Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
A large US/NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian army is being slowly defeated by a private Russian military company and Donbass militias. From the beginning the process has been one of slow village by village slug-fest. The question I continually raise is why does the Kremlin proceed in this way when the main result is to give the US/NATO time to get involved and to supply increasingly more effective and longer range weapons to Ukraine, thus both widening the war and causing higher Russian casualties. From a military standpoint, the Kremlin’s policy is nonsensical.
One consequence is that some are now theorizing a conspiracy between the US and Russia to create a war for some globalist or World Economic Forum reason. In other words, some are beginning to see the war as another hoax on mankind with an agenda different from the declared opposing agendas of Russia and US. This doesn’t help Putin’s reputation or Biden’s.
As there is no obvious explanation for the Kremlin’s delay of victory, this conspiracy theory explanation is gaining attention. John Helmer’s report from Moscow that President Putin signed a safe conduct pass for President Biden’s mission to Kiev is being interpreted as evidence of a conspiracy between Washington and Moscow. Helmer reports: “For the first time in the century of US warfare against Russia, a sitting US president has requested and received a formal ceasefire and safe conduct pledge (propusk) from the Kremlin in order for him to visit a third country.” https://johnhelmer.net/president-vladimir-putin-signed-safe-conduct-for-president-joseph-biden-one-return-przemysl-rail-pass-24-hour-leave-pass-for-kiev-in-covert-mission-to-fool-new-york-times-london/
The fact that the two leaders who have each declared the other to be completely untrustworthy are trusting one another’s word is inexplicable to many.
I am not ready to endorse the conspiracy theory, but I do remain puzzled why the Kremlin allows the war to metastasize rather than to commit the resources to end it quickly. For now I will stick to my emphasis that Putin’s inaction is the principal reason the war is widening. https://www.rt.com/russia/572493-us-ukraine-pilots-jets/
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What I understand is that it is against Russian law to send conscript soldiers to fight across that border unless there is a declaration of WAR first. Simple as that. And I read that on a Russian website.
I believe you are correct.
But inside Russia -as in the 4 new regions since 09/30/2022- it is already legal now.
What prevents them from amending tat law?
Since when has that stopped anyone?
Maybe PCR should run the war, since he thinks Putin is either a stooge or just plain inept.
PCR is a douche that orgasms for war and yet if handed a gun would went his pants and curl into a fetal position.
Agree…disregard all his shilling for the system.
Looks from this front porch like the Ruskies are destroying the Banderas Nazis and demilitarizing the west. Killing at a 10 to 1 ratio does not seem like losing.
There was no need for this killing and destruction.
Anyone know if Russians are being injured and falling over dead from the jab like in the rest of the world?
My question speaks to the fundamental nature of the Russian government — are they committing genocide on their population? If the Russian government is killing their own with a version of the clotshot, they are as untrustworthy as the US, England, Europe, NATO and the UN. And that means we are watching Kabuki theater.
Yep. They led the way with Sputnik V adenovirus gene therapy.
Just do a search for country name and ‘excess deaths.’
Or you can simply download the data from WHO.
They were mighty fast about unrolling one.
Who is to say it was not just saline, a shot to ease the mind but do no harm. The Russians are not dumb, no matter what hollywood says.
Wishful thinking. Figure out who they collaborated with on their ‘vaccine’ and it should become clear to you.
Scott Ritter: Russia never intended to steamroll Ukraine….
https://youtu.be/HC1kB3EMQ1o?t=99
Thats disappointing. What fun is there when one side won’t mindlessly throw their youth into a meat grinder? Just not fair I tell ya.
I guess we need to wait to find out if Vlad is the savior of Christianity or a WEF Judas goat. If Vlad is the head of the goat…then Americans are stuck being ruled over by the opposite end of the goat.
“opposite end of the goat”? For kreyst sakes, man-let’s leave Mayor Pete out of this-everyone’s so God damned fed up hearing about that pervert.
The policy of delayed military action makes sense if the strategy called for is bleeding the West’s economies.
The Russians and Chinese, along with much of the world, realize dangerous idiots are in charge and actively antagonizing them will be expensive.
Basically PCR thinks that because the Russians aren’t doing war the American way, they’re not doing it right.
And we haaave a winner!
No. What PCR is pointing out is that if Russia delays too long in seizing large swaths of Ukraine, NATO (the U.S.) will use the unoccupied part to pump in weapons and possibly troops to keep this war going as long as possible. Putin needs to end this soon by occupying most of Ukraine. He also needs to do it before Ukraine joins NATO. As far as war, Putin should be doing it the way the U.S. did it prior to the end of WWII. He should fight to win.
Russia is not fighting Iraq, or Afghanistan, where winning conventional battles for a modern army with superior communication, and weapon co-ordination, is fairly certain (although winning a war is not, as these countries switch to irregular warfare). Russia is fighting a NATO trained, and supplied army. It was always going to be a slugfest.
But they had the advantage early on to actually win. I certainly thought they had it in the bag. Unless they are a paper bear. Or they just weren’t trying, which would be in line with most wars for the last 70 odd years
Ask yourself: how would Israel have conducted the SMO if it were theirs to do?
Depends on their enemy. They usually do what seem to me to be punitive attacks in the middle east when the news has something that drowns out their actions. They also do bizarre psychological shit like their porn broadcasting back when. Lots of pants shitting if troops involved.
In the case of Ukraine, if they were running one side or the other but didn’t care who won… a gay ass ineffective meat grinder to kill white troops on both sides. They would certainly give it an acronym, and both sides would call each other the ultimate name of jewish enmity, the dreaded Nazi.
But that’s just crazy talk.