What can explain the increasing recklessness of the western policy of zero diplomacy toward Russia regarding Ukraine? What lies behind this seemingly relentless juggernaut toward nuclear war?
We can expect almost any form of madness from the western powers at this point. Their grip on the world and upon reality itself is in a state of fast decline. The weaker their position grows the more desperate and reckless are their solutions. Each decay in their long-held dominance over the nations they have become long accustomed to manipulating to their benefit drives them into ever greater recklessness. It is clear to see where their panic could lead all of us… but do they care, so fixated as they are upon themselves?
It cannot have escaped the notice of advisers to those who hold the levers of powers in the West that the omens looked anything but good for the retention of the vast power being held there. It must have been at least three decades ago now that they began warning that unless something radical was done western elite power was destined to atrophy and die, and that the state of global dominance they had held since WWII would be totally lost by the mid 21st century.
What to do? Gracefully submit to what appeared to be inevitable? Or fight tooth and claw like some dying animal against a world that even though it had not yet fully turned against them was certainly destined to do so? Their hopes were quite clearly invested in the second option as we have seen over the decades since the stark reality of their position became obvious. Once China began to massively expand its economic power base it became very obvious that the position of superiority and manipulative dominance the West had become used to was hardly likely to be retained. The only last and slim chance to maintain their position was for the western powers to seek by all means necessary to undermine the sources of that power.
Russia had become an economic basket case through a long campaign to destroy her by endlessly encouraging the arms race and all the other attendant wastefulness that came with the Cold War. A powerful economy had been encouraged to fritter its wealth away on high levels of military spending, the space race and a gargantuan bureaucracy seeking internal control against an external enemy. That external enemy prevailed and brought about the internal weakening necessary to inspire the revolt necessary to bring the entire country and its satellites to their knees.
Then along came Vladimir Putin.
From the year 2000 until early 2007 it appeared that Vladimir Putin could be safely tolerated by the West, a rather grey bureaucrat who would preside over a once great nation that was now being brought to heel by an army of western advisers. In February of 2007 in the city of Munich Putin made it crystal clear to the assembled western elites that they had made a severe miscalculation. Russia was not to be a tame lapdog for the West, nor any kind of take anything. Russia was going to be a powerful, independent-minded, sovereign nation. One that would take responsibility for cooperating with the western powers on all areas requiring international agreement such as nuclear proliferation and international terrorism, but would not be controlled nor directed by them. In other words, Russia would not be their proxy but would once again be a proud and self-confident nation that steered its own path forward.
In those early months of 2007 Putin’s words were greeted with both anger and dismay. Since the events of 9/11 all nations were required to submit to U.S. command with no questions asked. The project to eliminate all nations having a problem with that was already underway. What Putin was telling them was in direct opposition to a requirement that the western leaders had agreed to be an obvious necessity, America was to be supported to the hilt by all nations now in light of 9/11 and without question as world leader so as to wipe all traces of opposition from the entire planet. Putin was refusing to get on that bus. This was simply unacceptable.
Over the years since Putin made his Munich address the strength of the Russian economy was seen to increase and saw, with that increase, the emergence of a nation fast regaining its pride and power. The state of anxiety within the ranks of the western powers grew to ever greater levels while innumerable forms of attack upon the name of Vladimir Putin were seen from 2007 onwards until the demonisation process regarding him was all but complete. That Russia was not going to play ball when the western powers had already the problems of China’s ever growing economic success on their plate was a source of anxiety bordering on panic. Both must be destroyed. But how?
The conjoined policies designed to undermine, weaken and ultimately replace the structures of governance in both Russia and China appear to have been formulated in stages, the first of these occurring immediately after 9/11. The initial targets set out for regime change were of course Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria along with Iran at some point but China was undoubtedly part of the ultimate solution devised. Russia at that time was still a basket case with the new man Putin appearing too weak to effect any major difference. That changed in the year 2007 as we have seen. After all the misadventures in the Middle East by the USA and its proxies the heightened desperation levels began to fix the focus on Russia. Russia must be brought to heel. How should this be brought about?
Endless pressure denying any way out to Russia was the process decided upon by the West to deal a blow to the second most area of opposition to western global hegemony. Thus, in the years from 2005 or so leading up to 2013-14 Ukraine became a primary target with which to “get” Russia. Five billion dollars were spent via NGOs within Ukraine and via the U.S. embassy in Kiev to create enough resistance within the country to initiate an insurrection. The European Union played its part to the hilt also along with the USA and UK in exercising pressure against the Ukrainian president and government that would eventually bring about the violent rioting on Kiev’s Maidan Square to bring them down.
By the means above, through turning Ukraine into a western ally on Russia’s border, one which would ultimately become a member of NATO it was well known that Russia would be thrown into a situation that could be levered to its destruction. As we can see now however, this entire plan failed catastrophically. Russia did, finally, after a near decade of attempting to find a peaceful way through, finally took the bait and invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022, and it appeared the West’s plan had every chance of success. Russia would be brought to its knees again in a replay of the Cold War. It had been relentlessly pressured down one path, that of military conflict with a now de facto NATO power, Ukraine and the West would now destroy Putin’s power base with an overwhelming array of economic and financial weapons.
Unfortunately for the West things have not turned out as planned. Russia was able to withstand all initial assaults upon it and further turn them to its advantage. More than this, the solutions Russia found resulting in the failure of western plans, instead produced debilitating effects across the economies of the West, primarily those of the European Union. Plus Russia began quite obviously to win the conflict in Ukraine, another outcome that was not contemplated by the western planners. Russia was to be held in a state of war yes, one where it was to be bankrupted along with the effect of western sanctions, but for Russia to win out was not part of the plan, Russia was to be bankrupted causing a massive revolt of the Russian people, regime change and a speedy defeat for Russia in Ukraine.
Coming up to present time we see the results of a growing western desperation to eliminate all those failing to support it or opposing it after 9/11 after each policy decided upon fails to reach a successful conclusion. Afghanistan a disaster. Iraq not much better. Libya in chaos with an unpredictable future. Syria saved from becoming an Islamist caliphate by the intervention of Russia and now the Ukraine policy going disastrously wrong. Meanwhile China continues to maintain a position of growing economic strength with the USA’s Taiwan policy remaining frustratingly impotent. It isn’t hard to imagine the level of frustration bordering upon outright panic that is now fuelling the ever more desperate “solutions” now being contemplated by the West.
Will western elites, now in outright panic mode continue their efforts to shore up the crumbling edifice of their remaining power? Or will the seemingly inexorable rise of those seeking a world where power is balanced due to multipolarity through BRICS and other institutions prevail? All hangs in the balance, however no one should underestimate the willingness of the western political elites to put their interests first even to the extent of being willing to countenance having no world at all rather than a world they can no longer control.
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