The gears are finally moving on peace in Ukraine. But why? Ministers and editors warned against a 1930s appeasement. Kiev today, Paris tomorrow. Only troll farms claimed this was about Nato membership and security guarantees. With Putin’s prized asset Trump restored to power, his ambitions will know no bounds, surely.
Well… Britain and the US have been investing in Ukrainian nationalism — exfiltrating its leaders to work throughout the western world, funding nationalist parties, investing in Ukrainian media, promoting the Ukrainian language, and arming nationalist paramilitary groups — for 70 years (Google ‘Operation Aerodynamic’ for a teaser). Even the Kievan Rus are now the Kyivan Rus. It’s enough to make someone in the North Korean Ministry of Information blush.
Here’s what Vance’s parodied speech in Munich got right: enough of the diversion and deception for the stated aims of preserving a free and open society.
Voters don’t have a right to know the performance envelope of the latest military aerospace technology. Governments need secrets. And there might be good reasons for us giving guns and money to neo-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists on and off for decades. But when a hot war with Russia breaks out, that we’ve been doing so warrants a mention.
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