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Dmitry Medvedev, relishing his unplugged self, has laid down the law on the Special Military Operation (SMO). Bluntly, he affirmed there is a "one and a half" scenario: either to go all the way, or a military coup d'etat in Ukraine followed by admitting the inevitable. No tertium applies.
That's as stark as it gets: the leadership in Moscow is making it very clear, to internal and international audiences,
the new deal consists in slow cooking the Kiev racket inside a massive cauldron while polishing its status of financial black hole for the collective West. Until we reach boiling point - which will be a revolution or a putsch.
In parallel, The Lords of (Proxy) War will continue with their own strategy, which is to
pillage an enfeebled, fearful, Europe, then dressing it up as a perfumed colony to be ruthlessly exploited ad nauseam by the imperial oligarchy.Europe is now a runaway TGV - minus the requisite Hollywood production values. Assuming it does not veer off track - a dicey proposition - it may eventually arrive at a railway station called Agenda 2030, The Great Narrative, or some other NATO/Davos denomination du jour.
As it stands, what's remarkable is how the "marginal" Russian economy hardly broke a sweat to "end the abundance" of the wealthiest region on the planet.
Moscow does not even entertain the notion of negotiating with Brussels because there's nothing to negotiate - considering puny Eurocrats will only be hurled away from their zombified state when the dire socio-economic consequences of
"the end of abundance" will finally translate into peasants with pitchforks roaming the continent.It may be eons away, but inevitably the average Italian, German or Frenchman will connect the dots and realize it is their own "leaders" - national nullities and
mostly unelected Eurocrats - who are paving their road to poverty.You will be poor. And you will like it. Because we are all supporting freedom for Ukrainian neo-nazis. That brings the concept of "multicultural Europe" to a whole new level.
The runaway train, of course, may veer off track and plunge into an Alpine abyss. In this case something might be saved from the wreckage - and "reconstruction" might be on the cards. But reconstruct what?
Europe could always reconstruct a new Reich (collapsed with a bang in 1945); a soft Reich (erected at the end of WWII);
or break with its past failures, sing "I'm Free" - and connect with Eurasia. Don't bet on it.
Get back those Taurian landsThe SMO may be about to radically change - something that will drive the already clueless denizens of U.S. Think Tankland and their Euro vassals even more berserk.
President Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu have been giving serious hints the only way for the pain dial is up - considering the mounting evidence of terrorism inside Russian territory; the vile assassination of Darya Dugina; non-stop shelling of civilians in border regions; attacks on Crimea; the use of chemical weapons; and the shelling of Zaporizhzhya power plant raising the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.
This past Tuesday, one day before the SMO completing six months, Crimea's permanent representative to the Kremlin, Georgy Muradov, all but spelled it out.
He stressed the necessity to "reintegrate all the Taurian lands" - Crimea, the Northern Black Sea and the Azov Sea - into a single entity as soon as "in the next few months". He defined this process as "objective and demanded by the population of these regions."
Muradov added, "given not only the strikes on Crimea, but also the continuous shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the dam of the Kakhovka reservoir, peaceful facilities on the territory of Russia, the DNR and LNR, there are all preconditions to qualify the actions of the Banderite regime as terrorist."
The conclusion is inevitable: "the political issue of changing the format of the special military operation" enters the agenda. After all,
Washington and Brussels "have already prepared new anti-Crimean provocations of the NATO-Bandera alliance".
So when we examine what the "restoration of the Taurian lands" implies, we see not only the contours of Novorossiya but most of all that there won't be any security for Crimea - and thus Russia - in the Black Sea without Odessa becoming Russian again. And that, on top of it, will solve the Transnistria dilemma.
Add to it Kharkov - the capital and top industrial center of Greater Donbass. And of course Dnipropetrovsk. They are all SMO objectives, the whole combo to be later protected by buffer zones in Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts.
Only then the "tasks" - as Shoigu calls them - of the SMO would be declared fulfilled. The timeline could be eight to ten months - after a lull under General Winter.
As the turbo-charged SMO rolls on, it's a given the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder will continue to prop up and weaponize the Kiev racket till Kingdom Come - and that will apply especially after the Return of Odessa. What's unclear is who and what gang will be left in Kiev posing as the ruling party and doing specials for Vogue while duly fulfilling the mass of imperial diktats.
It's also a given the CIA/MI6 combo will be refining non-stop the contours of a massive guerrilla war against Russia in multiple fronts - crammed with terror attacks and all sorts of provocations.
Yet in the Bigger Picture it's the inevitable Russian military victory in Donbass and then "all the Taurian lands" that will hit the collective West like a lethal asteroid. The geopolitical humiliation will be unbearable; not to mention the geoeconomic humiliation for vassalized Europe.
As Eurasian integration will become an even stronger vector, Russian diplomacy will be solidifying the new normal. Never forget that Moscow had no trouble normalizing relations, for instance, with China, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Israel. All these actors, in different ways, directly contributed to the fall of the USSR. Now - with one exception - they are all focused on The Dawn of the Eurasian Century.
Reader Comments
U.S. dollar and European Euro are suffering badly and have been on the decline against the Yuan and now the Ruble for a while.
United States, Israel, the European Union cannot afford for their currency to fall much further against these rising economies or the greenback/euro will no longer be accepted by other nations for payment to house military bases, intelligence hubs, shipyards, spies and coup plotters. Never mind that food, fuel, chemicals, labour, car parts, etc., etc. will become неподъемный in Brussels and Washington (as they are now).
Nope, Russia CANNOT be allowed to come out on top in this case. Stakes are too high for the anglo-saxons and khazarians. Something really freaking awful will happen in Russia/Ukraine to not only stop the 'special operation' but kill as many Ukes and Ruskis as possible and cripple Russia.
This does not remove from the fact that those in power protecting the dollar/euro supremacy feel that, "Life is not worth living if one is not on top financially".
When a person is this blindly focused on their own success they pose a threat to themselves. When a group of people are like this and control weapons then Anything can happen.
I expect weapons will be used that are launched from a country that denies it has such weapons, be they biological or nuclear.
And that would isrhell
Media is the enemy of the people as it is controlled by the oligarchs/government/central banks...
All Wars are Banker Wars..
It is the people of the West who are rising up which tips the balance to Russia, as well as the ethical, moral, and spiritual values. The West people no longer support child trafficking, drug trafficking, the attacks on family and the church, financial enslavement, corruption in government, endless wars for profit, the plandemic genocide, the rape of sovereign countries resources, the Great totalitarian Reset all in the name of fake democracy and fake freedom.
And winter does not impede the Russians in any way. The operation started in winter, mind you. And they have had plenty of experience in this regard, think of the winter wars, and Stalingrad.
In the case of Germany, it has stupidly, to please its master the USA, cut off its own energy supplies from Russia. German businesses will be forced to close this winter because of lack of electricity and energy, they will lay off millions of workers, those workers will have no wages to buy anything, and the rest of Germany's consumer economy will collapse. Stores will have no customers, their shelves will be empty because those who made the goods to go on the shelves will have been laid off, store staff will be laid off to join the ranks of the idle unemployed, and the whole feedback loop will spiral downwards.
Finally, restarting the economy is not a simple thing. Demand has to be there before industry, particularly the food and consumer goods industries, will re-hire workers, but without populations working for a wage, there will be no demand, so industry will not re-open. This was the situation in the Great Depression, (and by the way, what is coming will be many times worse,) and Roosevelt's solution was for the Government to hire workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps, to build the Hoover Dam, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and to pour money into the economy to stimulate demand and get manufacturing going again.
Today, that is going to be impossible. All governments are so deeply in debt, having squandered trillions on useless armaments and stuffing the pockets of the rich, that they will be unable to "pour money into the economy." There is going to be no way out. Millions will starve and freeze to death. You will see, all over Europe, scenes like the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, where people were eating their own and other people's dead babies. The rich will find that there is nothing to spend their trillions of worthless dollars and euros on.
The only benefit of this ghastly situation will be that all the Third World immigrants will stop invading Europe, and some may even decide to go back where they came from. The rest, who stay, will become parasites and exploiters, and will be hunted down and exterminated by the native Europeans. Death will stalk the streets for anyone who goes out, except in an armed group. Guns and ammunition will be priceless. America may see groups of states join together to support each other, and declare secession from Washington. There will be a reverse flow of Latinos back south across the border, as welfare and jobs dry up in America.
So imagine, dear SOTTies, you got all this future analysis without having to pay STRATFOR $50,000 for their opinion. You have it here for free. Remember it. It is probably, IMHO, at least as good as what you would elsewhere have to pay for. Or, you could always re-watch the movie "Mad Max."
Unless it gets so extreme cold, deaths will only be in the hundreds, possible thousands in Germany, France, and the UK. It is not difficult to predict that the vaxxed will be hit hardest, so-called "all-cause mortality" will rise to 500 to 1000%, I guess.
But I believe enough folks still able to fight back. Expect political unrest like never seen before. Let's see what happens there. Russia has no beef with those countries, so food and aid deliveries might go there first. In exchange for resources and contracts, perhaps.