The Ever-Widening War by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2022-12-05 at 03:24:49 )

The Ever-Widening War by Paul Craig Roberts!

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Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics called for NATO to allow Ukraine to conduct strikes inside Russian territory, adding the alliance should not fear Moscows response. The White House has resisted sending Kiev missiles with the range to hit targets inside Russia.

"During an interview on the sidelines of NATO summit in Romania, Rinkevics stated "we should allow Ukrainians to use weapons to target missile sites or air fields from where those operations are being launched." Allies "should not fear" escalation from Moscow, he added."

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Escalation is proceeding as it did in Vietnam. A Washington,D.C. puppet would not have voiced a provocative proposal without Washington,D.C.s permission. By "inside Russia" Mr. Rinkevics means territory beyond the territory Russia recently reincorporated. He is calling for widening the war by crossing a red line that President Putin could not ignore.

It is, of course, Washington,D.C. that has widened the Kremlins limited military operation into an ever larger war with increasing Western participation. But it was President Putins decision in favor of a slow moving limited war, which did not hamper Ukraines ability to fight the war, that enabled Washington,D.C. to widen the war.

Washington,D.C. had plenty of time to create the narrative and control the explanation of the war. Washington,D.C.s propaganda created sympathy for Ukraine and hatred of Russia. What the Kremlin needed was a quick decisive victory and a new Ukrainian government before Washington,D.C. had time to react.

More importantly, by entering the conflict with insufficient soldiers and no reserves, the extended Russian lines became indefensible. Russian pullbacks were used in the West to create the impression that Russia could be defeated. The United Kingdom Telegraph even wrote a few days ago that Ukraine would be in Crimea by Christmas.

The belief that Russia can be defeated will prevent realistic negotiations and will encourage more provocations that sooner or later will cross a red line that cannot be ignored.

The go-slow limited military action is a certain path to wider war.

Before long Washington,D.C. will be too involved, too committed to step back.

Far from being limited, the conflict is leading to nuclear confrontation. If the Kremlin cannot find the wisdom to quickly bring the conflict to an end, it will spin out of control.

The Kremlin seems to be having a difficult time recognizing reality.

For many months the Kremlin has been complaining about each new "indirect" participation by the US-NATO. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has recently elevated this complaint to "direct participation." In other words, the Kremlin has finally acknowledged that the US-NATO are at war with Russia. "please read here:"

Mr. Lavrov admits that the risk of escalaion into nuclear war is enormous.

So why does the Kremlin not do what it should have done long ago and bring the conflict to a quick close by destroying the infrastructure that permits Ukraine to continue the war and replace Zelensky, an American puppet, with a leader friendly to Russia??

Conflict became inevitable when the Kremlin stood aside and permitted Washington,D.C. to overthrow the Ukrainian government and install a puppet.

The conflict moved forward when the Kremlin refused the Donbass request to be reincorporated into Russia along with Crimea. In 2014 I said that this mistake would result in war. When the conflict began last February, it was clear that anything but a quick decisive Russian victory would result in United States-NATO involvement.

For the Kremlin the lessons remain unlearned.

More pointless complaints, ignored by the West, issue from the Kremlin while its spokesman gives assurances that Russia has no intention of removing Zelensky.

There seems to be no Kremlin decision to correct the highly unfavorable situation the Kremlin has created for itself.

Leaders do not like to admit mistakes.

This is especially the case when leaders decide on a course of action based on moral considerations, which President Putin did.

He tried for eight years to keep Donbass in Ukraine with the Minsk Agreement that Ukraine and the West refused to keep. He decided on a military operation limited to clearing Ukrainian soldiers out of the Donbass republics, and refused to invade and conquer Ukraine.

Not desiring a ruined and poverty-stricken Ukraine on Russias border, President Putin left secure until very recently Ukrainian power, water, and transportation infrastructure that permitted Ukraine, armed and trained by the West, to engage in a full-scale war that the Kremlin pretended to itself was limited.

But from what President Putin recently told Germanys chancellor, Olaf Scholz, these recent infrastructure attacks are not components of a revised Russian war policy. They are tit for tat exercises. Putin explained the attacks on Ukrainian war-enabling infrastructure as retaliation for attacks on the Crimea bridge and Nord Stream pipelines. "please read here:"

In other words, it seems that the Kremlins policy is to kick the can down the road.

President Putin is still wedded to his limited damage operation to free the areas that wish to escape the tyranny of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian government, and Putin still lacks the realization that Washington,D.C.s involvement has cancelled his "limited military operation."

If President Putin fails to realize that he is in a war and to use the necessary force to bring it to a quick end, he will lose control of the situation.

President Putins intentions were good, but suffered from a lack of realism. The Kremlin must have assumed that it was the only player on the chessboard.

The Kremlins mistakes have compounded.

Possibly the Kremlin has left it too long, but unless the Kremlin is content with something like a demilitarized zone and an unresolved conflict like in Korea, the alternative of knocking out Ukraine in 48 hours and installing a new government could end the conflict before Washington,D.C. escalates it further.

Waiting has never paid off for President Putin.

Waiting let Washington,D.C. train and equip a large Ukrainian army.

More waiting is letting NATO build a large army on Russias border, expanding the NATO force from 40,000 to 300,000 according to NATOs Secretary General.

A NATO members top general says United States troops are combat ready on Russias border, ready to "fight immediately."

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The Kremlins confusion and indecisiveness guarantees a larger war.

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