from Strategic Culture:
The vampiric orgy of weapons going to Ukraine could provoke a terrifying world war and global catastrophe.
No sooner had the United States, Germany and other NATO powers announced the major release of main battlefield tanks for Ukraine, the Kiev regime immediately started demanding the supply of American-made F-16 warplanes.
The attitude is incorrigible. Chutzpah on steroids, or perhaps cocaine.
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As Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky gloated this week shamelessly and without a hint of irony to corporate honchos in Florida, the war in his country means “big business opportunities” for the West. This clownish figure was formerly a comedian and actor before becoming a politician. Now he can add pimping to his grubby career.
For weeks in the Western states there have been tortuous public discussions about whether to send tanks to support the Kiev regime against Russia. Then abruptly, the U.S., Germany and other NATO allies have one by one unceremoniously shirked the taboo and are promising delivery of the heavy armor weaponry. The Biden administration declared it will send around 30 units of M1 Abrams. Germany is to send about 14 Leopard 2 tanks as are several other European NATO members who have the German-made vehicle in their inventories. Britain has announced it will supply about 14 of its Challenger 2 tanks and France is considering supplying Leclerc main battlefield units.
The numbers involved are way short of the 300 demanded by the Kiev regime and will not deliver the much-vaunted and totally unrealistic “victory” over Russia. The tokenism is, however, part of an enormous war racket. It’s all about pumping up more profiteering rather than any principle or serious strategic objective in Ukraine, apart from destabilizing Russia and trying to isolate Moscow internationally. The danger is, however, if the powder keg is stoked any further, the risk of an unintended conflagration becomes a growing probability.
It’s almost farcical – if it wasn’t so grave – how reckless is the rush by NATO powers to outdo each other in military madness.
Moscow has condemned an “extremely dangerous escalation” which puts NATO in direct conflict with Russia on a path of full-blown war in Europe. Any such war will not be confined to Europe. This is a step off the abyss towards a world war at grave risk of unleashing nuclear annihilation.
Over the past year since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine to neutralize a NATO-sponsored NeoNazi regime that had for eight years been aggressing ethnic Russian people formerly in eastern Ukraine (now integrated into the Russian Federation after popular referenda), the United States and its allies have scaled up weapon supplies to Ukraine at a staggering blitzkrieg rate.
The financial and military aid funneled into Ukraine over just 12 months from the U.S., NATO and European Union amounts to around $100 billion. This is while these states are telling their own citizens that there isn’t enough money for funding essential public services and welfare needs, amid crushing economic inflation caused in large part by energy prices soaring from unilaterally cutting Russian gas supplies. The nature of the weapons has graduated to increasingly offensive firepower and quantity. The readiness by the NATO powers to mobilize military resources indicates that this war was anticipated as a showdown with Russia.
Ukrainian defense official Yuriy Sak cockily commented about the relative ease of the “next big hurdle” of acquiring F-16s fighter jets.
“They didn’t want to give us heavy artillery, then they did. They didn’t want to give us HIMARS [missiles], then they did. They didn’t want to give us tanks, now they’re giving us tanks. Apart from nuclear weapons, there is nothing left that we will not get.”
That means F-16s are up next.
It’s not clear who the “they” who “didn’t want to” supply weapons are. Every step of the way, Western leaders have quickly jettisoned any supposed scruples or reservations about supplying weapons. The so-called “reservations” seem in hindsight now to have been nothing but cynical deception to hoodwink the Western public about what their politicians are doing – which is opening the gates of hell for war by plying Ukraine with weapons and suppressing any attempt at ending the conflict through politics and diplomacy. Lest it should be forgotten, politics and diplomacy should be the first and most urgent effort. The negligence, indeed repudiation, of diplomacy by Western powers is tantamount to criminal conspiracy for fueling hostility.
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