{"id":123468,"date":"2022-07-09T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=123468"},"modified":"2022-07-09T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T14:31:48","slug":"finally-the-west-is-abandoning-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=123468","title":{"rendered":"FINALLY, The West Is Abandoning Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The West Is Abandoning Ukraine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n

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On July 7th, Bloomberg News headlined\u00a0\u201cEU Bureaucracy Seen Blocking 1.5 Billion-Euro Loan to Ukraine\u201d<\/a>, and reported that, \u201cThe executive arm of the European Union is blocking a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.5 billion) loan for Ukraine as caution prevails over the country\u2019s urgent needs, according to officials.\u201d<\/div>\n
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America alone has donated and loaned, during this year, $54 billion to Ukraine, mostly for U.S.-made weapons, which have been rushed there from existing U.S. stockpiles, which stockpiles will need to be restocked with new weapons-orders from firms such as Lockheed Martin, whose corporate stock value is up 12% thus far this year. However, this is a mid-term election-year in America, and inflation is already running against political incumbents, especially Democratic Party ones. On June 10th, the AP bannered\u00a0\u201cUS inflation at new 40-year high\u201d<\/a>, and reported that \u201cConsumer prices surged 8.6% last month from a year earlier.\u201d Already, on May 20th, the AP had bannered\u00a0\u201cWar fuels surging prices in Europe\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and reported that \u201cThe war has\u00a0accelerated inflation across Europe and the world<\/a>, with\u00a0prices for energy<\/a>, materials and\u00a0food<\/a>\u00a0surging at rates not seen for decades. It\u2019s causing sticker shock at the grocery store, gas pumps,\u00a0electricity bills<\/a>\u00a0and construction sites.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A new loan of $1.5B to Ukraine being turned down means that any larger loan by the EU to Ukraine will now be impossible. For the U.S. Government to jump in and fill the mounting voids in Ukraine would be virtually impossible, under present political conditions. However, unless those voids become somehow filled, what are the prospects for The West to win its war in Ukraine, against Russia?<\/div>\n
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The West (U.S. and its allies) is becoming terrified at how deep a financial hole Ukraine has cost it, and so is now\u00a0stopping to lend it more money<\/a>. That\u2019s sudden.<\/div>\n
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I wrote today to a friend who ardently supports Ukraine in this war:<\/div>\n
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Should The West now invade Russia in order to prevent the collapse of Ukraine? What do you, who condemn Russia and support Ukraine in this war, propose that Western \u2018democracies\u2019 now do?<\/i><\/div>\n
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You support NATO\/U.S.\u2019s January 7th decision to ignore Putin\u2019s long-repeated (and as-of 17 December 2021, formal) demands for NATO to roll itself back to its 1991 borders like\u00a0<\/i>it had many times promised to Gorbachev that it would permanently remain (move \u201cnot one inch eastward\u201d)<\/i><\/a>, and you also support\u00a0<\/i>Obama\u2019s February 2014 coup to grab Ukraine<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(the part of Russia’s border that\u2019s the nearest to Moscow) to add Ukraine to EU and then to NATO for U.S. missiles ultimately to become placed there, a five-minute flight-time away from blitz-attacking Moscow; but should Biden and company now invade Russia because Russia will no longer tolerate this \u2014 Putin\u2019s saying that these \u201cprovocations\u201d have gone too far and he\u2019ll no longer tolerate it? Is that what you would do, if you were Biden & co.? What do you think the \u2018democrat\u2019 Biden should do, now? I would like to know your view regarding this very-much-real-world, here-and-now, practical problem.<\/i><\/div>\n
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He responded: \u201cI no longer want to talk about Ukraine. \u2026 So let\u2019s just put this behind us.\u201d I think it\u2019s instead a question that everybody should be thinking about, now, because it\u2019s very much in front of us \u2014 all of us \u2014 no matter how much a person wants to retain existing prejudices. Ignoring Russia\u2019s essential national-security needs has already cost the world (except for weapons-makers) a lot (and might now cost Ukrainians everything), and will cost everyone vastly more if it doesn\u2019t stop soon.\u00a0What U.S.\/NATO did on January 7th<\/a>\u00a0is turning out to have been disastrous for virtually everyone.<\/div>\n
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse\u2019s next book (soon to be published) will be\u00a0AMERICA\u2019S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler\u2019s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change<\/i>. It\u2019s about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world\u2019s wealth by control of not only their \u2018news\u2019 media but the social \u2018sciences\u2019 \u2014 duping the public.<\/div>\n

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