New volunteers for the Ukrainian interior ministry’s “Azov” battalion take their oath of allegiance to their country during a ceremony in Kiev.
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review Dec 7, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor.
A senior U.S. Democratic Senator revealed more than he intended when he gleefully expressed a desire to see Russia invade Ukraine and for it to become another “Afghan quagmire”.
Senator Chris Murphy who sits on the policy-influencing Senate Foreign Relations Committee told CNN at the weekend: “Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan for Russia if it chooses to move further.”
Murphy (48) is a vociferous anti-Russia hawk having previously declared Moscow a “permanent, persistent” national security threat to the United States. He is well connected to the U.S. foreign policy establishment through his committee work in the Senate and before that as a lawmaker on foreign relations committees in the House of Representatives. He is prominently associated with the Atlantic Council and Foreign Affairs journal which are the premier forums for debating U.S. imperial objectives.
Thus, Murphy’s remarks about comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan can be seen as not just an unfortunate slip of the tongue. His remarks reveal a deep-going calculation by Washington planners.
The massive media campaign orchestrated by the U.S. State Department and intelligence agencies over the past four weeks in which Russia is accused of planning an invasion of Ukraine is an extraordinary development. Bereft of facts or credible logic on the part of Russia, instead it seems most plausibly to be a contrived crisis aimed at provoking Moscow into a conflict.
Just last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was playing to the gallery by “warning” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that there would be severe repercussions if Russia invaded Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed these claims as unsubstantiated hysteria. It maintains that troops within its own territorial borders are a sovereign internal matter. In any case, the satellite images purporting to show Russian mobilization actually refer to military formations nearly 300 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Nevertheless, U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor. When Biden holds his video call with Putin Tuesday, it is expected to be a major talking point for the American side, even though the evidence for such serious claims is scant.
Western news media regurgitate tendentious American claims along with dubious satellite images as if they are solid facts. There is an unmistakable echo of the media-driven fabrication over alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which was used to justify the U.S. and British war in 2003.
U.S. intelligence has also been shared at an unprecedented level with European and NATO allies in a bid to convince skeptical nations such as Germany that Russia is allegedly intending an invasion. U.S. intel is claiming that the offensive is only weeks away, perhaps at the end of next month.
The whole media frenzy has a madcap tone that is disconnected from reality. The buildup of military forces in the region is by the NATO-backed Kiev regime which has half of its total troop numbers now positioned near the contact line against pro-Russian separatists in southeastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin warns that the Kiev regime is ready to launch an offensive against the breakaway region to settle the more than seven-year civil war by military force. The Ukrainian political leadership has consistently shown disregard for implementing the 2015 Minsk peace accord.
Moreover, the United States and other NATO members have supplied billions of dollars worth of lethal weaponry to the Kiev regime as well as military trainers on the ground. The latest consignment of arms from the U.S. includes Javelin anti-tank missiles. In concert with this arms funneling to a Russophobic regime, the U.S. and NATO powers have embarked on rapid deployment of warships, nuclear-capable bombers and reconnaissance planes in the Black Sea region.
All the signals point to an invasion by an emboldened Kiev regime of the breakaway Donbass region. The plight of the ethnic Russian population in the face of wanton aggression will bring strong political pressure on Moscow to intervene militarily.
However, the dutiful Western media will report this like a self-fulfilling prophesy and lay the blame on Russia for “violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity”. Putin will be denounced as Europe’s “new Hitler” along with other absurdities laundered as truth. More economic sanctions will be unleashed against Moscow and most likely the Nord Stream 2 gas project between Russia and the European Union will be axed as a matter of Brussels’s “solidarity” with oppressed Ukraine.
The Americans will of course be laughing all the way to the banks in Wall Street invested in U.S. gas exports to Europe.
An Azov poster faithfully copies and old Nazi poster. Click to enlarge
But the even bigger prize for Washington is the Machiavellian ploy that Russia will become bogged down in a long, bloody war against Ukrainian military battalions – some of them diehard Neo-Nazi fanatics like the Azov Battalion – which will be armed to the teeth by the United States.
This is akin to the infamous scenario connived by the Carter administration under the influence of national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1979 when the Soviet Union was lured into Afghanistan to combat U.S.-backed Mujahideen fighters armed with Stinger missiles. That decade-long war grievously damaged the Soviet Union and arguably led to its collapse in 1991. No doubt, it is seen as Washington statecraft’s finest moment.
It seems the ghost of Brzezinski is trying to make a second coming for Ukraine.
What a load of old bollox.
Forget about what US regime figures say to fake news. Russia has drawn its red lines. The problem lies in Ukraine’s status. Is Ukraine, or will Ukraine become a NATO member like Israel? While the US says it won’t fight Russia on the ground in Ukraine, the US & UK will supply Ukraine with weapons, special forces, advanced logistics & MERCENARIES! The idea might be to drag Russia into a quagmire, but I don’t think this comes anywhere near what Russia will do.
If the West is stupid, the war will last one week. It has been suggested that Russia could face a gas export ban. I’ve been saying for quite a while that Russia should turn off the gas to the EU. Also suggested is a ban from SWIFT. The Russians have or are developing a replacement for SWIFT, as they have been expecting this move, in fact, Russia is developing its own stand-alone interent.
All of these moves by the NWO does the West no favours, just as illegal sanctions have forced a positive relationship with China and others, Russia has built entire industries to manufacture products which have resulted in lost sales for EU manufactures. Who knows, what countries will join these Russian systems so they can escape the NWO deep state control?
As to Ukraine, this is a difficult call, but one thing is sure, the UK will not stop it’s war mongering, because aside from this, they can only play the bioweapons card. As for the US, their domestic situation is terrible. While inflation is bad for all sheeple, the US through hegamony, has managed to export its inflation. Those days may be over, & the typical US sheeple has no living memory of rising prices. As the world abandons the US dollar as a trading currency, all those spare trading dollars will return home, or will be taken in by client states, such as bankrupt Britain & Japan. The US debt ceiling is about to be shoe-in jacked up again… this used to be a big news story, but these days its just a big yawn, but that doesn’t deminish the seriouseness of the US economic situation. Only Trump was prepared to admit publically that the US spends way too much on its military. Even if Trump gets in to the White House, I doubt he’ll be able to break the debt cycle. As for the UK, there’s no hope of any genuine recovery. The City crime cartels are already deregulated, so the UK’s biggest card is a blank card. China and pick and choose City instruments. China will never give the UK a trade deal. The EU trade deal isn’t worth the paper it is written on. The Australian trade deal is a disaster for the UK
All my adult life (60), the UK has made a liteney of xxxk ups. I wasn’t an adult when we joined the EU.
Only the US gets bogged down in quagmires these days. If Russia invades Ukraine they will blitzkrieg the country in a week and there won’t be anything the fake “nazis” can do about it.
The situation is quite different – although the blockheads in the Pentagon, with their appalling ignorance of the world, fail to see it. It won’t be an Afghanistan-style quagmire.
The Russians can destroy the Ukrainian military in hours and occupy the country within days. They could easily prevent supplies being slipped across by the border by NATO. It also fails to consider the obvious – many Ukrainians want to again be part of Russia. Much of the military will desert to the Russians.
Ratchild: Throughout history we instigate & engineer wars where the white gentiles kill each other over contrived idiotic issues. Millions died fighting over some crucified Jewish rabbi for centuries, millions more for some worthless Archduke in 1914 & the supposed freedom of moronic Polacks in 1939.
Mosestein: If they had any intelligence they’d be killing us, instead of each other.
‘Quagmire’?
That’s the US economy. And why the US is pushing so hard for another war
I am for any side that is opposed to the forces of organized Jewry. Of course, organized Jewry is playing both sides here, as usual, so it’s just another manufactured bullshit dog & pony show to keep the hoi polloi distracted from seeing the real issues that are destroying them. That’s not say it is not a very real and grave threat to the ethnic Russians in the Donbas, whose very lives are threatened by the machinations of the maniacal Jews in Kiev and elsewhere along with their deranged attack puppets.
Most Ukrainians I have ever met have struck me as being moronic meatheads, but I suppose I could say the same about the Jewnited States as well…
in afganistan the rebells had their caves,
in Nam small charlys dug their tunnels.
but in Ukrain it will all be open without
posibilities for hiding. same we germans
could not make partisan war. no place to
hide ! under arminius there were more
woods + swamps for partisan war against
the romans .
The flag looks uncomfortably like a Swastika…😐
The founders of Russia were a lot like the Ukrainians and these will not be exterminated as when the Kremlin was in Jewish hands. Soon we might discover just how not-Jewish the Kremlin is today.
US and Bolshevik Russia will create Holodomor 2.0. What a great couple of degenerate countries along with UK and Red China, all owned and run by the Israelis and their diaspora. See if you can get some pictures of the Checka attrocities. Most people will love it as much as their video games but this is for real and the pain and attrocities are beyond that of your video games as well as the militaries of the world are filled with sadists, monitored by sadist perverts in leadership positions, who with the “Intelligence” and “Investigation” pedophile finders for beating, bleeding an eating the children at their black masses are at the top of the pyramid. Find their lodges and temples and you will also find that all, including Israel in their Supreme Court have the BLACK STAR in a specific location for all to see.