Brian Berletic: US division of labor for Ukraine

US division of labor for Ukraine, announced by US Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth in February this year, requires placing the illusion of distance between the US and both its Ukrainian AND European proxies.

Sec. Hegseth specifically tasked Europe with convincing the European public bigger sacrifices would be needed and part of that game is achieved by posing as if the US is drifting away or even divided against Ukraine and Europe.

But remember this key first principle: Ukraine was, is, and will continue to be a US proxy war, fought by and for US interests entirely at the expense of both Ukraine and Europe.

It is also part of a broader global strategy the US is pursuing to maintain worldwide primacy.

Until this fundamental reality changes, which will not be anytime in the near, intermediate or even distant future (barring the US being physically forced to) the US is negotiating in entirely, 100% bad faith.

US Presidents and Congress do not determine US foreign policy. Unelected corporate-financiers interests working through think tanks do. If they haven’t changed their minds on Ukraine (and they haven’t) no US president nor will Congress change this policy.

What ensues is merely theater to sell an already painfully predictable outcome of continuity of agenda, stringing the public along and attempting to paint Russia and its allies into a corner.

Russia, we can only hope, understands this, that this conflict can ONLY be resolved fully on the battlefield and that agreement to other pointless “talks” simply affords the US an exit ramp if and whenever it decides to use it while avoiding extending to the US or Europe a provocation that enables them to mobilize toward wider war.