US, allies escalating crisis in Ukraine: Analyst
The United States and its allies have escalated the crisis in Ukraine by providing military support for the country and expanding the crisis into a regional conflict against Russia, says a geopolitical analyst in New York.
“The very notion that Russia is going to be escalating the conflict in Ukraine is an absolute distortion and an inversion of reality because it is the United States, and its allies and partners, which has escalated that conflict from the very beginning and is continuing to do so,” Eric Draitser told Press TV on Monday.
“The news coming out of the Western propaganda machine is that Russia is looking to escalate the conflict, while at the very same time the United States is putting military advisers into Ukraine, training Nazi-fascist paramilitary forces and others,” he said.
In April, about 300 US troops arrived in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, to train the Ukrainian National Guard.
The troops will spend six months for the so-called training mission, during which three battalions of Ukrainian troops would be trained.
The US has long been accusing Russia of destabilizing Ukraine by supporting pro-Russian forces in the eastern regions.
Russia, however, says Washington is responsible for the escalating tensions in Ukraine by sending arms in support of the Ukrainian army.
“The United States is attempting to subvert any potential for a peaceful resolution to this conflict. Russia is looking for precisely that because they don’t want to get dragged into any kind of quagmire in Ukraine,” Draitser added. “The United States policy against Russia in Ukraine has failed.”
“The United States is looking to make this issue into a broader regional conflict, something which could have very, very severe, very dangerous global implications,” he said.
US experts on Russia have said the growing crisis in Ukraine, which has already taken thousands of lives, could explode to a much wider conflict.
Experts say US and Western European moves to isolate Russia and damage its economy for its reunification with the Crimean peninsula last year have not forced President Vladimir Putin to back down.
"At the moment all the signs are bad," said Stephen Cohen, a Russia expert and professor emeritus at Princeton and New York University, according to The Associated Press.
Cohen, a longtime and vocal critic of American policy toward Russia, believes US policy has been provocative ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, starting with the expansion of NATO into Eastern and Central Europe.
AHT/HRJ
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