The general trend in the Ukraine remains unchanged: full-scale preparations for the next offensive: (Note: the following developments were spotted by my research team whom I plan to soon give direct access to the blog’s homepage to post daily Ukraine SITREPs – The Saker)
Kolomoiskii was removed from his position as governor by US Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt and USVP Joe Biden who ordered him to step down which he immediately did “voluntarily”, of course. In exchange, he was allowed to keep his assets (both military and financial).
The various independent Ukrainian death squads will now be fused with the regular armed forces and Dmitri Iarosh will become special advisor to the Ministry of Defense.
The Right Sector Forces will now be converted into an “Assault Brigade”.
The US will now be tasked with training the “Ukrainian National Guard“.
Ukraine’s Radical Party proposes Criminalizing Denial of ‘Russia’s Military Aggression’.
This is a short lists of the US military “exercises” planned for 2015:
- “Fearless Guardian – 2015” (total 2.2 thousand participants, including 1 thousand US military),
- “Sea Breeze – 2015” (total 2.5 thousand members of which 1 thousand US military and 500 military from NATO or the “Partnership for Peace”)
- “Saber Guardian/Rapid Trident – 2015” (total 2.1 thousand members, including 500 US military and 600 troopers from NATO or the “Partnership for Peace”)
- Ukrainian-Polish exercises of aviation units “Safe Skies – 2015” (total 350 participants, including 100 Polish military) and military police units
- “Law and Order – 2015” (total 100 participants, 50 of which are Polish military).
Keep in mind that the such official training exercises are just the tiny tip of a much bigger military aid package which includes such covert elements such as the shipping of weapons and “advisors” from Poland, the use of “private military contractors” and, of course, US special forces operating covertly. From Vietnam, to Nicaragua, to Croatia, to Bosnia, to Libya, to Syria, to Yemen it is all the same model used. Nothing new here.
The Saker
A large part of the prize being fought for in Ukraine is the trade/economic integration of Europe and Russia and China. NATO is weakened to the degree this integration is attained– and so is the ability of the US to control Europe’s military & foreign policy.
For this reason it is of paramount importance that we understand the means through which pressure is brought to bear by US/UK/Zionists. Such pressure loses most of its power when it becomes known. Therefore something powerful that you and I can do is to unmask such clandestine pressure, and disseminate it widely.
The Germanwings crash, probably an instance of such pressure, is another opportunity for us to do this. The best coverage I have seen, which de-bunks the corporate media’s narrative, is here: http://www.sott.net/article/294482-Germanwings-crash-Not-the-full-story
C’mon, that link is a bad story ion itself., eg suggesting that EMP
“… might well have been the cause of the crash of AF447 into the South Atlantic ocean in 2009….”
NONSENSE. The black boxes from AF447 were found, and the cause of the crash very fully explained. EMP or meteors had nothing to do wsith it.
If the author does not know this, his whole story’s accuracy is cast into serious doubt.
The only FACTS known are that the plane began a steady descent and hit the mountain with no attempt to alter the descent. This is from external monitoring of control changes broadcast by the plane itself. These were picked up- simultaneously by numerous listening stations, so are not likely to have been faked.
Everything else MAY BE FAKE — the voice recording certainly. The leaked 60 seconds even more so. The data recorder has been declared unfindable, right fr4om day one or two.
“Witnesses” turn up when needed. Girlfriends??? no pictures? no pictures FROM THE PAST to show the relationship actually existed? no interviews with relatives or close friends…. closest is the manager of some fast food place where he allegedly worked.
Now they find all kinds of search history on his computer. So they say.
Well it could happen. Has happened before. My problem with it is the speed with which they’re pushing the suicide theory. Conveniently short circuits any proper investigation – could it be problems with altitude control on the Airbus (yes, there have been some scary incidents lately). Other fault scenarios would also match the KNOWN data (ie the actual descent slope which is the ONLY data that can’t have been faked).
Making this huge drama of the suicide conveniently distracts all of Germany from else is happening…. so what is their Government doing?
Kat Kan,
He did NOT say that an EMP had caused the crash. He said that it was his first (speculative) thought. He then gives you a factual report of his findings which includes witness reports which were reported in the media initially before the narrative became– as usual– completely controlled.
It has been universally reported by even the MSM media that either the 2nd (data recorder) box “may never be found” or that it has been found, but is missing its memory cards. You deny even this, Kat Kan. Why?
You seem always to disbelieve conspiracies, even 9-11.
SECOND BLACK BOX FOUND http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/germanwings-crash-second-black-box-found
in typical Guardian fashion, the story leads with the pilot’s alleged web searches for suicide and door codes; the block box find just mentioned casually in passing.
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The story you linked DOES speculate about EMP …. AHHH I see what he’s done. When AF447 first disappeared he speculated about EMP or meteorites (and so did some of the media) ahhh …. so now he thinks that is some sort of reason to revive that speculation for THIS crash….. even though in AF447’s case it has long been proven to have been a combination of faulty technology with faulty pilot response.
So why bring EMP into it at all? why not assume THIS may be a technology/pilot mismatch, too? In fact, the way this magic EMP supposedly works, it cuts out all electronics, right? so how do the engines keep going? how does it keep broadcasting location and altitude data which got picked up by flight tracking receivers in numerous places????? I do not like a grab bag of unlikely “might be”s thrown at something with total disregard for the little that we DO know already.
It has been universally reported by even the MSM media that either the 2nd (data recorder) box “may never be found” or that it has been found, but is missing its memory cards. You deny even this, Kat Kan. Why?
Oh so now we have to believe everything MSM says? and “may” never be indicates that they are just speculating. I have to believe that??? and if it suits someone high up enough to say it WAS not found, that is what they will say, and all this speculation is just setting us up for accepting that.
I am quite prepared to believe “they” lie to “us” or some events were not done by those being blamed for them. But I did NOT believe physically or scientifically impossible things happen.
Saker
Regarding:
Kolomoiskii was removed from his position as governor by US Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt and USVP Joe Biden who ordered him to step down which he immediately did “voluntarily”, of course. In exchange, he was allowed to keep his assets (both military and financial).
Is there a source[s] for this?
The Right Sector Forces will now be converted into an “Assault Brigade”. The US will now be tasked with training the “Ukrainian National Guard“
Sounds like more death squads are being trained by the Israeli-American fascists. The sods are obviously planning their next attack. The Clark zionazi quisling announced the time frame in which it is supposed to take place. My guess is this next zionazi assault on Novorussia will be their last and that the zionazi wet dream of a new “victorious banderastan” from which to “Afghanistan/Chechnya” Russia a 2nd time will not see the end of the year.
Anonymous on April 03, 2015 · at 1:16 am UTC
Double oops. I wrote this and it was not supposed to be a reply to the comments above.
The day of the accident, “elespiadigital.com” published an article with possible theories / causes. Among them it was: the day of the accident, a Russian submarine in maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea detected abnormal electrical activity in an area of Europe that included the scene, apparently coinciding with certain NATO maneuvers. This type of interference, one consequence of which is that aircraft radars “go to black” is not the first time that cause accidents of this type.
If this were the case, anyone believes that the truth would be published at a time when the European public is beginning to clamor for the departure from NATO as in several countries of southern Europe, strangled by The Troika, and where elections will be held this year, some parties very well placed in the polls bear in their program the output from this organization?
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/8926-hipotesis-para-una-catastrofe-ipor-que-se-estrello-el-avion-de-germanwings-en-los-alpes-
“Now turns out the co-pilot Lubitz had “suicidal tendencies” and nobody said anything … The Strange Case of 9525 Germanwings flight provokes speculation”:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/9006-ahora-resulta-que-el-copiloto-lubitz-tenia-tendencias-suicidas-y-nadie-dijo-nada-el-extrano-caso-del-vuelo-9525-de-germanwings-provoca-especulaciones
Maybe the crash was a warning…
Only days before the incident elements of the german gov spoke out harshly against the Empire’s war against Russia (similar to Hollande speaking out then suddenly Charlie Hebdo ‘happens’)
The Airbus A320 family of jet airliners (A318, A319, A320 and A321) are manufactured by Airbus, an aircraft manufacturing division of Airbus Group (nee European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co) based in Blagnac, Tolouse, France. Does this fact have any bearing on French investigators’ premature disclosure of confidential investigation findings that is being sensationalized by media? To what end, and for whose benefit?
Even if Pilot Lubitz is not an established system’s quick scapegoat on whom to vent public anger and is truly responsible for the crash, has it ever occurred to people that Psychiatry’s anti-depressant prescriptions may have been working side-effects, to the extent that he needed to consult several doctors to comprehend his drug-damaged condition and save himself/his career, and that these toxic side-effects were slowly building up biochemical domination up to the day the crash occurred – either wilfully or accidentally?
On the other hand, if this sensational GermanWings crash story is but a hoax and there was indeed a midair explosion before the crash, as some eyewitness recount and reporters write, what’s with all these recent Airbus A320 disappearances?
Penelope, thanks for the link on the German wings story. I wonder if anyone else took notice of the pilot on the show who refutes the “facts” served to us by the media. Somebody’s lying.
The political situation within the Belly of the Beast is seriously ugly. On so-called ‘public’ TV, there remains precious little ‘public’, and the control is all Oligarch.
Tavis Smiley hosts a mostly innocuous show, that interviews Hollywood stars, and other performers. He occasionally broaches political topics. He pretends to be a progressive. Last night he hosted a Liberal, who to criticized “both sides” in what they called “the Ukraine conflict.”
Under the cover of ‘fairness,’ Smiley allowed endless attacks to be directed against Russia’s elected (sometimes I must remind people of that) President, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian people. I have just eaten & will not repeat the blow by blow. Those who are interested can google up the show.
It is not worth my time to comment at length. Tavis Smiley, who has associated with another ‘Progressive,” Dr. Cornel West, completely betrayed (sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver) his listeners by his craven pretense at ignorance about the War in Europe, and the war’s origins, and who started the war. He knows quite well how the Democratically elected President of the Ukraine, Yanukovich, was overthrown by America’s CIA, with help from the Anglos and Zionists.
He also knows who murdered ML King and Malcalm X, and many others. He has wasted years, pretending objectivity. Last night he caved utterly. He Betrayed the spirit and souls of those who gave their lives in the struggle for freedom, and who he has written about.
There is precious little truth getting through to the American people, who are the most brainwashed people in history. So called ‘Public TV” is another casualty of the Oligarchs war against the world.
It is the bottom of the 9th inning, the good guys, the representatives of the proles (the Brooklyn Dodgers) are at bat. The score is, the Yankees (“the best team money can buy”)10, the Brooklyn “Bums,” 0; It is 2 out, and strike 2, Whitey Ford is pitching, and Sandy Koufax is at bat.
But it ain’t over til the fat lady sings, and my mother isn’t singing yet.
For the Democratic Republics! Here and There!
For those Novorossiyan Partisan Militia!
For the Brooklyn Dodgers!
IMAGINE
That parrot isn’t dead — it’s just sleeping. Beautiful plumage!
It’s like a boxing match between rounds.
So we got the usual lies, and the heavy UAF weapons at the north of Lugansk, and the US funneling weapons in, etc. — and everyone of course expects the bell to ring and fight to intensify (not that it ever actually stopped with all the Minsk2 violations and shelling of Donbas).
But the lies from empire. Not everyone will believe them, of course, and fewer and fewer do, but the effect is that the fascists keep telling them, and that messes up diplomatic solutions because it all has to be covert and there things which can’t be done because it would contradict the lies being told.
It cannot be admitted, for instance, that Russia is not the aggressor because that would undermine all the buildup of military and weapons which are needed for the US to be able to attack. That means Russia is limited in what peaceful actions it can take to defuse the wars. These policies may preclude any non-war resolutions, even if the US does not particularly want open warfare, because it leaves itself with no alternative. It’s double dog daring itself to start WW3 — and this beyond the loss of alternatives it creates by the foolish MIC, natural resource and production declines, and financial fraud nonsense. The addict not only has the problem of being addicted and not admitting it because he wants the drugs, but being embarrassed to admit it and locked into the scripts he has developed.
Add to that those individuals whose personal income, power, prestige, and sense of identity depend on the sham, and the chance of peaceful and sane resolution becomes quite remote. There is so much locked into the game that it seems to me unlikely that directions can be changed, barring a flying saucer coming, announcing it will destroy the world, so that everyone can change the subject and the game plan, and band together to defeat the terrible alien enemy, letting bygones be bygones.
Wow, if we ever need an Orsen Wells to report on ‘War of the Worlds’ we do now. But then
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0617_050617_warworlds_2.html
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In 1938, with the world on the brink of World War II, audiences were already on razor’s edge. The format used in War of the Worlds, with its shrill news bulletins and breathless commentary, echoed the way in which radio had covered the “Munich crisis”—a meeting of European powers that became the prelude to World War II—a month before.
“Welles and his company managed to closely duplicate the style and the feel of those broadcasts in their own program,” said Elizabeth McLeod, a journalist and broadcast historian in Rockland, Maine, who specializes in 1930s radio. “Some [listeners] heard only that ‘shells were falling’ and assumed they were coming from Hitler.”
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only reflected the terrors and did not deflect them. It was just a local radio show, with few people fooled ( http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.single.html ), and defused quickly — and the real world war then raged and savaged civilization.
And now, under threats of WW3, and massive annihilation (from various causes), most people gather up the pennies they can, and go shopping.
hmm
the Polish -Ukraine “safe skies” I think is one to watch out for……considering …MH17, Polish plane crash in Rus-blames Putin still…..and possible provocations, considering Uk, NATO, other Baltic countries really stirring it up about russian planes invading countries airspace when they are in international airspace as agreed by protocol-could be looking for any excuse, no fly zones, shut off the Baltic skies.
Not to mention the very last exercise, “shitting pants”, as the direct consequence of the afore mentioned, in which NAF and Russian troops “shock & awe” NATO, their Nazi clients and the zionazi pompous toads Nudelman, Kagan & Pyatt orchestrating them, back over the pond.
As in Georgia, the ukie freaks will learn the hard way that genocidal cowards like NATO are not to be trusted. Game Over.
re: Mikhas…How about Operation Crash and Burn? LOL
I have been wondering about the parallel with Vietnam for a long time. Part of me secretly wishes the US could venture into such a trap, and end up with the final result of an “Army is broken” excuse to retire from the world for another couple of decades.
I could so easily dream of a NAF supported by Russia engaging in a war several years long, gradually building strength and taking more territory against a clear imperial occupying force with stated demarcation lines, winning hearts and minds village by village, overturning the old propaganda mindsets, and all of this resulting in eventual victory, and complete and irreversible public humiliation for the US.
It’s just a dream, and I’m sure there are plenty of people here who can give many reasons why the parallel doesn’t work, Ukraine is not Vietnam, etc. But what astonishes me is that the Pentagon seems willing just to keep coming, walking deeper into this thing. I know most of it is empty posturing, but Sitreps like this one keep resurrecting the dream.
qui bono?
as always, follow the money…
It is a struggle that is yet to be defined, where it will end, which side will be triumphant. Of course, on this blog the hopes, are on the side of the opressed, the underdog, the Novorussia people.
It has been an intense year, and there have been admirable people that we have gotten to recognize and even to know in some depth. The recent battle for the Debaltsevo Junction was the most intense to date. The full story is still being sorted out.
In another recent post, featuring a translation by Kazzura of the Ghost Batallion’s motto:
“Don’t fear for your hide, Care for your Honor”, as the community commented on the personality of Mozgovoi and the performance of his unit, there were some comments that basically dismissed him as a useless commander, and of sitting out the battles, to later appear for the accolades and the
photo opporunities.
Kazzura has translated a blog entry from a direct participant in the battle, someone who writes in livejournal under the username kenigtiger:
https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/1555422.html
Here he describes the development of how the Debaltsevo cauldron was taken.
The title the translation : ” Bitter truth about Debaltsevo operation. Mistakes of LPR/DPR command ”
Kazzura’s full translation of the article is here:
http://kazzuraengsubs.tumblr.com/post/114752671611/bitter-truth-about-debaltsevo-operation-both
The task at hand is not easy, it never was. The heart and willpower of the Novorossia fighters is simply amazing. But, there is much to be done, especially at the top, of the young republics.
The article is enlightening, it talks of too many mistakes that led to rather painful losses, and even loss of moral in the Donetsk and Lugansk armies, especially in the latter.
It is obvious that there are too many egos at play, both from the Militias and without a doubt from the Kremlin. The ones that suffer, as always, are the people on foot, be it a Soldier or a Civilian,
Yes, the next battle might be the decisive one. It will be a full blown out battle. The West is supplying
UAF with all necessary material. They will take their time and then it will be a barrage like the NAF has never seen. The WeSSht, cannot afford to lose the next confrontation, their high command has been embarrassed by the heart and will power of Novorossians, basically a rag tag Army.
It will be the Battle of the Five Armies: Donetsk and Lugansk against UAF, Right Sector and Ukrainain National Guard, (NATO behind them of course).
KenigTiger’s evaluation of the battle for the Debaltsevo cauldron is sobering, there is still much work to be done in Novorossia.
Colonel Cassad gives a pretty good rundown of Debaltsevo battle which includes NAF mistakes. Perhaps they have learnt by them.
The question is not what will make USA but what will do Moskva.Is Putin give up Novorossija in order west to accept the Crimea us part of Russia?And if its not ,why dont reconize Novorossija independence then will sent openly weapons or peacekeepers to stop the genocide of etnic russians in Donbass.Retreat give wrong signals ,make west more arrogant to demand more and more and in the end will give a ultimatum .Give back Crimea or war.Can some who write here and sow the misery and defeatism to rusian population what would happen to Crimeans if Putin didnt forced to repatriate Crimea?West f@cked up when Moskva threaten with atom weapons for Crimea.The same will happen if Russia interfere and free Novorossija until Odessa and Kharkov.Putin and special his advisors think wrong that will restore back west Ucrania but Calicia and west from Kiev has lost long time ago they have nothing coment with the rest of russia mir .Calicians were and will be problematics special now who run to much blood the train left from station ,they will never forgive Russia ,they will hate Russia for generations ,t.let them to go ,and save Donbass from ucrania army but also russians because after Donbass will atack Crimea.
So, this is the prelude to the west sticking Kolomoiskiy with MH17, perhaps?
– Would be a convenient get-out-of-jail-free card for them.
“Rogue elements..” bla,bla.