UKRAINIANS ARE NOT DYING FOR THEIR NATION BUT FOR WESTERN POLITICAL ELITES

How unfeeling & deeply cynical do you have to be to preserve yourself from a deserved humiliation at the cost of thousands of Ukrainian lives?

There is no silver bullet that the Ukrainian regime can use to drive the Russian military back, there is no game-changing weapon that will achieve this for it. When the F16s fail to make any perceptible differences this must surely be finally a settled matter. The progress of the Russian army will continue as it has done for the past two years and more, grinding down Ukrainian resistance, taking hamlets, villages, towns and cities, demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine as it moves inexorably forward ensuring the safety of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine and ensuring that Ukraine never joins NATO.

What possible outcome other than the above is conceivable? Only if one thinks in apocalyptic terms of all out war between Russia and NATO or Russia and the USA, for that is what would be the expected outcome if the war was to be expanded out of Ukraine. The almost inevitable nuclear conflagration at that point does not bear thinking about. So, what chance is there for the victory that Zelensky holds out for along with his western sponsors? Precisely no hope whatsoever. As soon as the western plan to cripple Russia with sanctions while supplying Ukraine with near unlimited money and weapons failed to do anything but strengthen both Russia’s economy and resolve a decision should have been made then and there to settle.

A peace settlement was just about there in Istanbul in March-April 2022. Unless it was simply a ruse to blindside Russia as the Minsk Accord process was, peace was there for the making. The western powers, mainly its two most aggressive members, the USA and UK, pushed for war instead, and got it. Ever since that deeply cynical decision they have doubled down instead of settling every step of the way. Even knowing it was impossible for Russia to let NATO be on its doorstep and modern day Ukrainian Nazis torture their Russian-speaking family in the Donbass, the western powers set their face against compromise. They would fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

With China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and many otters happy to continue trading with Russia and maintaining friendly relations the western powers should have recognised their plans for Russia would come to nothing. This was confirmed also when due to expert handling of the situation Russia actually profited from the sanctions regime that the US, UK and EU attempted to impose upon it. This was a double whammy for those powers. Yet would they recognise they were onto a losing bet? They would not. Like a desperate gambler who has lost big in the casino they simply kept on doubling down.

Now, with the last few throws of the dice, the F16s and a pointless and ultimately counter-productive incursion by the Ukrainian army into Russia’s Kursk region, the metaphorical casino’s management are about to give the western powers the bum’s rush. Yet the well-heeled and cosseted politicians of the West have many ways to escape the humiliation they richly deserve. Like Blair and bush after the Iraq debacle they will manage to voice some weasel words, write their memoirs and more or less retire into semi-obscurity. The blood on their hands will be antiseptically removed, no one in tier circles will mention Ukraine again, they will practice their smiles, crack a few jokes and pretend the whole thing never happened.

Over in what’s left of Ukraine with a decimated population, a destroyed economy and a traumatized majority vainly trying to earn a crust or else seeking to escape its borders, there will be few smiles and certainly no back-slapping to match that which the guilty in the West continue to receive. With tens of thousands comprised of walking wounded, with one in five families having experienced a bereavement and a whole generation of young men lost, what kind of an existence will people have there? Will there be champagne parties as the elites of Washington will continue to enjoy? Hardly. The people will be unable to forget unlike the designer-suited mass murderers of Washington, Whitehall and Brussels. The vast flag-strewn graveyards the western elites bequeathed them won’t let them.

THE DELUSIONAL STATE OF THE WEST’S PUPPET ZELENSKY & OF WESTERN LEADERSHIP IN GENERAL

The delusional ego of Ukraine’s ‘past his sell-by date’ president shows every sign of the megalomania that inflicted catastrophic disaster upon Germany during WWII.

Just as Hitler during WWII believed he could outthink and out strategize his generals so it seems the ego of Volodymyr Zelensky has convinced him he can do likewise. Zelensky has already dismissed and replaced one commander of the Ukrainian army due to obvious differences of opinion. Now, whether with the agreement of the new commander or by direct order, the campaign in Russia’s kursk region is being conducted with extremely dim prospects for success. Initial progress using small, fast-moving groups has now clearly been contained with Russian forces now increasingly bearing down on and destroying Ukrainian troops and their vehicles.

Western military strategists, some of whom quoting one of the foremost military strategists of all time, Carl von Clausewitz, are saying the entire campaign is misconceived. By diverting the most highly trained and experienced Ukrainian troops along with vital resource including some of the best remaining western vehicles, it appears all are rapidly being caught in a Russian stranglehold, or as the usual terminology goes, a massive cauldron. Unable to make the breakthroughs necessary to make Russia divert men and materiel from the Donbass, and specifically the area around Pokrovsk, the Kursk incursion has failed in its primary purpose. The present commander of the Ukrainian forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has said as much in the last few days. 

The entire Kursk operation appears to be another of Zelensky’s reckless and ego-fueled notions. Just as Hitler embraced the fantasy that he had some superior knowledge and insight into how to conduct a war, it appears (asTIME magazine famously asserted) that Zelensky has fallen victim to the same kind of delusionary state. Immediate glowing headlines appear far more important to him than anything. That the consequences of his decisions create an ever more disastrous situation for the men under his command (unsuited as he is as a comedian and second-rate actor to be a military commander)  doesn’t seem to faze him one bit. It appears, after a sullen period of brooding over each defeat he believes only he is capable of responding correctly. And that response inevitably results in yet another failure.

News from the Ukrainian front lines is all about the uncoordinated efforts of those they sarcastically call the “geniuses” of the officer class, a class that apparently routinely lies about the actuality on the ground in their reports, giving an altogether too rosy picture of events there. This for fear of a reprimand or demotion for lack of success or outright defeat. It is left to the troops under their command to make a video plea for assistance, munition supplies, additional reserves and so forth. Stocks of ammunition and much else are running low, the age of the only partially-trained recruits brought to the front lines by force, is rising (now between 45 and 60). Morale is disintegrating among these unmotivated troops who wish above all else to be home with their families. 

But for Zelensky, endlessly presenting a false picture of things from the comfort of his Kiev office or war room, the heartbreaking problems and anxieties being experienced by his countrymen on the front lines, appear to be of no concern. To him any talk of major problems is anathema. He is apparently prone to fly into a rage at his generals if they present bad news to him just as Hitler did in such situations. His blinkered vision required so intently by his vastly enlarged ego, combined with the military acumen of a rather shallow comedic dullard apparently blank out all else from view. Some 600,000 Ukrainians have either lost their lives or been severely injured since the start of Russia’s efforts to ensure the security of its border. Yet, despite all the signs showing that it is impossible for the Ukrainian army to win, Zelensky continues his tirades about  the delusional victory he claims is in prospect.

Russia, apart from engaging in a crushing attrition of Ukrainian positions has behind it defenses in depth that even were the Ukrainian forces able to push back the Russians and advance themselves some way, would never, in a million years, get through them but be totally destroyed from the ground and in the air long before they reached them. The Surovikin line as it is called was massive and extremely formidable when Ukrainian forces didn’t manage to reach them a year ago. Imagine what an invincible barrier it presents to massively weaken Ukrainian forces now. Yet to the delusional “mastermind” Zelensky who finds it so hard to demonstrate his “genius” none of this carries any weight at all. Ukraine will, according to him, accept nothing less than the recovery of all territory taken by Russia since 2014 when his successor Poroshenko took over with help from the western powers from the democratically-elected president Viktor Yanukovych.

The western elites, unable to countenance defeat at the hands of the Russians, play along with Zelensky, feeding his ego and endless requests for money and weapons. Despite it being quite obvious that the sanctions applied to Russia made it stronger and that Russia’s trading partners stayed with her and even grew closer to her and that therefore Russia would have no problem in maintaining its commitment to the war, the West’s leaders, unable to countenance the shame and humiliation it would bring, continue to live in a delusional state along with their puppet Zelensky. 

UKRAINE, THE GREATEST DISASTER FOR THE WEST IN MODERN TIMES

The empire of the West that we have lived with and within for so many years is now falling apart in disgrace. The manifestly disastrous 'Ukraine Project' it continues to promulgate will see its end.

It is clear that the western powers are fully aware of what faces them if and when Russia wins in Ukraine. They know they will never live down their humiliation and its many disastrous and permanent consequences. There will be no full recovery for them, ever. The stigmata will be permanent upon their national skins in perpetuity. Russia, after victory in Ukraine will be that much closer to the European mess of liberal degradation and will have even greater influence than now in attracting everyday people of western nations to the traditional ways of life they have maintained. All in all the project to use Ukraine as a device to weaken Russia has utterly failed.

Currently we are hearing how dire things have become in Europe, especially from Germany which has been in a downturn ever since it obeyed the U.S. and ended the Russian supply of cheap natural gas. Other European nations are also suffering due to this cause. Prices are rising and living standards falling across Europe. In the USA, thanks to the still powerful ability it has to manipulate markets the damage is not as severe as in Europe. But the effect of a defeat to its remaining, much reduced “prestige” as a military and political bully, in Ukraine will set the seal on its decline. The world is watching Russia beat the entirety of the western world along with its chief and most aggressive military tool, NATO. The change of attitude toward the West in general is already striking to see. And what awaits the West now will be even more so.

None of this need have occurred. Russia was more than willing to sort the Ukraine mess out through negotiations. The seven year effort by Russia in the face of western deception during the Minsk process proves this, along with its offer to the USA and NATO to work out a new security architecture for Europe and the instigation of negotiations toward a peaceful settlement in Istanbul only a month or so into the conflict. But all efforts by Russia to reach a negotiated settlement preserving peace into the future were rejected. It was clear at the time and even more so in hindsight that the western powers had no interest in establishing peace. They wanted war and believed by providing no way for Russia to escape from its ultimate decision they would win big. How wrong they were.

Russia has been strengthened in almost every way due to the West’s, #Project Ukraine’. It’s standing in the world outside the West has been massively improved. Trading partners from India to China, to Saudi Arabia, to Vietnam and far beyond are far closer than before. The Russian military, through its steady war of attrition against the Ukrainian regime and its military is producing the largest, best trained and equipped and most professional, highly experienced army in the world. And, due to necessity Russia has developed, tested and brought into service state of the art weapons systems such as its hypersonic missiles, making it the world’s most formidable adversary, bar none. By achieving its goals in Ukraine Russia will have new regions in in which it can make good use of both their populations and resources to move forward to ever more economic success.

In addition to all of the above Russia now sees a steady stream of people from the West wanting to live in Russia and become Russian citizens. Russia’s maintenance of traditional lifestyles is immensely attractive to families sick to death of the increasingly rotten state of western societies. This immigration inflow will further strengthen Russia in all manner of ways with an influx of fresh blood steadily having its effect across fields where they bring expertise to add to the ever more robust and excitingly innovative Russian scene. Russia is getting its message of modernity, tradition and security across as never before through such internet platforms as TikTok, Telegram and X. The sky is no limit for Russia as the West increasingly heads down a woke spiral of darkness toward an oblivion where the power it has used so malignly to intimidate and damage others evaporates.

The West was already headed downward and was already losing its power to China, India and others before it embarked on the disastrous Ukraine project. But with declining mental faculties, damaged by pernicious indulgences and influences, the level of stupidity at all levels of western society led its leaders to this final gross error. The debacle for the West in Ukraine is complete. Drained treasuries and armories, demotivated populations suffering a seemingly endless decline in their prospects and life chances, societies riven with discord, torn apart by division and torn into pieces by a totally dysfunctional political domain sinks now into a so-called woke degradation from which it seems certain it will never fully recover. The die is cast. The West’s so-called democracies are turning into totalitarian and highly draconian prisons for their inhabitants, lost to reality, believing in pure fantasy and now submerged forever within inescapable disgrace.

UKRAINE, THE GREATEST DISASTER FOR THE WEST IN MODERN TIMES

WHY CAN’T WESTERN REGIMES STOP INTERFERING & LEAVE OUR WORLD IN PEACE?

Our world is at war when the hope of all of us non-elites was always to find a way to live in peace. Who is it that is generating the conflicts we see constantly occurring... and why?

It’s no secret which group of nations feel compelled to interfere worldwide. Of course they wouldn’t call what they do interference. For them it is dressed up as some sort of holy duty, a calling, a mission, something that they would say their God wants them to do. It appears in fact to bear a close resemblance to a compulsion. In the USA they even talk of it being their ‘manifest destiny’. What is the basis for this mania to interfere across the planet acting as do, constituting the self-authorized, eternally sanctified, police force of God in Heaven Himself?

The attitudes behind this vain-glorious self-admiring and aggrandizing viewpoint go back a long way. The mythologies involved disregard certain acts of mass criminality such as the genocide of the native population of the USA, the Slave Trade and the entire era of mass exploitation that was the British Empire. These mythologies also ignore, in the rabid desire to export western “values”, the ugly realities that are ever-faster starting to rot their social fabric from the inside. Take a look at the tent cities, the living zombies addicted to opioids and the recent widespread riots in the UK No matter what criminality and degradation is to be found in western nations this seems hardly to matter. Others must mirror their nations and often at gunpoint.

Don’t you think the nations being targeted might be a little resistant to the process of regime change interference, subversion of their traditional cultures, subjugation by outsiders and general disdain for their national sovereignty? Don’t you think the populations in these countries might want to resist and reject this outside interference? Yet the United States remains the wealthiest, most powerful and influential nation on the planet and retains the ability to manipulate most of the regulatory bodies that might view their acts as contrary to international law. What choice do the resistant nations have when the representatives of the western nations come calling?

Until now there was very little that weaker nations could do when the political elites of the USA in particular leaned on them to change their ways to reflect U.S. interests. For a number of decades there was the Soviet Union that could be depended upon to provide some protection. Many African, Middle Eastern and Latin American nations took the opportunity at that time to align themselves with that great power. Of course this alignment with the main peer competitor of the USA and its allies fell apart at the end of the Eighties. So, what to do now? For a few decades nations were once again ‘at the mercy’ of U.S. power, influence and perpetual manipulation. Then, finally things began to change.

The changes within the geopolitical balance that were disrupted by the fall of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact began slowly. Slowly but steadily Vladimir Putin restored order and began massively improving Russia’s economy. Concurrently, and from an earlier beginning by several decades China rose to become a new peer competitor to the USA. Together they created the BRICS group along with Brazil and India. Since its inception BRICS has moved steadily to center stage in the world of trade and economic growth. Over the last half dozen years the number of countries wishing to join the group has soared and now stands at forty plus nations. This is the new security umbrella and defender of national sovereignty that has been missing since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Yet even with the arrival of a BRICS  group growing ever stronger and taking into its embrace erstwhile allies of the West such as Saudi Arabia, the western powers are insisting on continuing their interference. It looks fairly obvious that the western elites simply cannot countenance the fact that they will no longer ‘rule the world’ and make it act in their interests at all times? This thought is evidently anathema to them, something that destroys too much of the kudos, status, perks and manipulative ability to glean all they want from the world under the guise of seeking to protect and better it. All those buzzword you have heard time and time again cover the fact of their failure to accept they will have to live in a multipolar world eventually. Those terms, ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’, and ‘western values’ are all attempts to cover for criminality.

The values held sacrosanct within the halls of the United Nations will not be heard about from these western elites. They claim to have higher and better “values” as created by them, values which they wish to force down our throats whether we want them or not. This, above all other clues, is the one that tells you the real interests of these elites. These are to retail western control, not the shared control of the UN. Western dominance, not a balance of peaceful order as visualized and embodied within the UN. Western control, surveillance, targeting, judgment and punishment quite outside the good offices of the United Nations. The only way to stop the western elites continuing their wars of choice to retain and gain more influence is the process of multipolarity through BRICS and similar non-western institutions. It’s going to take time and a whole lot of effort, planning and cooperation but of all processes now in train, it is the most vital.

Ultimately, if we arrive at a fully multipolar world where power is shared across the planet and is not located in any particular region then we will have the best shot ever at a high level of stability where sovereignty is fully protected, there is tolerance for diverse forms of governance and we can glory in our differences within a world where war is very much a thing of the past with interference by the most powerful fully quarantined, where at long last something to a true global civilization to be proud of can emerge.

Ultimately, if we arrive at a fully multipolar world where power is shared across the planet and is not located in any particular region then we will have the best shot ever at a high level of stability where sovereignty is fully protected, there is tolerance for diverse forms of governance and we can glory in our differences within a world where war is very much a thing of the past with interference by the most powerful fully quarantined, where at long last something to a true global civilization to be proud of can emerge.

ARE THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES SEEKING A FOREVER WAR IN UKRAINE?

Can you spot the fatal flaw in any western plan to have the Ukrainians fight against Russia forever?

We hear a lot of talk about eventual peace negotiations ending the conflict in Ukraine. Yet, in one form or another both the Ukrainian regime and the spokespersons for the collective West set either impossible conditions for the Russians (in Kiev’s case) or set conditions that delay such negotiations indefinitely.

In the case of Kiev, Zelensky says that before any negotiations can take place Russia must remove all its troops from every inch of what he considers to be Ukrainian territory. Only once this is done can negotiations start? In other words Russia must capitulate, something Russia will never do.

The U.S. states that the conflict must be continued until the Kiev regime makes enough gains to give it adequate leverage at the negotiating table. With Russia taking ever more territory this only leaves certain theatrical attacks and the potentiality of the Ukrainian Kursk offensive to provide this. If Russia pushes all surviving Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region this only leaves pinprick strikes using F16s and/or ATACMS/Storm Shadow missile strikes fired at Russian targets. It is extremely unlikely that Russia will put up with Ukrainian troops within the Kursk region for long, no matter what it takes to eject them and no matter how long that process may take and pinprick strikes are not going to bring Russia to the negotiating table, especially when the Russian military is moving quickly forward in the Donbass.

This leaves the question open as to whether the western powers really want peace negotiations to start… ever. Just as the Israelis appear to not really wish for any kind of ceasefire to take place in its war against Hamas. For the military analysts in Washington and their political equivalents it may be making sense to them to keep the conflict going on the basis that Russia will be weakened across several fronts if not the battlefront itself. It may well be that Russia taking ever more territory is not a problem for these individuals whose main concern is to undermine Russia any way they can. The Ukrainians in this scenario would be completely expendable. However, herein lies the rub.

For the planners in the Pentagon moving pieces on a chessboard where the USA wins whichever pieces are destroyed in the process may look very good. All the death and devastation is happening ‘over there’, not here. So what if Europe is going down the plughole economically, that just means more profit for us over here. We’ll help out… at a price. Ukrainians are dying? Okya, well it’s not really about them anyway, is it. They are the means to an end, and that end is the weakening of one of the two powers that are threatening U.S. global domination.

Keeping the pot boiling may well appear an excellent idea to those whose blood flows ice cold in their veins. It’s their job to make sure the USA and its allies stay on top and that those rising powers that are threatening to reduce the power of the USA and its allies are hit hard and weakened… no matter what it takes. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, right? But there is a snag.

 So far the estimated number of Ukrainian casualties is around 600,000 dead and wounded. Recent estimates put the rate of attrition of Ukrainian manpower at something over 1,000 per day. With the Ukrainian authorities hard pushed to get men to the front line to fight they are resorting to physically kidnapping off the street by force. Thousands have tried to flee with others almost never leaving their homes or doing so disguised as women. The recruiters are subject to attack and hundreds of their vehicles have been torched in recent weeks. In short Ukraine is going to run short of troops and especially so when it comes to highly trained troops.

How long can Ukraine continue to fight a Russian military that has been estimated to grow to 800,000 highly trained troops by the end of the year (this is the estimate recently provided by the Ukrainians). Russians are volunteering in droves and are receiving at least six months training. Those who have been fighting are by now thoroughly battle-hardened (but are kept refreshed by regular rotation). Ukrainian troops are barely trained at all in regard to the latest flow of cannon-fodder to the front. Those who are there are rotated only on an irregular basis and often must spend long periods at the front before being relieved. 

Russia’s campaign to stop the Kiev regime from taking Ukraine into NATO, end its bombardment of the Russian-speaking civilians of the donbass region and to make Ukraine a neutral, demilitarized and denazified state on its border is a campaign of constant, well-coordinated and unstoppable attrition. Russia has the resources in depth to continue this campaign indefinitely while its major trading partners stay onside and they are not only staying onside but such partners are growing in number. When the USA and its allies failed to get nations such as India and Saudi Arabia to drop Russia as a trading partner along with many others who refused to do this, it was clear that Russia had all the time in the world, all the economic capability and all the manpower resources it would ever need to achieve all its goals in Ukraine.

Russia did everything possible to avoid what is happening now in Ukraine. Through seven hard years of negotiations Russia tried to convince, first Poroshenko and then Zelensky, to walk with it along the road to peace and reconciliation. Only to end up betrayed by both and by Merkel and Hollande (then Macron) also. Russia offered to negotiate with the USA and NATO on establishing a new security architecture in Europe to ensure future peace. This was rejected by both. Russia, after seeing that there was no further avenue to establish long-term peace and security for its people, tried to pressure Zelensky into making good on his promises of the Minsk Accords. This failed though Russian then initiated peace negotiations in Minsk then in Istanbul just a month into the conflict. Boris Johnson, Joe Biden’s emissary, convinced Zelensky to keep fighting and end the peace negotiations.

A month or so ago Vladimir Putin announced a peace plan of his own. If the Ukrainian military vacated the regions that Russia has already mostly liberated then there could be a halt to hostilities and negotiations could then begin in earnest. This peace plan from Russia was rejected.

So, what do you think? Who is it that is seeking peace here and who wants the fighting, dying, injury and destruction to go on?  Ask yourself who benefits from the conflict continuing? Not only the U.S., British and European military industrial complexes which are clearly profiting greatly now (and due to the diminishment of western armories will do so for decades to come in replenishing stocks) but also the strategic planners who see great gains through using the Kiev regime as a tool to weaken Russia. (Not that this is occurring presently, Russia is, in most aspects stronger than ever now, as is its military.) The only losers here are the Ukrainians. Just imagine, 1,000 or more per day leaving the battlefield dead or grievously wounded. This latter fact is the major fly in the western planners’ ointment, the fatal flaw (literally) in their scheme to weaken Russia. Ukraine is going to run out of the very soldiers it needs to keep the horrendous meat grinders at the front going and of course, these cold-blooded westerners will not risk their own sons death or injury there. Not even after the last Ukrainian trooper dies.

WHAT ARE THE TRUE FOREIGN POLICY GOALS OF NEOCONS & SUCCESSIVE U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS?

We are told that the selfless goals of those westerners wishing to transform the world are idealistic. They speak of wishing to spread democracy, freedom & human rights. But are these their true goals?

Clearly successive administrations of the USA believe in what they are doing. We hear their representatives talking constantly about democracy, freedom and human rights. But are these their true goals? As far as we know from the literature that is most identified with the neoconservatives (Neocons), the document titled ‘THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY’, we can say there is one extra goal to the three above that is required to bring the others about, that is to attain the preeminent dominance of the United States of America as the primary global administrator, judge, jury and executioner.

Ensuring democracy, freedom and the observance of human rights worldwide in perpetuity requires the level of supreme global dominance the Neocons and successive U.S. administrations (especially since 9/11) are seeking. It requires full spectrum dominance, complete and enduring global oversight. On the face of it the goals above may appear to be eminently positive ambitions. A world where democracy is everywhere, all populations live in freedom with human rights observed at all times. Criminal activity would be almost impossible as every human could be tracked precisely 24/7.

You will of course have immediately spotted a certain irony in the plan to bring about freedom for all. No one could fail to notice that currently we see a very definite attempt to close down freedom of speech for some of us at least. Add to this the deep flaws to be seen in the various forms of democracy we plainly see wherever it is offered as an example for others to follow. In the USA for instance you will have taken note of the lobby groups for the various gigantic industries of America, the so-called Defence Industry, Big Pharma and many others. Then there is the question of influence through sponsorship of U.S. politicians by these interests. How much of U.S. government policy then is determined by the people of the USA themselves via the electoral system? And how easy is it for the average American who wants to change things in the USA to mount a campaign and get elected? If he or she gets past the selection process without promising his or her backers will any money for the campaign be forthcoming and will he/she get access to air time or be reported to any extent in the media. So, we see the limits of “democracy”.  

Of course the road to the ideal situation as advocated so stridently by both Neocons and successive U.S. administrations is a rocky one to say the least, as we can see from the last two decades. No constantly reliable path to the stability required to have the level of peace necessary to make the positive changes to democracy, freedom and human rights has been found. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine have shown that the plans drawn up to realise these Neocon/western political elite goals obviously lacked major elements. Perhaps all the chaos, death and destruction match some even more long term plan than those on display until now, but if so neither the Neocons or the political elites of the West are relating them to the world.Instead the four word mantra of democracy, freedom and human rights tends to be all we hear. If there is a long term plan it seems they don’t dare publicise it.

The negatives all come first they have no doubt told themselves. Perhaps several generations of negatives. Millions are displaced, societies are fractured, millions die in decade after decade of war. And of course many wars instigate new ones where rival powers collide as a result of a general atmosphere of instability caused ultimately by the constant activities of the Neocons and U.S. political elites attempting to deliver on their belief in ‘manifest destiny, to transform the world. And do we get any closer to those presumed goals of worldwide democracy, freedom and the observance of human rights. Surely this must be doubtful to say the least?

So, accepting that the goals stated above appear unattainable shouldn’t we ask ourselves then if these are the true goals of the Neocons/U.S. political elites? What other goals that have a more realistic possibility of attainment? What about maintaining U.S. national interests and those of their allies? What about ensuring that the USA and its allies never again suffer a 9/11-type event by broadening control and ability to know what the entire world population is doing at any given moment? (Full Spectrum Dominance.) Are these not more attainable goals by far? By weakening and subverting the sovereignty and governmental systems of target nations do these elite powers not shake things up in a manner where US-aligned interests might better take power and thus preserve and increase western national interests in such nations?

You will decide which goals are most likely to be attained and which are more likely to be the meat and bread issues that would get Neocon/U.S. elite adrenaline going. Are they truly saintly figures who visualise a perfect planet several lifetimes away where everyone if happy, free and living on a perfectly democratic planet? Or is something much more self-interested at work here? 

WHICH NATIONS ARE INITIATING WARS ON OUR PLANET AND WHY?

Our world is at war. Which nations have instigated the wars now taking place, what are the motivations involved, and what might the final outcome be for all of us?

As you will no doubt be aware by this point in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, it is a proxy war conducted by the western powers using Ukraine as a tool with which they aim to significantly weaken Russia. 

Some may doubt this and ask what evidence there is for this assertion.

If all the opportunities to resolve the differences between the Russians and Ukrainians are examined I would suggest that the above assertion becomes patently obvious.

There were innumerable moments when those powers could have accepted the offers that Russia made leading up to February 24th 2022 to avoid the horrendous loss of life and destruction we have seen and continue to see in Ukraine and now in Russia. Russia tried again and again to avoid the circumstances we see now. First with the Minsk Accords from 2014 onwards, then the offer to negotiate a new security architecture for Europe that included all stakeholders there. Then, in the second month of the conflict Russia agreed to negotiations in Istanbul which almost reached a settlement where Ukraine would refrain from joining NATO and all other issues would then be discussed by the national leaders of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Despite all the above points where a path to peace and reconciliation could have been progressed rather than the road to war, Russia found its every effort rejected and the way forward to a peaceful outcome blocked. To stop Ukraine from joining NATO (a long term red line for Russia) and to protect the majority Russian-speaking population of the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, Russia was left with no good choices but to mount its special military operation to attain these goals.

As at least one U.S. official has admitted, the goal of the Ukraine operation was to weaken Russia. This was preceded in the year 2014 with a US-supported insurrection and coup in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Can anyone be in any doubt which side is the aggressor in all this? There is no need to take the Ukrainian example in exclusion of course, the USA has more than a century of  form regarding regime change operations through both the CIA and the U.S. military, at times including allied forces such as the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in Iraq. Looking back over all the various areas of interference in the sovereign territories and affairs of other nations we can easily see what U.S. “influence” has wrought in both Latin America and the Middle East, and now in Eastern Europe.

The USA with its 'manifest destiny’ to transform the world into its ‘exceptional’ self, along with the British elite concept of its own superiority we can easily detect where the urge to interfere in other cultures and systems of governance has its genesis. In no other no nations do we see the almost religious fervour to interfere and transform others that we see in these two. You can even look further back in time for even more proof of the way North American and British elites conceive of themselves as above all others with an almost divine right to do as they please. The genocide of the native population of North America, the slave trade and the British Empire are clear evidence of the attitudes at play.

Ukraine is just the latest example of the kind of cynicism and complete lack of conscience it takes to create the kind of mayhem necessary for undermining others and forcing them to do as you say. The Ukrainians are merely the latest dispensable tool the USA and its proxies have decided to use to further their own self-interested goals. These goals can be seen being forwarded throughout history as related above though currently they have been transformed from long-term ambitions to those which are extremely short term. What has brought about this speeding of the interference objectives of the elites of these nations? They are twofold.

The Decline of the West and Rise of the Rest

For centuries the western nations have ruled both land and sea in one way or another. Their elites established dominion and empires and were at all times determined to hold onto what they had taken and that which they now controlled. This was always at the point of a gun or through an aspect of ‘battleship diplomacy’. There was no way that the underclass (as they saw them) of other nations would be allowed to affect their ‘national interests’. Their word was law and woe betide any individual or group that attempted to change the status quo or stand in their way. Both were utterly ruthless in maintaining their power, influence, domination and control.

The domination of the West has continued for centuries, enriching every western nation and impoverishing those they exploited. However, in the late 20th century things began to change and the changes involved were increasingly evident. The main change on the geopolitical and economic horizon was China. Its growth became a talking point for the entire world. Along with neighbouring nations China began to present growing economic rivalry to the West. As western elites saw things this situation was a threat to their ‘national interests’ and this was seen as tantamount to waging war against the West. Of course it was and is not seen as a war from the view of those seeking only to bring economic well being to their populations.

The economic analysts reporting to western political elites were without question warning them that it was only a matter of time before their power, influence, domination and control over the world that they had enjoyed for centuries was about to wane and ultimately be lost altogether. So this is one of the factors that can account for the speeded urgency with which the West as a whole has determined to take immediate action to fight, weaken and reverse this process.

Nine Eleven and the Need to Attain Full Spectrum Dominance

The atrocious events of nine eleven added immensely to the factor above. It put rocket boosters under the process already underway to fight back against nations rising to take away the power, influence, domination and control exercised by the West. Immediately after nine eleven it is clear that a decision was made to eliminate all forces and systems of governance that did not recognise the USA and its allies as the rightful ‘exceptional’ and ‘superior’ power worldwide. Nothing less was acceptable. No nations were to be left who were in the least antagonistic or even neutral regarding western domination. All who remained incalcitrant and unwilling to bow before western power after nine eleven were to be eliminated and transformed with all individuals in power replaced. Thus the regime change operation, beginning with the ‘War on Terror’ began. This operation continues to this day and its current progress (or lack of it) can be seen across eastern Ukraine. 

The ultimate end of the goal to push back, eliminate and replace all rival powers will result in a virtual prison planet with the USA and its allies having the status of perpetual wardens. The entire planet will then be monitored for disaffection with western rule. Punishments will be swift and severe. There will be nothing left to chance, under no circumstances will the elites of these nations allow any percentage of resistance to occur. Any percentage for them would be counted as a risk. Such resistance might grow. Ultimately growing into a level of resistance and organisation where another nine eleven-type event might possibly occur. Therefore we would all be in surveillance lockdown from the attainment of ‘full spectrum dominance’ onward, in perpetuity.

As long as the USA and its allies determine there is a chance to fully regain their status as top dogs who have the ability to manipulate the world there will be war. And as long as there is any resistance to complete western dominance there will also be war. These are the two factors that ensure war will be a constant as long as the USA and its allies have enough power to continue to fuel their wars. Currently things hang in the balance. The multipolar world where western power has been put into a status of balance with all others is just now being born through the BRICS group and related developments such as de-dollarization, but the power of the USA and its allies still remains very strong at this point. All hangs on the developments that will take place as nations unite in the face of increasing western aggression designed to weaken and ultimately transform them into western vassals.

All is to play for. Those who find our world at war positive and believe the sacrifices to bring about ‘liberal hegemony’ (Professor John J. Mearsheimer’s term) are ‘worth it’ will be rooting for the West in this latest and last world war. Those who desire peace, with nations being allowed to have the systems of governance that suits them rather than having western “diplomacy” thrust upon them will root for all others. This is the time we live in, the watershed era when either tolerance for difference or demand for conformity will prevail. Each of us will make our choice and act as we can to promote our favoured outcome. Remaining silent and hoping for the best is of course also an option. Which side and outcome do YOU favour? And… will you act to realise it?

UKRAINE, TWO NATIONS IN ONE THAT MUST PART IN THE NAME OF PEACE

In terms of language, culture, history, fraternal/family affiliations and religious persuasion Ukraine is the most socially fractured nation on the planet.

The divide between west and east Ukraine could not be more stark. They not only speak different languages but now belong to two separate branches of the Christian church. Those in the east, the Russian-speaking population were happy to live in peace with their Ukrainian-speaking neighbours. The heart of the problem is that the ultra-nationalist ethnic Ukrainians who live live predominantly in western Ukraine set out on a mission from 2014 onward to eliminate the Russian language and if necessary the Russian-speaking population, from Ukraine. 

It was in 2014 that a large mob of insurrectionists comprising extremely violent nationalists overthrew the democratically-elected president and government of Ukraine. The authorities that dominated Ukraine from that moment on were essentially illegal and featured some of the most extreme figures from the nationalist political elites. These extremists were massively helped into power with $5,000,000,000 of U.S. taxpayers’ money via the NGO, ‘National Endowment for Democracy’. A leaked phone call between the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and the Assistant Secretary of State was published at the time. In it they were heard discussing who they would allow to be in the illegal government to come.

From 2014 onward the ultranationalists were to rule Ukraine by one means or another. The primary factor which gave them power was not their numbers as they were a force of ten to twenty thousand active members led by a few dozen politicians. Several of those politicians however were to become ministers in the new government. The main factor which provided those who took over and those on the streets who enforced their will, was fear. Just as Hitler and his brownshirts started as a small group of largely ignored thugs by one means or another they managed to gain powers. Just as the small number of swastika-bearing nationalists have in Ukraine.

As police were being killed by rioters bearing revolvers, hunting rifles, clubs, heavy chains, bricks, Molotov cocktails and toxic sprays in Kiev, the Russian=speaking population in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine looked on in both disgust and fear. The country they shared with the ethnic Ukrainians was being torn apart. Yet the Ukrainians in the west of the country who had taken over the government had no wish or intent to allow the Russian-speaking population to live in peace. They were now to be forced to abandon their language, their affiliation with their neighbours directly across the border, the Russians (with whome they had intermarried for generations) and the essentially Russian culture that was an inherent feature of their everyday lives. Added to all of this was the respect and thanks which generation after generation in that part of Ukraine had felt toward Russia for liberating them from the Nazis during WWII.

In the western lands of Ukraine there was no such feeling for Russia and the Russians that those in the east felt so strongly. In fact during WWII many thousands of them had joined Nazi divisions in order to take part in Operation Barbarossa to fight and kill Russians. It is said that the Nazis feared these divisions especially as they were even more ruthless and bloodthirsty than themselves. Those who fought with the Nazis during this time generated a cult of Nazism and ultranationalist barbarity that exists in western Ukraine to this day. Hence the fear among the Russian-speaking population in the east when it became clear that their democratic right to choose the president and government of their choice had been wrenched from them in a coup.

The real fear for their lives, language, culture and history within eastern Ukraine on seeing the mass ultra-violence with which the rioters took power, generated the movement in the east that led to demands for autonomy there in order to safeguard and protect all of these. With an absolute minimum of violence local administrative offices were taken over and ultimately led to the establishment of two republics in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk Peoples Republic and the Lugansk Peoples Republic (DPR & LPR). In the face of torch-bearing modern day Nazis whose chants sent a direct message to them that there world was to be destroyed and replaced the Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine HAD to take matters into their hands. In truth any other option would have meant the extinction of all they loved and quite possibly, through ethnic cleansing or mass murder their disappearance altogether from their homeland.

Vladimir Putin saw all this in 2014 but due to the relative weakness of a Russian Federation that was still recovering from the catastrophic fall of the Soviet Union he was only able to save the Russian-speaking people of the Crimean peninsula at that time. Though he had every sympathy with the plight of those in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, the best he was able to do was send convoys of humanitarian aid. That and initiating the process which became known as the Minsk Accords where discussions took place in a forum consisting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany. Regular meetings were held from 2015 to late 2021. In 2021 however, it became clear that neither the Ukrainian regime, nor the leaders of France and Germany had any intention of adhering to their commitments. The Minsk Accords, which were meant to bring a safeguarding level of autonomy to the Donbass, and lead to reconciliation and peace, had been used merely as a stalling technique by those determined to find their solution through warfare.

Thus, in February 2022, left with no good options to gain a peaceful settlement through negotiations Vladimir Putin sought to intimidate the Ukrainian president Zelensky into living up to his presidential campaign promises to seek peace. Despite having built the Ukrainian army to NATO standards and readied massive fortifications to engage in war, Vladimir Putin sought one last route to peace, not war. Sending troops to Kiev and various other strategic locations Putin hoped he could stave off the necessity for outright war. He hoped Zeensky would realise his position was hopeless and so agree to providing the Russian-speakers of the Donbass the security, safety through autonomy that Minsk had been designed to bring about. In those early days of what was named the ‘Special Military Operation’ negotiations began first in Belarus then in Istanbul in Turkey. An agreement was very close where Ukraine would agree not to join NATO and all other issues would be discussed by the leaders of the two nations. Just as the negotiations should every sign that they would ultimately deliver peace, Boris Johnson, the then British prime minister, arrived in Kiev to persuade Zelensky that war, not peace was the best option.

The intervention of Boris Johnson with his offers of virtually unlimited financial and military support for the Kiev regime caused Zelensky to end the negotiations that had appeared so close to a successful conclusion. We all know what has taken place from those fateful moments to these. A figure in excess of 600,000 casualties, dead and wounded, massive destruction and a divide between the two nations of Ukraine that could never, ever be mended. Once the West-assisted insurrection in Ukraine’s capital to take down its president and government succeeded, all else was essentially inevitable. The two nations of Ukraine that had lived virtually in almost constant peace and harmony in modern times was broken, though still forced to stay together by a regime in Kiev that through the sponsorship of the West believed it could take back the Donbass by force.  

From February 24th 2022 the Russian president and the Russian military set out to find a way to the peace that could only come to the east that remained possible. All other routes had been closed by the Kiev regime and the western powers. Russia set out to do the only thing that remained possible in the circumstances, face down a regime and military that had embraced a new Nazism backed by western powers determined to use the Ukrainians as tools with which to weaken Russia. The West is waging a war of many facets against the rising nations of Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East and Far East that threaten the dictatorial global power they assert as their god-given right. That a war torn nation of two different nationalities would be sacrificed in the process was of little concern. Two ethnic peoples, one who looked west, the other east were subjects of sacrifice for ignoble ends. Two peoples, two nations that deserved so much better than the travesty of nationalism that breeds hatred there, tearing them ever further apart. 

HOW WILL THINGS END FOR UKRAINE, RUSSIA & THE COLLECTIVE WEST?

Zelensky, on borrowed time, makes his last desperate but futile efforts to retain relevance to his sponsors & stave off inevitable defeat. What will the future hold for all parties to this struggle?

We are now well within the end game of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Russia’s special military operation has been sustained despite all provocations from the Kiev regime that might have turned it into a war. What is the difference between the SMO and a war some may say. The difference is easy to point to. If Russia had declared war on the Ukrainian regime there would not be a single Ukrainian government office still standing. The power grid of Ukraine, degraded now, would have been obliterated along with any attempt to repair it. No trains would run as every station, substation and means of powering those trains short of coal would be non-existent. Zelensky would have died almost immediately. His fellow travelers and assorted minions within his so-called government would have breathed their last, perhaps during the early destruction of the Ukrainian parliament building in Kiev. Those who wonder about the SMO and why Putin said near its start that Russia hadn’t even got started yet when early on certain commentators were aghast at what the Russian military was doing.

Russia began the SMO with a relatively small military force designed to push Zelensky into doing what he had committed to with the signing of the Minsk Accords later ratified at the United Nations. Merkel and co. now say they never meant for the agreement to be honoured, that it was only a stalling tactic to let the Ukrainian military be brought to a NATO level of readiness and to build fortification lines in depth to keep the Russian-speakers of the Donbass region in a siege to be shelled into submission. The Minsk negotiations went on from 2015 to late 2021. You can imagine to what degree the Ukrainian army was strengthened and to what depth those fortifications were built in those years, strength in depth that has presented a formidable barrier to Russian progress… till now. Now we are in the end game, at the last stage of the conflict where the final lines of fortifications are being broken through. Beyond them lies an open path for the Russians to progress quickly all the way to the east bank of the Dnieper River. This was not what Russia wished for. Not at all. The Minsk process was meant to bring renewed peace and reconciliation. All that was required was that the Russian-speakers be allowed to live in peace and security with a requisite degree of autonomy. This was achievable through Minsk and was again almost attained a month into the conflict in Istanbul. The western powers never saw peace and reconciliation as positive outcomes. Weakening Russia through war was their goal.

Now, so many years of needless conflict later Zelelenky’s desperate last gasp strategy of initiating an incursion into the Kursk region of Russia can be seen to be failing heralding the end of this sorry chapter of world history. His last throw of the dice will reveal him as the clear loser of this conflict for all the world to see, a world that will soon then turn its back on him. All previous talk of resemblance between Zelensky and Winston Churchill will be an embarrassment to those who slapped his back and offered their undying support less than a year before. Biden’s memoirs will conveniently shorten the entire Ukraine episode to a few vainglorious paragraphs that ignore the humiliating debacle he authored along with the drone assassin, Barack Obama. Mainstream media news hawks who offered constant delusional opinions about a sure Ukrainian victory will fall suddenly silent before focusing on the next regime change goal of the constantly warmongering West.

Russia, massively strengthened after its victory over the entire collective west will benefit from its well-earned status as primary advocate, along with China, of the multipolar world that will then be moving forward apace. Russia will begin the task of bringing all its new regions and the standards for those within them up to the level of the rest of Russia assisted by its partners within the BRICS group. The number of nations queuing to join the BRICS will be seen to expand still further while those remaining within the now disgraced orbit of the USA, UK and EU will shrink by comparison. What is left of Ukraine will sink into the memory hole of non-existence for western nations, an embarrassment, a failed, economically non-viable state that constantly seeks even more assistance from sponsors now seeking every means to divorce themselves from it. NATO will have no option but to desist in its ambitions as a new, Russia-neutral government and president takes the place of Zelensky and his horde changing the Ukrainian constitution forever ruling out NATO membership.

Historians, upon the capitulation of the Zelensky regime, will bemoan the fact that the end result of the push to get Ukraine into the western orbit via NATO, was doomed from the start. All the insightful comments made by such as George Kennan, the acknowledged architect of the West’s containment policy of the Soviet Union will be quoted. Those who care about such things will finally have their say on why so much relentless stupidity by the western powers was carried on for so long, with them doubling down endlessly, digging ever deeper into the hole they had dug since the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 when George W. Bush insisted that a statement was to be made saying Ukraine and Georgia would one day join NATO.

To end this sorry tale of disastrous western hubris and lust to retain global hegemony, read George Kennan’s views concerning the expansion of NATO eastward toward Russia’s borders after the fall of the Soviet UNion and Warsaw Pact. Why were his words not noted by such as Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden as they deserved to be? Reckless irresponsibility, blind ambition, needless fear and sheer ignorance brought our world to the brink of nuclear war and led directly to the death or grievous injury of over half a million human beings and in the process caused the destruction of an entire nation. 

Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X

New York Times May 2, 1998.

‘His voice is a bit frail now, but the mind, even at age 94, is as sharp as ever. So when I reached George Kennan by phone to get his reaction to the Senate's ratification of NATO expansion it was no surprise to find that the man who was the architect of America's successful containment of the Soviet Union and one of the great American statesmen of the 20th century was ready with an answer.

''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, who was present at the creation of NATO and whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed ''X,'' defined America's cold-war containment policy for 40 years. ''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, who joined the State Department in 1926 and was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. ''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.''

One only wonders what future historians will say. If we are lucky they will say that NATO expansion to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic simply didn't matter, because the vacuum it was supposed to fill had already been filled, only the Clinton team couldn't see it. They will say that the forces of globalization integrating Europe, coupled with the new arms control agreements, proved to be so powerful that Russia, despite NATO expansion, moved ahead with democratization and Westernization, and was gradually drawn into a loosely unified Europe. If we are unlucky they will say, as Mr. Kennan predicts, that NATO expansion set up a situation in which NATO now has to either expand all the way to Russia's border, triggering a new cold war, or stop expanding after these three new countries and create a new dividing line through Europe.

But there is one thing future historians will surely remark upon, and that is the utter poverty of imagination that characterized U.S. foreign policy in the late 1990's. They will note that one of the seminal events of this century took place between 1989 and 1992 -- the collapse of the Soviet Empire, which had the capability, imperial intentions and ideology to truly threaten the entire free world. Thanks to Western resolve and the courage of Russian democrats, that Soviet Empire collapsed without a shot, spawning a democratic Russia, setting free the former Soviet republics and leading to unprecedented arms control agreements with the U.S.

And what was America's response? It was to expand the NATO cold-war alliance against Russia and bring it closer to Russia's borders.

Yes, tell your children, and your children's children, that you lived in the age of Bill Clinton and William Cohen, the age of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, the age of Trent Lott and Joe Lieberman, and you too were present at the creation of the post-cold-war order, when these foreign policy Titans put their heads together and produced . . . a mouse.

We are in the age of midgets. The only good news is that we got here in one piece because there was another age -- one of great statesmen who had both imagination and courage.

As he said goodbye to me on the phone, Mr. Kennan added just one more thing: ''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 

UKRAINE’S KURSK INCURSION IS AN ACT OF DESPERATION

There comes a time when all is about to be lost. It is then that acts of despertion are all that's left you.

Trump is coming, for better or worse. An avid supporter of Israel, Trump is clearly keen to end the conflict between the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian regime. For the Kiev regime this is not good news. Not unless they can do something significant by January next year that can turn the negotiations more in their favour. This is the true purpose of their Kursk incursion. Capturing the Kursk nuclear power plant would be the cherry on the incursion cake for them, but merely capturing (and retaining) large swathes of Russian territory would certainly provide a significant advantage. Here is the crucial factor… retaining what’s captured.

It appears that the regime has ordered something around one third of their total military force to the Kursk/Sumy area threatening two more regions apart from Kursk, the Bryansk and Belgorod regions. It is obvious that more incursions, if not a fullscale offensive, or offensives are planned. The Russians know this and are planning for this eventuality. While denying the Ukrainian military their favoured route to the north the Russians are making sure their raiding parties are finding progress difficult to the west where the Ukrainians seem most focused. Three bridges have been blown there in recent day. Russian engineering squads are busy building pontoon bridges to replace them. These have come under attack but the pontoon-building process continues.

As the Ukrainian raiding parties move further from the border their lines of logistic supply become ever more strained. Adding to this problem are of course the air superiority of the Russians who are bombing Ukrainian supply hubs and lines of supply in the neighbouring Ukrainian Sumy region. Time will tell whether Russian firepower can sufficiently decimate Ukrainian manpower to delay, or even halt the proposed Ukrainian offensive(s). 

Within the Kursk region the Russians are steadily destroying Ukrainian troop formations such as they are. This presents some difficulties as the Ukrainians are moving in small, fast-moving raiding parties or convoys of a relatively small number of vehicles. However, the Russians are steadily whittling down the Ukrainians and their vehicles with the use of drones and, where concentrations of troops and armour are greater, with artillery.

Overall, this entire operation denotes extreme desperation within the upper echelons of the Ukrainian regime. This is even recognised among the regime most fervent supporters in the West. Doubts were expressed very early among both the political and media elites in the USA and Europe and these doubts certainly continue. It is being described most commonly as a gamble but in truth this should be stated not merely as a gamble, but a desperate gamble. The Kiev regime can be said to be not only creating a cauldron (complete encirclement) for its military in the kursk Oblast but also ensuring that the Russian military is able to blast its way through Ukrainian defenses all the way to the Dnieper.

By moving the best, most highly trained of its forces to the north to fight within a relatively small, strategically unimportant part of Russia, leaving its forces along the entire line of conflict in the Donbass vulnerable, the Ukrainian regime is making its last throw of the military dice. Desperate to do SOMETHING before Trump takes over the U.S. presidency in January 2025 this panic measure, an all or nothing attempt to show relevance and gain some leverage in future talks Zelensky and co. may in fact have just thrown the entire Ukraine under the bus with this action.

There are no further Ukrainian defenses of any significance after Russia takes Pokrovsk (in the next few weeks, month at most) then Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. The Russian forces will then press on with few casualties to the eastern bank of the Dnieper after which the erstwhile Ukrainian eastern Ukraine would be split in two. Zelensky having ordered the incursion into Russia was the last straw for Russia. Now little quarter will be given as the Russians have been enraged by this act and will offer Zelensky no negotiations of any kind and will only accept his resignation after signing Ukraine’s total capitulation. 

Is it any wonder Zelensky is desperate? It is not. However, his last major act seems sure to bring about the end of his malignant tenure as president of Ukraine, and the possible end of Ukraine as an economically viable state. He has presided over a national suicide. The entire West-initiated exercise, all the way from th Bucharest summit of 2008 to the Maidan insurrection of 2014 has been just that , Ukraine’s West-fostered suicide. Of course the western powers have acted in desperation also. They saw the nations of the global south and Eurasia rising economically, clearly destined to reduce western power over time to naught in the creation of a fully multipolar world.

It is well worth taking note of the striking comparison between Western/Ukrainian desperation and the systematic, calm rise and determination of all those opposing them.

KURSK VS. DONBASS - WHO’S WINNING THIS WAR?

Appearances can be deceptive. Especially if a facade is expertly laid before western audiences by a mainstream news media that has nothing to gain in telling the truth.

While the entire western world focuses on what the Ukrainians are doing in Russia’s Kursk region where they have taken control of a large number of small villages and one town of some 6,000 souls the Russian military is achieving important strategic goals in the Donbass.

In a time when Ukrainian successes have been few and far between it is natural that the incursion into Russia is making the headlines across the NATO nations that comprise its support group. Only those paying sparse attention to detail can be unaware by now that Russia is in fact fighting a NATO force in Kursk, if not sheep-dipped NATO troops themselves then a Ukrainian force that has been brought up to NATO standard lately. Taking villages where the opposition is mainly civilian is not too onerous a task for such a force.

In comparison with what has faced the Ukranians till now, across the line of contact in the Donbass Russia has confronted fortified structures and defensive lines in depth built since  2014 when the president and government of Ukraine were overthrown, much to the delight of all western political and media elites. Those structures have allowed the Ukrainian military to pour shells and missiles into the civilian-populated hamlets, villages, towns and cities of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of the Donbass ever since that 2014 coup on Maidan Square in Kiev. Now the Russian military are taking those fortified lines down.

While the Ukrainian troops raid and loot supermarkets, spend their time throwing down Russian flags and putting up Ukrainian ones and occasionally shoot and kill civilians Russian troops have been taking significant territory and have just taken the large town of Niu York (now in the process of being renamed). The major cities of Toretsk and Pokrovsk will be next to fall. Toretsk is one of the most heavily fortified cities in the part of the Donbass still held by the Ukrainians. Russian troops entered its suburbs this week and it can only be a matter of time before it succumbs to their occupation.

The Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has slowed down significantly in recent days. The toll of dead and wounded among the Ukrainian forces runs from 1,500 at the lower estimate to 5,000. The path of the Ukrainian raiding parties to the north is now well and truly blocked. This was the direction that it was clear they wanted to move speedily in in order to reach and capture the Kursk nuclear power plant. That road is now well and truly blocked. In view of this the Ukrainians are attempting to expand to the west and east, but with very limited success. Meanwhile ever more Russian forces are gathering to expel them from Russian soil.

In the Donbass Russia is threatening the extremely important logistical hub that is Pokrovsk. Every day brings the Russian military ever close to their target. The Ukrainian military is fleeing before them hoping to establish better defensive position to the west. It will avail them nothing. Russia is operating to the strategy that has worked well for them thus far, that is the tactic of inexorable slow attrition. The Russian military high command have made sure that the entire 1,000km plus battleground is kept in coordination with all logistical resources in place along with enough troops to maintain them and the territory taken. The Ukrainians by contrast have applied a haphazard strategy that cannot possibly bring similar results.

Zelensky and those who take their command from him play the media game, looking for one piece of theatre after another hoping to impress their western sponsors into shelling out more of their taxpayers’ hard won cash. This has worked well up until recently when coffers and arsenals have started to run dry. Only in the last few days we have heard from Germany that it has come to the end of the road regarding emptying its state treasury into the Ukrainian money pit. The Kursk incursion is in part yet another piece of staged performance art from Zelensky and his compliant new commander, Syrsky. Like all the previous stagings the present one will provide only limited and temporary success while causing thousands of Ukrainian deaths and the destruction of military vehicles that will soon not be replaced in the same numbers by their sponsors.

While Kiev struggles to find men on the street to manhandle to the front as cannon-fodder Russia has again seen a surge in volunteers enthusiastic about receiving training in the Russian military before helping rid their nation of the recent infestation of unwelcome Ukrainians. An increasingly poorly-trained Ukrainian force will face them, one with a very limited supply of weaponry and munitions. The Russian military industrial complex is running at high gear and it can be expected that very soon the Ukrainians will pay dearly with an especially powerful and widespread missile attack all across what is left of Ukraine.

Who is winning? Clearly not the clown in Kiev, his forced are being whittled down in their thousands daily while Russia speeds on by their corpses to take ever more land and the important towns and cities that are about to fall to them within the next few weeks and months. While Zelensky fools himself and his western paymasters into endless dreams of victory the reality is that all diversion of attention toward Kursk will provide the emptiest of Pyrrhic victories possible… ultimately no victory at all. In fact a catastrophic defeat.