Dear friends,
I am dealing with some “back office organizational issues” which are taking up a lot of my time, so I still cannot write a real full SITREP today. Hopefully I will do that during the week-end. Still, I wanted to mention a few interesting things to you, just short pointers, which I think are important.
1) We are constantly dealing with propaganda, counter-propaganda and counter-counter propaganda. And yet, there are a few rock solid indicators of the overall picture of the war in Novorussia.
You all heard that Iatseniuk has resigned. But did you know that the Ukie KGB (called SBU) is investigating three top military commanders for state treason? Yup, the blame game for the disaster at the southern cauldron has begun in Kiev. In fact, if you want to read a detailed assessment of how bad things are for the Ukies there, and if you read Russian, just click here (If you do not read Russian, use your favorite online machine translator). Keep in mind that this is written by a Ukie who called the Resistance “terrorists” and compares Russia to the Nazi occupier of WWII. And yet the image one get’s from his report from the scene is one of a total military disaster.
Guys, if the Ukie were winning there would not be these resignations, blame games and reports. All the signs are the Banderastan is collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity and blind hatred.
2) It appears that NATO is freaking out and fears that the Ukies might be rolled back far to the West. NATO, using its favorite central European slave colony, is now considering building an advanced HQ in Poland for a power-projection into the East, i.e. the Ukraine. I don’t agree with them, nobody is going to invade Banderastan, and for my reasons consider my next and last pointer today.
3) Did you notice some potentially major, if not crucial, actor completely missing from the action in this war? Can you guess whom I am referring to here?
Where is the rest of the Ukraine, especially East of the Dniepr? What is happening in the Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhie, Nikolaev, Kherson and Odessa regions? What about the Poltava, Chernigov and even Kiev regions? That’s right – nothing. No local insurgency, no guerrilla, no civil disobedience, no protests, no sabotage, *no nothing*. How come? Well, of course, this is largely due to a very effective terror campaign, especially in Kharkov and Odessa. In both cities a full-scale terror campaign his had hundreds of people jailed, kidnapped, ‘disappeard’, tortured, threatened and murdered. But so what? Does anybody really think that Kolomoiskii’s death squads are more ruthless or more effective than the Nazi death squads in WWII? And yet during the entire Nazi occupation there was a constant and very effective partisan movement in all of the Ukraine which inflicted *huge* damages on the German military. So far, the only acts of sabotage I know of are the couple of blowing ups of the gas pipeline from Russia to the EU and that was most likely done by the Right Sector. So the fact is here: most of the Eastern Ukraine is not joining the Donetsk and Luganks insurrections. What that means in practical terms is that given the choice between resisting the Nazi junta and joining the Resistance or hoping to survive in Banderastan, most of the Eastern Ukraine chose the latter. That, in turn, severely limits the scope of a possible rollback of Ukie forces. If Russia does not believe that at this point in time a military intervention in Donetsk/Luganks is needed (and facts on the ground seem to support that) and that covert aid is enough (and, again, the facts on the ground seem to support that), then you can be darn sure that Putin is not sending the Russian tanks to Lvov, or even Kiev. As for the Novorussian leaders, they can continue to write “to Kiev” on their tanks, but this is not happening without Russian military support.
Of course, with the Ukie economy now clearly crashing (officially, the money will run out on August 1st!), there are bound to be protests and even insurrections in the rest of Banderastan soon. But I personally would not advise anybody in Russia or Donetsk to conflate the national liberation movements of Novorussia with the economic discontent generated by the crisis in the rest of the Ukraine. I am sorry to have to say this, but if appears that if the Nazi junta in Kiev had the wits to create some kind of economic miracle, then most of the Ukraine would not object to living in a Russia-hating Nazi state. That is a disgrace for these people of course, but it is also a sad reality-check for Russia: while most Ukrainian do probably not like the Nazi junta very much, they don’t care about Russia, they just care about their economic well-being. Given enough money, they would turn away and do nothing while the Nazi death-squads would terrorize and murder those who have still kept a Russian identity. Novorussia, if it happens, will probably not be much bigger than the Luganks-Donetsk regions.
Thats’ it from me for right now. I need to go tackle a huge amount of work (in virtual space and in meat space). I will be back online later this evening.
Kind regards,
The Saker
This is a civil war. When there were nazis most Ukrainians did not want them. And few would have give names and addresses, at least in Donbass.
I’ve read the junta put anonymous mailboxes for people to denounce their neighbors. It’s not that easy to get organized.
Well, I presume, I don’t know the region and it’s inhabitants, but I do know what fear can be..
Note: Pepe Escobar seems to have been shut down on FaceBook about an hour ago. Perhaps he needs a backup blog site in Iceland like the Saker?
Anyone watching the unfolding events in Kiev that has even the slightest understanding of the West’s power games knows what is happening. It is called “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST STOOGE”, and it is the Darwinian Game the Brits perfected in controlling unthinkably large regions (like India) with incredibly tiny forces.
Fools think the fall of their favourite ‘hate’ figures in Kiev represent some sort of victory. Nothing could be further from the truth. The US and UK is ensuring that better, fitter, smarter stooges are coming to power in Ukraine- people far better suited to work with the ‘toys’ provided by the NATO war machine.
Anyone can see, from the reports coming from Novorussia, that the defenders of that region are fighting as ‘super-Humans’- unthinkably bravery and resourcefulness against a neo-Nazi army of unthinkable brutality (if only the people of Gaza could be given the means to fight the neo-Nazis from Israel in such a fashion). But all this bravery is for nought.
The rebels cannot win. NATO hasn’t even gotten started. The US military advisers overseeing the rearrangement of political power in Kiev are preparing the road for full-on NATO/USA participation in the Holocaust of Novorussia. America and the EU are on the verge of granting total legal immunity for all actions by any mercenary forces in Ukraine operating against the defenders of Novorussia.
This sickening legal mechanism, that played the greatest part in the West’s extermination of Iraq, is always overlooked. But once the mercenary forces of the world’s greatest empire are unleashed, the horror that follows in indescribable.
The rebels can’t win- if you hold this fantasy as a hope, you do the most terrible damage to a cause you honestly believe is true and good. Only Putin, and Russian forces, can give the Humanity of Novorussia ‘victory’. Putin must order peace-keepers to enter Novorussia. Russian forces used to allow Ukraine to split along ethnic lines, just as Czechoslovakia did a few years back. The situation is this black and white- this simple to understand.
@Anonymous 16:29, July 25, 2014.
Wow your analysis is so brilliant and shrewd. There isn’t a hint of fake paranoia, conjecture, propaganda, or exaggeration in your comment. Your commentary was so balanced and grounded. Also, their wasn’t a hint of cowardice, panic and genuflecting at the feet of the supposedly invincible and brillant Brit Strategists by you. The same group of competent geniuses that brilliantly succeeded in deposing Pres. Assad 2 years exactly as they had publically boasted they would. You are so right! The vaunted Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Norman strategists always win and never fail: look at their success in deposing Assad in 2012 (right on schedule), deposing Chavez, Unseating Lula da Silva’s party in Brazil, getting rid of Robert Mugabe; look at their great success in putting a tight leash on Netanyahu and making sure he doesn’t undermine them; look how they achieved outright victory in Afghanistan, Korea, & Vietnam; look how brilliant they were in keeping Chechnya out of Russian hands and thoroughly destabilized, and oh lets not forget their brilliant and decisive victory over Russia in South Ossetia. Yep, you sure are right that AngloAmerican strategists always win and never bungle an operation. You’re absolutely right! The Ukie Junta is not going tits-up and imploding under their own stupidity, no this just a part of the brilliant and wildly successful strategy concocted by geniuses like Jen Psaki, Marie Barf, Victoria-hagface-Nuland and the smartest and most credible of them all: John Zombie-Faced Psycho Idiot Kerry.
I am so impressed with the calm, balanced and brilliant demeanor in your post that just for you, I’d like to make you a special offer: I have a 6 lane suspension bridge to sell that runs through Sonoran desert from Phoenix, Arizona to Tucson. This is an exclusive deal offered only to discerning people like you. You only need to provide your name, credit card number and expiry date and the bridge is yours. Honest! Really! J
The leaks are dripping pretty quickly now.
This article claims the Ukrainian 156th Air Defense was conducting exercises on July 17 and accidentally fired on MH17 when the two SU-25’s being used for tracking came to close to MH17.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140725/191242509/Ukrainian-Air-Defense-Exercises-Might-be-Behind-Malaysian.html
Also, this website linked to yesterday now has claimed coordinates of the filmed location. Can’t verify, but it is well south of Shakhertsk from NAF control.
http://nemolchu.ru/video/ukrainskaja-voina/streljali-po-boingu-vsu-s-territorii-podkontrolnyh-kolomoiskomu.html
I don’t have Facebook. And I’m not savvy with translator or the internet for that matter. Age related. Sorry.
Can someone post please, the translation in English where Saker says:
“In fact, if you want to read a detailed assessment of how bad things are for the Ukies there, and if you read Russian, just click here”.
I clicked but I cannot get the translation, even when above I pressed “English” Thank you!
Regarding no. 3: Odessa, Kharkov etc…
I believe that if the militia moves into these areas pushing off the Ukrainian military, THEN you’ll see insurrection there also. Unfortunately, many people will only take a side once it becomes clear who is winning. And in the long term, I think there is no doubt that most eastern/southern provinces will be better off aligned to the east for industry and work.
Norwegian Bob
Saker,
Your conclusion may be accurate. However, the jeopardy remains forever to Russia and Crimea if Ukraine remains with only two Eastern sectors lopped off.
The people on the ground don’t matter. But the ground under their sorry asses matters. Russia would have US missiles and NATO and US occupation forces there for the next 60 years. How does that fit Russia’s survival and development?
I understand that the march to Kiev requires a lot of upgrade to the militia. Mostly, they need mobility. A fast mobile force of 5000. But, I don’t see how Russia can abide your resolution.
Your notion leaves Ukraine constituted as a viable land-based outpost for the Hegemon, missile shield installed, tens of thousands of troops based there is mind-blowing.
Russia would be ground into mush economically and quislings would get control of the government.
Sitting on 84% popularity, Putin can expand the war and neutralize and collapse Ukraine once and for all.
I see it this way: Donbass is stage one, made into a cordon sanitaire along the western border of RF.
Stage two, the destruction of the Ukie forces in the whole of the East and South. It will be a special forces and FSB strike in Mariupol and Odessa leaving Right Sector/Nat Guard dead by the hundreds, done overnight. Then across the whole of the south the cordon sanitaire is expanded. Russia dares NATO to reverse it.
Bribe the Ukies to surrender. Offer them money and sanctuary. They are born deserters.
The sanctions are growing anyway. Russia needs to bite the bullet and destroy the entire government of Ukraine.
I predicted that the real moment of truth could take Russia by surprise with boots of the Hegemon on the ground. If weakness is sensed, the U.S. will strike.
To sell it to the timid Obama, all you have to tell him is it will shrivel up Putin and he will be overthrown by the fifth columnists or a general.
Obama will go for that. The US public will back it. They are being prepared with mass media propaganda every hour. Putin is the new chimera.
Settling for an unsustainable Donbass is ludicrous.
The cost is in the economic sphere, short term.
To make counter-sanctions by Russia, the best
move is to destroy Ukraine. Then the EU tightens the rope around their own necks. Pulling it tight destroys their economy. It risks stability for their countries.
Go for Kiev. That is the game. Never show lack of resolve.
This would be totally out of character and fear of failure by the military of RF.
I don’t buy it. I hope I don’t see it. Because it will be the end of Russia.
“advanced HQ in Poland for a power-projection into the East”:
I would propose an well established location: Wilczy Szaniec (Wolfsschanze) between Ketrzyn and Wegorzewo. Great tradition, wonderful recreation area for the officer staff in the Masurian lake district, and near to the former CIA prison in Stare Kiejkuty, so you have reliable local Plish military there.
Saker said, “while most Ukrainian do probably not like the Nazi junta very much, they don’t care about Russia, they just care about their economic well-being. Given enough money, they would turn away and do nothing…”
My impression is, this is not an isolated phenomenon. Most people across the developed world seem unhealthy, overweight, demoralized and apathetic. They were raised to expect society has an obligation to take care of them. It doesn’t occur to them they’re supposed to get up and improve the world themselves.
The same situation prevails in the US: most people don’t like what their government is doing, but have given up trying to change it out of a sense of complete hopelessness. Websites like this one are a step in the right direction.
This is just begging for a false flag and escalation. And Putin is going along with it.
Armed Australian soldiers, Dutch police to deploy to MH17 crash site
A proposed multinational force to further secure the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine will now include over 100 armed Australian police and soldiers. The move comes shortly after 40 unarmed Dutchmen had been deployed to “further stabilize the area.”
The additional Australian personnel were discussed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott with President Putin, and will join a contingent of 90 Australian Federal Police (AFP) currently in London, awaiting an order for deployment. The decision will come once Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gives the go-ahead and the parliament approves the decision, Reuters reports.
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At the time, the Dutch PM refused to comment on whether the Netherlands and Australia are in talks to draft a new UN Security Council resolution to allow armed personnel into Ukraine. This appears to be changing.
This is a VERY dangerous development.
The ‘multi-national force’ will be put there for one reason – targets to be taken out without a short space of time.
This will of course be pinned on Russia.
There will be no evidence required (think about how the MH17 event played out) and of course an immediate nato military response will be necessary.
In a couple of moves anglozion will gets the war it so desperately wants to divert attention from the failed western economies. The perfect cover to blame Russia (and whichever other country may be also in the sights – hello China) for the decades of theft and fraud by the corrupt elites of the ‘west’.
If it’s not this ‘multinational force’ then the sudatenland moment surely cannot be far away.
1 in 10 Americans already want to go to war with Russia (poll taken on Wednesday) over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine with no US citizens on board.
This is how easy it is to manipulate the gullible public.
A large number of people still actually believe the conspiracy theory that is the official 9/11 story.
The crackpots controlling the US have refined and probably almost perfected the propaganda strategies of Herr goebels.
It will truly be a miracle if this whole thing can be short-circuited by Russia…
We will soon see how the facts on the ground focus the minds of those in the east who chose not to join the resistance and are hoping to survive!
”hoping to survive in Banderastan, most of the Eastern Ukraine chose the latter. “
Well Imo, Mr. Money and General Winter are the deciders:
Read the reasons given by YATS for his resignation: RIA .ru has it
http://en.ria.ru/politics/20140724/191210724/Ukrainian-Prime-Minister-Yatsenyuk-Announces-Resignation.html
“Yatsenyuk also expressed disappointment with Ukrainian parliament’s decision to reject a bill that allows the government to hand over up to 49 percent of the country’s gas transport system to investors from the European Union and the United States.”
from RT, this nugget : (emphasis mine)
http://rt.com/news/175440-ukraine-parliament-collapse-crisis/
<< Government ‘did what it could’
Hours after the dissolution of the ruling coalition, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk resigned, saying that the parliament failed to pass legislation to take control over an energy crisis situation and to increase army financing.
“The coalition has fallen apart, laws haven’t been voted on, soldiers can’t be paid, there’s no money to buy rifles, there’s no possibility to store up gas,” Yatsenyuk said. “What options do we have now?”
Yatsenyuk said that Ukraine was living through a critical time.
“This is a difficult decision and a difficult time, not for me personally, but for the country as a whole. Am I satisfied with my own work? Certainly not. But did we do everything we could? Yes, we did,” he added.>>
and more details from ITAR-TASS:
http://en.itar-tass.com/opinions/1837
“Ukrainian Army is suffering heavy losses and is short of the most elementary things, like meals and uniforms and Kiev doesn’t have the money or resources to maintain the servicemen it has already, while the population subject to drafting doesn’t display any enthusiasm to go to the battlefront,” Dr. Anokhin said.
Can’t pay Gazprom. Can’t pay the Army. Can we spare some butter?
Anon Mongoose
Most people in the East are sitting on the fence , they will join winning side , once its clear who will be the in charge of Donbass . They are too ” street smart ” to shed blood for some oligarch or foreign power . Cash would help . Destitute people usually don’t get involved into politics , too busy to try to get by another day . In 21st Century wars ” yahoo ” militias have no combat value – cannon fodder . Hire professional soldiers , bring cash and hire locals into non-combat aux. or support jobs . It takes resources to win the war , one have to spend a lots of cash to have support of locals .
Couldn’t agree more with your assessment of the rest of Ukraine Saker. The ambivalence about Russia extends into Novorussia and highlights the great tragedy of the American intervention in Ukraine. The wounds the conflict has opened, including the loss of Crimea, will not be easily healed either. Ukraine needs a partnership with Russia very badly but it’s hard to see how this can occur anytime soon.
Regarding Yats resignation the fact that Poroshenko tried to salvage the coalition indicates to me the serious nature of the crisis in Kiev. The coalition was unwilling to enact the austerity measures required by the EU and refused to allow foreign ownership of the gas pipelines. I think this will remain the case as long as there is even a bit of democracy remaining there.
The loss of trade with Russia and the costs of the war make the economic situation even more dire. I think it now doubtful, provided the militia can hang in there for even another month, that western military aid will be effective in changing the situation in the east. Too late as the Ukrainian forces have exhausted their best men and material, and while the rest of the country is not about to rise up and support Novorussia neither are they willing to support a brutal civil war based on conscription when the economic situation is so dire.
Someone made the point that the young male population has high unemployment and little prospect for the future and so made a reasonable level of recruitment possible based on the promise of a paycheck. No pay, no fight – at least not willingly.
I would like to see commentary/analysis from someone in Kiev on these issues because I am really not qualified to make more than the anecdotal assessments of an outsider. That said It seems to me that the majority of the Ukrainian population of all political persuasions was quite happy to be ‘Ukrainian’ – not Russian or poor cousins of the Russian state which is how they were typically view from across the border. There was, and still is I would think, quite a bit of nationalist pride that has nothing to do with the fascist scum that have taken over the government. On the other hand their sense of national identity never matured into a healthy consensus about what that actually meant.
We can hope that the truth will come out about the airliner tragedy and that will persuade many that the current government are in fact fascist scum, and the truth of what the EU association agreement actually represents will become clear and this will finally allow a real popular uprising to occur.
Atmosphere in the occupied Mariupol » voice of Sevastopol
1) About mobilization: there are rumors that the lowest limit of army inductees is from 5 up to 20 thousands; while the number is about 2 thousands for Volodarsky district.
The most intriguing moment is that all friends of the local, who did military service in past plan to either flee to Russia or join to People’s militia, because they are in the top of list of inductees. So, nobody wants to fight for Ukraine.
2) No queues can be revealed at enlistment offices. Among close friends of the local there are no “ukropeans” sympathizing with Junta.
3) Local metallurgy goes through a fall. A factory became bankrupt. The remained two factories on a waiting list, because a chemical-recovery factory in Avdeevka has been bombed-out by Ukrainian National Guard.
Nobody knows what will follow, because the city may not live much longer without metallurgy.
4) Neo-ukrainians rush about the city, wave flags, establish motor race, paint flags everywhere.
5) But sane people keep awake and sprinkle with red colours on Ukrainian flags painted on posts and other constructions; that signifies blood on the flag.
6) Curious fact that sprinkles with “blood” on Ukrainian flags still remain exposed in that state a few weeks, i.e. nobody wipes them out. That means, that “paintings” are done not by local people, but by persons who does theirs “paintings” on every possible surface during pass through the city.
7) A lot of people from the city “accidentally disappeared”, so a lot of announcements like “Help to find” or “A person left and didn’t return” appear.
8) The city is encircled with Ukrainian block posts, which are not willing to leave the city. It seems that Mr. Taruta is very intimidated. Among a multitude of Ukrainian-speaking persons on block posts, there are Russian-speakers too.
9) A lot of vehicles with Kiev’s numbers (AA-series) have been noticed. It is rather weird, although the local can be overexcitated.
10) Very strange refugees have settled down in the city. Despite sunbathing on the beach, relaxing in cafe-houses and clubs, drinking alcohol, going on the spree, letting off fireworks, amusing themselves without any sing of uneasiness or anxiety as not being refugees at all, they claim on themselves to be from Donetsk or Lugansk. But not all behave like them: a lot of people came penniless and they receive help from volunteers, organizations and sympathetic folk.
Saker,
So far this thing seems to be spinning out just as you predicted way back when, and for the reasons you gave then in setting up the whole “opening the gates of hell” scenario. All these people who have castigated Vladimir Putin for not charging in full steam ahead might also consider what is still the very small percentage of Novorossiyans active in the militia. Heaven may or may not help those who help themselves, but given the very real risks, there is still no compelling reason why Russia should, at least not in any official capacity. And I think I remember you saying that back then, too.
God, I want this to be over and won!
Carmel by the Sea,
Cut-and-paste it all, then open Yandex, http://translate.yandex.ru/, make sure you’re going from Pyccknn towards Ahrnnncknn (in Cyrillic, of course, meaning Russian > English), then plop it onto the left column and what you’ll get in the right one is a word-for-word translation that… kind-of makes sense.
The US economy will eventually collapse causing the US military to evaporate in much of the world. That they take that option is my hope. War would be the bad option.
Bonjour Saker,
I am very, very disappointed by the vineyardsaker.fr. Why?
They had a hissy fit about an article that was reproduced in the excellent (and popular) blog les-crises.fr.
Apparently they said that Olivier Berruyer, the author of the blog, had published an article without asking their permission, and had not credited them. When in fact, a link to their site was present at the end of the article.
What bothers me most, is the tone of the accusations, talking about “pillage” and that there might be consequences:
“Pour confortables qu’ils soient, vos procédés (répétés) de pillard sont pour le moins inélégants (je reste sobre). S’ils devaient ne pas cesser, vous pouvez compter sur nous pour le faire savoir et y donner les suites qui conviennent.”
O. Berruyer said that in fact, there was a link back to their site, but they insisted:
“[Ce n’est] pas une excuse pour piller les contenus des autres ainsi que vous le faites, sans indiquer les sources, sans prendre même contact avec le producteur d’origine pour l’en informer, et sans informer vos abonnés, qui croient de bonne foi que vous êtes l’auteur du travail affiché (citons par exemple les sous-titres de la conférence de Borodai).
J’avais déjà des soupçons sur vos pratiques avant que nous ne nous lancions dans l’aventure vineyardsaker, maintenant j’en ai la confirmation.”
That is so contrary to the spirit of your blog, which states:
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COPY, PUBLISH AND PASS ON ANY PART OR ALL OF THE ORIGINAL CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG. NO AUTHORIZATION FROM ANYONE IS REQUIRED TO USE ANY OF THE ORIGINAL CONTENT PUBLISHED HERE.
Could you please look into this?
Thanks!
Something to make you smile:
David Duchovny has video’d a love letter to Russia: “”You have something to be proud of!”
From the description (translated):
David Duchovny decided to do a film about Russian pride and love of country. He recently spoke about his origins, and now presented as life would have turned out if his ancestors left for America.
Find out what else to be proud of in Russia.
https://www.facebook.com/gordostrossii
The video itself is in English.
Russia: Please take of note of how PR is. Done. That is all.
:-)
@Gayle,
Stunning video link you provided by David Duchovny (Mr. X-Files) and beer Advert, the ultimate rebuke to those self-hating Atlantic integrationists: the very antithesis of everything Russian is bad.
C
I’ve translated quickly the text from FaceBook describing military situation in South Pocket:
New Russia, Petite Russia or East Ukraine? VII
http://crazyivanreport.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/new-russia-petite-russia-or-east-ukraine-vi-2/
“Where is the rest of the Ukraine”
There was this report of Kharkov workers sabotage, resulting in making 78 brand new tanks totally unusable, so this would make these Kharkov workers much more effective at destroying tanks than the rebels…
Pessimist says “we can hope that the truth will come out about the airliner.” It won’t, if Russia allows NATO “peacekeepers” at the site.
They wy $1M for an RPG attack on the Dutch, and NATO will move in.
They will cart away the evidence to Kiev. Case closed.
I cannot believe the local authorities are going to be so monumentally stupid as to allow foreign soldiers from hostile nations to “secure” a piece of their territory. This is unbelievable. They are at war and they allow troops from hostile countries in there????
Are they or are they not in charge of a nation?
If they need extra security, the local authorities could formally ask Russia to help. They can allow foreigners from hostile nations to gather pieces of wreckage, but not soldiers!!
If they really allow this, I will lose a lot of respect for them. They can’t be THAT dumb. It’s like begging for another false flag.
Just a couple of points to bolster the points about the lack of supplies for regular Ukrainian soldiers (I ASSUME – could be wrong – that the Right Sektor are very well supplied) –
lack of bread – there was a video showing very angry women somewhere in Galicia shouting at a recruitment offcer in front of a building, and complaining that they had heard from their husbands, sons, etc. that these guys had no bread. I guess cell phones are still working just fine. There was no follow up story – but if Right Sektor can’t spare guys to take care of these women, and be too busy keeping the lid on more urgent matters, more such incidents will arise
2. There was one print reference to Ukrainian soldiers eating snakes.
3. It looks to me like those Ukrainians who believed in Europe as a great combination of Tomorrowland and Fantasyland are going to get a rude awakening – especially when the Four Horsemen start galloping in, along with General Winter.
4. The people outside of Novorossiya are likely, like normal people everywhere, just trying to get by, right now – but they will get more desperate and mutinous as time goes on. And – rebellious ideas can spread very quickly – look up “meme” on Wikipedia. Also “supersaturation” for those who understand chemistry.
I doubt that the US has the resources to send in large numbers of mercenaries. Moreover, while Putin is a great chess player, he must know that one way of winning the game is to shoot the other chess player.
— Medea
IIRC there is a NATO ‘exercise’ due in Ukraine next month. Expect more monkey business…
Kolomoisky spoke of $1M bounty for the head of Tsaraev.
He could also offer $1M for the head of a Dutch peacekeeper, and Donetsk would be blamed.
Russia (and China) have a veto in the UN security council. DPR and LPR will never allow armed internationals on their territory without Russians there too – an official Russian presence. Un-armed police – possibly.
Article by Andre Vltchek on the MH17 crash:
Will the Empire allow the investigation to follow its course? The Western propaganda machine is in full gear. The twisting of facts, obscuring of evidence, and maneuvering public opinion all over the world: all this is being done with determination and routinely applied precision.
So much is at stake! Increasing cooperation between Russia, Latin America and China could mean the end of Western neo-colonial control of the world. The creation of alternatives to the World Bank can free billions of human beings from market feudalism and its slavery. Powerful news organizations broadcasting from Russia (RT), Venezuela (TeleSur) and Iran (Press TV) are consistently breaking the depressing and nihilistic monopoly of Western propaganda and control of people’s brains all over the world.
MH17 – Sacrificed Airliner – Counterpunch
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If you look at how French people reacted to the Nazi occupation, it would be no different to how people are reacting to the situation in Ukraine.
It wasn’t until the Nazis along with Vichy started enforcing the STO, that the number of Resistance fighters increased. Judging from comments posted on the internet re Mariupol, people are literally going underground to avoid conscription. Others are trying to find a way in joining the Donbass militia.
In the west of Ukraine, a journalist reported finding villages empty; upon asking whether it is seasonal work, the answer that men fled to forests to avoid mobilization. Of course this and acts of sabotage aren’t going to get advertised by the Kiev press, are they?
The situation has to become more & more draconian before any large group of people start choosing sides.
UN ESCWA HQ, Beirut
As the latest Zionist aggression continues to slaughter the civilian population of Gaza, for the fourth time in ten years, hopefully the global community will act to end it. But this is as unlikely as were the last forty years of the “peace process” to bring justice to Palestine. Only persistent Resistance in its countless forms will achieve dignity and Full Return for nearly nine million Palestinians by ending the criminal occupation.
The Zionist colonial enterprise still occupying Palestine has had its apologists in Lebanon well before 1948 and there are still plenty today. But the latest ‘lawn mowing’ in Gaza has generated an unusual amount of verbal support for Palestine across the political spectrum here.
Solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza begins in Lebanon’s Camps – Counterpunch
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Lead article in the New York Times:
“KIEV, Ukraine — Russia has stepped up its direct involvement in fighting between the Ukranian military and separatist insurgents, unleashing artillery attacks from Russian territory and massing heavy weapons along the border, Ukrainian and American officials say.”
Russia Said to Shell Ukraine and Mass Arms Along Border
This is a call for NATO troops and air support. Without question. This is Kosovo. But it is very, very dangerous Kosovo. What will happen next?
The political situation is key and that is changing daily as events take on a logic of their own. The irony in the collective psychosis created by the US State Department is that had there been a Buk battery( ah this illusive, mythical BUK battery) operated by Russian technicians, there would never have been a shoot down of MH17 in the first place– Although the racist assumption encouraged in the West is that the Russians are corruptly klutzy. CNN plays to this shamelessly.
Au Contraire my fellow defeatist blogger (anon 16:29) they can and will prevail. ( “win” is like “truth” a sticky thing to define).
Gary Leupp on the recent unequal duell between Peter Lavelle and Chris Cuomo (including a commented transcript):
I confess that I kind of resent the fact that this bizarre exchange—between the former New York governor’s son, lawyer and infotainment “journalist” Chris Cuomo, and historian and longtime East European resident Peter Lavelle now hosting a show on the Russian-state sponsored RT network—is being depicted as a “debate” in some quarters.
It was not a debate. Debaters, in my experience enjoy the intellectual stimulus of pitting arguments against arguments and maybe obtaining through that process a greater degree of enlightenment. You know, the Socratic method and all that. (Full disclosure: I was a high school debater of some competence and enjoy the real thing. This was something else.)
In this instance a clueless Cuomo just tried to bludgeon his opponent with insults and hysterical noises. It was truly a new low. A complete rejection of logical engagement, a merely theatrical exercise.
The Cuomo-Lavelle “Debate” About Ukraine – Counterpunch
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The recent changes in Government status have been used to dissolve the Communist Party in Ukraine.
http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.en/ria.ru/world/20140723/1017173085.html
Gayle said…
Something to make you smile
Thanks:)
Life as an occupied colony – or why Germany is unlikely to abandon its subservient position towards the US-Empire:
The question most analysts dribbled was this: What could the Germans do about it — their humiliation? But while men of letters from Brussels, London, and Paris, to Beijing, Moscow, Tokyo and Tehran, cheered and second-guessed — not without Schadensfreude — over a possible irreparable Euro-American fall-out, the German political establishment in reality lived through a geopolitical crisis. That’s because everyone here is genuinely fearful of US retaliation.
That ‘existential angst’ must be understood in historical context: Germany, a pawn in (and, sometimes, a thug of) Washington’s mission to civilize the world, is paraded as an emasculated, subservient, and culturally domesticated subject with no nuclear or great power ambition left. As a country and as a people, Germany is the perfect justification (and inspiration to others, it is hoped) for the necessity of invasions (e. g. bombing for democracy) and subjugations as a benign means to what Francis Fukuyama once coined the ‘End of History’.
In other words, Germany (just like Japan, by the way) still is the favorite success story and poster-child for Westernization… for what could technically be achieved in, say, Iran, Russia, China, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, even South Sudan, North Korea, and the Balkans, and so on, if only the USA were completely in charge.
US-German Relations in the Wake of NSA Surveillance of German Citizens – Dissident Voice
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Whether the Ukrainians want to resist the bandera nazis or not, those nazis will have to be eradicated permanently and completely one way or another. Otherwise they will be constantly exporting terrorists and terror across the border into Novorossia and Russia. Probably into Belarus and Transdniester also. And the ZPC/NWO freakshow will keep that terrorism up indefinitely.
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Saker, I think most of your analysis are very sharp and to the point. But nobody is perfect and some times you get into your “ranting mode”.
So the people of Kharkov and Odessa are not worth the try? They d not fight because they do not want to bother? And in that case the ones that are fighting the nazi-oligarch-imperialist junta should just abandon them?
1st – To compare the Partisan movement of the great patriotic war with what is happening now in Ukraine only gets us so far. There are indeed similarities but neither is todays Russia Like the USSR nor is “Banderestan” exactly the III Reich… Furthermore did the partisan war during the great patriotic war started immediately? 3 months after the conflict started? Or did it develop in the course of time?
2nd – Why shouldn´t people care if they have food to eat and if they have jobs or not? The fact that Donetsk and Lugansk mines and heavy industry will be gretly effected by the sell out of Ukraine to the US-EU sure was a factor that fulled the insurgency there. Why shoudn´t the rebels try to the most take advantage of the economic unrest in the rest of the south-east and even the west??? Actually it would be a huge mistake not to take advantage of it.
3rd – The fight of the rebels is connected with the repression of the Russian speakers, but that fight shouldn´t (and it is not) be just confined to a ethnic conflict between “Ukrainians” and “Russians”… It is also a fight against Nazism, Imperialism, Oligarchs and predatory neo-liberalism. This is about national liberation, fight against imperialism but also a political and economic struggle! If this is ignore by the rebels it is a HUGE mistake. It would be a huge mistake to ignore the “bread and butter” issues in this conflict. Actually one of the main weaknesses of the rebels is exactly this their lack of a clear political-economic plan for the populations they are fighting for. For instance, how come the Oligarchs property wasn´t already nationalized by the Republics??? There was some talk about that but did it happen? Of course things are complex and there are different interests at stake and so on, but besides fear of the nazi junta there has to be a motivation and political cause to rally the people, and the “spiritual longing for the Russian soul” is insufficient per se.
4th – To have a new “transnistria” in Donetsk+Lugansk seems to me to be a half failure and I do not know if that would even be possible. This fight should go all the way to Kiev, that is the only way the conflict can be solved and a new equilibrium can be reached.
5th – don´t you keep writing posts trying to get information out and debunk the enemy narrative? Don´t you try to reach to people that do not think exactly like you? Why shouldn´t the rebels try to the up most to reach out and convince people of their cause???? Wouldn´t it be self defeating if they don´t?
Finally, nothing of what I said above means that the Russian Federation should intervene directly I think the Russian Federation is doing exactly what it should do, to give covert military/logistical support to the insurgents… To get in “officially” would be falling into a trap. Furthermore, if the Rebels manage to hold on until the fall (September-October) the enemy is going to collapse. But it is of key importance that when it collapses the rebels should have a political answer to get the upper hand! Thats an important part (not the only one) in the road to Kiev!
The U.S. Is the Only Country Which Supports Israel No Matter What It Does
Americans – living in a huge country which has never really been invaded, and as the sole superpower – are famous for being out-of-touch with how the rest of the world thinks.
So my fellow Americans will probably be surprised to learn that the U.S. is more or less the only country in the world which has a favorable view of Israel.
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Israel Has Violated United Nations Resolutions More than Any Country In the World
Another measure of world opinion on Israel is that the United Nations has condemned Israel’s violence towards its neighbors again and again.
Both the poll data and the list of violated UN resolutions make for good talking points in discussions ;-)
America Is the Only Country with a Favorable View of Israel – Washington’s Blog
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“Guys, if the Ukie were winning there would not be these resignations, blame games and reports. All the signs are the Banderastan is collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity and blind hatred.”
Iatseniuk and the nazi parties dissolving the parliament seems to me to be in preparation for “elections” (they have plenty of thugs to ensure that they come out “correctly”) eliminating all the opposition and forming a nazi-only government. This could be more of the same–purging the SBU of anyone opposed to the nazi regime as well.
Worthy and unworthy victims – corporate media reporting of the “ATO” in the Gaza Strip:
Obviously, Israeli suffering also merits compassion, but these military deaths were overshadowed by a far higher loss of Palestinian lives, most of them civilian men, women and children. The toll currently stands at 746 Palestinians killed and 4,640 wounded. Israel has suffered 32 military and two civilian deaths. One foreign worker from Thailand has also been killed.
In the following days (and at time of writing) the live feed was cancelled; a period that has seen hundreds of Palestinian deaths and a handful of Israeli military deaths.
For some time on the morning of July 21, the sole Gaza content on the BBC News home page was ‘Breaking News’ of an ‘Israeli soldier missing in Gaza’.
Remarkably, on the morning of July 23, when 18 Palestinians were killed, the BBC set up a live feed for the wrecked Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, which showed the ship being towed to Genoa. There was no live feed for Gaza.
The BBC has supplied names, ages, pictures and emotive background stories of the Malaysian air crash victims while, with rare exceptions, Palestinian dead have been presented as nameless figures, briefly mentioned, then forgotten.
‘Disgustingly Biased’ – The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre – Medialens
Congratulations RT–Graham Phillips was released to Britain and banned from the Ukraine for 3 years. You passed the test by making it clear that you had not sent him heedlessly into a dangerous area but when he did get into a pickle you went to bat for him. (block that metaphor!)
Hope he recovers quickly and tells how he was treated. Yesterday there was an (RT) interview with a Ukie military commander who looked embarrassed, but said also with the pride of a professional soldier, “We in the military do not seize reporters–it was the National Guard.”
The chains of feudalism can be cut off the vast underdeveloped, emerging and developing peoples of the world. That is the threat to the West and the Hegemon directly.
Putin holds the chain cutter. If he uses it and destroys Ukraine completely, the Eurasian dream begins.
If he fails to act and the chains remain, Russia, as a developing nation is left in chains.
The bank grab in Cyprus of FBME bank was a grab at the key money laundering operation for Russian oligarchs.
The West won’t stop there. They will trap every Russian dollar anywhere in the West. And they decide if you are criminal or not. Meanwhile your money is gone.
This is for all the marbles. Buying time feeds the beast. And the elections in the U.S. are crucial as catalyst for action. Senators love war. They send other people’s sons and daughters to fight them.
“I Ain’t No Senator’s Son”, a refrain from Fortunate Son/ Creedance Cleawater Revival, circa 1969 (Vietnam) has relevance more now than ever.
Fortunate Son
Americans will forget Afghanistan and Iraq if a forceful blockade of Russia and the fall of Putin is an option.
Follow up on my earlier comment. Yesterday, the American tv media was full of stories demonising Russia, saying Russia shot down Ukrainian aircraft and shelled Ukrainian troops from across the border. Put that with the “police”/troops various ZPC/NWO colonies are working to slip into Ukraine using the MH17 false flag or as “military advisors” pretext. Then look at the build-up of ZPC/NWO forces in places like Poland, Romania, Moldova and Hungary. The ZPC/NWO fascists are far from calling quits and all indications they will keep raising the stakes in the Ukraine region to the point of initiating a hot war. This reminds me a lot of their Korean invasion.
And don’t expect the EU to moderate the zionist-American zeal here, as they are fully as integrated into the ZPC/NWO colonial world as the USA is. Right now they playing the “good cop” role, but they will quickly devolve into the terrorists they were in Yugoslavia and Libya/Syria once ZPC desperation brings in troops and a hot war scenario.
These zionist fascist are not giving up. This is another reason why the nazis in the Ukraine, and all they controlled, has to be completely eradicated.
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I wouldn’t blame people from Kharkov or Odessa too much.
Just imagine you are a common person, with a job, a family, a flat in a khruschevka.
You served in the army but probably many years ago, and the most you are likely to remember is dedovschina (haze).
You are hundreds of kilometres away from the guys you’d like to join. The roads are blocked and controlled everywhere by the worst gangsters you can think of.
As almost all Europeans, you own no weapons, in the best of cases you can have a smoothbore for hunting: you’ll have to make the whole travel unarmed.
And if you try to go anyway you must consider that your family may undergo nightmarish reprisals. In the best case they will lose your income, and this just when the economic situation of the place you live is worsening every day.
I see that a lot of people around here wants all Russophones to join the merry men in Sherwood Forest, but this is not the way modern war works.
The truth is that the real chance was missed in the beginning. Odessa is a particular case, but if Kharkov, Zaporozhe, Kherson and possibly Dnepropetrovsk had joined in the first days, it is most likely that this dirty war wouldn’t have even begun. The chance was lost out of cowardice, confusion, dissension and the work of the oligarchs.
So I keep thinking that, in order to win, Novorossija doesn’t need only material help but also manpower from Russia, and a good one. It is now dramatically clear that the militia simply does not have forces enough to fight the Ukris on all fronts, and their forces, being fixed everywhere, cannot manoeuver by internal lines.
In the meantime, welcome to Aussie and Dutch special forces. The very first case in history when a Country who didn’t even operate the downed plane claims military control of the crash site.
We all know very well the reason why they are going there.
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Since 02/21/2014 I have thought that the new Nazi government of Ukraine would at some point collapse with total anarchy ensuing. Widespread rioting and looting, and all sides killing each other. I previously thought that at such a point Putin would have to send in Russian troops to attempt to restore some form of order.
I now think that the West cannot allow such anarchy to occur as it would then become very difficult to ever get things straightened out.
So NATO will soon have to occupy Ukraine to avoid eventual anarchy. The EU and the US broke it and they now own it.
Russia does not want Ukraine. They will continue with “import substitution” and will invite educated and skilled Ukrainian workers to come to Russia.
I don’t think that having NATO missiles in Ukraine is important to Russia. NATO can always put missiles in Latvia or Estonia; not to mention on ships in the Baltic and Black Seas.
Video talking about attempts to destabilize Crimea, provoke border confrontations, deal with ongoing corruption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2QSWi7MGaPU
Video showing off BUK system capabilities – not a child’s toy. I read that launch ready requires a key-code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mBlU2hHYJMg
US experts said it was possible to launch with just the launch vehicle but capabilities and target acquisition are quite limited. You probably would have to be ready and waiting for the target to enter acquisition range and would have just a few minutes at most to lock and fire. Not a very likely scenario.
So did Secretary of Perpetual War, John Krohn/Kerry, pull the plug on Yats b/c he couldn’t seal the deal?
Or is this just a maneuver to have new elections and preclude Communists and other leftists from standing for seats.
per Game of Thrones “Winter is coming”. Putin better be shutting their gas off this fall.
Otherwise he is weak sauce no matter how cagey people think he is or how well the Federalists hold out against terror bombing and Uki style ethnic cleansing
The saker said :
” So the fact is here: most of the Eastern Ukraine is not joining the Donetsk and Luganks insurrections. What that means in practical terms is that given the choice between resisting the Nazi junta and joining the Resistance or hoping to survive in Banderastan, most of the Eastern Ukraine chose the latter”.
You forgot to also mention the hundreds of thousands that have fled across the border to Russia as its not only women and children who are fleeing the region. All part of the Nazi scumbags in kievs ethnic cleansing plan. It all comes down to how desperate/divorced from reality the Satanists in Washington are. If there ever comes a time when they want to put actual boots down on the ground in Ukraine I sincerely hope the morally bankrupt muppets running the EU still have a shred of common sense and self preservation left and refuse to have anything to do with it. Just to touch on something different but still connected as they have the same common denominator, tens of thousands of muslims worldwide have been demonstrating against israels continuing bombardment and military operations in the Gaza strip, but not one peep is heard from the al-Qaeda leadership nor any of its various branches. And these takfiri scum call themselves muslims. Has anyone ever heard or read about an al-Qaeda attack against Israel ? No, neither have I. Goes a long way to show who these people are really working for. They are tools of the American stated intent of reducing Islam to the status of a “cult” as was taught to graduating officers in American military academies. “Islam is the enemy”, they wrote, “and we shall help facilitate its self destruction”.
Look, there will be no armed foreign nationals allowed to the crash site unless there is a UN security council resolution approved by Russia. Kiev cannot force this to happen – they don’t control the crash site. Can they take control of it? Pretty unlikely I would think. I am guessing their big push was partly about that but it seems to have stalled.
The DPR is putting restrictions on reporters because of the kidnapping problem and vetting them also. You think they are going to allow a potentially hostile armed force from kiev to enter? Not happening.
All that would be required to secure the site is for Kiev to announce a cease-fire and stick to it. Not happening either.
Logically Kiev should be forced by the international community to stand down and allow an investigation. Wonder why we don’t see pressure for that…
In my opinion, Putin is in a “no-win” position vis-a-vis the geopolitical aspects.
HOWEVER, he is clearly in the cat-bird seat with regard to Ukraine. Ukraine gov and economy will fall apart. Russia’s military could stop the attack on Eastern Ukraine within 48 hours.
So Putin should do that. Go ahead and stop the Ukraine offensive. Push the Ukraine forces entirely out of the Novorossiya region. Then allow the DPR and LPR to do what they want – join Russia or be independent. Take the geopolitical hit – which he’s going to have to take no matter what he does. At least he’ll have victory on the ground.
While he’s at it, he should destroy most of Ukraine’s military forces. Then if Strelkov wants to attack Kiev, Putin should support that like the US supported the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya.
The goal is to keep NATO out of Ukraine. Whatever must be done to do that should be done – even if it costs Putin being represented in the media as some sort of Hitler. Even if it causes the US to restart the Cold War – which they will do ANYWAY. Even it if means NATO moves into Poland, etc. At least NATO won’t be in the Ukraine.
Question for those promoting the idea that the collapse of the government coalition in Kiev and Yats resignation is just a way for the west to purge uncooperative elements from the scene. How much control do you think the outsiders really have? They do have the power of the purse, but I see a lot of competing rats each with quite a lot of political power. Can they be made to cooperate and do what is ordered from afar? Looking at the current situation and how it has developed I would say no – tried and failed and the situation is becoming more difficult. Poroshenko was against martial law. I don’t think there is an effective mechanism to impose a technocratic government like there was in Greece and Italy who were EU members. Yats for dictator of Ukraine?
know the truth said…25 July, 2014 21:01
“They are tools of the American stated intent of reducing Islam to the status of a “cult” as was taught to graduating officers in American military academies. “Islam is the enemy”, they wrote, “and we shall help facilitate its self destruction”.
That is the Jewish zionist influence at work again. They made the west consider the Muslim religion as an enemy and all Muslims as potential or eventual enemies.
All for greater Israel. The one country that is part of the ZPC/NWO, but is not a colony of it.
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Dear Carmel,
So you click on “here” (in the Saker’s article), and you are taken to a Facebook page where there’s a text that starts with “КРИЗИС В СЕКТОРЕ “Д”. Репортаж с границы с Россией: … etc.”
At the very end of the text, and before the photograph, there is a link that says “see translation”. Click on it and voilà ! There might be also a little popup window appearing in the right upper corner of the pagem saying “Do you want to translate this page?) Click on the button “Translate” and there you are. I don’t know which translation will be best, you be the judge!
Good luck!
Anonymous said…25 July, 2014 21:05
“Putin is”…”he is”…”Putin should”…”he’s going”…”he’ll have”…”he’s at it”…”Putin should”… support that like the US” [As opposed to Obama – note how the USA, NATO and other western entities were not personalised as their “leaders”, but Russia was personalised as Putin.]
One of the fundamentals of ZPC/NWO propaganda is tp personalise a country by replacing the name of the country with that of its current political leader. So Russia becomes Putin, Libya became Qadaffy, Iraq became Saddam. This is done with countries which are designated enemies. Designated friendly countries usually keep their names. The USA doesn’t become Obama, Israel doesn’t become Netanyahu, etc.
Little indicators like this are very useful now, given the sophistication, and numbers, of syops practiced now.
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I may be way out in left field, but might not one reason people are not joining up to fight either for the coup government or for the separatists/federalists is the very same reason east or west?
Maybe those Ukrainians, both east and west, are very appreciative of Putin’s respect for Ukrainian sovereignty?
Maybe they also want to defeat the coup government, east and west, but not by fighting against their own citizens? Might that not be a praiseworthy condition to be in (since we don’t praise the coup government for being willing to bomb and commit atrocities? Maybe the bulk of Ukrainian society have a common yearning to restore a legitimate government in Kiev and prosecute the villains who have usurped it?
And would that not be the best of all possible scenarios?
The coup leader has resigned. The reason was he could not get parliament to go along with the privatization of the gas company. Yay!
Just maybe Ukraine is coming to realize who are its friends and who its enemies; and maybe the people themselves have known it all along. After all, you can’t arrest and torture an entire country.
Blessings on all good Ukrainians who do not want to fight their own countrymen. May they get their country back!
Russia must help Odessa, at some point.
I cannot imagine Russia without Odessa!
Greeting from Serbia,
The Wend.
There was the discussion over the past couple of days about effective presentation re: Peter Lavelle and Mark Sleboda’s interviews. So how about this (of course its written, not a live performance):
http://rt.com/op-edge/175496-hysteria-mh17-ukraine-facts-terrorists/
Well written, logical, and pretty devastating arguments – but never going to persuade the public in my opinion. Sad but true. That said there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ tactic and I think this is a good effort for fence sitters etc.
From “know the truth”:
“You forgot to also mention the hundreds of thousands that have fled across the border to Russia as its not only women and children who are fleeing the region. All part of the Nazi scumbags in kievs ethnic cleansing plan”
Very good point – the political demographics are being changed. At a minimum Novorussia needs to be maintained as a haven for at least some of those who fled. Hopefully all will be able to return at some point.
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Not just the Jewish Zionist interest — Christian Zionists of the even-nuttier nutcake variety (yup) still control the Air Force Academy (and most of Colorado Springs) and have an outrageously disproportionate influence throughout our military. Check out Mikey Weinstein’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation — oh, and he’s a good guy, for real. Yes, it’s all for Israel, but let’s give credit where credit is due: Falwell, Hagee et. al. have created a HUGE monster that really needs to be roto-rooted just about everywhere too. They are truly revolting.
Many people commenting on this blog are operating under the pretense that the resources and funding of the Zio-Nazi’s (mostly America) is infinite and that the American
empire will last forever. This is false. The “exorbitant privilege” of the U.S. dollar as reserve currency is a temporary situation. Temporary in the grand scheme of things.
http://azizonomics.com/2012/01/04/a-history-of-reserve-currencies-in-one-graph/
Basically the U.S. gets a “cut” of the majority of global trade because of currency conversion fees. Also reserve status creates false demand for U.S. dollars because nations
need U.S. dollars to trade with. Not only that, but since 1971 the dollar has not been backed by gold. Some people argue that the dollar actually collapsed then.
I would say that the dollar collapsed in the 08′ financial crisis. Just have a look at this shocking chart which shows the quantity of U.S. dollars in existence.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE
This shows when America began printing money by the truckload. What happens when the quantity of something, that has value because of it’s rarity, is increased exponentially?
Well it’s value goes down. Some will say there is no exponential increase in inflation. However when the U.S. started printing money in 08′, so did most everybody else.
Since everybody expanded their monetary base, comparatively the U.S. dollar kept it’s comparative value. Why would other nations do this? To keep their dollars weaker to
keep their export markets to the U.S. open. Also people will ask if the U.S. dollar is weaker, why has the value of gold not risen greatly. Well we know now that the price of
gold is heavily manipulated. Just read some of Paul Craig Robert’s articles about gold price fixing for an honest overview of how this works.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/16/insider-trading-financial-terrorism-comex/
So in summation, yes America has a very large economy. But increasingly this is only because of fraud and manipulation. Later this year China will officially become the
largest economy in the world (probably already a fact). To those who say Putin is not doing enough, they are not looking at economic developments. The most powerful weapon
Putin has is to attack the very heart of America’s power; their economy. BRICS, dumping U.S. treasuries, and accumulating gold are all powerful shots across the bow from
Russia. The American economy is large…like an elephant. But it is an elephant balancing on toothpicks held together with duct tape. I would not say their economy will
collapse tomorrow, but it is inevitable. Likely sooner rather than later.
This was for all you military and political minded people who may not be interested in economic matters. But economics is so critical to what’s happening. Ukraine is
really just the physical manifestation of an economic war between the west and Russia. Only scary thing is that when economic conditions are this close to collapse,
this is when world wars begin. Just hope Russia and the BRICS countries can sidestep the west’s obvious attempts to start another one.
One more amazing video of the visual representation of America’s debt.
http://demonocracy.info/
From Zio-Nazi controlled Canada.
An excellent overview of the crash and the perpetrators:
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/25/mh17-verdict-real-evidence-points-to-us-kiev-cover-up-of-failed-false-flag-attack/
Very worthwhile.
Nora said…25 July, 2014 22:03
The Christian zionists are probably the biggest dupes of all. :D These are cannon fodder. The Christian zionist movement was created by Jewish zionists. In fact, begin, I believe was a major player in this. Before the addition of Jewish zionist “help”, Christian zionists were a fringe grouping of very limited scope. The Israelis hyped these people to give themselves control over American rightwing politics. They already ran the left and centre.
BTW, putting Christian zionists throughout the US military is an Israeli strategy to solidify their hold of the American military and have a bunch of easy to control morons who are to stupid to think for themselves. The downside of filling up the US military brass with these idiots is that the US military is being run by drooling, superstitious knuckledraggers who couldn’t stratigise themselves out of a paper bag. Much like the current banderivtsy war criminals in the Ukraine junta’s military. A bunch of cowardly criminal sorts who soil themselves at the first sign of effective resistence and who rely upon vast superiority in numbers and machines and the ability to murder from afar. Israel got a mixed blessing with their dumbing down the US military in order to better control it. Yes, the slackjaws are easy to manipulate and control, but their effectiveness is way down, and much less able to defend Israeli and NWO interests worldwide.
Most Christian zionists are pretty clueless about where their info they base their POVs upon comes from. For example, I used to know one, a Catholic, who liked to tell “Jew jokes” yet had no clue his political views (the neocon marketing he bought into) were formed for him by Jews. :)
This guy was also a good example of the sort of US military these Christian zionists are. He was marine attack chopper grunt, with 2 tours in Vietnam, then a marine reservist (I knew the guy during the 80’s). One time we were discussing strategic nuclear ballistic missiles, and he seriously thought they were not much of a threat because “we can just jam them”. He thought ballistic missiles could be jammed the same way radar homed anti-aircraft missiles are, through ECM. :D So next time a US military guy authoritatively tells you something about the military, he’s probably full of shit. I used to know quite a few of these people and outside of their very specialised job in the military, they were mostly clueless about anything else. Often they were pretty stupid about their specialty, too, since most of them never had actually used it in a seriously contested war zone.
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BOT TAK said, “One of the fundamentals of ZPC/NWO propaganda is tp personalise a country by replacing the name of the country with that of its current political leader. So Russia becomes Putin, Libya became Qadaffy, Iraq became Saddam. This is done with countries which are designated enemies. Designated friendly countries usually keep their names.”
While this is a cute hypothesis, the pattern has nothing to do with propaganda. One reason Russia becomes “Putin” that Putin is an extremely strong leader. Iraq became “Saddam”, and Libya “Qadaffy”, for the same reason. To oppose the NWO requires strong leadership. To cooperate with it takes a puppet.
Hence, it would be laughable to call the US “Obama”. But note that Germany is sometimes equated with “Merkel”, again because of her strength.
I ask you once more, stop trying to identify propaganda by superficial aspects of the wording. This blog is not Twitter, where such identification is necessary. What characterizes propaganda is that it is deliberate falsehood designed to further a strategic end. You should try to recognize this subtler criterion.
— The Novelist
I was going to post the 21st century wire link; I’ll just ditto the excellence. The most comprehensive look at everything to date I’ve seen, although it leaves out by intention any connections with MH370, which are irrelevant to a certain degree and I’m not gonna go there without hard proof anyway. Botched false flag. Bottom line. If there WERE hard evidence by the AngloZioNazi cult of death and chaos and all things wicked, we’d have seen it LONG ago. Instead we’ll be treated to doctored or otherwise tampered with black box ‘evidence’ at a later date. Or it may somehow be unrecoverable. All I know is my country’s government grows more evil and despicable by the day. Sick, deranged, psychotic, greedy, inhuman lying sacks of sanctimonious crap.
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Yup. But it was a “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” kind of a deal — much money going both ways, actually. And the funny (ha ha) part of it is, the CZs are the Rapture folks so they truly believe (loong story how that happened, but you can probably guess) they’ll get Raptured up to Heaven right out of the skivvies a whole lot sooner if they HELP God create Armageddon by getting all the Jews back to Israel. Wellllll, ok, but part of the process ALSO then includes most Jews dying. This is a marriage made in ????????????? Most are useful idjits/cannon fodder but there are a few guys with all those stripes on their shoulders too. Well, not just a few, actually: many.
Saker, I wouldn’t write off other Russian parts of Ukraine just yet. Putin appears to be playing the long game here. At the same time, the Russian-Ukrainian regions see that the Russian Army isn’t going to roll in at any minute, so people are watching and waiting to see which way the wind is blowing.
Personally, I see that as a sign of good sense. After all, the Independence Movement is in the very early stages. The economic impact of it hasn’t had a real chance to bite yet, either.
You can bet the people in Odessa haven’t forgotten anything.
The people in Kharkov and Odessa would have overthrown the Kiev types quite quickly if Russia had helped even slightly, or just made clear that Russia wanted to help. Instead, the Kremlin said “We want you to stay in the Ukraine, but with the right to speak Russian. You keep the oligarchs.” Are you going to fight in that situation? If so, how? Where will you put your family, as they will be tortured or shot.
In nasty civil war situations, people have to choose the winner or move away from the turmoil. As it is far from clear who will win in Odessa, what are their choices? Also, Russia did not create any organizations inside the Ukraine, while the West had many. A volunteer who wanted to kill Russians had many choices; a volunteer who wanted to defend Russians didn’t even know where to start. Russia never funded groups to be headed by folks like Pavel Gubarev.
I am fed up with you, Saker. You’re incitement of violence is killing people. You’re helping kill people in Ukraine. You’ve done nothing to save the Donbass people. You never even talk about saving the Donbass people. All over Twitter, these people are crying for help, while you sit in your fancy place in Florida and promote war war and nothing but war. You are CIA. I’m sure of it now. You have no integrity. You don’t care that people are dying.
So post this. Shame on you. Shame on you all. Start putting your efforts into stopping war, not cheering it on.
Shame shame shame. I dare you to post this comment. CIA warmonger!
— From someone who used to admire you!
I am fed up with you, Saker. You’re incitement of violence is killing people. You’re helping kill people in Ukraine. You’ve done nothing to save the Donbass people. You never even talk about saving the Donbass people. All over Twitter, these people are crying for help, while you sit in your fancy place in Florida and promote war war and nothing but war. You are CIA. I’m sure of it now. You have no integrity. You don’t care that people are dying.
So post this. Shame on you. Shame on you all. Start putting your efforts into stopping war, not cheering it on.
Shame shame shame. I dare you to post this comment. CIA warmonger!
— From someone who used to admire you!
So, Saker, man of God. Who likes to see people killed. Who likes to cheer on violence. Who lives in America while condemning it. Who never lifts a finger to stop this war in Ukraine. Who does nothing to help the poor people in Donbass. Who never advocates peace.
You’re CIA. I’m on to you. You’re baiting people. That’s why you live in the USA. You’re a fake. You faker.
Go ahead. I dare you to post this comment. Why don’t you and your little flock of warmongers start thinking about peace? The people of Donbass need saving. Why don’t you devote your efforts to that for a change?
Go ahead. Post this. Let it be faced. Let it be known. You’re CIA. You’re no man of God. That was a fake identity.
I’m working for peace. Peace for Donbass. You’re supporting killing. You man of God CIA hypocrite who lives in America while hating it, who loves vacations in the everglades while trashing this country and the people of Donbass. SHAME.
@Anonymous: So, Saker, man of God. Who likes to see people killed bla bla bla bla”
Okay, I posted your stuff. We get it. No need to repeat it over and over again. You made your point. Any more such repetitions will go to my loyal and trusted friend /dev/null.
Cheers and good luck,
The Saker
From the very good report above from “the pessimist”:
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/07/25/mh17-verdict-real-evidence-points-to-us-kiev-cover-up-of-failed-false-flag-attack/
“All Aircraft in the Vicinity
Between 5pm-6pm Moscow Time on July 17th, the following aircraft have been identified in the general vicinity of MH17 on its course heading to its fatal destination of Grabovo:
1. Boeing 772 – traveling southeast from Copenhagen to Singapore at 5:17pm
2. Boeing 778 – traveling southeast from Paris to Taipei at 5:24pm
3. Boeing 778 – traveling northwest from Delhi to Berlin circa 5:20pm
4. Boeing 777 – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at 5:17pm
5. Su-25 Ukrainian Fighter Jet appears on radar, trailing MH17 at same altitude, est. 4km behind it at 5:21pm
Note: the pilots and passengers of Singapore Airlines Flight SIA351 were close enough to have visually observed, at high altitude, the demise of MH17.”
Has anyone seen any interviews with the passengers or crew of Singapore Airlines Flight SIA351?
People are often staying on the sideline because they need to have something to fight for, not just something to fight against. And Novorussia is nothing to fight for. Why fight against Ukrainian oligarchs just to be delivered into the hands of Russian oligarchs? Nationalism is dead. National boundaries are obsolete and ultimately irrelevant. The working class globally is predominantly internationalist in their outlook and until a political force exists in their lives to represents an international perspective they don’t see much reason to fight. Only a global political party that will sweep aside the capitalist system(a system that can only exist in a national framework) and replace it with socialism(the only system that is internationalist) will the people, the working class lay their lives on the line to support. Their is no longer any way to fight fascism outside of a global internationalist perspective. And the SEP/ICFI is the only political force that exists that can and will complete the global socialist revolution.