"Why Such A World If Russia Is Not There?"

Elena Panina (Елена Панина)

Washington think tank leads US in frontal attack on Russia

A "roadmap for sustained US support" for Ukraine has been outlined by The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the US. Main theses:

🔸 The aim of the war is to restore Ukraine's territorial integrity. The optimal US political and military objectives were expressed by Joe Biden ("Putin cannot stay in power") and Lloyd Austin ("To weaken Russia to the point where it cannot do what it did to Ukraine").

🔸 Eliminate the ambiguity. The declared US goals are a clear reference point for the allies, so much the better for themselves.

🔸 Provide Kiev with the "necessary weapons for a competent fight". These are long-range artillery and missile systems, ammunition for them, including ATACMS missiles, MQ-1C UAVs, tanks and BMPs, A-10, F-15 and F-16 aircraft.

🔸 Get rid of "false fears of an even greater escalation of war" and fears of Russian nuclear weapons. Russia's use of nuclear weapons would prevent the threat of its economic collapse: "China, India and many countries in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa would consider [Moscow's use of nuclear weapons] as undermining their national security and would join the sanctions.

🔸 Provide US economic and energy aid to Europe - "to neutralise Putin's attempts to use gas and oil supplies to destroy the alliance supporting Ukraine".

As you can see, CSIS has proposed a very tough roadmap for the conflict in Ukraine, in the spirit of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss's "We can't take our foot off the accelerator" statement.

However, this recipe lacks the main thing - a sober assessment of the consequences for the United States itself of such an approach to the Ukrainian crisis. It is a sure path to an outrageous escalation along the Russia-US line. And then we will see who turns away first.

"Why Such A World If Russia Is Not There?"

(Translated with www.DeepL.com/; free edition)

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Source: Elena Panina (Елена Панина). IMG: U.S. Air Force/ZUMA Press Wire Service/ZUMAPRESS.com
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