Whatever doubts the White House had about the Ukraine War, Moscow made it official they see the war as the U.S.-NATO war to destroy the Russian Federation. All members of the European Union [EU], having long histories doing business with the Russian Federation, must accept that they back the U.S.-NATO war against the Kremlin. No longer is there any pretence that the Feb. 24 Ukraine War is driven by Kiev to reclaim lost sovereign territory and to evict Russian troops from Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin, 70, sees the war as an existential struggle against the Western Alliance seeking to topple the government and break up the Russian Federation. “The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kiev—this is a military confrontation between Russia and NATO, and about all the United States and Britain,” said Nikolai Patrushev, a close Putin adviser.
Russian officials understand the consequences of ongoing war with NATO, using all available resources to continue the conflict, not to occupy more Ukraine sovereign territory but to battle U.S.-NATO to loggerheads. “The Westerners plans are to continue to pull Russia apart and eventually just erase it from the political map of the world,” Patrushev said. EU and NATO partners think that Putin must eventually pull his troops out of Ukraine and return sovereign territory but never imagined they would be dragged into a war with the Kremlin. No one in the EU imagined that Brussels would be at war with the Kremlin, despite supporting Ukraine’s right to sovereignty. Announcing another $2.85 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including supplying at least one Patriot Missile battery, President Joe Biden, 80, continues to drag the EU and NATO deeper into a direct confrontation with Russia.
How would Brussels feel about supplying troops to fight Russian forces in Ukraine in the near future? Or, for that matter, how would the U.S. Congress respond to sending U.S. troops into the Ukraine battlefield? Biden thinks he can continue supplying billions in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine without any end in sight. News that the U.S. Army will bring an unknown number of Ukrainian troops to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for months of training on Patriot Missile batteries confirm the U.S. commitment to fight directly the Russian Federation. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the U.S. and NATO were part of the conflict with the Russian Federation. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, 44, has asked for U.S. troops from Day One of the conflict, including setting up a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. Biden said U.S. troops or a no-fly-zone could start WW III.
Russian officials do not see the Ukraine war as one between Moscow and Kiev. Since the war morphed over time, Moscow sees the conflict as a military confrontation with the U.S. and NATO. “De facto they have already become an indirect party to this conflict, pumping Ukraine with weapons, technologies, intelligence information and so on,” Peskov told a scheduled news briefing. Biden’s EU allies need to evaluate whether they want to get dragged into a war with the Kremlin because that’s exactly what’s happened in supplying military hardware to Ukraine. When 64-year-old German Chancellor Olaf Scholz questioned sending German heavy-Leopard tanks to Kiev, he understands the role Germany would play in going to war against Russia. Scholz understands the Nazi history of trying to conquer Russia, causing the deaths of 28 million Russians in WW II.
Zelensky told a joint session of Congress Dec. 21, 2022 that Ukraine was not a charity case but an “investment” in defending democracy in Europe. So if you buy Zelensky’s logic, a bankrupt Ukraine with U.S. and NATO weapons will guarantee the freedom and democracy of Europe. Just listen to the logic defies all common sense, knowing that NATO has the primary responsibility to defend European countries from any possible takeover by the Russian Federation. Yet if you listen to Zelensky, he told U.S. lawmakers that Ukraine defends the freedom and democracy of Europe. How utterly preposterous, a total con job by Zelensky to get more cash-and-lethal weapons from the U.S. and NATO. No U.S. lawmaker has yet to question Zelensky’s rubbish about defending European democracy. Approaching a one-year anniversary, the U.S. and EU must find a way out of Ukraine.
Zelensky looks perfectly content to receive U.S. billions in aid to run the bankrupt Ukrainian government and prosecute the war with the Kremlin. No matter how much you back the Ukraine’s right to sovereignty, Russian security must also be taken into account. Before the invasion, Ukraine had been receiving a steady flow of U.S. arms that threatened Kremlin security. Putin asked Biden to sit down and figure of new security arrangements for months the Feb. 24 invasion. Biden refused to address Putin’s security concerns, ignoring them completely until Putin’s “special military operation” started. Unless the EU and NATO are prepared to get dragged into a war with Russian Federation, they must address new security arrangements with the U.S. to end the conflict. Zelensky wants his sovereign territory returned but that could take years, if ever, to get it back from 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.
