Why The West STILL Wants War in Ukraine

The reasons are as simple as they are cynical.

For months now, I have been struggling to understand why Western European nations like Germany, France and the UK have continued to push for all out war with Russia and more weapons and cash for Ukraine — even as President Trump was making clear that the United States was seeking accommodation with Russia and an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

In my naiveté, I had always assumed that the European enthusiasm for war with Russia was solely based on their reflexive support for the US, and that the EU leadership were simply following the Biden Administration’s policy of isolating and provoking Russia, whilst trying to inflict a strategic defeat on Moscow by — as Senator Lindsay Graham so aptly put it — “fighting to the last Ukrainian”.

Now, however, it appears that this European bellicosity is not based just on their blind subservience to Washington’s interests. Indeed, the Europeans seem to be entering into a “new age” of political thinking, one predicated on warmongering and military adventurism abroad, coupled with militarisation and authoritarianism at home.