You probably have heard that Russian moved almost the entire Caspian Flotilla to the Black Sea, including quite a few amphibious assault ships. What you might not know is that Russia also moved two Large Landing Ships (“dock landing ships”) through the Mediterranean, across the Bosporus, also into the Black Sea. Right now, the Black Sea Fleet has strongly increased its amphibious assault capabilities.
Does that mean that Russia will attack?
Does that mean that Russia is planning an amphibious assault?
Not necessarily.
Of course, I am not privy to the Russian plans, but I can speculate about one interesting option: the real goal of these moves might be to force the Ukrainian to keep forces stationed along the coast to try prevent a Russian amphibious assault (not that I believe that any combo of Ukie forces could do that). The more forces are guarding the coast, the less forces are available for an attack on the LDNR. Also, since the Ukies (and the US+NATO) can easily track these ships, the Russians could decide to march them up and down the Ukrainian coast in order to a) keep the Ukrainian guessing where the supposed landing might be and b) to have these forces ready to support a LDNR or even Russian push towards Mariupol and further (Nikolaev, Odessa).
By the way, Russia has also closed the Kerch strait to military vessels until October, meaning that while the Russians have increased their mobility and options, they have also severely curtailed the Ukrainian options: the Ukie navy is basically a flock of sitting ducks expecting to be blown up in port.
Considering that there are Russian forces in Belarus too, you could say that Russia already a prepared a massive, country-wide, “cauldron” for the Ukronazi forces: the Ukraine is surrounded on 3 sides and that leaves the Ukronazis only one option open: run for their lives towards the west. Finally, Russia does not need to physically block the one direction still open. The Russian military can shut this potential cauldron on its western side not by using manpower but by using long range strikes. This kind of use of fire in the Russian military doctrine is called “control by fire” and is much simpler and quicker to execute than a ground operation: all these notions of ground forces “pincers” having to reach towards each other is WWII type strategy; it was true for Stalingrad, but today there are much more advanced options and means to shut a cauldron closed.
One more thing:
The Ukies are saying that the Russians have concentrated forces on the Russian-Ukrainian border. This begs a question: why are Ukronazi forces concentrated along the LDNR line of contact and not, repeat NOT, along the Russian-Ukrainian border?! If they were really afraid and expecting a Russian attack, would they not concentrate their forces along the likely Russian line of attack?
So even common sense can debunk the Ukronazi propaganda.
But nobody in the West gives a damn. There are no peace demonstrations, everybody (including the pretend “liberals”) keep their eyes totally shut and refuse to see ANY Ukie military moves. Even when civilians are killed.
And then the West wonders why Russians have no respect and no use for it!
This exercise in what I would call “deliberate collective blindness and total hypocrisy” is a stain on every single country, entity or person engaged in it. Shame on you all!
The Saker
PS: there is one more reason why the Russians would want their Black Sea Fleet as ready as possible to deal with any contingency: should anybody (Ukroz, NATO, US, Romanian) attack Transnistria, it would be the Black Sea Fleet which would have to stop the attack using standoff weapons (along with the Russian Aerospace Forces) and play a major role in any operation to deblock the Russian contingent in Transnistria (along with the Russian Airborne/Air Assault forces). Again, this is all about having as many options to chose from as possible.
The as-boring-as empire goes to war if there’s money in it. Ukraine has been totally stollen already, there’s no more money in it (Biden should know) + Could be war with the RF is for losers.
+ Hopefully the yankeedoodledandie’s tens (hundreds?) of trillions of $’s of debt will see their Israelite nazi fraud on the world abandoned & neoCapitalism finally collapse.
A century+++ of chaos flushed down the toilet, history. If the planet survives.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202104191082669287-armed-incident-reported-on-azerbaijans-border-with-iran-one-iranian-trespasser-wounded/
Iran is cleaning up its northern border zone. Anglo zombies try to open another front.
Breaking:
UK troops to Ukraine “within hours”??
A UK defence chief has reportedly claimed around 450 paratroopers “could deploy very quickly” to Ukraine, and that they “are itching to get involved”.
The RAF has apparently sent personnel and jets to Romania in readiness, while an MoD spox has said the UK has trained more than 20k troops.
British media quoted Russian officials on the border tensions as being the “beginning of the end” for Ukraine, however those words have been played down by the Russian ambassador to the UK explaining they have most likely been taken out of context.
RT
Kremlin Press Update:
▪️Russia will continue tit-for-tat response to any further US sanctions
▪️President Putin didn’t discuss jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny with Joe Biden – did however talk about a coup plot in Belarus
Moscow doesn’t monitor the health of ALL prisoners, can’t just take the word of Navalny and his team about his so-called “critical” condition
▪️Czech Republic’s move to expel Russian diplomats “provocative and unfriendly”
Moscow refutes any connection to alleged role in explosion in CZ back in 2014.
Screw the Alexey Navalny MSM media hype.
Prestitute jerks! … who gives a flying …. (starts with an ‘F’ and rhymes with duck)!
What about Julian Assange being incarcerated without fair trial and on what charges?
Publishing the inconvenient truths supplied by whistleblowers about USA war atrocities.
Go figure…
As for little Britian… one mushroom cloud over Londinium should solve 2/3’s of the world’s organised crime problems, imo. Maybe it is time for the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to rejoin with Argentina with a little bit of Russian help? After all, what the (….) has the UK got to do with Russian borderlands?
As for two little English sardine cans floating around the Black Sea causing trouble — take out the mother ship in the Mediterranean (they have obviouslky fixed the kitchen leaks enough to leave port) and be done with it.
“Russian aggression” hysteria! … perhaps that is what is being implicitely requested by these failing entities of former British empire and colonial aggression?
The hypocrisy of it is beyond the pale.
Hal turner reporting that more US planes – “a conga line” – flying over Atlantic than at any time since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I can’t confirm this yet with any other source.
Hal Turner has been more right than wrong during the past few months.
The British are sending troops to Ukraine?
It is “highly likely” that the British are suffering from suicidal ideations just like many of America’s Ukrainian cannon fodder/satraps….
What would it look like if the Czech Republic invaded Russia?
https://youtu.be/fIs6e6vYc_g
Firts thing, during WWII Czechs on part Germans has no forces to fight agains Soviets. Even Herr Hitler was personally deeply afraid of making an army corp from Czechs against whatever in Europe, even in Africa. Czech Guardians of Italian railroad in 1945b were simply bella Ciao pro commies. Czech were forced to fight during WWI against Russians, červený sátečku kolem se toč, jdeme na Rusa nevíme proč, the same situation like nowadays which ended in the Czech Legions in Russia, see Zborovo in both wars. During WWII there was Czech Army Independent Corp in CCCP, the same kind as in UK.
http://eu.eot.su/2021/03/25/essence-of-time-chapter-23/
Russians from Ukraine moved to Portland, OR, in the early aughts. They were the most amazing builders I’ve ever encountered. Totally remodeled my home. Went back to Ukraine once they could, I missed them very much. Am thinking about them nonstop these days.
Andrei Martyanov latest post on his blog – in reply to The Saker post here
Sunday, April 18, 2021
How “Stretching” Looks like
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/04/how-stretching-looks-like.html?m=0
He ends his comments on the british sending 2 warship to black sea w a utube (nice!)
Enjoy!
be well be safe
“He ends his comments on the british sending 2 warship to black sea”
In Roman times a senator “arming” and sending his peasants to die for the Emperor was deemed the height of showing fealty – sometimes in the hope of receiving part of the tribute.
Perhaps some are remembering their Latin dictations?
The deafening silence of the Western Left highlights the following: the Judeo-Zionist “money printers” need a major conflagration, short of nuclear, in order to preserve their objective power on monetary & financial fields, their hegemonic tools of submission to all things Occidental. “The God´s elected”´s occupied territory, called Ukraine, where 8 out of 10 political actors are of Jewish ascendency & their State Department coreligionist brotherhood, fiercely anti-Russian Zionists with an “unfinished” mission from Obama era, care less about a war between Catholic Banderist Ukraine vs Orthodox Russia. Hard to find a better WIN WIN scenario. Bravo l´artiste.
Has the Saker looked at a map to see who actually border Transnistria? It is Ukraine and Republic of Moldavia. and it does bored the Black Sea. If Defender 21 does nothing, how would for instance Romanians attack Transnistria? When it is known that Romanians are better at defending their own rather than attacking and controlling others….
Saker,
f.y.i. Inforus must be inforos
correct, lemme correct that
thank you!
The Saker
Isn’t it obvious what’s coming? Why did a bunch of Turkish drones and military personnel fly over to Ukraine in recent months? What are all those Israeli military personnel and technicians doing in Ukraine? Obviously the Ukrainians are going to attack, with Turkish-operated drones picking off DPR artillery, MLRS, tanks, APC’s, SAM’s and any other vehicles or stationary targets that can be detected and targeted from the air. DPR forces won’t be able to deal with the Turkish drones any more effectively than Armenian forces last year. Ukrainian ground forces will be the cannon fodder (just as Azeri ground forces were the cannon fodder in Armenia), sent in to deal with DPR infantry, mines, etc. Ukrainians will suffer the bulk of the losses while Turkish drones do most of the killing. Israel will provide additional covert support and technical assistance to the Ukrainian military.
By using drones and only targeting DPR (not Russian) forces, Turkey avoids war with Russia, while Israel also stays safe by operating covertly in the background. Russian forces won’t get into direct combat unless they come to the aid of the DPR forces, who will be getting picked off from the air while Ukrainian forces attack them on the ground. The DPR will not fare any better than the Armenians last year.
This will be coordinated with the US and Israel, of course, to ensure the Russians and their allies in Syria are engaged on multiple fronts at the same time.
This should be a well-known strategy by now, the same playbook that worked for the Turks in Armenia (and also partly worked for them in Syria and Libya, before they were really good at it), but this time it will be coordinated with the US, NATO, Isreal and Turkey. And when it happens everyone is going to act surprised again, which is amazing because any neutral, unbiased observer should be able to see this attack coming from a mile away.
I hope this time the Russians take the initiative and use precision strikes to knock out the Turkish drone controllers inside Ukraine (or even inside Turkey if necessary) and using asymmetric warfare against Turkey, Ukraine, or even NATO if it comes to that. The full Russian nuclear arsenal must be put on ready alert status to discourage further escalation by the US and its lapdogs.