Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Dec 22, 2022
“The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians to fight. Now Washington must urge them to stop.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative
Volodymyr Zelensky did not fly across the Atlantic so he could deliver a speech to the US Congress. That was not the purpose of his trip. The real objective was to produce a galvanizing event that would create the illusion of broad-based public support for the war. That is why the speech was broadcast on all the mainstream media channels and that is why Congress repeatedly greeted Zelensky with raucous applause. Once again, the cadres of voracious elites who control the political levers of power in America, are determined to drag the country to war, which is why they portray a cross-dressing “thug in a gym suit” as a Churchillian figure of unshakable principles. It’s all public relations. It’s all an attempt to garner support for a conflict which will soon involve young American men and women who will be asked to die so that wealthy elites can maintain their grip on global power.
Zelensky’s trip to Capitol Hill was timed to coincide with Putin’s winter offensive, which is expected to crush the Ukrainian Armed Forces and bring the war to a swift end. The Biden administration understands the situation but does not have weaponry or manpower to impact the outcome. That doesn’t mean, however, that Washington doesn’t have a plan for prolonging the conflict or beefing up its combat forces. It does have a plan, that is evident by the way the administration has rejected negotiations at every turn. What that tells us is that Washington is still committed to defeating Russia whatever the cost. In practical terms, that means that the US must create an incident that will serve as a justification for escalation. The incident could be related to Zelensky’s unexpected trip to Washington or, perhaps, it could be linked to the detonation of a nuclear device somewhere in Ukraine. Check out this excerpt from an article at RT:
The risk of Kiev attempting to build a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ remains, a senior Russian diplomat has said….
“Ukraine has the potential necessary to make a ‘dirty bomb,’ it doesn’t take much effort. Especially since Ukraine has been a nation advanced in nuclear technology since the Soviet times, [and] has many technologies and expertise,” Mikhail Ulyanov told journalists on Wednesday, as quoted by RIA Novosti…
General Igor Kirillov, the commander of the Russian military branch responsible for protecting troops from weapons of mass destruction, claimed in October that Kiev was “at the final stage” of producing a dirty bomb.” (“Radioactive threat from Kiev persists – Moscow“, RT)
The means by which a false flag is carried out, is completely irrelevant. What matters is that — according to political analyst John Mearsheimer– “The United States is in this to win”, that is, the US foreign policy establishment is not prepared to let the Russian army prevail in Ukraine and impose its own settlement. They’re going to find a way to intensify the conflict and bring foreign troops into the theater. That’s the objective, and that’s what they’ll do once they’ve figured out an excuse for escalation. Bottom line: The US is not going to throw in the towel and call it quits. This is a long-term project that could drag on for years if not decades.
Political analyst Kurt Nimmo thinks that NATO might join the fighting. Here’s a short blurb from Nimmo’s latest at Global Research:
If Olga Lebedeva and Pravda.ru can be believed, NATO is on the verge of entering the war in Ukraine.
“Such announcements were heard from officials of the Polish Ministry of Defence, the General Staff of the NATO alliance, officers of the French army and (of course) the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence,” according to Lebedeva.
“The main reason would be the very next Russian general offensive that NATO is planning and which according to it would decimate the Ukrainian army not only in the Donbass but also on the Kiev side (many Russian units are in combat situation in Belarus at the borders with Ukraine),” explains Rusreinfo.ru, a Russian website.
But NATO has always been very clear: Ukraine CANNOT LOSE. For Washington, the only solution would therefore be for NATO forces to enter Ukraine, hoping that this will end the Russian offensive. The calculation is that Vladimir Putin will not want to directly face NATO with the possible (nuclear) consequences, and will therefore then retreat.” (“NATO Decides to Attack Russia in Ukraine– Ukraine is unable to defeat Russia. The next step is for direct NATO involvement“, Kurt Nimmo, Global Research)
Nimmo could be right but, maybe not. It appears to me that NATO is hopelessly divided on the issue. A number of NATO countries will not join in a war against Russia regardless of the circumstances or the amount of pressure from the White House. The more likely scenario was presented by Colonel Douglas MacGregor who laid it out in an article at The American Conservative on Tuesday. Here’s what he said: .
The Biden administration’s unconditional support for the Zelensky regime in Kiev is reaching a strategic inflection point not unlike the one LBJ reached in 1965… Like South Vietnam in the 1960s, Ukraine is losing its war with Russia… The real danger now is that Biden will soon appear on television to repeat LBJ’s performance in 1965, substituting the word “Ukraine” for “South Vietnam”:
“Tonight, my fellow Americans I want to speak to you about freedom, democracy, and the struggle of the Ukrainian people for victory. No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the millions who live in Ukraine and Eastern Europe… However, I am not talking about a NATO attack on Russia. Rather, I propose to send a U.S. led coalition of the willing, consisting of American, Polish, and Romanian armed forces into Ukraine, to establish the ground equivalent of a “no-fly zone.” The mission I propose is a peaceful one, to create a safe zone in the Western most portion of Ukraine for Ukrainian Forces and refugees struggling to survive Russia’s devastating attacks…”
NATO’s governments are divided in their thinking about the war in Ukraine. Except for Poland and, possibly, Romania, none of NATO’s members are in a rush to mobilize their forces for a long, grueling war of attrition with Russia in Ukraine. No one in London, Paris, or, Berlin wants to run the risk of a nuclear war with Moscow. Americans do not support going to war with Russia, and those few who do are ideologues, shallow political opportunists, or greedy defense contractors.” (“Washington is Prolonging Ukraine’s Suffering“, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative)
This, I think, is the much more plausible scenario. The Biden Administration will enlist a handful of countries that agree to troop deployments to west Ukraine ostensibly for humanitarian reasons. At the same time, they will allow disparate Ukrainian forces to continue the random shelling of Russia-controlled areas as well as locations on Russian soil. There will undoubtedly be an effort to control the skies over west Ukraine (no-fly zone) and to conduct attacks on Russian formations in the east. Most important, vital supplylines from Poland will remain open to accommodate the flow of men, munitions and lethal weaponry to the front. MacGregor appears to anticipate these developments given his comments at the beginning of the article. Here’s what he said:
During a speech given on November 29, Polish Vice-Minister of National Defense (MON) Marcin Ociepa said: “The probability of a war in which we will be involved is very high. Too high for us to treat this scenario only hypothetically.” The Polish MON is allegedly planning to call up 200,000 reservists in 2023 for a few weeks’ training, but observers in Warsaw suspect this action could easily lead to a national mobilization.
Meanwhile, inside the Biden administration, there is growing concern that the Ukrainian war effort will collapse under the weight of a Russian offensive. And as the ground in Southern Ukraine finally freezes, the administration’s fears are justified. In an interview published in the Economist, head of Ukraine’s armed forces General Valery Zaluzhny admitted that Russian mobilization and tactics are working. He even hinted that Ukrainian forces might be unable to withstand the coming Russian onslaught.” (“Washington is Prolonging Ukraine’s Suffering“, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative)
The plan to lure Russia into a war in Ukraine goes back at least a decade. And what we know now from comments by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is that Washington never sought a peaceful resolution to the conflict but worked tirelessly to install a Russia-hating regime in Kiev that would help it to prosecute its war on Russia. The gathering of nearly 600,000 Russian combat troops in or around Ukraine threatens to derail Washington’s strategy and end the war on Russia’s terms. Washington can’t allow that to happen. It cannot allow the world to see that it was beaten by Russia. Thus, Washington must pursue the only option left to them, the deployment of US troops to Ukraine.
Perhaps, cooler heads will prevail and the administration will pull back from the brink, but we think that is highly unlikely. We think the decision has already been made: We think the United States is going to war with Russia.
The article states the obvious. I said yesterday that Z is past his sell by date and that Zaluzhny is being groomed as the next UKraine leader.
He may quit, be bumped off, or medical grounds. Because there’s no chance of a peace deal, the Russians don’t need Z alive, that period has passed.
The problem is, most in NATO don’t want an expansion of the war. If the US enters UKraine, Ramstein will get hit. German knows this.
I think it’s only fitting that ‘exceptional Amerika’ gets well and truly beaten by a peer power, because the reality is, Amerika has never beaten a peer power, apart from maybe Japan. When the US entered WW2 in Europe, the war had been won, won by the Russians.
The Poles, & Romanians are no match for for the Russians. Amerika will need to deploy at least 400k of combat troops, and they are nowhere near ready.
There are a few things going the NWOs way. One, Putin is still in power. Now I could be, and am mostly likely wrong. Maybe Putin wants a war on the ground in Europe. The next NWO plus, the Russians should be smacking Western UKraine, and to be honest, they aren’t doing this. By now, at least one third of Central Kiev should be rubble. This hasn’t happened. Are the Russians destroying the rail and road links? These should be hit every single day, so nothing moves.
The Russians need to implement a no fly zone. Just use ground to air missiles based in Belarus, Russian territories, and naval.
I don’t know how Z made his Nazi ass to Satan’s Hall, but if he flew out, then why was this possible???
The SMO is supposed to be ending, so anything should be a legitimate target. Why hasn’t the CIA building in Kiev not been hit? An of course, why hasn’t Russia hit the UK? Maybe not nukes, but military targets should have been hit in the UK.
I know there are quite a few on here who say they’re all in it together, and there’s a slim chance this is the case. But I think the stakes are too high, and the West is just far too bust. Yesterday the Daily Fail had two articles, both review catch ups. Released on the cusp of the festive season when most won’t notice. One article said the recession was much deeper than expected, and even then, if truth be told, its several times worse than this DF review article. The next article said the UK debt was ‘terrifying’.
It’s the same in the US, but worse. The other point, despite cotton glove attempts to curb US inflation. Thicko Amerikan sheeple have not modified their spending. In fact, they are spending even more. They’re blowing their savings, and spending more on cc’s.
The reason for this, is that most yanks have no idea at just how bust the US is, or the fact that they’re on the cusp of WW3, and this is all down to the fake news.
Amerikans will accept US intervention in UKraine, because they haven’t got a fecking care or clue as to what the consequences are.
I supported Putin for a very long time. He’s done a fantastic job rebuilding the Russian economy and military. But now he’s floundering. Russia now needs a ruthless leader who will use all means to destroy the Nazi NWO.
Oh, there was another story, that Xi demanded Putin give him precise data’s as to when the war will end in UKraine. Are we supposed to believe this bollox?
well, bring it on afore the popcorn gets cold.
and if as it seems likely, that amerijew is short of field hardware, i am sure that zelensky synagogue can rent some badly needed himars and patriot batteries (gamechangers™) to help their depleted shabbo bros, while claiming innocence (“we have nothing to do with this conflict”), having learned their lesson the hard way.
“DUMB Yanks & THICK Brits being LED – and following BLINDLY! – towards The Abyss”
Discuss.
LED = (((LED)))
The WOKE jabbed fairies of the US military (queers, lesbos, trannies, perverts and homos) will be slaughtered by the Russian military.
Waste of time reading. Here’s what I think, F..K Jewmerica. I’m sure the Russians will be shaking in their boots, not. Couldn’t beat Rice farmers or goat herders, so I’m sure Putin is shitting, not lolol…
It makes me puke to think that my state’s Congressional delegation gave Zelensky “raucous applause”. Oh, yeah, after all my state produces nuclear submarines, military helicopters and numerous and sundry other military hardware. Plus, beezness is beezness. Hey, let’s all send our young men to war against Russia. Of course, that does not include the sons and daughters of our Zionist contingent. It shows us all that our citizenry means zero to our Congressional reps. Our nation is turning into one, big fecal mass before our eyes. Still wanna vote Democratic???
When Ukraine no longer has a functioning economy America will no longer be bailing it out but throwing billions and trillions of dollars at it just to keep it alive…
Americans are you ready for this?
Looks like Holodomor 2.0 is coming to Ukraine.
America’s position is becoming untenable.
so be it. it won’t be as bad as living under the boot of global evil mafias canceling the norm and pushing the world into mass suicide. even children are not spared from this Godless pedos. the masses in the west are unable to take their nation from sold-out leaders. persecution is worse than killing.
An Irish MEP made an interesting point recently, the large amounts of money being pumped into Ukraine are merely loans and eventually the loans will be called in. It reminds me of the loans paid to Britain and France during ww1 eventually the USA entered the war to “protect “their investments, will we see history repeat ?
Peter Petherington: yes, but the NWO, centered around the City Crime Cartels and Wall Street mobs, they don’t have a choice. They either reset the global field on their terms, or they fade away.
Maybe Putin and his team have everything in hand, & all that is going on, is expected, and will reach a conclusion that Russia wants, that benefits the free world.
The problem here, is that doesn’t appear to be happening.
Putin launched his SMO. Big mistake. This should’ve been a 6 day war, and if no surrender by the 6th day, then 2 nukes on Western UKrainian cities or towns, and 2 more nukes every following day until total surrender.
By now, in fact, months ago, Russia should’ve put big weapons systems right on NATOs borders, and the offered the same talks that Putin offered before the SMO.
Just get your head around the fact that Nazi bankrupt Britain has committed at least 3 international terrorists attacks, and two were against civilian projects.
Why the feck hasn’t Putin hit the UK?
Feck Putin! Russia now needs a leader who will do what needs to be done, and if that means nuclear WW3, so be it.
The NWO relies on this idea that ultimately, no one is going to stand up to them. Someone needs to call their bluff and nuke the fockers.
Good article:
However, I don’t see USA and/or NATO going to war with Russia.
They are ass-u-me ing they will beat Russia ?
US only picks on much smaller opponents, and they need Allies when fighting bigger opponents. Since WW2 have never won a war except maybe Grenada.
My guess is they will negotiate some save face deal via diplomatic solutions.
Putin and NATO simply want to ethnically cleanse Ukraine and divide the spoils.
@ Nick xXx Your quote: money being pumped into Ukraine are merely loans and eventually the loans will be called in ??
Who ?? Will pay those loans ?? Russia ?? Belarus ?? Not Ukraine, because Ukraine will be the Haiti of eastern Europe ?? Maybe shoopid Rumanian, Poles & German will pay ..
Most of these articles leave out the rest of the world when talking of war across Europe. Does anybody think China will sit back knowing they will be next. What about Iran, Korea, South America and every other country America has molested over the past 70 years. If America sends troops to Ukraine it will be one of the last things they will ever do.
The US military is running low on bragging air from its former self,,, a self that was lean and mean. Today it cannot win a fight in which the ‘enemy’ has only roadside bombs and rifles. The exit from Afghanistan says it all. The US military is only a money funnel to the war corporations and politicians.
If the Russians decide to fight,,, the Americans and their following will be run out of Ukraine even worse than their pitiful Vietnam exit.
Many will discover GDP and huge budgets does not make a strong military…. Yes the US spends more than Russia but the difference is it takes $1000 to get $1 dollar of product from the US war machine. Most money going for bribery and 10% for the big guy. Other than nukes the US is history.
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I will tell you another scenario. Ukraine is crushed like a bug by the Russian army. Ukraine is no more, it is absorbed into Russia, and becomes a buffer zone between globohomo Jew shlomo west and Christian Russia. Kiev is renamed Putingrad. Maps are redrawn. Russia just got bigger, and a warm water port and all of the Ukraine farmland.
Globohomo Zelensky moves to the world’s gay capital, Tel Aviv Israel with his billions in stolen loot from the US Treasury. Pelousi takes down George Washington statues and puts up Zelensky monuments because he was the bravest man that ever lived. He was ready to die for Ukraine, and after his army was completely wiped out, he moved to Israel to count his Amerikan shekels.
Because Ukraine falls like Afghanistan, the media moves on to the next contrived narrative, and they forget about Ukraine (because it will be a catastrophic loss) and they will pretend that the Ukraine war never happened. If you ask them about Ukraine, they will just stare at you, there is no such place called Ukraine.
Ukraine is a money laundering scam. A huge scam, over a 100 billion dollars stolen/wasted on a war that could never be won.
No one in Amerika will tolerate another Vietnam in Ukraine. But are they planning a nuclear false flag? Yes, and Biden even said it. Did they try a false flag to get the west to nuke Russia, with the Poland missile flap? Yes and it failed.
Are the scumbags in DC willing to flatten the planet with nuclear war? No. And once Putin gets the Sarmat ICBM fielded then it is game over. This is a done deal, DC is going to fold it’s hand.
The really big joke is on the Libtards who voted for Biden. Biden their guy just lost the Khazar Jew superstate dream. The idiots liberals supported this scumbag pedo puppet who destroyed Ukraine. But they hate Trump, and if Trump had been elected none of this would of happened.
why is war always on european side
and not between kamshatka + alaska ?
WE EUROPEANS DONT WANT THIS
JEWUS/UK MOTHERFUCKERS !
Those supply lines in Poland wont last long if Russia blitzed Gdansk and Gdynia, the 2 main ports that weapons are entering into Poland for supply to Ukraine.
Russia should take out Khazar Rothschild owned Israel and Khazar Rothschild City of London Bankers . Atomise them . That will be the decapitation stun punch. Then invade Khazar controlled Ukraine (New Khazaria). Hyper Sonic missiles 27 times the speed of sound BOOM!
Colonel MacGregor stated, “Americans do not support going to war with Russia, and those few who do are ideologues, shallow political opportunists, or greedy defense contractors.” … While the second part is certainly true, I’m afraid the Colonel is miscalculating the first part. The majority of the American people are dangerously stupid, arrogant, ignorant, deranged blood-thirsty f*cking retards.
I believe there are a lot more Americans than MacGregor thinks who are not opposed in the least to the idea of war with Russia. Most Americans are brain-dead imbeciles and gullible as the day is long, and they have been fed a relentless escalating barrage of “Russia is bad” bullshit by the Jew media for year now. They have no idea what they’d be getting into. As other comments have pointed out, the Jew-S-A military can’t seem to actually win a fight against, well, anybody.
My girlfriend has a son whose girlfriend is a Lieutenant in the Army National Guard. She is quite pretty, but she is an imbecile whose bra size is bigger than her IQ. She expressed to me she would like to get into the ultimate oxymoron, military “intelligence”. She is perfect for it, of course, because she is a completely clueless moron. Like most 22-year-olds, she has no idea what the f*ck she is talking about.
She knows nothing about anything. She made it clear she thinks the Jew-S-A military would “kick Russia’s ass”. I asked her about logistics, tactics, what she knows about Russia, Jewkraine, the theatre in eastern Europe, and what has transpired in Jewkraine since the Jew-S-A engineered coup there years ago. She didn’t know dick. I asked her to point out Jewkraine on a map and I got a nervous giggle and a blank stare in return. But she still has no problem with the idea of war with Russia. As I said, she’s a perfect candidate for “military intelligence”. The ONLY thing she’d be good for is as a honey trap since she’s a fetching redhead with nice curves and a set of tits to beat the band…but she is far too stupid to pull off the nuances of the honey trap.
That retard also presents herself as being a devout Christian.She has even done Christian missionary work in China and elsewhere with her family. I asked her how she handles the contradiction of her alleged Christian beliefs versus serving in the military and slaughtering innocent people in service of what any reasonable person would have to say is the side of evil and on the wrong side of history. She doesn’t see any problem with that, of course. May God help us.
@Yukon Jack
Spot on.
@Umbra Bellator ,
Great comment. Completely agree with every word, seeing the exact thing all around me too.
My old military buddies from 50 yrs ago are all for another war, since we own the world, we need to teach the evil Putin a lesson. The brainwashed and retarded masses have no clue what they’re asking for, they can’t grasp the fact the US military is an empty uniform of weaklings, mental rejects, and equipt that doesn’t work. We can’t even produce enough small arms ammo to keep going for a month of heavy combat. That’s why I think the US gov’t will just start pushing buttons and start the flow of missiles overhead. Also solves their problem of population reduction since the jab is so slow in working.
We are now seeing suicide by stupidity in action.Some of these folks deserve it.
I live in Amerika and this is correct:
“The majority of the American people are dangerously stupid, arrogant, ignorant, deranged blood-thirsty f*cking retards.”
I also live in a (poltically stupid as dogshit) ultra liberal Oregon town (which loves gay pride parades and just elected Tiny Twat Kotex for Guv) that came seem to love Biden enough. They are so damn stupid, and I mean beyond moronic and imbecilic to understand their guy Joe Biden has destroyed their yellow and blue Ukraine and now it is a black and blue beat to hell Jew shithole. When Russia gets done rolling their tanks over the last idiot who would fight Russia for Zelensky you will not want to live there.
Biden destroyed Ukraine. He did it. Actually he finished the job that Nulander and Hillary and Obongo started – they militarized Ukriane until it became such a threat Russia was forced to invade to protect itself. It was a grand miscalculation of the Jew NeoCohens. Now you might make some other argument but I can not think of one reason why the Jews in Amerika and Ukraine would want Russia to win this. Jews want Ukraine for a Khazar mobster superstate, sorta like Israel but up north in their homeland.
The Jews want Ukraine but now Ukraine is lost! Think about this people, Biden first loss Afghanistan, a Neocon trophy, and now he lost the beloved Neocon dream land Ukraine, this was Victoria Nuland (married to Robert Kagan arch Neocon) huge life accomplishment to overthrow the elected gov of Ukraine and install this putz gay actor named Zelensky. And their whole dreams of Ukraine forever is now dashed on the rocks of despair, Russia is going to own Ukraine in a matter of weeks.
What has transpired is actually laughable in the face of great sorrow, they royally f-cked to pooch on this one, because if they had left Ukraine alone then there wouldn’t be this destruction and death carnage and Russia would be getting along with Ukraine and the former elected government just swell. In fact Putin repeatedly said that Russia did not want to run or own Ukraine. They want trade and stability.
And the west STOLE $300 BILLION from Russia’s oil trading accounts and they blew up the Nordstream pipeline so why shouldn’t Russia take Ukraine for booty? And ZOGUS built over 30 bioweapon labs in Ukraine with the explicit purpose to create bioweapons to kill Russians. So why in the hell would Russia ever give Ukraine back to the west. If they did they would be suicidal.
If Trump had been president do you really think any of this would of happened? I don’t, and I do not like Trump at all. This whole debacle is due to this dunce pedo sniffer who should of never ever held any office, Joe Biden was a scumbag in the system who rose to the top of the cesspool in DC politicks because he was so damn maleable to what the Jew owners want. Why in the hell did Obongo pick Biden for his VP? And why in the hell did Biden pick Kumalo Harris thing for his VP? Kamala is dumb as shit, and probably a tranny, and was installed because she does exactly what she is told JUST LIKE BIDEN.
@ HARRY
FORGET IT ! Putin is owned by jews + israhell .