Mike Whitney – The Unz Review March 4, 2022
Zelensky at Ukrainian frontline, prior to the Russian invasion. Click to enlarge
Volodymyr Zelensky is the current President of Ukraine. He was elected in a landslide victory in 2019 on the promise of easing tensions with Russia and resolving the crisis in the breakaway republics in east Ukraine. He has made no attempt to keep his word on either issue. Instead, he has greatly exacerbated Ukraine’s internal crisis while relentlessly provoking Russia. Zelensky has had numerous opportunities to smooth things over with Moscow and prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Instead, he has consistently made matters worse by blindly following Washington’s directives.
Zelensky has been lionized in the west and praised for his personal bravery. But—as a practical matter—he has failed to restore national unity or implement the crucial peace accord that is the only path to reconciliation. The Ukrainian president doesn’t like the so-called Minsk Protocol and has refused to meet its basic requirements. As a result, the ethnically-charged, fratricidal war that has engulfed Ukraine for the last 8 years, continues to this day with no end in sight. President Vladimir Putin referred to Zelensky’s obstinance in a recent speech delivered at the Kremlin. He said:
“At yesterday’s event… the Ukrainian leadership publicly declared that they were not going to abide by these agreements. Not going to abide by them. Well, what else can you say about that?” (Vladimir Putin)
Most Americans fail to realize that Zelensky’s rejection of Minsk was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Russian officials had worked for 8 years on Minsk hammering out terms that would be agreeable to all parties. Then—at the eleventh hour—Zelensky put the kibosh on the deal with a wave of the hand. Why? Who told Zelensky to scrap the agreement? Washington?
Of course.
And why did Zelensky deploy 60,000 combat troops to the area just beyond the Line of Contact (in east Ukraine) where they could lob mortal shells into the towns and villages of the ethnic Russians who lived there? Clearly, the message this sent to the people was that an invasion was imminent and that they should either flee their homes immediately or take shelter in their cellars. What objective did Zelensky hope to achieve by forcing these people to huddle in their homes in fear for their lives? And what message did he intend to send to Moscow whose leaders looked on at these developments in absolute horror?
Did he know his actions would set off alarms in Russia forcing Putin to call up his military and prepare them for a possible invasion to protect his people from– what looked to be– a massive ethnic cleansing operation?
He did.
So, how are these actions consistent with Zelensky’s campaign promises to restore national unity and peacefully resolve Ukraine’s issues with Russia?
They’re not consistent at all, they are polar opposites. In fact, Zelenskyy appears to be operating off a different script altogether. Take, for example, his complete unwillingness to address Russia’s minimal security concerns. Did Zelensky know that Putin had repeatedly said that Ukraine’s membership in NATO was a “red line” for Russia? Did he know that Putin has been saying the same thing over-and-over again since 2014? Did he know that Putin warned that if Ukraine took steps to join NATO, Russia would be forced to take “military-technical” measures to ensure their own security? Does Zelensky know that NATO is Washington-controlled Alliance that has engaged in numerous acts of aggression against other sovereign states. Here’s a short list of NATO’s accomplishments:
- The destruction of Yugoslavia
- The destruction of Afghanistan
- The destruction of Libya
- The destruction of Iraq
- The destruction of Syria
Does Zelensky know that NATO is openly hostile to Russia and regards Russia a serious threat to its expansionist ambitions?
Yes, he knows all these things. Still, he publicly expressed his interest in developing nuclear weapons. What is that all about? Imagine the problem that would pose for Russia. Imagine if a US-backed puppet, like Zelensky, had nuclear missiles at his fingertips. How do you think that might impact Russia’s security? Do you think Putin could ignore a development like that and still fulfill his duty to protect the Russian people?
And why did Zelenskyy agree to allow shipment after shipment of lethal weaponry to be delivered to Ukraine if he sincerely sought peace with Russia? Did he think that Putin was too stupid to see what was going on right beneath his nose? Did he think he was normalizing relations by expanding his arsenal, threatening his own people, and jumping through whatever hoops Washington set out for him?
Or did he think that Putin’s requests for security assurances were unreasonable? Is that it? Did he think– that if the shoe was on the other foot– the US would allow Mexico to put military bases, artillery pieces and missile sites along America’s southern border? Is there any president in American history who wouldn’t have done the same thing that Putin did? Is there any president in American history who wouldn’t have launched a preemptive strike on those Mexican weapons and vaporized every living thing for a 20-mile radius?
No, Putin’s demands were entirely reasonable, but Zelenskyy shrugged them off anyway. Why?
Does Zelenskyy know that there are Right Sektor, neo-Nazis in the government, military and Security Services. Does he know that, while their numbers are small, they are a force to be reckoned with and factor heavily in the hatred and persecution of ethnic Russians? Does he know that these far-right elements participate in torchlight parades, imprint swastikas or SS tattoos on their arms, and revere the racialist ideology of Adolph Hitler? Does he realize that many these Nazis have engaged in criminal acts of brutality including the incinerating of 40 civilians at the Trade Union Building in Odessa in 2014? Does he think that the CIA’s covert programs to arm and train these right-wing militants builds confidence or does he think it reminds Moscow of a catastrophic war in which 27 million Russians were exterminated by Germany’s Wehrmacht?
Can you see how everything Zelensky has done, was done with the intention of provoking Russia?
All the talk of joining NATO, all the talk about building nukes, the steady buildup of lethal weaponry, the movement of troops to the east, the refusal to implement the Minsk Treaty and the rejection of Putin’s security demands. All of these were deliberate provocations. But, why? Why “bait the bear”; that’s the question?
Because Washington wants to lure Russia into a war so it can further demonize Putin, isolate Russia, launch a counterinsurgency operation against the Russian army, and impose harsh economic sanctions that will inflict maximum damage on the Russian economy. That’s Washington’s strategy in a nutshell, and Zelenskyy is helping Washington achieve its objectives. He’s allowing himself to be Washington’s tool. He is sacrificing his own country to advance the interests of the United States.
All this helps to underscore a point that is never considered by the media and never discussed by the pundits on cable news, that is, that Ukraine is going to lose the war, and Zelenskyy knows it. He knows the Ukrainian Armed Forces are no match for the Russian army. It is like a Giant swatting a fly. Ukraine is the fly. The public needs to hear this, but they’re not hearing it. Instead, they’re hearing blabber about heroic Ukrainians fighting the Russian invader. But this is nonsense, dangerous nonsense that is emboldening people to sacrifice their lives for a lost cause. The outcome of this conflict has never been in doubt: Ukraine is going to lose. That is certain. And, if you read between the lines, you’ll see that Russia is winning the war quite handily; they are crushing the Ukrainian army at every turn, and they will continue to crush them until Ukraine surrenders. Check out this brief interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor on Tucker Carlson and you’ll understand what’s really going on:
Tucker: “Where is the war as of tonight”? (March 1)
Colonel McGregor: “Well, the first 5 days, we saw a very slow methodical movement of Russian forces entering Ukraine…. They moved slowly and cautiously and tried to reduce casualties among the civilian population, trying to give the Ukrainian forces the opportunity to surrender. That is over. And the phase in which we find ourselves now, Russian forces have maneuvered to encircle and surround the remaining Ukrainian forces and destroy them through a series of massive rocket artillery strikes, air strikes with Russian armor slowly-but-surely closing the distance and annihilating what’s left. So, this is the beginning of the end of the Ukrainian resistance.
Tucker: What is Putin’s goal here?”
Colonel McGregor: “Putin set out to honor his word from 2007 at the Munich Security Conference where he said ‘We will not allow the expansion of NATO to a point where NATO is touching our border, specifically, Ukraine and Georgia. We see these as Trojan Horses for NATO’s military power and US influence... He repeated that (warning) over and over and over again, in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean-out eastern Ukraine of any opposition forces whatever, and to put his forces in a position vis-a-vis NATO to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change Ukraine into a platform for the projection of US and western power into Russia.
Now his goal–as of today– is to seize this whole area of eastern Ukraine (east of the Dneiper River) and he has has crossed the river where he is preparing to go in and capture that city (of Kiev) entirely.
At that point, Putin has to decide what else he wants to do. I don’t think he wants to go any further west. But he would like to know that whatever emerges from this as Ukraine… is “neutral” not-aligned and, preferably, friendly to Moscow. That he will accept. Anything short of that, and his war has been a waste of time.”(“Colonel Douglas MacGregor with Tucker Carlson”, Rumble)
What can we deduce from this short interview:
- Russia will prevail and Ukraine will lose.
- Ukraine is going to be partitioned. Putin is going to create the buffer he needs to assure his country’s security.
- Whoever governs the western part of Ukraine will be required to declare their “neutrality” (in writing) and reject any offers for NATO membership. If they violate that promise, they will be removed by force.
But here’s the important thing: All of the main actors in this fiasco knew from the very beginning that Ukraine had no chance of defeating the Russian army. That was a foregone conclusion. So–what we want to know– is why Zelenskyy didn’t take steps to avoid the tragedy before it unfolded?
The answer to this question helps to reveal ‘who Zelenskyy really is’.
Ask yourself this: Why didn’t Zelenskyy negotiate with Putin when he had the chance? Why didn’t he pull back his 60,000 troops from the east? Why didn’t he stop Washington’s weapons shipments? Why didn’t he implement the Minsk Treaty? Why didn’t he reject NATO’s offer for membership?
Finally, why was so intent on doing the things that he knew would anger Moscow and increase the likelihood of a war?
These questions are not hard to answer.
Zelenskyy has been acting on orders from Washington from the get-go. We know that. He’s also been implementing Washington’s agenda not his own and certainly not Ukraine’s. We know that, too. But that does not absolve him from responsibility. After all, he is a full-grown adult capable of distinguishing between right from wrong. He knows what he’s doing, and he knows that it’s wrong; worse than wrong, it’s inexcusable. He’s sending men to die in a war he knows they can’t win; he’s inflicting incalculable suffering and injury on his own people for no reason at all; and –worst of all– he’s cleared the way for the dissolution of Ukraine itself, the country he was sworn to defend. That country is going to be broken into bits as part of a final settlement with Russia, and Zelenskyy will share a good part of the blame.
How does a man like this live with himself?
This Zelensky reminds me of a Bernard Manning war joke. “My grandfather was in the trenches and heard the first shot of the war being fired … He was back home in Wigan when the second shot went off.”
Western propaganda around Ukraine and this odd character has been far worse than anything the Soviets or Nazis would have pumped out. They knew to exaggerate not just lie all the time. The airheads we’ve got fail to grasp that reality is the key, then go a bit above it. Too much above it and it can only be fake.
Putin is a Spiritual man
Mystic and Yogi
He lives with himself because he is a jew and most of the people of Ukraine are goyim, ie beasts and nothing to concern himself about or to be used as cannon fodder if it advances the interests of his tribe.
It’s all a Punch & Judy show.
(((Where)))does Washingstein take its orders from?
Jews start foaming at the mouth when they see blonds, and have to start raping and murdering.
some more background information :
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-man-who-sold-ukraine/
As Brandon Smith said a few weeks ago, it is all Kabuki. The real purpose is to create another world “crisis”, all of which is totally “planned”. If you were a planner of any operation bigger than a little business you would see all of the signs in the past 10 years of what has gone on in the Ukraine. Once you see all the money, media, and political controls you can soon detect the motivations and in this case you cannot assume that things have just boiled over between Russian and the Ukraine such that Russia in this particular hour has decided to step in.
You cannot dismiss the Russian participation in the Covid scam or assume such a huge all-encompassing global operation just happened and is unrelated to the pre-announced plans of the world potentates. There is in these days a concentration of these manufactured crises all coming together on schedule. The planning I am aware of has been going on since the 1970’s. The UN Agenda 21/2030 timetable means they have now a window of 8 years to effect not only their announced totalitarian controls over land, property, finances, currencies, wages, resources, trade, the environment, and social relations AS ANNOUNCED in the UN and WEF agendas and resets, but also to effect measures which are NOT ANNOUNCED and which in their minds are fundamentally “necessary” to effect all of the eternal controls over us. These other plans they cannot announce without inciting revolutions everywhere.
The potentates behind everything believe and want to believe that it is necessary for their controllers to have total control not only what we do in the physical world, but more essentially control over OUR NUMBERS, and what we think, what we believe, what we eat, our genetic composition, who can mate, how many children, the nature of our children, all education, and especially when and how we DIE. To them many of us will have to die, and we will have to get used to die offs coming mainly from pandemics and all before 2030. It will not be by nuclear war or by the Covid vaccines, but their plans do entail the release of more lethal pathogens to kill and more lethal vaccines to shorten life spans. Something most wicked likely is coming our way very shortly and it may be as Gates has pre-announced an Ebola or a Marburg virus to be released allegedly by terrorists.
Archbishop Vigano who is a very outspoken critic of the present Pope who is a NWO globalist and who fully backs the UN Agendas and the WEF resets, has pointed to the Covid plandemic as just one more pretext to usher in these globalist plans of the cabal running things. However, such methods for the Covid “crisis” is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of all of the concocted crises, manufactured divisions, and exaggerated perils. All of their methods use mass deception, mass fear mongering, and mass oppression. In fact, everyone of the announced UN Agendas and alleged “sustainability” perils is a pretext for their hidden and unannounced totalitarian measures. This is clearly the time of the beast which is manifesting itself everywhere and people will have to make a choice either for the NWO beast or for God.
But that reminds me–when the White men are dead from war, it leaves the children available for kidnap by Jews and Arabs. This factor might be the important one. Germans are so brainwashed you can get their children even without a war.
It’s a double win for the jews behind this charade.. they get to nurture and use ‘nazis’ (wouldn’t be the first time) as cover for their grift and criminality..
and when the dust settles all the ‘nazi’s’ will be dead and all the jews will be richer..
and blameless..
NB: It’s incredible how you can have global events of the magnitude of ‘covid’ and a potential WW3, yet nobody dare mention the obvious jewish connections.. even if only to offer some sort of perspective to other causative issues…
Now why would that be?….
From Mami’s Purgatory:
Vladimir Putin – ”Empire of Lies” Speech
Russia’s strategy in Ukraine follows Syria model – March 5 – The Duran
Eric Gajewski Interviews Stefan Verstappen
Convoy Corruption By Bankers and Courts – Christopher James
Polish Man Speaks The Truth At Freedom Convoy 2022
MEGA BOOM! Schwab’s Global Shapers Network Exposed! – Amazing Polly
UPDATE from the American Convoy – Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson
They don’t want to pay you. This is one reason they are killing people
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME – DIGITAL EUTHANASIA
UKRAINE SCANDAL EXPLAINED: Chalkboard on DNC Collusion, Joe Biden, Soros, Trump & More – Glenn Beck
Is The Canadian Housing Market Poised to Crash? – Clyde Do Something
RageCast 216: OSAMA BIN PLAIDEN – Raging Dissident II
September Fifteenth – Pat Metheny · Lyle Mays
Schwab’s Global Misleaders & The Empire of Lies Unhinged Against Russia – Vladimir Putin, The Duran, Christopher James, Polly, Laura-Lynn, Russell Bentley, Clyde Do Something, Raging Dissident, S. Verstappen
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2022/03/schwabs-global-misleaders-empire-of.html
Zelensky may be a sex pervert, like so many other ‘leaders’. His physical resemblance to Trudeau is certainly remarkable – the same, soft, weak face.
He will certainly have been promised vast wealth if he does what he was told and is successful. If he fails, then he will be expendable – a loose end that will need to be tidied up.
He should be getting nervous now.
QUOTE These pro-Israel people like pledges: they tried to force me to sign a pledge of loyalty to Israel. When I refused, it was trench warfare, hand to hand combat every day I was in the Congress, and the U.S. people never knew that I was fighting to remain independent for them. To make real peace and to find real justice. Here, they have the whole of the U.S. government making pledges to them!!! Unbelievable. ~ Cynthia McKinney, PhD
Wot…no mention of the jews role in all this.
Zelenski is a jew AND its not hidden too much.
And the fact that the Jewish klitchkos hold important positions (the boxers) tells you all you need know.The jews have installed themselves as the Ukrainian elites.
Then there is the activities of Bidens son…..like a mosquito he landed in the country and inserted his proboscis into the economy and proceeded to draw blood.
The Bidens are of course crypto jews,there is no doubt about that at all.Biden senior is a routine liar…..and if Americans think voting for Trump will change anything (except ramp up the destruction and loss of life) they should take note of crypto jew Trumps actions in Israel….backing Israel’s illegal occupation of the Golan Heights and shifting the embassy to Jerusalem backing the “legitimacy” of Israel’s occupation.
Americans MUST NOT vote for Jews in the American government and that includes crypto jews like Biden…..but the jews will very likely assassinate any viable non jewish candidate.Theyre natural born killers masquerading as harmless innocent victims.
This Ukrainian refugee crisis will be interesting because NZ and Australia will likely show reluctance to accept refugees….because they are Europeans.
We will soon see ….the crypto jewess Jacinda Ardern will likely attempt to cloud the issue assisted by NZs jewish dominated media.
Like Tony Bliar (her mentor) she has turned into a hateful figure….no other politician in NZs history has been such a polarising figure…..there is visceral hatred of her now….many Kiwis have realised what she is about….and that all the twitching smiling gesticulating is but an act.
The words above by Cynthia McKinney are of course right….
Doubters should note how she has been expelled from the Congress…..its a fucking disgrace and demonstrates how the fiends go about removing people who won’t stick to the agenda.
Her career in Congress brought to a close in one fell swoop.
Of course her expulsion is BECAUSE she won’t lower herself to the Jews entreaties of their suffering……BUT THE MAJORITY of the representatives don’t have the backbone to stand up to Jewish Power….too corrupt by far.(often they have dirty little secrets in their closets which will be exposed if they don’t cooperate)
It is time to rise up.
I’ve spent the better part of the last week putting this 50 page essay together in order to wake up the people of the United States and the world. To be succinct: WE THE PEOPLE are being played and the consequences could lead to a nuclear Third World War.
To the people of planet Earth. You were lied to about the Plandemic and the deaths and injuries from the mRNA injection is now leaking out to the public despite major efforts to censor the information. You are being lied to about the war in the Ukraine. It has been well known by policy experts that bringing the Ukraine into NATO or the EU would result in a war with Russia. So why did the globalists — NATO, the EU, Klaus Schwab, Biden — do it anyway?
The truth is the Federal Reserve has been pumping trillions into the system for many months. The Trump and Biden administration pumped trillions into the system during the 2-year Plandemic. Even before the Plandemic trillions have been pumped into the system. Get a clue. This is not sustainable. It will lead to a financial collapse that will make the Great Depression (1929) look like a walk in the park on a sunny day.
So why are they doing it? The globalists are out to destroy the entire world economy in order to usher in the 4th Industrial Revolution through a “Great Reset” — well documented by the World Economic Forum. This will lead to forced vaccinations, vaccine passports and soon, a digital currency. Once this happens they will be able to freeze you access to your own money — just as Trudeau did to the “Trucker Freedon Convoy” that occupied Ottawa for nearly 3 weeks beginning January 29th, 2022. Don’t get the latest booster? Your money will be frozen. Don’t obey the government edicts. Your money will be frozen. In essence the plan is to reduce every human, on planet Earth, to the status of slaves on a Global Plantation.
All of this is covered in my latest essay. It will take many days to go through all the linked articles and videos. It will only take less than an hour to read through the essay. But if you care about the future of your children and grandchildren you owe it to yourself to understand what is really going on.
As the Wheels fall off the Plandemic Agenda the are now starting a War with Russia
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/as-the-wheels-fall-off-the-plandemic-4b8?s=w