Can't say we were not warned

 

This is Gaza, not Ukraine. No howling cries were heard on the BBC, MSNBC or NPR.

 

Over many years (at least back to 2007) Russia pleaded with the US-NATO for security guarantees. Stop NATO expansion and war games on Russia's doorstep. Moscow was essentially laughed at by the neo-con west.

Following the US-EU directed coup d'etat in Kiev in 2014, and the almost immediate shelling of the Russian-ethnic region of the Donbass in Ukraine (near the Russian border), more than 14,000 were killed and over 35,000 wounded. No howling cries were heard on the BBC, MSNBC or NPR. 

Russia tried via the Minsk Accords to bring a federated status (local autonomy) to the Donbass - still within the Ukraine government. No dice. Moscow was betrayed by Kiev, Brussels and Washington.

The west took out Nordstream 1 & 2, attempted more offensives against the Donbass region and attacked the Crimean Kerch bridge. 

The Kerch bridge attack was the final red line. Russia has responded by hitting military targets and energy infrastructure all across Ukraine. Unlike US-NATO 'shock and awe' in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and Yemen these current attacks have not gone after the civilian populations.

Such current outcomes in Ukraine could have been avoided with honest diplomacy, which the US-EU have steadily sought to undermine and instead they focused exclusively on military escalation and sanctions on Russia.

The US-UK-EU are desperate to hang on to their hundreds of years of corporate colonial domination of the Global South. Those days are now over.

Will the US-UK-NATO resort to nuclear attacks on the Donbass and Russia in a last ditch effort to stay in control?

That is the essential question at this moment. More and bigger protests are urgently needed.

Bruce