WILL THE PEACEMAKERS ULTIMATELY TRIUMPH ON THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT?

Where has diplomacy gone? Since WWII ended the emphasis when war broke out was to reign in the combatants and attempt to end the conflict as soon as possible. Why over Ukraine do the warmongers rule?

Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary visited Moscow this week on a groundbreaking trip to seek a final end to the conflict in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin stated that he too wants to see a final and, importantly a permanent end, to the conflict. Their efforts received nothing but criticism from the EU elite. Both Von der Leyen and Borrell both condemned the visit. 

In past times where conflict has broken out between two sides seeking peace through negotiations was the constant western response. Each leader would urge the two sides to show restraint, call a ceasefire and begin to talk in an effort to resolve their differences. In Ukraine (and also in reference to Gaza) we see this normal advice to stop the fighting and engage in diplomacy is absent.

Viktor Orban and Robert Fico of Slovakia (who has just said he too would have been in Moscow but for his injury after the assassination attempt) have constantly advocated the usual diplomatic response and route to renewed peace and stability in Ukraine. Their views give every appearance of being their sincere and considered assessment of the best way forward. However, for their troubles they have been constantly showered with criticisms from their colleagues within the European Union and elsewhere.

What can explain the deviation from the norms of diplomacy we see underpinning the continuance of this war? Is this a new phenomenon or have we seen this complete absence of diplomatic urgency before?

I would argue that this began in the hours after the 9/11 events. In the frantic discussions that followed it is clear to me that it was agreed among the gathered political and military elites that not a single barrier to a comprehensive elimination of forces considered anti-American was to be permitted. And further to this, that diplomatic engagement with the larger powers considered to be within this anti-American grouping was to be ended as a limiting barrier to eliminating and replacing their leaderships.

Naturally the first targets of the regime change wars which followed 9/11 did not require any element of diplomacy in the eyes of those tasked with eliminating them. However, in more recent times, the larger targets including Russia were a different matter. During the Cold War diplomacy was very much in evidence between the western powers and the Soviet Union. It was an accepted fact that avenues of dialogue and even eventually detente, were vital to ensure continued avoidance of anything approaching a hot war.

The above is no longer the case and became so in the hours after 9/11. The goal is to destroy the target nations, or at the very least eliminate and replace their upper political echelons and engaging in diplomacy would ameliorate situations which had instead to be exploited in these new circumstances. The fear of nuclear was was to be sublimated beneath the greater fear of the USA (and West in general) losing its preeminent position in the world. The new agenda was no longer to be saving the world from nuclear annihilation but instead saving the USA (and West) from another 9/11-type event and the possibility of the entire West being fatally weakened thereby.

The issue at stake regarding Ukraine in truth has nothing in essence to do with any strategic value of the nation nor any great affinity for the people or system of governance there. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt and criminal nations on the planet. It is seen by western elites only as a tool with which to help achieve the overarching goal set after 9/11, to weaken, eliminate and replace every last anti-American entity, individual, regime, government or nation. The Ukrainian people, as can be understood from many comments regarding their expendability, are merely tools in a greater game.

Viktor Orban and Robert Fico are irritants to those who are rabidly dedicated to the importance of wiping out ALL resistance to the USA and its proxies. They are obstinately undermining what ought to be a 100% unified stance against Russia in their eyes. Thus they are hated with utmost venom. Not that Orban and Fico have been the only, or even the main sources of neoconservative and globalist irritation. That important nations all across the global south have failed to condemn Russia as expected created even greater and continuing consternation.

Will these two, combined with the less vocal but quite visible friendly relations with Russia of nations such as Saudi Arabia, India and others, win out ultimately and make the U.S. and other western elites relent and accept reality? That reality which is now patently obvious, that Russia is in an unassailable position and that the Ukrainian regime can only lose even more by fighting on. These facts are beyond question… yet the EU elites along with those who seem unable to extricate themselves from the madness, urge a hapless Ukrainian people to fight on only to die in ever greater numbers.