The masks are coming off. The pretence of the Collective West just "helping" Ukraine to defend itself is now openly abandoned by Western leaders who are officially pushing the Ukrainian government to lower the conscription age as a precondition for more weaponry. Ukraine must sacrifice even more of its young men to satisfy the blood-lust of the neocon warmongers in Washington and Brussels. What has long been evident to scholars and observers who, time and again, have been saying that neutrality for Ukraine is the most obvious of workable compromises to avoid (or end) the war, is now being discusses in the mainstream, namely that that this provoked war has been repeatedly made inevitable by the pro-war factions in the US and Europe.

Ted Snider is a columnist at Antiwar.com and The Libertarian Institute and a frequent contributor to Responsible Statecraft, The American Conservative, and other outlets.

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