All eyes on Lu Hui, the Chinese diplomat for ‘Eurasian Affairs’, who has been charged by Beijing to broker a deal between Ukraine and Russia and end the war. Though the previous deal, brokered by Turkey and Israel a year ago, subsequently destroyed by US and UK pressure on Zelensky to stay in the race, may serve as a template, the situation is less favorable for Ukraine today. The optics are different if you insist that Russia wanted to conquer all of Ukraine, since it vacated a lot of terrain it occupied in the spring of last year, but no Russian official ever even hinted at such a desire. On the contrary!
Today ‘Moscow’ is saying they are still open to a ‘political solution’, provided all their demands are met. And their demands are that the culturally Russian people in Ukraine will be shielded from being treated as ‘second rate’ citizens, and shot at, which today translates into accepting that territory controlled by Russia will remain part of the Russian Federation, while Ukraine will cease to be a military threat to Russia. These two issues are ‘non negotiable’. This is how I understand the Russian position, and I’m convinced the Chinese accept this condition as ‘fair’, considering how this came about. If there is another offensive, as announced, and Ukraine is defeated on the battlefield before a deal can be struck, with the Russians extending their territory in line with my own predicted outcome in January of last year, before the ‘SMO’ kicked off, Ukraine will have to concede even more territory without the Chinese lifting a finger.
Objectively they are the closest thing to a ‘neutral country’, since all the NATO-countries are committed to destroy Russia in this ‘Proxy War’. Yet, China is not an ‘uninterested’ country. It has its own agenda, to stop the ‘Unipolar’ world from conquering the globe, and to create alliances built on trade, not ‘LifeStyle Choices’. In an article about the war in Ukraine, Seymour Hersh exclaimed that it is totally ‘nuts’ that Ukraine and Russia are still ‘trading partners’ in a sense, with Ukraine buying Russian diesel for its war effort through ’third countries’, but that underscores that he doesn’t understand what is at stake. ‘Trading with the Enemy’ is seen as some form of treason in our part of the world, and it clearly is if you deliver weapons to the enemy, but both the Chinese and the Russians came to the conclusion that trade will solve the issues separating countries far better than any Treaty, or ‘discussions’. Especially with countries who will not live up to their obligations as laid down in a Treaty anyway, which describes the ‘Collective West’ perfectly. This is why the Russians never used their energy supply to Europe as a weapon. It was the EU, and with blowing up ‘Northstream’, the Americans and Norwegians, according to Hersh, who sabotaged and killed the energy trade. On the woefully wrong assumption that it would savage the Russian economy. Read HERE why that was stupid, and ultimately suicidal.
Though Europe feverishly tried to blame Russia for interrupted gas supplies early on, that was the result of a breach of contract when Germany and Canada refused to deliver a turbine which had been sent to the ‘Collective West’ for maintenance. Russia kept pumping gas, even after the ‘Collective West’ robbed them blind by stealing all the money and assets they could lay their hands on. Although, considering these criminal acts, they dumped the Dollar and Euro for countries seeking to fill their reservoirs to avoid freezing their citizens this winter. Still, now that the US and Norway severed the pipelines, the next winter is going to be brutal for the people of Europe if no peace and decision to resume trade is reached soon. Enormous price hikes, shortages, failing industries, and ravaging inflation are predicted by economists who escaped from the ‘Box’ of ‘WEF’-thinking. And I’m afraid they are spot-on.
Clearly this threat of economic downfall doesn’t mean the leaders of European countries welcome this development with China stepping up to the plate to restore the peace in Europe, save for the odd leader understanding the nature of this entire conflict, and fearing expansion of this war, and the destruction of his of her country in the process. These leaders are also under threat of being ‘Regime Changed’, with Viktor Orban high on the ‘wish-list’ of the Neocons/Warparty, exactly because of his strong showing in the elections over the years. But it would be a mistake to identify them as a unified block, since some are motivated by blind hatred, others are economic opportunists, fearing land-routes between China and Europe for trade will sack their busy harbors, or they want Europe to plunge into darkness ‘to save the planet’. Lu Hui has options to turn countries in Europe around, or offer them protection from the Neocons/Warparty wrath, but he will have to use all of his skills to create enough momentum to break the Neocon/Warparty spell.
My own personal interest is as a European, father, husband and grandfather, with friends all over Europe, who enjoyed the economic rise of Europe before the EU was hi-jacked by corporate interests and ‘WEF’/‘WHO’-agendas promoting a ‘Unipolar’ world order, directed by unelected billionaires and nefarious criminals running ‘financial institutions’ with their political henchmen, is to recreate a proud and prosperous Europe. Which is why I sympathize with the ‘ordinary’ Russian as well as with the ‘ordinary’ Ukrainian, and ‘ordinary’ American, or someone living in China, Sudan, Israel, or whatever. Hardworking, honest people with a family and high hopes for a better future for their children and future generations. Apart from the poor souls ‘grinded’ to death in some Hell-hole fortification, or a tank, on the frontline in Ukraine, because a few power-hungry ‘Regime Changers’ want to lay their greedy paws on territory on the other side of the globe, I cry for the people who are made to pay for all of this. What on earth are we doing to ourselves? Ask the people who live there to which country they want to belong, before starting to shoot the place up, or send in the ‘Regime Change’ clowns, draw the line, find a way for those who want to move to do so in peace, duly compensated for their material loss, and limit your sentimental fervor to cheering the local soccer club when they play the ‘enemy’, while limiting your outbursts of joy or anger so as to be able to get on with your life after the game.
Don’t shoot me, I’m only the piano man. But I wish Lu Hui good luck and wisdom on his mission. And I want to see the ‘Regime Change’ crowd demoted to running the local McDonald’s franchise, obliged to promote the ‘Ronald McDonald’ charity through their contract to make up for all the suffering they caused.