Thursday 28 March 2024

THE DONBASS DEATH SIEGE & CONSPIRACY OF MEDIA SILENCE

A vast, unconscionable injustice has been perpetrated in eastern Europe since 2014 in which some 15,000 souls have perished with minimal reporting on the fact by western mass media. How can this be?

It began in the early months of 2014. The American-approved authorities who took over from the democratically-elected president and government after the Maidan insurrection sent the Ukrainian army to deal with an uprising in the Donbass that rose in response to the undermining of Ukraine’s democratic system. Along with a somewhat reluctant army came the ultra-nationalist radicals who had been responsible for the deaths of some seventeen lightly-armed young policemen during the course of the Maidan riots.


On arrival in the Donbass where a largely peaceful revolt had taken place with government offices taken over the army arrived planning to lay siege to the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. There were many instances of heroism where large groups of civilians attempted to block the way of Ukrainian army tanks attempting to reason with the soldiers inside. However, steadily these armed forces prevailed and began setting up road blocks on the primary roads to the major conurbations. The army had come in force with orders that clearly demanded that it return the power of the new authorities over the area by whatever means proved necessary.


Thus it was that the conditions were set up for an inevitable conflict rather than the negotiated settlement the people of Donetsk and Lugansk sought. Their goal was autonomy within a state now taken over by a US-supported and essentially US-controlled faction who had assumed the levers of power in their land. This faction included elements stemming from the most radically nationalistic members of the extreme right, people who used the Nazi salute and whose forebears had joined Nazi battalions composed of Ukrainians seeking to eliminate Russians and Russian influence from Ukraine and further to assist in Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union.


In the Donbass the Russian-speaking majority honoured the memory of how the Soviet Red Army had liberated them from the Nazis, there were many mixed marriages of Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Russians, the nearby border with Russia was essentially open oftentimes with no border guards in attendance or checks made. In essence there was scarcely any difference in culture, heredity, tradition or lifestyle between the Ukrainians and Russians in these Ukrainian regions bordering Russia. They were where the heavy industry and mining took place that supplied a significant proportion of Ukraine’s income. The people there knew well how the most radical of those Ukrainians living in western Ukraine saw them, as ‘Moskals’, as Russians, and they knew very well what those radicals wished to do to them.


No doubt the principal American figures involved in assisting the Maidan insurrection took little, if any account of how Ukraine was in fact a nation split into two quite distinct parts, the West with its ethnic Ukrainians looking west and the Russian-speakers in the east looking eastward. The animosity felt by a cult-like following of radicals in western Ukrainians toward anything remotely Russian was perhaps discounted if considered at all. No doubt the overwhelming desire to draw Ukraine as a whole into the western orbit caused all other considerations to be relegated to a very low priority, if they were even considered at all. In line with most other US-inspired projects of the past the planning for any aftermath of the initial acts designed to establish a successful outcome would have been sketchy if present at all.


The political leadership of the USA with the Europeans in tow had long sought the entry of Ukraine into NATO. This had been formally declared at the Bucharest NATO summit of 2008 and, along with pressuring the Ukrainian leadership to grow ever closer to the EU, the fault lines ignored between the two distinct loyalties in Ukraine grew. Prior to this push by the Americans and Europeans Ukraine had been a relatively peaceful nation where the democratic process delivered elections monitored by electoral officials/inspectors where the results provided a balance of power. If you view any of the maps of distribution of parties elected in presidential and general elections prior to the events of 2013-14 you will see that both west and east Ukraine were represented clearly. The split between east and west Ukraine could not possibly be more obvious than in those images, one of which you can view at the foot of this commentary.


In any event, the Maidan insurrection took place with all its bloody months of violence. However peacefully it may have begun it soon descended to levels of arson, murder and full scale violence that would never have been tolerated in any western city. The police were attacked with Molotov Cocktails, beaten with heavy chains, clubs of all kinds, paving stones, toxic sprays and even at one point with a fork lift truck. As related above, some seventeen young policemen, armed only with a shield and baton, died. In most case they merely attempted to hold the line against further acts of ultra-violence by the mob, many of whom sported Nazi symbology on their bodies or the shields they carried. Ultimately the mob won after a false flag attack killed many of their number. The democratically-elected president and government fell. The political elites of the USA and EU had won the day and their carefully selected placemen took over.


Returning to the situation after Maidan and the response of the Russian-speakers of the east to the insurrection described briefly above, and the arrival of the Ukrainian army to deal with those seeking to protect their way of life and language, things quickly descended into a stand-off. Instead of any attempt to use the establishment of a dialogue with those who had taken power in the east the new west-installed authorities decided to use brute force. What happened next was inevitable, especially as the radical elements who had arrived with the army had an all-consuming hatred for Russians and the Russian-speaking Ukrainians of the eastern regions. Genocide and ethnic-cleansing was their goal, they had no interest in allowing a peaceful process of any kind.


After the initial, small-scale events of violence which initially took place, whether it was the radical element alone or by the hand of Ukrainian troops also, mortar shells began to rain down on the villages, towns and cities of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. These mortar shells were clearly not guided by any targeting data, they simply flew undirected and hit whatever was in their path. These consisted often of the highest structures, those such as the Soviet-era residential blocks, hospitals and schools. Shells which missed such buildings landed at random along the streets and in the town centres of urban conurbations destroying lives, homes and livelihoods at random. The resulting images were truly shocking, children, civilian men and women, the elderly, no one was spared. The horror of these attacks was truly unconscionable and occurred day after day and were especially horrific in the years 2014 and 2015. Ultimately some 15,000 died. Yet reporting in the West was minimal.


Western reports of the deaths taking place made no mention of the siege of Donetsk and Lugansk. Every report was careful to mention Russia in a negative light creating the impression that all wrong was on the side of the Russians and Russian-speakers. It did not suit the narratives of the western leadership to report the facts impartially, neither did it suit the overall western ambition to force the entirety of Ukraine into its orbit. A killing field where only one side was perpetually guilty and innocents could be slaughtered with impunity had been set up. The Ukrainian army and its neo-Nazi elements had a free hand to do whatever they wished without fear of the atrocities they were committing being reported. All was to be framed in the context of “Russian aggression” and the falsehood that “Russian invaded Ukraine”. Russians were increasingly arriving to help protect the Russian-speaking populations, that much was true, but there was no Russian aggression, no Russian invasion.


The killing of civilians on a daily and nightly basis by the Ukrainian army and those neo-Nazi radicals increasingly incorporated within it has continued since those early months of 2014 until the present day. Those being killed are viewed as subhumans by the most radical of those who have terrorised them for so long now. They make no distinction between infants, teenagers, adults or the elderly. For them all should be killed or else driven out from Ukraine and Ukraine being only for the ethnic Ukrainians. This is why mention is made of genocide. The level of hatred felt by the ultranationalist radicals is truly at a level where they would gladly eradicate all Russian-speaking Ukrainians. And the Ukrainians of the east have known this very well and are very well aware of the historical record on this, stretching all the way back to the years those of the west arrived in league with the Nazis during world war two.


For western reporters, self-censoring, knowing what was acceptable to report and what was not, a decision had to be made, keep supplying what was expected, or risk the consequences of your actions. The vast majority, employed as they were by mainstream news organisations towed the line, in fact not a single correspondent, reporter or journalist that we know of rocked the boat. If any one of their number attempted to, and no doubt found their submission rejected we do not know, but at any rate all reports published conformed to the selfsame line, it was all the fault of the Russians. This is how the conflict in eastern Ukraine was reported and it is how events in Ukraine are reported now. Western national interests, to draw Ukraine into the western orbit governs all reporting across the western world and without exception.


Russia has many goals for its special military operation including the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine along with ensuring Ukraine never joins NATO and thus presenting an ever increasing danger on its doorstep. But a primary goal has been from the start and all through the Minsk process seeking a peaceful resolution to the situation in the Donbass, has been to shelter the Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass from harm and provide them with a guarantee of future security within which to maintain their traditional way of life and language. These goals are being achieved, slowly in some eyes but surely and current the primary achievements are in the areas where the shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk City has been most prevalent. These areas are now being cleared of those who have been causing the misery of Russian-speaking civilians for so long now, misery that was cynically hidden from western view by its entire mainstream media.



Wednesday 27 March 2024

WHY WOULD RUSSIA RELENT & ABANDON ITS NATIONAL SECURITY?

 

Can you think of a single good reason why a nation should countenance an aggressive, heavily-armed organisation, with a known track record of doing massive destructive damage, squatting on its doorstep?


The answer to the question above is of course that Russia would never do this. Ask yourself, would any nation with sufficient ability to resist do so? The national security of a country is quite clearly the first duty of any government. Protecting your population from danger is the number one responsibility of those charged with governing. When danger approaches your border it is the solemn responsibility of those in charge of any nation to drive that danger back and assert the strongest possible defence against any potential future threats. Russia has been doing exactly this in recent years.


The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was left without an enemy to justify its existence with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Instead of being gradually disbanded and/or merged with the regular armies of its member states it remained intact. Since the fall of the Soviet Union it has been an active belligerent against both Serbia and Libya. Though NATO’s use as a potent weapon against these nations many western politicians claim that Russia has no need to fear NATO’s encroachment to its borders. The assertion is constantly made that NATO is merely a defensive rather than an offensive organisation. You may ask whether the people of Serbia (still protesting this week 25 years after the NATO attacks) and those of Libya are likely to agree.


Gorbachev was certainly assured that NATO would not move an inch toward the then Soviet Union upon his agreement that there would be no barriers placed upon the reunification of Germany. He was in fact assured by almost a dozen high officials from western nations at the time. However, tranche after tranche of ex-Warsaw Pact nations joined NATO in the years thereafter. 


Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn't Move Past East German Border


Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given a host of assurances that the NATO alliance would not expand past what was then the East German border in 1990 according to new declassified documents.


Gorbachev only accepted German reunification—over which the Soviet Union had a legal right to veto under treaty—because he received assurances that NATO would not expand after he withdrew his forces from Eastern Europe from James Baker, President George H.W. Bush, West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British foreign minister Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO secretary-general Manfred Woerner.


https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/newly-declassified-documents-gorbachev-told-nato-wouldnt-23629


The fact of NATO encroachment toward the Russian border was bemoaned in a phone call in 1998 to the man recognised as the primary architect of the West’s containment policy regarding the Soviet Union, George Kennan:


Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X


''I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,'' said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton home. ''I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.''


''What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was,'' added Mr. Kennan.


''I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don't people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.”


''And Russia's democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we've just signed up to defend from Russia,'' said Mr. Kennan. ''It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are -- but this is just wrong.''


''This has been my life, and it pains me to see it so screwed up in the end.''


https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html


In the light of NATO’s attacks on both Serbia and Libya, Mr Kennan’s comments above and the release of previously classified documents confirming the pledges to Gorbachev it is clear that Russia had many reasons to be concerned regarding NATO’s potentially highly destabilising effect upon its security. A primary concern was the strong likelihood that nuclear weapons would eventually be stationed within the nations on Russia’s doorstep. This eventuality would leave almost no time at all to initiate the vital checks concerning whether in fact some mistake had been made thus averting a full scale nuclear war. The close proximity of such nuclear weapons to Russian cities such as Moscow would present an enormous and unconscionable threat to Russian security. This simply COULD NOT be allowed to come to pass.


So it was in 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit that George Bush Jnr pushed through the statement that both Georgia and Ukraine would be invited to join NATO at some future point in time. William Burns, now director of the CIA said at the time in a famous memo that Ukraine joining NATO was “The reddest of red lines for the Russians”. This decision by Bush and his people was pushed through and agreed upon despite opposition by several national leaders including Angela Merkel. 


We are now seeing the utter folly of this decision and subsequent regular statements by successive heads of NATO reiterating this decision apparently quite oblivious of the certain consequences. Naturally it was in NATO’s continued existence to make as big an enemy of Russia as possible. This despite the fact that Putin had broached the idea of Russia joining NATO in conversations with then president Bill Clinton. Conversations that led nowhere as the western powers apparently saw Russia as weak and an opportunity existed to exploit her for their purposes, one of which was clearly to maintain and grow NATO.


All of the above should serve to show clearly why Vladimir Putin and the Russian government have extremely valid concerns regarding NATO and its arriving directly on its border, potentially with nuclear weapons within Georgia and Ukraine, as successive western leaders have desired. These many reasons all show why Russia will not and absolutely cannot relent in its special military operation in Ukraine. To do so would be to totally abandon concern for its national security and that of its entire population.



Tuesday 26 March 2024

IN PANIC MODE: THE CRUMBLING EDIFICE OF WESTERN POWER

What can explain the increasing recklessness of the western policy of zero diplomacy toward Russia regarding Ukraine? What lies behind this seemingly relentless juggernaut toward nuclear war?

We can expect almost any form of madness from the western powers at this point. Their grip on the world and upon reality itself is in a state of fast decline. The weaker their position grows the more desperate and reckless are their solutions. Each decay in their long-held dominance over the nations they have become long accustomed to manipulating to their benefit drives them into ever greater recklessness. It is clear to see where their panic could lead all of us… but do they care, so fixated as they are upon themselves?


It cannot have escaped the notice of advisers to those who hold the levers of powers in the West that the omens looked anything but good for the retention of the vast power being held there. It must have been at least three decades ago now that they began warning that unless something radical was done western elite power was destined to atrophy and die, and that the state of global dominance they had held since WWII would be totally lost by the mid 21st century.


What to do? Gracefully submit to what appeared to be inevitable? Or fight tooth and claw like some dying animal against a world that even though it had not yet fully turned against them was certainly destined to do so? Their hopes were quite clearly invested in the second option as we have seen over the decades since the stark reality of their position became obvious. Once China began to massively expand its economic power base it became very obvious that the position of superiority and manipulative dominance the West had become used to was hardly likely to be retained. The only last and slim chance to maintain their position was for the western powers to seek by all means necessary to undermine the sources of that power.


Russia had become an economic basket case through a long campaign to destroy her by endlessly encouraging the arms race and all the other attendant wastefulness that came with the Cold War. A powerful economy had been encouraged to fritter its wealth away on high levels of military spending, the space race and a gargantuan bureaucracy seeking internal control against an external enemy. That external enemy prevailed and brought about the internal weakening necessary to inspire the revolt necessary to bring the entire country and its satellites to their knees.


Then along came Vladimir Putin.


From the year 2000 until early 2007 it appeared that Vladimir Putin could be safely tolerated by the West, a rather grey bureaucrat who would preside over a once great nation that was now being brought to heel by an army of western advisers. In February of 2007 in the city of Munich Putin made it crystal clear to the assembled western elites that they had made a severe miscalculation. Russia was not to be a tame lapdog for the West, nor any kind of take anything. Russia was going to be a powerful, independent-minded, sovereign nation. One that would take responsibility for cooperating with the western powers on all areas requiring international agreement such as nuclear proliferation and international terrorism, but would not be controlled nor directed by them. In other words, Russia would not be their proxy but would once again be a proud and self-confident nation that steered its own path forward.


In those early months of 2007 Putin’s words were greeted with both anger and dismay. Since the events of 9/11 all nations were required to submit to U.S. command with no questions asked. The project to eliminate all nations having a problem with that was already underway. What Putin was telling them was in direct opposition to a requirement that the western leaders had agreed to be an obvious necessity, America was to be supported to the hilt by all nations now in light of 9/11 and without question as world leader so as to wipe all traces of opposition from the entire planet. Putin was refusing to get on that bus. This was simply unacceptable.


Over the years since Putin made his Munich address the strength of the Russian economy was seen to increase and saw, with that increase, the emergence of a nation fast regaining its pride and power. The state of anxiety within the ranks of the western powers grew to ever greater levels while innumerable forms of attack upon the name of Vladimir Putin were seen from 2007 onwards until the demonisation process regarding him was all but complete. That Russia was not going to play ball when the western powers had already the problems of China’s ever growing economic success on their plate was a source of anxiety bordering on panic. Both must be destroyed. But how?


The conjoined policies designed to undermine, weaken and ultimately replace the structures of governance in both Russia and China appear to have been formulated in stages, the first of these occurring immediately after 9/11. The initial targets set out for regime change were of course Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria along with Iran at some point but China was undoubtedly part of the ultimate solution devised. Russia at that time was still a basket case with the new man Putin appearing too weak to effect any major difference. That changed in the year 2007 as we have seen. After all the misadventures in the Middle East by the USA and its proxies the heightened desperation levels began to fix the focus on Russia. Russia must be brought to heel. How should this be brought about?


Endless pressure denying any way out to Russia was the process decided upon by the West to deal a blow to the second most area of opposition to western global hegemony. Thus, in the years from 2005 or so leading up to 2013-14 Ukraine became a primary target with which to “get” Russia. Five billion dollars were spent via NGOs within Ukraine and via the U.S. embassy in Kiev to create enough resistance within the country to initiate an insurrection. The European Union played its part to the hilt also along with the USA and UK in exercising pressure against the Ukrainian president and government that would eventually bring about the violent rioting on Kiev’s Maidan Square to bring them down.


By the means above, through turning Ukraine into a western ally on Russia’s border, one which would ultimately become a member of NATO it was well known that Russia would be thrown into a situation that could be levered to its destruction. As we can see now however, this entire plan failed catastrophically. Russia did, finally, after a near decade of attempting to find a peaceful way through, finally took the bait and invaded Ukraine on February 24th 2022, and it appeared the West’s plan had every chance of success. Russia would be brought to its knees again in a replay of the Cold War. It had been relentlessly pressured down one path, that of military conflict with a now de facto NATO power, Ukraine and the West would now destroy Putin’s power base with an overwhelming array of economic and financial weapons.


Unfortunately for the West things have not turned out as planned. Russia was able to withstand all initial assaults upon it and further turn them to its advantage. More than this, the solutions Russia found resulting in the failure of western plans, instead produced debilitating effects across the economies of the West, primarily those of the European Union. Plus Russia began quite obviously to win the conflict in Ukraine, another outcome that was not contemplated by the western planners. Russia was to be held in a state of war yes, one where it was to be bankrupted along with the effect of western sanctions, but for Russia to win out was not part of the plan, Russia was to be bankrupted causing a massive revolt of the Russian people, regime change and a speedy defeat for Russia in Ukraine.


Coming up to present time we see the results of a growing western desperation to eliminate all those failing to support it or opposing it after 9/11 after each policy decided upon fails to reach a successful conclusion. Afghanistan a disaster. Iraq not much better. Libya in chaos with an unpredictable future. Syria saved from becoming an Islamist caliphate by the intervention of Russia and now the Ukraine policy going disastrously wrong. Meanwhile China continues to maintain a position of growing economic strength with the USA’s Taiwan policy remaining frustratingly impotent. It isn’t hard to imagine the level of frustration bordering upon outright panic that is now fuelling the ever more desperate “solutions” now being contemplated by the West.


Will western elites, now in outright panic mode continue their efforts to shore up the crumbling edifice of their remaining power? Or will the seemingly inexorable rise of those seeking a world where power is balanced due to multipolarity through BRICS and other institutions prevail? All hangs in the balance, however no one should underestimate the willingness of the western political elites to put their interests first even to the extent of being willing to countenance having no world at all rather than a world they can no longer control.


Monday 25 March 2024

WHAT IS THE REAL REASON FOR THE WEST’S FEAR OF RUSSIA?


The fear of Russia invading Europe & the Baltic States is being spread far & wide by western political and media elites. Are we hearing a true account of elite anxieties, or do they hide some deeper fear?

These days you hear a lot of chatter across various media sources and amongst western politicians regarding the danger to the West of Russia. Lurid stories regarding Russia finishing with Ukraine and then invading and occupying the nations of Europe and the Baltic States are rife. How realistic are these warnings?


If you listen to Professor John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago on this subject you will hear him say there is no basis for the assertions above. Professor Mearsheimer studies great power politics and has been an active commentator on the war in Ukraine since as early as 2015. His branch of study falls within what is called the ‘Realist School’. From Wikipedia, he is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought.


Professor Mearsheimer points to all the indications that Russia is solely focused on Ukraine and indeed on only a particular region of Ukraine known as the Donbass. This is a primarily Russian-speaking region that shares a long border with the Russian Federation. Mearsheimer points to the relatively low number of Russian troops that have been assigned to the present campaign and to the fact that Russia has not mounted the kind of campaign in Ukraine that the Americans mounted in Iraq for instance. The troop numbers are too low to take, hold and occupy the entirety of Ukraine, therefore how could Russia possibly take the whole of Europe and the Baltic States with such low troop numbers? In addition Mearsheimer states that there is not a single indication that Russia has this intention.


Why then do we hear this scare story being spread far and wide in the West? What might be behind it, the true reason for the West’s fear of Russia?


Factors to keep in mind:


1. The economic rise, and potential for economic rise, of nations who have remained outside the orbit of western influence, such nations include Russia and China, band also Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and, until recently (and remaining broadly unaligned) Libya. Others such as Saudi Arabia have recently moved away from alignment with the West along with a growing number of African nations. This is threat number one.


2. The events of 9/11 made it imperative for the United States to reassert its domination across the world, strengthening its ability to control potential dangers to itself through close surveillance and an increase in levers of economic manipulation. A redoubled effort to insert itself within nations through to have influence within them by all means possible was imperative. Besides these soft power activities the willingness to use hard power has also been clearly seen in the many regime change operations that have been conducted since 9/11. With the failure of many of the regime change operations (such as that in Afghanistan) U.S. influence can be seen slipping rather than increasing. This is threat number two.


3. Related to 1. and 2. above is the shaping up of a multipolar world scenario with multiple nations now gravitating around both China and Russia. This trend runs contrary to U.S. goals regarding having greater influence with which to spot and eliminate potential 9/11-type threats to it emerging. How can you impose effective surveillance on nations where you are not embedded as the elite or within that nation’s elites? You cannot. And the ultimate goal post-9/11 was to have worldwide surveillance right down to the most intimate details regarding telecommunications, internet, email and interpersonal relationships. To be able to spy to a near universal degree was the goal sought to keep the USA safe in perpetuity. With nations where it sought elimination and replacement of political elites growing stronger economically and in terms of their influence we see this goal becoming harder, not easier to attain. This is threat number three.


The USA and its allies such as the UK and most of the EU states cannot wage regime change wars against the primary states mentioned above in any direct way. China and Russia are both states with sophisticated nuclear weapons at their disposal. To use tactics similar to those employed against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya is unthinkable. Another way to achieve U.S. goals and eliminate fears 1. 2. and 3. Had to be devised. And of course it was perceived that though the post-9/11 goals had to be achieved as soon as possible a head on charge against both Russia and China would be folly. Therefore a strategy was devised whereby one would be taken on semi-directly while the other would be tackled by a more nuanced means of weakening pressure.


The plan for Russia


Russia was to be brought to a state of economic calamity by a two-pronged approach. It was to be enticed by unrelenting pressure to do what we saw on February 24th 2022, namely cross the Russo-Ukrainian border and invade Ukraine. No way out was to be left for Russia but this outcome, no Minsk Accords where a peaceful means of resolution to the Donbass problem would be allowed to succeed, no appeals for a new European security architecture for all by Russia would be given the time of day, instead all would ultimately be rejected to initiate the planned for conflict. This was to massively drain Russia of financial resources and weaken it substantially. Concurrently a massive array of financial and economic sanctions would deliver the crucial body blow to collapse Russia’s ability to serve its people who would then rise up and achieve the regime change the USA and its allies sought.


The plan for China


Just as Russia was being ‘dealt with’ China would be submitted to unrelenting pressure regarding Taiwan. The strategy regarding Russia being successful the nations gravitating toward it within the BRICS group would think again and revert back to being under U.S. influence. China, goaded into a siege or invasion of Taiwan would find itself abandoned by former BRICS members and therefore weakened to that degree. Clearly the U.S. planners will have an entire flowchart of tactics to further destabilise China during this time, without doubt including actions initiated in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and elsewhere within mainland China. The goal, regime change with the elimination and replacement of the ruling elite in China would certainly be a greater challenge than in Russia, however there appears no doubt that this IS the goal.


You will no doubt have already ascertained the reason, or rather the reasons why the USA and its allies fear Russia and also why they fear China from all of the above and this due to a massive miscalculation by the collective west. 


The plan for Russia failed. 


Instead of growing weaker Russia has grown stronger through the actions of the collective west. 


Vladimir Putin has just won reelection as president with an even stronger mandate from the Russian people. None of this is according to plan. The Russia previously thought to be weak by the leaders of the collective west and said to be weak and failing in initial pronouncements must now be said to be so strong that it could take all of Europe and the Baltic States. This is false as stated initially. But the true fear cannot be spoken, that the USA and all its proxies are being defeated, humiliated, sidelined and left ever weaker with every passing day. This is the real fear behind all that we see and hear from the western powers now. Their own malign activities are boomeranging back on them and destroying any hope that their 9/11 goals will ever be realised. Those goals were never to be questioned. World domination by the USA and those within its orbit of control, HAD to be. These are the reasons for the fear, and that fear is growing by the day, initiating ever more desperate actions, statements and policies even as Russia approaches the ultimate moment of triumph in Ukraine.



Professor John J. Mearsheimer




Sunday 24 March 2024

THE WESTERN WORLD IS RUN BY A CRIMINAL ELITE INTENT ON CREATING PRISON PLANET EARTH


It might seem fantastical, complete hokum, total nonsense... the conspiracy theory to end them all. But look around. Look deeply. Connect the dots. While you’re still allowed to...

If you live in a nation espousing western values you live within a criminal enterprise, an enterprise designed as a machine to take from you and from any others it can, run by the worst crooks ever to exist on this planet. Right now their scam is breaking down because the means they used in the past to exploit you and all those others are becoming less and less effective. For centuries they coined it in, in what appeared to them to be an infinite Ponzi Scheme based upon violent subjection of their target market. Now, due to some of those targets gaining enough strength to resist them they are threatening to destroy the entire marketplace.


You may still retain some trust and faith in your leaders if you live in the West, but it is completely misplaced. They may wear designer suits, expensive ties and send their children to the very best schools from their palatial homes in leafy suburbs and picturesque villages but these remain criminals with thoroughly criminal values. Never doubt that. They work tirelessly and do the dirty deeds they do constantly not for you, but solely for them. You may well choose to sleep and let yourself and those you love be fleeced and then discarded but people on other continents are refusing any longer to stand still for the criminality of the West.


Western mainstream media is the second level of criminality after that of the elites who run the show across the USA, UK and European Union and in more far flung locations such as Australia and New Zealand and they act as the mass brainwashers of all those who tune into their programs and newsheets. They condition millions even after their lies were exposed regarding Iraq and the other regime change targets where their criminal employers murdered millions for reasons far removed from those you were told. Every last one of the mainstream channels you watch and viewspapers you read are just as criminal in intent as their bosses. Start to look around and look deeper and you will begin to recognise just how deeply and thoroughly you have been duped for decade after decade.


There are no saintly reporters dedicated to revealing truths to you. They work tirelessly to manipulate you instead and keep you blindly supporting the criminals they work for. You are being tied into being an accessory to mass murder, massive theft and mass destruction. You are being invited daily to condone torture, the stripping away of rights, the denial of freedoms and the theft of billions. You are also being invited to join the criminal fraternity of your elites in an enterprise of world domination currently where ultimately, if they win, they will enslave you forever by means of a system of universal mass surveillance and punishment. That’s right, the goal they espouse of freedom and democracy is so much hogwash, the goal is instead to imprison you within a dictatorship where the western elites are your warders.


Currently your criminal supervisory elites are intent on destroying the last barriers to the goal of global imprisonment and dictatorship they decided upon immediately after 9/11. Russia, China and the others who resist this imprisonment through an intended western dictatorship. Your compliance and support is being sought for this enterprise through the medium of mainstream press and media. They want you to help them make sure you and all others who live below them (as they see it) can never come close to unseating them and with this intent and your compliance a prison planet will be created here on our planet from which no escape will be possible. The eyes in the sky, after the defeat of Russia, China and the others, will monitor every email, every phone call and every gathering of people across the entire planet and if you make just one step out of line they will know… and act against you.


This is the moment we are living now, the moment where the criminals who run the western world act to both save themselves and their positions of power and domination as they attempt to destroy and replace those who could dethrone them and insure true freedom, tolerance for diverse forms of governance and levels of democratic value far, far higher than the sham seen across the western world. This is truly a war against criminality that Russia, China and others aligned with them are fighting now. It’s a war to preserve your remaining freedom and right to live as an independent person within a sovereign nation. If they win, all your rights to freedom and sovereignty will be eliminated within a draconian dictatorship where you are reduced to being a slave, their prisoner to do with as they wish. That is why it is imperative that all those who seek a reestablishment of their full rights and freedoms get behind Russia, China and the others against the criminal cabal who now run the western world.



Saturday 23 March 2024

WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA, 9/11 & THE GOAL TO WEAKEN & ENSLAVE US

 

The events of 9/11 caused most western political and media entities to shut down and shut up who had previously felt themselves free to criticise the foreign policies of the western powers and their proxies. From the events of 9/11 onward this became universally seen across western mainstream media as bad form. Western politicians and western mainstream media simultaneously fell completely silent regarding all negative aspects of West-generated activity. This code of silence remains to this day and continues, in conjunction with full support of western foreign policy, to condemn all those these policies seek to attack, eliminate and replace.


Before 9/11, as those of us old enough to remember will recall, there were numerous entities within the mainstream who could be relied upon, at least to an extent, to hold western leaders to account. Post 9/11 these, without exception, fell silent on the iniquities involved with western foreign policy and instead dedicated themselves to blindly supporting it. Those that Washington, London or Brussels said were enemies of the West western mainstream media also attacked. The narratives that emerged from western state officials were faithfully echoed by western mainstream media without fail.


Over the years since 9/11 the United Nations, once a forum where fierce criticism of western foreign policy was heard, was also largely silenced, at least in this respect. From the bugging of national representatives’ phones on the eve of resolution votes demanding war against Iraq, the UN has been reduced to a largely quiescent gathering where criticism of western foreign policy decisions is extremely rare and mostly confined to only very few delegates. This was particularly evident during the shelling of the Russian-speaking populations of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of eastern Ukraine from 2014 onward. The UN, despite the daily death toll among young and old in these regions, which eventually totalled over 10,000 souls, was extremely muted.


No one should discount the effect of 9/11 in shutting down discussion of U.S. crimes against humanity perpetrated with claimed impunity through its ‘exceptional’ view of itself as seen via its concept of ‘manifest destiny’ to mould the entire world in its image. 9/11 gave those who had long awaited it the opportunity to flex the military muscles of the USA at will without the need to fear any meaningful criticism from any quarter. The traditional allies of the USA and many who had previously kept a modicum of distance from it, were easily maneuvered into joining the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’. The remnants of that coalition remain a strongly influential factor until today even as it begins to fray significantly at the edges.


With the rise of BRICS we see the beginnings of a movement away from the strings that were attached to many nations via 9/11, strings that enabled control of attitudes, viewpoints and certainly statements by nations previously held firmly within the western orbit. The power of those events on 9/11 over those nations who submitted to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ are steadily weakening. The economic rise of China is a prominent factor in this weakening, as has been the strident voice of Russia against its domination by the USA and its proxies. Vladimir Putin stated this position clearly with no possibility for misunderstanding in his famous Munich speech in February of 2007.


It was 9/11 that put rocket boosters under the concept of a US-dominated world and stimulated those with a mind to in that nation to use all means considered necessary to bring that goal about. This, it was believed, was the only way a possible future 9/11-type event could be prevented with absolute certainty. Only a world dominated by the USA and its proxies, where universal surveillance was achieved, could guarantee the kind of total security that was believed essential post-9/11. These twin goals remain firmly in place and serve in large part to explain the relentless push against Russia using Ukraine as the current weapon of choice. The goal demands that first Russia, then China be subjugated by whatever means are required. Nothing at that point can seriously stand in the way of global surveillance and a system of punishments to keep all potential threats neutralised.


The entire panoply of western mainstream media is totally supportive of the goals above. To achieve these goals a number of strategies are in place, one of them being the weakening of western populations to the point where they will meekly accept all that their states subject them to. This is why the so-called authoritarian regimes of Russia, China, Iran and others are seen as a threat, they vehemently reject the liberal, anything goes milieu that western states have foisted on their populations. They then, by remaining strong, with social strength in depth, represent the primary hope through the maintenance of traditional lifestyles, of those of us who are resisting the so-called ‘woke’ infantilism of the West.


Look for no sign of assistance on the quest to maintain our traditional strengths from western mainstream media, it is fully on board to weaken us all to levels of submission unheard of in times past. It will, while constantly promoting the softening up process of anything goes liberalism, pour western state narratives regarding geopolitical “foes” into hearts and minds. Without exception those “enemies” are those who hold fast to traditional, well-tested and strong lifestyles that are in fact their only hope of survival against a western world determined to subjugate them. We must stay strong to survive. We must resist the temptation to be seduced by the limp-wristed wokism of the West. And above all to completely abandon any linkage remaining to the poison of western mainstream media.




Friday 22 March 2024

BBC, CNN & THOSE LIKE THEM: STATE MOUTHPIECES, STENOGRAPHERS & PROPAGANDISTS

 

Most people still rely on mainstream news sources regarding issues of a geopolitical nature, this despite recent times where it became clear the information consumed strayed very far from actuality.

I wonder if those in the higher echelons of the BBC, CNN and others have an inkling, through the comments to their online videos and articles, of how they are ruining any remaining reputation for impartiality they retain regarding news of a geopolitical nature?

Ever more people are looking deeper into the true genesis of the conflict in Ukraine and see precisely and very clearly that the BBC, CNN and their ilk are merely a mouthpiece for western state officialdom.

The BBC make claim after claim to be impartial. This claim is very obviously wrong on its face when its coverage is compared to reality in cases where western state interests are concerned. You need only look at the coverage of events in Ukraine from 2014 onward to see this at its most starkly obvious.

CNN don’t rise to the level of blatant deception on this score. No claim is made by them to be impartial and their coverage can be said to be somewhat more straightforwardly biased.

Other mainstream news outlets across the West are a mix of the two approaches by those above:

Claimed impartiality

or

An absence of claims of impartiality while inferring truth-telling (where in most cases where the content consists of opinion-spreading; opinions reflecting western state-promulgated narratives).

In effect, all western mainstream broadcasters claiming to deliver news services, either maintain cultural blindness, actively censor or self-censor to produce a service that cannot help but semi-deceive rather than enlighten. And this is putting things at their mildest.

At worst we see an active intent to deceive, to mould the mind of every listener, reader or viewer, into the required mentality seen as most useful to whatever western state they may live in.

As Chomsky has pointed out, those who have obtained employment at the highest levels of these mainstream news/media organisations are there solely because they survived the filtering process to weed out those who would report in a different way. Those who pass the test arrive within an elite environment where connections to other elite environments such as those of the political sphere are encouraged, nurtured and are indeed inevitable. Thus we receive all the “news” that fits. The mould that this “news” fits within can then be clearly seen to have a very certain inevitability to it.

“News” that emerges from environments where state pressure, or the pressure of required income from advertising, cannot help but be tainted by numerous pressures to conform to certain requirements. It will ALWAYS be tainted due to this and at times where ‘national interests’ of western nations are at stake the “news” received from this source becomes almost totally one-sided in favour of those western states who are most directly involved and very certainly and universally against those who western states are opposing.

Finding untainted news that closely reflects reality can only be achieved after a diligent, long-term search across non-mainstream sources. These sources may be in book form or via the internet after once again, careful and diligent research into who may be a trusted reporter of actuality rather than a source paid to spread misinformation. The search involved requires to be thorough, matching statements made to the historical record until, over time, a level of trust for certain individuals and groups is built. Only in this way can we feel we are being accurately informed. Not that gullibility or prejudice based on our own personal convictions should generate particular enthusiasm in this context. Maintaining a keen eye for actuality rather than wishful-thinking modes of operation is vital. In any event, the mainstream “news” environment ought to be avoided at all costs and in all cases as it operates essentially and extremely insidiously as an arm of the state in times of war.



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