Why Russia Will Likely Take All of Ukraine

24 October 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

When a soldier willingly risks one’s life for one’s country — for example: “Give me liberty, or give me death”, said Patrick Henry on 23 March 1776, advocating for Britain’s Virginia colony to go to war against the British Empire — it’s because this person believes a life in slavery to be worse than no life at all. It is to choose serving one’s country (or else country-to-become), over serving an evil foreign master. When those are the only two options that are left, a person whose conscience is even larger than the person’s fear is, will revolt, and serve one’s conscience.

A person of conscience does what that person thinks to be right, even when one knows that this will probably lead to one’s death. A person of expediency does not. This is an important difference in human motivation, and so persons who are on opposite sides of that divide might have difficulty in understanding each other.

During the third U.S. Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, on 20 October 2016, Clinton said, “There is about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so.” Vladimir Putin too knows this, and he behaves accordingly, as will here be explained.

The country that has by far the border that is the closest of all to Russia’s central command in The Kremlin in Moscow is Ukraine, which is less than 317 miles — a mere five minutes of missile-flight-time away from him. This means that if Ukraine joins NATO, America’s anti-Russian military alliance, then, just as happened when Finland, which is the second-nearest to Moscow at a mere 507 miles or 7 minutes of missile-flying-time, joined NATO and was required by the U.S. Government to allow it to place American nukes there, Ukraine would also be required by the U.S. Government to allow it to position its nukes anywhere it wants to in Ukraine — and Russia, which is a Patrick Henry type of country — fiercely independent — would then do a Patrick Henry type of thing against the UK/U.S. empire: it would be for Russia then to initiate World War Three (WW3) against the ever-expanding UK/U.S. empire, because 317 miles is way too close “for comfort,” for any Russian, and Russia would then respond preemptively in order to avoid becoming beheaded before the major exchange of nukes starts between the two sides.

After all: in addition to there being that 4-minute time-window in which to launch the retaliatory missiles against U.S. missiles that are only a 5-minute flight-time away from Russia’s central command — leaving only 1 minute to spare — Russia’s Commander-in-Chief would have to be alerted, perhaps from his sleep, after Russia’s national-security system has already observed and verified the U.S. launch; and to do that could require considerably longer than merely 1 minute. (Russia, therefore, really should relocate its capital 1,500 miles to the east to its 3rd-largest city, Novosibirsk.) This is the predicament that Russia’s Government faces from today’s “Plain Evil” U.S. Government; and it’s the main reason why Mr. Putin, who has been leading Russia ever since 1 January 2000, has averaged around a 75% job-approval rating from the Russian people throughout these nearly 25 years: they trust him to do the right thing in a circumstance such as that, and no one else in the country would come anywhere even near to 75% approval. (Furthermore, the 2016 U.S. Government-funded study “Is Putin’s Popularity Real?” reluctantly concluded that it is — and, since the U.S. Government’s main interest in knowing this is to learn how likely to succeed would be an operation to turn the Russian public against him, the authors stated explicily, at the very end of their Conclusion, “that the main obstacle at present to the emergence of a widespread opposition movement to Putin is not that Russians are afraid to voice their disapproval of Putin, but that Putin is in fact quite popular.”)

Consequently, if Russia will be taking enough of Ukraine to push its border an additional 700 miles away from The Kremlin, to becoming 1,000 miles from it, that 1 minute would still be too near, only around 15 minutes; and, so, Russia will have to take all of Ukraine (unless Russia will instead move its capital to or near Novosibirsk). However, if Russia does that (takes all of Ukraine), then it will need to say explicitly, which it never yet has clearly stated (Putin is incompetent at PR), that the U.S. coup in 2014 that grabbed Ukraine, which had been a neutral country on Russia’s border, started this war, and constituted America’s aggression against Russia, to which Russia’s “Special Operation” necessarily is finally responding, for Russia’s own essential self-defense.

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This originally appeared on Eric’s Substack.

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