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U.S. Is Pushing Kiev Into Admitting Defeat
Two such articles on the same day are not a coincidence.
Ukraine's war aim is to regain all of its land up to the 1991 borders.
The appearance of those pieces means that the U.S. is now trying to push Kiev into admitting defeat.
But there are powerful forces in Ukraine, previously nurtured by the U.S., which will resist to do so.
It may thus require a civil war in Ukraine to achieve that aim.
Baba@15
What Biden is hiding in Ukraine, quite apart from the sordid detail of his business dealings of which, in an almost Trumpian way, he appears to be quite proud, is the reality that liberalism is unstable. It is a transitional stage, politically and economically, a crossroads from which there is nbo way forward but a left or right turn. Socialism or Barbarism.
And Ukraine is barbarism, promoted and buttressed by, the chosen agents of post liberalism, fascists.
Beyond the smoke of war and the chaos of Kiev’s constantly changing alliances Ukraine represents Europe’s future: semi-criminal collaborationism, founded upon a strip mined economy while the project of sabotaging Eurasian development and opening Russia to imperialist colonisation goes forward.
It was lucky for Europe, for the USA and Canada, that it secreted, in the emigration of Hitler’s most enthusiastic Ukrainian and eastern european collaborators, the ideology of the Nazis for the time at which it would prove to be essential: the current era in which the need to crusade against the slavs (not to mention the Chinese) is critical to the survival of the system.
Consider the tableau in Ottawa’s Parliament where it took the appearance of a 98 year old veteran of the Waffen SS to bring Senate and House together and unite members of all parties in a common belief.
Europe’s future is to be NATO, the Empire’s self sustaining army. An essential force in the war to perfect its hegemony.
The only vibrant living political tradition in Europe, apart from the undercurrents of resistance from those of the exploited awakened to reality, is that of the Collaborator.
The European political class is one of collaborationists, in the east they are the descendants of those who fell in with the Warsaw Pact. In the west, where the Nazis established the rule of collaborators ready to sacrifice, even to the extent of providing slave labour and cannon fodder, everything, in order to ingratiate themselves with Berlin, nothing was more natural than to do for Washington what had previously been required of them by the Reich.
They are so obsessed with the fixation that their (and their country’s) purpose is to prostrate themselves before power that they spend half their time looking for new arses to lick. All they require is to be bullied. They can go nowhere unless they are kept in line. It gives their otherwise meaningless existences, purpose and justification. Can it be an accident that Leopold von Sacher Masoch was a Galician, born in Lvov?
How else can we explain the German government’s complicity in the ruining of its economy, its welcoming of castration of its industry by cutting off, one by one, the sources of its energy?
Or of, the Petain fan, Macron’s insouciance as France’s African neo-colonies were taken from it?
Or of the enthusiasm in Europe’s ruling elites for the Israeli assault on Gaza which is putting an end to the last shreds of the continent’s half a millenium of posing as a morally superior civilisation?
One of the, almost inexplicable, features of the SMO has been the way in which it galvanised the neutrals in Europe- both the states like Sweden, Finland and Switzerland and the ‘pacificistic’ ‘left’- to throw away the positions developed over centuries and align themselves with the tattooed losers of the Azov Brigades and the spivs surrounding Zelensky a caricature of the con-artist.
In fact it is quite easily explained: it signified the ending of Europe’s illusions of independence, dignity and sovereignty. The entire political class was throwing itself at Washington’s feet. And not because the US Empire showed the signs of omnipotence which reduce realists to, sincere or not, poses of dependence and fealty. But because the Scholtz’s, Macrons et al felt that, at long last, their pitiful contributions might be valued , taken into account, rewarded.
It is when the great beauty, inaccessible, unavailable to all but the luckiest lovers, falls into decline and fades that the likes of Macron, Scholtz and Starmer, Borrel and van der Leyden dare to start courting her.
And America had to wait until it was personified in Biden-Trump before the leadership of the EU dared to look her in the face and murmur to itself “I can be of use to her. I am not so despicable that I cannot dream of parity with the clowns stumbling down the steps of Air Force One.”
Posted by: bevin | Dec 28 2023 18:15 utc | 37
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