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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: The US Could've Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv FromNazis
Published: 2022-05-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sK_Ogl-6Js
Title: The US Could've Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv FromNazis
Published: 2022-05-08
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sK_Ogl-6Js
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the U.S could have prevented this war just by protecting Kiev from Nazis as we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear Armageddon while Bono and the edge play you two songs in Kiev it's probably worth taking a moment to highlight the fact that this entire War could have been avoided if the U.S had simply pledged military protection for zielinski against the far-right extremists who were threatening to2/19
Lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact to be clear what we are indulging in here is entirely an act of fantasy in imagining what would have happened if the U.S had pledged to protect the Ukrainian government from an undemocratic violent overthrow at the hands of fascists instead of waging a horrific proxy war we are imagining a world in which the3/19
U.S government acts in the highest interests of all instead of working continuously to dominate the planet no matter how much Madness and cruelty it needs to inflict upon Humanity a world in which the U.S hadn't been taking steps toward the orchestration of this proxy war for many years with that out of the way it's just a simple fact that for a fraction of the military Firepower4/19
the U.S is pouring into Ukraine right now it could have prevented the entire War by simply protecting Ukrainian democracy from the undemocratic impulses of the worst people in that country when he was asked by the Nations Katrina vandenhoove last month what he thinks is preventing Kiev from signing a peace agreement with Russia John meersheimer whose analysis of this conflict has been prophetic for many years replied5/19
as follows quote I think that when zelenski ran for president he made it very clear that he wanted to work out an arrangement with Russia that ended the crisis in Ukraine and he won and what he then tried to do was move toward implementing the Minsk II agreement if you were going to shut down the conflict in Ukraine you had to implement Minsk 2 and Minsk6/19
II meant giving the Russian speaking and ethnic Russian population in the easternmost part of Ukraine the dunbas region a significant amount of autonomy and you had to make the Russian language an official language of Ukraine I think zelinski found out very quickly that because of the Ukrainian right it was impossible to implement Minsk too therefore even though the French and the Germans and of course the7/19
Russians were very interested in making Minsk to work because they wanted to shut down the crisis they couldn't do it in other words the Ukrainian right was able to stymie zielinski on that front end quote when mirshimer says that the Ukrainian right was able to stymie zielinski he doesn't mean by votes or by Democratic processes he means by threats and by violence in an article last8/19
month titled siding with Ukraine's far right U.S sabotage zelenski's mandate for peace journalist Aaron mate wrote The Following quote in April 2019 zielinski was elected with an overwhelming 73 percent of the vote on a promise to turn the tide in his inaugural address the next month zelenski declared that he was not afraid to lose my own popularity my ratings and was prepared to give up my9/19
own position as long as peace arrives but Ukraine's powerful far-right and Neo-Nazi militias made clear to zelenski that reaching peace in the dunbas would have a much higher cost no he would lose his life right sector co-founder dimitro anatoliovich Yarosh then the commander of the Ukrainian volunteer army responded one week after zelenski's inaugural speech he will hang on some tree and crush a tick if he10/19
betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the war end quote in a 2019 interview with mate the late great scholar Stephen Cohen made the following comments quote But ultimately you have a situation now which seems not to be widely understood that the new president of Ukraine zelensky ran as a peace candidate that's a bit of a stretch and maybe it doesn't mean11/19
a whole lot to your generation but he ran a kind of George McGovern campaign the difference was McGovern got wiped out and zelenski won by I think 71 72 percent he won an enormous mandate to make peace so that means he has to negotiate with Vladimir Putin and there are various formats right there's a so-called Minsk format which involves the German and the French there's a12/19
bilateral directly with Putin but his willingness and this is what's important and not well reported here his willingness to deal directly with Putin which his predecessor poroshenko was not or couldn't for whatever reason actually required considerable boldness on zelenski's part because there are opponents of this in Ukraine and they are armed some say they are fascists but they are certainly Ultra nationalists and they have said13/19
that they will remove and kill zelenski if he continues along this line of negotiating with Putin zelenski cannot go forward as I've explained I mean his life is being threatened literally by a quasi-fascist movement in Ukraine he can't go forward with full peace negotiations with Russia with Putin unless America has his back maybe that won't be enough but unless the White House encourages this diplomacy zielinski14/19
has no chance of negotiating an end to the war so the stakes are enormously high end quote in an article titled why Russia went to war now anti-war as Ted Snyder explains that Putin likely made the decision to invade because Kiev wasn't respecting Minsk 2 and because further NATO membership with Ukraine was being kept on the table while weapons poured into the country from the U.S15/19
zielinski wouldn't talk to the leaders of the dunbas Minsk was dead and Russia feared an imminent operation against the ethnic Russian population of the dunbas Snyder writes at the same time Washington had become a leaky faucet on Promises of flooding Ukraine with weapons and opened doors to Nato two red lines Putin had clearly drawn but again zielinski couldn't enact Minsk because it had been made absolutely16/19
clear to him that he faced a horrific death by fascist Lynch Mob if he did if the choice is between taking a chance on a U.S proxy war and getting gaddafied in the Public Square I think many people around the world would opt for the former so zelinski made peace with the Nazis whose will for Ukraine aligned with Washington's but what this means is that every17/19
major factor which led to Russia's decision to invade could have been nullified by the U.S government a guarantee of no NATO membership for Ukraine could have been made the weapons supplies could have been stopped and zelensky and his government could have received protection from the U.S military against the armed fascists who would repeat their violent acts of 2014 upon them it would have been wins all18/19
around we wouldn't be staring down the barrel of nuclear Armageddon Ukraine would have been spared the horrors of an insane proxy war Western Powers wouldn't be sending arms to literal Nazi factions and the U.S would actually be protecting Ukrainian democracy instead of just pretending to but again we are only indulging in fantasy here fighting Nazis protecting democracy and waging peace are not things the US Empire19/19
actually does in real life the US is the most tyrannical and murderous regime on Earth by a truly massive margin and it will happily risk the life of everyone on Earth if it means securing planetary rule but sometimes it's nice to imagine the kind of world we might be living in if we were not ruled by Psychopaths
