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What really happens if the West abandons Ukraine?
In violation of all international laws, the West used Ukrainian territory to carry out military biological programs.
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Propaganda for patriots: A person walks on Feb. 15, 2023 past a billboard ad, featuring the image of a Russian soldier overlaid on an ancient warrior that reads “The Time of Heroes Has Chosen Us“, displayed on a street in Moscow. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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e noticed that the article “What happens if the West abandons Ukraine?” by Anna Husarska and Mykola Viknianskiy published in The Jakarta Post on Jan. 17, 2024, contains a set of incorrect statements regarding the essence of the situation in Ukraine.
The two columnists consider the financial and military support given to Ukraine by the collective West as something that can put an end to the conflict. However, in reality, this “aid” only postpones the inevitable and causes misery to Ukrainians while enriching Western countries and transnational corporations.
It all started in the early 1990s when the United States launched its consistent attempts to marginalize Russia in every possible way as well as to break historical, economic, political and cultural ties between Moscow and Kyiv. To succeed, the West pursued a policy aimed at revising the outcomes of World War II, nurturing neo-Nazi sentiments in Ukraine and transforming it into “anti-Russia”.
Due to this complex of measures, an acute political crisis was provoked that resulted in an armed coup in Kyiv in February 2014, an escalation of violence in the Donbas region (the Kyiv regime launched the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” against a civil population that did not agree with instilled Russophobic polices), the signing of the Minsk Agreements and their sabotage by the Ukrainian side.
Throughout all these years, Western countries have been pumping up Kyiv with weapons and military equipment, sponsoring large-scale maneuvers near the Russian border and sending NATO instructors to train Ukrainian armed forces.
Take, for example, the exercises in September 2020 when American strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear arms entered Ukrainian airspace. I think there are no doubts against which country this illustrative act was conducted. Moreover, in violation of all international laws the West used Ukrainian territory for carrying out military biological programs.
Besides, the “aid” and financial assistance to Kyiv is given mainly in the form of loans that lead to further inflation of Ukrainian state debt. Lacking the money to return, Kyiv will have to pay back Western creditors with resources and remnants of its economic potential.
