{"id":249751,"date":"2022-02-19T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T08:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249751"},"modified":"2022-02-20T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T10:14:14","slug":"washington-has-prepared-an-invasion-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249751","title":{"rendered":"Washington Has Prepared an Invasion Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Feb 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The other day I asked, \u201cWhat is Washington up to?\u201d\u00a0 It is already time to ask that question again.<\/p>\n

While writing my article suggesting that only a judicious use of Russian force would sober up the West, Washington doubled down on its anti-Russian position, predicting in two news venues\u2013the Secretary of State\u2019s UN speech and the State Department spokesman\u2019s press briefing\u2013that Russia was about to launch a false flag attack that Russia would use as the excuse to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The State Department claims are pure fantasy.\u00a0 Why after just rejecting the Russian\u2019s proposal for a mutual<\/em> security agreement does the Biden regime keep fanning the flames of war?<\/p>\n

It makes no sense for the State Department to predict something that is not going to happen.\u00a0As there is no aerial or satellite evidence or evidence of any kind except assertions that \u201cUS intelligence has concluded\u201d of a constellation of attack forces on Ukraine\u2019s border, the only way the State Department could know of a false flag event would be if it is a US false flag attack for which Russia is being set up for blame.<\/p>\n

We have heard excessively about 150,000 invasion troops allegedly assembled on Ukraine\u2019s border with Russia. We have not heard about 150,000 British and US trained Ukrainian troops on the border of the Donbass republics.\u00a0 We have not heard about the massive arms that the West has sent to Ukraine or about the CIA trained neo-Nazi militias. If we hear anything, we hear that these Ukrainian forces are there to protect against a Russian invasion, a statement that is nonsensical.\u00a0 Why would the Ukrainian forces be concentrated on the Donbass border? The Russians would simply come in behind them, and the Ukrainians would be trapped between the Russians and the Donbass forces.\u00a0 How is it possible that US and UK military advisers would make such a mistake?<\/p>\n

The Saker reports that the latest information from Donbass is that the Ukrainians are using UR-77 mine clearing vehicles to clear mines from the Donbass border.\u00a0 This is the operation that is conducted just prior to a ground attack.<\/p>\n

It would seem that if any invasion is planned, it is a Ukrainian invasion of Donbass calculated to bring the Russians in.\u00a0 The report of an invasion of Donbass would be labeled a Russian false flag attack, and the Russian intervention would become the predicted invasion.\u00a0 If anything happens, I think I have described it.<\/p>\n

Washington has prepared the narrative with Blinken\u2019s UN address today and with the State Department spokesman\u2019s press briefing.\u00a0 NATO and the Western media know the narrative and would repeat it endlessly.\u00a0 No actual facts would enter the story. Those who challenge the new narrative would be accused of being Russian agents.\u00a0 Sanctions would be imposed. The military\/security complex\u2019s budget would be increased. Europe would be pressured off Russian natural gas. US\/NATO military presence on Russia\u2019s border would be beefed up.<\/p>\n

The growing burden of deceit and frustration will one day make Russia dangerous.\u00a0 To forestall an explosion of fury, Russia needs to enforce its red lines now.\u00a0 Washington needs to be taught a lesson before Washington goes too far.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0 The scenario I sketched appears to be unfolding. In an \u201cintelligence update\u201d the British defense minister stated that reports from Donbass of \u201calleged abnormal military activity by Ukraine in Donbas are a blatant attempt by the Russian government to fabricate pretexts for invasion.\u201d\u00a0 The incompetent British Defence Ministry has prepared a map with arrows drawn of the lines of advance of the Russian forces.\u00a0 As the Ukrainian army is concentrated on the Donbass border, there are no forces for the Russians to encounter in their advance along 9 lines of invasion imagined by the British.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/549776-uk-military-russia-invasion-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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