The real risk is that the Ukrainian program has been emboldened by Washington and NATO’s negligent extravagance. Its offensive against the Russian individuals of southeast Ukraine is becoming more frenzied in recent days.
So, now that fantastic expectations and dire-laden forecasts of Russia getting into Ukraine failed to materialize, the next move is to present that fiasco as a diplomatic victory for the United States and its NATO allies.
Making complex the circumstance even more is Russia’s dramatic acknowledgment on Monday of the independent republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. If Russian troops now go to the aid of the freshly recognized republics then they will do so as “peacekeepers”, not “intruders”. Is the move checkmate?
After last week’s magnificent non-invasion event, this week the Western media caravan proceeds with reports that U.S. President Joe Biden has accepted hold talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin “for the sake of peace”.
The prospective talks have been facilitated by French President Emmanuel Macron who was busy over the weekend calling Moscow and Washington. Such tentative talks may now be postponed by Putin’s decree to acknowledge the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics.
The BBC reported: “The talks proposed by France will only occur if Russia does not invade its next-door neighbor, the White House said.”
Don’t you simply like the hilarious audacity here?
Russia has been saying unconditionally for months that it has no objective of assaulting Ukraine. The Kremlin has condemned Western accusations of an invasion plan as “hysterical warmongering”.
The crescendo of Western cautions of “imminent invasion” climaxed last week with predictions that Russian military forces would smash through the border of its neighbor. The British were forecasting Moscow would set up a puppet program in Kiev and American diplomats were claiming that Russia has actually drawn up an assassination list of Ukrainian opponents.
Now that this doomsday obviously didn’t show up, spotlight needs to appropriately turn to Washington, London and other NATO powers with needs for accountability over their stopped working predictions. Questions about scaremongering and warmongering by the Western news media should be asked. And if answers aren’t forthcoming then the matter is among criminal info terrorism.
The get-out from that humiliating predicament is to depict the alleged Russian intrusion as having been aborted by Moscow due to Western hazards of sanctions, in addition to due to United States and British troops having actually rapidly been deployed in Poland and the Baltics to “safeguard” Eastern Europe, and noble declarations of NATO support for Ukraine.
Therefore, we had British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussing the possible Biden-Putin talks as a “welcome sign” that diplomacy might prevail. Johnson had previously warned at the weekend that Russia was preparing to introduce the greatest war in Europe since 1945.
The next step for diplomacy is supposedly a meeting to be hung on Thursday between United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Nevertheless, White Home spokesperson Jen Psaki stated the conference between Blinken and Lavrov would only go on “if Russia does not get into Ukraine.”
Blinken himself continued to warn that Russia was on the “brink of an intrusion”. However he feigned the straining of diplomatic muscles for the sake of peace. “Till the tanks are in fact rolling, and the planes are flying, we will use every chance and every minute we need to see if diplomacy can still discourage President Putin from carrying this forward,” said Blinken.
The double-think is extraordinary. Russia has consistently stated there is not going to be an invasion. It is the US and its Western allies who are shown to be the ones whipping up tensions and conflict with baseless claims of Russian aggressiveness. Now that Washington and NATO have actually been exposed for their reckless disinformation and warmongering, they are claiming that a “Russian intrusion” was prevented by their worthy efforts. And now, they intone piously, we ought to pursue diplomatic settlements– on the condition, obviously, that Russia does not invade Ukraine.
What’s more, the farce is made all the more ridiculous by the reality that the diplomatic course now obviously being backed by the West is precisely what Moscow has actually been requiring all along. The requirement for a legally binding security treaty in Europe in between the US-led NATO bloc and Russia is long overdue, which’s why Moscow put out its accurate proposals on December 17. There should be recognition of Russia’s existential security red lines, including the limit to NATO’s eastward growth and installation of offensive American rockets.
That’s what the putative talks between Blinken and Lavrov, and in between Biden and Putin are leading towards. The inevitable subject of indivisible and mutual security is, it seems, to be lastly handled after much foot-dragging and procrastination by the United States and NATO.
The essential issue is this: Washington has actually refused to handle Moscow on an equitable, affordable basis. It has actually used Ukraine as a pawn to distract from and postpone the overarching problem of tactical security with Russia. A huge part of the American motive originates from the fact that it does not really want tactical security with Russia in Europe. Washington wants seasonal instability and stress in order to satisfy its militarized economy and its hegemonic ambitions over Europe, Russia and China. Ukraine has simply functioned as a forecast point for this American agenda of restoring the Cold War.
Now however, Russia’s decision to bring the security issue to the fore has actually forced Washington to focus. The direction is just returning to what Moscow has actually been proposing from the outset. Already, the course of diplomacy has been needlessly dumped, obstructed and circuitous because of Washington’s arrogant rejection to deal fairly with Russia.
The genuine threat is that the Ukrainian routine has actually been emboldened by Washington and NATO’s careless indulgence. However Russia’s recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics puts paid to Kiev’s aggressiveness as well as the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Washington’s obstinacy to make peace with Russia, and to end the Cold War at last, is obliging Moscow to take “military-technical measures” that are requiring the United States to the table in spite of its aggressive impulses.