{"id":251362,"date":"2022-03-25T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251362"},"modified":"2022-03-27T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T09:56:32","slug":"nato-wants-a-ground-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251362","title":{"rendered":"NATO Wants a Ground-War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review March 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cWhile the US succeeded in goading the Russian government to take the first shot, it is clear that the war in Ukraine is the first stage of a much broader conflict. Having provoked the Russian government into a desperate and disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the United States is using the war to reassert its global hegemony, building a war coalition for what the United States has termed \u201cgreat power conflict\u201d targeting not only Russia, but China as well.\u201d Andre Damon,<\/a> World Socialist Web Site<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is important to our managerial and foreign policy elites, is, above all, the major effort and push for a globalist \u201cGreat Reset\u201d using the Ukrainian conflict to finally accomplish their objective of bringing the entire world in accord with their plans for a New World Order. And to do that, Russia, which now stands athwart their designs, must be diminished and brought into line.\u201d Boyd D. Cathey, <\/a>The Unz Review<\/em><\/p>\n

Why is NATO sending more lethal weaponry to Ukraine? Didn\u2019t Putin say that poring arms into Ukraine would increase the likelihood of war?<\/p>\n

Yes, he did, but the US and NATO continue send more shipments anyway. Why?<\/p>\n

And why does Ukraine need more weapons?<\/p>\n

Could it be that Ukraine\u2019s 600,000-strong military is collapsing like a trailer park in a hurricane? Is that it? Is that why NATO had an emergency confab in Brussels on Thursday to restate their support for a NATO-trained army that has not successfully launched even one major counteroffensive against the Russian military?<\/p>\n

The media insists that the Russian offensive \u201chas stalled\u201d. Is that what you call it when your opponent captures an area the size of the UK in less than 3 weeks or when all your air and naval assets have been obliterated or when your Command-and-Control centers have gone up in smoke or when most of your combat troops are either encircled by Russian forces or fleeing to locations west of the Dnieper River? Is that what \u201cstalled\u201d looks like?<\/p>\n

Do you get the impression that the media is not being entirely straightforward in their coverage of the war in Ukraine? Do you think that maybe their WEF-linked owners might have a dog in this fight? Here\u2019s how Archbishop Vigano summed it up recently in an article linking \u201cCovid tyranny\u201d to the war in Ukraine:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideological continuity between the pandemic farce and the Russian-Ukrainian crisis continues to emerge, beyond the evidence of the events and statements of the subjects involved, in the fact that the ultimate perpetrators of both are the same, all attributable to the globalist cabal of the World Economic Forum.\u201d (\u201cExclusive: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2\u201d<\/a>, Gateway Pundit<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Truer words were never spoken. It\u2019s all manipulation by globalist \u201cstakeholders\u201d pursuing their own narrow interests. As for the war, check out this analysis from a post at Larry Johnson\u2019s new blog A Son of the New American Revolution<\/a>. I can\u2019t vouch for the author, but he sounds a lot more credible than CNN:<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficial claims of a major Ukrainian counteroffensive near Kiev are completely fake; it\u2019s totally made-up, it never happened\u2014they simply don\u2019t have a coherent military force in the Kiev area that\u2019s capable of conducting an organized counteroffensive. All they have in and around Kiev is various bits and pieces including police and army special forces, civilian militia, regular police, some air defense, and a few artillery batteries. It\u2019s not an offensive force\u2014it\u2019s a crazy quilt. \u2026<\/p>\n

What\u2019s left of the Ukrainian army east of the Dniepr river is running out of diesel, and should be out of tube and rocket artillery munitions (and in fact, artillery) by the first week of April. Outside of the Donbass, it\u2019s a war of attrition, with Russia wearing away the Ukraine\u2019s ability to fight, using stand-off weapons (air and missiles) first and foremost. On Sunday, Russia hit a cache of munitions that was being hidden\u2014Hamas-style\u2014at a \u201cvacant\u201d retail and sports complex in downtown Kiev. Russia is finding tons and tons of Ukrainian army materiel, and methodically destroying them\u2026.<\/p>\n

Russian and Donetsk\/Lugansk forces have picked up so many U.S. and British antitank weapons, it\u2019s visually documented they\u2019re now using them on the battlefield. ..<\/p>\n

And, the Stinger missile project has failed totally\u2014Uncle Sam & Co. have moved and continue to move hundreds of Stingers into the Ukraine, but it\u2019s only been documented to have brought down about seven manned aircraft since the invasion, and none in the last ten days or so. Some of those hundreds will get out and be sold and\u2026 perhaps you shouldn\u2019t fly internationally anymore\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not looking to sugarcoat it for Russia\u2014those Ukrainian military units that did not simply melt away and disappear in the first days, are putting up a fight. But at some point, very likely in the first half of April, they will simply run out of everything, and they will crumble and then the Russian and Donetsk\/Lugansk forces will take all or most of \u201cLeft Bank\u201d (east of the Dnieper) Ukraine. (\u201cDreizin Report\u2013Poland prepares to intervene, Ukraine slides into dictatorship\u201d,<\/a> Jacob Dreizin, The Son of a New American Revolution<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Yes, but can the author be trusted?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know but\u2013 let\u2019s face it\u2013 when the media lies relentlessly for 4 years about \u201cRussian collusion\u201d followed by another 2 years of \u201cEveryone\u2019s going to die from the flu\u201d; any critical thinking person is going to look for other sources of information, right? It\u2019s a credibility issue, and, regrettably, \u201ccredibility\u201d is a term that is never applied to the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

So, where do we go from here?<\/p>\n

Good question; and you can see from NATO\u2019s statement that leaders in Washington and across Europe are determined to throw more gas on the fire. That\u2019s the message they\u2019re sending to the world; \u2018We are united in our determination to defeat Russia whether we blow up the planet or not.\u2019 Got it? Here\u2019s a clip from their declaration on Thursday:<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2014, we have provided extensive support to Ukraine\u2019s ability to exercise that right. We have trained Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, strengthening their military capabilities and capacities and enhancing their resilience. NATO Allies have stepped up their support and will continue to provide further political and practical support to Ukraine as it continues to defend itself. \u2026..We remain determined to maintain coordinated international pressure on Russia. We will continue to coordinate closely with relevant stakeholders and other international organizations, including the European Union.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s unprovoked war against Ukraine represents a fundamental challenge to the values and norms that have brought security and prosperity to all on the European continent\u201d (\u201cStatement by NATO Heads of State and Government\u201d<\/a>, NATO)<\/p>\n

Are you surprised that NATO would openly boast about arming and training thousands of Ukrainian combatants since 2014? What if an enemy of the United States did the same thing in Mexico or Canada. How would the US react? Here\u2019s how Noam Chomsky put it:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 for Ukraine to join NATO would be rather like Mexico joining a China-run military alliance, hosting joint maneuvers with the Chinese army and maintaining weapons aimed at Washington. To insist on Mexico\u2019s sovereign right to do so would surpass idiocy. Washington\u2019s insistence on Ukraine\u2019s sovereign right to join NATO is even worse, since it sets up an insurmountable barrier to a peaceful resolution of a crisis that is already a shocking crime and will soon become much worse unless resolved \u2014 by the negotiations that Washington refuses to join.\u201d (Truthout<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It looks to me like Chomsky thinks arming Ukraine was a deliberate provocation. Which it was. NATO stuffed the country full of weapons, trained its combat troops and paramilitaries, conducted military operations with NATO, ordered their army to the east so they could terrorize the ethnic Russian population, and then\u2013 to top it off\u2013 threatened to develop nuclear weapons. In short, they put a gun to Putin\u2019s head and threatened to blow his brains out. If that\u2019s not a provocation, then what is? Here\u2019s more from an article at the WSWS:<\/p>\n

(NATO chief) Stoltenberg\u2019s historical reference point was not the Russian invasion of Ukraine last month but the 2014 fascist-led coup that turned Ukraine into a proxy for NATO. \u201cSince 2014, [NATO] Allies have trained Ukraine\u2019s armed forces and significantly strengthened their capabilities. They are putting that training into practice now, on the front lines, with great bravery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg made no effort to conceal NATO\u2019s massive military buildup of Ukrainian forces over the past eight years. NATO, he said, has been \u201cproviding anti-tank and air defense systems, drones, fuel and ammunition. As well as financial aid.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on, \u201cI would like to commend the courage and the professionalism of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. I have met them in Ukraine, and we are all aware that compared to where they were back in 2014, this is a totally different force than eight years ago. The Ukrainian Armed Forces today is much bigger, much better equipped, much better trained, much better commanded. They have much better logistics than they had back in 2014.\u201d (\u201cNATO meets to plot next stage in Ukraine proxy war\u201d,<\/a> World Socialist Web Site<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Stoltenberg can hardly conceal his elation over the \u2018courage and the professionalism\u201d of his NWO army that is acting as cannon fodder in a US proxy-war with Russia. But do the brave Ukrainians that are fighting in this fiasco, know what they\u2019re fighting for?<\/p>\n

No, they don\u2019t. They think they\u2019re risking their lives for their country, but, actually, they\u2019re fighting to preserve US global hegemony by annihilating Russia, encircling China and establishing America\u2019s dominance over the world\u2019s most populous and prosperous region of the next century. That\u2019s what they\u2019re fighting for, Washington\u2019s \u201cpivot to Asia\u201d. As the author of the WSWS article admits:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that what is involved is not only a war in Ukraine, but a campaign by the US and NATO imperialist powers for war against Russia and a redivision of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right, and Biden doesn\u2019t even try to hide it. Here\u2019s what he said just two days ago:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is a time when things are shifting. \u2026 There\u2019s going to be a new world order out there, and we\u2019ve got to lead it.\u201d (Biden Talks NWO,<\/a> You Tube)<\/p>\n

\u201cNew World Order\u201d? You mean, this isn\u2019t about \u201cUkraine\u2019s borders\u201d, after all?<\/p>\n

Nope. That\u2019s all patriotic claptrap dolled-up for the serfs. Here\u2019s how Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov summed it up on Tuesday:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not about Ukraine, this is about a world order in which the United States wants to be the sole sovereign and dominate\u2026 This all is about removing the obstacle in the form of Russia on the way to building a unipolar world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, that is the objective, and the US is not going to be timid in pursuing its interests. China and Russia are under the illusion that the emergence of various \u201cpower centers\u201d will inevitably bring about change in the global order. But the world doesn\u2019t work that way. The world leader will not willingly concede defeat or graciously abdicate the throne. He must be knocked from his pedestal much like the schoolyard bully must be subdued through force. Regrettably, Ukraine is shaping up to be the battleground where these matters are going to be resolved through force of arms.<\/p>\n

In any event, we should try to go beyond the media\u2019s propaganda and see if we can identify the real causes of the current conflict. Why, for example, is the US targeting Russia? In what way is Russia an \u201cobstacle\u201d that is blocking Washington\u2019s strategic ambitions?<\/p>\n

The former Undersecretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, answers that question in one short paragraph written more than two decades ago. It is as relevant today as it was then:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.\u201d<\/p>\n

In short, Washington sees Russia as a \u201chostile power\u201d because it sits atop an ocean of oil and gas reserves and because it \u201cdefiantly\u201d conducts its own independent foreign policy. For these reasons, Russia is Uncle Sam\u2019s mortal enemy.<\/p>\n

Second, Russia\u2019s has been gradually strengthening ties with Europe posing a serious challenge to US economic dominance. The building of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline\u2013 which would have greatly increased Europe\u2019s dependency on Russian gas\u2013 meant that Washington\u2019s influence would steadily erode while Europe and Asia would move closer to a common economic area in which neither the US Dollar nor NATO security would be necessary. This is why Washington went to such great lengths to provoke Russia to invade Ukraine. They needed to force the severing of economic ties to prevent further integration with EU markets.<\/p>\n

The third reason why Russia has become Washington\u2019s Enemy Number 1, is because the US is currently \u201crebalancing\u201d assets and resources to the Asia-Pacific to take advantage of the anticipated growth-surge in the region. Hillary Clinton famously referred to this as \u201cthe pivot to Asia\u201d, a term that was coined in a speech she delivered in 2011. Here\u2019s what she said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHarnessing Asia\u2019s growth and dynamism is central to American economic and strategic interests and a key priority for President Obama. Open markets in Asia provide the United States with unprecedented opportunities for investment, trade, and access to cutting-edge technology\u2026..American firms (need) to tap into the vast and growing consumer base of Asia\u2026The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action\u2026\u201d (\u201cAmerica\u2019s Pacific Century\u201d,<\/a> Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u201d, Foreign Policy Magazine<\/em>, 2011)<\/p>\n

Those are the geopolitical imperatives driving the conflict:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u201cTo prevent the re-emergence of a new rival on the territory of the former Soviet Union that can dominate their own resources and, thus, challenge US power.<\/li>\n
  2. The threat of further economic integration that would unavoidably lead to a massive free trade zone spanning Europe and Asia.<\/li>\n
  3. The \u201cpivot\u201d plan to dominate the world\u2019s most populous and prosperous region of the next century.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the three strategic policies that are fueling the war. They only relate to Ukraine inasmuch as Ukraine is the unfortunate staging-ground for the \u201cGreat Power Conflict\u201d which is steadily gaining momentum. Tuesday\u2019s recommendation, by Polish political leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynsk, that he would recommend that peacekeepers be sent to Ukraine shows that NATO is planning a major escalation of the conflict in the very near future. According to Reuters, Kaczynsk, will propose that:<\/p>\n

    \u201cAn international peacekeeping mission should be sent to Ukraine and be given the means to defend itself\u2026.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI think that it is necessary to have a peace mission \u2013 NATO, possibly some wider international structure \u2013 but a mission that will be able to defend itself, which will operate on Ukrainian territory,\u201d Kaczynski told a news conference.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt will be a mission that will strive for peace, to give humanitarian aid, but at the same time it will also be protected by appropriate forces, armed forces,\u201d said Kaczynski, who is seen as the main decision-maker in Poland.\u201d (\u201cTop Polish politician calls for peacekeeping mission in Ukraine\u201d,<\/a> Reuters<\/em>)<\/p>\n

    Think about that for a minute. Think about what it would mean. The peacekeeping mission:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. \u201cwill operate on Ukrainian territory (where Russia is carrying out its military operation)<\/li>\n
    2. will be able to defend itself. (which means they will be armed.)<\/li>\n
    3. will be (protected by) \u201csome wider international structure\u201d (NATO)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Does anyone think this sounds like a good idea? Won\u2019t this will force Russia to treat the NATO personnel as enemy belligerents that are interfering with their military operation?<\/p>\n

      Of course, it will. So, what are they trying to achieve; WW3? Is that the point? And what does this tell us about Washington\u2019s strategy for Ukraine?<\/p>\n

      It also tells us that NATO is preparing to engage Russia militarily within Ukraine. That\u2019s what it tells us. Until today, most people had assumed that NATO would not engage Russia militarily because they believed that would greatly increase the prospects of a nuclear exchange. But that is not how the foreign policy establishment sees things. After dealing with Putin for over 20 years, they see Putin as a rational actor who will not escalate unless Russia faces an imminent existence-threat. (A nuclear attack) In other words, the foreign policy mandarins have made the calculation that they can engage Putin in a bloody and protracted ground-war\u2013 that will drain Russia\u2019s resources and destroy its economy\u2013 without Putin using his nuclear arsenal. It is a risky strategy but not entirely unreasonable given Putin\u2019s behavior in the past. Putin has always been extremely cautious and never impulsive. The foreign policy wonks think they can use that against him. Like we said, it is a high-risk strategy.<\/p>\n

      Naturally, Russia is appalled by the \u2018peacekeeper idea\u2019 as it makes a clash between the two nuclear-armed superpowers almost unavoidable. Here\u2019s what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in response to the news:<\/p>\n

      \u201cOur Polish colleagues have already stated that there will be a NATO summit now, and peacekeepers should be deployed. I hope they understand what is at stake. This will be a direct clash between the Russian and NATO armed forces, which everyone not only wanted to avoid but said that it should never take place in principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

      Is Lavrov is being overly courteous?<\/p>\n

      Yes, he is. If the United States had issued the warning, they would have said something much more ominous, like this:<\/p>\n

      \u201cAny armed formations will be treated as legitimate enemy targets and destroyed. Full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

      That\u2019s how you deliver a warning. You don\u2019t try to ingratiate yourself with the person who wants to kill your soldiers and erase your country from the map. That doesn\u2019t make any sense at all. If there was ever a time for straight talk, this is it. Lives are at stake.<\/p>\n

      The \u201cpeacekeeper\u201d incident suggests something I\u2019ve suspected for quite a while; that Washington is itching for a land-war in Ukraine, and to some extent, it makes sense. It further polarizes and weakens Russia, it unites the allies around a common cause, and it reinforces NATO\u2019s role as guarantor of regional security. The downside, of course, is that the conflict could quickly escalate leading to a full-blown nuclear war. I believe the neocons at the State Department do not see that as a plausible scenario, so they are pushing as hard as they can to intensify the fighting. Here\u2019s a short clip from the piece by veteran Jacob Dreizin who appears to see things the same way:<\/p>\n

      \u201cI am confident that, out of impotent rage if nothing else, NATO forces will move into western Ukraine from Poland by mid-April at the latest, if the war is still on by then. The heavy equipment is already there near the border; bringing in the personnel to link up with it is the easy part. With the recent Russian bombing of the U.S.\/UK \u201cHo Chi Minh trail\u201d hub at the Yavorov base near the Polish border, they will get in on the ground \u2026 to make a statement like, \u201cNot again, because we\u2019re here openly now.\u201d<\/p>\n

      No, Brandon doesn\u2019t want to do it, but the hawks in Congress and the MSM are running the show now. There will be escalation. It is baked into the cake. In fact, I predicted before the invasion that Poland would take advantage of the war to create a protectorate in western Ukraine, and I stand by my prediction\u2026\u201d (\u201cDreizin Report\u2013Poland prepares to intervene, Ukraine slides into dictatorship\u201d,<\/a> Jacob Dreizin, The Son of a New American Revolution<\/em>)<\/p>\n

      I think Dreizin is onto something here. Brandon is not on board with the planned escalation, but it might not matter, because the State Department is a hotbed of neocons that are doing whatever they can to grease the skids for a scorched earth, no-holds-barred cage-match with their most-reviled rival, Vladimir Putin. It\u2019s the State Department, the Intel agencies, the Congress and the media that are steering the ship of state now, not Biden. Perhaps, you wondered why the NY Times suddenly decided to \u2018come clean\u2019 on the Hunter Biden laptop story? You probably know that it\u2019s not because the Times editors had a change-of-heart and wanted to inform the public or \u201cspeak truth to power\u201d. Of course, not. The Times trotted out the laptop dossier to let Biden know that they \u201cgot him by the shorthairs\u201d and if he doesn\u2019t play ball, he\u2019s toast.<\/p>\n

      Blackmail? Would the neocons really blackmail the President of the United States in order to escalate in Ukraine?<\/p>\n

      You bet, they would.<\/p>\n

      The neocons have their heart-set on a land-war war in Europe, and from the looks of things, they might just get one.<\/p>\n

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