr. said that although he understood many ordinary Americans\u2019 support for Ukraine out of \u201ccompassion\u201d and as a \u201chumanitarian mission,\u201d in reality, \u201cevery step we have taken, every decision we have made appears to have been intended to\u00a0prolong the war<\/strong>\u00a0and to increase the bloodshed.\u201d<\/p>\n RFK Jr. recalled Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0slip of the tongue<\/a>\u00a0that the US\u2019s real goal in Ukraine was to cause regime change in Moscow \u2013 an aspiration which he recalled neoconservative advisors in Washington have been pushing for \u201cdecades\u201d now.<\/p>\n \u201cZbigniew Brzezinski\u2026their doyen and philosopher said that US strategy should be to suck Russia into a series of wars in little countries where we can then exhaust them. Lloyd Austin, who is president Biden\u2019s defense secretary, in April 2022 said our purpose in being in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian army, to exhaust it and degrade its capacity to fight anywhere in the world. Well that is the opposite of a humanitarian mission. That is a war of attrition, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s turned out to be.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have now turned Ukraine into an abattoir that has devoured 350,000 young Ukrainians. They are lying about how many people have died, they\u2019re concealing it from us \u2013 the Pentagon\u2019s concealing it from the American people. Ukraine is concealing it from their people\u2026We have turned that poor little nation into a killing field for these idealistic young kids in order to advance a geopolitical agenda that has nothing to do with Ukraine,\u201d RFK Jr. said.<\/p>\n The candidate also characterized the conflict as a \u201cmoney-laundering scheme\u201d for the US military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n Asked what he would do as president to bring the Ukrainian crisis to a close as president, RFK Jr. said the solution was \u201cobvious,\u201d and that he would work to achieve it on \u201cday one.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Russians have wanted to settle this from the beginning and they\u2019ve been very clear about what they want. They want NATO to make a pledge to not come into Ukraine, which we should have done. We shouldn\u2019t have put NATO into fourteen countries [in Eastern Europe, ed.]. We told the Russians when they dismantled the Soviet Union in 1991 and they moved 400,000 troops out of East Germany, and they allowed NATO to reunify Germany under NATO \u2013 and they said \u2018our condition for doing that for this tremendous conciliation that we\u2019re making is that you never move NATO to the East\u2019. And George Bush told them \u2018we will not move NATO one inch to the East\u2019. And in 1997 Zbigniew Brzezinski laid out the plan which is that we moved it not one inch but a thousand miles to the East, 14 nations and then we put AEGIS missile systems in Poland and Romania which are nuclear capable. So they\u2019re a few minutes from Russia \u2013 they can decapitate the entire Russian leadership if we wanted to start a preemptive war. That is inexcusable,\u201d RFK Jr. said.<\/p>\n Gorbachev Was Promised Non-Expansion of NATO, His Mistake Was to Believe it, Ex-US Official Says<\/a><\/p>\n 31 August 2022, 01:22 GMT<\/p>\n The candidate pointed out that Washington wouldn\u2019t let a foreign power do anything similar in the Western Hemisphere, recalling that his uncle, John F. Kennedy \u201cdidn\u2019t live with that\u201d during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the USSR and the USA were brought to the brink of war over Soviet missiles in Cuba, and US missiles in Turkiye.<\/p>\n RFK Jr also briefly delved into the roots of the Ukrainian crisis, recalling that Washington \u201coverthrew the democratically government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014,\u201d and \u201cspent $5 billion \u2013 CIA, through USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, to violently overthrow that government \u2013 which was democratically elected. So we destroyed this democracy and put in our own government which we now know the neocons in the White House \u2013\u00a0Victoria Nuland\u00a0<\/a>selected two months before in a telephone [call]. We handpicked the new government before the coup. We put a new government in that immediately makes a\u00a0civil war against the Russian population of Donbass<\/strong>, killing 14,000 of them, that\u00a0bans the Russian language<\/strong> and then starts training with NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n RFK Jr. said he wasn\u2019t the only politician who feels this way about the\u00a0Russia-US crisis,\u00a0recalling that in the late 1990s, George Kennan, the architect of the post-WWII US containment policy, called the decision to start NATO\u2019s eastward expansion an unprecedented calamity against a post-Cold War Russia seeking friendship with the West.<\/p>\n Multimedia<\/a><\/p>\n A Fateful Error: History of NATO\u2019s Expansion<\/a><\/p>\n 20 March, 17:00 GMT<\/p>\n RFK Jr. is running as\u00a0peace candidate<\/a>\u00a0in the 2024 race for the Democratic nomination for president. This week, his campaign\u2019s press team\u00a0told Sputnik<\/a> that in addition to working to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, the politician would seek to sign new arms control treaties with Moscow if elected.<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s stance on foreign policy, plus his\u00a0attacks against<\/a>\u00a0White House Medical advisor Anthony Fauci and fierce criticism of mandatory coronavirus vaccinations, have led to mainstream media\u00a0censorship<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0smear campaigns<\/a>\u00a0against his campaign. The Biden campaign has indicated that it will not hold primary debates against Kennedy and Marianne Williamson, the other Democrat who has thrown her hat into the 2024 race so far. Kennedy has characterized this no debate policy as a grave mistake on Biden\u2019s part, saying it\u2019s not only undemocratic, but would leave the incumbent vulnerable against his prospective Republican rivals, particularly former president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nRussia<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n