By Pepe Escobar
The supreme target is regime change in Russia, Ukraine is just a pawn in the game – or worse, mere cannon fodder.
All eyes are on Mariupol. As of Wednesday night, over 70% of residential areas were under control of Donetsk and Russian forces, while Russian Marines, Donetsk’s 107th batallion and Chechen Spetsnaz, led by the charismatic Adam Delimkhanov, had entered the Azov-Stal plant – the HQ of the neo-Nazi Azov batallion.
Azov was sent a last ultimatum: surrender until midnight – or else, as in a take no prisoners highway to hell.
That implies a major game-changer in the Ukrainian battlefield; Mariupol is finally about to be thoroughly denazified – as the Azov contingent long entrenched in the city and using civilians as human shields were their most hardened fighting force.
Meanwhile, echoes from the Empire of Lies all but gave the whole game away. There’s no intention whatsoever in Washington to facilitate a peace plan in Ukraine – and that explains Comedian Zelensky’s non-stop stalling tactics. The supreme target is regime change in Russia, and for that Totalen Krieg against Russia and all things Russian is warranted. Ukraine is just a pawn in the game – or worse, mere cannon fodder.
This also means that the 14,000 deaths in Donbass for the past 8 years should be directly attributed to the Exceptionalists. As for Ukrainian neo-Nazis of all stripes, they are as expendable as “moderate rebels” in Syria, be they al-Qaeda or Daesh-linked. Those that may eventually survive can always join the budding CIA-sponsored Neo-Nazi Inc. – the tawdry remix of the 1980s Jihad Inc. in Afghanistan. They will be properly “Kalibrated”.
A quick neo-Nazi recap
By now only the brain dead across NATOstan – and there are hordes – are not aware of Maidan in 2014. Yet few know that it was then Ukrainian Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov, a former governor of Kharkov, who gave the green light for a 12,000 paramilitary outfit to materialize out of Sect 82 soccer hooligans who supported Dynamo Kiev. That was the birth of the Azov batallion, in May 2014, led by Andriy Biletsky, a.k.a. the White Fuhrer, and former leader of the neo-nazi gang Patriots of Ukraine.
Together with NATO stay-behind agent Dmitro Yarosh, Biletsky founded Pravy Sektor, financed by Ukrainian mafia godfather and Jewish billionaire Ihor Kolomoysky (later the benefactor of the meta-conversion of Zelensky from mediocre comedian to mediocre President.)
Pravy Sektor happened to be rabidly anti-EU – tell that to Ursula von der Lugen – and politically obsessed with linking Central Europe and the Baltics in a new, tawdry Intermarium. Crucially, Pravy Sektor and other nazi gangs were duly trained by NATO instructors.
Biletsky and Yarosh are of course disciples of notorious WWII-era Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, for whom pure Ukrainians are proto-Germanic or Scandinavian, and Slavs are untermenschen.
Azov ended up absorbing nearly all neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine and were dispatched to fight against Donbass – with their acolytes making more money than regular soldiers. Biletsky and another neo-Nazi leader, Oleh Petrenko, were elected to the Rada. The White Führer stood on his own. Petrenko decided to support then President Poroshenko. Soon the Azov battalion was incorporated as the Azov Regiment to the Ukrainian National Guard.
They went on a foreign mercenary recruiting drive – with people coming from Western Europe, Scandinavia and even South America.
That was strictly forbidden by the Minsk Agreements guaranteed by France and Germany (and now de facto defunct). Azov set up training camps for teenagers and soon reached 10,000 members. Erik “Blackwater” Prince, in 2020, struck a deal with the Ukrainian military that would enable his renamed outfit, Academi, to supervise Azov.
It was none other than sinister Maidan cookie distributor Vicky “F**k the EU” Nuland who suggested to Zelensky – both of them, by the way, Ukrainian Jews – to appoint avowed Nazi Yarosh as an adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The target: organize a blitzkrieg on Donbass and Crimea – the same blitzkrieg that SVR, Russian foreign intel, concluded would be launched on February 22, thus propelling the launch of Operation Z.
All of the above, in fact just a quick recap, shows that in Ukraine there’s no difference whatsoever between white neo-Nazis and brown-colored al-Qaeda/ISIS/Daesh, as much as neo-Nazis are just as “Christian” as takfiri Salafi-jihadis are “Muslim”.
When Putin denounced a “bunch of neo-Nazis” in power in Kiev, the Comedian replied that it was impossible because he was Jewish. Nonsense. Zelensky and his patron Kolomoysky, for all practical purposes, are Zio-Nazis.
Even as branches of the United States government admitted to neo-Nazis entrenched in the Kiev apparatus, the Exceptionalist machine made the daily shelling of Donbass for 8 years simply disappear. These thousands of civilian victims never existed.
U.S. mainstream media even ventured the odd piece or report on Azov and Aidar neo-Nazis. But then a neo-Orwellian narrative was set in stone: there are no Nazis in Ukraine. CIA offshoot NED even started deleting records about training members of Aidar. Recently a crappy news network duly promoted a video of a NATO-trained and weaponized Azov commander – complete with Nazi iconography.
Why “denazification” makes sense
The Banderastan ideology harks back to when this part of Ukraine was in fact controlled by the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Russian empire and Poland. Stepan Bandera was born in Austro-Hungary in 1909, near Ivano-Frankovsk, in the – then autonomous – Kingdom of Galicia.
WWI dismembered European empires into frequently non-viable small entities. In western Ukraine – an imperial intersection – that inevitably led to the proliferation of extremely intolerant ideologies.
Banderastan ideologues profited from the Nazi arrival in 1941 to try to proclaim an independent territory. But Berlin not only blocked it but sent them to concentration camps. In 1944 though the Nazis changed tactics: they liberated the Banderanistas and manipulated them into anti-Russian hate, thus creating a destabilization force in the Ukrainian USSR.
So Nazism is not exactly the same as Banderastan fanatics: they are in fact competing ideologies. What happened since Maidan is that the CIA kept a laser focus on inciting Russian hatred by whatever fringe groups it could instrumentalize. So Ukraine is not a case of “white nationalism” – to put it mildly – but of anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism, for all practical purposes manifested via Nazi-style salutes and Nazi-style symbols.
So when Putin and the Russian leadership refer to Ukrainian Nazism, that may not be 100% correct, conceptually, but it strikes a chord with every Russian.
Russians viscerally reject Nazism – considering that virtually every Russian family has at least one ancestor killed during the Great Patriotic War. From the perspective of wartime psychology, it makes total sense to talk of “Ukro-nazism” or, straight to the point, a “denazification” campaign.
How the Anglos loved the Nazis
The United States government openly cheerleading neo-Nazis in Ukraine is hardly a novelty, considering how it supported Hitler alongside England in 1933 for balance of power reasons.
In 1933, Roosevelt lent Hitler one billion gold dollars while England lent him two billion gold dollars. That should be multiplied 200 times to arrive at today’s fiat dollars. The Anglo-Americans wanted to build up Germany as a bulwark against Russia. In 1941 Roosevelt wrote to Hitler that if he invaded Russia the U.S. would side with Russia, and wrote Stalin that if Stalin invaded Germany the U.S. would back Germany. Talk about a graphic illustration of Mackinderesque balance of power.
The Brits had become very concerned with the rise of Russian power under Stalin while observing that Germany was on its knees with 50% unemployment in 1933, if one counted unregistered itinerant Germans.
Even Lloyd George had misgivings about the Versailles Treaty, unbearably weakening Germany after its surrender in WWI. The purpose of WWI, in Lloyd George’s worldview, was to destroy Russia and Germany together. Germany was threatening England with the Kaiser building a fleet to take over the oceans, while the Tsar was too close to India for comfort. For a while Britannia won – and continued to rule the waves.
Then building up Germany to fight Russia became the number one priority – complete with rewriting of History. The uniting of Austrian Germans and Sudetenland Germans with Germany, for instance, was totally approved by the Brits.
But then came the Polish problem. When Germany invaded Poland, France and Britain stood on the sidelines. That placed Germany on the border of Russia, and Germany and Russia divided up Poland. That’s exactly what Britain and France wanted. Britain and France had promised Poland that they would invade Germany from the west while Poland fought Germany from the east.
In the end, the Poles were double-crossed. Churchill even praised Russia for invading Poland. Hitler was advised by MI6 that England and France would not invade Poland – as part of their plan for a German-Russian war. Hitler had been supported financially since the 1920s by MI6 for his favorable words about England in Mein Kampf. MI6 de facto encouraged Hitler to invade Russia.
Fast forward to 2022, and here we go again – as farce, with the Anglo-Americans “encouraging” Germany under feeble Scholz to put itself back together militarily, with 100 billion euros (that the Germans don’t have), and setting up in thesis a revamped European force to later go to war against Russia.
Cue to the Russophobic hysteria in Anglo-American media about the Russia-China strategic partnership. The mortal Anglo-American fear is Mackinder/Mahan/Spykman/Kissinger/Brzezinski all rolled into one: Russia-China as peer competitor twins take over the Eurasian land mass – the Belt and Road Initiative meets the Greater Eurasia Partnership – and thus rule the planet, with the U.S. relegated to inconsequential island status, as much as the previous “Rule Britannia”.
England, France and later the Americans had prevented it when Germany aspired to do the same, controlling Eurasia side by side with Japan, from the English Channel to the Pacific. Now it’s a completely different ball game.
So Ukraine, with its pathetic neo-Nazi gangs, is just an – expendable – pawn in the desperate drive to stop something that is beyond anathema, from Washington’s perspective: a totally peaceful German-Russian-Chinese New Silk Road.
Russophobia, massively imprinted in the West’s DNA, never really went away. Cultivated by the Brits since Catherine the Great – and then with The Great Game. By the French since Napoleon. By the Germans because the Red Army liberated Berlin. By the Americans because Stalin forced to them the mapping of Europe – and then it went on and on and on throughout the Cold War.
We are at just the early stages of the final push by the dying Empire to attempt arresting the flow of History. They are being outsmarted, they are already outgunned by the top military power in the world, and they will be checkmated. Existentially, they are not equipped to kill the Bear – and that hurts. Cosmically.
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Just got a note from a contact in Ukraine. Mariupol has fallen to the Russians. I expect the Ukies to run out of ammo in a week or so. Game over. Putin takes what he wants and leaves the rest. He wins.
But what has he really won? What the hell was this really all about?
Putin fulfilled his role as the distraction; if anyone actually believes this was about Russia, I cannot convince you otherwise.
These so-called sanctions on Russia are nothing of the sort; they are, instead, sanctions on us, in order to absolutely break us like upended turtles. Russia, China, they’re all globalists of the Novus Ordo Seclorum. They’re all in it together.
PROVE ME WRONG.™
Southern Sage has an extensive background. I’d at least contemplate on the things he says. And you will realize he only ever comments on 1 topic….because he knows it. Or at least has a better understanding about such things than most.
I was not attacking SS in any way; I was talking about Putin and his WEF friends.
The timing of this event, on top of all the CONVID nonsense before it, is just too convenient. I only want to make the point that, at this stage, there are no coincidences.
This Ukraine thing is another phase in the BBB operation.
My guess is having seen what’s likely only a part of the list of US elites and scumbags lined up at the Ukraine graft trough, this is a protect the important dirtbags operation, at least in part. Who and how many from other places are involved too? This shit show could bring down nearly every government in the NATO orbit.
Is it likely Putin saw a loose thread on his western counterparts, corrupt as hell, and pulled hard on it and started the unravelling?
If you were Putin and you had an itch to scratch then what better time than now? Seriously, what time could be possibly better than now? Two years of covid madness followed by an illegitimate child sniffing pants shitter that no one want to go to war for followed by a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan where we handed our enemies enough weapons to stir up trouble for decades into the future.
There is nothing suspicious about the timing. If there ever could be a better time than this, when, exactly, would that time be?
coldly and from a distance, The weapons of all sorts were left to guard the poppy fields/enforce the new contact, spare parts included. All that talk about’ natural resources…just talk.
Gotcha. I thought I would just give Southern a little love. I always appreciate his thoughts on international affairs.
Just because they want their own printing press does not make them any better than the Cabal.
Depends on who you talk to.
Russia was forced to invade. Ukraine forces were set to invade Crimea on Feb 28, so Russia preemptive attack on Feb 24. It was a setup by the deep state yet Russia may take them down. That’s why sleepy Joe kept saying Russia is going to invade. He knew because it was their plan along. Biden is a puppet and I think his usefulness to the Cabal is about to expire hence the Hunter laptop now seeing the light of day. We are just ants at this point watching the giants battle at this point. Perhaps one day we will join the battle
This is a very long video but worth it to listen in small chunks if you have to. Scott Ritter gives some of the most believeable and frank insider information and insightful analysis about how badly our CIA screws up every single thing they touch. They are evil from inception, as are every president they’ve primed for office.
Ritter doesn’t name them, but does he have to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc
Yes. This is very good. Great resource and discussion.
“Ukraine forces were set to invade Crimea on Feb 28, so Russia preemptive attack on Feb 24”
source?
The Hunter laptop will deliver nothing to ANYONE CONNECTED JUST AS ALL THE GRAFT AND CRIME OF THE PAST 40 YEARS HAS SEEN!
Mariupol is has a major port (esp. grain exports), and is a center for steel production. Once of the byproducts of steel smelting is neon gas, which is used in lasers, which are used in semiconductor fabrication. Half the world supply of purified neon gas came out of Ukraine (Mariupol-based Ingas, as well as Cryoin and Iceblick, which are based in Odesa).
Though, I suppose this can all be true, AND you can still be correct.
You’ve never been correct.
Nothing has changed.
Everyone should take the time to listen to this discussion by Scott Ritter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc
My family is in Ukraine, not in Mariupol, but near. I’ve heard the same. Many people fleeing Mariupol speak of the cruelty of Azov more than of Russia.
This was 20 years in the making. It is being used as distraction by Western leaders. In the vein of not letting a crisis go to waist, they are continuing to whittle and chop away freedoms while most of society looks to the promise of a just war. How little we remember Iraq, Syria, Afgjanistan, or Libyia and the odd creation of ISIS.
Putin realized the consequence of what was happening and after due preparation fractured the Western global power structure. The West thought it could provoke the end of Russia. It overplayed its hand. Ukraine is a proxy for a conflict most Ukrainians did not ask for or want.
The Ukrainian ethno-fascists did want this. Backed by US promise of support and training, they wanted and thought they could beat the Bear. The US is happy to let Ukrainians doe for its hegemony.
If there is any doubt, Saudi Arabia accepting payment in Yuan and India paying for oil in rupees show where the US power is headed.
The WEF / US want a Reset. So does Putin. They are at odds with each other. Ukraine is in the middle. So are we even if we don’t see it yet.
And suddenly the Scripture becomes clear about those who “say they are Jews but are not.”
https://i.postimg.cc/L8NMHctZ/8d345b0960b28be5.webp
Well, that didn’t work.
https://i.postimg.cc/L8NMHctZ/8d345b0960b28be5.webp
Now throw in blacks and homosexuals in the cabinet.
Then look at who controls the executive boards of the major banks, media and tech giants.
Now you know who pulls Bidens strings……and who is intentionally destroying the country and implementing their own final solution on the white race.
We also have the queer boy. He is there to lick their asses when required as one of the people that shit on us daily.
Which one in particular did You have in mind?
[different anonymous]
I’d guess he means Pete Buttplug.
it is my sincerest hope that Putin sent special forces to surround and completely destroy the azov batallion, leaving not a single one alive, while those located elsewhere and were not included are hunted down and slaughtered.
i wish the azov batallion the very worst of all and, ultimately, a horrible death, to every one of those bastards.
He has sent the bad dudes in, Intel Slava Z on telegram has all the gore of dead Nazis in Mariupol, clean up operation at this point. No mercy given
Exactly. Denazification means none left except a chosen few to be tried Nuremberg style in front of the world, admitting their CIA connections.
If you think these people do not mean business, I have some rubles I’ll sell you for silver.
Azov is just Ukrainian equivalent to ISIS. All fake, all Israeli. Look at who funds them, look at ADL defending them.
“Nonsense. Zelensky and his patron Kolomoysky, for all practical purposes, are Zio-Nazis.”
Talk about your money shots.
Zelensky is in the role of his lifetime according to Scott Ritter. In order to live, he needs to continue to be useful to Russia. Once he’s negotiated away his unrealistic positions and is no longer useful to anyone on the world stage, he will try (probably successfully) to peddle his story to the whores in Hollywood and get all the money shots the rich and famous can lavish on him and his perverted entourage.
The cocksucker has gotten millions and like Pelosi bought a huge mansion in Florida to hide in.
GOOD !! BLOW THOSE DAMNED NAZIS STRAIT TO HELL SO THEY CAN HANG OUT WIT DER FUHRER. WE THOUGHT WE HAD WIPED THE FARGERS OUT AT THE END OF WW2 BUT THEY ARE LIKE A DISEASE THAT NEVER TRULY GOES AWAY.
NAZISM???
When it comes to generating lies that outlast the energizer bunny nobody can beat a Jew.
2,100 years ago they sold you on Christ being a Jew and that they were the chosen race and they were Semites.
500 years ago they sold you on Luther setting you free. That one spawned a love child called “Let them eat cake”.
235 years ago they sold you on “Of the People by the People and for the People”. That one spawned the war to free the slaves. The same slave peddlers then sold you on a degenerate family deserter named Schofield and his Pre-Trib rapture/Dispensationalism/Rightly dividing scripture deal.
Not to be outdone, a group of white bankers and industrialists joined the Jewskis and sold you on the Lusitania and then really outdid themselves when they sold you on Pearl Harbor. I’m already exhausted and we are only a month away from 1942.
They are all still going strong as well as a whole lot of other lies they sold you.
As Al Pacino said in Devils Advocate. “Capitalism” my favorite sin.
I thought it was “Vanity, my favorite sin” on the last scene. Of course, Devil’s Advocate had all seven of the deadly ones in it, didn’t it? That was one sinister plot.
Yes it was vanity on several scenes but the last one is most memorable. I slipped that in on purpose to get a rise out of any unsuspecting capitalism is great capitalism is good thank the Hebes for our food Amen crowd.
Absolutely foolish to blame Scofield. Go right to the source flea; blame the Bible itself, written LONG before CI published his notes on the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 9:17 KJB… “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.”
Ephesians 3:2 KJB… “If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:”
Colossians 1:25 KJB… “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;”
To neglect Paul and the information revealed to him by the risen and glorified Christ in Acts chapter 9 and beyond, is to reject outright what Christ is doing in the world today. This will end poorly for you and that’s a shame.
2 Timothy 2:15 KJB… “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Snarky hateful comebacks expected and welcomed.
After reading this, all I can say is fuck the Saker, fuck Ukes, and fuck Jews. This dude has always been a total asshole that thinks DC has anything to do with America.
We get tarred with the same brush as DC but it doesn’t stick to them.
What a crock of shit
The really funny part is, nobody here questions the narrative of Nazis vs. Denazification.
Azov are the fallguys.
Thank You Mr. Escobar,
Your writings are always full of historical facts in a clear and concise, easy to read format.
However, ‘Mackinderesque’, based on limited research, is no doubt going to be yet another revelation after i get a basic clue.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
The US sanctioned the Russian central bank and the Russians accelerated the depolarization of the world. The US will lose badly. On April 1st, 2022 a new interbank settlement system will be launched to service the Chinese, Russians, India, Brazil and many more countries. The all might dollar will go down in flames.
The problem is that this is by design. This is a controlled demolition. The dollar has to go down in flames so the can implement the digital currency and our enslavement.