Has Ronald really Dumped NATO? Berletic.
Fri 8:39 am +00:00, 14 Feb 2025Brian Berletic with Danny Haiphong is usually a great combination. A good stocktaking interview as the dust on the Trump/Putin link-up settles.
At face value it looks very promising, says Brian. Ukraine is a US proxy war against Russia, and it still continues.
Ukraine will never end up in NATO, is a key term of the new cooperative sounding relationship. Trump armed the Ukrainians in his first term.
NATO’s purpose is to encircle, contain and eventually absorb Russia. That longterm aim has not changed. Trump wants NATO expand – with countries spending 5% of GDP, not 2% on their military.
Trump is merely freezing the conflict in Ukraine if he can, while he builds up the heat on others who are resisting US hegemony like Iran and China.
Will Trump really make enough concessions to Russia?
Ukraine is just a proxy, which was taken over in 2014, when the war started against Russia. The Ukrainians are close to being overwhelmed, and Trump wants to stop the war being lost by NATO.
If Trump can’t freeze the war the conflict will resolve greatly in Russia’s favour. The negotitions have only just begun.
Has the Trump administration even mentioned the real cause of this conflict?
Yet Putin stated that ‘the root causes’ of the conflict will have to be dealt with, in his statement – Russia wants a reset.
There is no history of the US achieving sustainable peace in Libya or Syria or anywhere else. Trump is no different. Berletic explains Trump very well.
There will be a continuity of the agenda. Russia might agree to a freeze as Russia needs time to rebuild its reserves and sefences too.
No matter who’s in the White House, US foreign policy is controlled by corporate interests and banks. No matter who is elected, there will be no change in the aim for the US
to dominate the planet. Ronald Dump is just an act.. Same as John Boulton and the left vs right media theatricals are theatre. Boulton would love to fight a war and break Russia but the US doesn’t have enough military capacity.to do so.
Haiphong sums up – the US needs a way to change the character of the conflict so it is not such a clear defeat for the US. Russia is in a very strong position.
What will the US actually be able to do to change that?
The issue will be how much is Russia wanting a pause to the war? As at MInsk, Russia negotiated to buy time. Will Russia want to have another pause to rebuild military capacity for further conflict,
and a bigger war down the track. The first 30 minutes gives you the story. The US is losing a proxy war and wants to find a way to shift the war onto Europe’s shoulders, dump the situation and move on to Iran.
