After Xi-Zelenskyy Talk, Brits Instruct Ukrainians, CCD Instructs Ukraine’s Diplomats: Stand Firm for War
After Xi-Zelenskyy Talk, Brits Instruct Ukrainians, CCD Instructs Ukraine’s Diplomats: Stand Firm for War
April 28, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—The U.S.-funded and -advised information warfare unit of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), (in Ukrainian) issued instructions to Ukraine’s diplomats on April 27, one day after Wednesday’s hour-long talk between China’s President Xi Jinping and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. CCD’s message was that diplomats should continue to engage with China, but Ukraine’s position must remain the same: No negotiations until Russian troops are out, and peace requires Ukraine in NATO and within its 1991 borders, including Crimea and the Donbass.
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) and its CCD are controlled by the neo-Nazi war-party in Kiev. The same day that the CCD issued instructions to Ukraine’s diplomats, the British masters of the Kiev war-party were at the NSDC delivering their instructions. A delegation organized by the Slovakian-based Atlanticist thinktank, GLOBSEC met with NSDC director Oleksiy Danilov to discuss “global cooperation and unity for a common victory,” which Danilov defined as “the final resolution of the issue of Russia,” according to the NSDC’s report.
Among the GLOBSEC delegation of 11 were former British MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove; Tobias Ellwood, the rabid neocon who heads the House of Commons Defense Select Committee; former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, who authored the novel 2017: War with Russia and is an honorary freeman of the City of London; former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, former president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ivo Hans Daalder; and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy Ian Joseph Brzezinski, the son of “Breakup Russia” strategist and Carter National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, amongst others.
Not surprisingly, the CCD viewed Xi’s call with Zelenskyy as likely “the result of Putin’s agreement with Xi to prevent the start of an active phase of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and to impose negotiations to freeze the existing balance of power at the front.” Therefore, Ukraine should continue contact with China, but “the timing of the potential negotiation process will be determined by the success of the upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive and the final depletion of Russian troops, which will create the leverage Ukraine needs from a position of strength.” At that point, the CCD suggests, “France and China could become the main mediators in determining the conditions for ending the war.”
The CCD cautioned that China’s intentions “should not be overestimated and immediate positive results should not be expected,” and referred readers to its earlier response when China released its peace plan in February. The CCD protested then, that China did not hold Russia responsible for the war; “the clause on ‘preventing the mentality of the Cold War’ … directly contradicts Ukrainian interests, because it prohibits Ukraine from joining NATO”; “the clauses on ‘ceasefire’ and ‘resumption of negotiations’ are also inappropriate”; and “China’s proposal to end unilateral sanctions is only beneficial to Russia.”
Scott Ritter: Ukraine Victory Resolution— a Delusional Suicide Pact
April 28, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—In his column for Sputnik International, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter makes the obvious and important point that the Ukraine Victory Resolution put forward in Congress earlier this week will lead to nuclear war, or at best, the end of Ukraine as a state.
The resolution was co-sponsored on April 25 by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) in the House of Representatives, and by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), along with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in the Senate. These members of Congress are a part of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, which Ritter describes as a “bureaucratic relic of the Cold War.” Founded in 1975 as The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the U.S. Helsinki Commission monitors and deals with compliance issues for the Helsinki Final Act and other Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) commitments.
In a statement issued for their Ukraine Victory Resolution, these members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission affirm
“that it is the policy of the United States to see Ukraine victorious against the Russian invasion, holds that the peace brought by victory must be secured by integrating Ukraine into NATO, and declares that the United States must work with its allies and partners to secure reparations, reconstruction, justice for Russian war crimes, and accountability for Russian leaders.”
The text of the draft resolution “affirms that it is the policy of the United States to see Ukraine victorious against the invasion and restored to its internationally recognized 1991 borders.” Ritter notes the shameless fact that the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova was the person chosen to make the official announcement regarding the presentation of the “Ukraine Victory Resolution” to the House of Representatives.
In his column, Ritter makes the point that Ukraine is losing the war, and that dragging it out would only confirm the point that former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has noted—if the crisis does not reach a negotiated end, Ukraine itself may cease to exist as a sovereign entity. Ritter then notes that the “irony of a piece of U.S. legislation purporting to defend Ukrainian sovereignty serving as the foundation of the death of Ukraine as a nation seems to have escaped the sponsors of the resolution.”
However, Ritter then makes the stark point that continuing the escalation in Ukraine can lead to nuclear war, and that the Russians are not bluffing when they say that nuclear weapons can be used when Russia’s existence as a state is threatened. He then cites the April 25 statement by Dmitry Medvedev who said in reference to his responsibility as President of Russia in using nuclear weapons, “ you must be prepared that your hand will not tremble in a certain situation to use it, no matter how monstrous and cruel it sounds.”
For those who would counter Ritter’s arguments as alarmist, it should be remembered that U.S. Helsinki Commission member Roger Wicker (R-MS) said on Dec. 7, 2021, that for the United States,
“Military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea and that we rain destruction on Russian military capabilities…. We don’t rule out first-use nuclear action. We don’t think it’ll happen. But there are certain things in negotiations if you’re going to be tough that you don’t take off the table.”
Ritter ends his column:
“A vote for the resolution is a vote for nuclear war with Russia. The resolution is a literal suicide pact with Ukraine. Hopefully the American people will wake up to this reality before it is too late, and let their representatives know that they chose life over death.
“Ukraine has lost its NATO-driven conflict with Russia. There is no need for the entire world to die as a result.”
Helga Zepp-LaRouche Gives Pakistan TV Interview on ‘Ukraine Crisis and China’s Foreign Policy’
April 28, 2023, 2022 (EIRNS)—Schiller Institute founder and chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche gave an interview to Pakistan TV World’s “Views on News” broadcast on April 27, titled “Ukraine Crisis & China’s Foreign Policy.” Anchor Jawad Tehami spoke with Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche and in the studio with Air Marshal Farhat Hussain Khan (ret.), president of the Center for Aerospace and Security Studies.
Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche gave her analysis of the significance of the hour-long phone call between China’s President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying: “I think this is extremely important and urgent, given the fact that the world really is on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe. If there’s any country which has the power and credibility to mediate this conflict, it is China. First of all, China proven in the past, absolutely, that it is impartial. It was able, as you just mentioned, to get the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia to the negotiation table….
“I personally think that President Zelenskyy is happy that President Xi Jinping has reached out to Ukraine in the way he did, because the Ukrainian people are the worst victims of this proxy war between the West and Russia, and they’re being slaughtered….”
Moreover, she assessed that the economic-financial crisis in the West is making it less attractive as a partner to Ukraine. “But the West is not so attractive right now, because if you look at the banking crisis, the United States, only six weeks after the first, Silicon Valley Bank went bankrupt, and you have a new banking crisis erupting. The UBS took over the Credit Suisse, but that is not going smoothly. So the West has severe economic problems,” she spelled out. Whereas, by contrast, should the Belt and Road Initiative be extended as a Eurasian perspective, “Ukraine would be in a completely different position, and could become a bridge between Europe and the rest of Asia.”
Responding to Tehami’s question about how great a threat of nuclear war over Ukraine might be, Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche emphasized:
“The reality is, any peace-loving person, anybody who is not a madman or madwoman, should understand that the continuation of the escalation threatens the annihilation of the human species! … Because I don’t think that a regional nuclear war is possible: It’s the logic of nuclear war, that the entire arsenal comes into play. And that means that all life on the planet will be destroyed in a nuclear winter….
“I think Ukraine would just be the trigger point. Because … the U.S. has in their strategic doctrine the possibility of a preemptive use of nuclear weapons. And in the recent period … President Putin has said that because of this existing U.S. doctrine, because of the general strategic situation, it forces Russia to do likewise!…
“Now, that is why I was making so much alarm on the question of how close we are. Because if you have the two largest nuclear powers in the world basically not trusting each other…. And that makes the situation right now much, much more dangerous, and that is why the Schiller Institute—we have been pushing the idea that we urgently need a new security and development architecture, which takes into account the interests of every single nation on the planet….
“We are the creative species: Can we give ourselves an order, which allows the survival of the human species? Or are we stuck in stupid geopolitical games…. I think war in the time of thermonuclear weapons is not an option of conflict resolution any more. And that’s why I think the 12-point proposal by Xi Jinping is the best formula to start negotiations with. It doesn’t answer all questions, yet, but the whole point is to enter discussion, to enter a process of sorting things out: Finding out what are the vital interests of the one side? What are the absolutely non-negotiable arguments on the other side? And then, to arrive a compromise at a higher level, you know, when you take a policy which benefits everybody, then you can find a peaceful solution….
