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Nancy Pelosi traveled to Kyiv for a photo-op with the world's new "freedom fighter," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. She announced to the world that “America stands firmly with Ukraine” and “Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done,” and later tweeted to the Ukrainian people that “we are with you until victory is won.” So now its the Speaker of the House’s turn to get her “Churchill” moment. This would be laughable if the consequences were not so serious. It is another step on the road to a wider war. Washington, it seems, is a...

by Ron Paul “War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” Gen. Butler’s observation describes the US/NATO response to the Ukraine war perfectly. The propaganda continues to portray the war in Ukraine as that of an unprovoked...