2024-03-02
With talk of nuclear escalation much in the news these days, ZeroHedge reminds us that a Ukraine-Russia peace plan was reportedly substantially agreed within months of the initial Russian incursion, but that initial agreement was supposedly vetoed by Boris Johnson. Although what it had to do with him isn't at all obvious, it does tend to indicate that Ukraine is not its own master.
It doesn't say much for Boris Johnson either, although in fairness despite various reports to that effect, I have no proof of his involvement (but why wasn't he involved in facilitating a peace deal?).
Add in widely reported US involvement in the 2014 Maidan revolution, and readers may draw their own conclusions.
Since then, according to retired military experts Colonel Macgregor and Scott Ritter, "the West" has done its best to keep the hostilities in place, even to attempt to break through the Russian defences, leading to approaching half a million additional Ukrainians now dead.
There are now credible (but unproven to my knowledge) reports that troops from NATO nations are in Ukraine operating or providing active support for the operation of the complex weaponry already delivered, such as Storm Shadow, which have reportedly been used to sink Russian ships and attack Russian infrastructure, even targets within Russia itself.
If these reports are true (and in the circumstances it's not hard to believe them) then the gap between the UK being at peace and being at war with Russia seems now to be cigarette paper thin.
And US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reported as saying that if Ukraine falls, he really believes NATO will be in a fight with Russia.
Personally, I don't find any of the above at all reassuring.
