Over the last week the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been holding frantic meetings on Ukraine with his "coalition of the willing" partners, the French President Emmanuel Macron, and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. These meetings have been taking place at the G20 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and also with a virtual meeting on Tuesday, November 25, in London. This was because these partners in their proxy war against Russia were stunned by US President's Trump's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, claiming according to reports that "it was widely seen as a capitulation to most of the Kremlin's demands". These leaders, who have done everything to escalate their proxy war against Russia for nearly four years, now claim to be Ukraine's staunchest ally in bringing about "permanent peace". Yet they immediately rejected this peace proposal from their chief NATO ally and the very country that enabled them to intervene 22 years ago in Ukraine, against Russia.

On the sidelines of the G20, they hatched up a hurried 28-point counter-proposal dressed up as "constructive additions" to Trump's 28-point Ukraine peace plan. Reports say this rejected Trump's concessions to Russia, kept Ukraine's NATO membership possible, and introduced stronger security guarantees for Ukraine. Here they have previously stated they hoped to deploy British, French and German armed forces in Ukraine seeing themselves as the "peacekeepers". Starmer admitted in the Downing Street virtual meeting on Tuesday of the "coalition of the willing" that "the Multinational Force Ukraine will be a vital part of this. Our Military Planners who have worked really hard in recent months will continue to work on the readiness of that force." They have made extensive plans to deploy troops, aircraft and warships whether to Ukraine itself and the seas and air around it, or in Europe continuing to escalate war tensions. This under the hoax of defending Ukraine in the event of a permanent peace agreement which they do not support. They tried to justify this by claiming that Washington's agreement dictates terms "that could leave Ukraine permanently vulnerable".

Reports say that the US later rejected their revisions and insisted on sticking much closer to its original draft that they were discussing with the Ukrainian side. But what was also so noticeable was a report that was withdrawn (for now) from the US peace proposal. This was the clause that suggested Russia's immobilised funds would partly be used jointly by the US and Russia to reconstruct Ukraine. In their initial reaction to the plan, Britain and the EU leaders were said to be furious at this clause, having been for so long trying to find a way to seize Russia's $300 billion sovereign funds for themselves to "invest" in their proxy war in Ukraine. This seems to be the case. Starmer admitted on Tuesday: "I know EU leaders are looking at this in the next few weeks where progress is being made. We the UK are ready to move with the EU on providing financial support based on the value of the immobilised assets." In other words, Britain and the EU are relying on stealing Russia's assets to finance their proxy war as he said to "keep Ukraine in the fight" for their war.

What this reveals is that the Anglo/US and NATO's proxy war in Ukraine to defeat Russia was never a just cause and has now failed. It cannot be won and it now threatens to defeat all their plans to intervene and exploit the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian resources. They also dream of defeating and dismembering Russia by using the Ukrainian people as their cannon fodder. However, it is not these warmongers who will die but it is the people of Ukraine and Russia that that will be left with hundreds of thousands dead on both sides. This sums up the dangerous warmongering role of NATO today.

There would not be this conflict in the Ukraine today had the US not expanded NATO at all, had it stood by previous agreements to keep Ukraine out of NATO and not used it to permit neo-Nazi gangs that they recruited into the Ukrainian army to attack the population of eastern Ukraine since 2014 and threaten Russia's borders. NATO should have been dismantled after the Warsaw Pact was officially disbanded in March and July of 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Instead, the Anglo-US imperialists led the expansion of NATO into eastern Europe. The vaunted "peace dividend" disappeared. This warmongering alliance engaged in brinkmanship, pushing to see how far they could go in the hopes their plans to crush Russia would prevail and then deal with China from a position of strength.

This is alongside the Anglo-US and NATO's record of destruction of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. These horrific and failed wars - just in this century - destroyed countries that they could not control, killing millions of people. The old world of these powers is one that cannot face up to a changing world where the peoples and countries want to and are determined to decide their own future. The devastating proxy war in Ukraine against Russia is their latest failed project bringing death and destruction to the world. This is alongside their arming and full involvement in the Israeli regime's genocidal war against the Palestinian people who continue to be murdered by the Israel forces, even now during the US brokered UN ceasefire. The rights of the Palestinian people continue to be denied.

The plans of Starmer and the British government and its "coalition of the willing" will never bring about peace between Russia and Ukraine. All along Britain has continued its warmongering role in escalating the Ukraine war and being the first to supply modern battle tanks, Storm Shadow missiles and now Starmer declares that he will "step up the gifting of long-range capabilities" to hit Russia. Starmer also said in the lead up to the budget that the British economy and his "plan for change" must be based in prosecuting the Ukraine war and in further militarisation of the economy. This must be opposed! Sending British or NATO troops to Ukraine must be resisted as a further escalation of the conflict. A lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia must be supported. Britain's dangerous warmongering must be blocked. The issue for the British working class and people is to seek truth from facts, speak out, and settle scores with our own pro-war government, fighting to establish in Britain an Anti-War Government.

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