The United States Could Have Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-09 at 01:19:58 )

The United States Could Have Prevented This War Just By Protecting Kyiv From Nazis by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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As we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kyiv, it is probably worth taking a moment to highlight the fact that this entire war could have been avoided if the United States had simply pledged military protection for Mr. Zelensky against the far right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected to enact.

To be clear, what we are indulging in here is entirely an act of fantasy. In imagining what would have happened if the United States had pledged to protect the Ukrainian government from an undemocratic violent overthrow at the hands of fascists instead of waging a horrific proxy war, we are imagining a world in which the United States government acts in the highest interest of all instead of working continuously to dominate the planet no matter how much madness and cruelty it needs to inflict upon humanity. A world in which the United States had not been taking steps toward the orchestration of this proxy war for many years.

With that out of the way, it is just a simple fact that for a fraction of the military firepower the United States is pouring into Ukraine right now, it could have prevented the entire war by simply protecting Ukrainian democracy from the undemocratic impulses of the worst people in that country.

When he was asked by The Nations Katrina vanden Heuvel last month what he thinks is preventing Kyiv from signing a peace agreement with Russia, John Mearsheimer, whose analysis of this conflict has been prophetic for many years, replied as follows:

-I think that when Mr. Zelensky ran for president he made it very clear that he wanted to work out an arrangement with Russia that ended the crisis in Ukraine, and he won. And what he then tried to do was move toward implementing the Minsk II agreement. If you were going to shut down the conflict in Ukraine, you had to implement Minsk II. And Minsk II meant giving the Russian-speaking and the ethnic Russian population in the easternmost part of Ukraine, the Donbas region, a significant amount of autonomy, and you had to make the Russian language an official language of Ukraine.

I think Mr. Zelensky found out very quickly that because of the Ukrainian right, it was impossible to implement Minsk II. Therefore even though the French and the Germans, and of course the Russians were very interested in making Minsk II work, because they wanted to shut down the crisis, they could not do it. In other words, the Ukrainian right was able to stymie Mr. Zelensky on that front.

When Mearsheimer says that the Ukrainian right was able to stymie Mr. Zelensky, he does not mean by votes or by democratic processes, he means by threats and violence. In an article last month titled "Siding with Ukraines far-right, United States sabotaged Mr. Zelenskys mandate for peace," journalist Aaron Mate wrote the following:

-In April 2019, Mr. Zelensky was elected with an overwhelming 73% of the vote on a promise to turn the tide. In his inaugural address the next month, Mr. Zelensky declared that he was "not afraid to lose my own popularity, my ratings," and was "prepared to give up my own position - as long as peace arrives."

But Ukraines powerful far-right and neo-Nazi militias made clear to Mr. Zelensky that reaching peace in the Donbas would have a much higher cost.

"No, he would lose his life," Right Sector co-founder Dmytro Anatoliyovych Yarosh, then the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, responded one week after Mr. Zelenskys inaugural speech. "He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk - if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War."

Unlocked: Siding with Ukraines far-right, United States sabotaged Mr. Zelenskys historic mandate for peace, by-Aaron Mate (aaronjmate) April 15, 2022

In a 2019 interview with Mr. Mate, the late great scholar Stephen Cohen made the following comments:

-But ultimately you have a situation now which seems not to be widely understood, that the new president of Ukraine, Mr. Zelensky, ran as a peace candidate. This is a bit of a stretch and maybe it does not mean a whole lot to your generation, but he ran a kind of George McGovern campaign. The difference was McGovern got wiped out and Zelensky won by, I think, 71, 72 percent. He won an enormous mandate to make peace.

So, that means he has to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. And there are various formats, right? There is a so-called Minsk format which involves the German and the French; there is a bilateral directly with President Putin. But his willingness-and this is what is important and not well reported here-his willingness to deal directly with President Putin, which his predecessor, Mr. Poroshenko, was not or could not or whatever reason-actually required considerable boldness on Mr. Zelensky[s part], because there are opponents of this in Ukraine and they are armed. Some people say they are fascists but they are certainly ultra-nationalist, and they have said that they will remove and kill Mr. Zelensky if he continues along this line of negotiating with President Putin.

Mr. Zelensky cannot go forward as I have explained. I mean, his life is being threatened literally by a quasi-fascist movement in Ukraine, he can not go forward with full peace negotiations with Russia, with President Putin, unless America has his back. Maybe that will not be enough, but unless the White House encourages this diplomacy, Mr. Zelensky has no chance of negotiating an end to the war, so the stakes are enormously high.

Why Russia Went to War Now by Ted Snider #Ukraine #Russia #NATO-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) May 2, 2022

In an article titled "Why Russia Went to War Now," Antiwars Ted Snyder explains that President Putin likely made the decision to invade because Kyiv was not respecting Minsk II and because future NATO membership with Ukraine was being kept on the table while weapons poured into the country from the United States.

"Mr. Zelensky would not talk to the leaders of the Donbas, Minsk was dead and Russia feared an imminent operation against the ethnic Russian population of the Donbas," Mr. Snyder writes. "At the same time, Washington,D.C. had become a leaky faucet on promises of flooding Ukraine with weapons and open doors to NATO: two red lines President Putin had clearly drawn."

But, again, Mr. Zelensky could not enact Minsk because it had been made abundantly clear to him that he faced a horrific death by fascist lynch mob if he did. If the choice is between taking a chance on a United States proxy war and getting Gaddafied in the public square, I think many leaders around the world would opt for the former.

So Mr. Zelensky made peace with the Nazis, whose will for Ukraine aligned with Washington,D.C.s.

Despite his branding in MSM as a Jewish leader against including Nazis in Ukrainians government & military, Pres. Zelensky caved when they challenged him, has honored them, offered seats at the table & relies on them as a frontline force against Russia-Alex Rubinstein (RealAlexRubi) March 4, 2022

But what this means is that every major factor which led to Russias decision to invade could have been nullified by the United States government.

A guarantee of no NATO membership for Ukraine could have been made. The weapons supplies could have been stopped. And Mr. Zelensky and his government could have received protection from the United States military against the armed fascists who would repeat their violent acts of 2014 upon them.

It would have been wins all around.

We would not be staring down the barrel of nuclear armageddon.

Ukraine would have been spared the horrors of an insane proxy war.

Western powers would not be sending arms to literal Nazi factions.

And the United States would actually be protecting Ukrainian democracy, instead of just pretending to.

But, again, we are only indulging in fantasy here.

Fighting Nazis, protecting democracy and waging peace are not things the United States empire actually does in real life.

The United States is the most tyrannical and murderous regime on earth, by a truly massive margin, and it will happily risk the life of everyone on earth if it means securing planetary rule.

But sometimes it is nice to imagine the kind of world we might be living in if we were not ruled by psychopaths.

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