{"id":225835,"date":"2022-03-13T00:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=225835"},"modified":"2022-03-19T01:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:26:49","slug":"ukraine-the-last-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ukraine-the-last-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: The Last Warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Kumar David<\/a>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prof. Kumar David<\/p><\/div>\n

Ukraine joining NATO or stationing nuclear weapons is intolerable. It is a threat to Russia\u2019s security but much, much more serious it is a stage in the realignment of global power relations by neo-imperialism and finance-capital and a step towards future wars. Otherwise it is not possible to understand why NATO does not give Russia a formal guarantee that Ukraine will never be allowed to join. It\u2019s not that Biden, or NATO or finance-capital want wars; it\u2019s that stuff just happens when conducive circumstances materialise. I have provided a map of how Russia and China are strangled by a multitude of American and NATO military bases.<\/p>\n

Having made this crucial concern explicit I add that the invasion that Putin launched on 24 February was premature, unpopular, excessive and the outcome is doubtful. Diplomatic and tactical options had not been exhausted. The 190,000 troops he sent are inadequate for the onerous task the of taking and holding Ukraine for any length of time. Frustrated by slow progress and dogged Ukrainian resistance, flummoxed by a tornado of sanctions and illegal acquisition of Russian bank assets, and flustered by a blanket ban on Russian TV and broadcasts throughout the West whose citizens are only aware of half the truth, Western media now alleges that he has unleashed the full force of aerial bombardment and artillery. Yes, this is half the story.<\/p>\n

For a long game Putin needed a larger force, deeper pockets, preparation of the Russian people and strong global alliances. He did none of this and is now pretty much isolated. He is said to be a master strategist but this time he has blundered. He promised the world that he would not invade and then did just that and blew his credibility. Russian economic and financial arrangements are being scorched by the West\u2019s economic might. Imperialism\u2019s hope is to bring Russia to heel and eventually forge a grand alliance against the alternative superpower, China. Ukraine and Putin are small change in this grand game of global domination. The West\u2019s objective is to crush a Russia that is not under its control and to this end even a transition of leadership in Russia is possible in the months or year ahead.<\/p>\n

It is true that the US, NATO, capitalist Europe and the government in Kiev have for months, if not years brushed aside Russia\u2019s unquestionably justified security concerns. In one of the best analysis I have seen a certain Vladimir Pozner, who I have not heard of before, argues that the West created Putin to be what he is today:
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