By Batiushka for the Saker blog
Introduction: European Z
The collapse of the EU has never been a question of ‘if’, only of ‘when’. The decomposition of the Brussels Yoke of unelected bureaucrats has already long been visible and its collapse foretold years ago. First there was Grexit (which was averted at the last moment at huge cost), then Brexit, which actually happened, and then was an alphabet jungle of Frexit, Italexit, Nexit, Dexit, Polexit etc. Today the question is, after the UK, who next? A popular choice is Hungary. But who knows? Apart from the imbecile-afflicted UK, there is already political turbulence in three EU countries, Bulgaria, Estonia and Italy.
It all sounds as if these are only ‘the beginning of troubles’. Winter is coming to Europe on 1 December with probable food riots, looting and mass civil disobedience, caused by the refusal and inability to pay soaring energy bills because of the EU millionaire elite’s refusal to buy Russian gas. The only way out is if European countries free themselves from the shackles of the USA in order to find their natural places as part of the Eurasian, or rather, Afro-Eurasian, world. This liberation deserves a sign. We can think of no sign more topical – or more native to the Western world – than the sign ‘Z’. Let me explain.
Zorro
Z was the sign of a fictional Spanish-Mexican character, El Zorro, created by an American author in 1919. Zorro is portrayed as a masked, nineteenth-century avenger who defends the common people and native peoples of Spanish-run California against an oppressive imperialist dictator in Madrid, his corrupt and tyrannical local servants and other evildoers.
His name Zorro, (in Spanish, ‘The Fox’), comes from his foxlike cunning. Using the tip of his rapier, he leaves his mark, the initial ‘Z’, on his defeated enemies and on objects in order to sign his presence. However, this purely fictional Zorro goes back to several real figures, notably to three main characters, real ones, indeed so real that they have become myths in European history. These are:
Eadric the Wild
Eadric was one of many Englishmen, well-known in their day, who lived in the wilder parts of England after 1066 in order to fight back against the barbaric Norman occupiers. Called ‘the Wild’ or ‘the Woodsman’, Eadric was a nobleman (‘Cild’ in Old English) and landowner in the hills of the west of England. (Remarkably, Eadric’s descendants inherited his lands in a place called Acton Scott in the west of England and these lands still belong to his descendants, the Actons, after a thousand years). Here Eadric led the English Resistance to the Norman occupation and was active in 1068–70.
Eadric refused to submit to the Norman Yoke and came under attack from the foreign invaders, raising a rebellion and allying the native people of England with the native people of Wales. Many such resistance-fighters lived in tents, refusing to sleep in houses. Resistance was widespread and many made their bases in wild country, taking to woods, hills, marshes and islands. Those who lived in the woods were then a well-known phenomenon and they are at the origin of later outlaw tales. Thus, the most famous outlaws of the greenwood were Old English landholders.
Robin Hood
This is the case of our second and world-famous figure, Robin Hood. He was a heroic outlaw who lived in the eastern half of England and was a ‘yeoman’, or small farmer. Camouflaged in green clothing and living in the ‘greenwood’, he robbed from the (Norman military and Jewish merchant) rich and gave to the (English or ‘Saxon’) poor. His support for ordinary people and his hostility to the local Norman Sheriff of Nottingham are early recorded parts of his story. It is considered that he must have lived in the twelfth century as there are references to such a character then. However, they relate to oral traditions that were not set down by Establishment clerks until much later, at earliest 1266.
All early accounts tell of Robin Hood’s support for the people, his devotion to the Virgin Mary and associated special respect for women, exceptional skill with a bow, anti-clericalism and dislike of the corrupt Norman Sheriff of Nottingham. Although there are numerous references to historical figures with similar names, some going back to this age, the first obvious reference to Robin Hood is from Langland’s peasant poem Piers Plowman, composed in the 1370s. After this he is often mentioned in history, though the earliest copies of ballads telling his story go back only to about 1500. Later additions that he was a noble and supporter of the late twelfth-century French king (and cannibal – he feasted on the flesh of dead Muslims as any Cypriot will tell you) Richard ‘the Lionheart’ can be ignored. These are not even mentioned in the earliest ballads, whatever Hollywood may claim.
William Tell
The third of the main antecedents of Zorro is the Swiss figure William Tell, who lived in the first half of the fourteenth century. Tell was an agile mountaineer and crossbow marksman, who assassinated a tyrannical representative of the Austrian House of Habsburg, which oppressed the Swiss peasantry. Tell’s defiance encouraged the Swiss to rebel and start forming a Free Switzerland, the Swiss Confederacy, and indeed he is considered to be its father. A symbol of resistance to aristocratic tyranny, he is first mentioned, without a first name, in c. 1474. This tale includes the precise date of his shooting of an apple from his son’s head on 18 November 1307, as well as the account of Tell’s death in 1354.
Although the story is set in 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg, the written records of the story date, as we have said, to the later fifteenth century. Significantly, Tell is a key figure not only in the early history of Switzerland but also in wider history. Thus, for some 150 years from 1800 to 1950, Tell was seen as a symbol of rebellion against tyranny not just in Switzerland, but also elsewhere. Thus, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of the Northern slave-owner Abraham Lincoln, who encouraged genocide in the Southern Confederacy, was inspired by this founder of the Swiss Confederacy. Booth wrote that he had only done, ‘what made Tell a hero. And yet I for striking down a greater tyrant…am looked upon as a common cut-throat’.
Conclusion: Worldwide Z
After 24 February 2022, Z quickly became the symbol of the Russian-led campaign to liberate the oppressed Ukrainian peoples from eight years of genocide by the CIA-created Nazi junta in Kiev. Appearing on a great number of Russian military vehicles, Z has captured the imagination of that part of the world which yearns to be free from the colonial oppression of the Western neocon and neoliberal bankster elite. After the absurd provocation by the US gerontocracy in Taiwan last week, one of the first things noticed was a number of armoured cars of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, deployed just opposite Taiwan in the southern province of Fujian, marked with a ‘Z’.
Does this mean that ‘Z’ is going to become the sign of the liberation of the 87% of the peoples of the world, that is, of the real international community, from the Western Imperialist Yoke? Will the symbol make its way into India, Indonesia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, perhaps among the native peoples of North America, Australia and New Zealand? Whatever happens, ironically, and also poetically, the import of Zorro from America is already the sign of the long hoped-for liberation from the Yoke of America throughout Europe, as far as the much-suffering Donbass.
9 August 2022
…no Sitrep Operation Z since 07/26/22…..Why ???????
You can also add Ritter, McGregor, Lira, Nightvision and others to the list. The Z MOD is the only source at this moment I believe. Odd.
The Military Summary Channel on utube and The Duran have very good material
I suppose not much happening IMO.
Russians and ukes are concentrating on each side of the deniper as far as i can see. And each one are seizing each other up…
Abraham Lincoln never owned slaves . The idea that he ‘ encouraged genocide in the Southern Confederacy ‘ is patently ridiculous . The author seems to have a problem with historical fact .
I’ve read that Abraham Lincoln’s wife owned slaves that she inherited from her father.
I think you will find he has mixed up Lincoln with Thomas Jefferson who married the widow of a former slave owners and took the slaves with her to Jeffersons estate.
Or General Grant, whose wife was from the South and was given slaves by her parents.
It’s amazing reading up on the real life story of US Presidents. Jefferson wasn’t nearly as great as the myth makers would have us believe, while Jackson, Grant, and Calvin Coolidge were far, far greater than any school book historian will allow.
Grant for example was a terrible judge of the character of people who surrounded him, and plied him with investment advice. So the history books brush him with the paint brush of alcoholic, scandal-plagued, and a plodding butcher.
Calvin Coolidge was the last great president. The Deep State would get rid of him lickety-split.
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln said, “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so.” On August 22, 1862, Lincoln wrote “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.” In September, 1862, Lincoln gave the Confederate states four months to stop fighting, promising to leave the slaves in their chains if they did.
“I can conceive of no greater calamity”than the assimilation
of the Negro into our social and political life as our equal.”
Abraham Lincoln
The real reasons for the slaughter of more than six hundred thousand ordinary Americans on both sides were, in fact, just the same two old reasons for each and every war from the dawn of time until today: the insatiable greed of the ruling class for ever more wealth and power.
The northern ruling class, represented by Lincoln, drooling at the prospect of the cash to be made in the kind of large-scale industrialization occurring in Britain, wanted free land, a large pool of cheap labor, a central bank which would operate strictly in their interests and a “free” market surrounded by high tariffs to protect their own industrial operations and maximize their profits.
The southern ruling class, which had largely controlled the federal government since the Revolution, simply wanted to maintain the status quo and, most importantly, wanted no tariff barriers which would increase the cost of manufactured goods imported into the South from Europe which would inevitably lead to other countries putting retaliatory tariffs on the agricultural products exported from the South.
The “emancipation” of the slaves was a tactic which had the effect of destroying the power base which the southern ruling class derived from slavery and “freeing” millions of slaves who then became available as a cheap labor for northern factories and mills. They augmented the huge number of poor whites, men and women, adults and children, who labored in atrocious conditions for long hours for pitiful pay.
Abraham Lincoln is yet another American icon, a largely fictional creation, who doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. The “Great Emancipator” opposed integration and intermarriage, did not think that freed slaves should be given full legal and voting rights, and forcefully advocated both before and during the Civil War that all blacks should be deported to Africa or the West Indies.
“We cannot attain the ideal union our Fathers dreamed,
with millions of an alien, inferior race among us,
whose assimilation is neither possible or desirable.”
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s armies committed countless war crimes and atrocities, burning and looting civilian property, destroying entire cities and laying waste vast areas of countryside. Lincoln imposed a fascist regime within the Union states, making a farce of the Constitution. His regime arrested thousands of critics of his war policies, including dozens of newspaper editors and publishers. Under Lincoln, the writ of habeas corpus, a fundamental characteristic of a democratic society, was revoked, and mail and press censorship was imposed.
Only after the Confederate states refused Lincoln’s offer to leave the slaves in chains if they stopped fighting did he issue the Emancipation Proclamation which purported to free slaves in states not under Union control. Slaves in states controlled by Lincoln remained in slavery. (!)
“We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves
where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage
where we can set them free”
William Seward
Lincoln’s Secretary of State
(from Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy: http://mtwsfh.blogspot.com/)
That day he might have just been a lawyer upholding a supreme court case of dred scott. (A case by the way criticized by many much like todays court asks to be challenged in some ways too)
Once becoming president and reconsidering some things like slave holders saying they were having troubles sleeping at night in fear the slave would rise up against it’s master and kill them for some odd reasons. Or that at some point the slaves would gather up in protest and cause more damage than the damaged caused from releasing them of their bondage.
This bolstered the belief the slaves were brought here illegally, and should simply be sent back from where they came, this was the prevailing political view and was being processed into law.
That lead Lincoln to create the emancipation so as to prevent the law from taking hold.
The civil war stems from the brits wanting tariff free duties from the south or they would join forces economically to fight and defeat the north so as to finally take control of DC.
My great grandfather was born into a Georgia family of 11 in the 1860 census. In the 1870 census, they were a family of 5. Stealing livestock, burning fields, farmhouses and barns and making the money worthless has consequences. Seizure of land due to inability to pay taxes has consequences. People were made destitute and homeless. There was no humanitarian aid from the union. The genocide was real.
@Joy
Indeed, and genocide of many more people than just the Confederates continued. This blog has some very interesting reading distilled straight from the Library of Congress: http://mtwsfh.blogspot.com/
Lincoln’s aims were to keep the union together. Lincoln cared more about keeping the nation together than about the slaves. But he also didn’t like slavery in spite of what he said. As he had grown up poor and was sympathetic to the slaves plight.
Lincoln realized he didn’t have much hope in keeping the nation together, unless he threw the slaves under the bus. When Lincoln’s offers didn’t work and the Southern states seceded anyway, he used the issue of slavery to his advantage by freeing them.
England and other European colonial powers would have been more than happy to see the US split in two as that is how the colonial powers ruled over their colonies by dividing them, so they fight among themselves so it would be easier to rule over them.
He freed only part of them. Read above.
There were too freedom bills. The first only freed slaves in rebel areas (which held the vast majority of the slave population .He’d have been a fool to upset his supporters in border slave states at first). The second bill passed at the end of the war freed all slaves in the US.
the last state to free it’s slaves was the northern state of New Jersey–inn 1867 IIRC
Here you are, nationally slavery ended by law in 1865. But all the states had to ratify the bill. New Jersey refused to until a few months later. But none the less,the federal government passed the amendment under Lincoln in 1865:
“Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation did not free enslaved African Americans in the Northern States; it freed only those in the mostly southern “rebellious states.” Two years later, New Jersey bitterly refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, the United States Constitutional Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the country.
Slavery’s final legal death in New Jersey occurred on January 23, 1866, when in his first official act as governor, Marcus L. Ward of Newark signed a state Constitutional Amendment that brought about an absolute end to slavery in the state. In other words, the institution of slavery in New Jersey survived for months following the declaration of freedom in Texas.”
https://nj.gov/state/historical/his-2021-juneteenth.shtml#:~:text=Slavery's%20final%20legal%20death%20in,to%20slavery%20in%20the%20state.
If the south had won, we would have the queen of england on our postage and coinage. John wilkes booth was funded by england, via canada. The 13th amendment did not end slavery for inmates, thus we have forced-work prisons.
Correct….lot’s of mis-information in our history books and institutions.
Kudos to you, Jacques. Your comments should be republished as a separate post. As an ex-student of American studies, I consider them very valuable and will put them in my AS file.
:-) You’re welcome.
the key to Lincoln’s Proclamation is its timing , after the first major defeat of the south at Gettysburg , Lincoln knew and was his greatest fear that if England came into the war in support of the south it would go on for a long time, He needed to find a way to keep England out!!
with Lee winning every battle there was no need for England to intervene military {english troops fighting on the side of the south}
after the loss at Gettysburg {war only halfway} Lincoln banned slavery in the south while the war was still ongoing was to keep England from entering the war
you see 28 years before civil war England had outlawed slavery in all its possessions England had already taken the high moral ground on the evils of slavery
so now after the proclamation If England entered the war on the side of the ProSlave south they would be seen as hypocrites in the eyes of the world and their high moral ground would be lost.
Lincoln was very smart and saved the Union by keeping outside powers out of the war .
kinda can see the very same issue today in the civil war begun in Ukraine in 2014 to the war of Russia today in that same way as the british did in supplying financial help to the south but no troops we see the same thing today with Nato/EU/US supplying Kiev without actually entering the war.
only now if the outside powers want to join in the war it will be WW3 and Nato/US won’t dare enter this war , Put another way The West will not destroy the world to ‘save’ Ukraine , they will fight against Russia by proxy ‘to the last ukraine’
The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo
That Lincoln was a racist and not particularly oncerned with slavery – his purpose was preserving the union at all costs – is no secret. That still makes no difference to the fact that he never owned slaves.
Thank you Sir,
For your excellent summary explaining important components of the ‘War of Northern Aggression’ on the Confederate States.
A war fraught with War Crimes by the Unionists.
“They augmented the huge number of poor whites, men and women, adults and children, who labored in atrocious conditions for long hours for pitiful pay.”
Atrocious conditions relative to what; pitiful pay relative to what? You are making judgments about a war torn society of 160 years ago based on 21st Century standards of living. They had no electric power and no petroleum based economy and therefore a technologically inchoate society compared to the present. We might as well pity the farmers of the 19th Century who cleared and planted millions of acres by hand and beast and dynamite. Where were the bulldozers, excavators and chain saws, etc. to make life easier and make them more productive and therefore wealthier?
https://reelchicago.com/article/new-book-reveals-that-lincoln-owned-and-sold-slaves/
Remember slaves were also a liability. You had to feed and house them. I would be careful to judge people for doing what was common in that era. I would look at how did people (Lincoln) treat these slaves.
One may speculate that “Z” may arrive on graffiti’d walls in CONUS… And written on the currency?… Perhaps spray-painted on roads and cop cars…? As General Ripper said, “Two can play at that game.”
Insubordination also happens…https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/1772-gaspee-affair-rhode-islands-tea-party-ship-burned-2/ (The affray of Gaspee. Interesting to not that nobody would inform of the wanted man…)
I note that US “black nationalists” are “targeted” as Russian agents already…
Is it W3 yet? Ritter said yes in re China…and it’s obvious already about Russia/US…
And a thrilling ride down the razor-blade to war. How Jolly!
Just ordered a custom made ‘Z’ mens cap.
I’ll wear it always once it arrives.
I was a big Zorro fan as a kid – had the – hat / cap/ sword / and the mask – great for picking up girls for some reason ? – Z Man was the best !
The operation accomplished it’s primary objective… the shattering of the concept of western initiative and momentum control.
Till now the myth of American “decision making and control” have been the most effective weapon used by the western regimes to convince the global south to accept the illegitimate actions they take around the world.
With the SMO, Russia has directly challenged and undermined that mindset. No longer is it “right and just and legitimate” because the west does it. Now it’s “you hit, you get hit back”, “you overstep your boundaries, and first you’ll lose a toe, then a foot, then… well you know where that road leads to.”
With the SMO, the Russians have completely neutered the concept of western impunity. This in turn will break the intimidation factor that the west has held over the rest of the world for the past 500 years.
The rest of the world will slowly come to realize that the greatest weapon the west has is it’s ability to intimidate nation’s outright. They will come to realize that the game has drastically changed in the last decade, and that the once irresistible force is now no more than a shadow of its former self, which can be resisted today, nudged tomorrow, and inevitably toppled some day soon.
“Does this mean that ‘Z’ is going to become the sign of the liberation of the 87% of the peoples of the world, that is, of the real international community, from the Western Imperialist Yoke? Will the symbol make its way into India, Indonesia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere, perhaps among the native peoples of North America, Australia and New Zealand? Whatever happens, ironically, and also poetically, the import of Zorro from America is already the sign of the long hoped-for liberation from the Yoke of America throughout Europe, as far as the much-suffering Donbass.”
Soon, there will only be 25 letters, not 26 letters, in the English alphabet.
It’s only a matter of time before the Anglo-Americans decide to completely cancel letter “Z” itself.
;-)
The citizens in Europe will soon face such difficulties that there will be an eruption of civil disobedience that dwarfs all the protests of the recent years.
And then there will be a suppression of this public discontent with a level of government violence unheard of in a western ‘deomocracy’.
So no, I don’t see a liberation coming to Europe any time soon. The Soviet elites in the late 80’s had become exhausted, disloyal and cynical towards their own system.
This is definitely not the case with the western ruling elite. Quite the opposite actually, they seem more convinced than ever that they will eventually prevail against Russia and China and bring about their global oligarchical dystopia. This conviction gives them the vigour to crush any riots. It has happened with the gilets jaunes and the Canadian truckers, it will happen again.
NATO’s proxy Ukraine will eventually be defeated but unless the Russian military operation will continue after that to include new targets further west, the impact of this defeat will be contained to Ukraine and hidden from the western public via the propaganda matrix. There will be no liberating impulse coming from Operation Z to the vassal provinces of continental Europe.
Agree with the article except on Lincoln. His wife’s family may have owned slaves. But Lincoln was very much opposed to slavery. And pushed for it’s end. Which is one of the reasons the slave owning states in the US rebelled. And while there was a great amount of death from that war I don’t believe it could fairly be called a genocide.Much less that Lincoln caused it. Unless you could say his being elected brought on the war just by that alone.
I think you are from the US Uncle. At this point you should know that the US civil war had nothing to do with slavery.It had to do with the industrial north against the agrarian south.
that is right as far as all my reading can tell me >> Lincoln ” I would prosecute this war if not one slave was freed, or if some slaves were freed, or if all slaves were freed “
It had more than one cause. But to say it had nothing to do with slavery is being disingenuous at best. Lincoln was a noted abolitionist and his political party was known as an abolitionist party. His election alone was enough to cause the slave states to secede. Certainly there were several other important issues that helped lead to the secession and civil war. But they had been around for decades without breaking the Union apart. But his election as a known abolitionist was enough to break the camel’s back. And propel forward the fatal step of secession.
The tszar parking his navy off new york for lincholn should not be discounted. Slavery pales in comparison to the reasons why the navy appeared in the big picture. Central bankers as per usual
That had nothing to do with the start of the war. The war had been going on for a while when the Russian fleet arrived to show support for the US.
No matter what was the reason was, it ended it, or rather transformed and broadened it!
@ Uncle Bob,
Maybe the author, who’s point about Lincoln you disagree with, is referring to the following…
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/08/21/lincoln-myth-ideological-cornerstone-america-empire/
https://www.historyforkids.net/the-devastation-of-the-south.html
(sorry for the “kids” nature of the second link (didn’t spend much time searching it out), but it does succinctly lay out the case for the destruction of the non-military structure of the South, whether you chose to call ‘genocide’ or not)
Cheers, J-P
Lincoln was a 19th century man. He didn’t know or follow 21th century “liberal” ideology. It’s grossly unfair to judge him by our times. He should always be judged by the standards of his time. He didn’t believe in slavery,he thought it was morally wrong. But that didn’t make him a believer in racial equality. Very few people in the past believed in some kind of racial equality. Those of all races considered their own race superior to others. Even today I’d say the majority of the world aren’t fully there yet. But certainly in his time they weren’t.
Excellent article! I enjoyed reading the historic accounts of near-mythic figures.
I do think the author is incorrect on at least one point, though. Abraham Lincoln, so far as I know, didn’t own any slaves. He was orn poor and in a “Free” state and later moved to another Free state where slavery was illegal, so I’m not sure how or when he could have owned slaves. That said, I’d love to be proven wrong, since I believe he was by far the most dictatorial US President ever, who usurped the Constitution’s Bill of Rights and conducted a genocidal war against his own citizens (and who who cynically freed only slaves in the South against whom he was at war in his famous Emancipation Proclamation).
But yes, here’s hoping that the mark of Z catches on!
The first ”Z” on west-european soil.
Τhe poster of the greek ”Democratic Movement for the National Liberation” of Panayotis Lafazanis…
”Russia is right. We change the World.”
https://iskra.gr/afisa-tis-dimokratikis-kinisis-ethnikis-apeleftherosis-i-rosia-echei-dikio-allazoume-ton-kosmo/
“Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson, who threw out the policies of industrialization and protection which Lincoln had forced through during the war, and thus created the basis for the British to continue playing their sectionalist games up to the present day.”
source
Britain’s known role In assassinating U.S. Presidents
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n48-19941202/eirv21n48-19941202_030-great_britains_known_role_in_ass.pdf
The will be four phases of “Z”. The first is now happening. Russia and China will no longer be bullied, badgered and hounded by the West. They have realized that only enmity is to be expected. The second phase is when the peripheral world will liberate itself. The Latin-Americans will really mean it when they say “Yankee go home”. The Muslim world will de-dollarize. Iran and Turkiye will join the SMO. The third phase will be when Europe realizes that America is not its friend but its deceptive manipulator. And the last phase will be when the so called “deplorables” of America (actually the middle class) as well as the other disadvantaged, i. e. the African-Americans and the Latin-Americans will join forces and throw the war-mongers and oligarchs out of Congress and the government.
Correction: There will be four phases … In phase 4 of the world-wide “Z” phenomenon the war-mongers and the oligarchs’ tools will be thrown out of the US Congress and government.
Batiushka brings up some interesting points. One commenter already wrote “The author seems to have a problem with historical fact .”
It seems as if Batiushka is not aware that Russia is also a part of the west and western civilization, the eastern part earlier centered around Constantinople. Russia’s territorial expansion happened in the same time frame as the other European powers. Similarly to the United State and Canada (both successor states to the UK), many indigenous peoples were conquered and suppressed.
What the hell is going on in Crimea?reports of explosions at air base,have those fascists crossed another line?
They have bombed Crimea.
Time to take the gloves off.
Well thats what isn’t clear,Russia says it was a ammo dump that ignited,if that was the case it was bloody negligence,if it ws a Ukrainian attack then you are right the gloves need to come off,they can start by taking out the filth in Kiev,and hitting targets in Western Ukraine,i am sure there are plenty of targets there.
It is interesting that the U.S. Civil War gets a mention in this post. For some time now, I have been thinking that the fate suffered by the southern states after the Civil War is what awaits Ukraine after this SMO grinds to a halt.
The infrastructure of the southern states was destroyed, but more importantly the men, and especially the young men, were killed. It took the South almost 100 years to recover. It will take Ukraine a similar time.
Make no mistake, it is true that the overwhelming Russian military victory in Ukraine constitutes an existential threat to the moribund North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Mother of All Proxy Armies NATO built in Ukraine over the previous decade was specifically designed to arrest Russian resurgence, and to effect regime change in Russia that would once and for all eliminate from the international scene the vexing influence of Vladimir Putin and his defiance of imperial aspirations and edicts.
It must be clearly understood that the defeat of NATO’s proxy force in Ukraine will be interpreted throughout much of Europe – and throughout the world, for that matter – as an explicit defeat of the American Empire. It signals the end of US global hegemony, and, in the eyes of much of the world, it will enshrine Putin and Russia as the David who fearlessly stood up to challenge and then summarily defeat the supposedly unbeatable Goliath.
https://www.imetatronink.com/2022/08/teetering-on-brink-of-catastrophe.html
Russia’s economy is ‘incredibly unimportant in the global economy , other than oil or gas’.
That was the view of McShitstain & Obama, both war criminals fed CIA – MI6 shit splatter.
All those US Don’t Think Tanks of Experts with Zero culture, clueless, poisonous parasites.
America is one large cesspit, hopefully the methane build up will see it burn all the way to hell
It’s not the USA umbilical cord that needs severing, it’s from Brussels and COL.
“The United States is calling on Russia to return full control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the Ukrainian authorities,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
These are not serious people. They are even an embarrassment to clowns.
We seem to have reached the stage where what we thought where clowns, appears to be individuals with serious genuine mental health problems. It’s just sad.
Joaquien Murrieta fue el personaje real, obrero minero mexicano que se rebelo contra el gobierno español pero apoyado por los grandes terratenientes gringos en California, cuando california aun era territorio mexicano.
Translation. Mod:
Joaquien Murrieta was the real character, a Mexican mining worker who rebelled against the Spanish government but supported by the large gringo landowners in California, when California was still Mexican territory.
@ sejmon on August 09, 2022 · at 12:36 pm EST/EDT
…no Sitrep Operation Z since 07/26/22…..Why ???????
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Same question I have had for a week or so.
All the guest analysis and contributions, though good, have nothing to do with the status of the frontline directly.
About a week ago I posted in another thread a eulogy for the killing of Commander “Korsa,” Colonel Olga Kachura, the only female commander in the DPR militias, and it was rejected. Her funeral was shelled by the nazi beasts, and nothing could be posted anywhere about her sacrifice and heroism.
The SMO is the most important event of our time, not being able to comment on it is crippling. I haven’t seen any reports from Russian Bear, there is no space to place them.
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@ Invenuity on August 09, 2022 · at 1:46 pm EST/EDT
You can also add Ritter, McGregor, Lira, Nightvision and others to the list. The Z MOD is the only source at this moment I believe. Odd.
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Odd, indeed.
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@ Starrow on August 09, 2022 · at 2:40 pm EST/EDT
The Military Summary Channel on utube and The Duran have very good material
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True, however, the Saker Team has been producing their own SitRep with input from many sources, filtering the news out.
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@ Andrew on August 09, 2022 · at 4:01 pm EST/EDT
I suppose not much happening IMO.
Russians and ukes are concentrating on each side of the deniper as far as i can see. And each one are seizing each other up…
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Absolutely wrong.
What is happening right now in Battlefield Ukraine are decisive battles for the SMO.
Crucial battles are taking part along the Avdiivka/Krasnohorivka fortified zone, where the Allied forces are breaking down the concrete reinforced entrenchments, pillboxes, the fortress the nazis built for the last eight years as a base to launch their “final solution” against the people of Donbass.
Pisky, a fortified town was the first one to fall, breaking the supply line along E50 to Avdiivka, the main nazi fortress across Donetsk, and the source of all evil, the shelling and bombing of Donetsk and surroundings for the last eight years.
Combat is now taking place in Vodyane and Pervomaisk, which will allow to approach Avdiivka from the south, enclosing it in a southern half-moon.
Soledar, along the line Artemivsk/Soledar/Seversk, is now half ours, and this is a crucial line for the southern approach to the Slavyansk/Kramatorsk fortress.
Kherson is hot, with Allied troops advancing toward Nikolaev, which has been practically abandoned by the nazis.
To say that “not much happening” is not to be able to see behind the appearances.
A lot is happening, we just have to see with different eyes.
Lone Wolf
@ Andrew on August 09, 2022 · at 4:01 pm EST/EDT
I suppose not much happening IMO.
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And partly you’re not responsible to think “not much happening” because there hasn’t been any way to post any news about all the events around the SMO.
Now we are talking about whether Abraham Lincoln had slaves. Or not.
Not bad, but not crucial to know that at this point in time, while Ukronazis are enslaving their own people to turn them into cannon fodder.
Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf
Dear colleagues,
I wondered and missed our Sitreps like most too. But on reflecting on the Saker’s pledge to shut down this blog if US forces and Russia clash, there may be practical reasons now. How many times are US and Russians unofficially clashing lately?! Remember the admission by the UkroNazi general that the US is involved in all aspects and leads the targeting, manning, ISR on HIMARs and other attacks? This in addition to funding, logistics, PR, media cover, etc.. We knew this indirectly, but these are exceptionally dangerous times, foremost for our blog..
CONUS404 is indulging in internal crackdowns on the most recent US president (!!!!) in same state (FL) as the Saker.. non-ideological communities not with the Program will become increasingly untenable and face the tender ministrations of the local USA “SBU”.. better we take a step back and remain viable than go belly up through Icarus-like temerity.. I suspect we will remain circumspect for the duration. Fortunately other (more hardened) sites remain active. We know most by now, and can share links for good pieces/new sites.. That is one way to compensate..
Russian Bear is still active – you need to chase him down on old sitreps, just follow him on the Dashboard under his name, last post was just a few hours ago.. Larch and others on smoothie’s Disqus and MoA, Mil Sum, etc speak daily on hotspots too.. at the end of day, we should respect our Host’s margins and forbearance, given his significant risk living in the belly of the Beast. His own sitreps and measured pace are sufficient buffet for most of us too. And maybe he’s just chosen to downshift the former frenetic tempo and decided to redirect onto a more focused path. It’s all good!
Regards to all
@ AHH on August 09, 2022 · at 9:57 pm EST/EDT
I see your points, all valid, at the end of day, however, you’re speculating.
We don’t know the real reasons, and some of the reasons you point out, are a stretch, IMHO.
Such as the US/Russia confrontation.
Until there is no direct shooting at the US embassy in Kiev, or a declaration of war, the conflict remains a “Collective West” vs Russia, not US vs Russia. The US, despite feeding the Ukropithecus with billions in weapons, remains cautious in their direct steps toward Russia.
The most vociferous and rabid Russophobic is the UK, then Poland and the three yappy dogs.
I understand you’re trying to be a voice of reason, advocating for a cautious pace, however, your rationale lacks objectivity.
We don’t know what’s happening, we will know at some point.
In the meantime, let’s talk about Zorro, Ivanhoe, William Tell, Robin Hood, et al, as if there is no war going on.
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are back.
Lone Wolf
“I understand you’re trying to be a voice of reason, advocating for a cautious pace, however, your rationale lacks objectivity.”
Hey wait! I admit I am speculating but there are many objective data points screaming caution.
(1) As mentioned by many analysts, including older Alex and Smoothie and Military Summary, there come periodic windows of enforced “silence” on the Rusweb, especially during phase transitions or changes of fronts. We are in one such time now; why give insight of OpSec to the AZE? Was that why the perceptive Nightvision got shut down?
(2) the Saker has plainly spoken of his comfort levels, we have no rights to push (or indirectly increase voiced risk fears). I was one of those who urged him to maintain this platform as a beacon of truth. My attitude shifted to “better late and little than nothing.” In the end we are guests and cannot presume anything nor overstep our bounds.
(3) As Martyanov said weeks ago, he wasn’t getting involved anymore in the details of a done deal, except as it addresses particular media-driven controversies and PsyOps. Maybe the Saker has a similar approach now? The Ukrainian404 portion of the SMO has long been assured. What is the utility of enumerating the hundreds of daily crazy senseless AFU sacrifices, a clear satanic ritual? Far larger horrors loom, such as a world war, famine, and open totalitarianism in Zone A.
(4) As highlighted by shocking assaults on Graham Phillips and Trump, the aggression is moving onto the Heimat by a retreating and increasingly desperate GlobalNazi cadre. We can expect more examples to be made. ‘The better part of valor is discretion,’ especially confronted by demonic legions currently holding captive the enforcement arm of the state (see Mar-A-Lago).
(5) the frenetic activity of February-April contributed to burnout and loss of Nightvision etc. And this is a one man show. Lessons dictate a more measured pace.. what was that definition of insanity?
Again, I really appreciate your, Nightvision and other’s mastery and would welcome it back. Eventhough it was not always good for my blood pressure!! I do not see harm in a periodic Open Thread for us commentators to discuss developments (with inbuilt plausible deniability for our host, lol). But all ships need to eventually tack into the prevalent winds… Otherwise “My Way or the Highway,” a distinctively American weltanshauung, rapidly morphs into soul-crushing and uninhibited Do As Thou Wilt.
Regards
But does anyone see the msm (the orchestra) gently playing as the ship is sinking inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard.
You can’t fool all the people all the time, but you might be able to fool all but one.
@ AHH on August 10, 2022 · at 4:49 am EST/EDT
I will not argue with your, again, purely speculative harangue.
Nightvision was not shut down, AFAIK, he left for unknown reasons to all. It is not worth it to continue to second guess his motivations.
I don’t see anyone asking for the Saker and his heroic Saker Team to do more than what they have been doing from the beginning of the SMO.
The Saker’s analysis and SitReps have been the boundary between the Empire of Lies & Deceit and sanity.
Your accusative tone about “presume anything nor overstep our bounds” has no factual basis.
None of the posters I commented on were “overstepping their bounds” by asking about what has been a common, normal item provided by the Saker blog. Neither was I.
The rest of your post is more of your speculative diatribe, which I will not engage.
IMHO, all good intentions, none reality based. I won’t comment anymore on this issue.
Full stop.
Lone Wolf
PS: Your “suggestion” we go to some other blogs to post, was not yours to make. If the Saker invite us out, then we should follow suit, but there is a reason we are all here, and not posting at UNZ or MoA, and that’s a very personal issue, you cannot be the judge of that.
Lone Wolf,
Please calm down. YOU have not addressed my detailed explanations, but patronized, dismissed them offhand, added a few curt ad hominems, and apparently misunderstood much of it.
My counsel was based on consensus from Rusnet, several significant analysts I note above, common sense and prudence. Are they all unworthy too?
I did not harangue nor offer mindless diatribe, but gave reasoning and facts. Don’t be intimidated or put off by my usual long winded way of expressing thoughts. Unfortunately I lack Larch’s brevity. As you know I am neither a troll nor seek to waste other’s time. How can you disagree with the inherent right of the blog owner to decide his course, which he clearly stated in March?! You will perforce ram your way down his throat?! How? Do you realize the untenable position you take? Rather we should work to shape an environment which prolongs the survival of our “home blog,” no? That is my main concern. Not to be drawn into bizarre arguments and friendly fire.
Why do you think I was addressing you personally on most or any point?! It was addressed to all, foremost myself, as a gentle reminder. “Your accusative tone about “presume anything nor overstep our bounds” has no factual basis.” This is the way I write, somewhat archaic and again, not personal; and it is also bespeaks the essence of good manners, to stay in one’s lane in others’ houses. If you check, I even used it about myself in the old linked comment above from March 18. And where did I order you to leave and to write at another blog? I said to supplement elsewhere (which we do anyhow) and keep each other updated here. Which you’ve been doing anyway even without official sitreps.
We must be capable of inference and zooming out in times of deception, not merely keeping to rote habit and daily numbers crunching. I sense your frustration supercedes my comments and there is a failure to communicate. Our very different backgrounds and professions clearly shape the contrasting mindsets and approaches to universal challenges. Again, this is a net positive on this forum. If this was a strictly military forum many of us would not be here nor would we enjoy Brother Batiushka’s pearls. FYI: I am an educator most of the time; perhaps my tone grinds as a reminder of your old Profs! Don’t shoot the messenger…
We need to be capable of subtlety. I offered possibilities and counseled patience, to the queries you and others raised. Full stop. There were no other intentions at play. None appeared to satisfy your standards. What then is your reasoning and possible solution(s) to the issue of decreased sitreps, without holding our Host to task??
Thank you, LW, for keeping on giving us information here on Saker blog.
See, that’s part of the info lag, Dima mentioned a push towards Nikolaev, you’re saying it’s almost deserted, where’d you get that info?? That’s why the Open Thread mentioned by AHH helps, a place to share info and ideas. Most of us, esp olders, my pooter capabilities’ are, ‘have you turned it off, then back on again’ so dancing around the RF MOD reports, honestly, credit to the Saker and Team, it makes it easy for us, but not so much them….still do a great job compared to what’s available on the net, so missing something that is, let’s be truthful, freakin’ addictive….is nerve wrecking, sleep depriving…..have I mentioned I miss the Open Thread, even a Z SitRep could be included in the open thread……although even Military Summary has been getting shorter, either Russia is running low on good targets, or they are in Silent Mode.
Some fella on MOA this am left note from Crimea re the airfield accident. He says he lives close by it. If Elinsky’s out in public, likely an accident, if he stays in his burrow, chances are it was deliberate. Someone’s got a lot of splainin’ to do.
Cheers M
I will add to this another hero, Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated another evil Austirian oppressor Franz Ferdinand. He was born but about 4km from my grandparents village and I lay a claim to defend and promote his name and his legacy. He is clearly equal to William Tell. Incidentally I used to sign myself as Z (before this worthwhile world freedom movement). I think it is a sort of providence. There you are. Z
A lot of people died after that assassination, not sure they’d see the merritt in choosing hero’s.
Cheers M
Do you think the assassination is a reason for lot’s of people dying (kind of a let’s of the hook the real actors – don’t you think so)? Austria didn’t have to blackmail and than attack Serbia (he was Bosnian by the way) eventually committing first genocide against the Serbs. 1/3 of population! Do you think they couldn’t find another pretext for this deed? Or perhaps you think the act of assassination is sufficient to justify the crime of genocide (and what turned out to be WWI). Let’s not forget, the Serbian king and foreign minister were also assassinated in Paris in this period. I sort of anticipated someone will respond like this. For the sake of the very important subject (which many people, stupefied by western propaganda, know little about), and if you wish, please provide reasoning for your response. Z
Well remembered, thank you! greetings from Brazil.
Perhaps The Saker could offer for sale a few items such as Z shirts. I haven’t tried real hard lately, but a few weeks back I went looking and found few offerings of anything of the ‘official’ russian shirt so settled for just a large Z on the front of a black T shirt. It makes the point. Quite a few folk take notice of it when I am out and about, currently just the statement I want to be making in public. Especially Hispanic folk seem to take a knowing look at it. But I like the idea, and wow, I had not heard about the Chinese vehicles so marked. Very auspicious.
Z in the colours of the St George ribbon, now that a statement makes.
Cheers M
@ sean the leprechaun on August 10, 2022 · at 9:02 am EST/EDT
Z in the colours of the St George ribbon, now that a statement makes.
Cheers M
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@ edwardi on August 09, 2022 · at 9:51 pm EST/EDT
Perhaps The Saker could offer for sale a few items such as Z shirts…
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Great ideas, both!!!
The design can vary, however, it can be a large “Z” with the colors of St. George ribbon, front and/or back, with the Saker’s header on top. Colors, transparency, highlights, can vary.
Quite a statement.
Not only t-shirts (I have a ton of them for every cause imaginable, from “Free Palestine” to “Che Guevara,” don’t need more), but sweatshirts too.
Prized items to keep.
Lone Wolf
By the way, is the US now a police state? I saw a picture of probably a truckload of boxes taken from the palace of the former head-of-state Donald Trump as well as pictures of police with machine guns. Were they expecting armed resistance? There was also the persecution of his aides Roger Stone and the former NY mayor Rudi Guiliani. Just curious.
Its just a face saver, the democrats are scared to death the longer Trump goes w/o being prosecuted, the closer he is to destroying their party. And many others want his taxes looked into, so they raided his safe to do his taxes and now they say its all good.
Expect this to take about a month to get out, you know, the efficiency of making money and all.
Qadaffi slept in a tent. He took one with him on foreign travel. It’s as if he was saying he was too good to sleep contained in someone else’s walls. I likd that.
We need an army of Wilhelm Tell’s in the west right now. Too bad the only ones that have the crossbows of this time (semi auto high caliber rifles like the AR15) are the Americans, and they are too scared. The Swiss on the other side, have the SIG550’s but are too uptight to do anything (and Switzerland is just starting to turn up the heat on the frogs). Other less fortunate peoples are being literally and figuratively trampled under horses hooves by their tyrannical governments. It’s not the 87% it’s the 99.99%, against the depraved, genocidal elite.
Instead of Zone A (the West, 13% of the world population) and Zone B, we actually have Zone A and Zone Z. I just moved to Zone Z.
a veritable orchard replete with delicious fruits. exotic and delightfully original.
thank you for a refreshing joyful reading.
Batyushka, don’t forget the democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, assassinated by the Greek junta in 1963 and the subject of the famous movie “Z” (“He Lives”) by Costas-Gravis.
yo me imaginaba que z provenia de la pelicula francesa Z de 1970
I imagined that z comes from the French movie Z from 1970
From Colonel Cassad
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Almost an hour long video with a Houthis military parade.
Funny to see the Yemen career military, not very happy with the Houthis, the dominant force in Yemen.
As usual, anywhere they go their battlecry goes with them.
الموت لاميركا الموت لاسرائيل لعنة اليهود انتصار الاسلام
almawt liamirka almawt liasarayiyl laenat alyahud aintisar alaislam
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https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7791611.html
Houthi military parade in Yemen
Large military parade of the Houthis in Yemen. They also use various captured equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxz_xzhN4Hw
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Lone Wolf
PS: BTW, I want one of those knifes Houthis carry on their belts.
You are a bit behind the times. Canadian research shows that Robyn Hood was a black lesbian who fought for the right of Saxon transgenders to choose their onw pronouns.
Abraham Lincoln did not own slaves. He and George Clinton wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that declared against slavery.
It was George Washington who owned slaves as well aa most of the framers of the US Constitution.
Very nice piece! It looks that Z is becoming the symbol of freedom and antiglobalism. How successful will be it is up to us. Only up to us and our actions. Some are organising practical moves.
http://dontpay.uk/
Regarding Mask of Zoro here is one view from 27th of March. Important links are there, not to be forgotten!
https://philosophyofgoodnews.com/2022/03/27/mask-of-zoro-the-movie/
Fine writing discussing the 3 examples…and its Global/historical allegory or parallel fused into Z from Russia…
“the oppressive master” of regional histories — from france. britain , central europe…become “the western master” — defied by the ”eastern” russian Z ..
at THIS point of civilizational movement to the future…the ‘West” HAS made itself irrelevant…and equally irrelevant is the “bygone” , “would have” ,,lincoln..britain s descent…france’s elitism..ALL the same story , enlarged as “europe” and the “west” upon the world…
What ! No mention of the classic greats Harmodius and Aristogeiton , the Tyrannicides of Ancient Greek . John Wilkes Booth , killer of Abraham Lincoln even said -Latin form- what they also supposedly too. “ Sic semper tyrannis “ Thus ,with tyrants . They are the classic rebels against tyranny.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton
And sorry Homer also said similar or the original well before the Tyrannicides and any Roman did.
https://medium.com/in-medias-res/the-real-source-behind-sic-semper-tyrannis-b2bc3ddc70dc
Great work Batiushka – I love all your articles!
Dark Forces have used Infiltrating Bloodline Phoenician aristocratic Families which have existed for thousands of years before the Birth of Christ. Using emotional rhetorical religious concepts to control humanity, they themselves worship all the Pagan Gods, including Lucifer, Satan, Baal, Bel, Molech, Ashtoreth, Cybele and Attis. In this book we find that over thousands of years, spook, Bloodline Phoenician Aristocratic Families infiltrated every country, every Empire, from their Phoenician Colonies in Egypt, Carthage, Rome, Venice and London, marrying in to, taking over or infiltrating every ruling aristocracy and aristocratic, bloodline family. Their sons and daughters pretending to be natives of Europe, Britain, America, India, and China, using their Satanic Mega Trillionaire inheritances to get into positions of power to manage and control their human cattle in every country in the World!!
I myself talked to a Chinese Princess from a top Chinese family who used to work for Vogue in New York, she was married to a Phoenician Swiss Banker and living in Thailand.
The Phoenician Empire has managed the world for 10,000 years! The Venetian Phoenician Empire sent in Agent Genghis Khan to use War to set back human evolution, to control humanity in China, in the same way they later used the British Phoenician Empire and their Opium War to degenerate and impoverish China.
Genghis Khan had classic Phoenician red hair and green eyes!
Genghis Khan had 900 wives and thus seeded Phoenician genetics into all the top Chinese families – the classic Phoenician method of infiltration as their sons and daughters are promoted into top positions in every Empire in Phoenician colonies like Ancient Egypt, Carthage, Rome, Venice, Britain, the Anglo-American Empire and the upcoming Chinese Empire.
The Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan started the conquest of China with small-scale raids into Western Xia in 1205 and 1207, Genghis Khan was supported by Venetian military advisors, as part of the Satanic Phoenician Suppression of Science and their Principle of Poverty in order to control humanity.
The British Venetian Phoenician Empire used Aristotelian Philosophy to infiltrate Chinese Schools during the British Opium War interregnum.
Author Cordwainer Smith was the pseudonym of Agent Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger who worked for the CIA. A deep state insider, his writings were warnings on what was to come in the present period with genetic human/animal chimera manipulation and the attitudes of the “Instrumentality”. Linebarger was familiar with English, German, and Chinese by adulthood. At the age of 23, he received a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He wrote the classic psychological warfare manual for the army and was the godson of Sun Yat Sen who was poisoned and replaced by Mao. JFK similarly. Phoenicians manage their world plantation through such exploits.
Agent Needham’s brief with the help of Lord Bernard Russell and the Satanic Fabians was to degenerate the history of both Confucianism and Taoism as no-soul and Atheist and together with Yale University and Luciferian 33rd degree Freemason Mao, institute an Aristotelean Legalist Authoritarian state.
Now the attack on the West. We have poverty, War, LBTQP degeneration, pestilence, bioweapon vaccine, the Rothschild Klaus Schwab Great Reset and Green Climate Change ESG to reduce petroleum use by 50%, create famine and starvation, mandated by Satanic Rockefeller BlackRock Phoenician Mega Trillionaires.
Head of Bilderburgers, Head of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab himself is a Rothschild who takes orders from Prince, or should we now say King, Charles Saxe Coberg Gotha Dracul whose ancestor is Dracula. Prince Charles lives part of the year in Transylvania in his ancestor, Draculas castle, “I have a stake in Romania” LOL!
So the Great Reset is a Phoenician plan to impoverise, surveil, microchip and Social Credit Score the World in order to Control the people.
In the same way Genghis Khan destroyed the future of China for many generations, the Great Reset if successful will destroy humanity’s, the World’s future for generations.
Now we need the Great Awakening!
@ Satchi
So the Great Reset is a Phoenician plan to impoverise, surveil, microchip and Social Credit Score the World in order to Control the people.
That’s what I came across in the late 1980’s when I first discovered the writing of Dr. Willard Cantelon. One of the few actually only one with the courage to write about this and warn the nation.
It’s amazing to watch the progress to this very system trying to be implemented on a global scale. All that’s needed now is this unknown king with a small horn boasting great things. I do believe it has arrived but whether he is Phoenician is a mystery given his attachment to the city of Jerusalem where everything will come to a conclusion!
Thanks