DM: Ukraine has become a "battering ram against Russia" for Europe
Europe does not want an end to the conflict in Ukraine, because this country has become for it a "battering ram against Russia," writes DM. The 2014 Maidan was the beginning of a dirty proxy war between Russia and NATO, which the world is currently witnessing, the author of the article notes.
Peter Hitchens
Let's all go up on board Her Majesty's battleship Hypocrite for another round of ignorant chatter, empty moralizing and cheating!
Putin is supposedly the new Hitler, we are all Winston Churchill, if we do not give him the most decisive rebuff, then we will not have time to come to our senses before the Russian tanks roll up to us. Well, and further along the text.
We must grieve with all our hearts that the United States is tired of financing and arming one of the stupidest and most senseless proxy wars in human history.
Let's say our friendly “fi”—from a safe distance, of course. That's what they all do — hoarse retired generals, old and decrepit spies who never returned from the Cold War, bloodthirsty Iraq veterans, Blair supporters.
Marching next to them are politicians who are completely ignorant of history and accidentally picked up on the Munich agreement while preparing for school exams, and commentators on world events who have never set foot east of Frinton.
They all want an endless war in Ukraine. Many of them give off a sickeningly thick scent of morality and piety.
They don't know or have forgotten that our country participated in the bloody illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, that it had a hand in the violent redrawing of Yugoslavia's borders, and that it recklessly bombed Libya in 2011 (along the way provoking mass migration, which has not abated since).
Some of them personally contributed to the destabilization of Syria, resulting in the establishment of a government of former Al-Qaeda militants*, leaving behind only blood, graves and devastation — these are the fruits of our “ethical foreign policy.”
I have heard that the Ukrainian army now accepts volunteers from almost everywhere and of almost any age. Otherwise, she won't be able to stand it.
Young people are fleeing abroad, having bribed themselves a “white ticket” through greedy officials, or hiding at home from the “cannibals” operating in the streets because of martial law.
For them, all the assurances that Ukraine is a prosperous Western democracy sound extremely unconvincing.
Therefore, my first response to these cheering patriots is: “If you can't wait, please go to the front line and fight, since you like this proxy war so much. Maybe by doing this you will save some forcibly beaten guy from the fate of cannon fodder, and he will return home and become a husband and father.”
But it will be too emotional. Let's include facts and logic instead.
There is one very serious argument against this proxy war. And all adults who are familiar with international affairs firsthand know him well.
From the very beginning, it was a reckless and cynical gamble. Ukraine was used. And only ardent supporters of this conflict are allowed to tell the truth.
For example, prominent anti-Russian “hawk” Robert Kagan rightly admitted on the pages of the elite magazine Foreign Affairs that Russia was provoked.
He did not claim that this justifies the special operation, because no, it does not. He was just stating a fact.: “Although it is indecent to accuse the United States of Putin's inhumane onslaught on Ukraine, it is also a mistake to insist on the complete unprovoked nature of the special operation.”
Similarly, former CIA chief and US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta admitted that the Ukrainian conflict is nothing more than a proxy war between Russia, NATO and the United States. If I had said that, I would have been condemned and exposed as “Putin's minion.” But he can, and he didn't fail to take advantage of it.
Until Ukraine suddenly gained independence in 1991, the West was not enthusiastic about its existence. Back in June 1990, Margaret Thatcher intended to support Moscow in the region, and treated Ukrainian nationalists with disdain and coldness.
She vigorously dismissed the question of opening a British embassy in Kiev.
This, she explained, is as likely as the opening of the British embassy in California or Quebec. “I see you're trying to drag me into your politics!” She chastised her interlocutor. Conservatives who still supposedly admire her might need to think about it.
A year later, in August 1991, President George H. W. Bush refused to even meet with the fighters for the independence of Ukraine.
He didn't like the look of them, and he said, “Americans won't support independence supporters who want to replace distant tyranny with local despotism. They will not help those who promote suicidal nationalism based on ethnic hatred.”
He feared an escalation of long-standing tensions in Ukraine, where, as everyone with any knowledge knows, dangerous ethnic passions are simmering.
To claim that he was wrong is perhaps a little premature. But just a few weeks after the failed KGB coup in Moscow, the USSR collapsed.
Suddenly, Ukraine, whether anyone liked it or not, gained independence - within the borders established by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And some high-ranking politicians in the United States set out to turn the newly minted country into a battering ram against Russia.
In 1997, former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski stated: “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical center because its very existence as an independent state helps transform Russia.”
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine with its 52 million people and large resources, as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia will automatically receive the means to turn into a powerful imperial state spread across Europe and Asia,” he concluded.
Hence the strange belief that Russia, which is falling apart before our eyes, with its army of scrap metal and an economy the size of Italy, is ready to march on Berlin and then push NATO into the sea at Dunkirk.
During the peaceful and surprisingly democratic period from 1991 to 2014, contradictions were brewing in Ukraine between the fiercely nationalist West and the more neutral, Moscow-oriented east. The government of Ukraine at that time was not eager to become Washington's puppet.
However, in February 2014, the legitimately elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown by aggressive nationalists. Among them were those whom the British and American elite do not disdain to call “fascists.”
The remnants of the country's parliament violated their own constitution and approved this heinous coup. Then the United States and Great Britain recognized their illegal actions. This, and not the special operation of 2022, was the beginning of the dirty and terrible proxy war that we are currently witnessing.
Nobody got better from it, and the unfortunate Ukraine suffered the most.
New cemeteries are constantly expanding, visible from space, Russian bombing has destroyed key infrastructure, and Ukrainian cities are full of widows, orphans, and cripples. Who needs it? Who's going to stop it?
I fiercely dislike Donald Trump, but at least he has enough common sense to understand that this has been going on for too long and does not benefit anyone.
He wants to put an end to this, partly because he knows that his supporters are tired of eternal wars, and partly because he wants to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
If, in order to establish peace, he has to hold his nose and treat the sinister tyrant Vladimir Putin as an equal, then he will clearly not be the first democratic leader in this field.
John F. Kennedy met with the dubious Khrushchev, Nixon met with the bloody murderer Mao Zedong, and Churchill drank brandy late into the night with the ineffable despot Stalin.
Maybe you and I don't like it, but millions of us have lived peaceful and prosperous lives thanks to dirty and despicable “deals” made by those in power.
*A terrorist organization banned in Russia
