So, US Secretary of Defence Hesgeth has made it clear that what most of us knew three years ago will come to pass.
Ukraine is getting no more support, Trump has declared he wants their mineral rights and Putin has declared he’s not giving up territory, Ukraine will not become a NATO country and half a million dead people are dead for no reason at all – everything Putin wanted this time three years ago, he’s going to get and everything Ukraine wanted at the same time, they have lost.
This is not just a widely held belief coming true, there was never ever going to be a world in which Ukraine fighting alone was going to prevail against Russia, there was never going to be a world in which Russia was going to fight wars with reportedly untrained personnel equipped with shovels and backed up with cannibalised washing machine parts – the Western world has been conned and very well conned too.
NATO followers are quiet now, everything they were targeting has been lost, every obnoxious insult, every hateful post and every disgusting individual who prayed for more death and destruction has been exposed for what they were, and probably still are – ignorant, racist and obscenely ill-informed. They were either paid to be part of the misinformation, or stupid enough to be used by it.
Of course, we’ll see all kinds of claims of victory from people on the losing side – Zelensky will probably retire with ignominy, or perhaps experience a Hitler moment in his bunker. To be honest, I’ll be surprised if he’s still around this time next year but one thing is certain, he won’t be president of a sovereign nation.
Ukraine faces losing its agricultural rights to US corporations, its mineral rights to the Trump Administration’s supporters and it will be mired in debt for generations to come with no hope whatsoever of repaying that debt since it will be controlled by capitalist corporate vampires, sucking everything it has out for the benefit of shareholders. And, to cap it all off, they will lose the three areas they were fighting for because there is no way Russia is going to give back what it shed blood for. The Russian regions may not become part of Russia, but they sure as heck will not become part of Ukraine again.
Millions of displaced people will return to Ukraine as they were never wanted in surrounding countries, hundreds will be put on trial for war crimes, desertions or worse and in about two years, the matter will be completely forgotten by all but those personally involved, who will never, ever forget.
It doesn’t get any better for the people of Europe – Hesgeth’s statement went on to say he wants to keep Russia sanctioned, keep their largest form of income off the table, and continue to weaken them by ramping up US oil, gas and other fossil fuel supplies so that Europe can remain in fuel debt bondage to the USA.
What’s the greatest lesson to be taken from this?
The greatest lesson is that, if the US is allowed to do it again, which they are now, quite obviously aiming to do, Taiwan supporters will fare a lot worse – the US will not enter a war against China, it will enrol proxies. It is working on getting Vietnam involved but that’ll never work, it wants the Philippines involved but the people are not supportive enough of Marcos. The US currently controls the military of South Korea and Japan, so those two countries will get involved when, not if they’re needed and, based on precedent, Australia is likely to join in – if it does, it will be destroyed, but that won’t bother the US because China has no intention whatsoever of invading Australia, it never has, it never will, despite stupid predictions from stupid people working for Washington’s pet funded think-tank, ASPI.
The real reason ASPI wants us to think this is to deflect from the reality that it’s already happened – the US owns the banking, retail, agricultural and logistics systems of Australia, it also controls defence and seems to have some kind of strong influence over politics. The reality is, Australia is already owned, occupied and controlled by the US.
I’ve said it before and will say it over and over again, China will never invade Taiwan, but it will defend its sovereignty and Taiwan is part of that sovereignty. If Taiwan, with US instigation, attempts to remove itself from China, the Civil War will be concluded and Taiwan will become the last province to be controlled by the CPC after the conclusion of a 75-year-old unfinished Civil War. Australia, South Korea, Japan and anyone else, even with support from NATO and other “allies”, will not stand a chance against the largest, best trained, best equipped, defensive military in the world. Because China has no ambitions to take anything other than to reunite Taiwan back under the umbrella of one-China. Those countries involved will, like Ukraine, be handing their sovereignty to the US in exactly the way Ukraine is now being humiliated.
Thousands, if not tens or even hundreds of thousands of our young people, do not need to die to prove the US is wrong, Ukraine is the lesson we need to learn from – remembering that all Ukraine had to do is to declare neutrality, abide by an agreement that it had signed in Minsk and hundreds of thousand of its people would be alive, not dead or disabled, millions of its people would have remained in their country and they could, at any time, have sold their mineral rights, their agricultural land and their labour for a profit if they’d wanted to.
As it is now, they are an impoverished, enslaved nation with very limited options and the people of Australia, Japan, South Korea and particularly those residents in Taiwan should sit up, take notice and learn from history – this is what happens when you follow the leadership of a hegemon.
Jerry Grey is a former British Police officer who was a general manager in a multi-national security company based in Australia for 17 years. He has lived, worked, travelled extensively and studied in China for almost two decades. He holds a Master Degree in cross cultural change management. Jerry Grey is a freelance writer living in Southern China’s Guangdong province.