We Want YOU to Keep The War Going
by Connor
Freeman | Apr 19, 2022
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/we-want-you-to-keep-the-war-going/
The American people are allowing their blood-soaked
rulers in Washington to callously prolong the war in
Ukraine. The complicit media has
propagandized and lied to the
American people into insisting Washington double
down on all their worst aggressions. And so
continues the hawks’ reckless gamble on
World War 3 to spite President Vladimir Putin and – once and for all – destroy
Russia.
President Joe Biden’s administration and other hawks do
not want the war in Ukraine to end. They are not alone, some NATO member states
prefer to see the war drag on indefinitely as well. As Libertarian Institute
news editors Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter wrote last
week,
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds on and
the two sides continue negotiations, the Washington Post reports that
some NATO states prefer Ukrainians continue “fighting and dying” over “a peace
that comes too early,” rejecting any outcome that could be sold as a “victory”
for Moscow.
Though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has
repeatedly acknowledged that his country will not join the NATO alliance in
recent weeks, some members are loath for Kiev to accept that key Russian
demand, according to officials and diplomats cited by the Post.
“Even a Ukrainian vow not to join NATO could be a
concern to some neighbors,” the outlet reported. “That leads to an awkward
reality: For some in NATO, it’s better for the Ukrainians to keep fighting, and
dying, than to achieve a peace that comes too early or at too high a cost to
Kyiv and the rest of Europe.”
The truth is
“some in NATO” are not concerned with “a peace” that comes “at too high a cost”
to Kiev or Ukraine, rather they fear a “peace” that comes at too low a
cost for Moscow and Russia.
Shortly
after the aforementioned Washington Post article was
published, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas warned against “peace
at any price.” This view is shared by the European Union and the United
States. As Dave DeCamp, news editor at Antiwar.com, reports,
Echoing
this sentiment, Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said
how the war ends matters.
“We want
it to end as soon as possible, but not in any way,” Borrel said. “Because if
we’re going to have a destroyed country that has been dismembered territorially
and neutralized, with millions of people in exile, and millions of people dead,
then no, we don’t want this war to end like this.” He said this is why Europe
must “continue arming Ukraine … More weapons, that is what the Ukrainians
expect of us.”
The Biden
administration has shown no interest in pushing for a diplomatic solution to
end the war. The last time Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was
on February 15, and President Biden hasn’t attempted to hold talks with
Putin. Instead, Biden
has declared that Putin “cannot remain in power,” and the US has been
pouring weapons into Ukraine.
But it is
not simply that the U.S., EU, and NATO want to maintain the status quo. In
fact, they are seeking to involve
themselves in the war far more deeply and dangerously. The U.S. has
provided Kiev with more than $2.5 billion in military aid since the war
began, adding new packages almost every week. Shipments have largely consisted
of Javelin anti-tank missiles, a variety of armed drones, and Stinger
missiles.
Biden
recently gaffed and revealed that
U.S. troops are training Ukrainian forces in Poland. At a subsequent meeting of
NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Liz Truss, the U.K’s top diplomat, made
clear the alliance members have decided
to begin training the Ukrainians to use NATO arms. The goal is to
ensure Ukraine is no longer restricted to primarily using old Soviet-era
weapons.
Though the
Russians have warned that weapons shipments are legitimate targets, it was also
agreed that the allies should send Ukraine “new
and heavier” armaments. Lithuania’s Defense Chief has unveiled
a plan to train Kiev’s military to use said new weapons. At this point, it
is unclear if, under Vilnius’
plan, U.S. troops will be participating. In Mississippi, a program to train
Ukrainian forces in Naval and drone warfare has only just concluded.
Slovakia is
in discussions with NATO about sending its MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine,
Bratislava desires to replace the fighter jets with American F-16s it has
ordered. In another escalation, the Czech Republic has given Ukraine some
Soviet tanks. As the Wall Street Journal reported,
So far,
the Czech Republic has sent slightly more than a dozen modernized,
Soviet-designed T-72M tanks, said Czech Deputy Defense Minister Tomáš Kopečný
and another defense ministry official. The Central European country has also
sent howitzer artillery pieces and BMP-1 amphibious tracked infantry fighting
vehicles to Ukraine, officials said.
The report
says Bratislava and Prague are in talks regarding the use of their military-industrial facilities to repair myriad Ukrainian tanks, vehicles, and other
arms, as well as those captured from the Russians during the war.
Also in the
works is a massive
NATO build-up in Eastern Europe on Russia’s borders to repel a
supposed invasion. Absurdly, the idea is to mount forces sufficient to win a
war with Russia. This provocation will only be more neurologic for Moscow,
making nuclear war increasingly likely.
There are
currently 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe, the most since 2005, that number is
expected to grow substantially higher. New battlegroups are
being formed near Russia and top U.S. military officials have encouraged NATO
members to build more permanent bases where American forces will be regularly
rotated.
Biden
recently announced his $813 billion military budget for 2023, this will be the
highest “defense” bill the country has ever seen.
The war and
increased defense spending among European allies have been a dream
come true for the military-industrial complex. Indeed, the Pentagon has just hosted the
leaders of the top eight arms manufacturers for a meeting regarding their
ability to continue supplying weapons if this war “lasts years.”
Again, the
interests of the American people, the Ukrainians, the Russians, the world
economy, and the future of humanity is being subordinated to the worst
priorities of the American Deep State.
Lloyd
Austin, Pentagon chief, and former
Raytheon board member told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the
U.S. is providing intelligence
to Ukraine’s military for operations against the Russians in the eastern Donbas
region. This is where the breakaway republics are located. America’s coup
government in Kiev launched a war against these restive ethnic Russian
populations. This was after they refused to be ruled by Washington’s puppets in
the Nazi-infested, anti-Russian regime.
Kiev’s war,
which began eight years ago, led to more
than 14,000 people killed. By far, most civilian casualties were
inside territory held by the Russian-backed separatists. In February, when
Putin announced his
“special
military operation” he said it was necessary to repel aggression against
the people of the Donbas, whose independence he had just officially recognized.
America’s
Senate has passed bills that make war with Russia that much more inevitable,
including banning Russian energy imports, suspending normal trade relations with Russia as well as
Belarus, and reviving the Lend-Lease program
to arm Ukraine for the conflict’s duration.
In all three
cases, there were no dissenters. As journalist Michael Tracey tweeted,
Seems
like it hasn’t gotten enough attention that the US Senate just revived the
“lend-lease” program — after 75 years — for Ukraine. Every senator supported
it, from Bernie Sanders to Rand Paul. As you may be aware, this program was the
precursor to US entry into World War II.
Beyond that,
the legislation appears to
be designed to preclude a negotiated settlement between Kiev and Moscow. The
bill’s summary says that this program will go on until “the conflict beginning
with Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 has ceased,
and Russia has reduced its military force on Ukraine’s eastern border to the
levels maintained prior to March 1, 2021.”
For hundreds
of years, Russia has maintained its Black Sea fleet at Sevastopol in Crimea.
Moscow has controlled the peninsula militarily since the 2014 coup when the
port was threatened. Russia is never giving up Crimea, Hitler’s forces discovered
this during the second World War. Additionally, before launching his invasion,
Putin ordered peacekeepers to the Donbas to protect the ethnic Russians. Moscow
will not abandon that region that has been attacked
by Ukraine’s Neo Nazis and which, prior to Putin’s invasion, was
populated with hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens.
Putin’s main
demands are Ukrainian neutrality, as well as Kiev’s recognition of both the
Donbas Republics’ independence and Russia’s control of Crimea. These are
reasonable requests. Even Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has now admitted he
was told by NATO, in no uncertain terms, that alliance membership will never
happen. The preverbal door was left only ostensibly open to spite, or more
likely provoke, Putin and Moscow.
Washington
should be leading the diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis they have
created by mercilessly exploiting the Ukrainians as cannon fodder and
with decades of
aggressive, anti-Russian policies.
Most regrettably, instead of making peace its mission, the U.S. seems intent on
having its protracted proxy war.
But the
Russians cannot lose this current war any more than the United States could
lose a war with Mexico. The only way for Kiev to “beat
back the Russians,” is for the U.S. and NATO to commit to a forever war. To
arm, train, fund, aid, support, and sustain a long-term, bloody insurgency that
goes on for years
and years.
Hillary
Clinton giddily likened
this strategy to the CIA’s decade-long, 1980s dirty war backing the
Afghan Mujahideen, and foreign Jihadist fighters like Osama Bin Laden, against
the Soviet Union’s occupation.
There is
a strong
case to be made that Washington goaded Putin
into launching this current war. Likewise, the Soviets’ invasion at the end
of 1979 was arguably
provoked by President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and
the boys at Langley. At least they like to think so. Operation Cyclone, as it
was called, killed some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and at least one million
Afghans.
For the hawks,
the former number, the Soviet Union’s subsequent fall, and the profound pain
inflicted on Moscow, giving the USSR “its
Vietnam war,” are all that matters.
As for the
million dead, the following 30 years of conflict in Afghanistan, 20 years of
America’s brutal, multi-trillion-dollar, post 9/11 wars and occupations which –
directly or indirectly – killed millions,
including hundreds
of thousands of Afghans… we think the price is worth it.
Clinton
barely acknowledges some “other
unintended consequences.”
But after
murdering millions in
the Vietnam War and crashing the U.S. economy, this was Uncle Sam’s proud
victory.
In light of
America’s broken economy, the previously mentioned and more recent failures and
disasters, Uncle Sam desires another such victory. However, replicating the
Cyclone strategy on NATO and Russia’s borders as the hawks declared is
the plan, well before Putin’s invasion, is a recipe for World War 3.
