By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted
Moscow has not deviated for a moment from its Sun Tzu approach – while detailing all demands and all red lines many times over.
The Dem combo remote-controlling the senile President of the United States by earpiece/teleprompter was never accused of being the brightest bulbs in the room – any room.
That explains why one of their own, Nancy Pelosi, on ABC News, gave the whole Russian “invasion” game away two – or three – days, depending on their math, before the “canceled” non-event.
First she said, “If we were not threatening the sanctions and the rest, it would guarantee that Putin would invade.” And then the clincher:
“If Russia doesn’t invade, it’s not that he never intended to. It’s just that the sanctions worked.”
Here, fully unveiled, is the whole Dem “strategy”: a dubiously effective foreign policy “victory” which will melt away months ahead of the inevitable debacle at the US midterms.
Maria Zakharova, that female Slav counterpart of Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods in Ancient Greece, got closer to the truth while framing the psyops: “February 15, 2022 will go down in history as the day Western war propaganda failed. Humiliated and destroyed without a single shot fired.”
Add to it Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, unplugged, on “information terrorism”: “We have to learn from the tricks [our Western colleagues] pull.”
Putin, once again, applied Sun Tzu to win without a battle: “win” as in attending the objectives set for this round.
But it gets dicier. The Duma, by 78%, voted to ask the President to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as “separate, sovereign and independent” states.
The final decision rests with Putin, who has already hinted what happens next. Even as he qualified “what is happening now in Donbass” as “a genocide” – taking into context the previous eight years – he pointed out how “we must do everything to solve the problems of Donbass, but first of all, based on (…) the implementation of the Minsk agreements.”
What this means is that Putin will give Kiev yet another – final? – chance to implement Minsk: the agreement – enshrined as UN law – that the Americans have been de facto sabotaging since 2015.
Russia’s Security Council won’t be fooled, characterizing how “the West is conducting a carefully planned information operation against Russia based on the concept of ‘hybrid war’.” The Security Council also reaffirms that “European countries will be responsible for very likely provocations against the DPR and LPR from Kiev.” This is Patrushev speaking, not a deer-caught-in-the-headlights Jake Sullivan.
Neo-nazis on parade
German Chancellor Scholz’s visit to Moscow was not exactly a Porsche negotiating Nurburgring. One never gets away spewing out platitudes in front of Putin. Scholz: “For our generation, war in Europe is unimaginable”. Putin: “One has already been unleashed by NATO against Belgrade.”
After weeks of non-stop American hysteria cum war fever, it might be tempting to consider that Macron and Scholz could be on the same page with Putin, demanding that Kiev sit on the same table with Donetsk and Luhansk and work on the necessary constitutional amendments to grant them autonomy. That would be the only path towards a possible solution. Yet there’s no guarantee it will be taken, because of the immovable American veto.
Valentina Matvienko, the speaker of the Russian Federation Council, once again has stressed the only possible way Russia would “intervene”: in the “event of an invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and LPR, Russia’s response will be proportionate to the scale of aggression.”
Even Scholz, timidly, has somehow agreed that like NATO in Yugoslavia, Russia in this case would have the right to invoke Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to save millions of Russian passport holders from the oligarchic Banderastan/neo-nazi shock troops of what Andrei Martyanov memorably described as country 404.
These include the Azov Batallion – which recruits neo-nazis from all across Europe – sporting Wolfsangel arm patches straight from the SS, and is now incorporated in Ukraine’s National Guard. The vast, CIA/MI6 “revitalized” stay-behind networks. And of course the in-progress $10 billion Eric Prince (Blackwater/Academi) scheme of setting up a private mercenary army via a partnership between the Lancaster 6 company and CIA-controlled Ukraine intel.
The two crucial developments
The serial American fake news/pysops/fog of war offensive did manage to obscure the two really crucial developments of the heady past few days.
- The de facto invasion of Russian territorial waters by a US Virginia-class sub, described as a “completely unreasonable and incomprehensible activity” by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
- Mr. Kinzhal’s recent flight to Kaliningrad onboard a Mach 3-capable MIG-31K “Foxhound”. In case NATOstan clowns continue to entertain funny ideas, they could place a call to Mr. Khinzal. He’ll answer the call with hypersonic speed. Literally.
Before the scheduled Russian non-invasion “invasion” was canceled, Martyanov had deliciously outlined how the “strategic ambivalence of Russia is terrifying for the US now because the US doesn’t know what will follow after the false flag, granted this false flag succeeds to dupe European poodles into utter submission.”
Yes, it ain’t over till the fat transgender sings. A false flag, or flags, remain on the radar – considering the tons of weapons showered on 404; over 150,000 troops massed right in front of the line of contact, equipped with absolutely lethal 120mm Grad rockets with warheads that when exploded, release thousands of sharp metal fragments; and the thousands of mercenaries trained by Polish, Brit and Blackwater/Academi instructors.
What really happened in the Kuril islands, between Hokkaido and Kamchatka, diplomatically described by Shoigu, eventually landed on Russian media. The first explanation was that a Russian vessel might have launched warning torpedoes against the American sub.
What happened was that the Virginia-class was detected by a Russian SSK or SSN, there was a sweep, and then the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate used a sonar to intimate the uninvited guest to beat it. That was rather polite. In any other circumstances the Virginia-class would have been sunk.
Of course this should be interpreted for what it is: one more graphic illustration that the “indispensable nation” has lost its maritime invulnerability. Certainly to Russia. And sooner rather than later, also to China.
And that is a direct consequence of the dire state of the US defense industry, Martyanov’s key area of study, and exemplified by the latest report by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
The full report is here. Take a look, for instance, at this table charting the emphasis on research in emerging technologies.
Key areas such as space, hypersonics and cyber are down. In parallel, there’s an “increase” in three interconnected areas: AI, fully networked C3 and microelectronics. This would suggest the same old American obsession, since Rumsfeld, with deploying in a “smart battlefield”.
The key takeaway may be the increase in biotechnology. Because that would point to a desperate Empire – already outclassed by Russia and soon neutralized by China – resorting to biowarfare. It’s no wonder the landmark February 4 Russia-China joint statement pointedly refers to the danger of US bioweapon labs.
To the dustbin, Batman!
Moscow has not deviated for a moment from its Sun Tzu approach – while detailing all demands and all red lines many times over. Washington and Brussels have been warned in no uncertain terms that if they entice their goons/mercenaries to attack Donbass, 404 will be smashed to smithereens. And that is only the easily dismissible part of the package: all NATOstan security systems will also go.
Russia is waiting – like an army of Taoist monks. After the canceled “invasion”, it can even afford to enjoy some comic relief. The “technical and military” responses are ready – and once again: it’s their strategic ambiguity that is driving the Americans crazy. They are coming to realize they must negotiate indivisibility of security and missiles in Eastern Europe because no one in the Ukrainized Empire knows what Putin, Shoigu and Gerasimov could do next.
And then, there are the headless chickens. In the aftermath of the “invasion” not showing up as scheduled, G-7 Foreign Ministers will have an “emergency” meeting later his week in Germany to scratch their collective heads on why the invasion did not show up as scheduled.
As it stands, in the calm before the next storm, let’s sit back, relax and remember February 16, 2022: the day when the latest, concerted, full spectrum fake news psyops ended up hurling NATOstan’s “credibility” to a one-way trip to the dustbin of History.
As a journalist Pepe Escobar is in a class/category by himself with his knowledge of history and current affairs. God Bless him for exposing the corruption in western leadership of dying empires.
Pepe riffing in good form, basting the war talk with humor:
remote-controlling the senile President of the United States by earpiece/teleprompter
Scholz’s visit to Moscow was not exactly a Porsche negotiating Nurburgring.
headless chickens (the G7)
army of Taoist monks (Russia)
it ain’t over till the fat transgender sings
“No One Shows Up”
Don’t under-estimate the stupidity of Empire’s lackeys. There will be some clowns start shooting, or at least shooting in the air to “prove” the war did break up.
Enjoyable read, but missing a mention of the Clinton gang and their new frontpage (if not for the convenient upsurge in Ukraine atm) John Durham report.
The NATOstan wants a war, to stop NS2 and any potential fraternity between Germany and Russia. An intensified shelling against LDNR, probably with unmanned artilleri, labeled “false flag” by the NATOstan, and ultimately Russia must take some action… and here we go. On the one hand, hopefully Russia will take some deliberately limited action, then, further frustrating the West. On the other hand, how long is LDNR going to suffer?
The US-UK attempt to get Putin to throw the first punch in Ukraine has failed.
All the talk of a war gave the EU an opportunity to faking it as peacemakers of the west.
However, reality set in when Putin told Macron and Scholz that military action by one NATO member is an action by all of them. So, if you don’t want a war in Europe, you better get your US-UK colleagues to back down.
Here are some of the headlines which explain that a major geopolitical shift has just happened.
Germany refused to go along with NATO’s buildup across Eastern Europe.
France and Germany sabotage the UNSC meeting called by the US/UK to isolate Russia.
AP reporter exposing US State Dept. warmongering for refusing ‘proof’ of a “Russian false flag”
The Biden Admin has tripped on the ‘imminent invasion’ warmongering.
Biden slipped that the real goal of the Ukraine tension is to vilify Russia worldwide.
Now:
The US-UK-EU has pulled its Intelligence/Instructors/Troops out of Ukraine.
The US and the EU have backed off of all talks of Russian SWIFT expulsion.
Biden has lifted sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program. The EU needs Iranian gas/oil – badly.
COVID restrictions are lifted in the US as the Dems fear a complete wipeout in November.
The Canadian Trucker Freedom protest is going global.
Breakthrough in the JCPOA negotiations in Vienna, after nearly a year of no movement.
Putin has cut a deal with Hungary for more gas.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder nominated for the Board of Governors of Gazprom.
Once Nordstream 2 is settled, even more Russian gas will flow into Europe.
Russia and China add to their energy trade, 10 more bcm/yr and will settle in euros.
All of these changes combined confirms the Anglo / Saxon split, and the days of NATO is numbered.
The US and UK has been humiliated by Russia and feel betrayed by the EU elite.
If the US can’t bully Europe into submission by threat of war they will do it by financial war, and Europe will fight back. Interest rates will rise, the euro and the Dollar will drop in value, stocks will tumble down, and bankruptcies will explode.
The US Fed will raise interest rates in March, and US and UK capital hyenas are already circling the euro. Western finance and economy will enter a depression; disregard what may happen in Ukraine.
As the Dollar and the euro are fighting each other to ruin, Putin will ride his big Bear into the spring while whistling: Don’t worry be Happy, knowing full well that the Russian National Bank is filled with Gold.
While the US-FED and the ECB are filled with worthless I-O-Us.
Quote: “To the dustbin, Batman”
You nailed it Peppe.
as Pepe brilliantly said, Putin will give one more chance to the implementation of Minsk, which the Americans have been de facto sabotaging since 2015. The problem is that these American leaders are psychotic and far from the truth. They are backslidden, and they are an elite who have lost themselves in their endless lust and sin. Really the realization that Satanism is taking over the political elite of the Empire is reality.
With that they changed the naturalness and order of everything in America https://twitter.com/i/status/1392367395906498560.
All people who forget God suffer the consequences, and the recent facts of the western leadership, including the English prince, show that the west is lost. Political leaders from the US and other countries were involved with Jeffrey Epstein, his pedophilia and satanic cult https://www.insider.com/jeffrey-epstein-private-island-temple-2019-7
Nobody showed up for the invasion party in Ukraine, but the Zionist oligarchy is threatened. They are desperate because their financial system is crashing, and hence these unforgivable provocations. The de facto invasion of Russian territorial waters by a US Virginia-class submarine, described as a “completely irrational and incomprehensible activity” by the Russian Defense Minister, shows that the US is completely corrupt, insane, and something very immoral is taking over the nation. conscience of them. They are forgetting God.
The University of Chicago Law School allows presentation on the temple of this perverted and nihilistic religion. Temple leader Greaves spoke on the topics of [Satanism] and the Satanic Temple at universities across the United States. That’s right, at US universities https://youtu.be/9ElAekol_3c
The decadent west will not stop acting in Ukraine and this current tension. Wall street billionaires also participate in this debauchery and corruption of values, and participate in this hatred of china and russia. Just a few years ago, Soros was praising China as if it were the best thing since the US in the early 20th century. He actually made that exact comparison. He liked it so much that he moved to Singapore to be close to the action. I don’t think it took him long to realize that the Chinese weren’t going to fall for his false praise and swindler’s tricks. He later returned to the US with his tail between his legs. Soros thinks that capitalist saints can exist because they have drug addicts, sexual perverts, unemployed and illiterate minorities, billionaires like George Soros who make money not by producing things, but by buying paper stocks! Trying to change another country’s regime is an act of war, and George Sora is obviously seriously deranged. It’s time for Alex to take on the family’s antics. Soros and Washington want all countries to be caught in the US web of financial, economic, political and military deception. Once on the web, leaders watch helplessly as their countries become US colonies, looted like they leaders, forced to do and mock whenever Washington threatens.. like a puppet. .. Unless they are like corrupt, criminalized and selfish career politicians like Juan Guaidó, who will gladly sell their country to be in a position of favor with Washington and snakes like Soros. The craziest dream of Soros’s ugly chewer is to make China a feminist, groid anal democracy! China, like Russia and Iran, works to protect its citizens from the social erosion of Western “freedom” (which should, at this point, be simply called “license” or “libertinism”). Thus, China and Russia are in the eyes of the diabolists. The very centralized power in China makes China a very difficult cookie to break away from the Zionist subversion and you know it’s a bunch of self-righteous nonsense from these tension-makers around the world. Now in the calm before the next storm, we have to stay tuned, and ask God for a miracle, that the demented empire of chaos act with a minimum of responsibility and seek sanity for the good of all https://youtu.be/6AOX -_HdFKQ
I think the real day is being overlooked. March 1st. That’s when Biden gives the State of the Union speech and they seriously need the “I stared down Putin.” as centerpiece.
Pepe, you REALLY love Zakharova. There is no denying anymore. ^^
Hahahaha indeed, that woman is perfect
Anyone know Pepe’s Telegram channel handle?