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Geopolitical tectonic plates are reelin' and rockin', and the sound is heard all around the world, as the twin baby bears DPR and LPR plus Kherson and Zaporozhye vote on their referendums.
Irretrievable fact: by the end of next week Russia most certainly will be on the way to add over 100,000 km2 and over 5 million people to the Federation.Denis Pushilin, head of the DPR, summed it all up: "We're going home". The baby bears are coming to Mama.
Coupled with the partial mobilization of up to 300,000 Russian reservists - arguably just a first phase - the raise-the-stakes consequences are immense.
Exit the previous soft format of the Special Military Operation (SMO): enter serious kinetic war, not hybrid, against any actor, vassal or otherwise, that dares to attack Russian territory.There's a very short window of Chinese-coined crisis/opportunity for the collective West, or NATOstan, to negotiate. They won't. Even as anyone with an IQ over room temperature knows that the only way for the Empire of Chaos/Lies/Plunder to "win" - outside of the cover of
The Economist - would be by launching a first-strike flurry of tactical nuclear weapons, which would meet a devastating Russian response.
The Kremlin knows it - President Putin has publicly alluded to it; the Russian General Staff (RGS) knows it; the Chinese know it (and have called, also publicly, for negotiations).
Instead, we have hysterical Russophobia reaching a paroxysm. And from the deer-caught-in-the-headlights vassals, an extra toxic sludge of fear and loathing.
Implications have been sharply and rationally addressed at
The Saker and by
Andrei Martyanov. On the realm of social network "influencing" - a key component of hybrid war - cheap entertainment has been provided by everyone from frightened Eurocrats to crappy retired U.S. generals threatening a "devastating strike" against the Black Sea Fleet "if Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine".
One of these specimens is a mere P.R. front man for an Atlanticist think tank. He was properly disposed of by the now totally unplugged deputy head of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev: "Retired idiots with general's stripes do not need to scare us with talk about a NATO strike on Crimea."
Freak out on a moonage daydream? Oh yeah. Tawdry wet dreams, stripped off the Bowie glow.
Maskirovka meets Sun TzuMoscow's rerouted strategy takes
maskirovka - mask, feint, fool the enemy - to another level, actually dropping the mask, plus the velvet gloves. Now it's all very clear: this is turbo-charged Sun Tzu ("May your plans be dark and impenetrable like the night, and when you move, strike like lightning.")
There will be plenty of strikes like lightning ahead in the Ukrainian battlefield. This is the culmination of a process that started in
Samarkand, during the SCO summit last week. According to diplomatic sources, Putin and Xi Jinping had a very serious conversation. Xi asked tough questions - as in you must finish this off - and Putin arguably explained how things would reach the next level.
Yoda Patrushev was on the road to China immediately afterwards - meeting with his Yoda counterpart Yang Jiechi, head of the Foreign Affairs Commission, and the secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee, Guo Shengkun.
Following-up on Samarkand, Patrushev outlined how Moscow will help Beijing militarily when the Empire tries anything funny in the next battlefield: Asia-Pacific. That should happen under the framework of the SCO. Crucially, the Patrushev meetings were requested by the Chinese.
So the Russia-China strategic partnership is about to achieve full-fledged cooperation before the going gets tough in the South China Sea. It's as if Russia-China were on the brink of creating their own CSTO.
And that is happening even as the Chinese leadership continues to express - mostly in private - that war in Russia's western borderlands is very bad for business (BRI, EAEU, SCO, BRICS+, all of them) and should be wrapped up a.s.a.p.
The problem is a swift wrap-up is off the cards. Foreign Minister Lavrov, in New York for the UN General Assembly, has stressed how.
"Ukraine has eventually become a totalitarian Nazi sort of state" - unconditionally supported by the collective West.NATOstan has predictably doubled down on its tactics since the non-response response to Russia's demand for a serious discussion on indivisibility of security, in late 2021: it's always about shelling Donbass.
This could not possibly be tolerated anymore by the Kremlin and Russian public opinion. Thus the partial mobilization - forcefully proposed by the
siloviki and the Security Council for quite a while now, with Kostyukov at GRU, Naryshkin at SVR and Bortnikov at FSB on the forefront.
The symbolism is powerful: after so many years, Moscow is finally fully committed to supporting Donbass all the way to the baby bears coming to Mama for good.
There are - unconfirmed - rumors in Moscow that the decision was accelerated because GRU has intel on the Americans soon transferring long-range missiles to Kiev capable of striking Russian cities. That's beyond a red line for the Kremlin - hence Putin's express mention that every weapon available in Russia's mighty arsenal will be used to protect the Motherland.
The red line is even more relevant than the much-ballyhooed Kiev all out counter-offensive, which could only happen by Spring 2023. With the partial mobilization, Russia may count on a new batch of fresh troops ready for war by the end of the year. The much-touted Ukrainian numerical advantage will soon be nullified.
Slaves humming "Das Rheingold"So the General Winter picture will be unveiling considerably less slow grind - the prevailing tactic so far - and way more vast scale maneuver war cum devastating strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure.
Europe meanwhile may go dark and freezing, flirting with a return to the Middle Ages, but the imperial Lords of War still will refuse to negotiate. The Kremlin and the RGS couldn't care less.
Because Russian public opinion overwhelmingly understands the Big Picture. Ukraine is just a pawn in their game - and what "they" want is to destroy and plunder Russia.Defense Minister Shoigu put it in a - factual - way even a kid can understand. Russia is fighting the collective West; Western command centers in Kiev are running the show; and the entire array of NATO military and "civilian" satellites is mobilized against Russia.
By now it's already clear. If these NATO command centers tell Kiev to strike Russian territory after the referendums, we will have the Putin-promised decimation of "centers of decision". And the same applies to the satellites.
This may be what the RGS wanted to do from the beginning. Now they can finally implement it, because of popular support in the internal front. This crucial factor is what NATOstan "intel" simply cannot understand and/or is incapable of professionally evaluating.
Former Pentagon advisor during the Trump administration, Colonel Douglas Macgregor, an extremely rare voice of sanity in the Beltway,
totally understands the stakes: "Russia already controls the territory that
produces 95 percent of Ukrainian GDP. It has no need to press further west." Donbass will be fully liberated and the next step is Odessa. Moscow is "in no hurry. The Russians are nothing if not methodical and deliberate. Ukrainian forces are
bleeding to death in counterattack after counterattack. Why rush?"
The SCO in Samarkand and the UN General Assembly have amply demonstrated how virtually the whole Global South outside of NATOstan does not demonize Russia, understand Russia's position, and even profits from it, like China and India buying loads of gas and paying in rubles.
And then there's the euro/dollar shuffle: to save the U.S. dollar, the Empire is breaking the euro. This is arguably
the (italics mine) power play by the USG/Fed in cutting off the EU - most of all Germany - from cheap Russian energy by organizing a controlled demolition of the European economy and its currency.
Yet StupidEUROcrats are so cosmically incompetent they never saw it coming. So now they'd better start humming "Das Rheingold" all the way to a "hello darkness, my old friend" Middle Ages revival.
Switching to a Monty Python register, the sketch would run like an evil Putin masterminding the wreck of the Euro economy and industry; then making the Euros donate all their weapons to Ukraine; and then leaving NATO stranded in the fog, yelling desperate platitudes. In the end, Putin gets rid of his mask - after all, this is
maskirovka - and reveals his true usual suspect face.
All the young dudes, carry the (Russian) news: let's rock. It's strike like lightning time.
Reader Comments
A calculated individual who would consider his moves wisely, annexation I believe was the name of the game.
He and his nation got embroidered in a conflict, that has historical roots but played upon by the West.
Putin will take political claim to land which best serves his people and nation, a land grab that serves a purpose.
I here where your coming from, a legitimate show of hands drives its own direction but Putin wasn't going to walk away empty handed, it's fortunate that most living there were pro Russians and this made his acquisition easy and palatable to the international community.
He needed a cushion against the advance of NATO and he got it peacefully.
I stand by my statement, as this was an intentional act which was resolved in a democratic manner, but still a land grab nether the less.
Yes? No? I'm waiting for you to think about it, and tell me.
I'll tell you instead. What Russia/Putin need desperately is more people, not more land. If anything, the incorporation of the LPR and DPR republics into Russia will increase its population by at least 5 million people, maybe more - nobody can count how many have already fled into Russia as refugees.
Okay, let's compromise. If anything, this "grab" was a people grab, not a land grab. Yes? No?
Land or people is up for debate, the advance of NATO for Putin wasn't debatable, the acquisition of land /people? was I believe a tactical move on Putins behalf.
So, Crimea voted to secede and join Russia, which of course suits Russian interests also via the seaport. Now, I've read it that Russia controls the territory that produces 95% of Ukrainian GDP, although this may have been an old estimate. In effect, the Maidan business was aiming at dispossessing the Russian populace of Ukraine of 1.) the Sebastopol seaport and strategic area of Crimea and 2.) The economic powerhouses of Eastern Ukraine. This has been a damned rescue mission for a segment of Russian who had their representation removed and were being systematically dispossesed, in my opinion.
As with any conflict there's opinions, some based on current events, others that consider historical events, Northern Ireland is a typical example were the past refuses departure of the struggles of yesterday and as a consequence progress cannot be made.
There are 2 lands that perpetuate the perplexing events of yesterday and refuse the relinquish such ideologies and their beliefs, Israel and Northern Ireland.
Is Ukraine about to join this club that is stuck in the past and be present if only as a means of controlling the wider World, I think so.
I live for today, so does Putin. These parts of Ukraine were vital for a bigger goal and the past played no part of it in Putins eyes, that's what I believe.
I couldn't agree more Good Optics. Since 2014 Ukraine has genocided its own people. If the referendum goes through...its will be GAME ON. Any attacks in those republics will be in essence an attack on Russia and Kiev will then be turned into smouldering ash !!
SOTT Focus:Georgian snipers testify to being ordered by Maidan leaders to shoot at police and protesters, provoke attacks during Ukraine coup
On February 20, 2014, unknown snipers shot at people gathered on Kiev's central Maidan square, killing 49 protesters and four police officers. Local opposition leaders, as well as US and EU...Now, who paid these snipers? Well, here is Madam " Fuck the EU " Victoria Nuland, saying on camera that the USGOV had spent $5 billion to overthrow the legitimately elected government in Ukraine: [ Link ] (That video is only 8 minutes long - yes you do have the time to watch it, and then you should save it as I have, for future reference.)
Incidentally, Ms. Nuland is a Jew, so is her husband Robert Kagan (the title of the Khan of Khazaria, 1,000 years ago) as was also Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, to whom, on the phone, Ms. Nuland so colorfully disparaged the EU, as is also Anthony Blinken, and so on and so on. Those Khazarian parasites are everywhere, they crawl out of the woodwork like termites, munching away on the timbers of our nation, which as a result is soon about to collapse. Not to mention every other nation on the planet.
If anything, the land grab (attempted) was in 2014, when the USA figured it would grab the naval base at Sebastopol away from the Russian Navy, as well as the offshore oilfields in the Black Sea (which were operated by Burisma, the company which was paying Hunter Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, (The "Big Man") $50,000 a month as a consultant/shareholder/asswiper/shitlicker.) And when Ukraine was investigating Burisma, VP Joe "Hairsniffer" Biden called them up and told them if they did not fire the investigator, they would not see a penny of the billions in aid (which, dear children, is of course your tax money and mine that they steal from our paychecks every week,) from the Obama Government. And of course, as you know, Joe "PureAsTheDrivenSnow" Biden actually boasted on camera about having twisted the arm of the Ukrainian President to get that investigator fired. Yes, he told the whole story before an audience.
Now why does Western media never talk about these things? Maybe because it's all controlled by Khazarians, and they are aiming to seize Ukraine for themselves? As in a land grab?
Italian TV documentary confirms: Maidan snipers worked for Ukrainian "opposition" - goal was to create chaos
The interviews with three snipers of Georgian nationality, conducted by the Italian journalist Gian Micalessin and aired last week as a breathtaking documentary on Milan-based Canale 5 (Matrix...And here is Victoria Nuland's speech: [Link]
fine parallel to draw, Anglo-Irish, protestant-catholic... I think the Ukro-Rus false dichotomy was being encouraged in the same way. And of course there's the 4th (or Lord knows how many) historic outright apartheid. Lord, have Mercy.
I'm not sure what part of "F*ck the EU" the European leaders do not misunderstand
What a feast to see the hypocritical assholes in the west getting ripped a few more.
Leaving only ONE solution:
Citizens of Europe, this is your last chance to remove the assholes you have permitted to let it get this far. Do it now. Stop the utterly deranged ilk that is remote controlled by D.C. and Tel Aviv.
You have already reached the Kennedy moment - violent revolution has become inevitable.
Alternatively you can of course try to buy bulk pottassium iodide.
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Remember "The Hitchhiker's Guide Through the Galaxy"? "Don't Panic!"
Sending positive vibes.
Remove Lenin from the Mausoleum, clean it up and keep it tidy for the next 30 years when Vladimir will move in.
Oh, and yes, if the Nobel peace prize meant anything, Vladimir Putin would deserve it. However it is nothing but a gaslighting award.
Looks like Edward Snowden won the lottery of life and Julian Assange picked the wrong embassy.
A nd I tend to agree. Assange confirmed information that was already out, but only as rumors and conspiracy. Snowden OTOH traded inside information about the CIA/NSA, and hardly anything about it went public.
None of the people who would have foamed at the mouth and lied about his reasoning to go to Moscow did anything to help him.
Ultimately, both cases may well be not as they seem to be. What is known about his time in the embassy and now sitting in the Belmarsh torture institute, I trust to be the truth. But I am not 100% certain about all of it.
America and Europe will be dismantled to the "stone not left upon stone" level and all will be for "global good".
We indeed should stand up to prove we're not of the same cloth as our politician puppets, but I don't see that happening before "the Stasi" loses power over normies along with the media, so the economical destruction must proceed even further.
They've already managed to pull this off more than once and demonize whole nations for centuries to come, people never learn en masse , only on the individual level..
they talk of Global Elite, the Superclass, the Moneyed Corporations etc, those more Powerful than any pint-sized people funneling government... but seem to forget that when histrionics calls for them to declare their obedience..
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An recalcitrant Italian government can bring down the whole brittle EU/ECB building, and with ease.
I rest my case that the EU should be disbanded immediately
I am happy when I read such public threats from unelected EU demagogues, because it can only help to wake up more sleeping fools. We need everybody, soon.
They actually had a plan, preparations, and kept the fight up against an overpowering adversary for almost 4 years. Their plan was not very good, but that is another matter.
The Ukraine, Nato and EU are just a cheap copy.
I don't know.
What are your thoughts on a Higher Power than man?
Anyway, problem with people setting the agenda is that, thanks to their wealth and power, they can easily evade the eyes of the public. They've got their lobbyists, lawyers and private armies of security experts. Also vast land and property, exclusive high society clubs, private jets & islands - you name it. So for the average Joe to get a hold of any such pricks and asking them why did they finance for example CRT or kid grooming by drag queens to which his children are exposed to at school is simply beyond imagination. Working solution would be the other way around, the society needs to get a grip - in the way of restructuring itself and getting things done another way, one of self-less dedication and mutual help with focus on the necessities and not all the bells & whistles of "modern society" designed to keep people apart even when they think they're "getting closer with each other" (anti-social media come to mind). I don't see that possible with the kind of population Earth has got right now. Too many people are possessed by greed and ego, too many live in fear and loathe one another. Most of the masses are what they've been all the time, just that. I guess it all boils down to those with the ability to see through the lies and organize to do some action, one side apparently got all the advantage in equipment, funding and centuries of experience though
So I'm afraid until we can really point out to those pulling the strings, we can only form a parallel society to survive somehow and avoid integration into soulless digital "singularity" they have the upper hand in.... Good luck.
azigzagidiotKROMMI believe mostly there is a higher power of evil. I also think we have to get rid of puppets until there are no more left. Then the puppet masters will appear because they ran out of puppets. This will also reveal the higher evil power.
"Patton had many gifts, but diplomacy was not one of them. After the war, while stationed in Germany, he criticized the process of denazification, the removal of former Nazi Party members from positions of political, administrative, and governmental power. His impolitic press statements questioning the policy caused Eisenhower to remove him as U.S. commander in Bavaria. He was transferred to the 15th Army Group, but in December of 1945 he suffered a broken neck in a car accident and died less than two weeks later."