The US and its European allies would not be able to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin over the crisis in Ukraine because Moscow has lots of cards to play, an American author says.
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"Russia is not going to allow Ukraine to become a NATO nation or to fall into the hand of extreme anti-Russians," said James Fetzer, an editor at Veterans Today.

"Russia has lots of cards to play in relation to the pressures from the European nations for more sanctions, including its control of very large proportion of gas that is supplied to those nations," the retired professor from Wisconsin told Press TV on Monday.

The European Union is seeking to impose further sanction on Moscow over the crisis.

The author also noted that the United States has "grossly violated" the sovereignty of Ukraine and other Eastern European nations, helping to "destabilize" and install a "puppet regime" in Kiev.

"The United States has invested some $5 billion to bring about destabilization in the Ukraine," Fetzer said.

"The democratically elected president of the Ukraine was forced to flee for his life while a puppet regime was installed which the Obama administration immediately recognized," he added.

"The United States has done this all over the world," he continued.

"We have undertaken outright invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya under the cover of NATO to weaken Muslim nations that have stood as independent obstacles to Israeli desires to dominate the Middle East."

The conflict in Ukraine broke out in April following Russia's reunification with the Crimea peninsula a month before. The conflict has killed about 2,600 people since April.

Pro-Russian forces have been gaining ground on Ukrainian army in recent days, in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and further south around the port of Mariupol.


Comment: Pro-Russian forces have been gaining ground on Ukrainian army (supported by USA/NATO) in recent days without the help of Russian armed forces.


Ukraine and the West blame Russian military support for the recent gains, saying armored columns have crossed the border. Russia denies military involvement.

Leading American senators have called for the US to send weapons to help Ukraine fight what they say is "a Russian invasion."

Robert Menendez, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Russian President Vladimir Putin must face a cost for his "aggression."