By Reginald Johnson
While the world's attention has been focused in recent months on the utter horror of
the Israel-Gaza war, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has taken a
turn for the worse.
The United States
under Joe Biden has changed course and given Ukraine permission to use
American-made weapons to strike inside Russia. Also, NATO is creating "land
corridors" to rush US troops to the frontlines in the event of war and
NATO member France said it will put boots on the ground to "train"
Ukrainian soldiers.
These are reckless
steps which escalate the crisis over Ukraine and increase the danger of this
conflict becoming a world war, with nuclear weapons being used. Madness.
Joe Lauria, editor of
Consortium News, has just written an excellent piece on the danger of the
Ukraine war and how the US has been using fascists from that country to
undermine Russia for nearly eight decades. (See "Using Ukraine Since
1948" at https://consortiumnews.com/.../10/using-ukraine-since-1948/
Here are the opening
graphs:
"The United
States has for nearly 80 years seen Ukraine as the staging ground for its
covert and increasingly overt war with Russia.
"After years of
warnings, and talk since 2008 of Ukraine joining NATO, Russia fought back two
years ago. With neither side backing down, Ukraine is increasingly becoming a
flashpoint that could lead to nuclear war."
Please read the piece.
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