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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Despite all the Russian warnings that the conflict in Ukraine is reaching a dangerous point, the West continues its escalatory measures. Recently, British top politician called for expanding military assistance to Kiev, clearly showing that London is not interested in de-escalation. There seems to be no limit to the bellicosity of Western leaders, who want to take the war with Russia to its ultimate consequences.
In a private conversation with fellow G7 leaders, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it is necessary to “continue maximizing Putin’s pain” through both military and economic measures. He said G7 countries need to expand their military assistance as well as economic sanctions, imposing even more coercive measures against the Russian Federation and its allies.
Starmer’s office released a statement about the meeting, clarifying the topics he commented on. The UK Prime Minister said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking strong and obstinate to continue military actions in Ukraine, which Starmer said is due to the West’s weakness in imposing “pain” on him. The British leader believes that only by inflicting damage on Russia will it be possible to make Putin “rethink” the special military operation, and eventually give up.
“The Prime Minister said that with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin showing no sign of relenting, it is vital that we bolster our support to put [Ukraine] in the best possible position for the future (…) He called on fellow G7 leaders to continue maximizing Putin’s pain by increasing military support to the Ukrainians and ramping up economic pressure, including via further sanctions where possible,” the statement reads.
Starmer does not seem to believe in any diplomatic path, completely ignoring any possibility of dialogue with Russia. Unlike his German counterpart Olaf Scholz, who recently talked with Putin and promised to do so again, the head of the British parliament claims that it is necessary to achieve Ukrainian victory by wearing down Russia, thus believing that NATO’s plan for a prolonged war with Moscow is viable.
By acting in this way, the British Prime Minister ignores all the recent warnings given by the Russian Federation about the dangers of an uncontrolled escalation of the conflict. Moscow is warning the West about the danger posed by NATO’s increasingly active participation in Ukrainian military actions, especially regarding the use of long-range missiles against targets in the recognized Russian territory. UK is among the countries supplying these weapons to Ukraine, and is therefore a participant in the crimes committed by the Kiev regime against Russian regions outside the conflict zone.
As well known, these long-range weapons contain special technology that NATO does not want to give to the Ukrainians. In this sense, the military equipment is operated by Western specialized personnel illegally based on Ukrainian soil. This means that such attacks are deliberate Western actions against recognized Russian territories.
According to the new Russian nuclear doctrine, such Western-Ukrainian strikes are legitimizing a Russian nuclear response. Moscow is refraining from taking such action in order to prevent a catastrophe, but if the provocations continue to escalate, the time may come when it will be impossible to avoid responding.
By ignoring such Russian warnings, Starmer is deliberately contributing to the escalation of the conflict and bringing it ever closer to the point of no return. It must be stressed that there are few military measures left to be taken. Given that long-range weapons are already being used, there is little the West can do to escalate further. Some NATO hawks are calling for the deployment of troops on the ground or the delivery of nuclear weapons to Ukraine, for example. Of course, any of these irresponsible actions would trigger a Russian nuclear response.
As for sanctions, Russia’s economic success over the past three years has made it clear that no coercive trade measures will have any practical effect. Moscow prepared for the West’s trade war by creating a strategy to enter the Asian market after losing its partnerships with Europe. In the end, Russian profits expanded and the West itself, especially the European countries, were hurt by the sanctions. So, calling for more coercive measures is just a waste of time, since this will affect the West itself, not Russia.
The West has now to choose between going to the extreme, potentially nuclear, consequences of the war or following the path of de-escalation. Hawks like Starmer seem to be ready to risk an all-out war, but it is hoped that a more rational view of the conflict will prevail to avoid the worst-case scenario.
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i’d suggest to maximize britain’s pain.
sir stammer s a allegedly a laborite so clearly he represents the working class so it must be their fault mustn’t it .
starmer looks like the nutty professor.
pentagon confirms: unfortunately north korean troops in kursk region have been somewhat successful. i can’t say that this is a breakthrough but they seem to be fresh and willing to kill and die.
there are reports that north korean special forces have committed savage acts against mercenaries, afu prisoners and the wounded: such as slitting of throats, bayonetting of the wounded and even scalping.
you really should stop the coke habit, volodymir.
i have a korean barbecue joint a few blocks from my house and i stopped in today and asked if i could make a video of them over a rack of simmering ribs and send it to cnn with the caption. ‘north koreans caught barbecuing ukrainian civilians in sumy.’
they said ‘ok, but only of you split the money cnn pays you.’
how can we get in touch with you?
how stupid and gullible, where are these north koreans, nobody has ever seen them even ukr soldiers have not seen them except for ukr nafo supporters spreading lies and propaganda. many see through the deception and wish for the speedy demise of ukraine which cannot come soon enough. bet you sit in the comfort of your place too chicken to reallg fight for the side you support.
“pentagon confirms”
that’s all anyone needs to hear to know what follows is 100% bullshit.
lol
that’s almost as funny as ‘100 intelligence professionals confirm’.
follow the money .
you have that correct..$$$$. the kiev regime is trying to curry favor with the incoming trump administration by offering concessions on ukraine’s critical mineral deposits – valued up to $11.5 trillion, according to the new york times.
so, from 1991 to 2022, a financially impoverished and fully independent ukraine was unable to lure or cajole international corporations into exploiting that incredibly rich for the pickin’s 11 trillion bucks in resources and instead just resorted to selling old icbm rocket motors to north korea on the sly for pocket change?
i wonder what that was all about, other than the nyt still publishing from it’s head up its ass editorial room.
now that you bring it up. do you think zelensky’s goons check out to see what’s in their wallets before stuffing them into the meat wagon?
beatles – back in the ussr
i’m back in the u.s.s.r you don’t know how lucky you are, boy back in the u.s back in the u.s back in the u.s.s.r well the ukraine girls really knock me out they leave the west behind and moscow girls make me sing and shout that georgia’s always on my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my mind
the beatles thought ukraine was russian, and georgia too for that matter – much that was common knowledge has been forgotten it seems.
we think starmer is on the right track, he has the experience to lead the uk and world against russia because the uk leaders have such hate in their hearts that they want to hurt everyone around the world in the uk quest to steal money.
including their own citizens.
england is a shithole. london’s water supply is recycled sewage water laced with cocaine. it has rotted their brains
i think that outbreak of mad cow disease in the uk years ago is finally bearing its fruit.
i’ve been reading a lot about starmer in the urkainian edition of the daily stormer. sounds like he’s gung ho to bring the uk full on into their fold.
what a moron starmer is. i thought he was supposed to be an educated individual. he talks about putin as one would talk about training a dog. fool. the typical politician. truth is not in his vocabulary.
indeed he is. just parroting same ever since. while uk is in increasing powerty.
but they’ll always have some bojo in the wings to ride his bicycle on a high wire waving the union jack0ff.
starmer looks like the nutty professor. i wonder if he talks like jerry lewis.
highly educated is not the same as highly intelligent. just means you have been schooled to think the woke way. who would you want to fix your boiler? an academic or a skilled labourer?
not sure about that. when building my house, i had to show the master plumber how to seat an o-ring. probably another diversity hire.
anglo saxons are a inferior race.
little england, how cute. the mouse that roared
looks like these g7 countries leaders are more focussed on whats happening in ukraine than they are on their own countries citizens. they seem to spent a great deal of their time in foreign meetings wasting tax payers funds to attend meetings with their entourages deciding what happens in foreign countries.
funny how these chicken lilylivered 4 eyed cowards sit well protected in their countries baying from the sidelines for war when the cowards and members of their families will never go to war on tbe frontlines themselves.
it was never about de-escalation in the first place. the entire reason the west keeps pouring money into the meat grinder has been clear all along. wraken russia to the point where a nato-russia war would be on such terms that nato would be most likely to win. they cant stand it that one country is able to stop the western hegemony. if ukraine fails, they will use the next country as a proxy.
that’s why i still haven’t changed my 50/50 prognosis for it all sooner or later ending in a nuclear armageddon.
the very simple call that russia made decades ago for the necessity of a new and inclusive european security architecture just couldn’t filter through to the moronic class running the eu.
such easily but never remedied disconnects always lead to major wars of annihilation.
the human rights lawyer, who is trying his best to start a thermo-nuclear, world war. the same guy who refused to go after jimmy saville, when he was the in charge of the criminal prosecution service. he also turned his back on prosecuting the rochdale grooming gangs. plus, his first priority was to release all the ‘kiddie sniffers’ in uk jails, to make way for grannies using social media, whilst getting pronouns muddled.
human rights lawyer, what a joke. guess he thought donbass civilians after maidan’s coup de merde weren’t humans or something.
to ‘maximize’ someone’s plan is a stupid statement in and of itself. maybe, a rules based world order is only possible if the entire masonic pedophile anglo empire collapses once and for all