US Secretary of State Antony Blinken drives Ukrainian youth to their deaths with ice-cold calculation

The losses of the Ukrainian military are too high. There is a shortage of soldiers everywhere.

The collapse is only a matter of time. To prevent this embarrassment from happening during his own term of office, which expires on January 20, US Secretary of State Blinken now even wants to burn Ukraine's youth to death.

In a relentless demonstration of arrogance and political cynicism, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stepped up the pressure on Zelensky to fill the holes left by huge losses at the front with inexperienced 18-year-olds. This will not change the course of the war, because the Russians are simply too strong.

In statements made during a NATO press conference, Blinken openly advocated lowering the conscription age in Ukraine to 18 and thus sending those who are still half children to the front. But this will make the war last a few weeks or months longer, during which the youth of Ukraine will be burned up in the merciless meat grinder of Russian artillery.

This shocking proposal on the fringes of the NATO ministerial meeting has nothing to do with strategy. It is reminiscent of the desperate attempts of the German Nazi greats at the end of the war to prolong their miserable lives for a few more weeks by sending thousands of child soldiers to their deaths.

Blinken's demand reeks of a cold, calculating disregard for human life. Here follows the US minister's original quote:

“Getting younger people into combat, we think - many of us think - is necessary.”

Necessary for whom, Mr. Blinken? For Ukraine? Or for the geopolitical ambitions of a departing pathetic Biden administration trying to secure its legacy on the backs of dead young people?

A generation at stake

Justifying the “defense” of democracy and freedom - as if there were such a thing in the Nazi-heavy regime of violence - Blinken emphasized the absolute necessity of bringing more Ukrainian soldiers to the front lines. With the argument that money, weapons and ammunition alone were not enough, there also had to be people who could operate these things.

 The fact that he is targeting the 18 to 25 age group with his demand underlines a moral failure. After all, this age group is the backbone of the future of any nation.

Blinken's insistence coincides disturbingly well with the unwavering support for Ukraine that the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte never tires of declaiming. It's a quid pro quo offer to Ukraine: sacrifice more young lives and we'll keep sending arms and money. It is an unforgivable deal.

The Ukrainian people are being pushed into a choice that looks less like national defense and more like subservience to foreign interests. The clear winners in this tragic equation are the defense contractors and political power brokers who profit from the continuation of the war, while the price is paid in blood - by the young and powerless.

It is a bitter irony that the US warmongers who demand that Ukraine sacrifice its youth for US objectives themselves place the highest value on their own children sitting in corporate boardrooms, studying at Ivy League universities and living in luxury ghettos.

The hypocrisy of Blinken and co. is unbearable. They demand that the mothers and fathers in Ukraine sacrifice their children, barely out of puberty, to prolong a US proxy war against Russia whose ultimate goal is far from clear.

By portraying the destruction of youth as necessary for defense, the US and NATO have reduced human lives to mere pawns in a geopolitical chess game.

But this macabre game by US elites is not new. Last year, Senator Lindsey Graham expressed shock and frustration when he learned that the conscription age in Ukraine started at 27. US pressure led Zelensky to lower the mobilization age to 25 - a concession already grudgingly accepted by many Ukrainians.

Amid all the madness, however, there is one ray of hope: Blinken's insistence on sending those as young as 18 to the front could cause the already simmering resistance among the wider population to boil over, leading to mass protests and internal sabotage in the midst of the war and hastening the collapse of the front.