I have to say that I am rather shocked and even appalled at the level of anger and vitriol expressed in some of the comments posted in response to my attempts to explain why Russia has not intervened so far in the war in waged by the junta against the people of Novorossiia. While at least two posters are clearly getting back at me personally because of things I wrote in the past which enraged them personally (no need to name them – they know I mean them), there are also at least three major groups of posters whom I cannot dismiss as frustrated “petty avengers”
Calling out the crazies
Apparently, one group of true friends of the Novorossian people are much better informed about the plans of the AngloZionist Empire than Putin and as a result of that superior understanding they believe that the best way to defeat the plans of the AngloZionists is to to exactly what they want Russia to do. Then there is this other group who believes that Putin has basically sold out to the New World Order and that this is a huge mistake because the latter has already taken the decision to start a full-scale war against Russia in the near future (some suggest 2015). And then there are those who see Putin as a weakling who just does not have the courage or brains to do the right thing, which would be to engage into a full-scale covert operation to assist the people of Novorossiia. This third group is absolutely sure that, even though the AngloZionists have been accusing Russia of having an ongoing covert interference operation to assist Novorossia, no such plan is being implemented. Why? Because they see no evidence of it. For them the absence of evidence is the same as the evidence of absence. Even in the case of a covert plan.
Has everybody going crazy or is there something else going on here?
US Strategic PSYOPs spring the trap
Even setting aside the full-blown lunatics who would have Russia nuke London, Washington or even “the entire Anglo-Saxon race” (as one drooling idiot wrote to me), what amazes me is the level of hostility rage that literally seeps-out from many, though thankfully not all, of these comments. While some of that rage can be explained by the statistically inevitable presence of idiots in any group, including the readers of this blog, I am beginning to suspect that what is happening here is tiny part of a much bigger campaign to get Russia into finally taking the bait and making the AngloZionist’s dream come true and basically make it possible to put a new “iron curtain” somewhere along the banks of the Dniepr river. In other words, I think that what we are seeing are signs of a “strategic PSYOP” operation which includes the following elements:
1) The support for even the most revolting atrocities in the eastern and southern Ukraine (the latest such atrocity reportedly is execution of wounded soldiers in the hospital of Krasnyi Liman).
2) A massive media PR campaign to demonize Putin as, what else, the “new Hitler”.
3) The use of Central European prostitutes (aka politicians) to warn of a “Russian threat” to the European continent).
4) The mantric repetition of threats to sanction Russia (even though no real sanctions are actually implemented).
5) An uninhibited “in-your-face” official doublethink discourse a la Jen Psaki which does not even pretend to be honest or informed about the Ukraine.
6) The use of so-called Russian “patriots” and other “nationalists” to attack Putin and his policies as “treacherous” and “weak”.
Fake Russian patriots (again)
Here I need to mention something which has received very little attention in the West, but which has been reported in Russia: many, if not most, of the most rabidly nationalistic and even neo-Nazi websites and blogs of the RuNet Russian Internet have been traced to, believe it or not, Canada and Israel. Yup – some *real* Russian patriots (like Maksim Shevchenko) got curious about the level of insanity of some of these websites, in particular the hysterically anti-Jewish ones, and they began systematically tracing their IP addresses. That is when they found out that these sites were mostly run from outside Russia and by folks who had more ties to the US and Israel than to any other group.
Russian Communists as “useful idiots” of the Empire
I myself have noticed that a lot of the anti-Putin PR often comes from either from supporters of the Russian Communist Party or, at least, is based on articles and idea spread by individuals close to the Russian CP. I don’t really have the time to go into an in-depth discussion of who nowadays supports to RCP or why, but I will say that my personal conclusion is that some PR strategists of the RCP seem to have decided that a campaign to accuse Putin of being a coward, an idiot or a sellout to the West will benefit them and their leader Zyuganov. Considering that Putin’s popularity in Russia is already sky-high and still climbing (something in the range of 80% last time I checked) this campaign has little or not traction in Russia. But it has been picked up by the US PSYOP community as a sign that “real patriots” in Russia would “courageously take the AngloZionist bait” instead of acting like Putin who is “waiting on the sidelines while Russians are killed in the Donbass”.
While Russia take the bait?
Maybe. The problem is that for peace it takes two, while war (whether of the hot or cold type) only takes one. Please don’t misunderstand me: I don’t believe for one second that the AngloZionists want a real war with Russia because even if there are some truly rabid politicians who would want that, they cannot wage a war without the support of the top US military commanders who, for all their other faults and sins, are not crazy and who will not allow a full-scale war against Russia or China to happen. That is not to say that US military commanders are shy about provoking Russia (or China), but when confronted with the clear warning of the other side that there is a line not to be crossed (like the one given to the USA by Russia in 08.08.08) they back down each time which, frankly, is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of pragmatism and intelligence. The US officer corps should not be judged by Rambo or Dr. Strangelove movies – I have met many American officers ranging from young Lieutenants to one Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and I have never met Rambo or Dr Strangelove types (in contrast to the CIA which for some reason, seems to attract lunatics and disturbed individuals). This being said, I would not put it past the AngloZionists to play a reckless game of brinkmanship with Russia which would include all possible provocation short of triggering a hot war. Alas, that might be enough.
Putin is in a very tough spot right now. Emotions are really running very high in Russia and a lot of people are sincerely enraged at the constant daily stream of news about horrors and atrocities in Novorossia. For example, while the western media has not mentioned this at all, the number of refugees from the combat zone has been steadily rising, mostly in Crimea and the Rostov-on-the-Don region where over 7’000 refugees have arrived over the past few days. The footage of terrified kids, exhausted women and sobbing elderly people is absolutely revolting and the Russian media cannot not show these people just because it puts the Kremlin in a tough spot.
Also – there is no doubt in my mind at all that Russia is covertly helping the NDF. Of course, there is no proof of that since – by definition – this is a *covert* assistance, but I am quite sure that it is there, if only because of the kind of weapons which the NDF seems to regularly “find” “abandoned” here and there. Or does anybody seriously believe that the NDF has the money and time to go and purchase Igla MANPADS or advanced anti-tank missiles on the world weapons black market? The problem with covert operations is that you only find out about them when they are botched. So as long as the Russian covert support operation is competently run it does *absolutely nothing* to reassure those who are afraid that Russia is just idly standing by. As I said, some see absence of evidence as the evidence of absence, and only a botched covert operation can reassure them. But at what cost for Russia and Novorossia?
It might all boil down to the European public opinion
It might really all boil down to the European public opinion. There are some signs that the more and more people in the EU are becoming aware of the fact that their leaders are supporting a neo-Nazi junta who is waging a full-scale war against its own people. I believe that one part of the current Russian response to the war is to try to trigger some tensions between the USA and its EU vassals which are already here anyway (as seen by Mrs Nuland’s words). After all, while EU politicians have sold out to the AngloZionists, they still don’t like it when pressure against them is mounting on them for agreeing to policies which are so clearly detrimental for Europe. Right now Merkel, Holland & Co. are in lockstep with Obama, but that hardly means that the people of Europe are blind to what this crazy surrender of national interest might cost them. Oh, I don’t expect the Europeans to engage in mass protests like in 1968 just because innocent civilians are being slaughtered on their continent – the European “conscience” is not that tender – but if 10% of all jobs in Germany are threatened or if France has to return 1.6 billion US dollars to Russia and lose roughly 7’000 high-tech jobs, there will be a political price to pay for the EU’s 1%ers. One look at the recent EU elections will convince them that the writing is on the wall.
So if Putin and Lavrov succeed in driving a wedge, even a thin one, between the US and EU a Russian intervention might be avoided. But if these efforts fail and if the butchery in the Donbass continues (the Kiev junta has just cut the water supply to Slaviansk) then a Russian intervention will happen with all the inevitable consequences, fist and foremost for the European continent (Russia and the US will be much less affected).
The Saker
Saker,
They are not necessarily a “friendly” source, but for the record, First Look’s article on “effects operations” (apparently the Anglo bourgeoiscratic “nice” term for psyop). Also, Wikipedia on the JIDF hasbarist organization.
Do you have access to commenters’ IP addresses? Perhaps you might reserve the right to divulge any and all identifying information available to you connected with any post that calls for overt Russian intervention, as a civic-minded person doing your civic duty. Or, perhaps you might flatly demand pen names for every post. Makes more work for JTRIG and more room for unforced errors.
Or, may I suggest simply putting your foot down and declaring that the neoliberal position will be moderated out of existence as you are not for sale to neolibs? Nobody is entitled to speak ill in someone else’s home and nobody is entitled to turn social engagements into sales calls. And especially nobody is entitled to act like hand-maidans to Western values like der einzige einzige or obvious recon ops like svd.
Thanks again for all you do, and this is the only tip I can afford right now: “Know your enemies and know your enemies’ friends better.” ;) Cheers!
Distraction & Re-direction…
Perhaps Russian media and diplomacy is having a more nuanced effect than it is given credit for. Perhaps too there is a more coldly calculating reality behind Putin’s reluctance to intervene at this time.
I am not sure how this happened, but in the Western media the events of SE Ukraine and Crimea appear – at this stage, to be unlinked. With all the attention focused on the tragedies & strategies of events in Novorussia, Crimea has all but disappeared from western media.
At the start of the Novorussian part of the Ukrainian crisis, Russian intervention was widely depicted in western media as a strike one (Crimea), strike two (Novorussia) scenario. The withdraw of Russian forces and the focus on gas prices has meant that this ‘strike two’ accusation (and their ability to talk about Crimea) has withered and seems about to die.
Without intervention (or clear-cut evidence of covert support) in another 6 months it will be impossible for the West to use the media to revive Crimea as a burning issue. However should Putin intervene, western media would immediately revive the phrase and play it as ’round two’ or ‘strike two’. The memory of Crimea would again be center-stage giving western leaders leverage to bring pressure on Russia.
At this point non-intervention is having the effect where most of the western world forgets about ‘strike one’ and so the ability of western leaders to justify action against Russia is severely curtailed.
By allowing/keeping the Novorussian crisis front and center, but not so big that intervention becomes necessary, Crimea fades to the point where it becomes a ‘fact on the ground’. While good for Russia and Crimea, not so good for the folks of Novorussia.
Yet perhaps this is the only way for any good to come out of this in the long run.
It is certainly naive in the extreme to think that Novorussia could escape the clutches of empire without paying a price.
What happened in Crimea came as a surprise to the empire, to the media, and even to Russians in the Russian army!
But now the empire is awake to a new reality. In addition the empire has had its pride hurt and seeks to make up for ground lost. The price will be paid in Novorussia.
In the Middle East Syria is paying the price for the empire’s wounded pride in that arena. the Lebanese resistance led by Nasrallah delivered the surprise. But ongoing retaliation in Lebanon was difficult as Lebanon has a very vocal diaspora of at least 7 million. In each country they let their presence and feelings be known.
Syria at first trusted western media to get the truth out. But western media has been co-opted by the empire and now serves to propagate the myths of empire. Syria had no presence and no voice in the West. So to this day the war continues and to this day their people continue to be without value in western perception.
Novorussia, learn from them the lessons that will enable your freedom. It will come at a cost. Without a presence and a voice heard in the West, the price will be high. Western media and Russian media cannot be trusted.
Novorussia needs its’ own voice. The target is the the people of the EU, for the US is not open to reason. The EU will listen because you are in their back yard. The people of the EU will listen because the wan to know the truth of this situation.
May you have hope and courage.
hi saker i wish you were born a Tamil.
We would have benefited.Please do look into the northern srilankan Tamil troubles when you are free and offer your insights
luv
Saker, I have been patient and Putin seems to have intelligence. BUT. I also think that USA overturns the table in order to rudely get it’s way. I think Mr. Putin should say something like this and bring real force to bear. Russia I feel is totally defensible. They should do, finally, what they are being blamed for anyway. The consequences will be worst for the West. IMNSHO.
Nora
Yes, we have of course been to see the first group and another group located a bit closer to us. We go again tomorrow. Here’s a vid from Slavyansk during an evacuation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDdam2uzmVs#t=48
Children and adults are doing well and have all they need. All are doing better but of course are worried about the families they left behind.
Thank you for your concern and kind regards to you.
Thank you Auslander. I wish myself to speak the language. Too old myself, perhaps, but I WISH.
Propaganda of desperation.
Students drink alcohol.
Fans applaud hockey team.
1947 found living in monochrome in 2014.
2 people form a liberal intelligensia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27713847
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fooc/fooc_20140605-1131a.mp3
@ OldSkeptic: for fwck’s sake, when will all of you Canadians and Aussies understand the most simple official fact: you do NOT have a real government, your supreme ruler is the Queen of England. She may dismiss your “governments” tomorrow and she did it already a few times in recent past.
Australia, Canada, NZ, 13 original US states, UK, India and many islands and stuff, that is al still land belonging to the British Empire, nowadays called “the Commonwealth”. The Queen is the ruler of all these so-called countries.
Saker
“Here I need to mention something which has received very little attention in the West, but which has been reported in Russia: many, if not most, of the most rabidly nationalistic and even neo-Nazi websites and blogs of the RuNet Russian Internet have been traced to, believe it or not, Canada and Israel. Yup – some *real* Russian patriots (like Maksim Shevchenko) got curious about the level of insanity of some of these websites, in particular the hysterically anti-Jewish ones, and they began systematically tracing their IP addresses. That is when they found out that these sites were mostly run from outside Russia and by folks who had more ties to the US and Israel than to any other group.”
Several years ago the Russian government did a sweep of nazi sites in Russia and shut down those it could. Turned out many of these Russian nazi sites were based in the USA. Thee sites that they were able to shut down simply created new sites.
If we look at the German Federal Election Result, we will see that Angela Merkel’s Party did not gain a majority of Seats in the German Parliament at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2013 .
This means that the Social Democrats, the Left, and the Greens command a majority in the German Parliament.
There seems to be a Perceived Problem with the Left, who are said to have been Communists that were working for the Communists when East Germany was part of the Soviet Union decades ago.
There is the Wrong Suggestion by Angela Merkel that the Left have not been Rehabilitated, but the Reality is that they were Rehabilitated long ago, but the Supposedly Rehabilitated German Political Parties have returned to their Vomit of Nazism, because of the former Yugoslavia, present day Serbia, and Ukraine, and are themselves in Need of Rehabilitation, and America has Spied on Angela Merkels Dark Secrets, and she cannot Represent the German People, but she is now the Puppet of Nazi America.
The Soviet Union was a long time ago, the People of the Left Party are All new Members with no Association to those days, and Everyone in East Germany had to be a Communist, even if you were Right Wing or Left Wing, or Any other Political Party.
Communism is Considered to be Left Wing, and this was Convenient for the Right Wing Communists, who where Always Right Wing, but those who are Democratic Left Wing are even today associated with the Soviet Union.
The Left could say that Germany should stop concealing its Nazism behind a woman, whose Dark Secrets have been Discovered with American Spying, and the Left could propose to support a Minority Government of the Social Democrats and the Greens, over the Issues of Ukrainegate and Serbiagate, and where the Left are not in Government, but they will Vote in favor of All Government Taxation and Spending Measures, and they will not Vote for any No Confidence Motion in the Minority Government.
Daruma Doll wants the Russians to do precisely what it is that Zbigniew Breszinsky and his neocon colleagues want them to do, and that is walk right into the trap which they set for the Russians in the Ukrainian cauldron. Perhaps Daruma has good connections at the State Department or elsewhere in the various covert layers of the US Government. Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia first and foremost, and not the leader of Novorossiya. His ultimate responsibility is for the welfare of the 150 million or so citizens of the Russian Federation. Of course he is also concerned by the well being or lack thereof of the twenty million inhabitants of the South East of Ukraine, but before anything else he has to think about how his actions in Ukraine will affect the stability and the future of Russia itself. We are only in the very first stages of this Ukrainian drama and time and space and resources are definitely on the Russian side of the equation, while they are sorely missing on the side of the Kiev regime. Obama and his minions desperately need for Russia to do something rash in order to revive their own swiftly flagging fortunes at home and abroad. Fortunately, in Putin the Russians have a calm and steady leader who can steer policy in a way that will accrue the most long term benefit to Russia and her citizens.
Daruma claims that Slav nationalists are fighting on opposite sides for the same transnational oligarchy. Again we are just in the beginning stages of this conflict, and I think that the longer it lasts the more intense pressure it will put on the Russian oligarchy, which for its own survival will have to participate actively in the defense of the country and its interests at the expense of their personal profits.
And lastly, for the folks who trumpet American exceptionalism at every opportunity, remember this, Russia is at least as exceptional as America, if not more so.
American Russophile
I’m a Canadian and go crazy from all the
pro-Kiev propaganda. The PM sucks up to them
most cunningly .. notice he visited there
just before war started?
I WISH I spoke Russian!
Thanks for good work Saker,
-jae
Ps: I am one of the ‘crazies’ ..
Auslander,
The video was pulled. But that’s alright, my heart’s so broken now, and the pieces are so small, I don’t see how there’s enough left anywhere to break again. I am praying for that little girl, and all her friends and family, and deeply, deeply hope things will turn out well for all of them. But I also envy you that you’re able to do all you have already to make a difference — and admire you and your wife very deeply for your willingness to make a commitment like that. We have two Russian granddaughters, the most marvelous kids in the entire world, and if we were just maybe ten years younger, I swear I’d move mountains just to get there and help some of those children.