RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.11.2024
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** WEST LOOKING V. SHAKY DUE TO IMMINENT UKRAINE DEFEAT ***
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Russia Confirms ATACMS Strike, Attack Failed, Act of War; Isolated G20, Biden Starmer Humiliated.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: First US ATACMS missiles target Russia. G20; Biden lost, Starmer confronts Xi. Annalena warns China.
REDACTED: NATO ATTACKS RUSSIA & DEFIES TRUMP'S CALL FOR PEACE, PUTIN NUCLEAR RESPONSE.
TRUTHWIRE: UKRAINE HITS RUSSIA’S BRYANSK WITH US-ATACMS, WHAT WILL BE PUTIN’S MOVE?
Harvest Time, Ukraine Hit Russia With ATACMS, Sabotage In The Baltic Sea. Military Summary 2024.11.19
Biden’s Nod for Ukraine’s Strikes Deep Into Russia: How World Reacts.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed that allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western long-range weapons, if accepted and brought to the Kiev regime, means that the outgoing US administration intends to go ahead with provoking escalation of tensions in Ukraine.
Politicians, journalists and entrepreneurs have reacted to outgoing US President Joe Biden’s reported nod for Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike Russia.
Who Condemned the Decision
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest of US President-elect Donald Trump, accused "imbeciles" from the military industrial complex, who are seeking to unleash the Third World War before his father "has a chance to create peace and save lives."
He was echoed by Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who tweeted that "On his way out of office, Joe Biden is dangerously trying to start WWIII by authorizing Ukraine the use of US long-range missiles into Russia."
According to billionaire Elon Musk: "The problem is that Russia will respond reciprocally."
Venture capitalist David Sacks in turn pointed out that Trump wins a "clear mandate to end the war in Ukraine" as Biden is “massively escalating” the situation and trying to "hand" the President-elect "the worst situation possible."
US journalist Jackson Hinkle called Volodymyr Zelensky a "dead man walking," who "has just sealed his fate" and whose world "will soon implode, just like every other US puppet eventually does."
Spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the US Liu Pengyu underscored that Beijing condemns possible ATACMS missile strikes on Russian territory and actions that could lead to an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that Biden’s purported move means that America “has entered a phase of madness of North American imperialism.”
Who Applauded the Escalation
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said he supported the idea of allowing Kiev to strike deep into Russian territory with Western long-range weapons, and this issue will be discussed at the EU Foreign Ministers Council.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made it clear that Berlin supports Biden’s decision, insisting that the use of long-range weapons is within the right of self-defense.
Alex Soros, son of billionaire George Soros did not trhink twice before "This is great news," in a reference to Biden's move.
US Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss said that the outgoing POTUS' decision is a "long-awaited progress," while member of the European Parliament Thijs Reuten praised the move on his X page: "Finally! Now Ukraine needs more ATACMS to attack the positions from where it is being attacked."
Madness Unlimited: US Deep State Tries to Instigate WWIII - French Politician
On Sunday, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed representatives of the US administration, that President Biden had for the first time authorized Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to strike Russian territory. According to the sources, the first strikes deep into Russian soil will most likely be carried out with ATACMS missiles.
Commenting on the reported developments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "It is obvious that the outgoing administration in Washington intends to take steps - in fact, they talked about this - in order to continue to add oil to the fire and continue to provoke further escalation of tension around this [Ukraine] conflict."
Biden’s Nod for Ukraine’s Strikes Deep Into Russia: How World Reacts.
REDACTED - SCOTT RITTER: "Putin will use weapons that will FLATTEN Ukraine if NATO does this" Fmr. UN Inspector Scott Ritter.
SCOTT RITTER: Is the West's Ukraine Gamble Leading Us to Nuclear War? IDF on the Brink in Lebanon.
LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER: Zelensky’s days are numbered ; unlimited funding is DONE w/ Trump.
DANIEL DAVIS: What's Biden Setting Trump Up With in Ukraine?
RACHEL BLEVINS: U.S. Officials Play Dumb on Escalation w/ Russia, As Biden Mumbles Incoherently at G20.
Dr. GILBERT DOCTOROW: Kremlin Reaction to US Escalation.
LEVAN GUDADZE: Ukraine Lost Over 900,000 Troops - Media. Long-Range Strikes on Russia. Mass Deportation from the US.
PEPE ESCOBAR: Devastating Escalations in Ukraine.
Dr. GILBERT DOCTOROW: Will Ukraine Unleash US Missiles on Russia?
DDGEOPOLITICS: DDG & Rybar: The West Escalates, Russia Issues a Warning.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY: Russia liberates new community amid Zelensky's visit to Pokrovsk.
BORZZIKMAN: The U.S. and NATO Just Signed Their Death Sentence: Russia Put Its Deadliest Missiles on Full ALERT.
Kneissl Believes NATO Formally in State of War With Russia If Ukraine Strikes With ATACMS.
Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl believes that if Kiev strikes deep into Russian territory with ATACMS missiles, NATO will formally be in a state of war with Russia.
She added that such development "is not the priority" for president-elect Donald Trump.
"What might happen next: in case of such ATACMS strikes deep into Russia? NATO will be formally at war with Russia. This is not the priority for the incoming US President Trump. There might be turmoils, resignations within the US hierarchy," she said on Telegram.
According to Kneissl, Trump has already stated that he was planning a kind of "purge" in the ranks of the American army in connection with the failure of US troops in Afghanistan in 2021, so some officials may lose their jobs.
Both the EU and the US will have to find a way out of the current situation, Kneissl said. In her opinion, the future US president may simply refuse to participate in the Ukrainian conflict, leaving this problem to European countries. Kneissl notes that military rhetoric in many areas has become a serious problem in the European Union, calling it "the remainder of what once was Europe."
Ukraine's Plans to Strike Deep Into Russia With ATACMS Missiles: What is the Catch?
Earlier, the New York Times reported citing unnamed representatives of the US administration that US President Joe Biden had for the first time authorized Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike Russian territory. According to sources, the first strikes deep into Russian territory will most likely be carried out with ATACMS missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that permission to strike deep into Russia, if it was accepted and communicated to the Kiev regime, meant a new round of tension. He also recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin had clearly formulated Moscow's position regarding decisions on long-range strikes on Russian territory. Putin previously stated that NATO countries were not simply debating Kiev's possible use of Western long-range weapons; in fact, they were deciding whether to directly engage in the Ukrainian conflict. Direct participation of Western countries in the Ukrainian conflict would change its essence; Russia would be forced to make decisions based on the threats it would thus create, he added.
Ex-Austrian Top Diplomat Warns NATO Would Formally at War With Russia if Ukraine Uses ATACMS.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Trump, maximum pressure on Iran.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: Netanyahu the Puppet Master of US Wars.
LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Who Can Stop Netanyahu?
GEORGE GALLOWAY - CELINE HAIDAR: INTERVIEW The killing field.
LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Who Can Stop Netanyahu?
COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: Why the West is DESPERATE for War - Israel’s Worst Nightmare in Lebanon.
Pandor Rips Open the West's Defiant Stance on the Palestinian Crisis, Unleashing a Storm of Truth.
CAPTAIN MATTHEW HOH: [Live from Israel]
UNSC Debates Israel's War On Gaza And Lebanon.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: Why the West is DESPERATE for War - Israel’s Worst Nightmare in Lebanon.
USA
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Trump, maximum pressure on Iran.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: Reaction to Marco Rubio - plus Trump and the CIA !
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS: Is Biden Trying to Provoke Putin before leaving the White House?
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: Biden and Wider War.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
SYRIANA ANALYSIS@ Why China Rejects Western-Style Hegemony.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: CON RUSIA NO SE JUEGA: 144 DISTRITOS DE UCRANIA RECIBIERON MÁS DE 200 MISILES RUSOS EN ADVERTENCIA.
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
Harvest Time, Ukraine Hit Russia With ATACMS, Sabotage In The Baltic Sea. Military Summary 2024.11.19
UKRAINE DEFENSE LINE BURST on DAY 1000 around Kurakhove... | Ukraine War Frontline Changes Report.
To Give Or Not To Give Long-Range Missiles, Nuclear Doctrine Approved. Military Summary 2024.11.19
Quick And Big Russian Advance | Russian Are Advancing In The Pocket.
RUSSIA POSING SO MANY QUESTIONS for Ukraine to answer... Kursk-ed. | Ukraine War SITREP / Summary.
Russian Forces Storm Decisive Strongholds Near 3 Important Cities In The East.
Russia’s Big Advances In Donetsk Pocket. Donetsk Front Rapid Update.
RUSSIA indeed flanking north of Velyka Novosilka | Ukraine War Frontline Changes Report.
Terrible strike: US Patriot missile in Odessa killed 8 Ukrainians
VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
WOULD PUTIN STOP THE WAR RIGHT NOW IF CONDITIONS WERE RIGHT? I BELIEVE SO.
This is my longest commentary by far to date after many years of writing them with approximately 1,250 of them written to date. It is very likely to be one of my last however....
Being my longest commentary to date, it is my honest appraisal of the best chance both Russia and Ukraine have of coming out of the tragedy of the past few years and finally reaching the peace I am sure both sides long for. I would humbly ask therefore if you could please bear with me, hear me out and do all you personally can to advocate for a renewed peace…
I believe there is now some hope that the awful tragedy of the Ukraine war will end before many more months pass. Partly due to Trump, but only peripherally. I believe only the everyday Ukrainian man and woman in the street will ultimately be the vital factor in bringing the peace that both they and the Russian people, by majority, have been wishing, hoping and longing for ever since their mutual tragedy began..
It should be remembered that in 2014 Putin refused the request of the new republics, at that time within the boundaries of Ukraine, that they could not join the Russian Federation but must remain right where they were, as an integral part of Ukraine’s sovereign boundaries. What he did agree to do was work tirelessly in negotiation with the new Ukrainian authorities to get the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass a degree of autonomy within Ukraine that would guarantee their security in terms of language, ability to retain their pro-Russian attitudes and culture and, most importantly freedom from the daily bombardment by the Ukrainian army and associated militias they were now under.
Putin then took part in the Minsk process where he sought to bring the above about. For over six years he tried to do this. He worked with both Ukrainian presidents, first Poroshenko and later Zelensky to do this, or at least this is what he thought was happening. The process, apart from Putin and the leadership in Ukraine also included Angela Merkel of Germany and Francoise Hollande, later Emmanuel Macron. There is nothing to indicate that Putin was not sincere in his efforts to achieve peace and reconciliation through Minsk and, through this, maintain the status quo where the boundaries between Russia and Ukraine remained unchanged.
Unfortunately, we know now that neither Merkel not Poroshenko nor Zelensky had the same ambition as Putin. Merkel has confessed that the entire Minsk process was simply used as a stalling technique so that Ukraine could rebuild its army. Poroshenk has admitted to this similarly. When, after over six years of going every extra mile in hope of a successful outcome Putin heard these statements from Merkel and Poroshenko you can perhaps imagine how he felt. Duped. Betrayed. Tricked. In February 2023 Zelensky too finally admitted to more or less the same thing. They had collectively and cynically worked together to fool Putin into thinking peace was a possibie.
Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreement.
9 Feb 2023
‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admits that he never thought about implementing the pivotal Minsk agreements reached with the Donbass.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted on Thursday that he had previously told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron that the Minsk agreements were "impossible", and he did not plan on implementing them.’
Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements.
Back in late 2021, early 2022 Zelensky stated that he no longer saw the Minsk Agreements (ratified at the United Nations) as they way forward any more. Just to add insult to injury so to speak, he added that he was now interested in re-acquiring Ukraine’s nuclear weapon capacity and status. While the Minsk process was ongoing, from 2015 to 2022 the Ukrainian army was indeed being beefed up with NATO heavily involved. In addition a 1,000+ km multi-line series of fortifications and trench systems were built facing the border with the two republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. But it appears that it was Zelensky saying he wanted nukes back on Ukrainian soil that was the very last straw for Putin.
Talk about a red rag to a bul! Zelensky at this stage was taunting Putin and Russia. If a peaceful resolution of the situation in the Donbass (where 15,000 had already died) was not in prospect you should ask yourself what did Zelensky see as the solution at that point? We can gain a clue from the records of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) who had been monitoring things in the Donbass for many years previously. Their records show a large increase in the use of missiles and artillery in January and early February 2022. The records also show that the majority of these were from the Ukrainian army positions. Then, also in those early months of 2022 Russian secret service discovered Ukrainian plans for a ground invasion of the Donbass. At that point it became very clear what Zelensky’s intentions were.
Meanwhile, Russia had made one last attempt to bring some sanity into the proceedings and avoid a war. A detailed document was sent to both NATO’s European HQ and Joe Biden in the White House. It asked that both consider joining with others including Russia to thrash out a new security architecture for Europe where each and every nation could rely on being sheltered more effectively from any circumstance that could lead to war. This idea was rejected by both NATO and the White House.
Putin, regarding the cumulative levels of obvious bad faith and malign intentions he was faced with was left with no good options and only a single option he knew he now had to take. With without doubt extreme reluctance he initiated Russia’s special military operation on February 24th 2022. It was surely absolutely clear to him that if he did not then Russia’s security would be severely and without doubt permanently, compromised.
Putin’s hope seems to have continued to spring eternal for in the first months of the conflict he sent a delegation to meet with one from Ukraine to try to end the bloodshed and come to an agreement to settle things so that peace between the two nations could resume. This began, once again in Minsk, then continued in Istanbul where, much to everyone’s surprise much progress was made. One of the chief negotiators on the Ukrainian side has expressed his surprise at how modest Russia’s demands were; Ukraine to remain neutral, outside NATO and have an army of only 30,000 or so, all other issues to be resolved by the leaders of the two nations at a later date. The document stating these agreements was duly initialed by both sides.
Everyone who takes any interest in this conflict knows well what happened next. Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev with a message for Zelensky. The West would back him to the hilt with everything he needed to defeat Russia, abandon these negotiations right away and begin pushing Russia completely out of all Ukrainian territory including Crimea. So began the stage of the conflict we remain in now. A conflict that Russia is steadily winning against the entire firepower and financial muscle of the West.
The above is but a preamble to the main topic of this commentary, why must Russia continue its operation in Ukraine until it reaches a point where Russia’s future security is secured and what is stopping Putin from calling a halt right now?
First off, we can see from the first part of this commentary one very obvious and conspicuous fact, that only one person was seeking to find a peaceful resolution to the situation that existed in Ukraine and the Russian-speaking Donbass.That person is very obviously Vladimir Putin. The constant assertion by political and media elites in the West that Putin and Russia wer “unprovoked”... well, this is false ‘on its face’ as they say.
But having said all this can’t Putin, having taken a fair chunk of the Donbass now call a halt? With the way this conflict has been fought, with a slow grinding war of attrition, all that is being gained in most part is a battlefield of ruined towns and villages. Yes, there remain some cities in the Donbass such as Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Odessa, Kherson and Kharkiv that have majority Russian-speaking populations that it would be ideal to have within the Russian Federation… but at what cost and is this REALLY necessary?
Think of how things could be in Ukraine without the Zelensky regime in power. The odds must be very good that the people of western and central Ukraine must be heartsick of the conflict. It is clear they already were when they gave the peace candidate Volodomyr Zelensky a landslide win against Poroshenko in 2019. They were hungry for peace then. Can you imagine how hungry they are now? And can you imagine also then what kind of president and government they would wish to elect NOW? One that takes a bellicose stance toward Russia, advocating even more war? I very much doubt it. So, knowing what lengths Putin went to to avoid war and to instead seek peace and reconciliation don’t you think some compromise situation could be worked out in these circumstances?
Now, the narrative across western political and media elites is that Putin is hellbent on recreating the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact. And of course as I said earlier, that both he and Russia were unprovoked and there can be no ameliorating justification or excuses for his heinous action in wishing to take Ukraine and thus destroy it. He is simply a thoroughly bad man, a dictator, murderer and thief. Does this fit what we know of Putin’s several attempts to close this thing down before it got started and even after it got started? Clearly not.
But let’s get to the main point I want to make with this commentary. I think you’ll agree that the evidence of Putin’s actions throughout pretty firmly establishes the fact that 1, he never wanted this conflict/war and 2. that when it became inevitable he tried hard to end it as soon as possible. So why not stop it now? Call a halt unilaterally. Send out the command to the Russian hierarchy that enough is enough. That Russia has gained the vast majority of territory that it needed to in light of the prospect that ending the fighting would bring elections in Ukraine and that those elections would bring to power a moderate president and government that Russia could negotiate with and make the peace permanent?
After all, there can be no doubt that Russia will set to work in all its new territories to make life much better than before for those who had to move out and also for those who can now be attracted in. Imagine the situation. The war is well and truly over (except for a few skirmishes with the more radical elements that refuse to lay down their arms and accept the new circumstances). The border between Ukraine and Russia is now open for relatives on both sides to visit, work and settle down if they wish to. This can go in both directions obviously. Everyone is incredibly glad the whole nightmarish and thoroughly hellish era of war is over. Rebuilding is going on everywhere. New roads, new schools, hospitals and culture centres are springing up along with shopping malls, swimming pool complexes and much else besides. It’s all good and who anymore feels the burning need to say this area, hamlet, village or town MUST belong to Ukraine or Russia? The new border will be set and agreed to, yes, but does Russia need to get to the eastern bank of the Dneiper before the conditions of peace and stability where people on both sides feel secure. No. Not if things work out as above.
But here is the catch, the snag, the devil in the detail. There are players involved here other than the everyday man and woman on the street. THEY may long for peace and they too may well recognise the Russian or Ukrainian population as just as human and very similar to hoy they and their own families are. The way it was pretty much before the Maidan insurrection backed wholeheartedly by the West divided the nation into two. These other players, Zelensky of course with his newfound hatred of Russia (he once said how much he loved Russians and had “thousands of Russian friends”. Then there are those of an ultranationalist nature who see modern day Russia in the very same light as those they followed on from saw the Russians of Stalin’s era. Then too we have the western powers who have found that the conflict in Ukraine is very useful in its ability to forward their ambitious regarding achieving a weakened Russia, preferably one without Putin as president where they can start to bring their own people in Russia to bear and ultimately perhaps carve it up into ethnically-divided pieces. NATO of course is the final player in this cabal of those who would wish this conflict to continue.
If not for the players above, and recognising that Putin was totally averse to conflict with the Ukrainian people and was constantly trying to get the characters above to relent and seek some kind of compromise where peace could reappear, this war could end tomorrow. And it would certainly be Putin who would end it. If he knew that it would be just the people of Ukraine who were calling the shots, I am sure he would have no qualms about doing just that, he would announce the peace. But, as things stand, with all these other players now hellbent on undermining the Russian state using the Ukrainian people as the tool to do it, via Zelensky regime, he cannot.
Putin initially sent an extremely small force into Ukraine. Ukraine is an enormous country and, if Putin had wanted to take and occupy it this would have required a minimum of some two to three million troops. Instead he sent some 150,000. The object was clearly not to take over the entire country but instead to give Zelensky a fright, a big enough fright so that he implemented what he and his predecessor had signed up to in Minsk. Putin’s plan failed due to the reason stated earlier, Boris Johnson brought the most powerful outside players in to stymie Russia’s search for peace. Without the intervention by the western powers I have no doubt that Zelensky would have caved and signed up to the peace. Remember, Russia didn’t want much back then, for Ukraine to stay neutral, to reduce its armed forces and to move to a federalized system of decentralized power where each region would have a ‘special status’ whereby they were self-governing to a degree. It could have been as simple as that. But those with power seldom agree to give any of it away. And those who see the possibility to grab power through chaos will tend to eye their opportunity to maximize their own power and influence and use that increased power against those they conceive are their enemies, rival powers.
This has been very long, my apologies. Thank you and congratulations if you have come this far.
Even if Russia reached the Dneiper, how safe will its new lands be? If conditions remain as they are now isn’t it inevitable that the West will still want to do what it is doing now, attempting to subvert, undermine and seek to weaken Russia and anything she wants to achieve? This may continue to be the general western stance. Trump may or may not put a dent in these ambitions, but left to most EU states this appears to be what they wish to see continue ad infinitum, or until they are completely defeated. How things will turn out, when we will see at least some temporary peace through negotiations, who knows? But sooner or later there WILL be negotiations and sooner or later also, the people of Ukraine will get to vote for the kind of president and government they want and I cannot believe they will want more of the same and this is what gives me hope that the future for all those except those who seek war will have much to look forward to.
WILL MISSILE STRIKES DEEP WITHIN RUSSIA START WORLD WAR THREE?
The outgoing, largely demented president of the USA with his hate-fueled mania regarding Vladimir Putin has created the conditions for a final world war that could potentially destroy us all.
If current reports are true, and the outgoing Biden administration, laden as it is with Neocons, has just authorized missile strikes deep within Russia then we stand at the most dangerous moment yet in the war between the West and Russia.
Make no mistake concerning who is at war with whom. The missiles that hit targets deep inside Russia will have GPS coordinates guiding them courtesy of NATO/ U.S. satellites, the technicians who program the missiles using U.S. software will be from the U.S., Britain or France and of course the missiles themselves are made in and supplied by the USA, UK and France.
Putin knows all this and stated it publicly during an interview a month or two ago.
Putin: NATO's Approval of Use of Long-Range Missiles by Ukraine Will Mean It is at War With Russia.
"I have already mentioned this, and any experts will confirm, both in our country and in the West, that the Ukrainian army is not capable of [independently] carrying out strikes using Western modern, long-range precision systems. It cannot do this. This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This data is only available from satellites of the European Union or the United States, in other words, from NATO satellites. That's the first point," Putin said.
Putin: NATO's Approval of Use of Long-Range Missiles by Ukraine Will Mean It is at War With Russia.
Joe Biden, a man hardly in control of his mental faculties, in what appears to be a last, utterly irresponsible, throw of the dice, has given the green light to what could well see the beginning of a nuclear war. Of course it cannot be discounted that Biden was persuaded to do this by others, the most likely cadidate being Tony Blinken, arch-Neocon U.S. Secretary of State.
If the reports are true then we will soon see NATO at war with Russia for this is the inescapable conclusion Vladimir Putin has pointed out must be made in this eventuality. Whether a single Ukrainian finger clicks a computer screen somewhere after all the targeting information has been entered into the West-created, West-controlled and updated software, who knows? But in all other respects as Putin knows, this missile enters and hits targets in Russia by western hands.
No one can predict the ultimate consequences of this decision by the Biden administration. The response by Russia cannot be known. Many of the most fervent Neocons in the West believe Russia’s response will be muted, that Putin’s strong words on this subject can be ignored, that he is only bluffing and that they can safely call his bluff. We will see. It may well be that Putin will not wish to escalate in the manner we should all fear, a strike directly back at the West. He may take other, less direct revenge for the West’s blatant aggression and harm to his nation.
Putin has already said that there are other ways to hit back at the West if things reach this point. Supplying Russia’s allies across the world with advanced weaponry and technology is certainly one path he could choose. Iran could be safeguarded from further attack by Israel by providing nuclear weapons and the infrastructure to use them. The provision of advanced missile systems or other assistance to the Houthis in Yemen would be another way to hit back. As we all know well and thank goodness for it, Putin is not a man to act in a hot-headed manner. He will certainly consider all his, and Russia’s options before taking the most effective course.
Now more than ever we are blessed to have such a man at the head of the Russian state. The contrast between Vladimir Putin and the warmongering, mindless and essentially light-weight politicians of the West could not be more stark. These next few months until Biden is relieved of power along with his rabid minions will potentially be some of the most dangerous humanity has ever lived through. The primary hope, that we emerge unscathed and enter a new era where war is not seen as a top priority and where Neocons become far less influential, must keep us going meanwhile.
May you and your families, friends, colleagues and indeed all of us remain safe meanwhile…
First published 20th October 2023:
WHY HAS THE WORLD DESCENDED TO THE CURRENT MADNESS WE SEE NOW?
On the face of it we are observing the mass irrational, the group equivalent of an individual ‘seeing red’, enraged and reckless, uncaring concerning his or her well being or anyone else’s. On the international level such recklessness can potentially cost millions of lives. What could possibly be at stake to justify such apparent madness?
Diplomacy used to be the way we got ourselves out of messes like this. However, since 9/11 there has been a distinct lack of it. Replaced by a stand alone and constantly applied belligerence against all who are seen as ‘not on our side’. This taking of sides with 100% conviction where that ‘other side’ is constantly demonised to create as much hate as possible within the general population has become standard.
Diplomacy was killed off as an art form or science or whatever designation it might be given. It simply ceased to exist. To use another metaphor we negan to see one prize fighter take off his gloves and put on knuckle-dusters instead and announce that the fight would not end until the opponent was dead. This is no way for those responsible for hundreds of millions of peoples’ lives to act. In the past we called these people madmen, tyrants, psychopathic dictators without an iota of empathy for those they recklessly affected by their actions.
Joe Biden is currently behaving as the most irresponsible leader of recent times in respect of all of the above. He seems to embody the worst traits described above, worse even than one of his predecessors, George W. Bush. The world according to Biden is virtually identical to that of Dubya, “You Are Either With Us Or You Are Against Us”. AS the saying goes ‘An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind’ and this demonisation in the absence of diplomacy that Biden employs is set to blind millions in death.
After all the deceptions of the past, all the barefaced lies told, it is truly remarkable how many are willing to be emotionally charged up by basic, shallow mistruths and obvious propaganda. The manufacture of consent, and consent to possible Armageddon unbelievable, appears to be easier than ever. Are so many so numbed by feelings of helpless impotence in the face of the dangerous situations now raging on our planet that they have simply given up and decided to accept whatever fate awaits us all?
The western world is SO badly led currently with high political positions held by mental midgets that the great men and women of the past would hardly credit their eyes and ears that such ridiculously irresponsible nonentities could ever reach such positions. What has happened to this world they would surely ask, that it has descended to this state. What happened to the rules and institutions we set up to avoid things reaching this level of insanity? How could things go so catastrophically wrong with human psychology that things have reached this calamitous stage?
These are questions each person reaching this will have their own answers for. For the author it is clear. The entire panoply of western political and media elites have been fighting tooth and claw for decades now to avoid becoming irrelevant in the face of powers rising elsewhere. They are engaged in an all or nothing, do or die war to destroy those who, in the natural order of things, supplant them. They cannot bear this thought, it is anathema to them. They see all their power and the trappings, assets, status and structures of influence that go with that power melting away before them in prospect. So they fight. Tooth and nail.
This above is the conjecture I have come to through thousands of hours of thought on this issue. The western elites are akin to a dying beast, a beast that was once the supreme animal in the jungle. In the time it has left this beast is attacking any others who no longer bow down to its power using every weapon at its disposal. It gives no quarter, attempting to kill weak and strong alike in a rabid attempt to destroy in reckless, enraged abandon. In essence the western elite machine has become insane and has thrown all principles to the wind, willing now to countenance ANY level of death and destruction in the vain hope of maintaining its fast waning power.
The era of western unbridled power is ending. The worst aspects of that power have now come to the fore, all more positive aspects such as ethical and moral conduct, adherence to high principles, normal rules of behaviour in war and all else that provided a civilized face to it have been dispensed with. The naked fury of a dying beast seeing enemies everywhere has taken its place. Along with a willingness to see all others die if that is its own fate. This is the insanity we face now and see exhibited to ever greater degree and which now threatens each and every one of us.
