Pot meet kettle. As a senator, a vice president, and president, Joe Biden has been a WAR CRIMINAL of the highest order.
From his role as a senator backing the wars of aggression the U.S. launched against Afghanistan and Iraq, the massive bombing of civilians, use of chemical weapons, collective punishment, targeting of ambulances and hospitals, the unspeakable torture in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, Bagram, and secret CIA black sites...
To his role as a vice president under Obama, carrying out a terrorist campaign of drone warfare in seven countries, bombing Libya and taking out the Libyan leader Gaddafi, and supporting Israel’s genocidal slaughter of the Palestinian people...
To his current role as president, backing Saudi Arabia's destruction of Yemen which has killed over 250,000 children and forced 4 million people from their homes...
When it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. is number 1. No U.S. ruler, least of all Joe Biden, has any right whatsoever to self-righteously denounce the war crimes of others. Even worse, this naked hypocrisy is in the service of building up the U.S. as the “leader of the free world” so that they can carry out MORE war crimes, and disguise it as “spreading democracy.”
Don’t buy into the BULLSHIT!
Of course, this act of imperialist aggression by Russia deserves to be condemned. But especially for people residing in this country—which, again, by far holds the record for such acts of aggression—it is a matter of basic principle and profound importance not to be echoing the positions and serving the aims of “our” imperialists, and instead to be making very clear our opposition to the aims and actions of these (U.S.) imperialists, who are using opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not as a way of promoting “peace,” or “the right of nations to self-determination,” but as means of furthering U.S. imperialist interests, in opposition to the rival Russian imperialists.
—Bob Avakian
Go to revcom.us to read “A BASIC PRINCIPLE ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE” by Bob Avakian.