Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War
Channel: Caitlin Johnstone
Date: 21/10/2022

We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible. This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road.

The narrative that Russia can be defeated by escalating against it makes sense if you believe Russia can be defeated, but the US empire does not believe that Russia can be defeated. It knows these escalations are only going to exponentially ramp up death and devastation.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article version: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/pretending-to-seek-peace-in-an-unwinnable

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