Israel Shamir – The Unz Review Oct 12, 2022
The war was predominantly dull; with little movement. Trench warfare as in WWI. The big mistake was at the beginning when Russia tried to take a country of 40m with a few soldiers. The Head of Russian Intelligence Mr Naryshkin recently admitted that Russia had no reliable intelligence on Ukraine. For many years, since 1991, Russian intelligence service did not follow developments in the Ukraine. So Russia went to war, hoping the Ukrainians would greet their soldiers with flowers. It ended with a big retreat of the Russian troops. Putin thought he could make an agreement with Kiev, but it turns out the Ukraine signs agreements one day and reneges on them the next day. So it went on, until half a year later the Russian army began mobilization of its reserves.
It was not all bad: Russia had good and bad moments in its fight with Ukraine. A good moment was the capture of Mariupol on the Azov Sea coast. A bad moment was the Kharkov retreat. A silly moment was the grain deal and the withdrawal from Serpent Island. Moments of trouble were when the US/UK marines exploded the gas pipelines and when Daria Dougin was assassinated. A moment of truth is the present critique of the army commanders, including calls for the Defence Minister to shoot himself. People are unhappy with the way the Russian army is acting. The explosion on the Crimea Bridge has made this feeling acute.
And at this moment Putin called General Surovikin to take charge of the war in Ukraine. Surovikin is a popular general who commanded the Syrian operation and he has been nicknamed “General Armageddon” for obvious reasons. And Gen. Armageddon did what the people wanted: he launched dozens of cruise missiles on Ukrainian cities. Kiev has been attacked for the first time; electricity was knocked out in many places, including Kharkov. Until now Putin took care of the Ukraine infrastructure as if it were his own. Now this has changed. One thing remained: the Russians try to preserve civilians, as opposed to the Ukrainian military who do not mind killing civilians.
The war started because since the 2014 coup the Ukrainians had been shelling the Donbas, a predominantly Russian-populated area in the South East of the country. Putin tried to solve the conflict by the Minsk agreement, which promised an autonomous Donbas within federal Ukraine. The Ukrainians signed the Minsk agreement but had no intention of observing its articles. They killed thousands of people from the Donbas, mainly by shelling their shops, schools, and even streets. The nationalists of the Azov Battalion were especially ferocious towards the Donbas people. When Russian troops came to help the Donbas in February this year, the Azov fighters retreated to the vast underground caverns of Mariupol steel works.
However, they surrendered soon enough: to be sealed in caverns is not much fun, though they had food and water. Some two thousand fighters went into captivity. The people of the Donbas wanted to send them to a tribunal together with foreign mercenaries. But Moscow overruled them and they were exchanged for Russian POWs, and, annoyingly, for an opposition politician. Some Azov POWs were killed by the Kiev shelling of the POW camp: they apparently had begun to reveal harmful truths about their actions. The exchanged Azov fighters were carried by an oligarch, the Russian Jew Roman Abramovitch, in his private jet to the UAE. This also annoyed the people, who would have preferred them to stand trial.
The patriotic Russians were quite upset by the way war was conducted. They felt that the Russian commanders were too soft on the Ukraine while the Ukrainians continued shelling the Donbas. Russian writers and artists often supported the Ukraine. In Moscow, money was gathered for the Ukraine, not for the Russian army. Now, General Armageddon’s blitz has changed this feeling, but still the Ukraine has many supporters in Russia in pro-Western circles. That is not likely to change soon: 30 years of pro-Western politics can’t be undone in a moment. Frustration was high, because the Donbas was shelled but Kiev was unharmed.
It seems that is Putin soft-pedalling the campaign: he still hopes for positive changes after the US midterm elections, and in keeping the Third World on his side. Time will show whether this is a reasonable hope. The Western mainstream media is batting for the Ukraine. Russians killed are presented as victims of Russian ethnic cleansing, as in Bucha and Izium. The grain deal was concluded only because the media screamed about starving Africa. It was a flop: only 2% of the wheat went to poor countries while the rest went to the EU. Russians also gave away Serpent Island, a perfect base for starting a landing operation in Odessa.
The Ukrainian elite receive a lot of money, and high level contacts and appreciation. Mrs Zelensky was wined and dined by HRH the Princess of Wales. They are not going to like peace and being consigned to obscurity. Putin’s desires are quite irrelevant now as the big customer of the Ukraine is the US/UK, and they gain from war. The war is paid for by Europe; the US gets profits. Now the US sells liquefied gas for 4 times the Russian price, and the Europeans pay.
Sure, it is costly for the Ukrainian people; they suffer under Russian missiles. But the US does not care. For them it is profitable. German industries will probably go down: even better for the US. They hope they will relocate to the US.
There is no doubt the Russian gas pipelines were severed by US/UK sabotage. Russian sources name even the person who did it (Lt. Chris Bianchi). Now we learn that NATO tried to bomb the gas pipelines in 2015 for the first time, but they were apprehended. Only now has it become known. Alas, Sweden does not want to allow Russian access to the site of explosion; nor does it wants to share the results of its investigation. The terrorists did a messy job: they left one pipeline untouched, so the Russians and the Germans can start pumping gas right away if there is the political will. But it’s unclear whether the Germans have any political will outside of conforming to US wishes.
The US’s Party of War is very strong and Russians have no chance of defeating it. But it does not mean a nuclear war is unavoidable. Neither the US or RF Presidents wants it. Probably the conventional war will go on without crossing to the nuclear threshold. The peace agreement probably will fall short of the wishes of both sides, but Russians are unwilling to enter another Minsk agreement just to be abused by Kiev.
Russia and Sanctions
The main US/EU weapons against Russia are sanctions and the Iron Curtain. While sanctions have made only a little dent in the fabric of Russian society, this is not the case with the Iron Curtain. It is painful and annoying. For the last 30 years, Russians have got used to travelling to Europe. Now they have to change their habits. Yes, Russians can travel to Turkey and to Israel, to India and to Latin America, but Europe was nearby and friendly. Now it is difficult to reach: usually they can via a flight to Istanbul, but for much more money. It is especially painful for wealthy Russians: they used to spend their weekends in Paris and London; not anymore.
Sanctions are probably disturbing for businessmen, but ordinary people notice them less in Russia than in Europe. Meat is good and plentiful; gas is cheap; theatre is good and inexpensive. The whole Ring of the Nibelungs (four extra-long operas) can be heard for a hundred dollars.
Inflation happens in Russia, like everywhere else. But there is no green madness, or gender craze. There are no patriotic teaching or songs. Russia is quite progressive but not too much. Churches are open and full of worshippers. Actually, life is normal. Perhaps too normal for a country whose frontline just collapsed because of lack of soldiers.
Mobilisation has come to correct this deficiency. For the first time in 80 years Russians are mobilising, and it went poorly. Volunteers were refused, while the sick and elderly were drafted. A lot of relatively young pro-Western people escaped to Georgia and Israel, where there is no need for visas. But still, the necessary amount of folk were drafted. In two months, the Russian army will have enough soldiers to keep the frontline.
In the meantime it is dealing with terror. The explosion of the Crimea Bridge has been investigated. It turned out that the explosives were sent out of the Ukraine by a boat ostensibly loaded with wheat according to the wheat deal. The deadly load went via Bulgaria and Georgia to Russia. Just now Russian security has detained the Ukrainians who smuggled two Igla anti-aircraft missiles with launchers via Estonia. They planned to down civilian airplanes in Russia. Estonia was involved in the killing of Daria Dougin, a young Russian lady, daughter of philosopher Alexander Dougin, in the vicinity of Moscow. The Estonian minister congratulated Ukraine for the terrorist act on the Crimea Bridge. Lithuania tried to stop Russian access to its enclave in East Prussia. In short, the Ukraine is not alone, and Russia has many neutral sympathisers, but few allies.
The war goes on…
I don’t trust Israel Shamir…
Over the years, many years, his style of writing has flipped and flopped, and this leads to my suspicions.
Yesterday, I heard Scott Ritter use the term ‘dull war’. Now, I don’t listen to everything Ritter says, so maybe he has used this term before, but now Israel Shamir uses it. Coincidence, or briefing notes?
There are many, many alternative folk on BooTube, and okay, they say they’re concerned about the algorithms. But little old me is shadow banned. So who’s telling the truth? By rights, if the narrative about his capture was true, Gonzalo Lira should be in a prison, or dead, even Ritter said this…
First off, it wasn’t a war, so it can’t be a ‘dull war’. Russia, unfortunately, didn’t start with a war. Israel Shamir says the Russians got to Kiev and were somehow repulsed by the Nazis. This isn’t true. The Russians went to Kiev, to hold down vast numbers of Nazis, and when the Russians decided it was time to leave, as per their military strategy, they left.
The Russians and Putin made many mistakes, but this is how you learn. One thing Ritter said this morning, is that Russia is fighting NATO. I said this a long time ago, that NATO was running the Nazi military, and in particular, the UK. Its taken a while for these pundits to start saying it how it really is.
These nuclear drills aren’t for fun, because NATO knows that within weeks the ground in UKraine will freeze, and as Ritter says, around 370,000 Russian military will become active in UKraine. That’s 300k from the mobilisation, and 70k in volunteers. This is in addition to what the Russians have in UKraine already, so just under half a million men.
Ritter says that 80,000 Nazis have died, many of them, becauae they were just left to die, because the Nazi regime doesn’t want the burden of treating their own men, and NATO doesn’t want them either, because old war veterans often tell stories, and there will be many who are bitter, and will expose Nazi war crimes.
Quite a few pundits are already say the UKraine war is over, even though the war part hasn’t really started, apart from Russias recent air campaign.
New NATO air defence systems will get jammed. NATO is in for a very rude lesson in modern warfare. Not only will Russia still hit any target they like, these ADS’s will also get destroyed.
I think many in NATO already know this. So NATO is about to lose its first war, and its barely begun.
The US strategy to burn the European economy will be the tumultuous end of their occupation of Europe. We could even see major EU elites get toppled, and put on trial for treason. The US simply won’t be welcome in Europe.
I think Putin knows this, and if there are entirely new EU elites, Russia could be supplying gas again.
Given that this is ‘possible’, the NWO sect, led by the US and UK, are seriously considering a nuclear strike on Russia.
General Armageddon has been given a brief, which allows him to use any means necessary, short of using nukes. So this is a check on the sect, but the stakes are now so high, that will they even care?
Were this not Israel Shamir writing, I probably would not have finished this article. But it is, so I did. And I am very glad I did. I cannot imagine reading any other pro-Russian writer’s criticism of Putin’s war strategy without rapidly revising my belief in that writer’s pro-Russian credentials.
Shamir is a Russian born and bred post-communist Talmud Scholar and Russian patriot who moved to Jaffa in pursuit of his pro-Palestinian amour propre. There, he converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I wonder where he is now? My guess is that he has felt the call of his Motherland, and returned to give Putin a good shake to wake him out of his Ukrainian delusion: It behoves you to protect Russians, not the Ukrainians, do you hear?
Of course, this is all ex-post facto now. But let us not forget that excellent strategists like the US Colonel Macgregor, Brian Berletic and several others had not once strayed off the ‘Putin is always right’ path. Perhaps they did not trust us to know what to do with the real picture, not even after Putin corrected it with the arrival of the warmly welcomed General Armageddon?
gas mk 9 for this burbling untermensch halfwit cunt
I am still wondering if Russia is shrunk to keep in a balance with the USA, as both lose effectiveness, after having been grown at the same rate since about 1700; the bankers always need this balance for mutual policing, and also use squabbling little countries in the same way
In this 11s video some Germans are protesting against a group of Ukrainians and telling them to go home. Their falling living standards and likely a cold winter they face thanks to their unelected politicians may lead to unrest instead of a grumbling acceptance as the autocrats assumed. It’s not just the poorest people this time, it’s everyone who isn’t rich. Just this week Germans held anti-NATO and anti-US demos. They know who blew up their pipeline and condemned them to some harsh living for perhaps years to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKGd0ndF1Uc
the governments migrant hoax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYT0BItG8g
Once again…
this talk of WW1 trench warfare…now l’ve seen the films from that era and not all were ‘staged’…in fact when l was a young boy ‘some’ of my ancient family members had managed to survive the trenches… some were junior officers and some were medics and surgeons…
only the surgeons would speak of the horrors…
so where are these artillery battles?… and the hundreds of thousands of casualties… and the convalescent facilities to rebuild shattered faces and limbs.. which takes months…
the streams of disfigured and crippled streaming over the borders for trauma surgery in the Wests ‘pristine’ ahem ‘state of the art’ facilities..that undoubtedly would overwhelm the facilities in the Ukraine.. (bear in mind thirty thousand with flu collapse the NHS… the biggest statist bureaucracy in the world)..
nair a mention… of these casualties.. nor a glimpse of the supposed hundreds of thousands..
Who l assure you would be in a very bad state..
if someone has a video of something that in anyway resembles Verdun..please point me to it…
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and most on here are
you just gotta see bishop williamson exposing the new world order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZuBkT1MCg
I think the US attack on Nordstream gives real meaning to the US term ‘hybrid war’. Wars always were hybrid, long before the Romans salted the land of its enemies, but what is new is the US attacks on the energy infrastructure and economic security of its allies. Using war to conduct attacks on the assets of your allies as well as your chosen enemy perhaps is the real meaning behind this bit of tautology Newspeak.
Boy! Somebody got to this guy. I do not remember him being so disingenuous. How could he be so wide of the truth when he is supposed to be in a relationship with it? Mr. Apocalypse keeps right on choodlin.
yes, all world known that ukraine is nazi infested russian hating hellhole but russian intelligence didn’t, poor russian intelligence been expecting flowers, i stopped my reading there, izrael talks for himself and his own perception of the conflict,
The Unz Review is connected to Nick Griffin, long time fake UK nationalist and MI6 agent.
@smnt: ‘yes, all world known that ukraine is nazi infested russian hating hellhole …’
I don’t know who ‘all world’ is then. But I think it might be only your world.
Putin has certainly spoken of ‘de-militarising’ and ‘de-nazifying’ Ukraine. But that was at the outset of the SMO. At the time, he was referring to the AZOV Battalion murderous thugs who are the private army of the Israel-resident sacker of Ukraine, the obscenely ugly patron of Zelenski, Ihor Kolomoiski.
Since then, Putin has exchanged AZOV prisoners of war for Russian ones. Not long before then, Zelenski bombed the prison that held the AZOV people … because they had begun to talk! So there have been none-too-subtle twists and turns in Putin’s attitude to Ukrainian nationalism. And certainly, Putin in nothing like a stupid man.
I do wish Israel Shamir would return to tell us more.
@Les Visible: ‘How could he be so wide of the truth when he is supposed to be in a relationship with it?’
How can you be so gob-smackingly childish? Then again, I suppose that is all you can ever be.
Israel Shamir is not good, He has limited knowledge and part of the MIND game being played on the population.
Judaism is an AFRICAN RELIGION.
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@ Les..
Spot on..it’s all smoke and mirrors… as you probably surmise..
Although it’s fair to say hardly surprising..
To anyone frustrated by the plethora of idiots on this thread: Go to the source page:
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-dull-war/
The discussion there is wide-ranging and excellent.
Rixon, do you not feel enbarrassed by the gratuitous insults to Shamir slung on your site by simpletons who do not even understand what he is saying?
@ FOSSIL FOOL
as long the german farmers dont
stand up there nothing effectively will
happen . they will take time watching
their unloved, mongrelized city people .
but they still not know with NWO+WEF
Rothschild mafia will take their land as
bailout for germanys bankrupty.
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