An American writer and political commentator says the Ukraine war is a US/NATO war against Russia, and that the US trying to “destabilize the government, the population, and the economy of Ukraine.”
“This is a NATO war. A US and Collective West war,” Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV in an interview on Thursday.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov spoke briefly during a short encounter at the G20 summit in New Delhi.
Blinken called on Russia to reverse its decision and participate in the New START nuclear treaty.
However, Blinken described Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine as “a war of aggression,” indicating Washington is not seeking a decrease in tensions with Moscow.
Welch characterized Blinken’s comments as trying to make too much out of not much.
“The whole framework and the vibe of Blinken’s statement is kind of tantamount to proving what the US is up to—both their purported audience and their purported message,” Welch said. “They don’t give a damn about history, about the political reality, about anything. Other than their PR product, which they sell, primarily to their domestic population, politically.”
According to Welch, the US simply doesn’t want its position of dominance to be threatened. “They are looking to get away with whatever they can, whenever they can, for another 500 years. It’s a sick joke.”
As for the brief meeting, Welch thinks it was more of an afterthought that the US sought to make it look like they were “doing something” about Ukraine: “And look at the structure of it: Blinken is buttonholing Lavrov—who has said, yeah, we can talk. If there is something to talk about. But not if you’re just going to continue making these ridiculous statements.”
“So he kind of sidelines him—like a high school hallway—on the sidelines of this G20 meeting, which they tried to bar Russia from last year. Remember? They were trying to push them out of the G20. So the only means of having a conversation is to sneak it in where you can get your full PR product sold. You do what you want to do,” he said.
As further proof of this as a PR stunt, Welch contends that Blinken doesn’t show any willingness to change its outlook in the least, or to admit why the US is actually up to. “And they come in with absolutely no dialogue—nothing at all. ‘They have to stop this war of aggression…’ Blinken says that three times in the course of his statement.”
So what does Blinken bring to a brief exchange like this? Welch says, “It basically reiterates what they have been saying from the beginning of Russia’s response to the US-instigated, Nazi-led coup in 2014, and a history going back to at least 1957, of the US trying to destabilize the government, the population and the economy of Ukraine. The US is occupying Ukraine. This is not a war between Russia and the people of Ukraine. Ukraine is an occupied territory. Occupied first by this neo-nazi regime. And if you look at it closely, Zelensky beat Poroshenko by promising peace with Russia! And within months he was held hostage, literally, on viral video. On TV. By the Nazis.” Welch is referring to a now well-known video where Ukraine President Zelensky visited the line of contact with the Donbas shortly after being elected, and was sternly lectured by troops who insisted they would not lay down their arms.”
“Nazis!” Welch insists on repeating the term. “I’m saying the word Nazis: N-A-Z-I-S.”
“Yes, we use the word Nazi, because everyone knows this. These are not only the grandsons of the Nazis who followed Stepan Bandera, but at that level of Kiev’s engagement, which has gone on since then,” says Welch.
Moreover, the commentator insists, it was common knowledge that neo-Nazi rhetoric and activity were acknowledged as a serious problem in Ukraine. “And up until two years ago, everyone knew this. Everyone said it. It was the blot on the map of humanity: this neo-Nazi cabal that led the political compass in Kiev.”
It was this sector, Welch believes, “who was aided and abetted by the United States toward a regime—the Maidan Regime—that continued its genocide against Russian speakers, Russian orthodox believers, Russian cultural adherents…anything that claimed any part of their own. And the people had agreed—they voted, actually—for Minsk.”
The Minsk Agreements were a peace initiative brokered by Germany, France and Russia to resolve the conflict that flared in the south and east of Ukraine. “They voted for Zelensky, who said he was going to implement Minsk and seek peace with Russia. He didn’t know—well maybe he did, I don’t know. The guy’s a criminal, so who knows?”
They never took it seriously, Welch insists. “The French and the Germans now insist that there was nothing. That they used it as a means to buy time to arm the fascists—I say it again—in Kiev. This has never been about ‘the people’ of Ukraine writ large. This is the US, using one of its neo-Nazi proxies—as it has done since the Real One against the Nazis. The one the Russians won. But directly against the people by Russia? This is a NATO war. A US and Collective West war.”
The US has a history of imposing unilateral sanctions, penalizing trade with countries they deem to have interests against their own. Welch has referred to this policy in the past as “a type of siege—medieval warfare.” And while Blinken claims that US policies are backed by the vast majority of countries at the G20, Welch points to the fact that only a very small number of western countries participate in the sanctions regime.
“And the Africans aren’t buying it. Because they see that this cabal of colonizers is the same gang of thugs and genocidal maniacs who have been slaughtering them for centuries! They’re not stupid. And when Blinken is mouthing this kind of crap, the protesters in Kinshasa are waving Russian flags and chanting ‘Macron is a killer! Putin to the rescue!’ Because these things seem simple to people who aren’t looking for a means to defend imperialist behavior (again).”
And even though Welch sees the vast majority of the world’s people are not on their side, he fears that these forces are so powerful that the outcome is still not completely clear: “So I don’t know what is Blinken’s final score—who is going to say he did a good job? Until they recognize that they cannot get away with what they have always done, they will lose. And the people are not behind them. But they can kill anyone they want. Remember that.”
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and analysis. He lives and writes in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian History and Literature at Harvard University. Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political analysis–around his day job–and may be available as time permits.