History has a way of shifting when we least expect it. Empires crash and fall, not because of some sort of external enemy, but rather from squandering their capital on misadventures without realizing just how powerful their enemies truly are. If Afghanistan was a reminder of how weak the US position is around the world, Ukraine appears to be the moment the world realized just how naked the emperor truly is.
From the beginning of the current conflict in Ukraine we have been told that Russia cannot possibly win. The evidence for that was the failed Russian siege of Kiev. It was a failure only for the social media platforms and MSM. Real war always involves measure and potential for loss and misfortune. The difference between the victors and losers is the ability to pivot in real time and recalculate and recalibrate to assure victory.
Putin and his military have done that. They have refocused entirely on freeing the Donbas – the area that had been the casus belli for invading Ukraine from the beginning. With Mariupol now under the control of Russia (save for those fighters and civilians holed up in the Azovstal Steel Plant), Russian forces can undertake the long awaited pincer move from the South and the North against Ukrainian troops in the Donbas.
Soon the majority of Ukrainian troops will be cut off and defeated by Russian troops – handing not just the Donbas, but probably everything East of the Dnieper River over to Russia. This will not only be a defeat for Ukraine, ultimately splitting the country in half, but it will be a defeat for NATO – most notably the USA.
The Biden administration is trying to rush billions of dollars of aid in weapons to Ukraine, but Russia has figured out how to destroy the aid before it gets to Ukraine’s East.
With the splitting of Ukraine into East and West, Russia can claim victory and NATO will look like a failure. Odessa will be the only access to the sea for a very shrunken Ukraine. With Russian forces to the West in Moldova’s break away republic of Transinistria and sitting close in the Donbas, Odessa will fall as well.
The USA is on a decline. Wasting more money and weapons on a war that was primarily designed to weaken Russia, will only quicken the pace of the collapse. NATO’s reaction to the war caused China to draw close to Russia and drove Russians to support Putin.
Russia and China have succeeded in turning NATO into a broken alliance, addicted to Russian oil and cheap goods from Chinese factories. The USA may not be dependent on Russian oil, but the petrodollar needs to be the sole power over the oil trade to stay afloat and even that is gone.
So why is the USA focused on keeping the war going with more weapons?
Biden’s government and those in the elitist World Economic Forum have long seen a post American world order, where governments control the citizens’ wealth and reset how economies are run. With inflation increasing and food prices rising rapidly, a war between Ukraine and Russia, which together make up a third of global grain exports will drive the price of food and energy so high that Western governments will be the only address for their citizens’ salvation.
We are told that Russia is the reason for inflation and soaring food and energy prices, but the war – designed and prolonged by NATO appears to be the real reason. Conflict breeds anarchy and anarchy always brings a new order. While Russia and China spread their authoritarian wings across Eurasia, the West appears ready to descend into a new order of its own. This order will be a bizarre neo-fascism, where government plays the role of God and the determiner of our fate.
The world has long past the point of dystopia. It is now just confusing and dark. However, freedom has always rested into the minds and hearts of the individual rather than governments are as fallible as the collective elite running them. America as a bureaucracy may be dying, but the ideals of its founders and the bible they based much of their ideas on are eternal and can be carried by the individual no matter where they are found in the world.
Herbert Jenkins, the Publisher, wrote some books about Alfred Bindle and his friend called Ginger Dick. There were very hunourous, almost rivalling those of W.W.Jacobs.
There is a Ginger Dick on this site that no information can please. Argues ad infinitum, and mostly incoherently. Now the sap is mumbling, who knows about what??. Generally, to make it simple, after a war the victors and the defeated make Peace Treaties. the victors may, usually do demand compensation and damages, the vanquished have to pay- or else……..
After WW1 The Treaty of Versailles officially ended the War between the Allies and Germany. Other treaties ended hostilities between the Central Powers and the other Allies. Restitution and penalties were demanded, Land masses were restored or taken away, Like Alsace Lorraine, was restored to France after having been occupied by Prussia since `1870. It was a hugely industrial and wealthy area. Germany was disarmed and its military forces severely reduced. Militarism as a credo, was abolished.
Some thought the penalties were excessive, others, like the French, thought they were too lenient. In the end, nobody was satisfied and new treaties were made……..
(one of the ways that Germany overcame this, was to establish riding, flying, hiking and other outdoor clubs, which were secretly training their young men/women in a military way to have a ready-made nucleus of an army for WW2.).
The French, still smarting from 1870 and exultant now, wanted the Allies to make their Victory March in Berlin, composed of the wounded, crippled War remnants, to show the proud Germans who they had been defeated by. Britain refused this.
Anyway, this Ginger Dick if anyone listens, it’s for politeness sake.. …….
Me, I’m anything but polite. I call a spade a spade and a fool a Ginger Dick..
Some German historians are of the opinion that it did, and some are of the opinion that it didn’t.
Anyway, what then the Treaty of Versailles was all about?
Was it merely about torturing the poor, innocent Germany (even though one might argue that the treaty’s conditions were too harsh), or did Germany actually do something that made everyone else very mad, and made them come up with the harshest punishment possible?
@PELONI-
Yes you are quite right. To catch an enemy with their backs to a river or sea would be devastating. In fact, another Lake Trasimene.
Gallieni was indeed unfortunate. He had been the superior of Jofre, and when unretired, found that Jofre was becoming the Supreme Commander. .
He didn’t care for Jofre, he once said that he was “all stomach and no brains”..(paraphrased). And in fact this proved over time to be true, But he was replaced by worse. In fact, the Allies muddled through more by the innate weakness of the Central Powers (especially the “sick man of Europe”) than their own military skills. They were singularly unfortunate in their generals as a rule, seemingly picking dunderheads like Haig, instead of more skilled like Plumer, Monash and Allenby.
French politics played a huge part with excellent generals being overlooked for more politically pliant ones. And the Allies were very fortunate that Von Lettow Vorbeck was solely kept in German East Africa
Meinertzhagen wrote much about him. He was then known as “The Grey Wolf”, also “The Lion of Africa”.
I seem to recall that Mustafa Kemal was also known by that name..?? In fact I have a biography of him sonewhere, under that title, which I haven’t seen for about 60 years.
One thing, I recall, the Turks, behind fortifications were very tenacious and excellent soldiers, but the very opposite in the field.
It looks like soon we won’t be able to discuss much here:
@Edgar
I read some on him many years ago, fascinated with his Taxi tactic. Gallieni was an interesting fellow with a rather successful career that started out on the wrong foot.
It was his bad luck to have been a German prisoner in the Franco-Prussian War and retired just before WWI, so retirement was cut quite short as a result, LOL. I recall reading that Gallieni’s brilliant Taxi innovation was timed just a little too early to achieve even a greater victory than he had in saving Paris. It was stated that had he been just a little more delayed he could have met the Germans on the near side of the Marne with a combined force of his with that of Joffre and they two could have annihilated the German forces rather than them being allowed to simply withdraw intact. A pivotal moment in history where one side or the other might have achieve a devastating victory was still a French victory, and quite a tale as well, but less so than catching the Germans against the Marne at their back.
I have often wondered as to the likelihood of this actually succeeding, and suspect that the need of clockwork precision timing combined with the miserable faithfulness of luck in that terrible war might just as likely have failed and led to the dismal occupation of Paris, and maybe also Gallieni’s second chance of being a German prisoner of war, LOL.
Very likely this was part of the everlasting war of personalities between Joffre and Gallieni over whose ego threw a greater shadow. The pettiness of wartime generals is always a factor in such off battlefield attacks launched at one another and too often gets carried forward into the historical reviews written years or generations into the future as well. Still, I found this criticism of his brilliant innovation to have potentially presented an interesting possibility that could have had a profound effect upon the length and ill effects of that silly, petty, brutal, overly long war – with either side possibly winning LOL.
@Felix
So hear me out before you ignore me, if you would.
By ignoring those with whom you do not agree, you isolate them from any input or potential benefit from your own wisdom and knowledge. Likewise you penalize yourself with a poorer understanding of those you despise so intently that you would subjugate them to the penalty of censorship from challenging you in any way. The consequence is that, like two boxers forced to their own corners, there is but one possible outcome, and this is some form of violent resolution where might makes right, but only in so far as we might judge right to be more powerfully situated, and this is unfortunately far too often found to be untrue.
Hence, while the echo chamber effect in which you seek solace and piece of mind may be pleasing to the ear and mind, it does evade the heavy lifting of actually interacting in a peaceful conversation and potentially winning an ally whose only dispute with you is that you misunderstood them or they misunderstood you, or, more commonly, you are each deceived of the others true intentions or knowledge.
The greatest achievement of the Cuban Missile Crisis was not that war was avoided at the time, but that an open dialogue was demonstrated to be beneficial to the objective of avoiding hostilities, and that this could be expected to be employed in future situations of similar levels of threat.
It is a great failing that such voiced interactions have failed to move forward from the Cold War, for it could have resulted in a Warm Peace, rather than what I would describe as an Echo Chamber of a very Cold Peace where corruption and posturing was the only language successfully shared between East and West.
Feel free to ignore me or to interact as your sensitivities seem suited towards, but I challenge you to think thru your desire of listening to only your own thoughts even if you allow them the liberty of being voiced by other people. Life is too complicated to be resolved in any echo chamber and violence should be avoided if at all possible within every reasonable attempt, and I submit that your agree-with-me-only conversations as described above are not making every reasonable attempt, and that is, in itself, a great pity.
Some stunning (in my opinion) new here – the “hyena of Europe” (Churchill) comes back with the vengeance?
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,@Peloni
About who is Fascist or not I consider anyone who supports or agrees with Fascism to be Fascist
I also believe all parties in America are Fascist Parties not yet in home politics but in international politics.
So to place nukes on the border of Russia is Fascism.
That is modern Fascism. It says one rule for us but not you. Witness Cuba 1962.
So those defending this evil well they have to be Fascists.
So I want to discuss only with those who oppose this precise thing that I call Fascist.
The nukes on the border is the issue and please do not engage with me if you don’t think that is the issue
@PELONI-
I just recalled, re;WW1 that I have a old biography, of King Peter of Serbia, I remember his handsome, pleasant looking features with his white handlebar moustache, and his very liberal rule. He was described as living a very plain life, and regarded himself more as a tribal chief than a crowned king.
Also General Gallieni and his army of taxicabs which turned the tide in the 1st Battle of the Marne..
@Reader
By “the West” in this context I am really speaking of the power Oligarchs who seem to be electing themselves with more and more reckless abandon, or as you describe them:
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But I really do believe they would prefer a return to the Yeltsin era to saddle the public with debt and economic capture over eliminating them. But many would disagree with me and agree with you, which I do understand. To your point, I may simply not be able to think like them, and I take a great compliment in this fact. If it weren’t so sad I could find some humor in it all. Very regrettable situation.
@peloni
Depends on what you mean by “the West”.
If you mean the hundreds of millions of the citizens of the West – probably not.
However, the wars are fought not in their interests but in the interests of the very tiny and powerful elites who nurse bizarre ideas of cutting down the Earth population, having full and virtually unlimited control over this population, etc. and making unlimited amounts of money while doing all this.
They simply don’t think the way we do, and we are like nothing to them.
Let your imagination run wild, and try to imagine what would happen if the Germans won WWII and signed a peace agreement with the US.
I think this is pretty much what they are aiming for now (if you don’t get the hint, google “Generalplan Ost”).
@Reader
Well we are just guessing, but I don’t believe it would be in the West’s interest to do as you suggest and break the one nation into many or murder off their inhabitants while they could economically subjugate them, but as I say it is not something we can gain much certainty on.
However, you did mention that
And this is true, and it has empowered Putin all the more. This has all played very well for the old KGB leader. I would never bet against him. But I still am not entirely certain he won’t lose either.
@Edgar
Nicely described.
I believe that had old King Edward never died, there would never have been a war. He was soundly respected by all and made a great referee for his ridiculously spoiled and petulant younger family members. Actually, had there been a war or two or three in the past 50 yrs, it might have save many lives overall, as everyone was so sick of peace that they couldn’t get into the war fast enough, even as none of them were particularly skilled at the feat they had so long left unpracticed. A really troubled sad expression of a family left to lead the era into what was thought would be the worst and the last war, and was soon shown that this was wrong on both points. Fascinating period of history though.
@peloni
The definition of the word “destroy” is in any dictionary.
What else would you call the completely unprecedented, synchronized, endless sanctions (planned years ago with the aim to weaken Russia) completely out of proportion to the event in question, provoked by NATO, accompanied by the unending supply of weapons to Ukraine, encouraging the Ukrainian government to continue fighting Russia instead of negotiating including telling Ukraine to hit the Russian territory, sending foreign mercenaries to fight in Ukraine, the recent terrorist activity in Russia and Moldova, etc., and there seems to be no end to this?
Don’t you think this is a bit too much for a simple regime change which the US is usually so good at?
Another reason I think the goal is to destroy Russia is that a major project is underway to isolate Russia, so the West (at least) wouldn’t be dependent on it for anything – this way if Russia were to disappear as a country, its enemies/attackers wouldn’t suffer any damage, and the isolation is meant to be not just the economic one but also physical and cultural.
And yet another reason which makes me think the West seeks to destroy Russia is that it already stole hundreds of billions of $$ of Russian money including its gold reserves stored in foreign countries, they even confiscated the property of the Russian citizens, the so-called oligarchs.
Besides, the last two years made the citizens of the US and Europe angry, miserable, and often impoverished which makes it easier to turn them into cannon fodder.
I am convinced that what is being done now is a continuation of WWII with the aim to conquer “Eurasia” (and, possibly, finish off the Jews this time – by sheer accident, of course).
GERMANY ….LOST two World Wars, but it did NOT start WW1.
There were a series of events before the War which inevitably led to it. France, still smarting from their massive defeat in 1870, changed their military goals to become aggressive with :elan”…there was the Balkan wars which removed those states from the Ottoman Empire, and still full of secret societies and assassinations.
Then the grand-nephew of Franz Josef, the Austrian Emperor, and heir to the Throne was, with his wife, assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Prinzip a Bosnian-Serb, who may have been a member of the notorious Black Hand, which was deeply involved. Austria-Hungary made impossible demands and an ultimatum, on Serbia which were ignored, so declared war against Serbia. Germany was an ally of Austria-Hungary, so mobilised, keen to try out it’s long held Schleiffen Plan.
Russia was the Protector of Serbia, and mobilised, to her aid. So Russia’s ally, eager France followed suit. Britain. although allied to both, had freedom of will, but reacted to Germany’s invasion of Belgium, which Britain had an agreement to defend if need be. So Britain went to war.
It was an “all roads lead to Rome ” sort of sliding into chaos for the next 4 years+.
@Felix
Your loose definition of Fascism warps the meaning, dilutes its harm, and excuses the real criminals as victims by your associating us with them. Your claim that everyone who disagrees with you is a Fascist, merely portrays yourself as a bit unbalanced at minimum. Come down of your high borne horse and act as one of the humans you disdain so much that you can not read our writings, nor demean yourself by offering a civil response. We are none of us Fascists. For you to suggest that any of us are such odious pies, makes you a wanton fool and I know you hold too great an intellect for that to be easily believed. Come, prove me wrong, one way or the other.
@Reader
I don’t know what your definition of the word ‘destroy’ means here. I believe their objective is two-fold.
1) A return of the control over the world by the dollar and the unipolar hegemony of the US, neither of which will happen. Like the nuclear bomb, the genie is out of the bottle and there is no going back, just trying to navigate going forward.
2) A return to the Yeltsin model of soaking the Russian public as was being played out in Ukraine prior to the invasion.
Perhaps they would also move to break up Russia, but of this I am uncertain, but I believe this is your belief. Doing so would make controlling it more difficult so I don’t agree, but it is just my opinion of course. I also don’t agree that they intend a more sinister end for the Russian people as the Ukrainian Nazi’s would like to pursue, if this is your thought, as their would be no Russian people to soak as in #2 above.
@Reader
This is simply not true.
It is also not true that Germany alone is responsible for WWI. We can discuss this at length, but it is a long subject and blame of this war has many fathers, not just one.
@Reader
That was my point. Russia is well enough positioned economically to threaten to withhold her oil product if her customers do not pay in rubles. Essentially, Putin is forcing the American threat of severing economic ties with Russia into existence.
Here is the irony: The US states they are placing devastating sanctions on Russia to punish Russia for her invasion, but allows energy to still be traded as a loophole in the sanctions due to EU allies dependency on Russian oil, but Russia refuses to acknowledge the loophole. Russia has long wanted to end the US control of trade, ie the US ability to use her control of the dollar willy nilly to penalize the Russians, but Russia could not do so on her own due to the hardship it would cause to her citizens. So, despite the allowance of the loophole, Russia has seized the opportunity to ignore the loophole with the full support of her citizens given the US has now taken responsibility for the economic hurt being placed on the Russian people.
Looking more broadly at the situation the Russian public see it as this: Russia is supporting her Russo-allies in the Dombas after 8yrs of being brutalized and the US stole her gold reserves and severed trade between East and West but the Ruble is stabilizing and the gas revenues are at record highs. If it weren’t so devastating to everyone, it might be something to laugh at.
Meanwhile, Russia is cancelling the loophole one state at a time, but it is more complicated than this because the oil pipelines are not entirely specific to a single nation. Therefore, to stop the flow to Poland, it will reduce the flow to other states as well, compounding the economic pressure and increasing the price of gas. For Russia it is a win-win scenario born out of the unchecked arrogance and unbridled stupidity of the American power establishment’s greed and enmity. Of course, the whole world will suffer for it, likely in more ways than we are comfortable considering.
I do not read a lot of this stuff here. Why should I?
These are Fascists of differing types on Israpundit not all but many.
There is only the one issue when all the words pass. That is the United States of America wanting to destroy Putin and Russia.
I see nowhere on Israpundit except from Reader a determination to protect and defend Putin and through defending Putin defence of Russia from NATO.
Show me that and I’ll talk with you.
CORRECTION
“Germany was excused” should read “people keep trying to excuse Germany for starting two world wars and keep justifying Germany’s behavior”.
@peloni
Is it anything new?
Most Americans greatly admire the Nazi army for bravely fighting to protect the Western Civilization from the barbaric Soviet hordes in WWII who, for some inexplicable reason, chased the Nazi army back into Germany at the end of WWII instead of stopping at the borders of the USSR, or even better, lying back and thinking of England when the war started (the way the whole of Europe did).
The US saved the Nazis and Nazi collaborators after the war and let them come to the US.
Germany was rewarded with the Marshall Plan after the war, and most of the Nazi criminals were amnestied by the US occupation administration in the early 50s.
Germany was excused from starting two world wars in 25 years which killed 80 million people and wounded or maimed countless others.
It’s the “commies” or the “Russians” and Serbs (who fought the Nazis) who are the devils, not the nice, civilized Nazis!
@peloni
They are focusing on destroying Russia, and I mean destroying the whole country with its ~150 million people.
After that, they will turn their attention to the CCP, etc.
@peloni
Russia stopped the deliveries because Bulgaria and Poland refused to pay in rubles.
@Sebastien
Thank you for your kind words. I spent a good bit of time trying to trim down something that was much longer, so I am very pleased it wasn’t too hard to follow, even as it was still pretty long.
@Peloni. Well said and very articulately, too.
@Adam
In the list of reasons Russia had a right to respond as she did should be added that Russia is a nuclear power with security concerns that should have been addressed as the US did in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Instead, Russia’s call for redress were thwarted with the antics of an unbridled NATO who ignored Russia’s security concerns and used the Ukrainians as a proxy to draw Putin into this war. They are still using them as their proxy even now as the Ukrainians have lost the greatest divisions in her army, actually.
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NATO is an American tool. If war broke out with NATO, it would be the US that decided to honor or default on the Article 5 of NATO’s charter. This is what was meant when Nuland said “F*** the EU” – it is a simple fact that the US is the only voice that the US listens to, and as the sole world power, they are the only power that Europe considers worthy of their short attention span. But Zelensky controls them? No, I do not believe this, not for a moment.
Also why did Zelensky’s policy abruptly change after Trump left office, calling to take control of the Crimea from Russia. Why is the US not focusing on ending this war with a negotiated settlement, not even suggesting it? Nuland and her hatchet crew are back in power and as they said in 2014 “F*** the EU” as they moved to regime change Ukraine, today they are saying “F*** everyone” to regime change Russia. They are destroying the world economies, splintering US hegemony and ignoring the CCP while focusing on removing Putin at all cost, and the cost is going to be sizeable, and may still fail to achieve their goals. They mean to have this war and it looks convincingly that they will continue the escalations towards this outcome.
It is true that Russia invaded Ukraine, but the recognition of Dombas independence, changes this reality. Something you seem to have missed in your comments is the 8yrs of bloodshed that led to this current invasion and the massive increase in bombardment that began in the weeks prior to Russia’s invasion. So it is true that Ukraine did not invade Russia, but they did invade Dombas and significantly increased their bombardment there in January. The Dombas nations were made treaty allies to Russia, thereby providing a far tighter case of the self-defense under Article 51 of the UN charter than was used by NATO when championing the KLA against Serbia, or when championing Al Quida against Libya.
Finally, regarding your 3 assumptions of why some might support Russia, none of these have influenced me, though they are clearly all concerning. Here are the reasons I find Russia had a right to respond as she did:
1) NATO violated Article 2 of the Budapest Memorandum which guaranteed the political independence of Ukraine with the US led 2014 coup .
2) NATO violated Article 3 of the Budapest Memorandum with the 2014 coup by employing economic coercion in the form of their coup placing EU economics over that of Ukraine’s democratically elected govt who had previously decided to go with Russia’s economic package.
3) Ukraine violated Article 1 of the Budapest Memorandum by ignoring the rights of their minority citizens as guaranteed under the CSCE with their 8yrs of refusal to institute the UN Minks accords while continuing to make war on the Dombas, complete with a massive buildup in forces/attacks.
4) Under the NATO model of self defense by collective parties, the organization between Russia/Lugahnz/Donetz Russia had a stronger claim to self defense than NATO as I described just previously.
One more topic that greatly concerns me is the trivialization of supporting a nation, not made up of Nazi’s, but that accepts and venerates Nazi’s, incorporates Nazi battalions into there army and holds Nazi members up to the world as if this was not contemptible. While Zelensky is arresting his opposition which is the opposition to the Nazi’s, he is honoring the Azov. The trivializing of calls for racial purity while supporting a govt that bows supplicates to political violence of these racial purists is a terrifying reality that I never believed I would see, but it is definitely here.
I appreciate you reading and responding to both my prior comments and look forward to any comments you might share regarding this current one.
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@Adam
I appreciate your response very much. There is a lot to cover, but it is better to discuss what we can than simply live in our separate universes, so lets look at this.
You wrote:
The US did not conquer Ukraine, and i don’t think I said as much, not in the context of 1991 in any event. Ukraine, along with Russia, chose to divorce themselves from their Soviet structure and shortly afterwards to separate even from their common association after the failed plot to restore Soviet control. Following this, the US, in the guise of market reform, manipulated the control of the Russian-state assets to profit the few against the whole of the Russian people, while also benefiting the Americans managing the situation. This corrupt practice was simultaneously executed in both Russia and Ukraine under the control of the HIID, and the oligarchic system was borne in both states with ruinous effects. With the fall of Yeltsin, Putin instituted some control over the Russian oligarchs with a significant repair to the govt control of the govt, while Ukraine’s govt was simply passed back and forth between their oligarchs with the ebb and flow of illegal influence of the US, first in the Orange Revolution and more drastically in 2014.
Hence, your above statement may be mistakenly referencing the Nuland sponsored overthrow of the Yanukovych govt in 2014. During this violation of the Budapest Memorandum, the Nazi menace was employed to overthrow the govt, and then refused to accept the US settlement without their membership in the state power structure. This came to cause the Odessa Massacre, the lack of legal response to these murders and later that year the outbreak of the civil war. The US did sponsor and design this coup of the legitimate Ukrainian govt. The Nuland and other leaked audio, released weeks before the actual coup, describing the content of the new govt, proves this fact. Furthermore, the Nuland audio has never been contested by the US. Due to the Nazi demands, among other things, Parubiy, co-founder of the Social Nationalists(Nazi) party was made head of the NSDC which is responsible for domestic policing among other security issues. In the coming months the rise of Azov and its feudal attack on fellow citizens without state authority came to be honored by its full incorporation as a govt authority w/o changes to its Nazi structure by the authority of Interior Minister Avakov. This was coincidentally done for all the Far Right volunteer battalions, some of which were even more notorious than Azov, eg see Tornado. [FYI, the claim that they were attacking Russian troops is easily false as they specifically marched pass the Crimea where the real Russian troops were actually located.]
The Nazi’s used the threat of a second Maidan to control the succeeding govts. They threatened Porshenko, they attacked Porshenko, they threatened Zelensky’s life and ignored his orders while threatening his life again. The threat of political violence was real and no one in Ukraine at least has ignored this reality even as many around the world seem content to pretend complete ignorance while plying Zelensky with great tributes of praise, cash and arms, simply because he opposes Putin. This is not enough to gain my support of his regime.
As far as Zelensky running NATO, how is this remotely possible when he couldn’t even control his own army to withdraw from the line of battle to comply with the Minsk accords which were sponsored by the Europeans. The whole of Europe would not listen to the US, but they would listen to this leader of the plutocratic Ukraine who couldn’t control his own army? I find this quite dubious.
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@Adam If Canada decided to revoke Quebec’s autonomy and make English the only official language, and after all negotiations failed, Quebec seceded, Canda began shelling Quebec, killing thousands, and the US invaded Canada again, whose right to self-determination would you consider?
humor https://youtu.be/cC1f2e6Kk7c
@Adam I played a gig in a Ukrainian church that had a children’s play in Ukrainian featuring a medieval solder in armor with a sword and a spear confronting a Jew sporting horns and a tail, and I worked in a xerox shop where I had to wait on these old Ukrainian men copying their propaganda defending John Demjanjuk. Are they better over there now?
@Adam I saw “Servant of the People” season 1 on Netflx, Wish they would air the remaining 3 seasons and I know the story. He named his party after the show. Only that first resolution one was in 2016. Zelensky was elected in 2019. The music was also first rate. Loved that show. Funny, cute, and inspiring.
Maybe we should ask Jerry Seinfeld to be president? Though actually Trump has endorsed Dr. Oz for reason. He also had a great show. Very popular.
@Sebastien. These anti-Israel votes by Ukraine in 2016 were during Porushenko’s administration, not Zelensky’s.
The usual explanation for Zelensky’s victory in the 2019 election is that he played an “ordinary” Russian who is elected president of Ukraine in a long-running TV serial that was immensively popular with Ukrainian audiences. In the TV serial, the Zelensky character tries to root out corruption in the Ukrainian government. When Zelensky then decided to actually run for president, many Ukrainians identified him with the character he played on TV and voted for him.
It is possible that some Ukrainians did vote for Zelensky because he is Jewish, both to obtain Israeli support, and what they might have considered more important, mobilizing the “Israel lobby” in the U.S. to support Ukraine in the Doubass-Crimea disputes.
It is interesting that Zelensky got 72 percent of the vote, his main opponent Porushenko got 27 percent. The vote for Porushenko was very close to to the result of polls conducted by U.S. Jewish organizations conducted in Ukraine aimed at identifying how many Ukrainians had anti-Semitic attitudes. These polls found that between 25 and 30 percent of those polled had antisemitic attitudes, while more than 70 per cent did not have antisemitic attitudes. That would seem to suggest that the 2019 presidential election amounted to a referendum on whether a Jew was qualified to be president of Ukraine, and/or whether Ukrainian Jews were genuine Ukrainians. The majority of voters in effect voted “yes” to both of these questions.
@David Marks. The Western support for Ukraine in the war has “prolonged” the conflict. But I see no evidence that the Western powers “designed” the conflict. The Russians did that.
The “New World Order” is myth. True , the Shwab-Davos group hopes to create a New World Order ruled by themselves. But they are a long way from achieving this goal.
I hope David is right that the ‘king of the Jews” (i.e. the Messiah) will soon appear and vanquish Israel’s enemies. However, I don’t see any evidence for his immanent arrival.
@Adam 14 yeses and 3 abstentions in UN votes to condemn Israel. Though Bibi got Zelensky to withdraw from rhe UNHRC. They want Israel’s help. That’s probably the only reason why they elected a Jew.
@Adam The war began when Russia recognized the Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples Republics who have been suffering destruction at the hands of the Ukrainian government aided by fascist paramilitary for 8 years with no end in sight having violated Minsk Accords 1 and 2, not to mention the Ukrainian Constitution which was overthrown in 2014 which gave those non-Ukrainian speaking areas autonomy. Do you dispute that? (That being said, since both Ukraine and Russia have repeatedlly sided with the Fakestinians against Israel combined with their own intertwined genocidal history, I say a plague on both their houses. We just need to get our people out.}
“In December 2016, Ukraine as a non-permanent member of United Nations Security Council voted in favor of resolution 2334, which criticised Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank territories. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry considered the Resolution’s text balanced since it also urged the Palestinian side to adopt measures to counter terrorism[11] and Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko compared Israel’s settlement of the West Bank to the Russian occupation of Crimea. Israel in reaction cancelled a planned visit of the Ukrainian prime minister in Israel.[12]”
Ukraine-Israel Relations Wikipedia
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@peloni. Just resuming my reply to your recent comments, from my “parallel universe.”
To me, it is obvious that Russia has invaded Ukraine, not vice versa, and as Inna1 points out, the Russians have caused massive damage to property and caused serious loss of life, including civilian lives, as well. MUch of the country’s housing stock has been destroyed, its railroads severely damaged, its civilian airports severely damaged, its electric grid damaged or destroyed in some parts of the country. And as Inna rightly points out, the Ukrainians have been fighting back against the invaders.
While you say that the Ukrainian government is a puppet of the United States, most observers believe that the reverse has taken place–a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. Through his decision to remain in Kiev even when it was being bombed, and his eloquent speeches over the internet to nearly every NATO country, including the u.S. Congress many neutral countries, and the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly, Zelensky has established himself as the leader of the “free world.” There is a general consensus among most foreign observers that NATO takes direction from Zelensky, not vice versa. Most journalists, whether pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia, agree that Biden, his secretary of state and his secretary of defense all take direction from Zelensky, not vice versa.
I agree that Zelensky has hardly been a model democrat (with a small “d.”). He has made efforts to silence his opponants, and even to put some of them in jail. Most of the previous presidents of Ukraine attempted to do this as well. Without much of a tradition of self-government, this is not surprising.
But he has gained a lot of stature in the eyes of his own people, as well as in the “world community,” by his eloquent speeches and personal courage in remaining in the presidential office building, even though it has been bombed. He has reconciled with his political opponents, including former president Porushenko.
If peace ever returns to Ukraine, he may be voted out of office, the way Churchill was once the war in Europe ended. But as long as the war continues and Zelensky manages to survive, his people will continue to rally around him.
Putin is certainly no democrat. He has been a much harsher dictator than either Zelensky or any of his predecessors as Ukrainian president. Hundreds of his opponents have met extremely suspicious deaths, either from poison or gunshots, and none of the murderers have been brought to justice. More than twenty years ago, Putin surpassed the Chechen and Ingush rebels with incredible brutality, causing thousands of deaths. He seized South Ossetia from Georgia, causing 200,000 ethnic Georgians to flee this area. He has used Russian soldiers to repress a popular uprising against the pro-Russian ruler of Kazakhstan. He has now banned all opposition to the government and any criticism of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He won’t even allow the Russian public call the Russian invasion of Ukraine an “invasion.” and has made this a criminal offense. He insists that everyone must call the invasion a “special operation,” his eupemism for the invasion.
Whatever the flaws of Ukrainian democracy, it is not a terrorist state like Putin’s Russia.
That so many intelligent people whom I respect are supporting the Russian agressors and blaming their Ukrainian victims is shocking to me. I assume that the underlying motives are 1) concern with he damaging impact that the sanctions are having on Western economies, which is real, 2) the fact that the poorest Russians not Putin and his circle, will suffer impoverishment from the sanctions 3) the danger that the West’s support for the Ukrainian army increases the risk of a nuclear war.( I agree with the Russian foreign minister Lavrov on this one point, although with nothing else he says).
The problem that these pro-Russian Westerners have is that they are moralists. Opposing the war on purely pragmatic grounds when after all, the Russians are conducting a vicious agress ive war makes them uncomfortable. So their reaction is to resort denial and claim that the Russian are really the good guys, and the Ukrainian victims are somehow the bad guys. This enables them to morally justify their opposition to NATO support for Ukraine. However, this justification requires them to deny reality.
Thanks for reading my reply. Best wishes, Adam.
@peloni. It is difficult for me to reply to your many letters, because we seem to be living in two parallel universes. Our perceptions of reality with respect to Ukraine are so different that it is difficult for me to find enough common ground for you to understand my perception of the war.
A few basic points: I see no evidence that the U.S. “conquered” Ukraine. Ukraine won its independence as a result of a negotiated deal with Russia in 1991. At that time, under President Yeltsin, Russia’s policies towards Ukraine and the other former union republics ( the “FSU”) were very different than they are now under Putin.
I see absolutely no evidence that the U.S. somehow lured Russia into attacking Ukraine. The initial reaction of the U.S. military, up until a few days before the invasion began, was that Russia woud not invade. The military top brass were preoccupied with indoctrinating their troops in BLM and “woke” ideology, persuading whote soldiers that their whiteness was a bad thing, and in forcing soldiers to be vaccinated against Covid19. The possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine was the farthest thing from their mind . They were caught napping.
I have to make an important phone call now. More later. Thanks.
Adam: ” It is time to put this “Nazi” business to bed once and for all” I agree with you.
@Adam
Regarding the likelihood of a Ukrainian victory, it is quite impossible, but your statement here is still not impossibly true. The only way Russia is likely to fail to win this war, however, is for the US psyop of Regime Change in Russia to be successful and that seems less than likely, or at least far less likely than the US had hoped it might be. Three points raised by Putin today demonstrate the state of the Russian economy(paraphrased):
If these were clearly false statements, he could never have made the public announcement to contrast with the public’s perception at their local stores. Hence, if it is not accurate, it is likely not far from reality.
All of this is after the West stole the Western-held Russian gold reserves and even as they continue to tighten their failing sanction policy, ignoring the fact that the wheels have quite fallen off this strategy. How can Putin’s statement be remotely close to accurate? Well, here is today’s report from Foreign Policy:
April oil shipments are at a “record pace” and export earnings are “likely to significantly exceed” the same period in previous years. So Russia’s main source of income is up, up, up, so much so that Russia has decided to tighten their own economic gambit against the West:
I do believe the US is very motivated to eliminate Putin. I also believe that this was their gambit in employing their Ukrainian stooge state to lure Putin into this war. Unfortunately for the US, however, the economic consequences in Russia seem not to be playing out nearly as expected as noted above. Consequently, Sec. Austin noted in Poland today that the efforts of the US administration “are aimed at the Russian defense industry in order to undermine the economic and military power of Russia.” This statement does bring to mind all the mysterious explosions taking place at military and oil installations in Russia for which the Ukrainians are claiming complete ignorance, to the point of suggesting Russia attacking themselves. I grow more curious to learn how many of those ops were conducted by the US and how many by the British or by the French.
Hence, you might be proven correct that Russia might lose this war, perhaps providing a repeat of the Libya desperation of employing NATO assassins to succeed should the economic and military attacks fail to win the support of the Russian people. In any event, however, it would not be a Ukrainian field victory that would carry the victory, but rather it would be due to another NATO controlled psyop or special-forces op along the line of NATO’s efforts first exercised in the NATO subjugation of Ukraine and Libya, respectively.
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One thing about Bellingcat, it is clearly influenced if not controlled by British Intelligence, given their clear, unequivocal support for the British narrative on the Skripal poisoning, which has serious questions of which Bellingcat seems quite ignorant. Though you allow them significant support, I weigh their input with care, though not ignoring it.
In your report you claim a large number of Nazi’s exist in the Russian population, the Separatist nations, and the Russian army. I will accept your report as is, but as I noted just above it doesn’t influence my stance on this war which is not based on Nazi elements on either side.
The relative input that the Nazi element does weigh into, quite heavily IMO, is in regards to the US/NATO support of Ukraine’s forces, their govt and their narrative. The US is paying the Ukraine govt’s bills so they will continue their war. The US and NATO powers are arming the Ukrainian forces, including the Nazi’s and the US/NATO are sponsoring the Ukrainian narrative as valid without any support for doing so beyond politics(as demonstrated by the statement from the Pentagon after the Bucha affair). The Ukrainian govt has silenced the outcries of the opposition parties and failed to include the Nazi’s in this illegal political ban, despite the threat that the Nazi’s hold over the Ukraine govt which is even supported by reports from the US govt sponsored news site NYT just this past February, a threat that was felt by Porshenko’s govt as well and which was turned against him in a personal attack in the days just prior to Zelensky’s magical election.
So, I would not send aid to the Separtiists, nor to Russia (chuckles) either, but I am not aware of a Nazi battalion, nor a Far Right Battalion in either the Separatist armies nor in Russia’s. The Far Right is a real issue and it is a real issue in every nation to some extent, but the Nazi leaders of old are not celebrated by the other govts as Bandera is in Ukraine and the Nazi military formations do not exist in other militaries and they are not honored, and elevated to great status as Azov is in Ukraine. Zelensky sells the Azov as being a non-issue, the “trouble makers” having been arrested years ago, while not mentioning that they were then released. Zelensky also traveled to Greece where the 87% of the Jews were killed in WW2 – one of the highest levels of success of the Nazi’s – and with him he carried a member of the Azov battalion to stand in honor before their parlaiment – an act of outrage and shame for which I have no sense of communication to damn him with.
So, whereas, what you say may be accurate about the Separtists and Russia, it is irrelevant to the issue, and that includes the issue of the legitimacy of Russia’s invasion and why we should not be allying or supporting or cavorting with the Ukrainians. And I don’t believe that the majority of the Ukrainians are Nazi’s. But they have been living under the threat and control of Nazi’s for nearly a decade. Why is it that National Corp and C14 are left to patrol the nation? How does that sit with the Ukrainian people? They seem quite supportive of their minority supervision of the state.
I do have more to share relating to your report but I will have to do so at a later time.
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@Adam
Interesting report.
You shared many serious subjects, so forgive me for wanting to dispense with the unserious first.
So the Ukrainians are floating the notion that the Russians are now acting so deviously that they are attacking themselves?? LOLOL…do they also thing the Russians sank their own ship too, hahaha. Sorry, but that one gave me a good chuckle that I had to share. It does seems the Ukrainians are so used to selling their propaganda at such a cheap price that they really don’t know when to stop. Unfortunately, people are likely to believe this nonsense as well as they have every other silly claim the Ukrainians have made. In truth it would surprise me if the Ukrainians were responsible for these attacks just as I would be surprised if they were responsible for the flagship sinking. Anything is possible, but some things are less than plausible and I find these matters more in line of the ability of a well trained special ops than the Ukrainians are known for. Their expertise is in urban warfare, and these operations were more likely the work of MI6 or US special ops, but just an opinion, though more reasonably based than the routine Ukrainian propaganda chant that “The Russians Did That Too!”
On to more serious matters now. I have noted before, and it is quite fairly stated I believe, Russia did not invade Ukraine due to their Nazi problem, which is quite real. They invaded due to the growing NATO threat and the growing US prompted Ukrainian threats and actions against Russia. The legitimacy is based around the NATO model employed in Serbia, Libya and Iraq, and is even stronger than these given the fact that a member of Russia’s alliance was directly under attack by Ukraine and NATO could not make this claim in any of the examples I listed. It would be foolish to believe that the NAZI element in Ukraine did not concern Russia, just as it would be foolish to believe that eliminating as many Nazi’s as possible is not a clear and certain objective. Hence when you examine the strength or truth of the Nazi’s in Ukraine or Russia, you seem influenced to support Ukraine. I find no such attraction by these facts to support either. Russia has a right to her security concerns, just as Israel does. She has made her Red Lines clear, stating them in 2007. She has attempted many times to address this problem over the years and as late as last Dec. Every attempt was ignored. Russia even floated a last minute peace initiative thru the Germans that Zelensky completely dismissed without even considering the terms on the eve of the invasion, days after Biden had announced the Russian invasion was imminent. Hence, the Ukrainians were not blind to the result of what came next. So, we can look at the Nazi issue, but it has no influence upon why I find Russia acted with more care and more restraint, and in a similar manner to the wars of NATO aggression over the past 25yrs.
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@Adam Dalgliesh
Bellingcat is not independent:
By the way–it is by no means certain that the Russians will win the war in Ukraine. It is clear that the Russians have taken heavy losses of men and equipment, and that the morale of their troops is low. According to some sources, much of the “Russian” forces are now Syrian and Iraqi mercenaries. However, it is also alleged that these mercenary soldiers are poorly armed and are being exploited as cannon fodder.
The Ukrainians have claimed they have killed ten Russian general officers since the fighting began.
The U.S., Germany, Turkey and other countries are supplying the Ukrainian forces with more lethal weapons than before–including tanks and disassembled aircraft, which the ukrainians will have to reassemble to use.
THe Ukrainians have succeeded in sinking the Russian fleet’s flagship, the Moskva, in the sea of Azov. A serious blow to the prestige of the Russian navy. According to some Youtube channels, a U.S. spy plane flying over the Black Sea might have given the Ukrainians the intelligence they needed to sink the ship.
According to British news media and CNN, the Ukrainians have struck several important military installations and oil storage sites with missiles of the past two weeks. In the past, the Ukrainians have denied that they were responsible for attacks on Russian soil, and have suggested that they might be “false flag” attacks by the Russians on their own facilities. I don’t know whether they have acknowledged responsibility for the most recent bombings and missilt strikes inside Russia.
It is time to put this “Nazi” business to bed once and for all. There are more Nazis fighting on the Russian side of the war than on the Ukrainian side. And they do so with Putin’s blessing.
According to a recent article in Bellingcat, an independent reseach side devoted to promoting human rights around the world, with an emphasis on Europe, the entire political leadership of the Donbass separatists, as well as the entire staff of their radio station and website, and many of their fighters, are neo-Nazis, or at the very least white supremacists and anti-semites. The separatists regularly broadcast antisemitic propaganda and slurs directed to the Ukrainian population of their web site.
There are several neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations that are active in Russia today, Putin tolerates them. The Russian supreme court did declare one of these organizations illegal. But this decision has not been enforced by the Putin government.
The neo-Nazi radio s stations in Russia have been actively recruiting Russians to enlist in the Ukraine experitionary force. According to Bellingcat, many have done so and are currently serving with the Russian forces in Ukraine.
Over the past year or so, neo-Nazis have invaded the Choral Synogue in Moscow, the biggest synogogue in Russia, and have throned members of the congregation and it s rabbi. Other neo-Nazis recently burned down the synogogue in the city of Archangel in Russia’s far north. Nearly every synagogue in Russia has had to hire armed guards, or members of the congregation have had to are themselves and take turns guarding their synagogue, because nearly all of them have suffered antisemitic vandal attacks and/or threatening phone calls from antisemites.
Several respected Russian painters have painted and exhibited outrageously antisemitic canvasses in recent years. One shows a Jewish concentration camp guard in a Nazi uniform guarding starving Russians in a Nazi concentration camp. What an outrageous libel, depicting the victims as th eperpetrators of Nazi crimes.
The neo-Nazi radio stations in Russia depict the Slavic peoples, viewed as one people, as the leaders of the white race against the colored races of the world.
While neo-Nazi activity remains widespread in the Luhansk and Donetsk separatist areas and in Russia itself, neo-Nazis have been in decline in Ukraine. The Ukrainian neo-Nazis did gain some support in 2014 because of their participation in the “Maidan revolution” and the initial defense of the Donbass against the separatists. Former Ukraine presiden Poroshenko protected them for a time, and allowed some neo-Nazis to even become police chiefs in the Kyiv area. However, when the Jewish organizations in Ukraine and abroad protested this situation and the BBC exposed it, Porushenko fired these people and distanced himself from the neo-Nazis.
Even under Porushenko, Jews held high offices of state. The speaker of the Ukrainian house of representatives, considered an important post, was a Jew from the beginning of the Poroshenko administration. Later, he appointed a Jew as his prime minister, the second most powerful position in the government. The house of representatives confirmed this appointed with only two delegates voting against. Hardly evidence that most Ukrainians are “Nazis.”
The neo-Nazi political parties, which got 10 percent of the vote in the 2013 presidential elections, got less than 2 per cent of the total vote in the 2019 elections, in which Zelensky was elected. And even then the neo-Nazis were divided into two different parties that were highly antagonistic to each other. The neo-Nazis did not win a single seat in the Ukrainian parliament.
Neither Zelensky nor any official in his administration has expressed any sympathy with Nazism or antisemitism.
Putin’s claim that the Ukrainian government and Zelensky is Nazi, and that his forces are conducting their “special operation” to defeat Nazism, is a blatant lie. There are more Nazis in the Russian armed forces than in the ukrainian armed forces, and Putin has done nothing to exclude them from the Russian invasion force.
I don’t know why so many intelligent people whom I respect have bought into Putin’s “Nazi” lie. But it is high time that they learned the truth and abandoned their support for Putin.
Like Will Rogers, “All I know is what I read in the papers”, or in this case, on the internet, which, as we all know, is notoriously unreliable. I spend hours each day trying to keep up on what is happening in the Russo-Ukrainian war. After a while, the truth does start to become apparent, as long as you keep an open mind. So let me try as briefly as possible relate what I believe is going on.
The title of this article states that Russia is on the verge of “winning” the war. Well, maybe…depending on whose definition of “winning” you are using. Russia’s stated goals are:
1. Demilitarize Ukraine,
2. De-Nazify Ukraine
3. Secure the Donbass region, and
4. Insure that Ukraine does not join NATO
Russia has made some progress in each area, albeit at a high price, so they could declare victory and withdraw, at any time. There is only one problem with that. If they cannot get Ukraine (and NATO?) to come to the negotiating table, then none of those accomplishments will stand for long, and Russia will be in a worse situation than they are now. Russia must convince Ukraine to negotiate. Without some sort of agreement between Russia and Ukraine, the area will remain unstable. At the moment, that seems to be what NATO wants.
Before the war, Russia had been asking for discussions on these issues, but was largely ignored. Insomuch as Ukrainian membership in NATO was an obvious red-line to Russia, no one should have been surprised that Russia felt compelled to go to war. To be clear, this war was never about conquering Ukraine territory, but rather about guaranteeing Russian, and to a lesser extent Donbass’, security.
It’s too bad that Russia’s concerns were not taken seriously. Many lives could have been spared. The Biden administration, however, has openly stated that it wants to see a greatly weakened Russia, and they seem to be using this war to achieve that end. It is even likely that the U.S. engineered this whole scenario to draw Russia into a debilitating war with Ukraine. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian people are caught in the middle.
So, as I see it, nobody is winning, and the war will grind on. It’s sad, very sad.
@Inna
You question why they can see that Russia is winning but you say
which is Ukraine’s utter loss. There is no Mariupol either. You are distressed. But yet you do not ask if you and those you love are a collateral victims of the NWO’s great reset – that you must have ‘nothing and be happy’? You have to be deluded to think the EU and US can help. Who has the US helped in recent years? Were they successful in Syria in Afghanistan, in Iraq? Visit Balkan mapping on Utube. There are no miracles for Ukraine. It is not Israel. Ukraine is destroyed by its corruption in Kiev – perhaps Russia is corrupt – but Ukraine was corrupted utterly to self interest (not national interest!) by the US money. More money won’t help as it will get siphoned to self interested corruption and more weapons won’t help now. Thus likely the non-engaged commentator sees it as it is. I am from a long way away – but more so as – to me what is here – exists because the Mighty Power (God) of Israel brought it about. The Germans of WW2 fought brilliantly and my Grandfather helped them by feeding them and they fought until their job as Hunters (Jeremiah 16:16) was done (read also Deuteronomy 28:67), but Russia after bitter losses was given the victory (as it was in 1812) as Russia had yet work to do, and so my grandfather left saying that he left Europe as Russia came too close. The Soviets lost in 1990s but Russia has revived and since chained Europe already and in gaining Ukraine will have power over all of Europe. The US involvement will weaken the US, as they don’t have the money to give – it’s all inflationary debt! In the Bible it was written woe to them, Read Isaiah 18! Woe to the US as they went to Iran to give them power over Israel – But the God of Israel sees it otherwise, and will pour out the woe decreed, because 1000 years is as one day, and the God of Israel knows before what people will do. God knows what he needs to do to rescue those few millions of the billions who will chose His paths and His ways to be raised to live Eternally in his Kingdom on Earth – the Kingdom of Israel which is soon to replace the Russo-Euro revived order of Babylon which will I expect destroy the ‘NWO’ that is with perverse pleasure rejoicing in the death of Russian & Ukrainians and the rise in fuel prices and disorder (leading to starvation). It seems at this stage more likely Russia prevails over the NWO than the NWO prevailing and taking Russia to make a great revived Euro-Babylon that seeks world domination – but either way Russia has chained Europe and it will seek world domination turning to come against Israel, only to be destroyed by the king of the Jews. If you think Ukraine is bad, we haven’t seen anything yet. The UK and US are going to be on the losing side, against a Iranian allied Russo Euro confederation. Macron’s win is significant. He wants a Euro army that will kill NATO. The current emotive things that you feel sadly will I suspect turn out to be a cyberspace NWO soap bubble… as you will soon as the rest of Europe does see America’s complicity in the NWO and how it hurt you.. and gave Russia much more than they would other wise have had.. yea indeed, also Russia now wins also the end of the US dollar hegemony, which indeed is utter woe to a debt ridden US. Do you know what the US debt currently is? So how can they help Ukraine? Do not be fossed on the battle… you must see the war.
@Inna
I think I am fairly aware of what is going on, or to the limit of my ability to discern fact from fiction, but let’s look at this more carefully and if you need sourcing feel free to inquire or if you have something to add, I’d be happy for your input and sourcing.
MacGruder knows Russia will win because Russia has a bigger army, and the best troops in Ukraine are dead or bottled in a bunker in Marioupol with no hope of escape, as even their president has acknowledged and the trapped Azov have bitterly complained that they have been abandoned as already being dead without any response from their govt, not even answering the phone. Beyond this, Russia has an enormous nation with a much greater population to draw from if needed but it won’t be needed for battle at least. Russia also has a larger economy, actually, they have an economy, whereas Ukraine only has foreign aid without which it could not even pay their politicians, but don’t worry, Washington is sending them cash. Ukraine has no aircraft and they have lost some 20K tanks. The tanks being sent as reinforcements from NATO are in the dozens or less, they are substandard and are being targeted by Russia’s air superiority before or shortly after they arrive on the field of battle. Additionally, the Ukrainians are being given weapons and tanks for which they have no trained crews, so, really what is the point. The drones will help kill some Russians, but they are not going to win this war. It is quite hopeless for the Ukrainians, despite the solid defense they are providing – it helps when you have had an army in the field for 8yrs, even if it was initially targeting civilians – which, along with the NATO training over that same period, and the home defense, is the reason for their savage defense posture/abilty. But the math is quite overwhelming and Zelensky and the US are quite aware of this fact. The Russian flagship was likely taken out by NATO, as it was quite capable of deterring a missile attack but an investigation is ongoing and if they confirm NATO’s involvement, I really don’t know what they will do.
Regarding the aid:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/30/us-send-ukraine-500-million-more-direct-aid/
And it is not from Russian sources. I have only read two sentences by Lavrov to dispel the lies by Nyquist in a recent interview and have only seen one interview by him, and nothing I have written here comes from him or Putin or Russian TV, whatever that is. I don’t know Russian nor Ukrainain, so there is that. But then I am no Russian and I am no Ukrainian, so there is no self interest in this for me either. Just FYI disclaimer.
I have more to discuss on your other comments, so you should see it soon. I have a good bit more to share and am interested in your response.
The author and the commenter seem not to understand what is happening in Russia/Ukraine. I am from Russia, have relatives in Moscow and Petersburg. I have friends in Kharkov, Ukraine. BTW, there is no Kharkov anymore, it is totaly destroyed by Russian savages. Yes, the author is right that it was the globalists’ goal to initiate and now prolong the war. The globalists want to destroy the world economy to establish NWO. But let’s look at Ukraine. The Ukrainian people are defending their land with unbelievable courage. Their army performs miracles. Ukrainian civilians are being tortured and murdered on daily basis with extreme cruelty by Russian soldiers. Don’t tell me that it’s not true, it is true! How can the author be so sure that Russia will win? Doesn’t he see what is going on? Doesn’t he know that the Russian flagship Moscva was hit and ultimately sunk by Ukrainian missile strikes? For 50 days of war what did Russians achieve? They are destroying Ukrainian towns, kill people and still did not take control of any city, even Mariupol. Russia is almost out of rockets, it’s tanks are obsolete, there is no motivation in Russian troops . Russia has already lost more than 15,000 of its soldier. Watch Putin on TV/Internet, he looks miserable. He understands that he is losing. He has already arrested 20 people from his administration responsible for the military operations. There is huge amount of trustworthy information on the Internet. I don’t know what sources the author used, but they are absolutely unreliable. In this context how should the world react? Should it let Russia, to invade an independent country and watch indifferently how people, including kids/babies are dying? Ukraine will win with the help of EU and US. The fact is that the help is not coming in timely manner, otherwise Ukraine could win long ago. And it’s done on purpose.
It is bad enough that the US is sending free weapons to Ukraine which will be black marketed to terrorists around the world at a steep profit to likely be shared between the sponsors of the aid and the receivers of the aid, as per Libya, Syria and Iraq. But in addition to this, the US is currently sending Cash money to Ukraine, in lieu of paying themselves, so their political class and state employees can literally pocket the money derived from additional US taxpayers debt. It seems we have updated the now archaic policy of Lend-Lease to become the more sophisticated policy of Loot-Pawn. The arrogance of this puppet regime grows bolder by the hour and richer by the minute. No wonder they have no interest in ending the war. It is simply too profitable a venture to which they have no reason to seek an end.