Will the United States intervene if Russia invades Ukraine?
I've read articles in the past saying that a war between the two would not happen but now as the tension rises, what will the US do if or even when the Russians invade?
US involvement in Ukraine/Russia conflict 2014?
While the Soviet Union was still in existence, Russia and the Ukraine were both a part of the Soviet Union. To stop unrest in Ukraine, Russia donated a area called "Crimea" to Ukraine in 1954. Now to what is happening today. Ukraine was set to sign a economic deal with the European Union. The pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was set to sign this deal but at the last moment said he would never sign such a deal and decided instead to turn to Russia for economic bail outs. Huge Pro-European protests broke out across the country, especially in the capital of Kiev. Ukrainian parliament voted that the President can no longer stay in power, Viktor Yanukovych, fled to Russia. Well, Crimea, made up of mostly Russian speaking citizens, started there own protests and unrest saying that the new Ukrainian government would suppress there rights. Russia claims they have a right to send in troops to Crimea to defend the Russian lineage people and defend there naval base in the area, which was leased to them by the Ukrainian government several years ago. However, a 1994 treaty agreement says that it is ILLEGAL for Russia to violate Ukrainian sovereignty, this is the same agreement in which Ukraine choose to give up its nukes, and that the United States and the United Kingdom are suppose to defend Ukrainian sovereignty. Going from there, western nations have not expressed there wish to go to war with Russia. A event like this happened once in Georgia where Russia invaded a small, southern country a few years ago. Georgia is a nation that has expressed there wish to join both NATO and the EU. When Russia invaded, the western nations did not intervene militarily. However, the United States placed Military aircraft at air fields and placed american soldiers in certain cities, this caused the Russian military to halt its advance and kept them from attacking the Georgian air force. Something along this lines is much more likely then a war against Russia. Any further questions feel free to e-mail me at Randolph_Edward@yahoo.com
Why does Us intervene in other countries?
Iraq: ISIS is a creation of the United States. It arose out of the destruction of Iraqi society by the US military between 2003 and 2011 and the colonialist policy pursued by Washington of whipping up sectarian warfare between Sunnis and Shiites. The war on ISIS is camouflage for an unstated agenda. The United States is using military force to attempt once again to restructure Iraq in line with the aims of its 1991 war and its 2003 invasion—complete domination of the country’s vast oil resources. Afghanistan: Protect its client regime to create a menacing threat along Iran's eastern border. • To retain territory in Central Asia for U.S. and NATO military forces positioned close to what Washington perceives to be its two main (though never publicly identified) enemies — China and Russia — at a time when the American government is increasing its political pressure on both countries. Obama is intent upon transforming NATO from a regional into a global adjunct to Washington’s quest for retaining and extending world hegemony. A permanent NATO presence in Central Asia is a logical next step. In essence, Washington’s geopolitical focus is expanding from the Middle East to Central Asia and Africa in the quest for resources, military expansion and unassailable hegemony, especially from the political and economic challenge of rising nations of the global south, led China. Ukraine: Regime change. Diminish Russia's influence. Promote neo-liberalism. The Western media has failed to cover the war theater in Donbass. More than 2000 civilians have been killed as a result of shelling and bombing by Kiev forces, close to a million Ukrainians are refugees in Russia. Iran: A result of AIPAC's occupation of Washington. Washington's endeavour to invade Iran and conduct a regime change is all done in the name of Israel's national security. Iran has been demonized for more than 30 years by people who refuse to put Iran’s actual crimes in the context of the United States’ having destroyed Iranian democracy in 1953.For Iranophobes, more than a century of nonaggression is not enough to offset the fevered dream that Iran might attack somebody, primarily Israel, despite lacking significant means or motivation to do so.
What if Russia quickly annexed all of Ukraine? What would America do?
First of all, Russia would likely stop in Eastern Ukraine where there’s still a large Russian speaking population. Unfortunately for them, thanks to their campaign against the Donbas there is a strong national spirit across Ukraine. The little green men strategy would no longer work and there’s currently a static hot zone across their border with Russia.This means all out war which further depletes their savings and becomes hard to sell to the average Russian citizen like they were able to sell during the annexation of Crimea and the occupation of the Donbas. We already know this was problematic in Eastern cities like Mariupol on the southern coast. Few people can forget the grad rockets landing among civilians killing scores just going about their daily lives.Ukraine no longer has the inexperienced heavily weakened army it used to. Today they have an active army of 250,000 with more in reserve. Russia could certainly win a war like this but it would pay a heavy price. Ultimately it would aim for an early negotiation like formalizing it’s ownership of the Crimean peninsula and favorable terms on autonomous rule of Eastern Ukraine with their puppet governments.As far as America’s involvement, you can expect more sanctions and non-military equipment being sent. Also more troops would likely go to nations like Poland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to protect vulnerable NATO countries. If Belarus were used as a staging area for entering Ukraine, they would also face sanctions. This pretty much sums it up. If Ukraine ever resolves their internal conflict in the Donbas you can expect NATO to aggressively work out fast tracking them into the alliance despite any corruption shortfalls which would normally be an issue in NATO integration. Until then, they’re pretty much on their own like Georgia.