Ukraine - from Euromaidan to Afghanistan

Recently, Douglas MacArthur, a retired colonel and adviser to the US Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a multi-decorated war veteran, openly criticized the official policy of Washington, which he said was deliberately trying to transform Ukraine into an Eastern European version of Afghanistan. It is common knowledge that for the United States, war is first and foremost a business, an opportunity to make good money on the long-running bloody conflicts that Washington is fueling worldwide with a global hybrid war against all disobedient nations and ethnic groups. As in all previous wars initiated or sponsored by the USA with the use of these perfidious tactics, Ukraine is also seen as a new great opportunity for the American military-industrial complex controlled by the deep state to make fabulous profits.

In real Afghanistan, in the heart of Asia, the United States spent over 14 trillion dollars from October 2001 until the withdrawal of American troops and the troops of their allies in August last year. Major American corporations such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and others benefited most from that war, which brought only suffering, death and destruction to ordinary people and ended in great victories for the Taliban and Al Qaeda. On the services of over 700 lobbyists alone, these companies set aside $ 2.5 trillion during the war in Afghanistan. The Americans, the British and their allies left Afghanistan defeated and left behind not only devastation but also huge amounts of weapons originally intended for the Afghan regular army. The United States has spent $ 89 trillion on equipping and training these forces in 20 years. However, despite all these investments, the Afghan army quickly disintegrated in the fight against the Taliban, and huge quantities of their weapons, as well as the weapons of the Americans and their allies, ended up in the hands of terrorists, drug cartels and other criminal groups. To Americans, however, winning the war in the remote Asian backwaters, even though Afghanistan is the world's largest opium producer, doesn't seem to matter as much as keeping alive the weapons industry itself.

In Ukraine, Washington now sees a chance not only to undermine Russia, but also to establish tighter control over its European "partners". As President Putin noted in April 2015, the United States does not need allies but vassals, so the United States uses the creation of instability as an excuse to keep Europe under its paw forever. Washington is happy to sacrifice Ukrainians to the last in order to use them in its dirty game and create a new long-term hotbed of instability and armed conflict. The benefits of turning Ukraine into an Eastern European Afghanistan for Americans are manifold. First of all, it enables the Americans to keep NATO alive, even though this organization's natural lifespan expired in 1991 with the end of the Cold War. On the other hand, a business opportunity opens up for a large profit of the military-industrial complex in the planned 10 or more years, as long as the United States would provide military assistance to Ukraine and force its subordinate partners to do the same. Doing so in Ukraine, which, unlike Afghanistan, has a very important geopolitical significance, creates enormous and long-lasting pressure on Russia, which is not expected to be able to bear it for too long. By choosing this tactic, America is playing with fire because, despite all the precautions it takes, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine can easily and unexpectedly turn into an open war between Russia and NATO - the world war in which it would be very difficult to avoid the use of nuclear weapons as Russian Foreign Minister and Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov openly pointed out.

The plans of the USA are not to enter into an open conflict with Russia at this moment, as evidenced by the almost panicked Stoltenberg's as well as the statements of other NATO officials these days, denying any readiness of North Atlantic Alliance to get involved in the war in Ukraine. This is not surprising, because Washington's goal is not to disappear in the clouds of radioactive dust after the exchange of nuclear strikes with Russia, but to continue to earn well, keep its European satraps on a short leash and systematically weaken Russia without having to enter into direct military confrontation with it. Of course, for many reasons, the Americans do not like the quick or somewhat slower Russian victory, which would put the whole of Ukraine under the control of the Russian armed forces. That is why the Americans will do everything to deliver as many weapons as possible to Ukraine, as their unconscious proxy war partner, which, after all, is exactly what brings real profit. However, a careful analysis leads to the conclusion that the Americans, in fact, would not like a hypothetical Ukrainian victory in this conflict, no matter how tempting it may seem to Washington for geopolitical reasons. Only the development of events that ensures the longest possible conflict benefits the United States, that is, turning Ukraine into a hotbed of bloodshed and destruction.

With a masterful game, the United States pushed the Ukrainians into the front lines, and in case the conflict escalates, the Europeans are the ones who should feel Russian anger on their skin and face the consequences of their obedience to Washington.

If the United States estimates that there will be an inevitable war between the EU and Russia, despite the existence of NATO's collective security system, it will withdraw to reduce the risk of retaliatory nuclear strikes from Russian "invisible" submarines that are in constant combat duty in the Atlantic and Pacific. America wants to watch the conflict in its favor from a distance and fight to the last Ukrainian and European, but also wants the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine to last at least as long as the war between Iraq and Iran. Therefore, the United States and the EU will try not only to continue arming Ukrainian forces during the Russian special operation but also to intensify it many times over. Once again, the United States is irresponsibly bringing the survival of the planet to the brink of collapse. Namely, Sergei Ryabkov, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, warned that in the event that the United States and the EU continue to arm Ukraine, convoys carrying weapons would become a legal target of fierce Russian attacks. Of course, this also can lead to the outbreak of the Third World War, but when you are looking for the culprit for endangering planetary security, all roads lead to Washington.

Russia wanted to avoid the outbreak of armed conflicts at all costs, and for eight years it tried to solve the problems with Ukraine through diplomacy. Russian officials knew that for each of their harsher reactions, Russia would be additionally sanctioned by deeper isolation and harsher economic and other sanctions. Secondly, Russia's hands were tied due to more than 8 million ethnic Russians and even more russophone Ukrainians in Ukraine, and that was exactly the part of the population thanks to which Russian-Ukrainian relations were cordial until the coup in 2014 by which the United States managed to bring its agents of influence to power. The Americans had more than obvious intentions to open the gates of hell in Ukraine, which they eventually succeeded in doing. Precisely because of Washington's support and promises, Ukraine refused to resolve the conflict at the table, through diplomacy and refused to fulfill Minsk agreements. Instead, Ukraine had been arming itself for eight years and preparing for war and the violent takeover of Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic. Russia's intelligence services have come across irrefutable evidence of Ukraine's preparations for aggression, and this was finally the moment for Russia to intervene militarily, although President Putin was reluctant to do so until the last moment. Ukraine's military confrontation with Russia became inevitable due to the extremely hostile and aggressive policy of the Kiev regime in relation to Russia, and the United States bears full responsibility for that.

In the current phase of the special operation, Russia is fighting battles in the territories densely populated by the Russian and pro-Russian populations, and that is why its military actions have a very delicate character, similar to those of hostage release operations. It is about the already mentioned population, which in Russians traditionally recognizes the fraternal people with whom they share language and religion. However, none of these ordinary people are now too happy that the war has reached their homes and that Ukrainian forces are continuously using them as human shields. Russia is already thinking about all the possible consequences of what it is doing now, and it does not want to turn that population against itself, so its military actions currently look like a very careful and slow walk on eggs in the middle of fierce fighting. Speaking about that, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that Russia is aware of how bad it is that innocent people are dying in Ukraine now, but that no one in the West has paid attention to the 14,000 Russians killed in Donbas in the last eight years. So, this operation, no matter how painful, will eventually lead to peace and an end to the killing. Let us keep in mind that Moscow, unlike Kiev, did not initiate even a partial mobilization of its huge military forces and that in Ukraine, it decided to conduct these special military operations with very limited forces and noticeably avoiding the use of the most modern and destructive military weapons that are used by Russians in Syria, for example.

This is because Russia does not want its special operation to turn into a real war, but only to force the Kiev regime to negotiate and fulfill Russian demands that Moscow will never give up: denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine (removal of offensive, biological, chemical and radiological weapons), recognition of the independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic, recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, and the permanent withdrawal of Ukraine from joining NATO. Russia will not, cannot and must not stop its special operation until it completely removes аny military danger from the Kiev regime, which made Ukraine, once the cradle of the Russian nation and statehood, now Russia's greatest enemy. By agreeing to be the nest of the most aggressive Russophobia of all time, surpassing even the hatred of German Nazis from World War II, and joining American efforts of so called "restraining Russia", Ukraine became a direct and immediate military threat to the survival of its huge eastern neighbor. That was something that just couldn't stay unpunished. When this painstaking and slow part of the special Russian operation is finally over and when civilians are freed from the role of hostages and human shields of Ukrainian forces, it can be expected that Moscow will start a fierce confrontation with Western Ukraine, which is a hotbed of extremism, chauvinism and neo-Nazism. If it has to, Russia will destroy the Ukrainian army to the end, patiently, step by step, and will finnaly break out on the borders of NATO members, knowing that Moscow is right behind them and that the survival of the Russian state and nation is at stake. And all that evil, misfortune and suffering on both sides, are the result of decades of American hybrid war, special psychological and propaganda operations, ideological indoctrination of young people, long-term bribery of Ukrainian corrupted politicians, lobbying, blackmail and other dirty deeds.

The years that Ukraine spent under the strong political influence of the United States and its political advisers and military instructors will lead to serious and unforeseeable consequences because numerous Pandora's boxes have been irretrievably opened. First of all, while the Russian military forces distribute water, food and other necessities to the population in the combat zones, the regime from Kiev indiscriminately distributed, according to some data, over 240,000 units of small arms and light weapons. Zelenskyy hastily signed a law that allows all citizens of Ukraine to own and freely use weapons during the Russian special operation, and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has already confirmed its entry into force. Can you imagine how and in what way all those weapons will one day be taken away from these citizens?

The same thing could happen with more advanced weapons. There will be a boom in the illegal arms trade that will spill over to Western Europe, and experience so far has shown that when that happens, the weapons always ends up in the wrong hands. The Kiev regime also released the worst criminals from prison in order to allegedly serve the homeland. All experienced criminologists and psychologists would advise not to give weapons to such people. Murderers, rapists and bandits in war do not become better people, but quite the opposite. Robber gangs made up of Ukrainian extremists are already operating on the ground, waging their private wars in search of resources, indiscriminately looting the population and distributing their chauvinistic justice by killing Russian civilians on the spot. There are testimonies, videos and other evidence that these armed civilians are attacking and terrorizing even members of the regular Ukrainian police. So, on the ground under the control of the Kiev regime, there is total anarchy. Nazi battalions such as "Azov", "Aidar", "Right Sector" and others, whose total number of soldiers before the start of the Russian special operation was around 80,000, already do not obey orders from Kiev. It is more than likely that even after the agreements reached on the cessation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, in the territories they consider to be their jurisdiction, these battalions will continue to terrorize the civilian population and attack regular forces. Even now, local Ukrainian commanders are behaving like feudal warlords who work at their own discretion. The best illustration of this is the prevention of the evacuation of the civilian population from the cities surrounded by Russian forces, that has been agreed upon by Kiev and Moscow. Ultra-right extremists are also closely linked to illegal drug production and trafficking, and many of them seems to be addicts themselves so this is another thing that could affect Europe.

The Americans have opened more than thirty laboratories for the development and production of biological weapons in Ukraine, and there is now irrefutable evidence for that. Likewise, nuclear power plants and nuclear research centers are the scene of severe hostilities, and control over them is either weak or non-existent.

Finally, there is evidence that Nazi battalions possess chemical and other weapons prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Therefore, there is a justified fear that some of the extremists will come into possession of biological agents, chemical weapons or radioactive materials. Russia has practically unlimited resources, many times more numerous forces, better and more modern weapons than Ukraine's, and it of course, has nuclear weapons. Under the pressure of its armed forces, most extremists, especially those from Western Ukraine, will soon find themselves in European countries and cities, and their extremist habits will spill over there, strongly and permanently changing the European political and criminal underworld. It can be said that extremism will return to Europe like a boomerang. Just as Islamic terrorists once managed to smuggle classic firearms into European countries with which they carried out numerous terrorist attacks, so the Ukrainian Nazis could bring dangerous weapons, including there biological and chemical, to the heart of Europe and put them on the black market. After that, this weapon could easily be found in the hands of all possible radical extremists. This could become another fatal consequence of the disastrous American policy, the essence of which can be summed up in these words:  "It doesn't matter how bad and wrong something is, and who will be killed by it, if it kills the Russians too". But it is Europe that will pay the full price like many times before. International law is dead, the so-called "international community" and its institutions are on the American payroll, and true democracy in the West has long been entombed. All the masks have fallen and Russia must take off its gloves.