"The Ukrainians are in bad shape... It won't be long before the Ukrainians run out of food. It won't be long before they freeze... They have done all that we can reasonably expect them to do. It's time to negotiate.... before the offensive begins, because once it begins, there will be no further discussion between Moscow and Kiev until it is over to the satisfaction of the Russians." Colonel Douglas MacGregor, "War in Ukraine; Quiet Before the Storm", 15 minute-mark
The relentless attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid, fuel-storage units, railway hubs, and Command-and-Control centers mark the beginning of a second and more lethal phase of the war. The increased tempo of the high-precision, long-range missile attacks suggests that Moscow is laying the groundwork for a major winter offensive that will be launched as soon as Russia's 300,000 reservists join their formations in east Ukraine. Kiev's refusal to negotiate a settlement that addresses Russia's core security concerns, has left Russian president Vladimir Putin with no other option but to defeat Ukrainian forces on the battlefield and impose a settlement through force-of-arms. The impending winter offensive is designed to deliver the knock-out punch Russia needs to achieve its strategic objectives and bring the war to swift end. This is from Reuters:"Strictly speaking, we haven't started anything yet." Russian President Vladimir Putin
Until recently, Russia had avoided targets that would dramatically impact civilian activities, but now military leaders have returned to a more conventional approach. Presently, the military is destroying whatever facilities, transformers, storage units, substations, rail yards and energy depots that allow Ukraine to continue to wage war. Clearly - as the bigger and more powerful state — it was always within Russia's ability to take a sledgehammer to Ukraine and break it into a million pieces, but Putin chose to hold back hoping that Kiev would come to its senses and see the hopelessness of its cause. And - despite the deluge of western propaganda to the contrary - the outcome of this war has never been in doubt. Russia is going to impose a settlement on Kiev and that settlement will require the government to cut all ties with NATO and to sign a treaty declaring its neutrality into perpetuity. Russia is not going to allow a hostile military alliance to place its missile sites and combat troops on its western flank. That won't happen.Russian missile strikes have crippled almost half of Ukraine's energy system, the government said on Friday, and authorities in the capital Kyiv warned that the city could face a "complete shutdown" of the power grid as winter sets in.
With temperatures falling and Kyiv seeing its first snow, officials were working to restore power nationwide after some of the heaviest bombardment of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in nine months of war.
The United Nations says Ukraine's electricity and water shortages threaten a humanitarian disaster this winter.
"Unfortunately Russia continues to carry out missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian and critical infrastructure. Almost half of our energy system is disabled," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said....
"We are preparing for different scenarios, including a complete shutdown," Mykola Povoroznyk, deputy head of the Kyiv city administration, said in televised comments." ("Ukraine says half its energy system crippled by Russian attacks, Kyiv could 'shutdown'", Reuters)
Unfortunately, Russia's military operation is going to greatly increase the suffering of the Ukrainian people who find themselves locked in a cage-match between the Washington and Moscow. This is from the World Socialist Web Site:
Washington's proxy-war on Moscow has inflicted incalculable suffering on the people of Ukraine who now face plunging temperatures, dwindling food supplies, a crashing economy and a growing shortage of essential medications. And despite the chest-thumping bravado over the recapturing of Kherson, the Ukrainian people will now be forced to flee their battered homeland by the millions seeking refuge in Europe which has already slipped into a post-industrial slump brought on by Uncle Sam's reckless provocations. How many of these working-class Ukrainians would have preferred that their leaders reach an accommodation with Putin (regarding his legitimate security concerns) rather than engaging the Russian army in a pointless war which has cost them their homes, their jobs, their cities, and (for many) their lives?Poverty in Ukraine has increased more than tenfold since the outbreak of the US/NATO-Russia war, according to the latest data from the World Bank (WB). Officially, 25 percent of the country's population is now poor, up from supposedly just 2 percent before February 2022... With officials predicting that the poverty rate could rise to as much as 60 percent or more next year, levels of deprivation are emerging in Ukraine that have not been witnessed on the European continent since the end of World War II.
Unemployment is now running at 35 percent, and salaries have fallen by as much as 50 percent over the spring and summer for some categories of workers. ... according to the International Monetary Fund, Ukraine's public debt has now soared to 85 percent of GDP.... A recently released joint study by the World Health Organization and Ukraine's Ministry of Health found that 22 percent of people in Ukraine cannot access essential medicines. For the country's 6.9 million internally displaced, that number rises to 33 percent.
...The medications that are hardest to get — those that treat blood pressure, heart problems and pain, as well as sedatives and antibiotics — reveal a population struggling to cope with decades of poverty-induced ill health and the physical and psychological trauma of war.
While US and NATO officials are able to dispatch massive amounts of firepower to Ukraine's front lines within a matter of weeks, the delivery of life-saving humanitarian goods is seemingly an impossible logistical challenge." ("Poverty skyrockets in Ukraine", World Socialist Web Site)
And do the people outside the country who claim to "Stand With Ukraine" realize that they are actually supporting the impoverishment and immiseration of millions of civilians that are caught in a geopolitical crossfire between Washington and Russia? Anyone who genuinely cares about Ukraine should support Ukrainian neutrality and an end to NATO expansion. That is the only way this war is going to end. Russian security will be achieved by-way of a treaty or an iron-fist. The choice is Ukraine's. This is from an article titled 'Russia Is Right: The U.S. Is Waging a Proxy War in Ukraine':
The US foreign policy establishment does not care about Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. The country is merely a launching pad for Washington's war on Russia. That is why the CIA toppled the democratically-elected government in Kiev in 2014 and that is why the CIA armed and trained Ukrainian paramilitaries to fight the Russian military in 2015 (7 years before the invasion!) Here's some background from a 2015 article at Yahoo News:"The war in Ukraine isn't just a conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently declared. It is a "proxy war" in which the world's most powerful military alliance ... is using Ukraine as a battering ram against the Russian state ... Lavrov is ... not wrong. Russia is the target of one of the most ruthlessly effectively proxy wars in modern history."
There it is in black and white. The plan to use Ukraine as a staging-ground for conducting a proxy-war on Russia preceded the invasion by at least 7 years. The Obama administration and their neocon allies set a trap for Russia in order to drag them into an Afghanistan-like quagmire that would deplete their resources and kill as many Russian servicemen as possible. As Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently admitted, the US wants to "weaken" Russia so it is unable to project power beyond its borders. Washington seeks unhindered access to Central Asia so it can encircle China with military bases and nuclear missiles. The US intends to control China's growth while dominating the world's most populous and prosperous region of the next century, Asia. But first, Washington must crush Russia, collapse its economy, isolate it from the global community, demonize it in its media, and topple its leaders. Ukraine is seen as the first phase in a much broader strategy aimed at regime change (in Moscow) followed by the forced fragmentation of the Russian state. The ultimate objective is the preservation of Washington's preeminent role in the global order."The CIA is overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces and other intelligence personnel, according to five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the initiative. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials....
"The United States is training an insurgency," said a former CIA official, adding that the program has taught the Ukrainians how "to kill Russians."
...the CIA and other U.S. agencies could support a Ukrainian insurgency, should Russia launch a large-scale incursion.
..."We've been training these guys now for eight years. They're really good fighters. ...representatives from both countries also believe that Russia won't be able to hold on to new territory indefinitely because of stiff resistance from Ukrainian insurgents, according to former officials.
If the Russians launch a new invasion, "there's going to be people who make their life miserable," said the former senior intelligence official...
"All that stuff that happened to us in Afghanistan," said the former senior intelligence official, "they can expect to see that in spades with these guys." ("CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades", Yahoo News)
Putin's winter offensive threatens to derail Washington's plan to drag the conflict out for as long as possible. In the weeks and months ahead, Russia is going to intensify its assault on Ukraine's critical infrastructure. Most of the country will be plunged into darkness, fuel supplies will dry up, food and water will become scarcer, communications will be cut off, and all rail-traffic will cease. Millions of civilians will flee to Europe while the entire country slowly grinds to a standstill. At the same time that Russian battalions overtake cities and towns east of the Dnieper, the Russian army will block vital supply-lines from Poland cutting off the flow of lethal weaponry and combat troops headed to the front. This, in turn, will lead to widespread capitulation among Ukrainian fighting units operating in the field which will force Zelensky to the negotiating table. Eventually, Russia will prevail and its legitimate security demands will be met. Here's how Colonel Douglas MacGregor summed it up in a recent interview:
When the ground freezes, Russia's offensive will begin."What's coming in the future is a very massive offensive... the kind of offensive that I and many other military analysts expected at the beginning; Very decisive operations, multiple operational axes designed to effectively annihilate the enemy on the ground. And that's what's coming now, that's what lies in the future." (Colonel Douglas MacGregor, "War in Ukraine; Quiet Before the Storm", you tube)
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If not, the Russian military will destroy the rest of the electrical power grid, the gas infrastructure, communication, and transportation hubs, and then begin their offensive to create a fait accompli.
I guess the latter is what will happen.
I think he has far less "skin in the game" than many people think, or the media want to make us believe.
T hrough my Soviet/Ukrainain born wife I watched quite a bit Russian and Ukrainian TV/films over the years. And one movie I definitely remember is a Russian musical-styl remake of "Night in the museum" with *elensky in a main role.
While I did never watch that "Servant of the people" series, I am convinced he knows it's a role, and he has to keep it up.
The main issues that make him go off-script are IMHO cocaine & stress ...
"Russia declares war on the Straussians" [Link] and many more worthwhile articles there I would add.
And the Biblicism Institute: "The Truth About The Conflict With Russia" [Link]
In that last link (much interesting history I think) one will see a picture of elensky(why do we leave the Z off plus more?, well because of AIPAC+ and not wanting to make the job easier folks) titled " The immoral Zio-Nzi ew: krainian Prsident elensky, center right, in gy prde parad"
Agree with codis in that "The main issues that make him go off-script are IMHO cocaine & stress"... But (in my view) he jumps on a jet plane and goes somewhere safe where the cameras will not see that. He isn't the useful idiot.
elensky and Blinken play both sides of the chess board(as Straussians)... It is important to keep that in mind.
I just noticed (from short video sequences) he has a drug problem - a serious one.
Did I mention that Hitler took acting lessons in the 1920s as well ?!?
See "THE HISTORY OF CENTRAIL BANKING: AND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF MAN KIND"(notice this is a book burning candidate with central spelled wrong!) chapter VI: [Link] "The Rise and Fall of State Banking (1932-1945).
fkn american hippocrites, "THOU SHALT NOT KILL"
those whom fall into such a practice, when you physically give up the spirit, you will NOT go up, you shall struggle, you shall experience the suffering and pain you caused, this is divine will, this is to educate you to NOT kill, you have NO authority regardless,
you shall awaken on the lowest of the darkest most horrid realms, surrounded by others, like yourself, this will be your hell,
could be hundreds, or even thousands of years before you even see a light, and even a light of help for you,
change your ways..
this goes also to those that forced vaxed people in the global scam, the billionaires that love money, love control, and hate there fellow beings, again, they also shall suffer, and NOT go up.
this i know, spirit contact and myself in touch often, the best surprise was told to me, "THERE IS NO VIRUS, NEVER WAS",
those complicit, those also in the pocket of big pharma, are also considered "KILLERS",
gps, politicians the entire lot, there will be NO HEAVEN when your body gives up the ghost,
fear that you evil mother fukers..
everything ive mentioned, i posses via recorded ITC EVP SESSIONS.. SPIRIT DO NOT LIE!!
I'm beggining to think that virus's are just exosomes de jour, so in some sense they are created by the present extant fields, either telluric or astrological. When people are malnourished or otherwise stressed their cells die off in similar ways at any one time and can 'infect' and precipitate other/others cells to break down too IF they are susceptible? If there's anything to this it means the whole insane biological warfare programme around virus's is a scam.
However, Russia's attack on infrastructure came about after the bomb attack on the bridge, the continued attacks on the nuclear power plant, and the rejection of peace talks by Zelensky, the CIA/NATO puppet. Without electricity, the mercenaries become more visible targets. Russia is still acting strategically, in my view.
We will now see the UN and other "altruistic" organizations focusing on the suffering of the Ukrainians, and ignoring that the CIA/NATO have engineered this suffering.
I don't see Zelensky however, as a puppet (see my last post above). Instead as a Straussian (well heeled and possibly not even gay - just acting), the Straussian's don't have allegiance to the US and NATO. Instead the Straussian (IMHO), only see the US and NATO as tools to be thrown away when no longer needed. Killing a bunch of duped nazi mercenaries(high on nationalism and "the struggle") for the cause(as useful well paid idiots), is no need for concern on their part. The Straussian's (in my view) are the forward tip of the spear (so to speak) in this reorganization of privately owned banks "built on debt" world order(same order only better). All sides (in my view that includes the so called "multi-polar" "side") are carefully crafted in advance, including reactions we are supposed to fall for(through media), and "solutions" that benefit the active planners(but are portrayed as benefiting popularity).
Here is the planners main dash board (you have seen it before ) [Link]
Not long now !
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explain why he wouldn't have carpet bombed the place. Reminds me of the carpet bombing in the middle east.
Also reminds me of the carpet bombing in Raqqua by the US. No building left untouched to survive, and the untold number of dead bodies, innocents, left to rot.
Could be that Russia, despite a military objective, has a more humanitarian approach to modern war strategy, the preservation of civilian life, as much is possible.
Just my thoughts
And he wouldn't have had to carpet bomb the place Dresden style either since we all have more precision munitions. He could have easily cut off power and water 6 months ago.
I can't give you an analysis, nor can you. we are just plebs, that are not privy to the behind the scenes of the truth and reality, what our leaders have in store for us. Fo5r some have espoused as the end game
I am reminded of the ancient symbol of the triskele, for each opposing view, their is another opposing view, and where agreement can be made, for both parties, is in the grey area, where true enlightenment occurs, regarding solutions to problems.
To my mind it is a physical/spiritual manifestation, to solve a problem that has reached and impasse in the material world.
For a body, government, nation, that is truly immersed in the material world, this will be impossible, to move forward in the evolution of thought, to secure understanding.