The Ghost of MH-17 Revisited In A Different Reality
(Will The West Launch A "Sneak" Nuclear Attack On Russia From Ukraine?)
The scenario I outlined at Twitter is very real.
With a distance of only 353 miles between Sumy and Moscow there is simply no excuse why any sane leadership would not discuss Ukraine, as a buffer zone, giving adequate security to it’s neighbor, a world superpower, the Russian Federation.
The scenario I outline is meant for discussion.
I do not ascribe malevolent intent on the part of the Ukrainian government but the potential for miscalculation is so great that it presents an immediate existential threat to Russia, and to the world, which, in my view, it is unacceptable.
I fail to see why the United States has not explained to it’s ally and friend, Ukraine, that the very existence of mankind is threatened by the current war and the only sane way forward is peace, stability, transparency and structures to build a new framework where confidence and trust, through transparent verification, are at it’s core.
It is in the interest of Europe and the United States that a stable, prosperous and neutral Ukraine poses no military threat to Russia nor to any of it’s neighbors.
This can only be achieved if a future post-war government in Kyiv recognises the legitimate security interests of Russia.
In this regard, the European Union, working with Russia, needs to set it’s sights not on confrontation but on administrative structures which partner with both Russia and the United States to guarantee future trasparent peace and security so that this crisis is never repeated in Europe.
For this to happen, the European Union must give up on it’s expansionist ideologies and focus on economic growth (as opposed to creeping imperial militarism) within it’s existing realistic boundaries.
For it’s part, Russia will also need to recalibrate it’s ambitions to prise Western Europe away from it’s traditional historical partner, the United States, and reorientate in the main to it’s true destiny, as leader of a new world economic order, which may one day, indeed, dwarf the European Union as an economic (instead of a military rival) across the free market economies of the world.
Patrick Emek
Atlantic Council Of The United Kingdom (Retired)
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