Although Russia recently offered an Easter truce, not only did Ukraine continually break it but CNN and the Guardian both mocked it.
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When troops from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Serbia, Tajikistan and North Korea join Russia’s armed forces marching past the leaders of Brazil, China, India, Russia, Serbia and Slovakia on Moscow’s review stand this May 9th, they will be sending the world a clear message that their adversaries in Kiev and Berlin are stupidly amplifying. That message is that, though Russia is prepared to discuss peace in Ukraine, it is more than ready for more war should NATO force its hand. The solidarity of Serbia, Slovakia and the other countries, China in particular, shows that, if Russia falls, it will not fall alone.
Although Moscow’s first parade is for the Russian military to salute their forebears’ victory over the combined forces of Nazi Germany, Finland and Italy, and the second, the March of the Immortals, is more a personal salute by relatives of those Russians, whose arms prevailed over 80 years ago, current events in Ukraine make those sacrifices by tens of millions of long-dead Russians of critical and immediate consequence.
That is because the last year has seen Russian civilians in Kursk and other oblasts being abused in the same dastardly manner that the Nazi invaders treated their forebears more than 80 years ago. That is not something the Russian Armed Forces should allow to be brushed under the carpet after they march through Moscow’s streets this May 9th.
And nor should they allow the West Europeans or anyone else to try to enforce the Finns’ mooted naval blockade, as that would amount to a declaration of war, to which Russia’s Armed Forces would have to forcefully respond. Although Russia can overlook the provocations of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock barring Russia from commemorating Russia’s 1945 defeat of her grandfather Waldemar and his fellow Nazi fanatics, just as it can overlook the pathetic counter-march Zelensky and his fellow Nazis are planning for May 9th in Kiev, further direct military threats necessitate a further resounding military reply.
That is the long and the short of it. Frankly, though I am not a big one for parades, pageants or pomp and circumstance, if Moscow’s May 9th marches send the West a message they understand, they will have done the state some service. But, not only does the West refuse to negotiate with Russia in good faith, but it feels it can get its own way, just as it did in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
Just as with those Arab countries, so also has there been a long lead up time to the current Ukrainian crisis.The West has been undermining Ukraine at least since the 24th January 2005 appointment of Julija Tymoshenko as Prime Minister of Ukraine, when she was undermined by the same underhanded tactics we have more recently seen employed in Romania, France and most anywhere else in NATO’s cross hairs. NATO has allowed its Ukrainian vassal state to degenerate to such an extent that it is largely run by hard-core Nazis, who openly worship, idolise and emulate those who wore the Wehrmacht’s grey of Waldemar Baerbock and similar psychopaths. Not only can Russia not tolerate that for historical reasons but, as the ongoing massacres of Russian civilians show, they cannot tolerate it for practical reasons either. Quite simply, because the current Nazi regime in Kiev presents an existential threat to Moscow, its disbandment is a precondition for meaningful talks. That, too, is the long and the short of it.
Although Russia recently offered an Easter truce, not only did Ukraine continually break it but CNN and the Guardian both mocked it proving, if proof were needed, that NATO disdains peace and can act neither with honour nor with plain, common sense.
Trump has a number of choices available to him. He can walk the United States away from the Ukrainian morass and let big-mouthed Estonia step up to the plate there. He can watch as the Russian Armed Forces destroy the rump Ukrainian Reich just as they destroyed the much bigger Finnish and German ones 80 years ago, or he can bolster Zelensky’s defences and then walk away, just as the Yanks did in South Vietnam all of fifty years ago and in Afghanistan in more recent years. Either way, short of going head to head with Russia and her allies in a fight he cannot win, Trump should issue an ultimatum to Zelensky to negotiate in good faith or to abandon the field.
As for Putin’s Russians, they can be happy with themselves despite the huge sacrifices their armed forces continue to make for, behind their shield, a new world is emerging, which is evident not only in the madcap dancing of Betsy and Maria Yankovskaya but further afield in China, where teachers like Zhang Pengfei are inspiring his charges (and even their siblings and guardians) to interact and think the world anew in different ways, and all without any Western involvement or deciding influence. Those Russian and Chinese kids have all slipped the leash and flown the coop and NATO will have to say do svidaniya and sayonara to any chance of ever brain washing them or their likes again.
For my part, I would prefer to see Russian, Japanese and Chinese kids dancing rather than marching off to war but, until Baerbock and her fellow antiChrists are put back in their box, wars and needless deaths are unavoidable. And, for Russian President Putin’s part, though he will be at both Moscow parades this May 9th, his door is open for the no less important role of brokering a lasting peace in Ukraine, should NATO’s warmongers come to their senses and wish to avail of it.
