Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
A friend insisted that I watch some of the US TV reporting of Russia’s police action in Eastern Ukraine, called a “Russian invasion” by the Western Presstitutes. He said it was such comically infantile war propaganda that he was insulted that the media would think Americans stupid enough to fall for it. To sum it up, there was no reporting, just fictions deployed to demonize Putin and Russia in the most incompetent way conceivable. The Russians are both destroying Ukraine, bombing and killing everyone, shooting down Ukrainians as they flee cities and losing the war.
Their invasion has been halted by Ukrainian forces led by neo-Nazi “freedom fighters.” This despite all “freedom fighters” being surrounded and cut off. Massive Russian loses of troops, tanks, and jet fighters are reported. Only a portion of the Russian troops have been committed to combat, but according to the presstitutes Russia is reduced to replacing its decimated troops with conscripted untrained youth and elderly men and begging China for weapons with which to fight. Hungry and unfed Russian troops are surrendering to Ukrainian forces in order to get something to eat. Russia is on the verge of being unable to continue fighting. As soon as Putin is captured, former British prime ministers want him tried as a war criminal. The “news” degenerates from this point on.
The “invasion” is a limited military operation in eastern Ukraine to clear Donbass of the Ukrainian military elements, both official army and neo-Nazi militias, that have been shelling Donbass Russians for 8 years. Russia intervened after the West and Ukraine consistently refused to abide by the Minsk Agreement and cease the attacks.
The intervention has been highly successful. Precision strikes destroyed Ukrainian military infrastructure and weapon systems prior to the arrival of Russian troops. Ukraine has no air force left, no navy left. Its military units are cut off and surrounded. The only remaining obstacle is the neo-Nazis who have taken advantage of the Russian policy of minimizing civilian casualties by ensconcing themselves among civilian populations.
The Russians created corridors for civilians to leave, but the neo-Nazi militias do not permit it as they are using the civilians as shields. The Russians are deciding between letting the neo-Nazis leave, which means they would escape both death and the war crimes trials the Russians intend for them, or accepting the casualties of street by street fighting. Negotiations with Zelensky to end the conflict don’t seem to make much sense as Zelensky does not have control over the neo-Nazi militias.
The presstitutes’ blathering about sending jet fighters and weapons to Ukraine’s embattled forces is nonsense. There is no way for the weapons to get through the Russian lines and no airfields in Ukraine from which jet fighters, for which no pilots exist, can operate. The notion of a US/NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine is comical. Russian air superiority is total.
The Russian military intervention could have been avoided, but Washington insisted on leaving Russia no choice. Washington wanted the intervention. Fearful of losing its European empire to growing trade relations and energy dependence on Russia, Washington is using the intervention for a psyops campaign that puts Russia beyond the pale. The entire “international community,” like a bunch of lemmings, is in the process of eliminating all Russian connections. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, has had his name erased from a space conference celebrating human achievements, and the International Energy Agency has proposed “Car-free Sundays” to punish Putin, which somehow won’t punish those confined to home on Sundays, American oil companies, and Saudi Arabia.
Andrei Martyanov reminds us of the extent of the “international community.” Meanwhile, the rest of the world marvels that the Western world with its plan to destroy 7 countries in 5 years can only find war criminals in Russia.
My concern about Russia’s limited military operation is that the concern with civilian lives delays the conclusion and gives time for the West to blunder into a wider war. The limited operation and delay also deprives Russia of the “shock and awe” effect of a total and quick conquest, easily within their means, which could have made Europe realize that provoking Russia is not a good policy and cease enabling Washington’s provocations, which eventually will result in nuclear war. In other words, better Ukrainian casualties now than the whole world later.
The silver lining in the sanctions is that they are forcing Russia to disengage from globalism and thereby will reduce the danger of nuclear war by minimizing Russia’s contacts with the West. Those who are defeated by the sanctions are the pro-Western fifth column inside Russia known as the “Atlanticist Integrationists,” those determined that Russia sacrifice its sovereignty in order to be part of the West. The sanctions have damaged the influence of the West’s fifth column inside Russia.
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I know virtually nothing about geo-politics in practice. I assume from the vast chasm between stated intentions and real world outcomes that most, if not all of it, is shrouded in some form of occult practice that is indecipherable to even the most well-informed students of history.
But I do know how to read an animal by observing it’s demeanor and physiognomy. That part is not too difficult for even an average person to discern if they are able to overcome the social conditioning that has, for generations now, retarded the natural ability to judge something simply by observing it.
Biden travelling to Poland this week- at his age, in the midst of multiple domestic crises, with his cognitive decline on full display, at the last minute, is a sign of weakness and desperation. The situation in The Ukraine (and a student of history does not ignore the importance of the article in the name of the region) has already been addressed by both the Secretary of State as well as the Vice-President in the past two weeks. Had either of these people been up to the task- and most readers here are well-aware of just how massively derelict they were in executing their assigned duties- there would be no reason for Biden to address the matter. If Biden were actually performing the role of the Leader of the Free World, he would summon the European counterparts to The White House rather than drop everything and respond to their demands.
Please go back and look at some recent clips of the top dogs in the Biden administration and watch them with the sound off. Look at their appearance- do they look healthy? Do they appear confident? Are they neglecting their personal appearance? I don’t want to prejudice your own appraisal so I won’t say more, but study their outward appearance sans rhetoric and try to determine if this is an administration that is functioning in a healthy manner.
Whatever is occurring in the world right now is clearly not the result of a well orchestrated plan, executed flawlessly. Something is creating a perpetual anxiety in the key players that has left them floundering for the words to articulate their position convincingly.
I decided it was time to do some research and have started reading a lot of Dmitry Orlov’s old posts here (amazing how very relevant they still are!) and even have subscribed to Patreon in order to read his old stuff there.
His perspective is worth the investment, I think. (Not the hockey player, by the way. That’s the first thing my husband asked when I told him I was subscribing to a Russian blogger. Hockey. He loves it. “Great! Why are you telling me?”)
He used to contribute quite often here. I suppose when he opened his own blogspot on Patreon, he stopped sending the essays? Oh well, it is a sign of the times, these niche communities forming in both the virtual and the physical realm.
I think you will like the essay if you’ve time to read it an appreciate it in hindsight. I’m about two-thirds through but now have rabbits to feed.
I recognize the name, “Dmitry Orlov” but I am sorry that’s all I can recall. And so I did what millions of us do each day an looked on an internet search. Well, he has a nice writeup in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Orlov_(writer)
And, as you, “Ghost” (A name I DO recognize and respect) say, he’s worth reading.
And that’s my two-cents worth.
Here is another two-cents worth: Neither of the opponents in the Ukraine War are “The Good Guys.” And I have my reading of other writers to thank for that realization.
May God Help Us.
“Whatever is occurring in the world right now is clearly not the result of a well orchestrated plan, executed flawlessly.”
Have to disagree with this assessment. The exceptionally well orchestrated plan to install lucifer as the Most High in the minds of men is proceeding with lightening speed and accuracy.
“Something is creating a perpetual anxiety in the key players that has left them floundering for the words to articulate their position convincingly.”
That “something” is the dawning realization in the above mentioned lower level “key players” that they very well may have chosen the wrong team. The writing is beginning to appear on the wall.
Definitely, putting in a link to The S*a#k#e*r makes my post disappear.
I find that… a bit disturbing.
The people in media need to begin having “accidents” until they start telling the truth…..
I don’t know why I read anything about anything. There are always 2 exact opposite “truths”. They both cancel each other out = the truth does not exist. At least for us little people anyway.
Why doesn’t Russia either smoke out the nazis or starve them out?
They’ve taken up positions among civilians in Mariupol. The Russians are trying to avoid civilian casualties. They’re not Americans, after all.
I know but, couldn’t they use some kind of non leathal gas to smoke them out with?
Here’s a question, how the hell are they going to identify the civilians vs. the Nazis?
Truth does exist GNL; and it’s beautiful. Start reading something else perhaps?
1 Corinthians 3:19-23 KJB… “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”
Joint heirs with Christ! Can you even begin to imagine what we have coming? It’s beyond our wildest dreams! This reality is destined to burn. Let’s bring as many as we can with us to the next!
I always say that tongue in cheek. Thank you for your consistency.
I decided to engage another person at the gas station last night. We agreed on FJB and the purposeful actions to destroy America from within. As he was driving away, I said, “What can we do but the best we can”. He replied, “Pray to God and accept him as your lord and savior”. It was a pretty cool moment. 🙂
Love it…!
The U.S. pounded itself in the nads with the coming food and energy shortages brought on by dumb think about NATO and the Russians. The death of the Petrodollar also. Russia and China will trade and leave the blind deaf and dumb west in the dust.
I do hope you are wrong but if I had to place a bet I would bet you are right.