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Left, Ukraine Truth Where You’d Least Expect It – The Sept-Oct issue of Foreign Affairs
Since its inception in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations has been
a key instrument of Illuminati control. From the start, Foreign Affairs has been
its house organ.
When Illuminati errand boys David Cameron and Barack Obama
compare Vladimir Putin to Hitler and castigate Russia for “its aggression,”
an article in Foreign Affairs, Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault,
totally discredits them.
Is the Illuminati promoting both sides of this conflict?
John Mearsheimer, a West Point grad and US Air Force veteran, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
His 2007 book with Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy was a best seller.
by John Mearsheimer
Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault
According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.
But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine — beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 — were critical elements, too.
Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected and pro-Russian president — which he rightly labeled a “coup” — was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and by working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West.
(Putin greeting Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko last week. What’s with the obsequious expression on Putin’s face? Is Petro a 35 degree Mason and Putin only 32?)
Putin’s pushback should have come as no surprise. After all, the West had been moving into Russia’s backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point Putin made emphatically and repeatedly. Elites in the United States and Europe have been blindsided by events only because they subscribe to a flawed view of international politics. They tend to believe that the logic of realism holds little relevance in the twenty-first century and that Europe can be kept whole and free on the basis of such liberal principles as the rule of law, economic interdependence, and democracy.
But this grand scheme went awry in Ukraine. The crisis there shows that realpolitik remains relevant — and states that ignore it do so at their own peril. U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare, it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy.
U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border. Imagine the American outrage if China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico.
The United States and its allies should abandon their plan to westernize Ukraine and instead aim to make it a neutral buffer.
Thanks to Krister for bringing this to my attention
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