Did Ukrainian president Zelensky contribute — to motivating the Russian invasion of his country?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

25 February 2022

 

 

One of the problems with being a US puppet . . .

 

. . . is that one also (usually) becomes foolishly self-aggrandizing.

 

Probably so by American design.

 

 

For instance, Ukraine

 

Two days ago, we Americans were reading reports that Ukrainian president Zelensky — apparently disappointed by the lack of a US and NATO commitment to racing troops (rather than anti-Russian economic sanctions) to Ukraine's aid — had strongly hinted that his country might seek its own nuclear weapons.

 

According to Rebel News:

 

 

Following the end of the Cold War, Ukraine took possession of around 5,000 nuclear weapons from the collapsed Soviet Union that were stored in Ukrainian territory, making it the country with the third most nuclear weapons on Earth.

 

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said on Saturday [18 February 2022]:

 

Ukraine has received security guarantees for abandoning the world’s third nuclear capability. We don’t have that weapon. We also have no security.

 

I am initiating consultations in the framework of the Budapest Memorandum [for what that is, see the Washington Post — here] . . . .

 

If . . . their results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.

 

[Putin noticed the threat:]

 

“Acquiring tactical nuclear weapons will be much easier for Ukraine than for some other states . . . ” he said.

 

“If Ukraine acquires weapons of mass destruction, the situation in the world and in Europe will drastically change, especially for us, for Russia,” Putin continued.

 

“We cannot but react to this real danger, all the more so since, let me repeat, Ukraine’s Western patrons may help it acquire these weapons to create yet another threat to our country.”

 

© 2022 Ian Miles Cheong, President Zelensky suggests Ukraine may pursue nuclear weapons to blunt Russian ambitions, Rebel News (23 February 2022)

 

 

Strategically speaking . . .

 

. . . one cannot see Zelensky's statement as anything but expression of a national death wish.

 

Only a madman (or a fool) would give the already NATO-encircled Russian Federation one more — really good — reason to militarily lash out against Ukraine to protect the Federation's buffer zone safety.

 

 

The moral? — This miscalculation falls predominantly at the United States' doorstep

 

By puppetizing Ukraine into what became essentially a CIA asset, the United States — once again deliberately — has successfully started a proxy war, so as to further Military Industrial Complex profits.

 

The situation is just as tragic, as it is immoral.

 

Ergo, US government's 24/7 effort to propagandize the planet into seeing only Russia as the villain.

 

For perspective, ask yourselves what the United States would do, if China announced that it was shipping impressively capable weapons — including the technology to build tactical nukes and the missiles necessary to deliver them — to Cuba, Venezuela and the drug cartels in Mexico.