We must protect Ukraine's border.
Posted on 01/29/2022 4:23:37 AM PST by Kaslin
As this column pointed out in 2014, “the struggle for Ukraine” is a chapter in a series of US orchestrated provocations, which began with the expansion of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) eastward to abut Russia’s borders—an expansion begun by President Clinton and pursued by Bush and Obama alike. It gathered momentum with the US-backed attempts to incorporate Georgia and Ukraine into the North Atlantic alliance, forgetting that the Ukrainian people, not unlike the “American People,” are not one people. The country is riven—divided into Western and Eastern regions, respectively. The West has been seduced by potential EU membership; the East is culturally and historically enmeshed in Russia. The disputed Ukrainian regions—mainly the Donbas, Crimea and the Black Sea city of Odessa—are Russian-majority separatists, and are almost entirely ethnic Russian.
With central and eastern Europe being swallowed up progressively by NATO, Russia finds itself between Scylla and Charybdis—allow a buildup on its border, or act, for it has legitimate security concerns. On its border, Russia will soon have to endure the provocation of the NATO club, carrying out military maneuvers. As the Eurasia Review has quipped, “America has a military presence in the Black Sea and in several former Soviet republics.” Imagine if the Russian military sailed the US Atlantic and Pacific coastlines, as well as the Gulf of Mexico? As we know so well, NATO, at the behest of its paymaster, the USA, would never-ever dream of effecting regime change anywhere in the world. It's not like the US has done that before!
Kiev is already controlled by Washington (through the IMF, the International Monetary Fund). We all remember (or should) how Obama State Department floozy Victoria Nuland was overheard and recorded plotting to “midwife a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government.”
You can see why the US State Department has purportedly requested recently that Russia not make its demands public. Making these public would show Russia’s security concerns to be immanently reasonable. And Foggy Bottom has no intention of allowing Russia to be anything but demonized.
Before his untimely death, the late Stephen Cohen, the foremost scholar of Russian studies, had warned of just such a conflagration with Ukraine as a catalyst. On the facts, US policy toward Ukraine and Russia has not promoted peace between the two, but sought to sever the former’s centuries-long ties to Russia and bring it into the US-led NATO sphere of influence. Cold War is when conflict outweighs cooperation. Détente is when conflict and friction are reduced. We’re in a new cold war, argued Cohen, more dangerous than the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Although Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, who understood and feared nuclear weapons, thought they had ended the frightful Cold War, by the early 1990s, Bill Clinton had ignited it. It all began, in Cohen’s estimation, with President Clinton expanding NATO and bombing a Russian ally, Serbia. Although Bush Sr. had cast Russia as a defeated power beholden to America; Clinton amplified this characterization. Russia to these leaders had become a “vassal state.” Bush II, for his part, had flooded Russia with waves of “Democracy promoting” agitators. In a word, it is the US that has meddled in Russia in an attempt to make it over in its image.
So, why is the new cold war so much more dangerous? As Cohen had explained in his voluminous work on the topic, we have been raised without nuclear war awareness. In swallowing up countries and pitting them up against Russia, NATO, moreover, has been has moved the epicenter of any putative conflict to Russian borders. Whereas proxy wars used to take pace in Africa (Angola, for instance); now these are ongoing closer to Russia—in Syria, Georgia and Ukraine, increasing the likelihood of conflict.
After the Cuban missile crisis, cooperation ensued, as the crisis awoke both sides to the dangers of a war to end all wars. Since then, however, nearly all cooperation with Russia has stopped. Talks have stalled, treaties have not been revived as they ought to have—although President Joe Biden’s administration must be commended for renewing the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the US and Russia, lapsed under Trump. And both sides are developing “useable nuclear weapons,” which is Orwellian speak for working to make nuclear war more user-friendly, as though that were morally acceptable or practically possible.
Scurrilous catalysts of a Cold War redux are the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Department and the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies, all proven to be malign, politicized forces in recent conflicts and wars, engaged in expedient myth-making. They cooked up the Russiagate libel, and actively crafted the “myth propagated by elements of the US intelligence community that Putin is attempting to subvert American democracy.” “The reverence with which some liberals greet pronouncements made by today’s intelligence chiefs is in sharp contrast to their past critiques of the malevolence and misinformation spread by” the intelligence community, notes Irish historian Geoffrey Roberts.
A read through the fevered briefs produced by America’s once-venerable intelligence agencies reveals that these are artsy concoctions scribbled by girls like Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, whose personal correspondence is a portmanteau of hysteria and hate: “F--k the cheating motherf---ing Russians. Bastards. I hate them.”
A not-so-silent Greek chorus are America’s media, ever tuned-out, turned-on and hot for war. Having shed all fidelity to fact and truth, media, the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post, inch Russia and America ever closer to conflict by constantly lying about and libeling Russia. Rumors for which no evidence can possibly be adduced are regularly recounted as facts in newsrooms that now function as rumor mills.
Finally: The reason this is a new Cuban missile crisis only more foreboding is that America has sundered what Cohen has referred to as the Parity Principle—the custom in diplomacy of considering both sides to a conflict. Leaders and thinkers who attempt to avert conflict with Russia are thoroughly demonized and destroyed, even accused of treason. Anyone who wants to reduce pressure with Moscow is run out of town. Witness the Helsinki summit, for which President Trump’s diplomacy saw him branded a traitor to his country. Naturally licit behavior—comity or diplomacy with Russia—is criminalized by a Federal Government that has enough laws on the books to indicts each one of us, if it so desired.
We must protect Ukraine's border.
The American people, most see what’s happening and who is controlling the wheel. We need to get serious because it is serious. They are entrenched and if you think one person is going to come in and save the day we are wrong, we the people in mass have to do the house cleaning sooner than later how is the question
Frankly, I don’t think Russia wants war, and Biden (or whoever is behind him) is pretty confident that Russia won’t go there and therefore that Biden can get away with taunting the Russians and thinking he looks tough by doing so.
I think it’s a dud. It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act.
Also, don’t forget that Russia’s big rival and probably biggest enemy is actually China, not the US. So I think Biden is also doing this to show China which side he’s on. The side of the country where he recently spent $1.3 billion to buy masks and test kits…and it’s not Russia.
Russians are great chess players. US politicians for the most part play checkers. It would be the US that miscalculates by making a foolish move and not having fully thought it out 4,6,8 plys deep, not the Russians.
What Ms. Mercer conveniently omits, is Russia’s recent actions.
They invaded Georgia and took territory.
They invaded Ukraine and took territory (Crimea).
They repeatedly invade eastern Ukraine.
If Russia was truly concerned about threats to/on it’s borders, invading other countries is sure a funny way to address it.
Russia has a responsibility to de-escalate too. Mercer lets them completely off the hook.
And, NO, I am NOT advocating war with the Russkies.
“With central and eastern Europe being swallowed up progressively by NATO, Russia finds itself between Scylla and Charybdis—allow a buildup on its border, or act, for it has legitimate security concerns. On its border, Russia will soon have to endure the provocation of the NATO club, carrying out military maneuvers.”
What a bunch of bullshet. Does anyone believe that Russia is seriously concerned that NATO is going to invade the motherland? The very idea is absurd. Like the US being concerned about a military invasion from Canada.
Russia and China recently held joint military exercises.
Why would one hold joint military exercises with one's "biggest enemy?"
If Trump was in office we would have had at least 5 stories from the NY Slimes and CNN by now how he had ordered ICBM strikes against Russia but his cabinet and PeNazi told military leaders to ignore them.
Moronic author, Putin builds an invasion force of over 100,000 soldiers on Ukraine's border and according to the author, its neocons and NATO that would be responsible for the war.
“...It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act...”
Good post! And what about the NATO countries? I don’t see they are preparing for war. I see no excitement. They are actually meeting with the Russians trying to find a peaceful settlement, without any US presence. Only Washington is pushing for conflict.
“I think it’s a dud. It seems that even the Ukrainians don’t want to go along with Biden’s little act.”
I agree, this is all chest bumping for an excuse to keep the MIC in business now that Afghanistan is over. And it helps Russia also. We can’t forget Russia has their own MIC who needs to stay in business and make a buck too. No need for the war machine if there is no demand for it.
That really describes about 80% of the fed gov.
Not just the MIC.
And the Russians aren't stupid (at least this iteration of Russians). If they get a significant portion of their military tied down in the West, they open up their Eastern frontier (resource rich Siberia) to invasion by the Chicoms, who would like nothing better.
In that scenario, you have a third world nation (Russia) with a population of 140,000,000 defending a country that spans 8 time zones, with minimal infrastructure to move men and materiel in the Eastern most third, against a nation of something like 1.3 billion people.
Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec
Biden chief of staff Ron Klain is planning to start leaking and pushing a narrative that President Zelensky is Kremlin comprimised, per WH staffer
8:12 AM · Jan 29, 2022
What claptrap.
1. The US is not sending to troops to do battle in Ukraine.
2. It’s Russia who is threatening to invade Ukraine.
3. ...justifying why Poland, Hungary and the Baltic nations insisted on joining NATO.
4. In summary, this article is claptrap.
The Russian propaganda is thick in this one. Not to say that our State Department isn’t filled with treasonous scum though. But, Russia is NOT our friend.
I agree, Despite what they say, they are all personally invested in the MIC. So like McCain, they are all on board for perpetual war to keep their pockets lined. They are one and the same as part of the MIC.
Russia provides the only means for us to get our people back and forth to the international space station (since we shut down our shuttle program because it was killing people); this is all theater for us little people. Biden isn’t committing troops to defend Ukraine; the media just goes along with his “playing president” by saying he’s sending troops to “eastern Europe”.
The whole charade with Red China is the same; our “leaders” pretend to threaten them as they expand their control in the Pacific but as long as our store shelves are crammed with cheap lead-painted ChiCom junk you may rest assured our elites and their elites are quite friendly. Those countries bordering Red China would be best served by arranging for their own defensive alliance without the US involved; they are opposing one of our closest “allies” (though no formal treaty exists), and will get no help from us. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, India - they’d be best suited making their own deals with each other (and don’t even tell the US government).
"Since then, a private American corporation has developed its own launch vehicle — SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule — which has drastically reduced NASA's dependency on Russia."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/business/us-russia-ukraine-iss-space-scn/index.html
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