From the Black Sea to the East Med, do not poke The Russian Bear
This is what happens when a bunch of ragged hyenas, jackals and tiny rodents poke The Bear: a new geopolitical order is born in breathtaking speed.
From a dramatic meeting of the Russian Security Council to a history lesson delivered by President Putin and the subsequent birth of the Baby Twins – the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk – all the way to their appeal to President Putin to intervene militarily to expel the NATO-backed Ukrainian bombing-and-shelling forces from Donbass, it was a seamless process.
The (nuclear) straw that (nearly) broke the Bear’s back – and forced its paws to pounce – was Zelensky the Comedian, back from the Russophobia-drenched Munich Security Conference where he was hailed like a Messiah, saying that the 1994 Budapest memorandum should be revised and Ukraine should be nuclear-rearmed.
That would be the equivalent of a nuclear Mexico south of the Hegemon.
Putin immediately turned Responsibility to Protect (R2P) upside down: an American concept invented to launch wars in MENA (remember Libya?) was retrofitted to stop a slow-motion genocide in Donbass.
First came the recognition of the Baby Twins – Putin’s most important foreign policy decision since going to Syria in 2015. That was the preamble for the next game-changer: a “special military operation (…) aimed at demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, as Putin defined it.
Up to the last minute, the Kremlin was trying to rely on diplomacy, explaining to Kiev the necessary imperatives to prevent heavy metal thunder: recognition of Crimea as Russian; abandon any plans to join NATO; negotiate directly with the Baby Twins – an anathema for the Americans since 2015; finally, demilitarize and declare Ukraine as neutral.
Kiev’s handlers, predictably, would never accept the package – as they didn’t accept the Master Package that really matters: the Russian demand for “indivisible security”.
The sequence, then, became inevitable. In a flash, all Ukrainian forces between the so-called line of contact and the original borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were boxed in as the occupying force of territories of two Russian allies that Moscow had just sworn to protect.
So it was Get Out – Or Else. “Or else” came as rolling thunder: the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense were not bluffing. Timed to the end of Putin’s speech announcing the operation, the Russians decapitated with precision missiles everything that mattered in terms of the Ukrainian military in just one hour: Air Force, Navy, airfields, bridges, command and control centers, the whole Turkish Bayraktar drone fleet.
And it was not only Russian raw power. It was the artillery of one of the Baby Twins, the DPR, that hit the HQ of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass, which actually housed the entire Ukrainian military command. This means that the Ukrainian General Staff instantly lost control of all its troops.
This was Shock and Awe against Iraq, 19 years ago, in reverse: not for conquest, not as a prelude for an invasion and occupation. The political-military leadership in Kiev did not even have time to declare war. They froze. Demoralized troops started deserting. Total defeat – in one hour.
The water supply to Crimea was instantly re-established. Humanitarian corridors were set up for the deserters. “Remnants” now include mostly surviving Azov batallion Nazis, mercenaries trained by the usual Blackwater/Academi suspects, and a bunch of Salafi-jihadis.
Predictably, Western corporate media has already gone totally berserk branding it as the much-awaited Russian “invasion”. A reminder: when Israel routinely bombs Syria and when the House of One Saudi routinely bombs Yemeni civilians, there is never any peep in NATOstan media.
As it stands, realpolitik spells out a possible endgame (see Donetsk’s head, Denis Pushilin: “The special operation in Donbass will soon be over and all the cities will be liberated.”)
We could soon witness the birth of an independent Novorossiya – east of the Dnieper, south along Sea of Azov/Black Sea, the way it was when attached to Ukraine by Lenin in 1922. But now totally aligned with Russia, and providing a land bridge to Transnistria.
Ukraine, of course, would lose any access to the Black Sea. History loves playing tricks: what was a “gift” to Ukraine in 1922 may become a parting gift a hundred years later.
It’s creative destruction time
It will be fascinating to watch what Prof. Sergey Karaganov masterfully described, in detail, as the new Putin doctrine of constructive destruction , and how it will interconnect with West Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean and further on down the Global South road.
President Erdogan, the ceremonial NATO Sultan, branded the recognition of the Baby Twins as “unacceptable”. No wonder: that definitely smashed all his elaborate plans to pose as privileged mediator between Moscow and Kiev during Putin’s upcoming visit to Ankara. The Kremlin – as well as the Foreign Ministry – don’t waste time talking to NATO minions.
Lavrov, for his part, had a recent, very productive entente with Syrian Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad. Russia, this past weekend, has staged a spectacular strategic missile display, hypersonic and otherwise, featuring Khinzal, Zircon, Kalibr, Yars ICBMs, Iskander and Sineva – irony of ironies, in synch with the Russophobia-fest in Munich. In parallel, Russian Navy ships of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea fleets performed a series of submarine search drills in the Mediterranean.
The Putin doctrine privileges the asymmetrical – and that applies to the near abroad and beyond. Putin’s body language, in his last two crucial interventions, spell out nearly maximum exasperation. As in realizing, not auspiciously, but rather in resignation, that the only language those neo-con and “humanitarian” imperialist psychos in the Beltway understand is heavy meal thunder (they are definitely deaf, dumb and blind to History, Geography and Diplomacy, for that matter. No to mention they never accepted their defeat in Syria.)
So we can always game the Russian military, for instance, imposing a no-fly zone in Syria to conduct a series of visits by Mr. Khinzal not only to the Turk-protected shady jihadist umbrella in Idlib but also the jihadists protected by the Americans in Al-Tanf base, near the Syria-Jordan border. After all these specimens are all NATO proxies.
The United States government barks non-stop about “territorial sovereignty”. So let’s game the Kremlin asking the White House for a road map on getting out of Syria: after all the Americans are illegally occupying a section of Syrian territory and most of all adding extra disaster to the Syrian economy by stealing their oil.
NATO’s stultifying Stoltenberg has announced the alliance is dusting off its “defense plans”: that may include little more than hide behind their expensive Brussels desks. They are as inconsequential in the Black Sea as in the East Med – as the Empire remains quite vulnerable in Syria.
There are now four Russian TU-22M3 strategic bombers in Hymeimim base, each capable of carrying three S-32 anti-ship missiles that fly at supersonic Mach 4.3 with a range of 1,000 km. No Aegis system is able to handle them.
Russia in Syria also has stationed a few Mig-31Ks in Latakia equipped with hypersonic Khinzals – more than enough to sink any kind of US surface group, including aircraft carriers, in the East Med. The US has no air defense mechanism whatsoever with even a minimal chance of intercepting them.
So the rules have changed. Drastically. The Hegemon is naked. The new deal starts with turning the post-Cold War set-up in Eastern Europe completely upside down. The East Med will be next. The Bear is back, baby. Hear him roar.
SOURCE: Pepe Escobar on The Saker
Here is a map of biolabs in Ukraine – I wonder how they’re doing.
I wonder how many of them are funded by US … by TheFauci …
One source I saw said all of them were funded by the US DOD and there were 15
We’re coming for you Putin.
Wait until Biden sends America’s Best: The Pridetorian Guard, led by General Milley.
Gaytorian Guard.
No panty lines in uniform!!!!
“The US has no air defense mechanism whatsoever with even a minimal chance of intercepting them.”
How would you know this? Maybe there is some triple-double secret tech they haven’t shared with you.
While no one was looking, over his time in power Putin transformed the military into a first world force. Forget the bullcrap about how sanctions will hurt them. We get a significant amount of oil from them. They have $600 Billion in cash, the fifth largest gold reserve, supply 85% of our aluminum, 90 odd percent of our nickel and most of our platinum and palladium, along with most of Europe’s natgas and WHEAT. GAME, SET, MATCH.
But no mean Tweets.
Putin has been playing actual chess when the rest have been playing tiddlywinks.
Russians are concerned with reality and not invented narratives.
The empire has completely lost touch with reality.
That doesn’t make his statement true.
Well then let’s start a war to find out.
I love this country but in this instant must side with Russia. THe powers that be that are destroying America need destroyed by someone like Putin. At least he loves his fellow Countrymen and doesn’t look at them as anything more than slaves for the elites.
I doubt it. just recently a report came out that our Air Force is at 40% capacity. The sodomites and nigrahs in charge are laser focused on equality and fag living but not mission readiness. We’re fucked.
I gotta post this… sorta on topic and fucken hilarious!
AP will luv it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-89s9NE2eE
It made me laugh.
Zelensky must have shit for brains. All he had to do was tell Putin that Ukraine wouldn’t go NATO – and none of this would have happened. His job would be safe. Now he’s got one foot on a banana peel and the other one out the door. NATO wouldn’t admit Ukraine to the NATO family anyway. Too much of a geopolitical hassle. But what else would you expect when a comedian is elected President? Now he can do standup (or bend over) in the gulag.
He may have shit for brains. He is certainly very guilty of listening to lots of NATO shitheads and believing them.
Ask why Zelensky was going to Brussels, before Russia attacked.
Even Zelensky is starting to realize that wasn’t his smartest strategy https://www.rt.com/russia/550546-zelensky-nato-ukraine-neutrality/
Probably a day late.
The concrete lane dividers, in noticeable US style, gave it away 🙂
So, never then. Thanks for the heads up.
BOOM !!!
Blindsided. Putin never saw it coming.
It’s…over.
Putin don’t want none of this.
Biden Announces He Will Move To Unfollow Putin On Twitter
World
February 24th, 2022 – BabylonBee.com
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After Putin led Russia in an unprovoked attack on Ukraine, Biden addressed the world and outlined the steps he’d take to stop Russia from rampaging through Eastern Europe.
“Listen, folks, I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do this, today I directed my social media manager to unfollow Putin on Twitter,” said Biden. “That Putin guy is a major internet influencer and we need to hit him where it hurts. We have no other choice. God have mercy on us.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-announces-he-will-move-to-unfollow-putin-on-twitter?utm_source=Gab&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Gab
Thanks for posting the article, Stuck.
Hat tip to Mark on that one.
constructive destruction = dissolve and coagulate
The biggest boner in all this belongs to the FEDERAL RESERVE. Initially the markets started to tank and green lit them to buy everything. And did they ever!
Buying more assets with free money, they will eventually own it all as the inside boys get unimaginably rich while the middle class gets wiped out.
I also saw a couple headlines connecting Russia and Bitcoin, so I’m sure the propaganda against crypto will increase even more.
The market seems to love high oil prices.
Oil…the life blood of the MIC.
Mark,
It seems, to me, that Putin has actually “explained” to the world what he thinks of NATO’s duplicity and adoption of CIA methodology which has plagued our nation since Dubya Dubya Two.
He also accomplished more to establish the biblical relevance than I would have thought possible just a few days ago.
I really believe those biolabs in Ukraine were creating more viruses.
https://clips.twitch.tv/ImpossibleBombasticOrangeDoritosChip-ahl6VLB1fXOcLbSL
I’m going to ask my biologist friend to address this issues next show. He’s continued to read and research and now makes some of the best political biological commentary on the interwebs.
I’ve not really learned how to use the clip function in twitch, but if you listen to a few minutes, you will need to listen to it all.
This is pure evil.
https://clips.twitch.tv/CleverMagnificentRabbitANELE-zPnyWX7osptU_xNf
They used to try to hide it a bit.
I was active duty USAF when the military industrial complex came into full bloom. Once the military got used to a janitorial service contracted to take out the trash and clean the bathrooms and never had to clean up their own messes any more, it was a short hop, skip and jump to contracting for everything else to be done for them.
The regional manager for Boeing was a former commander. Ditto for Northrup. And General Dynamics. And Raytheon.
The USAF doesn’t even own its own ability to classify information. A contractor does that now.
I remember that too, but USAF went that way first. Coming from the Marines I found it surreal to work directly with GD in the Army.
Boeing manager was in the warroom during mission planning for war to make sure the company could provide any support necessary.
Sitting by the General.
Who later got hired a year after he retired.
This article reads like it was written before the full-on invasion. Anyway, for anyone in Ukraine losing family to Russian bombs, that clearly sucks. A case can be made – and a Pretty strong one, IMO – that if Putin hadn’t invaded, the neocons and neoliberals would eventually have admitted Ukraine into NATO, eventually moved missiles in and attacked Russia, sparking off nuclear war. Russia allowed former Soviet Republics to gain their independence without a fight and their reward was an ever-growing military alliance reaching their doorstep. This was a thirty year mistake in the making.
Meanwhile , Ministry of Silly Walks still popular at the India / Pakistan border
They’re just celebrating their H-1b visas to the US to work here as shitty programmers.
Is that a peacock on their heads? That was hilarious. The British guard can learn a thing or two from them as far as entertainment goes.
It’s not so much that the eagle is naked….it’s more like the eagle was replaced by mashed potatoes that are both runny and lumpy at the same time.
Well, our pandemic didn’t work out the way we had hoped – providing cover for the economic collapse resulting from 15 years of shoving trillions of dollars as fast as possible into the financial market to prop it up – so the shit who created the mess don’t eat the loss they so fucking richly deserve. So, we’re going back to what worked historically: war.
https://clips.twitch.tv/TallCuriousOrangeKlappa-0LYTp516rzqD1VoV
I don’t know if I clipped this right but am really shocked at what I’m hearing.
Seriously?
Russia will call this the four hour war… take an aspirin and tell the USA to send in its badass military.
A rich and pampered society can afford such silliness. A nation whose borders are being trampled by millions of invaders cannot.
This made me suspicious… France has always laid down like a whore, hasn’t she?
“Macron reveals details of call with Putin – Macron: Mr Putin, can you please stop, Putin: NO!, Macron: sorry to bother you.”
JC has garnered some decent supporters and he’s getting his show and presentation updated… doing some technical shows to fix problems.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1406933155?t=00h08m35s
I had the privilege of being in a WWII history class taught by the head of the history department who only had time for one class a year and WWII history was his passion.
He said Churchill was relentless in his mockery of Chaz DeGaulle (sp) and told of one time he was trying to explain to the leader of “free France” where to find the elevator in the hotel and finally got angry and yelled “Le Lift! Le Lift! Le Lift, you stupid Frenchman!”
Not to mention all those finger paintings they bought.
Clues to follow
1. Media blackout during the diplomacy stage. Why? Because the parallels with Cuban missile crisis were too close to the current requirements Putin was requiring for the security of his country. Also why the constant “imminent invasion” by the state department, instead of addressing what Putin was initially negotiating for.
Things to question
1. A lot of the “war footage” is actually military formations from another time and place. The most obvious one was the 15 fighter formation in a flying triangle was actually from an air show; in battle conditions, flying together is verboten. Think the first shot in a game of pool.
Going forward
It seems that the longer this continues, the more the “world” will jump in to escalate the aggression to force a Russian retailiation worldwide that will justify martial law everywhere.
Just sayin’
As the moden day Russian saying goes, you can talk to Mr Lavrov or Mr Shogui, or go straight to talking with Mr Zircon, Kalibre or Iskander. The latter don’t talk much though.