June 5th combat SITREP update by “Juan”
- Красный Лиман Krasni Liman was taken by Ukraine Army and national guard 04 June 2014.
- Replacement Mi24 attack helicopters have arrived in Ukraine as replacements for the Ukraine Army losses in Donbas. Confirmed.
- Strong bombardments Slavyansk City and outlying towns and villages commenced 05:00 local time 05.06.2014. Civilian casualties unknown.
- National guard/right sector entered Railroad Hospital Krasni Liman and shot dead 37 wounded Donbas Army soldiers and civilians and at least 1 hospital worker. Confirmed.
- Air and artillery bombardments Krasni Liman cause strong civilian casualties 04.06.2014.
- List of dead air attack on Lugansk Administration Building:
- Kostjukov Vladimir Andreyevich , 1971 (regional administration)
- Corn Inna (regional administration)
- Giza Alexander (regional administration)
- Unidentified woman
- Dolzenko Nina 1955 (regional administration)
- Polezhaev Sergey 1964 (regional administration)
- Natalia Arkhipova (regional administration)
- Cerkez Galina 1967 (regional administration)
- Confirmed reports national guard/right sector random shooting civilians Krasni Liman and searching residences.
- Border Guard Headquarters and one military base taken by Donbas Army 04.06.2014. Large amounts of weapons and ammunition captured in both bases. Border Guard HQ prisoners allowed to change to civilian clothes and leave base. Prisoners from military base unknown if allowed to leave after surrender.
- Name, rank and unit of Ukraine pilot SU25 attacked Lugansk Administration Building known. Complete conversation of pilot with control before, during and after attack recorded by Donbas Army.
Hi,
Thanks for your updates on Russia/Ukraine events. I recently posted an article on Putin which may be of interest, please find here: http://thejubilee.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/so-who-is-vladimir-putin/
Best,
AK
Juan is wrong, Venezuela is a Western country that is sympathetic to the Donbas rebels in their government newspapers.
Juan claimed not a single Western nation was sympathetic, not true.
Dear Juan,
I was so moved by your last text that I translated it and sent it to a French site I appreciate “Comité Valmy”. They immediatly put it on line http://www.comite-valmy.org/spip.php?article4638.
Now it is also on the Iranian French radio IRIB http://french.irib.ir/info/international/item/327628-les-russes-sont-des-sous-hommes-aux-yeux-de-l%E2%80%99ouest,-par-juan
I must tell you that my father was born in 1911 in Odessa, Russia, and for him Odessa has always been Russian.
My heart is with you and the people of Novorossia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDPJ-ucnyPU&feature=share
German TV. 10.4.14. Who were the Maidan snipers? Ukraine.
Include English subtitles
” National guard/right sector entered Railroad Hospital Krasni Liman and shot dead 37 wounded Donbas Army soldiers and civilians and at least 1 hospital worker. Confirmed. “
Massacre after massacre and Putin does NOTHING! This is outrageous. It is of course even more outrageous that Western media are not reporting about this events.
Whom is Russia trying to please by not intervening in Ukraine ??? What is happening here?
The Wend.
The entire civil war script was copied from Yugoslavia, apart that Yanukovich escaped, so Putin has to substitute for Milošević.
Many patriotic “rebels” were on AngloZion payrole. Don’t get surprised if some nasty Russions appear in Donbass too.
Thanx Juan for you effort.
Guru
Juan states:
Replacement Mi24 attack helicopters have arrived in Ukraine as replacements for the Ukraine Army losses in Donbas. Confirmed.
The wording suggests they are arriving from outside the country. Any idea where from?
MS in Kiev: Any idea where from?
Let me reply for Juan here and play State Department spokesman. Psaki would reply either:
“no comment”
or
“I will check into this and get back to you”
Which I won’t, of course :-)
Seriously, this is not something we feel can be discussed at this time. Sorry. It was either posting the info “as is” or not posting it at all. We chose the former. Again, sorry for that crappy answer.
Kind regards,
The Saker
Russians are being killed who were born in political union with Putin via the Soviet Union, and now he watches across an artificial border, while calling himself the protector of Russian interests. Isn’t life and peace an interest?
The West is still going to impose the crippling sanctions; even though Russia is selling out its own people. Putin doesn’t get it. They are after a New World Order, and being mortal, they don’t have forever and a day to get it.
Putin’s multipolar world is a direct threat, and they will stop at nothing to eliminate it.
The West is vulnerable to non-violent plays here, and Putin isn’t even doing that (shut off the gas, use RT more effectively). Why do you think ECB just went negative? Because the West is all powerful? US GDP was -1% in the first quarter. There are secession movements in Spain and the UK. The pro-Putin faction just scored big gains in the election. Putin isn’t even waging a rhetorical war against the NWO.
Sadly looks like more escalation to follow. But, Putin’s foreign travels do look like countermoves.
OF COURSE things are happening, beneath the surface. But as already pointed out, those who stand to lose the most, will have to pick up a rifle and defend themselves, not expect others to do it for them.
Everyone is missing the point here.
You don’t kill a snake by cutting off its tail.
The head is the petrodollar that funds all the empires wars.
Putin has to bend over backwards to
appear reasonable, and non bellicose
to get get the BRICS/and non aligned along with killing it.
Many more lives are at stake than just in the Donbass etc.
No point in winning this battle and then losing the war.
Read somewhere the Ukraine helos were probably being brought back from UN duty.
How about discussion of corridor to the border? It seems that this is a major event and can be protected from both sides of border. It allows men, material, refugees, supplies and money to go through the border corridor.
Biggest strategic event of the war?
It seems lots of folks expected the NWO to sit on its hands while Russia, China, BRICs, et al attempt to overthrow the petrodollar as the global reserve currency which provides the font of the NWO’s powerbase. As Saker has emphasized, the situation must be seen holistically and strategically.
Read somewhere the Ukraine helos were probably being brought back from UN duty.
How about discussion of corridor to the border? It seems that this is a major event and can be protected from both sides of border. It allows men, material, refugees, supplies and money to go through the border corridor.
Biggest strategic event of the war?
It’s my second comment. After reading what Juan writes, I very wonder why no news about the crimes he describes is reported by RT. Why? And what happens on other Russian media?
“National guard/right sector entered Railroad Hospital Krasni Liman and shot dead 37 wounded Donbas Army soldiers and civilians and at least 1 hospital worker. Confirmed.”
It sound like CIA methods of terrorizing the civilians and opponents to their regime. Just like the operation phenix in Vietnam or the death squads in El Salvador or Chile in Pinochet time.
So sad that Europe descend again to slaughterhouse just a dozen years after Yugoslavia tragedy, another US sheme.
@15:32
You are wrong in fact. Latin America is not considered as West. Are you Trolling? In fact i am fed up with this West thing. Kindly quote Uncle Sam instead of this ” So called West”.
Regards
@ 16:32,
BRICS? I am highly critical of this “I” in BRICS. Spineless Foreign Policy. And reading articles of “M.K.Bhadrakumar” this criticality even goes further. Quite ambiguous foreign policy to say the least. Even with this new Anti-congress govt. Waiting for the day to have a clear one dimensional picture. Till then quite skeptical to say the least.
1. Krasnyi Liman was not taken on the 4th. Ukie forces got into the southern part of the town, the militias retreated to the northern part, and the centre was left without full control of either side. The Ukie forces actually withdrew as the evening came; they don’t do well in night fighting and they know it.
2. It may be worth mentioning that the majority of shells fired by Ukie arty on Slaviansk and its environs are either failing to explode, are not primed to explode or are “solid” rounds. They punch holes in ceilings, walls and pavement but there’s hardly any shrapnel damage present. The number of casualties does not corellate with amount of (HE) shells fired, especially since the militia reported calibers as large as 152mm and even 240mm as being used against them.
3. After the Luhansk militia finally took the Ukie border guards HQ compound, the border guard garrisons stationed at various posts began to abandon them. There are reports of at least one garrison crossing over into Russia and requesting sanctuary there.
Cheers,
BOPOH.
Claude,
maybe we could share the translation efforts in French…
on events in Ukraine.
http://lepontduhadu.blogspot.fr/
A PLUS
Nat
Claude said…
Dear Juan,
I was so moved by your last text that I translated it and sent it to a French site I appreciate “Comité Valmy”
@ Mr The Wend. 05 June, 2014 15:37
I understand your grief, but on this blog it’s 1000 times explained why Russia can’t intervene:
1. It would cause many (1 x a Millard?) more deaths,
2. Any future Russian-European cooperation would be destroyed.
3. The USA would succeed in forcing the Europeans of raising their military budgets, at the expense of the other national expenses: austerity measures, unemployment, further downfall of public services, etc.
4. in favor of the expansion of the power of The Military Industrial Complex into the way President Eisenhower in 1961 famously warned the US (and the world) about.
5. Europe’s economy would crash and drop death after a tremendous recession in favor of the satanic rummaging plutocrats and against Russia’s vision of an Euro-Asian economy.
6. Russia should lose it’s moral superior stand – the main factor in winning a war – which is manifested in the reactions of all Mass Media in the World, specially in the west.
7. The economic model of The Neo-Liberals dictated by this New USA (NWO) would destroy the ecology of planet Earth and their living beings by global warming, GMO and poisoning the souls of any man, woman and child by greed.
8. When they have this Full Spectrum Dominance and destroyed the “Mutual Deterrence” concept as described in the Speech by Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara, San Francisco, September 18, 1967, they would execute the Ultimate Unthinkable: Russia first, then China.
10. One should never do what the enemy wants you to do, they could have reasons beyond your calculations.
11. ETC.
Probably you just jumped in; all I summed up here, is posted to contemplate in the just the last 2 days.
All the best,
Feng
While the media have been suppressing Ukraine news lately, I do see some hopeful signs that the EU populace is not united behind NATO on this.
Apart from the Slovak refusal to have NATO troops stationsed there (declined with a reference to the bad experience with Soviet troops, a bitchslap to the USA), there is at least this young deputy of the Linke speaking out against the current Ukraine regime and recent elections: see the movie insert of the article (in German), where she calls the German government out on their lies and calls them effectively, criminal. The reaction is a (guilty) silence.
http://principiis-obsta.blogspot.de/
And look at the discussions of these West Ukrainian parents who object to their children being drafted as cannon fodder for the onslaught:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70f_1401987116
OTOH, the Austrian state news today reported that much of Donetsk is without water (blaming the destruction of the water pipe on the separatists.) Lack of water for such a big city could be very bad, if it’s truly as severe as portrayed.
Apart from the official German language media there are lots of blogs and small internet news sites that don’t go along with the official narrative. Even though a superficial view of the media landscape is depressing, the “Putin is Hitler” narrative has lost what traction it had, and is not selling too well these days.
While the media have been suppressing Ukraine news lately, I do see some hopeful signs that the EU populace is not united behind NATO on this.
Apart from the Slovak refusal to have NATO troops stationsed there (declined with a reference to the bad experience with Soviet troops, a bitchslap to the USA), there is at least this young deputy of the Linke speaking out against the current Ukraine regime and recent elections: see the movie insert of the article (in German), where she calls the German government out on their lies and calls them effectively, criminal. The reaction is a (guilty) silence.
http://principiis-obsta.blogspot.de/
And look at the discussions of these West Ukrainian parents who object to their children being drafted as cannon fodder for the onslaught:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=70f_1401987116
OTOH, the Austrian state news today reported that much of Donetsk is without water (blaming the destruction of the water pipe on the separatists.) Lack of water for such a big city could be very bad, if it’s truly as severe as portrayed.
Apart from the official German language media there are lots of blogs and small internet news sites that don’t go along with the official narrative. Even though a superficial view of the media landscape is depressing, the “Putin is Hitler” narrative has lost what traction it had, and is not selling too well these days.
Thursday, June 5 17:53 GMT: The self-defense forces of Slavyansk have shot down a fourth helicopter belonging to the Ukrainian army in the last three days, the commander of Slavyansk self-defense forces, Igor Strelkov, told RIA Novosti. “The Mi-24 was shot down Thursday near the village of Yampol near the town of Krasny Liman, where the militia and the army are fighting,” he said.
Afterthought:
Truthfully, Putin owes nothing to anyone except Russian citizens. The women with blown-off legs are a crime, an outrage and a disgrace to the Ukrainian government – but not to the Russian one. Because… these women are Ukrainian citizens. Still. Due to the fact that the PRD is even today mostly a non-entity. You’re probably not aware of this, but the Donbass municipalities including Donetsk are still transferring the proscribed portions of local tax revenues to Kiev. How’s that for a heroic struggle of Donbass masses against the bloody junta?
Saker has mentioned the psyops as one of the reasons for the wave of demands for immediate Russian intervention into Ukraine. That’s fine and true, but it isn’t the main reason by far. Most of it comes from the russian-speaking Ukrainians who fervently believe that Russia simply owes them.
The army that they have financed, supplied and served in for the past 23 years is now bombing them because the politicians they tolerated, legitimized and also financed ordered it to? Russia’s fault – it didn’t pay enough attention in the past and allowed this all to happen (hey, Tsarev, a big shot in Yanukovich’s Regions Party actually said just that). So now it owes them protection and some extra spendin’ dough too. Yeah, the PRD really did request mere 30,000,000,000 roubles from Moscow yesterday. U.S. psyops operatives are probably nervously laughing in the corner.
I really don’t know what to call men who, in response to their women being slaughtered, indignantly demand of others to come and save them, preferrably with cash to recompense them for their unspeakable suffering.
Oh, I’ve forgotten to mention that they are also threatening Putin with a “Moscow maidan” staged by Russians outraged by lack of help for their suffering Donbass brothers. Yeah.
Screw such brothers, I say.
BOPOH.
Expect as many atrocities as Kiev can produce. Any opportunity to commit an atrocity will be taken. It is their only hope.
Just read this: Obama’s problems
Note that is from the newspaper that has been the loudest mouthpiece for anti-Putin propaganda, probably in the entire world.
What Putin must do, and I believe he is trying harder than anyone has ever tried to do anything on earth, is to prevent further atrocities. God go with him.
But he is winning, and what he is winning is World War III, with very, very, few casualties at all. Recall that WW II cost Russia over 20,000,000 dead. We are a long way from that figure.
I think the game Putin is playing is to attempt to introduce a rift between France/Germany & US. On the plus side France is going ahead with the mistral warship sale to Russia despite US protests & it seems as if there will be no new EU sanctions.
Is it worth all the lives and horror in #Donbass? Nope, I dont think so
How many [real] leaders of countries do participate in this forum?
Last count let me @ 0.
As a [vary bad] poker player, I have to be honest and recognize a poker face when I see one.
Putin plays a 6th dimensional chess game, while I’m still convinced he’s playing checkers.
Time will reveal how much Putin’s deeds are historical, but for now most of the noise/rhetoric have been hysterical.
as a side note: the A 787 is superb.
More of the MSM’s usual blah, blah, blah, BS; Russia’s professional troublemakers have arrived by the hundreds in Eastern Ukraine.
I don’t know why I even bother, but look… Russian TV media is reporting these attrocities, although they are not showing the hardest things very often (Russian internet sites do, however). They show womena and children who fled their towns or those who stay there. Russian TV media (the state-sponsored only) is showing this every hour.
And this taking over of border guards will go on. I think humanitarian and military material will somehow make its way to the militias. Not every village has these weapons, however. The small villages like Krasni Limansk have 100 men garrison, or 200 most likely. Donetsk and Lugansk could have as much as 1000 with more being trained AS I WRITE THIS. They will be sent to defend their cities half-trained if need be, but so far it seems THERE IS NO SUCH NEED.
So don’t panic. Poroshenko is doomed if he can’t take any of the cities in open defiance till June 7. I think this is what Putin knows.
@ MS in Kiev & VINEYARDSAKER
The German reunification, which really was an annexation, put the entire military hardware of the GDR into the hands of the west (MIGs, helicopters, tanks, guns, ammunition, everything …). Since none of this stuff was needed or wanted by Bundeswehr they soon found other uses for it. As early as 1990/1991 German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher saw to it that fascist separatists in Yugoslavia (the successors of the Ustasha, Germany’s WW2 allies in Croatia) received a virtually limitless supply in arms and ammunition from these stocks. Genscher is a Liberal Democrat (FDP) but this doesn’t really matter because Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and in recent times the Greens (die Grünen) have all pursued the same politics. All German governments since WW2 have persistently and without exception supported authoritarians, racists and fascists all over the world … the Greek generals in 1967, Franco in Spain, Salazar/Caetano in Portugal, the apartheid governments in South Africa, Peron and his military successors in Argentina, the generals in Brazil 1964-1985, Stroessner in Paraguay, Pinochet in Chile right through to the 2009 coup d’état in Honduras where they denounced the elected president Manuel Zelaya and congratulated the right-wing putschists.
I have no idea whether they’re still keeping Russian built military equipment in Germany. But if they do I wouldn’t put it past the current German government to stick with the tradition and to once again come out in support of fascists.
Russia, U.S. reaffirm need for immediate end of military operation in Ukraine – Lavrov
PARIS. June 5 (Interfax) – Russia and the United States have reaffirmed the need for the military operation in Ukraine to be stopped immediately, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The parties “clearly confirmed the need for an immediate discontinuation of the military operation,” the Russian foreign minister said after his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday.
“It has already gone beyond all limits: artillery and aviation working against civilian areas, killing more and more civilians,” the Russian minister said.
“Once again we drew the attention of our U.S. colleagues to the fact that affairs in Ukraine should be conducted in the context of the Geneva Statement and a roadmap presented by the OSCE chairman on the basis thereof. John Kerry has agreed that this is precisely the way in which the situation should be restored and that the most important demand is for any violence to stop,” Lavrov said.
Also, Russia hopes that the U.S. will use its influence on the Ukrainian president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, to end violence and the military operation. “We are very hopeful that the U.S. influence on the Ukrainian president-elect (Petro) Poroshenko will be used to disconue the escalation and standoff,” Lavrov said.
The Russian foreign minister drew Kerry’s attention to the fact that some of the actions undertaken recently by the U.S. and the European Union – a NATO meeting, a number of G7 statements – do not help create a constructive dialogue.
“On the contrary, they create an illusion of permissiveness among certain officials in Kyiv. Such an approach will lead to nothing good,” Lavrov said.
The bilateral talks were held at a hotel in central Paris on Thursday ahead of the festivities to mark the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
BOPOH, for your “after thought” and people like you, I copy my comments from previous thread:
As “Daruma Doll” stated, Russia and Putin did promise to stand up for Russians in the world, and at the critical moment, they threw the people under bus. That is how it look like to many people. You encourage them to stand up and fight, let them know you have their back, then you make all kind excuses for not doing do. So either Putin was bluffing, or his strategies were disgrace.
I understand Russian lost more than 20 million in WWII, do you really need lost a lot people this time? Is there more you can do? People in Slovyansk is out of water and food, I have not hear anything from Russian government. Waiting for whole city to fall to do something?
To call people disagree with you Crazies, is doing your self a disservice. There is a pattern on this blog that when people is not agree with certain opinion, someone will start a fight instead of engage the issues. I hope it is not something intelligent people do.
Anon 15:37
Massacre after massacre and Putin does NOTHING! This is outrageous. It is of course even more outrageous that Western media are not reporting about this events.
Taking nothing against the outrage from the view of humanity or law, everyone involved in the rebellion has to understand that those who rebell against their country are considered traitors, and traitors are subject to a traitors death by the central government of the state. The same thing goes for all who refuse to serve the state when the state believes it is threatened by external forces or internal rebellion, hence Right Sector massacres of Ukraine troops. In war, some things are always done “pour encourager les autres.”
The fact of these execution is all the more reason to rebell against such an evil state, but the risk of them happening needs to be understood at the outset by everyone participating. That they happen in a civil war is not justification for a general war with another state. The inhabitants of Ukraine need to work out their problems on their own, and these outrages need to be documented for the eventual settling of acocunts at the end of combat, when perpatrators will go to trial.
Those looking for a match by Marquess of Queensbury Rules or a Gentlemen’s War where the opposing officers first meet on the field and decide who has the honor of the first volley are invited to resume the peaceful occupation of their living room couch. War is not a sporting match conducted with referees blowing a whistle when there is a foul.
worth watching and distributing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9AIR95qCR8
and here an excellent example of donbass PR work:
http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.en/rusvesna.su/news/1401964960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkI82ERxE0
if somebody knows the producers, please ask them for subtitles, i think that could be a good tool for duscussions.
Feng,
thank you for the explanation, I fully understand the reasons why Russia cannot intervene now in Ukraine, those put by you and those that Saker put many times before.
It is just the fact that I am from Serbia and I remember very well all the details of Yugoslav wars, and that makes me maybe extra sensitive about sacrificing your own people in other republics for some “higher” purposes. I of course want Russia to win this war, and I am afraid for Putin to become new Milosevic.
Speaking of which, this is what I just read on the internet. It is a new statement by Dugin about Putin and Ukraine where he predicts disaster for Russia. (I am not necessarily a fan of Dugin, he is to Judeo-Christian for me, but anyway this is his statement) :
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” Kremlin political scientist and ideologist of the Eurasian Union, Moscow State University professor Alexander Dugin believes that Russia expects to decay, and its president, Vladimir Putin – will share the fate of Yanukovych, Milosevic and Gaddafi. On this he wrote in the article “Introduction Russian troops and semantics of time”, published on the website “However”.
According to him, Putin’s refusal to send troops to Ukraine would lead to Ukrainian troops entering the Crimea.
Thereafter Russian democratic forces will mass street protests, and “United Russia” will repeat the valiant way of the “Party of Regions”.
As a result of Putin, according to Dugin is removed from power. “Next, the fate of Yanukovych, Milosevic or Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi. Even if Putin himself will be shot as he promised like Allende, it will not save the situation. Winning Swamp and Ekho Moskvy quickly lead to the collapse of Russia and the civil war on our territory, says the Professor.
“Democracy” will win. Sea will overflow land. The geopolitical catastrophe of 1991 reaches its logical extreme and becomes irreversible, he concluded.
As reported by the “Observer”, Dugin has been actively involved in advising the pro-Russian resistance in eastern Ukraine.
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I hope he is completely wrong. But this proofs there are people, even those who have influence on Putin, who are becoming very pessimistic about the outcome of the crisis, because Russia still hesitates to do something.
One more time: I hope that Saker is right and Dugin is wrong.
The Wend.
Putin would not make the first move in a direct conflict with the US of Europe.He would never endanger Russia.He would however help the East of Ukraine in a sneaky sort of way.
He is being subjected to a sort of global or western mobbing.
He would however react to aggression from the West should they be so foolish.
He is up against fools like Merkel and Cameron.
Upon arriving in France for D-Day landing celebrations, Russian President Vladimir Putin and UK Prime Minister David Cameron met at a Paris airport to discuss Russian-UK relations and Ukraine. The leaders reportedly avoided a pre-talks handshake.
President Barack Obama has said he has told France of his concerns about the sale of two warships to Russia in the light of the crisis in Ukraine. The first carrier is due for delivery this year in a 1.2bn euro (£1bn; $1.6bn) deal signed in 2011. Mr Obama said while he recognised it was a big deal and important for French jobs, “I think it would have been preferable to press the pause button”. Paris says it will not halt the deal unless further EU sanctions are agreed. A foreign ministry spokesman said a contract had been signed and had to be honoured. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is among some 18 international leaders taking part in D-Day landings commemorations in France, has said he expects Paris to go through with the warship deal.
@Austrian
“there is at least this young deputy of the Linke speaking out against the current Ukraine regime and recent elections”
Where’s the video and what’s her name?
Anyway, it’s good to see Germans speaking out against NATO. I wish Germans would stage massive protests against the presence of American troops in the country, demanding an end to the occupation.
Putin is smeared with the possibility of “Russian tanks rolling in Eastern Europe” (the Empire and its mass media say), thus America is given an excuse to boost its military presence in those countries, meanwhile, Russia can accuse the US of “having yet to roll out the tanks in Germany, as Russia did, and stop treating the country as an occupied territory”. Imagine that!
Big respect for Juan, who tries to convey what’s going on and provides SITREPS here. I recon we’re living in the same city and reading the same sources as Collonel Cassad or The Voice of Sevastopol blogs. For me it looks as good idea as for above-mentioned sources is to provide the same info in English.
Dear The Saker,
Two interesting articles:
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_05/Poroshenkos-chief-of-regional-campaing-office-found-dead-5291/
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_06_05/Russia-urges-US-to-stop-involvement-of-mercenaries-in-conflict-in-Ukraine-8411/
I wonder if that is a message to Poroshenko.
As per your previous article looks like Russia is starting to leak about the mercenaries….wonder what’s next…photos, proof etc. etc.
Just saw a picture on RT of Putin and Cameron meeting. Cameron looks like a naughty school boy – getting his info to go and squeal to his boss the USG. Apparently no hand shaking took place.
Plus Psaki has apparently resigned! Well thanks for one bit of good news :)
It will be interesting to see how tomorrow goes – apparently some countries are already arguing about seating arrangements for D Day – have they no shame – jeez these ego maniacs who run our countries :(.
Rgds,
Veritas
@The Wend
Please provide a link to the Dugin statement. I am unable to locate the site you quote.
It is not Russia committing war crimes in Lughansk, Odessa, and Slaviansk. It is the oligarch’s who are responsible for the atrocities in Donbass. Please stop blaming Russia for the crimes of others! The war is through time and space beyond now in the Donbass. Vladimir Putin is responsible for millions of lives, not just a hand full in Donbass. Few human beings are capable of strategic thinking and responsibility. Putin has these capabilities. Please encourage the Donbass people’s militia to kill the war criminals of Kiev and their mercenary scum. The Donbass People’s Armies can take a message world wide, that an armed militia is all that can stop the forces of subjugation.
JakeS said…
I think the game Putin is playing is to attempt to introduce a rift between France/Germany & US. On the plus side France is going ahead with the mistral warship sale to Russia despite US protests & it seems as if there will be no new EU sanctions.
Is it worth all the lives and horror in #Donbass? Nope, I dont think so
05 June, 2014 18:34
It is not Russia that is murdering the citizens of Donbass. It is the USA and EU and their puppets in Kiev who are responsible for the horrors. You are a troll!
Anonymous,
I found the statement of Dugin on Facebook.
This is the address :
https://www.facebook.com/TruthfromUkraine/photos/a.1462094710680543.1073741828.1452285018328179/1507859116104102/?type=1&theater
Best regards,
The Wend.
@The Wend.
This is ridiculous.
These post soviet attacks on Yugoslavia could happen: Manipulated and subverted by the Zionist controlled former Anglosaxon empire and its European vassals -Only because of the now non existence of the USSR that could act in their defence. (Purely out of self interest mind)
Russia and China together now act as that counter to the empire as it collapses from its own overreach.
This empire is probably the worst in human history as it leaves people alive but debases them with marxism via mass immigration and political correctness and corporatism and financialisation that impoverishes them.
Only the empire could take the best people from other countries and propagand that this is progressive etc. etc. turning truth on its head as usual.
Wars are for kindness and all that other Orwellian double speak.
@Nat
Bien entendu, il faut nous partager le travail des traductions et les mettre dans le plus grand nombre d’endroits possibles. Je ne connaissais pas votre blog. Félicitations.
Dominique Muselet traduit aussi des articles du Saker. Nous pouvons à tous trois traduire presque tous les posts.
claude.sivirine@wanadoo.fr
karlof1:
It seems lots of folks expected the NWO to sit on its hands while Russia, China, BRICs, et al attempt to overthrow the petrodollar as the global reserve currency
The US doesn’t care if other countries trade between themselves in other currencies. EU trade takes place in Euros for example. It cares that all sales into the US market or puchases from it take place in dollars, and that dollars are used to price and sell most oil (especially OPEC) which provides an advantage to US oil imports. The petrodollar advantages both parties (US and OPEC) as it provides a stable financial framework to the Gulf countries (and Ecuador) that use it and allows immediate investment of revenue into the US financial system (stocks, bond, land, capital assets). It may exist on the margin by force, but the main Gulf Oil exporters (KSA, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman) are all very eager for it on their own as are Ecuador and Venezuela. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t peg their currencies to it.
If the rest of the world really wants less US dollars, it would have to lessen the trade with the US that obtains and creates them – the US Current Account Deficit. This would mean higher production in the US and lower foreign production, since foreign countries would necessarily have to accept a smaller share of the US marketplace to reduce their holdings and accumulation of dollars. Further, in order to dump dollar holdings, there must be a willing buyer, or else the asset price sinks in value and the seller comes out a loser in the market.
This killing of random civilians and attacks on hospital patients is a sign of weakness. They can surprise soft targets but where have they shown any real capability against genuine armed opponents? The so called ‘National Guard’ is probably the most motivated group the Kiev regime has got and yet what have they been able to accomplish on the ground so far? Unless of course the goal is simply to create polarization through the commission of atrocities, hoping for counter-atrocities to be committed in retaliation and thus get the ball rolling.
The Warsaw Pact countries sent weapons and aid to the Vietnamese for them to fight the US. They did not need to send troops to intervene. The Vietnamese were capable of doing the fighting themselves, they just needed the tools. The same thing may be true here.
Thank Juan for the sitrep.
This is a map of western Asia, northern Africa and Europe that shows oil and gas distribution, Israeli-American/NATO military concentrations, NATO acquisitions and various other things. It’s not complete, but very useful to see graphically how the NWO strategy to dominate Eurasia developed and now progresses.
Thanks to “flickervertigo” who posted it at MOA.
I think I may have forgotten to post a link to the map I described in my previous post. Here is the link:
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img842/8264/fimw7.jpg
rob,
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, just this one time, Kerry acted in good faith? It could be a sign that Kiev’s losses are just unsustainable. Plus, of course, not accomplishing anything other than (amply-documented) war crimes, for which somebody will ultimately have to pay the price.
Andrew,
Don’t people ordinarily get tried for treason before they’re executed? No snark here, but isn’t that generally at least supposed to be the case, show trials notwithstanding? You know, except Obama and drones and targeted assassinations and innocent civilians… But in a civilized society, I mean.
The Wend,
I thought Dugin was pretty much a misinformation artist. No?
Anonymous said…
Juan is wrong, Venezuela is a Western country that is sympathetic to the Donbas rebels in their government newspapers.
Juan claimed not a single Western nation was sympathetic, not true.
05 June, 2014 15:32
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Ever wondered what word “the west” really means? It is not Mediterranean civilisation of greece, Italy,spain or even France. it is not north western european civilisation of germany or scandinavia. In fact all these countries have been spied upon by the nations who call and self designate themselves “the west” -a nation otherwise known as 5 Eyes !- A combination of england, usa,canada ,newzealand and australia- disparate nations geographically and not even european but esssentially anglosaxon race nations. A race based concept really. West is euphemism for anglos- it does not include any of other white european nations not even the most westerly european nation of Ireland! The word “west” is a fraud to distract from real actors behind the scene-the 5 eyes of pirate English controlled anglo nations.
BOPOH:
Most of it comes from the russian-speaking Ukrainians who fervently believe that Russia simply owes them.
Russia might owe them if they had not themselves voted in absolute majority for independence of Ukraine in 1991, unlike Crimea in which only a minority wanted separation.
In many ways, they chose their current path they now regret so bitterly. I’ve always wondered what they saw as Ukraine’s advantage in being independent of Mother Russia. 23 disappointing years of grinding poverty has clearly taken a toll.
putin is wasting time on meeting his enemis instead of meeting his allies.
even lair america is trying to lure mr. modi the Indian pm to coem to us so that he can be favourable infuelnced by americaqns. where is russian effort ton bring India to russian china alliance?
even to china putin went one full month after the crisis started.
lavrov is traitor.
putin is delusional in not knwoing who his frinnds are and who his enemies are.
right sectors killes wounder solders in a hospital and not a squeak from russia or Uno?
un must be discarded now start anotherf organisation.
Those who blame Putin for not doing enough, are quite clearly opportunists.
On the other hand the anonymous person who said he’s winning WWIII? Still too early to say that yet.
Veritas wrote :
“Plus Psaki has apparently resigned! Well thanks for one bit of good news”.
Now that is a coincidence, so did james carney the white house press secretary a week or so ago. I wonder if the two events are related ?
“You encourage them to stand up and fight, let them know you have their back, then you make all kind excuses for not doing do.”
And what if instead of fighting they simply sit on their arse and demand that you send in the troops anyway? Because sending in volunteers by the hundreds simply won’t do, oh no – it’s gotta be at least a full tank army, with pennants flying and the band playing.
May I remind you that Strelkov is in fact a Russian volunteer and not one of the locals? So is the entire “Vostok” detachment, the one that the all-wise PRD leadership kept in Donetsk instead of sending it to Slaviansk, only to get it mangled in a surprisingly well coordinated ambush by the Ukie units. There’s also a crapload of Crimean volunteers there – Russian citizens all. The Kiev govt. Keeps complaining that trucks full of men and equipment are crossing nightly into Ukraine from Russia. But, nope, that ain’t enough. The Russians have to come in force, take Kiev, raze Lvov, and if they do it well enough for their newfound Novorossia brothers’ liking, then most people in Donbass may consider avenging those dead women. Possibly.
But Putin promised…! Putin promised! Wait, no, he didn’t. He only stated that Russia may act unilaterally in support of Donbass people *if it so chooses*. There was an implication that he may commit Russian troops if the Donbass seceded with the *legitimate* support of the majority of its population. And this is where the so-called PDR “leadership” showed its true talent for massively fu..ing up everything it touches. It organized the “referendum”.
More coming…
BOPOH.
East Ukrainian have to be primarily responsible for fighting their own wars.
If you can’t even do that, you don’t deserve independence.
If 100K civillians, die, there will be still be like 6 million plus left.
If you say, why can’t it be like Crimea for us? Then why not say, why can it be like New Zealand, etc, etc, (somewhere where there is no armed conflict).
These are the cards that you have been dealt with. Play your hand as best as you can.
Russian troops are for, first and foremost, defending Russian borders. Anything else is optional. No one has claim over Russian soldiers lives. Nor have the Russian soldiers any obligation beyond Russia.
Remember the saying of the Spetznaz. We serve the Spetznaz and Russia, no more, no less.
Cont’d
In case you think that it has any value, I must disappoint you. Up until this day, no figures showing such basic things as, say, vote breakdown by district or any other detailed data has emerged. Nothing. There were no observers at the ballot stations. There were no observers during the vote count. The referendum was pretty much a sham. Moreover, while it was supposed to consist of two parts, Gubarev suddenly just cancelled the second part on a whim.
Putin told them to wait, you know. Instead, they declared that a large number of people of Donetsk have expressed their will and started clamoring for Russian intervention.
Actually, some demanded outright annexation. Apparently forgetting that the cancelled second part of the “referendum” was meant for the people to *vote* on just that issue. Democracy all the way, baby.
In the meantime, Strelkov installed himself in Slaviansk, which at that point was not even partially blockaded by the Ukes. I still don’t know what his plans were, but he stayed put there and organized the defense. Which means that he was planning to use the city as a strongpoint. Which in such circumstances makes it – at best – a besieged fortress. Which puts the fate of its population in the hands of the defender. That includes planning for a water supply, btw. This thought apparently eluded not just Strelkov, but the entire PRD leadership, ’cause it ain’t just Slaviansk that’s running low on water today, dig?
The problem is that these boys essentially went and created a cargo cult. They slapped together a parody of a referendum, pulled the results out of their asses (you cannot prove otherwise as no data except the final number of For/Against votes has been produced) and sat down to await the arrival of the cargo planes… err… the Russian army. They haven’t even bothered to secure the border crossings to conceivably aid the Russian forward elements as they possibly deployed. It was simply no longer their problem. The Russians could think about it all they wanted.
Well, the Russians thought about it, and figured they’re being had.
That’s the prime reason why they’re not moving in. Because even the fighters in Slavyansk expect them to simply solve every damn problem that they themselves have created in the past 23 years while making new ones. Like by shooting up what’s left of the old infrastructure in Donbass. Whoooo’s gonna have to rebuild it? The PRD? Heh.
There ya go. Have fun with this.
Cheers,
BOPOH
Saker, can you comment on the FT article on a video that claims that in Horlivka some prisoners were executed? The video link in the article is dead.
From the article:
The violent insurgency in eastern Ukraine appeared to plumb new depths of brutality with the emergence of a video on Wednesday showing a pro-Russian separatist leader presiding over the execution of two hostages and threatening to kill others.
In the video, a man resembling Igor Bezler, a Russian separatist leader in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka, demanded that Kiev release a separatist prisoner in its custody, or he would execute more Ukrainian hostages.
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In discussing the video, Mr Khryakov blamed Kiev for breaking the terms of an agreed prisoner swap. He said a female separatist prisoner in Ukrainian custody had been scheduled for release under an exchange, but was kept under arrest on Mr Turchynov’s orders.
“Our army kept up its side of the bargain,” Mr Khryakov said. “They betrayed their own.”
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d0802ce8-ecd1-11e3-8963-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz33nsFVCbk
Thank you for the facebook link to the Dugin quote in the Observer, Wend. I am skeptical of these sources, as it does not sound like Dugin in the lectures and interviews I have seen. Alexandr Dugin is a “traditionalist” and many stripes of communists, modernists, post-moderns and cosmopolitans have a visceral dislike of traditions of culture, language, religion, etc., so Dugin is often disparaged in media by these types. He has his quirks and complications, but there is no doubt he has influence in Russia’s turn to Asia. I would be interested in Saker’s views on Alexandr Dugin, including the fact that he is advising the Donbass Republics. This fact alone should lead us to question the sources and exact ideas and influences disliked by his critics.
Andrew,
Not sure I follow you here:
“If the rest of the world really wants less US dollars, it would have to lessen the trade with the US that obtains and creates them – the US Current Account Deficit. This would mean higher production in the US and lower foreign production, since foreign countries would necessarily have to accept a smaller share of the US marketplace to reduce their holdings and accumulation of dollars. Further, in order to dump dollar holdings, there must be a willing buyer, or else the asset price sinks in value and the seller comes out a loser in the market.”
Higher production in the US — of what? We don’t really manufacture, or export, very much anymore, right? Shale gas is a scam, our oil reserves are mighty low, not sure about coal but China would sure like to use less of it, given their smog problem. I do understand your last sentence — the lesson there is dump our stuff s l o w l y. But I’m just having trouble understanding the rest of it — could you please elucidate for a non-economic-minded person? ;~)
saker, please do nto be disheartened by too eager pro russians. putin will prevail and that is what matters in this case.
Biswajit said…
BRICS? I am highly critical of this “I” in BRICS.
Pierre Omnidyar, Silicon Valley and other US entities helped Narendra Modi get into power in India.
So which way is India going to lean, east or west? Both?
http://pando.com/2014/05/26/revealed-the-head-of-omidyar-networks-in-india-had-a-secret-second-job-helping-elect-narendra-modi/
http://pando.com/2014/05/31/ebay-shrugged-pierre-omidyar-believes-there-should-be-no-philanthropy-without-profit/
Minor point regarding Kerry’s Swift Boat adventures, maybe off topic: The brother of a close friend volunteered for the same Swift Boat riverine patrol, about age 32, oldest possible age then, Already had his fulfilled military obligation: 6 months active duty, 5-1/2 yr. reserve, before Vietnam, when he’d have been drafted. Unmarried. Wanted adventure. Like Kerry, he sailed around shooting up the countryside for a year, as an EM, not an officer. After Vietnam his brother noticed he was acting strangely, got him to shrink, diagnosed as borderline psychotic, on meds permanently.
Although I was taught it’s unseemly to comment on anyone’s mental state, I wonder how much of Kerry’s almost bizarre disassociation from reality, the obvious lies he continually enunciates, was reflected early on by his volunteering for combat. As we all said when I was in, anybody that did that should have his head examined. (Basis of “Catch 22” of course.)
Nora:
Higher production in the US — of what? We don’t really manufacture, or export, very much anymore, right?
The US manufactures quite a bit of things, just not consumer consumables. This is what we could easily make more of if places like China no longer want dollars – we would rebuidl the factories we shipped over there and start producing more things domestically at a higher price, while China would lose production and jobs by giving up on the US Market. Econ 101 says that isn’t a good deal for anyone, which is why it does not happen.
Shale gas is a scam
My bank account and stock account would beg to differ on that score, especially the part that is a result of a lease bonus check. Shale gas is only a scam in the sense that it worked too well and collapsed the price of natural gas in the US below the marginal cost of production of more shale gas. Hence export terminals, which will force marginal domestic price up to world levels simply by the fact of being able to sell any gas so desired to Asian or European markets. This will also reduce consumption and make more Canadian gas available for use in freeing oil from the tar sands instead of being imported into the US.
our oil reserves are mighty low
US oil reserves are set by SEC rules requiring companies to show a certain amount of oil vs. production. We’ve had just 10 years of reserves left for the pas 30 years, but somehow keep producing. The thing to keep in mind is that oil “resources” are constantly being reclassified was oil “reserves”.
I do understand your last sentence — the lesson there is dump our stuff s l o w l y.
It can’t be dumped, because the sale of dollar denominated financial instruments requires a willing counterparty. One country can certainly sell dollars on the open market, but that just means someone else decided they really wanted them. Dumping US Bonds implies the seller taking a bath on their price, which means someone is scooping up assets that by definition cannot default for a song and collecting a massive return on investment from a much better price to interest ratio than the face value.
Nora:
But I’m just having trouble understanding the rest of it — could you please elucidate for a non-economic-minded person?
Basically, this is how it works. Dollars come from the US Government spending money. The government spends dollars into the economy and then soaks them up with taxes, which create a demand for the holding of dollars (because paying taxes is better than going to jail). When a budget deficit is run, the people have an excess of dollars to spend. This either turns into savings, and savings equals capital investment, or it becomes spending on imported goods, with dollars being exported offshore to the originating country of the goods, since sales into the US market take place in dollars. Either way, Americans win, because either their dollars are busy earning more dollars, or their dollars are being turned into foreign produced goods which are in essence traded for funny little bits of green paper promising a miniscule amount of interest. You can recognize that sort of transaction as a form of tribute payment – foreigners work for us and get in return some funny green marked paper we didn’t have to do anything to get.
Now foreigners want dollars for three reasons: (1) to buy US goods and services, (2) to invest in US assets, (3) to trade to other people offering things for sale who want dollars. This is where petrodollars come into play. Anyone who wants Arab or S. American (or African) oil needs dollars, because that is the currency the oil producing states want. They want dollars to recycle back into US assets and services because American technical expertise for projects like Jubail in KSA won’t come by giving Americans a pile of Saudi Riyals, and American assets filling sovereign wealth funds can’t be bought with Dinars. Similarly, most of these oil producing countries literally have less than nothing else than oil, so they need to buy food, manufactured goods, and other products on the world market, and to get these things, most people want dollars (so they can recycle the dollars back into more Arab oil). Lastly, many of these countries want to run budget deficits of their own to help their internal development and subsidize consumables prices, but they can’t do this in their own currency because foreign investors aren’t interested in the currency of places like Venezueala or Oman and their own people don’t want their currency either. So instead, they need to borrow dollars to accomplish these goals. There are other options of course – they can borrow Euros, Pounds, Australian and Canadian dollar and other similar hard currencies. But none of these currencies are as desired as American Dollars for the simple reason that the American economy is bigger, the American market is bigger, and more people want dollars so they present more flexibility.
Nora:
Russia is a basically self-sufficient state involved in resource export. It has little need for dollars. Hence it can go about carrying on trade in its own exported goods in any currency it desires and it really will have little effect on the US or the dollr system. Over time and with sufficient internal development and population growth and development of reliable rule of law and freedom of capital movement, Russia could create a market to rival the US, which would lessen the desirability of dollars to the extent that Russia is able to equal the US as a place people want to sell goods to and invest their money in. This is obviously a project of 50-100 years, not an imminent threat to the US. In the meanwhile, Russia can focus on converting its natural resource bounty (minerals, fuels, timber, food, etc.) into real wealth which can be revinested in their economy and used to increase personal income. This has been Russia’s economic program since the time of the Tsars, and it has taken a backwards Agricultural country which still had serfs in 1860 into the space and computer age just 100 years later.
China on the other hand is a very resource poor state. It depends greatly on buying foreign resources (minerals, fuel, food) from places llike Australia and the US and Canada (and now Russia), and selling goods to large foreign consumer markets because of the poverty of its own people and the desire to save money earned by the Chinese economy to finance further internal development and wealth. China can’t develop without its people saving money, and without development its people will never become wealthy enough to be a desirable market for sales. China can’t strip its natural assets and sell them to make money for development like Russia does because it has so few natural assets. China and Russia can form a natural symbiosis to help themselves develop, which is what you see happening, but this again doesn’t threaten the US. China still wants to sell goods to the US to buy other goods abroad. If China completely replaced the US market and US sourced raw materials with Russian markets and materials, this would simply mean the tremendous buying power of the US market would seek out somewhere else to spend its money, likely resulting in either industrial development in another country, like India, or re-industrialization of the US, which like Russia, is mainly self-sufficient in raw materials (except oil). Then we are back to square one. People thinking/dreaming of crises and collapses of the US monetary system are primarily stuck in a gold-based economic thinking, which has nothing to do with modern economic systems and their fiat currencies.
Andrew,
1) “If the rest of the world really wants less US dollars, it would have to lessen the trade with the US that obtains and creates them – the US Current Account Deficit. This would mean higher production in the US and lower foreign production,” you make decent points in your debate with Nora, but you’re missing several key components. Shale oil and gas isn’t a ‘scam’ but it all revolves around ROI and debt to drilling ratios. If the ROI gets poor as the richest parts of the Bakken and other plays are all taken up, then the little guys all have to sellout at rock bottom prices to the big boys like Exxon who have their pick of the juiciest assets.
The rest of the marginal wells fracked and refracked are shuttered and money lent to those wildcatters is in essence destroyed, along with the jobs they were creating since Exxon won’t need nearly as many workers to refrack as to drill the initial well. Nor is using LNG to export prices up to Japan or at least EU levels a feasible solution, for two reasons, one market based the other political. The market reason is that chilling natgas down to near above absolute zero and shipping it halfway around the world or across the Atlantic or Pacific is not nearly as cheap as advertised. If it were, Qatar would already be exporting to Europe’s existing LNG terminals via the Suez well before a single LNG tanker arrives from the Gulf of Mexico Port of Louisiana facility being set up by Cherniere. Simply put shale gas shipped to the EU is not price competitive with piped gas from Algeria/North Africa, Norway or Russia (and in the long term, Qatar or Iran who are Russia’s true competitors, since the cost of building a gas pipeline across the Sahara is prohibitive and it cannot be reliably secured by all tribes along the route).
American Kulak
2) So you have fracking as apparently oversold as a ‘game changer’, if not quite a scam. Because US manufacturers/steel mills need dirt cheap gas to stay competitive, but exporting fracked gas as LNG drives up costs for them, the petrochemical industry, and due to poor overlapping infrastructure also runs into problems if longer, colder winters like 2013-14 become the norm and consumers take a hit at the thermostats! (Plus what makes anybody think Japan’s economy can afford the sky high prices the Japanese are paying for Russian, Qatari or Australian LNG already? Japan’s economy is simply drowning slowly despite massive yen printing aka Abenomics which is a gross failure)
USTs are being dumped and have been dumped on a more rapid basis since this crisis began in 2008-2009. China has halted all Treasuries accumulation since at least 2010 and no one else is buying them except for the Bank of Japan, which is even more bankrupt than the Federal Reserve.
A sovereign that prints it’s own money can’t go bankrupt, you say? Tell that to Weimar Germany. The Fed would never lose control, you say? Russia and China would never dump their Treasuries and take a bath on their value you say? Then tell us who if not Russia dumped $110 billion worth of Treasuries in the last 3 months that was scooped up by Belgium. Yes, Belgium, home of NATO and the European Commission/Parliament, and likely straw buyer for the Fed, just like Japan.
The US economy is too productive to experience true hyperinflation? The Fed is too disciplined? Perhaps so, but that outcome can likely only be avoided with a ‘one-time’ shock devaluation. You’re forgetting that a Great Depression 2.0 deflation in prices while the monetary base is devalued (30% bath on all gold FDR’s Fed ordered citizens on pain of arrest to surrender) is the alternative to massive money printing. This is common sense, either 1) wages rise with inflation as happened somewhat during the 1960s early 70s when unions were still strong in the US 2) wages may buy more with the cost of real estate finally being allowed to collapse to affordable levels so Millenials can buy homes or at least cheap condos rather than living with their parents for life
3) as you alluded to, that ‘production returns’ BUT ONLY WHEN American labor becomes some of the cheapest on the planet compared to its level of productivity! And this via ‘we’re just going to kill the dollar’ — attributed to Tim Geithner is the PLAN! The Chinese are going to colonize US and make us their cheap labor force!
American Kulak
Anonymous,
Yes, I would also be very interested in Saker’s views on Alexandr Dugin!
So, Saker, what do you think of him?
Western press call him “Putin’s Rasputin”.
The Wend
3) Sorry forgot to wrap up my comments with the direct rebuttal to what Andrew said: the ‘willing (actually not so willing but what choice do they have?) counterparty’ to dumping USTs and the dollar is going to be the Fed, of course. Essentially Russia sells oil and gas to China or Russia initially for USTs, Germany and China use those Treasury-derived dollars to buy what they want from the US (in China’s case mostly tangible commodities like gold and farm/factory land or commercial real estate in Manhattan!) and then the Treasuries are stuck in the U.S. That’s where the Fed, in order to slow already runaway food inflation (thanks in part to the super California drought) has to ‘sanitize’ or ‘disarm’ those Treasuries coming home and prevent them from entering the general money supply. The Fed does this by adding to its balance sheet via QE forever. But as Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out the end of the petrodollar with Saudi/Qatar and other nations demanding their own or other currencies for energy leaves the Fed trying to absorb an impossible amount of dollars. It also accelerates the death spiral of foreign creditors becoming more concerned about the Fed’s balance sheet size and how many Treasuries it is buying to ‘monetize the debt’, acclerating the collapse. So it may take three, five or even if the Fed and Empire can exhaust all frauds and options ten years, but it’s all coming down on the dollar and the ordinary American watching his purchasing power get destroyed by 30-70% one way or another with no concomitant rise in wages (the McDonalds worker strikes are just the beginning, imagine what happens when other middle to low wage workers all start demanding higher wages in this ‘low inflation’ society just to be able to feed their kids/maintain roofs over their heads).
American Kulak
@ MS in Kiev 05 June, 2014 15:47
> Replacement Mi24 attack helicopters have arrived
> The wording suggests they are arriving from outside the country. Any idea where from?
Think brother. :) What about Poland for example?
You do not know how moronic government Poland has and how corrupt.
Andrew:
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2014/05/29/converging-energy-crises-and-how-our-current-situation-differs-from-the-past/
Shale is a bubble that will sooner rathen than latter burst. You can’t keep on selling something for less than you pay to produce, even with artificial low interest rates. This reality is much worse for the rest of the humanity, whose currencies — unlike America’s — are not the world’s reserve, and thus cannot depend on infinite debt. And customers can’t pay too high, otherwise discretionary spending diminishes and recession hit. It’s a catch 22 scenario.
How much % did the US oil increase in a decade (2004-2013), as compared to say, from the beginning of the last century to the 60s? A graphic with inflation-adjusted prices would be welcome.
Unconventional fossil resources simply don’t cut it. And these sweet spots they are drilling (they always go for the cheapest, more gas- and oil-producing formations first) are a far cry from being game changers.