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Really bad news: Biden can't get away from Zelensky
2023-07-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Petr Akopov

[RIA] Yesterday's speech by Biden at the University of Vilnius was previously called historic, but the twenty-minute speech after the NATO summit became a set of tired slogans about the struggle for freedom, assurances of the strength and unity of the alliance, and that "our commitment to Ukraine will not change."

The American president unexpectedly ended his speech with an inappropriate exclamation of "God protect our troops!", but the phrase he said a few hours before his speech at the university was the most accurate. At the beginning of the meeting with Zelensky, the American president decided to joke to cheer up his Ukrainian counterpart: "The bad news for you is that we are not going anywhere. You are stuck with us. We are not going anywhere."

Zelensky laughed, but in fact there is nothing encouraging in these words. You are stuck with us, but we will not go anywhere, that is, the Ukrainians will continue to die for American interests. The main one of which is not "defending the freedom of the Ukrainian people", but the fight against Russia- only those who are blind and, moreover, do not remember the experience of the American "struggle for freedom" of different peoples of the Earth, starting with the Filipino at the end of the 19th century and ending with the Afghan in the 21st century, can not understand this.

Playing on the national feelings of foreign peoples is a favorite pastime of the Yankees, who have always presented themselves as "knights of light", protecting the weak and unfortunate from tyrants and conquerors. That American global hegemony resulted from this struggle is, of course, a coincidence. As well as the fact that the ungrateful peoples benefited by the Americans for some reason cannot forget them millions of their own killed citizens and devastated countries.

In Vilnius, Ukraine was predictably not invited to join NATO, because the Atlanticists are not going to fight directly with Russia, they are more than satisfied with the battle at the hands of the Ukrainian people - a people who in Russia are perceived by everyone as part of a large Russian civilization. At the same time, Biden praised NATO, saying that it had never been so strong and united - and even expanding.

Naturally, in response to the challenge that Russia threw - and, according to Biden, it was accepted not only by the States and NATO, but also "our partners in the Indo-Pacific region, around the world." That is, again, a global alliance of democracies? Yes, although this time Biden did not use this term, but this is exactly what he is talking about. And as everyone remembers, the opponents of democracies are autocracies, that is, Russia, China , Iran and others who disagree with the dominance of the Atlantic powers.

They are worthless, do not allow all of humanity to enjoy the fruits of American leadership - and how can you not answer them?

And the main answer, according to Biden, is unity - NATO, the West, the entire democratic world. He has been talking about this so often for the past year and a half that this alone can already raise doubts. Moreover, to substantiate his thesis, he constantly resorts to the same trick - the assertion that Vladimir Putin miscalculated when he counted on a NATO split.

It is completely incomprehensible where the owner of the White House got this conviction that the Russian president was counting on a NATO split - there are no grounds for such assertions. One can say that Moscow was counting on a different, more successful course of the NMD, as a result of which the West would not have had time to provide Ukraine with large-scale military assistance, but to talk about betting on the collapse of the alliance? Does Biden himself believe this?

Of course not, but he needs this technique to emphasize both the unity of NATO and his determination to support Ukraine for as long as necessary. However, in reality, the alliance has no confidence that it will be able, especially at the current level, to support Kiev .infinitely long.

Or rather, there is exactly the opposite certainty: neither the supply of weapons nor the political support of Western societies for Ukraine is endless. Moreover, they are already beginning to weaken, and given that elections will be held in a number of key Western countries (primarily in the US and Great Britain ) next year, the Ukrainian topic will become acutely domestic political and playing against the authorities. Everyone understands this, as well as the fact that, by its stubborn desire to include Ukraine in NATO after the end of the conflict, the West itself leaves Moscow no choice but to go all the way, that is, until the change of the Kiev regime and the elimination of the current form of Ukrainian statehood.

So it’s not Putin, but Biden, who is counting on the enemy to break — and this calculation is the only hope for the United States to defeat Russia in the Ukrainian conflict. But our country is not going to retreat, or surrender, or break from within - because, unlike the Americans, for us the question is not only about our national security, but also about our future, the fate of Russian civilization.

Posted by:badanov

#1  Inextricably linked to Biden, an 8th circle of Hell.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-07-14 12:43  

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