by Batko Milacic for the Saker blog
One of the largest French maritime exercises in the Mediterranean, POLARIS 21 (Préparation Opérationnelle en Lutte Aéromaritime, Résilience, Innovation et Supériorité), took place from November 18 to December 3, 2021 in the area west of the island of Corsica, between France and Spain. The exercise also included a segment on the Atlantic coast of mainland France.
POLARIS 21 was set up entirely in the context of operational preparation on several fronts and had a high combat intensity, which was fully in line with the strategic vision of the Chief of the Armed Forces and the Mercator Acceleration 21 plan of the Chief of Staff of the Admiral of the French navy Pierre Vandier. In addition to naval warfare, the exercise also included the participation of many combat aircraft and surface-to-air defense.
Officially, the aim of the training was to test the capabilities of the sea and air elements to face future wars, using the latest systems and naval vessels to develop tactics. The scenario of the exercise was to “enable the Allies to maintain control of the Mediterranean in the event of threat from the Russian air force and navy“.
Polaris 2021 “exercise“
The exercise scenario consisted of two troops (Blue and Red), BLUE consisting of the French Carrier Strike Group (CSG), centered around the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91), against a RED FORCES credible opposition force ( OPFOR), gathered around the Mistral-class left-hand drive ‘Tonnerre’.
In total, the exercise saw the participation of 23 ships, one submarine, 65 aircraft and 6,000 personnel. Partner nations joining the exercise came from Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The United States Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), P-8A Poseidon aircraft from Commander, Task Force 67, and the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthal (T-AO 189) had a very important place in the “exercise“ POLARIS 2021.
Also, U.S. Sixth Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducted the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with NATO partners, in order to strengthen the power of U.S. in Europe and Africa.
The actual goal of the exercise
However, journalists came into possession of data related to the exercise POLARIS 2021. The data speak clearly about the advance preparation of the NATO to enter into an armed conflict with the Russian Federation in the event of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.
According to the legend of the maneuvers, it was determined that in response to the alleged Russian intervention, the forces of the NATO coalition would form and send an aircraft carrier strike group led by the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the combat area in order to “stop the invasion and preserve the sovereignty of Ukraine.”
The context and scenario of the “exercise“ (the consonance of the names of countries, settlements, the names of political figures, the specifics of maneuvers, etc.) became for the Russian Federation a signal of the real preparation of NATO to the start of hostilities against Russia, as it happened similarly to the operation of the United Defender alliance grouping of forces before the intervention in Libya (the exercises Baltops-2010 and Frisian Flag-2010), when, after the maneuvers at the sea ranges, a full-scale operation followed to overthrow of the legitimate government of Muammar Gaddafi.
POLARIS 2021 was also a demonstration of NATO support to Kyiv in the event of an armed conflict with Russia and was supposed to push Kyiv to start hostilities with the Russian Federation, after which the intervention of the NATO was supposed. In principle, NATO was looking for an excuse to attack Russia, with the factor of surprise, so that Russia would not be ready for an adequate response.
In this situation, the preventive start of the Special Military Operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine became the only possible response to the inevitable aggression of the Kyiv regime and the NATO.
There is no doubt that thanks to the Russian special operation in Ukraine and the fact that Russia launched a preventive strike, it was NATO that was surprised but also scared by the Russian determination to defend its interests. It is precisely this fact that is responsible for why there was not and will not be conflict between Russia and NATO, that is, the Third World War was prevented only thanks to the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
The leadership of the Russian foreign intelligence service has declared that Ukraine has passed through the path of transformation into a fascist state in just one generation. Paradoxically, all this time the Russian special services have not been able to monitor what was happening in a neighbouring and so important a state for us. John Helmer wrote – How did this happen and what to do about it today?
Very good MOA piece today, a summary from Maidan to fake Russiagate to 404 war.
I find it unlikely that the Biden administration with its librul ideology will be able to correct its own errors. The failures and mistakes will stay uncorrected and their consequences will multiply. It will take a regime change in Washington, and a change in its deep state ideology, to find back to some realistic view on foreign policies.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/misguided-foreign-policies-against-russia-and-others-damage-the-us-and-its-allies.html#comments
I find links by commenters to good authors and good sites like MOA to be quite useful.
Read the book Genocide (of Sergei Glazyev) about the level of destruction Russia suffered in the 90s and you will understand why they could not do anything.
They were too busy trying to rebuild Russia from the ashes.
The chapter 11 of The Destiny of Civilization by Michel Hudson also could help you too understand although in Genocide you have more data and feel more the real pain
thanks for the tip, but wow, 97 Euros… out of print book. Found an accessible online copy:
https://archive.org/details/AGenocideRussiaAndTheNewWorldOrder1999
… or here as pdf:
https://de.b-ok.cc/book/22243854/02012c
It is ironic how the western politicians love to demonize President Putin, and don’t understand that they created the need for a strong leader like him with their evil actions. It seems the western “elites” like to create Frankenstein’s monsters and wonder why they turn on them.
War is on,
Turn War off.
We all know the weather changes, as does the climate, but its not what the temperature is at any particular month of the year, it is what your family, town, community is used to.
We all know its going to get colder in winter, and we don’t even think about it. Some of us, even like it…the colder it get’s the more snow, the better…Go ski-ing and get the sledge out, or make a slippy-curry(Oldham)Ice-slide
But we were all confident – or have been in relatively rich western/northern civilisation to go back to a warm home and warm food.
That has not changed much yet in 2022
The temperature is relatively mild for this time of year in both The Ukraine and The UK, and the countries in between.
But the Russians, have just bombed the shit out of The Ukrainian Electricity Grid, and The Americans have just bombed the shit out of The Germans, main gas supply
All for political reasons of extremely rich and powerful people, who are highly unlikely to go cold or hungry
WHEN THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF ENERGY OR FOOD.
I get the distinct impression, things are going to get incredibly worse, very soon, for all of us.
Prepare for it as best you can
They are trying to kill us all
Impoverish us, freeze us and starve us to death.
That is the people we have got in control of us.
They did covid, and now they are doing this
Deliberately SWITCHING THE POWER OFF
when there is no shortage of energy.
RESIST
they just want to get rid of us “Useless Eaters”
Share what you have got, go and see your elderly neighbour.
Knock on her door, ask if there is anything we can do
She will have her Pride, but be delighted to see you.
Just offer, can I get you some groceries in, or help with your heating?
Or she will freeze and starve to death.
How are you going to cope, when the electricty goes off?
Tony
Thank you Tonyopmoc for this message, lucid and coherent, full of love, mutual aid and solidarity.
What will happen will be considerably uglier than the last depression. Back then people still had a clue on how to survive with gardening, cooking, canning, hunting, fishing, and sewing skills. Almost all still had wood or coal burning stoves. They also lived in communities of extended families, which does help in creating a micro supply chain of helping hands and necessities.
Sooner or later the grids of bankers will be going down, so good luck to all.
My best advice is get yourself the access to clean water, buy warm clothing, and get a coal/wood stove if you can.
I agree wholeheartedly. I have all that plus we grow food, and raise livestock. Have alternative power sources also. I can feed and support all my neighbors. We may be going back to simpler times.
“they just want to get rid of us “Useless Eaters””
I disagree. The useless eaters are consumers, which are in high demand. Mindless consumers are the best. Thinking, penny-pinching consumers are useless.
The key issue is that demand has been shrinking. The system has been flooded. We have too much of everything. Where to sell, who to sell to when everyone with money has more than enough. No demand, no customers. No customers, no money. Destruction creates new demand by way of rebuilding. That will revive any declining/dead economy. Great way to reset the monetary system at the same time.
You don’t understand the way the mind of a sociopath works. You see, those at the very top {calling the shots} already have more than enough for their future offspring. The old saying: “What do you buy a man who already has everything” applies here. This isn’t about money/profit anymore. The whole premise behind Agenda 2030 and “Getting to zero” is about culling the unwashed masses. They have a deep seated, Satanic hatred for humanity. They view us as less than animals. Just listen to Gates, Harari, Scwabe, Kissinger and others. They don’t even hide it any more. They view the planet as their property, and we are trespassers to be evicted.
+1 There also seems to be a fundamental hatred of creation, and a desire to be all powerful.
Gathering intelligence about an existential threat in an important neighbouring country, which was part of your own, which speaks your language, whose citizens have family in your own, whose citizens have been immigrating in huge numbers into your own, should be easy enough that it is impossible that the FSB didn’t have data on what was happening. The only possible reason this data does not seem to have been acted on is a lack of political will.
These people are all degenerate psychopaths. Most of these people lost their colonies by WW2. It’s becoming so clear that these people, who in their own countries want to refuse any kind assistance to their populace because they will never want to work, just want to live from stolen wealth and wage theft. I am very disappointed with the west. I’d say more on that, but it’d do more harm than good. Our leaders are vile and disgusting criminals.
Naval exercises in the Med? LOL
For Russia that would be like pissing in a puddle.
“É justamente esse fato que explica porque não houve e não haverá conflito entre a Rússia e a OTAN, ou seja, a Terceira Guerra Mundial só foi evitada graças à operação especial russa na Ucrânia.”
Me parece uma análise excessivamente otimista.
Aqui do Brasil a impressão que tenho é que os EUA ESTÃO SE PREPARANDO DE FATO PARA ATACAR A RÚSSIA.
O Governo Corrupto e Assassino dos EUA é capaz de tudo…
Todo o cuidado é pouco…
Victoria Nikiforova:
Nos Estados Unidos, eles estão discutindo um “ataque de decapitação no Kremlin”
Veremos. Tudo depende do que o Dr. Schwabenlove quer, hein?
We’ll see. It all depends on what Dr. Schwabenlove wants, huh?
How did NATO intend to get their ships into the Black Sea?
Aircraft carriers are not permitted passage into the Black Sea under the Montreux Convention even in peace time.
Did they intend to force passage, breach the Convention? Would Turkey have agreed to that?
I wonder if they don’t realize that Russia can just sent a tactical nuke to each carrier and sunk them in seconds
Nukes not necessary with Kinzhals.
They only need to park their carrier in the Agean or Tyrennian for their aircraft to be within range of Ukraine. However it is a stretch.
The main point of the exercise was to deny Russia access to the Mediterranean and resupply to Tartus.
If NATO did a surprise attack, they might have been able to sink the Russian fleet. But as Russia was highly alert, any such attack would come at the cost of the NATO fleet.
If NATO attacked Russia… how soon before Berlin, Paris, London and Belgium were laid to waste?
And Washington DC would be put on notice…
“Hey Yankee… don’t touch that red button… my tovarish has a twitchy finger and our missiles are hypersonic…”
This is absolute madness.
Sounds plausible, but only in theory.
The USA would have nothing against this outcome. This is what Europe is for them, a source of cannon fodder.
What they certainly do not expect is to receive a visit card themselves. They are still under the illusion that war will never touch them directly, probably part of their cult mentality, because they feel so exceptional that they probably became untouchable.
Putin warned them already, but we know their hubris stop them from listening.
Obvious question. Difficult to imagine an answer that makes sense.
They’d have to replace Sultan Erdoğan with a puppet first and even then the NATO ships in the Black Sea would be sitting ducks.
So it’s probably just posturing to encourage Ukranazistan to attack.
I mean we know NATO needed this war a lot more than the Ukranazis did.
No need to enter the Black Sea. From their Tartus base Russia can control the whole of the Mediterranean. The entire NATO fleet could be sunk within 20 minutes, using supersonic standoff weapons such as Kinzhal that can strike from outside the range of Nato ships.
Those Nato gangsters change the rules when they like,same as when they attacked the FRY,as far as i know their article 5 never came into it because no one attacked a Nato Country.
It’s annoying when our glorious truth tellers in the MSM say that Russia is weak when it allows NATO to creep to it’s door or tries to negotiate. Then when Russia physically asserts itself, it’s branded aggressive. It is a no win pathology or one of a psycho bully.
Russia should treat the neo-con regimes like a ferral rat – with sticks and cheese.
A misnomer. Not “neo-cons”. That was a previous group with the likes of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld (plus Wolfowicz). Even they weren’t as clueless as this current group. I prefer the name “neo-libs” (i.e. new liberals). They like to think they are “liberal” in their philosophy because they remember when the real liberals were on the right side of the important issues of the day. But they are so deluded, and in fact brain-washed, that they can’t see themselves as they really are – the opposite of classic liberalism.
Excellent point. I doubt Cheney would do such a dumb thing.
Yes, the neo liberals have coopted the word “liberal” and twisted it around. Just like they do with every word: “gay” for example.
Classic American Liberals, like me, hold our noses and vote Republican… truth is, MAGA is on our side.
Neocons
Ziocons
cons
are alive and well
Cheney and Wolfowitz (Rummy’s dead) Baker and others are still calling shots. Look at Bush juniors smug mug. They believe in their invincibility.
MAGA. cmon, donald is hamstrung and milking the belief in a two party system. His rallys are a show and maga-ites chant inanities on cue like a game show audience. Same problem with wef tulsi. She’s a zelensky promoter.
It’s a mafia style shakedown in congress and big corps… do what we say or the kid gets it. Unlimited dough to extort public officials.
These psychos want a world war to cover their corruption and horrors they’ve inflicted on the world.
Dissent with traction is cut off at the knees. Smart phones do the surveillance work. The saving grace is the incompetence of gov employees snd the unwieldiness of the system. And the 2nd.
However, as always, there is hope for the rebel alliance. God self family community. Spiritual trumps physical, bends the fabrics, allows the possibilities. Strength in commonality and agreement. Let us not forget: George Washington referred often to Divine Providence.
Have a good day.
Another idea would be to invite for negotiations, then slip an anti-psychotic pill in the drinks before talks started.
Wasn’t that the war games where a single elderly French sub “sank” most of the US flotilla? Or am I misremembering some other exercise?
POLARIS 21 was certainly (yet another) declaration of ill intent towards Russia by NATO, as have been ALL of NATO’s moves since 1997. However, Russia certainly wouldn’t have been deterred by a surface fleet. With Ms Onyx-M operational and Mr Kinzhal also capable of attacking ships, I don’t fancy the chances of a NATO aircraft carrier group lasting very long. Evidently, someone in NATO came to the same conclusion.
Wow, that’s eye opening. NATO was thankfully thrown off and didn’t get to attack first.
Russia was right to start the SMO. Correct timing. (Western media never mentioned the fact that there was a build up of neo-nazi troops preparing to attack the Donbass region).
There was a lot of uncertainty leading up to it.
USA and USA funded NATO countries were making threats like Biden: “Ukraine will join NATO…there’s no negotiations….IF Putin dares to invade then the USA will retaliate militarily to protect Ukraine…we will sanction and collapse Russia economically….we will always defend freedom and democracy”. Yuck.
Then Zelensky actually believed that America would intervene and started making escalating threats himself: “We need nukes” “Crimea is ours” “People in the Donbass are not human. They are specimens”. Even asked for a no fly zone!
After 8 years of NATO training, funding, infrastructure, military bases, it had become a Western Bulwark. The worst part is the military enfolded volunteer nationalist neo Nazi battalions into the official military. Knowing they were Stepan Bandera Nazi ideologues.
The security proposition that Putin proposed to NATO and America before initiating the SMO was called a “non starter”. Since “NATO has an open door policy”.
Now that Zelensky begged for fast tracked NATO accession and was completely rejected, why did NATO now say outright no?
“…we will always defend freedom and democracy”.
Delusional misfits! we will always defend slavery and autocracy”.
They are still at it. Biden in a CNN interview is talking about the possibility of Russia doing a nuclear strike, like possibly a dirty bomb or say bombing a nuclear plant… err.. we know the Ukraines are working hard at bombing a nuclear plant. Looks like NATO is trying hard to make a false flag happen to give NATO a pretext.
Unfortunately, the Main Stream Press is in on the plots, but if they had any moral compass, they would be exposing these psychos, as it is only too obvious psychos are working hard to get this WWIII we are in really hot.
Whatever anyone can do to expose these psycho-bastards to the greater public…. I for one do not want to get fried.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/politics/joe-biden-nuclear-message-putin-cnntv-analysis
‘Mainstream’ media is a misnomer: it is corporate media. There is nothing ‘mainstream’ about it.
The main stream of the sewer.
Found on P Lancaster tm and here as well, must be true? Anyone has any confirmation from Russia?
URGENT: RUSSIA ISSUES CIVIL DEFENSE INSTRUCTIONS TO ENTIRE POPULATION: “RADIATION”
School children in every single city and town in Russia brought home official government notices today, telling families what to do in Civil Defense Emergencies like . . . radiation.
Poster boards are going up in mass-transit stations, at city halls, in shopping centers with the exact same message.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
“Civil Defense
The procedure for the actions of the population on the go signal when at work.
The signal “ATTENTION TO ALL!”
Accompanied by the activation of sirens with intermittent beeps followed by verbal information about the signal GO
* upon hearing the SIGNAL, turn on your radio or television set and listen to the message about the situation and how to proceed
* pass on the information you receive to your neighbors
* Act according to the messages you have been given.
Ways you should notify ALL!!:
* Television
* loudspeakers
* sirens
* bell
*radio
*Howls from businesses and vehicles
*phone, text message
* mobile sound-amplifying installations
* Information board
*social networks
Actions of the population
(inscriptions on the signs)
– Turn off lights, gas, water, heaters
– Close windows and doors tightly
– Cover gaps around doors, vents with a wet cloth.
– use personal protective equipment.
– Take cover in the nearest protective structure, buried room or other premises of the underground space, including the subway.
– Report to the assembly area
– evacuate to a safe area.
ACTIONS FOR:
* AIRBORNE ALARM
* CHEMICAL ALARM
* RADIATION ALARM
* THREAT OF CATASTROPHIC FLOODING
RESTRICTED SIGNAL
* Return to your place of work
* Be prepared for a possible repeat of the civil defense “ATTENTION TO ALL” signal.””
https://t.me/s/patricklancasternewstoday
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/urgent-russia-issues-civil-defense-instructions-to-entire-population-radiation
:) I suspect Patric mixed up something – or worse .. There was a warning message, interrupting normal translation of the Ukrainian radio reported from Kharkiv here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5svDhVEhEU as heard & recorded “live” by the blogger few days ago.
The actual recording of the message starts ~2:20 , while the girl is in a cab. The message, starts with ~ “.. during the Liberation [of Ukraine] , the local regime may resort to domestic terrorism and likely to use nuclear and chemical weapons”. Then the voice proceeds with brief [but perfectly sound & correct] instructions on what to do if this is to happen. At the end the speaker, whose voice and manner have an uncanny semblance of the voice of famous WWII Soviet radio reporter Levitan, invites everyone “to switch to the Russian side [to fight] on the side of “Good”..” :)
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺The risks of drawing the US and NATO into the conflict in Ukraine are now high, the White House said‼️
This will most likely end with some sort of negotiation. Russia will be given guarantees it wants. Then, EU can save it’s shitty economy. NATO isn’t going to risk a nuclear war over ukraine. They are just seeing how far they could push Russia, and know that Russia has a lot of fight left.
Intel: the all financial system would collapse starting in the UK(with the gilt story) by friday, then nuclear exchange will follow as a diversion.
There will be no negotiations. The Anglo-Saxons are burning down Europe, and extracting whatever they can from it. It will turn into a thirdworld shithole, whose only purpose is to be a threath on Russias Western border. A break on Eurasias development.
Macron France 2 tv tonight: ” I don’t want WWIII’..please translate,coming from this sociopath,by the opposite.
Emmanuel Macron
@EmmanuelMacron
Officiel du gouvernement – France
Nous ne voulons pas une guerre mondiale.
https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/1580290891625136128
🌐💰🇺🇦If anyone of us thinks that there can be de-escalation by the West political elites,we might lie to ourselves and see the data
The West so far has invested almost 80 billion EUR,rom 24th of February 2022 until 3rd October 2022,they have invested too much to de-escalate
Nothing new here, NATO war games targeting Russia have been going on for decades,
What’s new is putting it into practice with a proxy army of Ukrainian nazis.
Minus its Neocon Zio-Nazi Brigade, oligarchs, financial grifters, political hires, gutter press magnates and John Bolton, the USA and Russia are a perfect marriage. Belligerent America, Dovish Russia.
Russia & China should offer the US a 10% stake in the BRI-Euro Asian Infrastructure Development + Perks, for a 40% stake in Europe. Operation Pimp Europe!
Bend the EU-uk over, Baerbock, Ms Sanna Marin PM, StrapaDickToMe Van Ur-Sullen, Moldova. Truss, Stoltenberg, Borrell, Tusk, Baltic Minnows and Manny (Rothschild Rent-Boy) Macron and double-team them.
There’s far more public support for Russia in America than in its former largest trading sweet-deal partner (Honey, can you blow some more cheap gas up our Ass? – Friends).
America conquered Europe without firing a shot, much like Russia did in Crimea.
Lemme see… let’s assume for one brief second that the Turks would allow all of these ships through the Bosporus
Then 40 some odd ships were gonna sail into the Black Sea and attack Russia?
It would be an absolute turkey shoot… or rather a dindon shoot.
Incredible hubris on the part of the Western Elites, eh?
Do you really believe that France is capable of fighting !?
Look at history, WW2, France and Britain quietly waiting for the Nazis to slaughter Poland (for 9 months of Sitzkrieg) then, after the Maginot Line fiasco, France capitulated to collaborate with Hitler as early as June 1940.
The French army was and still is an army of dolls, just capable of defending its colonialist interests in Africa. An army of cowards who are content to do drills. When General De Gaulle (stashed in London) issued his appeal of June 18, 1940 to convince French officers and soldiers to join the resistance, no one answered among them, what a shame! The “guerrillas” of the international brigades had not waited for this radio call to fight (there were few, our heroes) but France considered them terrorists.
So don’t worry, you can sleep easy, the French army won’t make anything but big pitiful declarations.
https://www.legrandsoir.info/revision-de-la-resistance-francaise-sous-l-occupation-nazie.html
NATO would never have been emboldened to do anything like this is Russia had intervened decisively to crush the nazis in 2014.
Fully agree (maidan should not even have been allowed if FSB did his work properly, don’t tell me they did not know?).And also after the ‘feint’ of Kiev due to understaffed SMO, they were(nato) scared, really very scared by Russia, they changed their mind, they say finaly it is a paper tiger, as they never got the difference between SMO versus war. Once their mind is changed they went for broke otherwise they would lose face so much their regimes, currencies, comfort, money, ‘values’ etc would not survive, even if it is a collective suicide they will chose that option.
EU + NATO saying tonight they will nuke Russia if Russia uses a… tactical nuke in Ukraine.
This narrative is pending for three weeks and increasing by the hour. They started to disseminate it after Russia announced mobilisation(logical, they know for sure they are going to lose even if during the winter or maximum next spring). They really bought the ukie victory narrative after Kharkov and Lyman.
They have two top objectives: ZNPP and Odessa, if they see they are about to lose both they will nuke the all Novarussia(Russia I don’t think so). They will declare victory, leave, they pretty don’t care about Ukraine, Kiev even Galicia, a failed state like in Syria or Libya is the goal by default (the original one in fact).
Money and weapons transferts will stop, Ukraine will become a third world country, never allowed in Nato or EU.
Usefull idiots ukrainians(like many other countries used by US before) will realize far too late that they lost everything, had been deceived will have to repay debts for at least 5 generations, vast majority will leave, near 2040, Ukraine wll be poorer than an African state, a zoombieland, directed by mafias, terrorism will be permanent, even ukrainians will not be allowed in Europe anymore.
Macron says ‘France will not use nuke’..translate by ‘ I know anglos are gonna do it, but I’m not on that line.
Be sure that a nuke false flag (civil ZNPP or military one) is forseen, probably before the midterms (25 days left and counting down).
Nukes are already in Ukraine, probably since 2021.
According to Kuleba, counter offensive of mainly US UK NATO (+ limited nr of left ukies canon fodders on the first line), will start soon, I would bet on the week-end of 22th + 23th of oct
NATO has prepared a plan for a “disarming operation” against Russia
(this news is much more worrying)
https://en.topcor.ru/28609-v-nato-podgotovlen-plan-obezoruzhivajuschej-operacii-protiv-rossii.html
I wonder what STEADFASTNOON will be like this year.
“NATO will proceed with its annual nuclear exercises next week, despite tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine and comments from Kremlin leaders that they will use all available means to defend Russian territory,”
https://estonianfreepress.com/news/united-states/nato-to-hold-steadfast-noon-nuclear-drills-despite-russian-threats/
Seems to me practicing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia isn’t the best idea under the current circumstances. Just my 2 cents.
There was a second NATO Air-Naval exercise in the Med right around the beginning of this year in January involving France, Italy and the US navies. It was held off the coasts of southeastern Sicily in the provinces of Syracuse and Ragusa and involved aircraft carrier assets from the 3 above-mentioned countries. How do I know? I live in the area and the jets were flying above our houses for over a day…even in the evening!!!! Air-naval exercises in the evening???? Do you know when they are only conducted??? You can guess!
Parallel to this was the more important economic ‘hammer blow’ of the Western sanctions…this big roll of the dice flopped. Now the West is sunk.
I have followed this site for a long time and this is my first post. Two points that are sometimes ignored. It is the nation formation in (rump) Ukraine since 1991 and then the namegiving “nazi” which is loosely applied.
It is a truism when Biden said this week that the Russians did not grasp the mentality change in Ukraine since 1991. The FSB and its foreign intelligence gathering should have listened to the ethnologists and ethnopsychologists. Russia has good ones but the speciality was frowned upon Soviet times.
With Ukraine I mean “rump” Ukraine, a landlocked country without the seceding republics and Odessa (in the future). A nation formation has taken place since 1991. The core of it is the banderist ideology from West Ukraine.
In these columns we often use the terms ethnic Russian and Russian speaker indiscrimately. There are a lot of Russian speakers in Central Ukraine but they are bilingual. They switch without problem. I know some Russian speaking Ukrainians here in Belgium. Some arrived already before 2014 when migration became easier. It struck me they were not really anti Russian, but I now understand it was because they at that time reasoned that Russia had done a better job (standard of living, economical development). Now when I talk to them they are virulently anti Russian. They say that language restrictions in Ukraine do not matter because they all switch according to the situation. It is like dialect and standard language.
We will have to live with a virulently anti Russian rump state. It derives its (negative) identity from the scapegoating of Russia for the failings of their own state. But the banderist ideology is also anti Polish. The Poles know that. There is the excellent book on banderism by the historian Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe “Stepan Bandera. The life and afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, genocide and cult”. The banderist ideology has infected large swathes of rump Ukraine through their hold on education and media. You can say that a large part of the population has a Stockholm Syndrome relationship with the banderists.
But even a negative identity for a nation formation is an identity. What does denazification then mean? In this case it means “containment”, like the “containment of communism” doctrine of the 1950ies and 60ies. It means you keep it within strict limits like an infected area that is cordoned off. The landlocked Ukraine will be cordoned off from the east and the south. If Poland and rump Ukraine further integrate, Poland will have to perform some denazification of its own, otherwise they will not be able to survive there. They will have to abolish the banderist celebrations and oblige them to adopt a low profile. Otherwise West Ukraine will transit to a chronical civil war and guerrilla war as it was in the 1920ies and 30ies there during Polish rule. The Poles will have an excruciating task on their hands for decades. Moreover the Poles are looking for compensations (and not only from Germany). They have property claims amounting to 5 billion already in the western provinces which were Polish up to 1940.
A last word about the term “nazi” loosely used in these columns. Nazi historically stood for National Socialism. Nazi Germany had free health care for its own citizens, old age pensions, a good labour accident insurance. In Ukraine little of that sort. The Iranian journalist Mazaheri from presstv calls them “Nali” instead of “Nazi”. “Nali” is a combination of extreme nationalism and extreme neoliberalism. In Ukraine you have zero hour contracts, next to zero social protection, total privatization scheduled of all services and land property. But you also have the props of wokeism. You can have a torch march one evening and a gay pride the next day. Klaus Schwab’s mentor is the Israeli American futurologist Yuval Harari. He shamelessly promotes in his youtubevideos Ukraine as… a model of democracy for the West and especially the politically very divided US: the (extreme) left and (extreme) right living together without too many problems.
This shows the attitude of Davos. According to Harari the Russians bring the world back to the old ages while most of the world had left behind old warfare… In the Davos 2022 session the former Russian pavilion was devoted to.. the “Russian war crimes”…
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The question is to know how the rump Ukraine will integrate into the Europe of tomorrow.
The Europe of yesterday centered on Berlin (because of the traitor Gorbachev who allowed the reunification of the BRD and DDR) is already dead (economically). Tomorrow’s will be centered on Warsaw.
The disappearance of the old collaborationist Europe through its attachment to the Anglo-Zionist Nazism of the neoconservatives will wash the blood of our resistant heroes who died for nothing.
In France, history speaks for itself, from Pétain to Macron alias “La France en Marche” via Mitterrand decorated with the “Francisque”.
Regarding Poland, a country of resistance fighters who certainly cannot be called collaborationists (see the history of the AK and the AL), the attachment is to the Intermarium initiated by Józef Piłsudski and largely supported by Trump.
The total destruction of the German Nord Streams and the simultaneous inauguration of the Polish Baltic pipeline marks the change of the center of gravity of this new Europe in which the rump Ukraine will be integrated for the same reasons as in the 1920ies 1930ies when Józef Piłsudski and Symon Petlura cooperated against the Bolshevik Jews.
The suggestion that this exercise was a preparation for an attack on Russia is a bit far-fetched. The exercise being mainly French, would Macron have risked retaliation from Russia? Would Nato want to start WW3? Let’s remember that Russia is not Libya; it is a great power armed with nuclear weapons.
This Polaris exercise took place in the Western Med and the Atlantic at the end of November to early December, just before RF presented its ultimatums in mid-December 2021. If memory serves, except for nuclear forces, the French are now back in the Nato command structure with the requisite change in strategy, so it makes sense that it was a multi-national exercise.
I very much doubt that Russia would be surprised by an attack from this exercise or any Nato exercise for that matter. RF routinely puts its forces on alert whenever there’s a Nato exercise especially in its area/s of interest, and often would go on concurrent exercise themselves, just to signal that they are alert (and therefore unlikely to suffer strategic surprise.)
At any rate, the timing is wrong. A quick check revealed: a) just before Polaris there was a Nato exercise in the Black Sea; b) at about the same period, a Russian guided missile destroyer happened to be in the English channel. This exercise (Polaris) had long ended before the SMO on 24 Feb this year. In Dec 2021 it wasn’t yet clear to Russia that the Ukraine was about to attack the Donbass. Also, RF was awaiting responses from the US and Nato to its ultimatums.
Just how Exercise Polaris-21 could act as a launching pad for a surprise attack on RF — ostensibly after RF had provided the casus belli by invading the Ukraine — two months after it ended at the wrong end of the Mediterranean is a mystery to me.
https://tass.com/defense/1362853
Sounds entirely plausible, your read of that NATO exercise and of NATO’s subsequent volte-face given Russia’s launch of — and overwhelmingly superior performance in — the SMO.
Now that the Stultifying burger (sic) leading NATO has released information on his plan for the next ten years of Ukrainian integration into NATO, and Macron has continued to donate weapons to Ukraine while asking Russia!!! to return to the negotiations, it seems the West still needs to wake up and be ready to learn a lesson.
Where did the idea emerge that Russia is an enemy, THE enemy, followed by China? Where are the threats, the attacks to show this “enmity”? What are the benefits from the NATO engagements so far, starting in the “fifty years is enough” attacks on Serbia in 1999? How is the world better and happier this century from USA/NATO impacts on Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan? What evil has been done by China’s BRI? Who has Russia harmed as it waited 8 years trying to get a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian situation exacerbated by Nuland and her “cookies” in 2014? Why is only one, Russophobic tissue of lies the only “news” in all the Western MSM, politicians and pundits?
” Why is only one, Russophobic tissue of lies the only “news” in all the Western MSM, politicians and pundits? ”
The Pandemic was handled in such a way as to prepare for war, and generated a mass psychosis. The fenomena was briefly described by some Belgian psykologist as ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ towards the end of the pandemic, somewhere in ’21 I think. He describe the similarities of this sosical state and the pre-war time state in Germany (WW2).
The functioning, or lack of functioning, of society is radically abnormal. The main gas supply system to Europe have just been blown up and it is like a non event. The consequenses are de-industialisation, end of fertilizer production, fuel shortages, electricity shortages … and what should have been in the front of the collective mind … is barely, if at all mentioned.
Society has gradually gone mad, and very few noticed.
In my mind, I truly believe that Washington and London have been intent on setting Ukraine on fire and use it to wage war on Russia at least since their plot to bring Georgia into NATO failed spectacularly in 2008 if not before (maybe long before going back to the election of Vladimir Putin or even as far back as the break-up of the USSR in late 1991).
One indicator of this was that Russia once again was the main adversary of the US/UK/NATO in the video games and not just the fantastical first person shooters like Call of Duty Modern Warfare but especially of the more strategic war games like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon released in 2001 which portrayed a fictional war between South Ossetian separatists and the Georgian government set in 2008 (ironically or not ironically the actual year that hostilities between Ossetian and Abkhazian separatists and Tblisi led to the short lived Russian/Georgian war where President Mikhail Sakashvili ate his tie). In this game you play as a team of US Army Green Berets sent to help the Georgians fight the Russian backed rebels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Ghost_Recon_(2001_video_game)
Then there was ARMA 2 released in 2009 which was set in a fictional country named Chernarus (Black Russia) where some Communist rebels have been wreaking havoc seizing control of a fictional region called South Zhagoria (fictional Donbass?). Read the setting and plot in the game’s wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arma_2
It very much eerily resembles how the current war in Ukraine began except instead of Communist (Pro Russian Rebels) seizing power in a coup d’etat it was Ukrainian Nationalist forces that came to power in the US backed 2014 Coup which led to Russia taking back Crimes and Donbass rebels taking up arms against a US backed junta regime. I think there is a lot of projection in this game of atrocities usually committed by the US and it’s puppets onto the Communist (Pro Russian Rebels) including war crimes such as ethnic cleansing (mass graves) and even a false flag attack in Moscow that is attributed to the Nationalist Chernarusian government but is “actually” the work of the (Pro Russian) Communist rebels.
It would be easy to dismiss these video games as mere entertainment, but I am of the mind that these war games are powerful propaganda tools and military recruiting tools aimed at Western teenagers and young adults (20’s). If I am not mistaken the ARMA series was developed in partnership with the US Military. I’m not sure if Ghost Recon was but Tom Clancy of course was a CIA analyst. I think these games were absolutely developed as propaganda tools to prepare young Western males for a future conflict with Russia. This is just two examples of many. The Call of Duty series is another example of the villainization of Russia and Russians in video games over the past two decades getting young Westerners used to killing Russians on screen and preparing them psychologically to view Russia as an adversary and Russian people as enemies.
Tom Clancy was first an insurance salesman and then a fiction writer.
“However, journalists came into possession of data related to the exercise POLARIS 2021. ”
I just did a Google search and am unable to locate the source for this statement. What journalists for what news outlet reported that this exercise was intended as a plan for NATO to engage Russia?
I found a few articles on the exercise itself, but I found nothing to support the statement that there are documents establishing what it is asserted in the article.
This is a rather serious accusation and I would like to see supporting documentation other than the publicly available facts on the exercise itself. Particularly since the only article I can find related to this in other Web sites is this article by the author – which means it appears he is the sole source for this assertion.
Die USA hat nach Ende des II. WK die Kontrolle über West-Europa mit der NATO Gründung 1949 übernommen.
Bei der Gründung waren 12 Europäische Staaten dabei, bis heute sind weitere 15 Staaten aus Ost und West dazugekommen. Neue Kandidaten stehen bereit, gewollt oder ungewollt. Das ist das Ziel der Weltmacht USA!!!
Die USA haben es bald geschafft, sie müssen keine US-Arme in die Ukraine schicken das werden die EU-Soldaten übernehmen. Europa ist bereits im Krieg in der Ukraine aber das Volk wird vom Denken abgelenkt mit Klimawandel, Pandemie, Energiekriese, Inflation usw…