{"id":262880,"date":"2022-12-27T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T07:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262880"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:04:15","slug":"washington-is-prolonging-ukraines-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262880","title":{"rendered":"Washington Is Prolonging Ukraine’s Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington\u2019s refusal to acknowledge Russia\u2019s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and human suffering.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Douglas Macgregor \u2013 The American Conservative Dec 20, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

During a speech given on November 29, Polish Vice-Minister of National Defense (MON)<\/a>\u00a0Marcin Ociepa said: “The probability of a war in which we will be involved is very high. Too high for us to treat this scenario only hypothetically.”\u00a0The Polish MON is allegedly planning<\/a>\u00a0to call up 200,000 reservists in 2023 for a few weeks\u2019 training, but observers in Warsaw suspect this action could easily lead to a national mobilization.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, inside the Biden administration, there\u00a0is growing concern that the Ukrainian war effort will collapse under the weight of a Russian offensive. And as the ground in Southern Ukraine finally freezes, the administration\u2019s fears are justified. In an interview published in the\u00a0Economist<\/em><\/a>, head of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces General Valery Zaluzhny admitted that Russian mobilization and tactics are working.\u00a0He even\u00a0hinted that Ukrainian\u00a0forces might be unable to withstand the coming Russian onslaught.<\/p>\n

Yet,\u00a0Zaluzhny\u00a0rejected any notion of a negotiated settlement and\u00a0instead\u00a0pleaded\u00a0<\/span>for more equipment and\u00a0support.\u00a0 He went on to insist\u00a0that with 300 new tanks, 600 to 700 new infantry fighting vehicles, and 500 new Howitzers, he\u00a0could still win the war with Russia. Truthfully, General Zaluzhny is not asking for assistance,\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0asking for a new army. Therein\u00a0lies the\u00a0greatest\u00a0danger for Washington and its NATO allies.<\/p>\n

When things go badly for Washington\u2019s foreign policy, the true believers in the great cause always draw deeply from the well of ideological self-delusion to steel themselves for the final\u00a0battle.\u00a0Blinken, Klain, Austin, and the rest of the war party continue to\u00a0pledge eternal support<\/a>\u00a0for Kiev regardless of the cost. Like the \u201cbest and the brightest\u201d of the 1960s they are eager to sacrifice realism to wishful thinking, to wallow in the splash of publicity and self-promotion in one public visit to Ukraine after another.<\/p>\n

This spectacle is frighteningly reminiscent of events more than 50 years ago, when Washington\u2019s proxy war in Vietnam was failing. Doubters within the Johnson administration about the wisdom of\u00a0intervening on the ground<\/a>\u00a0to rescue Saigon from certain destruction went into hiding. In 1963, Washington already had 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam. The idea that Washington was supporting a government in South Vietnam that might not win against North Vietnam was dismissed out of hand. Secretary of State\u00a0Dean Rusk said<\/a>, \u201cWe will not pull out until the war is won.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the spring of 1965, American military advisors were already dying. General Westmoreland, then commander of Military Assistance Command Vietnam,\u00a0reported to LBJ<\/a>: \u201cIt is increasingly apparent that the existing levels of United States aid cannot prevent the collapse of South Vietnam… North Vietnam is moving in for the kill…\u00a0Acting on the request of the South Vietnamese government, the decision must be made to commit as soon as possible 125,000 United States troops to prevent the Communist takeover.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Biden administration\u2019s unconditional support for the Zelensky regime in Kiev is reaching a strategic inflection point not unlike the one LBJ reached in 1965. Just as LBJ suddenly determined in 1964 that peace and security in Southeast Asia was a vital U.S. strategic interest, the Biden administration is making a similar argument now for Ukraine. Like South Vietnam in the 1960s,\u00a0Ukraine is losing<\/a>\u00a0its war with Russia.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s hospitals and morgues are filled to capacity with wounded and dying Ukrainian soldiers. Washington\u2019s proxy in Kiev has squandered its human capital and\u00a0considerable Western aid<\/a>\u00a0in a series of self-defeating counter-offensives. Ukrainian soldiers manning the defensive lines facing Russian soldiers in Southern Ukraine are brave men, but they are not fools. The Spartans at Thermopylae were brave, and they still died.<\/p>\n

The real danger now is that Biden will soon appear on television to repeat LBJ\u2019s performance in 1965, substituting the word “Ukraine” for “South Vietnam”:<\/p>\n

Tonight, my fellow Americans I want to speak to you about freedom, democracy, and the struggle of the Ukrainian people for victory. No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the millions who live in Ukraine and Eastern Europe\u2026\u00a0However, I am not talking about\u00a0a NATO attack on Russia. Rather, I propose to send a U.S. led coalition of the willing, consisting of American, Polish, and Romanian armed forces into Ukraine, to establish the ground equivalent of a \u201cno-fly zone.\u201d The mission I propose is a peaceful one, to create a safe zone in the Western most portion of Ukraine for Ukrainian Forces and refugees struggling to survive Russia\u2019s devastating attacks\u2026<\/p>\n

Disaster wrapped in rhetoric is not the way to save the people of Ukraine.\u00a0The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty<\/em> fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO\u2019s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians to fight. Now Washington must urge them to stop.<\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s governments are divided in their thinking about the war in Ukraine. Except for Poland and, possibly, Romania,\u00a0none of NATO\u2019s members are in a rush<\/a>\u00a0to mobilize their forces for a long, grueling war of attrition with Russia in Ukraine. No one in London, Paris, or, Berlin wants to run the\u00a0risk of a nuclear war<\/a>\u00a0with Moscow.\u00a0Americans do not support<\/a>\u00a0going to war with Russia, and those few who do are ideologues, shallow political opportunists, or\u00a0greedy defense contractors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When U.S. forces finally withdrew from Southeast Asia, Americans thought that Washington would exercise greater restraint, recognize the limits of American power, and pursue a less militant, and more realistic foreign policy. Americans were mistaken then, but\u00a0Americans and Europeans<\/a>\u00a0know now that Washington\u2019s refusal to acknowledge Russia\u2019s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and more human suffering.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em>, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books.<\/p>\n

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