The proxy war in Ukraine is an imperialist
adventure
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Editorial
May 01, 2023:
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The proxy war in Ukraine is an imperialist
adventure that has been financially ruinous, has destroyed Ukraine, and is
driving a dangerous all-out war with Russia and China that could turn into a
nuclear Armageddon.
It has become patently obvious to the world
that the conflict in Ukraine is a dirty and desperate geopolitical
confrontation, despite massive Western media efforts to portray it as something
else more noble – the usual charade of chivalry and virtue to disguise naked
Western imperialism.
The death and destruction in Ukraine is
nothing but a proxy war by the United States and its NATO partners to defeat
Russia in a strategic gambit. But the unspoken objective does not end with
Russia. The U.S. and its Western imperialist lackeys are driven to push for
confrontation with China too.
As if taking on Russia is not reckless
enough! The Western powers want to double down on their warmongering with China.
This is all because the underlying impetus is for Washington and its Western
minions to promote U.S.-led dominance of the global order. Russia and China are
the main obstacles to that path of would-be dominance, and hence we see this
manic drive for aggression stemming from Washington, the executive power of the
Western order.
It should be obvious that while the U.S.-led
NATO axis has stoked the war in Ukraine to calamitous heights, this same axis is
wantonly inciting tensions with China. This observation alone should be enough
to condemn the criminality of Western powers.
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This week saw the NATO powers deliver depleted uranium
weapons to the Kiev regime, while the United States announced that it would be
docking submarine nuclear warheads in South Korea, a move that
infuriated China which pointed out that
Washington was violating decades-old commitments to denuclearize the Korean
Peninsula. Of course, such perverse provocation is par for the course as far as
Washington is concerned. It is done deliberately in a conscious effort to
exacerbate tensions and escalate militarism. Peace and security are anathemas to
the U.S. (and its minions) whose whole ideological raison d’être is to aggravate
war to gratify corporate capitalist addiction – a system that is increasingly
bankrupt and dysfunctional, and hence the insane desperation for craving
“war-fixes”.
In a scathing
speech to the United Nations Security
Council this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that the
conflict in Ukraine cannot be properly resolved without an understanding of the
geopolitical context. In other words, the war in the former Soviet republic
which erupted last February has bigger causes than what the Western powers and
their compliant news media would try to pretend otherwise.
Defense of Ukraine? Defense of democracy?
Defense of international law? Defense of national sovereignty? These are some of
the laughable claims made by Washington and its allies. One only has to consider
the decades of total trashing of the UN Charter and democratic principles by the
United States and its rogue partners in their pursuit of criminal wars to
realize that their virtue-signaling over Ukraine is a vile joke.
Lavrov’s address to the Security Council was
a stunning rebuke of the hypocrisy and criminality of the United States,
Britain, France, Germany and other NATO powers, as well as the European Union.
His speech was akin to the scene in the classic old movie The Wizard of Oz
when the curtain was pulled back on the buffoonish villain for all to see. Any
objective observer would agree with the Russian foreign minister’s excoriating
survey of modern history and why the war in Ukraine has tragically manifested.
Lamentably, if we fail to understand history and the real causes of conflicts,
then we are condemned to repeat the horrors.
Ironically, Western leaders have at times
revealed the bigger geopolitical agenda with their own misspoken arrogant words.
U.S. President Joe Biden had previously blurted out a call for regime change in
Moscow while his senior aides, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Pentagon
chief Lloyd Austin, have succumbed to the intoxication of their narcissism and
hubris by saying that the purpose of the war in Ukraine is the “defeat of
Russia”.
Other NATO senior figures, such as the
stupid, conceited Polish leaders and their Baltic buddies, have also come out
and stated that the war’s ulterior agenda is to vanquish Russia. The fascist
skeletons of their Nazi-collusion past have resurrected their deathly rattles,
uncontrollably.
As Lavrov’s address to the Security Council
intimates, the systematic violation of the UN Charter by the United States and
its Western partners is a deplorable continuation of the Nazi fascism and
imperialist barbarism that was supposed to have been defeated in World War Two.
The culmination of the constant, unbridled Western imperialist criminality and
its state terrorism is the current war in Ukraine and the growing aggression
toward China over Taiwan as a pretext.
In all of this, woefully, the Western public
has been flagrantly lied to by their governments and media as to the real nature
of the war in Ukraine. American and European citizens have been bilked for
hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up a Nazi regime in Kiev whose function
is to act as a NATO spear-tip against Russia, and ultimately China when the NATO
powers feel they are done with Ukraine. (The latter is a futile ambition, as is
becoming increasingly evident.)
Journalists and antiwar activists in the West
who highlight the malfeasance over Ukraine are either sacked, vilified,
censored, or sanctioned into poverty, or even imprisoned.
Nevertheless, the Western public and the rest
of the world are increasingly becoming aware of the odious charade. By
definition, charades are inevitably untenable.
The Global South – the majority of the 193
nations at the UN – has had it with Western capitalist hegemony and its
outrageous neocolonialist privileges. The incremental dumping of the U.S. dollar
as an international reserve currency for trade is a testament to the historic
shift towards a multipolar order in defiance of Western unipolar elitism. The
nations of Africa, Latin America and Asia understand that the U.S.-led NATO war
in Ukraine is a desperate last-ditch bid to preserve an imperialist global order
which should have been eradicated after World War Two with the establishment of
the United Nations, but which, regrettably, was not. Because the root cause of
imperialism is the AngloAmerican-led Western capitalist order. The end of World
War Two, as with World War One, was but a pause in the historical killing
machine.
It is now increasingly evident in the light
of
leaked documents from the Pentagon that the
war in Ukraine is a disaster. The Kiev regime is facing defeat at the hands of
superior Russian forces even though that regime has been flooded with weapons by
the United States and NATO. Great expectations of a Ukrainian victory that were
widely predicted by Western leaders and media have been shown to be empty,
contemptible lies.
The side-show of this war is a gargantuan
racket. Western arms companies have raked in unprecedented profits, while the
NATO-backed cabal in Kiev has
skimmed off hundreds of millions of dollars.
This is the same Kiev regime that is burning down Orthodox Christian churches,
exterminating the Russian language, lionizing World War Two Nazi criminals, and
locking up any critical opposition and media.
But the main takeaway is the lies that the
United States and Western lackeys, including the entire media industry, have
been telling about the proxy war in Ukraine. This war is an imperialist
adventure that has been financially ruinous, has destroyed Ukraine, and is
driving a dangerous all-out war with Russia and China that could turn into a
nuclear armageddon.
We should not be surprised by such blatant
lying and deception. President Joe Biden and his administration have been
telling barefaced lies to conceal the corruption oozing out of Biden’s own
family. Biden and his son Hunter have exploited Ukraine since the CIA-backed
coup in Kiev in 2014 for personal enrichment. The president has even
reportedly got his senior aides to do his
bidding to censor intelligence agencies and media from revealing to the public
the corruption at the heart of his family. (Risibly, the truth is smeared as
Russian or Chinese disinformation!)
The lies that Biden and his administration
tell about personal corruption are indelibly coupled with the lies told about
the proxy war in Ukraine.
It is increasingly clear that the American
public, the European public, and the rest of the world have been duped in
multiple ways. The phony war in Ukraine is exposing the deep, stinking well of
corruption in this White House. There will be hell to pay.
Finian Cunningham has written extensively
on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. He is a
Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor
for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career
in newspaper journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter. For nearly 20
years, he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organisations,
including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent.