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Biden regime touts ‘year of suffering’ for Russian troops

RT | December 8, 2023

The White House wants to keep funding Ukraine in its conflict with Russia because it believes that in a year Moscow may be willing to concede to Kiev’s demands, an aide to Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said in an interview on Tuesday.

Jon Finer, Sullivan’s principal deputy, discussed the White House Ukraine strategy at an event hosted by the Aspen Institute, an influential US think-tank. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s request to allocate over $110 billion in foreign security aid, including for Ukraine, was blocked from a vote in the Senate.

Finer made a case for releasing the funds despite Kiev’s inability to secure any major successes on the battlefield during its summer counteroffensive. He said he disagreed with the notion that the operation “not going as far as people wanted reflects some degree of Ukrainian failure.” If Washington keeps bankrolling Kiev’s war effort for the next year, the Ukrainian government will maintain “a degree of parity” with Russia, he promised.

“Another year of funding and another year in which Russia will have to suffer on the battlefield is fundamentally a better position than we are in today without that funding,” Finer said. “I think there is no way to dispute that.”

By the end of 2024, Western nations will have ramped up arms production and be helping Ukraine do the same, the White House expects. Then Russia will have to either “come to the negotiating table on terms that would be acceptable to Ukraine” or face a stronger opponent, according to Finer’s expectations.

Kiev’s demands for peace include full control over pre-2014 Ukrainian territory, war reparations and a tribunal for the Russian leadership, as detailed last year by President Vladimir Zelensky. Moscow has dismissed it from the start as detached from reality.

Moscow has cited NATO expansion in Europe and the promised inclusion of Ukraine into the US-led military bloc as a threat to its national security. Preventing that outcome is imperative, senior Russian officials have said.

In the first weeks of hostilities, Ukraine and Russia came to a preliminary agreement on a truce, which would have seen Kiev drop its NATO aspirations and pledge neutrality. Then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Kiev to “make war instead,” David Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, confirmed in a recent interview.

December 8, 2023 - Posted by | Militarism, Russophobia | , ,

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  1. The financial elites who actually run things in the US and Europe, panicked when Congress balked on sending more billions to Ukraine. U.S. polls reflected Americans had soured on NATO’s proxy-war against Russia. Congress responded by blocking future funding. But as if right on que, Hamas initiates what Israel maintains was a surprise attack, triggering the Biden Administration and US Congress to cough up tens of billions of dollars more for weapons to Israel.

    On the face of it, it seems as if PEACE just doesn’t have a chance. But the truth is, war is the answer when you no longer have an industrial economy. Propping up markets and a 250 trillion dollar derivatives bubble is the job of war these days. And the bubbles require servicing. Nobody talks about the 2 quadrillion derivatives bubble. It requires greater and greater servicing by the Wall St. and City of London bankers that created it. Ben Bernanke turned to Quantitative Easing to prop up the banks because they couldn’t service their liabilities. Bank’s debt to equity ratio and assets vs liabilities ratio are unsustainable. The investment banks have been hopelessly bankrupt for three decades. They rely on the Central Banks for life support. Funding the MIC is one way to keep the skids greased. But pumping billions into the military-industrial-complex you don’t have may help in the short term but at some point even that breaks down and the whole thing collapses. The Roman Empire found that out the hard way. You have to ask yourself, is there another way? Yes and it starts with Glass-Steagall bank separation.

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