{"id":269703,"date":"2023-06-08T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269703"},"modified":"2023-06-10T05:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:29:34","slug":"why-the-war-in-ukraine-could-spiral-into-something-much-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269703","title":{"rendered":"Why the War in Ukraine Could Spiral Into Something Much Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentary \u2013 June 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I have no wish to sound like a prophet of doom but it is time to acknowledge the full extent of what is potentially unfolding in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The West has a history of arming and supporting various groups in conflicts to further its own agenda. The recent conflict in Syria is a case in point. However, this time around the West is not arming and supporting another ragtag outfit like the Free Syrian Army. It is arming and supporting the second biggest army in Europe after Russia.<\/p>\n

Or what was the second biggest army in Europe. For until Russia launched its Special Military Operation, Ukraine\u2019s armed forces were bigger than those of France and Germany combined. At around 700,000, most of them were volunteers who were trained and equipped by other NATO members.<\/p>\n

Since then the war has drastically reduced those numbers by more than 150,000, if not more.<\/p>\n

Until Russia\u2019s Special Military Operation, Ukraine\u2019s sustained military buildup with Western help only heightened Moscow\u2019s worries that Kiev would join NATO. So together with persistent reports about the persecution of Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine, Moscow felt justified in taking action. Hence Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

However, Moscow didn\u2019t quite grasp the full extent of Western plans for Ukraine. For just as they had used the Free Syrian Army against President Assad, the West intended to use Ukrainian forces as proxies against Russia.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why when Russia launched its Special Military Operation in February 2022 it did so with insufficient numbers. It hadn\u2019t anticipated fighting a prolonged war because Putin was banking on a quick fix in the form of a limited military operation to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

In fact, by April 2022 his plans actually seemed to be working after President Zelensky signaled that he was ready to negotiate with Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it was not to be. After Boris Johnson made a surprise unannounced visit to Kiev<\/a> there was no more talk of a negotiated settlement with Moscow. We can only assume that the then British Prime Minister Johnson warned Zelesnky against entering into any kind of peace deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only then did Russia realize what it was really up against and only then did it start to mobilize sufficient numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NATO had long been preparing for this war against Russia in which it would fight to the last Ukrainian. For the West decided years ago that Russia was the biggest obstacle to its plans for global dominion.<\/p>\n

Consequently, as in Syria, it was agreed that Russia would be dealt with using proxies to incite dissent and conflict among the various states and ethnic groups that made up the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

The plan was to fragment the constituent parts of the Russian Federation and this is what we are witnessing now with Ukraine.<\/p>\n

However, that doesn\u2019t mean that Putin is one of the good guys or that he\u2019s opposed to the New World Order. Indeed he maybe playing his part in orchestrating a wider clash between Russia and the West, which maybe part of a more far reaching plan.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, we need to understand that a major war is being fought that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and sent more than 8 million refugees in flight. What\u2019s more, this may only be the beginning.<\/p>\n

Putin and his military commanders must have realized that the West is the prime driving force behind the conflict. So if Russia is to remedy this then they must be contemplating dealing with the roots of the war; and that means that Russia\u2019s military commanders must now be considering striking into Western Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n

Last year I wrote an article warning of a Russian strike into Western Europe<\/a> following its Special Military Operations. Well I was wrong but only about the timing. Because is seems that such a scenario is more likely than ever now. Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are dangerous times. The world is probably closer to a full-scale global confrontation than even during the Cuban missile crisis, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":263076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269703"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269734,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269703\/revisions\/269734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}