UKRAINE SHORT COMMENTARY: PURE AGGRESSION, TOTAL IGNORANCE OR A HIDDEN AGENDA?
More and more relatively independent-minded commentators are beginning to question why the political elites of the USA seem to be driving Russia ever more into the arms of China. Some are even daring to comment upon the responsibility of the USA, UK and their European allies for driving Russia over many decades into taking its present highly controversial and potentially devastating action in Ukraine, an action which could bring down the entire world economy.
Russia has not been shy over the years in stating its case, that pushing NATO to its borders was grossly unacceptable. The tones have been strident and were even reflected by George Kennan the architect of the West’s containment policy regarding the Soviet Union.
Despite all the reasons why such policies would be counterproductive for Europe and as we now see, the entire world, the successive political hierarchies and administrations in the USA kept on with their policy of baiting Russia and refusing to countenance the idea that it meant what its said or that what it said counted for anything.
Now we see plainly the fact of the matter. Russia did mean what it said and the warnings given and unheeded by the western powers now have their inevitable consequence.
A rearguard action is now in full war mode by western elites to convince western populations that all this is no fault of theirs but that it is solely down to evil machinations of ‘The Russians’ being carried out for their obviously nefarious ends.
So far this is largely working. A faultless, thoroughly innocent Ukraine of powerless innocents is alive and well and also flourishing. A mass campaign to portray everything in terms of stark black and white appears to have no limit and is pervasive in the western information space.
Anyone who speaks against this solid front of accepted fabrication and historical amnesia is branded instantly as some kind of mindless fiend under the control of Russian propagandists.
Yet, we stand on the edge of world disaster if not world war. Mass hysteria rules the streets and airwaves. A constant flow of diatribes and condemnations emerge from the councils of state and associated entities across virtually the entirety of the western world. All this while Russia and China draw closer together for the protection of their interests and others under the gun of the USA’s fixed foreign policy and agenda requiring constant aggression do likewise.
What the next months mean for the world surely cannot be good in the short term at least. In the medium to long term Russia will push its demands through to acceptance, further align with China and all other nations at risk from the U.S. policy of regime change.
The world is dividing into two camps that will concentrate henceforth on their own economic orbits and those within Eurasia will, quite irrespective of the needs, demands and threats from the West grow their economies along with making their barriers to western influence ever more robust.
Which agency is responsible for all this I leave you to decide and whether the policies furthered are based upon aggression, ignorance or some hidden agenda.
