Where is the peace effort?

I HAVE pointed out here before the shocking fact that the war in Ukraine is actually between the USA and Russia. Ukraine and its suffering people are being used as a battering ram by both sides. Some people think I have imagined this.

Let me give you two good reasons for believing that I am right. The first is a recent statement by Leon Panetta. Mr Panetta was Secretary of Defence in the US government from 2011 to 2013. He was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2009 to 2011. He was White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997. He knows what he’s talking about. And on March 17 he said in an interview with Bloomberg Politics: ‘It’s a proxy war with Russia whether we say so or not. That effectively is what’s going on.’

The second is that there is no serious effort to make peace, from any direction. Why is this?

This is a disgusting war, and we have only seen a small part of its horrors. What aim can possibly justify it continuing a second longer than it has to? Shouldn’t serious statesmen be straining to bring it to an end? But I see no sign of this.

I am sorry to tell you that there are people in Moscow and Washington who want this war to last, and hope to gain by keeping it going. Why is the British Government so involved in fuelling the fighting? Our last intervention in Ukraine, the Crimean War, ended in 1856, and turned out to be a complete waste of lives, money and time.