{"id":272761,"date":"2023-08-30T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272761"},"modified":"2023-08-31T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T06:42:06","slug":"americas-domestic-party-politics-fuel-the-ukraine-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272761","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Domestic Party Politics Fuel the Ukraine Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Giraldi \u2013 The Unz Review Aug 29, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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I am surely not the only one who has noticed that the defensive propaganda lines that are flowing out the Democratic Administration have become more than ordinarily ridiculous of late. One is astonished at the melding of fact and fiction to create narratives that depict the White House and all that pertains to it as forging a new and more wonderful country. Wasn\u2019t \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d the battle cry, whatever that is supposed to mean? And the spin is endless, even when a clueless Joe Biden belatedly winds up in Maui to relate to the tragedy in which at least 1,000 died, only to be greeted by surviving local residents saluting the president with their middle fingers upraised. As the president looked out over the destruction of an entire city by fire he reminisced by recalling his long ago \u201calmost\u201d encounter with a fire in his kitchen. Locals who were screaming for help from government were, in fact, getting almost nothing while the nation\u2019s Chief Executive was in the Oval Office gloating over sending another $23 billion to the arch crook Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, money to fight a war that Biden encouraged and has blithely entered into.<\/p>\n

Washington politicians characteristically have no morals and are driven only by their desire to perpetuate their party\u2019s dominance so that the corruption that makes so many of those who adhere to the process rich, including Joe Biden. How do 500,000 dead Ukrainians and Russians matter if a myth about the United States and its values can be exploited to obtain electoral victory for Biden in 2024? As the greatly esteemed monster Madeleine Albright once put it, \u201cI think it is worth it!\u201d<\/p>\n

I would suggest that our political class and the parasites that surround it are approaching depths not yet plumbed when I occasionally peruse articles or listen to speeches produced by the Washington DC spin machine. But even by that measure, I was appalled by a recent article that appeared in Politico<\/em><\/a> and which immediately received considerable replay in other publications frequented by the inside-the-Beltway crowd.<\/p>\n

Politico<\/em> was acquired by Axel Springer, a German publisher in 2021, Europe\u2019s largest newspaper and magazine conglomerate. Ideologically, some have described Springer publications\u2019 political bias \u201cas leaning left of center or moderate\u201d but my personal exposure to the group since my army days in Germany has led me to believe that it is actually much more conservative than that. All employees at Springer, to include Politico,<\/em> are expected to support the European Union, NATO, Israel, the war against Ukraine, the open society, and free market policies.<\/p>\n

The article is entitled \u201cHere Are 3 Ways to End the War in Ukraine. One Might Actually Work\u201d with a subtitle \u201cPutin has a veto over two endgames for Ukraine. But there\u2019s a third that would bypass him.\u201d The piece was penned by one Tom Malinowski, an assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor in the Obama administration before serving as a Democratic Party congressman from New Jersey\u2019s 7th<\/sup> district between 2019 and 2023. He is currently under investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics over \u201csubstantial reason to believe\u201d that he had violated federal laws relating to conflicts of interest. He had reportedly<\/a> traded and failed to disclose approximately $1 million of stock in medical and technical companies that would be receiving taxpayer assistance as part of the COVID-19 pandemic response, which would inevitably result in a large surge in stock values.<\/p>\n

Malinowski is currently a senior fellow at the McCain Institute, one of those foundations funded by defense industries where politicians go to hide and get rich between terms in elected office. The Institute is a Washington DC based allegedly \u201cnonpartisan think tank established in cooperation with Arizona State University.\u201d Its declared mission is to \u201cfight for democracy, human dignity, and security for a world that is free, safe, and just for all people.\u201d Inevitably, it is rather selective in terms of who exactly benefits from its largesse and one might recall that its eponymous founder Senator John McCain hardly ever saw a war he didn\u2019t like and once dismissed Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia as a \u201cgasoline station pretending to be a real country.\u201d McCain was also a major player in the \u201cregime change\u201d operation in Ukraine in 2014, suggesting that his judgement about America\u2019s relationship with the rest of the world just might be a little flawed.<\/p>\n

Malinowski is inevitably fully on board with the White House view of why the United States has gone whole hog in a proxy war against Russia that uses Ukraine as its instrument of choice . <\/em>He says in his first paragraph that \u201c\u2019Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia \u2014 never,\u2019 President Joe Biden said in a speech in Poland this year, and rightly so. For the war in Ukraine to end on terms consistent with American interests and ideals, Ukraine must be seen to have won, and Russia\u2019s invasion must go down in history as a decisive failure, enough to deter other authoritarian powers from launching similar wars of aggression in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malinowski poses his \u201c3 Ways\u201d as follows: first, for \u201cits armed forces to take back all the territory Russia has unlawfully seized since its first invasion in 2014 \u2014 including Crimea. This would be a fantastic outcome. It is still possible. And the United States should do everything possible to support it, including, if Congress approves more funding, by providing the more advanced weapons Ukraine has requested.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Malinowski thinks armed victory by Ukraine is \u201cstill possible\u201d he is delusional, but he does not seriously expect that outcome, except for the \u201cmore funding\u201d part. His Second Way, also a \u201cred herring\u201d to disguise where he really wants to go, would be \u201cthrough a diplomatic agreement. Earlier this month, 40 countries, including China and the United States, met in Saudi Arabia to discuss President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s 10-point plan for peace, which would require the withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine, the return of abducted children and justice for war crimes. Any settlement based on that plan would, of course, be wonderful. But Russia under Putin has never ended its wars at the negotiating table; at best it has frozen them, keeping its options open. Russia has shown zero interest in making concessions that would come close to the minimal requirements of Ukraine and its allies. As long as his military avoids total collapse, and he believes there is a chance of political change in the West, Putin will likely keep sacrificing Russians to stay in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

So Malinowski\u2019s Second Way is a deliberately designed dead end and he, of course, blames it all on Putin. His actual \u201csolution\u201d would be the Third Way: \u201cSo if Russia manages to stymie plans A and B, where would that leave us by, say this time next year? Should Ukraine and its allies simply carry on, hoping for a breakthrough in 2025 or beyond? Given what\u2019s at stake \u2014 not just the survival of Ukraine but of the whole international order \u2014 that would be risky. It would make success dependent on events we cannot predict or control, including on the outcome of elections in Western countries, including the United States. And while we have no right to tell Ukrainians to stop fighting before their country is whole, we also have no right to expect them to keep fighting at any cost. Fortunately, there is a third possible way to satisfy the need for Ukrainian success and Russian failure, over which Putin would have no veto.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malinowski requires that \u201cthe United States would give the Ukrainian military whatever it needs to advance as far as possible in its counteroffensive. At an appropriate point next year, Ukraine would declare a pause in offensive military operations and shift its primary focus to defending and rebuilding liberated areas while integrating with Western institutions. Then, at its July, 2024 summit in Washington, NATO would invite Ukraine to join the Western alliance, guaranteeing the security of all territory controlled by the Ukrainian government at that point under Article 5 of the NATO treaty\u2026 This would be a defensive pact, but not a commitment to take direct part in any future offensive operations Ukraine might choose to undertake. Ukraine joining NATO could itself be how the war ends, consistent with Biden\u2019s current policy \u2014 and at a time and on terms set by Ukraine and its allies, not by Russia. Gaining security within NATO as a strong, pluralistic, democratic state would absolutely count as a victory for Ukraine \u2014 arguably as big as quickly regaining Crimea. It might make it politically possible for Zelensky, if he so chooses, to emphasize nonmilitary strategies for reclaiming any parts of his country still under Russian occupation, which Ukraine\u2019s allies would also continue to support \u2014 potentially including anything from diplomacy and sanctions to blockade and sabotage\u2026 Adding a democratic Ukraine in NATO would mark the utter and permanent defeat of Putin\u2019s crusade to absorb it into a Russian empire\u2026 Yes, Russian forces could try to go on the offensive again, but the likely futility of attacking fortified Ukrainian positions now backed by the threat of NATO firepower would be a strong deterrent. Meanwhile, sanctions on Russia would remain; its economic and military strength would continue to erode; and Putin could only watch as his frozen assets abroad are drawn down to pay for Ukraine\u2019s reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is easy to see what is wrong with the Malinowski Third Way apart from it being an open door to initiating a nuclear World War III. And one might suggest that it is also possible to discern the US domestic politics that are driving it. How the war in Ukraine ends all depends on Zelensky behaving rationally, which he is not renowned for, and he is quite capable of joining NATO before using a false flag or otherwise provoking an incident with Russia that would require NATO Article 5 intervention. Also, all the other parties involved would have to act predictably and sanely, including the US, which is unlikely. Zelensky in particular is desperate to draw the US and NATO into his war and will do whatever it takes to arrive at that point and his non-negotiable demand for full restoration of all Ukrainian territory including Crimea, endorsed by Malinowski, is a deal breaker that in any event Russia could not accept.<\/p>\n

Even the up-until-now supportive US mainstream media is beginning to see the light and is admitting both that the highly touted Ukrainian counteroffensive has been a failure and that Ukraine has no ability to defeat Russia no matter how many weapons are put in the pipeline at great cost to sustain it. And there is also the fraud from the Biden regime that is taking place with reports that even the normally biddable CIA has been warning to no avail that the war is unwinnable. The fact that as many as half a million Ukrainians and Russians have already been killed or wounded is starting to hit home with both Americans and Europeans and will increase demands to end the fighting as unconditionally as necessary.<\/p>\n

A final but very important point that must be made is the deliberate timing of Malinowski\u2019s \u201c3rd<\/sup> Way\u201d which very conveniently presents Joe Biden with a great military victory just before the US presidential election, erasing all memories of the disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan. It apparently matters not that in doing so it continues a bloody and pointless war and destroys Ukraine as a state and as a people. Online substack observer Simplicius the Thinker<\/a> describes how \u201cDemocrats will need all the help they can get. If a plan could be designed and packaged in a way where it can be sold as a major \u2018victory\u2019 then certainly Democrats will attempt to drag it out until the eve of the election to try to use \u2018Biden\u2019s major Ukrainian victory\u2019 as a huge final hour boost.\u201d Joe and Malinowski apparently believe that victory in an election is more important that finding the sanity to take steps to save hundreds of thousands of lives and they will continue to do whatever it takes to \u201cwin.\u201d Sickening.<\/p>\n

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Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is <\/em>councilforthenationalinterest.org,<\/em><\/strong> address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is <\/em>inform@cnionline.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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