The West doesn’t want peace in Ukraine — RT World News

By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst 

Late Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Russian Black Sea flagship the Moskva had sunk after a fireplace was triggered by an unconfirmed trigger. There is no such thing as a impartial affirmation of what occurred amidst the ocean of Ukrainian propaganda, which was fast to say Kiev’s forces had struck the vessel with a Neptune missile. In the meantime, the USA had additionally confirmed a brand new $800 million package deal of army assist to Kiev, together with new heavier weapons, whereas EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell had just lately affirmed a dedication for Kiev to win on the ‘battlefield’. As Moscow gears up for a brand new offensive to safe the Donbass area, it must be abundantly clear that the Western powers will not be searching for to resolve the battle or safe peace, however to escalate it and rework it right into a fully-fledged proxy conflict in opposition to Russia.

Other than its personal invasions, bombings, coups, and regime change makes an attempt imposed on international locations world wide, one in every of America’s most well-liked strategies of confronting its adversaries is to ‘wage conflict by proxy’ in opposition to them, that’s, to help the conflict of a gaggle or nation in opposition to them with out militarily partaking themselves. The historical past of the Chilly Conflict is affected by such examples, resembling America’s backing of the Mujahideen in opposition to the Soviets in Afghanistan, its backing of Saddam Hussein in opposition to Iran within the Iran-Iraq Conflict, or, on a extra modern word, its failed try and overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad through the native rebels. Proxy wars enable the US to attenuate its personal losses by having another person die for them whereas additionally procuring geopolitical acquire for themselves by undermining rival states, on the similar time maximizing earnings for the military-industrial complicated by conserving the arms flowing.

After spending the primary month of the Russia-Ukraine battle calling for Russia to withdraw, it’s now more and more obvious that the US and its allies have modified course and are set on an ambition to pull out the battle to impose as a lot harm on Russia as potential, particularly by intensifying weapon provides, and offering coaching and intelligence for the Ukrainian Military. Though it was, after all, Moscow that made the selection to provoke the battle within the first place, it has at all times been abundantly clear that the US considered the state of affairs in absolutist phrases. Washington opposed any sort of prior compromise between Russia and Ukraine that will have helped keep away from hostilities, which inspired Zelensky’s overconfidence in refusing to barter. The identical state of affairs is panning out now. Washington doesn’t need the conflict to finish in a swift settlement whereby Ukraine makes concessions to Russia, as a result of the perfect end result is to make sure Moscow takes as a lot harm as potential, which signifies that a conflict of accelerating escalation is in actual fact within the US’ pursuits.

There are a number of causes for this. Initially, Russia’s tactical withdrawal from the north of Ukraine and a renewed concentrate on Donbass seems to present confidence to the West they’ll reach undermining Putin’s ‘core conflict objectives’. Secondly, intensifying the battle and escalation provides the West the political area to proceed to impose extra sanctions on Moscow and permits the US to impose extra ‘unity’ on its European allies. Washington has additionally calculated that the broader context of this battle will enable it to push more durable for China’s isolation, pressure international locations to take sides and increase army blocs. It has been reported just lately that the US is searching for for Japan to hitch the AUKUS alliance and to increase the army containment of China. Current feedback by Janet Yellen additionally demanded Beijing oppose the Russian offensive in Ukraine or threat “dropping standing” on the earth. In different phrases, the extra the US can lengthen this, the extra geopolitical outcomes it could get in its favour.

This escalation state of affairs for Russia, nevertheless, dangers turning the Ukraine disaster into a brand new ‘nice patriotic conflict’ – that’s, a battle by which the survival of the nation itself is at stake. Why so? The US and its allies have made it no secret that they need the conflict to finish in failure for Russia. A few of them would love nothing greater than for a army failure to precipitate the downfall of President Putin and the federal government – even when the one straight-up regime change name was ostensibly a slip of the tongue by US President Joe Biden. This confirms the Kremlin’s long-held suspicions concerning the true intentions of the West and the objectives behind the growth of NATO.  

In conclusion, this implies we’re now going into very harmful territory. The US and its allies couldn’t be clearer that they by no means needed peace or compromise and are escalating the state of affairs in Ukraine as a bid to affirm their very own geopolitical hegemony over the world, be it in opposition to Russia, India, or China. For Russia, this turns into an ever-growing wrestle in opposition to the Western bid to dominate, coerce, and subjugate their nation, with Ukraine because the sacrificial pawn.