Washington Drives The World To War
Paul Craig Roberts
The CIA director was sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of
the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of
Ukraine, former Russian territories for the most part that were
foolishly attached to the Ukraine in the early years of Soviet rule.
Washington’s plan to grab Ukraine overlooked that the Russian and
Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine were not likely to go along with their
insertion into the EU and NATO while submitting to the persecution of
Russian speaking peoples. Washington has lost Crimea, from which
Washington intended to eject Russia from its Black Sea naval base.
Instead of admitting that its plan for grabbing Ukraine has gone amiss,
Washington is unable to admit a mistake and, therefore, is pushing the
crisis to more dangerous levels.
If Ukraine dissolves into secession with the former Russian
territories reverting to Russia, Washington will be embarrassed that the
result of its coup in Kiev was to restore the Russian provinces of
Ukraine to Russia. To avoid this embarrassment, Washington is pushing
the crisis toward war.
