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Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2022-05-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChAxUUo_xPg
they're just outright telling us that peace in ukraine is not an option u.s senator joe manchin said at the world economic forum on monday that he opposes any kind of peace agreement between ukraine and russia manchin who at the moment is one of the most powerful elected officials in washington added that only the complete forcible ejection of russia from all of ukraine is acceptable that the
war should ideally be used to remove putin from power and that he and the strategists he talks to see this war as an opportunity i am totally committed as one person to seeing ukraine to the end with a win not basically with some kind of a treaty i don't think that is where we are and where we should be mansion said i mean basically moving putin
back to russia and hopefully getting rid of putin mansion added when asked what he meant by a win for ukraine manchin clarified that he did not mean pushing putin back to pre-february ostensibly meaning with russia still controlling the largely moscow loyal crimea and supporting separatist territories in the dunbas but with ki fully reclaiming all parts of the nation oh no i think ukraine is determined to
take their country back mansion said when asked to clarify further clarifying that he wants his call for regime change in russia to be carried out by quote the russian people i believe strongly that i have never seen and the people i talk strategically to have never seen an opportunity more than this to do what needs to be done mansion later added and ukraine has the determination
to do it we should have the commitment to support it manchin's comments fit perfectly with what we know about the u.s centralized empire's real agendas in ukraine earlier this month ukrainian media reported that uk prime minister boris johnson told the nation's president voldemire zielinski on behalf of nato powers that quote even if ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with putin they are not
last month u.s secretary of defense lloyd austin acknowledged that the goal in this war is not peace in ukraine or the mere military defeat of russia but to actually weaken russia as a nation saying we want to see russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine last week the new york times reported that the
biden administration is developing plans to quote further choke russia's oil revenues with the long-term goal of destroying the country's central role in the global energy economy just the other day ukraine's military intelligence chief announced that the mission has already creeped forward from the goal of defeating the russian invaders to reclaiming the crimean territory which was annexed by the russian federation in 2014 two months ago biden
himself acknowledged what the real game is here with an open call for regime change saying for god's sake this man cannot remain in power of putin statements from the biden administration in fact indicate that they expect this war to drag on for a long time making it abundantly clear that a swift end to minimize the death and destruction is not just uninteresting but undesirable for the
u.s empire this is not a proxy war with peace as an option anywhere within sight it's not about saving ukrainian lives it's not even about beating russia in ukraine it's about achieving regime change in moscow no matter how many lives need to be destroyed in the process peace is not on the menu this war could easily have been prevented with a little diplomacy as the university
of ottawa's ivan kaczynovsky recently explained to the maple an agreement in which ukraine promised to remain a neutral country and the fulfillment of the minsk accords could have stopped putin's invasion we knew now that the u.s intelligence cartel had good visibility into what the kremlin had planned for ukraine so they would have known exactly what could have been done to prevent the invasion they knowingly chose
to do none of those things because the goal was to provoke this war the entire time and then weaponize it against moscow that's why the biden administration has been hindering diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end to this war wyatt has refused to provide ukraine with any kind of diplomatic negotiating power regarding the possible rollbacks of sanctions and other u.s measures to help secure peace and why
washington's top diplomats have consistently been conspicuously absent from any kind of dialogue with their counterparts in moscow empire spin meisters and their propagandized victims like to claim that ukrainian forces are fighting for peace in ukraine the other day kiev independence ilya ponomarenko who has called the neo-nazi azov battalion his brothers in arms tweeted this quote good god i want peace in ukraine by christmas time fireworks
and joy in the snowy streets of kiev patriotic music strangers hugging each other at the maidan merry christmas war is over that would be just awesome don't you guys think so end quote but anyone who understands this war knows this is ridiculous peace is not the goal in ukraine most of the ukrainians doing the fighting surely believe that they are fighting for peace in their homeland
and peace is surely their intention but that's not something the empire will allow if the empire gets any say in the matter even if ukraine does somehow avoid being used as cannon fodder to draw moscow into a long and costly slog as us officials have admitted was done in both afghanistan and syria and even if they do somehow manage to deliver a crushing and conclusive defeat
to moscow in the near term which is far less probable than the western media would have you believe that wouldn't be the end of the war the war would just change shape as the empire and its proxies go on the offensive against moscow this war does not end with russia being driven from ukraine it ends with regime change and the balkanization of the russian federation really
it doesn't end until the rise of china has been stopped and u.s unipolar hegemony secured or when the empire collapses or when we all die in a nuclear holocaust all forward motion in this war has nothing but violence as far as the eye can see and its trajectory into the future no matter how much wealth and war machinery you pour into this conflict that trajectory of
death and destruction will just keep stretching out to the horizon as chris hedges recently explained that's the only path the empire has left open to itself i've seen some cute kids in my time but nobody's as adorable as people who think the us pours weapons into foreign nations in order to achieve peace
