It’s called being a pawn, Ukraine

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Ukraine is realizing its role in the Victoria Nuland Plan (2014): to be a minefield that trips up Russia. A sacrifice to hurt Russia, and as a bonus, cuck Europe out of cheap resources. Putin was retarded enough to march onto this minefield, so the blame is shared among all three parties (Vicky, Kiev and Moscow).

Here’s the exchange that encapsulates today’s reality:

Lindsey Graham’s gloating about the low cost of this conflict for America — only stupid Slavs are dying, lol — is tasteless, even for a Neocon, but it’s true. Treasure him for his honesty!

If Ukraine and Europe want to avoid American C-17s from taking off, as they did from Kabul, and leave us holding the bag in this conflict, we, the pawns in the provinces, will have to pay concessions to the Metropole. It’s a shit deal from a selfish America that makes us look weak subordinates.

Except, America has always been selfish and we have been weak subordinates this entire time, all we’re losing is the illusion that we are equal partners in a noble endeavour.

Ukraine is learning the hard way what the rest of the Eastern Block learned in a softer fashion since 1990: that in the eyes of the West we are expendable and exploitable pawns. Our men, at best, are plumbers; our women, at best, are mail-order brides.

Only we, East-Europeans, can advocate for ourselves, we can’t outsource this responsibility to external powers: they will rob and rape us blind.

Ukraine certainly has the brainpower and the vitality to be a great country, it’s proving itself equal to a superpower in this war, to the surprise of the entire world; if only it had the self-respect to send Nuland away when she brought her poison plan to the table in 2014, today it would be a rapidly developing bridge between the EU and Russia, plagued by ferocious internal conflicts between power players, for sure, that’s a growing pain all Eastern Block members had to endure to become higher-trust societies, but it would not be in an explicit shooting war.

We don’t make decisions in the Empire that we’re peripheral to, the best we can do is adapt to the circumstances and take our own side. Always take our own side.

America has achieved everything it could realistically hope for in this war, so it has all the incentives to abandon it: Russia and Europe are separated, both hurt, Europe reduced to being a beggar. We have no other choice but to beg daddy not to abandon us at this hour with this mess. A terrible bargaining position with zero leverage on this side of the American Ocean.

It’s called being a pawn, Europe.

Update:

Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says

Keith Kellogg tells countries to offer concrete solutions and boost spending instead of complaining about talks role

Europe will be consulted – but ultimately excluded – from the planned peace talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine has revealed.

Asked if Europe would be present at the planned talks, Keith Kellogg said he was from “the school of realism, and that is not going to happen”.

“It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest,” he said on Saturday.

“And to my European friends, I would say: get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up [defence] spending.”

via The Guardian