When Trouble is Brewing…
Published January 22, 2022.
When trouble is brewing you can always count on the US and their allies to stir the pot more than anyone else. A day after the US sent a shipment that included “close to 200,000 pounds of lethal aid, including ammunition for the front line defenders of Ukraine,” along with five Mi-17 helicopters (originally bought for Afghanistan,) the Department of State prepared to approve evacuation orders for US diplomats and their families from the US Embassy in Ukraine by Monday. The week following that, they plan to urge other Americans in Ukraine to leave via commercial flight "while those are still available," according to one official.
So much for wanting to “keep talking” as Victoria Nuland said after she had threatened that the US would inflict “very sharp pain very fast” if Russia were to attack Ukraine in any form. If the US wanted to keep talking, they would not be sending aid over to Ukraine and helping them prepare for a conflict. By doing that they are only inducing the chances of war breaking out. They know that, and that is why they are doing these things.
This is all happening on the heels of the US allowing for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to send American-made weapons to Ukraine, as well as the UK sending weapons of their own along with 30 elite soldiers into Ukraine. This is also happening less than a year after the longed-for but disastrous end of the war in Afghanistan that the Biden administration oversaw. That incident alone should have shown the American public how brainless US foreign policy is and how incompetent the government is at getting anything done. But, with no mass outrage against the US beating the war drum in the ears of Russia, it is safe to guess the American public has yet to learn any lessons regarding the US empire.
In response to this military buildup by the US and their allies, Russia has put rockets in Belarus. These are not just any rockets, however. Writes RT:
“Russia is moving two divisions of its S-400 Triumph air-defense systems, designed to take down enemy warplanes, into neighboring Belarus to take part in military exercises, the Ministry of Defense confirmed on Friday…
Development of the S-400 system began in the late 1980s, and the missiles went into service in 2007. Russia has also sold them to nations including China and Turkey, and in November, officials announced that the rockets were being delivered to India. International analysts have described the S-400 as “arguably the best strategic surface-to-air missile systems in operation today,” and sales of the system have been aggressively lobbied against by the US.”
While this may come off as Russia showing their guns, it should be regarded as an understandable defensive measure that Russia is taking in case war does break out. It also could be part of a strategy where if conflict does break out in Ukraine and the US gets involved, Russia could force the US to fight in Belarus and other surrounding nations as well. This would spread US forces thin instead of letting them mass up just in Ukraine, where Russia could easily be defeated by the US and their allies and fall under their control, as Ukraine did in 2014. It could also create a quagmire in Eastern Europe much like the one we saw in South East Asia during the Vietnam war or like the one we have seen recently in the Middle East. At this point, the US getting involved with something like that could potentially drain their resources and bring on the collapse of the US empire, which Russia and their allies definitely have an interest in.
Both sides are playing with fire here, and the first to burn will be the citizens of both America and Russia. In order to preserve life and have opportunities to create prosperity, which is what the citizens want and need, peace must be pursued. The possibility of peace is looking more improbable as the days go by and the news comes in. Let us hope that projection is wrong.