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Max Blumenthal: “Tony Blinken gets the most financially from the Ukraine war”

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• Max Blumenthal: “Tony Blinken gets the most financially from the Ukraine war”
  
  Speaking to Russell Brand, The Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal pointed out that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken is "making a lot of money from this war" through his company WestExec. Blumenthal said Ukraine was intoxicated by "fantasies from Washington that they could somehow 'win'."
  
  US Secretary of State Tony Blinken stayed in Kiev for an “unusually long time” last week, said Blumenthal in an interview with British presenter Russell Brand. "He probably wants to discuss peace negotiations now after the colossal failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, in which the USA played a key role."
  
  According to Blumenthaal, Ukraine has “not achieved any significant gains in terrain.” "They wanted to cut off the land bridge between Russia and Crimea, which will no longer happen," said Blumenthal. "Rains will soon begin in the eastern plains of Donbass and tank movements will become impossible."
  
  “They failed disastrously, so why not negotiate?” Blumenthal asked. "First, why should Russia still be negotiating at this point when the West has stabbed them in the back... and has sabotaged negotiations at every opportunity, leading to this proxy war in the first place?" Already in April 2022, the US sabotaged the negotiations between Zelensky and the Kremlin and told Ukraine to keep fighting. Previously, they sabotaged the Minsk agreements. So why should Russia still trust the West?”
  
  “Why negotiate when Russia could actually gain ground now?” asked Blumenthal, “given the disastrous state of the Ukrainian army and the hundreds of thousands of casualties they have suffered? Apparently they don’t have much to offer anymore.”
  
  Blumenthal pointed out that US Secretary of State Tony Blinken "reaps significant benefit from continuing this war." Blinken founded a company called WestExec Advisors that "awards contracts for the defense industry and Big Tech through the Pentagon and the State Department "He and his former colleagues in the Obama administration founded this company to capitalize on their connections to the main beneficiaries of the Ukraine proxy war: Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Palantir - all the so-called Washington bandits, as we call them."
  
  WestExec's former partners include US intelligence chief Avril Haines, former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki and CIA deputy director David Cohen, The Intercept reported in 2021.
  
  "If Tony Blinken leaves the government, he could make a lot of money from this war as long as the war continues," said Blumenthal. "So it could be an endless war where Ukraine is at war with Russia for the foreseeable future and the whole Ukrainian society is militarized and monitored. The tech industry will love that too because it will be a total surveillance state, with drones and cameras everywhere.”
  
  “Why would they want to end this conflict?” asked Max Blumenthal, the son of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal. "You are the real winners of this war."
  
  The editor-in-chief of the left-wing website The Grayzone Blumenthal criticized "the hatred of Russia that prevails among the foreign policy elite of the Democratic Party, but also within the Republican Party: There is this belief that we 'cannot lose' this war, that we in “Defend democracy” in Ukraine.”
  
  “There are so many obstacles to peace negotiations,” said Blumenthal, “but unfortunately the war is not going well. Ukraine is making no progress in this war. They should have negotiated over a year ago, but they have allowed themselves to be intoxicated by these completely illusory fantasies from Washington that they can somehow 'win,' even though what a 'victory' even is is never defined."
  
  
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