NATO Is Propagandizing Itself Into War

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Those who rely on Western media have the impression of a stalled Russian campaign in Ukraine with demoralized Russian soldiers deserting and surrendering to Ukrainians in order to get something to eat.  Russian soldiers are even allegedly shooting holes in the gasoline tanks of their motorized equipment so that they cannot advance, out of sympathy for the innocent Ukrainians.

This propaganda has been so effective on NATO that NATO is considering deploying troops in Western Ukraine where Russian troops are not operating.  This would be a fatal mistake, but propagandists usually end up believing their own propaganda.

To prove our solidarity with the official narrative, we in the West are supposed to believe only the narrative and not anything knowledgable commentators or the Russian Ministry of Defense say.  Only Russian agents and dupes believe the truth.

As I watch NATO blunder into war, I again dissent from the official narrative and present below the facts as announced today, March 25, by the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The results of the 1st month of the SVO from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

1. The offensive of the Russian troops disrupted the plans of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the DPR [Donetsk Republic] and LPR [Luhansk Republic] using artillery, missile systems and aviation.

2. On January 22, Russian intelligence intercepted the order of [Ukrainian] General Balan about the need to complete preparations for offensive operations by February 28, so that in March the Armed Forces of Ukraine could go on the offensive [against the republics] .

3. The [Russian] operation is progressing according to plan. The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have already been completed.

4. The main priority remains the preservation of the lives of the civilian population. [In territory of the republics where most of the fighting is, the population is mainly Russian.] Hence the tactics of high-precision strikes against the military infrastructure and armed forces of the enemy.

5. The [Russian] blockade of large cities ensures the fettering of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and prevents the Ukrainian command from transferring reinforcements to the Donbass [the area of the republics]. The main operation at the moment is in the Donbass. In the DPR and LPR, 276 settlements have already been liberated. 93% of the territory of the LPR and 54% of the territory of the DPR were liberated. The group now defending in Mariupol has more than 7,000 people.

6. Air supremacy was won by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the first two days of the operation. The organized air defense system, the Ukrainian Air Force and the Ukrainian Navy actually ceased to exist.

7.[Russia] destroyed up to 70% of all military stocks of Ukraine as a result of systematic attacks on warehouses. Destroyed 30 key objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine. 68% of the enterprises where military equipment was repaired have already been destroyed. At the same time, since the beginning of the NMD, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 127 bridges.

8. All organized reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been put into action, there are no new ones. Hence the stake on the mobilization of an untrained contingent. In Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 6,595 foreign mercenaries are fighting.

9. Total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the month of the operation. About 14,000 killed and about 16,000 wounded (total losses of the AFU [Armed Forces Ukraine] grouping in Donbass amount to 26% of the personnel). Out of 2416 tanks and armored fighting vehicles combat-ready as of February 24, 1587 were destroyed in a month. Out of 152 military aircraft, 112 were destroyed, out of 149 helicopters – 75, out of 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones, 35 were destroyed. Out of 180 S-300s and Buk M1 – 148, out of 300 radars for various purposes – 117.

The Russian Defense Ministry will promptly respond to any attempts to close Ukrainian airspace for the Russian Aerospace Forces.

10. According to the RF MoD [Russian Federation Ministry of Defense], at least 10 Ukrainian naval mines are now drifting uncontrollably in the Black Sea, posing a threat to shipping.

11. The Russian Defense Ministry transferred captured weapons to the DPR and LPR. Among other things, 113 tanks and 138 Jevelin anti-tank systems were transferred.

More than 23,000 applications have been received from citizens of 37 states wishing to fight for the DNR and LNR. There are also a lot of such applications from Russian citizens.

12. Official [Russian] losses since the beginning of the NWO [the Russian intervention in Ukraine]. Killed – 1351. Wounded – 3825.

13. The operation will continue until the full implementation of all goals.

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Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze

All of this death could have been avoided if NATO/USA had given a written pledge that Ukraine would never join NATO and that the Minsk II agreement, signed by Ukraine and three NATO countries and ratified by the UN security council, would be implemented. The West wanted this war badly, certainly more than Russia did.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

NATO reminds me of a pyromaniac who is a fireman, job security for the military industrial pharmaceutical complex.

Jdog
Jdog

Actually, it is the CIA that starts the fires, and NATO who destroys the country claiming to try to put out the fires.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Most people have already forgotten the fake pandemic , and government tyranny.
It serves its purpose.

Jdog
Jdog

There was still the issue of the fanatical Nazi attacks on Russian areas of the country. Russia only crossed the border when Ukraine had amassed all its troops to attack Russian majority areas, and a major attack was imminent. As Putin said, Ukraine had to be de Nazified and that required boots on the ground.

WTF
WTF

Western media is and has been completely corrupt for a long time. If it wasn’t for the stupidity of the average American and their propensity for television, and direct government payments to the MSM, they would have ceased to exist years ago. It just amazes me at the capacity for sheeple to absorb lies.

Walt
Walt

I feel sorry for that last drone. How must it feel knowing it’s the last of its kind?
Sad, just sad.

flash
flash

When you see it…
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Doc MartinAnonymous
Doc MartinAnonymous

Speaking as a patriotic American combat vet who was 100 miles from Havana during the Cuban Crisis, behind the wall in 1964 Berlin and in the jungles of Vietnam I hope Putin slaughters the Nazi Ukrainian rulers who planned to put nukes 3 minutes from Moscow and expected Putin to do nothing about it.

Junious Ricardo Stanton

Mr. Roberts seems to have altered his stance on what is happening in Ukraine, good. The Russians know what they are doing and they are doing it with an eye to minimizing human lives. War is hell, Putin did what he had t o do to spare lives and save the people of Donbass. The morons in the US/NATO hierarchy want war, what they’ve called “a manageable war” it’s part of their depopulation and hegemonic agenda. But their war plans will blow up in their faces just like the COVID scam is unraveling. Just like the post 9-11 color coded threat alerts played out so too is COVID fading, despite the heavy toll is has taken on us psychologically. People are no longer falling for the kill shot okey-doke. Booster jabs are falling. https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2022/2/24/22947388/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-hesitancy
Soon the Zombies will realize the sanctions and economic warfare being waged against Russia will boomerang on them in the form of hyper inflation, food shortages, an accelerated decline in their “lifestyle”. The warmongers and profiteers are the only ones who will benefit from the war and the people may soon wake up to this reality and there will be repercussions.

Daniel Benson
Daniel Benson

As in all wars, including the American revolution, propaganda is how each side supports it’s war effort. It’s the way it has been , it’s the way it is and will be.

Yes, the west and Ukraine has clearly spun the facts for it’s own benefit and made up facts as well. Russia has a long history of nothing but distorting the truth and lies in their propaganda, just look at the Russian revolution and the lies it told the Russian people to what happened in the Chernobyl explosion. To think since that time Russia has repented of it’s propaganda sins in a come to Jesus moment are truly deceived. The truth is we don’t know the truth no one does as far as the details but the big picture is very clear.

The truth is, Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan are the battlegrounds for the NWO empire to get rid of their competitors, Russia China and their allies. Russia and China want to stop this and replace the west as the dominate power in the coming NWO. If Russia can regain its empire and China totally control the pacific, and have significant influence in Africa and South America they will be in a position to dominate the NWO. The west knows this and sees this as the nations whom they invited in to play this game together and they have now rebelled and the west is trying to get the game back in control. On the other hand the west when they invited them into the game, they (Russia and China) did not realize the rules of the game were rigged in favor of the west and it’s no wonder the east rebelled.

There are no good guys in this fight, it’s a fight for power and control as all wars are. But this war is for all the marbles of the future and no one wants to share.

WWI was created to bring in the League of Nations to bring world peace and it failed.
WWII was created to bring in the United Nations and its failing.
WWIII is being created to bring world peace and it will fail, this will not end well.

Jdog
Jdog

Power corrupts, because the more power grows, the more separated from reality the powerful become. Historically, the fall of every empire has come when those in charge failed to recognize what was really happening, and instead based their decisions and actions on what they wanted to happen, or what they thought was happening.
That is where the US is now. The massive bureaucracy known as the US government does not realize to what extent it is hated, by it’s allies as well as it’s enemies. It even lacks the support of the majority of its own citizens.
Its leaders believe they are invincible, and that there will never be repercussions for their criminal actions.
They are failing to comprehend reality, they do not see the animosity, and therefore will not be able to defend against the reprisal of those who have been subjugated by them for so long when the opportunity arrives.

Jdog
Jdog

Study their history. AZOV is a byproduct of OUN whos roots go all the way back to WW2. The Nazi’s never were exterminated, they were able to survive and rebuild in Ukraine.

Anonymous
Anonymous

They’re just not as good at it as you would be.

Cyber Criminal
Cyber Criminal

Western Ukraine does not have a Russian military presence for a reason, one that should be clear to antone with a strategic or military mindset.

Although there are hundreds of Russian tanks and 10s of 1000’s of Russian soldiers holding just above western Ukraine in Belarus, they have not entered, even though they could easily, perhaps even easier than they did in the east which was fortified and protected.

The Russians have not entered the west because NATO can only enter Ukraine from the west, so the entire region has been left as a potential “Free Fire” or “Tactical Strike Zone” for either massive conventional bombardment or the use of tactical nuclear missiles.

If NATO enters Ukraine the entire west of the country gets the same treatment the bases with the mercs got – complete obliteration (with the choice of convential or nuclear munitions being the Russians choice).

Leethal
Leethal

Communism should be OUTLAWED and its leaders arrested for oppression, thievery, and murder. Any questions?

Anonymous
Anonymous

You can make that same argument for government in general…..

Leethal
Leethal

Yes, I was waiting for someone to say what about US? But we have some type of consciousness where these guys have absoul’tely NONE. AND that’s scary……

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