{"id":251496,"date":"2022-03-28T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T07:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251496"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:44:13","slug":"the-prospect-of-peace-and-its-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251496","title":{"rendered":"The Prospect of Peace and its Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk March 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The USA, Britain and NATO\u00a0 believe that the war in Ukraine makes Russia weak, reduces Putin into an Amalek figure, makes NATO strong and will lead to an extensive boost to the USA\u2019s military industrial complex. Accordingly, Biden, Johnson and NATO want an indefinite continuation of\u00a0the war.<\/p>\n

It is time to identify\u00a0who needs the war to continue as Biden is not alone on that front.\u00a0 Zelensky also wants the war to continue. He knows that any agreement with Russia would make his situation \u2018very complicated.\u2019 Ukrainian nationalists who appear\u00a0 to be bravely fighting\u00a0 the Russian army and are lauded by every Western MSM outlet, won\u2019t accept a single territorial concession. It is hard to imagine the war coming to an end without such a concession especially given Russia\u2019s clear territorial gains in the south, the east and the north. \u00a0 And Zelensky, the actor, knows that his current theatrical role is, beyond doubt, the peak of his career. From now on it is downhill. For Zelensky, the war ought to continue forever.<\/p>\n

And what about the Ukrainian people, do they want the war to end? It depends who you ask. If you follow the British and American press you are given the impression that Ukrainians are united behind their leader in a collective and suicidal mission. But the truth is that four million have left the country, ten million have been displaced within Ukraine and these numbers\u00a0are increasing daily. The country is being systematically destroyed, some of its cities reduced to dust. If this is what the\u00a0 people want, as the BBC wants us to believe, the war will never end.\u00a0 If, instead, the Ukrainians are ordinary human beings, which is more likely and an intelligent assumption, they must be very tired of the disaster inflicted on them by their leader and the warmongering West. As ordinary human beings, Ukrainians care for the future of the land, their kids, their cities, their culture, their heritage –\u00a0 they may well want to preserve it all rather than to die in the \u2018name of it.\u2019<\/p>\n

We often read that Zelensky pleads with Israel to broker a peace deal with Russia despite the fact that Israel isn\u2019t exactly the most natural candidate as a broker for harmonious coexistence. A lot has been written in recent years about the Israeli and Ukrainian\u00a0fantasy of replacing Russia as\u00a0 Europe\u2019s primary suppliers of\u00a0 gas. The current\u00a0 war in Ukraine positions Israel as the potential primary European gas supplier. This week\u00a0 Israel\u2019s prominent news channel N12<\/a> stated that\u00a0 \u201cIsrael will help Europe to cut itself off from Russian gas.\u201d N12 reports that in a Paris International Energy Agency conference the Israeli Energy Minister began discussions regarding the immediate\u00a0export of Israeli gas to Europe.<\/p>\n

Why did Putin rush to save Syria and the Assad regime? One answer is that Russia\u00a0needed a Mediterranean\u00a0 port for its navy. Why would the Russians need such a port on the Eastern Mediterranean shore? One possible answer: Putin understood that he might have to\u00a0interfere with a potential\u00a0 underwater gas pipe from Gaza\u2019s seashore to Greece. The port of Latakia places the Russian Navy in a crucial strategic position to undermine such a project. \u00a0 In other words, despite his current collaboration with Israel on Syria, Putin has known for a while that a naval conflict with Israel is inevitable.\u00a0 Of course, the Israelis also know that.<\/p>\n

But Israel\u2019s enthusiasm for the \u2018peace negotiator role\u2019 has other crucial ingredients. Israel\u2019s current economic strength is largely the outcome of the Jewish state establishing itself as a safe haven for Russian oligarchs\u2019<\/a> mammon, and many of these oligarchs are Jewish and also Israeli citizens. If Israel becomes\u00a0 a \u2018peace broker\u2019\u00a0 then Israel, due to neutrality, \u00a0won\u2019t have to participate in the sanction carnival against Russia.\u00a0 If the war goes on indefinitely, Israel won\u2019t just maintain the constant flow of Russian wealth into its banks, it will actually become the primary escape route\u00a0for Russian money. For the obvious reasons, Zelensky insists peace talks resume in Jerusalem<\/a> under the auspices of PM Bennett. Putin, however,\u00a0 doesn\u2019t seem enthusiastic about the Jerusalem option. He may grasp by now\u00a0what Israel is like and what it is after.<\/p>\n

Putin is a living riddle. I have\u00a0 good reason to believe that he isn\u2019t mentally unstable\u00a0 as he is often described in Western MSM. More likely, this\u00a0experienced tactician has some geo-political\u00a0 and militarily objectives in mind. But the problem is that no one seems to know what these objectives are. I, for instance,\u00a0 don\u2019t believe that Putin intended\u00a0 to invade Kyiv or any other large Ukrainian city except perhaps strategic assets such as Mariupol. \u00a0 I am also convinced that Putin didn\u2019t plan to \u2018impose regime change\u2019 in Ukraine. Putin probably saw a growing military danger from Ukraine and its expanding Western inclinations. He most likely wanted to obliterate\u00a0 Ukraine\u2019s military ability and by doing so, deliver a clear message to every Eastern European country. Putin wanted and still desires\u00a0 to eventually settle the conflict with Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0 democratically elected leader, i.e. Zelensky. More than anyone around, Putin needs Zelensky well and alive at least until the conclusion of his military manoeuvre.<\/p>\n

As such Putin\u00a0 may be the only\u00a0 player\u00a0 in this horrid deadly theatre with a clear exit strategy and a plan for future coexistence.\u00a0 He may be the only world leader who envisages\u00a0an end to this conflict. His vision may be unacceptable to the entire West at this stage. It may be very unpopular in Ukraine and for obvious reasons. But as it seems no one in the West has dared to challenge Russia militarily and I guess that this is partially because no one in the Western military elite\u00a0really buys into the popular narrative of the Russian army being \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018defeated.\u2019<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that when Biden called for Putin’s removal<\/a> in Poland yesterday, it is because Putin is aiming at a conclusive end to this tragic drama in Ukraine, hopefully soon,\u00a0while Biden and his many partners see a benefit to prolonging\u00a0 this disaster forever.<\/p>\n

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