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The Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has described the war in Ukraine as an "abattoir" with a geopolitical goal that does not concern Ukraine.

In a conversation with Canadian media personality Jordan Peterson, RFK Jr. explained that what the US was doing in Ukraine was a "massive assault" on its people "We have trapped Ukraine in a proxy war against [Russia] and they are being devoured by the geopolitical machinations of neocons in the White House who have this comic book depiction that a lot of Americans have swallowed about what is happening," RFK Jr. elaborated.

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RFK Jr. argued that while he understood many ordinary Americans' support for Ukraine on humanitarian grounds, in reality, "every step we have taken, every decision we have made appears to have been intended to prolong the war and to increase the bloodshed."

The presidential contender remembered Joe Biden's slip of the tongue that the US' true aim in Ukraine was regime change in Moscow, something neocons in Washington have been promoting for "decades" already.
 
"Zbigniew Brzezinski…their doyen and philosopher said that US strategy should be to suck Russia into a series of wars in little countries where we can then exhaust them. Lloyd Austin, who is President Biden’s defense secretary, in April 2022 said our purpose in being in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian army, to exhaust it, and degrade its capacity to fight anywhere in the world. Well, that is the opposite of a humanitarian mission. That is a war of attrition, and that's what it's turned out to be."

RFK Jr. added that the US turned Ukraine into an "abattoir" that has killed 350,000 Ukrainians and stated that the US lied about how many true casualties there have been.

"We have turned that poor little nation into a killing field for these idealistic young kids in order to advance a geopolitical agenda that has nothing to do with Ukraine," adding that it was a "money laundering scheme" for the US military-industrial complex. 
 
When questioned about how he would resolve the issue if he were to become President, RFK Jr. explained that he would work on it from "day one."

Calling what the West did "inexcusable" RFK Jr. explained that Russia made it clear what its demands were before the war began and that the US should have given in to its demands. He explained that the US and NATO continued to move eastward after agreeing with the dismantled Soviet Union in 1991 that they would not do so. 

The candidate remembered that his uncle, John F. Kennedy, "didn't live with that" during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when the USSR and the United States were on the verge of war over Soviet missiles in Cuba and US missiles in Turkey. 

RFK Jr. also touched on the origins of the Ukrainian crisis, remembering that Washington "overthrew the democratic government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014," and "spent $5 billion – CIA, through USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy, to violently overthrow that government – which was democratically elected. So we destroyed this democracy and put in our own government which we now know the neocons in the White House – Victoria Nuland selected two months before in a telephone [call]. We handpicked the new government before the coup. We put a new government in that immediately makes a civil war against the Russian population of Donbass, killing 14,000 of them, that bans the Russian language and then starts training with NATO."

RFK Jr. stated that other politicians share this sentiment, adding that in the 1990s, George Kennan, the architect of the post-WWII US containment policy, called NATO's decision to expand eastward an "unprecedented calamity" against a post-Cold War Russia seeking friendship with the West.

Last month, he said that the Biden administration, which has been prolonging the war, has been showing "absolute intransigence" to the many chances given to end the war. adding that he believes this comes as a result of the US "mission to maximize casualties, to prolong what is, essentially, a war of attrition."

The lawyer-turned-politician sees that the "real story" goes back to 2014, when "the US government and, in particular, the neocons in the White House and elsewhere participated in and supported the overthrow of the democratically-elected government of Ukraine."