Peace in Ukraine??...no time soon!
Revisionist history/propaganda is the way of Western warmongers. Eating crow is on the menu.
“Eating crow is a colloquial idiom,[1] used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position.”—Wikipedia
As a Canadian I agree with Donald Trump that America has to be made great again (MAGA) and that means building it back better (BBB). I must also declare a vested interest here as Canada is a satellite of the empire and… so goes America so goes Canada. We share a lot of the same afflictions. We share the worlds longest undefended border and a lot of goods and services cross it, along with a lot of other stuff. At this point in time MAGA and BBB are mere political sloganeering and it is going to take decades of determined reform to bring them into being.
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century a strengthening of democracy is urgently required if human progress is to continue, immense human suffering is to be avoided, and perhaps even if humanity is to survive, in the decades to come.”—Hughes, Ian. Disordered Minds
War and genocide and everything that goes with them appear as insurmountable impediments. Nothing good happens until we get back to peace, order and good government, and some solid doses of intellectual and moral honesty. This means the West has got to eat some crow, never a great delicacy.
I have just read a blog published by the Atlantic Council which is a first cousin to NATO and a constituent part of what I call: WAPWW( Western Alliance for Permanent War on the World) . The blog is entitled Ukraine’s six key conditions for peace talks with Putin’s Russia.
The six conditions listed dump all the rotten eggs in Russia's basket, Russia is to blame it is all their fault and they alone are the aggressor. So you might say the AC is guilty of brood parasitism, once again Russia is scapegoated for Western treachery.
The problem for the West and its obsessive propagandists is that there is a large block of historical evidence contradicting the Atlantic Council’s version of events, a necessary contradiction to expedite their endless wars for endless profits.
For the last seventy-five years the defunct USSR, and now the remaindered Russia have been the West’s favorite whipping boy, nemesis and scapegoat to justify everything from Cold War1 to NATO’s serial warfare. Where enemies don’t exist they must be manufactured to justify the appetites of a compulsive warfare state/empire.
The treachery of the empire is that it must always be seen as the defender of peace and democracy when in fact it stands for the very opposite. These are among the masks worn to sustain empires, even as they inevitably collapse into the dust bin of history.
The West insists on portraying Ukraine as a victim of Russian aggression, when in fact it is the victim of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand strategy concocted thirty years ago. Brzezinski tagged Ukraine as a strategic staging area for war on the Eurasian heartland, the West has been eyeing since the early 20th century.
Wars in the present are seeded decades earlier. Ukraine is another sacrificial pawn in WAPWW’s vainglorious efforts to rule world.
Ukraine is the victim of NATO pushing up to Russia’s border on a broken promise and using it as staging area for war on Russia. Many Western experts and diplomats predicted this “push” would result in war, arriving in 2022.
Ukraine is the victim of a Western coup d’etat in 2014 which overthrew the duly elected government of Viktor Yanukovych.
It is a victim of the Minsk Agreements of 2014, which were really a ploy to buy time to prepare Ukraine for war with Russia (as revealed by former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel).
It is a victim of the incumbent president, elected in 2019 on a platform of peace.
It is a victim of a government having sold off all the country’s assets to Western investors.
It is a victim of NATO pushing it into a war it couldn’t win, its inability to supply the resources necessary to win and an egregious miscalculation of Russia’s ability to wage war effectively and resist economic sanctions.
In the months prior to the war Russia was trying to negotiate long sought after security guarantees. NATO refused any negotiations as Biden arrogantly announced the US doesn’t recognize other country’s “spheres of Influence”or their “red lines.” Putin warned at the time Russia might have to consider military options as ethnic Russian civilians were being killed and persecuted in Ukraine’s eastern provinces.
The abominable West has an endless appetite for war, and is utterly scornful of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence and the consequences of its treachery. Diplomacy, after all, would negate it criminal addiction to endless wars.
Its the one “spoiler“ war they can’t afford to lose and they have. They do not wage war only to win but to create a state of fucked up chaos where nobody else can move forward (including themselves) and integrated global systems, economic and geopolitical, are in a perpetual state of crisis.
The Ukraine conflict has never been regional war. After spending 20 years in Afghanistan and pissing away 2.3 trillion dollars it was abandoned and Ukraine became the new focus of the empire’s ill-fated hegemonic intentions.
It was the war against Russia long sought after on the assumption it could be toppled easily through economic sanctions, regime change or militarily. In its flaky arrogance and condescension NATO failed to realize how well Russia was prepared for its treachery. Where the conflict has empowered Russia, Europe is an economic waste land facing further economic and political upheavals.
One of the most understated reasons for the conflict is that Russia and Europe were were developing a thriving and cozy trading relationship. Consequently, the US was losing control over its NATO vassals. Washington blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines was the death blow of European prosperity, an egregious war crime, and cannibalizing its own allies for the sake of empire. Until such time as European/ NATO states quit being slave states to Washington’s perverse hegemonic ambitions their fortunes are in decline.
The compulsive subversion of historic truths, diplomacy, and reckless war mongering over many decades have created a volcanic crisis for the West and the World.
The unipolar world has disgraced itself out of existence and the mulitipolar/mulitnodal world emerges. The latter must prevail as it speaks for the majority, more just and inclusive.
Ukraine was one war too many for the empire as war is revelation and the complacent arrogant empire could not cover up its treachery, especially when a loose-lipped US president gloats in public— “Loose lips sink ships”…and empires.
For the West there is only crow on the menu. The war in Ukraine is in a state of dangerous escalation. The West is trapped in its own lies with crazy Joe Biden and his bat boy Zelensky at the helm. There will be no peace in Ukraine until the arrogant and self-destructive West eats a man up course of crow.
Addendum
Only crow on the menu for the west, I agree, Robert.
I agree with you about NATO being the actual instigators of the war in Ukraine.
It's also one genocide too many that has opened the eyes of a lot of people. For me, any party that supports this genocide materially or diplomatically should not be voted for. If genocide isn't a red line what is.
What will it take to convince the power brokers of the west that playing fair and making peace is the only sensible way to go? They keep funding unjust wars and meddling in the affairs of other countries trying to get fascist governments into power in place of more progressive governments.
It makes me sick and it makes me ashamed.