[Peace-discuss] Submitted letter to News Gazette

[David Green]

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991), the goal of the American ruling class has been to prevent any rapprochement between the European Union and Russia. Such a development would threaten European subordination to American economic and military hegemony, as well as facilitate the rise of China in a multipolar global context.

Thus, since the early 2000s, enormous pressure has been put on Ukraine to act as an impoverished, corrupt, and dependent extension of the US, EU, and NATO. This has been accompanied by Ukrainian oligarchical asset stripping, indebtedness and governmental austerity dictated by the International Monetary Fund, emigration/de-population, massive infusions of American weapons, and the rise of the neo-fascist, pro-American Azov battalion in Western Ukraine.

In 2014, Barack Obama promoted the Maidan coup in response to a neutral and fairly-elected (if corrupt) Ukrainian administration, respectful of the Russian-speaking Donbas (eastern) region. This coup, like so many “color revolutions”, was subsumed by neoconservative U.S. State Department operatives (Victoria Nuland).

Vladimir Putin’s unremarkable redlines have been clear throughout regarding NATO membership, the militarization of Ukraine, and ongoing Ukrainian attacks in the Donbas, with 14,000 dead since 2014. Also clear have been Joe Biden’s efforts, as Vice President and President, to play a provocative, dangerous game of chicken, resulting in a predictable and violent outcome.
The American ruling class and its media apparatchiks will continue to turn the truth on its head, with the assistance of the academic class, including locally (Nicholas Grossman, Valerii Robinson). Their propaganda should be rejected.
David Green
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