(Article republished from PaulCraigRoberts.org)
I doubt the 100,000 NATO soldiers will have any more success than the 600,000 dead Ukrainian ones, but the threat of deploying NATO soldiers is more proof that I was correct that Putin’s slow-moving limited military operation would provide endless time for the West to get involved and progressively widen the conflict until it is spun out of control. We are now at that point with insane Washington, Britain, and France striking Russia with missiles and planning to deploy troops. All of this could have been avoided if Putin had done what every commander should have done and struck hard and fast to quickly end the conflict.
Putin preferred the goody two-shoes role, and the consequence was that the West was convinced that Russia was too weak or too lacking in confidence to win if the West backed Ukraine. Putin has let the gradual widening of the conflict go on for three years, and the world has been brought face-to-face with the possibility of nuclear war. To avoid it, Putin has to carefully craft his response to Western missile attacks on Russia and to give advance warning so that enemies in the target area are not killed. These are not responses that the West will find convincing.
Putin is correct to refrain from any decisive action until Trump is in office as there is some hope that Trump is not part of the neoconservative agenda of defeating Russia and discrediting Putin with the Russian people. There is the danger, however, that the Biden regime will use the time prior to Trump’s inauguration to so poison US-Russian relations as to make any agreement impossible. The nuclear power plant in Kursk is an easy target for the Western missiles. If the plant were to be hit, the radiation spread over Russia would likely force Putin’s hand.
My concern from the beginning of the conflict has been that sooner or later Putin would have to really fight or surrender. It seems that the only remaining hope of avoiding a devastating war is Trump. Can he control his bluster? Can he accept the fact that the conflict is Washington’s fault and accept Putin’s victory? Can he succeed in defining victory as peace and not victory over Russia on the battlefield? If not, it is up to Putin to surrender, or end times will be at hand.
This extraordinary danger could have been avoided if Putin had disposed of the puppet government in Kiev before the West had time to get involved in the military conflict. A Russian demonstration of crushing force in itself would have served as a deterrent to the provocations, Putin’s weak response to which has brought the conflict to the brink of war between the West and Russia.
Washington has yet to renounce the neoconservative agenda of US hegemony, and European governments continues to tell Europeans to prepare for war with Russia. Washington continues its hegemonic efforts against Iran and China. Peace is not on the agenda.
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