Cloaked in hypocrisy

 

You can't convince me that the new pope doesn't know the real story of the US orchestrated coup in Kiev, Ukraine in 2014 that installed Nazi death squads as heads of the US hand-picked government's military, security and police divisions.

Is the pope giving blessings to Zelensky to keep resisting true peace negotiations with Moscow? Is the audience with the pope designed to further build western public support for Ukraine's war on Russia? I sure hope not.

Isn't it rather ironic that the US (which started this war and has kept it alive with American taxpayer dollars - Washington sent over $130 billion to Ukraine plus the billions that other western nations donated) is now telling Russia what they must do if they want the war to end?

Talk about arrogance and pure hypocrisy.

RT reports:

“On the one hand, we’re trying to achieve peace and end a very bloody, costly, and destructive war. So there’s some element of patience that is required,” Marco Rubio [US Secretary of State] said in an interview aired on CBS News’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday.

“On the other hand, we don’t have time to waste. There are a lot of other things happening in the world that we also need to be paying attention to. [Like preparing for war with the big fish - China.] So we don’t want to be involved in this process of just endless talks. There has to be some progress, some movement forward,” he added.

The diplomat confirmed that the US is ready to impose further sanctions on Russia if no deal is reached. He expressed confidence that both chambers of Congress would pass Senator Lindsey Graham’s [R-SC] bill introducing 500% tariffs on imports from countries that purchase Russian oil, natural gas, and uranium.

Moscow has rejected demands for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire, insisting that talks must address the “root causes” of the conflict, including Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO – which Russia considers a threat to national security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained that a lasting truce would require Ukraine to halt its mobilization drive, stop receiving weapons from abroad, and withdraw troops from Russian territory. He warned that Kiev would likely use a temporary ceasefire to rearm and regroup.

The Russian and Ukrainian delegations spent nearly two hours talking in Istanbul, Türkiye, in the first direct negotiations between the two sides in around three years.

They agreed to a major prisoner exchange involving 1,000 POWs from each side, and decided to continue contacts once each party prepares a detailed ceasefire plan and presents it to the other side. 

Brazilian journalist Pepe Escobar writes about the negotiations in Istanbul:

In March 2022 in Istanbul, Kiev could have stopped the war. [This is when UK's Boris Johnson flew into Turkey and demanded that Ukraine pull out of negotiations.]  Every one of us who were in Istanbul at the time could foresee that Kiev would eventually have to be forced to the table all over again.

So in essence we are back to the same negotiation – with the same top Russian negotiator, competent historian Vladimir Medinsky, heading a delegation composed by pros, but with Ukraine now facing over a million dead; deprived of at least four regions – more on the way; what’s left of its mineral wealth de facto controlled by the US; and a horrendous black hole that passes for an “economy”. 

All the barking by the – European – chihuahuas of war cannot disguise the fundamental geopolitical/military fact: a massive NATO humiliation. Trump’s humongous problem is that he has to manage it – and sell it to domestic public opinion and the global public opinion as some sort of “deal” he struck with Putin.

It’s enlightening once again to go back to Grandmaster Lavrov, always the uber-realist, back in September 2024: “In April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reached agreement in Istanbul. If that agreement had been observed, Ukraine would have preserved part of Donbass. But every time another agreement, always accepted by Russia, is broken, Ukraine shrinks in size.”

Now back to the (Great) Game. Kiev negotiators eventually admitting Ukrainian capitulation means a NATO capitulation and an Empire of Chaos capitulation. That’s the ultimate anathema for the US ruling classes. Even an ultra-negotiated, carefully managed Ukrainian surrender will be an impossible sell – not to mention Washington under Narcissus Drowned Trump acknowledging a strategic defeat.

Because that will mean the Empire of Chaos losing Eurasia for good: the ultimate Mackinder/Brzezinski nightmare. Coupled with the consequential solidification of the multi-nodal, multi-polar world. 

Beijing is fully aware NATO’s real goal was always to confront it via Russia. Ukraine was NATO’s pawn to take down Russia then get to China from the West. The goal of the US ruling elites as they configured their thalassocratic empire remains to blockade China from the West by land and sea, using Russia; then use Taiwan as a staging area to blockade China from the East by sea. No wonder control of Taiwan is a Chinese strategic imperative.

As for the tantrum-addicted clown in Kiev, he is merely an actor with no authority whatsoever, negotiations included. He is completely dominated by Ukrainian neo-Nazis who will kill him if and when the war is over. He merely fronts for them and gets paid off. And that’s why – enthusiastically supported by inconsequential London, Paris and Berlin – he’s obsessed to continue a Forever War destroying the very nation he claims to represent.

In the end I have real doubts that a deal will be agreed upon. But let's see just how serious Trump is about ending the war. He could tell Ukraine he is turning off the money pipeline which would surely shut it down real quick. 

If what Rubio says is true, that Washington has other big fish to fry, then the US can't keep sending billions to Ukraine along with various weapons systems that are currently in short supply inside the Pentagon stockpiles.

The US is forcing NATO countries to dramatically increase their donations to the 'war making alliance' that has no true purpose anymore. They are cutting social spending across the EU to cover this war on Russia fund that now has to essentially replace the unstable US contribution. And in those nations we are hearing every day about growing pressure on the public's right to free speech because NATO can't afford an honest debate across Europe on whether the people actually want war with Russia. 

Remember during the Cold War when the US-NATO were pitted against the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact? There were certainly tensions between the two nuclear-armed blocs but never did they dare to provoke one another the way we continually see the US-UK-NATO do to Russia today. 

This should be seen as a real sign of western desperation as their economies and military might are collapsing. Thus they turn to the only tool they know. This is what the colonizers historically do - they rule by creating chaos. 

I'd hope that the western citizenry can read the tea leaves and understand that we are being led over the cliff. If we wish to survive we must collectively stand against these corrupt western governments.

Bruce