Completing the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, the world, including China and India, raised no objections to the strong condemnations by European, Asia and South American countries, perhaps signaling their displeasure with war. Chinese Prsidient Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narenda Modi both asked Putin to end the war at the earliest possible time but there are questions about the U.S. and Ukraine’s willingness to go to the peace table without Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrawing all his forces from Ukraine’s sovereign territory. Putin had troops in Ukraine before the Feb. 24 invasion, supervising Russian-speaking areas of Donetsk, Luhansk and the Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky has set unrealistic goals of removing Russian forces from everywhere in Ukraine. Putin knows in any peace talks he’ll have to make compromises.
No one questions the war’s destructiveness to Ukraine and the U.S. and EU economies, creating the worst inflation in 40 years. “Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed it’s causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy,” said a G20 statements. But the question Western powers want answered is will China and India continue business-as-usual. China and India haven’t jumped on the Western sanctions that have blocked Russian petroleum and natural gas sales, knowing that they need Russia’s affordable oil prices at a time of global shortages. China and India want the war to end but they’re not willing to sacrifice their political and business ties with Moscow. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the the G20’s “surprisingly clear words” that they universally condemn Putin’s Ukraine War regardless of China and India..
Scholz saud it “wouldn’t have been possible if important countries hadn’t helped us to come together this way—that includes India and its also includes, for example, South Africa. No one backs Putin’s Ukraine war but his political and business allies aren’t willing to condemn Moscow or break off economic ties. “This is something that shows that there are many in the world who don’t think this war is right, who condemn it, even if they abstained in the votes at the United Nations for various reasons,” Scholz said. Scholz realizes that Russian has been a reliable energy supplier to Germany and many other countries for years and can’t see fit to act in concert with Western countries. Xi or Narenda made no effort to openly condemn the Kremlin for its war in Ukraine. Both China and India have said in the past that NATO’s encroachment in on Russia provoked Putin to invade Feb. 24.
No country in the world economy wants to see runaway inflation and recession sweep their nations. So, no nation wants the Ukraine War but the question is how to end it. Putin has made several overtures to Zelensky and Biden to go to the peace table to resolve the issue. Biden and Zelensky seem hell-bent to prosecuting the proxy war until Russian gets out of Ukraine. But Chairman o0f the Join Chiefs-of-Staff Mark Miley said today that finding a political solution would be best for all parties. Miley sees no end to the Ukraine War anytime in the foreseeable future in terms of Ukraine driving the Russian military out. Miley makes a strong case for ceasefire and peace talks requiring warring factions to sit donwn and work out their differences. Miley seeks Zelensky’s approach of unending war as unrealistic and destructive to Ukraine. Miley sees zero chance that Putin will surrender to Ukraine.
Media outlets side heavily with Western countries, to the point that they’d push the war until Putin eventually surrenders. But military experts evaluating Ukraine capabilities and weaknesses know that there’s zero chance of Putin exiting all Ukrainian territory, especially Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea. Since Biden funded Zelensky’s bankrupt government and decided to use Ukrainian troops to wage proxy war against the Russian Federation, the war has escalated to the point that ceasefire and peace talks are inconceivable. Once Putin invaded Ukraine, Biden and Zelensky agreed to spend whatever it takes to rid the Russian Federation from Ukraine. Zelensky’s decision in March to reject Putin’s offer to cede all Ukrainian territory except Donetsk, Luhank and Crimea, created the widespread destruction, carnage, leaving the war with no off ramps for Moscow and Kiev.
Whatever happened at the G20 summit, Putin’s allies remain his allies, despite the Western press saying that China, India and South Africa want the war to end. Everyone wants the war to end except Biden and Zelensky who still think they can vanquish the Russian Federation. If Miley’s analysis today means anything, he urges both combatants to find a political solution because he sees no military one now or in the foreseeable future. For the Ukraine War to move from the battlefield to the peace table, Biden has to tell Zelensky that the war can’t going on indefinitely. With a new GOP House seating in January, there’s movement to bring Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin to an end. Zelensky must be forcefully told that the U.S. cannot foot his government and the war’s bills indefinitely. China and India want the war to end because they see the damage to the global economy.
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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.
