The goal is to make Ukraine "Afghanistan 2.0" for Moscow
In a WaPo article on October 11, the news outlet acknowledged that US officials know that “neither Russia nor Ukraine is capable of winning the war outright.”
Now, I want you to throw away the mental biases you might have in place regarding this war for a moment and think about it: You see a war between two nations in which the US, the country which provoked the war in the first place, is fully engaged in and has the power to end through negotiations. At the same time, you come across this article from one of the US mainstream media claiming that the US officials funding this war know that none of the warring parties can win. What would you conclude?
You would conclude that the US, knowing full well that no one can win this war outright and having the ability to end it, would push both parties to the negotiation table to avoid meaningless suffering. Well, that would have been true if the US practiced the “Western values” it constantly yells about, but it doesn’t.
As a result, we find ourselves in a situation in which “they [the US officials] have ruled out the idea of pushing or even nudging Ukraine to the negotiating table.”
Let me put it in one sentence to make you feel how bat-shit insane it is: The US is pouring billions of dollars into a war explicitly saying that it would end the war while implicitly saying that none of the parties involved can win the war. Let’s try it metaphorically: The American doctor is providing the medicine of weapons to the Ukrainian patient claiming that it would cure the patient while privately acknowledging that it won’t.
What do you call a doctor who knowingly prolongs the suffering of his patient? I would call him “the human equivalent of the US empire.”
The argument that the US is funding Ukraine because it “wants peace in Ukraine” didn’t make sense after the West deliberately ended the peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv earlier in this war, but this revelation by WaPo has only made such an argument look even dumber.
Why, you asked, would the US keep pouring in billions of dollars knowing that it won’t help Ukraine win?
Such curiosity was already addressed by Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense when he explicitly said that the US goal is a “weakened” Russia:
And there’s no better way to “weaken” Moscow than keeping it engaged in a long and costly military quagmire, which is a historically-tested strategy that worked during the last cold war. Although Ukraine is not the only military quagmire that Washington has planned for Russia; a similar strategy has been at work in Syria too, where the Russian forces are fighting against the US proxies such as Al Qaeda.
The picture starts getting clearer when you take into context a 2019 study commissioned by the US Army in which they found that the US can advance its geostrategic interests in Eurasia by baiting Russia into multiple wars against the US proxies and as a result, overextending Moscow, which, hopefully, would help the US achieve the same goals it did when the USSR was forced into a 10-years long war against Afghanistan mujahideen that negatively affected the Soviet economy due to costs it incurred.
The goal is a weakened and chaotic Russia, not a stronger and peaceful Ukraine. The goal is to restore the US influence in Eurasia, not to restore “freedom and democracy” in Ukraine.
The US’s stated goal is as different from the acknowledged reality as gasoline is from water. The US is deliberately sending gasoline to Ukraine to end the fire there while claiming it’s water. Somebody with even a little bit of understanding of the world would know what happens when gasoline is poured over the fire. So, if you’re trying to say that you’re helping the place burning in fire by sending gasoline, you’re either a liar or a psychopath.
The US empire seems to be both.
You either support the US approach which is prolonging the war or you want peace in Ukraine. You can’t have both because both of them are as incompatible as the sun is with the night. There’s no way to address the huge contradiction between the US empire’s overt goal of saving lives by defeating Russia and its covert goal of weakening Russia by overextending it which means death and suffering for many.
As long as the contradiction remains unaddressed by the sponsors of the war in Ukraine, their “stand with Ukraine” motto would continue to be illegitimate and phony.
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