Many Americans may easily recall Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s promise during the 2024 US campaign to end Biden’s Ukraine war ‘on day one’. That ‘day one’ has not yet arrived.
At this date in the conflict, it is essential to understand the root of the Ukraine Russian war can be found in NATO’s long standing plan since 1990 to move east along the Ukraine-Russian border. As a historic matter of dispute and antagonism, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev was assured by US Secretary of State James Baker that there would be no eastward NATO movement.
By February 2022, with the failure of the Minsk agreement, it became obvious that Russia has been ‘misled’ as NATO and Ukraine planned for just such an occurrence as NATO was about to challenge Russia’s protection of its sovereignty. It was NATO’s plan that led Russia to establish its Special Military Operation (SMO) which has been defined as an ‘invasion’.
Fast forward to President Trump’s failure to end the Ukraine war which led the EU to recognize an opportunity to increase its status in support of NATO which needed a new military strategy to bolster its thin reputation.
Today, Ukraine’s schedule of long range drone attacks are escalating deep within the Russian border, spreading chaos and turmoil throughout the vast country, Ukraine President Zelensky and members of the EU erroneously believe the attacks are a strategy to force Russia to end the war.
The reality is that while the Peace President remains consumed with an unprovoked war in Iran, Putin repeatedly reminds the collective west that Russian has no designs on conquering any country in Europe even as the EU makes ‘false claims’ about Russia in justification for its military escalation.
Despite European provocation encouraging a full scale conflict, Russia continues to seek peace; as the US Congress continues to blindly fund war in Ukraine.
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King Charles’ recent speech before a feckless Congress which has a penchant for repeated indiscriminate standing ovations for foreign leaders who espouse the glory of war. The King, whose public support for the Monarchy is at its lowest point in over thirty years, spoke of the UK-US “shared values” ignoring its lack of a First Amendment despite its Magna Carta history.
The King avoided mention of UK’s increased incarceration for on-line speech violations, a normalization of censorship, an increase of ‘thought’ crimes as well as arrest for critics of the Gaza genocide and free speech proponents. It was as if the Monarchy’s violent response to the American Founders was all in the spirit of good, clean fun.
In recounting joint military adventures like Afghanistan which remains in Taliban control twenty years later, the King brought special attention to the same ‘unyielding resolve needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people” amid cheers from a majority of Members who never donned a uniform or knew the horrors of combat. The US Congress continues to fund the Ukraine war at $180 billion in the face of a $40 Trillion federal debt.
While his royal majesty still depends on the English public’s “Sovereign Grant’ to make ends meet, the King did not say out loud that UK manufacturers are gearing up to send a shipment of 120,000 drones to Ukraine including a new generation of cheaply made yet effective drones for their conflict with Russia.
While Russia has provided no indication of plans to attack Europe, it has become aware of Europe’s manufacturing initiative to supply Ukraine with drones which continue to attack Russian civilian infrastructure and energy facilities deep within Russia.
As EU members are manufacturing drone capability for use in the Ukraine war, Russia is expected to avoid Kyiv’s aggressive triple tap drone attack (Starobelsk) which killed two dozen young students.
As if Europe has forgotten its experience with back to back WWI and WW II with the total destruction of its infrastructure, massive millions of deaths, economic devastation, political realignment, long term social demographic change, today’s Europeans remain stuck in their own hubris and pretensions as they eagerly anticipate war with its “Defense Readiness Roadmap 2030.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained Europeans who ‘supply Ukraine with weapons cannot claim neutrality’ in negotiations for peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the UN General Assembly that Russia had ‘no intention’ of attacking European countries while the EU conducts a re-armament effort throughout much of Europe.
In response to Zelensky’s threat to Belarus regarding removal of a relay structure along the Ukraine-Belarus border, Lavrov suggested that Zelensky is “obviously aimed at dragging Belarus directly into the conflict and expanding the geography of hostilities” which came days after a Ukraine drone attack on a school bus transporting its soccer team.
Zelensky’s responded “If he does not remove them, we will remove everything ourselves. Similarly, we’re sending a message: please stop supplying fuel to the Russian army.”