An ex-US state senator claims that the United States is to blame for constantly meddling in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations and for initiating the wars in both Iraq and Ukraine.
Richard Black, a former state senator from Virginia, claimed in an interview with RT that the US overthrew the governments of both of these nations in order to turn them into puppet states. He emphasized that Washington is the “source of both” the conflicts in Iraq and Ukraine.
While the majority of Americans do not want to participate in the conflicts, Black also noted that the US “foreign policy establishment” has its own distinct agenda.
According to Black, the US “overthrew Iraq with military force, coming in from across the globe,” and “went in and overthrew Ukraine with military force from the other side of the globe.”
According to the former state senator, the Ukraine conflict began when the CIA “staged a violent, bloody coup” in Kyiv in 2014 and assisted in ousting the duly elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.
Black continued that Washington installed a “revolutionary junta” in Yanukovich’s place and started supplying Kyiv with “advanced weapons” in order to create a “very formidable” military force.
The president of Ukraine at the moment is nothing more than a “puppet” of Washington who “does what he is told, when he is told,” Black said.
According to Black, the US considers the post-Saddam Iraq, which it occupied in 2003, to be a “colonial state. “
According to him, the “occupation of Iraq will continue indefinitely,” and America’s ultimate goal is to exert control over the entire Middle East from its “hardened command and control center” in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
The former senator claims that while the majority of Americans disagree with the United States’ interventionist foreign policies, a group of so-called Washington elites, “oligarchs,” and the military-industrial complex that produces weapons pursue their own interests at the expense of others.
Black added that if Ukraine adopted a “neutral” and “demilitarized” stance, akin to what Austria did during the Cold War, the conflict there might be resolved.
The former state senator emphasized that Russia’s security concerns were valid and unquestionably required to be taken into account by its neighbors.
