Neocon Kingpin Kagan Admits Biden Regime “Provoked” Russian Invasion

(my Fleming.Foundation article; pass it around)

One of my sayings is: If you listen to people, they’ll tell you what’s really going on. So listen to Robert Kagan, the top Neocon strategist and husband of Victoria Nuland. She ginned up the 2014 coup in Ukraine against its legitimate, democratic government, and put in place puppets still running the government. Then this year, as undersecretary of state, she and President Biden provoked Russia into invading.

Here Kagan is in a new Foreign Affairs article just up April 6 online and titled, “The Price of Hegemony: Can America Learn to Use Its Power”:

“Although it is obscene to blame the United States for Putin’s inhumane attack on Ukraine, to insist that the invasion was entirely unprovoked is misleading. Just as Pearl Harbor was the consequence of U.S. efforts to blunt Japanese expansion on the Asian mainland, and just as the 9/11 attacks were partly a response to the United States’ dominant presence in the Middle East after the first Gulf War, so Russian decisions have been a response to the expanding post – Cold War hegemony of the United States and its allies in Europe. Putin alone is to blame for his actions, but the invasion of Ukraine is taking place in a historical and geopolitical context in which the United States has played and still plays the principal role, and Americans must grapple with this fact.”

He sounds like one of those Old Right guys, John T. Flynn or Murray Rothbard, writing how we were “lied into war,” to use Claire Booth Luce’s phrase about Pearl Harbor. Except instead of lamenting it, Kagan is celebrating it. The deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, and the scrambling of the whole international financial system, bringing mass poverty to much of the world and possible starvation to the Middle East and Africa – all is worth it to advance U.S. “hegemony.”

How cruel, demented and murderous.

And where is the U.S. Constitution in this? At least after Pearl Harbor FDR got declaration of war by Congress. We effectively are at war with Russia. And under the Constitution, only Congress can declare war. Yet that has not happened. At least some people are wondering about that. Also on April 6, 63 Republicans in the House voted against supporting NATO. Reported Insider, “Citing the threat posed by ‘authoritarian regimes’ as well as ‘internal threats from proponents of illiberalism,’ the resolution calls on the Biden administration to uphold NATO's ‘founding democratic principles.’”

Would those “founding principles” include the “illiberal” Erdogan dictatorship in Turkey, a NATO member? Or how about Turkey helping Azerbaijan slaughter Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh?

“It also advocates the creation of a ‘Center for Democratic Resilience’ within NATO's headquarters in Brussels, with the center providing member states assistance to strengthen their own democratic institutions.”

Great. Another worthless bureaucracy populated by Eurotrash frolicking in the luxuries of Brussels at our expense.

But that 1/3 of Republicans voting against another NATO farce is a good sign of what GOP representatives are hearing back home: the main priority is out-of-control inflation devouring family budgets. Polls show 75 percent support for backing Ukraine. But that’s after two months of relentless Fake News barrages backing the Biden line on Ukraine. Once a single American dies, that support would drop to zero pronto.

Few people know Russia only wanted: no NATO membership for Ukraine and autonomy for the Donbas, which is mostly Russian. When the Ukraine regime concentrated about 60,000 troops just west of Donbas, preparing for an invasion to destroy any independence forces, Russia acted preemptively. I still think Putin should have not invaded, but waited for a better U.S. president; or at least one not a vegetable. But we’re well beyond that now.

The Russian military now will destroy that army still west of Donbas. Then by force of arms it will impose what was requested during times of peace: no NATO membership for Ukraine and autonomy for the Donbas, which is mostly Russian.

As always, Kagan and his neocon buddies got us into another foolish adventure that backfired. They failed to destroy the ruble and the Russian economy, which they hoped would spark coups against Putin, then against Xi in Beijing. Instead, “provoking” Russia will establish a bipolar military and financial world, with the greater concentration centered around Beijing and Moscow.

The American “hegemon” will be relegated to second-class status, as Europe is reduced to the world’s museum and playground. That is, unless the neocons “provoke” a nuclear war.

John Seiler writes at johnseiler.substack.com