𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫 i𝐧 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞?

 --- Nasir Khan

As a peace activist, Rob Crighton’s views on the Ukraine war that is resulting in so much loss of life and suffering of Ukrainians and Russians, causing economic upheavals globally and increasing the dangers of turning the ongoing war into a nuclear inferno are relevant to understanding one of the major danger-spots. He asked David Grove, a political analyst, for his scholarly opinion on these matters.

Grove’s analysis offers some much-needed insights into this war that does not follow the official versions backed by the mainstream media. He quite rightly says that after the end of World War II, there has been no world war, but there have been many wars since then, mainly instigated by American imperialism. The Ukraine war is no exception, but an extension of the same hegemonic power that American imperialism embodies.

Putin is generally portrayed in the West as solely responsible for starting this war in 2022, but what is often ignored or not told openly is the fact that a limited war was going on in eastern Ukraine, in which many thousand Russian-speaking inhabitants were killed. Russia wanted this to stop, but the warnings were unheeded. Not unexpectedly, Russia intervened and the war expanded. Was this intervention only a madman’s adventure or was there something more sinister involved? In Grove’s view, American rulers wanted this war, a view with which this writer fully agrees.

The war led to the extension of American imperial power further. It consolidated its relationship in military spheres with Britain. Because of the war, NATO membership was extended to Finland and Sweden. Ukraine is on the waiting list; after the war, it will formally join NATO. The US has benefited enormously from this war, both economically and militarily. After cutting off supplies of cheap Russian gas, America is selling gas at high prices to Europe and other regions of the world. The supply and sale of weapons to Ukraine have reached unprecedented levels since 1922.

Can this war be stopped? The answer is that without the mass mobilization and involvement of the peace movement, US imperialists who lead the West and control NATO would have free hands to continue the war and continue to reap rich dividends by selling more and more destructive weapons in this proxy war where the main target is Russia.

Those who want to see the war end by diplomatic means hope that peace activists will see the video and also spread David Grove's clear-sighted views for peace and avoid further escalation of this war into a nuclear war.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoIkmsOyzU8