The goals of the Ukrainian army’s offensive in the summer of 2023 and the size of combat groups formed to carry it out are to a certain extent comparable with what the German military fielded for its Operation Citadel in 1943. This gives us the grounds for calling Kiev’s offensive in the summer of 2023 Operation Citadel 2.0.
Continue reading Collapse of Collective West’s Hybrid Blitzkrieg Operation Citadel 2.0Category Archives: Ukrainian Crisis
If Massive Depopulation is the End Goal in Ukraine, Send More Aid
Military conflicts are not the result of random chance. Deliberate planning is involved. If massive depopulation is the end goal, then continued support for Ukraine is the way to go.
Continue reading If Massive Depopulation is the End Goal in Ukraine, Send More AidUkrainian Frontline Breakdown
Evidence keeps piling up, via leaked reports, of an across-the-board breakdown in the Ukrainian frontlines.
Continue reading Ukrainian Frontline BreakdownUS on the Verge of Cutting Off Ukraine, Government Shutdown Imminent!
President Joe Biden has requested Congress to approve billions in additional funding for Ukraine. However, an increasing number of Republican leaders in the House are hesitant to support more aid for the government in Kiev. This budget standoff is pushing the US government closer to a potential shutdown.
Continue reading US on the Verge of Cutting Off Ukraine, Government Shutdown Imminent!Western-Supplied Cruise Missiles and Depleted-Uranium Shells in Ukraine Destroyed
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that over the past week, there have been 12 significant strikes targeting military infrastructure.
Continue reading Western-Supplied Cruise Missiles and Depleted-Uranium Shells in Ukraine DestroyedGamed by Zelensky: Ukraine Uses Toxic Pick-up Tactics to Get What it Wants
Kiev has become adept at manipulating its supporters to bend to its whims.
How many times have Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage dissed their Western friends for not meeting Kiev’s expectations?
In just the latest example, Zelensky adviser Mikhail Podoliak called Western institutions like the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Red Cross, and Amnesty International “fictitious organizations that pollute our consciousness with absolutely rubbish assessments.” He also attacked the United Nations as a “rather absent organization” and a “public relations office or a lobby office to earn money for a happy old age for people occupying certain leadership positions.”
He’s starting to sound like your average anti-globalist, which isn’t exactly the team that’s sponsoring him.
There’s a pretty easy explanation, though. It’s like when a dude who’s a solid two out of ten on the attractiveness scale wants to get with someone whom he considers to be a solid ten. So in an attempt to cut his object of interest down to his level, he starts making snide little insults suggesting that she isn’t that hot, like, “Hey, did you break your nose, or was it always like that?” It’s a notorious pick-up technique known as ‘negging’.
Ukraine is famously corrupt, and that corruption is routinely evoked as a reason why the EU can’t currently commit to making it a member. Kiev does say, though, that it’ll be ready to join the EU in two years – which is like an arsonist saying they’ll be ready to join the fire department in two years because they’re confident that their fire-starting habit will be squared away by then – even though they just burned down a building last week.
On top of being friend-zoned by the EU, there’s also the fact that NATO won’t make a firm commitment to Ukraine either, beyond using it to get the attention of the true object of its obsessions: Russia. So Zelensky’s entourage has started negging all of these major Western-led institutions, effectively saying, “We’re not corrupt… YOU’RE corrupt! All this talk about dating down and not being able to commit to Ukraine because of your lofty standards, but you’re not exactly great catches yourselves.” That’s the message.
On top of the negging, there’s also been the guilt-tripping. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wouldn’t cough up the Taurus long-range missiles that Zelensky wanted during a visit to Kiev this week, resulting in Ukraine’s top diplomat accusing Berlin of “wasting time,” and saying Kiev would get the weapons eventually anyway. Baerbock ended up offering €20 million ($21.5 million) as a consolation prize, which should buy Berlin about ten minutes of silence in the same way that parents pay off their mouthy kids with candy so they can watch their favorite TV show in peace and quiet. The root cause of the kid being a demanding, pretentious, spoiled brat is never actually addressed if you just keep appeasing him. And the root cause here is Ukraine’s total unwillingness to negotiate with Russia, with Zelensky saying he is “not interested” in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead, Zelensky talks about the problem being “Russia remaining on Ukrainian territory” while totally ignoring the fact that he allowed his country to become a flop house for Washington’s aggressive regime-change interests.
And beyond the negging and guilt-tripping, there have also been the not-so-subtle threats.
Zelensky hasn’t hesitated to threaten the EU while simultaneously demanding entry into it. One reason is that Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have imposed bans on dumping Ukrainian grain into their territory, after a similar EU-level measure expired last week. A glut of grain, which would flood the market and drive down the price of their own farmers’ supply, is particularly an issue for Poland ahead of its national elections this autumn.
“Ukraine is strongly against any further restrictions on the export of our grain,” Zelensky said in response to the continued ban. “Ukraine is fighting for life and for our common European values on the battlefield… if we have to fight for Ukraine and the foundations of our common Europe in arbitration, we will fight… If we need to fight on the platforms of international organizations, we will fight there as well.” Who knew that a guy getting showered with taxpayer cash from the entire Western world would turn out to be such a big defender of free markets? It’s kind of like when Team Zelensky effectively vowed to clean up Wall Street last year by threatening big Western financial institutions, like JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and HSBC, and their managers, with war crimes prosecution for engaging with companies that sell and trade Russian oil or gas or in Russian energy shares, like Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil, and Vitol.
And just this week, Zelensky explained in an interview to The Economist that there’s a real danger to the EU from Ukrainians. He told the publication that if he doesn’t get what he wants in terms of aid, Ukrainian refugees might feel abandoned and if they feel “driven into a corner”, they could react unpredictability. No doubt Ukrainian refugees would appreciate Zelensky describing his own people as some kind of sleeper agents who could activate against the EU if he doesn’t get what he wants.
Ukraine and the West are starting to look like a couple that persists in a toxic relationship strictly for appearances, worried about what all the neighbors would say if they ever split, and using each other as much as they can until it all ends in tears – or in World War III.
The Dark Intentions Behind US Depleted Uranium Ammo Supply to Ukraine
Russia has strongly criticized the US decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition, characterizing it as a blatant display of “inhumanity.”
Continue reading The Dark Intentions Behind US Depleted Uranium Ammo Supply to UkraineMockery Abroad: EU’s Russia Sanctions Policy Ridiculed
A member state of the European Union has suggested that the sanctions imposed on Russia have been met with global ridicule rather than success.
Continue reading Mockery Abroad: EU’s Russia Sanctions Policy RidiculedUkraine Warned of Total Territorial Loss in Ongoing Conflict
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expressed concern that Ukraine could face the loss of its entire territory if it continues its current path of conflict.
Continue reading Ukraine Warned of Total Territorial Loss in Ongoing ConflictCIA Knows US Can’t Win in Ukraine
The CIA reportedly cautioned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Ukraine’s ongoing attempt to counter Russian forces would not be successful.
Continue reading CIA Knows US Can’t Win in UkraineWhen The Lightning Of History Strikes, Better Cut To The Chase in Our First Draft
When the lightning of History strikes, better cut to the chase in our first draft. Here we go.
Continue reading When The Lightning Of History Strikes, Better Cut To The Chase in Our First DraftThe Collapse of Kiev
The fate of arms has decided. The moment of truth has spoken. The Ukrainian counter-offensive has failed miserably. NATO’s considerable armaments were useless. The battlefield is littered with corpses. All for nothing. The territories that joined the Russian Federation by referendum will remain Russian.
Continue reading The Collapse of KievComplete Failure of Ukraine
Russia has even gained superiority over NATO in sustained industrial military production.
Continue reading Complete Failure of Ukraine‘Give War a Chance’ – A ‘War That Even Pacifists Can Get Behind’
More than a year into Russia’s Special Operation, the initial burst of European excitement at western push-back on Russia has dissipated. The mood instead has turned to “existential dread, a nagging suspicion that [western] civilisation may destroy itself”, Professor Helen Thompson writes.
Continue reading ‘Give War a Chance’ – A ‘War That Even Pacifists Can Get Behind’The Ukrainian Army is Run Not by the Generals But by the PR Department
What can you expect from a government headed by a comic actor named Zelensky? We see the answer to that question day by day in the way the Ukrainian armed forces are carrying out their much-anticipated spring counter-offensive: it is being stage managed by the Public Relations team with scant regard for their cannon fodder army.
Continue reading The Ukrainian Army is Run Not by the Generals But by the PR DepartmentBelgorod Attack Helps Kiev to Disguise Its Military Disaster in Bakhmut
Two days after the Russians took control of the Donbass’ key city of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), pro-Ukrainian saboteurs invaded the undisputed sovereign space of the Russian Federation and created moments of terror among local civilians.
Continue reading Belgorod Attack Helps Kiev to Disguise Its Military Disaster in BakhmutTRADING WITH THE ENEMY
Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
Continue reading TRADING WITH THE ENEMYHedge Funds Making Billions from Ukraine Turmoil
Experts blame the organizations for exacerbating the food crisis by “betting on hunger”.
Continue reading Hedge Funds Making Billions from Ukraine TurmoilThe Pentagon Leaks Charade
The script reads like a spoof straight out of legendary Mad magazine 1960’s cartoon “Spy vs. Spy”: Secret Pentagon Documents Fall in the Hands of Malign Russia. Well, actually in the hands of millions accessing Twitter and Telegram.
Continue reading The Pentagon Leaks CharadeUK to Send Nuclear Weapon to Zelenskyy Regime
The psychopathy of “conservatives” in the UK, and their criminally insane neocon counterparts in America, represents a serious and growing threat to humanity.
Continue reading UK to Send Nuclear Weapon to Zelenskyy RegimeFor Second Time, US Seeks to Sabotage a Russo-Ukraine Negotiated Peace
As Ukraine sinks into collapse from Russia’s invasion the US provoked, the death and destruction has made no dent on Uncle Sam’s inhumane conscience.
Continue reading For Second Time, US Seeks to Sabotage a Russo-Ukraine Negotiated PeaceZelensky’s Comic Insults… Gimme HIMARS, Tanks, F-16s and Now, America’s Sons & Daughters
The glib talk of people dying for no good cause, but rather only for a clique of clowns and their imperial circus, is the ultimate sick joke.
Continue reading Zelensky’s Comic Insults… Gimme HIMARS, Tanks, F-16s and Now, America’s Sons & DaughtersZelensky and His Cronies Are Trying to Cover Up a Major Corruption Scandal in Ukraine
Last month’s shockwave of resignations among top Ukrainian officials, caused by numerous corruption scandals, ended as quickly as it began. At the start of February, it seemed that Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov would become the ultimate victim of the purge. His imminent departure was openly discussed in the Ukrainian parliament and hints were even dropped by the President’s office.
Continue reading Zelensky and His Cronies Are Trying to Cover Up a Major Corruption Scandal in UkraineKiev Regime Flooding Black Markets with NATO-sourced Weapons
It has been at least a year and a half since the political West drastically intensified its weapons shipments to the Kiev regime. Ever since, the black markets have been flooded with Western-made arms and munitions, some of which have even started running out from NATO stocks.
Continue reading Kiev Regime Flooding Black Markets with NATO-sourced WeaponsUnderstanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history.
Continue reading Understanding the Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to UkraineThe Ninth Anniversary of The War in Ukraine
We are not on the first but on the ninth anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which was unleashed in February 2014 with the coup d’état under US-NATO direction. Speaking from Warsaw, President Biden promised to “stand by President Zelensky no matter what.”
Continue reading The Ninth Anniversary of The War in UkraineEndgame for Ukraine: America vs America
Bill Burns travelled (in secret) in mid-January to meet Zelensky. Was it to prepare Zelensky for a shift in the American stance?
Continue reading Endgame for Ukraine: America vs AmericaLatest Scoreboard: Russian Special Denazification Ops vs. Ukraine
The casualties of Ukraine, which was on the ground with 734 thousand soldiers (plus 100 thousand reservists) and NATO officers, soldiers and mercenaries, are as follows:
Continue reading Latest Scoreboard: Russian Special Denazification Ops vs. UkraineGermany Risks Forgetting Its History
In deciding to supply Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Olaf Scholtz breaks the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy that had been in place since the end of WWII.
Continue reading Germany Risks Forgetting Its HistoryThe War in Ukraine to Maintain the European Union Under Tutelage
It is difficult to admit, but the Anglo-Saxons do not hide from it. To paraphrase a famous quote from the first Secretary General of the Alliance, Nato was designed to “keep Russia out, the Americans in and the European Union under trusteeship”. There is no other possible interpretation of the continuation of the useless “sanctions” against Moscow and the vain and deadly fighting in Ukraine.
Continue reading The War in Ukraine to Maintain the European Union Under TutelageRice and Gates Demand USG Military Involvement in Ukraine
The latest demand by neocons that Russia must be wiped off the map is locked up behind a paywall at the CIA’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Post. In order to read what former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote, I used a browser text reader to bypass the paywall.
Continue reading Rice and Gates Demand USG Military Involvement in UkraineSomething Big is On the Way
“The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that’s what’s coming.” — Colonel Douglas MacGregor (9:35 minute)
Continue reading Something Big is On the WayLet the Patriot Games Begin
It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol Hill. History will ridicule this Hollywood soap for centuries ahead.
Continue reading Let the Patriot Games BeginHow U.S. and NATO Partners Planned War in Ukraine Against Russia
As Merkel’s comments reveal, the war mentality in the West against Russia has been extant for over a decade if not longer.
Continue reading How U.S. and NATO Partners Planned War in Ukraine Against RussiaZelensky’s War Machine is Running Out of Fuel, More Panic Attacks Soon
Zelensky believes faking an attack or creating an environmental calamity will repeat history. But he is woefully misinformed as he is ignorant.
Continue reading Zelensky’s War Machine is Running Out of Fuel, More Panic Attacks SoonHere’s How Ukraine’s Corrupt Elites Are Profiting from The Conflict
Officials and oligarchs have diverted much of the financial support sent to Kiev.
Continue reading Here’s How Ukraine’s Corrupt Elites Are Profiting from The ConflictDeescalating Ukraine: The Back Channel
Communications between the U.S. and Russia are essential for preventing an out-of-control crisis and a conduit exists for ongoing, high-level dialogue. But what is it really for?
Continue reading Deescalating Ukraine: The Back ChannelUNGA Approves A Resolution to “Legalize International Robbery”
By a majority of votes, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution that would oblige Russia to compensate losses inflicted on Ukraine during the conflict and has recognized the need to create a special “international mechanism” that would allow it to do so.
Continue reading UNGA Approves A Resolution to “Legalize International Robbery”Billions of USD Laundered as Aid to Ukraine Laundered Back to Democrats via FTX Crypto Platform
Did you ever wonder where all those billions of dollars were going in Ukraine? Did you ever wonder why anyone was trusting the elites in US politics like the Bidens with billions in funds going to Ukraine?
Continue reading Billions of USD Laundered as Aid to Ukraine Laundered Back to Democrats via FTX Crypto PlatformPutin’s Winter Offensive
Ukrainian gains on the battlefield have been met by a widely-anticipated Russian escalation. On September 21, in a rare national address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilsation of 300,000 reservists who would be called to serve in the war in Ukraine.
Continue reading Putin’s Winter OffensiveUkrainian Army Advances Towards Kherson, But…
Shown here is how the Ukrainian Army tried their best to advance in the Kherson region, but experienced grave consequences. Total waste of lives, yet still in line with NATO’s plan to fight Russian aggression to the last Ukrainian.
Continue reading Ukrainian Army Advances Towards Kherson, But…Nuclear High Noon in Europe
On Monday, Oct. 17, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization kicked off Operation STEADFAST NOON, its annual exercise of its ability to wage nuclear conflict. Given that NATO’s nuclear umbrella extends exclusively over Europe, the indisputable fact is that STEADFAST NOON is nothing more than NATO training to wage nuclear war against Russia.
Continue reading Nuclear High Noon in EuropeHard Decisions Will Have to Be Made vs Untrained NATO Proxies in Ukraine
Since the start of NATO’s involvement in Ukraine, it’s believed by those who fully understand the consistent pattern of Western unilateral aggressions against non-club members that they will use anybody to fight such wars for them, in this case, NATO will fight to the last Ukrainian, even those untrained ones to antagonize Russia.
Continue reading Hard Decisions Will Have to Be Made vs Untrained NATO Proxies in UkraineRussia Just Acquired Europe’s Largest Nuke Power Plant with A Stroke of Putin’s Pen
As a silent form of retaliation over the US/NATO bombing of the NordStream pipelines a few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the order to transfer the control of the Ukrainian licensed Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to a Russian management.
Continue reading Russia Just Acquired Europe’s Largest Nuke Power Plant with A Stroke of Putin’s PenReaping the Whirlwind
Putin’s order to begin partial mobilization of Russian military forces continues a confrontation between Russia and a U.S.-led coalition of Western nations that began at the end of the Cold War.
Continue reading Reaping the WhirlwindTime To Drop Our Illusions, The West Is Waging a War To Destroy Russia
Moscow’s enemies want to land a fatal blow on the country, some even want to dismember it.
Continue reading Time To Drop Our Illusions, The West Is Waging a War To Destroy RussiaPutin Orders Mobilization of 300,000 Reservists for Potential Tactical Nuke War
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has deemed it necessary to mobilize additional 300,000 troops for the possible escalation of the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, as a potential result of the formal ascension of at least four regions of Ukraine into the Russian Federation, and for which may involve the use of tactical nukes, supplied by some NATO states, this time around.
Continue reading Putin Orders Mobilization of 300,000 Reservists for Potential Tactical Nuke WarSeveral Ukrainian Regions Want to Hold Referendum for Joining the Russian Federation
At least four Ukrainian territories have announced their plan to hold referendums for the purpose of formally ascending into the Russian Federation.
Continue reading Several Ukrainian Regions Want to Hold Referendum for Joining the Russian FederationPentagon’s Bonanza for Raytheon & Lockheed Martin Using Taxpayers’ Money
The provocation of war in Ukraine via a Victoria Nuland coup in 2014 was multi-faceted. It’s a systematic incursion of NATO forces on the border of Russia to open up for many aggressive possibilities including a Pentagon research and use of bioweapons specifically designed to target the Russian genome, and of course, to provide a windfall for Pentagon weapons contractors, and charged to US taxpayers currently suffering from an economic recession. – CG
Continue reading Pentagon’s Bonanza for Raytheon & Lockheed Martin Using Taxpayers’ MoneyPoland Goes to War with Russia
According to testimonies. regular Polish troops are inside Ukraine fighting against the Russian army.
Continue reading Poland Goes to War with RussiaThe Imminent Danger of a Large Scale US-Russia War
The White House keeps insisting that it will not directly involve American soldiers in the war in Ukraine, but it keeps taking steps that will inevitably lead to a large-scale open combat role for the US against Russia.
Among the most recent moves to increase the pressure on the Kremlin, Biden revealed at a NATO summit meeting in Madrid on June 29th that the US will establish a permanent headquarters in Poland for the Fifth Army Corps, maintain an additional rotational brigade of thousands of troops in Romania and bolster other deployments in the Baltic states.
Also, the number of US troops in Europe, currently approaching 100,000, will be increased. Biden also was pleased to learn that Turkey had been enticed to drop its objection to Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
On the way to the NATO summit aboard Air Force One, Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan advised that “By the end of the summit what you will see is a more robust, more effective, more combat credible, more capable and more determined force posture to take account of a more acute and aggravated Russian threat.” Presumably Sullivan was reading from a prepared script, but the objective surely seemed to be to heighten tension with Moscow rather than attempt to reduce it and come to some kind of diplomatic settlement.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also did his bit. In an astonishing display of derriere kissing, he responded that the new US force posture commitments were demonstrative of Biden’s strong leadership. What Stoltenberg did not mention was that Biden has been lying for some time about the presence of US military personnel in Ukraine. He let the cat out of the bag back in March, when he told troops belonging to the 82nd Airborne division in Poland that they would soon be going to Ukraine, observing that “You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see —
” It was an admission that US forces are already in place inside Ukraine even though the White House quickly did damage control, asserting that the president continues to be opposed to American soldiers being directly engaged in the fighting. Biden also claimed that the US was working to “keep the massacre [of Ukrainians] from continuing.”
Again, the language was hardly designed to make some room for a possible accommodation with Russia to negotiate an end to the fighting.
And now there is a New York Times report entitled “Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say: A secretive operation involving US Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military.”
The article describes a more active US role in Ukraine than the Biden Administration has been willing to admit publicly. Back in February, before intervened in Ukraine, the US reportedly withdrew its own 150 military instructors, many of whom were training Ukrainian soldiers on newly acquired American produced weapons. However, some Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) paramilitary operatives and special ops troops continued their service in the country secretly, directing most of the intelligence flow the US is sharing with Ukrainian forces.
In addition to that, special ops soldiers from Washington’s NATO allies have been managing the movement of weapons and equipment into Ukraine and providing some specialized training. It has also been reported that British SAS commandos are actually guarding President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The NYT specifies, citing American and other Western officials, that the soldiers and CIA officers are currently not on the front lines with Ukrainian troops. Also according to the Times, even though the US and NATO member states have not acknowledged the presence of their paramilitaries soldiers in operational roles in Ukraine, Russia and other intelligence services around the world are aware of this.
The New York Times report appears to be generally correct, though it does omit some details, some of which I have been hearing from former colleagues in the intelligence services. There has been considerable overt training at the Grafenwoehr German army base as well as at the Ramstein US Air Base to familiarize the Ukrainians with the new weapons arriving. Other NATO countries are also participating in the training.
Meanwhile, the cadres of special operations soldiers and intelligence personnel operating primarily in western Ukraine are not in uniform and many of them are working under various contrived cover designations, including sometimes loose affiliations with foreign embassies and NGOs. There are also a conventional CIA Station, a group from the National Security Agency and a Military Attache’s office in the recently reopened US Embassy in Kiev.
All of the above means that Biden and other western leaders have been dissimulating regarding their active participation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Apart from his possible gaffe, Biden will not admit that there are American boots already on the ground, but they are there and are playing a major role in both logistics and intelligence sharing. The potential downside for the president could come when some of these soldiers in mufti get killed or, worse, captured and start to talk about their role.
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, observes that deploying plausibly deniable non-uniformed personnel “is completely typical of the initial stages of a US-backed long war, and for long-term political manipulation of the target country. This is the future that neoconservative ‘strategists’ in DC and their British and European allies imagine for Ukraine.
Rather than a negotiated conclusion, with a new Ukrainian role as a neutral and productive country, independent of both Russian and US political influences, the US government and CIA see Ukraine as an expendable yet useful satrap in its competition with the Russian Federation.”
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson sees the activity in stark terms, while also commenting that the CIA has not won a semi-clandestine insurgent war in forty years. He observes that “Ukraine is a proxy; the West is trying to destroy Russia, it’s that simple. It would be one thing if Russia was the most evil, oppressive, authoritarian regime in the world. It’s nowhere even close. Even though the West keeps trying to portray Russia as such. The fact of the matter is, the West wants the resources that Russia has and it wants to control Russia. [But] Russia is not about to be controlled.”
In other words, Washington might be seeking an unending war entangling Russia and limiting its options globally. The Biden Administration has staked its reputation and possible political future on enabling Ukraine to survive without succumbing to Russian territorial demands. It is a risky and even dangerous policy, both in practical terms and politically.
The persistence of the Ukrainians in their defense is largely a product of US and Western Europe guarantees that they will do all that is necessary to support Zelensky and his regime, which is already seeking $750 billion in aid for “reconstruction.” If western military casualties begin to surface, the political support for the Ukraine war will begin to fade in Washington and elsewhere and there will be consequences in the upcoming midterm US elections in November.
A final comment on the Times piece is in response to the question why it has appeared at all at the present time.
The mainstream media has been a cheerleader for aggressive US support of Ukraine and Zelensky, but now it is beginning to step back from that position, as have also the Washington Post and other media outlets. Perhaps they are becoming convinced that the game plan being promoted by Washington and its European allies is unlikely to succeed at great cost to the respective economies.
Larry Johnson puts it this way:
“I think the purpose of this article coming out now is just to lay the groundwork for why we can’t put or shouldn’t put any more US military personnel or even CIA personnel inside Ukraine because continuing to put US personnel…inside Ukraine to train is becoming too risky because of Russia’s success on the battlefield.”
One might also add that it is exceptionally dangerous. A misstep or even a deliberate false flag coming from either side could easily make the war go nuclear.
Ukraine Bombed A Donetsk Hotel Full of Journalists
Another attack from Kiev has hit central Donetsk, targeting a funeral and a hotel where numerous reporters stay and work.
Continue reading Ukraine Bombed A Donetsk Hotel Full of Journalists