Will Washington's allies have to die for Kiev?

 

The existence in Ukraine of two cultures - one supposedly European and the other Russian - is a singularity that provides Washington with a field of maneuver against Moscow. The drums of war have been beating for weeks. But none of Washington's allies want to die for Kiev or blow themselves up against Russia.

The United States Armed Forces

1- Les Anglos see the Russians as a hereditary enemy. They are considered despicable people and destined, since the time of Otto I –in the 10th century–, to be slaves, as indicated by the term used to denominate them (in English, the word slave designates both slaves and peoples belonging to the Slavic ethnic group). In the 20th century, the Anglo-Saxons were against the USSR, supposedly because it was communist; now they are against Russia ... without knowing why.

2- Second adversary for the Anglo-Saxons: the enemies that they themselves created by unleashing an «endless war » against them , since September 11, 2001. They are the populations of the expanded Middle East (or Greater Middle East ), a region where the Anglo-Saxons have been destroying since then the states of their different countries, regardless of whether they are allies or adversaries, to make them " return to the stone age " and thus be able to exploit the wealth of that region, following the Rumsfeld / Cebrowski strategy [ 1 ].

3- Third adversary: ​​China, whose economic development can relegate them to second place. The Anglo-Saxons believe that they have no choice but to war. At least that is what his political scientists think, who even speak of the " Thucydides trap ", referring to the war that, for similar reasons, was fought between Sparta and Athens [ 2 ].

4- The disputes with Iran and North Korea come only much later in relation to the 3 that we have just listed. 

The  Interim Guidance on National Security  by Joe Biden [ 3 ] and the  Annual Threat Assessment  [ 4 ] prepared by his Intelligence Community thus constantly clinch it from different points of view. 

Fighting three wars at once would be extremely difficult, so the Pentagon is currently looking at how to prioritize priorities and will issue its report on the matter in June. The deepest secret surrounds the work of the commission in charge of this evaluation. Who composes it is not even known. Despite this, the administration is already targeting Russia. 

Regardless of whether we are independent or submissive to the United States, we have to stop looking the other way. The United States of America has no other goal than to destroy Russian culture, destroy state structures in Arab countries, and ultimately destroy the Chinese economy. Absolutely none of this is related to the legitimate defense of the American people. .

There is no other way to explain why the United States spends such astronomical sums on its armies that many times exceed the military budgets of those whom Washington presents as " friends " or " enemies." According to the  Institute for Strategic Studies  in London, the military budget of the United States is at least equal to the sum of the budgets of the 15 most armed countries in the world [ 5 ].

 

Comparison of the military budgets of the 15 countries with the most funds dedicated to this sector (in billions of US dollars).

Source: Institute for Strategic Studies

 The issues of confrontation with Russia

The United States is uneasy about Russia's recovery. After having registered a brutal fall in life expectancy –which fell by at least 5 years between 1988 and 1994– Russia recovered and greatly exceeded –in more than 12 years– the life expectancy registered in the times of the Union. Soviet, although the healthy life expectancy of Russians is still one of the lowest in Europe. The Russian economy is diversifying, mainly in the agricultural sector, but Russia remains dependent on its energy exports. The armed forces of the Russian Federation have been renewed, its military-industrial complex is more efficient than that of the Pentagon, and Russia has acquired significant military experience in Syria.

Washington sees the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline   as a threat because it would free Western Europe from its current dependence on American oil. 

At the same time, the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation and a possible reincorporation of the Donbass are in part a blow to Ukraine's dependence on the American Empire - Crimea and the Donbass are not Western in culture.

Last factor, the Russian military presence in Syria slows down the US project of political destruction against the peoples of the region. 

" If you want to kill your dog,

say you have anger "

There is no doubt that it was President Joe Biden who opened hostilities branding to the Russian president " murderer." Before Biden, the two superpowers had never exchanged insults, not even in the days of the Gulag indictments. His interlocutor responded politely and proposed a public debate, which Joe Biden rejected.

America sees the world only in the short term. That country does not perceive itself as responsible for its legacy. For Washington, the "perfidious" Russians have amassed more than 100,000 men near Ukraine and are preparing to invade it, as did the Soviets in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Only, at that time, it was not about Russia but about the USSR, and in Moscow it was not the Putin doctrine but the Brezhnev doctrine and Brezhnev himself was not Russian ... he was Ukrainian.

Unlike the Americans, the Russians do have a long-term worldview. For them, the American barbarians have been endangering the balance of powers since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Immediately afterwards, on December 13, 2001, President George Bush Jr. announced that the United States was withdrawing. of the Treaty on Anti-Ballistic Missiles (the ABM Treaty). Later, the United States incorporated into NATO - one by one - practically all the former members of the defunct Warsaw Pact and the former Soviet Union, thus violating the commitment that Washington had made before the dissolution of the USSR. This policy was confirmed in 2008, in the  Bucharest Declaration  [ 6 ]. .

Everyone knows the peculiarity of Ukraine, with a western culture in its western part and a Russian culture in the east. Ukraine remained politically frozen for 15 years, until Washington organized a pseudo revolution there and put its puppets in power - puppets who are neo-Nazis [ 7 ]. Moscow reacted quickly enough and the Crimean population proclaimed its independence and decided [by referendum] to reincorporate that territory into the Russian Federation. But Moscow was hesitant about what to do about the Donbass and has since limited itself to handing out Russian passports to the inhabitants of that region, who see their only hope in Russia.

Biden administration

Since he was a senator, President Joe Biden today unveiled the Senate introducing legislation intended by the Pentagon. Already as president, Biden has surrounded himself with neocons. We will never tire of remembering this: Neocons are Trotskyist militants recruited by Republican President Ronald Reagan, and since then they have always sided with power, barring the parenthesis of Jacksonian President Donald Trump. The fact is that the neocons have constantly switched sides, siding with the Republican Party as well as on the side of the Democratic Party, but always on the side of power.

During the " color revolution " in Maidan Square - in 2013-2014 - Joe Biden , who was then vice president of the Obama administration, passionately defended the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, agents  of the NATO stay-behind networks  [ 8 ]. Biden then led operations in Kiev with a State Department associate, Victoria Nuland (Victoria Nuland's husband, Robert Kagan, is one of the founders of the Project for a New American Century, the body in charge of raising funds for Republican George Bush Jr.). .

Now, in 2021, President Biden has decided to appoint Victoria Nuland as assistant secretary of state. During the Obama administration, Victoria Nuland had the collaboration of the then US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, now ambassador to Greece. As for the current Secretary of State of Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, it should be noted that he is judge and party since he is of Ukrainian origin on the mother's side. Although Blinken was educated in Paris by his mother's second husband - the lawyer Samuel Pisar, who was an adviser to President Kennedy - the current Secretary of State is of neo-conservative thinking.

The preparation of confrontation against Russia

In mid-March 2021, the United States organized the Defender-Europe 21 maneuvers with its NATO partners, which will continue until June. It is about resuming the Defender-Europe 20 mega - exercise, whose size and duration were finally limited due to the Covid-19 epidemic.  Defender-Europe 21 is a gigantic deployment of troops and war material in the realization of a simulated confrontation against Russia. All this takes place at the same time as an exercise with strategic bombers in Greece, in the presence of the aforementioned US ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt.

On March 25, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski published the new  Ukrainian Security Strategy  [ 9 ], precisely 3 weeks after President Biden published the US one. .

In response to NATO, Russia was then undertaking its own military exercises on its western border, including its border with Ukraine, and was also sending additional troops to Crimea and even Transnistria.

On April 1, the US Defense Secretary telephoned his Ukrainian counterpart about a possible increase in tension with Russia [ 10 ]. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski then made a statement in which he said he was monitoring the Russian exercises and claimed that these could be provocations [ 11 ]. .

On April 2, the United Kingdom organized a meeting of its Defense and Foreign Ministries with those of Ukraine, under the leadership of British Minister Ben Wallace [ 12 ], who was particularly active in the Upper Karabakh conflict. [ 13 ]).

On April 2, President Biden called the Ukrainian president to guarantee his support against Russia. According to the  Atlantic Council , Biden announced to the Ukrainian president his decision to hand over a hundred fighter jets ( F-15  and  F-16 ) and an E-2C radio - electronic surveillance plane  , currently stationed at Davis Air Base. -Monthan [ 14 ].

On April 4, the chairman of the US House of Representatives Commission for the Armed Forces - Adam Smith of the Democratic Party - negotiated with Ukrainian parliamentarians large subsidies for the Ukrainian army in exchange for the Ukrainian position against the gas pipeline.  Nord Stream 2  [ 15 ].

 

Ukrainian President Zelenski and the director of the armament factories Ukroboronprom discreetly made a lightning Qatar on April 5, 2021 trip.

 On April 5, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski paid a whirlwind visit to Qatar. Officially it was to develop commercial relations with Qatar, the main supplier of weapons to the jihadists. According to our information, on that trip there was talk of a possible financing of combatants. Among the companions of the Ukrainian president was Yuriy Gusev, the director general of the military industry Ukroboronprom. It was this character who sent anti-aircraft missiles to the terrorists of the Islamic Emirate (Daesh), by order of Qatar [ 16 ].

On April 6, Lithuania, which in the past protected western Ukraine within its own empire, was informed about the military situation during a contact between its Defense Minister and his Ukrainian counterpart [ 17 ].

 

Ukrainian President Zelenski meets with the chairman of the NATO Military Committee on April 7, 2021.

 On April 6 and 7, British General Stuart Peach, president of the NATO Military Committee, traveled to Ukraine to specify the reforms necessary for that country to become a member of the Atlantic alliance [ 18 ]. .

On April 9, in compliance with the Montreux Convention, the Pentagon informed Turkey of its intention to transit warships through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Straits.

  Having already discussed weapons and money with Emir Tamin in Qatar, Ukrainian President Zelenski traveled to Turkey on April 10, 2021, to talk with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about sending men.

On April 10, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Ukrainian President Zelenski in Istanbul, allegedly in the framework of regular consultations between Turkey and Ukraine [ 19 ]. Already counting on the green light from Qatar, Turkey - a NATO member country - immediately began recruiting jihadists of various nationalities present in Syria to send them to fight in the Donbass (eastern Ukraine). Turkish military instructors quickly arrived at the port of the city of Mariupol, where the International Islamist Brigade [ 20 ], created by Turkish President Erdogan and his Ukrainian counterpart at that time, Petro Porochenko, already has its headquarters , with Tatars who follow orders from the United States, to be used against Russia. .

Acting with all logic, the Russian Federation sent troops to its border with Ukraine. The other members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) asked Moscow for explanations about their maneuvers and received evasive responses. The 1999 Vienna Document stipulates that OSCE member states must provide each other with the necessary indications on the movements of their troops and war materiel. But it is known that Russians do not function like Westerners - they inform their public opinion and their partners or interlocutors only when they have finished their deployments. .

Two days later, the G7 published a statement on the Russian movements ... but without mentioning the deployments of NATO and Turkey. The G7 also praised Ukraine's containment and demanded that Russia " put an end to its provocations " [ 21 ].

On April 13, on the occasion of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the NATO member countries with the Ukraine / NATO Commission, the United States resorted to “heavy artillery” inviting all the members of the Atlantic alliance - where no one wants to die just because the Ukrainians can't get a divorce - to give their support to Kiev and to denounce the " escalation " of Russia [ 22 ]. Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, had a long meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dimitro Kuleba [ 23 ]. Washington was heading inexorably toward war.

Suddenly, President Joe Biden defused the atmosphere by telephoning Russian President Vladimir Putin. He proposed a summit meeting to him - although he had previously rejected Putin's proposal for a public debate with disdain, a proposal that Putin issued after the public insult uttered by Biden [ 24 ]. After that initiative, it seemed possible to avoid war.

However, on April 14, Secretary of State Blinken summoned the main allies of the United States - Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom - to mobilize them [ 25 ].

On April 15, President Joe Biden laid out his vision of the conflict, expelled 10 Russian diplomats and adopted sanctions against Russia, accusing it not only of having offered bonuses for killing American soldiers in Afghanistan but also of having attacked the computer systems of the US government using SolarWinds software [ 26 ]. .

Predictably, Russia expelled a similar number of American diplomats. But he also set a trap for a Ukrainian diplomat, whom he arrested in flagrant crime of espionage, in possession of Russian documents classified as military secret..

Always following the same line, Ukrainian President Zelenski met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The latter deplored the " Russian escalation " ... but were evasive as to what will happen in the near future. Ultimately, if the United States and Russia are going to talk… it is too early to go to die for Kiev.

Thierry Meyssan

 

 

 [ 1 ] " The US military project to the world ", by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , 22 August 2017.

[ 2 ]  Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? , Graham Allison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

[ 3 ]  Interim National Security Guidance , White House, March 3, 2021. " President Joe Biden's national security strategy ", by Thierry Meyssan,  Voltaire Network , April 6, 2021.

[ 4 ]  Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community , Director of National Intelligence, April 9, 2021.

[ 5 ]  The Military Balance 2021 , Institute for Strategic Studies, Routledge, 2021.

[ 6 ] " Déclaration du Sommet de l'Otan à Bucharest ",  NATO , April 3, 2008.

[ 7 ] « Who are the Nazis in the Ukrainian government? », By Thierry Meyssan,  Network Voltaire , 3 March 2014.

[ 8 ]  Les Armées Secrètes de l'OTAN , Danièle Ganser, Ed. Demi-Lune (2003). Available in Spanish, by episodes, on the  Voltaire Network  from " The secret armies of NATO (I) When Judge Felice Casson revealed the existence of Gladio ... ".

[ 9 ] Presidential Decree 121/2021.

[ 10 ] " Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call With Ukrainian Minister of Defense Andrii Taran, "  US Department of Defense , April 2, 2021.

[ 11 ] " Zelensky on Russian troops near border: Ukraine is ready for any provocations ",  Ukrinform , April 2, 2021.

[ 12 ] " UK defense secretary initiates talks with Taran due to escalation in eastern Ukraine ",  Ukrinform , April 2, 2021.

[ 13 ] " Victory for London and Ankara in Upper Karabakh, defeat for Soros and the Armenians ", by Thierry Meyssan,  Voltaire Network , 24 November 2020.

[ 14 ] " US Should Provide Lend-Lease Type of Aid Package for Ukraine to Help it Upgrade its Air Force - Atlantic Council ",  Defense Express , April 7, 2021.

[ 15 ] " Arakhamiya, Congressman Smith discuss expanding military support for Ukraine ", Ukrinform , March 5, 2021.

[ 16 ] " Qatar and Ukraine antiaircraft missiles just deliver Pechora-2D to the Islamic Emirate " by Andrei Fomin,  Oriental Review  (Russia), Voltaire Network , November 23, 2015.

[ 17 ] " Ukrainian, Latvian defense ministers discuss security situation on Ukraine's borders ",  Ukrinform , April 7, 2021.

[ 18 ] " Visite du président du Comité militaire de l'OTAN en Ukraine ", NATO, April 6, 2021.

[ 19 ] " Turkey recruit jihadists to send to Ukraine », Voltaire Network , 16 April 2021.

[ 20 ] " Ukraine and Turkey have created an international Islamic brigade against Russia ", by Thierry Meyssan, Syrian national television, (Voltaire Network, 15 August 2015.

[ 21 ] " Déclaration du G7 sur l'Ukraine ",  Réseau Voltaire , April 12, 2021.

[ 22 ] " The NATO-Ukraine Commission se penche sur l'état de la sécurité in Ukraine ",  Réseau Voltaire , April 13, 2021.

[ 23 ] " Rencontre d'Antony Blinken et Dmytro Kouleba ", United States (Department of State),  Réseau Voltaire , April 13, 2021.

[ 24 ] " Telephone conversation between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin ", United States (White House),  Réseau Voltaire , April 13, 2021.

[ 25 ] " Réunion des principaux alliés sur l'Ukraine », United States (Department of State), Réseau Voltaire , April 14, 2021.

[ 26 ] " Remarks on Russia ", by Joseph R. Biden Jr.,  Voltaire Network , April 15, 2021.