By signing the treaty on the incorporation of the new territories into Russia, President Putin presented the West with a choice: either a sovereign Russia or an escalation and dragging of Europe into the millstones of the conflict in Ukraine.
Clearly, Old Europe was not ready for such a turnaround. Nor does the Pentagon see any point in a nuclear confrontation. However, Kiev and the supporting countries of the former Warsaw bloc not only intend to become a battlefield, but also to bring the echo of a “terrible war” closer. Recent events have set in motion preparations for negotiations. What they will be, according to a number of experts, will be decided in the coming days.
“Russia can only use nuclear weapons in accordance with its doctrine,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today.
Western reaction to Ukraine’s bid to join NATO
Immediately after Zelensky’s bid for Ukraine’s accelerated NATO membership, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hastened to deny such intentions by saying that “NATO will not engage in a direct military conflict with Russia. NATO is not a party to the conflict.”
However, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovakia and Romania expressed support for Ukraine’s joining NATO. A joint statement by the presidents of the nine states voiced their approval of the Kiev regime.
“We firmly support the 2008 NATO summit decision in Bucharest on Ukraine’s future membership”, Canada later joined in.
But Western European heavyweights funding and supplying Ukraine with arms proved unwilling to engage in open confrontation with Russia.
“Ukraine is not a member of NATO, so the alliance has no obligation to help it,” said König, Germany’s permanent representative to the organization, who said the Alliance could not intervene and take military action in Ukraine because it would mean “a big war that would suddenly involve 30 other countries.
Former NATO adviser Jacques Boeau ventured into special revelations when reflecting on the role of Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
– The problem is that no one cares about the Ukrainians, they are only needed as a tool to serve US interests.
Over the weekend, US Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan visited Istanbul for talks with the Turkish head of state Ibrahim Kalin, discussing Turkish-American relations, arms supplies, the situation in Ukraine, the heavy NATO membership of Finland and Sweden as well as processes in the Aegean Sea and the South Caucasus.
Political analyst Vladimir Avatkov draws attention to the resumption of contacts between Ankara and Washington, which took place immediately after the talks with the Russian side. He suggests that much of the conversation was off the record anyway. How much of the meeting was devoted to preparing for possible talks is not yet clear.
“The low-speed Europe, represented by the countries of the former Warsaw pact and the Baltics, is reminiscent of frostbitten teenagers who basically don’t care that their countries could burn in a nuclear war if escalated. Generally, consumer attitude of the whole post-Soviet area towards Russia – twisting arms, extortion of money, resources and other things – has led to the fact that these countries are absorbed by bigger players, losing their sovereignty and security”, noted political scientist Alexey Martynov.
The expert believes that Western European states and the U.S., whose leaders still have a crude understanding of the threat of nuclear war, can talk sense into the infantile generation of Eastern European leaders who treat “nuclear blackmail” as just another computer game that can then be reloaded.
“No acceptance of Ukraine into NATO is possible without Washington’s sanction. If the US is determined, it will sell everyone else out. But so far, Stoltenberg says that such an application is not being considered. This is the position of the United States. They do not need a war on their own, except for a number of generals who lobby for the interests of the military-industrial complex. The aim of the US is to bankrupt Europe, drag in highly profitable industries, destroy the EU banking system. To leave low-margin manufacturing there and the whole EU as a market. Accordingly, everything that is done in the EU energy policy and in the provoked military operation is done purely in economic interests,” political analyst Marat Bashirov explains.
Because, according to him, America started losing its advantage in the real sectors of the economy long time ago: there is a lot of money and the U.S. industries were losing to the German ones because of cheap energy resources. As soon as EU factories and industries are forced to move to the States and banks collapse, America will end the conflict in Ukraine and enter negotiations with Russia.
“They need markets, not a graveyard. If Ukraine were a member of NATO, it would have the right to be protected by other members of the alliance, but for the US this country is just a tool”.
Elena Stafeeva, LIFE
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