Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Dec 2, 2022
“Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.” William Burns, US ambassador to Moscow writing to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 2008
“There’s nothing inevitable about the “multipolar world”. Its emergence depends entirely on a war that is just beginning and whose outcome is still unknown.” From the text
According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center: “About half of Americans… say they are either extremely (24%) or very (26%) concerned about the possibility of U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine leading to a U.S. war with Russia.” (“Americans’ Concerns About War in Ukraine: Wider Conflict, Possible U.S.-Russia Clash”, Pew Research Center)
This is a smaller percentage than one might expect given the risk that an unexpected escalation that could trigger a nuclear war. Even so, this is what the data tell us and the data don’t lie.
But here’s the interesting part: Even though half of the country is worried about a direct conflagration with Russia, they still overwhelmingly support the other measures Biden has taken to punish Russia for its alleged “aggression”. Here’s more from the survey:
Wide support in both parties for U.S. actions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Sizable majorities of both Republicans (73%) and Democrats (80%) say they approve of the U.S. placing strict economic sanctions on Russia. Similar shares say they approve of sending military equipment and weapons to Ukraine.
About seven-in-ten Democrats and six-in-ten Republicans also say they approve of stationing large numbers of U.S. military in NATO countries near Ukraine.” (“Americans’ Concerns About War in Ukraine: Wider Conflict, Possible U.S.-Russia Clash”, Pew Research Center)
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What does this mean? Why do Americans overwhelmingly support onerous sanctions, additional troop deployments, and the endless provision of lethal weapons when –at the same time– they acknowledge that they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the possibility “of a U.S. war with Russia?” Don’t they realize that these hybrid attacks on Russia are a form of warfare that will eventually lead to a direct military clash between Washington and Moscow?
And why do Americans support these draconian measures anyway? Don’t they know that Putin warned that NATO expansion to Ukraine would force Russia to respond militarily? Don’t they know that many of our brightest foreign policy experts have warned against NATO expansion to Ukraine? Don’t they know that Russia has repeatedly warned that NATO expansion could lead to war? Don’t they know that the democratically-elected president of Ukraine was toppled in a CIA-backed coup in 2014 and replaced with a Washington stooge?
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Don’t they know that from 2015-on the CIA has been training far-right Ukrainian paramilitaries and extremists (neo-Nazis) to conduct an insurgency against Russian forces that were going to be lured across the border in an attempt to create an “Afghanistan-type” quagmire?
Don’t they know that Washington has been planning to use Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia in order to spread its military bases across Central Asia (to encircle China) for at least the last 8 years? Don’t they know that the Ukrainian army had been shelling residential areas in the area inhabited by ethnic Russians for 8 days before Putin was forced to send in his troops?
Don’t they know that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that the war started 8 years ago when the legitimate government was toppled? (He told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, “I made a point that the war in Ukraine has been lasting for 8 years. It’s not just some special military operation”) Don’t they know that –if Zelensky had maintained the status quo and Ukraine had remained a “neutral” country– the war never would have begun? Don’t they know our own Director of the CIA called NATO membership for Ukraine the “reddest of red lines” for Russia? Don’t they know that NATO’s eastward expansion is, and has always been, a material threat to Russia’s national security? Aren’t Russian mothers and children deserving of the same safety and security provided to American mothers and children or should we insist that they live with Washington’s combat troops, tanks and nuclear missiles pointed at them across the border? Aren’t they entitled to live their lives without NATO’s gun pointed at their heads or Washington’s dagger put to their throats? This is from an article at antiwar.com:
NATO has long known that Russian leaders since the end of the Cold War–not just Putin–have perceived NATO’s eastward expansion, and particularly its expansion to Ukraine, as a threat. In response to NATO’s statement at the 2008 summit in Bucharest, the Russian leadership made clear that they saw this promise as an existential threat. Putin warned that NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine was “a direct threat” to Russian security.…
How could Russia not see NATO as a threat? … How else could Russia perceive an alliance that moved to its borders, absorbed its neighbors, but exclusively excluded it as anything but hostile? Robert Gates observed that it was “recklessly ignoring what the Russians considered their own vital national interests.”…
In a February 2022 press conference, Putin said, “Today we see where NATO is: in Poland, in Romania and in the Baltic states. . .. Now anti-ballistic missile launchers are deployed in Romania and are being set up in Poland. They will probably be there soon if they are not yet built. These are MK-41 launchers that can launch Tomahawks. In other words, they are no longer just counter-missiles, and these assault weapons can cover thousands of kilometers of our territory. Isn’t this a threat to us?”
Weeks before, Putin had also complained that “elements of the US global defense system are being deployed near Russia.” He spoke again of the MK-41 launchers in Romania and, soon, in Poland. At that time, he added that “If this infrastructure continues to move forward, and if US and NATO missile systems are deployed in Ukraine, their flight time to Moscow will be only 7–10 minutes, or even five minutes for hypersonic systems. This is a huge challenge for us, for our security.” (“Stoltenberg’s Provocative Pledge on Ukraine’s NATO Membership”, Ted Snider, antiwar.com)
How is it that the American people don’t know these things? How is it that the vast majority of them think that ‘Putin started the war’ or that the war started on February 24 when Russian tanks crossed the border into Ukraine? How can the majority of the population in a democratic country that is (ostensibly) committed to free speech and freedom of the press be so tragically misinformed, propagandized and indoctrinated?
Is that it? Are Americans actually the most weak-minded, brainwashed sheeple on earth? This is from The American Conservative:
“From the onset of the Ukraine war, the corporate media, politicians, and all the controlled NGOs throughout America and Western Europe were lockstep in their claim that the Russian military action in eastern Ukraine was unprovoked and unjustified—an act of aggression that could not be allowed to stand.
There was one problem with this propaganda blitz: it was totally untrue. The Deep State—the government elites, intelligence community, and the military establishment—has spent decades threatening and provoking Russia by pushing NATO up against their border.
You do not have to like Russia to see this, and you can detest Vladimir Putin until the cows come home. The fundamental issue remains the same: the Russians view NATO on their border as an act of aggression and a threat to their national security, and we have known this for decades.
The record is clear and unassailable.” (“Blame the Deep State for Carnage in Ukraine”, George D O’Neill jr, The American Conservative)
So, no, the war in Ukraine did NOT start on February 24. And, no, “evil” Putin did NOT start the war. What the evidence shows is that this Ukrainian conflict is another bloody confection that was conjured up long-ago in elite think tanks and neocon hideaways where Russia’s economic integration with Europe (and the eventual emergence of a free trade zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok) was seen as “real and present danger” to Washington’s voracious lust for global power. These same elites settled on Ukraine as the launching pad for their war on Russia despite the fact that Ukraine would ultimately face disintegration as part of a Moscow-imposed final settlement and despite the fact that all of Europe would be plunged into another Dark Ages of energy and food scarcity, widespread deindustrialization and third-world destitution. Check out this quote from foreign policy giant George Kennan, who authored America’s “containment” strategy that was used during the Cold War. Here’s what he told the New York Times in 1998:
‘I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.” (“Blame the Deep State for Carnage in Ukraine”, George D O’Neill jr, The American Conservative)
Have you wondered why respected foreign policy analysts like George Kennan, former Sec-Def William Perry, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack F. Matlock Jr. all oppose NATO membership for Ukraine? Have you ever asked yourself why a foreign policy mandarin like John Mearsheimer would put his reputation on the chopping block to inform the people that if the policy persists Ukraine will be obliterated and the US will likely end up in a nuclear war with Russia? Here’s Mearsheimer:
“The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked… What we’re doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We’re encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they’ll ultimately become part of the west because we will ultimately defeat the Russians…. And, of course, the Ukrainians are playing along with this and the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and, instead, want to pursue a hardline policy. Well, as I said to you before, if they do that the end result is that their country is going to be wrecked. And, what we are doing is, in effect, encouraging that outcome.” John Mearsheimer, “The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path”, You Tube, 1:32
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The United States is deliberately misleading Ukraine so it can use its territory to prosecute its war on Russia. It is a cynical manipulation tantamount to genocide. The US has no vital national security interests in Ukraine nor does it care whether its cities and people are pounded into oblivion. What matters to Washington is delivering a blow to Russia, seducing Russia into a conflict that will cause it to “overextend itself militarily or economically” (Rand), thus, rendering it incapable of projecting power beyond its borders. That’s the goal, and that has always been the goal, to “weaken Russia”. None of this has anything to do with Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. It’s all about power; pure, unalloyed geopolitical power.
Bottom line: Foreign policy elites and their globalist allies have decided that the only way to arrest America’s accelerating economic decline and preserve the nation’s role as the world’s preeminent superpower, is through the use of military force. Clearly, that decision has already been made. What we’re seeing in Ukraine (and soon Taiwan) is further evidence that America’s hawkish powerbrokers are not going to relinquish their exalted position in the world without a fight. They are going to use every weapon in their arsenal to maintain their vice-like grip on power. This tells us that the transition away from the “rules-based system” will not be quick or bloodless. And– despite optimistic predictions to the contrary– there’s nothing inevitable about the “multipolar world”. Its emergence depends entirely on a war that is just beginning and whose outcome is still unknown.
Every time I turn myself away from a lie, ignore a lie, refuse to respond to a lie; misrepresent what really happened by saying nothing; by my silence I am lying without saying a word!
Boxer Vitali Klitschko (45-2) is the most underpaid mayor in the world.
One vital element is missing from this dialogue: The NATO intent to install missile batteries on the Ukraine border with Russia is the issue, not NATO membership itself. The three Baltic states to the north of Ukraine achieved NATO status uneventfully because they agreed not to host NATO missile batteries on their Russian border. Zelensky alone bears responsibility for the destruction of his nation by refusing to acquiesce that one aspect of his nations NATO membership. The Russians have offered peace treaty on that basis since day one. The missile issue in Ukraine has been the subject of negotiation for almost two decades, and Russia has had troops on the border for a decade or so as a result and at great expense to their nation. The leftists in NATO have changed its defensive coalition mandate to an offensive one by recruiting a nonmember NATO wannabee state to throw under the Russian bus. Who can seriously blame Russia? It was an act of aggression not any different than the Cuban missile crisis.
To fully understand the Jewish hand in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we need to review some relevant history. Over the centuries, there have been constant battles over the lands of present-day Ukraine, with Poles, Austro-Hungarians, and Russians alternately dominating. Russia took control of most of Ukraine in the late 1700s and held it more or less continuously until the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991; this is why Putin claims that the country is “part of Russia.”
For their part, Jews have experienced a particularly tumultuous relationship with Russia, one that ranged from disgust and detestation to a burning hatred. As it happened, Jews migrated to Russia in the 19th century, eventually numbering around 5 million. They were a disruptive and agitating force within the nation and thus earned the dislike of Czars Nicholas I (reign 1825 to 1855), Alexander II (1855 to 1881, when he was assassinated by a partly-Jewish anarchist gang)
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https://www.unz.com/article/the-jewish-hand-in-world-war-three/
Don’t they know that the Ukrainian army had been shelling residential areas in the area inhabited by ethnic Russians for 8 *YEARS* before Putin was forced to send in his troops?
*8 YEARS*. Not days
Probably true, but it is still counter-intuitive to think that America can play a pro-Nazi role in Ukraine. How do they stop Nazi propaganda leaking into our own societies? I would like this, but, to them, it would be “blowback”
Even so, this is what the data tell us and the data don’t lie. Oh Well.
Putin has admitted he made a mistake with the Minsk agreements also on Redacted Ukranian oligarchs are shown living the high life in Monaco pity they’re not sharing the trenches with their hapless countrymen. Their lack of concern is as great as Russia’s lack of concern for what the West thinks, Europe will be a wasteland and the USA will continue to sink in degeneracy and fentanyl.
same insidious chessgame UK did
with poles against germany 1939 .
The americans should send in their queer nancy boy shirtlifters
that would scare anyone
I read this article on Unz and could not find fault with it. Here is the problem with this article and all the others on Unz, they are way the hell to long. Who the hell has time to read them and not fall asleep unless you drink 2 pots of coffee per article.
But the eggheads have to source everything, quote everyone, take 5 paragraphs to make a point. And then who the hell reads 20,000 words, not the Amerikan public which hasa 15 second attention span of a 2 year old. A few thousand smart people might read the whole thing. Who doesn’t read Mike Whitney? 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% of the world. Thus Mike Whitney’s article is just pissing up a rope lamenting the lies and brainwashing of the Jewish media.
There was this professor who tried to reach the masses with this inside information of how wars get started. I forget his name, but I was an avid reader of his blog, and I based my essays format on his style, a picture roll with 2 paragraphs in between and some bold print bullet points. That’s why Yukon Jack blogs were styled that way. Lots of pics, a few paragraphs of text, memes meant to stick in your mind so that the average Joe could resist the juggernaut of Jewish media steamroller of nonstop lies which leads to endless evil for Jew profits.
The best part of this article is the opening graphic, President Biden is on the bow of the Titanic (just before it goes down) with his dick up the butt of Jew Zelensky, bribing him with money to keep the war going, and a nuke going off in the background. That meme says more than the whole article.
The multitude of morons still can’t figure out that its all Kabuki theater. NATO/Russia are both governed by the same transnational syndicate of Semitic central bankers/oligarchs–as they dialectically advance WEF policies & setup the prowhite Ukrainians to be reduced/slaughtered (Whiteocide). Both ‘sides’ (NATO/Russia) are the same anti-white Jewish enemy..
The US power elite will never stop. Ever. They are psychopaths. Their british and other European puppets are corrupt and delusional. All-out war is inevitable. Putin knows this, as does Xi in China. Both have been preparing for it – buying time to do so.
I had to smile at Mike Whitney’s ‘don’t they know’ questions, although I am fully aware that he knows the answers to them. These questions are only the rhetorical device he choses to expose the frightening fact that Americans simply do not know what are the formative factors of the war in Ukraine, but they support the Ukrainians vehemently anyway. (Admittedly, this is true also of a good chunk of the British population.)
But back to the Americans: A very recent experience made me wonder just how deep American ignorance is: I briefly joined the blog of a group of American ‘linguists’ because a theme of the thread I came upon was that Rumanian is a Romance language, and the Rumanians are direct descendants of the Romans. I asked whether there was ever a linguistic assessment of this. (I confessed that I do not endorse the ‘Romance language’ claim.)
The brightest of them pointed out to me that there is a test of the genuine entries of new words into a language. I asked whether such a test was ever applied to contemporary Rumanian. So he repeated his description of the test of genuine-ness. I simply could not get through to him that I am in search of an application of such a test applied to Rumanian.
The leader of the blog called me all manner of ignoramus, and urged me to listen and learn from the test-describer, for he and they ‘know’, and I do not.
This same person (according to himself a holder of a doctorate in Linguistics from Yale) asserted that Latin is a Romance language. That idiocy made me gulp, as it would a first-year Linguistic student in our context.
Then a number of them objected to my using ‘corrupted’ to describe a word that is borrowed by one language from another, but changed in some way. They actually thought I was accusing the borrower of moral or ethical corruption! Yet another scoffed that an agglutinative language is ‘old fashioned’.
Now, this blog is (unless they are all lying) a context of highly educated Americans speaking in their own field of expertise. What, then, can one expect of the less-educated American? For goodness’ sakes! Is it possible that the Americans have undergone a stupefaction process?
Zelensky Seeks To Ban Russian Orthodox Church In Ukraine:
‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he is seeking to ban all religions with ties to Russia. He claims the move is needed to “guarantee spiritual independence to Ukraine.” This law will target millions of Ukrainians who identify as Russian Orthodox.’
‘The Ukrainian leader said it was necessary to purge the church to preserve the country’s spiritual independence. Adding, “We will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul.”‘
‘Zelensky denounced Ukrainians continuing to attend the parishes as failing to overcome “the temptation of evil.”‘
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-seeks-ban-russian-orthodox-church-ukraine
Priests are now being arrested.
Ukraine charges priests for ‘praising Russia’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-seeks-ban-russian-orthodox-church-ukraine
But, yeah, Western support for the Ukrainian régime is all about upholding the values of liberty, democracy and freedom of expression.
“What matters to Washington is delivering a blow to Russia, seducing Russia into a conflict that will cause it to “overextend itself militarily or economically”.
Que bono? The author says that the war is the “only way to arrest America’s accelerating economic decline and preserve the nation’s role as the world’s preeminent superpower.”.
However, in the stakeholder new-normal geopolitical context we have to consider additional interests, such as:
-Russia with its natural gas is a competitor to US business interests which want EU markets for its LNG development and sales.
– It is an undisputed fact that the Rothschild Zio faction which largely controls US & NATO foreign policy has an outstanding priority which is to conquer Syria for further Israeli control of the ME. The theatrics in the Ukraine serve to bog down the Russians and any escalation drawing the US into that theatre and weakening Russia both economically and militarily gives more incentive and license in the eyes of US foreign policy makers for more direct intervention in Syria.
– Also, one has to take into consideration that the war although seeming to go against globalist doctrine of getting rid of nations, and sovereignty rights over borders and natural resources, it actually is strengthening the globalist cause in escalating the “peril” of a WWIII and the pretext (i.e. the alleged “need”) for centralized globalist government to regulate the rough and tumble of global disputes between the powers.
The author concludes that the reason for the war is because the powers see that it is the “only way to arrest America’s accelerating economic decline and preserve the nation’s role as the world’s preeminent superpower”. Yes of course, from its inception the US has been a violent and warring nation, conquering, segregating, and suppressing any people and nation in their way or which is non-compliant with their will.
Sophie Johnson–America is so Jew-influenced that the intellectuals ask “is it good for the Jews?” before they ask “is it true?”
Convoy of 16 trucks carrying nuclear missiles to Faslane Scotland on Sunday.