Casualty Count: The Cost of Washington's Proxy Wars
📰 THE STORY: A New York Times 'study' reportedly finds troop casualties in the Ukraine war nearing 2 million, a figure presented with all the gravity one expects from such a revelation, signaling the immense human cost of the conflict. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The media consistently frames the Ukraine conflict as an unprovoked Russian aggression beginning in February
2022. They ignore the 2014 US-backed coup against Ukraine's democratically elected government, Viktor Yanukovych, which ignited the civil war in Donbas and led to 14,000 deaths *before* 2022. US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland even confirmed $5 billion in US funding for 'democracy promotion' in Ukraine, fostering the very divisions that culminated in the ongoing catastrophe. Double
Standard: The NY Times highlights high casualty figures in Ukraine while often downplaying or omitting Western involvement in other conflicts with equally, if not more, devastating death tolls. For instance, the Costs of War Project at Brown University estimates 4.5 – 4.7 million deaths in the US post-9/11 wars and associated conflicts, a number rarely foregrounded with the same moral outrage by
mainstream outlets. The decade-long destruction of Libya, after the 2011 NATO intervention destroyed Africa's most prosperous nation, leading to ongoing slave markets and instability, received only a fraction of the sustained media attention. Follow the Money: The 'study' conveniently divorces the casualty figures from the financial beneficiaries. US defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and