The United States and Britain are insisting their formal, formal policy - formal for the last couple of months has been, the war must continue to weaken Russia so severely that it can never undertake an action like this again that’s official policy, notice that that policy whatever you think about it, first of all it blocks diplomacy of course, but it has - it’s taken on the basis of a ghastly gamble. The gamble is that if Russia is facing defeat, Mr Putin will pack his bags quietly and slink off to Oblivion or worse and he won’t use the conventional weapons, conventional weapons that of course he has and everyone knows he has, that could devastate Ukraine. That’s the gamble. The gamble with - if Ukrainians want to accept the gamble that’s their business, we’re talking about us. Do we insist on that gamble do we insist on blocking negotiations as we’ve been doing so in the most… - there is so little interest in this topic that it’s barely covered but the little bare information we have is that in April there were negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and other Turkish auspices. Boris Johnson who’s still prime minister flew to Ukraine and instructed the ukrainians that the US and Britain don’t want negotiations now. It was followed by Lloyd Austin the U.S. Secretary of Defense, we don’t know what he said because there’s no coverage, but everything we know is from the Ukrainian press - but he presumably said that what he always says, that the goal is to severely weaken Russia so no negotiations now. Well, then the negotiations collapse, we don’t know why maybe that was a factor maybe not, but as long as we have that stance - there will be no diplomacy and we will continue with the wreckage of Ukraine and the side effects that are mentioned that there are others like millions of people facing starvation because of the restriction on export of grains and fertilizer from the Black Sea region.
As I say it’s up to the ukrainians to decide what they want to do - so to us to decide what we want to do. If we want to continue to block negotiations and diplomacy, let’s be frank about it, we’re taking a gamble with the fate of Ukraine and the world because of these threats that are coming along - now it’s interesting that U.S. policy is beginning slightly to soften in interesting ways. Up until very recently anyone who mentioned the idea of bringing the war to the close through diplomatic means was a vilified, demonized - even Henry Kissinger the favorite Warhog couldn’t say it - it’s beginning to change a little. The New York Times actually published an op-ed by Charles Kupchan - he is a high figure in the Council on Foreign Relations he said basically what I’ve been saying - no reaction.
Foreign Affairs, which is the leading foreign policy journal, has published a couple of articles saying the same thing - they were allowed to get away with it. You might - I’m sure you noticed that some people in congress led by the so-called progressives caucus, Pramila Jayapal put out a very mild statement - I mean, embarrassingly mild, saying - let’s support Ukraine all the way give them all the weapons they want, but maybe we should think about a way to try to end the horrors. They had to withdraw it in one day because of the chorus of denunciation for daring to say that maybe we should think of a way out of these horrors instead of continuing them in order to severely weaken Russia and by now to test, saying openly - you can read it in the mainstream press - the U.S. is very interested in testing out new weapons, new methods of warfare that will be very valuable fort he future. Well meanwhile let’s face the threat of nuclear war, let’s continue the gamble with Ukraine. Let’s keep destroying the environment because we have to pour the increased fossil fuel production… - Very interesting news item today which maybe you saw, said that the Swedish government has just released some information on the nordstream pipeline sabotage - it’s a very, it’s one of the most important events of the recent months - barely recorded which is an indication of its importance. What happened is that the Nordstream pipeline was sabotaged. Sweden now - I don’t know what the word is - conceded the obvious, provided evidence that it had been blown up, which was of course obvious in the first place. Who’s likely to have blown up the Nordstream pipeline? It’s owned by Germany and Russia for them it’s a disaster. Both of them. Can you think of anybody who has something to gain by cutting the Nordstrom pipeline and who’s been talking about it for years, saying stop it - we don’t want this, I can think of somebody. Can you think of somebody who has the capability to do it? Not very hard. In fact the U.S. just carried out major Naval Maneuvers right in the Baltic region, right where it was - but you’re not allowed to draw the obvious conclusion from that, that would be a conspiracy theory, anti-americanism you know, one or another it comes in whatever the latest term of vilification is, so nobody can say that. If you have a brain in your head you can think it, but better not say it and it wasn’t said in this article just, you know, it seems to be sabotage, yeah - obviously it’s sabotage.
Q: Have there been indications for a “war not prevented”?
Of course very easy to show, for the last - first it goes way back, but this just take the last decade. The United States has been perfectly openly, nothing secret, arming Ukraine, taking steps to integrate Ukraine into the NATO - meaning the U.S. military system interoperability, weapons training - ukrainians in heavy duty American weapons, has been so extreme that U.S. military journals, U.S. military journals, described Ukraine as a de facto member of NATO. The Biden Administration actually took it beyond - in september 2021 came out with a formal statement that Ukraine is now part of a an enhanced program of preparation for the NATO integration (1,2,3). Now this against the background of 30 years of warnings by high-level U.S. diplomats including virtually everyone in the diplomatic corps who had any knowledge of Russia that Russia will never accept Ukraine within a hostile military Alliance, that means the head of the CIA, who was a russian Ambassador and a Russia expert, William Burns, his predecessor in the CIA, Robert Gates the defense minister for George W. Bush, Henry George Cannon the whole, all along, Jack Matlock, Reagan’s ambassador to Russia and other Russia Specialists all along for 30 years were saying you shouldn’t do this, it’s provocative it’s reckless, it’s dangerous there is no Russian leader who would have ever accepted it, it’s pretty obvious why. Take a little bit of - look at history what happened a couple of decades ago, a couple of decades before then, invasions of Russia through Ukraine, killing 25 million people, practically destroying the country. Look at a topographical map, there’s no defenses between Ukraine and Moscow and it’s perfectly obvious why they’re not going to be allowing it to be part of a hostile military alliance. I mean would the united states allow China to bring Mexico into a major military alliance with weapons aimed at the United States? It’s not even thinkable. You know, it’s been reckless, provocative, … There has been a framework for negotiations, we don’t, we can’t know if it could have worked, because it was never tried - but the Minsk framework of Germany and France, Russia and Ukraine had settled on a framework which included crucially neutralization of Ukraine which means Ukraine has the same status as Mexico or Austria through the Cold War - neutralization of Ukraine’s - that’s not an interference with sovereignty. Nobody interferes with Mexican sovereignty from the fact that they can’t join a chinese military alliance. I mean - demilitarization, I mean no heavy weapons aimed at Russia, putting off the Crimea issue, because you can’t settle it right now it’s too complicated - some kind of autonomy for the Donbas region, preferably to be settled in terms of internationally run referenda, well that’s the basic framework.
Right up to the invasion Ukraine sort of indicated, semi-some degree of interest in it. Russia was calling for it, we don’t know if it could have worked. Basically it wasn’t right - State Department conceded, publicly, that they had never taken Russian security concerns into consideration. It’s just not an issue. Well, almost none of this gets reported incidentally.
But it’s there. Could it have worked? Don’t know. Can it work now? The only way to find out is to try it. Actually by now the options have been reduced. That’s what happens when you go to war. Start a war, both sides harden their positions more. Hatred, antagonism, options are limited. So what are they now? There’s one way to find out the way that you’re not allowed to say. Say it in a whisper. Cry. Okay. That’s the one way to find out. The whole world wants that, almost the entire world is calling for negotiations and diplomacy, that even includes much of Europe. So take Germany, main Center in Europe. About 75 percent of Germans want negotiations right now. Europe is suffering severely from this. United States is gaining enormously. I mean take a look at the executive offices of the fossil fuel producers and military producers they’re just euphoric, you know the United States is just gaining extraordinarily from this - Europe’s getting smashed, the effect of the waters to drive Europe into Washington’s pocket, highest goal no more talk about an independent Europe - so for the United States it’s just all gains, for Europe it’s all losses. Germany’s getting deindustrialized, may not be able to pull out of it, uh so it’s not surprising they want to see if there’s an end to this but the U.S. and Britain they’re the two warrior states they don’t want to hear about it.
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Jetzt ist es aber nur gut verständlich, dass bei uns Redakteure in der Presse fragen, ob wenn in Russland das GDP nur um 3.5% und nicht wie prognostiziert um 6% sinkt, wir überhaupt auf die richtigen Indikatoren schauen - und die ABSOLUTEN WICHSERSCHWEINE die propagieren Russland führe einen kolonialen Krieg, bei dem es die Infrastruktur seiner Kolonie zerstört - sie verstehen schon, nicht sofort - via Shock and Awe, wie die US, oder Großbritannien, sondern erst ab Monat 9 vor dem Winter auf der EU Ebene promotet werden. Und Professuren in Yale bekommen, wenn sie diese Anschauung gecoined und weltweit verbreitet haben.
Lügen sind doch noch das Herzblut dieser Wertegesellschaft.
Lügen und von der Bühne getreten werden.
Und auf Talking points gebriefte Propagandisten, die die Talkingpoints nicht selbst herleiten können in TV Diskussionen laden, und dann noch dazusagen, das sind freie ukainische Journalisten, die jetzt ungefiltert im Standard schreiben.
Haha, Freunde! Sterbt.
Und was Polen wieder macht… NATIONALE Alleingänge!
