Exposed: the UK's direct involvement in the Ukraine proxy war

Ukrainian security was never NATO's goal

Published by The National on March 6th, 2024.

If there were any doubts about the true nature of the Ukraine conflict - a proxy war between NATO and Russia, provoked by the US - then they must be laid to rest after last week’s stunning revelations on the extent to which NATO member states have been directly involved.

On 19 February, high-ranking generals from the German Air Force and Space Command were caught on tape discussing how to take down the Kerch Bridge, a pair of parallel 12-mile bridges connecting Crimea to Russia. Der Spiegel has validated the tape’s authenticity. 

The generals discuss whether to target the bridge or the ammunition depots using Taurus, HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles. One queries Ukraine’s ability to handle rocket technology: “Do you think Ukraine will be able to do everything on its own? It is know there are many people there in civilian clothes who speak with an American accent. So, it is quite possible they will soon be able to use it themselves.”

Not wanting the German military to be directly implicated which would cross a ‘red line’, they discuss seconding military personnel to the German missile manufacturer MBDA to get around this problem. They could train and then turn the Ukrainians over to the British to take things to the next stage. The full transcript (in Russian) can be found here.  

Outing the UK, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that British soldiers are helping the Ukrainians launch long-range Storm Shadow missiles. Former chair of the Commons defence committee, Tobias Ellwood, accused Scholz of “a flagrant abuse of intelligence” to distract from Germany’s reluctance to arm Ukraine with a long-range missile system. This would seem to indicate significant fracturing within NATO, where one member state is openly attacking another.

Another confirmation of UK involvement came in a Times report that said the Chief of the UK Defense staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, has been helping Ukraine destroy Russian warships. In addition, since 2021, the UK has been building military bases near Odessa, a direct threat and provocation to Russia’s security. Babcock, the contractor, also manages on behalf of the MoD the Faslane, Coulport and the Clyde nuclear weapons sites in Scotland.

The New York Times reported that the CIA has, since 2013, been operating in Ukraine with the objective to destabilise Russia. It installed 12 secret underground bases along the Russian border to spy and launch terror attacks on Russian territory. Would the US tolerate Russia doing the same on the Canadian or Mexican border?

These are all signs that the West knows the game is up in Ukraine. It gambled and lost. Russia is stronger than ever and has forged eco

nomic and strategic alliances with China. Ukraine has been destroyed. But defending Ukraine and its ‘democracy’ was never the west’s goal. Rather, it was to weaken Russia and the EU. It failed miserably in the first but succeeded in the second. The EU economy, led by Germany, is in a tailspin. Again, it was all preventable.

Yegeniy Muraev was right. A former presidential candidate and leader of the Nashi (Our) party which was banned in 2022 along with 10 other political parties by President Zelensky for supposed ties to Russia, Muraev advocated for Ukrainian neutrality and an end to hostilities in Donbass. In January 2022 he said, “We are hostages of false priorities of Ukrainian politicians and somebody else’s geopolitical game… we cannot win in this, no matter which of the two geopolitical players [US or Russia] wins …the fight will be on our land… Our government and our president are placing the country under attack in the interests of those beyond the ocean. We are cannon fodder in their eyes.”

The former chair of NATO’s military committee, Harald Kujat, blames all the dead Ukrainians and Russians on the US/UK stopping Ukraine from signing a peace agreement hammered out in Istanbul in March 2022 that would have prevented the war. Boris Johnson played a key role in this as the US’s errand boy telling Zelensky not to sign the agreement because the west would support Ukraine to the end.

Now the whole Ukraine debacle, fuelled by western hubris, is collapsing. The toll is horrendous - 500k dead Ukrainians, hundreds of thousands more severely wounded, once fertile land contaminated, and 6 million Ukrainians forced to emigrate. Ukraine will be carved up – the east will go to Russia and the west will become a NATO arms manufacturing hub financed by Blackrock and JP Morgan Chase.

An independent Scotland could forge a foreign policy that places economic trade and development above the UK’s pathetic post-imperialist, dangerous and bombastic wargame-playing that has exposed it as the failing 3^rd rate power it has been all along.