Gordon Hahn dobro ugotavlja, da če bi v ukrajinski vojni zahodnim državam res šlo za vojno za demokracijo in zaščito zahodnih vrednot itd. itd., bi se z vsemi silami vključile v to vojno. Dejansko pa gre zgolj za kaprico ZDA, ki jim kot slepe ovce sledijo ostale evropske države, da imajo pravico do neomejenega širjenja Nata z namenom vzdrževanja ameriške globalne hegemonije. Ukrajina pa je bila izbrana za to, da se bori – do zadnjega Ukrajinca, do zadnjega kvadratnega metra ukrajinske zemlje – za to ameriško kaprico. Ukrajina nikoli ne bo mogla izpolniti nemogočega pogoja za članstvo v Natu, da premaga Rusijo (in tudi če bi ga izpolnila, bi ji naložili nove težko izpolnjive pogoje), sme pa pasti v boju za to ameriško kaprico.
U.S. President Joseph Biden and not surprisingly NATO made it evidently clear that there will be no Ukrainian membership in NATO until after the war. This stipulation and the requirement – objective and subjective – of Ukraine’s victory over Russia in the war constitutes a form of de facto blackmail of Kiev on the part of the West. This dooms Ukraine to fight ‘as long as it takes’ – in the sloganeering vernacular of the White House – to the cliched but very real last Ukrainian in order to gain NATO membership.
The Blackmail Trap
On the eve of NATO’s Vilnius summit Joseph Biden stated clearly that he had consolidated the alliance’s members around the position that it will not offer Kiev membership in NATO until after the war. Never mind that this carrot was dangled over Ukraine for additional months as war raged and Ukrainians died by the tens of thousands at the West’s behest. More importantly, this ‘decision’ (actually a long ongoing policy) means that Ukraine cannot gain NATO membership without attaining victory in the war with Russia. Why? Because a defeated Ukraine cannot become a NATO member not just from Washington’s and Brussels’ point of view but also from that of Moscow.
Anything that can be called a Russian victory objectively speaking and in Moscow’s view cannot coexist with the survival of the principle of NATO’s ‘open door policy’ and its application to Ukraine.* As long as the West and Ukraine insist on the right of Ukraine to be a member of the alliance, Russia will continue its special military operation and is likely to escalate to full-scale war. Ukraine is faced with the Hobson’s choice of continuing war – one which is eviscerating Ukraine’s landscape in every possible sense—from the economy to society to the polity (now distinctly undemocratic) to the ecology. It is being held hostage. Kiev is told that it must risk survival – though naturally the West will do everything it can ‘for as long as it takes’ – in order to achieve NATO expansion.
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