NEW DELHI: With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy buckling on Tuesday, President
Trump has crushed the Cold War perspective which Zelenskyy brought
to the Oval Office last Friday. Like former President Biden, and the
bosses of Europe (minus Hungary, Serbia, and Italy), he believed that
Ukraine was the front line of a Western line-up that faces a mortal threat
from Russia.
That perspective has had its day, and its promoters on behalf of the
Military-Industrial Complex are collapsing under pressure from Trump.
No wonder Zelenskyy agreed on Tuesday to sign at “any time and in any
convenient format” the deal Trump wants for control over Ukraine’s
mineral resources. He had demanded security guarantees from the US
during his meeting on Friday.
Zelenskyy’s statement also said that the meeting had not gone the way
it should have, and that that was regrettable—a sort-of apology for not
having kowtowed to the most powerful man in the world, the way UK
Prime Minister Starmer had just a day before Zelenskyy’s meeting.
Several European heads of government had promised to help Zelenskyy
to keep the war going. As much as 900 billion Euros was spoken of in a
Deutsche Welle report. However, European armies and armaments are
not enough to take on Russia, and Ukraine is running out of men to
send to the front.
It seems that the war in Ukraine will now grind to a halt, and pretty much
on Trump’s terms. That could mean that Russia keeps the territories it
has captured. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to ask
for the entire area of the four oblasts (provinces) he has formally
inducted into Russia through a ceremony during the course of the war.
Apart from these four—Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and
Zaporizhzhia—he will almost certainly keep the Crimean peninsula.
Indeed, Russian drones bombed several places in Odessa, a key
historic city on the southwestern coast of Ukraine. Putin would like
nothing better than to be able to take a large part of Ukraine’s Black Sea
coast.
Multi-polar framework
While Zelenskyy has had to let his Cold War mindset go, the Trump
administration has adopted the watchword of Russian analysts: that we
are now in a multi-polar world. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has stated that the US would prioritise its own interests in a multi-polar world rather than undergird an alliance.
A multi-polar world means an acceptance that the US, Russia, and
China each wants to be (or is) a major pole in world affairs. (India too
ought to be, especially as some of the world’s most respected strategic
analysts, such as Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, describe
it as a superpower. But, sadly, India strategies seem to be adrift.)
In the multi-polar framework, Trump seems to want to accommodate
Russia, and possibly China too, and let smaller players, particularly in
Europe, fall into place the way they will. He clearly doesn’t want to
alienate Russia’s astute President Putin, and gives European countries
short shrift.
This is, of course, very bad news for Europe, which had been
scrambling since Friday to try and keep the Ukraine war going. Trump
knows he faces entrenched forces. That may be one reason why he
faced off Zelenskyy before the cameras—to garner domestic public
opinion.
Deep dark ditch
While Trump has the upper hand in terms of muscle, and made
Zelenskyy fall in line after stopping military supplies to Ukraine.
However, deep, dark forces are covertly at play, both within the US and
abroad.
The Military-Industrial Complex, a major driver of the Deep State, thrives
on wars and other conflicts. These not only provide markets for arms,
but also opportunities for global intelligence agencies to manipulate
militaries, other intelligence agencies, politicians, big business, and the
drugs trade in countries riven by war or conflict.
It has become apparent from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that much
of the money allocated for such wars and conflicts—running into
hundreds of billions of dollars—gets siphoned out through inflated
invoices, fraud deliveries and other means. This Complex relentlessly
pushed forward the Ukraine-Russia friction, and then war.
One of the main drivers of the Deep State has been the desire to control
the world’s energy trade, and thereby the economies of countries across
the globe. Trying to stifle Russia’s energy exports, and even shut down
its major Siberian wells, was among the Deep State’s early war aims.
Of course, It is in order to control oil flows that West Asia has been the
Deep State’s chief focus ever since World War II. Zionists, particularly
Israel (though certainly not all Jews), have been crucial for the Deep
State to control that region. Zionists had already been at the heart of the UK and US empires through much of the 20th century and beyond, including their banks, media, mass media, and political classes.
The US-UK-Israel Deep State exerts huge influence over the kings and
potentates of West Asia. Plus, the installation, and whitewashing by the
Western media, of former ISIS chief Abu Muhammad al-Jolani as Syria’s
new leader shows how much influence the Deep State has over the
most fundamentalist and violent Islamist terror groups—including those
in parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Although the plan to cripple Russia’s oil exports failed, the Deep State
and Zionist-controlled US media continued to drive the war in Ukraine
and the genocide in Gaza with gusto, ensuring that US arms and other
aid reached these places.
It is easy to forget that Zelenskyy is Jewish, and that Zionists as well as
the financial tsars of BlackRock have been among the drivers of
Ukraine’s provocations of, and its resistance to, Russia. Indeed, these
were vigorously pushed by the Deep State ever since the `Maidan
uprising’ in 2014—when Biden, who was then vice-president, was the
point man in the Obama administration to handle Ukraine.
