Military situation
The situation in the Ukraine and Novorussia is a very tense and could lead to a major resumption of hostilities.
The Junta Repression Forces (JRF) have used the ceasefire to lick their wounds, get reorganized, concentrate their forces, bring in much needed reinforcements, prepare defensive fortifications and bring in new units. The Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF) have done the same but, unlike the JRF, the NAF suffer from a lack of equipment, possibly made worse by a reduction of the flow of weapons, in particular heavy ones, from Russia (the so-called voentorg). In terms of personnel, the influx of volunteers to the NDF has remained steady and strong.
Why did Moscow turn down the air-spigot to Novorussia?
There could be a number of reasons, but the three main one are probably:
1. A way to put pressure on the Novorussian leadership to abide by the ceasefire and to remind them that they cannot ignore the Kremlin’s position.
2. To deny the AngloZionists any possibility to find some proof of the voentorg.
3. To show the Europeans that “see – we are upholding our end of the deal while the Junta does not“
The latter is absolutely true, by the way.
Even though the Donetsk airport has finally been taken (I define “taken” not as “every Ukie killed” but as “every Ukie artillery system destroyed” because this is what matters for Donetsk), the JRF is still shelling the city the north, the west and southwest. Furthermore, there are some very ominous signs that the JRF is preparing to try to encircle Gorlovka.
October 7th combat map |
In the meanwhile the NAF has pulled back the units which had gone as far as the north and even west of Mariupol and the “southern front” has now acquired a much more defensible shape as shown by the latest map (click here for a high-resolution version).
The frontline has not moved much during the ceasefire. The NAF has made some local advances, the JRF has retreated in certain locations, but by and large the line of contact has remained unchanged and it being used as a basis for the development of a disengagement plan prepared by Ukrainian, OSCE, Novorussian and Russian experts. Indeed, there are officially 80 Russian General Staff officers currently in the Donbass (invited by Kiev) who are participating in the development of the planned “buffer zone” between both sides. This fact is, in itself, rather interesting as it now shows that the US, EU, OSCE and the Junta had to give up on their long-standing claim that the Russians had no say or status in an “internal and sovereign Ukrainian process”.
Another very interesting development has been the offer of President Lukashenko of Belarus to send in peacekeepers which the Novorussian authorities immediately accepted. So far, this is not officially on the table, but the offer is interesting for the following reasons:
1. The Belarussians have an extremely powerful military, well-trained and well-equipped and they would be a very robust and tough peacekeeping force.
2. The Belarussians armed forces are extremely close to the Russian armed forces and, for all practical purposes, they are one entity. Thus both the Novorussians and Russians could trust the Belarussians.
3. While Lukashenko is somewhat of a goofball who regularly makes bizarre and contradictory statements, he is also a smart man who knows the score and who will remain loyal to Russia and the CSTO.
In other words, bringing in the Belarussians – even as peacekeepers – could well mean the end of any Ukie hopes to re-conquer the Donbass. This, however, also could mean the end of any Novorussian hopes of liberating the Junta-occupied Novorussia.
Will the ceasefire hold?
I don’t know, but I am confident that the Novorussians will not break it first. Most of them absolutely hate this ceasefire, but they also understand that there are bigger political issues involved and that they cannot simply defy Moscow. As for the Kremlin, its position appears to be that “Plan A” is to make the most of the ceasefire and “Plan B” is to make sure that the Ukies carry the full political responsibility for a resumption of full-scale hostilities.
Parsing the Russian media (corporate and social) I would say that:
1. There is a very large consensus in Russia that the Novorussians have earned the right to be free from Kiev. Of course, many (most?) Russians do understand that Novorussia might have to remain formally part of a unitary Ukraine, but only formally, not in any meaningful way, and only temporarily. A good example of his understanding is this blogger’s analysis (see here machine translated by Google).
2. Nobody in Russia trusts the junta or Poroshenko. There is a consensus that the only way to keep Novorussia safe is to have it militarily strong enough to beat back any possible Ukrainian attack.
3. The Dugin-Limonov camp has lost the PR war and very few people still make the case for an overt Russian military intervention. However, this might very rapidly change of the JRF break the ceasefire and attack.
4. The CIA-backed “liberal” (in the Russian sense) camp is in total disarray. Except for the TV channel Dozhd or the Ekho Moskvy Radio station, nobody takes them seriously and when one of their representatives shows up on a TV show they get eviscerated in minutes by all the other guests and even the show host.
From all this I conclude that Russia is “ready to pounce”: if the Ukies break the ceasefire and massively attack, the “voentorg-spigot” will reopen immediately and freely flow, if the Ukies are successful and if the NAF proves unable to withstand the assault, Russia will directly intervene again like she did in August. If Novorussia is truly threatened, Putin will openly send in the Russian military (though he would do that only if given no other options at all).
Political situation: Banderastan
The situation in Junta-occupied Ukraine (aka “Banderastan”) is one of complete chaos. Violence (political and criminal) is everywhere and the state has more or less ceased to function. Take for example the numerous destructions of the statue of Lenin. First, the fact that they are being destroyed to begin with is a telling example of the Ukie ignorance of history since it was Lenin which created the Ukraine as a state, Stalin which added the western Ukraine, and Krushchev which gave the Ukies Crimea. So they can continue to go on repeating their slogan “Комуняку на гілляку” (“commies on branches” meaning that Communists should be hanged), but the modern Ukraine is a 100% commie-made entity (besides, Lenin was a vicious russophobe who hated everything Russian with a passion). But the main point is that the destruction of these statues shows that law and order are gone and the mob rule is really the only “authority left”.
Second, while there are clans who fight each other inside the junta (Poroshenko vs Kolomoiski vs Liashko vs Iarosh vs Tymoshenko etc.) there is no real opposition left. Well, I guess you could say that there is almost no real opposition left.
Elena Bondarenko |
Following the brutal assault on Rada Deputy Nestor Shufrich (who is now in the hospital), the last two more or less well-known opposition figures are Elena Bondarenko and Nikolai Levchenko, both, like Shufrich, from the Party of Regions. Bondarenko was openly threatened by the Minister of Internal Affairs who actually said on Ukie TV the following: “when I hear her speak my hand goes to my gun”. These are the words of the top law enforcement official in Bandestan!
To be honest, I am very concerned for her personal safety and since she has refused to participate in the upcoming farce of the Ukie elections, she should probably find refuge in Russia or Crimea as her life is most definitely at risk.
Nikolai Levchenko |
The other high profile opposition figure is Nikolai Levchenko, also a Party of Regions Deputy who is often associated with the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. Levchenko, who was elected in the Donbass, is particularly hated by many Novorussian field commanders because he opposes both the JRF and the NAF and because he often compares the two sides. Whether Levchenko truly believes that armed resistance only makes things worse or whether he speaks for the financial interests of Rinat Akhmetov is anybody’s guess. All I can say is that he did openly oppose the neo-Nazi junta in the Rada and that he was assaulted and beaten up for it. Bondakeno also dared to openly challenge the Ukies junta during her speeches in the Rada and was forcibly removed from the podium but not beaten up (yet?).
It is important to stress here that both Bondarenko and Levchenko are loyal Ukrainians – they not only put some of the blame for the violence on the Novorussians, they also reject the return of Crimea to Russia which they blame on the crazy policies of Kiev. If the West had had any decency (or brains for that matter), these are the people it should have supported, but now it is way too late and people like Bondarenko and Levchenko have simply lost their constituency which not only rejects their “moderate” stance but which now considers itself as having left the Ukraine and thus not concerned by elections to the Rada.
As far as I know, neither Levchenko nor Bondarenko are running in the next “election” since they both consider it a total farce (and, besides, since the Donbass won’t participate in this election anyway, what would be the point?). As for the Ukrainian Communist Party, it has basically gone underground, with many of its members assaulted, murdered and threatened. The sad but undeniable reality is that there is no opposition in Banderstan, only various clans and various flavors combining neo-Nazi and oligarchic interests.
Banderastan thus has no political future to speak of. But then, neither does it have an economic, cultural, social or any other kind of future. The only question now is whether it will resemble more Haiti, Somalia or Iraq. The only certain thing about the future now is that coming winter will be terrible and violent.
Political situation: Novorussia
The infighting of Novorussian political leaders and field commanders continues. At best, some of them simply ignore everybody else (Khodakovski or Cossack leaders) at worst, they openly fight each other (Bezler and Zakharchenko). In fact, Zakharchenko apparently resigned, then this resignation was pulled back.
Why is this infighting continuing?
There are several reasons for that:
1) The ceasefire agreement is extremely controversial and while nobody likes it in Novorussia, the degree of opposition to it differs from person to person.
2) Even though Strelkov tried really hard to turn an insurgency of volunteer militiamen into a regular army he was not given enough time and while the purely military coordination has improved (reportedly with Russian General Staff specialists), the political unity is still lacking.
3) There are also upcoming elections in Novorussia and some politicians (Zakharchenko, Gubarev) feel that they must take a politically correct stance.
4) The fact that Russian and Novorussians objective interests are not one and the same also exacerbates the issue of who will get Russian help.
5) Some Novorussian military field commanders (Mozgovoi?) feel that this entire political circus is useless and that Novorussia should be run by those who liberated it: the military. Obviously, civilian politicians don’t care for this kind of vision.
6) The Russian infighting between the “Atlantic Integrationists” and “Eurasian Sovereignists” is having a spillover effect into Novorussia.
As a result of all this, I would say that Novorussia is solid in military terms and weak in political terms. Furthermore, contrary to what I had expected, Strelkov has not had much of an impact on the Russian political scene and, at least so far, has been relatively recluse. I have no explanation for that.
Conclusion:
On one hand, the ceasefire is being constantly and increasingly violated. A major Ukie attack is definitely possible. On the the other hand, the work on the creation of a buffer zone, possibly involving foreign troops, is actively being pursued and the conflict could temporarily be frozen along the current line of contact. Both Banderastan and Novorussia are politically weak and neither is truly under the authority of one single person or group of people. The following months will be catastrophic for the Nazi-occupied Ukraine and quite literally anything is possible there including a 3rd Maidan, a coup, local insurrections, false flag operations, assassinations and, of course, war. In a way, the stupid trench-to-become-wall the Ukies are building along the borders with Novorussia, Russia and Transnistria might end up protecting Banderastan’s neighbors from the effects of the explosion to come.
The Saker
There will be more attacks on Novorussia because the only thing that unites the various fascist factions is “attack on the other”. Bondarenko and Levchenko are typical social democrats—they have no ideology/philosophy or religion that has an understanding of evil. They are doomed. Russia really has won this–it will get the brain drain from Ukraine and the population surge from the refugees. Doubtlessly in a few years, the local oligarchs will try to make deals to sell agricultural good to Russia…Europe will be flooded with Ukrainian immigrants at a time when their economic systems will be faltering. Given the mass graves and atrocities being uncovered, the legitimacy of Kiev will be nil. You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. (A Lincoln).
Dear Saker
assuming that the Kiev Junta does not re-launch a general war, and most shelling can be stopped, the Novorossiyans should let general winter take command and freeze the Ukies asses until they rebel.
One day enough Ukies will wake up and realize that warring against Russia is against their own best interest, that they are nothing more than cattle to the oligarchic/USSA.
One of the aide of president Putin just said “that is very possible that Russia sanctions may be even increased”. Nuland came to Kiev and now” it looks Kiev has a proposal for European gas”. Definitely something is on the making, and it is not pleasant. I hope and pray that Novorrosia ma be ready for it!
caramba!
Let´s see what this turns out into next year. I am personally vowing and praying for novorussians to build up a political and military unit and entitity.
One single new country no matter if temporaril under the grotesque blu flag of kiev.
I fear the Kiev Junta may attempt another attack before winter. Victoria Nuland’s recent visit to kiev is of concern. She is one of the worst characters involved in Ukraine right now, more dangerous than the Ukie oligarchs or Nazis. I fear her visit will lead to another false flag operation, like the downing of flight MH17, or a resumption of hostilities.
Thanks for your work. It is much appreciated. At least you appear to be honest!
Anonymous said…
Perception is not the sole determinant of ability to implement.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraine-iraq-and-black-sea-strategy#axzz3EakkbQYi
http://orientalreview.org/2014/10/07/black-sea-strategy-threshold-of-world-war/
08 October, 2014 09:52
As a Westerner, who comes from the English tradition best testified to in the putney debates and the diggers, it is completely impossible for me to accept that unbalanced picture of Lenin and by proxy the soviet experience. I’d be willing to debate it but I do not consider this to eb the place for it. (I do have sympathy with the point of view that Leninism, as was Maoism, was prepared to sacrifice unbeleiveable amounts of people and in fact nations to oveertrow captialism) and on that basis can understand those who look back with optimism towards the Stolypin / de Witte era. Frankly however I cannot share that optimism. The dividing lines between Liberals, Monarchists, Nationalists, ‘Sovereigntists’ and ‘brown communists’ clearly remain as permeable as ever.
Regarding the rest of the article. It looks like a vicious compromise is being reached with Fascist Ukraine with the only progressive hope being that Ukraine falls apart as a result of its own inertia. I persoanlly would like to hear more about the kind of independent models that Lugansk and Donetsk would want to adopt but in a horrifyingly predictable sense Russia seems to be ensuring that hope does not enter into the debate. Russia playing the role vis a vis NovoRossiaya of Westminster in relation to the Scottish referendum. ie. Stamp down and control.
What I do agree with is that Fascism is the result of a failed revolution and that Fascism was encouraged if notcreated in response to the Soviet and communist threat and that we should unite to eliminate the celebration of racism and economic conservatism that Fascism represents.
Here http://gaideclin.blogspot.fr/
(in a french translation) El Murid tell that several 10 thousands of Donbass inhabitants were killed. As anybody an opinion about these huge number? On this blog a much lower number was told.
If anybody as a url who comment (french or english) about the speech of Belarus President it interest me.
Saker: The Belarussians armed forces are extremely close to the Russian armed forces and, for all practical purposes, they are one entity. Thus both the Novorussians and Russians could trust the Belarussians.
Anu: Thus a big fat NO WAY from NATO/Obamakerry/Pol Pot Shenko.
However, the world is watching who is trying to ratchet down the tensions and who is recalcitrant.
Saker:
The CIA-backed “liberal” (in the Russian sense) camp is in total disarray. Except for the TV channel Dozhd or the Ekho Moskvy Radio station, nobody takes them seriously and when one of their representatives shows up on a TV show they get eviscerated in minutes by all the other guests and even the show host.
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Is the Orthodox Church still a bulwark in Putin’s corner vis a vis the decadence, Neoliberalism of the liberal West?
To your point on a potential Russian invasion if NR is overrun. Wouldn’t between now and April the time? How can Europe risk a gas sanction when they are barely covering their needs as it is.
Plus take advantage of Obama being tied down as a lame duck expanding a fruitless Middle Eastern boondoggle where even his vice President has lost faith in him Plus Hiterly will be second guessing him to burnish her 2016 folly
Neo Nazis and oligarchs. These are your boys Obama. Mr. Nobel Peace Prize. You should mail it back to Norway with a written apology
Political situation: Novorussia (Saker lists 1-6).
Anu: Are deals being cut that favor Akhmetov? Is that a source of friction?
Saker: As a result of all this, I would say that Novorussia is solid in military terms and weak in political terms.
What a great description of the conundrum!
Saker:
The following months will be catastrophic for the Nazi-occupied Ukraine and quite literally anything is possible there including a 3rd Maidan, a coup, local insurrections, false flag operations, assassinations and, of course, war.
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Anu: That’s why I think the next two weeks are a danger of a quick strike before winter comes and everything collapses around the weather and cold.
It’s like a boxer getting the crap kicked out of him and try a Hail Mary (or sucker punch). Those with nothing to lose are wildly dangerous.
Count Chocula needs a victory to consolidate his power against the dead ender Nazis. And show Icky Vicky he isn’t a wimp after all!
Hard to spend his 1.2 billion if he’s hanging upside down with his balls stuffed in his mouth a la Mussolini.
Truth is coming out no matter what!!!!!!
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/activism/dr-udo-ulfkotte-respected-journalist-and-authoradmits-he-was-bribed-to-write-us-propaganda-for-25-years.html
Good analysis Saker!But you should add all the small info about obstructions before volunteers and moving goods via border for more clarity.People are being told what to/what not to deliver to Novorossiya,yesterday read what one of the commanders fighting has said about such deliveries.Used to be easy to slipped through border,now-not anymore.Patrols,checks,drones,cameras…For me is clear-such measures by order of whoever is in charge for situation have a single goal-take over and control of all such deliveries and use them as a tool for control over NAF.Same way as military part of “voentorg”.Do as we say or you will have a problem.Simply because lots of commanders and their soldiers to put it mildly do not like imposed on them “ceasefire” and continue fighting despite pressure.If you did watch all the videos from airport fighting-in one of them a commander has said(think was Givi) -we are getting constant calls from MoD DNR NOT to respond to fire…Cant blame NAF soldiers really for not obeying”-right now they are not allowed even to liberate their own land.For 3 days already their are reports of fighting in north-east and west part of Debalcevo,fighting in Popasnaya,probably soon attack of Peski and Avdeevka will start.NAF will want despite pressure and blackmailing to liberate all towns from which is possible to regularly attack Donetck,Enakievo,Gorlovka etc.Each day many many people are dieing from such attacks-just for yesterday according to info 19 dead,51 woundeed.
As for plans of west backed crowd of neo-nazis,football hooligans,common criminals,brainwashed sheeps and similar creatures-attack is imminent.Over 30 k strong force is just at 1st line from Stanitsa Lyganskaya(east) to Mariupol(south).Probably one last major attack before elections and start of winter season.Dont forget also the fact till now after each visit of USA high-rank politician ukr side did attacked.Hopefully NAF is ready for such attack and many surprices awaiting the attackers.
As for Strelkov-looks like he is under some kind of “home arrest”really-not allowed to come back and fight for NAF,total ban even for mention of his name in lots of media sources.At least he is safe and things can change later.
In other news looks like Kharkov area is not exactly friendly to occupiers-there is plan to extends so-called ÄTO” to some areas of province of Kharkov.
There is a plan from Rada to redraw borders of former province of Lugansk and give some land to Kharkov.Similar revision probably is in work for Donetck.
As for incoming elections for new Rada-will be a joke.Communist party-banned,what is left from Party of Regions are openly being called traitors(rightly so) from people in DNR/LNR,Lyiashko is quite popular…Bottom line-things will keep going from bad to worse for Ukraine regardless of ëlection” results.Economy in free fall,no gas,many heavily armed people,looming default.
@Europe will be flooded with Ukrainian immigrants
The good old traffic in women. Ukrainian girls were always highly prized.
“Ever since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has suffered from a booming sex trade. Estimated by police to be worth $1.5 billion last year, prostitution in Ukraine has been exacerbated by the international economic crisis, a weak Ukrainian national currency and fueled by cheap airfare and a free-visa policy for US and EU citizens, and so fosters a sex tourism industry that has persisted for many years…The severity of the Ukraine prostitution problem is clearly demonstrated by Ukraine’s role as having been one of the world’s largest exporters of women to the international sex trade, at one time worth in the vicinity of $5 to $22 billion… in recent years forced human trafficking in Ukraine has given way to a new generation of women who voluntarily and knowingly enter prostitution, citing the fact that no other choices are offered to them in an environment of debilitating poverty”.
These are old data recorded by http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/ukraine-prostitution-problem-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
This is “European integration” for Ukraine!
As much I do not like Russia attitude towards DNR/LNR right now,at internal economical/finacial front russian goverment is doing right thing.
Imagine what`s in the mind of traitors from 5th column in Russian Central Bank right now :).A law has been changed(true in force from 2016) 75% of CB profits will go to budget.First(hopefully albeit) small step for taking back CB under state control.Right now CB is serving interests of its masters from BIS as every other CB in Europe,not interests of Russian Federation despite supposedly CB chief being close to Putin.Hopefully soon Glaziev proposal will be implimented-nationalize CB(need change of constitution) and start lending loans to various russian firms at low interest.
A law has been changed(in force from 1st January)-additional profits from oil/gas trade WILL not go as before for buying USA/EU bonds(to finance Russian enemies)and will go to budget and use for financing various projects inside country.
Works at russian made CPUs Elbrus and Baikal continue(from what i`ve read they are quite good for their purpose),work of russian made based on Linux OS continue.Have in mind above mentioned will have industrial and military usage mainly.But still it is Made In Russia,no secirity backdoors and another market of western IT corporations will be lost.
Might be old info for some of you-Russia already has unique technology for processing nuclear waste at indusrtial scale(one of a kind and first in world)for so-called breeder reactors and producing cells for NPP.1×660 MW reactor is producing energy,another one from 800MW is being built now.Hopefully there will be improvements to current(normal) NPP designs to allow usage of such cells produced in all kinds of NPP reactors not only in breeder reactors.Of course this technology is another virtual finger to the West especially Australia which banned uranium export to Russia earlier.
Talking about desperation- USA threating more sanction of Zimbabwe cause of recent deal of 3 billion paladium project.Russia already control 40% of paladium market and can make life of West auto-makers very miserable and inflict really heavy losses of USA/EU/Japan economy if put a ban for paladium export.
Also check recent JP Morgan(cant say they are pro-russian right?)review about so-called russian capital outflow.Turned out things are not exactly as west propaganda wished to be.Part of outflow is “funny “transaction-no real money actually moved up to 32 bilions per year,another part is done via russian banks(state has quite of stake in them) and of course their is a real outflow BUT nowhere near to much hyped from “truth” loving western media numbers.Actually according to JP Morgan analyse various russian banks have so much assets abroad and can easily repay all their international debts and still have 81 billions left.
Check also article at orientalreview org named Massive new debt hides years of negative GDP growth in EU and USA.It is telling quite different story unlike the drivel and propaganda in the likes of BBC/CNN/Fox,Wapo,NY Times etc or ëxpectations” and “strategies”of FedReserve/ECB/BoA/BoJ or änalyses of bought and paid economists.Above mentioned article is much closer to reality and picture a dark future for Eu/USA unless urgent changes are being made.The way current system of goverments/banking/corportaions etc is intentionally set up chance for implimentations of needed reforms is non-existent.
It is very naive to think the peace will hold. It won’t. Nuland has been in Kiev recently and that can only spell trouble.
http://www.sott.net/article/286953-Escalation-of-war-in-Ukraine-Victoria-Nuland-arrives-in-Kiev
I would expect a Ukie attack on Novorussia before the Ukie Elections – probably in the week before (October 19-25). It’s coming.
This attack will “unite the country” against Novorussia again and build support for the more extreme Nationalist candidates in the elections.
In that sense – it will work.
Russia needs to wise up in the next month and really hit back against Western sanctions.
Ie – Russia needs to charge Poland & Lithuania in Gold/ Roubles – and not Dollars/ Euro.
This can easily be done and in fact must be done.
The Russians are wasting their reserves trying to defend the rouble. It is something they will never be able to achieve if they play by the rules of Western capitalism. Who invented Western capitalism? It certainly wasn’t Russia – they have no hope playing by these rules and trying to appease the West.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-08/russia-central-banks-scrambles-halt-plunging-ruble-spends-over-2-billion-last-three-
Saker:
All that has to happen will happen in the Northern Hemisphere in winter.
Winter is cruel to some cultures but not to the Slavs.
Listen well what I’m telling you.
Wait a little longer in the fall, make a fire, make love to his wife, and bask for battle.
No way to know how this thing will end up but, historically Rome fell, Napoleon lay on the tundra and Hitler went to the bag.
As for the “saker.com,” the Germans are giving ten to zero in information the way, this link:
http://veragraziadei.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/emperor-obamas-old-new-clothes-and-the-us-energy-war/
I interesting.
Big hug.
Alexandre.
Saker, I am sorry but you appear to be misinformed: Bezler and Zakharchenko don’t openly fight each other, or in fact anybody else. Whatever Bezler is doing, it’s behind the scenes, and there is no reason to believe he is involved in the struggle to undermine Zakharchenko. The only field commander doing it seems to be Mozgovoi, with the full support and even encouragement from Strelkov.Strelkov and Mozgovoi are doing their best to undermine Zakharchenko, nobody else does. Strelkov seems to have fallen out with all the other senior Novorossian commanders, except for Mozgovoi.
Fica difícil escrever aqui com tantos travamentos “capchas”.
De minha parte eu desisto em expressar minhas idéias como brasileiro.
Enviei e-mail ao Saker.
Não vale a pena apoiar uma causa que bloqueia idéias, metade do meu sangue é eslavo.
:-/
WizOz, ain’t it always the case that when a country joins the ‘Free World’ its women are often the most readily transactionable commodity. And gentlemen for those of the persuasion. One of the reasons the Cuba was quite homophobic for a long time was its use by the USA as a gay brothel. After Cuba fell under ‘Carmnist tyranny’ that business opportunity passed to Haiti, hence the AIDS disaster there. I dare say paedophilia and organ trafficking are booming in Ukraine, too.
teranam 13, ‘social democrats’ are, in my opinion, truly nasty frauds. They stand for nothing but fooling the suckers that an evil system of ever-worsening parasitism can be ‘reformed’. They always end up moving to the far Right or selling out for pelf, like that Satanic golem, Blair. Putin is face to face with Evil, nasty Nazi, fascist, murderous Evil, in the form of the Kiev junta and its death-squads, indistinguishable in action from IS, another creature of the Real Evil Empire.
One good thing emerged from the Ukraine troubles: the eradication of the symbols of the “Great October Revolution”. Russia should follow the example and throw out the carcass of Lenin which still infects the air and poison minds and seal the place (which is the hole through which the Hell’s emanations are spread to the World – his mausoleum is like the Devil’s towers of the Yazidis).
Casualties
08 Oct., 21:10
The U.N. figure of c. 3,600 dead is officially confirmed deaths, people with death certificates issued and marked graves or people listed as killed by their AFU military units.
Right wingers in Kiev are claiming the number is low by 8,000, and they mean the number of AFU casualties only.
30,000 is not impossible to believe.
What would be good to see would be a website somewhere where families or combat comrades could post their missing: name, DOB, military unit or last seen, and others could add info such as “missing from our unit after engagement and believed killed” or “I’m in Russia, mom.”
Cassandra
How about anonymous posters who don’t want to sign at least give initials, any initials?
It would make replying to posts more fraternal/sororal.
Cassandra
I’ve only seen a bot translation of the Zakharchenko resignation revealed in an interview in The Expert mag, so I have no clue as to nuance. It is, however, the sort of embroidery that would never get a journalist censured or fired if its falseness was immediately demonstrated.
I don’t believe it.
Cassandra
The Russian Eye @PutinPolitics · Oct 4
#poroshenko wants to give English a special status language. Makes sense, after the lustration, staff needs to understand orders from US
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@eradication of the symbols of the “Great October Revolution”.
Must add that the purification from the Leninist miasma would come after the cult would be restored in the Church of the Protection of the most Holy Mother of God (known as Vassily Blazhenny Cathedral).
I posted once this about Lenin and Ukraine, in this theme I will post again; it comes together with Saker views as Lenin as “Ukranizer” not “Russifier” of Ukraine
http://euskalherriadonbas.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/lenin-ukraine-and-fake-patriots/
Russia should send some MLRS and a load of rockets to Donezk.
They will need it if they want to drive away the ukies and give the city some peace.
Re: “… the end of any Novorussian hopes of liberating the Junta-occupied Novorussia”
This ‘liberation’ is a dream. The un-viable state of Ukraine (correctly described as a creation of Lenin, Stalin and Krushchev) is now a failed state and the new buffer region between Russia and NATO’s EU will be all but a thinly veiled southerly extension of Belarus to the Sea of Azov.
In this ‘Finland-ised’ buffer region there will be formally neither NATO nor Russia. NATO will seep into the western regions while Russia effectively absorbs the eastern regions. It’s a face-saving win-win-win for NATO-EU and Russia-Belarus. Ukraine effectively ceases to exist and is dissolved away (off the map) over time.
Custom’s borders and trade agreements between EU and Russia are worked out over time. Gas flows west, discounts apply (for the eastern ‘Russian’ zones) and China-Germany high-speed silk-roads emerge (via Moscow initially) over the decade ahead.
One of the MH17 victims had an oxygen mask around his neck:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/dossier-rampvlucht-mh17/mail-aan-nabestaanden-mh17-inderdaad-zuurstofmasker-aangetroffen~a3764896/
http://www.volkskrant.nl/dossier-rampvlucht-mh17/timmermans-slachtoffer-mh17-gevonden-met-zuurstofmasker~a3764574/?akamaiType=FREE
In a TV show Timmermans was asked about his remark at the UN that “How horrible must have been the final moments of their lives, when they knew the plane was going down. Did they lock hands with their loved ones, did they hold their children close to their hearts, did they look each other in the eyes, one final time, in an wordless goodbye? We will never know.’“.
The interviewer said that as the rocket had destroyed the rocket at once this couldn’t have happened. Timmermans reacted by saying that someone had been found with an oxygen mask around his neck who must have found time to put it on.
Later he refused to say more and considered it a slip of the tongue, claiming that no conclusions can be tied to this fact yet.
Cassandra Says:
So, Saker:
Is it your position that these data from Colonel Cassad are fraudulent?
“From the new documents of the employees of a security department of Ukraine we learned that in the period between August 16 and 23 the forces of the people’s militia captured: 14 T-64s, 25 IFVs, 18 APCs, 1 ARV, 1 MRLS “Uragan”, 2 SPH “Gvozdika”, 4 D-30 howitzers, 4 82-mm mortars, 1 ZU-23-2, 33 automobiles.
“Thus, according to just our data, from June 20 to August 23 during the conduct of the punitive operation the defenders of the DPR and the LPR captured from the Ukrainian army: 79 T-64s, 94 IFVs, 57 APCs, 3 ARVs, 9 IFVs, 24 MRLS BM-21 “Grad”, 3 MRLS “Uragan”, 2 SPH 2C4 “Tulip”, 6 SPH 2C9 “Nona”, 27 SPH 2C1 “Gvozdika”, 14 D-30 howitzers, 36 82-mm mortars, 19 ZU-23-2, 157 automobiles.”
I would expect the garage sale to be ending because there’s a ceasefire, and no more Ukrainian units are being disarmed.
There’s still a bit sitting in unemptied cauldrons, isn’t there? Haven’t heard anything about that lately.
Thanks to Saker and to Faramir for his comments.
It is becoming increasingly tiresome for us far away from the front to see how Russia is failing to provide much needed support, both to civilians and NAF. I wonder how the people in Novorossya can feel if not abandoned and or betrayed.
Russia is overstating the normal rules of engagement, at times of war,being more papist than the Pope, and no rules of paradoxical logic will modify this perception.
One can watch even yesterday traitors as Kurgynian appearing in Channel 1, Moscow.
So as for today, it appears it will be in the oligarchs terms, and one can only wonder whether Russia will be able to survive as a builder of a multipolar world at all, regarding its lack of assertiveness.
Alas when providers of succour start to be imprisoned, as currently is reportedly happening, no further analysis can be more than a hopeful abstraction of a future-to-be whose demise appears to be the current political undertaking.
Thanks to Saker and to Faramir for his comments.
It is becoming increasingly tiresome for us far away from the front to see how Russia is failing to provide much needed support, both to civilians and NAF. I wonder how the people in Novorossya can feel if not abandoned and or betrayed.
Russia is overstating the normal rules of engagement, at times of war,being more papist than the Pope, and no rules of paradoxical logic will modify this perception.
One can watch even yesterday traitors as Kurgynian appearing in Channel 1, Moscow.
So as for today, it appears it will be in the oligarchs terms, and one can only wonder whether Russia will be able to survive as a builder of a multipolar world at all, regarding its lack of assertiveness.
Alas when providers of succour start to be imprisoned, as currently is reportedly happening, no further analysis can be more than a hopeful abstraction of a future-to-be whose demise appears to be the current political undertaking.
Thanks to Saker and to Faramir for his comments.
It is becoming increasingly tiresome for us far away from the front to see how Russia is failing to provide much needed support, both to civilians and NAF. I wonder how the people in Novorossya can feel if not abandoned and or betrayed.
Russia is overstating the normal rules of engagement, at times of war,being more papist than the Pope, and no rules of paradoxical logic will modify this perception.
One can watch even yesterday traitors as Kurgynian appearing in Channel 1, Moscow.
So as for today, it appears it will be in the oligarchs terms, and one can only wonder whether Russia will be able to survive as a builder of a multipolar world at all, regarding its lack of assertiveness.
Alas when providers of succour start to be imprisoned, as currently is reportedly happening, no further analysis can be more than a hopeful abstraction of a future-to-be whose demise appears to be the current political undertaking.
A must read article of Fatis Fotopoulos on the myth of the BRICS multipolar world is in the english version of pravda.ru
It explains well what the options are and the relation with Russia’s elites which are nothing but doing more of the same.
A must read article of Fatis Fotopoulos on the myth of the BRICS multipolar world is in the english version of pravda.ru
It explains well what the options are and the relation with Russia’s elites which are nothing but doing more of the same.
Cassandra Says:
Alexander Privatov makes an interesting point in The Expert magazine. Apparently the processing of the special status legislation was irregular (secret ballot, tallying turned off). He thinks it would be overturned by Court any time Kiev chooses to take it there.
I thought “Phht. You can’t unring the bell.”
Hmmmm. That’s what Zakharchenko has been saying about the Minsk protocol. The content can change or be forgotten, but the form will endure: the republics have been recognized as legimate representatives of their territories. The names of the republics will no longer be found only within quotation marks.
It’s good to have at least one legal mind in a government, although it can definitely be overdone.
I’m with Mozgovoy in believing that the freedom fighters have earned the right to take part in building of the state if that is their desire and they think they have the skills. But Mozgovoy thinks no one else should be eligible to hold office, or even civil service positions.
And all along I thought he was an ardent advocate of gender equality!
I thought it was agreed that the remaining cauldrons either include American intelligence units like the one that allegedly got that Pskov regiment decimated or it’s said some of those cauldrons still “exist” because their occupants are really in Crimea sitting out the rest of the war as deserters but Russia is helping them pretend they are still fighting from the cauldrons. Do you see the logic? I do. What I don’t see is that any of those cauldrons still have fanatical armed fighters in them who could slip out during the night by pretending they are rebels. This leftover cauldron business has to be a cover to protect the families of deserters.
Let’s please drop the innaccurate depiction of Ukrainian women using the terminology of victim feminists who invented the word human trafficking. 99% of Ukrainian girls would not work as prostitutes with strangers and those who would take on a sugar daddy from someone they know are probably equal in number to their American counterparts, except the amount needed for them to pay for an apartment and food would be at least 5 times less. Right Sector may have a lot of faults, but they would be just as much against women leaving the country to sell themselves as any traditionalist in Russia. Plus, it is Ukraine where it is practically illegal to be a prostitute and illegal outright to be a pimp (even a female friend of another female). Most European countries, including Russia but not including feminist Sweden, allow people to do what they want as grown ups. The hot Maidan girls tend to be FEMEN feminist types who would sooner kill a prospective john and would never even date a rich westerner or Nazi girls who are only available to guys in the right race category, so it would be good not to see the ridiculous talking point that the west is promoting the sex trade, even if the crashing economy does happen to increase that in some cases. It amounts to an ad hominem attack.
There is still a chance that Poroshenko just wants to replace the Svoboda deputies in the parliament on Oct 26 so he can make federalization the law. That would explain the Minsk agreements and why Putin wants to hold to the ceasefire so badly. Poroshenko’s own deputies would not oppose him, at least in theory.
It would be the grown up, logical thing to do and it is possible that Obama wants to stab the neocons in the back the way he seemed to do when he screwed up everything in the Middle East (on purpose?).
But the world is, sadly, probably not so grown up and logical even though the German FM recently said that federalization was the only answer in Ukraine and Kerry seemed to say it might be OK as far back as March. Germany doesn’t loudly continue to beat the drum for federalization but maybe that is because it doesn’t have to. Maybe it is in store for after the elections, which is the only time it can be made into law.
It’s possible that the nationalists quickly became a problem for the White House and the EU last March and at least factions of the latter have only been pretending to support them since. That would explain why the west allowed half the army to be destroyed, at least up to Minsk, and why TOWs and Javelins have not been delivered. You’d have to admit that, if Obama really wanted to fight Putin by military proxy in Ukraine, it’s been incredibly incompetent, so bad that it looks like someone on the US side was being incompetent on purpose.
In much of eastern Ukraine, I believe a lot of Ukrainian flags are being quietly replaced with city and state flags in parks and in front of businesses. It’s being done non-provocatively. They aren’t “people’s republics of” flags. They are just the standard city flags, which aren’t insulting or provocative to anyone. It’s possible that the future of eastern Ukraine could be a non-violent subtle switch to local identity where the yellow and blue isn’t constantly waved in everyone’s faces.
Just some light relief. Sorry, but it made me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNC-Ik3DtWo#t=17
Popular German Comedian Ridicules USA Russian Propaganda.
Another one that made me laugh (again satire).
Can you help Obama with his WWIII Fund? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ
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.Dont forget also the fact till now after each visit of USA high-rank politician ukr side did attacked.Hopefully NAF is ready for such attack and many surprices awaiting the attackers.
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I thought this same thing now that Icky Vicky is breathing down Porky’s neck.
Get on with it already, ATTACK!
Right wingers in Kiev are claiming the number is low by 8,000, and they mean the number of AFU casualties only.
30,000 is not impossible to believe.
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I’m not disputing the 30k dead, but how can a country hide that many dead in basically six months of fighting.
1. There must be mass graves of Uki corpses all over the so called ATO
2. or thousands are hiding out in Russia “on the lam” from Kiev.
Forgive me for posing a mundane question, but who is holding Donetsk Airport at this point?
A Ukrainian blog (Tymchuk)says they are, this blog seems to imply the opposite – “to some extent”.
Puzzled.
Sorry but I’m now absolutelly against you’re opinion versus Lenin, despite that many facts described were real. But others were pure fantasy or extracted from that era context ! Do not mention that all merits of Lenin were absent ! Be fair ! You’re raging about tsar family but you forget the starving millions peasants under their rule !. Not to mention the phenomenal opulence and the astronomical richness (no. 5 of all times world richest peoples 300 billions dollars !!) And so on…If you say that is equitability I’m out !
tony_hartin @tony_hartin · 22 hrs 22 hours ago
private battalion of #Lyashko was ambushed by #NAF between #Lisichansk and #Novoaidar. heavy losses to #Ukies
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Difficult problem as the Gordian knot, but great leaders solve it in a simple way as Alexander the Great, lifting the sword and cut the knot.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/753530
Lavrov calls out Icky Vicky
Very, very interesting indeed………
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/27246.html
http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/753461
Glazyev on the forthcoming collapse of the Uki economy
Time for the American citizens and Euro citizens to pony up to subsidize Ukrainian kleptocrats and Nazi wannabees.
“This, however, also could mean the end of any Novorussian hopes of liberating the Junta-occupied Novorussia.”
Novorussia would be severely disadvantaged if it were to cede Mariupol to the fascists. Having a port city would make a huge difference to economic viability of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
We are still back to the issue of whether Russia can agree to some terms with the US. The main point for the US is to keep control of Europe, and that has been what Russia is challenging. The US would probably be glad to give up the Ukraine if Russia would agree to give up on most of Europe. So the free trade treaty between the US and Europe would lead to locking Russia out.
If Russia won’t agree to give up Europe, what is she willing to give up? Syria? Of course, this gets back to the Russian elites’ love of Europe, even if it is risky or impractical.
@ Lenin as “Ukranizer” not “Russifier” of Ukraine
One should not forget the big picture behind the “Ukrainisation”:
“Projects for establishing a Jewish republic in the southern Ukraine or in the Crimea had been suggested earlier. For example, in 1923 the social leader A. Bragin had proposed that one be established on the Black Sea coast from Bessarabia to Abkhaz with its capital in Odessa, while Yuri *Larin supported, in opposition to the Birobidzhan plan, a Jewish autonomous area in the southern Crimean and Azov region centered in Kerch”.
Alexander Mercouris UKRAINE NEWS
The situation in the Ukraine looks bleaker by the day.
1. The latest information suggests that no date has been agreed either for the next meeting of the Minsk Contact Group or for the trilateral gas talks. The gap between the Ukraine and Russia on gas pricing appears to be as big as ever. The Ukrainians put forward what they said were “compromise proposals” on the gas issue but in their usual boorish way they sent them to the EU not to Gazprom or to Russia even though it is the price of gas from Russia that is what is being talked about.
2. Bluntly I can’t see any hope of progress either in the Minsk talks or on the subject of gas until the parliamentary elections are out of the way on 26th October 2014 and perhaps not even after then.
3. Meanwhile Glazyev has made more apocalyptic predictions about the state of the Ukraine’s economy. He says default is now inevitable (I have been saying the same thing since the coup in February). He says output will fall by 50%.
4. Glazyev’s predictions about the Ukraine have a habit of coming true and I see no reason to doubt him this time. I would merely add that with inflation rising, the currency under severe stress and with foreign exchange reserves draining away, a situation where there is a default causing distress throughout the banking system at a time when there is political instability, a serious trade deficit, a catastrophic lack of fuel for the winter, plunging production and demoralisation caused by defeat in war, seems to me one ripe for hyperinflation.
5. Hyperinflation and its causes are actually not fully understood but reckless money emission at a time of severe economic distress and of a general collapse in confidence is I think universally accepted as a primary cause. Given the precarious loyalty of so many parts of what make up the Ukraine (both politically and in regional terms) it seems to me that there is a limit to the degree to which the junta would be prepared to reduce its spending since its legitimacy is too fragile to ensure its survival if it does. If there is a default and a collapse in production in line with Glazyev’s predictions then I do not see the junta cutting spending in line with the collapse in revenues. If the junta starts printing money in such a situation then it is easy to see how confidence in the currency could collapse in which case hyperinflation would be a strong possibility.
mercouris part two:
6. It goes without saying that a collapse into hyperinflation would have political consequences. In the longer term it would doubtless alienate more of the population from the regime (see below). In the shorter term however it would strengthen the political position of the more extreme politically motivated hardline groups like Right Sektor who would presumably because of their ideological commitment be in a better position to maintain coherence and discipline amongst their members than other groups that have to rely more on funding to remain organised and united. With the police, the state bureaucracy and the army already severely demoralised by the effects of the February coup, the military defeat and the looming threat of “lustration”, it is easy to see how in conditions of hyperinflation they might crumble if Right Sektor and other groups like it stage a political challenge or even a coup against the present government.
7. It is a mistake to try to look too far forward. All I would say is that if there is a hardline right wing coup, or even a more orderly political takeover by the extreme right, then in conditions of economic chaos and hyperinflation I would expect the process of political disintegration, which is already underway, to accelerate markedly.
8. In the meantime the secessionist processes in the NAF controlled regions are accelerating.
9. Elections are scheduled in the Donbas for 9th November 2014. Reports today make it clear that they are being held with Russian backing. It is also clear that they are being held without reference to Kiev or to Kiev’s new law on regional autonomy. The processes underway are already going beyond whatever was written in the Minsk Protocol.
mercouris part three final FB Source
10. These elections are a political imperative. In the absence of the undisputed authority only elections or a disciplined revolutionary movement (such as a communist party) can bring, the political situation in the Donbas since April has been utterly chaotic with a revolving door of leaders and a ghastly habit of people arresting each other, spreading calumnies about each other and packing each other off to exile in Russia. It is little short of a miracle (and a sign of the extent of the local people’s alienation from Kiev) that the NAF was able to hold together and retain support despite all this going on. In the meantime the climate of intrigue has fostered talk of treason and betrayal, some of which may be true, but which in any event must be deeply divisive and demoralising at a time when the challenges facing the NAF and the Donbas require unity, discipline and a sense of purpose. In the meantime I am getting very reliable reports that in the absence of any clear system of authority some elements within the NAF have succumbed to the temptation of banditry.
11. Hopefully the elections will finally bring some order to this chaos even if it seems that only Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky are going to be candidates for the main leadership positions.
12. Once elected the new Donbas authorities will have to address the disastrous economic situation. Here however they do have a crucial advantage over Kiev. Just as it was politically impossible for Russia to allow the NAF to be defeated militarily (a point I made repeatedly throughout the spring and summer) so it is politically impossible for Russia to allow the Donbas to collapse economically. Yesterday there was an announcement that the DPR would set up its own bank and apparently the first banknotes of a new currency copied from the rouble have already been printed. With Russian economic support and with the Ukraine possibly facing hyperinflation it is not impossible that this currency when it starts to circulate will be stronger than the Ukraine’s.
13. If the political and economic trajectory of the Ukraine remains as it is then its further break up is only a matter of time. The Crimea and the Donbas have now seceded and they are not going back whatever politicians in Kiev, Washington, Brussels or Berlin might think or say. The recent Right Sektor rampage in Kharkov shows why Kharkov’s secession is now only a matter of time. The same is true of Odessa. If the economy implodes, hyperinflation takes hold, a right wing coup happens and what is left of the bureaucracy, the police and the army disintegrate – all now strong possibilities and even probabilities – then the process of unravelling will accelerate
14. All this is the bitter fruit of the intrigues of Nuland, Bildt, Sikorsky, Fule and their like, of Yanukovitch’s weakness and incompetence and of the psychopathic lunacy of the Maidan movement, which would not wait a year for an election it would have won. Between them these terrible people have planted a bomb beneath the Ukraine. The clock on the timer is ticking and the Ukraine’s time is running out.
@I dare say paedophilia and organ trafficking are booming in Ukraine, too.
And you won’t be surprised that behind all these traffics is the same “Mafyia” with deep roots and wide reach (e.g. Zvi Migdal, Kosher Nostra, Abergil family, Zeev Rosenstein syndicates, etc)
HumansAreFree has an interesting theory that the plane shot down as MH-17 was actually airplane MH-370, based on photographic evidence of the number and configuration of the windows underneath the painted flag. The photos he cites as identical have different weather patterns, however. Nonetheless, a window has been changed. Worth skimming:
http://humansarefree.com/2014/07/busted-mh-17-was-in-fact-lost-flight-mh.html
and another version
http://topinfopost.com/2014/07/26/mh-17-was-in-fact-flight-mh-370-lost-flight
on the other hand, others say it’s a “plug”:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-proof-that-mh-17-is-mh-370-mh-17-actually-did-have-a-covered-window.4004/
unclear why it should change though.
@…tsar family but you forget the starving millions peasants under their rule !
Nobody starved under the Tsar. Only in 1891-92 a severe draught provoked famine and an epidemic of cholera. The government asked the people to form voluntary anti-famine organizations and relief effort was made with success. The future Tsar Nicholas II headed the relief committee and was a member of the finance committee three months later, while the Tsar and Tsarina raised 5 and 12 million rubles respectively. Alexander III’s sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth also raised money by selling peasant crafts in bazaars.
Nothing comparable with the famines induced by the Bolsheviks of Lenin and Trotsky in 1921-23 and 1932-33. Get your facts right Anon 17:33!
I read your blog since this summer, it’s interesting in many ways. But your words about Lenin are absolutely anti-storic, Lenin laid the foundations for the actual power of Russia, and the far big power your nation had until the collapse of CCCP, you think the Romanov with their priest could have done better?!??!
Jupp, nobody is hoplessly blind, than those that refuces to see, and The lunatic asylum, witch the magnificent town Kiev have truned into by as far I can tell a pack of Mobsters, some wrapped nicly, but stinks anyway, high heaven, and attaced the people that dint agreed upon the result, that the wouting for more independence never tok place, must end. Anyone havent even disputed That, and why the f…. do we had to end up in this civil war, the moust evil thing there is.
But, some cracks have opened, hehe, not refearing to the stunningly beyoutifull Ukrainian women, incl their shewolfs, in all respect, in sence that supriced me, and hopefully, this insanity will end, its for the Ukies and dend end road, but for the Noveorussian, the prospects of the future looks good, but remeber this, when the first punch have been delivered, do not BE belivdered, but stay calm and collected, because the road will be bumpy, any sane perosn knows this, but, time may also take the fluctuations down, markets setles, calm retires and comers continues.
Whats the f…. problem.
For the Ukies, the wolfpacks will rule, a world of darkness, where people will simply vaporise out of existence, will you really have that, while everything around you disintigrates.
Thats suicide.
Is there anything else to say, but hopefully we will waoid the absurd theater of death been played out in slow mo.
I hope that sanity finaly ariwes, I dont give a f…. from where, as lng it have an effect.
The witch hunt can be taken later, and there is nowhere to hide, soner or later someone will take you in, you can rnn, but not hide.
Make peace, for f…. sake.
And with time, heal the wonds, created so unnecessary, by ourside forces, with intent to create havoc in your land, never forgett that.
peace.
@WizOz,
You said :
“One good thing emerged from the Ukraine troubles: the eradication of the symbols of the “Great October Revolution”. Russia should follow the example and throw out the carcass of Lenin which still infects the air and poison minds and seal the place (which is the hole through which the Hell’s emanations are spread to the World – his mausoleum is like the Devil’s towers of the Yazidis).”
HEAR! HEAR!
I agree with you 100 % percent.
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
@Faramir 09 October, 2014 01:18
“A law has been changed(true in force from 2016) 75% of CB profits will go to budget.”
“A law has been changed(in force from 1st January)-additional profits from oil/gas trade WILL not go as before for buying USA/EU bonds(to finance Russian enemies)and will go to budget and use for financing various projects inside country.”
Thanks for this important information and much more. I hope you keep updating us.
all planed years, even decades ahead.
The recent classic example of this is that infamous talk given by US Gen. Clark in 2007, bragging about how bush had given a list of 7 countries to be invaded/bombed/overthrown in 5 years (from 2001/911).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E
by Nov/2001 they were in Afghanistan, and early 2003 into iraq but so far their list is not complete.
john pilger, OCT 9
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-091014.html
Last year, the former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas revealed that “two years before the Arab spring”, he was told in London that a war on Syria was planned. “I am going to tell you something,” he said in an interview with the French TV channel LPC, “I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria … Britain was organising an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer Minister for Foreign Affairs, if I would like to participate … This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned.”
@But your words about Lenin are absolutely anti-storic…you think the Romanov with their priest could have done better?!??!
The truth is that Russia, thanks to the reforms of Piotr Stolypin fully backed by the “inefficient” Romanov, was in a process of transformation that would have made her the greatest power in the world in few years. The first WW was a preventative war in order to halt the progress of Russia. The Leninist-Trotskyst period of the Revolution succeeded only in selling the economy to the capitalist West, trend stopped by Stalin who, with enormous sacrifices resumed many plans of Stolypin. Yes, you may say that the Romanov, even with “their priest” would have done better.
The link provided to show what a “Russophobe” Lenin was says more about the author of that piece than it does about Lenin. Lenin was not so much anti-Russian as he was anti-Imperial Russian. The Bolsheviks sought to redefine the Russian Empire as a collection of socialist republics without the imposition of imperial hegemony. The interests of the individual SSRs were hardwired into the central Soviet bureaucracy and there was a flow of resources from the Russian SSR to the other SSRs, via the central Soviet state, in the interest of maintaining loyalty and stability. That system broke down when the price of buying loyalty became unaffordable. In the case of the Ukrainian SSR, the addition of the Donbass and the Black Sea coast was essentially a bribe to neutralize the ambitions of Ukrainian nationalist warlords and win their loyalty to the USSR. Gorbachev blew it when he failed to rescind that concession when Ukrainian nationalists rescinded their end of the deal. Now the advocates of “Ookrainia” feel they’re entitled to it.