Loading ...The Obvious
The UK Daily Mail published an op-ed by Peter Hitchens, a wicked smart British conservative, titled “A Long War in Ukraine Will Bring Nothing but Death, Poverty and Ruin. It’s Time for Peace.”
Hitchens is no Putin apologist. He readily acknowledged Putin’s reckless warmongering in Ukraine. But he made this logical argument:
The longer this war goes on, the more it will hurt both us [Britain] and Ukraine. It will mean more coffins and lost homes and grief for Ukrainians. It will mean truly shocking poverty here, as the new energy prices clearly show. Yet there will one day be peace, and it will be on terms rather worse than they would be if a deal were made now.
Is there a flaw in his logic? The Russians keep on creeping into new territory in Ukraine, inch by painful inch. Since the start of the war, Ukraine has always been on defense, and nothing suggests that is likely to change anytime soon, if at all. Billions of dollars in military aid may have slowed the Russian invasion, but it has not stopped the Russians’ relentless march across that unlucky country.
While Ukraine’s hopelessly corrupt leaders buy themselves swanky properties in posh European resort communities, its ordinary citizens are suffering and dying. Europe’s citizens are facing an unparalleled energy crisis. Smaller countries like Sri Lanka are devolving into failed states with their own humanitarian crises, facing literal starvation. The world is squirming in the iron grip of apocalyptic inflation. And for what? To slow the Russian advance?
When historians eventually count the cost, will they find justified the lives and treasure lost to to the vain effort to ‘at least make it hard for Putin?’
The war could have been halted without any loss of life or territory in February, merely by a deal that Ukraine would stay out of NATO, and maybe also throwing in that we’d demolish the biolabs, which never should’ve been there to start with. But hotheads prevailed — no deal with Putin! — and look where we are now.
Hitchens argues that things will continue to drift into chaos in Ukraine and around the world, and we’ll ultimately be forced to make a VERY bad deal to get things back on track. Can you argue with him?
Jeff Childers
Sad to say but I think that is exactly what they want…
Yes this is what they want. To drag it out as long as possible.
Too much money on the table, to just walk away from this, and stop the gravy train.
The people are just collateral damage, and do not matter, in their ideology.
Hitchens, like so many in the west, is way off base in saying “readily acknowledged Putin’s reckless warmongering in Ukraine.”
Putin was not reckless. He and his generals patiently planned this all out, realizing that they held the aces in this confrontation with the West from the get-go. The reckless ones in this mess are a) the USA, and b) the idiot Europeans who carried the water for the U.S.
All that was required to avoid this military action was for the western nations to comply with the agreements and treaties signed with Russia.
All the rest is insanity, and the west is getting its’ just desserts.