Do not count on the US president and officials to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia. The US is party to the conflict and as such can't mediate it but only agree to it
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Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the CONTENTS. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please. Did you read the this “Peacemaking Mediation” segment from the beginning? Please, do so for a better grasp of the topic of this article: Peacemaking Mediation: The US Role.
In the previous three articles of this segment on The US Rolein the war in Ukraine, we explained some reasons why no one should count on the US president and officials to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia, which we continue to do in this last article of that segment, too. In this article, we cover these topics:
➡ War profiteering[+] of the US is a major block to peace talks involving Americans. Since this war is a source of enormous profits for the US, it contradicts the goal of having the US seek diplomacy to resolve the conflict.
People always say “there are no winners in war” but for the US military-industrial giants and food traders, war is a great opportunity to make huge profits. Military conflicts or geopolitical tensions have become money-printing machines for US arms dealers, as well as private security, logistics, and reconstruction companies. And in this war, oil, food processing, and commodity-trading companies, to name just a few.
The war in Ukraine has helped the United States to achieve several strategic goals:
✅ It has reinforced NATO, whose raison d’être is American control over Europe.
✅ This war is a source of enormous profits for US companies1 that in the first year of war alone earned an excess of more than $129 billion in profits on top of their usual profits – apart from the US military-industrial giants, arms dealers, private security, and logistics, the big Ukraine war profiteers are American oil companies, food processing, and commodity-trading companies, reconstruction companies, as well as assets management firm Blackrock[+], etc. In two years, just two American oil companies made $136 billion combined profit[+]. In 2023 alone, the US arms industry reached a record-breaking $238 billion[+] revenue ($81 billion of that was paid by the US government).
✅ No matter which side wins, the US won because they secured the change of the European energy dependence. Now, most of Europe depends on the US rather than Russia for gas supply but the US charges much, much more – is the EU stupid? How is depending on the US any better than depending on Russia?
✅ It has forced German industry to forgo cheap Russian energy and make it dependent on American expensive energy, weakening the German economy, and making it more susceptible to US pressure. On top of that, in 2022, Germany spent or wasted additional 100 billion euros ($107 billion; €13 billion of that has to go toward the interest payments so that leaves €87 billion of actual money to spend; big orders have been placed in the US) to go further in debt to modernize its military[+][+] (on top of 2022 record defense budget of €50.4 billion) – in contrast, in 2020 and 2021– $33 and $37 million (the US arms exports to Germany) further weakening the German economy while profiting the US economy, and strengthening NATO capabilities – the question is why is keeping Ukrainian territorial integrity worth so much to Germany (losing hundreds of billions, ruining German economy, deindustrialization…)? Why is Germany not rather using this money to support its post-covid crumbling and deindustrialized economy?
✅ Europe is now considered a hotspot for US arms dealers. Sales of United States military weaponry in Europe are skyrocketing[+]. EU countries have pledged to spend more than €230 billion to modernize their arsenals – over half of the military expenditures went to American arms manufacturers[+] All this money that goes into buying weapons is the money lost for social causes, innovations, and infrastructure improvements. The question is, how long is the EU prepared to suffer in order to preserve US hegemony?
Corporations that dominate arms, fuel, and food markets have been using the war as a smokescreen to inflate their prices much more than their costs. The country that is most profiting from this war in Ukraine is the US[+] because they are selling more gas at higher prices, and more weapons, among other things. Putin is making America very rich. Top European officials are furious with Joe Biden’s administration as they accuse the Americans of making a fortune from the war, while EU countries suffer[+]. Brussels is starting to see through the Washington game but as an obedient vassal, it is not doing anything about it. The transatlantic alliance is experiencing a creeping crisis of trust on trade issues as anger is mounting in Europe over American discriminatory subsidies and taxes that threaten to wreck European industry.
Numerous US companies take advantage of wartime conditions profiting from a war economy in many ways, such as weapon manufacturers, private security contracting, logistics and reconstruction. As a result of the war in Ukraine, the US government arms sales skyrocketed from $35,8 billion in 2021 to $51,9 billion[+] in 2022 (excess profit: $16,1 billion), and an even larger excess profit – $50,3 billion – was seen due to direct weapon sales from the US private arms manufacturers (from $103,4 billion in 2021 to $153.7 billion[+]). In other words, only the US arms industry earned more than $66,4 billion in excess profits due to the war in Ukraine in 2022 alone. On top of that are the profits from private security contracting, logistics, and reconstruction. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. We could not count in all the revenue avenues. Furthermore, just in March 2022, the financial speculation earned them and European manufacturers almost $82 billion on the stock market as the value of shares in arms manufacturing companies increased with the start of the war[+].
The biggest winners among US defense contractors are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. American arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp. earned $66 billion in 2022. This is more than what 118 whole countries earned the entire year! Just a few months before the war, at the beginning of November 2021 the war, the share price of Lockheed Martin was $280[+]. And one year later it peaked at over $490, which is a historical record.
The US makes every effort to capitalize on the war in Ukraine, so arms manufacturers had raised prices for Kyiv rather than give them a fair price, given that foolish Ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in the US proxy war against Russia. In October 2023, the Pentagon and NATO s senior military officer, Adm. Rob Bauer said[+][+] that arms manufacturers raised prices for the 155 mm artillery rounds used by Kyiv from 2.000€ ($2,171) to 8.000€ ($8,489) per unit. The revenue of US arms producers has thus increased by a whopping 450%. This is such a rip-off. The MIC2 is getting beyond rich.
All the fearmongering in Europe has also caused European states to increase their purchases of American weaponry. For instance, in early 2022, Germany set up a special €100 billion fund to modernize its military placing many big orders in the US[+][+]. In 2023, they increased it by an extra €10 billion[+]. That's all on top of usual annual military spending of over $50 billion[+]. In July 2023, Europeans ordered[+] contracts for around 10 billion dollars’ worth of ammunition ($5,5 billion contract for 1.000 Patriot missiles and $4 billion for 155-mm artillery shells). In January 2024, Belgium, Lithuania, and Spain bought[+] around 220.000 155 mm artillery shells for $1,2 billion, which means they paid $5.545 per shell – the first deliveries expected at the end of 2025.
What is more, in this war the great financial beneficiaries are oil companies, food processing and commodity-trading companies. The highest beneficiary in 2022 was American ExxonMobil that brought $32,7 billion in excess profit. (2022 profit was $55,7B[+]; $23B in 2021[+]). That was just mere profits but the revenue increase was $128 billion ($413,7B; in 2021 $285,6B) – yet another single American company earned more than what most countries in the world earned[+]. Another American oil company, Chevron, gained an excess net profit of $20 billion (a total profit was $35,5B compared with $15,6B in 2021[+]). That is just net profits, the gross profit increase was $30 billion[+] but the revenue increase was $83,8 billion ($246,3B; in 2021 $162,5B[+]).
ExxonMobil and Chevron are American, BP and Shell are British, and TotalEnergies is French.
The quarterly profits in billions of USD for each company and the total of all their profits combined since Russia launched its SMO in Ukraine in February 2022.[+]
In 2022, gas prices skyrocketed, driving historic gains for oil and gas producers. The West’s five largest oil and gas companies earned $134 billion[+] in excess profit in 2022.
In other words, just the American oil industry earned from the war in Ukraine more than $208 billion in 2022, from which net excess profit was $52,7 billion (counting only two US companies). Add that to the excess profit of $66,4 billion from the arms industry, which makes a total of $119 billion of excess profits from this war made by only five American companies in only two industries (arms and oil industries) just in 2022.
What is more, in this war in Ukraine, the great financial beneficiaries are American food processing and commodity-trading companies. As Ukraine has been prevented to produce and export foodstuffs such as grain and plant oil, this ramped up the prices of these commodities which made huge profits for American food processing and commodity-trading companies, which took advantage of the crisis.
The world’s top four grain traders known as the ABCD group – ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis-Dreyfus, which have dominated the global grain market for decades – have seen record profits thanks to soaring prices (they also continue their agricultural operations in Russia[+][+]). They forecasted even higher sales and profits in the next two years. The first three are American, the fourth is French. Agriculture is the largest strategic resource of the United States. As the world's largest grain producer and exporter, the United States plays a pivotal role in the global grain market and firmly holds the leading position in the food supply.[+]
Consider Cargill Inc.[+], the commodities trader giant that is the largest privately-owned company in the US and the world by revenue and the world's largest supplier of raw agricultural goods — buying, processing, shipping, and selling. It is famous for its secrecy and as a private company, it is not obliged to publicly disclose its profits. From what they reveal, Cargill's fiscal May 2022/2023 revenue jumped to a record $177 billion[+][+]3, the highest ever for the 158-year-old company, so when we compare it with the fiscal year before the war in 2020/2021 when the revenue was $134,4 billion[+], this is a revenue increase of $42,6 billion! (In 2021/2022 revenue jumped to $165 billion4[+] – this was an excess revenue of $30,6 billion, compared to pre-war revenues.). They only reveal revenues but not profits, therefore we can only use an estimate5[+] – $8,5 billion excess annual profit from the war in Ukraine in 2022.
We are happy with anyone decent making huge profits but Cargill is dubbed as "the worst company in the world" as it drives "the most important problems facing our world" (deforestation, pollution, climate change, exploitation)[+], drives out their competitors, is culpable of food contamination[+] and tax evasion[+], as well as child labor, slavery, and trafficking[+] with children being forced to work on plantations 12-14 hours a day with no pay, little food and sleep, and frequent physical abuse. Cargill also fires employees who organize protests due to poor health benefits and bad working conditions. And the list goes on[+]. This is the company that makes war profits by inflating the grain and oil prices causing increasing poverty in the world, all the while the Cargill family as the fourth richest family in the United States accumulates enormous wealth earning more than most whole countries in the world. Food prices have surged more than 20% in 2022, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. About 345 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity, according to the World Food Programme, compared with 135 million before the Covid-19 pandemic. Oxfam has also called for a windfall tax on food company profits[+]. Ultimately, we need to break up the monopolies that have a stranglehold on the food chain. A handful of companies control global seed and fertilizer markets, animal genetics, the global grain trade, and food retail. They are making huge profits at the cost of farmers, consumers, and the environment.[+] And they are driving the lion’s share of inflation.[+]
ADM earnings soared 60%[+] in 2022 and the excess gross profit[+] was $1.6 billion while excess revenue was $16.3 billion[+]. With those of Cargill ($8,5 billion), together they made excess annual profit of $10.1 billion in 2022.
Add those excess profits of $10.1 billion of those two food processing and commodity-trading companies to the excess profits of $119 billion from the arms and gas industries, which makes a total of over $129 billion of 2022 excess earnings from this war by only 7 US companies and US government in only three industries (arms, oil/gas, and food). On top of that are the profits from private security contracting, logistics, and reconstruction, as well as the US assets management firm Blackrock[+] to name just a few war-profiteering industries.
Furthermore, all the aid that the US has provided to Ukraine comes with strings attached. Due to the US providing some military and humanitarian aid or loans during the war, Ukrainians have obliged themselves to pay it back with interest and to give the Americans a contract[+] to rebuild Ukrainian infrastructure after the war, thus from the American perspective, there is also a huge economic interestin the destruction of Ukraine, on top of the earnings from selling gas, food, and weapons to Ukraine and its allies. The World Bank estimated that the cost of rebuilding Ukraine would be about In February 2024, the World Bank estimated the cost of rebuilding to be $486 billion over 10 years, a figure that rises by $10 billion every month. With most Ukrainian men either dead or crippled, unable to reconstruct, wonder who is going to pocket all this money.
Speaking of rebuilding Ukraine, before Ukraine falls for the offers of likes of American Halliburton (owned by BlackRock[+][+] – the world’s biggest asset management firm, nominated for the 2022 Corporate Hall of Shame by Corporate Accountability[+]) and its subsidiaries such as Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), the authorities should first get acquainted with the condemnatory reports[+] on what a lousy job the Americans did in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, with dramatically overcharging for basic services, theft by contractors, shoddy construction and doing faulty work. They are known for taking advantage of no oversight system or the less rigorous oversight under post-wartime conditions to overcharge the government, including by engaging in criminal conduct, charging more than twice what other suppliers were charging (e.g., for fuel), failing to make local residents integral to rebuilding projects, and undermining the sustainability of these projects once the contractors left the scene. The Commission estimated that waste, fraud, and abuse in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan had totaled $31 billion to $60 billion. Large US firms like Parsons and Bechtel were cited for inadequate and incomplete work with construction deficiencies and other serious problems on scores of projects involving everything from water projects to building schools and health clinics. One of the projects involved the construction of a police college in Baghdad where “plumbing work was so poor that the pipes burst, dumping urine and fecal matter throughout the college’s buildings.” Some shoddy work had tragic human consequences such as the electrocution of at least eighteen people (while showering, etc.) due to faulty electrical installations, some of which were done by KBR and its subcontractors.
The Ukrainian tragedy is terribly profitable for many US companies that might even do all it takes to prevent Republicans to win the US presidential elections because they oppose giving aid to keep the war going.
The US Neocolonialism and Social Engineering
The US is the world's most indebted country[+], with external debt of over $36 trillion[+][+][»] (no typing error there, that is trillion, not billion or million), which means that all the aid (with strings attached) comes from debt (money borrowed from Japan, China, the UK, etc.[+]) – well, then Ukraine could do the same, rather than depend on the US and let the US rule them.
Ukraine is de facto American dominion. Some say that Ukraine is an American colony (or 51st state), but it is more the other way around – America became a Ukrainian colony as 1.017.586[+] Ukrainian people have colonized the US, infiltrating politics and media, seizing power over the government and media, resulting in Americans serving Ukrainian interests. Hardly any American wants to live in Ukraine, therefore the US can't colonize Ukraine but it can rule, plunder, and exploit it, which it does in the form of neocolonialism6, as well as use it as a pawn in its geopolitical chess game.
The only reason the US was able to turn Ukraine into its neo-colony and to rule and exploit it is that it bribed and coerced its corrupt leaders and turned them and the whole folk against Russia with a “divide and rule” tactic using psyop methods[+][+]. Various techniques have been used and aimed at influencing a target audience's mind, value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior.
In the segment on NATO Cognitive Warfare[*] of the chapter on Propaganda, we already wrote about NATO “cognitive warfare”[+] tactics to wage a “battle for the brain” and “make everyone a weapon,” serving the interests of the NATO's military cartel. Cognitive warfare seeks to change not only what people think but more importantly how they act. It can motivate people to act in ways that can disrupt or fragment an otherwise cohesive society. The ultimate aim is to militarize the society, get the public to serve as cogs in NATO's war machine that makes war-profiteers very rich, influential, and powerful. The Ukrainian public needs to raise their awareness about how they are being played and taken advantage of by NATO and their corrupt leaders. The Ukrainian public needs to also raise their consciousness[+] to stop being played.
So, in this context on US role in this war, we need to remind everyone about all the psyops that the US has undertaken in order to shape the public opinion in Ukraine that is advantageous to the US hegemonic agenda and antagonistic towards Russia. Described as the “weaponization of brain sciences,” the “cognitive warfare”[+] involves hacking the individual by exploiting the vulnerabilities of the human brain in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering” and militarize the Ukrainian society.
We reiterate here how cognitive warfare has been used across all NATO members, especially on Eastern European nations, above all Ukrainians, who have been manipulated into a mass psychosis with Russophobia as part of NATO's “divide and rule” ploy. By so-called “experts”, celebrities, and mass media, both from Ukrainian and Western authorities, they were being fed with all kinds of Russophobia-stimulating narratives for years since 2014 so that all those submissive people with a low IQ, who look up to West, even people who used to love Russia and even some ethnic-Russians, unknowingly turned into NATO pawns and cannon fodder, whether they willingly took up arms to kill and die, or engage in info warfare, disseminating aggressive content and comments on social media against Russians and pro-Russians.
The US-led NATO military cartel has used novel modes of hybrid warfare also, of course, against its adversaries such as Russia, including economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, and psychological warfare. Psyop is used to destroy the morale of Russians through tactics that aim to depress Russian troops' psychological states. The purpose of United States psychological operations[+][+][+][+] is to induce or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to US objectives. These special activities include covert political influence, like that in Ukraine but also in Russia, hoping for the regime change there[+]. Some of the psyop methods are character assassination (Putin), demonizing or vilifying the enemy (Russia, Putin, etc.), fear-mongering, media manipulation, moral panic, noisy investigation, psychological manipulation, the strategy of tension, the shock doctrine, demoralization, tolerance indoctrination, false flag7[+] events, etc. It is worth inquiring about the CIA's influence on public opinion[+] and the US military perception management program[+] to induce or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to US objectives, including infiltrating the media and the arts by planting fake news[+], editing Wikipedia pages8[+], compromising smart TVs and web browsers[+], enlisting journalists[+], etc., just to name a few.
The US, with just a few psyop masters running the show and having Ukraine under their thumb, has been so successful in their Psy Ops to "win the hearts and minds" of the majority of Ukrainians that they managed to steal their souls and identity as Slavs, as their authorities mindlessly deny any kinship with their fellow Russian Slavs and rather identify themselves with their former rulers – German Nazis (more than one million Ukrainians identify themselves as Bandera9[+][+] followers) and Vikings[»] (Rurik Dynasty – Ukrainians chose their coat of arms[+] that represents them to be none other than the emblem of Rurik Dynasty – a three-pronged spear or trident[+]).
Ever since Ukrainians separated from the Soviet Union (and even much earlier, since 1973)[+], Americans attempted to win them over and turn them against Russia by using psyops (with the use of social media and conspiracy theories), which climaxed with the Orange Revolution in 2004-2005, the Maidan Revolution in 2013-2014, and the Russian “invasion” in 2022-2023.
The Undiplomatic US
➡ The US has never prevented or stopped any war through diplomacy, which is why it would be unreasonable to assume, the Americans would want to do it this time in Ukraine, especially when one of their main enemies, Russia, is involved and losing military strength through major losses. The US foreign policy is dominated by the military whereby diplomatic means have been always pushed into the background.
Diplomatic efforts are unprofitable for the US. Moreover, diplomacy would destroy the American economy, which is dependent on revenues from American war profiteers.
More evidence that the US with the UK shattered diplomacy that could have saved countless lives comes from former Israeli PM Bennett[+][+][+][»][»], Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu[+] , former German Chancellor Schröder[+][+], the Ukrainian[+][+][»][»][+»][+][+] and Russian[+][+] delegations, who all said that the UK and US leaders blocked attempts at a Russia-Ukraine peace deal in March and April 2022. They all said (and Putin confirmed[+], and Western media[+][+][+]) that both sides agreed to major concessions during his mediation effort and a peace deal[+][+][+][+][+] could have been reached were it not for American and British leaders’ sabotage.
Putin agreed[+] to withdraw Russian troops and Zelensky agreed that Ukraine would not join NATO. Putin dropped his former demand on denazification (regime change) in Kyiv and allowed Ukraine to keep its sovereignty. At that time, for the sake of successful peace negotiations and military logic, Russia did withdraw then from Kyiv and the Northeast (what Ukrainians claimed as their victory, although Putin announced the withdrawal[+] beforehand), which were not its key objectives10 anyway. Zelensky then changed his mind under pressure from the West[+], using the Bucha massacre as a deal-breaker, which conveniently for NATO happened at the time but which Russia and some Western independent sources (incl. Gonzalo Lira) argue to be a false flag operation[+][+][+][+][+][+][+][+] to prevent a peace deal (NATO wanted Crimea at any cost). The main obstruction[+] was then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson but we all know who pulled his strings (the same bunch across the pond that covertly masterminded Brexit as part of the “divide and rule” ploy).
The thing is, NATO states have funded, trained, and weaponized Ukrainians for around eight long years to empower them to take Crimea back so that a NATO military base could be set up there, therefore, it is only natural that after all these investments and vested interests, NATO officials could not allow Zelensky to give up that plan and accept the peace deal without Crimea. NATO was too invested in this issue, so the officials pressured Zelensky to reject the peace deal. Zelensky was their puppet.
A former comedian, hence inexperienced diplomat and negotiator, Zelensky was not up to it, too unqualified and intellectually weak, to see through their game and withstand the pressure, thus when presented with several[+][*] chances to prevent war and his country and compatriots’ lives from being destroyed, he blew it.
Another piece of evidence is that the Biden administration has not tried high-level diplomacy[+]with Russia to end the fighting. There were no signs that the Biden administration was involved or pushing for a diplomatic solution. Instead, the US has been working to flood Ukraine with weapons (giving dozens of billions in military aid) and destroy Russia’s economy through sanctions, embargoes, and freezing its assets.
The US-NATO war in Ukraine is the continuation and escalation to a new and more dangerous level of the wars instigated by the United States over the last three decades. Seeking to reverse American capitalism’s long-term economic decline[+][+] and suppress mounting internal tensions, the US ruling class views war and the achievement of global hegemony as the only solution to its problems. Therefore, don't expect them to use diplomacy any time soon. Usually, it takes years for them to let the belligerents sign a truce, after which they are off to another conflict zone.
The US is a military country, run by militants disguised as lawmakers. The US foreign policymakers are dominated by military personnel or gun lobbyist. For example, four of the past five US Secretaries of Defense came from one of the top five arms contractors. Nine of the 12 members of the US National Defense Strategy Commission have direct or indirect ties to the arms (a.k.a. defense) industry, according to an investigation[+]. This has undoubtedly had a huge impact on the commission’s deliberations and conclusions. The arms industry has ample tools at its disposal to influence decisions over Pentagon spending going forward.
· The political climate created by the “Global War on Terror” (GWOT11), as it was referred to in the early 2000s (but some people call it the Global War of Terrorism as it was the US and its allies that terrorized millions of people), set the stage for large increases in the Pentagon budget, much of which went to military contractors
· Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying (read: persuading by bribing, blackmailing, coercing, etc.) over the past two decades, employing, on average, over 700 lobbyists per year over the past five years.
· It’s important to note that the revolving door swings both ways. Not only do former government personnel go into industry, but industry personnel frequently take influential positions in government.
The US Disrespect of Russia
➡ Apart from all the above-mentioned reasons, the US is in no position to negotiate a peace deal with Russia also because Russia and Putin have no respect for the US and its President Joe Biden since they have been extremely hostile and disrespectful toward Russia. They launched a campaign of character assassination and public shaming taken up across the world’s media, seeking to render Putin an international villain. This is surely not a move toward making peace. In a thriving cancel culture, US President Biden, too, is assuming moral superiority and has appointed himself the arbiter of right and wrong, moral policeman, and also the judge and jury, openly calling President Putin names such as butcher[»], a killer who has no soul[»], a murderous dictator, a pure thug[»], war criminal[+], and a crazy son of a bitch[+] – it's a non-starter for any peace negotiations, from Russia’s standpoint anyway. Undiplomatic fierce talk cannot be a basis for diplomatic peace talks. Russians are defying Biden, who like so many other Western leaders is claiming to be the world’s “value” guardian while lying all the time[ꚛ][»][»][»] as if it were their special birthright. By disrespectfully calling Putin all these ferocious names, they are only demeaning themselves in the eyes of the world, who know better than fall for it.
Most civilized countries have established a foreign policy of keeping the door open for possible dialogue, which means avoiding explicitly criticizing state leaders and their actions as such bad manners never accomplish anything but only escalate conflicts. Evidently, the US doesn't belong to that category and as such, it is hard for Russia to hold civilized peace talks with the US authorities.
The US Hegemony
Also, the US's attempts to establish supremacy and assume superiority over all other nations, especially over other superpowers like Russia, as well as America’s efforts to haughtily patronize everyone and spread (or “impose,” as Russians see it) its own system of values to other nations makes it impossible to build a rapport with its rivals although establishing a rapport is crucial in peace (and any other) negotiations.
By assuming superiority and getting on his high horse, US President Joe Biden wouldn't be able to influence President Putin or convince him of anything, let alone persuade him to withdraw. It could be even counter-productive if Biden or any other US officials with a superiority complex approach Putin or Russia with the usual bully tactics such as condemnation, threats, intimidation, "finger-wagging", and pressure because such hostile and oppressive rhetoric tends to only provoke greater hostility among the equals due to the universal law of reciprocity. Bullying and coercion might work with nations that fear or see themselves as inferior to the US but not Russia.
One of the main problems of leaders in general is that they are often too secure in their smug superiority to listen. Most international leaders are prejudicially quick to dismiss Russian claims as they see themselves as superior to them or because by doing so, they gain a sense of superiority (which is something usually people with an inferiority complex do). Of course, there are also other reasons for dismissing Russians without hearing them out properly and open-mindedly and one of the major ones are prejudices and trusting the authorities. With American propaganda demonizing Putin and Russia for decades, one has to be really highly conscious to be able not to succumb to it all or those who assume authority (or moral superiority).
Another problem is that most leaders are simply too busy and don't have enough time to investigate a foreign issue thoroughly, so rather than risking being wrong due to their hurried and superficial inquiry, they just go through the motions and join the bandwagon like most people do when they have more important things to do than think about things that don't really concern them. The herd mentality and ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ is a very common contemporary fallacy that individuals may be wrong but "the crowd" is infallible, ignoring historic examples like witch-burning, lynching, and the market crash of 2008.
The US Totalitarianism
In many people's minds across the globe, the US emblematize an “evil empire” with its oppressive 900 military bases[+] across the globe, intimidating and exploiting poor countries by changing regimes and bribing the local authorities to gain almost free access to natural resources, which is why Putin and Russia are seen as liberators and glorified for standing up to alleged American “evil imperialists”. America’s constant meddling in the politics of other countries and efforts to change the regime in Russia and overthrow Putin makes it impossible to build a trusting and respectful relationship, which is crucial in peace (and any other) talks.
The US has managed to rebuff all the accusations of being imperialist since it doesn't officially annex or colonize any country, although it does it in every other aspect. Imperialism may not be the right word, maybe totalitarianism would be a better term but we should not lose ourselves in the terminology and instead refer to scholars for a deeper understanding of the politics of the US ruling elite that makes it impossible to engage in peace talks with Russia or anyone else, let alone end this war.
The late American political theorist Sheldon Wolin coined the term inverted totalitarianism[+] in 2003 to describe what he saw as the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin analyzed the United States as increasingly turning into a managed democracy (similar to an illiberal democracy). He drew attention to the totalitarian aspects of the American political system and argued that the American government has similarities to the Nazi government. This is verified by the fact that the US was one of initially only two countries in the world (besides Ukraine) to reject the UN resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” that was adopted on December 16, 2021[+][ꚛ]. Wolin argued that the US is increasingly totalitarian as a result of repeated military mobilizations: to contain communism during the Cold War, to impose “democracy” on other countries, and to fight the War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks.
According to American freelance Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges[+][+][+][+][+], in the US system, corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and economics rules politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.
The US alleges both democracy and global hegemony, which are coupled through managed democracy (via mass media influencing, bribery, and blackmail), where the elections are free and seem fair but the people lack the actual ability to change the policies, motives, and goals of the state. This illusion of democracy and the fight for democracy and its values mobilizes the masses, even foreigners such as Ukrainians, to do the bidding of the US corporations.
According to leading Western analysts of global democracy[+][+], only 8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy.
Apart from all the above-mentioned reasons, the US is in no favorable position to negotiate a peace deal with Russia because Russia and Putin have no respect for and trust in the US ruling elite and US President Joe Biden since they have been extremely hostile and disrespectful toward Russia. Russia has no incentive to make any concessions to the US and much less to Ukraine.
Nevertheless, the US is the only country that Russia would bother to negotiate peace with because Kremlin is very well aware of the power dynamics in NATO and how Kyiv regime12 is just a US-puppet. Russia has already tried to solve the issues with Ukrainian and the EU leaders through two Minsk agreements in 2014 and 2015 and Minsk (brokered by France and Germany) and March-April 2022 Istanbul peace negotiations but to no avail because unless the US stops funding Ukraine's war effort for some reason, there will be no peace.
What would be the US reason to stop funding Ukrainian military? Since this is in effect the US or NATO proxy war against Russia, the solution has nothing to do with Ukraine. The resolution is largely predictable if you are sufficiently informed about the various factors that are at play here because we are talking about people and people behave more or less the same in each culture. A state is made of people and behaves like its people. Americans are materialistic; they value comfort and convenience; they can't tolerate delayed or denied material gratification; they can't cope with difficulty for too long, so they’ll surrender if things get too hard, they’ll just give up. They do that all the time, so it is predictable they would do the same in Ukraine.
The US History of Abandoning Their Non-NATO Allies
⌛Western support is losing steam and it is just a matter of short time before it all not only stops but the whole world turns against Ukraine as Russian sympathizers are growing and rising. With historically the lowest government trust and approval rating (20%)[+], it might be just a matter of months before the American public presses the Biden administration to stop the war (funding), as it did with the Vietnam war (flower power[+]) and all other wars. In the RealClearPolitics roundup of all polls asking the question, do you approve or disapprove of President Biden’s handling of the Ukraine war, one thing is clear: disapproval has always outnumbered approval[+]. Furthermore, according to a CNN poll[+] conducted by SSRS throughout July 2023, the majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russia and believe that the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine. For a closer look over time, to see if the battlefield realities are changing American minds, the Quinnipiac University Poll[+][+] is a good indicator as it monitors voter opinions about the Ukraine war every two weeks to a month since the special military operation began.
It is also interesting how some or many Americans say they would rather move to Russia[»][»] or vote for Putin[»] than vote for Biden in the 2024 election.
And with political polarization[+] within the US, the shift in support is inevitable, as more and more Republicans are seeing the wisdom of John Lennon in thinking we need to give peace a chance in Ukraine, so with Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and Trump[+] supporters regaining more power, most likely not another penny will go to Ukraine.
Western allies are slowly abandoning Ukraine – they threw Ukraine into a fire and let it burn but foolish Ukrainians still want to play by their rules and let them absorb Ukraine into the EU and NATO. The Western wolves in sheep's clothing have betrayed Ukraine by making promises (when they pressured Kyiv to ditch the peace agreements in April 2022) they did not keep. Even the Western allies, such as the British mass media Telegraph wrote in January 2024 an article[+] titled “Ukraine’s new year may end with a brutal Western betrayal”! Even Wikipedia has a page on "Western betrayal"[+] but it seems, those clowns in Kyiv and their peasant followers do not read encyclopedias nor do they learn from history. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Western public is overwhelmingly against Kyiv regime as the polls show it, such as the one from The Institute for Global Affairs[+] in June 2024 showing that 94% of Americans and 88% of Western Europeans believe NATO should end the war in Ukraine without weakening Russia or returning Ukraine to its pre-war borders[+].
Henry Kissinger once said, “To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal”. In the long run, all US friends are worse off by aligning with the US because the US never acts like a friend but more like a boss. The US is not fair or sincere even with its friends. Gradually, the world has learned American hypocrisy but not so much in the West, especially in Ukraine, where most people are still under the control and the spell of the US. Americans are known to protect their interests at the cost of other nations. All the pretense aside, the US does not act in the best interests of its allies either and prioritizes its own interests over those of its friends. Nothing wrong with that but it is wrong to expect it to be “Ukraine First”. Even before US President Trump made the “America First” into a slogan , the US was never any different. It may have put Ukrainian interests above some other American interests but only because on the whole it served American interests to help Ukraine weaken Russia. As soon as the US high-officials realize that this plan is not working as it all made Russia much stronger, then it will abandon the “project Ukraine” and move on to other proxies who might prove to be more useful.
It is also known that when you have American Friends, you do not need enemies. Because under the umbrella of friendship, they are harming you all the time. American Friends among the EU and the UK have done nothing but taken advantage of Ukraine. On the surface, together with the US, they pretend to help Ukraine but like wolves in sheep's clothing, they just want to absorb Ukraine into its sphere of influence and control it to rob it of its natural resources and use Ukrainians as cheap labor13, surrogate mothers (baby factories[»]), prostitutes, cannon fodder, and pawns in their geopolitical chess-game to beat Russia and ultimately China.
The US has a long history of abandoning the regimes that they helped to overthrow the government, such as in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, to name just a few, which is enough of an indication that the same will happen again, especially when they are confronted with a much mightier rival, Russia. Moreover, here are some evidence of Americans abandoning Ukraine:
❌ In April 2024, even the US Congresswoman born in Ukraine said she will vote against providing $60 billion in aid to Kyiv. Indiana Republican Victoria Spartz, a native of Ukraine, said that the American administration should pay more attention to domestic problems in the United States, as reported by WSJ[+] and others[+][+][+].
❌ In mid-March 2024, The New York Times run an article[+] titled “America Pulls Back from Ukraine”
❌ In early-March 2024, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland[+] abandoned her project Ukraine by resigning[+] from her job and politics altogether. She is also known as “the real ruler of Ukraine”[+] and “Notorious Neocon Architect of Ukraine War”[+][ꚛ]. No other government official is more responsible for Ukraine’s catastrophe than diehard Warhawk Victoria Nuland (whose Jewish ancestors[+][+][+] lived in what is now Ukraine and who worked as a pioneer camp leader in Soviet Odessa in 1982[+][+]), as she created this mess with her regime change operation of ousting then-president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, which started the conflict with Russia that escalated into a war[+]. Nuland’s mission to sacrifice Ukrainian lives to take back Crimea, which Ukraine lost because of her not-thought-through coup, has clearly utterly failed. Given that billions were spent on Ukraine with no oversight and nothing to show for, Nuland has certainly made a bit on the side – one wonders if any of the investigations into the Ukrainian black hole will leave her unscarred. No one resigns because things are good and while no valid14 reason for her alleged resignation was stated and she herself highly suspiciously never said anything about it, many speculated[+][+] that she was actually fired for her role in the Ukraine debacle as the Biden administrated decided to abandon their project in Ukraine due to no approval for funds from Congress. Experts assumed[+], the reason for Nuland’s exit is either that she was forced out, principally by the Joint Chiefs of Staff before she could do more damage to US military assets in Europe; or that, not to be humiliated, she decided not to be in office when the Articles of Capitulation are signed between Kyiv and Moscow. Being obsessed with Crimea (to be part of her Ukraine and NATO) and Crimean bridge (to destroy Putin's pet project), she resigned right after the “surprising” plan to blow up the bridge with German Taurus missiles fell apart due to an audio leak[+][»]. As a Bible's proverb[+] put it: “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it.”
❌ For a half a year until April 2024, the US Congress refused to approve further funding for the war in Ukraine as Senate Republicans blocked it[+][+]
❌ In August 2023, the polls[+][+] revealed that most Americans don't want Congress to approve more aid for Ukraine war and that they disapprove President Biden's policies towards both Ukraine and Russia
❌ US Republican Senator, ‘sponsor of terrorism’[+][+] Lindsey Graham, voted[+] against a foreign aid package that included money for Ukraine in early 2024, despite being a fierce pro-Ukrainian Russophobe warmonger, pushing[+] to get Ukraine admitted to NATO, notorious for backing[»] the regime change operation in Ukraine in 2014 and calling[+] for the regime change in Russia and even Russia's President’s assassination, as well as for dishonorable remark[»][+] about “the Russians are dying… the best money we’ve ever spent.” (Besides Victoria Nuland resigning) Graham is one of the starkest cases of Americans abandoning Ukraine.
❌ US Congressman Rep. Paul Gosar wrote on Twitter[+] “Ukraine is not our friend, and Russia is not our enemy” in February 2023.
❌ Member of the US House of Representatives, Republican Party member Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted[+][+] on financing the Zelensky regime: "Just stop. You voted to send $113 Billion to the white people and white Nazi army of Ukraine” and referred[+] to Zelensky as “the actor wearing army green every day, fully funded by US warmongers, and who just recently canceled elections, controls his state media, and has a Nazi army.”
They are not the only ones frustrated with the US government’s steady support of Ukraine. More than half of Americans are now against supporting Ukraine by giving military aid. According to a renowned American Gallup poll[+] conducted in November 2023, approval ratings of the Biden’s handling of the situation in Ukraine was at low 38% while their poll conducted[+] in March 2023 revealed that most of Americans (59%) disapproved of the way Biden was handling relations with Russia. The disapproval is on the increase, which means that pretty soon the support for Ukraine will cease, and then what? Better not wait for that and start negotiating a settlement now. A stumbling Ukrainian defense, or a costly dragged-out war, could erode American solidarity.
Americans abandoned the Afghans when they decided to leave, and they will do the same with Ukrainians, even more so because they are getting beat up not just militarily in Ukraine but also economically and politically.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, and the alliance has no obligation to defend it.
As soon as Americans realize that the Ukrainian Army can't get back Crimea for them, they will lose all interest in Ukraine because Crimea is ultimately all they want from Ukraine. Ukraine has not much else to offer to the US. They can transfer biolabs[+»] elsewhere (enough poor countries in the world to go for it) and they can get Ukrainian brides cheaper and babies (surrogates) now anyway.
Here is proof[»] that the US support of Ukraine is conditional on Ukraine's success on the battlefield and that they need a return on their investment (ROI) to support it – as the former US Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, clarified on CNN, Ukraine needs to “do well” to guarantee US support further, otherwise if Ukraine does not do well Ukraine, the US support and that of other countries will weather (erode) because Ukraine needs to show them ROI. This is how capitalists think and this is what Ukraine aspires to be part of.
NATO think thanks are advising NATO high officials to wrap up the war in Ukraine as soon as possible, so Ukraine should expect NATO abandoning them when it becomes clear that Ukraine can't defeat Russia and that Russia is actually strengthening rather than weakening its military capabilities with the war in Ukraine.
For instance, the RAND Corporation, a highly influential elite national security think tank funded directly by the Pentagon, has published a landmark report[+] stating that prolonging the proxy war is actively harming the US and its allies and warning Washington that it should avoid “a protracted conflict” in Ukraine as well as avoid a prospect of the US and whole of NATO military getting involved in a hot (direct) war with a country that has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. A clear implication is the US could lose such a conflict, one key reason being, as pointed out by RAND, “the intensity of the military assistance” being given to Ukraine by its Western backers is already approaching an “unsustainable” level, with US and European weapons stocks “running low.” This consequently means a longer war equals more Ukrainian territory reunified with Russia. On the subject of territorial losses, RAND is unmoved by arguments Ukraine should attempt to recapture all that it has lost since 2014, as “greater territorial control is not directly correlated with greater economic prosperity” or “greater security.”
So, parroting “as long as it takes” is just a phrase to deceive Russia. A former MI6 chief and the Atlantic Council think tank admitted[+»] that the Biden administration's statements are designed to manipulate rather than to inform. Also, many western "intel leaks" media outlets are dutifully conveying aren't real leaks but propaganda messages designed to undercut Putin.
What is more, Israeli war and China’s rise have pivoted the US's need for a robust military response in other directions, turning back on Ukraine. So, if Ukrainians bet on the Americans to canoodle them forever, let us remind them that even Jesus Christ was betrayed by a kiss. When that happens, Ukraine will have no other choice but to capitulate, having suffered enormous losses and casualties for nothing. Better strike a deal now to prevent further suffering, destruction, losses, and casualties.
“The whole world hates America”, said Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu[+] and many people praised a NATO state politician for having the guts to state the obvious. Even Wikipedia reports on anti-Americanism[+] as well as American decline[+][+][+]and The Decline of the West.[+]The UK Collapse[»]
Russia’s rise[+][+][+][+], on the other hand, is reported everywhere where journalism is not under the thumb of NATO leaders. Russia’s rise will be news to Western audiences, which for decades have been prey to a demonization of Russia, and since its invasion of Ukraine have been fed a steady diet of Russia’s decline.
According to Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon writing in the American Thinker[+][+], the Western economies are stumbling, as their economic growth[+] stopped or declined, simultaneously suffering from both high inflation and energy shortages. Meanwhile, Russia is thriving, acquiring more potency and prestige throughout Asia, Africa, and South America than at any time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia’s economic performance[ꚛ][+][ꚛ][+] is all the more remarkable since Russia is simultaneously fighting an expensive proxy war against the combined weight of the armories of the West all while being the most sanctioned country on the planet.
The ascendancy of what is dubbed the “Russia-China axis” and the widespread perception of the West’s decline has convinced other militaries to associate with a winner, such as India, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and various former Soviet states, joining their naval drills and war games.
Russia’s diplomatic standing is also ascendant. While the US's heavy-handedness had the opposite effect all across the globe.
There is also a decline in public support for Ukraine. According to Pew Research Center's insight[+], after a year of the war, the share of American adults who say the US is providing too much aid to Ukraine is increasing. Also, Reuters/Ipsos poll[+] in October 2023 showed that US public support declines for arming Ukraine. It showed that only 41% of respondents agreed with a statement that Washington "should provide weapons to Ukraine," which is down from May, when a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed 46% of Americans backed sending arms.
And PEW research found out[+] that as the war in Ukraine continues, Americans’ concerns about it have lessened.
This shift in opinion is mostly attributable to Ukraine failing to make any advances on the battlefield. A growing share of US Republicans say the US is providing too much support to Ukraine but also an increase in the share of Democrats who think that way too. Americans express less and less concern about Ukraine being defeated by Russia and about the war expanding into other countries. This poses a major threat to Ukraine as it may pretty soon lose the backing of its main ally, which would mean, it would have to surrender to Russia. Once it is inevitably deprived of its Western lifeline, Ukraine will be unable to prevail against the Russian military. Therefore, before it comes to that, Ukraine should end this right now before Russia seizes[+][+] even more territories, such as the whole of the eastern bank from the Dnieper River as well as a land bridge to their folk (more than 220.000 Russian citizens) in Transnistria, including Odesa[»][»]. It is about cutting the damage now rather than wait for greater futile losses.
The decrease in the moral and financial support for Ukraine is emblematically captured by this video[»] showing an ad with the words “I stand with Ukraine” being literally pushed by words “I stand with Israel”, as well as this photo[ꚛ]showing “I stand with Ukraine” T-shirts being offered at half price due to low demand, and this photo[ꚛ]showing a Zelensky biography book offered in Poland at a reduced price of 2 zlotys – down from original 30 zlotys, or elsewhere[ꚛ][ꚛ] from 43 to 5€ (toilet paper costs more) – Zelensky is for sale!
The decrease in the US financial support for Ukraine is evident here[+][+] – reduction of massive 84% or 93.5%[+] per month compared to the first half of 2023. If Ukraine could not defeat Russia with more support and troops, it is delusional and criminal to keep fighting and killing with much less aid and troops!
A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered US Public Support for War in Iraq[+] conducted by Pew Research Center in March 2023 may shed some light on the US propaganda methods. The same and even more sophisticated propaganda machine works more than ever nowadays also concerning Russia and Ukraine but this time Americans don't need decades to see through all the lies they are being told. After more than a year, it is now a matter of months, not decades when the American public will turn against supporting the war in Ukraine, and then what? Ukraine will have no choice but to capitulate on Russian terms totally. Therefore, Ukrainians should wise up and accept this peace initiative or enter peace talks now before it is too late.
America’s President Biden is a border line Alzheimer’s patient and he’s not going to remember Zelensky’s name for too long.
US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley15 urged Ukraine and Russia to find a "political solution", saying that the war in Ukraine is unwinnable by purely military means.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested that Ukraine should cede control of Crimea and Donbas[+] to Russia in exchange for peace but Zelensky denounced it.
Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To properly grasp everything, we[*]recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the proper order, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. This article is part of the “Peacemaking Mediation” segment. When you are ready, please proceed to the next article in this series: The UN's Uselessness
fiscal years is from May to May, so since the war started on 24 Februrary, until May 2022 the revenue and profits increased in just a couple of months. This is why, to have full year data, we count the next fiscal year May 2022/2023
The term neocolonialism[+] here refers to the fact that the power of developed countries is used to produce a colonial-like exploitation. It takes the form of economic imperialism, globalization, cultural imperialism and conditional aid to influence/control
Stepan Bandera[+][+] was an anti-Semite, anti-Soviet Nazi collaborator, convicted murderer, responsible for the ethnic cleansing of minorities such as the genocide of more than 100.000 of Poles, Soviets, and Jews during World War II
Russian SMO objectives: prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, liberate ethnic Russians and facilitate them to freely speak Russian language (which Kyiv regime banned from 30 spheres of life), keep Crimea (as well as secure water and electricity supply for it along with a land-bridge to it), demilitarize not just Ukraine but also NATO (depleted its stockpiles[+][+][+][+][+][+]), denazify Ukraine.
we refer to Kyiv as a regime[+] due to its oppressive and repressive policies, corruption, and foul treatment of its ethnic minorities, such as the ethnic Russians, violating their human rights, tyrannizing, and killing them since 2014.
in Germany, for instance, you will find no Ukrainian having a decent job such as a doctor, lawyer, manager, IT consultant, or anything like that because they have ben treated there as third class citizens. Perhaps, similar to Mexicans in the US.
no valid[+] reason — officially, her former boss Anthony Blinken lied by stating she resigned because she was retiring but then just 3days later, on 6 March, it was announced that she became a Professor at the Columbia University - clearly, she did not retire, at 62 too young
until he retired on 30 September 2023, Milley was the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the US President. General Charles Q. Brown Jr. took over the position after him
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