AUTHOR: TYLER DURDEN
Written by Connor O'Keefe through the Mises Institute,
Last week president Joe Biden and many leading American and European officials met in Normandy to attend a ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. W two speeches Biden told about the operation, which, as he said, started a "great crusade for the liberation of Europe from tyranny", then outlined a direct link with the war in Ukraine.
Biden called Russia's president Vladimir Putin a tyrant who invaded Ukraine just due to the fact that he is "set to dominate".
Biden then repeated 1 of his favourite leads, claiming that if Ukraine falls, its residents will be enslaved, its neighbors will be in immediate danger and the full of Europe will be threatened by Putin's aggressive ambitions.
However, the West-elected image of Putin as a tyrant seeking to conquer the full European continent suffered a final defeat last period erstwhile It's out there.that the Russian president is curious in halting the fighting and negotiating a deal that will recognise the current lines of the battlefield.
Putin shows this interest even though the Russian army has a strong position, which is likely to be even stronger.
Last year's long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive was aimed at displacing Russian forces from Ukraine. However, since its launch last summertime Ukraine has lost more territory than it has gained. late the Russians started even a completely fresh invasion of the territory around the northeastern town of Kharkiv – a territory that had already been recaptured by Ukrainians in late 2022.
Russian minefields, artillery and punishing soaring bombs Not only did Ukrainian forces halt progress, but they besides made it hard to keep their positions along the current front line. Meanwhile, Russia importantly increased war-related production far outweighs everything we see in the West, which, although in the long run is bad for the Russian economy, ensures that the strength of Russian bombings and shellings will not halt soon.
At the same time, the Ukrainian government faces a serious shortage of soldiers that it is incapable to mitigate any abroad aid or equipment transfers. At the beginning of this year, the Ukrainian Parliament passed the bill, which aimed at expanding the number of conscriptions by facilitating the government to find and identify the men eligible for the collection. But the problem inactive exists, which led Ukrainian officials to scope out after prison population in the country, restrictions consular services for Ukrainian men of conscript age surviving abroad and banning leaving Ukraine to men who have dual citizenship. due to the fact that the supply of young men is moving out in the country, the average age of Ukrainian soldier increased to forty-three years.
The situation of Ukraine is even more tragic, how easy it could be avoided.
A period after Russia's invasion in early 2022 both sides reached agreement, according to which Russia will retreat to the pre-invasion borders and in return Ukraine will agree not to apply for NATO membership.
The agreement could have put an end to the fighting and given Kiev control of all the areas Russia has just taken. However, according to advanced rank negotiators on both sides and high-level mediators from various countries facilitating talks, officials from the United Kingdom and the United States persuaded Ukrainians to depart from the agreement and fight.
Since then Ukraine's influence on Russia has only decreased.
Many Ukrainians stay killed or mutilatedBecause the war has turned into a brutal artillery war in the trench style. Meanwhile, Russia filed permanent claims to the land it had previously agreed to surrender Ukraine.
Even with extended government on the collection, Ukraine does not have adequate troops to break through the powerfully fortified lines of Russia, and even more so to displace Russian forces from all territories to which Kiev claims. So far, Ukrainians have managed to halt Russians from moving forward and occupying the full territory to which Now they claim their rights Moscow. However, given the decreasing numbers, Ukrainian forces will not be able to keep these lines in Infinity.
But alternatively of taking this opportunity, the Ukrainian government and its supporters in Europe and the United States decided to escalate the conflict with risky, strategically pointless provocations.
And as if the obstruction of Russia's confirmation that it is not the mark of a atomic attack after it allowed Ukraine to launch US missiles towards Russia was not enough, the United States conducted the test 2 atomic intercontinental ballistic missiles – firing them 4 1000 miles from California to Marshall Islands.
The escalation was not one-sided.
Russia conducted exercises in Belarus to simulate the usage of strategical atomic weapons, and sent warships and submarines to the Caribbean. The Russians besides intensified the fire and raids on Ukraine in consequence to attacks on their territory.
None of this is necessary.
The strikes in Russia did not translate into Ukrainian conquests on the battlefield. And the Russian early informing radar that struck Ukraine was not even aimed at Ukrainian airspace. This full escalation prolongs the suffering of the Ukrainian people, while bringing the planet closer to a catastrophic atomic failure.
