by Paul
Craig Roberts
According
to news reports, Washington has decided to arm Ukraine for renewed
military assault on Russian ethnics in Donetsk and Luhansk.
A
Russian foreign ministry official condemned Washington’s reckless
decision to supply weapons to Kiev as a violation of agreements that
would make a political resolution of the conflict less likely. This
statement is perplexing. It implies that the Russian government has
not yet figured out that Washington has no interest in resolving the
conflict. Washington’s purpose is to use the hapless Ukrainians
against Russia. The worse the conflict becomes, the happier
Washington is.
The
Russian government made a bet that Europe would come to its senses
and the conflict would be peacefully resolved. The Russian government
has lost that bet and must immediately move to preempt a worsening
crisis by uniting the separatists provinces with Russia or by reading
the riot act to Europe.
It
would be a costly humiliation for the Russian government to abandon
the ethnic Russians to a military assault. If Russia stands aside
while Donetsk and Luhansk are destroyed, the next attack will be on
Crimea. By the time Russia is forced to fight Russia will face a
better armed, better prepared, and more formidable foe.
By
its inaction the Russian government is aiding and abetting
Washington’s onslaught against Russia. The Russian government could
tell Europe to call this off or go without natural gas. The Russian
government could declare a no-fly zone over the separatist provinces
and deliver an ultimatum to Kiev. The Russian government could accept
the requests from Donetsk and Luhansk for unification or
reunification with Russia. Any one of these actions would suffice to
resolve the conflict before it spins out of control and opens the
gates to World War III.
The
American people are clueless that Washington is on the brink of
starting a dangerous war. Even informed commentators become
sidetracked in refuting propaganda that Russia has invaded Ukraine
and is supplying weapons to the separatists. These commentators are
mistaken if they think establishing the facts will do any good.
Washington
intends to remove Russia as a constraint on Washington’s power.
Washington’s arrogance is forcing a stark choice on Russia:
vassalage or war.
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According
to these plans, the ultimate goal would be probably to dissolve
the vast Russian territory in future and bring in power
Western-friendly puppet regimes, in order not only to conquer the
valuable resources, but also to impose permanently the neoliberal
doctrine on "unexplored" regions and populations.
All these scenarios, however,
could also make neocons even more anxious to impose their lunatic
plans to provoke a general conflict with Russia as the only
alternative against the dramatic shift of the global geopolitical
balance, unless we see a fast creation of a corresponding
political power in the US inspired by the European Left.
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