Chicago Tribune editorial on XI, Putin summit wildly inaccurate, unhelpful

 Chicago Tribune editorial on XI, Putin summit wildly inaccurate, unhelpful

The Trib’s Editorial Board continues to promote the US government’s perpetual proxy war against Russia in Ukraine rather than promote war ending negotiations.

To do that, the editorial ‘Xi has been an apologist for Putin. Will he also be his lethal arms supplier?’ contains distortions of the Russo Ukraine war that defy credulity.

For starters, the Trib claims the war is existential for Ukraine with defeat ensuring its extinction as a sovereign country. False. The war will end in defeat for neither Ukraine nor Russia. It will end in a negotiated settlement that will recognize Crimea remaining part of Russia and the Donbas free from Kyiv violence, either as an independent country or voting to join Russia. Russia wants nothing to do with the 80% of Ukraine that leans West as long as they stop slaughtering the Russian leaning Donbas Ukrainians, and more importantly don’t invite NATO to put troops and nuclear capable weapons on Ukraine’s Russian border.

That leads the Trib to oppose any efforts to negotiate a cease fire by China, or anyone ese for that matter, as long as Russian troops occupy Ukraine territory. Since that will likely never happen, the Trib supports endless billions in weapons to keep the collapsing Ukraine military fighting till Ukraine does collapse. With no American blood to be shed, it’s easy for the Trib to tell Ukraine to keep shedding an ocean of blood to achieve the US goal of a weakened Russia.

What is truly bizarre is the claim that China providing Russia weapons will cross “a red line for Western allies…. and likely mean a raft of U.S.-led sanctions imposed on Beijing". Is the Trib oblivious of the hypocrisy of the largest supplier of weapons to support a proxy war in history, having apoplexy when its main rival even considers doing a pittance of America’s war weaponizing? And has the Trib considered that applying sanctions on China will simply generate a billion Chinese guffaws?

The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board should ditch supporting perpetual proxy war for negotiated peace. It’s the solution to virtually every war in history. The weapons we’re sending are worthless. They are continuing carnage in Ukraine and ensuring the inevitable destruction of the country we’re trying to save.