Start Talking In Ukraine Before It Is Too Late
For the men and women of the Uni-Party Ukraine seems like the perfect conflict. We pour in money and arms. Defense contractors get filthy rich. The Russians and Ukrainians do all the dying. Putin has no choice but to quit or continue to bleed.
Unfortunately, for Biden and the NeoCons, the enemy gets a vote. Putin does not actually have to sit by and take the punishment he is receiving. He can escalate, and the closer he gets to the cliff we are trying to push him off the more likely he is to do so.
"In today’s conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?”
"I do not even know if such an ethnic group as the Russian people will be able to survive in the form in which it exists today."
Putin, Sunday, February 26, 2023
"Western elites aren’t trying to conceal their goals, to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ to Russia. They intend to transform the local conflict into a global confrontation."
Putin last week.
Putin is not alone in laying out the Russian position. This is an existential battle for them. They believe the West wishes to destroy Russia as a nation.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev currently serves as the deputy chairman of the powerful Security Council of Russia. He said last week that continued weapons shipments to Ukraine made negotiations impossible.
"Of course, the pumping in of weapons can continue and prevent any possibility of reviving negotiations," Medvedev said.
"Our enemies are doing just that, not wanting to understand that their goals obviously lead to a total fiasco. Everyone loses. A collapse. Apocalypse. When the former life will have to be forgotten for centuries until the rubble ceases to emit radiation."
Sounds like a pretty clear threat to use nuclear arms to me. Especially in light of the fact that Russia has always reserved the right to use nuclear weapons unilaterally in the face of "aggression" even if its opponents only employ conventional arms.
Medvedev also said that if Ukraine attempted to take Crimea it would result in the "flaming" of all of Ukraine with all the forces at Russia's disposal, including nuclear weapons
"All Ukraine that remains under the rule of Kyiv will burn," Medvedev said.
Let’s be clear. The most powerful men in Russia are threatening to use nuclear weapons if we continue our current policies in Ukraine. We are ignoring the threats and plowing ahead.
In fact, from the sidelines the ever-helpful John Bolton is advocating we do more than that. He is suggesting we stop being such wimps and get serious about this thing.
"We're intimidated by the threat of tactical nuclear weapons," Bolton told The Sunday Times radio in an interview last Saturday. "I think for one year, Putin has bluffed. It's been entirely an effort to psyche out the United States and the West, and it's succeeded.
"Now, if there's a better way to deter Putin, I'm happy to hear about it. But what I'm looking for is the most convincing argument to convince the Russians that they can just leave their tactical nuclear weapons in their arsenals where they are now."
"We have not provided adequate weaponry to the Ukranians," Bolton said. "We don't have a strategy to win.
"It really endangers support for the war, at least in the United States, when we're afraid to say conclusively that our objectives are the removal of all Russian troops and the restoration of full Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty — meaning and including Crimea."
Bolton added Putin is "all-in now" and "this is not a European war anymore; this is a global war," pointing to China's growing support for Russia.
A global war? Stop and think about the breathtaking madness of this rush to the apocalypse. We have gone from providing support to Ukraine to repel an unwarranted attack by Russia to cavalierly talking in terms of starting World War III and waging nuclear war. Ever since the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear devices we have worked overtime to manage the threat of a nuclear exchange and recognized that no one can win a nuclear war.
And, now we talk about this possibility as if it is of no great significance. In fact, the reality is, even as we dance up to the edge of the cliff, we generally don’t talk about what is happening at all.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unjustified. Putin thought he could win in days. He was wrong. His blitzkrieg became a horrible war of attrition. His army is bleeding to death. Russia is exposed in the eyes of the world as a paper tiger. The Red Army that broke the Reich no longer exists.
This tiger still has nuclear weapons, however, and increasingly their use seems like Putin’s only hope. He is cornered and men do desperate things in such circumstances. Pushing him harder and further without providing a way out will only guarantee he lashes out with what means he has left at his disposal.
Bring the parties to the table in Ukraine now. End this conflict. Stop pushing. Start talking. Before it is too late.
It comes down to Zelinsky is willing to humiliate and kill his own people for his political ambition and now he wants to do the same to Americans.
There is no difference where Biden is concerned. Let's add here Metabiota, tied to the Chinese, needs to stay a Biden secret.
Biden is currently sacrificing his son for profit..why not yours? Something to think about.
Yes, Putin is ex-KGB and a bad guy. Yes, Russia crossed into Ukraine.
The West provoked them. And the Ukrainian people are paying the price.
We broke every promise made to Gorbachov after the fall of the USSR. NATO is on Russia's border. Would we tolerate Russian military bases in Mexico or Canada? Would we tolerate Russian warships in the Gulf of Mexico? No. We wouldn't.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
We conducted a color revolution in 2014 and ousted a duly elected president. We really have no room to speak about election integrity since 2020, do we? And, yes, the Ukrainian government was corrupt at the time. The Ukrainian government is still corrupt, and it sure as hell is not a "democracy". Of course, we really aren't now either, are we?
We've admitted that we had no intention of honoring the Minsk agreement.
We've ignored the fact that the people of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to join Russia.
We've ignored the military abuse of the people of the Donbas region by the western aligned Ukrainian government since 2014. Thousands have died. We've ignored their cries for help and protection from Russia. We've ignored the Ukrainian governments promise to drive ethnic Russians out of the region.
We ignore the history of the region.
We're arming actual Nazis.
We're being fed propaganda and lies about the "war in Ukraine" by the media 24-7. The Ukrainians have taken heavy losses. They're conscripting older men and teenage boys by force. They are losing badly.
We are told that Russia is an existential threat to Europe and the world. We're also told the Russians are just about to be routed by the brave Ukrainian soldiers if only we give Ukraine more bombs and drones and missiles and fighter jets, etc. Both claims cannot be true.
The American empire (which does not represent the American people) wants to bring Russia to heel, to break it up and sell it for parts. They cannot control Putin, so he has to go. But, as you say, he has a say in the matter. He says no.
Remember two years ago when the media and the demonrats were sure that Trump was going to start WW3? Now, the old crank who claims to be potus is driving us off the cliff with the aid of the warmongers on both sides of the aisle.
And we seem powerless to stop them.
We are not the good guys. We're the aggressors. Except we aren't really we, are we? Our so-called duly elected government is acting on behalf of some entity...not the American people.