"Onward Christian Soldiers": Who Is Preventing Peace In Ukraine?

The Russia-Ukraine war is almost two years old with no apparent diplomatic solution in sight.

There is a consensus among analysts on all sides that Moscow is going into 2024 with a decisive advantage in the conflict. Russian planners have set aside 6% of their GDP towards war production to give themselves a massive material edge over the NATO-backed Ukraine forces, which has brought record low unemployment and a booming economy as Vladimir Putin’s re-election bid approaches.

On the civilian front, Russia’s oil and gas economy has thrived under financial attacks from the liberal G7 and its international economic institutions by successfully pivoting towards new export markets in developing countries. The most absurd development in the counter-intuitive blossoming of Russia’s energy sector can be seen in Western European nations exploiting loopholes in their own sanctions program so that they can continue to purchase Russian liquified natural gas at historically unprecedented rates.

On the Ukrainian side, the news is comparatively grim. Kiev is slowly losing ground, running out of artillery shells, and has been unable to mount any successful counter-attacks. Russian forces neutralized Ukraine’s ability to produce weapons and munitions early on, leading to dependence on NATO weapon’s transfers to continue prosecuting the war that have been lagging as of late. Aiding the Ukraine is encountering controversy throughout Eastern Europe, as seen in the NATO stalwart of Poland, where truckers are physically blocking the Ukrainian border in protest. As of the time of this writing, large and expensive Ukraine aid packages are being blocked by the moustache-twirling villains in the liberal democratic stage play — Viktor Orban in Hungary and the US Republicans in Congress — but this is most likely political cover for the fact that meeting Ukraine’s armament needs would require NATO nations to transition towards military economies, which US and EU leaders are reluctant to commit to.

Adding to this dilemma is the Ukrainian state’s difficulty conscripting military aged men. Approximately 50% (4.5 million) of potential recruits are hiding from the draft, leading to a manpower crisis the Rada is trying to solve by conscripting prisoners and implementing Soviet-style punitive measures for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men who escaped the country.

Chief among these pressing concerns is the mounting, arguably ethnic, tensions between Ukraine’s military and its government.

Jews are only 0.3% of the Ukrainian population, yet today’s Ukraine has the most Jewish government since the early Bolshevik era. Aside from Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s Jewish wartime regime is being led by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Adriy Yermak and the criminal Serhiy Shefir. Until last fall, Ukraine had a Jewish defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, who Zelensky — apparently distrusting ethnic Ukrainians with sensitive decision-making in their own war effort — replaced with a Tatar Muslim.

The ramifications of this disconnect between the Jewish government and its Gentile armed forces was put on grisly display in Bakhmut, where civilian authorities showed immense contempt for the lives of young Ukrainian men.

After Russian forces successfully surrounded Bakhmut, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi began to plead with Zelensky to stop throwing away the lives of soldiers for a strategically insignificant objective. Zelensky responded by going around Zaluzhnyi and ordering the Ukrainians to attack, leading to enormous casualties without any results.

Last November, the frustrated General Zaluzhnyi told The Economist that the war was stuck in a stalemate and his men were being sent to die by the thousands in impossible offensives. According to reporting from Seymour Hersh, Zaluzhnyi has even made attempts to circumvent the delusional maximalist war aims of the Zelensky regime and negotiate for peace with his Russian counterparts.

Rather than consider his top general’s advice, Zelensky has attempted to sully his reputation (Zaluzhnyi is far more popular than Zelensky) by roping the Ukrainian patriot into a politicized investigation established on the pretense of rooting out alleged traitors that aided Russian forces early in the war. For now, Zaluzhnyi is only a witness in the case, but his supporters believe that this could change any second and that the goal is to extort him into subservience.

The widening divisions in Kiev don’t end there. Earlier this month, Zelensky and his junta have been desperately trying to combat a challenge from Oleksiy Arestovych, one of the few white Gentiles in the president’s inner circle, who is now campaigning for office against him on a platform of ending the war. Arestovych has been forced into exile to the United States due to fears of being arrested or assassinated by Zelensky’s henchmen.

In an explosive interview with Unherd, Arestovych confirmed that Ukrainian forces have suffered at least 200,000 deaths, a grisly fact Zelensky and his backers in Brussels and Washington have sought to keep secret. He followed this up with a declaration, which the Kremlin recently corroborated, that the unimaginable intensification of this war was caused by the decision made by Zelensky and his US/British sponsors to sabotage the Spring 2022 Istanbul process.

After the Russian military secured the Donbass and was repelled from Kiev, Arestovych states that he successfully negotiated a relatively favorable peace deal with Putin’s government through international mediators in Turkey. As the ink dried on the agreement and Arestovych opened a bottle of Champagne, images of the alleged April 2022 Bucha atrocity suddenly began to circulate throughout global media. Zelensky capitalized on this, using Bucha as an excuse to unilaterally veto the peace accords and suspend all communication with Russia.

The Russians continue to insist that the Bucha massacre was atrocity propaganda staged by British agents. Arestovych does not explicitly endorse this view, but he does affirm that the last-minute withdrawal from the Istanbul agreement and amplification of supposed Bucha atrocity coincided with a meeting Zelensky held with Boris Johnson.

The Zelensky regime has responded to Arestovych’s criticism that the war is wiping out Ukrainians without any demonstrable results and diplomacy must be considered by labeling the man they until very recently entrusted with high-level state secrets a Russian asset. They are mostly basing this off of the fact that Arestovych has some recent Russian ancestry.

Arestovych is clearly speaking to some significant portion of the Ukrainian electorate. Circumstantial evidence escaping through the cracks of the Kiev cabal point to public confidence in Zelensky cratering, with polling data showing that the president only has a 32% approval rating.

It is impossible to know how Zelensky would fair among voters since his government has indefinitely suspended elections. The Ukrainian government holds that the people they govern don’t want elections or peace with Russia. This assertion is regurgitated without question by the US and European Union.

As Washington and NATO prepare to handle higher priorities, such as the defense of Israel in the Middle East, Zelensky’s hold over the government could become increasingly weak. The question now is how important the Zionist foreign policy planners of America, France, Germany, and Britain believe their mission in Ukraine is compared with emerging conflicts elsewhere.

Observers should scrutinize talk of unbreakable Ukrainian morale. The country’s war effort is beginning to look like a gang of unelected Jews forcing a people they don’t care about to suffer in order to incrementally advance the stated interests of foreign powers.

The 1993 essay by American oligarch and liberal internationalist George Soros calling for the use of Eastern Europeans as cannon fodder against NATO’s opponents resonates here. Onward Christian Soldiers!