Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
Sheikh Qassem: Our supporters make up more than half of Lebanon's population, and all of these people are united under the banner of protecting Lebanon, its Resistance, its people, and its integrity.
Sheikh Qassem: There will be no phased handing in of our arms. [The Israelis] must first enact the agreement before we start talking about a defensive strategy.
Sheikh Qassem: Be brave in the face of foreign pressures, and we will be by your side in this stance.
Sheikh Qassem: Stripping us of our arms is like stripping us of our very soul, and this will prompt us to show them our might.
Sheikh Qassem: We will not abandon our arms, for they gave us dignity; we will not abandon our arms, for they protect us against our enemy.
Sheikh Qassem: The US efforts we are seeing are aimed at sabotaging Lebanon and constitute a call for sedition.
Sheikh Qassem: If you truly want to establish sovereignty and work for Lebanon’s interests, then stop the aggression.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States, which is meddling in Lebanon, is not trustworthy but rather poses a danger to it.
Sheikh Qassem: The United States is preventing the weapons that protect the homeland.
Sheikh Qassem: The government’s latest decision [on the disarmament of the Resistance] is non-charter-based, and if the government continues down this path, it is not faithful to Lebanon’s sovereignty.

RFK Jr. says Pentagon hid Ukraine truth from Americans

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 8 Jun 2023 20:02
  • 5 Shares
5 Min Read

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

  • x
  • RFK Jr. says Pentagon hid Ukraine truth from Americans
    Robert F Kennedy JR. attends the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York on February 11, 2021. (AP)

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.

Read more: Robert Kennedy says CIA responsible for JFK's assassination

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."

Related News

Trump orders national guard expansion in Washington

Musk’s xAI sues Apple, OpenAI over antitrust collusion in AI market

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."

  • RFK Jr
  • Democratic Party
  • Ukraine
  • Russia
  • Pentagon
  • United States
  • Ukraine war

Most Read

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, executive director of the defense division of the Israeli National Cyber Directorate, undated (Social media)

Israeli-born US prosecutor drops Israeli officer child sex crime

  • Politics
  • 19 Aug 2025
Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift camp along the beach in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025 (AP)

Hamas, other factions accept Egypt-Qatar ceasefire proposal: Exclusive

  • Politics
  • 18 Aug 2025
Almost instantly after the Helsinki Accords were signed, organisations sprouted to document purported violations, whose findings were fed to overseas embassies for international amplification. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab el-Hajj)

How ‘Human Rights’ became a Western weapon

  • Opinion
  • 23 Aug 2025
Israeli soldiers stand on the top of armoured vehicles parked on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 (AP)

Palestinian fighters target Israeli soldiers, vehicles in Gaza

  • Politics
  • 21 Aug 2025

Coverage

All
The Ummah's Martyrs

Read Next

All
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime minister's office in al-Quds, Occupied Palestine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Netanyahu deliberately derailing truce with Gaza occupation: Hamas

Irish President Michael Higgins arrives to deliver his speech during a 42nd World Food Day celebration at FAO headquarters in Rome, on Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Politics

Irish president renews call for UN military intervention in Gaza

US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the US Embassy in Aukar, northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 21, 2025 (AP)
Politics

US envoy, Netanyahu discuss restraining attacks on Lebanon, withdrawal

Smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes in multiple areas in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025 (AP)
Politics

Ansar Allah vow sustained Gaza support despite Israeli strikes

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS