By Caitlin JOHNSTONE
The war is not going wellfor Kyiv, and it would be unreasonableto expect that to alter. As a greatly exceptional military force overwhelms the US customer state, reality remains in the procedure of crashing down hard in the face of western liberals who bought into the war propagandathat the brave, attractive comicwas leading an upset triumph to kick Putin’s ass out of Ukraine.
Zelensky is now raving at NATO powersfor refusing to step in militarily versus Russia, apparently having actually previously been provided the impression that the US-centralized empire may risk its really existence protecting its dear buddies the Ukrainians from an invasion.
“Sadly, today there is a total impression that it is time to give a funeral repast for something else: security warranties and promises, decision of alliances, values that appear to be dead for somebody,” Zelensky said Friday.
“All the people who will die beginning with this day will also pass away due to the fact that of you,” Ukraine’s president included. “Due to the fact that of your weakness, due to the fact that of your disunity.”
It must be hard, the process of discovering that you were never ever in fact a valued partner in western civilization’s fight for freedom and democracy. That you were always simply one more sacrificial pawn on the royal chessboard.
New: Zelensky in late night address tonight slams NATO over dismissing no-fly zone. “This is the self-hypnosis of those who are weak, insecure within, despite the truth they have weapons many times more powerful than we have,” he stated.
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 4, 2022
In a brand-new short article titled “U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long revolt“, The Washington Post reports that US authorities prepare for Russia will reverse its early losses and effectively drive the Zelensky routine out of the country, after which “a long, bloody insurgency” is planned versus the intruders backed by billions of dollars in US financing.
The United States has a history of working to draw Moscow into gruelling, expensive military quagmires which monopolize its military firepower while seeping it of blood and treasure. Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of United States hegemonic manifesto The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, honestly bragged about having enticed Russia into its own Vietnamcombating the US-backed mujahideen in Afghanistan for a decade.
Simply two years ago then-US Special Agent for Syria engagement stated throughout a video eventhosted by the Hudson Institute that his task was to make Syria “a quagmire for the Russians”.
So this isn’t something new or out of the blue, and what it suggests is that all the self-righteous posturing by the western political/media class about the need to pour weapons into Ukraine is not actually about conserving Ukrainian lives (just working out a ceasefire can do that), however about taking this golden opportunity to injure Russia’s geostrategic interests as much as possible. Ukraine on its own is powerless to stop Russia from taking Kyiv no matter how many weapons are sent, however those weapons can be used to combat a “long, bloody insurgency” after that occurs which costs a lot more lives, keeps Moscow militarily preoccupied and hemorrhaging money, and eventually harms Putin’s appeal at home.
The United States federal government’s method of developing and moneying a revolt gave birth to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, and then did the exact same with ISIS in Syria.
Now Washington is going to duplicate this with savage neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
What might perhaps fail! https://t.co/XHUwgAmB57
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) March 5, 2022
This by itself would do a lot to advance United States interests, however on top of that you’ve got the even greater advantage of manufacturing global permission for extraordinary acts of economic warfareversus the entire country of Russia, along with killing Nord Stream 2and rallying tremendous assistance for NATO and the imperial military/intelligence maker. The western world is now a joined front versus the Sauron-like menace of Vladimir Putin in similar way it joined against the risk of global terrorism after 9/11, and we’re most likely only seeing the beginnings of the agendas this will be utilized to present.
We can expect these programs to be utilized in an effort to impoverish, undermine, agitate, and eventually collapse and balkanize Russia, as the CIAand Washington overload monstershave wished to do because the fall of the Soviet Union. This would leave China standing alone without its nuclear superpower guard bearand much more susceptible to imperial operations tailored towards warding off the emergence of a true multipolar world, an objective United States imperialists have actually had in composing for 3 decades.
That’s a great deal of potential advantage to the US empire just for losing Ukraine. Type of like sacrificing a pawn to get the queen in chess.
I believe a huge part of why I and others incorrectly undervalued the possibility of a major intrusion of Ukraine was that the cost-to-benefit math never made good sense; on paper Moscow stands so much more to lose by this action in the long term than it stood to get. There was likewise a little bit of a presumption that the empire would rather Russia not take Ukraine, choosing to gradually encroach with NATO salami slicing techniquesthan give up a helpful customer state on Russia’s border, and would change its actions appropriately.
However chess is everything about out-maneuvering your challenger to leave them nothing however bad alternatives to select from, and in the end leaving the king without any safe moves. The drivers of empire would have understood that, as the late Justin Raimondo discussed all the method back in 2014 for Antiwar, Putin might not pay for to lose Ukraine to the west without losing important assistance in Russia. Integrate that with increased attacks on Donbas separatistsand the west’s adamant refusal to make the most worthless concessions like guaranteeing they wouldn’t include a country to NATO who they had no objective of adding anyhow, and you can understand if not support Putin’s drastic strategy.
The US Is Not Trying Top-level Diplomacy to End the Battling in Ukraine
Pentagon leaders haven’t spoken to their Russian equivalents, and Biden has no strategies to talk with Putin
by Dave DeCamp!.?.!@DecampDave!.?.! #Ukraine #Russia #Biden #Putin https://t.co/IzZWgzCwXV pic.twitter.com/xr4ZV5j6fk– Antiwar.com(@Antiwarcom)March 5, 2022 If the US/NATO had the option of choosing in between(1)ending the war in Ukraine tomorrow by ensuring Russia Ukraine will never ever join NATO, or(2)having every Ukrainian die in a long war of resistance versus Russia, they will pick(2). The US/NATO don’t desire a diplomatic service– Josh|| 김은총(@JoshC0301)March 5, 2022 No meaningful diplomatic effort is being made by Washington to end
the violence. Ukrainian lives are being spent like pennies to assist in the program of United States planetary dominance by whipping up worldwide assistance for the strangulation of Russia while putting huge fortunes into the military-industrial complex instead of taking even
the tiniest step towards de-escalation, diplomacy and
detente. And it’s entirely possible that this was all prepared years in
and still completely unproven claim that Russian hackers intervened in the United States
election, or the unwarranted claim that St Petersburg trolls did the very same. Neither did the claim that Russia was paying Taliban-linked fighters to eliminate US soldiers in Afghanistan, which was ultimately walked back by the exact same intelligence cartel that made it. All these hysterical anti-Russia stories were pushed in everyone’s face day after day, every year, with absolutely nothing reallyjoining them apart from the fact that they increased general anxiety about Russia and that they were initiated by the US intelligence cartel. Even the empty Ukrainegate scandal which resulted in Trump’s not successful impeachment was initiated by a CIA officer who simply happened to be in the ideal place at the correct time. And while all those screeching narratives about a Putin puppet serving as America’s commander-in-chief were being aggressively hammered into public awareness, Trump’s real policies towards Moscow were extremely hawkish and aggressive. Below the stories about Kremlin servitude, a brand-new cold war was being dangerously escalated. And now, lubricated years in advance by these mass-scale anti-Russia stories, I have actually got western liberals in my social networks alerts with blue and yellow profile photos calling me a Russian propagandist and a Kremlin shill throughout the day, every day. Since of that mass-scale propaganda project, we were pacedto this point all the method from where we were at a few years ago when Obama was
mocking Mitt Romney for his then-outlandish Russia hawkishness. So we’re taking a look at increasingly aggressive conflicts between the US power alliance and the China-Russia bloc for the foreseeable future in a struggle which has actually already appeared in hot war and might quickly get considerably worse. All since a couple of manipulators in high locations persuaded the US
facility that international unipolar supremacy would be a good idea. A lot of these unipolarist empire designers were involved in the murderous and influential Task for a Brand-new American Century(PNAC ), whose founding members are nowproviding professional punditry on what ought to be done about the war in Ukraine. Michael Parenti saw this allcoming long back: The PNAC plan visualizes a tactical conflict with China, and a still higher irreversible military existence in every corner of the world. The goal is not just power for its own sake but power to manage the world’s natural deposits and markets, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every country worldwide, and power to hoist upon the backs of peoples everywhere– consisting of North America– the blessings of an untrammeled international” free market.”Completion goal is to ensure not simply the supremacy of international industrialism as such, but the supremacy of American global capitalism by avoiding the development of any other possibly contending superpower. There is a temptation to engage China to further separate Russia. This will not work. We remain in a new cold war. China and Russia are allies. They ‘re out to get us. The west requires to comprehend that we’re out to get them too.– Eli Lake( @EliLake)March 3, 2022 We ought to not have to live in this manner. We ought to not have to see the scaries of war caused upon humankind with the danger of total nuclear annihilation hanging over our heads every minute of every day, all for some dopey grand chessboard maneuverings of a few sociopaths who can’t simply let mankind be. There is no good reason why countries can not merely collaborate with each other for everyone’s advantage. There is no excellent reason we should accept these omnicidal video games of planetary conquest as unavoidable, typical, or fine. If our minds weren’t so pervasively locked down by mass-scale psychological manipulation, there is
no other way we would represent this madness. I don’t know if the United States will be successful in this grand strategic conflict to avoid the increase of a multipolar world.
From where I’m sitting it depends upon which side of the conflict has more tricks up their sleeve, which could quickly be the emerging China-centralized alliance of which Russia is a crucial player. But I do believe it’s far too early for anybody to state that the US-led world order is over and a true multipolar world has actually solidified. There are numerous proceed the chessboard still to be played. caityjohnstone.medium.com