Russia is Done Playing Politics Over Ukraine
As we approach next week’s big summit between the U.S./NATO and Russia over tensions in Ukraine it’s important to understand just where things between everyone stands. Russia’s Foreign Ministry, normally the soul of understatement and infuriating politeness, has been ratcheting up the blunt over the past couple of months.
Nothing else seems to get the attention of U.S. and European so-called diplomats and decision-makers.
These are people who arrogantly believe it is their right and privilege to demean everyone else they don’t respect or agree with. They sincerely don’t like it when it comes back at them.
To that point, the recent dustup between Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova and the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell was outstanding. Zakharova is thorough, eloquent, and nearly always correct. She accomplishes these things because she has the truth on her side.
Borrell published an interview with the German propaganda rag, Die Welt, which read like an application for his long-term commitment to Arkham Asylum for solipsism bordering on insanity in which he complained Russia had no right to make demands of the EU or NATO.
“Demanding security guarantees and ending the eastward expansion of the EU and NATO is a purely Russian agenda with completely unacceptable conditions, especially with regard to Ukraine,” Borrell added.
According to him, the Russian Federation presented its agenda in writing for the first time. “Only the winners do this: they say that this and that are my conditions,” Borrell said.
The problem for Borrell is that the Russians are the winners in this standoff. In every way Russia has the tactical and strategic advantage here and only EU recalcitrance and the madness of EU technocratic ideologues, like Borrell, keeps this from being acknowledged.
Borrell, like Eurcrats Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Christine Lagarde, etc. were all placed in power by Davos to effect the very outcomes we’ve been unfortunately treated to. They have zero skin in the game of Europe. There are no bad outcomes for them other than if they don’t do as they are told.
So, as always, these insults by Borrell are a feature, not a bug, of EU policy. People like Borrell may be incompetent, but that too is a feature, not a bug. He was chosen precisely because he will say and do whatever he is told to do.
What’s going on in Ukraine is no longer about energy deliveries, pipelines, or any of that stuff. Putin has reset the terms of the conflict to a purely military, facts-on-the-ground conflict.
By doing this he puts the negotiations for any resolution right on the shoulders of the military power in the region. This would be the U.S.
The only question left is whether rogue agents within any of these organizations — The intelligence complex, NATO, the EU — starts something between now and then to sabotage these ceasefire talks and ‘force Russia to invade’ Ukraine.
Enter the Neocons who do not believe in any restraints on their behavior. They will risk everything to maintain the hope of their final victory. They will sacrifice everyone else in their monomaniacal quest for the aggrieved Trotsky’s vindication.
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