More Evidence That The United States Is Trying To Prolong This War by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-03-26 at 03:14:27 )

More Evidence That The United States Is Trying To Prolong This War by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The Washington Post has a new article out bemoaning the fact that Russian military commanders are declining calls from the Pentagon to discuss their operations in Ukraine (I dunno guys, might have something to do with the fact that the United States is sharing extensive military intelligence on exactly those operations directly with the Ukrainian government). Tucked all the way down in the eighteenth paragraph of the article, we find a much more interesting revelation: that Washington,D.C.s top diplomat has made no attempt to contact his counterpart in Moscow since the war began on the 24th of February.

"Secretary of State Antony Blinken has not attempted any conversations with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, since the start of the conflict, according to United States officials," The Washington Post reports.

So the United States government is continuing its policy of refusing to attempt any high-level diplomatic resolutions to this war despite its public hand-wringing about the horrific violence that is being inflicted upon the people of Ukraine. This revelation fits nicely with a recent report by Bloombergs Niall Ferguson that sources in the United States and United Kingdom governments have told him the real goal of western powers in this conflict is not to negotiate peace or end the war quickly, but to prolong it in order "bleed President Putin" and achieve regime change in Moscow.

The amazing part of this column is that United States officials are saying out loud that they want the war to last in order to "bleed President Putin". They do not care a fig about Ukraine. It stands completely alone (and Zelenskiy knows it, btw). -Leonid Bershidskiy (Bershidsky) March 22, 2022

Building on an earlier report from The New York Times that the Biden administration "seeks to help Ukraine lock Russia in a quagmire," Ferguson writes that he has reached the conclusion that "the United States intends to keep this war going," and says he has other sources to corroborate this:

"The only end game now," a senior administration official was heard to say at a private event earlier this month, "is the end of Putin regime. Until then, all the time Putin stays, [Russia] will be a pariah state that will never be welcomed back into the community of nations. China has made a huge error in thinking Putin will get away with it. Seeing Russia get cut off will not look like a good vector and they will have to re-evaluate the Sino-Russia axis. All this is to say that democracy and the West may well look back on this as a pivotal strengthening moment."

I gather that senior British figures are talking in similar terms. There is a belief that "the United Kingdoms No. 1 option is for the conflict to be extended and thereby bleed Putin." Again and again, I hear such language. It helps explain, among other things, the lack of any diplomatic effort by the United States to secure a cease-fire. It also explains the readiness of President Joe Biden to call President Putin a war criminal.

Earlier this month when The Intercepts Ryan Grim was able to get a word in edgewise at a White House press briefing amid the throngs of mass media reporters demanding to know why President Biden still has not started World War 3, Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave a very revealing answer.

"So, aside from the request for weapons, President Zelensky has also requested that the United States be more involved in negotiations toward a peaceful resolution to the war. What is the United States doing to push those negotiations forward?" asked Mr. Grim.

"Well, one of the steps we have taken - a significant one - is to be the largest provider of military and humanitarian and economic assistance in the world, to put them in a greater position of strength as they go into these negotiations," Ms Psaki answered, completely dodging the question of whether the United States was actually doing anything to help negotiate peace.

This is wild-Ryan Grim (ryangrim) March 16, 2022

As we have discussed previously, the United States government has a well-documented history of working to draw Moscow into costly military quagmires with the goal of preoccupying its military forces and draining its coffers.

Former United States officials are on record publicly boasting about having done so in both Afghanistan and Syria. This is an agenda geared toward sapping the Russian government, manufacturing international consent for unprecedented acts of economic warfare designed (though perhaps ineptly) to crush the Russian economy, to foment discord and rebellion, and ultimately to effect regime change in Moscow.

The United States empire does not care about Ukrainian lives, and it is insulting that its operatives continually pretend to. The empire will happily feed every man, woman and child in the entire nation into the mouth of this war if it means unseating a disobedient leader from a nuclear-armed seat of power which has become unacceptably cozy with Beijing and intolerably comfortable with intervening against United States imperial agendas.

And all the Ukrainian-flag-waving propagandized westerners with their #StandWithUkraine Instagram activism and blue and yellow profile pics will cheer for it every step of the way.

I hope this brutal proxy war ends and peace comes to Ukraine very quickly.

But from what we are seeing today there appears to be an immense globe-spanning power structure holding its foot against the door of the only exit from this horror.

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