Pepe Escobar – The Unz Review Jan 30, 2023
Those behind the Throne are never more dangerous than when they have their backs against the wall.
Their power is slipping away, fast: Militarily, via NATO’s progressive humiliation in Ukraine; Financially, sooner rather than later, most of the Global South will want nothing to do with the currency of a bankrupt rogue giant; Politically, the global majority is taking decisive steps to stop obeying a rapacious, discredited, de facto minority.
So now those behind the Throne are plotting to at least try to stall the incoming disaster on the military front.
As confirmed by a high-level US establishment source, a new directive on NATO vs. Russia in Ukraine was relayed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken, in terms of actual power, is nothing but a messenger boy for the Straussian neocons and neoliberals who actually run US foreign policy.
The secretary of state was instructed to relay the new directive – a sort of message to the Kremlin – via mainstream print media, which was promptly published by the Washington Post.
In the elite US mainstream media division of labor, the New York Times is very close to the State Department. and the Washington Post to the CIA. In this case though the directive was too important, and needed to be relayed by the paper of record in the imperial capital. It was published as an Op-Ed (behind paywall).
The novelty here is that for the first time since the start of Russia’s February 2022 Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, the Americans are actually proposing a variation of the “offer you can’t refuse” classic, including some concessions which may satisfy Russia’s security imperatives.
Crucially, the US offer totally bypasses Kiev, once again certifying that this is a war against Russia conducted by Empire and its NATO minions – with the Ukrainians as mere expandable proxies.
‘Please don’t go on the offensive’
The Washington Post’s old school Moscow-based correspondent John Helmer has provided an important service, offering the full text of Blinken’s offer, of course extensively edited to include fantasist notions such as “US weapons help pulverize Putin’s invasion force” and a cringe-worthy explanation: “In other words, Russia should not be ready to rest, regroup and attack.”
The message from Washington may, at first glance, give the impression that the US would admit Russian control over Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhye, and Kherson – “the land bridge that connects Crimea and Russia” – as a fait accompli.
Ukraine would have a demilitarized status, and the deployment of HIMARS missiles and Leopard and Abrams tanks would be confined to western Ukraine, kept as a “deterrent against further Russian attacks.”
What may have been offered, in quite hazy terms, is in fact a partition of Ukraine, demilitarized zone included, in exchange for the Russian General Staff cancelling its yet-unknown 2023 offensive, which may be as devastating as cutting off Kiev’s access to the Black Sea and/or cutting off the supply of NATO weapons across the Polish border.
The US offer defines itself as the path towards a “just and durable peace that upholds Ukraine’s territorial integrity.” Well, not really. It just won’t be a rump Ukraine, and Kiev might even retain those western lands that Poland is dying to gobble up.
The possibility of a direct Washington-Moscow deal on “an eventual postwar military balance” is also evoked, including no Ukraine membership of NATO. As for Ukraine itself, the Americans seem to believe it will be a “strong, non-corrupt economy with membership in the European Union.”
Whatever remains of value in Ukraine has already been swallowed not only by its monumentally corrupt oligarchy, but most of all, investors and speculators of the BlackRock variety. Assorted corporate vultures simply cannot afford to lose Ukraine’s grain export ports, as well as the trade deal terms agreed with the EU before the war. And they’re terrified that the Russian offensive may capture Odessa, the major seaport and transportation hub on the Black Sea – which would leave Ukraine landlocked.
There’s no evidence whatsoever that Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the entire Russian Security Council – including its Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev – have reason to believe anything coming from the US establishment, especially via mere minions such as Blinken and the Washington Post. After all the stavka – a moniker for the high command of the Russian armed forces – regard the Americans as “non-agreement capable,” even when an offer is in writing.
This walks and talks like a desperate US gambit to stall and present some carrots to Moscow in the hope of delaying or even cancelling the planned offensive of the next few months.
Even old school, dissident Washington operatives – not beholden to the Straussian neocon galaxy – bet that the gambit will be a nothing burger: in classic “strategic ambiguity” mode, the Russians will continue on their stated drive of demilitarization, denazification and de-electrification, and will “stop” anytime and anywhere they see fit east of the Dnieper. Or beyond.
What the Deep State really wants
Washington’s ambitions in this essentially NATO vs. Russia war go well beyond Ukraine. And we’re not even talking about preventing a Russia-China-Germany Eurasian union or a peer competitor nightmare; let’s stick with prosaic issues on the Ukrainian battleground.
The key “recommendations” – military, economic, political, diplomatic – were detailed in an Atlantic Council strategy paper late last year.
And in another one, under “War scenario 1: The war continues in its current tempo,” we find the Straussian neocon policy fully spelled out.
It’s all here: from “marshaling support and military-assistance transfers to Kyiv sufficient to enable it to win” to “increase the lethality of military assistance transferred to include fighter aircraft that would enable Ukraine to control its airspace and attack Russian forces therein; and missile technology with range sufficient to reach into Russian territory.”
From training the Ukrainian military “to use Western weapons, electronic warfare, and offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, and to seamlessly integrate new recruits in the service” to buttressing “defenses on the front lines, near the Donbass region,” including “combat training focusing on irregular warfare.”
Added to “imposing secondary sanctions on all entities doing business with the Kremlin,” we reach of course the Mother of All Plunders: “Confiscate the $300 billion that the Russian state holds in overseas accounts in the United States and EU and use seized monies to fund reconstruction.”
The reorganization of the SMO, with Putin, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, and General Armageddon in their new, enhanced roles is derailing all these elaborate plans.
The Straussians are now in deep panic. Even Blinken’s number two, Russophobic warmonger Victoria “F**k the EU” Nuland, has admitted to the US Senate there will be no Abrams tanks on the battlefield before Spring (realistically, only in 2024). She also promised to “ease sanctions” if Moscow “returns to negotiations.” Those negotiations were scotched by the Americans themselves in Istanbul in the Spring of 2022.
Nuland also called the Russians to “withdraw their troops.” Well, that at least offers some comic relief compared with the panic oozing from Blinken’s “offer you can’t refuse.” Stay tuned for Russia’s non-response response.
Okay, some is of interest, but this is very small beer bait.
Putin offered Biden talks on Eastern UKraine, but this also included a new European security agreement, where the Russians want a total NATO withdrawal from Eastern Europe, and I think we can now add in Finland and Sweden.
None of this is recognised in the veiled offer, or by the writer….
Let’s say the Russians agree, for arguments sake. Offiicially it’s demilitarised, but the truth is, there’s going to be none stop border attacks on Russian territory. Boris has made it very clear, there’s a Gladio style operation already setup in UKraine, even in Russian held territory.
The NWO kicks the ball before they know who’ve they’ve passed it to. These Western tanks have a lot of tech that the Russians would love to replicate.
The Russians must now take all of UKraine, or enough so that Amerika and NATO basically surrenders, because Russia will nake Belarus and its new Western UKrainian border as their highly armed front line, which won’t please the Poles.
Hopefully the Russians have learnt their lesson, that you can never trust the NWO.
Once again, the Nazi NWO is trying to buy time, because these attacks on Russia won’t stop until they have control of Russian resources.
The West is skirting around the biolabs issue as if it were not the core issue of this conflict.
It will be entertaining to see the Zioids judged by the very laws they enacted against the Germans.
America breaks every agreement it makes . Just look at all the past agreements. Ask the Native Americans about US agreements!!
Putin ! you better start your offencive + take
the rest of ukraine . give them neocons some
facts !
there after they can come for uncondicional surender !
The US realises it cannot win a hot war with a propaganda army. The US is a serious propaganda force, but when all said and done against a better opponent, when the bodies are taken away, the armistice signed and the wreckage removed, propaganda never really won sh!t.
Pogos Anastasov, Political Scientist and Orientalist, exclusively for the online journal “New Eastern Outlook”.
Russia offered Ukraine a federal agreement formula that would have helped secure the rights of Russians in Ukraine in an attempt to save Ukrainian statehood, but it was rejected. The palliative 2015 Minsk agreements, which were supposed to grant autonomy to the Donbass and Luhansk regions on a variety of issues, were shamelessly exploited by Ukraine and the West to arm them and turn them into a direct and immediate threat to Russian security. This was acknowledged by Russia’s Western partners, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President François Hollande, who both stated unequivocally that neither the West nor Kyiv intended to implement the agreements.
READ MORE :
29.01.2023 Author: Pogos Anastasov
The Truth and Lies About Ukraine: Lessons for Africa
Column: PoliticsRegion: USA in the World
https://journal-neo.org/2023/01/29/the-truth-and-lies-about-ukraine-lessons-for-africa/
I still don’t know which plans make it impossible for Russia to have Ukraine, but the Scum took about nineteen other States off Russia as soon as it gave up Communism, and this twentieth one is like pulling a tooth, thirty years later. Do I have to look at trivialities, like greedy mafia groups, Biden profits and such-like? No, it’s more the usual thing, Jews killing White people; they have dirty code-names for us
@ Colin Mcnally on January 31, 2023 at 10:14 am
“Ask the Native Americans about US agreements!!” could not have said it better…….
A 1994 speech of leading Chabad rabbi Schneerson (born in Ukrain / came to NYC IN 1941 / where he died in 1994) on destroying Ukrain & Russia.
https://justice4poland.com/2016/05/17/chabad-leader-messiah-menachem-mendel-schneerson-on-his-plans-for-destroying-ukraine-and-russia-reprint/
From the j4poland introduction : “Khazar-Ashkenazi-pseudo-Jews have nothing to do neither racially nor historically with the authentic, Negroid Jews of the Tanakh / Old Testament of the Tribe of Seth [Set] / Tribe of Judah from the Land of Seth [Set] (Upper Egypt). Their homeland is Turkestan. The land of Palestine and the land of Rus’ (Russia) never belonged to them rightfully. Both in Palestine, and in Russia, they were invaders and slave owners ”
Now that the covid narrative of the fake j.’s of the s.o.s. synagogue of satan is about to crumble – yet the damage is already done many millions will die / not only in the US – they will escalate the Russia Ukrain comflict…..
It is a satanic j. bankers conflict meant to launch WW III – Zelensky & Vlad . P. are chabad synagogue buddies….
Same m.o. as in WW II Churchill / Roosevelt/ Stalin & not to forget Hitler (a RotSchild) were all j.
I am only the penis piano player & P. wants to shoot me Zelensky grabs billions of US taxpayers granted to him by the warmongering zionide j. occupied govt. of the USA…
https://twitter.com/fernandezamster/status/1504400762570526722
Crypto j. Vlad P. war pecunia stream flows via the Amsterdam “Financial Mile”
www we will watch…
CIA O
The western media is beginning to leak the eventual NATO defeat. Russia needs to wipe out corruption and their existential threat.
But Putin must keep out the Carpetbaggers and Oligarchs. If the mostly jewish oligarchs buy up the ports, coastal properties and urban centers, it will amount to a western victory. Soon after, Blackrock, Vanguard and Goldman Sachs will own most of Ukraine without a shot being fired.
More smokescreen for the morons. What they don’t tell you is that both ‘sides’ (NATO/Russia) are governed by the same consortium of anti-white Yids pretending to be ‘enemies’, so they can decimate/slay more white gentiles. The war is to advance the extermination of the white gentiles of the world. The war in Ukraine is simply a measure to progress that objective. Of course, the MSM (Marxist Soviet Media) can’t tell the whites this, so they fabricate various cover stories for them to believe in–e.g., NATO encroachment/Ukraine’s desire to join NATO/Ukraine persecuting innocent Commies in Donbass/bioweapon labs etc) All disinfo for the white zombies to buy…Now you know.
Id trust the Americans as far as I could throw one of the fat cxxxx
Russophobic warmonger Victoria “F**k the EU” Nuland, promised to “ease sanctions” if Moscow “returns to negotiations.” If Moscow would accept it, then we will supply Russia with Blankets left over from the last consignment not given to the American Natives in the past ….
I LOVE TO READ PEPE ESCOBAR.. GREAT POLITICAL ANALYST…😉😉😉😊😊🥰🥰
They would be idiots to believe anything the US/West offers. Remember Minsk?
Max Tegmark nuclear winter animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haab11D7ECs
I watched this nuclear war video and it gave me an insight as to the real meaning of the Third Peril of the George Washington vision, specifically this phrase:
“from each of these countries arose thick, black clouds that were soon joined into one” could be a metaphor for nuclear winter.
If Russia nukes USA and NATO and USA nukes Russia, the bombs would create high altitude black clouds – which would merge obscuring the northern hemisphere.
Then, in the aftermath, the Zionist persecuted world, aka Muslims, North Koreans, etc would come to Amerika to kill her. This would force the entire nation to engage in all out war of survival, just as the vision predicts.
I will remind you, some scholars have estimated that USA has killed 40-60 million brown skinned people after WW2. This has created nation states like NK and Iran which indoctrinated generations to hate Amerikans, including walking on a USA flag everyday going into school.
Thus, with hatred sewn for decades, when the USA CAUSES a nuclear war the whole world rises up to go to Amerika to destroy her. And she certainly deserves it, Jewmerikans keep voting for the Zionists and their wars.
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https://www.twopercentsurvival.com/george-washingtons-vision/
Third Threat
“And again I heard the mysterious voice saying, “Son of the Republic, look and learn.” At this the dark, shadowy angel placed a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, he sprinkled it upon Europe, Asia and Africa.
Then my eyes beheld a fearful scene: from each of these countries arose thick, black clouds that were soon joined into one. And throughout this mass there gleamed a dark red light by which I saw hordes of armed men, who, moving with the cloud, marched by land and sailed by sea to America, which country was enveloped in the volume of cloud.
And I dimly saw these vast armies devastate the whole country and burn the villages, towns and cities that I beheld springing up. As my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, clashing of swords, and the shouts and cries of millions in mortal combat, I heard again the mysterious voice saying, “Son of the Republic, look and learn.” When the voice had ceased, the dark shadowy angel placed his trumpet once more to his mouth, and blew a long and fearful blast.
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Thus a logical scenario could unfold, USA does a surprise attack on Russia, triggers a nuclear war and dark clouds, causing a complete collapse of the food supply etc. The situation is dire, triggering a maximum negative response.
Rare though it is, I agree entirely with Nico on this one.
The ultimate aim is the eradication of Caucasians.
Everything else is window dressing.
@ Jack Witchity on February 2, 2023 at 7:03 am
The s.o.s. fake j.’s are not only after “the totally bleached niggaz” aka as whites…
Bill Gates of Hell’s father was a pioneer in Planned Parenthood / original name the Negro Project of Margareth Sanger / still active mostly in black hoods
The Syfillis Tuskegee project & much more
Most of the athletes in the US dropping dead are black…
Blacks & other non whites regard j.’s as whites…
Differences are there always & everywhere but emphasizing them especially in these heavy times & leading to polarisation is exactly what the s.o.s. fake j.’s are upto Divide & Rule…
Don’t become their mule….
@ Yukon Jack on February 1, 2023 at 4:18 am
“some scholars have estimated that USA has killed 40-60 million brown skinned people after WW2 |”
Well never realised that the “Madeleine Albright number” was that high….
Plus imv the Abrahamic faiths have aborted the Law of Reincarnation / Karma can never do it’s job in one life only / the American Holcaust is still hanging as a dark cloud on the US collective & no this not critical theory b.s.
h.a.n.d. have a nice day ( despite covid kijev etc.)
CIA O
CIA O
@Gabreal Jones. Although true you miss the point.
Whites account for less than 6.5% of the human population (probably a good deal fewer since the death jab rollout).
African blacks represent >20%
Jews do not consider themselves white.
Whether seen as right or wrong in the context of Social Justice, almost all achievements in the modern world have been by whites.
Whites have a creativity and innovation Jews do not.
Jews, by and large, tend to profit from the work of others.
However, due to the dawning of a new age of robotics, AI and automation Jews believe they are finally at the point they can do without whites, and see this juncture as the culmination of centuries, perhaps millenia, of resentment and brooding hatred where they can finally kill off the host they hate so much without destroying themselves into the bargain.
Or so they think!
The main targets for this hatred have historically been Germany and Russia, because those nations stood against the insidious social rot and parasitism the jew tried to inflict on them.
The two things jews envy the most in whites are natural, sexual intimacy as a critically important part of any wholesome marriage, denied to them by their barbaric practice of infant genital mutilation.
And true creativity.