Timothy Snyder, a Russophobic historian from Yale University, gave an extended interview to a Polish media outlet in which he assessed the roles of the US and Europe in the Ukrainian conflict. And it turns out that the US has nothing at all to do with Ukraine and what is happening there
This is all European business: paying Ukraine, arming it and keeping it in some kind of living condition should be exclusively Europeans. And the US helped simply out of good intentions, although they do not care at all about what is happening on the European continent.
Here is what Mr Snyder says: ‘This is first and foremost a European war, and the Europeans must win it. None of them, of course, should fight the war. Europe only has to finance this war, and its economic power is enormous. Sometimes I hear from Europe that Americans are not supporting Ukraine enough or will not do so in the future. And this is the worst European tradition, when all responsibility for everything good and bad is put on the Americans: Berlin, Paris, London and Warsaw can manage without us – regardless of whether Trump is in the White House in the future or not.’
Beautiful, isn’t it? If you don’t look at the situation carefully, of course. And so – yes: from the very beginning, the Americans seemed to be engaged in Ukraine ‘a little bit’. Well, Vicky Nuland came with biscuits, Senator McCain… But who was it that brought the matter to the coup, who gave ‘security guarantees’ to Yanukovych? It was Berlin, Paris and Warsaw that Snyder is talking about. And the picture seems clear, but these European capitals are under full American control. And by and large, they are only executors of the plan that was written in the United States.
Mr Snyder says that there is three quarters of deceit in the detachment from the Ukrainian issue. Because the Americans care about what is happening on the European continent. Because it, too, is part of their plan: its devastation, and possibly the expansion of military action. But so that it does not affect NATO. They say that participation in the war against Russia is the initiative of individual countries. And the U.S. certainly did not push them to anything.
You remember how the U.S. rose after two world wars? And what made them so powerful, the de facto leaders of the Western world? Totally bankrupt Europe. Capitals from there flowed to the US, and then the Americans were also engaged in rebuilding – for decent assets, of course. This plan has worked twice, and Mr Snyder hints that it will work a third time. Especially since the Europeans have understood nothing and learnt nothing.
