by Israel Shamir (cross-posted with the Unz Review by special agreement with the author)
President Trump is so pissed off by the Stormy affair that he is likely to prefer a good old war to another humiliation. This suits his enemies and friends (though not his voters) to a tee. He has a choice of doing a difficult manly act that needs all his courage, but which one? Should he put the well-being of his country at stake and brave Russian missiles, or risk the displeasure of the elites and sack Mueller? He is tempted to do the easy thing. Thus he has been maneuvered into deep waters by a powerful coalition of Brits and Jews, the same people who delivered you the last two world wars.
His attempt to make sense and drop the Syrian hot potato (“I strongly wish for the withdrawal of our forces from Syria”, he tweeted) has been rebuffed by the indomitable Mr Netanyahu. Don’t even think of doing it, the big man from Tel Aviv said to Donny in the tense telephone conversation. Don’t leave Syria, you still have to fight the Iranians and Russians. And don’t forget the Syrian kiddies, added the man still covered with the gore of 2,500 Palestinians shot on his orders last week. The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies take their orders directly from Tel Aviv, or via AIPAC; they are already preparing for an extended stay in Syria, despite Donny’s declarations.
The Jews went ballistic when they heard of Trump’s intention to leave Syria. The scribes of WaPo and NY Times condemned the step as playing into Russian hands. “Washington Post columnist and CNN commentator Catherine Rampell said that “Putin must be ecstatic” with Trump’s instructions to begin planning for withdrawal from the region. Forget the fact that it’d be odd for a president to base all of his foreign policy decisions on what would bother Russia — why isn’t Rampell focusing on how delightful it must be for American soldiers to finally reunite with their families, or how the resources this country has spent overseas can now be used domestically?”, – noted a media reporter. This was the cue for Mueller’s raid of Cohen’s office. The old fool has to be pushed, if he does not want to go by his own will, they decided.
America with its Puritan background is the only country where sexual mores are so strict that they lead to war. Clinton went to war in Yugoslavia because of a blow job, while Trump will possibly destroy the world because of a one-night stand.
An attack on Syria is likely to bring a Russian response. At the least, it will be a local conflagration, a joust, a trial of forces and wills. Who knows how it will end? This was been postponed in 2013, when the US armada sailed to Syria’s shores to avenge some other alleged chemical attack. I wrote about that fateful encounter, perhaps over-optimistically, in a piece called The Cape of Good Hope.
“It was touch and go, just as risky as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The chances for total war were high, as the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern Mediterranean. The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them – the Russian flotilla of eleven ships led by the carrier-killer missile cruiser Moskva and supported by Chinese warships. Apparently, two missiles were launched towards the Syrian coast, and both failed to reach their destination. (We shall return to these two missiles later).
After this strange incident, the pending shoot-out did not commence, as President Obama stood down and holstered his guns. This was preceded by an unexpected vote in the British Parliament. This venerable body declined the honour of joining the attack proposed by the US. This was the first time in two hundred years that the British parliament voted down a sensible proposition to start a war; usually the Brits can’t resist the temptation. This misadventure put paid to American hegemony , supremacy and exceptionalism. Manifest Destiny was over.”
As we see now, the high noon was been postponed by five years, and now it is being re-run. The British Prime Minister Theresa May decided she does not need parliament’s approval, President Trump decided he does not need an approval of Congress. So these brakes had been removed.
And now back to those two missiles of 2013. They were sent by the Israelis, whether they were trying to jump-start the shoot-out or just observed the clouds, as they claim. The missiles never reached its destination, shot down by the Russian ship-based sea-to-air defence system, or perhaps rendered useless by Russian GPS jammers.
Fast forward to 2018. On the night of April 10, in the small hours, the Syrian air field T-4 had been attacked by eight air-to-ground missiles; five were downed by the Syrian defence, three (or two) reached their goal and killed a few personnel. For a while, it was thought this was the American attack, but rather quickly, “Russia outed Israel”, as Haaretz reported. Israel tried to dissimulate, at first claiming they warned Putin and got his okay. When Putin’s spokesman denied that, they said they did it by the US request. Most probably they again tried to bring the confrontation to the fore.
Now, with the US Navy in place, with the support of England and France, the countdown to a confrontation has apparently started. The Russians are grimly preparing for the battle, whether a local one or the global one, and they expect it to begin any moment.
The road to this High Noon had led through the Scripal Affair, the diplomats’ expulsion and the Syrian battle for Eastern Ghouta, with an important side show provided by Israeli shenanigans.
The diplomats’ expulsion flabbergasted the Russians. For days they went around scratching their heads and looking for an answer: what do they want from us? What is the bottom line? Too many events that make little sense separately. Why did the US administration expel 60 Russian diplomats? Do they want to cut off diplomatic relations, or is it a first step to an attempt to remove Russia from the Security Council, or to cancel its veto rights? Does it mean the US has given up on diplomacy? (The answer “it’s war” didn’t come to their minds at that time).
The astonished Russians responded all right. They also expelled 60 diplomats, and they made it painful: all US diplomats engaged in the political department of the Moscow Embassy were on the non-grata list. The Political department consisted of three sections, dealing with foreign policy, internal Russian politics and military analysis; the most important centre of data collection, of liaison with Russian politicians, of military consequences, of Syria and Ukraine, of North Korea and China, experienced first-class intelligence officers and field hands – all gone, including their Political Officer Christopher Robinson (POL). The Russians expelled Maria Olson, the Embassy’s well-known spokesperson, and the Ambassador’s interpreter. They closed down St Petersburg Consulate, an important centre for connecting, influencing and interacting with the opposition in this ‘second capital’ of Russia. The US has lost many of its Moscow hands, people who knew Russia and had developed personal relations with important Russians. It will take a lot of time and effort for the US State Department and intelligence agencies to get back to the positions they had lost. The Brits who initiated the deportations also lost about fifty of their Moscow Embassy staff.
Surprisingly, the mass deportation of so many Russian diplomats had little effect on the Russian people, as this strike had been neutralised by another painful event, by the Kemerovo Mall blaze killing 64 cinema-goers including over 40 children. The blaze, even if it weren’t arson (it has not been proven yet) had triggered a massive onslaught of fake news and internet trolls on the people of Russia. A million underfed Ukrainians were deployed by the Western psywar on the web to tell the Russians that hundreds of their children had been incinerated, and that their authorities lie to them. This operation revealed the level of influence and integration the Western spy agencies have in Russia.
Kemerovo was a good choice for the operation: it is the only ethnic-Russian region ruled by an old-style local hero who had outlived his wits, the only region that reported indecently (and unrealistically) high support for Putin in the recent elections, a depressive region of mines and miners with a big potential for trouble.
Putin managed it rather well by coming personally and dealing with the situation hands on. He learned the ropes since 2000, when, at the dawn of his first presidential term, the Kursk submarine went down with all hands. Putin stayed away from the sailors’ families, and acted callous, people said. “It had sunk”, Putin replied to the question “What happened to Kursk?” (It is said USS Memphis had fired a torpedo at the submarine, causing the disaster, while the new president had been reluctant to aggravate relations with Clinton Administration). Now, in 2018, he was very good, full of empathy and consideration, conveying strength and decisiveness.
Whatever American agency carried out the psyop around Kemerovo, it was very successful, but its success undermined another operation, that of the Russian diplomats’ expulsion. The Russians did not pay it sufficient attention.
The alleged reason for the expulsion, the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter, made very little sense. Even if the old spy were bumped off by his erstwhile employers, such a reaction would be excessive by all means. He was not a Napoleon (poisoned by the Brits 200 years ago), not a prince of blood, not a great inventor nor a successful spy. He was a retired ex-spy, a wash-out. Anyway he didn’t die, he was just sick for a while. Perhaps he ate something in the pub that didn’t agree with him. This is the opinion of his niece, Victoria, who is the only person alive who had been in contact with the Skripals since their alleged hospitalisation.
This affair is so obscure that it beats Rashomon anytime. Russian reporters went around Salisbury and noticed many incongruences. It is not certain whether Skripals were poisoned at all, and where they are. Their pets survived the deadly poison, and they had to be destroyed. This piece of black Russian humour had been forwarded a lot around the net:
Skripal had been poisoned by a most powerful poison, 2 grams will kill half a country instantly! The Russians
– poisoned him in the restaurant
– no, on the bench
– no, in the car
– No, the door handle was smeared
– No, the suitcase was poisoned
– No, everything in the house was poisoned.
– Oh, and buckwheat was poisoned,
– but they did not die instantly, but walked around somewhere for four hours,
– but the policeman that discovered them almost died on the spot,
– but the poison was instantly identified,
– an antidote was instantly introduced, and Skripals and the policeman were saved;
– The policeman had been discharged next day!
– But they were in coma, and they will never recover!
– but no, the daughter had recovered fast!
– Oh, and dad is revived … a miracle!
– and they both are quickly recovering, your strongest poison is useless.
– the restaurant had been surrounded by police in spacesuits
– the park had been surrounded by police in spacesuits
– the house had surrounded by police in spacesuits
– they are in spacesuits, since the poison is deadly dangerous, but next to them are policemen without protection …
– The bench was cut down and removed: it’s such a terrible poison that the bench retained its toxic quality for two weeks;
– but the cat had survived in the poisoned house … the policeman had touched Skripal and nearly died, and the cat survived … and the guinea pigs would survive, but they were all forgotten, and died of hunger in the house;
– and their remains were immediately burned, as they are poisoned by the strongest poison;
– For two weeks they were poisoned by the strongest poison and survived, and now they had to be urgently cremated;
– Only guinea pigs died, the cat survived all this poison. It was stressful and hungry, so they killed it and cremated to make it certain nobody will find the secret etc etc.
The true hero of Skripal saga is the British ex-Ambassador Craig Murray, who followed the developments and unveiled many of its inconsistencies and outright lies. You may read his articles and twits to learn the details.
Julia Skripal took a daring step: she called her cousin Viktoria in Moscow. Their conversation is an amazing document. Julia says that she and her father are in good health; she doubts Viktoria will be allowed to visit her. Indeed, the British government refused to grant her visa. The feeling is that Julia is imprisoned.
I spoke with a retired Russian counter-intelligence officer who is familiar with the subject. He told me Russia never had a Novichok toxic substance: this name was given by counter-intelligence to A-232 in order to trace the leaks. It worked: a man called Vil Mirzayanov, an administrator in the chemical labs, leaked the Novichok story, and thus he was apprehended and arrested. A-232 had been produced in small amounts in 1990s, and some of it could be stolen and sold in these horrible years, when a full colonel of Russian intelligence had to moonlight as a taxi driver to supplement his measly $46 monthly salary. In those years, the poison could be indeed made available, and in one case it was used by criminals.
Theoretically it is not impossible that some of this poison could have been saved and stored by some criminals; alternatively, it was available to the Americans who dismantled the labs in 1992. Anyway we have no independent proof that Skripals were poisoned by anything at all. If they survive, if the British and the American intelligence services don’t kill them, perhaps we shall know more. We can definitely exclude the possibility that Russian state agents would go to Britain to poison an old spy who had been pardoned by Russian president years ago. Even if he was active in producing Christopher Steele’s Trump (“Golden Rain”) file, the Russians would have no compelling reason to kill him at all, and in such an odd way in particular. “If we would kill him, he would stay killed”, concluded my interlocutor.
The details of Skripal case are very entertaining, but not necessary for our understanding. The case was used to install in minds the connection between chemical poisoning and Russia. It is unfair, for Russians destroyed all their chemical poisons under the eyes of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors, but life is often unfair.
The connection between chemical poisoning and Russia had been prepared for the forthcoming event. Eastern Ghouta was an important and well entrenched location of the Syrian rebels. Being within easy reach from Central Damascus, it provided the rebels with a chance to seize power in the Syrian capital. As the Syrian army with Iranian and Russian support advanced into Eastern Ghouta, they learned of the rebel plans to stage a false flag chemical weapon attack, as they already had done a few times in past. President Putin warned of such a possibility at his joint (with President Erdogan and President Rouhani) press conference in Ankara last week, a few days before the alleged attack.
The attack had never occurred at all, but it was duly reported by the pro-Western media. Thus the game came to a close. Skripal Affair established the connection of Russia and chemical weapons, Eastern Ghouta allowed to use this connection in order to attack Russia.
We should not overestimate importance of these media events. The leading Western powers and their media refused to consider different explanations, refused an open inquiry, they went for jugular. Russia has been demonised in 2018, like Germany was demonised in 1940. It was a long and cautious labour. Have a look at this site theday.co.uk – it is a site for school children and their teachers. You’ll be amazed to discover its fervent hatred of Russia and Putin being pumped into hearts and heads of young generation. Such a long planning can’t be dependent on an event like poisoning of an ex-spy or even on the fall of a Syrian underground fortress.
The planners of a war on Russia have utilised fear of anti-Semitism for their purposes. I called this method Anti-semitism Weaponised. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has been blocked and contained by accusations of anti-Semitism. He was the only leader able to stop Britain’s descent into war with Russia. Other Labour MPs and activists have been attacked over alleged anti-Semitism issue, and – what a coincidence! – practically all of them were against demonising Russia; while Friends of Israel – whether Conservative or Labour – were viciously anti-Russian.
This is a correlation that will be discussed at another time, but it is far from obvious one. Russia has no anti-Semitism; the Russian president is friendly to Israel and to the powerful Jewish Chabad movement. Russia has no white nationalism, and little of the alt-right. However, this correlation exists. Shall we explain it by Jewish hatred of the Orthodox Church, as this Church (active in Russia, Greece, Palestine and Syria) hasn’t been Jewified. Or should we prefer a more simple explanation: Jews are well integrated into Western elites, and they promote and support the goals of these elites.
However, people who can withstand accusations of anti-Semitism are the strongest enemies of the ruling power; they stand against the war with Russia and against attack on Syria, as the Haaretz newspaper explained in an article called White Supremacists Defend Assad, Warn Trump: Don’t Let Israel Force You Into War With Syria . The article continues: “Alt-right calls Saturday’s chemical attack in Damascus suburb a false flag operation, claiming it’s an effort by Israel and ‘globalists’ to keep U.S. troops in Middle East” It quotes David Duke and other untouchables as the only people who reject Israeli narrative.
Not being a white supremacist (probably I do not qualify) I still applaud these brave men when they say and do the right thing. Sensitivity to anti-Semitism accusation is a strong vulnerability of character. Though people like Corbyn have their heart in the right place, they are weak on this point, and the enemy uses this weakness to neutralize them. There are people in the left that are not afraid of any accusation, but there aren’t many who are resistant to metum Judaeorum.
Let us hope and pray we shall survive the forthcoming cataclysm.
Israel Shamir can be reached at adam@israelshamir.net
This article was first published at The Unz Review.
Well written and eloquently put. Thank you.
The US carrier fleet won’t be in position until 18 April. We are hoping for peace but preparing for war in our house the rest of the month.
Impeach Trump!
I find it hard to read an article when I strongly disagree with the opening sentence of the first two paragraphs.
This has nothing to do with Stormy. Turn off American news channels.
It was the US military that very clearly and publicly told Trump no as to withdrawing from Syria.
VP Pence is even worse, and a pure cold-war neocon who was added to the ticket to try to appease the part of the Republican party that Trump had aggravated during the primaries. Pence would not even hesitate for an instant to go to war.
One of the very big problems right now is that there are few if any prominent politicians in America who are not rabidly pro-war. Even Sanders in his last campaign refused to go anywhere near that position. Sanders was asked how he would pay for his programs, but he refused to ever suggest cutting the military budgets. Sanders was very pro-Israel. And he’s the one considered ‘radical’ of the top leadership in DC.
See wot this Idiot and Narc-is/ Trump wons to do !!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/11/kremlin-us-strike-against-syria-heighten-instability
The article is basically correct. However, Israel Shamir can be inaccurate, prone to exaggeration. Clinton did not attack the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia because of that little affair with Monica Lewinsky. He did it to break up the country, before NATO could move towards Russia’s borders. The Russians were certainly not flabbergasted by the diplomatic expulsions. Trump just repeated what Obama did before him. They expected the expulsions, began by Theresa May in Britain, that false flag in England being an obvious MI6/CIA joint provocation. To state that the expulsions, “surprisingly”, had little effect on the Russian population is evidence that Shamir does not fully understand the Russian mentality, or else is under the influence of liberal circles in Russia. Many people in the West immediately recognized that the false flag in England was just that, a false flag. Did the Russian people also not recognize that this was the case ? The fire in Kemerovo is indeed suspicious. Putin handled the situation professionally, coming personally to the scene.
Finally, at the beginning of this year Israel Shamir wrote an article on Paul Grudinin, a Russian businessman who became a communist candidate for the Presidency. The article was astonishing for it’s exaggerations and totally unrealistic analysis. Shamir quoted pro-Western liberal circles and Internet websites, who stated that Grudinin had the backing of between 30 % and 80 % of Russian voters, which was hilarious. Before the article appeared, I didn’t even know Grudinin existed, as no Western website even mentioned him. And yes, during the elections, Grudinin received only 12 % of the vote. Shamir should perhaps chose some of his words more carefully.
Fine. Shamir builds a loyal readership with always fresh perspectives. And he takes risks, intelligently.
Could some of that be of the MO of the Russian Security Services that planted the gas story to flush some rats out of the woodwork?
The most important thing here is that Shamir’s mother (and father presumably) is or was (if still living….in Israel) jewish as was the author himself until the spiritual horror of the enslavement of jewish minds by the Empire caused his conversion to Orthodox Christianity.
In other words, he is a seasoned and tested spiritual warrior….on the battle terrain that counts the most….in the hearts and minds of those few Americans, Israelis…..and Jews anywhere (he is not the only Ex_Jew or present Jew who sees the heavy chains of mind and spirit control being used on people he has had no choice, from birth, to be identified with …….and despite choosing his Russian-ness and Orhtodoxy over the Empire’s Judaic brand of slave chains, yet labors to free them, as well.
So why quibble??
In six years Russia will need a new Putin. Shamir was only thinking ahead. If only millions of people in Russia, USA, Israel and Europe ALSO had that habit!
Meanwhile, the sex angle is perceptive and important. Even the Clintons were human, a long time ago, and there was a time when Bill, in the White House, was doing and saying a few things the British did not like. Such as stating the obvious need for “A New Financial Architecture.”
And Monica was soon thereafter deployed to pull down his pants in the basement, have no doubts about that!
And what little of Bill Clinton was of ANY potential for humanity was broken, drip by drip of relentless Empire pressure. A common tale….or tail, if you will.
Same MO with Trump.
So why quibble??
These are deeper insights worth taking careful note of.
One reason doesnt eliminate the other, Clinton surely detested the entire investigation, the feeling then, even by liberals was that he was intensely uncomfortable, so much so they even made a movie, whose stars ran into Clinton during filming and told him “be careful”, Serbian state television to film the movie during the bombing campaign….but, before all of this ? The US wanted to dismember FRY, Kissinger warned against it,others,but US deep state and mouthpieces, Robert Kaplan and more activiely promoted it, meetings between Izebetovic and Tudjman and CIA occurred….matter of time…..now, hashtags begin in US Sibirxit, Tatarxit, promoting breakup of RF, but it cant happen here….Russia needs to activielypromote every secessionist group in US, from Nation of Islam, Lakota secessionists, Alaska, Texas, Cascadia, Indian tribes, Puerto Rico, etc….givethem embassies here….send money, repair their slums..
Shamir certainly was wrong in his reference to Putin’s handling of the sinking of the Kursk. Not only did he indeed go and see families, he attended a mass town hall meeting, where the antipathy was so strong, none of his team wanted him to go – they were afraid he’d get torn to pieces.
His handling of the crowd was remarkable to watch. His obvious honesty, distress, and truth-telling won them over. As one reporter present commented “at some point, they crossed over a line with him; the line separating their men from death. They came to an acceptance with him. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life”.
One should never sacrifice truth for the sake of a more dramatic sounding piece of writing.
Putin’s handling of that terrible, grief stricken, angry meeting was incredible indeed – and he had only just landed the job !!
It was an indication of the statesman of honour and truth and courage to come.
There is no way to take today’s “Presidential” Tweets along with the long ramp-up to this moment and not conclude that Russia is the “target” of this coming attack.
This is not about Syria, per se, Assad, per se or Iran and the Shia crescent that runs through Syria.
This is directly a military attack to downgrade Russia as the winner of the war, as the new Regional “decider”, and President Putin as the preeminent global leader of influence.
This is to stop Russia’s progression in the MENA and, now, down into the Horn of Africa.
This is to stop Russian sales of S 400s to former US vassals and clients.
This is to uproot the emotional connection of MENA peoples to the heroic Russian military men on the ground and in the air, the Russian medical and humanitarian corps, and the skilled and brave reconciliation officers of the Russian Forces, and, very importantly, the courageous Russian de-mining brigades that have saved tens of thousands of lives throughout the country removing hundreds of thousands of mines and IEDs.
The Hegemon cannot bear the humiliation of seeing the Syrians of all faiths embrace the Russian Orthodox and Chechen Sunni soldiers.
So this is the unspoken component of the conflict–religion versus godless hegemony.
Russia has rescued Syria from the savage nihilist terrorists, who are proxies and cannon fodder for the faux Judeo-Christian megalithic war machine of the corrupt MIC.
I am always suspicious when I can not read the real reasons for the war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the threat to Russia and China about war. Any sandbox level is probably not yet, even though the article does not in any way do anything to describe the only real reality that Trump, Usrael and NATO are working for – I’ve said before and have to repeat. The war in MÖ has the strongest reason – the independence of these countries with petrodollarn, which Anglosinonists do not tolerate anymore. They require 100% obedience to $ dollarhegemonin $. Countries that do not want to settle in the world’s largest parasitic currency must die. The Chinese were warned not to get rid of their US government bonds (bonds) they would become the Atombombade otherwise. The same policy is being pursued against countries that go against the dollar heathen without the nuclear bomb threats without the countries being “bombed back to the Stone Age”. Imagine if you could ever read an analysis of dollar imperialism.
there is one. it’s written from a general from PLA. some of the more factual folks here can pass the link maybe.
Super Imperialism
The Economic Strategy of American Empire
http://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf
Defending Dollar Imperialism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/01/defending-dollar-imperialism/
America: Host Or Parasite? – Michael Hudson
https://soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/2051-20070314-guns-and-butter
Monetary Imperialism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/29/monetary-imperialism/
I would only add to the post by Larchmonter445 that the West that wants to keep going forward is directly up against the East that cannot back up any further.
Russia, Iran, and Syria all know what it means if they blink.
They can’t submit and give up pieces of themselves to the West.
Syria seems to be the linchpin of a titanic struggle between West and East.
The East looks sober and rational while the West looks hysterical and vicious.
Actually it is both an attack on Syria for Israel & part of the still running – but failing – PNAC.
It is also the roman catholic’s attack on the Russian Orthodox church.
Ralph — please explain what a decaying RC church has to do with this specific US organized attack on Syria.
Most Roman Catholics I know are backing Assad and Putin for protecting what is left of Christianity ( Melchite, Maronite, Assyrian, Orthodox of Greek / Syrian / Iraq and 15 others ) in Syria.
It’s not about ordinary catholics, but about those in power, just like in politics. Think of bliar’s wife – a very bad catholic – went 3 times to see the pope and get his orders for the destruction of Britain.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
“White supremacy” is an absolute canard. Are apples “superior” to oranges, or are they just different? Is it wrong to want apples and oranges to both go on existing? I.e., existing separately, i.e., the only way they can exist?
The “Alt Right” doesn’t believe in white supremacy, it believes in the uniqueness and validity of all people – be they racial or ethnic groups – and that all such groups have a right to exist and be different from one another. But when a white person says this, they get called “white supremacist.” Its an absolute canard of the most obvious kind.
It would be as if I called Russian people “Russian Supremacists” if they resisted the idea that “Russia is merely a social construct and you have no right to claim that Russians are a unique group worthy of preservation.”
There is a lot I agree with in this commentary, and also a lot I don’t. Naturally, I’ll point out bits I disagree with. ;)
“President Trump is so pissed off by the Stormy affair that he is likely to prefer a good old war to another humiliation.”
The zionazi-gay aggression against Syria is not dependent of trump’s worry that Daniels will let everybody know about his sexual inadequacies.
“Thus he has been maneuvered into deep waters by a powerful coalition of Brits and Jews, the same people who delivered you the last two world wars.”
Trump is the head spokes-boy for a powerful coalition of fascists and Jews, the same people who delivered you the last two world wars. There, fixed.
“Clinton went to war in Yugoslavia because of a blow job, while Trump will possibly destroy the world because of a one-night stand.”
These are misdirections. Planning for the zpc/nwo unpolar world is not dependent upon the a couple of gofers being ashamed of their sexual inadequacies/perversions being made public.
“(The answer “it’s war” didn’t come to their minds at that time).”
Yes it did. Putin specifically included a listing of new military tech as a warning to the zionazis. The Russians have been well aware the zionazis are hell bent on war. The Russians knew the zionazis would ramp up the aggression to try and prevent Syria finishing off their terrorists.
“This was the first time in two hundred years that the British parliament voted down a sensible proposition to start a war”
The brits also stayed out of Vietnam.
Some other unimportant inaccuracies in the piece, but most of the rest I think is right on the money.
Hum… Brits stayed out of Vietnam?… Double oxymoronic talking point when Australia and New Zealand were heavily involved. Are we talking about colonial Monarchies or ‘officially’ allied States?
As usual UK joining in provocations but urging their mates to battlefields.
Well, we can always count on Israels sharp comment. He always seems to be able to cut through excrement. This is why some may find it inaccurate, although I always appreciate his comments.
BF, I agree with your statement that Yugoslavia was attacked in order to destroy it’s independence, especially that it was in the middle of EU and it basically obstructed Nato’s expansion. But, you can never know if the problem with Levinska (y in anglo lingo) wasn’t a fruit on the cake.
Netanyahu is not responsible for Trump’s behavior. There really are too many saying look at Israel. Better to look at London, New York and Washington/virgina.
Take a John Mccain. You really think he’s a monster because of Israeli bad influence? He’s otherwise a good guy? Are you kidding?
The anglo-american idea, before it the roman heretical one, is the problem. The “knights of columbus” is just as much the problem as “the b’nai b’rith.”
I don’t understand Russian thinking. The world is not going to get better for Russia anytime soon. There is no diplomatic way out of this particular chapter for Russia. Russia’s enemies have made up their minds. I predict Putin will cut and run. Iran and Syria just aren’t worth it. Russia doesn’t have enough real allies to be the peacekeeper in the Middle East.
FTS. I am not Russian but I think I understand their thinking well. The first and most important step in understanding people is to know their history. Let’s start there first. First and foremost not many people in the West know the history. Whatever they are being taught can be thrown in the garbage. So let’s start quick lesson. Most European countries start their written history in and after VII century AD. Except the Countries exposed to Greek Influence including Western Roman Empire (Ireland, English Isle, France all north of Mediterranean as Med people were exposed to them long before). So back to Russia. Since the VII AD they had contacts with People to the West, Byzantium to the south and lots and lost of Asiatic people to the South and East. Believe it or not, this taught them very philosophical approach to things and people, as all the people the Russians were exposed to had different mentality. They learned to communicate with these people and on occasion fight them as well. This philosophical approach to inter-human relations is what the arrogant West never learned and I do not think it will ever learn.
The US has also been guilty of fighting the last war. It cost us too.
FromTheStates
You could not be more wrong. I will not, and may not, tell you what I’m seeing in our quiet little village of a Navy town but I will tell you what I see in regards to civilians.
For starters, we’ve been under economic warfare from CehSha and the lapdogs of eu for four years. This warfare is ever increasing and getting worse. Various entities are under cyber attack now, almost constantly, but for the most part the net and various banking systems are working reliably. For the moment. However, these attacks have caused some inconvenience but in general the ordinary people like us just buckle down and get done what must be done.
We had to go to Simferopol just east of us today. First, let me reiterate one more time how much I dislike that city with it’s charming roads with built in tank traps and other wonderful little foibles. However, we had to pick up some parts from the best machine shop in Krimu so we had to go.
Needless to say, whilst in that bucolic little city VCO opted to go to Ashan, a rather large new shopping center in the north side. In it is what is probably the best grocer in all of Krimu with prices that could be described as more than reasonable. She, and all her friends from here all the way to Moskau and east to Olmsk, know what is coming. She loaded up with mostly non perishables, tinned foods and food for the children, one of whom is on a special diet. Also matches, simple spices, basic kitchen and cleaning chemicals, paper goods and what have you.
I’m pretty observant and while VCO was filling the rather large cart top to bottom and under frame, I watched the other shoppers. The vast majority were doing the same thing, little if anything frivolous, mainly basics and necessities. We were there from roughly 14:00 on Wednesday, a work day. The place is huge and was packed. Shelves were bulging and workers were constantly at their task of replenishing the shelves the whole time we were there, ergo not shortage of anything.
At checkout, the young girl at the register was working hard but she glanced at us as we came to her. Lines were short and every one of the 15 or so check outs were manned, or should I say ‘woman’d’ and working efficiently. As she was zipping goods through the electronic register device she overheard me and VCO speaking English. She stopped and looked surprised, then asked me where I was from, in passable English. VCO stepped in and told her I was American and had we have lived in Sevastopol for over 12 years.
Long story short, several other customers heard our discourse and we ended up with a group of about 20 after we all went through Kassa. Lots of questions and answers in the discussion as to where we were from but nothing in the least untoward to us. Basically, everyone knew what is coming and everyone was stocking up. Almost all said all their friends and neighbors were doing the same. All were 100% behind V V Putin and our armed forces and just about everyone over 40 had family members in service one way or another. Names and emails were exchanged before we all left as a group and some discussions continued outside in the parking lot.
It is the same here in Sevastopol. VCO of course forgot a couple items she needed so we stopped at our local grocer on the way home. She reported the same thing, the place was packed and citizens were stocking up. She said the mood was the same as in Simferopol (I had gone to another shop while she was in Fora). She said no one was in panic, no one was in great fear of what is coming even though our little city is Ground Zero if things get really bad.
Our take from today is all the populace we have been in contact both today and for the last week know what is coming and all will fight and assist our armed forces to the hilt. All support V V Putin and his Stavka and trust him. Everyone who can is stocking up as we are. We have a little more to do, tomorrow I will fill the truck with diesel, he’s the backup fuel supply for our generator if that worthy little machine is called to duty again. Friday I have a meeting to attend in City and Saturday we’ll go to Bahxtisarai to stock up on porridge makings for the children. Once that is accomplished, all the stock up goodies will be put aside and we’ll continue with regular purchases for day to day use.
My take on the situation is thus. Russia and her citizens know what is coming. Russia will not back down this time and this fact I’m sure has been communicated to Five Points and the White House. I am sure behind the scenes contacts are extant and frequent and one can hope that some reason and sanity will come out in Foggy Bottom. If not, I have no doubts that in his 01 March speech President Putin did not disclose all the weapons he has at his beck and call. Bottom line, Russia is as ready as she can be. The rest is in His hands, not ours.
I will not leave you with my usual links to books of conflict, this time the sole link will be to Blue Cloud, a pleasant little tale written by Annya Koli about life from the eyes of a dog. Enjoy the read if you so desire, it should be relaxing in these tumultuous times. The moral lesson at the end some might find interesting in these times and is typically Russian.
Auslander
Blue Cloud https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0797XJM91
For ~30 years US experienced an undisputed hegemony and what they did with it?The same disease (A.K.A. leadership mental degeneration) that affected late Soviet politburo and led to SU disintegration in 80-90ths of last century now is affecting the US establishment. In retrospect it should have been expected: with abundant food and lack of competitors all animals grow fat, lazy, and prone to various degenerating conditions. Now they realised that comfortable hegemony is rapidly going..going… and will be shortly gone. But being a mental midgets their preferred solutions are of the same quality. It will not help, but the road to more balanced international world arrangement will be sprinkled with inordinate amount of blood. It always does. Both in animal kingdom and in human societies. The only diff. is the existence of doomsday weapons in human societies.
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You wont find such well stocked shelves in the usa, from my experience the last few years. They let the shelves empty out and stay empty for days. Especially inexpensive items, the marketing plan being let the lower cost items remain unstocked, and not reordered, so the expensive stuff will move.
And when there is an emergency, all hell breaks loose, with price gouging up the yin yang.
Vot tak
Russians well remember the early ’90’s and regard thin shelves as a harbinger of the actual store closing. Since a dying magazine will put outdated and/or defective goods on the shelves, the customers know not to shop there.
Prices for medicines are Government set, as is petrol, diesel and NG fuels for autos and trucks. Some staples are also price controlled to an extent and the real price controls are by the locals.
Price gouge in this AO and your business will die the moment the crisis for said gouging is over. During our manufactured local petrol crisis of late summer ’14, four of the seven petrol stations on our side of the ditch raised prices instantly and one in addition would sell only to their ‘commercial’ customers. When VVP stepped in and stopped the ‘crisis’ cold, within weeks all five petrol emporiums were dead and closed. They all opened again ‘under new ownership’ but the locals knew it was the same folks who gouged and they died again. Locals forget nothing.
Auslander
When the hurricane hit Houston, Texas area last year the stores here played a smart game. Claiming shortages of many things due to transportation problems and more the shelves became increasingly more empty. Except for certain unpopular items or brands and especially second-grade items like dented cans, foodstuffs nearing the expiration dates and so-on.
Slick trick.
I thought too that President Putin must have “more weapons” available to use in a case of a conflict! It would be the end if Russia would be defeated, because the repercussion would be in Ukraine and in the BRICS as well. Or the West or Russia is bluffing, and we will see soon…I would love to see UK and US defeated!!!
” I don’t understand Russian thinking”.
Of course you/ I don’t. We can try though. The traditional beginning of Russian history is 862 A.D.
Compared to Russia US is not even an embryo.
“The world is not going to get better for Russia anytime soon.”
Possibly. …but we don’t know what is going to happen in one minute from now. Nor “anytime soon”.
” Russia’s enemies have made up their minds. ”
It seems so. However, there is always a chance due to other unknown circumstances they are forced to change it.
” I predict Putin will cut and run”.
Putin is not a bluffing man nor is he a coward. Only time will tell what he does of course, but I would not describe it as ” cut and run”. The man is an enigma, unpredictable in a good way.
” Iran and Syria just aren’t worth it”.
The life of every child in our world is always worth it. You would not say that if your child was in Iran or Syria.
You have said much about yourself in such few words.
” Russia doesn’t have enough real allies to be the peacekeeper in the Middle East.”
Russia is already a peace maker in the Middle East. Russia has brought peace to Muslims and Christians in Syria. All peacemakers are Children of God.
As to ‘real allies’……….” If God is with you who can be against you”?
Correction: There is a tape which shows Putin speaking for several hours to a crowd of distraught relatives shortly after the sinking of the Kursk. He was never flippant except to smirking Western reporters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53SFiPsjEo
check this out around 11:28
Drop in Iranian Currency 2018
Iran also needs to decouple it’s currency from dollar.
The current sudden dramatic drop in Iranian currency versus the dollar is probably due to active intervention by Saudi Arabia and US, under the rule of General PlayStation Muhammad Bin Salman and Trump, dumping Iranian currency and shorting the market, the same way that Soros did against the Pound.
Muhatir Muhammad addressed a similar run in Malaysian currency more than a decade and a half ago, by going against the IMF & World Bank recommendations. He blocked the access to Malaysian market to the Western economies.
The solution is to completely block any purchase of non-essential goods from ALL Western countries, including the Europeans, where lots of US companies are stack holders anyway. Iran does not need Gucci, Mercedes not Levi’s jeans.
It is time to drive up the cost for the aggressors in the Middle-East. This can be done through minimal investment by Iran, through coordination with regional countries by embargoing ISAF in Afghanistan & US occupation forces in Northern Iraq and Syria.
Just block the oil product sales through Iranian border to ISAF in Afghanistan and coordinate with Russia and Pakistan (Trump was putting pressure in them, they can have their payback time now) and tax essential goods that are meant for Kurdistan heavily.
Blockage does not have to be physical entirely. Anyone purchasing fuel in Afghanistan from Iran, Pakistan and Russia, has to pay a premium. Essential goods export to Kurdistan should be heavily tarriffed by Iran, Iraq and Turkey as they have a common enemy.
In order to avoid causing suffering for the regular Afghans & Kurds, that premium should be directly reinjected in local currency back in the the local economy. By providing subsidies to local population via their local mosques, their purchasing power will be maintained and the price of goods for ISAF and JSOC will be driven up further as they will have competition from the locals for scares products.
The RICHIS ALLIANCE (Russia, Iran, China, Hezbollah, Iraq & Syria) alliance ,”through shear luck”, could short the oil market when Kurdish and Saudi/UAE oil facilities, get distorted. As it would happen some Yemeni resistance fighters” and a couple of dozens “disaffected Arab with “homemade” ballistic missiles. Suddenly we would discover that, the Yemenis have also had a “sudden indigenous industrial brakethrough” and (;-) would have bought a few over the counter drones and made makeshift “Plastic Submarines” in the sheds in villages and would have hit Ras Al Tanura, Yanbu, Dhahran,… in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
Incidentally a dozen of “disaffected former Arab-members of SDF” would happen burn down a few dozens of oil rigs and all the pumping stations (the latter is MUCH much more difficult, expensive and if done properly impossible to repair. Try making industrial oil pumps and transport them through “friendly” neighboring areas around the Occupied Syrian Territory) in North-East Syria above the Euphrates. They would by shear luck happen to distroy these facilities with “TNT sticks, hammers and iron bars” ;-) at the same time.
Obviously RICIS condemn these acts of terrorism that has lead to environmental pollution ;-) and deny any responsibility ;-) .
– The two missiles were fired from US Navy in Spain and shot down by Russian anti-missiles from Caspian Sea, and US ordered Israel to take the blame to not humiliate US and Obama.
What missiles were these? Spain is 3,000+ kms away from Syria and the max range of a Tomahawk is 2,500kms.
Great article but I hardly think they are flabbergasted, more like they wish they had a better option than escalation. The real key to this whole situation, and I have not heard this said, do the Chinese have the Russians back? If not, they have only a few cards to play here.
My russian colleague writes:
Hi, Katherine:
Another unbelievable thing is the “chemical attack” in Syrian city Duma that, very likely, will be used as pretext of the war against Syria and Iran. As it turned out after freeing this city from terrorists, all civil people confirm that no attack took place there. The movie with “poor victims” was made in the other place. The Russian ministry of defense notified about preparation of this provocation a month ago. The ministry also notified that Russian army forces will respond immediately if any Russian in Syria suffer from American bombing. This is not empty threat.
The cousin of Yulia Skripal, Viktoria said that Yulia wants to come back, because she has a good apartment, a good job and a boyfriend in Moscow. Yulia has recovered too rapidly for this kind of chemical weapon and she is already hidden in “secure place”. The reason is clear – she is undesirable witness. British authorities refused to give visa to Viktoria, because they don’t want any contact between her and Yulia.
All this is our new reality. The crime in both cases is obvious, but Monty Piton continues its surrealistic performance. This is the new brave world of “post-truth”.
AND
“You are right, these two affairs are interconnected as pretexts for the new war in Syria. The Skripal affair was also aimed to encourage the Brexit negotiations in favor of Britain and to hush up the pedophile scandal that concerned May’s activity as minister of the interior.
It was announced yesterday or the day before that Yulia Skripal would give press-conference. May be it was again the fake news. If such press-conference occurs, it is highly likely that she will say all what is necessary for organizers of this affair because her father still remains in hospital.
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Katherine
perhaps we need to develop talking points to deflect accusations of anti-semitism so we may speak more freely