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Putin's 'battle plans & Ukraine invasion', according to Western media

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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:56 UTC

Daily Mail draws maps of 'full-scale invasion'

The same US "intelligence community" that brought us 'weapons of mass destruction in Iraq' and 'Trump-Russia collusion' claimed in November that Moscow is preparing to invade Ukraine any day now.

The harder Moscow denied it as 'fake news', the louder - and more vivid - the allegations became. Things went into overdrive after high-level security talks between Russia and the US appeared to end in failure, with Washington rejecting Moscow's 'red lines' out of hand.

Daily Mail draws maps of 'full-scale invasion'

"Moscow [has] moved as many as 100,000 troops, as well as tanks and missiles, close to the border" with Ukraine, the Daily Mail claimed on Wednesday. Variations on this line have been reported by just about every major outlet - and many minor ones - in NATO countries over the past six weeks.

The tabloid published multiple maps of how the fantasy 'invasion' would unfold.

At least the Mail admitted the claim comes from Kiev, and attributed the estimate that Russia has "a further 3,000 military personnel" backing 35,000 "rebels" within Ukraine to the same source.

The Daily Mail further raised a hue and cry on Wednesday over several Russian ships sailing through the Baltic Sea that "might" be headed to Ukraine, even as planeloads of British missiles were en route to Kiev.

The paper also quoted anonymous senior officials at the UK Defence Ministry, saying they "strongly believe [Russian President Vladimir Putin's] preference is for a full invasion rather than a limited offensive."

The Sun predicts Russia is 'sleepwalking into Vietnam'

Russia could "sleepwalk into 'Vietnam War' in Ukraine invasion facing kill zones, guerrillas & US special forces," The Sun proclaimed on Wednesday, quoting a former US colonel who fought in Afghanistan. They also cited someone from the Henry Jackson Society lobby group who said that the CIA will be funding a guerrilla war in Ukraine, with "American forces on the ground assisting the Ukrainians though not actually fighting."

Comment: The West is already arming and training Ukraine?

Reuters evokes specter of WWII Battle of Berlin

Columnist Peter Apps on Wednesday conjured the imagery of "the largest combined arms military operation undertaken by Russia since the Battle of Berlin in 1945" for Reuters, citing the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The organization was also behind the map of how the 'Russian invasion' might unfold.

Bild explains how Putin can 'destroy Ukraine'

"This is how Putin could destroy Ukraine," German tabloid Bild said on Wednesday. The scenario, penned by Julian Röpcke, also featured a fanciful map with lines and arrows of three "phases" of the "invasion."

CNN pulls out the maps

British journalist Tim Marshall on Tuesday unfolded a map of Europe for CNN, to explain to Americans how this is all about the Carpathian Mountains, or something.

Crimea Bridge 'bomber' posts Paint job

Washington Examiner columnist Tom Rogan, of 'Ukraine should bomb Putin's Crimea bridge' infamy, also reached for the map for his analysis on Monday - a homemade one drawn in MS Paint on a Google background.

Washington Post enlists Bolton to unveil 'Putin's strategy'

Major US outlets also fortified the 'Russian invasion' narrative. Sunday's Washington Post ran an opinion piece by neoconservative war hawk John Bolton, who claimed he knew Putin's strategy for Ukraine and that the US needed one to counter it.

"The United States and NATO should surge shipment of lethal military assistance to Ukraine (and possibly Georgia and others) and redeploy substantial additional forces there — not to fight, but to train and exercise with Ukrainian counterparts. Let Russian generals, looking through their field glasses, see American flags in Ukraine and wonder what it means," Bolton wrote.

Economist's sage advice

The UK-based Economist subtitled its coverage of the hypothetical conflict "The guns of January" on Monday, referring to Barbara Tuchman's famous book about the start of WWI, before laying out three scenarios for potential Russian interventions, all of which "would necessitate a big war."

"The odds have now increased that there will be some kind of dramatic but limited military operation in Ukraine," The Economist quoted a British Russia-watcher now working for a think tank in Estonia.

A retired US general who served as a military attaché in Moscow claimed that "The Ukrainians will fight and inflict major losses on the Russians."

Comment: Nice maps. The graphic design department must have been busy. However the investigative journalists with integrity seem to have been holiday.

This might have worked 20 years ago but a significant number of people get their information online these days and unless claims like these are backed up by actual footage and alternative media reports, it's going to be a much harder sell than the Iraq war; which, even back, then drew protests numbering in the millions.

That said, it's likely that Russia will take decisive, defensive action of some kind soon enough, but the chances are that the addled Western establishment and its drones will be completely taken by surprise:

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Reader Comments

Spur · 2022-01-21T01:22:48Z

I'm not privy to what the intelligence sources may have, and I am definitely 'not on the ground' where all this is happening. However, from my distant view, I expect Putin will allow the West to 'Huff and puff' until they are blue in the face.

Just let it go, let the masses in the West see what liars they have in control of their lives. If the Western psychopaths are stupid enough to cross the line, the Russians will kick their ass. The Western 'elite' knows that, so they will just keep up the bullshit in the media, even as their credibility continues to wane.

Rowan Cocoan · 2022-01-21T01:54:45Z

Spur Don't worry, our woke military will distract the Spetsnaz with blowjobs. (I'm reusing my joke from a month ago or so.)

RC

scrutinizer · 2022-01-21T01:45:36Z

If the branch covidians of The United States of Arabia (fully face-diapered) ever stop believing the horsesh*t, sure ... war is plan B.

But somebody tell me how Putin (who just bought a huge mansion on his tribal monies)....how Putin is "Invading" the Ukraine, which was Always part of Russia, and is in fact their only Agricultural land since they live next to santa claus...when the little gaggle of jews under obama color revolutioned it in a gay femmy coup under Obummer?

Good Optics · 2022-01-21T03:16:30Z

Major US outlets also fortified the 'Russian invasion' narrative. Sunday's Washington Post ran an opinion piece by neoconservative war hawk ~~John Bolton~~ John Dolton who claimed he knew Putin's strategy for Ukraine and that the US needed one to counter it.

You bet . . . sharp tack is that old bolthole dolt . . .

"The United States and NATO should surge shipment of lethal military assistance to Ukraine (and possibly Georgia and others) and redeploy substantial additional forces there — not to fight, but to train and exercise with Ukrainian counterparts. Let Russian generals, looking through their field glasses, see American flags in Ukraine and wonder what it means," ~~Bolton~~ Dolton wrote.

I'm thinkin', ace, they had all scoped out a good long while back.

Winternights3 · 2022-01-21T03:22:57Z

What are Wars really for?

The answer is becoming increasingly apparent, population reduction.

These armies bomb the shit out of a population, flatten theirs towns and cities then retreat only to play the blaming game.

dom38 · 2022-01-21T04:40:00Z

The evil oligarchy will trigger a war with Russia in order to make people forget about the covid scam that is slowly revealed to the brainwashed hordes.

dracula · 2022-01-21T07:14:27Z

dom38 I was thinking at the same thing, how to distract the masses when your previous scam is slowly revealing itself to be just that, a scam? Distract their attention away. And what better distraction than a war? That is a perfect "unifying" event in a divided society. Let's just hope the distraction sticks to that phase and they don't start an actual war, that would be disastrous these days...

Lemuel Gulliver · 2022-01-21T05:18:46Z

Who is behind this manufactured mass hysteria? IMHO, It is, once again, as so many times in the past, the vicious Zionist Jews, who are anticipating the time when the AshkeNazi Jews, who run that shitty little country of Israel, are forced to abandon their stolen land in Palestine. They are preparing for a retreat to their ancient homeland of Khazaria, i.e., the land from which their ancestors were driven out by the Orthodox Christian Rus, who are the Christian people of both Russia and the Ukraine. In order to make room for the Jews, the Ukrainian and Russian Christians of the region must exterminate each other in a fratricidal war, leaving the land empty for the Jews to occupy.

Of course it is the Zionist Jews who own the mass media, and have done so for the past 100 years, and are trying to stir up this war. It has nothing to do with Jewish so-called "religion" - Talmudic Jews are anti-God worshippers of Moloch. They hate and despise God. Israel has been supplying arms to the Azov Battalion and the Right Sector paramilitary neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine. The hope in doing so is that these neo-Nazis can be used to provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine and depopulating it, so the converted, AshkeNazi so-called "Jews," who have not a drop of Semitic blood in their veins, can re-colonize it.

And, of course, the white Christians of both Europe and America are being used to accomplish this fratricidal ethnic cleansing, as they have been used for hundreds of years. All the wars and revolutions of the past 1,000 years have been provoked by the Jews, by preying on the greed and fears of the leaders of the Christian nations, and using their greed and fear to encourage them to attack each other, while the Jews always, in every case, become richer and more powerful, by financing both sides in these wars and revolutions.

Readers will not believe me. They will say, how could such a conspiracy be sustained for 1,500 years, 60 generations of Jews? The answer is simple - through the Talmud, the Bible of the Jews, which promotes racial superiority and conquest by the Jews of the whole world, in the same way the New Testament was used to sustain Western Christian civilization for the past 2,000 years. Think about the power of the Christian narrative, which went out and conquered the planet over the course of 80 generations, and then you may believe the power of the Talmudic narrative, which aspires to do the same. The reason why the Talmudic narrative has so far failed is that it preaches an exclusivist, racial creed, which limits the numbers of Jews, whereas Christianity is an inclusive creed, welcoming converts, and this enabled Christianity to colonize a large part of the world.

There you have the explanation, not only of the present Ukrainian "crisis," but of much of what goes on in the world, and has come to pass for many centuries gone by.

Xerox · 2022-01-21T06:29:58Z

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself. — Vlad Poutine

codis · 2022-01-21T06:32:21Z

As if the Russian military or politicians leaked of published their battle plans.

Who in his right mind would believe that.

But on the other hand ...

codis · 2022-01-21T08:39:29Z

As went down in history, most nations and alliances who were victorious prepared for a repetition of the previous war. Like the French building the Maginot line, totally ignoring the advances in the development of tanks and airplanes.

The same is going on here. All of this "plans" are conjecture.

But the (direct) purpose is not killing as most enemy troups or civilians as possible. It is to take control of the enemy as quick or effective as possible.

Considering the Russian strength in missiles and airborne troups, that would first be a missile attack on fire control systems, air defense systems, communication systems, and power systems. Followed perhaps by an airborne attack on similar targets deeper in the inland.

And then, the isolated and confused troups can be rounded up via paratroupers. Tanks might come in later, if at all.

parzival · 2022-01-21T09:35:45Z

Tucker: They suddenly care about borders [Link]

Rowan Cocoan · 2022-01-21T14:49:59Z

parzival Good one. RC

parzival ·

Rowan Cocoan

· 2022-01-22T04:14:56Z

alexal60 · 2022-01-21T11:51:30Z

only the drawings made by the hands of Walt Disney are missing, with which the "TERRORIST Vladimir Putin" will eat all of Europe , and why not also USA, Australia & UK ???

alexal60 · 2022-01-21T13:28:53Z

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that at the moment Russian-American relations boil down to "how Zelensky and his regime feel", and this situation is wrong.

The Russian Foreign Minister assessed the situation in bilateral relations, speaking after the interview with US Secretary of State Anthony Blicken, held today, January 21, in Geneva.

He criticized the approach, which boils down to one argument: the well-being of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his regime.

“What we're doing is that everything in Russian-American relations comes down to how Zelensky and the regime feel about him. That's wrong! ”Lavrov pointed out.

At the same time, the head of the Russian department explained the difference in the approach to Ukraine of the leadership of our country and NATO.

“We don't claim a zone of influence. But what NATO is doing in relation to Ukraine clearly shows that NATO views Ukraine as its zone of influence, "he said.

Furthermore, Lavrov noted that the Ukrainian issue requires a lot of attention, but it should not be reduced to the issue of security across Europe or beyond.......

scrutinizer · 2022-01-21T13:39:34Z

The daily dilemma of seeking a higher consciousness or giving into one’s obnoxious abilities to continue to be a repugnant dickhead is an easy choice for most in this broad-minded cesspit the gods regard as a total loss. But don’t blame the gods for their abandonment, for this is what enlightened pieces of excrement masquerading as human beings believe is the right and proper thing to do in the year 1933, er…2022:

Austria Makes Covid Vaccines Mandatory – via rt.com An overwhelming majority of Austrian MPs voted on Thursday to force their citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19, with those who refuse facing fines of up to 3,600 euros ($4,000).

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alexal60 · 2022-01-21T14:03:08Z

Shoigu responded to the invitation of the British Defense Minister | Russian springRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu responded to British Defense Minister Ben Wallace's invitation to visit London to discuss topical security issues.

As reported today by the Russian defense department, Shoigu confirmed in his reply to his British colleague that he is ready to discuss all issues and proposes to hold negotiations in Moscow - on the principles of reciprocity.

"... At any convenient time for the British Defense Minister," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

It is specified that in an appeal to Wallace, Shoigu recalled the visit of the Russian delegation to London in 2013, when the parties demonstrated "there was an opportunity for constructive dialogue".

Then, in the "2 + 2" format, negotiations took place between the heads of defense and foreign ministries of the two states.

The defense minister also noted in his response speech that "the resumption of contacts in a spirit of goodwill between Russia and the United Kingdom will help to reduce tensions in Europe".

The UK Defense Minister, during a speech in the House of Commons of the British Parliament, he announced an invitation sent to his Russian colleague Sergei Shoigu to visit London.

Wallace stressed that he is ready to discuss issues related to common security issues and is ready for a constructive dialogue in good faith, sending 12 C-17 in Nazi-Ukraina, troops and lethal arms.............................

alexal60 · 2022-01-21T14:11:17Z

TIK-TOK...................................

Doomsday clock hands approach 100 seconds until doomsday

The hands of the so-called "doomsday clock" remained at about 100 seconds before nuclear midnight, meaning the death of humanity in a global catastrophe, Rachel Bronson, head of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said at a ceremony. online.

"The world hasn't gotten any safer this year than it was at the same time in 2021, so we decided to drop our hands at 100 seconds before midnight," she said.

In a statement, ceremony attendees noted that despite efforts by the United States and Russia to extend START, the global security situation has not improved enough to move the arrows past nuclear midnight.

The organization's decision was not influenced by the joint declaration of the so-called Nuclear Five (Russia, USA, China, France, Great Britain) on the prevention of nuclear war, adopted in early January 2022.

The Doomsday Clock first appeared on the cover of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947. The time remaining until midnight symbolizes the tension of the international situation, midnight signifies the time of a nuclear cataclysm. In recent years, the arrows have only moved forward.

In 2020, the hands moved forward 20 seconds, they started showing 100 seconds before nuclear midnight - the clock has never been this close. The arrows remained in the same position in 2021.

In 2018 and 2019, the Doomsday Clock was two minutes to midnight. The same time was upon them in 1953 after hydrogen bomb tests in the United States and the USSR.

The quietest period was 1991, when the arrows drifted away from the nuclear cataclysm for 17 minutes.

Then the USSR and the United States signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-I), designed to reduce the number of deployed nuclear reserves and warheads, as well as to reduce the number of their carriers: ballistic missiles, missile bombers and submarines.