{"id":62135,"date":"2022-03-07T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62135"},"modified":"2022-03-07T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:45:40","slug":"ukraine-is-a-sacrificial-pawn-on-the-imperial-chessboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62135","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/03\/06\/ukraine-is-a-sacrificial-pawn-on-the-imperial-chessboard\/\">Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-11187\" class=\"post-11187 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-china tag-empire tag-imperialism tag-multipolar tag-russia tag-ukraine tag-unipolar tag-us-empire tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2.jpeg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2-1024x536.jpeg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/ukraine-is-a-sacrificial-pawn-on-the-imperial-chessboard\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1227446086&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>The war\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ejmalrai\/status\/1499986573647044609\">is not going well<\/a>\u00a0for Kyiv, and it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronjmate\/status\/1500219139713114120?s=20&amp;t=YyBTxZmI-ELJGgpz1BzHEQ\">would be unreasonable<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patrickarmstrong.ca\/author\/gparmru\/\">expect that to change<\/a>. As a vastly superior military force overwhelms the US client state, reality is in the process of crashing down hard in the face of western liberals who bought into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20WcC\">war propaganda<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lifestyle\/style-beauty\/men\/the-worlds-sexiest-man-alive-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-becomes-unlikely-sex-symbol-87a6d8a2-4701-4f49-9f3e-0c3ff41b3862\">brave, sexy comedian<\/a>\u00a0was leading an upset victory to kick Putin\u2019s ass out of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky is now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/ukraine-nato-no-fly-zone-zelensky-video-00a61061-d45b-4e64-859a-2d462526254b.html\">raging at NATO powers<\/a>\u00a0for refusing to intervene militarily against Russia, apparently having previously been given the impression that the US-centralized empire might risk its very existence defending its dear friends the Ukrainians from an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, today there is a complete impression that it is time to give a funeral repast for something else: security guarantees and promises, determination of alliances, values that seem to be dead for someone,\u201d Zelensky said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the people who will die starting from this day will also die because of you,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s president added. \u201cBecause of your weakness, because of your disunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It must be hard, the process of learning that you were never actually a valued partner in western civilization\u2019s fight for freedom and democracy. That you were always just one more sacrificial pawn on the imperial chessboard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd190b3BpY19waXZvdHNfZW1iZWRfMTM1NDUiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoiYWRkX2FjdGlvbl9idXR0b24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjo0fX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1499871992320864258&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F03%2F06%2Fukraine-is-a-sacrificial-pawn-on-the-imperial-chessboard%2F&amp;sessionId=888c28b5bab103e9b92eb0aae4508341d6f309c5&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1499871992320864258\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In a new article titled \u201c<span data-qa=\"headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/yEkMh\">U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency<\/a>\u201c, The Washington Post reports that US officials anticipate Russia will reverse its early losses and successfully drive the Zelensky regime out of the country, after which \u201ca long, bloody insurgency\u201d is planned against the invaders backed by billions of dollars in US funding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The war\u00a0is not going well\u00a0for Kyiv, and it\u00a0would be unreasonable\u00a0to\u00a0expect that to change. As a vastly superior military force overwhelms the US client state, reality is in the process of crashing down hard in the face of western [&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":[17039,553,694,821,827,32745,3142,862],"class_list":["post-62135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-client-state","tag-us-empire","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62135","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=62135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62136,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62135\/revisions\/62136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}