#53 Geoeconomics Geopolitics
On the retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, US State Department statement has an extraordinary paragraph that places the blame for the Ukrainian debacle squarely on Nuland’s shoulders.
The statement also underlies a fact that Nuland was one of the main architects of the ongoing conflict, which means she is largely responsible for the widening chasm between the NATO leaders, the mounting carnage on the battlefield, and America’s strategic defeat to its primary geopolitical rival, Russia, (globalresearch 7/03/2024).
Victoria Nuland, a member of the neo-conservative Kagan clan - whose geostrategic agenda is to engineer the breakup of sovereign nation-states, destroy their culture and national identity, derogate fundamental values and human rights - will be most likely remembered for handing out cookies to anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine and for installing the 2014 coup regime, (moonofalabama.org, 5/03/2024), in an US hegemonic thrust so as to isolate Russia by surrounding it with a cordon of obedient satellites, (Naiyl M. Latypov).
However, the 2014 Maidan putsch that turnt Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia, has ended in a complete failure, more evidently so because the Russian victory is anchored upon the dynamics of “race of logistics” and “war of attrition” with NATO.
The West has most unfortunately believed that Russia could be dealt a strategic defeat through economic sanctions and proxy warfare, but both policies had failed by January 2023 and September of that year, respectively.
The conflict has continued to drag on till today due to the failure of last summer’s counteroffensive because the West just cannot admit that Russia was the one that ended up strategically defeating its opponent instead, (Andrew Korybko, 3/03/2024).
It has come about that even Guardian commentators are now waking up to the mess they had helped to create. Indeed, it is high time for European politicians to finally accept this reality:
Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine.
As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.
The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.
The American exceptionalism exertion ethos towards the initial cross-border special military operation in Ukraine and the wider dimension of An Age of Wars? as amplified by Sergei Karaganov is without doubt related to the US grand strategic Pivot in Ukraine as explored in the journal pages of newleftmalaysia, besides other essays like the US-NATO intrusion in Ukraine, and Ukraine Unwavering Unmasked
that has become a failed military campaign as plain on the plains of Ukraine as were in the jungles of Vietnam and mountainous Afghanistan.
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