Posted on 05/12/2022 7:13:50 PM PDT by elpadre
WASHINGTON – The Russian war on Ukraine has seen ‘the Blob’ reassert itself with a vengeance in the 11 weeks since Russia announced the commencement of hostilities on February 24.
This article will examine the forces shaping President Joe Biden’s approach to the Ukraine crisis, and then move on to explore the state of foreign policy debate, or lack thereof, within Biden’s Democratic Party.
Former high-ranking military officials, intelligence analysts and diplomats who served at various points during the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations paint a picture in recent conversations with Asia Times of the likely policy options being presented to President Biden as he faces the gravest crisis on the European continent since the Second World War.
The past month has seen the Biden administration, by fits and starts and then seemingly all at once, adopt a militarized, hardline approach toward Russia, declaring Ukraine’s “victory” over Russia as the only acceptable outcome.
While Biden remains steadfast in assuring the public that there will be no “boots on the ground,” in point of fact, current and former officials have suggested that US paramilitaries are indeed on the ground, with military assistance being coordinated by the new appointee to the Biden National Security Council, retired US Army Lieutenant General Terry Wolff.
According to retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as secretary of state Colin Powell’s chief of staff, the administration is planning for a protracted conflict in Ukraine.
Wilkerson says “they are extremely desirous of a protracted conflict because they want to effect regime change in Moscow, destabilize Russia and then take on China. That is their long-term geopolitical strategy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
this article is a good read - here is the last paragraph:
“Freeman’s assessment is equally bleak.
“The US, our NATO allies, Ukraine, and Russia are now locked into long-term hostility. It is entirely possible that the conflict in Ukraine’s east and south, like that between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, will sustain warfare for decades to come. If so, there will be a constant danger of an outbreak of hostilities on Europe’s eastern frontiers and of escalation to direct conflict between Russia and the United States, including a possible nuclear exchange,” he said.
“Given the absence of any serious diplomatic dialogue between Washington and Moscow,” said Freeman, “it is far from obvious how such escalation can be prevented.” ....”
NUTS! If it were their strategy, it is stupid to broadcast it. I'm in no way a Putin fan, but Putin knows how truly weak Xi-O'Biden really is. And that he is totally bought by ChiCom Money.
Biden’s approach to the war is reflective of a kind of “hegemonic multilateralism” that presidents Obama and Clinton practiced, which is basically ‘the pursuit of global hegemony’ as set out by the infamous 1992 Defense Planning Guidance authored by Paul Wolfowitz and disguised with rhetorical nods to “humanitarianism” and the importance of multilateral international institutions such as the UN. (from th article)
Freeman’s assessment is equally bleak.
Freeman stated......“The US, our NATO allies, Ukraine, and Russia are now locked into long-term hostility. It is entirely possible that the conflict in Ukraine’s east and south, - like that between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, - will sustain warfare for decades to come. .....If so, there will be a constant danger of an outbreak of hostilities on Europe’s eastern frontiers and of escalation to direct conflict between Russia and the United States, including a possible nuclear exchange,” he said.
“Given the absence of any serious diplomatic dialogue between Washington and Moscow,” said Freeman, “it is far from obvious how such escalation can be prevented.”
Note: Any conflict in Ukraine will prevent it’s joining Nato.
I have sympathy for the Ukrainian people, but no use for their leader. He is bought and is a darling of the WEF and World Bank executives.
I cheered the Ukrainians when they broke with the USSR.
Now Ukrainian leadership is Soros/EU suck ups.
Ukraine people know their government has always been seriously corrupt and for the most part so are the people - bribery is a way of life there and that’s not going to change because it’s ‘fixed’ in the culture.
Ukraine is the nation they all ‘tap’ and ‘hit up’ for nasty business....and to launder money. Soros always sets up a “foundation’ before conflicts are even over. He knows well how to flow the revnue into pockets.
I’ve lost any sympathy for Ukraine people. The ones who will benefit most are the refugees who decide ‘to stay in the country they landed’.....rturning to Ukraine will be just as before. One conflict after another including with each other.
“..NUTS! If it were their strategy, it is stupid to broadcast it....”
Biden and his goon squad are not broadcasting it. The writer believes what he wrote and I think more and more it is a correct analysis. Biden wants this war and definitely wants to keep it going.
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Great article, and blows away the propaganda that this is about freedom for Ukraine. I wonder if the Ukrainians know that they are just being used as cannon fodder. It’s WW3 just as I have been saying all along.
““This lack of caution is aided by the fact that it is Ukrainians, not Americans, who are dying and by the success of pro-Ukrainian propaganda and the effective Western ban on contradictory information from non-Ukrainian sources.”
“bribery is a way of life there and that’s not going to change because it’s ‘fixed’ in the culture.”
Strange—as their “right-wing-elements” are charged of destroying “Roma” encampments.
Roma population has always been hated by Ukrainians.
Wag the Dog.
Just like Slick Willie.
Largely true.
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