The country with the world's most expensive industrial energy is not in a position to fight a World War, and nor is the country that is desperately scouring the world for anyone to rescue its steel industry.
Employees of the arms companies, and beneficiaries of their munificence, should be asked about it by interviewers, and so should those with expectations, meaning military top brass and the luminaries of the Ministry of Defence, including Ministers and their Shadows.
Volodymyr Zelensky's constitutional term of office expired quite some time ago, but fresh elections in Ukraine would approve of peace on condition of the loss of the territory that Russia had already captured, and of the promise that Ukraine would never join NATO.
With a ruling element to which anything with a young male following had to be destroyed, and which had spent nearly 50 years organising the State towards the persecution of working-class men, the meat grinder would be no more popular here than it was there.
None of Tony Blair's three sons has ever joined up, and Euan and Nicky are getting on a bit now, but Leo is 24. Keir Starmer has said on air that he had two sons (Lady Starmer has one), and they would both easily attain fighting age during a war to dissolve the Russian Federation into 20 or more vassal states, since that war would never end. But it need never start. Starmer wants British "peacekeepers" in Ukraine as the tripwire that British troops already were in the Baltic States, so that any or everything might be used as an excuse for war. Say no now.
(feel free to move onto different story if better). Entirely resonable that Ukraine is not party to the ceasefire and peace talks. Beyond it's natural resources it is of no consequence as a country and has only been able to fight its war with the (foolish) support of the West. With ongoing American assistance it would simply collapse and become a full Russian territority as opposed to reverting to its (correct) position as part of the wider 'sphere of influence' of the motherland of which, of course, it had the 'first' capital. More interesting in this is America's ongoing purusit of the 'rewards of peace'; a hopeless Army but always a first-rate nation when it comes to securing the deals/resources associated with rebuilding. This is a super-power issue, Ukraine should be happy with any 'crumbs' that it receives.
ReplyDeleteIt will be certainly interesting to see Democrats and neocons explain to the American public why Ukraine should not pay back as Donald Trump proposed.
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