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Biden makes 10-year security pact with Zelensky that includes sending F-16s to Ukraine

This is a potentially massive escalation

Anti-Imperial Nexus, JUN 14, 2024

“…… The US President has announced a bilateral 10-year security agreement with Ukraine and a $50 billion loan backed by the G7 countries. This move comes shortly after the US gave Zelensky the green light to strike Russian soil with US-made weapons. Biden pointed out that Israel, sorry, Russia launched a brutal attack on its neighbour and said: “We will say it again: Yes, again and again and again, we’re going to stand with Ukraine.”

Zelensky has hailed the deal as a “bridge to joining NATO” and Putin has vowed an “extremely painful retaliation”. US warmongers are using words like “historic” while patting themselves on the back for condemning more Ukrainian men and boys to their deaths. Fortunately, the deal is not an official treaty, but rather a pact between two leaders. This gives Trump the opportunity to campaign on scrapping it and pulling the world back from the brink. Ironically, Republicans could end up winning on a lesser of two evils argument, which would be strange for a party that prides itself on being the greater of two evils!

The security deal includes sending Patriot missile systems and F-16 fighter jets (I’m old enough to remember when this would be a dangerous escalation) to Ukraine, as well as training Ukrainians in combat and cyberwarfare. The agreement states the US and Ukraine will “work together to help deter and confront any future aggression against the territorial integrity” of Ukraine and talks of commitments “intended to support Ukraine’s efforts to win today’s war and deter future Russian military aggression.”

Ukraine has been attacking radar systems and air defences in Crimea and this is assumed to be paving the way for an armada of F-16s to blitz Crimea, something which would surely provoke a massive response from Russia.

The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement:

“We cannot ignore the fact that these planes are dual-purpose platforms that can be used both for nuclear and non-nuclear tasks.

“No matter what modification of the aircraft will be supplied, we will treat them as nuclear-capable and we will consider this step of the United States and NATO as a purposeful provocation.”

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov went a step further and said:

“They are trying to tell us that the United States and NATO would stop at nothing in Ukraine. Nevertheless, we hope that the Russian-Belarusian drills on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons that are under way now will knock some sense into our opponents by reminding them about the catastrophic consequences of further nuclear escalation.”

………………………… Jens Stoltenberg is making support for Ukraine mandatory for all NATO members (apart from Hungary) which is a way of making Ukraine a NATO member without officially making it a NATO member. Stoltenberg spoke of putting together a SAGU (security assistance group for Ukraine) to provide weapons and training. He lamented that previous promises to Ukraine had not been honoured and these will be turned from voluntary contributions into NATO commitments. Absurdly, Stoltenberg argued the purpose is to end the war he has just prolonged.

A declaration from NATO and the EU at the Vilnius summit last year spoke of “the importance of [Ukraine’s] deepening integration into the Euro-Atlantic community; and underlining the centrality of reform to support and strengthen Ukraine’s defence, prosperity, recovery, rule of law, and democracy.”……………………………………………………………….

“But Ukraine is fighting for its survival!” idiots scream like there is not the option of discussing peace. If the nuclear button is pressed, no one will be fighting for survival because we’ll all be as dead as the Ukrainian men and boys who were thrown into the meat grinder for NATO’s proxy war.

Who voted for this nuclear brinksmanship anyway? The rest of the world certainly didn’t. Only 21% of 40,000 people surveyed in mostly western-allied countries feel the US is democratic and a majority disapprove of Biden’s handling of Ukraine, but when this thing goes nuclear, they will die too. What gives our leaders the right to make these decisions for them?

Senator Lindsey Graham let the cat out of the bag when he said: “Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals in their country. Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to access that money and those resources because he will share it with China.”

Clearly, this war is not about Ukraine’s sovereignty, it’s about controlling the world’s resources and looting Ukraine’s wealth. You don’t have to militarily defeat a country to conquer it, you simply have to plunge it into debt. As much as anything else, this thing has been one almighty debt trap. Zelensky is already selling Ukraine’s assets to pay for this war and once they’re gone, the Ukrainian people are not getting those assets back. Russia might have conquered a small strip of eastern Ukraine, but the NATO empire has conquered western Ukraine without firing a bullet.

The newspapers are telling us we’re in 1938, but they’re not telling us that we’re the invaders. They’re not telling us that we chose to be in 1938 by violating the Minsk agreements and walking away from peace negotiations so we could steal the land from under Ukrainians’ feet and blame Putin. We have a moral duty to stop our leaders from going any further.  https://antiimperialistnews.substack.com/p/biden-makes-10-year-security-pact?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2321079&post_id=145632002&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ln98x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

June 15, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized