Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik Nov 9, 2023
The writing is on the wall for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the Western elite seemingly seek someone else to fill his shoes, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson told Sputnik’s New Rules podcast.
Gen. Valery Zaluzhny. Click to enlarge
Signs of a behind-the-scenes struggle in Ukraine have recently manifested themselves in Commander-in-Chief Gen. Valery Zaluzhny’s open defiance of Volodymyr Zelensky’s non-stop war plans; a mysterious death of Zaluzhny’s close aide; and the Ukrainian president’s refusal to hold elections next year.
CIA veteran Larry Johnson believes that the “invisible hand” of the West is orchestrating what may end up in regime change in Ukraine. Per him, Zaluzhny’s extensive “stalemate” interview to the British press, which prompted so much ire on Bankovaya Street – a Ukrainian presidential residence – was by no means coincidental.
“It’s always important to pay close attention to what’s going on in the media because these stories don’t just appear out of nowhere,” Johnson told Sputnik. “It’s not like some intrepid Economist’s reporter is saying, ‘Hey, you know, I think it’d be a pretty nifty if I could go interview General Zaluzhny.’ Because I think that that entire arrangement was made possible through the intervention of MI6 to get Zaluzhny’s profile raised in the West. And remember in that Economist magazine, he was interviewed, he then wrote an op-ed and they gave him a longer piece online, the ‘Economist online’. So Zaluzhny got three hits. And he was seen as undermining the message that had been coming out of Ukraine.”
Likewise, the death of Gennady Chastyakov, an assistant to the commander-in-chief, reeks of a potential sabotage from the Ukrainian infamous security service, according to the former CIA analyst.
“This grenade that went off… I’ve seen in a couple of different accounts that someone gave him a live grenade and then his son was playing with it and accidentally pulled the pin and it went off. But it sure seems like sabotage. And Zelensky still has support within the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and it would not be at all beyond the SBU for Zelensky to think it’s a good idea to send a message like this to try to intimidate Zaluzhny.”
However, it’s not Zaluzhny who is Zelensky’s major problem, but the Ukrainian president’s fading support in the West, both in the UK and the US, according to Johnson:
“Remember a week ago, Time magazine – who had featured Zelensky on its front cover in 2022 as Man of the Year, they described him as like ‘the reincarnation of Winston Churchill’, and ‘this great military strategist’. He now was put on the front cover of Time and decried as basically like Adolf Hitler in his last days, delusional, out of touch with reality, crazy. So when I see those kinds of articles appear from both British sources and American sources, it’s telling me that the political establishments in both places are preparing the exit ramp for Zelensky. And Zaluzhny may be seen as someone that they want to replace Zelensky with. So we’re at the stage now in this entire affair where the infighting is now becoming lethal. It’s not just calling each other names and maybe hurting someone’s feelings. This is becoming a blood match.”
Johnson drew attention to the fact that in addition, NBC News broke on November 4 that US and European officials have begun “quietly talking” to the Kiev regime about possible “peace negotiations with Russia” to end the stalemate.
It seems Western decision-makers have zero illusions about Zelensky: they know that he had zero qualifications to take on the presidency, but was “a comedian notorious for his ability to use his genitalia to play the piano,” per the CIA veteran.
For his part, Zaluzhny appears to be someone “who could negotiate with Russia, because Zaluzhny back in the day at least had contacts with and trained with members of the Russian military before the split when Ukraine sort of went in its own direction,” Johnson stressed.
Apparently, Zelensky is still striving to tip the balance in his favor. Most recently, he canceled next year’s elections in Ukraine, despite the West’s insistence on the necessity to conduct this democratic procedure amid the conflict.
“So clearly the one voice that used to be that ‘Ukraine is winning, Russia is losing, Putin is dying, Putin’s dead, the economy’s in shambles, and the Russian military is incompetent’, that whole informational operation, that’s now been set aside. The new information operation is ‘Ukraine doesn’t have the manpower to survive, Ukraine has got to find a negotiated way out’. And I think Zelensky is not a willing participant in this. He’s fighting to hang on and to try to survive. And that may be because he fears that this ultra neo-Nazi movement that he has helped enable, they would kill him if they see him making any sort of gestures to try to be conciliatory towards Russia,” Johnson concluded.
Zelensky was the Great Man. Then he wasn’t
Since TIME made the comparison, not us, I wonder what would have happened if Winston Churchill had gotten Equal Treatment? Consider what Might Have Been if the bankers saw a better future in Hitler and Mussolini and not “democracy”?
I know the odds are insane. But there is a theory there is a Universe Next Door where all of the rules are flipped. And it might happen in THIS universe too.
Mapping the Millennium- Terry M. Boardman
Another one of these CIA-KGB pro Russian Commie weirdos TTS has found, promoting the Commie Russia (good) vs. US/NATO (bad) simulated dialectic.
The only chance for Ukraine is for a prowhite fascist gang like Azov to obtain power & eliminate the Yids & Commies from the government/nation.
Zelensky is a two bit actor who didn’t understand the script.
Even if he believed the script, he had no ability to understand the big picture. He didn’t take Syria as a lesson, he didn’t know his backers were bankrupt, and his greatest oversite, he had no idea which side of history he was on.
Was he so stupid to ignore Russias rebirth, it’s standing in the New Free World?
South Africa, a BRICS member, is the first country to call for the ICC to arrest Netanyahu.
It doesn’t matter that he won’t be arrested,. Although, there’s a chance Israel might hand him over, but they’d kill him before the plane took off.
South Africa can do this, because they are fully paid up members of the New Free World, and it’s a big club that won’t let the Nazis join.
Russia was attempting to build a naval base in Somalia. Now they’ve been hit with biblical floods, any connection?
Moscow was hit by floods. Putin knew what was up, and he was pissed, and made his anger known.
The problem with Z, is that while the NWO Nazis are fed up with him, if they remove him, or kill him, we have the usual power vacuum, and it’s not they can’t install their chosen successor. It’s that others might want the job, and those that want, are going to very nasty Nazis.
Same M.O. we used in Vietnam with Diem. Replacing the puppet in charge, doesn’t fix anything.
best way is the Ngo Diem solution !
You cannot change the script, it’s already been written, and as it was written, so shall it be done. There is nothing new under the sun, and those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
How many times have we been here before? The well of souls has run dry, none of the Son’s of GOD are imprisoned now except those who will not see death, because The Lord Jesus Christ will come and go in a twinkling of the eye.
To the world it will look like a few thousands of people are scattered among the dead as Yahwey enters the world in person and destroys the Jews, and the whole world will be clueless. Many Sleeping virgins will be left the same way….
This is a world ruled over by death, and the flesh is DUST, and it isn’t going ANYWHERE.
Luke 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
As The Lord Jesus told us, ‘ Where the body is, there will the vultures be gathered!’
Have they gone back to clearing Gaza because grabbing Ukraine has failed ?
Military coup against Zelensky? Are you joking? Just tell him to come to DC for some money then shoot him in the head.
Could we please exchange a few billion dollars worth of Jewish lives for a new highway overpass or a railroad trestle or two? Thank you.