How to Identify When the U.S. Empire Is Lying
A good and typical example of how the U.S. empire does it is this ‘news’-report on February 19th from Politico damning the end of the 1945-2025 Cold War by the U.S. Government to conquer Russia, and trying to extend the latest phase of that War (the Ukraine-war phase), which the U.S. Government started in 2014. Politico headlined about it as-if the aggression was by Russia against America, instead of being aggression by the U.S. against Russia (which it is): “Trump’s America is Putin’s ally now: Europe and Ukraine are learning how little the U.S. cares, as the new president aligns himself with their greatest enemy.” How is Russia an enemy of Europe? Russia is Europe’s largest and most-populous nation, and ever since Russia ended its side of the Cold War in 1991, it has presented zero threat to any European nation until the U.S. took over Ukraine in 2014 and turned it rabidly against Russia.
Another good example of how the U.S. empire is lying — and a more sophisticated one — is a February 17th U.S. Associated Press (AP) explanatory ‘news’-report headlined “Germany’s economy is in the dumps. Here are 5 reasons why”. It opened:
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany hasn’t seen significant economic growth in five years. It’s a stunning turnaround for Europe’s biggest economy, which for much of this century had expanded exports and dominated world trade in engineered products like industrial machinery and luxury cars.
So what happened?
Here are five reasons for Germany’s ongoing economic slump:
[#1] Energy shock from Russia
Moscow’s decision to cut off natural gas supplies to Germany in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dealt a severe blow. For years, Germany’s business model was based on cheap energy fueling production of industrial goods for export.
But this WASN’T an “Energy shock from Russia”; as I had documented back on 28 September 2022 under the heading “How America Is Crushing Europe”:
America creates, imposes, and enforces the sanctions against Russia, which are forcing up energy-prices in Europe, and are thereby driving Europe’s corporations to move to America, where taxes, safety-and-environmental regulations, and the rights of labor, are far lower, and so profits will be far higher for the investors.
Furthermore, America can supply its own energy.
Therefore, supply-chains are less dicey in the U.S. than in Europe. There is less and less reason now for a firm to be doing anything in Europe except selling to Europeans, who are becoming increasingly desperate to get whatever they can afford to buy, now that Russia, which had been providing the lowest-cost energy and other commodities, is being strangled out of European markets, by the sanctions. Money can move even when its owner can’t.
The European public will now be left farther and farther behind as Europe’s wealth flees — mainly to America (whose Government had created this capital-flight of Europe’s wealth).
Europe’s leaders have cooperated with America’s leaders, to cause this Eur
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