The New Dark Age

Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The New Atlas

• The US proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing, prompting urgent attempts to impose a ceasefire on Russia;

• This includes a European-led “peacekeeping” mission into Ukraine to freeze the conflict and create a bufferzone preventing Russia from neutralizing the threat the US has created on its border;

• The fact the US is openly declaring its needs to pause the conflict in Ukraine to pursue the exact same type of conflict with China in Asia demonstrates a complete lack of sincerity regarding genuine peace;
• Current US actions fall within a decades-spanning pattern of encroachment, reaching an impasse, then desperately needing to “reset” relations to rearm and reorganize ahead of the next round of hostilities;

SITREP
BBC – ‘Everything is finished’: Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk (Mar. 17, 2025): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q…

Precedent
National Security Archive, George Washington University – NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard (Dec. 2017): https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-bo…
Guardian – US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (Nov. 2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…
Stars and Stripes – U.S. forces help Georgian army make ‘big changes’ (2005): https://www.stripes.com/news/2005-06-…
Reuters – Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (Sep. 2009): https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST…
RFE/RL – After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (Mar. 2009): https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting…