{"id":60882,"date":"2021-12-11T06:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T11:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60882"},"modified":"2021-12-11T06:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T11:51:52","slug":"ukrainian-crisis-are-we-on-the-verge-of-wwiii-or-pax-multipolarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60882","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dk-topic dk-topic_size_m dk-article__topic i-bem dk-topic_js_inited\" data-bem=\"{&quot;dk-topic&quot;:{}}\">\n<div class=\"dk-topic__body\">\n<div class=\"dk-topic__content\">\n<div class=\"dk-topic__footer\">\n<h3 class=\"dk-topic__footer-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/ukrainian-crisis-are-we-on-the-verge-of-wwiii-or-pax-multipolarity\/\">Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dk-article__section\">\n<p><strong><em>The highpoint in the Ukrainian crisis and the big visits by Nuland to Moscow and Austin to Kiev might actually be attempts by Washington to make lemons out of lemonade, Tim Kirby writes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mainstream Media Eye of Sauron has turned its horrid gaze to the Ukraine. This is always cause for concern because it indicates that this is what the elites want America to be focusing on. This would not be so much of a problem if this growing game of chicken in the Donbass did not resemble a Cuban Missile Crisis for the 21st century. The Mainstream Media\u2019s headlines read of warnings to Russia not to attack, and move their own troops away from the border within their own territory for the sake of peace, while at the same time pumping up Kiev with support-based confidence to do just that \u2013 escalating the war in the Donbass towards a potential apocalyptic scenario. Since Moscow has already handed out citizenship to the residents of the breakaway republics and even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/5100562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">given their leaders party membership<\/a>\u00a0into Putin\u2019s dominant United Russia, along with executing many forms of bureaucratic \u201cintegration\u201d the Donbass, we can clearly see that the region is de facto Russian again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_769091\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-769091 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tk09122101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image: Leader of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic Denis Pushilin is now a card-carrying party member of United Russia. Source: Anna News.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This means that a massive attack from Kiev, would be met by a full force response from Moscow, the \u201cRussianness\u201d of the region has now become essentially non-negotiable \u2013 \u201cnot one step back\u201d can be taken as Stalin put it. With so many \u201cinstructors\u201d and other assets from NATO working with Kiev it is overwhelmingly likely that a Russian counterattack to any offensive would kill some foreign troops&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity? The highpoint in the Ukrainian crisis and the big visits by Nuland to Moscow and Austin to Kiev might actually be attempts by Washington to make lemons out of lemonade, Tim Kirby writes. The Mainstream Media Eye of Sauron has turned its horrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[553,694,8203,24421,821,827,1823],"class_list":["post-60882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-tim-kirby-2","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60883,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60882\/revisions\/60883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}