Pepe Escobar – The Unz Review Oct 10, 2022
The terror attack on Krymskiy Most – the Crimea Bridge – was the proverbial straw that broke the Eurasian camel’s back.
Russian President Vladimir Putin neatly summarized it: “This is a terrorist attack aimed at destroying the critical civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation.”
The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, confirmed face-to-face with Putin that Terror on the Bridge was carried out by the SBU – Ukrainian special services.
Bastrykin told Putin, “we have already established the route of the truck, where the explosion took place. Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar… The carriers have been identified. With the help of operatives of the FSB, we managed to identify suspects.”
Russian intel leaked crucial info to military correspondent Alexander Kots. The cargo was ordered by a Ukrainian citizen: explosives packed in 22 pallets, in rolls of film under plastic wrap, were shipped from Bulgaria to the Georgian port of Poti. Afterwards, the cargo was loaded onto a truck with foreign license plates and proceeded overland to Armenia.
Clearance at the Armenia-Russia border was smooth – according to the rules of the Eurasian Customs Union (both Russia and Armenia are members of the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU). The cargo evidently avoided detection through X-rays. This route is standard for truckers traveling to Russia.
The truck then re-entered Georgia and crossed the border into Russia again, but this time through the Upper Lars checkpoint. That’s the same one used by thousands of Russians fleeing partial mobilization. The truck ended up in Armavir, where the cargo was transferred to another truck, under the responsibility of Mahir Yusubov: the one that entered the Crimean bridge coming from the Russian mainland.
Very important: the transport from Armavir to a delivery address in Simferopol should have happened on October 6-7: that is, timed to the birthday of President Putin on Friday the 7th. For some unexplained reason, that was postponed for a day.
The driver of the first truck is already testifying. Yusubov, the driver of the second truck – which exploded on the bridge – was “blind:” he had no idea what he was carrying, and is dead.
At this stage, two conclusions are paramount.
First: This was not a standard ISIS-style truck suicide bombing – the preferred interpretation in the aftermath of the terror attack.
Second: The packaging most certainly took place in Bulgaria. That, as Russian intel has cryptically implied, indicates the involvement of “foreign special services.”
‘A mirage of cause and effect’
What has been revealed in public by Russian intelligence tells only part of the story. An incandescent assessment received by The Cradle from another Russian intel source is way more intriguing.
At least 450 kg of explosives were employed in the blast. Not on the truck, but mounted inside the Crimea Bridge span itself. The white truck was just a decoy by the terrorists “to create a mirage of cause and effect.” When the truck reached the point on the bridge where the explosives were mounted, the explosion took place.
According to the source, railroad employees told investigators that there was a form of electronic hijacking; the terror operators took control of the railway so the train carrying fuel received a command to stop because of a false signal that the road ahead was busy.
Bombs mounted on the bridge spans were a working hypothesis largely debated in Russian military channels over the weekend, as well as the use of underwater drones.
In the end, the quite sophisticated plan could not follow the necessarily rigid timing. There was no alignment by the millimeter between the mounted explosive charges, the passing truck and the fuel train stopped in its tracks. Damage was limited, and easily contained. The charges/truck combo exploded on the outer right lane of the road. Damage was only on two sections of the outer lane, and not much on the railway bridge.
In the end, Terror on the Bridge yielded a short, Pyrrhic PR victory – duly celebrated across the collective West – with negligible practical success: transfer of Russian military cargo by railway resumed in roughly 14 hours.
And that brings us to the key information in the Russian intel source assessment: the whodunnit.
It was a plan by the British MI6, says this source, without offering further details. Which, he elaborates, Russian intel, for a number of reasons, is shadow-playing as “foreign special services.”
It’s quite telling that the Americans rushed to establish plausible deniability. The proverbial “Ukrainian government official” told CIA mouthpiece The Washington Post that the SBU did it. That was a straight confirmation of an Ukrainska Pravda report based on an “unidentified law enforcement official.”
The perfect red line trifecta
Already, over the weekend, it was clear the ultimate red line had been crossed. Russian public opinion and media were furious. For all its status as an engineering marvel, Krymsky Most represents not only critical infrastructure; it is the visual symbol of the return of Crimea to Russia.
Moreover, this was a personal terror attack on Putin and the whole Russian security apparatus.
So we had, in sequence, Ukrainian terrorists blowing up Darya Dugina’s car in a Moscow suburb (they admitted it); US/UK special forces (partially) blowing Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 (they admitted and then retracted); and the terror attack on Krymsky Most (once again: admitted then retracted).
Not to mention the shelling of Russian villages in Belgorod, NATO supplying long-range weapons to Kiev, and the routine execution of Russian soldiers.
Darya Dugina, Nord Streams and Crimea Bridge make it an Act of War trifecta. So this time the response was inevitable – not even waiting for the first meeting since February of the Russian Security Council scheduled for the afternoon of 10 October.
Moscow launched the first wave of a Russian Shock’n Awe without even changing the status of the Special Military Operation (SMO) to Counter-Terrorist Operation (CTO), with all its serious military/legal implications.
After all, even before the UN Security Council meeting, Russian public opinion was massively behind taking the gloves off. Putin had not even scheduled bilateral meetings with any of the members. Diplomatic sources hint that the decision to let the hammer come down had already been taken over the weekend.
Shock’n Awe did not wait for the announcement of an ultimatum to Ukraine (that may come in a few days); an official declaration of war (not necessary); or even announcing which ‘”decision-making centers” in Ukraine would be hit.
The lightning strike de facto metastasizing of SMO into CTO means that the regime in Kiev and those supporting it are now considered as legitimate targets, just like ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra during the Anti-Terror Operation (ATO) in Syria.
And the change of status – now this is a real war on terror – means that terminating all strands of terrorism, physical, cultural, ideological, are the absolute priority, and not the safety of Ukrainian civilians. During the SMO, safety of civilians was paramount. Even the UN has been forced to admit that in over seven months of SMO the number of civilian casualties in Ukraine has been relatively low.
Enter ‘Commander Armageddon’
The face of Russian Shock’n Awe is Russian Commander of the Aerospace Forces, Army General Sergey Surovikin: the new commander-in-chief of the now totally centralized SMO/CTO.
Questions were being asked non-stop: why didn’t Moscow take this decision way back in February? Well, better late than never. Kiev is now learning they messed with the wrong guy. Surovikin is widely respected – and feared: his nickname is “General Armageddon.” Others call him “Cannibal.” Legendary Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov – also a colonel general in the Russian military – lavishly praises Surovikin as “a real general and warrior, an experienced, strong-willed and far-sighted commander.”
Surovikin has been commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces since 2017; was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for his no-nonsense leadership of the military operation in Syria; and had on the ground experience in Chechnya in the 1990s.
Surovikin is Dr. Shock’n Awe with full carte blanche. That even rendered idle speculations that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov were removed or forced to resign, as speculated by the Wagner group Telegram channel Grey Zone.
It is still possible that Shoigu – widely criticized for recent Russian military setbacks – could be eventually replaced by Tula Governor Alexei Dyumin, and Gerasimov by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Matovnikov.
That’s almost irrevelant: all eyes are on Surovikin.
MI6 does have some well-placed moles in Moscow, relatively speaking. The Brits had warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the General Staff that the Russians would be launching a “warning strike” this Monday.
What happened was no “warning strike,” but a massive offensive of over 100 cruise missiles launched “from the air, sea and land,” as Putin noted, against Ukrainian “energy, military command and communications facilities.”
MI6 also noted “the next step” will be the complete destruction of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. That’s not a “next step:” it’s already happening. Power supply is completely gone in five regions, including Lviv and Kharkov, and there are serious interruptions in other five, including Kiev.
Over 60 percent of Ukrainian power grids are already knocked out. Over 75 percent of internet traffic is gone. Elon Musk’s Starlink netcentric warfare has been “disconnected” by the Ministry of Defense.
Shock’n Awe will likely progress in three stages.
First: Overload of the Ukrainian air defense system (already on).
Second: Plunging Ukraine into the Dark Ages (already in progress).
Third: Destruction of all major military installations (the next wave).
Ukraine is about to embrace nearly total darkness in the next few days. Politically, that opens a completely new ball game. Considering Moscow’s trademark “strategic ambiguity,” this could be a sort of Desert Storm remixed (massive air strikes preparing a ground offensive); or, more likely, an ‘incentive’ to force NATO to negotiate; or just a relentless, systematic missile offensive mixed with Electronic Warfare (EW) to shatter for good Kiev’s capacity to wage war.
Or it could be all of the above.
How a humiliated western Empire can possibly raise the stakes now, short of going nuclear, remains a key question. Moscow has shown admirable restraint for too long. No one should ever forget that in the real Great Game – how to coordinate the emergence of the multipolar world – Ukraine is just a mere sideshow. But now the sideshow runners better run for cover, because General Armageddon is on the loose.
Originally posted at The Cradle.
ENGLISH HERITAGE
the faking of history
and forcing government racism down our throats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ylNaCGrKgU
BBC RACISM
The TV series Midsomer Murders is a British dramatic crime television series, adapted from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series (created by Caroline Graham
The fictional village of Midsomer series was sold to 200 countries around the world
But Racist TV bosses said they wanted much more black people, the writers said no its not about political correctness its about a small British village, to fill the programmes with ethnic people would destroy the character of a very successful series, so the series was dropped.
The BBC is planning a dramatised 2 hour programme on Dr Shipman who possible drugged and murdered 550
elderly women, robbed them of their jewellery and forced them to change their wills over to him
many were raped as they were dying, The BBC are changing him from being a Jew to an English Church of England country doctor.
The TV series Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted from novels in the
Crime Chief Barnaby book series (created by Caroline Graham),
The fictional village of Midsomer series was sold to 200 countries around the world
But Racist TV bosses said they wanted much more black people, the writers said no its not about political correctness its about a small British village, to fill the programmes with ethnic people would destroy the character of a very successful series, so the series was dropped.
The BBC is planning a dramatised 2 hour programme on Dr Shipman who possible murdered 550
elderly women, drugged robbed their jewelry and forced them to change their wills over to him
many were raped as they were dying, The BBC are changing him from being a Jew to an English Church of England country doctor.
This kind of TV racism is sickening
The BBC employed Jimmy Savile for many decades but his up his hundreds of sex crimes against children
they are presently planning a whitewash on Jimmy and other child abusers.
Possibly the worst case of BBC institutional racism is the bringing back of the smash hit series “Dixon of Dock Green” the long running stories of London Policeman, this time PC Dixon will be played by a black actor
who is homosexual and plays Rap music in his spare time.
The TV series Midsomer Murders is a British crime drama television series, adapted by Anthony Horowitz from the novels in the Chief Inspector Barnaby book series (created by Caroline Graham),
The fictional village of Midsomer series was sold to 200 countries around the world
But Racist TV bosses said they wanted much more black people, the writers said no its not about politcal correctness its about a small British village, to fill the programmes with ethnic people would destroy the character of a very succesful series, so the series was dropped.
The BBC is planning a dramatised 2 hour programme on Dr Shipman who possible murdered 550
elderly women, drugged robbed their jewelry and forced to change their wills over to him
many were raped as they were dying, The BBC are changing him from being a Jew to an English Church of England country doctor.
This kind of TV racism is sickening
I wonder which psycho came up with the phrase “shock and awe”. More like “make them hate you”. The world’s full of people who think bombs and guns are impressive, as long as no one uses them on them. After centuries of “advances” the human race still thinks guns are the pinnacle of achievement. If I kill an arab in my country I’m a murderer, but if I put on an army uniform and kill one in another country I’m a “hero”.
Information from the article about the bridge attack similar to the 911 event:
At least 450 kg of explosives were employed in the blast. Not on the truck, but mounted inside the Crimea Bridge span itself. The white truck was just a decoy by the terrorists “to create a mirage of cause and effect.”
Sources claim the Israelis placed thousands of pounds of explosives inside the cable anchorage on the Washington Bridge in NYC and planned to use a truck bomb as the patsy; set to simultaneously explode when the explosives on the bridge cut the cables and drop a portion of the bridge into the Hudson River.
It didn’t happen, perhaps they canceled the plan due to the arrest of the Dancing Israelis in a van on an approach ramp to the Washington Bridge on 911.
A source claims they defused and recovered thousands of pounds of high explosives from the George Washington Bridge New Jersey Cable Anchorage.
Did the SBU – Ukrainian special services have the expertise to perform the bridge attack?
Does Ukraine benefit from the bridge attack? It seems the bridge explosion gives Russia a good justification to destroy Ukraine infrastructure which escalates the war, not good for Ukraine.
Did some powerful people order the bridge attack to escalate the war between Ukraine and Russia?
No, this was not ‘shock & awe’.
Yesterday’s strikes were surgical attacks on key infrastructure targets.
Shock & awe, is days, or weeks of indiscrimate attacks. Like the Chinese embassy.
I hope the Russians find the MI-6 moles and put them in front of a firing squad..this is Christ the King vs. the Luciferian Anal Empire now. If Russia loses we’re in for a 1,000 yr. reign of the heel of the Rothschild Khazar Mafia on our neck….It’s normal families vs. Drag Queen Story Hour. It’s mothers vs. Parent 2. It’s Tolstoy vs. Marilyn Manson.
THE JOYS OF THE MULTICULTURAL INVASION
http://www.renegadetribune.com/18-year-old-black-career-criminal-goes-on-baby-strangling-spree-jewish-controlled-media-looks-the-other-way/
French army general salutes the unvaccinated
https://christiansfortruth.com/french-army-general-issues-tribute-praising-unvaccinated-as-the-chosen-ones-and-an-army-of-light/
The “multipolar world” is the Satanists; the real poles are always two in number, in this case the Satanists versus everybody else, as in Orwell, represented by Winston and O’Brien
When Elon Musk offered the Ukries the Starlink Net after bad-mouthing Putin the ((())) believed him !!!
Once Starlink was operational in Ukraine it started sucking all comms and delivered it where ?
Sure bet to Moscow.
It’s glad tidying news for those who believe in God almighty who has created human beings as male and female to know Him and to be upright and to fight satanic dark forces. Russia Orthodox Russia has done it again. Devil is on the run. oh God bless Russia!
I expect many comments on here about how Putin is part of the NWO, but in my humble view, Putin is playing three dimensional chess while “the West” is playing poker.
Somebody tell the BBC –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63192757
The west will soon learn that Putin is not a man that you xxxx with. Prepare to meet your ‘god’ for your end has come.
It is about time.
Ancient warfare being fought.
Mystic and Yogi
30 states in the USA trying to ban trsns sexual operations on young kids
that nice mr rothchild is said to be furious
https://www.theepochtimes.com/39-states-take-sides-in-pivotal-trial-over-ban-on-child-transgender-surgeries_4785726.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe-nonai&src_src=morningbri
PUTIN NOW TAKE WHOLE UKRAINE
remember Franky boy: THE WINNER
TAKES IT ALL ! the yankees love it .
YANKEES LEAVE RAMSTEIN!
Russians living in Russia had better not protest against the ‘war’ and be recorded on film performing for Western audiences as they are likely to be arrested and interrogated for being anti-Russian, probably attracting suspicion of being on the side of the enemy…
I wonder how far underground, are the terrorists who plan to cause trouble?
Government surveillance is going to have to be stepped up for the good of the country Russia.
I suppose there is going to be a very thin line between free speech and dissent. But how anyone could disagree with the Russian government response after what the country has suffered through over the last 50 years must have been listening to far too much Western propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqVEe5mcmbc
Good song
The multitude of morons on here still can’t figure out that the Administrations of both ‘sides’ (NATO/Russia) are infested with Jews–who are on the same supranational Zionist-Commie team, simply setting up Ukraine (soldiers/civilians) to be demolished & slaughtered by Jewish-Mongoloid Putin & its anti-white Antifa Army…
ZOG Zombie UK not long for this world.
Tick.. tick… tick….
Just had to watch the news today, the level of bs even astonished me. Some femme who looked like she was just out of university was the “military expert ” she proceeded to tell Putin was now desperate, Russia out of munitions ,equipment lost,big losses in men everything that is opposite of the truth. Do the sheeple really believe this .
Uke patsies. British organisers. US money.
Hello Mr. Ellis C Taylor. Its me, your old friend. Have you taken my new shot yet to protect you from Covid?
I don’t get it, if as intel says it was foreign special forces who attacked the bridge, then surely Putin should attack those foreign govs security apparatus. Why pick on Ukraine, the innocent people haven’t done anything? Civilians everywhere are just pawns to be slaughtered for mad rulers. Putin is wef alright, no other explanation cuts it. Left, Right, East, West its the same team. Satan’s empire cannot stand if it is divided against itself, so it only gives the illusion of being so.
@ ELLIS TAYLOR
he makes only old speeches . better
he would stand up with his army,
take over all media, throw out Macron
and prison all freemasons .but probably
he himself is mason .
Hal–Shock and Awe came from Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld because it sounds like the Hebrew word Shekinah. It means “the glory of the Divine Presence”
> If Russia loses we’re in for a 1,000 yr. reign of the heel of the Rothschild Khazar Mafia on our neck
If Russia wins you’re in for a 1,000 yr. reign of the heel of the Rothschild Khazar Mafia on your neck, unless you move to russia. He ain’t fighting for you.
> I suppose there is going to be a very thin line between free speech and dissent
If there was free speech anywhere then the people there could say whatever they liked to whoever they liked to say it to. That’s what free speech is.
> The multitude of morons on here still can’t figure out that the Administrations of both ‘sides’ (NATO/Russia) are infested with Jews–who are on the same supranational Zionist-Commie team, simply setting up Ukraine (soldiers/civilians) to be demolished & slaughtered by Jewish-Mongoloid Putin & its anti-white Antifa Army…
Nico X still can’t figure out that the whole world has jews infesting it, but that doesn’t mean they’re all on the same side, any more than all the other whites are on the same side.
> Putin should attack those foreign govs security apparatus. Why pick on Ukraine, the innocent people haven’t done anything?
They have done something. They allowed their fascist gov to slaughter russians for eight long years. They also danced in the streets when the british terrorist gov bombed russia (ie. the bridge). Moreover, if putin bombs london then the fascist london gov will use it as an excuse to launch ww3, which is NOT preferable to anyone except perhaps the jewkranians.
@hal
Whites don’t belong to a cult. Jews do. That’s the difference. What your simple intellect is unable to comprehend is that Judaism is a cohesive transnational mongrel cult, where the members, who are termed ‘Jews’ all subscribe to the main basic tenet of the cult–Jewish power over gentiles. To imagine then that the Jewish cult members managing the Russian State have fundamental conflicting interests with their fellow Jewish cult members who govern NATO is naive, asinine & insane. They’re simply controlling all ‘sides’ in this ‘war’ to decimate white gentiles…
Nico X–but the Jews around Hitler you forgave as being on Germany’s side, allegedly
Hal, you think people can stop their governments actions? How, by voting?lol or resistance against soldiers? So what if they celebrated the bridge bombing, according to you, that makes them a legit target? So schadenfraud is now a war crime? lol
@GOY BUOY
I think the russians cannot avoid to
implement a surveilance system of
FSB snitches + informers like in
stalins times when things like Kerch
bridge plot + Saki airfield bombing
never would happen .
@Henry h
> Hal, you think people can stop their governments actions? How, by voting?lol or resistance against soldiers?
Revolution. Do you think it was easy for the french? Or the americans?
> So what if they celebrated the bridge bombing, according to you, that makes them a legit target? So schadenfraud is now a war crime?
Eh? If someone kills some kid and I celebrate am I now a good guy? Or if I celebrate some gang killing? If you’re waving a flag you support that thing. If the other guy kicks you, you can hardly complain over it. Besides, you “conveniently” ignored the 8 years of murdering russians.
@ nico x
> Whites don’t belong to a cult. Jews do. That’s the difference.
So you say. I don’t believe it. The same jews own all the western countries, but the jews in russia and china and india aren’t the same. Only you and your friends say they are.
> What your simple intellect is unable to comprehend
I wonder if you talk to people like that in real life? Are you a loner?
Geat!.. it will soon be time to draft the twitterati.. and the denizens of faceborg..and all the bloggers and subhuman stackers and armchair generals….
and all the ooh rah Peepees and all the other discombobulates that can shoulder a cold war Kalashnikov or cheap Chinese semi auto…
and lose their legs and eyes in a muddy field somewhere.. it’s easy..
Let them all fight…for someone else..somewhere..far away.. especially those that that think you SHOULD…
and those that think war on someone else’s terms a sound ‘idea’…. because they can’t wage their own wars on terms that may be useful to them.. and because they have no ‘idea’…
Give em’ all nappy’s and gas masks and bug rations… and march ’em into the meat-grinder..
For Zion and country and free cable….
for Freedumb…
@antiJHWH
Somebody highlighted part of my comment…
> I suppose there is going to be a very thin line between free speech and dissent
Is it free speech if you write or say something against your own government that encourages the enemy to take the fight against your country. That’s the point I was making.
I think you and I agree FSB snitches and informers need to be prevented from helping the enemy…
@lewis jones…Jews did not govern Nazi Germany (German gentiles did) as they do present day Russia & the NATO nations..who are these ‘Jews’ you are claiming were ‘around Hitler’??
Hal
French and American Revolutions were fixed i.e. Masonic. The US is still run by the British to this day. To celebrate a crime is not admission of guilt to doing the crime. No, such people are not good, but deluded and being so don’t deserve violence directed to them but should learn that every story has two sides.
Nico X–gOEBBELS REACHED A POINT WHERE HE WAS OFFICIALLY fUEHRER, no less (caps no-repair) and ran Berlin, with 70,000 Jews still left in that city at the end. Nazis were 100 per cent about the Jews, favourably, losing to the Commies, building up Zionism