Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
A nano-second to midnight?
It looks like what began as a highly successful Russian military action is being turned into a clown act by the Kremlin civilians who are so anxious to show that Russia means well that they risk turning the Ukraine intervention into a farce that might end in a wider European conflict.
The Ukraine doesn’t have much of a military, but it has a powerful word that stops the Russian military in its tracks: negotiation. Zelensky uttered the word, and Putin stopped the invasion. The Kremlin fell for the trick a second time and sent negotiators to Gomel where Zelensky was again a no-show. It is a curious situation when it is the country that is winning the war which is so anxious for negotiations. Indeed, neither Lavrov nor Putin can shut up about how willing they are to negotiate. A person might conclude that Russia is losing the war. Putin even felt obliged to assure Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that Moscow remains open to talks with Kiev. As Israel is supporting the Ukrainian Nazis, you would think it would be Israel giving the reassurance.
Normally, halting an invasion provides the enemy with time to recover from the shock and reform lines. Surely Shoygu knows this. Even worse, by delaying the outcome, it allows the hysterical and completely stupid West to widen the war by getting involved. The US/NATO are beefing up their European deployments of troops and sending weapons to Ukraine. Stoltenberg is issuing threats he cannot back up. A collection of Finnish idiots are trying to get a vote on Finland joining NATO, an act of insanity that Putin has already said would not be permitted. Germany has changed its mind and now says Germany is sending weapons to Ukraine. Will Germany, US, NATO also change their minds about sending troops? Every hour’s delay in Russia finishing the task gives the Western morons more chance to blunder into war.
As Union war criminal William Tecumseh Sherman said, “war is hell.” The Kremlin is trying to conduct war without the hell. Consequently, the Nazi militias have ensconced themselves and their weapons systems amidst civilians. As the Russian military is under orders not to fire into civilian areas, the conquest is stopped in its tracks.
One can understand the Kremlin’s decision to spare civilians as once Ukraine is de-nazified, Russia hopes to have good relations with Ukraine. But the Kremlin is mistaken if it expects kudos for good intentions from the West. Whatever Russia does will be painted in the blackest terms. Already the Ukrainian Nazi militias are being praised as “freedom fighters.” The function of the Western media is to turn fiction into fact and lies into truth. The narrative of Russian war crimes was already established by the second day of the war. Here is, for example, Bloomberg Evening Briefing Feb 25, but all the presstitutes say the same thing: “The Russian invasion has been marked by indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas and strikes on protected facilities such as hospitals, Amnesty International said. . . . Russians shelled a kindergarten and an orphanage.” Despite all the alleged attacks and indiscriminate shellings, Amnesty International can only get the kill list up to 140 people, and Bloomberg doesn’t say whether this is civilians only or includes soldiers and the neo-Nazi militias. So far it seems that the Russian invasion hasn’t killed as many people as one US strike on a children’s soccer game, or a wedding or funeral.
On the military front Russia is predominate, but on the propaganda front she is always outgunned. The reason is that Russia always fails to take the initiative, instead remaining purely reactive. Russia’s response to sanctions has so far been entirely feeble. Russia continues to supply Europe with energy when she can turn off the pipelines and shut down German industry. But she does nothing as Germany announces arms support for Ukraine Nazi militias. Russian assets are seized and Russia is evicted from the SWIFT clearing mechanism on which Russia (and China) still so foolishly rely, and Russia has not nationalized all Western investment in Russia. One gets the feeling that Russia likes to be run over as long as it is not militarily.
But even here Russia’s determination to show herself as so well-intentioned that she risks stalemate and a wider war makes one wonder if she even wants to win the war. It is really quite astonishing how much Russia is hurt by words and how defensive words can make her.
It was Machiavelli who said “it is better to be feared than loved.” If Russia were feared, the Finns would not be pushing to join NATO. The Germans and French would not be sending weapons to the Ukraine Nazis. The US would not dare personally sanction the President of Russia. If Ukraine develops into a wider war, much of the blame will reside in Russia’s reactive character and delay upon delay in using its superior force.
However Brutal Russia has to be, it is much better for Russia to quickly finish its conquest of Ukraine, because the price of delay can be much higher. This is what delay has brought us to:
“Putin Orders Russian Nuclear Forces to Be on Highest Alert”
Putin explains:
“Western countries are not only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic area. I’m speaking about the illegitimate sanctions that everyone is well aware of. However, the top officials of the leading NATO countries also make aggressive statements against our country as well.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/putin-orders-russian-nuclear-forces-to-be-on-highest-alert_4305006.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-02-27-1&utm_medium=email&est=skzctLI4GqRe7NTjyT1qsqsBrwyf8ftnMau%2FLtShiYCwx4%2FUvZlVeg%3D%3D
Again, the moronic and arrogant West did not hear when Putin said:
“I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.”
The consequences will indeed “be such as you have never seen in your entire history.”
Wake up you insouciant fools in the Western populations. Your moronic “leaders” are about to lead you into suicide.
Update:
Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the province of Chechnya commands some of Russia’s most feared combat units. He said Russia’s tactics are not working because they are too sluggish. The West has armed Ukraine with new generation heavy artillery and weapons, while Russia is not using its heavy artillery and weapons such as TOS. It seems that even when he goes to war, Putin really doesn’t want to use much force.
Now Turkey is saying that it will close Russia’s passage into and out of the Black Sea, another stupid NATO decision that escalates the conflict.
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Always goes back to money, as usual my guess is the world financial system is on the brink. Hail Mary is WWIII.
https://leesbillbob.blogspot.com/2021/08/in-first-move-of-wwlll-government-vs-us.html
“It was Machiavelli who said “it is better to be feared than loved.” If Russia were feared, the Finns would not be pushing to join NATO. The Germans and French would not be sending weapons to the Ukraine Nazis. The US would not dare personally sanction the President of Russia. If Ukraine develops into a wider war, much of the blame will reside in Russia’s reactive character and delay upon delay in using its superior force.”
Makow Comment- The logical explanation for Western policy is that the Masonic Jewish central bankers want their Third Masonic Jewish World War.
https://www.henrymakow.com/
Here’s a little Russo-Jewish history:
https://www.pdf-archive.com/2018/01/30/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-200-years-together/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-200-years-together.pdf
You won’t find it at Barnes & Noble.
Maybe someone can link to such info,
but I have not seen the slightest hint that Russia stopped their military advance on the second (and/or third) 404 negotiation offer as well. (The did on the first one, for some hours.)
It does not happen if it isnt intentional. A wider war is required. It will be produced. Nuclear or not, we will be destroyed of our own volition.
Correct. People forget that Putin is a Black-Belt in Judo not Karate or MMA.
Judo is a gentle martial art using a slower and more nuenced way of fighting. Its greatest strength is waiting for an opportunity to use the oponents weight against them and then throw them over and slam them to the floor with it.
Putin is causing the west to throw their entire financial, propaganda, and political weight against Russia, which Putin will slam to the floor – hard – when he choses to for maximum damage and to acheive a total submission.
This is Judo not chess.
Yes, Putin showing signs of weakness, err compassion, damn Christian nationalist.
We can count on the Globalist pedophile Biden to do the right thing, upping the ante.
I was hoping napalm would do the cleansing, neutrons would be cleaner but I bet we see fission and fusion, Et tu Brute?
For the most part we are watching this event unfold as if it were a genuine military action. It may be, but considering how the Russian government behaved during the Covid hoax, they may well be part of a carefully choreographed deception, actors in a larger globalist initiative. The only way to know is how this plays out.
Assuming for the moment this is completely unscripted Russia no longer has any options left except the capitulation of the Ukraine government and the stand down of NATO formally accepting the loss of Ukraine as a Western outpost.
If this does not occur, the only possible outcome for Russia is surrender to the NATO/EU/US and the death of Putin.
Or, if they really do exist, the final defense of the Motherland in the form of a nuclear war.
There do not appear to be any other options available for either the West or Russia.
Once you’ve called someone Hitler and told the world that they are a deranged, tyrannical psychopath bent on the destruction of Democracy, you can’t just let him go back to business as usual and remain in control of thousands of ICBM’s, can you? What kind of optics does that create? No, he’s got to get the Saddam/Mu’ammar treatment or else a complete encirclement/embargo of Russia until his own people take him out. It can only end in the grave for Putin no matter how this ends unless he wins and in that case the West loses all of it’s supposed moral superiority as well as one of it’s central money laundering ops.
I thought on this for a while this weekend and just before I fell asleep discovered a third option; an engineered re-launch of The Cold War 2.0 Electric Bugaloo. Russia goes back behind the Iron Curtain and becomes the implacable boogeyman for the next couple of decades and military budgets get ramped up to combat theirs and the screws get tightened on the population of what remains the free world.
The coming days and weeks will be illuminating.
Good analysis, agreed the next few weeks will be interesting to say the least.
Only thing is China, India and Iran appear to be aligned with Russia.
Russia has oil, China makes stuff and India provides us with H-2b visa PhD’s, we need them all, they do not need us or SWIFT $.
Upvoted ya Old Toad, with reservations.
1, Any coalition with India and China as members has a built-in chink in it’s armor.
As for needing Indian PHDs, only the forwardmost edge are legit contributors to scientific advancement. Very shortly from the extreme tip of that spear, posers and purchased credentials predominate, even basic competency soon falls off.
The credentialed Indians, whether competent or not, soon bring in family members who are the ones we see running motels, trucking companies, truck stops and of course convenience stores.
Notice how many foreign gods are in the logos of small trucking companies. These people are not PHDs. They are aggressive, as in passive aggressive.
Then how has Kim Jung-ung survived this long?
Location, location, location and he keeps those S. Koreans and Japanese from getting uppity.
He hasn’t posed any threat to the status quo.
You know who hasn’t invaded anyone? committed acts of foreign aggression or terrorism? Who doesn’t try and propagandize the rest of the world?
Whatever you may think of NK, they’ve been one of the most peaceful nations on Earth since the cessation of hostilities in 1953.
I asked that question because america has vilified him more so than Putin yet, we haven’t taken him out. So, it can’t be that. Politics.
Yes it’s politics. I assumed that was understood in my brief comment.
It keeps the defence spending and fear going. See my links to HSF above also.
Kim is well protected by Russia and China but still an actor on the world stage like all the other puppets.
The only claim to independence politically comes from being one of the few countries with no Rothschild owned central bank. They also don’t have enough money to be a threat to them.
Back before the actually had a viable Nuke, other central characters in the Great Game like China and Russia could have easily destroyed anything resembling a development or test site. Now consider that there are no countries anywhere on the globe truly independent from the NWO down to the smallest nations(used loosely) like Grenada and Marshall Islands. But we are to believe little old starving North Korea is a maverick thorn in the side of the NWO.
You guys can engage in wishful thinking about rouge countries and convoys sticking it to The Man if you want. They love it when you do. For that very reason this site and WRSA and NC Renegade will never be shut down. They love it when we play Larperville.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/north-east-asia/korean-peninsula/japan-and-north-korea-bones-contention
North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development, along with its history of infiltrating agents into Japan, have elevated the country’s importance in Japanese defence planning, particularly after it tested a missile that over-flew Japan in August 1998. The North Korean threat has been cited as justification for missile defence and satellite development, constitutional revisions, and reinvigoration of the military alliance with the U.S. In fact, Japan’s military posture is moving away from homeland defence towards readily deployable forces, although to date they have assumed non-combat-related roles.
I think you have a good set of choices there. It seems it comes down to what the puppet masters want. My bet is cold war 2.0, but if Putin is autonomous, and I think he is in general, then he can still push it further and this could go to WWIII (conventional or nuclear).
It is most certainly scripted. Russia has been expressing “concerns” publicly about being disconnected from both SWIFT and even from the rest of the world internet for the last few years now, yet without ever explaining why would anyone bother to do that. Then on one random morning Putin just decides to suddenly “go crazy” and Russia promptly gets disconnected from SWIFT. What a coincidence!
To extrapolate the new “Cold War” scenario, one can contemplate China taking Taiwan, and hence being sanctioned as another “aggressor”, thus greatly reducing the amount of their products which get imported into US. And here we are – Globalism is suddenly over and it has been magically replaced by “multi-polarity”, with both Russia and China now being inside their own self-contained economic “bubbles”. Recall the second promise from that WEF video ad (where the first promise was to “own nothing”). The second promise was about multi-polarity, where US were to no longer play the leading role.
Ukraine is just a plausible excuse to set this plan into motion. I am reasonably certain that Putin is actually fully on board, that is, he has not even been “tricked” or ” forced” into this by the “evil” West.
Very astute observations observer!
This thought had occurred to me, as well. It’s all such a wonderful distraction to keep us from focusing on the real enemy, our own governments who have been trying to kill us for the past 2 years.
A friendly reminder from Corbett.
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need?utm_source=url
PCR sez…
“The Ukraine doesn’t have much of a military, but it has a powerful word that stops the Russian military in its tracks: negotiation. Zelensky uttered the word, and Putin stopped the invasion. The Kremlin fell for the trick a second time and sent negotiators to Gomel where Zelensky was again a no-show. It is a curious situation when it is the country that is winning the war which is so anxious for negotiations.”
Facts are this…
The Russians do not have the luxury of the Petrodollar. Marching in and destroying everything is just going to mean a bigger bill for Moscow to pay once all this is over. Unlike the Americans Putin and his men can’t make the printer go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-frustrated-low-level-russian-delegation-ceasefire-talks-kick-belarus
And it appears that Putin must got wind of the bad faith from within Ukie junta running Kiev from Lvov… They cannot be dumb enough as to actually believe someone kept by the Galicians would act in good faith. Could it be that the Russians are letting Zelensky’s men twist in the wind while the boots on the ground change the facts for them. Now the Ukies are Frustrated At ‘Low Level’ Russian Delegation that appeared for talks…
Meanwhile in the rest of the Ukraine
https://www.debka.com/russian-5km-long-column-advances-on-kyiv-zelensky-doesnt-expect-much-from-talks-with-russia/
And the Chechens still haven’t arrived in force..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_uLCtqAYoE
The stupid burns in this article..
The biggest mistake Germany ever made was letting the rotten toothed faggot Brits escape at Dunkirk. Russia should heed this lesson well.
Would they really go there? I wouldn’t be surprised. Demons and vampires occupy parliament, congress and the executive office.
I know of war from the histories that have been written over the centuries.
UA is defending with its best, one would assume, while RUS sends in semi-cannon fodder to test the defenses and then encircle them. The UA defenders get tired, and that’s when RUS sends in their First Team.
Don’t be surprised to hear stupidity coming from the idiots in this country. Adam Kinsinger and others are advocating for us to employ a no fly zone over Ukraine. So, we’re ready to shoot down Russian pilots?
What could go wrong?
Does PCR get paid by how many times he says ‘nazis’?