As pretty much everyone who doesn’t live under a rock already knows, the U.S. and NATO has pledged support to the nationalist government of Ukraine during the current standoff with Russia. Steven Pifer, former diplomat and avid warhawk, has proposed five courses of action. They’re hopelessly insane.
Here’s the plan as laid out in Pifer’s article published by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- Merkel and other world leaders “please” speak to Putin.
- They should also speak to Zelensky
- Send military and material aid to Ukraine
- (More?) Reconnaissance flights over Ukraine and the Black Sea
- Sanctions against Nord Stream 2.
These are interesting ideas, but not even remotely realistic. For starters, cutting off Nord Stream 2 would have real economic consequences for the EU. Sorry, but supporting the Ukrainian puppet government and its loosely organized Nazi militias isn’t that important to the Western powers.
Aside from talk, talk, and more talk, none of his other ideas will happen either. As we’ve already seen in Syria, playing airspace games is dangerous. Let’s also not forget Russia is a “near-peer adversary.” Oh yes, that conventional confrontation that has been the subject of many a general’s wet dream; it’s finally here!
No doubt NATO will send aid to Ukraine, but not enough to help in the event of a Russian invasion.
What has happened is a total mess. Biden, or at least his handlers, have royally screwed up to a scale I would never have guessed. Though in hindsight, I can’t say I’m surprised. They’ve had to back down on every confrontation with Putin in the last couple of days, and no amount of propaganda can cover up the sting of embarrassment.
Meanwhile, Kiev is feeling the pressure as well and is in a full panic. They’ve threatened to try and acquire nuclear weapons (good luck with that), complained about Nord Stream 2, and just about every other excuse they can come up with. None of it will help.
Team Biden might have a trick up their sleeve, but I doubt it. The globalists got wildly overconfident, and now they’re paying for it.
Ian Kummer
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