2025-03-04
A force to keep the pressure on Russia, and to keep UK-EU military forces in the Ukraine.
And if Russia does agree a peace deal, to boost the Ukraine's defensive capabilities ...
I commented yesterday on the logic of Starmer's position, but one salient point i missed:
Call me old-fashioned, but if Russia has waged a war since 2022 to keep Ukraine out of NATO and NATO out of Ukraine (as clearly stated by Vladimir Putin), then Russia will just reject these ideas out of hand as putting NATO into Ukraine under another name.
It simply won't fly. There will be no lasting ceasefire under these suggestions, and probably no ceasefire at all.
Since the Europeans must know this, it is difficult to avoid concluding that they want the conflict to continue at all costs.
The question is - why? The answer isn't obvious, nor is it likely to be in the interests of either the populations of the EU or the UK or the Ukraine, or indeed of Russia herself.
Of course the narrative pushed by our mainstream media is that Putin is a power-crazed dictator who won't stop until he reaches the west coast of Portugal, but Putin also has to keep his Russian public on-side, so such an enormous expansion of his war aims would have to be justified to the Russians.
Whether he is or is not an insane dictator, we haven't yet seen the end of this.
