Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

A Few SOTFPWTWGB Thoughts ...that is, sitting-on-the-front-porch-watching-the-world-go-by thoughts, on the Ukraine war fraud, the unconstitutionality of the EPA, the LGBTetc. "genocide" trope, and more. CONGRESS HAS THE SOLE AUTHORITY in the federal government to initiate military action by the United States (other than highly limited presidential latitude to repel active or imminent hostile attack for a brief period of time-- something not applicable to any US military action undertaken in quite a long time, notably including the current action against Russia). This is widely understood in at least an academic way. The manifest implication of that widely understood fact-- that most of the military actions undertaken without a Congressional declaration of war over the last eight decades or so have been illegal, notably including the current action against Russia (the degree of which illegal action has just been much more widely exposed by the brave whistleblower, Jack Teixeira)-- is seldom acknowledged.* WHAT I IMAGINE IS MUCH LESS WIDELY UNDERSTOOD is that the current illegal, undeclared war being prosecuted by the United States against Russia was begun solely by the United States. Nine years ago the US organized and carried out a coup overthrowing the legitimately-elected government of Ukraine (see https://losthorizons.com/N/184.htm#1). This was followed by a civil war between the majority of Ukrainians supporting the legitimate, overthrown government (the bulk of whom live in the eastern part of the country) and the US-backed minority which had engaged in the coup (and which is comprised in significant part by neo-Nazis). At the beginning of this internal conflict Crimea, which had seceded from Ukraine repeatedly since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 (see https://off-guardian.org/2022/03/08/timeline-the-crimean-referendum/), voted overwhelmingly to be annexed by Russia. The other loyalist regions sued for similar annexation, but the Putin government, exercising astonishing restraint and being a bit naive, declined those requests, putting misplaced faith in a negotiated resolution to the civil conflict under the terms of the Minsk accords (I and II) which the US and the western Ukraine coup-plotters steadily violated to a greater and greater degree until Russia had no choice but to invade in order to forestall an imminent genocide in the Donbas. See the details and documentation of all of this at https://losthorizons.com/N/188.htm#1. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/236.htm#2