© Screenshot from video.Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and Antony Blinken read the talking points for Vladimir Zelensky, in May of 2021.
How to stop the US provocations aimed at pushing Russia to go to war in the Ukraine, and at claiming credit for deterring Russian from doing so? Impossible — the US cannot be stopped. But Germany, the country most likely to suffer the direct effects of war in the Ukraine, can stop the American deployment of nuclear-capable weapons on Ukrainian territory.
Will the war start? Silly question — the war won't start because it has already started, and has been in active use-of-force mode since February 2014 when the US overthrew the Kiev government of President Victor Yanukovich; attempted to take Russian bases in Crimea; and followed in July of that year with the plot to down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and trigger a NATO invasion of the Donbass.
Right now on the Ukraine front, Russia will do nothing new; that's to say, nothing more than it has already done, and is doing. But if and when Germans agree to the Americans deploying nuclear-capable weapons on Ukrainian territory, as they have already done in Romania, Poland, and the Black Sea, then the
Stavka in Moscow will do something no western intelligence agency, think-tank, propagandist, and least of all the Japanese mouth organ known as the
Financial Times will have anticipated.
Comment: Currently in European countries, the relaxation of rules only applies to the fully vaccinated (vaccinated within the last 9 months). So as long as Brits stay on their little island, they are fine, if they try to get off, and are not up-to-date with their vaccine schedules, they will likely face the same draconian measures unless Europe follows suit.