The Impending Betrayal of Ukraine

[u/RabidGuillotine]

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/impending-betrayal-ukraine

[u/MrStrange15]

You do know the author and the institute is British, right?

[u/Jigsawsupport → u/MrStrange15]

Yes.

Firstly he is just another plastic Atlantacist, that has done so much damage to the UK.

Secondly and more importantly this is not just his opinion, its the go to propaganda line now the powers that be in Washington, have decided to screw over the Ukrainians.

"Oh we decided tried to help the Ukrainians, but really it all the fault of those decadent Europeans who spent all their money on healthcare, if ooonnnnnllllyyyy they have pulled their weight".

And its crap, utter mendacious crap, Europe has given more, Europe has risked far more.

Fundamentally europe can't pull Ukraine out of the mire alone because it doesn't have adequate Nuclear weapons to act as a shield.

If we imagined a world without nuclear weapons for a moment, the war in Ukraine would already be over, Europes airpower alone would rapidly tip the war in Ukraines favour.

But most of Europe can not risk to much with out cast iron US assurances, which we don't have since it is very favourable to US interests, for a North Korean style Russia to be perpetually hanging vampire like over Europe.

[u/Jigsawsupport → u/[deleted]]

Why?

The lynchpin of European US relations since then end of WW2 is defence.

There is of course other shared interests and commonalities but that is the lodestone, that is why the US maintains the favourable position it does in Europe.

In fact it is remarkable how quickly relations decayed after the end of the cold war when defence for a time was not considered important.

It was not long before US Congressmen was trying to rename French fries as Freedom fries because stuff those dastardly French.

There was real pressure on the relationship between the US and some European nations over numerous issues.

People were very publicly asking what was NATO for?

In a way it was lucky for the US that Putin followed an increasingly dictatorial and hostile path.

As such there is no desire to risk a Russian collapse now, partly because it would be dangerous to do so, but also because it just isn't in the US interest.

A wizened and shrunken Russia, that is still hypothetically dangerous, is exactly what Washington is going for.