NATO promised membership to Ukraine in 2008 and again in ’21, knowing that Russia—Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin—strongly opposed NATO expansion, and Putin had invaded Georgia to stop it. Zelensky and the west-leaning Ukrainian oligarchs pushed for EU and NATO membership, gambling they would either get it or, if Putin invaded, NATO would intervene. NATO left Ukraine hanging, and may win the bigger prizes of Sweden and Finland. Ukraine will be partitioned, its economy burdened by unsustainable debt to EU and U.S. banks. The West controls the Ukrainian government and rump economy without having to defend it, and Putin gets Ukraine out of NATO and militarily weakened, and a military buffer zone in east Ukraine. Both aggressors win, the people of all nations lose.
The Russian people must join their developing peace movement. Americans’ duty is at home, opposing our own militarists, interventionists, and war-mongering news media.
Fire Ant Rebellion 