By Petr Akopov
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
Source: https://vz.ru/world/2019/6/15/982529.html
Ukraine is important for the US only in the context of their relationship with Russia, and blocks the path to their improvement. The latest statement of the national security adviser to the US President John Bolton became yet more proof of this. On the eve of Putin and Trump’s meeting in Osaka, Kiev ought to prepare for the US playing the Ukrainian card without paying attention to the interests of the Kiev authorities.
Washington tries to defreeze American-Russian relations – but in such a way that it does not look a concession made by the US. Donald Trump is not constrained by the case of “Russian ties” any more, however the Ukrainian crisis remains the main problem for his dialogue with Putin.
It arose during Barack Obama’s reign and is in many respects connected with the objective process of returning to Russia the status of a major world power. The events of 2014 became the most convenient reason for the US to transition to an active phase of “deterring Russia”. The policy of sanctions and attempts to isolate Russia on the world scene not only failed – their results were opposite to American expectations.
Having sustained pressure and not having changed course, Russia strengthened its reputation in the world. Everyone perceives it as the main geopolitical opponent to America’s attempts to hold onto world hegemony.
Trump’s election gave a chance to revise America’s tactics and even strategy. The new president was inclined to reorienting the US from the useless and losing policy of global domination to a policy of strengthening the US via strengthening the economic power of the superpower. The resistance that was shown to Trump by American globalists showed how the fate of the US as a national state is not important for them. But they managed to block the possibility of forming relations between Trump and Putin.
The “Russian case” regularly served this for more than two years. But now Trump received the opportunity to act much more freely. Now, in order to establish cooperation with Putin (and this is necessary for the American president in order to create a new configuration of US foreign policy), Trump “only” needs to deal with the Ukrainian crisis. I.e., remove the Ukrainian stone from the road of American-Russian relations. How can he do this?
Of course, the US is not going to “give” Ukraine back to Russia: the tearing of Ukraine off the Russian world remains the important aim of any American strategist. But the question of the speed and price of this process has principal importance. If the “hawks” consider that Ukraine must be Europeanised and Atlanticised as fast as possible – i.e., included not only in the sphere of influence, but also in the structure of the “western zone of responsibility”, then the “realists” point out that Russia will never agree with the “kidnapping of Ukraine”, and that the haste of the West will only provoke Moscow into solving the problem by force – a campaign to Kiev.
That’s why they consider the neutralisation of Ukraine as the optimum scheme, transferring it into a condition of a no man’s zone, a buffer state that is not used to put pressure on Russia. And after all, it is precisely this that is considered to be favourable by those “hawks” who, without trusting in the possibility of the Atlanticisation of Ukraine, support its use as a constant irritant against Moscow.
Such a neutral Ukraine would be more in the zone of influence of the West than in Russia’s. And although everyone understands that it is a temporary and suspended option, for the US it would be an undoubted success (even to suspend the situation for 20-30 years – it is all the same to deprive Russia of its historical cradle, to stop the reintegration of the Russian world, the Russian revanche). And the most important thing – this option would remove the Ukrainian topic from the agenda of relations between the US and Russia, allowing the US to count on searching for mutual understanding with Moscow in other international problems.
How to achieve this? To portray peace and progress in the Ukrainian settlement. Because in reality it is currently impossible to solve the Ukrainian crisis.
Implementing the Minsk Agreements, i.e., to return Donbass to the structure of Ukraine, is impossible as long as the Ukrainian elite continues to not realise that the road to Europe is closed and does not start to restore relations with Russia. This is a process for the next decade. And even in the event of its acceleration, returning Donbass to Ukraine is possible only after a full turn of Kiev towards Moscow and the inclusion of Ukraine in the structure of the Eurasian Union.
That’s why all that’s left to do is to give the illusion that there is a settlement process. Kiev will opt to really stop firefights on the border and to withdraw troops under the pressure of the West; to really adopt laws on amnesty in Ukraine as one more point of the implementation of the Agreements. And the most important thing – to really do it so that the topic of repulsing “Russian aggression”, as well as the topic of “returning Donbass”, in fact, leaves Ukrainian domestic politics, remaining a prerogative of the opposition.
Zelensky’s election is a step in precisely this direction. The cynical and cunning Ukrainian elite best of all understands that there won’t be any return. And all the game of Poroshenko on the topic “Ukraine is an outpost of the West in deterring Russian Aggression” was built on the conviction that the West waits for precisely this from Ukraine.
But the matter is that the West hasn’t wanted anything as such from Kiev for a long time. Europe very much groans from the need to play the “Ukrainian game”, which prevents it from doing business with Russia. And the US under Trump also does not want to raise the stakes in the “Ukrainian game”, or to in general pay much attention to it. The West needs Ukraine to know its place, i.e., to become imperceptible and silent, giving the illusion of a “road to peace”; to not get in the way of the big boys; to not go back to Russia, but also to not sit at the table with the real players.
It is precisely for this reason that Kiev will be shown its place. This will happen during the next month when Zelensky will go to see Trump in Washington. It will be done tenderly, but insistently: through coercion to negotiations with Russia and with Donbass, to reduce aggressive rhetoric (it has already subsided). But the most important thing – through an explanation of the expectations: “progress in the peace process”, allowing the US to remove the Ukrainian topic to a place more fitting for it – a place that does not prevent the establishment of American-Russian dialogue.
As a matter of fact, the national security adviser to the US President John Bolton wrote about precisely this on Thursday:
“[US] Ambassador [Kurt] Volker and I met today to discuss Ukraine negotiations and agreed that President Zelensky’s election creates new opportunity to push for peace in Donbass – a key step to improving US-Russia relations – but it’s critical that Russia do its part and engage seriously”.
Peace in Donbass is a key step for the improvement of relations between the US and Russia. Simply put, they want to hear from Ukraine that its relations with Donbass are if not very good, then they at least gradually improve. And there is no doubt that they will hear this – Kiev has nowhere to disappear to, simply.
Good article, missing only one important point: who will pay the UKR bills?
If there’s less support from Washington, they’ll get more from Britain and British North America. If less from them, more from Continental Europe. Article is wishful thinking. Thinking like this brought the USSR down. You’re facing a multi-pronged attack and only looking at the center prong.
Kakav idiotizam, šta je sa masovnim zločinima protiv čovječnosti na području Istočne Ukrajine, šta je sa fašističkim uređenjem Zapadne Ukrajine-Galicije. Ova politika licemjerja je ista politika Turske u Siriji, koja pomaže i naoružava teroriste džihada, a u savezu je sa Rusijom i Iranom. U istom Amerika podržava fašiste i naoružava ih a gura savez sa Rusijom. Ali šta je sa najstrašnijim masovnim zločinima terorista džihada i ukrajinskih fašista.
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Translation:
What kind of idiocy, what about mass crimes against humanity in the area of Eastern Ukraine, what about the fascist organization of Western Ukraine-Galicia. This policy of hypocrisy is the same policy of Turkey in Syria, which is helping and arming terrorists of jihad, and it is in alliance with Russia and Iran. In the same America, it supports the fascists and arms them and pushes the alliance with Russia. But what about the most horrible mass crimes of jihad terrorists and Ukrainian fascists?
[from The Mod]
Theoretically the fascists and jihadists can be controlled by removing the funding and supplies to a greater or lesser extent. If their sponsors stop providing for them and leaves them to the forces of regular law enforcement they should sooner rather than later cease to be a big issue. I would concede Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel are a bit of conundrum on that one with their present leadership. The west is probably being driven by multinational corporations who would more likely be telling the governments what to do rather than vice versa – which is something that needs to change too. (I’d be very interested to know the level of control of the multinationals by big oil revenue countries like Saudi Arabia etc and Israel.)
“Theoretically the fascists and jihadists can be controlled by removing the funding and supplies to a greater or lesser extent”.
Or by killing them all.
Just saying…
An violent approach would only spark a situation that was in chechnia after 2000s, many even from the “special battalions” will have to be disbanned from the National guard regardless to ensure donbass wont flare up again and they all dont really have much of a choice for normal life id say. They could be set aside to french legionm, but the have an non-ideologic policy as well … so making sure they cant have an oportunity to do anything bad is vital …. the same wit the more extreme DNR/LNR guys ( but theyre mostly as we all know, dead for various reasons ). …. and yes, it will be also an instance of absolute disregard of the UN charter and international law … yet again leaving warcriminals go free for an uncertain peace probability.
Well….no developments since the other day when the impeachment of Zelinsky was announced……
The West’s main geo-economic enemy is China. The effort to make nice with Russia is intended to bring it onside, post-Putin, with the Holy Crusade to destroy the Yellow Peril. The insane fury of hatred being aimed at China is unlike anything I have ever see. Just today, the feminazi Guardian presstitute reporting the latest Hong Kong Colour Revolution got so carried away in her hatred of the Chinese Government (so useful in future career opportunities)that she started crowing that the Hong Kong NED et al efforts were weakening Xi Jinping and the despised CCP, and would encourage other freedom-lovers in Tibet and Xinjiang. And right on cue, a Falun Gong and, no doubt, US organised ‘expert tribunal’ re-hashes the Falun Gong (ie CIA)lies concerning ‘Chinese organ harvesting’.
The comments quoted in the Guardian sewer from the ‘Tribunal’ head henchman, Geoffrey ‘Nice’, formerly of the NATO kangaroo court for Yugoslavia (such transparent ‘credentials’ for an Imperial hatchet-man)bear some examination.
‘….that all of us live on a planet where extreme wickedness may be found in the power of those, for the time being, running a country…’.
Well there you have it, naked and unordained. ‘Extreme wickedness’, rather like the common comparison one hears in this failed shit-hole of a country, Austfailia, of China with Nazi Germany, or the deranged UK Labour freak who compared Huawei to IgFarben the crator of Zyklon B. Of course, the UK and Austfailia joining the illegal aggression against Iraq, with the subsequent genocide of one million, not to forget the million or so more slaughtered in the First Gulf War and the genocidal sanctions regime, would be examples of those Western Moral Values that Imperial stooges like Nice have worked to advance all their filthy existences. And is the ‘..for the time being..’, not the most naked and unhidden declaration of intent for regime change in the world’s largest economy, by far, a country that has raised hundreds of millions out of poverty, while in Nice’s cess-pool of a failed State, 130,000 (at least)have died as a direct result of Tory austerity since 2010.
Moreover, our local ABC, which is simply hysterically FANATICAL in its Sinophobia, the so-called ‘Tribunal’s’ garbage just featured on breakfast TV, with the ultra-odious Canadian David Matas, legal counsel for, can you guess- Canadian B’nai B’rith. So a Zionazi who claimed that illegal organ harvesting from ‘prisoners of conscience’ was the very foundation of the entire Chinese medical system, and was ‘systemic’ is considered an honoured guest, to be groveled over, and NO Chinese spokesman, as ever, is allowed within one hundred miles of a camera. There really is nothing like Zionazi HATE in its hysterical form. And, ironically enough, as Nancy Scheper-Hughes and others long ago showed, it is in fact Israel, and various Jewish criminals in the Diaspora, who are the chief organ traffickers in the world. As Scheper-Hughes observed, Israelis are ‘everywhere’ where human organ trafficking is occurring, and more than one averred, no doubt in a Judaic version of the Hypocritic Oath, that harvesting the organs of the goyim was ‘compensation’ for ‘the Holocaust’.
I expect the US to surrender Ukraine as an active military platform about the time they return Alaska to the Russians.
Look at what they had planned for Crimea. Black Sea US Naval Base.
Look at what they are building in Azov Sea area. A military base.
Look at Odessa and the US plans for expanding the port into a naval service station.
This is not going to end well.
What has really changed is not Zelensky or the US need to talk with Putin.
It’s Passports for the Donbass.
That is the legal basis for Russian Polite Green Men to put an end to the ATO, the private nazi battalions and the proxies from NATO, ISIS, AQ and others who like to snipe old ladies and mortar children in playgrounds and backyard gardens.
The US understands this very clearly. And they know the underground swell that is building for many other regions of Ukraine where thousands of people want Passports, also.
Passports can reshape Ukraine. Novorossiya suddenly appears possible.
So, they talk of Minsk 2 again. There are 13 steps of the Minsk Accords. By the time Kiev reaches number 5,6 or 7 (should they actually begin to fulfill them), Biletsky and the Azov Battalion will take over Kiev.
Forget the rational solution.
Too many Russophobes in the US Senate, the State Dept, the CIA and EU, as well as UK, Mi6 and NATO.
And now the US Military has a place where they can test weapons against Russian defenses. They really can’t do that in Syria. But Ukraine is perfect. Special forces are right inside the contact zone in Donbass. What a great training site!
The long, long run of 20-30 years mentioned in the article is what will happen in almost any case. There is no will to undo the separate Donbass, there is no will to return the border to Ukraine, there is no will to launch another attack on Donbass and try to take Donetsk, Lugansk and move to the border.
We have seen five years pass. All the heroes are assassinated. A few hundred each year die and are wounded.
This is a frozen conflict whose next phase is extinguishment. The Russians will clobber the Ukies at some point if the bombardment and sniping does not stop. The Passports changes everything.
What the US understands is their stooges, the Ukies, are soon to lose most of their military if the killing doesn’t stop. So, the US needs to put a new face on what becomes of a “neutral” Ukraine. I think the Russians will not accept a neutral Ukraine. What they will seek and can accomplish in less than 24 hours is a neutralized Ukraine, a government that sues for Peace.
When will that happen? When the Ukies make it necessary.
They made Crimea necessary. They made the Passports necessary. They’ll make their own demise necessary, too.
100% agree with you 445
For a while at the end of the 19th century there were plans to connect Alaska and the Russian Far East with a bridge coupled to a major rail network. If that had have come to fruition history might have been very different.
Once the USA has occupied your country, they NEVER leave, or loosen their death grip. To get them out of Ukraine, such a prize, and whose Evil and corrupt ruling elites are inextricably joined to Ukrofascist emigres like the villainous Freedland in Canada (the power behind Trudeau’s toy throne), to the Clintonite Mafia and to the Zionazi International, would require thermo-nuclear war. I would annex the Donbass, under the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine, annihilate any aggression, but leave Ukraine to become, I very much fear and expect, a Hell on Earth, a fully fledged Nazi successor regime.
“Special forces are right inside the contact zone in Donbass”.
Then maybe they should be given such a ringside demonstration of Russian capabilities that they are unable to report – ever.
When will that happen? When the Ukies make it necessary.
They made it necessary five years ago when they used their airforce to murder civilians in Donbass,and when they burned people alive in Odessa,Russia has been far too reasonable with those Fascists and their US masters,we see the same thing in Syria.
This is the most naive thing I’ve read in quite some time. Why are Russians always projecting normal political intentions onto westerners who simply don’t think in such terms?
Even if the Ukrainian economy crashes, it will quickly be propped up with IMF loans. Such loans are contingent upon the privatization of public assets and subsequent sale to western corporations at a deep discount. It will remain a banana republic for the next 50 years.
Why should the Ukrainian elites care about making peace with Russia as long as they can skim their share of billions of dollars in IMF loan money? They and their immediate families can live like greedy sultans. They may no longer own any native Ukrainian assets, but the endless supply of dollars in their Swiss bank accounts will keep them happy.
If most Ukrainians obtain Russian citizenship, would the free movement of people and goods and services to and from Russia be restored? The Ukrainian elites could respond by making dual passports for Ukrainian citizens illegal. However, that would mean the elites would have to give up their dual American and Israeli passports!
Most people, Neocons especially, don’t realise what a basket case Ukraine is. It is the poorest country in Europe. In 2010, BEFORE Maidan, the loss of 1.5 million refugees, Crimea and Donbas, it had an income per head of $2,800, less than Egypt’s $3,000.
It produces nothing the EU wants except prostitutes. It’s only future lies in foreign owned agribusiness (Monsanto) and extractive businesses (Joe Biden’s son), and maybe some foreign owned sweatshop businesses if they are really lucky. A captive market for the EU, and a source of cheap labour and cheap prostitutes. It is a failed state, a CIA/ NED/ Neocon playground. It will soon lose its importance as a Washington proxy. It can just be left to stew in its own juice – nobody in their right mind would want to pour money down this bottomless pit.
The population in 1991 was 52 million. This declined to 38 million in 2010, with a further 7.5 million scratching a living abroad. Those areas still controlled by the Kiev Coup Regime have a population of around 30 million.
Like Latvia, 2.7 million at independence, 1.95 now.
Lithuania, down from 3.7 to 2.7 million.
maybe the half empty Ukraine will be filled up with Israeli settlers soon
Maybe that was the plan of the Zioncabal after all
they destroy Ukraine and buy it up for pennies after and create a new kazharian homeland
because they know their time runs out in Israel
just too bad that Putin took away Crimea from them that would have been the luxury resort for the Zion elites
“It will soon lose its importance as a Washington proxy.”
It won’t lose its importance because of its geopolitical area. The U.S. will want to build military bases there as it is closer to Russia. Currently the U.S. is building more in Romania and Bulgaria and doing military exercises there (in Bulgaria and where a Canadian soldier died in a parachute accident).
The U.S. drools at building more military bases. Russia will be ever more surrounded and if the land is empty of people they can use it easier to test their weapons.
‘dual passports for Ukrainian citizens illegal’ – it already is, but having triple citizenship is not.
funny how now even the articles ont he Saker dance around the truth, but never fully speak it.
The truth is simple: Ukraine CANNOT be accepted into NATO while it has an active civil war on. Therefore some type of peace (even fake) will have to be presented so Ukraine can then be formally accepted into NATO.
See, that wasn’t that difficult, was it?
And the continuing silence of Putin and Xi on Iran is deafening.
Of course it could be accepted into NATO: since when does the USG ever bother about legalities? The imf lent ukraine some money while bending/ignoring its own rules.
Why should the Ukrainian elites care about formal NATO membership. American bases are being built in any case.
This article is from 2017, so I am sure they have made more progress since that time:
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=101829
I don’t know where some of these starry eyed visions of the future come from, but here’s reality.
1. Novorossiya will never return to Ukraine. It was ‘given’ to Ukraine decades ago, illegally. It was the powerhouse of Ukraine heavy industry. That heavy industry is mostly destroyed now. Any allegiance the citizens of Donetsk Oblast and Lughansk Oblast felt for Ukraine died in the slaughters of civilians in 2014-2015.
2. Russia will never allow Ukraine to become a nato member. Period.
3. Ukraine has self destructed economically and culturally, and ‘culturally’ is a misnomer, there is no ‘ukraine’ culture.
4. While SehSha fooled themselves by telling one and all that the late summer cauldrons along the Russian borders of LNR and DNR that the Russian Army wandered across the border and put paid to the orc units encamped there, reality was it was the younger soldiers Strelkov sent to Russia for training and equipping who returned a little early from said training/equipping and returned the slaughter to the orcs. SehSha was aghast at what happened to their beloved nazi proxies in 48 hours and doubly aghast at what three Grad launchers did to an entire orc armored regiment in under ten minutes. This little foray was what brought Merkel and Golland running to Moskau for succor for their proxies, read nazis. As a little footnote, the aerodromes in both Donetsk and Lughansk were to be turned over to DNR and LNR intact. We all know how that little paragraph in ‘minsk 1’ worked out.
5. Being slow learners, SehSha (for those of you who are not ‘insiders’, SehSha is pronunciation of USA in Cyrillic…..США) decided to do another concerted attack after Ukraine, Merkel and Golland signed and solemnly promise to abide by Minsk 1. This resulted in the Debaltsyevo Cauldron debacle for the orcs and the SehSha mercenaries fighting in that AO. The withdrawal deal after CehSha understood the extent of the defeat was the ‘golden pheasants’, the foreign ‘advisers’ and mercenaries from CehSha, UK, Canada, Germany, Poland, France, Italy and Spain, were allowed safe corridor north out of the cauldron and could carry their personal backpack and one weapon. This resulted in some interesting goodies being left behind in Debaltsyevo and surrounding villages.
The orcs were given the same deal to an extent, safe corridor north to their lines east of Gorlovka, one back pack and one automat allowed and in or one trucks and/or tracked transport. No artillery, crew served weapons or armored fighting vehicles of any kind were to be taken with the orcs and all supplies and ordinance was to be left in place and in ‘as is’ condition. Of course the orcs loaded up everything they could and tried to take a herd of tanks, SP arty and other odds and ends with them. Once the extent of this clear violation of the withdrawal truce became known, aka about thirty minutes, the fight, or perhaps one should say slaughter, was on. It will never be known how many orcs died in this retreat but estimates are in excess of eight thousand and probably should be much higher. Not only the soldiers of Novorossia had at them but the civilians also participated in returning the favor of six months of orc occupation and destruction.
Debaltsyevo again brought Merkel and Golland running to VVP, result being Minsk 2. Neither Minsk 1 nor Minsk 2 have in the slightest been honored by Ukraine, USA, Germany, France, England and EU in general. You can not imagine my surprise at this turn of events.
6. I have no illusions that President Putin knew exactly how trustworthy Merkel et al were and are and what the result would be. The passport offer deal for not only citizens of Novorossiya but Ukraine in general is a calculated ‘peace offering’ that the betrayers of EU and CehSha can not argue with and can do nothing about, officially.
7. This constant fighting, a struggle for ‘world’ domination which is in reality the over century old struggle for Russia to be left alone and in peace, will continue with here and there major violent confrontations. CehSha will not stop simply because it is not in their focused interest to stop. Russia will not stop because if she does, Russia will cease to exist. This will not happen. Therefore, all of us may as well resign ourselves to another quarter century and more of constant war and pray that these ‘little wars’ don’t suddenly become catastrophic, read cruise missiles suddenly appearing over Sevastopol amongst a few other locations such as Norfolk, Bremen, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris……..
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Even Merkel today sanctions against Russia will only end when Minsk is done and dusted…..sighs…despite so many business people saying enough is enough…
Merkel met Z today but as we know no comprehensive policy is in his mind or government and Kuchma will not permit any negotiations for special status of Donbass.
What she actually said was sanctions will stay on until Russia fulfills all her obligations under Minsk 2.
Russia has no obligations under either Minsk 1 or Minsk 2, Russia simply forced Mutti, Golland and the orcs to sit down and come up with a plan when Mutti and Golland came running to Moskau when the orcs were about to get taught a lesson they would never forget. Twice. On both occasions Mutti, Golland and the orcs refused to be in the same room as the delegation from Novorossiya, let alone speak to them.
That being said, karma is a force to be reckoned with. Here’s a vid of Mutti today with the comedian who is now the titular head of orcland. Watch how swave and deboner she is and her extreme control of the situation. Methinks she is getting what she deserves for what she has done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO0cbTRYZK8
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Apparently head of Z party sayingy Donbass can be won back by a persuasive information campaign…. ….Pravy says carry on action…others say clear out and replace Donbass with approved ukrainians presumably…another says give Donbass residents limited time to clear out-before what-…meanwhile Ukraine uses incendiaries=war crime……
this is Ferkels normal allergic reaction when she hears the German Hymn {happened before}
she is also allergic to the German flag
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u2HHgY59lGI
there is no politician in Germany that hates Germany more than her
“Russia strengthened its reputation in the world.Everyone perceives it as the main geopolitical opponent to America’s efforts to hold onto world hegemony.” Pure BS ,meant primarily for internal consumption, if you can see clearly. That role manifestly belongs to China,for the next couple of decades. What happens after that is anybody’s guess.Russia,at most,can be a regional actor/disruptor during that time,until demographic decay kicks in somewhere round 2040/50.
If “demographic decay” means anything (unlikely), it must mean overpopulation. In this context it is useful to note that the USA, together with a large group of essentially third-world nations (and India) is among the leaders in rapid population growth.
The naive belief that a static or falling population is some kind of national disadvantage reflects 19th century thinking. In those days wars were decided, to some extent, by the sheer number of cannon fodder that could be conscripted and sent to the slaughter fields. A less mistaken belief links population to industrial capacity; but that, too, is at best 20th century thinking.
Today national power depends mostly on brain power, organization, and cooperation – both within the nation and with partner states. On both counts the USA is far behind Russia, China and all other civilized countries. Russia today has over 140 million citizens, which is quite sufficient. Indeed, although it is by far the largest country in the world – about twice the area of the USA, Canada or China – Russia is one of the very few countries whose population is sustainable for the indefinite future.
For details, see http://data.footprintnetwork.org/#/ Note that Russia is listed as having 35% biocapacity reserve, while the USA has a biocapacity deficit of 122% – which would be far greater if it had existed for more than 143 years (approximately). Russia’s biocapacity reserve denotes the extent to which its natural resources are sufficient to support its present population: a “strategic reserve” of about one third is just about what a great general would wish to maintain against contingencies.
Demographic decay, I’m afraid, does not mean overpopulation but quite the opposite- the multifaceted problems facing countries with shrinking populations.Among which Russia ,by all accounts except the most biased ones, will be counted in coming decades, with prognoses forecasting a population loss. between 10 and 20 per cent by 2050.So can someone please tell me why that should be an occurrence to shrug off as insignificant when several contributors to this site label it as something akin to catastrophe when it applies to the Baltic states ?Just askin’
Do you seriously compare people with an IQ near 100 to people with an IQ of below 90?
“World IQ 82”
http://www.unz.com/jthompson/world-iq-82/
In this new era of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, “demographic decay” IMHO, would apply to
overpopulation, and not the opposite..
What will the unemployed multitudes do when every aspect of modern life will be governed by AI???
That , in my opinion, will be a huge future problem to tackle.
Audi.
Thanks to Alfred and audi for comments although,to me, they do seem to not address my point.As far as I can ascertain the measured IQs of the Baltics and Russia fall within roughly the same range ,90 to 100,so no big difference there.And with respect to AI Estonia ought to be ahead of the field in handling that,being more digitalized than most countries.
Russia at the moment is correctly perceived as the main opponent to the usa, china too as upcoming, in line with PNAC and the original jew & neocon wolfowitz doctrine, of keeping Russia in its place: ‘part of the American mission will be “convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.”‘ And ‘to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy’. And ‘a world in which there is one dominant military power whose leaders “must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”‘ – See http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century – still in play.
Also this is why the usg used Maidan (with at least $5 bn – said jewland, married to the co-founder of PNAC kagan, another jew) against Russia, to cause it problems and to remain as a thorn in the flesh.
“Implementing the Minsk Agreements, i.e., to return Donbass to the structure of Ukraine, is impossible as long as the Ukrainian elite continues to not realise that the road to Europe is closed and does not start to restore relations with Russia”.
That is a critical understatement. In fact, Donbass cannot and will not be “returned to the structure of Ukraine” under any circumstances whatsoever. A regime cannot launch an all-out military and aerial attack on a part of its territory, deliberately murdering tens of thousands of civilians and destroying their homes, schools, hospitals, factories and other infrastructure, and then expect to reintegrate that area into itself as if nothing had happened.
Admittedly something like that happened after the American Civil War – but only because the Confederacy was utterly defeated. Kiev can never inflict such a defeat on Donbass, because Russia would prevent it.
I feel sure that the present inhabitants of Donbass – and their children, and very likely their grandchildren – will never forgive what the Kiev regime and its Nazi collaborators have done.
Genuine ‘establishment of American-Russian dialogue’ is vital if war between Russia and the West is to be avoided. This ‘key step to improving US-Russia relations’ may be nothing more than an illusion, a Munich or a non-aggression pact, in line with the pattern of history.
USA gives even more military financial aid to Kiev today…grenade launchers etc etc…strengthen army and navy etc etc …250 m dollars……
France info radio (aka ‘France Intox’) this morning: ‘tomorrow the investigative comitte on MH17 catastrophe will give its final report on the guilt of Russian Army, with a Buk missile shot rom Kursk’.
Don’t know how they did @ France Info, but obvioulsy they know the secret up to tomorrow conclusions of the report. Love when presstitues let the narrative slip out of control.
They will have a show trial like the Lockerbie farce, but the presstitute vermin have already decided, on the basis of Bellingcat, the MI6 and NATO operation, that Russia is GUILTY. And the charge is murder, ie the scum are asserting that the shooting down was DELIBERATE. The goal-posts are always moved, and FACTS like Mahatir, PM of Malaysia, stating that the whole sham was politicised and Malaysia has NEVER seen the black box evidence from its own plane, is TOTALLY suppressed.
true, and surprisingly Dnipropetrovsk ATC (under Kolomooyski’s rule back then) also had the plane sent of course and the duplicates of backbox conversations disapeared
https://tass.com/world/1064505
Lavrov in Switzerland says Zelinsky and ukraine still confused re Donbass…..
….so I ask myself why would Switzerland become involved as a mediator….sighs….
The 15 minutes of fame enjoyed by the thieves in Kiev are up. Now they must sit in the corner and shut up as the big boys are ready to play.
Its now 10 August 2019
The psychopathic Ukies, have broken ANOTHER “cease-fire agreement” and have been shelling the Donbass region these last few days.
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So much for being “coerced into making peace in Donbass”.
Truth be told, as I see it, these anti-Humans are incapable of PEACE. These demonic, blood thirsty psychopaths are bent on violence in ALL its evil forms.
Just wondering what the author is putting in his coffee… sure would like some. Considering all the world’s AshkeNAZI insanity.
Since the time of ‘publishing’ this article, Ukraine has ratcheted up its anti-Human attacks, while their moronic vile “mouthpieces” have COMPLETELY lost it.
Every time they open the hole in their faces, what spews out is the ranting of an drug addled, drunken, mentally retarded violent idiot.
What’s next???
More demonic blood letting.