The United States finally turned Ukraine into an anti-Russian "battering ram"

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Ukraine became an instrument of American foreign policy a few years ago. It has long been said that Washington is using individual countries of the post-Soviet space as a battering ram against Russia. They tried to use Georgia, they try to use the Baltic states. The same Ukraine.

At the same time, in post-Soviet countries, they do not always realize an important point: if you are used as a ram, then at least chips, or even more solid parts of it, can fly off upon impact. When they tried to "ram" with the help of Georgia, this country lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "Battering ram" -Ukraine lost the Crimea and in fact was left without a part of Donbass.



Is this bad for the United States of America? On the one hand, yes - bad. It's no secret that the Pentagon was going to create its own naval base in Crimea. But on the other hand, this is bad, first of all, for those countries that the United States uses against Russia. Therefore, such countries need to think ten times and weigh everything when they entrust their destinies to American hands, believing that they are really highly valued in Washington.

In Ukraine, they do not think and do not weigh, believing that the more NATO troops it will accept on its territory, the less the likelihood of "aggression from Russia." President Zelenskiy, who has lost much of the support of the Ukrainian people, is in the same position.

Mikhail Leontyev discusses how Ukraine is being used as a tool against Russia in the interests of the United States in the “However” program on Channel One:

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    1. +10
      April 12 2021 16: 18
      It makes no sense to repeat hundreds and thousands of times to those who do not want to see or hear this.
      One of the surest ways to raise the population of the former Soviet republics against the local corrupt authorities and the dominance of the United States, the EU, the IMF, the World Bank and other "virtues" in their "independent" countries is to raise the standard of living and comfort in Russia to an unprecedented level for these "independent" countries. heights.
      This is what the Russian leadership should do, cutting back to a minimum the aid to the "independent".
      1. -3
        April 12 2021 16: 40
        Quote: credo
        This is what the Russian leadership should do, cutting back to a minimum the aid to the "independent".

        And dependent on Russian natural resources too.
      2. nnm
        0
        April 12 2021 16: 48
        Quote: credo
        should be engaged in minimizing aid to the "independent".

        This is if Russia is ready to be content with regional status and if we forget that there is no emptiness in politics, and if you lose a segment, then another one immediately takes it for itself. For example, the United States. And already they will begin to shape thinking in our neighboring country.
        It is impossible to reduce all interaction to financial assistance. It is necessary to form a positive attitude towards the Russian Federation from childhood. From joint cultural programs, educational grants, non-profit organizations, etc. It is impossible to focus only on the relations of economic-political elites, this is a road to nowhere, as shown by Ukraine.
        1. +1
          April 12 2021 17: 08
          Quote: nnm
          Quote: credo
          should be engaged in minimizing aid to the "independent".

          This is if Russia is ready to be content with regional status and if we forget that there is no emptiness in politics, and if you lose a segment, then another one immediately takes it for itself. For example, the United States. And already they will begin to shape thinking in our neighboring country.
          It is impossible to reduce all interaction to financial assistance. It is necessary to form a positive attitude towards the Russian Federation from childhood. From joint cultural programs, educational grants, non-profit organizations, etc. It is impossible to focus only on the relations of economic-political elites, this is a road to nowhere, as shown by Ukraine.

          Your argument does not seem convincing to me.
          Take China as an example. He primarily puts the well-being of his country and its citizens, and not overseas aborigines, and commands respect both within the country and abroad, because in a short time China has risen to the second economy in the world.

          To blame Russia for the fact that the status of a regional state does not suit it at the present time, it means not to see the obvious things, since Russia occupies a huge territory and a banal region, as in the EU or the United States some dwarf or state is not, but on the other hand, you need to measure your status with your capabilities and proceed from this in your plans.
          1. nnm
            +1
            April 12 2021 17: 19
            Far from it. Let me explain why: in China, before Xi, the principle of three "no" was in effect, in short, the essence of the principle was - to act without unnecessary fanfare, to develop without crossing the road to anyone. Which, by the way, is, in principle, not possible for Russia, since we were initially recorded as enemies. With regard to welfare, this is far from the case. Especially in northern China. The stratification there is enormous. The question is that both Russia and China have a huge budget, a huge amount of money, but we only spend it in different ways. They develop domestic consumption, production, and we ...
            And one simple example of the expansion of Chinese capital - over the past 7-10 years, China's investments in Africa have grown by 50 !!!!! times and amounted to more than $ 100 billion.
            And look at GDP per capita - we are in the 5th ten, China - in the 8th.
            So, the question is not that we have no money, but they have, but that we have different strategic goals with them. In our country, as Zadornov used to say, “stubzing, dumping,” but in their country the state understands its responsibility to the next generations.
            1. 0
              April 12 2021 17: 33
              Quote: nnm
              Far from it. Let me explain why: in China, before Xi, the principle of three "no" was in effect, in short, the essence of the principle was - to act without unnecessary fanfare, to develop without crossing the road to anyone. Which, by the way, is, in principle, not possible for Russia, since we were initially recorded as enemies. With regard to welfare, this is far from the case. Especially in northern China. The stratification there is enormous. The question is that both Russia and China have a huge budget, a huge amount of money, but we only spend it in different ways. They develop domestic consumption, production, and we ...
              And one simple example of the expansion of Chinese capital - over the past 7-10 years, China's investments in Africa have grown by 50 !!!!! times and amounted to more than $ 100 billion.

              It seems to me that you look at things a little emotionally.
              Yes, in China not everything is all right and not in everything, but there is a forward movement and it has been steadily for several decades. Is this not an example to follow for some and envy for others, but in both cases, respect for China and its leadership.

              As for expansion, yes, this is an economic expansion, it exists and they strive for this, but note that they do not succeed in doing this everywhere and not in everything, and they do not set goals to fall in love with Negroes or Arabs, providing first of all for their citizens and their businesses are not Aboriginal jobs.

              And what can Russia offer Ukraine or Moldova in terms of economic or cultural cooperation, if they do not need either one other than irrevocable Russian money? You have real options for solving this problem, if a neighbor perceives any of your steps to establish any contacts as unnecessary interference in his "independent" life.
              1. nnm
                0
                April 12 2021 17: 40
                Quote: credo
                It seems to me that you look at things a little emotionally.

                It is strange, I am giving you specific, dry figures on the volume of investments, on GDP, and you reproach me for being too emotional.
                Quote: credo
                And what can Russia offer Ukraine or Moldova in terms of economic or cultural cooperation, if they do not need either one other than irrevocable Russian money?

                Colleague, that's how I started with this:
                2. We have nothing to offer our neighbors. Only to replace some oligarchs with others.


                And we have nothing to offer us, not because we are poor and unhappy, but because the goals of the countries are different. China is aimed at development for decades to come, and we have "no time to swing" and the next yacht of Mr. A. for 500 million dollars.
                1. +1
                  April 12 2021 18: 02
                  [/ quote] Strange, I am giving you specific, dry figures about the volume of investments, about GDP, and you reproach me for being too emotional. [Quote]


                  I did not mean the dry figures of investments, but the ways you describe how to achieve the goals of establishing any economic, political or cultural ties with the fragments of the USSR.
                  And we have nothing to offer us, not because we are poor and unhappy, but because the goals of the countries are different. China is aimed at development for decades to come, and we have "no time to swing" and the next yacht of Mr. A. for 500 million dollars.


                  But this I call emotions, especially when they begin to compare the incomparable and reproach for other people's sins. Russia still differs from China in many respects, and the mechanical transfer of its method of achieving success may not be acceptable to us. By the way, China also realized this when it began to build socialism according to Soviet patterns.
                  As for Mr. A.'s yacht, this is not a state task, and I hope it will not become one in Russia, but there are enough embezzlers and spenders in China as well.
      3. -3
        April 12 2021 22: 06
        Quote: credo
        This is what the Russian leadership should be doing.

        Raise your unemployment payments?
      4. -1
        April 13 2021 10: 02
        As you can see there will be no division of Ukraine. The United States set out to hand over to Russia this suitcase without a handle, with all the Nazi problems. Then the United States has a chance to blow up Russia from the inside, with the help of Ukrainian Nazis.
    2. +4
      April 12 2021 16: 22
      In 2014, there was a US invasion disguised as the "Maidan".
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    4. nnm
      +7
      April 12 2021 16: 40
      We have had almost 30 years to support the creation of a pro-Russian vector in Ukraine. We were once punched in the face during the election of Yushchenko, but no, we did not draw any conclusions. And with the second blow on the Maydaun, Ukraine was finally made anti-Russia. Where was the intelligence, the embassy, ​​foreign policy, the economy - the devil knows!
      So you need to ask yourself questions first of all. That under Yanukovych there were no Nazi training camps in the west, in Poland? There were. But they turned a blind eye.
      We will continue to lose in politics with our neighbors, for two reasons:
      1. There is no strategic planning of relationships, the formation and support of pro-Russian internal elites. All we count on is money and cooperation. Not realizing that the West will always pay more if it is profitable for it.
      2. We have nothing to offer our neighbors. Only to replace some oligarchs with others. And, of course, the domestic oligarchs will do everything in order not to be absorbed by the Russian ones. That Akhmetov and Pinchuk on the maydaun perfectly showed. We cannot offer anything to the population itself - neither the absence of corruption, nor social orientation, nor education, medicine, etc.

      And therefore, it is not necessary to say that it was the United States that put Ukraine in its wake. This we ourselves about ... "loved".
      So, the neo-Nazis are now ruling the ball in Ukraine, and they have preferred to ignore them for so many years (with whom the struggle has only recently begun in the Russian Federation).
      1. 0
        April 12 2021 16: 48
        Quote: nnm
        And therefore, it is not necessary to say that it was the United States that put Ukraine in its wake. We gave it to them ourselves.

        You are absolutely right! BUT ... in the USA they did not read N.V. Gogol's "Taras Bulba". And in Russia he is well known. So you have to remember the immortal: "I gave birth to you, and I will kill you." No matter how they spin, no matter how they want to be "softer" - it will not work. So the prediction of the killed molfar will come true, that Poland, Romania and other neighbors will return the memory to themselves, and everything there will be the same. And the gene pool of Ukraine disappears. And she herself will disappear .. Believe it or not. But follow the link if interesting
        https://znaj.ua/ru/society/229411-ostannye-peredbachennya-dlya-ukrajini-legendarnij-molfar-zalishiv-prorotstvo-yake-vzhe-pochalo-zbuvatisya
        1. nnm
          -2
          April 12 2021 16: 55
          Yes, this option is quite realistic. But it no longer depends on us, but on what the United States considers more important for itself: SP-2 or the annexation of a number of other regions of Ukraine to Russia. And in one, and in the other version, we are already playing from the position of the "fork" that we were given, which means that we will already lose. The only question is what. Either we lose SP-2, or the eastern regions of Ukraine will not return to Russia.
          And only the United States can decide this, not us.
          And if the status quo persists, believe me, in 10 years, young Ukrainians will be sure that when Taras says, "Well, son, your help you ..." was not talking about the Poles, but about the Russians. We have strategically lost the Ukrainians, because in a couple of generations the state will simply clean out the brains with a new ball, rewriting all history, memory, coordinate systems and a way of thinking.
          So, strategically, we have already lost - we were unable to support pro-Russian sentiments in the neighboring country over a long period of time, while pouring billions of dollars into it. Our dollars with you.
          1. 0
            April 12 2021 17: 15
            Quote: nnm
            in 10 years, young Ukrainians will be sure

            Will they be? young Ukrainians?
            A drug laboratory that produced 300 kg of amphetamine per month was covered in Dnipro
            https://versii.com/news/v-dnepre-nakryli-narkolaboratoriju-proizvodivshuju-300-kg-amfetamina-ezhemesjachno/
            Here we have "no opportunities, laboratories, money, etc. for the vaccine, but here - here you are, get poisoned. So there will be no" Ukraine ". At best," Little Russia "(historical restored name) And here we are we'll fight. (if you don't clap your ears again)
            1. nnm
              -1
              April 12 2021 17: 25
              There will be, of course. Yes, the population will no longer be 40 million, but even 20, but there will be. And this one way or another, there will be our neighbors. One thought will be hammered into their heads: Russia is an ENEMY. And this is precisely the main problem.
              1. 0
                April 14 2021 15: 20
                So it is, I somehow got into Facebook in a group - Ukrainians in Gdansk - into the discussion of the article On the annexation of Western Ukraine, in particular Lvov to the USSR, i.e. to Ukraine itself, so there the Westerners remembered how their poor fellows ancestors were robbed and the officers pinned themselves in the wife's underwear and the chamber pots were used not for their intended purpose, but the fact that the Ukrainians in Lvov in 39g. There were only 16% and they did not remember who returned the city and territory to them. Roughly speaking, they instructed as many minuses and insults as they put me here)). And only one I forced to admit the historical truth and then said that all empires had their own interests and they say we do not have anything to Russia. So western Ukraine is definitely lost for Russia, so how can I tell my daughter is 18 years old - she tells me - daddy why do you always defend Russia? Once I sat her down in front of me and let's tell the story, I see tears in her eyes, it's bitter for our Ukrainian history, but it's true.
      2. +1
        April 12 2021 16: 58
        Quote: nnm
        ... And therefore, it is not necessary to say that it was the United States that put Ukraine in its wake. This we ourselves about ... "loved".
        So, the neo-Nazis are now ruling the ball in Ukraine, and they have preferred to ignore them for so many years (with whom the struggle has only recently begun in the Russian Federation).

        And what is rational in your proposal? It looks more like the USSR-2.0, only in different borders.

        If you without emotion evaluate the actions of the Bolsheviks and Communists in the USSR, it turns out that all the well-being of the former Soviet republics was largely ensured at the expense of the riches and resources of the RSFSR, on the basis of which the Communists themselves fostered those traitors, degenerates and fellow travelers in their ranks, who later headed the new "independent" republics and enriched themselves on the all-Union property.

        Through whom and how do you propose to pursue Russia's policy in the former Soviet republics, if the overwhelming majority of power in them is made up of people who only want to receive from Russia, without giving anything in return?
        1. nnm
          +1
          April 12 2021 17: 06
          In my subjective opinion, you see very superficially the system of interaction between the RSFSR and the republics. The union had an understanding of the strategic, common vector of education, the creation of a mentality of community, cooperation at all levels. It was not easy - Turkmenistan, get a loan of 3 billion rubles, spend wherever you want, and most importantly, keep quiet, we are not interested in anything else.
          Quote: credo
          Through whom and how do you propose to pursue Russia's policy in the former Soviet republics, if the overwhelming majority of power in them is made up of people who only want to receive from Russia, without giving anything in return?

          Dear colleague, this (more precisely, exactly the opposite situation) is the strategic goals of the policy with neighbors (and not only)!
          Take the same Ukraine, when the union was divorced, a huge number of people supported both the union and sympathized with Russia. Where are they all? And precisely because we believed that it will always be so. While the Soros, the CIA worked in Ukraine, creating anti-Russian sentiments from 0 (well, almost from 0), forming cadres, shaking the Russophobic agenda, etc.
          So we waited for the result.
    5. +10
      April 12 2021 16: 48
      We ourselves have missed the former republics of the USSR. We did nothing to ensure that the former would remain in the pro-Russian political space. Now, the United States and Turkey are targeting Kazakhstan, but we again remain on the sidelines ...
    6. +1
      April 12 2021 17: 41
      As for "finally", I would be more careful, because "finally" socialism has already been built
    7. +1
      April 12 2021 18: 34
      Do you have to get used to the fact that Washington always influences different countries, but we do not?
    8. +1
      April 12 2021 23: 09
      ... At the same time, in post-Soviet countries, they do not always realize an important point: if you are used as a ram, then at least chips, or even more solid parts of it, can fly off upon impact. When they tried to "ram" with the help of Georgia, this country lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "Battering ram" -Ukraine lost the Crimea and in fact was left without a part of Donbass
      This is good, but not enough. For Russia, the maximum task is to completely destroy the anti-Russian Ukraine by the hands of the United States, and the Ruin that remains is to return back as Little Russia and no matter what Ukraine has never been heard of again,
    9. 0
      April 13 2021 00: 08
      It seems that the "humanists" leave the Kremlin no choice ...
      1. +1
        April 13 2021 09: 05
        It seems that the "humanists" leave the Kremlin no choice ...
        To be honest, I do not see a situation that the Kremlin is cornered. The Kremlin in Ukraine has nowhere to hurry and time is playing on it.
    10. 0
      April 13 2021 09: 50
      Georgia has lost not only territory
      the costs that she poured into militarization, as a result, did not seem to be in the development of the economy
      and as soon as the next crisis hit, it suddenly became clear that the whole country was left without income.
      Those. inner life has become extremely unstable. And if the Russian Federation did not interfere, then, at best, Georgia could recoup part of the costs only through outright robbery of Ossetia, i.e. Saakashvili has plunged the country into a pit of problems, regardless of the intervention of the Russian Federation.
      The same is happening in Ukraine. Ukrainian politicians see that with the achievement of the conquest of Donbass, they will achieve something and will continue to be good, but in reality it will definitely not get better.
      Unjustified militarization of life leads to constant problems.
      If we compare this with the good old England, then the development of the army and navy there proceeded in parallel with a huge worldwide plunder, which for some time compensated for the costs, but even the British Empire eventually collapsed from the fact that they could no longer plunder so much that support your ambitions.
      Therefore, Ukrainians, think about where your corrupt managers and the evil clown in particular are pushing you. This is a hole from which you will not get out.
    11. +14
      April 18 2021 21: 29
      Ukraine turned into an instrument of American foreign policy a few years ago

      In 1991-1992, Ukraine became an American instrument. Not now, not a few years ago, but precisely at the time of the collapse of the USSR. It was then that pro-American anti-Russian individuals began to come to power in Ukraine.

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