Philip Giraldi – The Unz Review July 19, 2022
The White House keeps insisting that it will not directly involve American soldiers in the war in Ukraine, but it keeps taking steps that will inevitably lead to a large-scale open combat role for the US against Russia. Among the most recent moves to increase the pressure on the Kremlin, Biden revealed at a NATO summit meeting in Madrid on June 29th that the US will establish a permanent headquarters in Poland for the Fifth Army Corps, maintain an additional rotational brigade of thousands of troops in Romania and bolster other deployments in the Baltic states. Also, the number of US troops in Europe, currently approaching 100,000, will be increased. Biden also was pleased to learn that Turkey had been enticed to drop its objection to Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
On the way to the NATO summit aboard Air Force One, Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan advised that “By the end of the summit what you will see is a more robust, more effective, more combat credible, more capable and more determined force posture to take account of a more acute and aggravated Russian threat.” Presumably Sullivan was reading from a prepared script, but the objective surely seemed to be to heighten tension with Moscow rather than attempt to reduce it and come to some kind of diplomatic settlement.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also did his bit. In an astonishing display of derriere kissing, he responded that the new US force posture commitments were demonstrative of Biden’s strong leadership. What Stoltenberg did not mention was that Biden has been lying for some time about the presence of US military personnel in Ukraine. He let the cat out of the bag back in March, when he told troops belonging to the 82nd Airborne division in Poland that they would soon be going to Ukraine, observing that “You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see —” It was an admission that US forces are already in place inside Ukraine even though the White House quickly did damage control, asserting that the president continues to be opposed to American soldiers being directly engaged in the fighting. Biden also claimed that the US was working to “keep the massacre [of Ukrainians] from continuing.” Again, the language was hardly designed to make some room for a possible accommodation with Russia to negotiate an end to the fighting.
And now there is a New York Times report entitled “Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say: A secretive operation involving US Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military.”
The article describes a more active US role in Ukraine than the Biden Administration has been willing to admit publicly. Back in February, before intervened in Ukraine, the US reportedly withdrew its own 150 military instructors, many of whom were training Ukrainian soldiers on newly acquired American produced weapons. However, some Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) paramilitary operatives and special ops troops continued their service in the country secretly, directing most of the intelligence flow the US is sharing with Ukrainian forces. In addition to that, special ops soldiers from Washington’s NATO allies have been managing the movement of weapons and equipment into Ukraine and providing some specialized training. It has also been reported that British SAS commandos are actually guarding President Volodymyr Zelensky. The NYT specifies, citing American and other Western officials, that the soldiers and CIA officers are currently not on the front lines with Ukrainian troops. Also according to the Times, even though the US and NATO member states have not acknowledged the presence of their paramilitaries soldiers in operational roles in Ukraine, Russia and other intelligence services around the world are aware of this.
The New York Times report appears to be generally correct, though it does omit some details, some of which I have been hearing from former colleagues in the intelligence services. There has been considerable overt training at the Grafenwoehr German army base as well as at the Ramstein US Air Base to familiarize the Ukrainians with the new weapons arriving. Other NATO countries are also participating in the training. Meanwhile, the cadres of special operations soldiers and intelligence personnel operating primarily in western Ukraine are not in uniform and many of them are working under various contrived cover designations, including sometimes loose affiliations with foreign embassies and NGOs. There are also a conventional CIA Station, a group from the National Security Agency and a Military Attache’s office in the recently reopened US Embassy in Kiev.
All of the above means that Biden and other western leaders have been dissimulating regarding their active participation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Apart from his possible gaffe, Biden will not admit that there are American boots already on the ground, but they are there and are playing a major role in both logistics and intelligence sharing. The potential downside for the president could come when some of these soldiers in mufti get killed or, worse, captured and start to talk about their role.
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, observes that deploying plausibly deniable non-uniformed personnel “is completely typical of the initial stages of a US-backed long war, and for long-term political manipulation of the target country. This is the future that neoconservative ‘strategists’ in DC and their British and European allies imagine for Ukraine. Rather than a negotiated conclusion, with a new Ukrainian role as a neutral and productive country, independent of both Russian and US political influences, the US government and CIA see Ukraine as an expendable yet useful satrap in its competition with the Russian Federation.”
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson sees the activity in stark terms, while also commenting that the CIA has not won a semi-clandestine insurgent war in forty years. He observes that “Ukraine is a proxy; the West is trying to destroy Russia, it’s that simple. It would be one thing if Russia was the most evil, oppressive, authoritarian regime in the world. It’s nowhere even close. Even though the West keeps trying to portray Russia as such. The fact of the matter is, the West wants the resources that Russia has and it wants to control Russia. [But] Russia is not about to be controlled.”
In other words, Washington might be seeking an unending war entangling Russia and limiting its options globally. The Biden Administration has staked its reputation and possible political future on enabling Ukraine to survive without succumbing to Russian territorial demands. It is a risky and even dangerous policy, both in practical terms and politically. The persistence of the Ukrainians in their defense is largely a product of US and Western Europe guarantees that they will do all that is necessary to support Zelensky and his regime, which is already seeking $750 billion in aid for “reconstruction.” If western military casualties begin to surface, the political support for the Ukraine war will begin to fade in Washington and elsewhere and there will be consequences in the upcoming midterm US elections in November.
A final comment on the Times piece is in response to the question why it has appeared at all at the present time. The mainstream media has been a cheerleader for aggressive US support of Ukraine and Zelensky, but now it is beginning to step back from that position, as have also the Washington Post and other media outlets. Perhaps they are becoming convinced that the game plan being promoted by Washington and its European allies is unlikely to succeed at great cost to the respective economies. Larry Johnson puts it this way: “I think the purpose of this article coming out now is just to lay the groundwork for why we can’t put or shouldn’t put any more US military personnel or even CIA personnel inside Ukraine because continuing to put US personnel…inside Ukraine to train is becoming too risky because of Russia’s success on the battlefield.” One might also add that it is exceptionally dangerous. A misstep or even a deliberate false flag coming from either side could easily make the war go nuclear.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
israel bombing palestinian suburbs daily
http://www.renegadetribune.com/israel-unleashes-airstrikes-on-gaza-hours-after-biden-departure/
As I’m being told by the “respected” truthful western democratic media about Russia Unconditional Capitulation to Ukraine & President Zelensky being inaugurated in the Kremlin as the President of Ukraine Russian Federation & the Blue/Yellow flag flying on top of the Kremlin ?? Expecting this for the last 8 weeks & my question, what is holding the Russian Army from capitulating ??
Anyone can enlighten me ??
USA admitting the moon landings hoax
http://www.renegadetribune.com/nasa-finally-reveals-the-truth-about-fake-moon-landings-video/
joe biden as big a joke as tony liar or bad-boris
ISRAEL KIDAPS PALESTINIAN CHILDREN AND FORCES THEM TO GIVE EVIDENCE AGAINST PARENTS AND FAMILY
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/07/20/685921/Iran-Israel-crimes-against-children
So funny. The deployment of the ‘Fifth Army Corps’ was announced three, maybe more than four weeks ago. Scott Ritter laughed at the move, because the FAC are a take unit, someone then needs to come and hold onto what they take… and that’s assuming they can take xyz.
Ritter said that in a real war, the FCA would get obliterated in short order.
The problem that fake news has, and most of the alternative media, is that they foolishly believe they are seeing the Russian military at full tilt.
The purpose of the SMO is to deNazify and demilitarise UKraine. Under UN article 5, Russia is legally conducting this SMO in UKraine.
The US, & NATO can dance around their handbags all they like, it won’t get them anywhere.
Another aspect that virtually no one seems to appreciate, is the fact at through whatever channels are open, & they are open. The Russians are making their positions, red lines, very clear to NATO, so much of what NATO does, is the, ‘look, I am doing things to look busy, and effective.’
Having said this, they real concern, is that Amerika has little control over the UK deep state, and the Nazi regime in Kiev. So there’s a high chance that they’ll do something very stupid and attack Crimea, or the Kerch Strait Bridge. One can only speculate at the Russian response to such attacks. There’s even chat about a big attack on the Russian Black Sea fleet.
One thing is for sure, the German/EU economy will crash long before Russia feels any economic pain. Countless pundits are saying the sanctions are hurting the West, far more than Russia.
All of this could’ve been prevented, if Russia had invaded, and on the 7th day, uses 2 tactical nukes on random Western UKraine cities. All of this would’ve been over.
Two nukes, here are our terms, surrender, or we’ll nuke Kiev tomorrow. We’re now in a situation where it’s far more likely that London will get nuked. One Russian said, ‘We can nuke London and England, and save Wales, Scotland, NI, & Ireland… for the fecking life of me, why are the Russians wasting their time?
Some of ‘our’ lot guarding Zalenskyy ?
Why would they ?
The things whores would do for money ,
He did say it was the root of all evil years ago.
No wonder the ‘tribe’ hate him so.
> According to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, the West is using Ukraine as a proxy to destroy Russia and plunder its resources.
Well, duh.
> Turkey had been enticed to drop its objection to Finland and Sweden joining NATO
It’s amazing what threatening to assassinate someone will do.
And the fascist west marches on, with the full support of all the fascist western citizens.
https://ussanews.com/2022/07/14/the-nuclear-hoax-what-really-happened-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
This video is brilliant. This is one of the best videos on the whole nuclear bomb hoax.
“It has also been reported that British SAS commandos are actually guarding President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
Yeah, but let’s face it? The SAS and all other special forces are nothing but the ‘bend over and take it up the ass’ for the jew bankers. They’re that stupid, they are incapable of seeing that their sabotage and assassinations are working to the detriment of their nation that will result in its complete enslavement (including their family and loved ones). They sum up stupid. Good assassins but thick as sh*t to not see what they’re actions do. I’ve no love for the armed forces, whatsoever. They’re murderers. They’ve wrecked our nation. Without them and the filth, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in. Where are they to protect our borders as Africans pile in from the channel, on rubber dingies, provided for them by jews, off the Kent coast? Useless morons.
every time i see that philip schofield on TV i feel sick
philip had a lovely wife but
i read that he and Stephen Fry were paying black school boys to piss on them
i just feel ill
If there is such a thing as the BOMB.
Just suppose for a minute that Putin really is willing to press the button. Then lets presume this wipes out America, the question begs where would the TPTB hide? I have used America simply because if it is big enough to accomplish this then surely the rest of the planet would be affected too?
I don’t believe for one second that TPTB will cut their nose off to spite their face!
PUTIN !:by general desire please send a
mininuke on GCHQ +London City financdistrict
and two big ones on Washington DC + Cheyenne
mountain !
@peter wilmes
you are a hoax !
@ petr wilmes
you are a hoax !
Things aren’t so bad for ‘Max’ (YET.. but they will be very very soon..it’s coming folks…very very soon)..
ln fact international travel for dissidents and enemies of the state through the all seeing eye of the digital transhumanist panopticon..
couldn’t be easier folks…
they don’t even ask for your passport on arrival or force inject you with Al nanotek after a lengthy interrogation ..
which is nice..
folks..
“All of this could’ve been prevented, if Russia had invaded, and on the 7th day, uses 2 tactical nukes on random Western UKraine cities. All of this would’ve been over.” …and what follows.
We should be glad some things in this effed up world still are where they should be:
A- Putin making the decisions in the Kremlin. Press-button controls at his command can change the world as we know it for centuries to come. He is absolutely aware of this and acts accordingly.
B- Carl Jones making the comments in TTS. Press-button controls at his command can make us laugh ( and/or frown) for seconds to come. He thinks he should be Putin and the rest of the world should act accordingly.
Don’t get mad Carl😜, we ( the loonies) will keep reading them, and considering their valid points, which they have for sure.
Thank God there is a time for everything under the sun.
And everybody has THEIR place.
yeah right…more like to ‘destroy Ukraine & slaughter more Aryans in a new Holodomor’..
Russia has a government agency called ‘World Without Nazism’ headed by the Jew Boris Siegel. If you haven’t figured it out yet, Russia is governed by anti-white Commie lunatics just like the West…they’re all in on it together to wipe out the Aryans as they are now doing in Ukraine…but hey, keep supporting your Commies, just like you did in WWII…
Even the SAS won’t be able to save him. Dead man walking.
…All I can say with a fair amount of confidence…
The Global Conspirators, chasing after a uni-polar world dictatorship culminating in our enslavement are all on the side of the West.
SAS elements are certainly operating in Ukraine and are probably responsible for sabotage over the border into Russia itself. Their elimination should be a priority. The Zelensky has them had guards (read warders) comes as no surprise. He can’t trust his own inner circle – they know the war is lost and want out.
@ CARL JONES
I wish that the german economy crashes +freezes
then they hopefuly awaken to throw out all
under Merkill imported parasites !
and ministry positions then belong into
german hands + NO TRAITORS + PARASITES !
The only way out of this madness is for Russia is nuke USA. ( bigger madness) Governments have now become criminal organizations. I cannot see a way out without the death of billions of people. But that may be the real plan all along.
Nuclear War is coming. No long paragraph or verbose talk, not necessary.
Mystic and Yogi