US President Joe Biden spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on September 21. He used the platform to try to portray the United States, the world’s leading violator of international law, as its protector.
Biden called “to hold Russia accountable for the atrocities and war crimes” it allegedly committed in Ukraine.
In a mind-blowingly hypocritical speech at the UN, Biden (a strong supporter of the Iraq War) declared:
"If nations can pursue imperial ambitions without consequences, we put at risk everything this institution stands for"
I fact-checked his absurd lies: https://t.co/YntWmxp7Ov pic.twitter.com/pmealsIKwC
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) September 22, 2022
Biden himself strongly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. As vice president under Barack Obama and now president, he personally oversaw the US wars against Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan, as well as the drone bombing of Somalia and Pakistan.
But Biden declared from the UN podium: “If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this very institution stands for, everything.”
In the following analysis, journalist Ben Norton fact-checked the deeply misleading claims Biden made in his UN speech.
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Recording of phone call of US diplomat Victoria Nuland orchestrating the coup in Ukraine in 2014:
Ukraine reported at the United Nations in 2019 that approximately 13,000 Ukrainians had been killed and more than 28,000 wounded in the foreign-fueled proxy war that began in 2014.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights reported in January 2022 that, between 2018 and 2021, 81.4% of all civilian casualties caused by active hostilities were in Donetsk and Luhansk.
US gov’t knew NATO expansion to Ukraine would force Russia to intervene
In the confidential 2008 State Department cable “Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines,” US Ambassador to Russia William Burns (current CIA director) warned that Ukraine joining NATO “could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”
“Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan,” The Guardian, September 16, 2004
West killed peace proposal to end Ukraine war, Russia supported negotiated settlement
“Russia Is Right: The U.S. Is Waging a Proxy War in Ukraine,” Hal Brands, Washington Post / Bloomberg, May 10, 2022
“Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine,” CNBC, March 26, 2022
CIA has trained Ukrainians to kill Russian-speakers since 2014 US-backed coup
“Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy,” BBC, April 17, 2014
“U.S.: ‘Hague Invasion Act’ Becomes Law,” Human Rights Watch, August 3, 2002
US-backed coup regimes trapped Honduras in unpayable odious debt, warns new President Xiomara Castro
“The Flaws in the ‘Assessment’ Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on China,” Alfred de Zayas, CounterPunch, September 6, 2022
Eric Arthur Blair
2022-09-22 at 17:44
Incredible how the western media distorts and misrepresents everything. Latest claim by garbage outlets like the guardian is that Putin is threatening nuclear strikes. His “threat” is in fact purely a retaliation against the a priori nuclear threat from the West. Both Russia and China have pledged never to launch first strikes, only Washington insanely considers first strikes – which will cause human extinction. This is because in any conventional military or economic war, the USA will lose because of it’s own self inflicted rot. Please read Putin’s recent speech in full here for proper context rather than swallow superficial distorted guardian or other MSM headlines:
https://thesaker.is/address-by-the-president-of-the-russian-federation/
Russia and China have no want nor need to launch first strikes. But if the West strikes first they will not hesitate to retaliate.
https://johnmenadue.com/gunboat-diplomacy-joined-at-the-hip-to-the-war-addicted-us/
It is the angloeurozionist empire, whose policies have been hijacked by just a handful of insane neocons, who are pushing us to the brink of nuclear armageddon. How to reduce that risk? The answer is obvious.
Steve
2022-10-04 at 11:51
Joe, his party, and the bastards they work for, are FULL OF SHIT.