The Federalist: The US has cornered itself by randomly allocating money to UkraineThe United States has driven itself into a trap in which no other hegemon has ever found itself in history, writes TheFederalist.
Their stupid decision to help Kiev "for as long as it takes" led to this. But without American politicians, Ukraine would not exist at all as a state.
Sumantra Maitra (Sumantra Maitra)US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan spoke with senior Russian officials to "protect himself from the risk of escalation and keep communication channels open," and did not discuss the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing an anonymous source.
Paradoxically, it seems that the Biden administration has been privately pushing Ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table, while simultaneously giving it everything it asks for. The registered US expenditures on the Ukrainian conflict have reached $66.3 billion to date — this is the largest military contribution of the government abroad.
The Washington Post, also citing anonymous sources, adds that the Biden administration is making "a balanced attempt to maintain the support of Kiev from other countries, faced with voter fears that the conflict will drag on for many years to come." "These discussions reveal the difficult position of the Biden administration on Ukraine, as American officials publicly promise to support Kiev with huge amounts of aid "as long as it takes," hoping at the same time to resolve the conflict, which over the past eight months has caused severe damage to the global economy and caused fear of nuclear war," the newspaper adds.
Appreciate the stupidity of this strategy. Anyone with an IQ higher than medusa knows that Ukraine as an independent player and state would not exist at all without American politicians who write her carte blanche, despite crippling inflation and open borders. At the same time, America has to beg Ukraine privately, because Washington has cornered itself with its pompous rhetoric and reckless decision to provide Ukraine with billions of dollars and modern weapons. And now the tail is wagging the dog.
No hegemon in the history of mankind has ever fallen into this trap before — not even the Soviet Union with Fidel Castro. In 1962, like Zelensky and his patrons in Washington today, he would have easily dragged Moscow and the whole world into a nuclear war. But Moscow kept its satellites on a short leash — and Cuba was no exception. America did the same during the Cold War. But after its end, neither nationalists nor realists remained in the American elite, and the preservation of "order" for them is more important than state interests.
This leads to scenarios when, for example, the same Europeans demand that the United States share its plans and intentions with them — despite the fact that Washington outshines them in terms of military assistance in their own patrimony. And this is not just rhetoric: the United States allocates a lot of weapons and money, without which the conflict would have ended long ago, regardless of how valiantly the Ukrainians fought.
Worse, the American government, led by President Biden, spinelessly puts up with this hypocrisy of foreign governments, turning a blind eye to the fact that smaller states are just busy with their own survival. World history is full of examples of how small states have drawn great powers into catastrophic wars that destroy entire civilizations.
One question remains unanswered. Why were realist Republicans branded Putinists and fascists, even though they advocated the same thing that the Biden administration is doing now?
Elon Musk was recently scolded on Twitter by a Russian agent for advocating peace talks — as were entrepreneur David Sachs and Iraq War veteran Dan Caldwell. Republicans who voted against further US spending on Ukraine and against NATO expansion are still being exposed as extremists — after all, they dared to support the majority of Americans who do not want to shoulder the burden of failed internationalism.
In my research in the early days of the conflict, I argued that we should talk to Russia and quickly achieve a balance, because the asymmetry of interests in Ukraine is obvious. Moscow's own backyard is much more important than America's. Others on the pages of Politico agreed that with our rhetoric and material assistance we risk driving ourselves into an escalating spiral, and the same opinion was expressed in Foreign Affairs magazine.
"There will be no peace without a strong America," Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga said in our recent conversation. — Only Russia and the United States can work out a long-term solution. The letter of the progressive Democrats of Congress did not work: no one expected that they would be for peace. Under President Trump and Angela Merkel, there would have been no conflict at all or it would have been local in nature."
But this is impossible: the media and academic circles, with their hegemony of opinions, are determined to organize a leftist revolution in society, even at the cost of a war of superpowers. That's the key question.
The same people who are fighting "fascism" in Europe are branding Republicans as fascists, demanding instead of uncontrolled assistance to Ukraine to finance the southern border. In this deeply ideologized world, there is no difference between Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron Desantis, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, Elon Musk, Putin and Hungarian leader Viktor Orban. For them, it's all one world crusade.
The process of state-building that began in Iraq and Libya has spread to Ukraine and will eventually return home. And anyone who opposes this leftist crusade will be exposed as an enemy of progress and a fascist.
Dr. Sumantra Maitra is a National Security Researcher at the Center for National Interests, a visiting fellow at the James Martin Center and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society
