It’s way past time for the U.S. to rethink it’ alliance with Israel, in which the U.S. is all give and Israel is all take. from Mike “Mish” Shedlock at mishtalk.com:
Weapons shipments that exceed a certain amount require notices to Congress. Biden’s solution is to make the shipments smaller and send hundreds more of them.
The U.S. has sent tens of thousands of weapons including bombs and precision guided munitions to Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks using procedures that have largely masked the scale of the administration’s military support for its closest Middle East ally, according to current and former U.S. officials.
The administration has organized more than 100 individual transfers of arms to Israel, but has only officially notified Congress of two shipments made under the major foreign weapons sales process, which are usually submitted to lawmakers for review and then publicly disclosed, U.S. officials said. In both cases, the administration used an emergency rule that avoids the review process.
Frankreich vor einer Herausforderung: Das Haushaltsdefizit wächst. Sparmaßnahmen sind unumgänglich, doch die Zeit drängt. Warum Franzosen nicht erfreut sein dürften.
Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron ist in den vergangenen Tagen hauptsächlich durch eines aufgefallen: den Versuch, Nato-Truppen in die Ukraine zu entsenden. Der neue harte Kurs gegenüber Moskau hat auch einen innenpolitischen Hintergrund, wie ein Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters nahelegt.
Wirtschaft unter Druck: Frankreichs Wachstumssorgen
Die zweitgrößte Volkswirtschaft der Eurozone hat erhebliche wirtschaftliche Probleme. Ähnlich wie in Deutschland mussten nun auch in Paris die Erwartungen an die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung deutlich gesenkt werden. Statt der ursprünglich erwarteten 1,4 Prozent soll die französische Wirtschaft nur noch um rund ein Prozent wachsen.
Bereits im Februar musste die Regierung in Paris ihren Haushalt zusammenstreichen, und diese Notkürzungen dürften nicht die letzten gewesen sein. Am Mittwoch erklärte der französische Finanzminister Bruno Le Maire, dass das Haushaltsdefizit des vergangenen Jahres noch höher ausfallen könnte.
Haushaltsdefizit übertrifft Erwartungen in Frankreich
Le Maire hatte im Februar Haushaltskürzungen in Höhe von zehn Milliarden Euro angekündigt. Angesichts des schwächeren Wachstums muss der Rotstift aber noch stärker auf der Ausgabenseite angesetzt werden.
«Lange Zeit waren die Staatsausgaben die Lösung aller Probleme. Jetzt drohen sie zu einem Problem für uns alle zu werden», sagte Le Maire vor dem Finanzausschuss des französischen Unterhauses. «Wir müssen Entscheidungen treffen, um unsere öffentlichen Finanzen zu verbessern.»
Herausforderungen für den Élysée-Palast
Das bringt den Élysée-Palast in Bedrängnis. In den kommenden drei Monaten stehen wichtige Ereignisse an. Zum einen steht die jährliche Überprüfung des EU-Haushalts an, zum anderen überprüfen die Rating-Agenturen die Kreditwürdigkeit der Länder. Außerdem wird Anfang Juni das Europaparlament neu gewählt, wobei den französischen Rechtsextremen ein gutes Ergebnis vorausgesagt wird.
Die französische Regierung strebt in diesem Jahr ein Haushaltsdefizit von 4,4 Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung an. Wegen sinkender Steuereinnahmen wird diese Marke aber deutlich überschritten. Ohne erhebliche Kürzungen im Haushalt ist das Ziel nicht mehr zu erreichen.
Zukünftige Haushaltspläne: Le Maire setzt auf Kürzungen
Weitere Einschnitte werden in den kommenden Monaten und Jahren folgen. Le Maire sagte vor dem Parlament, das übergeordnete Ziel bleibe, das Defizit bis 2027 unter die EU-Vorgabe von drei Prozent des BIP zu drücken. Bis 2032 werde sogar ein ausgeglichener Haushalt angestrebt.
Das Timing der nächsten Schritte ist entscheidend. Frankreich muss seinen EU-Partnern im nächsten Monat seine jährlichen Pläne zum Defizitabbau vorlegen. Zudem werden die Ratingagenturen im April und Mai ihre Bewertungen aktualisieren.
Vor den Wahlen: Frankreichs ökonomische Zwickmühle
Kurz vor den Europawahlen im Juni wird die Regierung aber wohl keine neuen Kürzungen ankündigen wollen. In Umfragen liegt die rechtsextreme Partei Rassemblement National deutlich vor der Partei von Präsident Emmanuel Macron.
Die Vorsitzende der rechtsextremen Partei, Marine Le Pen, kritisierte in der Wirtschaftszeitung Les Echos, die Regierung unternehme keine tiefgreifenden strukturellen Anstrengungen zur Eindämmung der Ausgaben. Sie forderte gezielte Kürzungen bei den Ausgaben für Immigration und Sozialbetrug.
Auch wenn der Élysée-Palast Kürzungen vor den Wahlen vermeiden möchte, könnte er dennoch dazu gezwungen sein, um eine Herabstufung der Kreditwürdigkeit zu vermeiden. Eine solche Herabstufung wird durch die jüngsten Berichte wahrscheinlicher.
Viele Franzosen von Streichkonzert direkt betroffen
Wasser auf die Mühlen der Rechtsextremen dürften allerdings die geplanten Kürzungen sein, die Le Maire im Februar angekündigt hat. Sie betreffen etwa Subventionen für die energetische Sanierung von Häusern, die öffentliche Forschung und Berufsausbildung – aber auch die Entwicklungshilfe.
Allerdings ist zu befürchten, dass die Kürzungen schnell wieder aufgefressen werden. Die Unterstützung für die Ukraine zehrt am französischen Geldbeutel. Auch den protestierenden Bauern plant die Regierung in Paris entgegenzukommen.
Im kommenden Jahr soll es noch düsterer werden. Haushaltsminister Thomas Cazenave erklärte im Parlament, dass die notwendigen Einsparungen im kommenden Jahr 2025 bei rund 20 Milliarden Euro liegen dürften. Das wäre deutlich mehr als die bisher geplanten zwölf Milliarden Euro.
Gespart werden soll primär bei den Sozialausgaben und bei den Kommunen. Diese Bereiche blieben bisher von Kürzungen weitgehend verschont. Le Maire drängt etwa auf Verschärfungen beim Arbeitslosengeld. Auch die Beiträge zur Rentenversicherung könnten steigen, was im Land höchst unpopulär ist.
Verteidigungsminister Pistorius hält es für besonders geeignet. Ist das System der selektiven Wehrpflicht ein Lösungsansatz für Deutschland?
Plötzlich ist wieder vom «Schwedischen Modell» die Rede, aber diesmal geht es nicht um Corona, sondern um den Wehrdienst.
Der deutsche Verteidigungsminister reiste nach Schweden. Er sucht nach einer Methode, wie er mehr Leute «in die Truppe» bekommt, ohne gleich die allgemeine Wehrpflicht wieder aktivieren zu müssen, für die es aktuell keine politische Mehrheit gibt. Boris Pistorius hält es für «besonders geeignet».
Was spricht für das schwedische Modell?
Aus Sicht des Militärs ist das schwedische Modell höchst zweckmäßig. Es hat den Zugriff auf die Besten des Jahrgangs, seien es junge Männer oder Frauen, muss aber nur so viele nehmen, wie tatsächlich ausgebildet werden können oder sollen.
In der Vergangenheit, als vergleichsweise wenige überhaupt eingezogen wurden, hatte man dabei auch noch den Vorteil, sich Leute aussuchen zu können, die auch wirklich Lust dazu hatten.
Inzwischen trifft die Auswahl auch Leute, die eigentlich andere Pläne hatten. Die militärische Grundausbildung dauert 9-15 Monate, je nach Platzierung. Die Zuordnung trifft das Militär. Wem der Dienst an der Waffe zuwider ist, der kann «waffenfreien Dienst«.
Das schwedische Modell der Gesamtverteidigungspflicht
Die Wehrpflicht ist allerdings nur ein Teil des schwedischen Modells der «Totalförsvar» – einer gesamtheitlichen Verteidigungsstruktur der Vor-Nato-Zeit, die trotz einiger internationaler Beteiligungen primär der Landesverteidigung dient.
Alle, die in Schweden wohnen und zwischen 16 und 70 Jahre alt sind, sind von dieser Gesamtverteidigungspflicht umfasst und könnten in einer Krisen- oder Kriegssituation zu einem Dienst abkommandiert werden – das können auch zivile Tätigkeiten sein, die gebraucht werden, oder der Job, den man ohnehin macht.
Bereitschaft der Zivilgesellschaft
Die Bereitschaft der Zivilgesellschaft spielt eine vergleichsweise sichtbare Rolle. So werden die Leute bei der jährlichen «Bereitschaftswoche» daran erinnert, dass sie möglicherweise auch einmal ohne Strom, Wasser oder Internet klarkommen müssen – egal aus welchem Anlass.
Diese Bereitschaftswoche gab es auch schon vor dem Krieg in der Ukraine und war für manche da einfach eine interessante Herausforderung. Die Broschüre «Om krisen eller kriget kommer» («Wenn es eine Krise oder Krieg gibt») der Behörde für Zivilschutz und Bereitschaft enthält eine Packliste für Vorräte und Gegenstände, die man zur Hand haben sollte – vom Campingkocher zum Wasserkanister zum Batterieradio. An einer Neuauflage wird gerade gearbeitet.
Zivilpflicht
Neben der Wehrpflicht gibt es auch eine «Zivilpflicht«, die lange ausgesetzt war, deren Reaktivierung aber vergangenes Jahr angekündigt wurde.
Dabei geht es um eine Grundausbildung in zivilen, systemrelevanten Bereichen wie Stromversorgung oder Rettungsdiensten. Im Ernstfall können diese Personen dann in diesem Bereich eingesetzt werden. Bei der Reaktivierung wurde explizit die Erfahrung aus dem Ukrainekrieg genannt, die den Bedarf gezeigt habe.
Wie die Wehrpflicht in Schweden funktioniert
Die Wehrpflicht war 2010 ausgesetzt worden und wurde 2017 nach der russischen Annexion der Krim wieder reaktiviert, diesmal für Männer und Frauen. Und so funktioniert die Wehrpflicht konkret, also der Teil, der Boris Pistorius am meisten interessierte:
Alle 18-Jährigen (in diesem Jahr rund 110 000) werden zunächst angeschrieben und sollen online einen Fragebogen ausfüllen. Darin geht es sowohl um ihre Interessen als auch um ihre körperliche Fitness. Wer nicht Dienst an der Waffe tun will, sollte dies möglichst bereits da vermerken.
Nur ein Teil dieser 18-Jährigen, etwa 28 000 junge Männer und Frauen, werden dann tatsächlich zur Musterung geladen, zu der man verpflichtet ist, hinzugehen. Unter diesen werden dann (in diesem Jahr) die 8000 Personen ausgewählt, die am besten geeignet sein sollen und zum Wehrdienst einberufen werden.
Es gibt die Möglichkeit, aus verschiedenen Gründen den Wehrdienst aufzuschieben oder eine «waffenfreie» Ausübung zu beantragen. Aber wer ausgewählt wurde, hat die Pflicht zu erfüllen.
Wie gerecht ist das Modell?
«Gerecht» im Sinne des deutschen Gebots der Wehrgerechtigkeit ist das schwedische Modell nicht – den einen trifft es, den anderen eben nicht, auch wenn es in Zukunft noch mehr Leute treffen soll, da Personal aufgebaut werden soll.
Die Organisation Svenska Freds führt eine Liste darüber, wie viele jährlich zu Geld- oder Gefängnisstrafen verurteilt wurden, weil sie Musterung oder Wehrpflicht verweigerten. 2022 gingen 7 Personen ins Gefängnis und 41 erhielten eine Geldstrafe.
Zurzeit sieht die Personalsituation der schwedischen Streitkräfte folgendermaßen aus (bei einer Bevölkerung von 10,5 Millionen Menschen): 15 400 hauptberufliche Soldaten, Offiziere und Seeleute (ohne Wehrpflichtige), 10 200 zivile Angestellte und 22 200 Reservisten («Hemvärn»).
Dazu kommen nur zeitweise eingesetzte ausgebildete Kräfte und Reserveoffiziere. Auffällig ist hier der hohe Anteil an Reservisten im Vergleich zu den Hauptberuflichen. Nach Russlands Invasion der Ukraine stieg die Zahl der Freiwilligen, die sich dort einbringen wollten).
Ob die Mitgliedschaft der Nato die Motivation dafür stärkt oder sinken lässt, wird sich zeigen.
James Howard Kunstler deserves a salute for having a stomach strong enough to endure a Biden State of the Union speech. From Kunstler at kunstler.com:
“I think he borrowed a little something from Hunter tonight.” — Mike Lee, US Senator, Utah
Let’s face it: as pure theater, the president’s annual address to Congress has become a disconcertingly shabby affair, bursts of gloatish barking wedged into an hour of nearly continuous hand-clapping, as if drowning public utterances in applause might divert the audience from the empty, vicious bluster “Joe Biden” served up Thursday night. You couldn’t help but be reminded of the old Supreme Soviet in the twilight hours of Konstantin Chernenko, whose country’s renowned mortuary experts managed to embalm a year or so before his actual decease and interment.
The Ruskies back in the day had a secret recipe for premature mummification of their leadership; our pharma-driven experts prefer to mummify not the body but the personality with a cocktail of adderal, clonazepam, and prednisone — the latter responsible for the ‘roid rage on view whenever “Joe Biden” is hauled out of his catacomb for public performances.
Western leaders have got their countries in deep trouble and they lack the guts to face up to their failures or the competence to extricate their countries from them. From Michael Brenner at scheerpost.com:
The West has set itself on a path of collective suicide — both moral and economic.
Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities. The last are personal as well as political. Therein lies a puzzle. For, as a consequence, the West has set itself on a path of collective suicide. Moral suicide in Gaza; diplomatic suicide – the foundations laid in Europe, the Middle East and across Eurasia; economic suicide – the dollar-based global financial system jeopardized, Europe deindustrializing. It is not a pretty picture. Astoundingly, this self-destruction is occurring in the absence of any major trauma – external or internal. Therein lies another, related puzzle.
Some clues for these abnormalities are provided by their most recent responses as deteriorating conditions tighten the vise – on emotions, on prevailing policies, on domestic political worries, on ginger egos. Those responses fall under the category of panic behavior. Deep down, they are scared, fearful and agitated. Biden et al in Washington, Macron, Schulz, Sunak, Stoltenberg, von der Leyen. They lack the courage of their stated convictions or the courage to face reality squarely. The blunt truth is that they have contrived to get themselves, and their countries, in a quandary from which there is no escape conforming to their current self-defined interests and emotional engagement. Hence, we observe an array of reactions that are feckless, grotesque and dangerous.
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During his annual end-of-year press conference, on December 14, 2023, Vladimir Putin states
There will be peace when we achieve our goals. They don’t change. Let me remind you what we talked about – the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, its neutral status
Historical benchmarks
Around an ancient Cossack core in 1654, established after a revolt against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the consecutive allegiance to the Russian Czar, the Russian authorities added new territories to Ukraine. After the Russian revolution, especially, Vladimir Lenin assigned in 1922 the Russian regions of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov, to the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. These are the current battlefield. After the Soviet victory over Nazism in 1945, Joseph Stalin added western territories, especially Lviv, which are still the hotbed of the modern Ukrainian Nazism.
Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and Ukraine became independent. The 2010 presidential election highlighted the rift between eastern Ukraine and the nationalists, right-wing and pro European Union, in the west, who lost
Ukraine was still an associate member of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, former Soviet Union). Elected president Viktor Yanukovych was negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Union, but on February 25, 2013, Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, stated that its enforcement required that Ukraine quit its association with the CIS. On November 21, Yanukovych put the signature of the agreement on hold. In Lviv, Western Ukraine, protestors started chanting
for the EU, death to the enemies, dirty Russian speakers on the gallows
Their sponsor was Oleh Tyahnybok, leader of Nazi Svoboda [Liberty] party. First a few and peaceful in Kiev, the protestors were 500,000 on Maidan square on December 1, the most from the west, around a Nazi and bellicose core. US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland visited Kiev on December 5, supported the protestors. The economy was deteriorating, Ukraine was asking for financial support. Europe refused, Russia agreed. On December 17, 2013, a new deal was signed with Russia
Nazi militants confront riot police in Kiev on January 19, 2014 (Serguey Spnisky / AFP)
On Maidan square, on February 18, 2014, shots targeted the riot police and the protestors, the situation escalated to a bloodbath. On February 21, Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition and left the country. 103 protestors and 13 police officers had died. The Nazis held one third of the interim government, notably defense. NATO had achieved a rightist coup in Ukraine
On March 4, 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry meets representatives of the parliament in Kiev. Leader of Nazi Svoboda party, Oleh Tyahnybok is second from right. Petro Poroshenko, center, will become in June the new president of Ukraine (US Department of State)
On February 27, 2014, Russia took action in Crimea, the last region that a Soviet leader had assigned to Ukraine, in 1954. The armed forces secured without fighting the Russian naval base in Sevastopol and the Russian-speaking population all over the peninsula
One little green man is patrolling outside Simferopol airport, Crimea, on February 28, 2014 (Sean Gallup)
On March 11, 2014, the 2010 elected local legislative body, Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, proclaimed its independence. On March 16, through referendum, 96.77% voters supported the reunification of Crimea with Russia.
Pro-Europe citizens and Nazi militants had rebelled late 2013, in the west and Kiev, against the legal government of Ukraine. Pro-Yanukovych and pro-Russia citizens, rose up in Donbass against the Russophobia of the new authorities. On April 6, 2014, activists seized in Lugansk the headquarters of the Ukrainian State security (SBU). On April 7, they occupied in Donetsk the building of the Ukrainian regional administration. They were demanding either autonomy within a federal Ukraine or incorporation to Russia. Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) were founded on April 8
On April 7, 2014, activists seize in Donetsk the building of the Ukrainian regional administration (Andrew Butko)
On May 2, in order to deter federalism in Odessa, nationalist thugs set ablaze the Trade Unions House and slaughtered 48 Russian-speaking activists. The new Ukrainian authorities disowned as terrorists the autonomy partisans, sent against Donbass the loyal members of the armed forces and Nazi militants, legalized meanwhile as paramilitary formations, like Azov battalion. The Ukrainian forces started deliberately shelling civilian areas. These terrorist attacks were the beginning of the war in Donbass
Lugansk, June 2, 2014 (Screenshots)
For the first time, on May 26, 2014, the Ukrainian armed forces shelled Donetsk airport. On June 2, air strikes targeted Lugansk, where 8 civilians were killed and 28 injured.
On September 5, 2014, representatives from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ukraine, Russia and both new People’s Republics, signed in Minsk, Belarus, a first protocol for ceasefire. Another agreement was signed on February 15, 2015, but its guarantors, Angela Merkel and François Hollande, for Germany and France, will have confessed years later that the agreements were a scam, an attempt to buy Ukraine time, in order for NATO to reinforce the Ukrainian military power
Within a multinational team, US major John Alan Gavrilov (left) meets the staff of Nazi Azov regiment (right) on November 16, 2017 (Azov)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not necessarily a Nazi, rather a former professional actor and an opportunist. He has been elected on May 20, 2019, on the promise of peace in Donbass, but quickly, the Nazi deep State taught him what should be his policy if he loved life. He did not disarm the Nazi paramilitary formations nor implement Minsk agreements. Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter told that story in March 2022
Zelenskyy is indeed enjoying life and through the endemic corruption, has earned several hundred million dollars in four years
The Ukrainian membership of NATO was more seriously raised in the West, while the terrorist shelling were worsening in Donbass, when on February 24, 2023, Russia started a special military operation, to liberate Donbass, denazify and demilitarize Ukraine
In the morning of February 24, 2024, through an airborne assault, the Russian paratroopers seize Antonov airport, in Gostomel, 30 km northwest of downtown Kiev
The Russian offensive threatened Kiev and Kharkov, in order to divert the Ukrainian forces from Donbass, where Mariupol was encircled on March 11
(Aljazeera)
Bilateral talks began as soon as February 28, in Belarus and Turkey, but Ukraine withdrawn late March, after the US and UK had vetoed peace and promised full logistic support. The neocons and their European lackeys were regarding that new proxy war as an opportunity of strategic victory. Their wet dream was to dismember Russia and subdue China
Azov members surrender in Azovstal steel mill, Mariupol, on May 20, 2022 (Komsomolskaya Pravda)
But the Russian and republican [from Donetsk People’s Republic, DNR] forces completed on May 20 the liberation of Mariupol. On September 27, a US secret operation sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines, in order to secure the loyalty of its European lackeys. Through referendums the same day, the inhabitants of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Lugansk, voted for their reunification with Russia
In October, another major battle began in DNR, where the Russian fighters of Wagner PMC (Private Military Company) attacked Bakhmut. Zelenskyy was regarding the city as a symbol of resistance and the Atlanticist cannon fodder was thrown through the crossfire of a superior Russian artillery. Although outnumbered, Wagner managed to crush the garrison and its reinforcements, completed the cleansing of the city on May 20, 2023, one year after the Russian victory in Mariupol
(Russian sketch)
NATO countries were flooding Ukraine with high technology, air defense systems, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and ammunition. The long advertised counter-offensive began on June 4, 2023. The axis of attacks, between Zaporozhye region and Donetsk People’s Republic, suggested the strategic goals. The Atlanticist ambition was to reach Azov sea, to cut Crimea from mainland Russia
But the counter-offensive failed, the Atlanticist forces did not even managed to break through the first Russian defensive lines. A now iconic picture is showing wrecks, one German Leopard 2A6 tank and several US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), near Rabotino, Zaporozhye region, on June 9
(Screenshot)
In December, Russia is completing the cleansing of Marinka, a town in Donetsk southwestern suburb, where the Atlanticist forces were entrenched since 2014
On December 10, 2023, Russian fighters bear in Marinka the banner of victory, which dates back to 1945 (social networks)
NATO countries have depleted their own military stocks, but the Russian firepower has never been matched. The information is secret but several clues are suggesting that about 500,000 Ukrainian fighters may have been killed since February 24, 2022. Serious analysis are concluding that the Russian casualties are much lower.
It took the arrogant Western leaders 6 months to admit the failure of the counter-offensive. Ukraine is widening the mobilization criteria, military police is chasing draft-dodgers. Zelenskyy traveled once more to Washington DC on December 12, 2023, begged for more military support, but the US Congress departed without a deal with Joe Biden’s administration.
Will the carnage go on ?
December 19, 2023
According to Sergey Shoigu, the Russian defense minister, Ukraine has received $203 billion worth aid. The military deliveries have come from 15 countries,
28 planes,
87 helicopters,
23,000 drones,
5,220 armored vehicles,
1,300 artillery systems,
2,650,000 155 and 122 mm shells.
NATO service members are controlling Ukrainian air defense, tactical missiles systems and Western multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). 410 Western spacecraft are operating in the interests of Ukraine. Since February 24, 2022, the Atlanticist losses amount to
383,000 killed and wounded fighters,
553 planes,
259 helicopters,
14,000 armored vehicles,
8,500 artillery systems
On December 15, 2023, Volodymyr Zelenskyy lays flowers in Lychakiv cemetery, Lviv (Ukrainian presidency). On tombs, the flags are displaying the blue and yellow national colors, the historical red and black Nazi ones and the emblem of the 3rd assault brigade, branch of Azov Nazi organization within the regular army
December 26, 2023
(Social networks)
Around 3:00 am, the Atlanticist forces attack Feodosia harbor, on the southeastern coast of Crimea. Jets launch two Storm Shadow cruise missiles from Nikolaev region, west of the Dnieper. One at least hits and sinks the Novocherkassk, a Ropucha-class landing ship which was docked for reparation.
December 29, 2023
The Russian strategic strikes are almost daily but according to the Ukrainian authorities, the operation is a record this morning, with 5 hypersonic, 90 cruise and 14 ballistic missiles, 36 kamikaze drones. Military value targets are attacked all over Ukraine
A Russian cruise missile drops flares over Ukraine on December 29, 2023 (screenshot)
A technical improvement appears in an amateur video : one cruise missile is dropping flares, in order to counter infrared homing air defense.
December 30, 2023
One day after a massive Russian strategic operation all over Ukraine, the Atlanticist forces commit the terrorist shelling of Belgorod, which is about 35 km north of the border. The cluster rockets, some from Czech Republic, fall among civilians, at the center of the city, where no troops are garrisoned, no military nor industrial facilities are set. 21 civilians, including three children, are killed, according to a preliminary toll. More than one hundred are injured
(Screenshot)
Russia is always targeting military value sites, is never targeting civilians. In contrast, Ukraine is deliberately targeting civilians in Donbass since 2014. In retaliation for a strategic operation that has undoubtedly killed many service members, likely including Western operatives, the Atlanticist forces enforce their usual terrorist strategy. The US State Department comments in the afternoon
The United States does not encourage or enable such attacks
In the evening, one Russian cruise missile strikes the Kharkiv Palace, which is hosting foreign military personnel
(Ukrainian social networks)
According later to the Russian defense ministry, the targeted strike has also liquidated members of the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), who had planned the terrorist attack in Belgorod.
January 1, 2024
As usual on New Year’s Eve, the Atlanticist artillery deliberately targets civilians in downtown Donetsk city. Anti-personnel ammunition, rockets and NATO cluster 155 mm shells, fall right after midnight, some on Lenin square, where fortunately, no mass celebration has been scheduled. Four civilians are killed
(Dmitry Yagodkin / TASS)
One symbolic strategic strike before dawn, one Russian Geran [Geranium] kamikaze drone burns the house in Lviv, western Ukraine, which was a museum in tribute to Nazi war criminal Roman Shukhevych (1907-1950)
(State Emergency Service of Ukraine)
Fascist militant, auxiliary from 1941 of the Abwehr [German military intelligence], then officer until 1943 within the Schutzmannschaft [auxiliary police], against anti-Nazis partisans, he became commander in August 1943 of the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), a nationalist paramilitary formation which until 1945, with benevolence of the German occupiers, slaughtered at least 50,000, perhaps 100,000 Polish civilians, fought the victorious Red Army until 1950, for the benefit of the Germans until 1945, later as proxy of the Anglo-US intelligence.
January 2, 2023
Russia is conducting in the morning a new massive strategic operation all over Ukraine. Especially in Kiev, kamikaze drones, hypersonic and cruise missiles hit air defense systems, command posts, military factories and warehouses
Russian strikes in Kiev on January 2, 2024 (screenshot)
As usual, amateur videos show how air defense missiles (SAM), US and German ones, fall back in the city and damage civilian buildings.
As retaliation in the evening, the Atlanticist forces target once more Belgorod, but the Russian air defense manage to shoot down 9 ballistic missiles and 300 mm rockets, which fall outside the city.
January 3, 2024
The French foreign affairs ministry refuses to condemn the deliberate Ukrainian strikes against civilians in Belgorod, is calling them legitimate defense
Catherine Colonna is the French foreign affairs minister, here on May 21, 2022 (Christophe Petit Tesson / AP)
Dmitry Medvedev is Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia. He reacts on Telegram to the French statement
We never liked the French. Like frogs, they fought with us. And in general, these… p-ry [fagots] (not pioneers like) [reference to the battle of the Berezina]. And now we are convinced of that. Written by the French Foreign Ministry. A strike on Belgorod using cluster munitions is the “right to self-defense.” Scum. Bastards. Freaks
130 years after their catastrophic defeat in Russia, most French would have embraced any winners of WW2 and some fought in the Nazi ranks, while Soviet Union was scoring 80% of the German military losses
The Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme [Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism, LVF] was between 1941 and 1944 a regiment of French auxiliaries within Wehrmacht (Bundesarchiv). The Red Army trounced them in winter 1941 and they were demoted to anti-partisans warfare. In 1944, the survivors were transferred to the 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, Charlemagne, a French SS division which was wiped out in March 1945
The legacy of Philippe Pétain, French fascist leader during WW2, is currently predominant in France and Emmanuel Macron is a perfect illustration of that inclination, with traditional arrogance and cowardice
That screenshot is from an authentic video which is showing a usual French murder of an Algerian civilian
Moreover, the deliberate slaughter of civilians is a usual way of waging war for the French, like in Algeria, which was fighting for its independence between 1954 and 1962, fortunately won.
January 10, 2024
After sundown, a Russian strike demilitarizes [Russian euphemism] the Park Hotel, which is hosting foreign fighters in Kharkov
(Prosecutor’s Office)
The official final toll will be 13 injured victims. These are likely civilians, because the Ukrainian authorities are always hiding the military losses due to Russian strategic attacks, a way to falsely substantiate that Russia would target civilians.
January 16, 2024
(British mercenary Daniel Ridley on social networks)
In the evening, a Russian strike knocks down in Kharkov region a former obstetric clinic which is hosting foreign military personnel, whose core is French, according later to the statement of the Russian defense ministry, which assesses that about 60 have been killed. No fatality, according to the Ukrainian authorities, which are never conceding the military losses due to the Russian strategic strikes.
January 18, 2024
The target two days before seems more serious than the individual mercenaries whom I am usually listing. The French ambassador is summoned to the Russian ministry of foreign affairs. The strategic strike in Kharkov region was a message to a country, which despite the failure of the proxy war against Russia, is still strengthening its military ties with Ukraine. The missive was not addressed to French or international public opinion but to the French government, would be without substance if the losses were not real. These were rather operatives, whom the French government had commissioned, whatever their formal status in Ukraine.
January 19, 2024
The Russian foreign affairs ministry states that
the French ambassador to Russia was presented with the facts of France’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict
January 20, 2024
(Screenshot)
The Russian fighters are also advancing west of Artemovsk, former Bakhmut, Donetsk People’s Republic. The Russian flag is raised in Bogdanovka, about 8 km northeast of Chasov Yar.
January 21, 2024
The Atlanticist artillery targets on Sunday morning a market in Donetsk city. The shells fall in Tekstilshchik and Kirovsky districts, where according later to the provisional toll, 25 civilians have been killed
(Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters)
From Krasnogorovka and Kurakhovo, at 20 km and 40 km west of downtown Donetsk, a dozen 152 and NATO 155 mm shells have been fired.
Ukraine is deliberately shelling civilians in Donbass for 9 years, 7 months and 26 days. As a retaliation since February 2022 for the Russian special military operation for liberation of Donbass, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, these terrorist attacks are often carried out with NATO weapons and ammunition.
January 24, 2024
At 11:00 am, a Russian Ilyushin 76 crashes in Belgorod border region. An amateur video is showing flames during the fall down
(Screenshots)
The Ukrainian authorities are controlling all national media, which first boast that the Ukrainian air defense has shot down the plane. Then the Russian defense ministry states that in addition to 6 crew members and 3 guards, the aircraft was transporting 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW), for a swap in the afternoon. Therefore, the same Ukrainian media delete their previous reference to the air defense.
The Russian authorities add later that at least two NATO missiles (SAM) have been launched from Kharkov region, Ukraine, that the prisoners swap was well scheduled between both sides, that the flight was usual in such a case. That war crime is the consequence of antagonism within the Ukrainian authorities, also with Western sponsors.
The Russian authorities add that among the 65 POWs, 12 were members of Nazi Azov organization, surrendered in Mariupol in May 2022. On July 28, 2022, already, the Atlanticist forces deliberately shelled the pretrial detention center in Yelenovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, killed 53 inmates, who had been taken prisoners in Mariupol.
In his daily evening address to the public, 12 hours after the crash, Volodymyr Zelenskyy attempts to defuse the foreseeable crisis
It is obvious that the Russians are playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners, with the feelings of their relatives and with the emotions of our society. It is necessary to establish all clear facts. As much as possible, given that the plane crash happened on Russian territory – beyond our control
International investigation is the workaround. Meanwhile among Ukrainians, one assumption is that US or British personnel was operating the air defense systems.
January 29, 2024
(Social networks)
In the evening, Russia strikes the oil depot in Zmiev, about 40 km south of downtown Kharkov.
January 31, 2024
In the afternoon, the Russian air defense shoots down 20 Atlanticist missiles which are targeting Crimea.
February 1, 2024
(Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) / screenshots)
Between 3:40 and 3:50 am, three Atlanticist unmanned surface vehicles (USV) manage to hit off Crimea the Molniya [Lightning] class Ivanovets missile corvette, which sinks.
February 3, 2024
Ukraine and its Western sponsors commit a new terrorist massacre in Donbass. In Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic, the Atlanticist artillery shells and levels a bakery-café, full of customers and families on Saturday afternoon. The weapons are US High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) or French Lance-roquettes unitaire (LRU). Their fire is accurate and the target is deliberate
(Official / screenshot)
At midnight, the rescuers are still working on the site. 20 dead victims have already been recovered. Many more people may still be under the rubble.
February 8, 2024
Oleksandr Syrskyi (Ukrainian social networks in December 2023)
Due to the Atlanticist defeat in Donbass and Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi is replaced as chief of staff with Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the ground forces
Sie sieht ihm sehr ähnlich
Near midnight in Germany, BILD discloses the Nazi grandfather of Annalena Baerbock, the warmongering German foreign affairs minister
(Screenshot)
For some reason, everyone had the illusion that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield. Because of arrogance, because of a pure heart, but not because of a great mind
The situation has become serious in Avdeevka for the Atlanticist garrison, that the Ukrainian command, according to Forbes, may have reinforced with one of its best formations, the 3rd assault brigade, military branch of Nazi Azov organization
Situation map in Avdeevka on February 11, 2024 (RYBAR)
That would be the first strategic consequence of Oleksandr Syrskyi appointment as chief of staff. Despite defeat in Bakhmut in May 2022, he would agree to send more cannon fodder under the crossed fire of a superior Russian artillery.
February 14, 2024
The Anglo-Ukrainian naval forces achieve a new success in the Black Sea. Before dawn, six USVs attack off Crimea the Ropucha-I-class Tsezar Kunikov landing ship. Two drones are destroyed but four others hit the target, which sinks
(Screenshots from a Ukrainian video)
On social networks, Ukraine supporters are boasting that the ship is sunk for the death anniversary of the historical figure she is named after
Major Tsezar Kunikov (1909-1943) is a Hero of the Soviet Union. Fighter within the naval infantry, he was killed on February 14, 1943, against the Nazi armies.
February 15, 2024
(Screenshots)
As a retaliation for their defeat on the battlefield, the Atlanticist forces perpetrate once more the terrorist shelling of Belgorod, Russia, about 40 km north of Ukraine. The weapons are Czech multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), the ammunition are 122 mm rockets that Serbia has delivered. The Russian air defense manages to shoot 14 down, but 4 reach the city. According to the provisional toll, 7 civilians are killed, including one baby
(Screenshots)
An amateur video surfaces from an armored vehicle, is showing Azov fighters who leave Avdeevka in hurry, under artillery fire. The Russian forces are threatening the garrison with encirclement and reports are appearing on social networks, about losses within the 3rd assault brigade, emanation of the Nazi organization in the Ukrainian regular army.
February 16, 2024
Fighters of the 114th Russian brigade have raised the victory banner at the western gate of Avdeevka, where Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a selfie on December 29, 2023
Borodin added that defensive operations in some areas are being conducted in a 360-degree area of engagement from the Russians. He specified that this does not mean encirclement
February 17, 2024
(Screenshots)
Russian fighters raise the flag on Avdeevka coke plant. In the evening, the Nazi elite of the Ukrainian army has been crushed and the city is also cleansed. The Atlanticist forces had built there a fortress, 15 km north of downtown Donetsk, were deliberately shelling civilians since 2014
The Atlanticist defenses are collapsing west of Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic, where the Russian forces are liberating Berdichi, Orlovka and Tonenkoye villages
The Russian naval infantry, 155th brigade, is cleansing Novomikhailovka, about 40 km southwest of downtown Donetsk
(Screenshots)
March 5, 2024
Once more, a pack of Ukrainian USVs manages to sink a Russian ship in the Black Sea. One drone is destroyed but before 3 am, 5 others hit the Sergei Kotov, a patrol ship which is operating south of the Crimea bridge
(Ukrainian military intelligence)
The same day, the Russian defense ministry releases pictures from [Sergey] Shoigu’s greenhouse, a factory which is growing Geran [Geranium] strategic kamikaze drones
March 8, 2024
The citizens are not rushing to defend the Ukrainian democracy. Actually, the draft dodgers are trying to leave the country
(DPSU)
In Chernivtsi region, southwestern Ukraine, the border guards (DPSU) and State security (SBU) arrest 34 men, who inside a truck, attempt to reach Romania. Between 25 and 40 years old, they flee the threat of mobilization. Most Ukrainians are not eager to die for the proxy war that NATO is conducting with their blood, in Donbass and Ukraine, against Russia. Moreover, Ukraine is not a democracy. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has banned left political parties on March 20, 2022. The State is censoring and controlling all media.
chronicle of censorship, fake news, whitewashing of the Ukrainian Nazism and war crimes, for the sake of the proxy war that NATO is conducting in Ukraine against Russia
Thanks to journalists Steve Sweeney and Eva Bartlett for this splendid illustration of the censorship spirit about Ukraine in the West, notably among Western journalists themselves. On July 22, Sweeney has received a mail from Jeanne Cavelier, head of the eastern Europe and central Asia desk of RSF (Reporters sans frontières, Reporters Without Borders), a NGO which is supposed to safeguard the right to freedom of information.
Is that a joke ? In the name of freedom of expression and information, RSF is demanding that satellite operator Eutelsat and the French State (20% of shares) censor the Russian media.
Russian war crimes and propaganda ? Through my remote analysis of known facts, I have detected no single Russian war crime since February 24, beginning of the special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine, but a string of Ukrainian PSYOPs and even false flag crimes, in Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk, Kremenchug, Chasov Yar, Vinnitsa.
Incitation of hate ? While French Nazi militants are fighting in the Ukrainian ranks, but most Western media are enforcing since February 24 a gag order about Nazism in Ukraine ?
Moreover, most Western media, like their governments, are broadcasting the Ukrainian propaganda as reliable information, without the most elementary checking.
I will document in this chronicle the most shameful facts of Western disinformation and censorship of free expression, in the context of the Russian special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine.
March 9, 2022
Leonid and Roman Butusin are brothers. The Russian forces kill them in Chernigov region
(Social networks)
Born in 1971, their father Oleg (up left) is a Russian Nazi militant. He was living in the Far East, where he was calling for the murder of Chinese and Jewish people. Indicted, he fled and the whole family surfaced later in Ukraine, after the West-sponsored right-wing coup in Kiev on February 21, 2014. Since Maidan, Ukraine is an international magnet for Nazis.
Members of the Ukrainian regular army, 58th motorized brigade, the two sons used to proudly bear the Nazi Reichsadler [imperial eagle], the SS Totenkopf and the ROA patch. Between 1942 and 1945, the German Nazis were recruiting among Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian, Belarusian or Russian, the members of the Russkaya Osvoboditel’naya Armiya [Russian liberation army], also called Vlasov army. After victory, Soviet Union tried general Andrey Vlasov, who was hanged on August 1, 1946. After the death of his sons, Oleg will broadcast the photo of a ROA patch (down right), that he will have found on one of the two corpses.
On April 6, 2022, US propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe will write a piece of anthology
Roman and Leonid Butusin were born in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, but both died fighting for the Ukrainian Army against Russian invaders. At their funeral, people knelt on the street in a mark of respect. “They were real Ukrainians,” said one mourner. Their father moved the family to Ukraine in 2014, feeling disgusted by Russia’s seizure of Crimea and support for separatists in the country’s eastern Donbas region. Also a soldier, at the funeral he said he would soon be returning to the front line
On July 8, 2023, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will posthumously confer by decrees the title of hero of Ukraine, with golden star, to Leonid and Roman Butusin. On social networks, international English-speaking Nazi channels will celebrate the Ukrainian official tribute to them.
March 16, 2022
Not censorship, maybe worse, the coarse hijack of information, a despicable disinformation, Italian newspaper la Stampa publishes on its cover a cruel photo, which is showing the aftermath of a Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, capital of a separatist republic in Donbass, on March 14. 23 civilians have been killed. Ukraine is deliberately shelling civilians in Donbass for eight years
But the text is a narrative about the situation in Kiev. The wizardry of Western media turns civilian victims of a Ukrainian attack into the result of an alleged Russian strike.
April 12, 2022
Twitter permanently bans Scott Ritter, former intelligence officer within the US Marine Corps, former UN inspector in Iraq, who warned in 2003 that no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were there
His crime ? He has suggested as an expert that the mass murder in Bucha was a Ukrainian false flag. It was.
April 20, 2022
Graham Phillips is a British journalist and according to Boris Johnson before the parliament, a war criminal
His crime ? His interview on April 18 of Aiden Aslin, a British mercenary who has surrendered in Mariupol on April 12 and has asked for the interview. YouTube will later censor his video.
June 2, 2022
Ukraine foreign affairs minister Dmitro Kuleba writes to Josep Borrell, his counterpart in the European Union, demands the censorship of European media about the Ukrainian defeat and prisoners of war (POWs) in Mariupol
The journalists should deny that Azov regiment is a Nazi formation and has committed war crimes. As supremacists, its members are regarding the Russian-speaking separatist fighters or civilians as Untermenschen. The disclosure of these facts makes the Ukrainian authorities nervous.
June 9, 2022
Censorship has become a professional reward.
I am usually publishing on Medium, have shared there on June 4 a piece about the death of a French Nazi militant in Ukraine, have enriched my long chronicle about the Western operatives in Mariupol, quote on June 9 UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and comment that the legitimacy of Donetsk People’s Republic is precisely the point, that Truss supports badly the defendants [British mercenaries], that the British arrogance must be slapped.
In the evening, my Medium account appears under investigation or was found in violation of Medium rules. No indication of what could be incriminated. For my readers, Medium responds Error 410, indicates that access to the target resource is no longer available at the origin server and that this condition is likely to be permanent
June 13, 2022
First public German TV channel ARD broadcasts footage which are showing the aftermath of a Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, but the voice-over denounces an alleged Russian attack.
Three days later, after the outrage on social networks, the channel will regret a mistake
(Screenshot)
June 14, 2022
Alina Lipp is a German journalist. She is covering the war in Donbass, the deliberate Ukrainian shelling of civilians. The German democratic State is not enjoying her reports and her bank accounts are already blocked
Alina Lipp on her Telegram channel
She is now sued, because she has written on Telegram that denazification has begun in Donbass, where the population is supporting Russia. Which is true. The judicial plot is that the Russian special military operationmay become a crime under international law. This harassment is obviously a censorship attempt.
a French soldier in the International Legion, who is fighting since the beginning of the war alongside the Ukrainian troops
(Screenshot)
The anchorman adds
27-year-old Karel is committed to the defense of Europe, has developed a love affair with Ukraine, shows fierce opposition to Russia, to everything it is representing. From various national origins, the foreign volunteers are united by their anti-communism, explains Karel
Despite his mask, some members of the public will identify the subject, who is also active on social networks. Karel Cherel-Salzburg is a Nazi militant, whom intelligence, police and justice already know. In another interview face uncovered, by an independent Telegram channel on July 25, he will quote Léon Degrelle (1906-1994), a rexiste (Belgian catholic far-right) leader in the 1930s, later Standartenführer (SS colonel) and commander of the 28.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Wallonien (1941-1945)
(Screenshot)
July 5, 2022
Military defeat has increased the deliberate Ukrainian shelling of civilian areas in Donetsk. British tabloid Daily Mirror dares title
Russia in blitz on Donetsk. Plumes of smoke over Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, yesterday, after the brutal Russian bombing
above a photo which is showing the aftermath, the day before, of a Ukrainian attack in the city.
The Westerners are monitored from Ukraine, the outpost of the Western civilization and democracy against the Asiatic hordes. On its website, the Center for countering disinformationat the National Security and Defense Council of Ukrainereports 78 foreigners so far, analysts, journalists, politicians, scholars… etc, who are accused of promoting narratives consonant with Russian propaganda
(Screenshot)
To list and monitor foreign opponents is a legitimate activity for the Ukrainian State security (SBU). The weird stuff is the publication of the list. That’s intimidation, an attempt of censorship, not polite, when the subjects are citizens of allied countries. The Ukrainian authorities are pretty arrogant. When the ambassador to Germany states publicly that the Kanzler is an offended liver sausage, his words are not my concern. I am not Olaf Scholz’ debtor. But when journalist Alice Schwarzer, for example, is publicly reported as a political enemy, Scholz is paid for being concerned.
July 26, 2022
The British government is harassing journalist Graham Phillips (cf. supra, April 20), who is added on the UK government sanctions list. His assets are frozen. The list says
[…] a video blogger who has produced and published media content that supports and promotes actions and policies which destabilize Ukraine and undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine […]
We will not keep quiet and watch Kremlin-appointed state actors suppress the people of Ukraine or the freedoms of their own people. We will continue to impose harsh sanctions on those who are trying to legitimize Putin’s illegal invasion until Ukraine prevails
The reality of this war, its facts, their disclosure, are destabilizing Ukraine. Therefore, let us harass the messenger. She admits and justifies the censorship. I guess that the freedoms of their own people is a touch of British humor
This screenshot is showing Liz Truss during a TV debate on July 26
I cannot imagine nowadays such contradictory words on UK or European mainstream media.
July 29, 2022
In the previous night, the Ukrainian forces have shelled, with US made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, the pretrial camp in Yelenovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, where are detained Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) from Mariupol, including members of Nazi Azov regiment. Why ? In order likely to wipe out witnesses of their own war crimes, people who may also testify that Western operatives were there. This action is itself a war crime. 53 inmates are killed.
Karin Bechet Golovko is a French-speaking scholar and political analyst, who writes about the incident on Twitter. The arsenal of moderation rules are equipping the US social networks with all necessary tools to censor information which are not in accordance with the Western narrative
(Screenshot)
This explains that, the pathetic European foreign affairs minister, Josep Borell, is broadcasting the fake news
The matter is not even worth a written analysis. Except the eccentric Ukrainian statements, no single clue suggests that the war crime in Yelenovka could be a Russian or republican false flag. The material evidences are proving a Ukrainian war crime.
August 3, 2022
France is once more performing as the historical homeland of the zealous courtiers, is more than ever a worldwide joke and this is justice, its butt is kicked in Africa. That pathetic situation may be the reason for the censorship of RT Documentary channel on Telegram
The documentary channel of the Russian television is violating local laws, but I can still access the recruitment outlet of Azov regiment (third line in the screenshot) and many more Ukrainian Nazi media.
August 5, 2022
Breath of fresh air : YouTube channel MSM Narrative shares a video from Scott Ritter (cf. supra, April 12). About the Ukrainian list of foreigners who are promoting narratives consonant with Russian propaganda (cf. supra, July 18), he stresses that
apparently, US tax payers money is being used to pay the salaries of Ukrainian civil servants, who are preparing lists that include Americans [who according to these civil servants] should be categorized information terrorists
When I was a child, le Monde was the supposed baseline evening newspaper in France. But hysteria and an obvious paranoia have produced such an article, where supposed journalists deplore the multiplication of Russian propaganda websites, regarded as State sponsored outlets, which means, according to the previous incidents, that they should be censored. The piece is based on a report from a US company, NewsGuard, regarded as a reliable source.
NewsGuard views for example as myths the claims that Russian troops were not responsible for the massacre of civilians in Bucha, did not attack the railway station in Kramatorsk. These assertions are however the conclusions of my own work. The US company is likely not including criminal investigators, is yet regarding itself as independent.
Through a mail on August 10, I request an access to the list of 250 websites spreading Russia-Ukraine disinformation […] also peddled by the Kremlin. Junior journalist, managing editor and vice president partnerships in Europe and Canada, Chine Labbe replies that the list is subject to the purchase of a license, that the customers are usually researchers, platforms or government agencies.
Something is rotten The Ukrainian State security (SBU) makes lists of contradictory foreign independent analysts and speakers (cf. supra, July 18). Such monitoring is a usual job in every State intelligence agency. But the stuff becomes weird, when the SBU publishes these lists under the fallacious pretext of countering disinformation. That is intimidation. Some privatization of intelligence activities is trending in the West. Journalists are falsely believing that they are countering the Russian State activities, make also lists of websites, which are allegedly spreading disinformation. Alongside good intelligence agencies, other journalists access these lists and write that the States should censor these websites. In the case of NewsGuard, I have checked that this disinformation is not. According to my expertise, the massacre in Bucha was indeed a Ukrainian false flag. From Kiev to New York via Paris, the targets are the same, independent analysts, speakers or writers, who do not feed the Western narrative. The goal is censorship, through pillory and crackdown.
Actually, these lists should have never left the offices of intelligence agencies. I am skeptical about the copulation between intelligence and journalism. The couple seems paranoid. One fact is irrefutable. At least in France, the traditional business, the selling of newspapers, is crumbling. Quality independent websites may be a threat for online newspapers
August 13, 2022
The case is getting worse and worse. Amnesty International to hire independent experts, in order to verifyits own previous report about the Ukrainian war crimes, find out what has gone wrong.
Yet, the laborious report has discovered on August 4, five months late, what every attentive and objective observer had already ascertained : the Ukrainian forces are using human shields in Russian-speaking separatist Donbass, where the nationalists are regarding the population as Untermenschen. The vile politically correct mob has argued that one should not equate aggressors and victims, Russians and Ukrainians. Insanity. The ability to dissect facts, to isolate them from their authors, in order to analyze and qualify them, is the foundation of the law and therefore, civilization.
Westerners have become feeble slaves, submissive to a dominant thought, childish emotions, crooked media, slaves to money. Their close fate reminds me the sublime gesture of the ancient Parthians, who captured Roman consul Crassus, made him drink molten gold. Each day confirms my certitude of the need to denazify Ukraine. The shameful defeat there of a corrupt and decadent West will be a justice that most of the wide world has long awaited
August 14, 2022
In Germany, the State is still harassing journalist Alina Lipp (cf. supra, June 14) and even her family. Early August, her mother has found out that her bank account had been frozen. Aside the fact, the bank did not give more information. She is now standing alongside her daughter in Donbass.
Weird situation, Germany is not at war. The fighting ended on May 9, 1945 and the Soviet Union has won
(Werner Bischof)
August 19, 2022
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD, 1950 – ?), first German public channel, seems to hold the legacy of another famous German institution, the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (RMVP, 1933-1945).
When on June 13, 2022, the German journalists dared hijack reality, lied and disinformed, pretended that the footage of a Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk would have shown a Russian attack, three days of outrage on social networks were necessary before the channel apologized for its mistake.
But atavism may be too strong after all and on August 19, in a show called Monitor, the same minions dare trial a real journalist, Alina lipp, who is showing her German public the reality of the Ukrainian war crimes, the deliberate shelling of civilians, an action that even Germany, nowadays, is regarding as terrorist. ARD pretends that Lipp has been spreading Kremlin propaganda and lies, while the German State is already suing her but has not yet scheduled her real trial.
In my mind, Germany looked better in the 80s, when I was French serviceman within the occupation forces in Berlin
August 20, 2022
28-year-old British national Aiden Aslin was a British mercenary within the Ukrainian regular army, 36th marine brigade, when he has surrendered on April 12, during the Ukrainian defeat in Mariupol, Donetsk People’s Republic.
British journalist Graham Phillips has interviewed him on April 18, was therefore called a war criminal in the British parliament. On July 26 (cf. supra), the government has added Phillips on a sanctions list, frozen his bank accounts. YouTube has also censored the video of the interview.
The authorities in Donetsk has later allowed Aslin to publish videos on his YouTube channel, where he has sometimes denounced the Ukrainian war crimes he had witnessed.
On June 9, the court in Donetsk has sentenced to death mercenaries Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun, but the defendants have appealed. On July 29, with US made rockets, the Ukrainian artillery shelled the pretrial center in Yelenovka, killed 53 inmates. At the same time, the rumor was spreading that the death sentences had been enforced to the three mercenaries.
Aiden Aslin is alive and has recorded on August 8 a video, which was released on his Youtube account on August 16
(Screenshot)
I guess that in his first videos, Aslin was attempting to trigger an action of the British government, which could have exchanged and freed him. He has received a reply on July 29, with the shelling in Yelenovka.
Today, YouTube has censored Aslin’s channel, likely at the instigation of the British government.
August 24, 2022
The Daily Telegraph has found out the simplest way to achieve its current mission, releases on its YouTube channel, without voice-over but its own logo and English subtitles, a propaganda video from Nazi Azov regiment
(Screenshot)
Funny how these British journalists, who are usually denouncing hate speech, are simply translating the words of a Nazi leader, who is proudly displaying on his chest a Nazi symbol, the Wolfsangel
(Screenshot)
August 25, 2022
From prison in Donetsk People’s Republic, former British mercenary Aiden Aslin is publishing on a new YouTube channel, Captive in Donetsk.
August 30, 2022
Twitter cheap political cops censor for one week a famous account, Levi, for the publication of this cartoon, which is yet factual
(The Tales of Ukranazistan)
September 1, 2022
An unintended breath of fresh air, an epic fail of public propaganda TV channel France 2, which releases a complacent report from Ukraine. And reporter Maryse Burgot shares the video on Twitter. The subject is on the bounds of good taste, but never falls in, a pure piece of crude propaganda. A kid is equipped with fake bulletproof vest and Kalashnikov assault rifle, is saluting from the roadside the vehicles of the Ukrainian army.
But reality is in the details. On the other side of the road, two young girls give the Nazi salute
(Screenshot)
The voice-over do not even comment the nefarious detail. Imagination makes me laugh. I am wondering what was the action of Burgot’s elders, when a Kommandantur was set in their town, when the Propagandastaffel was ruling the information in France.
The French public propaganda TV channel makes a fool of itself, replies to my previous question, when on September 2, it denies on Twitter that the two young girls have given a Nazi salute, but a friendly gesture, while the synchronized SIEG HEIL is unambiguous in the video.
Atavism is strong, these French courtiers remind obviously their elders during WW2. Radio Paris was an asset of the French fascist State. Its main speaker was Philippe Henriot, a minister whom a group of resistance fighters gunned down on June 28, 1944
September 4, 2022
Coarse hijack of information, despicable disinformation, usual methods of Western media, le Parisien titles
War in Ukraine: Kiev wants the Russian invasion to be recognized as a ‘genocide’
The picture is tragic, appears like a clue that the Russian invasion would be indeed a genocide. Problem : Alexander Ermochenko has taken this photo on September 2, in Donetsk. He is showing a civilian victim of a Ukrainian shelling. And these terrorist shelling since 2014 are one of the reasons for the Russian special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine
September 11, 2022
Ségolène Royal is a former member of the French Socialist Party, presidential candidate in 2007 and minister. On September 1, 2022, on French news private channel BFMTV, she has dared question the war crimes, that the Russian forces would have committed in Ukraine, according to the catechism of the Western mainstream media
[…] Everyone knows that this is fear war propaganda. Moreover, if only the first event, which was told, the shelled motherhood [March 2022 in Mariupol], when Mr. Zelenskyy toured the European parliaments. And this is where the peace process broke down. He used that, he said : I met a pregnant woman who said to me : avenge me… etc He was unable to give us the name of this woman, we did not know the names of the victims. And you can imagine that if there had been the slightest victim, the slightest baby with blood, in the age of cell phones, we would have seen them. There is enough horror in war […] it is monstrous to go and broadcast things like that, just to interrupt the peace process […]
She has triggered outrage within the journalistic coterie. Interesting how the lie about the alleged Russian war crimes is the cornerstone of the Atlanticist narrative.
Anyway, the issue is free expression and on September 11, the sentence is imposed. The link is broken, said Marc-Olivier Fogiel, a professional courtier and the current managing director of BFMTV. Royal is now formally persona no grata on the channel.
September 27, 2022
Twitter bans Levi Godman (cf. supra, August 30, 2022), after he has written
the people of the DPR/LPR are having this high vote turnout, because they were shelled for 8 years, their families killed and leaders assassinated
Yet, facts (shelling, assassinations) and an inference about the splendid popular turnout in the referendums in Donbass and southern Ukraine for the return to the Russian Federation
Based in Paris, Libération is rather a fanzine for young woke urban readers than a real national newspaper. Its editor publishes on cover the same shocking photo which appears in most British tabloids, but no other French newspaper
The head injury may be real, light in this case, but the day after, a video will surface and disclose to the public the staging and a swarm of photographs around merry victims
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take a photo of me, Andrej Andreevich. I take a selfie and will send it to my sister in Russia
The scene has occurred in Kiev, on October 10, Libération describes a terror strategy, while Russia is conducting during several days, all over Ukraine, a heavy offensive of strategic airstrikes against command and communication centers, power plants and other energy facilities. The New York Times disagrees
the Russian missile attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine on Monday were wide-ranging, but they were not as deadly as they could have been. That has renewed questions over the quality of Russia’s weapons
Simply unbelievable. The Ukrainian government is demanding that its citizens reduce to 75% their usual energy consumption and the country stops exporting electricity. I guess that Russia has reached its goals, but Vietnamese, Iraqi and Libyan civilians may know what are good quality weapons.
That is the state of the Western press.
October 19, 2022
BFMTV is the French news private TV channel which has already banned former socialist minister Ségolène Royal, because on September 1, she had dared question the catechism of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. BFMTV is providing a ready-made thinking to all those who are working too much to repay their loans, all the intellectually needy who are nevertheless seeking to shine about news.
the evacuation of this city is occurring in view of the advance of Ukrainian troops, in the course of the counteroffensive which is currently underway in the south of the country. Moscow has admitted that the situation is indeed tense for the Russian soldiers in the field. Kherson has been annexed by Russia at the end of September and is now the regular target of Ukrainian strikes at its infrastructure, like hospitals [… OFFLINE]
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oh… we have lost Anne-Laure Banse
adds the anchorman.
October 29, 2022
The day before, the new boss Elon Musk has sacked Vijaya Gadde, the sergeant major of censorship on Twitter. Scott Ritter (cf. supra, April 12) has tested the reliability of the US social network. The result is negative. Bucha narrative is the backbone of the Western catechism about Ukraine
The Intercept reports that in years of internal memos, emails, as well as public documents, the Department of Homeland Security has outlined its strategy and priorities, is targeting inaccurate information on a wide range of topics, including now the nature of US support to Ukraine, through pressure on private platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (Microsoft)… etc
November 1, 2022
Great news : the État français [French State] has demanded the censorship of Russian channels on Canadian Rumble video platform, which deactivates its access from France
CEO Chris Pavlovski
The complete corporate statement is
recently, the French Government demanded that we remove certain Russian news sources from Rumble. As part of our mission to restore a free and open internet, we have committed not to move the goalposts on our content policies. Users with unpopular views are free to access our platform on the same terms as our millions of other users. Accordingly, we have decided to disable access to Rumble for users in France while we challenge the legality of the government’s demands. This decision will not have a material effect on our business, as France represents less than one percent of our users. The French people, however, will lose access to a wide range of Rumble content because of these government demands. We hope the French Government reconsiders its decision so we can restore access soon
Emmanuel Macron’s successive governments, their political police (DGSI), are the world unchallenged champions in censorship demands on social networks.
My account survived four days, a rich experience, where my fellows has offered me several awards : PUTIN TROLL, TOXIC BEHAVIOR… etc
November 16, 2022
After the incident in Przewodow, where the Ukrainian air defense has shot down an agricultural tractor on Polish territory, the question is accident or crime ? Did Ukraine attempt to provoke the involvement of NATO ? As usual, hysterical Baltic officials and most Western media broadcast the Ukrainian accusations against Russia, when evidences had already been found that the shot was Ukrainian, the debris of a missile from a S-300 system. The day after, Kim Dotcom summarizes
November 17, 2022
Tucker Carlson reacts to the fake news that most Western media have broadcasted about the incident in Przewodow, where Ukrainian air defense has actually shot down a Polish agricultural tractor
A new low for reliability on the web, such a disgrace for the Anglo-Saxon censors, Wikipedia has censored the English article about the Alley of Angels, the memorial in Donetsk, in tribute to the children whom the Ukrainian shelling have killed in the city since 2014
A hilarious way to hear good news : Mykhailo Podolyak is a Ukrainian propagandist and advisor to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, becomes burlesque when he whines about the suppression of the Ukrainian bots since Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
Within the bureau, the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) has been formed in 2017, in order to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States. Its agents were correspondents of the social networking service. In the cases exposed, they did not flag foreign agents but lambda US users, whose accounts
may [have] potentially constitute[d] violations of Twitter’s Terms of Service, for any action or inaction deemed appropriate within Twitter policy
I know that administrative language, could have written that message. The tone was not imperative but actually, the FBI was requesting censorship. It was up to Twitter to find, in its moderation tools, the pretexts for satisfying the requests. Among the cases exposed, a total of 23 flagged accounts, 11 were permanently suspended
Many tweets were no more than obvious jokes and political satyrs. From my experience in law enforcement and intelligence, I guess that the agents were required to some return, in order to justify their collective payroll. Their production was the volume of suspended accounts. That is my French understating of the mechanism.
Censorship is a weird mission for investigators or intelligence officers. I have started working before social networks, before web at home, do not understand that strategy. Quite the contrary, social networks are a prolific source of information. That reminds the censorship or self censorship in mainstream media, where alleged journalists seem more concerned with fighting disinformation than reporting information, in Western societies that marketing has rotten to the core, where reality has no more significance.
January 21, 2023
This is an instance of the atavistic State censorship in France
Flag of the État français [French State, 1940-1944]
Under the 9th European package of sanctions against Russia, since December 16, 2022, the French State has frozen the bank accounts of RT (Russia Today) France TV channel, which is forced to cease its activity that day.
The Russian special military operation in Ukraine is also an opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to muzzle a channel which has broadcast fair reports about the crackdown on the Gilets Jaunes protestors (2018 – ?). The prostitutes who are populating the French mainstream media will be satisfied.
January 5, 2023
So vulgar and hilarious, a great moment of French TV, when private channel LCI reaches a low where French media have not fallen for about 80 years, when Philippe Henriot was minister of information within the French fascist State under Philippe Pétain. A panel discusses the plan that the Ukrainian Nazi deep State has drawn up, in order to decolonize Crimea. The journalists and self-claimed experts do not criticize that project of ethnic cleansing. They detail it with complacency
I have never liked these people. The speed of their fall is however surprising, confirms how I was right about them. That TV channel is right-wing, usually chauvinistic. The particular indecency of these words lies in the history, that the participants do not ignore, of their own country. Their Police nationale and gendarmerie were involved in the deportation and genocide of Jews during WW2, while the Red Army was defeating the European Nazi armies on the east front. Their country triggered the European colonization of Africa after 1870, was so proud of its empire colonial that even after WW2, it carried out two criminal colonial wars and fortunately, lost both, in Indochina (1946 – 1954) and Algeria (1954 – 1962). Quatremer dares compare Crimea to Algeria, where the Europeans, 9% of the population, emigrated to France during the war and after independence. But according to his own figures, the Russians are more than 66% in Crimea. The Ukrainian minority is sharing there the same rights, nothing in common with the apartheid system that France had enforced in Algeria for the sake of a white minority. I am confident that Quatremer will not achieve in Crimea his revenge for the French defeat in Algeria, the third one in 22 years. These heinous commenters are Russophobic because they are suffering from an inferiority complex.
May 17, 2023
Among numerous liars and mercantile pen pushers who are nowadays populating Western mainstream media, French ones are undoubtedly the worst stooges. I guess the issue is atavistic or otherwise, congenital, a strong courtiers culture
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On May 16, a Russian Kinzhal [dagger] hypersonic missile has managed to destroy in Kiev a US Patriot air defense system, which has launched at least, but in vain, 20 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) in the previous minutes. CCTV cameras have recorded the event, which is undeniable. The US administration has acknowledged that the Patriot has been hit and even CNN has told that failure. But Volodymyr Zelenskyy is always lying, has stated that without loss the Ukrainian air defense would have shot down six Kinzhals during the raid. However, their debris are nowhere, while the wrecks of several SAMs are found in Kiev
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About 36 hours later, French mainstream media are still broadcasting the Ukrainian propaganda, the myth of the alleged success of the Atlanticist air defense. Not a single report in France about reality. Le Figaro, for example, writes that Kinzhal would be inefficient.
Meanwhile in Kiev, in the Ukrainian democracy, CCTV cameras are no more functional and the State security agency (SBU) arrests six bloggers who have broadcast footage of the raid.
Another French syndrome is catechism, since the time when the country was alleging itself the eldest daughter of the church. Many pretended intellectuals have begun with the adoption of an ideology, are later attempting to convert the facts, are denying what is not in compliance with their ideology.
On May 14, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was awarded the Karlspreis [Charlemagne price] in Germany, for the defense of Europe and its values, during an event that Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, attended, I wrote in French a piece which is reminding that during WW2, the French SS division, for the defense of Europe, was already named Charlemagne, while nowadays, the legacy of the Ukrainian SS Galizien division is widespread within the armed forces, that Ukraine is celebrating every year, since 2015, the foundation of the UPA, a Nazi paramilitary organization which slaughtered at least 50,000 Polish civilians between 1942 and 1944, conducted later a guerilla, in collaboration with the German SS intelligence (Sicherheitsdienst), against the Soviet liberators. Only undeniable facts and inferences
With German SS formations as references, that chevron (center) is a product of Ukrainian company R3ich, popular and widespread within the Ukrainian armed forces
I have shared that piece in the blog part of Mediapart, an alleged collaborative and independent online newspaper. Wokism is the main flag of Mediapart, whose tone is also plaintive. But when the subject is more serious -I do not think that people’s sexuality is a major issue- the editorial production is feeble, to say the least. On may 15, for example, correspondent Justine Brabant reported, as an investigation about the Ukrainian morale, from a hospital in Ukraine, where some of the injured servicemen were eager to go back to war. The article is reminding a Monty Python comedy and above all, the journalist has not yet interviewed the forced conscripts whom the military police is abducting in the streets, nor the women who are demonstrating in the cities, failing news about their dead relatives, who are still supposed missing
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The experiment is conclusive. The editorial team restricts today my access and censors my piece about Charlemagne. Of course, I cancel then my subscription, which was still free during a few week. The editor-in-chief is Edwy Plenel, a professional journalist whom the socialist government wiretapped in the 80s. When a judicial case was opened, a former official explained to the court in 2005 that Plenel was a CIA operative. I suspect that he is nowadays close to George Soros. De facto, the editorial line is NEVER against NATO.
May 25, 2023
Le Monde was once a baseline evening newspaper in France, when I was a kid. Its correspondent in Ukraine writes about a few hundred Russian anti-Putin militants, who on May 22, have carried out a raid in Russia, Belgorod region. Noise and panic were the goals. Fake alarming messages were simultaneously addressed to the Russian citizens through social networks. Under the aegis of the Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), the raid was a psychological operation (PSYOP), in order to elude the humiliating defeat in Bakhmut. Le Monde is regarding these militants as partisans.
That article is a new milestone in the fall of Western mainstream media, a symptom of the Orwellian state of Western societies, the société du spectacle, has already written Guy Debord
In Ukraine on May 24, 2023, RDK militants are holding a press conference, after their PSYOP in close Russian territories. The second man from the right, for example, is displaying the Schwarze Sonne, legacy of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler and a Nazi symbol (Sergey Bobok / AFP)
The disgrace is huge : the members of Svoboda Rossii [Free Russia] and Russkiy dobrovol’cheskiy korpus [Russian Volunteer Corps, RDK] are well known Nazi militants, like their leader at the center of that photo, Denis Kapustin, who have fled Russia and settled in Ukraine, the first ones in 2014, after the right-wing coup in Kiev.
May 26, 2023
Andreas Marlow in a TV interview on February 9, 2023 (ntv Nachrichten)
Within the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM UA), GeneralleutnantAndreas Marlow is head of the Special Training Command. On May 23, 2023, when he runs a marathon in Vienna, Austria, Aktuelle Nachrichten Berlin discloses that during their work with trainees, the general and his subordinates have become aware of previous war crimes and moreover, a war crime culture among the Ukrainians, that the general has informed the federal prosecutor and the defense ministry about these facts. Here is in English the text of the article
Bundeswehr General Andreas Marlow has learned of the war crimes committed by Ukrainian soldiers against Russian prisoners of war. The German public prosecutor’s office and the German Ministry of Defense have not reacted to his complaints, which he submitted in February 2023. Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow is heading the Multinational Special Training Center, under whose supervision Ukrainian soldiers are trained. For months, Marlow has been trying to launch a federal investigation into crimes committed by Ukraine’s military. In February 2023, he submitted a formal application to Duscha Gmel, federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice, and a copy to the German Ministry of Defense. So far, the authorities have not responded to his request in any way. In particular, he noted that Ukrainian soldiers trained at the Wildflecken and Hummelburg [Hammelburg] bases repeatedly showed videos of torture and executions of Russian prisoners of war, confirming Ukrainian involvement in war crimes. Although dozens of German officers saw the videos, they were ordered not to disseminate what they saw. Most of them do not want to lose their official posts and therefore do not make the facts of the crimes public. According to Marlow, German trainers who have worked with Ukrainians believe that they are not interested in the training program offered by the Bundeswehr. Rather, they are interested in ways to intimidate the opponent – including those that could be classified as war crimes. Ukrainians especially often referred to the effectiveness of punitive measures carried out by SS troops in the occupied territories of the USSR. In addition, the Ukrainians requested access to Bundeswehr documents on punitive actions, both from the present and from World War II. According to them, British representatives have already shared similar information with them, and they expected the same from the Germans. Marlow does not accept the policy of concealing war crimes and wants to make it public, even though he knows what it can cost him. He is convinced that the torture processes should be fully clarified, especially since German trainers who worked with the Ukrainians can, in his opinion, appear as witnesses. Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow can be contacted directly to verify our information: Telefon 03341/58 1412 STCLegad@bundeswehr.org
The article displays no evidence but quotes the general, who is called as witness. The narrative is precise and highly credible. We are already aware of the Nazi culture within the Ukrainian armed forces and the reality of war crimes. But Marlow does not react, neither the German authorities. Instead, the site is down in the evening of May 24, replies with a message in German
404 Website temporarily down due to a hacker attack
Not the sole blog post but the whole site is down, for about 48 hours in the evening of May 26. What a big and long maintenance, that is strange in case of hacking. Fortunately, the post and the site have been archived.
Such a text is not anachronistic on that site, which is nice, dense, German, leftist, anti-Nazis and pro-Russia. It is functional for years and no surprise, hosted in Russia. Its IP address is 92.53.96.222. Let us do a traceroute
I guess that the general was unhappy with that job, has confided in private, was not seeking a publication. Somebody in Germany, with admin rights, has brought down the site, under the false pretext of hacking. The goal is that the story does not trend. Pas de vagues, in French.
Aktuelle Nachrichten Berlin (anachrichten.de) is also publishing on social networks. On Telegram, its account dates back to May 29, 2021, with several daily messages, but a last one in the afternoon of May 24, 2023, nothing later. No reference to the article about Andreas Marlow, I guess the message has been deleted.
June 7, 2023
For the Grayzone, Canadian journalist Aaron Maté reveals how in March 2022, seven months before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the FBI requested the censorship of 163 user accounts, on the behalf of the Ukrainian State security agency (SBU), which is regarding as disinformation anything non-compliant with the Ukrainian official narrative and was also demanding users data
That proven case does not rule out other instances of US State censorship on the behalf of Ukraine. The list included lambda users, several Russian journalists and Aaron Maté. The former executives of the social networking service were rather moderating protagonists, censored 34 accounts under their own rules and for motives like inauthenticity.
June 14, 2023
Stepan Bandera, die 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS, Galizien, the war in Donbass has taught us since 2014 that the Ukrainians are in love with stamps. While the Atlanticist counteroffensive is a bloody failure, new ones are honoring the formal chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who however, has not shown signs of life for more than one month, may be in severe condition or even dead
Moreover, in a wide disinformation campaign through mainstream media in the US and Germany, he is also referred as the sole organizer of the attack against Nord Stream pipelines, on September 26, 2022. Zaluzhnyi is a convenient hero.
July 25, 2023
How hopeless the situation must be for NATO propaganda. Hilarious fail on its YouTube channel for the British Sun tabloid, which is much more reliable when the subject is more slight, like for example the royal family
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The Russian tank engulfs in flames after direct hit by Ukrainian missiles is actually an Atlanticist Leopard 2A6 Panzerkampfwagen, that a Russian Lancet drone demilitarizes. A large part of the public notices the pathetic disinformation attempt and the comments thread is a nightmare for the editorial team. Unlike French, Brits do not like to be played for fools.
The original document is not showing an anecdotal event, the Atlanticist counteroffensive in the south, between Zaporojie region and Donetsk People’s Republic, is a bloody failure since early June.
August 2, 2023
Wanda Lurie (1911-1989) was a miracle, she survived several gun shots, a baby in her womb, when the Nazi forces slaughtered about 50,000 people in Wola neighborhood of Warsaw, between August 5 and 8, 1944
Wanda Lurie after the war, with her son, who was born after she was shot (Polska Times)
Her testimony is famous, was used for example at Nuremberg trials. One quote is
I begged the Ukrainians around us to save the children and one of them asked me if I could redeem myself. I gave him 3 gold rings. Having taken it, he wanted to take me out, but the German officer in charge of the execution, the gendarme officer who noticed it, did not allow me and ordered me to join the group to be shot
in Warsaw, early August 1944 (Bundesarchiv)
From Nachtigall battalion in 1941 to Schutzmannschaft [protection team, auxiliary police], UPA militiamen and SS in 1943, many Ukrainians have joined the Nazi forces during WW2. Most of them were nationalists, whose political leader was Stepan Bandera. All are regarded nowadays as popular and sometimes, official national heroes, in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ukraine, especially within the armed forces.
In the context of the proxy war that NATO is conducting against Russia, in Donbass and Ukraine, the support to Zelenskyy and also, the same Ukrainian nationalists, their involvement in Nazi crimes during WW2 has become an unbearable disgrace for the Western civilization, which is currently fighting the Asiatic hordes. The solution is lie and in the case of Wanda Lurie, history forgery.
Public Polish channel TVP Info publishes a piece about Wola massacre, where Lurie’s testimony is counterfeit. The same quote becomes
I begged the Germans around us to save the children and one of them asked me if I could redeem myself. I gave him 3 gold rings. Having taken it, he wanted to take me out, but the German officer in charge of the execution, the gendarme officer who noticed it, did not allow me and ordered me to join the group to be shot
YouTube has terminated his channel. 62-year-old Scott Ritter is a former intelligence officer within the US Marine Corps (USMC), then inspector of the United Nations in Iraq. When in 2003, the US and their British minions were about to invade the country under this false pretext, Ritter was claiming that there was no weapon of mass destruction (WMD) there. He was right.
Here is his interview by George Galloway, on March 11, 2022, two weeks after the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine, about the Ukrainian context and the Nazi deep State since 2014
On April 12, 2022 (cf. supra), Twitter banned Ritter, because he was arguing that the alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha were actually a staging and real Ukrainian false flag war crimes. I am agreeing with him.
US-funded Center for countering disinformationat the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (cf. supra, July 18, 2022) was reporting, as information terrorists, 78 foreign analysts, journalists, politicians or scholars who were not compliant with NATO narrative. Ritter was in the list.
His last videos were Agent Zelensky, Part 1 & 2, about an incredible manipulation, how an ordinary comedian who came to power because he promised a long-awaited peace, dragged his fellow citizens into a bloody massacre. They are likely the reason for that censorship. Ritter’s website is still online.
September 6, 2023
At 2:04 pm, an explosion ravages the market place in Konstantinovka, in the deep of the still Ukraine-occupied part of Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), 25 km to the southwest of Bakhmut and the front line. Logically and according to the Ukrainian authorities too, the provisional toll is high, at least 16 victims are already dead less than two hours later. A tragedy
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia and publish on social networks a video which is showing the explosion. The CCTV camera is well located and the footage is high quality
As usual, most Western media, stooges of the Atlanticist narrative, are regarding the Ukrainian statement as reliable and quickly blame Russia, without the least checking.
But the video is good enough to show us that when the sound of the engine is heard, people look in the direction where the missile comes from, more or less toward the camera. And that direction is northwest, even deeper in the Ukraine-controlled part of DNR. With no doubt, the missile is an Atlanticist one
Russia would have been clumsy, to say the least, to target civilians while Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Kiev
His Ukrainian counterpart Dmitro Kuleba and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit a cemetery on September 6, 2023. The counter-offensive is a failure and the whole proxy war is a carnage for the Ukrainian cannon fodder (official)
In contrast, I have already assessed that in such occasion, Ukraine is able to commit false flag war crimes. A Ukrainian ballistic missile hit Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, 2022, when the guest in Kiev was the president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Both cities are in Donbass, where the inhabitants are Russian-speaking and widely pro-Russia. The Ukrainian nationalists are feeling enough hatred to slaughter them for PR purpose, all the more when the Atlanticist counter-offensive is a bloody failure and Ukraine needs more support than ever from NATO.
In the case of Kramatork, all Western politicians parroted the Ukrainian propaganda, but today, Blinken does not even comment the civilian casualties in Konstantinovka. Annalena Baerbock, the pathetic German foreign affairs minister, is alone when she blames Russia in the evening.
Julian Röpcke is a Russophobic editor for German tabloid Bild, but a conscientious journalist. Paradoxical situation, he tells reality, that the missile has struck Konstantinovka from the northwest, while in most Western media, the courtiers are carrying on deliberately spreading the Ukrainian fake news. Facts and reality are of no importance to them, their job is propaganda. The collapse of the so-called Western civilization is a promising show.
February 15, 2024
While the Atlanticist forces are committing once more a terrorist attack in Russia, the deliberate shelling of civilians in Belgorod, the French authorities censor 20 French-speaking channels on Telegram, as a retaliation for their ouster from Africa and the failure of their proxy war against Russia, two weeks after the death in Ukraine of two French operatives, whom Paris falsely introduced as humanitarian workers
When fascist leader Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) was heading the French State between 1940 and 1944, Philippe Henriot (1889-1944) was Secrétaire d’État à l’information et à la propagande [Secretary of State for Information and Propaganda]. France is still the homeland of slavish journalism and a tiny country, but the world champion, in absolute terms, of censorship on social networks, since the rise of Emmanuel Macron to power in 2017. And in 2018, Macron attempted to rehabilitate Philippe Pétain
This is part 2 of “Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth: Washington’s Folly From The Persian Gulf to Ukraine.” Read part 1
[my illustration : on June 4, 2019, the TIP (east Turkestan Islamic party, Doğu Türkistan İslâm Harriet in Turkish) releases a new propaganda video (screenshot). These Uighur jihadists are fighting in northwestern Syria, against the Syrian secular forces, within al Qaeda’s local branch (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, HTS), which is settled under NATO protection in Idlib pocket]
THE FIRST GULF WAR – A CATASTROPHIC ERROR
Confronted with the greatest opportunity for global peace in nearly a century, George H. W. Bush did not hesitate: Upon the advice of his retainers, he immediately elected the path of war in the Persian Gulf.
This endeavor was hatched by Henry Kissinger’s economically illiterate protégés at the National Security Council and Bush’s Texas oilman secretary of state, James Baker. They falsely claimed that the will-o’-the-wisp of “oil security” was at stake, and that 500,000 American troops needed to be planted in the sands of Arabia.
That was a catastrophic error, and not only because the presence of “crusader” boots on the purportedly sacred soil of Arabia offended the CIA-recruited and trained mujahedin of Afghanistan, who had become unemployed when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The CNN-glorified war games in the Gulf during early 1991 also further empowered another group of unemployed crusaders. Namely, the neocon national-security fanatics who had misled Ronald Reagan into a massive military buildup to thwart what they claimed to be an ascendant Soviet Union bent on nuclear-war-winning capabilities and global conquest.
Needless to say, by the 1980s the gray men of the Kremlin were as evil as ever, but they were also quite rational and did not embrace a nuclear war winning strategy in any way, shape or form. That was just a pack of neocon lies, which, in any event, led to a massive defense build-up that had virtually nothing to do with containing the ballyhooed Soviet strategic nuclear threat. As it happened, the latter was being handled well enough by the already built, in-place and paid for strategic nuclear triad — forces which well pre-dated the Reagan build-up.
So when the defense budget rose by a staggering $170 billion, from $134 billion in 1980 to $304 billion in 1989, only a tiny fraction of the increase was applied to upgrading the strategic nuclear deterrent. Instead, this unprecedented 130% peacetime rise (+50% in inflation-adjusted dollars) went overwhelmingly to the building of a globe-spanning conventional forces armadathat was utterly unneeded for America’s homeland security in a world with or without the Soviet Union.
Accordingly, everything on land, sea and air was upgraded and expanded. This included the 600-ship Navy and 12 carrier battle groups; massive upgrades of the fleet of M1 tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles; and endless procurement of cruise missiles, fixed-wing planes, rotary aircraft, air-and sea-lift capacity, surveillance and electronic warfare capacity and a black budget so large as to dwarf anything that had gone before.
In a word, the misguided Reagan defense build-up enabled the invasions and occupations that commenced almost instantly after the Soviet demise. That is to say, the neocon defense build-up of the 1980s fathered the “Forever Wars” of the 1990s and beyond.
The folly and deceit of the purportedly anti-Soviet defense build-up was evident enough at the time because by the mid-1980s the Evil Empire was already unraveling at the seams economically. The reason was simply that communism and rigidly centralized command-and-control economics don’t work—as became abundantly clear to the entire world via the spectacle of Boris Yeltsin, vodka flask in hand, facing down the Red Army in 1991.
Like the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back, in the end the mighty Soviet Union was taken down by one of its own drunken apparatchiks.
That is to say, the entire neocon narrative of an ascendant, bent on world conquest Soviet Union was made a mockery. That alone should have sent the neocons into the permanent disrepute and obscurity they so richly deserved.
But Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and rest of the neocon gang surrounding Bush the Elder managed to deftly pull a “bait and switch” maneuver of no mean extent. Suddenly, it wasn’t about the Soviet Union at all, but the alleged lesson from Washington’s Pyrrhic victory in Kuwait that “regime change” among the assorted tyrannies of the Middle East was in America’s national interest.
More fatally, the neocons now insisted that the first Gulf War proved regime change could be achieved through a sweeping interventionist menu of coalition diplomacy, security assistance, arms shipments, covert action and open military attack and occupation via the spanking new conventional forces armada that the Reagan Administration had bequeathed.
What the neocon doctrine of regime-change actually did, of course, was to foster the Frankenstein that ultimately became ISIS. In fact, the only real terrorists in the world who have threatened normal civilian life in the West during the last three decades were the rogue offspring of Imperial Washington’s post-1990 machinations in the Middle East.
The CIA-trained and CIA-armed mujahedin of Afghanistan mutated into al-Qaeda not because bin Laden suddenly had a religious epiphany that his Washington benefactors were actually the Great Satan owing to America’s freedom and liberty.
His murderous crusade was inspired by the Wahhabi fundamentalism loose in Saudi Arabia. This benighted religious fanaticism became agitated to a fever pitch by Imperial Washington’s violent plunge into Persian Gulf political and religious quarrels, the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia, and the decade-long barrage of sanctions, embargoes, no-fly zones, covert actions and open hostility against the Sunni regime in Baghdad after 1991.
Yes, bin Laden would have amputated Saddam’s secularist head if Washington hadn’t done it first, but that’s just the point. The attempt at regime change in March 2003 was one of the most foolish acts of state in American history.
Indeed, Bush the Younger’s neocon advisers had no clue about the sectarian animosities and historical grievances that Hussein had bottled up by parsing the oil loot and wielding the sword under the banner of Baathist nationalism. But “shock and awe” blew the lid and the de-Baathification campaign unleashed the furies.
Indeed, no sooner had George Bush pranced around on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln declaring “mission accomplished” than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant and small-time specialist in hostage taking and poisons, emerged as a flamboyant agitator in the now-dispossessed Sunni heartland of Iraq.
The founder of ISIS succeeded in Fallujah and Anbar province just like the long list of other terrorist leaders Washington claims to have exterminated. That is, Zarqawi gained his following and notoriety among the region’s population of deprived, brutalized and humiliated young men by dint of being more brutal than their occupiers.
Indeed, even as Washington was crowing about its eventual liquidation of Zarqawi, the remnants of the Baathist regime and the hundreds of thousands of demobilized republican guards were coalescing into al-Qaeda in Iraq, and their future leaders were being incubated in a monstrous nearby detention center called Camp Bucca that contained more than 26,000 prisoners.
As one former U.S. Army officer, Mitchell Gray, later described it,
“You never see hatred like you saw on the faces of these detainees,” Gray remembers of his 2008 tour. “When I say they hated us, I mean they looked like they would have killed us in a heartbeat if given the chance. I turned to the warrant officer I was with and I said, ‘If they could, they would rip our heads off and drink our blood.
What Gray didn’t know – but might have expected – was that he was not merely looking at the United States’ former enemies, but its future ones as well. According to intelligence experts and Department of Defense records, the vast majority of the leadership of what is today known as ISIS, including its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, did time at Camp Bucca.
And not only did the US feed, clothe and house these jihadists, it also played a vital, if unwitting, role in facilitating their transformation into the most formidable terrorist force in modern history.
Early in Bucca’s existence, the most extreme inmates were congregated in Compound 6. There were not enough Americans guards to safely enter the compound – and, in any event, the guards didn’t speak Arabic. So the detainees were left alone to preach to one another and share deadly vocational advice . . .
Bucca also housed Haji Bakr, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein’s air-defense force. Bakr was no religious zealot. He was just a guy who lost his job when the Coalition Provisional Authority disbanded the Iraqi military and instituted de-Baathification, a policy of banning Saddam’s past supporters from government work.
According to documents recently obtained by German newspaper Der Spiegel, Bakr was the real mastermind behind ISIS’ organizational structure and also mapped out the strategies that fueled its early successes. Bakr, who died in fighting in 2014, was incarcerated at Bucca from 2006-’ 08, along with a dozen or more of ISIS’ top lieutenants.”
The point is, regime change and nation building can never be accomplished by the lethal violence of 21st-century armed forces; and they were an especially preposterous assignment in the context of a land rent with 13 century-old religious fissures and animosities.
In fact, the wobbly, synthetic state of Iraq was doomed the minute Cheney and his bloody gang decided to liberate it from the brutal but serviceable and secular tyranny of Saddam’s Baathist regime. That’s because the process of elections and majority rule necessarily imposed by Washington was guaranteed to elect a government beholden to Iraq’s Shiite majority.
After decades of mistreatment and Saddam’s brutal suppression of their 1991 uprising, did the latter have revenge on their minds and in their communal DNA? Did the Kurds have dreams of an independent Kurdistan spilling into Turkey and Syria that had been denied their 30-million-strong tribe way back at Versailles and ever since?
Yes, they did. So the $25 billion spent on training and equipping the putative armed forces of post-liberation Iraq was bound to end up in the hands of sectarian militias, not a national army.
In fact, when the Shiite commanders fled Sunni-dominated Mosul in June 2014 they transformed the ISIS uprising against the government in Baghdad into a vicious fledgling state in one fell swoop. But it wasn’t by beheadings and fiery jihadist sermons that it quickly enslaved dozens of towns and several million people in western Iraq and the Euphrates Valley of Syria.
THE ISLAMIC STATE WAS WASHINGTON’S VERY OWN FRANKENSTEIN
To the contrary, its instruments of terror and occupation were the best weapons that the American taxpayers could buy. That included 2,300 Humvees and tens of thousands of automatic weapons, as well as vast stores of ammunition, trucks, rockets, artillery pieces and even tanks and helicopters.
And that wasn’t the half of it. The Islamic State also filled the power vacuum in Syria created by its so-called civil war. But in truth that was another exercise in Washington-inspired and Washington-financed regime change undertaken in connivance with Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The princes of the Petro-states were surely not interested in expelling the tyranny next door. Instead, the rebellion was about removing Iran’s Alawite/Shiite ally from power in Damascus and laying the gas pipelines to Europe – which Assad had vetoed – across the upper Euphrates Valley.
In any event, due to Washington’s regime change policy in Syria, ISIS soon had even more troves of American weapons. Some of them were supplied to Sunni radicals by way of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
More came up the so-called “ratline” from Qaddafi’s former arsenals in Benghazi through Turkey. And still more came through Jordan from the “moderate” opposition trained there by the CIA, which more often than not sold them or defected to the other side.
That the Islamic State was Washington’s Frankenstein monster, therefore, became evident from the moment it rushed upon the scene in mid-2014. But even then, the Washington War Party could not resist adding fuel to the fire, whooping up another round of Islamophobia among the American public and forcing the Obama White House into a futile bombing campaign for the third time in a quarter century.
But the short-lived Islamic State was never a real threat to America’s homeland security.
The dusty, broken, impoverished towns and villages along the margins of the Euphrates River and in the bombed-out precincts of Anbar province did not attract thousands of wannabe jihadists from the failed states of the Middle East and the alienated Muslim townships of Europe because the caliphate offered prosperity, salvation or any future at all.
What recruited them was outrage at the bombs and drones dropped on Sunni communities by the U.S. Air Force and by the cruise missiles launched from the bowels of the Mediterranean that ripped apart homes, shops, offices and mosques which mostly contained as many innocent civilians as ISIS terrorists.
The truth is, the Islamic State was destined for a short half-life anyway. It had been contained by the Kurds in the North and East and by Turkey with NATO’s second-largest army and air force in the Northwest. And it was further surrounded by the Shiite Crescent in the populated, economically viable regions of lower Syria and Iraq.
Absent Washington’s misbegotten campaign to unseat Assad in Damascus and demonize his confession-based Iranian ally, there would have been nowhere for the murderous fanatics who had pitched a makeshift capital in Raqqa to go. They would have run out of money, recruits, momentum and public acquiescence in their horrific rule in any event.
But with the U.S. Air Force functioning as their recruiting arm and France’s anti-Assad foreign policy helping to foment a final spasm of anarchy in Syria, the gates of hell had been opened wide, unnecessarily.
What has been puked out was not an organized war on Western civilization as former French president Hollande so hysterically proclaimed in response to one of the predictable terrorist episodes of mayhem in Paris.
It was just blow-back carried out by that infinitesimally small contingent of mentally deformed young men who can be persuaded to strap on a suicide belt.
In any event, bombing did not defeat ISIS; it just temporarily made more of them.
Ironically, what did extinguish the Islamic State was the Assad military, the Russian air force invited into Syria by its official government and the ground forces of its Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard allies. It was they who settled an ancient quarrel Sunni/Shiite that had never been any of America’s business anyway.
But Imperial Washington was so caught up in its myths, lies and hegemonic stupidity that it could not see the obvious. Accordingly, 31 years after the Cold War ended and several years after Syria and friends extinguished the Islamic State, Washington has learned no lessons.
The American Imperium still stalks the planet for new monsters to destroy – presently in the precincts of Russian-speaking eastern and southern Ukraine that are utterly irrelevant to America’s peace and security.
Next On Deck – The Ukraine Disaster
The present disaster in Ukraine incepted with the Washington-sponsored Maidan coup of February 2014. Among other things it was a “revenge intervention” designed to punish Russia for being so bold as to thwart the neocon regime change adventure in Syria; and especially to haze Putin for persuading Assad to give up his chemical weapons, thereby removing any pretext for Washington military intervention.
As it happened, the Russian-friendly president of Ukraine at the time, Vicktor Yanukovych, had at the last minute in late 2013 ditched a long-pending EU affiliation agreement and IMF stabilization plan in favor of a more attractive deal with Moscow. Under the so-called rule of law, that reversal would hardly seem outside the realm of sovereign prerogative.
But not by the lights of Washington, red-hot from being check-mated in Syria. Accordingly, the neocon operatives in the Obama national security apparatus, spear-headed by the horrid Victoria Nuland, insisted that the Russian deal not be allowed to stand and that Ukraine’s accession to NATO should be fast-tracked.
So doing, they demonstrated an immense ignorance about the 800-year history of the various territories which had been cobbled together in the artificial state of Ukraine, and the long-history of these pieces and parts as vassals and appendages of both Greater Russia and various eastern European kingdoms and empires that had marched back and forth across the pages of history.
In a word, they dove into a rabbit hole that has made Washington’s misadventures in the middle east small potatoes by comparison. But the War Party would not be stopped, believing that its vast conventional military armada and the reach of its global economic sanctions could bring Putin to heel, as well.
In this context, however, it can be truly said that occasionally a few words are worth a thousand pictures–at least when it comes to Ukraine. Here’s one of them:
The Ukrainian leader said that his country hadn’t been willing to cede territory from the beginning. “Had we been willing to give up our territory, there would have been no war,” Zelensky said.
He got that right!
So the question recurs. Why is it worth Washington’s sweeping Sanctions War on Russia, which is destroying the dollar-based global trading and payments system and triggering a worldwide inflationary calamity, to defend every inch of a sketchy map located on Russia’s doorstep? And that’s to say nothing of risking nuclear war!
Indeed, as we elaborate below, the present Ukrainian territorial map exists only due to the handiwork of Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev. Here is how and when these brutal tyrants attached each piece of today’s Ukrainian map (in purple, light blue and red, respectively) to the territories acquired or seized by the Russian Czars over 1654-1917 (yellow)
Nor should any mystery linger as to where these pieces and parts came from. When the creators of the Soviet Empire carved out a convenient administrative entity during the early 1920s that they were pleased to call the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic they were shuffling around blocks of territory and peoples that had mostly been ruled by Czarist Russia during its final centuries.
In fact, prior to the commie takeover of Russia, no country that even faintly resembled today’s Ukrainian borders had ever existed.
To the contrary, much of the territories which comprise present day Ukraine have been been joined at the hip with mother Russia for most of the last three centuries: During Imperial times that was via old-fashioned vassal protection and sponsorship and during the brutal rule of the Soviet communists between 1922-1991 it was via totalitarian command.
But remove the dastardly work of Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev during the latter interval, and nothing like today’s map would exist, nor would Washington be starting a global economic war and triggering soaring energy, food and commodity prices. That’s because the four territories recently “annexed” by Russia would already have been integral parts of Russia!
For want of doubt here are sequential maps that tell the story and which make mincemeat of the Washington sanctity of borders malarkey. In fact, the approximate territory of the four annexed regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – plus Crimea are evident in the yellow area of this 220-years ago map (@1800).
Collectively, they were known as Novorossiya or “New Russia” and had been acquired by Russian rulers, including Catherine the Great between 1734 and 1791.
As is evident from the year-markings in red on the map, the Russian Empire had gradually gained control over the area, signing peace treaties with the Cossack Hetmanate (1734) and with the Ottoman Empire at the conclusion of the various Russo-Turkish Wars of the 18th century.
Pursuant to this expansion drive – which included massive Russian investment and the in-migration of large Russian populations to the region – Russia established the Novorossiysk Governaorate in 1764. The latter was originally to be named after the Empress Catherine, but she decreed that it should be called “New Russia” instead.
Completing the assemblage of New Russia, Catherine forcefully liquidated the Zaporizhian Sich (present day Zaporizhzhia) in 1775 and annexed its territory to Novorossiya, thus eliminating the independent rule of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Later in 1783 she also acquired Crimea from the Turks, which was also added to Novorossiya.
During this formative period, the infamous shadow ruler under Catherine, Prince Grigori Potempkin, directed the sweeping colonization and Russification of the land. Effectively, the Russian Empress had granted him the powers of an absolute ruler over the area from 1774 onward.
The spirit and importance of “New Russia” at this time is aptly captured by the historian Willard Sunderland,
The old steppe was Asian and stateless; the current one was state-determined and claimed for European-Russian civilization. The world of comparison was now even more obviously that of the Western empires. Consequently it was all the more clear that the Russian empire merited its own New Russia to go along with everyone else’s New Spain, New France and New England. The adoption of the name of New Russia was in fact the most powerful statement imaginable of Russia’s national coming of age.
Well, yes, but borders!
In fact, the passage of time solidified the border of Novorossiya even more solidly. One century latter the light yellow area of this 1897 map gave an unmistakable message: To wit, in the late Russian Empire there was no doubt as to the paternity of the lands adjacent to the Azov Sea and the Black Sea—they were now part of the 125 years-old “New Russia”.
After the madness of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution, of course, the borders of much of eastern and central Europe were drastically re-arranged. For instance, at the so-called Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 new countries were fashioned from whole cloth (Czechoslovakia) and long dead countries (Poland) were revived—both upon their own ancient lands as well as those of their former neighbors.
Another of these post-WWI creations was Yugoslavia. The kingdom was formed in December 1918, with Serbia’s royal family, the Karadjordjevics, becoming the monarchs of the new country, which was officially called the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes until 1929 – when it became Yugoslavia. By 1946 it had been incorporated into the Soviet Warsaw Pact, with the borders and constituent parts shown below.
Needless to say, all of these circa 1919 creations and borders have long ceased to exist.After a decade of civil wars and civilian slaughter in the 1990s, Yugoslavia has become seven independent nations. And not only that: The apparently non-sacrosanct borders of Yugoslavia were rent asunder by NATO bombs, armaments, economic and political aid and covert operations!
And then having torn up the old maps like a mere “scrap of paper”, NATO made the new national entities its very own, with the majority now actually members of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance – a vestigial organ that was designed to keep the Balkans contained and the Soviet Union throttled, neither of which condition any more even exists.
By the same token, the present-day borders of Poland were moved far to the west at Stalin’s insistence at Yalta. Consequently, the revived nation of “Poland”, which had earlier been created by Woodrow Wilson at Versailles to court the growing Midwestern Polish vote, took on a wholly new map.
That is to say, Poland had been dismembered and deleted from the maps by the European powers in the 1790s; had been revived by Wilson’s ignorant demands at Versailles that moved it deep into historic German territories and provided the political fuel for Hitler’s revanchism; and then drastically rearranged again at Yalta where the cynical Churchill and the malevolent Stalin outmaneuvered the senile Roosevelt.
Thus, the area outlined in dark blue was Wilson’s Poland, but the huge swath in pink was gifted to Stalin by FDR and Churchill at Yalta. At the same time, the brown areas including the free city of Danzig (Gdansk) and the Danzig Corridor to its right were swiped from the remains of Hitler’s Germany and given back to what amounted to Poland 3.0 – and just within the first half of the 20th century!
The same story holds for Czechoslovakia. Its three constituent nations were hammered together at Versailles from the remnants of the Austrian Empire, but eventually went their separate ways after the rule of communism ended in 1991. Today the Czech State and Slovakia exist peacefully side-by-side, and the world is no worse for the wear after their partition.
As it happens, however, there is one politically engineered post-WWI map from the region that hasn’t been undone. For reasons known only by the Washington neocons and Warfare State apparatus, the modern borders of Ukraine – hammered together by the writ of Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev after 1918 – are apparently the exception to the rule.
Indeed, they are deemed to be so sacrosanct as to justify monkey-hammering the global economy with a destructive Sanctions War, even to the point of risking hot military confrontation between the world’s two major nuclear powers.
Of course, had the above mentioned 20th century communist trio been benefactors of mankind, perhaps their map-making handiwork might have been justified. Under this benign contrafactual, they would have presumably combined peoples of like ethnic, linguistic, religious and politico-cultural history into a cohesive natural polity and state. That is, a nation worth perpetuating, defending and perhaps even dying for.
Alas, the very opposite was true. From 1922 to 1991 modern Ukraine was held together by the monopoly on violence of its brutally totalitarian rulers. And when they temporarily lost control during the military battles of World War II, the administrative entity called Ukraine came apart at the seams.
That is, local Ukrainian nationalists joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht in its depredations against Jews, Poles, Roma and Russians when it first swept through the country from the west on its way to Stalingrad; and then, in turn, the Russian populations from the Donbas and south campaigned with the Red Army during its vengeance-wreaking return from the east after winning the bloody battle that turned the course of WWII.
Not surprisingly, therefore, virtually from the minute it came out from under the communist yoke when the Soviet Union was swept into the dustbin of history in 1991, Ukraine has been engulfed in political and actual civil war. The elections which did occur were essentially 50/50 at the national level but reflected votes of 80/20 within the regions. That is, the Ukrainian nationalist candidates tended to get vote margins of 80% + in the West/Central areas, while Russian-sympathizing candidates got like pluralities in the East/South.
This pattern transpired because once the iron-hand of totalitarian rule ended in 1991, the deep and historically rooted conflict between Ukrainian nationalism, language and politics of the central and western regions of the country and the Russian language and historical religious and political affinities of the Donbas and south came rushing to the surface. So-called democracy barely survived these contests until February 2014 when one of Washington’s “color revolutions” finally “succeeded”. That is to say, the aforementioned Washington fomented and financed nationalist-led coupe d état ended the tenuous post-communist equilibrium.
As to the adverse shock effect of the Maidan coup on Ukrainian governance and external policy with respect to Russia, the maps below tell you all you need to know. The first map is from the 2004 presidential election, which was won by the Ukrainian nationalist candidate, Yushchenko, who predominated in the yellow areas of the map, over the pro-Russian Yanukovych, who swept the blue regions in the east and south.
The second map is from the 2010 election, showing the same stark regional split, but this time the pro-Russian candidate, Yanukovych, won.
In the map below, the dark blue parts to the far east (Donbas) indicate an 80% or better vote for Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 election. By contrast, the dark red areas in the west voted 80% or more for the Ukrainian nationalist, Yulie Tymoshenko. That is to say, the skew in the Ukrainian electorate was so extreme as to make America’s current red state/blue state divide seem hardly noteworthy by comparison.
As it happened, the sum of the pro-Yanukovych skews from the east and south (Donbas and Crimea) added up to 12.48 million votes and 48.95% of the total, while the sum of the extreme red skews in the center and west (the lands of old eastern Galicia and Poland) amounted to 11.59 million votes and 45.47% of the total.
Stated differently, it is hard to imagine an electorate more sharply divided on a regional/ethnic/language basis. Yet it was one which still produced a sufficiently clear victory margin (3.6 percentage points) for Yanukovych – so as to be reluctantly accepted by all parties. That became especially clear when Tymoshenko, who was the incumbent prime minister, withdrew her election challenge a few weeks after the run-off in February 2010.
At that point, of course, Russia had no beef with the Kiev government at all because essentially Yanukovych’s “Regions Party” was based on the pro-Russian parts (blue areas) of the Ukrainian electorate.
During the next several years the economic basket case which was Ukraine attempted to improve its circumstances by running a bake-off of sorts between the European Union and Russia with respect to aid and trade deals.
And well its leaders might have: After the fall of communism, Ukraine had become a cesspool of financial corruption in which a handful of oligarchs had robbed the country blind. By 2014 its real GDP had consequently fallen to $568 billion (2017$), which amounted to a 37% shrinkage from even the threadbare communist economics of 1990.
Accordingly, the supposedly pro-Russian Yanukovych administration initiated in March 2012 the above-mentioned Association Agreement with the European Union that was to provide trade advantages and an IMF aid package.
However, the EU leaders insisted that no agreement could be ratified unless Ukraine addressed concerns over a “stark deterioration of democracy and the rule of law”, including the imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko in 2011. In order to address these concerns, in fact, President Yanukovych urged the parliament to adopt laws so that Ukraine would meet the EU’s criteria.
Crash of Ukraine’s Real GDP, 1990-2014
But it was the parallel $4 billion IMF loan that turned out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. According to then Prime Minister Mykola Azarov “the extremely harsh conditions” of the IMF loan (presented by the IMF in November 2013) included big budget cuts and a 40% increase in natural gas bills. Those proved to be hills too high to climb for most of the factions within the fractionated Ukraine polity.
Accordingly, the IMF demands became the clinching argument behind the Ukrainian government’s abrupt decision to suspend preparations for signing the Association Agreement with the EU. Instead, Kiev quickly pivoted to a deal with Russia in the fall of 2013, which was willing to offer $15 billion in loans without the harsh IMF pre-conditions. Also, Moscow offered Ukraine a discount on Ukraine’s large gas purchases from Russia.
The rest is history, as it were. As mentioned above, the Washington neocons were not about to accept Kiev’s pivot to Russia come hell or high water.
So they swung into action bringing all the instruments of the Empire – the CIA, the State Department, NED, the NGOs and favored Ukrainian oligarchs – to bear on scuttling the Russian deal and removing Yanukovych from office.
In a later interview with a US journalist, in fact, Ukrainian billionaire oligarch and opposition leader, Petro Poroshenko (who later became president), said quite clearly that the plan was to subvert the nation’s constitution and install an unelected, anti-Russian government that would deep-six the deal with Moscow:
“From the beginning, I was one of the organizers of the Maidan. My television channel – Channel 5 – played a tremendously important role. … On the 11th of December, when we had U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and E.U. diplomat Catherine Ashton in Kyiv, during the night they started to storm the Maidan.”
It should never be forgotten, therefore, that the coup which overthrew the constitutionally elected government in Kiev was a $5 billion all-hands Washington undertaking. It would never have come to fruition as a successful regime change putsch without the heavy hands of the US State Department along with the other above-mentioned arms of the empire.
Needless to say, nullification of a country’s election – backed by the stick of NATO’s military might and the carrot of billions from a Washington/EU/IMF consortium – is big league meddling. Well, except by the clueless hypocrisy of the Washington foreign policy blob.
Indeed, as former president Obama told CNN at the time, Washington was just going about its “indispensable nation” business. It had helpfully encouraged another “flowering of democracy” and to that end it had,
“……brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.”
Brokered a deal my eye!
This was a blatant and inexcusable breach of so-called “international law” because it served the will-to-power objectives of the Washington neocons and kept the now largely obsolete US foreign policy apparatus in the hegemony game – to say nothing of recruiting a new customer for arms sales.
Never mind that Washington’s massive political and financial support for the Maidan uprising on the streets of Kiev, and then nearly instantaneous recognition of the resulting putsch as the official government of the Ukraine, was a frontal assault on the nation’s sovereignty.
The late and detestable Senator John McCain even went to Kiev to show solidarity with the Euromaidan activists. McCain dined with opposition leaders, including members of the ultra-right‐wing Svoboda Party and later appeared on stage in Maidan Square during a mass rally.
There he stood shoulder to shoulder with Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok, who made no secret of his pro-Nazi convictions.
But McCain’s actions were a model of diplomatic restraint compared to the conduct of Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, who, by your way, was soon back in the same position in the Biden Administration, conducting the same pro-war neocon policies.
As Ukraine’s political crisis deepened, Nuland and her subordinates became more brazen in favoring the anti‐Yanukovych demonstrators. Nuland noted in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in December 2013, that she had traveled to Ukraine three times in the weeks following the start of the demonstrations. Visiting the Maidan on December 5, she famously handed out cookies to demonstrators and expressed support for their cause.
Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, but it also bordered on puppeteering. At one point, US Ambassador Pyatt mentioned the complex dynamic among the three principal ultra-nationalist opposition leaders, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tyahnybok, and Vitali Klitschko
Both Pyatt and Nuland wanted to keep Tyahnybok and Klitschko out of an interim government. In the former case, they worried about his extremist neo-Nazi ties; in the latter, they appeared to want him to wait and make a bid for office on a longer‐term basis (This former boxing champion became the current pugnacious mayor of Kiev).
Nuland thus famously stated that,
“I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary.” She added that what Yatseniuk needed “is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside.”
The two diplomats were also prepared to escalate the already extensive U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s political turbulence by bringing in the Big Guy.
Pyatt stated bluntly that,
“…..we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing [the political transition].”
Nuland clearly had Vice President Joe Biden in mind for that role. Noting that the vice president’s national security adviser was in direct contact with her, Nuland related that she told him,
“…probably tomorrow for an atta‐boy and to get the details to stick. So Biden’s willing.”
That is to say, Victoria Nuland didn’t merely tell some undercover operatives to buy ads on Ukrainian social media, as Russia was accused of doing during the 2016 US election. To the contrary, she actually picked Yanukovych’s successor and the entire cabinet!
And we know this from a hacked phone call between Nuland and the US ambassador in Kiev. In discussing who should lead the Washington-installed government, Nuland made clear who the next prime minister would be and who he should be talking to for advice.
Nuland: I think Yats (Arseniy Yatseniuk) is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. … what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know.
As it turned out, the putsch leaders followed Nuland’s advice to the letter, installing “Yats” as the new prime minister. But it also filled four cabinet posts out of eleven with rabid anti-Russian neo-Nazis.
Indeed, at the heart of the putsch were Ukrainian organizations called Svoboda (national socialist party of Ukraine) and Right Sector.Their national hero was one Stepan Bandera – a collaborator with Hitler who led the liquidation of thousands of Poles, Jews and other minorities as the Nazi Wehrmacht, as previously mentioned, made it way through Ukraine toward Stalingrad in the early 1940s.
In fact, another founder and leader of Svoboda, Andriy Parubiy, was given a portfolio which included the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces, Law Enforcement, National Security and Intelligence. That the Kremlin was alarmed by these developments and that the Russian-speaking populations of Crimea and the Donbas (the blue areas on the electoral map above) feared an ethnic cleansing led by the new Ukrainian nationalist government in Kiev is hardly surprising.
Indeed, the first legislative act of the new government was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 which made Russian an official language. As one commentator noted, it was a bit as if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages in Switzerland.
The Russian language ban caused a storm in the Russian-speaking population. This resulted in fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which began in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and some notorious massacres (those in Odessa and Mariupol were the most odious).
By the end of summer 2014, Crimea had return to Mother Russia after an overwhelming plebiscite and the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk became the object of a vicious civil war conducted by Kiev.
As we have amplified elsewhere, Sevastopol in Crimea has been the homeport of the Russian Naval Fleet under czars and commissars alike. After 171 years as an integral part of the Russian Motherland, it only technically became part of Ukraine during a Khrushchev inspired shuffle in 1954.
The fact is, only 10% of the Crimean population is Ukrainian speaking, and it was the coup on the streets of Kiev by extremist anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalists and proto-fascists that caused the Russian speakers in Crimea to panic and Moscow to become alarmed about the status of its historic naval base, for which it still had a lease running to the 2040s.
Thus, during a referendum in March 2014 83% of eligible Crimeans turned out to vote and 97% of those approved cancelling the 1954 edict of the Soviet Presidium that gifted Russian-Crimea to Ukraine. There is absolutely no evidence that the 80% of Crimeans who thus voted to sever their historically short-lived affiliation with Ukraine were threatened or coerced by Moscow.
Indeed, what they actually feared were the edicts against Russian language and culture coming out of Kiev. And exactly the same thing was true of the overwhelmingly Russian-speaking populations of the Donbas.
So in the context of a relentless and pointless NATO expansion to the very borders of the shrunken Russian state, Washington did not merely sponsor and fund the overthrow of Ukraine’s constitutionally elected government in February 2014. But once it had unleashed a devastating civil war, it also relentlessly blocked for eight years running the obvious alternative to the bloodshed that had claimed 14,000 civilian and military casualties, even before the current hot war commenced.
To wit, Ukraine could have been partitioned with autonomy for the Russian-speaking Donbas provinces – or even accession to the Russian state from which these communities had essentially originated.
So the appalling truth of the matter is this: Adding insult to injury after its blatantly foolish and reckless coup in February 2014, Washington now insists that the grandsons and granddaughters of Stalin’s industrial army in the Donbas are to be ruled by the grandsons and granddaughters of Hitler’s collaborators in Kiev, whether they like it or not.
Yet that historic chasm is exactly where the present civil war originated.
And its also why partition of an artificial polity forced together by 20th century communist dictators is the only way out.
THE NATO FACTOR
The current CIA director, William J Burns, actually recognized the eventual crack-up of Ukraine back in 2008, when he served as U.S. ambassador to Russia. After Ukraine’s NATO aspirations were announced at that year’s Bucharest Security Conference, Burns wrote a secret cable (subsequently published by Wikileaks) entitled,
“Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines”.
The missive to Washington contained a stern warning of trouble to come:
Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests.
Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.
He got that right!
For more than two decades, Washington’s NATO expansion policy has been a dagger aimed at the heart of an inherently divided Ukrainian polity—a division that had been suppressed by 69 years of brutal communist rule, but which broke into the open after the Soviet Union fell in 1991.
So, as Burns predicted, in response to the 2014 putsch, Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the eastern Donbas region rose up against the coup government in Kiev, which they denounced as an illegitimate Western puppet regime, riddled with anti-Russian Neo-Nazis.
Independence activists declared the creation of two new autonomous states, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. In turn, the new anti-Russian Ukrainian government in Kiev, with abundant Western military support and weapons, launched a brutal war against these breakaway republics–an assault that went on until the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022.
As Kiev’s assault in the Donbas unfolded, upwards of 14,000 Ukrainians were killed, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced – all before the Russian invasion commenced.
Moreover, the manner in which the two new breakaway republics armed themselves for combat against Kiev’s forces tells you all you need to know about the deep divisions in the Ukrainian polity. These were fissures which were instantly brought to the surface by the Maidan coup.
According to Jacques Baud, a NATO adviser to Ukraine during that period, the breakaway Republic fighters got their arms mainly from defecting Ukrainian units, not Russia!
Folks, when entire military units defect with their arms and fighting wherewithal, you are not dealing with minor differences of opinion among a nation’s population; it’s a sign of deep and likely irreconcilable strife. As Baud has further noted,
In 2014, I (was) at NATO, responsible for the fight against the proliferation of small arms, and we (were) trying to detect Russian arms deliveries to the rebels in order to see if Moscow (was) involved.
The rebels are armed thanks to the defections of Russian-speaking Ukrainian units which cross over to the rebel side. As the Ukrainian failures progressed, the entire tank, artillery or anti-aircraft battalions swelled the ranks of the autonomists. This is what (drove) the Ukrainians to commit to the Minsk Accords.
Just after signing the Minsk 1 Accords in September 2014, however, then Ukrainian President and corrupt oligarch, Petro Poroshenko, launched a vast anti-terrorist operation against the Donbas. But poorly advised by NATO officers, the Ukrainians suffered a crushing defeat at Debaltsevo, which forced them to commit to the Minsk 2 Agreements in February 2015.
As it happened, these Agreements provided for neither the separation nor the independence of the Republics, but their autonomy within the framework of Ukraine. That is, the ultimate status of the republics was to be negotiated between Kiev and the representatives of the republics, for an internal solution to the crisis of Ukraine’s split polity.
But owing to Washington’s writs this was not to be. Instead, the post-coup Kiev government waged a brutal civil war against the Donbas for eight years. This attack was resisted by Russian-speaking Ukrainians who were deathly afraid of being ruled by the neo-Nazi elements which permeated the Kiev government, military and security forces (SBU).
Indeed, even though he had run as the peace candidate, Zelensky put the kibosh on Minsk 2 soon after he was installed in office in 2019. The Minsk agreements, of course, had detailed how Kiev could reintegrate its breakaway regions by offering them a general amnesty, greater autonomy, and representation in the government.
But after having his very life threatened by the Azov militias embedded in Ukraine’s military, Zelensky and other senior officials declared that the Minsk agreements could not be implemented. Instead, they claimed that they could only proceed with their obligations under the agreements after retaking control of the rebel-held areas.
Needless to say, as far as the breakaway republics were concerned, disarmament first and negotiations later was an absurd non-starter. In fact, after the fall of 2019, the Zelensky government made a bee line toward severe intensification of the raging civil war,
To that end, it caused ascension to NATO to be added to its constitution, even as Zelensky issued at executive order vowing to recover Crimea. Yet as we have frequently explained that territory and the site of Russia’s most strategic naval base had never been part of Ukraine until 1954 when Khrushchev gifted it to the brutal communist rulers in Kiev for their help in securing the succession after Stalin’s death.
Moreover, once Zelensky intensified the civil war the idea that Ukraine had anything to do with a functioning democracy lost all meaning. Zelensky’s government soon arrested the leading opposition politicians, shut-down all opposition media by combing multiple TV outlets into a single government propaganda network and, as we saw earlier, initially even outlawed the use of the Russian language.
So long before Russia invaded on February 24, 2022, a bloody civil war raged in the unnatural polity called Ukraine. The latter was inherently not built to last given its deep ethnic divisions and especially the legacy of the aforementioned bloody history during WWII, when the country was bitterly divided between populations loyal to Hitler’s Wehrmacht versus those aligned with Stalin’s Red Army. Like after the American civil war, the animosity lasted for decades.
So again, as Jacques Baud noted, this was a civil war: There were never major Russian troops in the Donbass before February 24, 2022. Even the US intelligence map published by the Washington Post on December 3, 2021 does not show Russian troops in the Donbass.
Indeed, as far back as October 2015, Vasyl Hrytsak, director of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), confessed that only 56 Russian fighters had been observed in the Donbass. It was hardly even comparable to that of the Swiss going to fight in Bosnia during the weekends, in the 1990s, or the French mercenaries who are going to fight in Ukraine today.
The Ukrainian army was then in a deplorable state. In October 2018, after four years of war, Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor, Antoly Matios, said that Ukraine had lost 2,700 men in the Donbass but not from the much larger combat losses. Instead, he referenced losses including 891 from disease, 318 from traffic accidents, 177 from other accidents, 175 from poisoning (alcohol, drugs), 172 from careless handling of weapons, 101 from breaches of safety rules, 228 from murder and 615 from suicide!
In fact, like everything else in Ukraine, the Army has been severely undermined by the corruption of its cadres. According to a UK Home Office report, when reservists were called up in March-April 2014, 70% did not show up for the first session, 80% for the second, 90% for the third and 95% for the fourth.
Thus, to compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They were essentially made up of foreign mercenaries. As of 2020, they constituted around 40% of Ukraine’s forces and numbered around 102,000 men according to a in-depth Reuters investigation. That is to say, much of what constituted the Ukrainian military force on the eve of the Russian invasions was armed, financed and trained by the United States, Great Britain, Canada and France.
These militias, stemming from the far-right groups that led the Euromaidan revolution in 2014, are made up of fanatical and brutal individuals. The best known of these is the Azov regiment, whose emblem is reminiscent of that of the 2nd SS Das Reich Panzer Division. The latter is the object of nationalist veneration in Ukraine for having liberated Kharkov from the Soviets in 1943.
None of this is a secret, even if it has been banned from the 24/7 news narrative. So the West supports and continues to arm militias that have been guilty of widespread crimes against the civilian populations of the Donbas since 2014, including rape, torture and massacres.
Moreover, the integration of these paramilitary forces into the National Guard was not at all accompanied by a “denazification”, as is frequently claimed. Among the many examples, that of the insignia of the Azov Regiment is edifying:
Finally, on the eve of the invasion the Kiev government moved to drastically intensify the civil war and its brutal campaign against the breakaway republics. Beginning on February 16th – a week before the invasion – Ukrainian artillery shelling of the civilian populations of the Donbass increased dramatically, as shown by the daily reports of OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) observers.
Naturally, neither the media, nor the European Union, nor NATO, nor any Western government reacted or intervened even verbally.
At the same time, there were also reports of acts of sabotage in the Donbass. On January 18, Donbass fighters intercept saboteurs equipped with Western equipment and speaking Polish seeking to create chemical incidents in Gorlivka.
The Ukrainian artillery bombardments on the populations of Donbass continued to intensify as shown below – so on February 23, the two Republics requested military aid from Russia. And on the 24th, Vladimir Putin invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter which provides for mutual military assistance within the framework of a defensive alliance.
At that point, the Ukrainian civil war became international, and the artificial nation that was not “Built to Last” was ushered into its death throes
Indeed, the real truth of the matter is that Imperial Washington is now reaping the whirlwind it sowed over decades by massive interference in the internal politics and governance process of countries all over the world – of which the vignette above about the Ukrainian coup and its bloody aftermath is only the latest flock of chickens to come home to roost.
Contrary to the bombast, jingoism, and shrill moralizing flowing from Washington and the mainstream media, America had absolutely no national security interest – even to this day – in the spat between Putin and the coup that unconstitutionally took over Kiev in February 2014. That changed everything and knocked the props out from under Washington’s current sanctimonious attacks on Putin for finally resorting to its own game.
As we said, Ukraine was “Not Built to Last”. Yet notwithstanding all of these damning realities, Zelensky continues to peevishly and arrogantly demand that Washington and the west stand-up an on-ramp to WWIII (e.g. a No-Fly Zone) in order to defend every inch of this artifact of recent history called Ukraine.
After all, if according to the horse’s mouth itself there would have been no war had Ukraine been willing to give up the historic Russian territories of Crimea and the Donbas in the first place, then why isn’t Washington making a bee line toward the negotiating table to offer just that?
If the truth be told, of course, it is not interested in ending the Ukraine War or saving a nation which cannot and should not be saved.
To the contrary, Washington and its fawning media acolytes have become so crazed with anti-Putin hysteria that they will not be satiated until Russia itself is brought down – even if that threatens to bring down the entire dollar-based global trade and payments system on which America’s tenuous prosperity depends [end]
On March 8, 2024, in Chernivtsi region, southwestern Ukraine, the border guards (DPSU) and State security (SBU) arrest 34 men, who inside a truck, attempt to reach Romania. Between 25 and 40 years old, they flee the threat of mobilization. Most Ukrainians are not eager to die for the proxy war that NATO is conducting with their blood, in Donbass and Ukraine, against Russia. Moreover, Ukraine is not a democracy. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has banned left political parties on March 20, 2022. The State is censoring and controlling all media.
David Stockman was a two-term Congressman from Michigan. He was also the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street
chronicle of censorship, fake news, whitewashing of the Ukrainian Nazism and war crimes, for the sake of the proxy war that NATO is conducting in Donbass and Ukraine, against Russia
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