THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR IN UKRAINE
You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Will End the War (or maybe it won't)
Who out there watched Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Vladimir Putin? I did.
The one thing that jumped out at me was Putin's repeated focus on one glaring aspect of the Ukraine conflict - Russia’s willingness to negotiate, and the West’s - the US’s - refusal to talk. No negotiations, please. Only war.
On the one hand, Putin says Russia has always been willingness to talk - to negotiate a solution and an end to the conflict - a hopeless conflict from Ukraine's point of view, funded massively by my money and yours - a conflict that does not express America's true strategic interests in the least degree (we have none there), has ground to hamburger a generation of Ukrainian young men and burned down a good portion of the country.
On the other hand, notwithstanding the clear impossibility, short of the uncertainties of a world war, of Ukraine prevailing, the West - the United States - has steadfastly refused to seek a negotiated end to the bloodshed. Indeed, their determination, at the expense of the flesh and blood of Ukrainians and the treasure of the United States, to prevent and torpedo any such negotiation or resolution is revealed by Boris Johnson's mission early in the war to prevent Zelenski from signing a peace deal that had been negotiated with Russia.
How many Ukrainian and Russian lives would have been saved, and how many billions of US taxpayers' dollars would not have been blown had that deal been signed?
These are some of the hard realities regarding the Ukraine conflict:
1. However much one may disapprove of Putin's heavy-handed tactics there, Russia has bonafide strategic, ethnic, cultural and historical interests in eastern Ukraine (the US has none).
Who will tell us such concerns are not fair and reasonable from a Russian perspective? What would the US do under similar circumstances? These Russian interests can be and have been understood and acknowledged by objective observers, and it has been a deadly mistake by many in the West to turn a blind eye to Russia's point of view - in the process, unnecessarily moving the world closer to a new world war. In the historical context of Russia's obvious real and limited motives and objectives in the Ukraine conflict - reaffirmed by Putin in his interview with Tucker - “We seek nothing but what is ours” - there is utterly no basis for the argument that the Russian Bear is insatiable, intends to conquer all of Ukraine, then, in a Hitlerian lust for power, press on to the west and wage war on Europe.
Total nonsense.
2. It is true that assurances earlier given Russia that NATO would not expand further eastward have been reneged on by the West, thus increasing the threat perceived by Russia. It is the West that has been disingenuous in this regard, not Russia.
3. Ukraine cannot prevail in this war. Those who maintain otherwise are disingenuous or smoking something. All that can be accomplished is the further slaughter of human beings on both sides - mostly Ukrainians - the endless, pointless incineration of vast economic resources and the vast enriching of the US arms industry.
4. Sanctions against Russia - particularly the use of the US Dollar as a weapon - have caused more damage to the United States than to Russia, threatening the crucial status of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency. Notwithstanding the sanctions, Russia is today better off economically than it was at the start of the war. As many countries begin to consider how to protect themselves against the US’s arbitrary use of the Dollar as a weapon - after Russai, what country will be next? - the US is worse off. As Putin pointed out in his Tucker interview, the weaponization of the dollar is perhaps the greatest strategic mistake America has made. If the US Dollar ceases to be the world's reserve currency, America will descend into an economic dark age.
5. While the neo-con warmongering fanatics are determined indefinitely to continue "as long as it takes" to blow money on and consume human lives in Ukraine, the US, ludicrously, has done and proposes to do no meaningful accounting for the billions of our dollars that have been lavished willy-nilly upon Ukraine - arguably the most corrupt country in Europe. This is the grossest mis/malmanagement of America's resources it is possible to imagine, rendered even more egregious by the fact that WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. While I would argue that the US should not give another US Dollar to Ukraine under any circumstances - not our war - time to let the Europeans pay for the conflict should they wish it to continue it - in any case no more US funding should be provided without the most draconian accounting measures being put in place. Anything less is pure stupidity - a mindset that has characterized the US government since 20 January 2021, when the illegitimate, election-stealing Biden regime took power.
6. We are not "fighting for democracy" in Ukraine. Ukraine is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship. It holds no elections, suppresses ethnic minorities - especially Russians - and bans religions it does not like.
7. If the West allows and encourages the conflict in Ukraine to be seen as anything other than the limited regional conflict it actually is - which they have heretofore been doing - they are greatly increasing the risk of a much wider, potentially nuclear war. Russia has declared that, if push comes to shove, they reserve the right to use nukes in the Ukraine war. The instant that happens - the thought is unthinkable - we are in a nuclear WWIII - a conflict that, simply in terms of the weaponry employed, will wreak more havoc on the world than all previous wars combined. If that broader conflict eventuates, it will be more the fault of the strategically stupid West, and much less attributable to Russia ambitions and perfidy. Giving us a heads-up, the Russians are effectively saying, "You can push us only so far, and no further". Eyes to see? Ears to hear? When someone says, “We have nukes and are prepared to use them”, we’d better pay attention.
Nothing at stake in Ukraine is worth the risk of such an unimaginably destructive worldwide nuclear conflagration.
7. As Donald Trump has repeatedly observed, the war in Ukraine could be ended in short order once the geostrategic realities of the conflict are honestly acknowledged and rational negotiations are begun. This, again, is something the West, unlike Russia, heretofore has inflexibly refused to do.
We can only hope that DJT steps back into the Oval on 20 January 2025 and puts an immediate, decisive end to this warmongering insanity - and that, before he is able to bring sanity back, the war in Ukraine doesn't explode into a worldwide nuclear inferno. Given the neo-con fanaticism bent on continuing the war "as long as it takes", it is clear no one but Trump is going to do it.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless…
Take your pick…
If you can be fooled, you will be…
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada