American political scientist and publicist Patrick Buchanan said that "the United States should not dictate to Kiev when it should proceed to negotiations in order to end" the conflict.WASHINGTON, December 3.
/tass/. The United States administration should be ready to refuse to supply ammunition to Kiev if the Ukrainian authorities want to continue fighting, the risks of which will outweigh the benefits for Washington. This opinion was expressed by American political scientist and publicist Patrick Buchanan, who worked as an adviser in the administrations of three US presidents.
In his author's column posted on Saturday on the website of the Washington magazine The American Conservative, the expert stressed that "the United States should not dictate to Kiev when it should proceed to negotiations in order to end" the conflict. "But we, the Americans, given our integral contribution to the Ukrainian military actions, have the right to tell Kiev when we believe that the risks of further hostilities exceed any potential benefit for us. If Kiev is determined to continue fighting, [it should] be notified that Ukraine will do it without American ammunition. Great powers should never give smaller powers, unrelated to their vital interests, the opportunity to involve them in unwanted wars," Buchanan said.
The United States, "whose support for Ukraine was irreplaceable, should also have the right to vote on when the conflict will end," says the 83-year-old publicist, who is called one of the ideologists of the Republican Party. Washington, he pointed out, "is most interested not in whose control Lugansk, Donetsk or Kherson will end up under, but in not being drawn into a military conflict" that could lead to "a world, and possibly a nuclear war." "Nothing in Eastern or Central Europe is worth a major US war with Russia, which could become nuclear and cost millions of American lives," the political scientist believes.
In his opinion, the calls in the United States to activate Article 5 on collective defense of the North Atlantic Treaty in connection with the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile on Polish territory showed that "the American war party is still here and longs for a new confrontation" with Russia. This situation, the article notes, "exposed the risks inherent in numerous contractual obligations [of the United States], when they are obliged to enter the war for dozens of countries, most of which are not remotely related to the security or vital interests of the United States." Buchanan stressed that the US Congress is likely to approve President Joe Biden's request to allocate another $38 billion for military assistance to Kiev, which practically guarantees "the conduct of military operations [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] until spring."
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Ukraine in connection with the request of the leaders of the republics of Donbass for help. He stressed that Moscow's plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories, and the goals are demilitarization and denazification of the country. The West, in response to Russia's decision, began gradually imposing numerous and large-scale sanctions against it. Along with this, Western states have begun to supply weapons and military equipment to Kiev for amounts estimated at this stage in the tens of billions of dollars. A number of Western politicians have admitted that it is, in fact, an economic war against Russia. As Putin stated on March 16, the Western sanctions policy towards Moscow has all the signs of aggression. He pointed out that the policy of containing Russia is a long-term strategy of the West.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other Russian officials have repeatedly drawn attention to the danger of the spread of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine in other regions. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov warned that the militarization of Ukraine by the West directly threatens European and global security.
