Washington Has Prepared an Invasion Narrative

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

The other day I asked, “What is Washington up to?”  It is already time to ask that question again.

While writing my article suggesting that only a judicious use of Russian force would sober up the West, Washington doubled down on its anti-Russian position, predicting in two news venues–the Secretary of State’s UN speech and the State Department spokesman’s press briefing–that Russia was about to launch a false flag attack that Russia would use as the excuse to invade Ukraine.

The State Department claims are pure fantasy.  Why after just rejecting the Russian’s proposal for a mutual security agreement does the Biden regime keep fanning the flames of war?

It makes no sense for the State Department to predict something that is not going to happen. As there is no aerial or satellite evidence or evidence of any kind except assertions that “US intelligence has concluded” of a constellation of attack forces on Ukraine’s border, the only way the State Department could know of a false flag event would be if it is a US false flag attack for which Russia is being set up for blame.

We have heard excessively about 150,000 invasion troops allegedly assembled on Ukraine’s border with Russia. We have not heard about 150,000 British and US trained Ukrainian troops on the border of the Donbass republics.  We have not heard about the massive arms that the West has sent to Ukraine or about the CIA trained neo-Nazi militias. If we hear anything, we hear that these Ukrainian forces are there to protect against a Russian invasion, a statement that is nonsensical.  Why would the Ukrainian forces be concentrated on the Donbass border? The Russians would simply come in behind them, and the Ukrainians would be trapped between the Russians and the Donbass forces.  How is it possible that US and UK military advisers would make such a mistake?

The Saker reports that the latest information from Donbass is that the Ukrainians are using UR-77 mine clearing vehicles to clear mines from the Donbass border.  This is the operation that is conducted just prior to a ground attack.

It would seem that if any invasion is planned, it is a Ukrainian invasion of Donbass calculated to bring the Russians in.  The report of an invasion of Donbass would be labeled a Russian false flag attack, and the Russian intervention would become the predicted invasion.  If anything happens, I think I have described it.

Washington has prepared the narrative with Blinken’s UN address today and with the State Department spokesman’s press briefing.  NATO and the Western media know the narrative and would repeat it endlessly.  No actual facts would enter the story. Those who challenge the new narrative would be accused of being Russian agents.  Sanctions would be imposed. The military/security complex’s budget would be increased. Europe would be pressured off Russian natural gas. US/NATO military presence on Russia’s border would be beefed up.

The growing burden of deceit and frustration will one day make Russia dangerous.  To forestall an explosion of fury, Russia needs to enforce its red lines now.  Washington needs to be taught a lesson before Washington goes too far.

Update:  The scenario I sketched appears to be unfolding. In an “intelligence update” the British defense minister stated that reports from Donbass of “alleged abnormal military activity by Ukraine in Donbas are a blatant attempt by the Russian government to fabricate pretexts for invasion.”  The incompetent British Defence Ministry has prepared a map with arrows drawn of the lines of advance of the Russian forces.  As the Ukrainian army is concentrated on the Donbass border, there are no forces for the Russians to encounter in their advance along 9 lines of invasion imagined by the British.  https://www.rt.com/russia/549776-uk-military-russia-invasion-map/

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Walt
Walt
February 18, 2022 8:31 am

That wasn’t just a ‘stolen election’. It was the theft of the most powerful office on planet Earth. Why do you think they did that for – shits and giggles? On a dare?
No, clearly the wrecking crew that has been installed has an agenda, and it might be an understatement to describe it as being beyond sinister.
Unnecessary and dangerous injections for all including children for a ‘virus’ which more than likely doesn’t exist, fanning the flames of war over threats which more than likely don’t exist (at least not from that quarter) – something’s gonna give soon.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  Walt
February 18, 2022 12:41 pm

And who allowed it to occur?

Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres
February 18, 2022 8:35 am

Truth has no place in the official Amelikan version of the situation, only Russia, Russia, Russia bad.
Chickens will come home to roost.
The check is in the mail, wait for it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Oldtoad of Green Acres
February 18, 2022 9:05 am

Oldtoad of Green Acres, you missed a whole bunch of the standard 1000+ lies. I don’t disagree the chickens are coming home to roost but, the TPTB are excellent liers & sheeple excellent believers. I feel darker times are coming before enough eyes are open to the lies. Look at what is happening to people’s saving accounts in Canada. That is coming here. It is just a matter of time. It seems people want to see only the good in everything. I call it denial of reality.

david
david
February 18, 2022 9:42 am

British Defence Ministry has prepared a map with arrows drawn of the lines of advance of the Russian forces.

Is it just me, or does this feel like the Dr. Strange Love movie? WTF!

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
February 18, 2022 10:57 am

Here is what I think of the whole Ukraine/Belarus/Canada Trucker soap opera. I posted it on Buchanans article this morning and it bears repeating. Then I will explain the Nazi deal.
Look at all the headlines designed to fill us with anxiety and or fear. It’s well known that this state of mind makes it difficult to impossible to think rationally. Just what they want.

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10 ReplyEditFebruary 18, 2022 9:41 am

As for the Neo Nazi Fascist/Fascism bad thing.
There has been a very well crafted push the last two years to smear and reignite fears from the good old days regarding Fascism/Nazis/Hitler etc. Everyone is encourage to participate and especially encouraged to engage in Faux-Right/Alt Right/Conservative/Libertarian virtue signaling with Nazi this, Hitler that, Goebbels bad, Capitalism good and the TBP favorite virtue signal catcall of Fascism is basically the merger of government and business “Benito Mussolini”

The pink pilled repeat this drivel over and over for a reason. They are pink pilled. Just enough false information fed to them by a very clever Company department of Dis-Mis-Mal- information.
The why is simple. Phalangism and Fascism is the only political system in centuries to challenge and successfully replace the evil quadruplets of central banking, Communism,Capitalism and Rand Libertarianism. It required all three to defeat an already surrounded duo of Hitler and Mussolini because the had the temerity to print their own money and preach an unapproved gospel. Today the world is ripe for a resurgence of macho male leadership and “They” want to make sure a Peron and his lovely wife doesn’t upstage the one they have planned.

FYI here is Mussolini’s actual statement.

Modern History Sourcebook:
Benito Mussolini:
What is Fascism, 1932
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) over the course of his lifetime went from Socialism – he was editor of Avanti, a socialist newspaper – to the leadership of a new political movement called “fascism” [after “fasces”, the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome].

Mussolini came to power after the “March on Rome” in 1922, and was appointed Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel.

In 1932 Mussolini wrote (with the help of Giovanni Gentile) and entry for the Italian Encyclopedia on the definition of fascism.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism — born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision — the alternative of life or death….

…The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others — those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after…

…Fascism [is] the complete opposite of…Marxian Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change and development in the means and instruments of production…. Fascism, now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. And if the economic conception of history be denied, according to which theory men are no more than puppets, carried to and fro by the waves of chance, while the real directing forces are quite out of their control, it follows that the existence of an unchangeable and unchanging class-war is also denied – the natural progeny of the economic conception of history. And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society….

After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage….

…Fascism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility, and the myth of “happiness” and indefinite progress….

…iven that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority…a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State….

The foundation of Fascism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. The conception of the Liberal State is not that of a directing force, guiding the play and development, both material and spiritual, of a collective body, but merely a force limited to the function of recording results: on the other hand, the Fascist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality — thus it may be called the “ethic” State….

…The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential; the deciding power in this question cannot be the individual, but the State alone….

…For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical working of the regime, the character of many forces in the State, and the necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement of Italy in the twentieth century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the nineteenth century – repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and died for it.

Heaven forbid such a system should fire the imaginations of young disillusioned men and women looking for a chance to be truly alive.

mark
mark
  Fleabaggs
February 18, 2022 11:33 am

Yo/Flea,

Thought provoking…witty…biting…insightful…

Yo,

“I imagine that the ‘neo-Nazi’ militias are an entirely CIA created, backed, and led movement that have no base in the originalist philosophy of the NSDAP”.

Hmmm…A reverse Operation Gladio! I bet you are right.

Flea,

“In 1932 Mussolini wrote (with the help of Giovanni Gentile)”

I had not read that before – real eye opener.

‘The PINK PILLED repeat this drivel over and over for a reason. They are PINK PILLED Just enough false information fed to them by a very clever Company department of Dis-Mis-Mal- information”.

PINKED PILLED – Useful Idiots, Commie Lights, Trannys, Tranny enablers, De-Balled men, Fudge Packers, blue haired cat worshipers, carpet munchers. A universal political/social category to lump them together??? Maybe just call them ‘PINKED’ a form of brainwashing and indoctrination?…I am stealing it!

You know like the ‘Basket of PINKED’?

Carry on gentleman I am always wide open to read the layers of the onion peeled away and learn MOUR.

clbrto
clbrto
February 18, 2022 12:50 pm

I bet Washington has prepared another invasion scenario: Chinese soldiers on American soil.

It starts with wide open borders, weakening of our military, foreign ownership of our port facilities, medical genocide of US citizens, government collusion with the CCP at the highest levels…

Doohickey
Doohickey
February 18, 2022 2:25 pm

Who would be so fn stupid to believe that Putin is setting off car bombs next to the separatist HQ’s in eastern Ukraine to justify a Russian invasion? ha. Only a slobbering moron who knows nothing about the historical connection between Russia and Ukraine would believe such nonsense. So is Putin lobbing artillery shells into eastern Ukraine and bombing his own people too? ha. Vlad is about 6 moves ahead of them. He’s already arranging for the relocation of Russian Ukrainians into Russia – that helps to solve the depopulation problem in Russia or the need to import non-Russian Muslims or Chinese to fill open jobs. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to swirl the porcelain bowl. Bankrupted Ukrainians are so brain dead that they purchase Russian gas from Hungary at premium prices instead of just purchasing it directly from Russia at a discount. ha. Stupid is as stupid does!