UKRAINE: DO YOU CARE ABOUT COMMITTING ATROCITIES WHEN YOU SEE YOUR TARGET AS A SUBHUMAN RUSSIAN TRAITOR?

For eight years, from the Spring of 2014 to the present day, Monday June 13, Ukrainian forces have fired military projectiles of one kind or another into the villages, towns and cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.

These mortar shells and missiles were fired at random hitting whatever stood in their path, often high-rise residential buildings, occasionally hospitals or schools and if neither of these family homes, urban streets or centres. They killed or maimed thousands over the last eight years.

Unless you have been paying close attention over these years you will be unaware of any of this. All that you will tend to remember over those years from your news broadcasts and newspaper articles is that somehow or other Russia is causing problems for Ukraine.

As an observer of all this from the start I looked for any reflection of what was being done to the inhabitants of these regions within western press and media and found virtually nothing. It was neither politically, career-securing nor socially advisable to report what was being done. To do so would initiate comeback of one sort or another from superiors or from some exterior government-related source.

Most of the time it is likely that massive self-censorship was in operation. Journalists and commentators knew which stories were acceptable and which were not, which views could be aired and which not, what might get you praise and a promotion and which a stalled career or a speedy exit from your place of employment.

Perhaps today where the Ukrainians who have been pummelling Donetsk and Lugansk regions which they have held under siege for eight years hit a maternity hospital in the Vishnevsky district of Donetsk. Reportedly the Ukrainians are using shells from a massive French self-propelled howitzer (CAESAR) with a calibre of 155mm.

Will today be different with western mainstream newsrooms featuring the blurred bodies of the mother and child killed? I doubt it. The ‘war mode’ mentality right across both the political and media elites in the West is all-pervasive… and to be straightforward about it, has been so for the past eight years. Why should anything change now?

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Therefore the shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk by the same Ukrainian forces that have done so with the implicit support of western states will without doubt continue.

Perhaps you are asking, along with the obvious question of why none of the shelling of these civilians was reported over the last eight years, how could Ukrainians come to callously target civilians like this?

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The answer lies in the fact that Ukraine is two nations in one. The largely Ukrainian-speaking West looks westward and many of those there also look toward the Nazi-supporting legacy of Ukrainian nationalists. The largely Russian-speaking East looks eastward and most of them recall their liberation by the Soviet Red Army with pride.

To the most rabid of the modern Ukrainian nationalists Russian speakers are traitors to Ukraine, sub-humans who ought to be eliminated from the borders of Ukraine and by one means or another. They seek only one language to be spoken in Ukraine regardless of how many generations the Russian-speaking population have existed in Ukraine.

To those infected with Nazi-legacy beliefs those in the East whom they refer to as ‘Moskals’ (Russians) have no right to be there. They dream of a time when they have been either killed or removed. They deem them, as the Nazis did, as subhumans only worthy of death.

This is the evil root of the events of today and the unconscionable support given that evil by the western powers, it political and media elites who share in the guilt by their crimes of omission and commission in fuelling these atrocities and failing to report them.

UKRAINE: DO YOU CARE ABOUT COMMITTING ATROCITIES WHEN YOU SEE YOUR TARGET AS A SUBHUMAN RUSSIAN TRAITOR?

UKRAINE & RUSSIA: WESTERN MEDIA TALKING HEADS & THEIR TOTAL IRRELEVANCY

If headless chickens could cluck I imagine they would sound very much like western media commentators today on the subjects of Russia and Ukraine and would have just as much influence on Farmer Ivan who runs the farm. I.e. None.

The chattering classes of the western world are in full-throated high gear with no end of hot air to expend on these subjects. All to no avail. Russia pays no mind to them whatsoever and it is becoming increasingly clear that they are exhibiting the very thing Shakespeare wrote about in his play, ‘Macbeth’.

‘Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing.’

Yet the twenty-four hour news cycle must be filled and Ukraine is without question the big issue. Therefore the hot air must be expended and hours of vacuous talk must fill the airwaves. Each minute element of disinformation and spin must be spun further with endless convoluted views expressed, always and ever avoiding historical facts and reporting of reality.

The most vital factor across all western mainstream networks is the constant use of pejorative terms in reference to Russia and a constant flow also of sympathy and support for Ukraine. Facts are of little assistance, it’s the interpretation of them or the use of invented “facts” that comprise the entirety of the enterprise.

Incredible volumes of hot air drift this way and that, some shot out with chest-thumping vigour, others inserted into the collective atmosphere with a snide knife-like semi-intellectualism. Chomsky’s riposte to Andrew Marr of the BBC comes glaringly into view, that those you see and hear so much on your television are there because their views and world view fit. Even those very nice-looking, clearly very intelligent historians… hand-picked because they are a ‘safe pair of hands’ or ‘frontal lobes’ to sit before the camera and add to the general delusion being displayed on both Russia and Ukraine.

It’s a case of ‘All The News That Fits’ of course and in corporate media with well-heeled, conservative owners or with state media with other owners keen to see the “right” narratives broadcast or printed, it becomes very clear what fits… and what doesn’t.

In our modern times talking heads rule. The previous era of highly visible celebrity has bequeathed its influence to these nodding dogs who sit in our TV windscreens. Their influence comes through that visibility that grants them status in a world blinded by the visual. Blinded to almost all else. What appears on television MUST be true, mustn’t it?

Headline surfers abound. A quick fix of “news” tonight provides all the opinions necessary for tomorrow. To read too much text is tiring in this age and it is thought boring, tedious or pointless. How much better to stare goggle-eyed at the box of opinions in your living room or laptop screen and imbibe what’s ‘really going on’ with ease. In a world of stress why would you need an additional portion by looking deeper?

And so it goes. Endless chattering on the woeful this, the terrible that and always the poor Ukraine and the awful Russians. Round and round in an interminable circle of group-thought and belief-bubble agreement that the delusional construct they have created is the only reality. And in one sense they are right, it is the only reality they will ever see. No truth can penetrate such a closed circle.

And they can chatter about it all day and night long. While Russia demonstrates a new hard reality quite outside of their ken and understanding. And, when enough of the above occurs… the chattering will suddenly stop. To be immediately followed of course by renewed chattering about... ‘the NEXT big thing’.

UKRAINE: HARD FACTS ON THE GROUND HAVE TRUMPED MEDIA/POLITICAL SPIN

Since Russia set herself free of the constraints put upon her by the western powers she became free to assert her rights protecting her national interests within her local sphere of influence.

The virtual stranglehold that western power has had over the world in general has been vastly loosened in recent years. China was first to effect this to any major extent. Now Russia has followed suit.

Other nations are increasingly obdurate against western influence due to waning western power to harm them. Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria for example. Others still, who until recently could be considered strong or relatively secure western/U.S. allies or at least friendly/neutral toward these are now wary of commitment or are increasingly negative. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and India are a few examples.

The western powers sought to exercise their accustomed ability to shape global events in response to Russia’s seemingly reckless invasion of Ukraine on February 24th. In light of the until then apparently still powerful ability of the West to respond it did indeed appear reckless. The expectation was (and the threat had already been made) that the western powers would wreak havoc in the Russian economy through the mother of all sanctions policies. However, Russia had clearly prepared the ground carefully as we now see.

The situation we now find ourselves in is quite extraordinary. In just a few short months what was supposed to be a devastating series of attacks that was meant to render Russia a bankrupt supplicant crawling to the West for mercy has resulted in an outcome that has turned the tables completely on the West. It is the western world that reels in agony with successive boomerang blows from a supremely counteractive sanctions policy on Russia.

Meanwhile, as the West rather than Russia succumbs to economic and financial turmoil Russia’s campaign in Ukraine is very close to achieving most of its goals. Concurrently the Russian economy is beginning to prosper, its currency has hardened in extraordinary fashion, it has a new, robust payments mechanism replacing SWIFT, prices are stabilizing and reducing, Russian entrepreneurs are filling the corporate slots abandoned by western enterprises and new trading partners are being found at what must be an alarming rate for western onlookers.

While all this was going on we had what appeared to be the unstoppable rise of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, backed by the assistance of the entire panoply of western power alongside that of every western mainstream media outlet and a vast array of ad hoc social support organisations created from outrage, sympathy and anger with over fifty public relations companies adding to and coordinating the charge, was on a roll.

Money and weaponry flowed in what appeared to be an endless waterfall into Ukraine. There appeared to be no limit to the help that was to be extended. The sky was the limit. Politicians agreed that Ukraine should receive all it needed with few voices urging any caution or accountability in this respect. The many spin machines in operation were working overtime. That of the Ukrainian regime itself was no exception. Whatever stories were required were produced, one following the other to keep the weapon and cash jamboree running at top speed.

Purported atrocities by Russia came one after another, or better said, created for western public consumption. News from the front was adjusted, turned through 180 degrees to produce headlines that gave the right impression and spun the required tale. The Ukrainian fighters were lionized, portrayed as shining heroes bravely combating evil (meanwhile ignoring their torturing of Russian POWs and their use of schools, hospitals and Ukrainian homes as their bases).

The spin all turned in one direction only, that which was positive for Ukraine, negative for Russia and that which generated a constant flow of weaponry and money into Ukraine. This was all grist to the western military complex mill also. Weapons stocks being rapidly depleted in the USA and across NATO allies would have to be replaced, new and very profitable contracts signed and the downward graph of profits seen after U.S. military withdrawals in the Middle east reversed.

This circle of advantageous events for both Ukraine and those who profited from the assistance given appeared likely to run successfully until what was talked about as Ukraine’s victory. That is until the last week or so when the triumphant jamboree bubble began to rapidly deflate. Ukraine, as opposed to triumphantly beating Russia with every passing day in chest-thumping splendour was suddenly and very shockingly perceived in reality to be losing heavily and at a level that could no longer be denied.

In recent days we have had an article by the New York Times, undoubtedly informed by some in elite political and military circles that indicates the Ukrainian spin machine was even turned upon them. The article indicates that the top brass of the West were also manipulated along with western population as a whole. It seems, according to the article, that Ukraine had supplied the West’s elites with what was deemed useful rather than that which was truthful. The arch manipulators had been skillfully manipulated.

Now that what appears to have been a campaign of wholesale deception on at least two levels, to the western elites and thence to the western populace, the backlash cannot help now but be underway. I predict a souring of the relationship with Zelenskyy and with the Ukrainian regime project in general. This in addition to a softening of attitudes toward Russia to obviate further devastating consequences across western economies.

This all in a matter of two short months. We truly live in extraordinary times.

And arguably the primary moral of this tale?

HARD FACTS ON THE GROUND ALWAYS, EVENTUALLY, TRUMP MEDIA/POLITICAL SPIN

THE ZELENSKY CURSE

Regarding the West’s Ukraine policy almost nothing is going right or the way it was planned for those most public of western elites, the political leadership. It is also increasingly going very wrong for the general public across the states which they preside over.

There are however certain much less public elites, almost completely anonymous elites if truth be told, who are profiting immensely from this policy. Chief among them of course are the arms manufacturers who suffered a slump as the USA pulled out of Afghanistan and saw profits take a downturn through the general drawdown of U.S. troops in the Middle East. Then there are the well-heeled security state operatives and analysts who remain as a constant whatever political party is in power. These are those looked to to provide commentary to outlets such as the BBC and CNN.

While Ukrainians die in their thousands billions are being spent providing their elites with weaponry. Most of it is old stock but a significant proportion is new, costly and will of course have to be replaced. This is where certain corporate elites in the background are coining it in from human misery that is being actively encouraged by the western powers.

Ukraine didn’t stand a chance of winning this from the get-go. As was said on a recent edition of ‘The Dive’ with Jackson Hinkle Ukraine stood as much chance of “winning” this as Russia would do if it aligned itself with Mexico to fight the USA on its border. It was clear from the beginning that Russia would overpower all resistance to achieve her goals (which she conceives involve existential questions regarding her security).

Now we see the evidence of the above being portrayed across western mass media. A switch was agreed upon a week or two ago, away from the ‘Ukraine is Winning’ meme to the ‘Ukraine is Losing’ meme. Next we will see the ‘Nothing of this was Our Fault’ meme. This because the catastrophic failures now looming large on the horizon cannot be spun out of sight.

The Zelensky curse will take many victims. We already see the political turmoil in Estonia. Germany too is well on the way to a political upheaval. Britain too with Boris Johnson terminally wounded by a no confidence vote in which 41% of his own party signaled they placed no trust in him. In the USA Biden goes from one low poll rating to another with no sign that he will achieve an upturn anytime soon.

The economies of the West are being shaken to the core by price rises and in many places inflation has started to soar. Meanwhile, in Russia, the target of what were supposed to be country-busting sanctions, things are continually looking up after a shaky start with the ruble becoming ever stronger, industry picking up, interest rates coming down, prices stabilizing and the amount of foreign income into the country at staggeringly increased levels. And, with new markets opening up for Russian products from China, to India to Turkey every day and new sources of required resources to replace those previously found in the West being found too, the future looks bright.

Who and where will ‘The Zelensky Curse’ strike next?

I suspect we will not have long to wait to find out.

UKRAINE: READY YOURSELF FOR A WATERFALL OF WESTERN ELITE EXCUSES & BAREFACED LIES

The lies will now flow like veritable waterfalls when finally it becomes totally clear to all and sundry that Russia has comprehensively won in Ukraine.

You will be expected to forget all those tall tales of constant Ukrainian victories designed to ensure your continued support and bolster Ukrainian morale.

If any justification is demanded you will be fobbed off with vague assertions that Ukraine needed all that and besides why would we say anything good about the Russians or give any hint that they might be winning.

These are the secondary areas of deceit now beginning to roll from western lie mills however. Those that are MOST important to them will be the plethora of excuses they will need to cover their sorry arses by relieving themselves of any responsibility for this unholy mess.

The main thing will be that it was nothing to do with them, that they tried their best to help Ukraine but that they were misled or misinformed by the authorities there and that this meant they were unable to help them as efficiently as would otherwise be the case.

This appears to be the main ‘out’ decided upon. Though there are likely to be many to choose from. We will hear for instance from Biden how he said that it might be a good idea for Zelensky to start talking to the Russians about coming to a deal. What he will omit pointing out is that there were talks going on from quite early on and that they showed much promise ultimately. This was most clear when the talks moved to Istanbul where the Ukraine side made some significant concessions. So, how did that go, how did that positive development progress?

It didn’t.

Why so?

Certain persons by the name of Boris Johnson and Joe Biden intervened to warn Zelensky that they would not support him with the security guarantees he sought if he carried any of these concessions to Russia through. But to sugar this pill they offered a huge amount of money and copious amounts of hi-tech weaponry to wage and win the war against Russia.

So when Biden (and perhaps Johnson) say they urged peace talks to occur remember which time frame they are talking of, not all that long after the war began, and crucially remember that they effectively killed those talks just as they began to bear fruit.

Making excuses for their behaviour. It’s what politicians do with most care and attention, is it not? And, just as we saw after every other debacle from Afghanistan onward Ukraine will be the subject of many.

It wasn’t as we were were told. We did our best and could do no more. Russian forces outnumbered the Ukrainians (untrue), Kiev held back information from us… Yadda, Yadda, Yadda!

And, one way or another they will lay out all their lies before a complicit press and media say:

“Okay then, so what’s the next big thing now that Ukraine’s done?”

As Kurt Vonnegut III was wont to say… ‘So It Goes’.

THERE IS A SADISTIC HATRED & UNCONSCIONABLE EVIL WITHIN UKRAINE THAT DEFIES ALL DESCRIPTION

You may have heard of the fact that there is a strong loyalty to certain mythologies concerning the Nazis in Ukraine and this may have surprised you. This is in connection with the beliefs of Ukrainian nationalists during world war two that the Nazis would be useful in driving Russian influence from Ukraine and furthering the cause of Ukraine’s hoped for sovereignty.

By whatever means and for whatever purpose the devotion to the memory of the Nazis and those Ukrainians who fought for them is still extremely strong in Ukraine. Indeed it is so strong that it has been harnessed even, surprising as it may seem, by Jewish oligarchs to shore up and increase their power and political leverage.

The violence which this mythology breeds cannot be reflected by mere words. It encompasses and surpasses any concepts of torture and sadistic acts that any reasonably normal person can imagine. It was seen in very recent times in the treatment meted out to Russian prisoners of war who were subjected to being shot in the groin and knees, though this was the least of it, gouging out their eyes with knives appears to have been the favoured act of violence. Subsequently a bag was placed over their heads and they were kicked to death.

Though deeply shocking such incidents do not surprise those who have observed the acts of violence perpetrated by the Ukrainian regime since an insurrection removed the democratically elected president and government of Ukraine in 2014. These acts of violence, against the civilian population of the eastern region of Ukraine known as the Donbass, were not publicised in the West. It was not seen as convenient or expedient to do so.

The years 2014 and 2015 were the worst where the shelling of the civilian population was at its worst by the Ukrainian army and the many Nazi-legacy extremists who couldn’t wait to rain devastation down on those they called ‘Moskals’ (Russians). They were fellow Ukrainians but considered sub-human traitors to Ukraine because they spoke Russian and considered Russia to be a friend. They were targeted for extinction in a genocide only prevented by the Russian intervention on February 24th of this year.

But the level of hatred does not end with the attacks upon the men, women, and children of the Donbass through the relentless mortar shelling they have endured from the Spring of 2014 until today (the Ukrainian army shell them each day, today being no exception). The malaise of sadistic behaviour exists right across Ukraine in respect of those that violent minorities, often figures of authority in the security services, feel for fellow Ukrainians.

In 2014 members of the Ukrainian parliament who voiced opinions not conducive to the views of the mob outside were regularly taken by them when they attempted to exit the parliament building were verbally abused while being dumped bodily into large dumpster bins. Assassination threats were made using burning car tyres to intimidate after the style of immolation carried out by mobs in South Africa in recent years.

Those who carry out such acts are very commonly found to sport swastika tattoos and representations of various other items of Nazi regalia or symbolism. The prisoners that Russia is taking now are inspected for these as they indicate clearly the slavish devotion to the memory of the Nazis who form an integral part of the mythology of Ukraine. The nationalist leaders who worked with the Nazis are heralded as state heroes with monuments erected to them and street names bear their names.

The latest form the deep hatreds within Ukrainian society show themselves is in vigilantism which has become rife there. If you speak Russian, if you have Romany Gypsy blood or if you have perpetrated some petty crime such as stealing a loaf of bread you risk being tied to the nearest pole, post or tree, then part stripped and beaten. Law has all but disappeared in the locations where this is taking place and the practice has become widespread. On many of the occasions a uniformed person is seen perpetrating these acts.

This is only the tip of the iceberg concerning the deep-seated hatreds and acts of unimaginable violence that infest Ukraine. Those like I who watched from the winter of 2013-14 onward have seen many terrible and previously unimaginable things, stomach-churning acts of pure terror-inducing violence and merciless executions. Such things that should have become a black memory concerning those terrible days when the human demons known as the Nazis had their cruel and sadistic way across the continent of Europe.

None of this fits with the poor innocent Ukraine narrative, I know. That narrative was a necessary facade to generate support for its regime and loathing for Russia. It was a lie, and an extremely cynical lie. The western powers made a deal with a very real devil in the winter of 2013-14. They conceived of a way to use the ultra-violence displayed on Kiev’s Maidan Square to achieve their geopolitical goal of wrenching Ukraine into the western orbit. The praising of that violence, the lauding of its perpetrators as heroes reflected the same distorted belief system that those thugs used to justify the Nazis and their devotion to them.

And so we come to the present situation where the reckoning is upon those whose lives are predicated upon hatred and sadistic violence. They are now paying the highest possible cost for their modern day Nazism and ever-present sadism. The western world too is paying the price of letting their elites get away with neglecting and indeed fostering the evil within Ukraine, using its as a tool for their own ends. Now a cleansing is taking place, a baptism of fire after which it is fervently to be hoped that a new and far better Ukraine emerges, one free of the unconscionable hatred that has festered at its heart for far too long now.

THE CONVOLUTED MACHINATIONS OF THE WEST IN THE FACE OF TOTAL DEFEAT IN UKRAINE

The harsh reality is that the elites of the western world are being comprehensively defeated by Russia on all counts. This over a Ukraine that hardly anyone gave a damn about until recently, that is of no true strategic value to the West except as a means to plague Russia, and that rather than serve this purpose is now acting as a net loss to the entire collective West.

The economic war that the western powers acted to unleash on Russia has not only been effectively countered by Russia it has blown back in western faces to such a degree that the very foundations of western societies are set to be severely shaken.

The collective west in effect has committed collective economic suicide over a nation that was of peripheral, if any value to it.

That this deserves a major dose of humiliation for the elites who devised this debacle must surely be clear. But of course we know from past experience that every tactic devised since the time of Machiavelli and before will be used to minimise any such humiliation. Face-saving narratives will be devised, agreed and sent out in multiple memo form to all and sundry within the matrix of western political and media elites.

One such narrative has been expressed in recent days by the German political hierarchy via the Der Spiegel newspaper. This narrative wishes us to believe that the German government’s reason for not providing certain items of weaponry to Ukraine is that it might have too much success with it.This fantastical narrative envisions Ukraine defeating the Russian forces in the Donbass and marching into Russia using the provided Germans weapons.

Other such spurious narratives will without doubt be devised to explain away the imminent defeat of Ukraine and disassociate western political elites from that defeat. Naturally Russia will be verbally attacked with even greater venom and even less justification than before. This is likely to be the verbal dust storm designed to blind western populations to the fact that their own leaders have brought them to this abject failure.

Macron, as well as Scholz of Germany has been busy on this front. He apparently fears a Russian humiliation if things go on as they are… whereas Russia is in do danger whatsoever of suffering any humiliation at all. As Alex Christophorou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran have said, this is pure projection. It is the western leadership, including Macron that are the prime candidates for humiliation in this situation.

Macron and Merkel threw away the influence they had regarding the Minsk Agreements where Kiev promised to walk the path of peace and reconciliation. Macron and Merkel failed utterly to put the necessary pressure on Ukraine to live up to and honour its commitments signed up to in Minsk and ratified at the United Nations. Not once did they attempt to apply the pressure desperately needed in this respect. Ukraine was allowed to continue on its path to war leaving Russia with no choice but to intervene.

Now a reckoning for the West looms. But they will squirm like hotplate roasted worms to avoid that reckoning.

Just watch.