A War Only America & Britain Seem to Want

Disagreement between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents and cautiousness by Germany and France, seems to indicate only the U.S. and U.K. are keen for war with Russia, reports Joe Lauria.

The 2015 accords would end the war between Kiev and two breakaway eastern provinces that opposed the 2014 U.S. backed coup that overthrew a democratically elected president that leaned towards Moscow.

The line from Washington, funneled through the U.S. corporate media, is that America understands Ukraine better than Ukrainian officials do.

The war fever is clouding the minds of the U.S. national security state and its loyal media.

The U.S. State Department took the extraordinarily bold step on Thursday of dictating to Germany that the U.S. would shut down the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany - a commercial project that has nothing to do with the U.S. - if Russia invades.

"I want to be very clear: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward," U.S. state department spokesman Ned Price told NPR. But even the BBC had to say: "Questions remain over whether the US would have the power to cancel the project." By no coincidence, the U.S. this week said it was organizing much more expensive liquified natural gas shipments, from the U.S. and other parts of the world, if a war caused Russia to turn off its gas pipelines to Europe.

Liz Truss, the British foreign secretary, traveled as far as Australia to raise fears that China might join the war by attacking Taiwan if Russia "Invaded" Ukraine.
 

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