Defeated NATO and Kiev Will Soon Say ‘A Frozen Conflict Anyone?’

Defeated NATO and Kiev Will Soon Say ‘A Frozen Conflict Anyone?’

 Natasha Wright 

 ...They are calling for peace not because they want peace. If they had wanted peace in the first place, they wouldn’t have caused it, nor would they have kept churning out weapons and shoveling it off into Ukraine but because they must surely know (which they cannot admit publicly though) that the continuation of this war will bring them a miserable defeat and not a triumphant victory they have been hoping for. This ongoing polemic inevitably leads to the Rand Corporation yet again.

 An offer of peace with strikingly similar reasoning has arrived from two more equally important institutions: the Council on Foreign Relations and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. The chances are slim that these most possibly ‘as treacherous as a rattle snake’ offers are not already ‘operated’ by the Washington powers that be. They most probably are. It is another issue what effect they may have.

Council on Foreign Relations estimates that the USA and Europe will in all likelihood have valid reasons to abandon their proclaimed policy of ‘support for Ukraine as long as Ukraine needs them’  (my note to SCF readers: ’till the last Ukrainian dies). Admittedly, reality bites back that the continuation of their lavish support for Kiev is ridden with broader strategic risks which come with it. This gruelling war of attrition massively depletes the military might and capacities of the Collective West and dangerously dwindles their military supplies. The U.S. industry cannot keep up with the speed Ukraine is spending arsenals of ammunition and apart from that the exorbitant military expenditure incurred on them. I don’t think they have heard Clare Daly’s brave pleas eerily echoing in the EU Halls of Shame. I think they have looked into their empty NATO pockets.

All in all, the goals of Ukraine are slowly coming into conflict with other obviously insatiable but utterly unsustainable interests of the Collective West. The general public in the West are becoming ever more indecisive about the foreign aid they have to send off (out of their taxpayers’ coffers) having seen the accumulated costs it has bulldozed back so far. This is a crucial but possibly sobering moment for the Kiev regime...

Council on Foreign Relations admits that the partnership between Russia and China will continue to grow. Centre for Strategic and International Studies reckons that it cannot be in the interests of the USA to push Russia right into (pardon my picturesque language again) the Chinese loving arms and in doing so to militarily and financially face two Minotaurs united into one colossal power.

The peace in Ukraine cannot be hostage to the far-fetched war goals which are most probably unsustainable and not within easy military reach. 

This council thus mentions it is the time for Plan B. Funnily enough, New York Times comes up with the same sounding innuendos: a frozen conflict such as the one in between Cyprus and Turkey or North Korea and South Korea will suffice, according to them. At least for now. One cannot help but think this is nothing but admission of defeat with its possible double entendre that Russia simply cannot be defeated.

Moreover, in order to achieve the much-needed truce, Russian allies China and India are being spoonfed a (seems to me ‘forked tongue’) offer of a partial lifting of sanctions and strategic dialogue with NATO about a broader European geo-strategic architecture. But if anyone in Washington, Pentagon, Bundestag, Brussels, London et al would care to notice, this was exactly what Russia had requested i.e. in winter 2021 before the onslaught of the special military operation in Ukraine. Yet, regrettably Russia was flatly dismissed with an arrogantly rude rejection.

All these said (NATO backed) institutions  without much arrogance left on their political platter now seem to be suggesting to Washington not to turn a deaf ear to reality that Russia is the biggest country in the world with a huge human potential and natural resources, an empire with a long (and if anybody in the West would dare admit) glorious history the sanctions against which should be lifted and unlike the end of the Cold War, they should treat Russia as a global power and integrate it with their European family to the best of their (NATO) potential. Russia, they say, should not be viewed as inferior to the West, which should beg their slave-drivers for mercy. But Russia has already walked on NATO plank Hansel und Gretel style before and fell for these diabolical lies. Russia shall not be fooled twice.