Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“For over two and a half years, a semi-proxy war has been raging in Ukraine. In a proxy war, two powers avoid direct conflict by fighting through weaker intermediary partners. The Russia-Ukraine war is a semi-proxy war because one power, Russia, is directly involved, while the other power, the U.S. and its Western partners, fights through the Ukrainian intermediary. Ukraine was in a position to attain its goals in the first weeks of the war when it initialed the draft treaty in Istanbul. Since then, when the U.S. discouraged those talks and promised Ukraine all the military support it needs for as long as it needs it, Ukraine has been fighting as a Western proxy in pursuit of U.S. goals, including maintaining U.S. hegemony and asserting NATO’s right to expand wherever it pleases.” [editor’s note: The war started ten, not two-and-a-half years ago — as a Russian proxy war in the Donbas – TLK] (11/04/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2024/11/03/its-time-to-find-a-way-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/