Two of the planners in the 2021/2 Biden administration’s National Security Council involved in pushing a proxy war in Ukraine were caught on videotape by the Russian pranksters “Vovan & Lexus.” The two planners thought they were talking with Igor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Office of the President. Yesterday the pranksters released two videos, both of which are available on RT](https://www.rt.com/news/629298-biden-aide-ukraine-cheating/), exposing what are excellent examples of the phrase, ‘the banality of evil.’
One was Eric Green, the former Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia at the National Security Council. He left government office and is now on the Board of Directors of Andrew Bain’s Ukrainian Freedom Foundation, where his bio says that “he helped craft the U.S. response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine reporting to NSA Sullivan, Secretary of State Blinken and President Biden.”
Green’s advice to ‘Zhovkva’ was that Kiev should now craft a settlement that “contains enough ambiguity in it to allow Ukraine to do what it wants to do and has to do” while allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin “to believe that he has accomplished something.” He told Vovan and Lexus that the 2015 Minsk Accord was a model because true negotiation was impossible, but a difficult military situation could be alleviated so as to fight another day. Minsk could be considered a success because it stopped Kiev from losing militarily, and then, in the following years, Ukraine was “able to do a lot of things with its military.” He added, half-kidding: “I didn’t say you should cheat on it. I said there should be ambiguity.”
At the same time, he wondered whether it could work a second time, since Putin’s objectives are so ambitious that it’s hard to see him accepting a lot less. He went on, explaining that the goal would be to “construct an end to the war that assumes that there will be another one,” because the way to prevent a war is to prepare for another one. Of course, it’s “non-negotiable” that Ukraine “has the ability to arm itself and to have a lot of friends who can help it.” This means having Western “reassurance” troops deployed in Ukraine. Otherwise, he thought that Zelensky had been “quite clever” with Trump by grabbing on to the “unconditional ceasefire” idea, so that Ukraine can be re-armed for the next round.
