Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, 68, ordered his troops to deploy with Russian forces to Ukraine, claiming Ukraine and the NATO alliance planned to attack his country. So, what’s really happening now can’t be denied by anyone in the West, where a carefully orchestrated U.S.-led mission with NATO attempts to evict the Russian Federation from Ukraine, but, more importantly, to topple 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Shortly after the Feb. 24 invasion, 79-year-old President Joe Biden got very personal in Warsaw, Poland March 26 saying that Putin should not continue as Russian president. Once Biden made that commitment, the war changed to a U.S.-led NATO war against the Russian Federation. Only one month later, Biden’s 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Ramstein, Germany confirmed the U.S. would destroy the Russian military.
Kremlin officials now longer see the Ukraine War as a conflict between Kiev and Moscow, they see the conflict as a U.S.-NATO-led proxy war against the Russian Federation. So when Western officials rail against Putin having any allies like Lukashenko in the conflict, they deny that the U.S.-NATO have made a concerted attempt using Ukrainian troops to topple the Russian Federation. No Western official sees the Ukraine War as a border dispute between Ukraine and Russia. Lukashenko’s admission that his troops now join Russia forces opens the door to expansion of the Ukraine War to ground troops from the U.S. and NATO. Biden said he would not commit U.S. or NATO ground troops to Ukraine because he wanted to avoid WW III, one that could easily spread over the European Continent. But the war has morphed now into a U.S.-NATO proxy war against the Kremlin.
Lukashenko, only one country, has joined the Russian Federation in pushing back against the U.S. and NATO. NATO has 30 countries contributing arms, cash and advisers to Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky has asked for accelerated entrance into NATO so that he can invoke Article 5 to bring NATO ground-and-air forces into the Ukraine conflict. “Strikes on the territory of Belarus are not just being discussed in Ukraine today, but are also being planned,” Lukashenko said in his Security Council meeting. “Their owners [U.S. and NATO] are pushing them to start a war against Belarus to drag us there,” Lukashenko said, though offering no proof. But Lukashenko is an integral part of the Russian Federation, despite maintaining its independence in the world’s eye. One country going to Putin’s aid shows how the conflict must be brokered by the U.N.
U.N. officials have almost unanimously condemned Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion but now must play a more constructive role no in Russia’s collective punishment but bringing the conflict to an end. All the talk about a nuclear Armageddon raised by Biden reminds the European Union that the stakes have never been higher. EU and NATO officials can rant all they want about Putin’s “illegal” war but they need to find a way out for warring factions, requiring some kind of neutrality. China and India, while telling Putin they’d like to see the war end, understand that the U.S. and NATO currently wage a proxy war against the Kremlin with the stated intent of degrading the Russian military to the point it can no longer wage war. If that’s not a declaration of war against the Russian Federation, then what is? U.N. and EU statesman must get beyond taking sides and get behind ceasefire and peace talks.
Lukashenko received intel that suggested that whoever truck-bombed the Kerch Bridge to Crimea, are going to do the same thing in Belarus. “We have been preparing for this for decades. If necessary, we will respond,” Lukashenko said, admitting he spoke with Putin in St. Petersburg. Being Putin’s No. 1 ally, Lukashenko sees Belarus as the likely target of NATO or Ukrainian attacks, since the Western Alliance has tried to meddle in Belarusian affairs, fomenting revolution inside the country. Luikashenko has been suppressing a pro-democracy movement in Belarus for many years. Putin has helped Lukashenko set down an uprising that threatened to the state. “My answer was simple: Tel the president of Ukraine and the other lunatics, if they touch one metre of our territory from then the Crimean Bridge will seem to them like a walk in the park,” Lukashenko warned Zelensky.
Russia and Belarus feel ganged up on by the U.S. and NATO, whose cash-and- arms to Kiev have threatened Russian national security. Recent Russian missile strikes in response to the Ukrainian truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge prompted Biden to double down on more cash aid and lethal weapons to Ukraine. U.S. and EU officials must see that Biden’s approach to Ukraine has threatened the post WW II peace where every European Country pledged to work toward peace on the European Continent. Regardless who’s right in Ukraine, the war threatens the peace-and-prosperity on the European Continent. If the U.N. or EU want to end the Ukraine War, there needs to be a neutral place where both warring factions can go to resolve their differences. As long as the U.S. and NATO threaten the Russian Federation, Putin will continue to fight against forces aligned against Russia.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
