By Ljubiša Malenica for the Saker Blog
Since the beginning of Russian military operation in Ukraine, Western countries and their elected representatives have been competing who will express greater disgust over violations of international law[1], as they call it, who will threaten Moscow more harshly and who will lament more mournfully over the fate of Kiev. At the same time, which of the Western powers can condemn Russia’s behavior from a legitimate moral position? We don’t have to go far into the past, we can limit ourselves to the last three to four decades. Which Western state can unreservedly point out itself as a model of justice and respect for international laws, a model that by its very existence and actions can serve as a condemnation of the Russian Federation? The answer is quite clear. Not a single one.
It is interesting to note how Westerners somehow suddenly remembered this set of rules called international law. Highly interesting given that they themselves participated in its creation and design. Where were these guardians of international law when NATO bombs blew up civilian trains in Serbia[2] or when Serbian journalists were killed[3] while at work, the same journalists who were protected by a series of conventions, declarations and other agreements that are barely worth the paper they were written on. We all know they were nowhere to be found. Personal opinion of the author is that international law has been steadily degraded since the moment of dissolution of ex-Yugoslavia, exactly due to the role western nations played in that process.
Nothing of this will come as a surprise to those who have been, even a little bit, acquainted with world and local political events from the 1990s to the present, so statements by western officials on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity should not be taken as an illustration of real concern but rather as another example of classic hypocrisy. If we accept this as a factual situation, it is logical to ask why the drama that we can observe both in western media and in western institutions, both national and international. The West is not protesting against the possible disappearance of Ukraine from the map, but due to significant setback to its own designs. Back in 2014, it was sarcastically noted that Western countries are ready to fight for Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. We now see quite clearly, thanks to the behavior of the collective West, that sarcasm has been replaced by reality.
Washington, accompanied by its neoliberal camp, announced the strongest possible sanctions against Russia and an additional 7.000 American soldiers were transferred to Germany.[4] As in the previous deployment of troops, exclusively in NATO countries, this also comes down to symbolism. Russia is criticized within all international forums, expelled from various organizations and deprived the role of host of world sporting events. Everyone in the West is verbally advocating for Ukraine, social networks are full of prayers for Kiev and condemnation at the expense of Russia and Putin, but there is no real help, embodied in the physical presence of NATO troops on Ukrainian soil. Judging by Biden’s recent statements, there won’t be any troops at all.[5] NATO troops are there to protect the territory of the alliance and nothing more.
Western media and political dogs continue to bark as convoys “Z” push on.
Moscow’s perspective has been expressed on numerous occasions, by Russian officials of all categories, both within Russia itself and within various Western conferences and summits. For more than two decades Russian Federation has reiterated that it perceives NATO’s expansion to the east of the European continent as a pervasive danger to its own existence.[6] Led by Washington, West refused to accept Russia’s position and continue to act on the inertia of the 1990s. The propaganda machine of the United States and EU countries, which includes official state media houses, continued to promote neoliberal values, despite increasingly clear signs of their detrition and the corruption of the system created upon them. Business as usual, as the saying goes.
Along with the expansion of the NATO pact to the east, the process of dismantling the continental security structure, created during the Cold War, took place. This process was initiated and implemented exclusively by the United States. The mentioned security architecture was developed and set up with the aim of creating as many obstacles as possible on the path of rapid escalation towards the nuclear conflict between the then two nuclear superpowers, the Soviet Union and the USA. Given that, due to its global geographical characteristics, Europe inevitably imposes itself as a military battleground between Russia and America, European countries have benefited the most from these agreements and should have been most interested in maintaining them. This unraveling of security agreements began during the Bush administration, when the then US president announced in 2002 that Washington would withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement, which limited the number of defense systems that each of the two superpowers could deploy on its territory.[7] The next step was the withdrawal of US from Mid-Range Nuclear Forces Agreement in 2019[8] followed by withdrawal of Washington, also during Trump’s term, from the Open Skies[9] Agreement in 2020, which allowed signatory countries to monitor each other openly in order to reduce possible military tensions. Each of these moves further strained relations between Russia and the West while making it clear that, judging by these actions, the collective West was not interested in negotiating on an equal footing.
In addition to Washington’s moves, Kiev’s actions contributed to further destabilizing the situation when it refused to renew the Agreement on Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.[10] The Ukrainian side justified its moves by the fact Russia was in control of Crimea, but the text of the agreement clearly emphasizes obligation not to endanger territorial security of two countries by both Moscow and Kiev. It is not difficult to understand why Russia has previously recognized Kiev’s behavior and efforts to join NATO as a breach of these contractual obligations. For the reminders sake, Ukraine was together with Georgia invited to join NATO as early as 2008.[11]
Simultaneously with these processes, in actuality a continuation of the same by other means, a coup d’etat took place through colored revolution in Ukraine in 2014. There is no doubt about the nature of events on Maidan when a democratically elected president was removed through foreign intervention. It should not be forgotten that Victoria Nuland, then one of the key American diplomatic figures in Kiev, visited the protesters, handing out muffins, and thus openly choosing a side in what was supposed to be an internal Ukrainian matter. Shortly after Maidan, a recording of a telephone conversation[12][13] between Nuland and US Ambassador Jeffrey Pyat was published, only illustrating the depth of US influence on the choice of political figures and their duties within Ukraine.
New elections and new president in Kiev changed nothing of significance. Ukraine’s political elite has repeatedly shown its will to join NATO, while the fight against Donetsk and Luhansk had continued with somewhat lessened intensity, without any indication that regime in Kiev was interested in carrying out it’s part of the Minsk accords. Given the previously mentioned telephone conversation, Hunter Biden/Joe Biden criminal activities in Ukraine and certainly high degree of American involvement in the political life of Kiev,[14][15] questioning Ukrainian ability to act as a sovereign actor is justified. To what extent was Ukraine capable of acting as an independent actor in the political field? In one of his recent speeches, President Putin pointed out that there is a process of transformation taking place within Ukraine which is turning it into a sort of “anti-Russia”,[16] a country whose sole basis for identity would be founded on a negative perception and rejection of everything Russian. This process could not have originated exclusively from Ukraine itself, and it can be assumed that Russia recognizes this radicalization of Ukraine and its population as a product of external influences.
Faced with a frivolous, shamefully uneducated[17][18] and for dialogue uninterested Western diplomatic elite together with Ukraine, which has been behaving less and less as a rational actor, Russia had no other choice but to take military action. The necessity of combat operations becomes especially important when one takes into account the fact that Kiev has been accumulating troops and equipment near the contact line with Donetsk and Luhansk for some time. Judging by the concentration of troops and the fighting currently taking place in eastern Ukraine, the Russian attack most likely thwarted Kiev regime attempt to repeat the Croatian operation “Storm”.[19][20] As with Croatian one, the Ukrainian “Storm” would most likely be planned in cooperation with Western advisers as well. According to some analysts, 60.000 to 100.000 Ukrainian troops have been deployed in the east of the country, opposite the two republics. This concentration of forces in the previous year provoked Russian military exercises and initiated the increase in number of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine.
Western countries were warned regarding their relations with Russia and the issue of Ukraine by their own diplomatic officials[21] and experts, those who were known as some of the best people in their field, such as Henry Kissinger and Stephen Cohen, among others. Kissinger has repeatedly advised that American interests must be firmly represented in the dialogue with Russia, but that Moscow must be taken as a serious interlocutor, especially on the issue of Ukraine, which he pointed out was “not just another country”[22] for Russians. Stephen Cohen, who has spent his working life studying Russia, [23] has criticized the overall US policy towards Moscow since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with special reference to the manic demonization of the Russian president by the Western media, the same media which celebrated drunken Yeltsin as a great leader and a democrat. China has already shown support for Russia, India, maintaining its neutral status did not side with western countries, while Brazilian President Bolsonaro refused to impose sanctions on Russia, stating that the Ukrainians “trusted a comedian with the fate of a nation”.[24]
While military actions and diplomatic contacts are continuing at their own pace, the western propaganda machine is attacking Russia by aiming at Vladimir Putin himself. In every media format you can find headlines that emphasize how this is not a war by Russia or the Russian people, but war of Vladimir Putin, this is Putin’s restoration of the USSR or the Russian Empire, these are Putin’s complexes in action, this is Putin’s attack on peace in Europe, this is Putin’s attack on democracy, (as if democracy existed in Ukraine or for that matter in US) only Putin and Putin everywhere. It seems that, like Trump in the past, Putin lives rent free in the minds of western “journalists” and spin doctors. The one example author personally found most interesting was the Times cover with Russian armored vehicles and a headline “The return of history – how Putin shattered Europe’s dreams”[25][26]. For a moment, let’s ignore Putin, the war, the world if you wish and consider the level of hubris or idiocy that motivates someone to act as if history waits for any man or nation, as if history leaves or stops at one’s bidding. Still in the phantasm of Fukuyama’s making I see.
The hatred of Putin is clear, and we all understand why. Putin is not Yeltsin. Unlike Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin has always tried to preserve resources of the Russian Federation, regardless of whether we are referring to natural resources or human potential, for the Russian people themselves. The catastrophe of the 1990s did not happen upon Russia ex nihilo, but was in large part orchestrated by Yeltsin western advisers together with foreign private “investors” who rushed to acquire huge national potentials for pittance, all in agreement with members of the local quasi-elite, the oligarchs, ready to sell all interests of the Russian people for those American greenbacks. Vladimir Putin worked to put an end to all of that and, despite the fact some objective critique could be placed on Russian leadership for different policies, he did transform Russia into the state we know today, both internally and externally. This might be his great sin that “exceptional” western nations will never forgive him. The attacks on Putin are nothing but another psychological operation aimed at encouraging divisions within Russian society in order to ease activities of the fifth column in Russia itself.
The operation in Ukraine is unnerving Western countries for several reasons, and democracy, state sovereignty and human rights most certainly are not among them. The very fact that Russia used military force, defying all the warnings of the collective West, shows a clear change in the balance of power and the commitment of Russia, but also China, to creating an alternative system of international relations. Undoubtedly Beijing is closely watching unfolding events while developing its plans for Taiwan accordingly. Other countries are watching as well, and those who refused to close their skies for Russian flights and to impose sanctions on Moscow are in the dozens. The fact that Serbia is one of the few countries in Europe that has neither imposed sanctions on Russia nor banned Russian planes from flying over its territory speaks not so much of Belgrade’s strength as of the political and diplomatic misery in rest of Europe, unable to contain Washington for the sake of its own economic and political interests.
Within the European continent, no security structure, certainly one planned for the long run, can be built without the constructive participation of Russia, the same Russia that is now demonized in the “advanced democracies” of the West, both collectively and individually. Veritable verbal storm, rising for months both from European, US and NATO officials, provided little of real benefit to regime in Kiev. Zelensky’s request, which is apparently desperate enough to release war criminals on condition that they fight, for Ukraine’s urgent accession to the EU was rejected.[27]
NATO troops stationed in the east of the continent, by all current indicators, will not be fighting for Kiev, which, despite propaganda, has been forced to recruit civilians and foreign mercenaries four days after first Russian troops passed the border. In author’s layman opinion, this is not a behavior of a side that is winning. Zelensky himself seemed a man desperate and defeated in his conversation with journalists on the 3rd of March.[28][29] Since then, news of his departure for Poland, though still uncorroborated at moment of this writing, started to circle the internet. Ukraine’s behavior is not so important here. A pro-West regime, which seems to have been significantly permeated by Nazi elements, is trying everything to save its own skin. Far more important is the behavior of those who encouraged Ukrainians to clash with Russia all these years, those who now, as emperor in the story, look completely naked. New arms deliveries are not negligible, but question[30] how much they can change situation on the ground remains valid, considering that according to several sources, Ukrainian troops are starting to run out of modern anti-tank weapons from the West and Kiev has already requested another batch of Baryaktar drones from Turkey.[31] The initial hope of roughly fifty to seventy new Sukhois for Ukrainian air force has evaporated when Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia said they would not give their Soviet-made planes to Kiev.[32][33]
Once again, author is a layman when it comes to military affairs, however, it does not seem a good sign if after roughly five days of fighting, country is forced to ask for donations in high-grade military hardware. What exactly happened to the much praised Turkish drones? As it currently stands, there is very few propaganda pieces related to Baryaktars and one would presume Ukrainian infowar effort would use this kind of footage to the greatest extent. Not only would Kiev celebrate its victories but these video records would quickly find their way to the MSM media, and yet, nothing similar happened. On the contrary, much of Ukrainian supposedly genuine combat footage turned out to be fake.
While Ukrainians are hoping for help, Western journalists are unable to rid themselves of chauvinistic tendencies,[34] so Charlie D’Agata, a CBS correspondent, calls Ukraine “relatively civilized”[35] but only when compared to Iraq and Afghanistan. In comparison to Western civilization, another backwater, and that’s being polite. During the State of the Union, Joe Biden calls Ukrainians Iranians (for a significant number of Westerners, it’s all close enough).[36] Judging by some commentators from the European and American media, the western attachment to Ukrainian refugees is based on the fact that they have blonde hair, blue eyes, drive US or EU vehicles and are dressed in western fashion.[37]
In the whole storm of media reports, propaganda and psychological operations, the interesting observation of Dilyana Gaytandzhieva from Bulgaria, an independent journalist, went unnoticed. Namely, she pointed out that all information about eleven American biolaboratories[38] on the territory of Ukraine was deleted from the website of the American Embassy in Kiev. A few years earlier, President Putin[39][40] had warned of the activities of American NGOs that collected DNA samples exclusively from the Russian population. Samples were collected by the US Department of Defense for an alleged military injury research project. American media immediately dismissed them[41] as conspiracy theories, which should automatically cause caution, given that the CIA itself constructed and uses this term to degrade and marginalize undesirable sources of information. We now even have official statement by Russian Ministry of Defense regarding exactly this issue and providing the public with captured material pertaining to this issue, material captured on the battlefield which implicates US in military biological research on territory of Ukraine.
At the same time, within the United States itself, military authorities have banned personnel from providing DNA samples, citing security risks,[42] while the CDC refuses[43] to release large amounts of pandemic data, citing “fears of misinterpretation”[44] of the given information. This vector of observation regarding Russian military operation in Ukraine, although currently rather murky, should be kept in mind. Biological warfare is nothing new nor should anyone be surprised by the fact that the great powers are developing their potential in this area, especially after the highly questionable origin of the corona virus, but to develop it on the very doorstep of your geopolitical rival, that is something else. For comparison, just imagine eleven Chinese biolaboratories in Mexico and Cuba. I rest my case.
The economic picture changes from day to day and seems to be all very fluid. Only constant, it would seem, are the rising prices of oil and gas, record prices by the way. Russia is the largest exporter of nickel and 6th globally exporter of aluminum. Prices of both have jumped significantly. The same happened, as already noticed by Andrei Martyanov[45], with price of wheat. Russia and Ukraine are the largest exporters of this cereal, but if we observe a map of soil type in Ukraine, those areas of highest interest to Moscow, south and northeastern Ukraine, happen also to be richest[46][47] in chernozem (black earth), excellent type of soil for farming. Depending how this war and subsequent diplomatic efforts are concluded, we might see Russian dominance in wheat export grow even more if these valuable lands are added to the already existing agricultural sector of the Russian Federation. Even now, less than two weeks into the war, impacts of the conflict on globalized food supply chains are being felt.[48][49][50]
Shutdown of the Russian media in English language and hysteria of the western ones, which after a few days of military operations began to predict the collapse of Russian progress, to talk about falling Russian morale, to celebrate non-existent Ukrainian heroes such as “Ghost of Kiev”, speaks volumes regarding their objectivity, ability and alternative agenda. It was likewise interesting to note how “advanced democracies” were first to censure Russian media, while “authoritarian tyranny” did the same afterwards and only as reciprocal response. Funny how that liberty of media and freedom of speech work.
It is obvious that the comparisons related to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 are ignored. It is a fair point that comparison itself is not the best, but it seems certain parameters of that invasion put the current Russian operation into clearer operative parameters. Today, Ukraine has a population of, officially, 44 million, while Iraq had 25 million twenty years ago. In terms of area, Ukraine is approximately 200,000 square kilometers larger than Iraq. Despite all this, the American coalition, technologically far superior, waged war for 40 days to conquer the country. Allied troops spent three weeks advancing to Baghdad, and then spent another week fighting for control of the city. Most of Ukraine’s cities with more than a million inhabitants are located in the east of the country, and most of the Ukrainian troops are stationed there as well. Heaviest fighting is to be expected here. Unlike coalition air campaign[51] which lasted well into the second and third week of the war and caused appropriate “collateral damage” (civilian casualties), Russian air forces were used in a limited fashion and mostly avoided targets in proximity of civilian areas, which Ukrainian troops have been using to their advantage. All these elements taken together, including Russian efforts to avoid civilian casualties, have influenced the course of the conflict, but despite all of it, Russian units seem to be advancing in all directions. RF troops reached outskirts of Kiev on the second or third day of combat operations while several vital Ukrainian cities have been circumvented and placed under siege. Ukrainian air force seems to be nonexistent and the same could be said for the navy. Ukrainians themselves have sunk their flagship[52] to prevent it from falling into hands of the Russians. Very few[53] in the West are trying to give a more realistic picture of what is happening on the ground, retired colonel Douglas Macgregor seeming being one of them. In his assessment of the situation, Ukrainians may fight but they have no chances of victory[54]. Interestingly enough, Macgregor seems not to be a fan of Zelensky either, calling him a “puppet”.[55][56] It does not hurt to remind, finally, that the strongest military alliance in the history of this planet waged war against Yugoslavia, country with around 8 million people, for 78 days.
Majority of this purposefully remains out of the reach of the western media, including the serious Nazi problem within Ukraine these very western media reported on years ago,[57][58] and we all understand why. Weapon shipments and sanctions aside, apart from the propaganda machine, the West does not have a leverage that can influence war in Ukraine without risking possible nuclear destruction. Even in the most catastrophic outcome for Russia, which would be a military defeat followed by the political fall of Vladimir Putin and social unrest, the fact that one country decided to actively oppose the West cannot be erased, nor can the fact that same West, faced with such a challenge to its own prestige, was reduced to the imposition of sanctions and media propaganda. We all understand that anything more could mean the end of us all. Sanctions depend on the dollar, a lesson that everyone already knows. Propaganda depends on the willingness to allow western media local access, which can be prevented. Dedollarisation and nationalization of the Internet, two directions of development for non-western countries that are shaping up as desirable directions for the development of rest of the world, could be just some of outcomes from this conflict, both of them completely complementary with the emerging multipolar order.
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Excellent summary of background and current situation in the Ukraine. However, one player has not been mentioned who over the long run (centuries) has been the principal inspiration of anti Russian, anti Serb, in other words anti Slav Orthodox civilization wars, namely the Roman Catholic Church.
In the US, although certainly not mandatory by law, but it has grown to be a custom, that senior foreign service State Department officials who wish to advance their careers obtain post graduates degrees in various aspects of international relations from that bastion of Russophobia, Serbophobia, Orthodoxphobia from Georgetown, the Catholic Jesuit University. When not directly creating chaos and wars against Russia while in government, this is where good old Z. Brzezinski taught for most of of his academic life. Unfortunately for the world, he lived far too long. As the largest and most centralized religion in the US, it’s influence cannot be overestimated.
Russia has made a civilization choice that will direct her actions for centuries, so this will be a fight to the finish and end with the disappearance of the Vatican from political affairs and the Catholic Church as we now know it.
I would be happy for Russia to win in the the Ukraine , change the economic/political order and let the US limp off with its tail between its legs never to bark again.
As for the Pope , well he can remain a Man of God as long as he and his institution stay out of politics. Only time I want to hear from him will be when, and if , it is about Liberation Theology, like those priests in El Salvador?
on Macron: the worst devil/satan is the one dressed as an angel, in light. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s a tough type of enemy to deal with, he’s a snake. Russia is having to deal with these remnants of the placenta from maternal birth. They are alienated leaders. Russia had won.
Some of us have long memories,i remember the then Pope attacking the liberation Priests,in other words supporting the fascist death squads,the Catholic Church has always sided with Nazis.
No, you must be out of the loop. Most of the religious Roman Catholics (vs. the heretical/apostate groups you mention) are on Russia’s side. I know I am 1000%.
Read the declaration by Archbishop Carlo Viganò, Catholic theologian and former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.
In a nutshell, he said standing with the Ukraine government is standing with Satan. Russia is in a justified and necessary existential war against the the demonic NWO and Russia is the Third Rome.
In the 30+ page declaration, Archbishop Viganò references the demonically corrupt Ukraine government, the CIA-trained and backed Azov Battalion Nazis, the bioweapons labs in Ukraine, the war crimes in Donbass from 2014 to present, et al. The most powerful piece I’ve read on this Russia-Ukraine issue. I’ve made 5 family members read it.
One of the most influential American Catholics of the 20th century was Archbishop Fulton Sheen. He was an Irishman but also dyed-in-the-wool Russophile. Here are his prophetic words from some 60 years ago:
Prophetic words from the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen (from his book Footprints in a Darkened Forest):
Kevin: Thanks very much for that English version! While I was posting my own request, here you’d already fulfilled it! :)
Judging by the following excerpts from a declaration by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. I’d say you’re a bit off base with this one. He seems to lay the blame squarely where it lies:
“US, NATO & EU Sought to Make Peaceful Resolution of Ukrainian Crisis Impossible – Archbishop”
https://sputniknews.com/20220307/us-nato-eu-sought-to-make-peaceful-resolution-of-ukrainian-crisis-impossible-archbishop-1093667228.html
I’d be very interested to read the full declaration —
https://www.marcotosatti.com/2022/03/07/dichiarazione-di-mons-carlo-maria-vigano-sulla-crisi-russo-ucraina/
— but have been thus far unable to successfully get an online translation. Does anyone know a good site for this (Italian-English)?
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Ljubisa: Excellent article and references. Thnaks so much!
No problem JMF, glad you liked it.
An unusually well written analysis. This is the kind of thing that could never be published in my local media.
I would like to add: while the destruction of the An-225 cargo aircraft is well documented and portrayed (with sentimental justification) as a tragedy with propaganda value for the west, the destruction of Ukraine’s Air Force has negative propaganda value and therefore absolutely no pictures have emerged of it, despite the near certainty that it happened. On the morning of the invasion, Russian cruise missiles would have destroyed every single aircraft of the Ukrainian forces on the ground. One can prove this to be the case by simple observation: That massive convoy of materials north of Kyiv is a sitting duck. Obviously the Ukraine leadership has all the satellite data NATO can supply it, plus they have the same Internet we do. They know about it. If Ukraine had even one capable flying machine, a small part of that convoy would be on fire and it would be page 1 headline news all over the west.
> while the destruction of the An-225 cargo aircraft
it’s a loss, but necessary. it can transport things no one else can
not to worry. i believe there’s a spare fuselage still sitting somewhere in Ukraine, probably well guarded by Rus now, that will be available for a rebuild
Poland just announced it has handed over its responsibilities and MIG jets to USA Ramstein airbase for ukr pilots to use …..bringing USA much closer to……oh boy
C G Jung said, “nothing in nature moves except by necessity, brute necessity”; or colloquially, ‘nothing works like a two-by-four to the back of the head. Mr Putin, ” be back in a minute, I gotta pick something up at the lumber yard”.
One more extremely important point to add to the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. ABMs are portrayed in the popular imagination as “defensive”, which they are in a very limited sense. What they mainly do, and is the exact reason the ABM Treaty existed in the first place, is that they violate the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. Having an even partially effective anti-ballistic missile system is destabilizing for two very large reasons. 1) If you trust your ABM system, it means you can conduct a nuclear first strike and not get damaged by a retaliatory strike, and 2) if your opponent thinks your ABM will embolden you to conduct a first strike, it means they need to hit you first and take out those ABMs.
Either way, it brings us much closer to midnight.
“Since the beginning of Russian military operation in Ukraine, Western countries and their elected representatives have been competing who will express greater disgust over violations of international law”
Ljubisa the irony/problem is that most of them have been appointed not elected!
Nauseating isn’t it? i have stopped watching 95% of MSM its Goebbelistic,i just check in once day to see what the latest outrage is,i have sent emails to my MP and others asking why are they supporting Nazis?
I hope you forwarded it in braille as they are obviously vision challenged. Deaf also! Still I think it’s wonderful that the powers that be have not discriminated against the deaf, dumb and blind who appear to fill all the ministerial posts.
“Ljubisa the irony/problem is that most of them have been appointed not elected!”
That’s a fair point. How are things in Canada currently? The issue with the truckers fell of the map when Russian operation began.
It is interesting that those very people that go the furthest to personalise this operation as Putin’s war maintain a rigid silence about the involvement of their own Heads of State.
To take an example. Recently Trudeau, Rutte and Johnson were pictured outside of 10 Downing Street. Their respective Heads of State are Queen Elizabeth, King William and Queen Elizabeth.
Those people are bona fide Nazis.
Queen Elizabeth was taught the Nazi salute by her mother and uncle in 1933. There is video footage available to prove this.
Queen Elizabeth is the Sovereign of the UK
Queen Elizabeth is the Sovereign of Canada.
Queen Elizabeth is the Sovereign of the Order of the Garter.
King William is a Knight of the Garter, and has sworn an oath of personal allegiance to Queen Elizabeth.
The same is true of ALL of European royal houses.
Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands.
They are ALL Knights of the Garter.
The worldwide ruling body of the new Nazi operation.
And THAT is why they keep so quiet about their own Heads of State.
What a great article. Please tell us more about the author.
I said, correctly, that Putin would get no credit for his “war without civilian casualties,” and he hasn’t. No matter what Putin does, it will be painted black. By letting the war drag out, he is keeping the rabid Western propaganda machine in operation against Russia, while maximizing Russian casualties. Russia has lost the opportunity of a quick and decisive victory that would have stunned NATO and made its members wonder if enabling Washington’s provocations of Russia was a good idea.
What few seem to understand is that unless Washington’s provocations of Russia cease, eventually a red line will be crossed that results in nuclear war. It would have been a better outcome if Putin had gone on vacation and let Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen province, take charge of the war.
The Kremlin, I think, can’t decide whether it wants to be a sovereign country or a member of the globalist new world order. During the Yeltsin era, Russia lost a chunk of its intellectual class to Western propaganda. These Russians believe, erroneously, that Russia’s future depends on being part of the West. Washington knows this, and believes it can use these Russians to destabilize Russia and restore Washington’s hegemony over the world.
Sooner or later Washington is going to try to assassinate Putin–thus the numerous calls from American conservatives for his assassination–and to put in his place one of the West-worshipping Atlanticist Integrationists. If this attempt succeeds, Washington will then face off with China. If the attempt fails, nuclear war is upon us.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/03/08/crisis-actors-pretending-to-be-dead-ukrainians-cant-keep-still-and-fox-news-talking-heads-cant-stop-lying/
I’d surmise that his decision is based more on the medium and long term opinion of Ukrainians in Ukraine than the western press. They – rightfully – wouldn’t forget or forgive a brutal war without regard for civilian casualties.
When these western big mouth cabals run into serious oil/gas cut offs for a good period say 6 months – not just from Russia but also from the Middle East – we’re going to witness a marked softening of tones and further talks about cooperation, peace, understanding …love …
And now we have the Western criminals of the past 30 years calling for ‘Nuremberg-style trials for Russia’.
Ex UK PM Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer when he voted for war in Iraq, which murdered 500,000 or more directly and quite possibly as many again indirectly: now the moralist supreme. Wasn’t moral during his time in office, was he?
I have said elsewhere that maybe it is time for all 500+ UK MPs who voted for war in Iraq to face a War Crimes Tribunal. You can add to them every single member of Congress and the US Senate who voted likewise. Adding in of course Bush, Cheney and countless other US officials who lied their way to starting the genocide.
Excellent! The best analysis I have read so far. Comprehensive and yet concise enough to summarize a complex matter. Please post more work from this author.
Thank you for the compliments. Here are some of my previous articles:
http://thesaker.is/?s=malenica
All the best.
Great article. The whole Ukrainian/Russian mess is Uncle $hmuel’s fault, and I hope it comes back to bite him hard where it hurts. Russians and Ukrainians coexisted peacefully for hundreds of years before the U$, in their need for enemies had to stick their jew bankster noses in the former Warsaw Pact countries. The reason Uncle $hmuel needs so many allies, is that he has to have so many enemies.
For all the encouraging noises coming from the “International Community” in support of 404, it must be somewhat disappointing to the Ukronazis that they aren’t being offered fighter jets as per request. And what about these fabulous Erdogan Bacteria (or whatever the hell they are called) that were heralded as the “game changer” — have they changed anything except Erdogan’s family fortune?
Great analysis and details.
Back in 2014 I wondered what happened to the “Russia Reset” in 2010.
In 2012 the Magnitsky Act was passed, aka The Hate Putin/Russia Act.
That helped me understand what Nuland meant by, “Biden is willing”.
-How Democrats and Republicans made deals to pass Magnitsky Act
https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2020/08/how-democrats-and-republicans-made-deals-to-pass-the-magnitsky-act/
Biden still wants to fight and donate equipment to the last bad guy.
When are you lot going to pull the plug on this Biden Dem-Rino circus ?
Surely things have gone far enough.
What the western elites hate the most is Russia and Putin represent true freedom and decency that they have erased and don’t want existing as a comparative example.
Nazism only went underground in the EU and covertly existed in the US since the 1980s.
An this has resurfaced in recent years.
Western leaders also hate the fact Putin and the Russian Govt is popular with the people, when they in their own countries are not.
Many people in the west realize the double standards cited in this article and Russia’s best way it to look at IT methods to promote the facts and truth to those who don’t.
Groups like the yellow vests will be also be a way of getting a balance and fair message out & across.
I would also say the drug use (US particularly) and enshrined drunkeness (wine & spirits) is a problem in the west today which is creating in those effected a rigid unreasonable & illogical mindset and Russian thinkers need to consider this in media releases etc…
The mistake being made in the west is that these attempts to stop free speech and filter Net content and shutdown alternative media / views will backfire on the them and cause an uprising which has already started and cannot be stopped now.
Correction – hould have read 1880s, not 1980s.
Thank you so much for the contrast with the US invasion of Iraq. That is really important. Thanks also for the comments re. the campaign against Yugoslavia.
No problem, just wanted to put things a bit into perspective.