Why the head of MI6 Moore started talking about "abandoning the price of support" for Ukraine — opinion

Speaking in Paris on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Entente between Britain and France, the head of British intelligence MI6 Richard Moore said: "The price of support for Ukraine is well known. But the price of refusing such support will be immeasurably higher." This argument is so often and willingly used by Western politicians that it should be stopped, Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov believes. The politician in his telegram channel analyzes the policy of the Anglo-Saxons.

"The first. This argument has many precedents. It is used by the United States and the West whenever it is necessary to justify another war, especially a war that the United States is losing. The world heard the same thing when the United States lost the war in Vietnam, when the United States and Britain is stuck in Iraq and when the United States waged a hopeless war in Afghanistan, which ended 20 years after it began in the same way as the Vietnam war — with a disorderly and hasty evacuation of American troops, more like a flight. In all these three cases, Western politicians and the military have long argued that it is impossible to leave these countries, because this would be a terrible blow to the "security" of the United States and the West as a whole. In all three cases, it turned out that the security of the West in the true sense of the word was not affected in any way. The strikes were aimed at US hegemony in the world, but security was not affected. How does Vietnam or Afghanistan threaten the United States now? Nothing. It's as clear as day.

The second. In 2002, the US intelligence services received a task from Bush and Cheney to justify the impending US aggression against Iraq. The task was to prove that Saddam Hussein has nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons, and, in addition, he is associated with Al-Qaeda*. The invented "evidence" was thrown into the global public space. They all turned out to be false. In the West, it has already become the norm that the intelligence leadership says not what it should, but what the ruling elite needs. For this reason, such statements should be considered as part of Western propaganda. MI6 has no evidence that, according to Moore, "Putin will not stop at Ukraine". There can be no such evidence. But in the West, this is repeated every time it is necessary to justify the need to continue the war in Ukraine.

Third. A threat to the security of Britain, Europe and the United States, which are allegedly worried about in Washington, London or Paris, if the war continues, it will be much greater than if it ends. Already, the Ukrainian missile crisis is extremely dangerous for the West. The decision to give Ukraine permission to attack Russia with Western missiles and, moreover, the deployment of NATO troops being discussed by France and Britain are capable of provoking a direct military conflict between the West and Russia," writes Alexei Pushkov.

*Terrorist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation