{"id":263167,"date":"2023-01-03T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263167"},"modified":"2023-01-05T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T07:01:10","slug":"making-sense-of-nato-strikes-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=263167","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of NATO strikes against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saker \u2013 The Saker.is Jan 2, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

There is no doubt that NATO is trying hard to escalate the war in the Ukraine.\u00a0 Just before the end of the year there were two drones strikes against a major Aerospace Forces base in Engels<\/a>.\u00a0 The attacks were not very successful, but Russians did die when shrapnel hit a fuel truck which exploded.\u00a0 The importance of that attack was that Engels is located deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

Then there were assorted small attacks against various Russian border posts and towns near the Russian border.<\/p>\n

And now this on one day:<\/p>\n

Ukrainian drone hits energy facility inside Russia \u2013 governor<\/a><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Dozens dead in Ukrainian strike on Russian troops \u2013 Moscow<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s first deal with the second headline.\u00a0 The first thing we need to say is that this was clearly a legal target under the laws of war: NATO hit Russian military personnel, and that is a fully legal target.\u00a0 However, if we look just a tad deeper, we realize that the HIMARS attack was clearly conducted by western \u201cvolunteers\/advisors\u201d, that is to say NATO personnel who took off their uniform and are under cover.\u00a0 Still, this is still yet another direct NATO attack on Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n

[Sidebar: this is the type of attack HIMARS are very good at: precision strikes against fragile targets.\u00a0 HIMARS has very good range and precision, but their warheads are too small to successfully take out harder targets, such as bridges or bunkers.\u00a0 HIMARS, especially backed by the full US\/NATO C4ISR capabilities, do represent a major threat to any \u201csoft\u201d targets like, in this case, wooden barracks]<\/p>\n

I would note that only a clueless civilian could expect NATO to never do anything, offer no resistance, take no counter-measures, never succeed or hit Russians were in hurts.\u00a0 The truth in warfare is that the enemy will shoot back (at least in a real war, not a counter-insurgency operation against a vastly inferior adversary).<\/p>\n

But what about the rest of these strikes, especially those aimed at Russian territory (as it was before the liberation of Ukrainian regions)?<\/p>\n

So we need to ask a basic question: what is the goal of these strikes?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin with some truisms:<\/p>\n

First, none of these strikes will make ANY difference on the actual course of this war<\/strong>.\u00a0 Just like the Israeli strikes against Lebanon or Syria (latest one today<\/a>, killed two Syrians and damaged the facilities).\u00a0 However, while the Israeli strikes on Syria are for \u201cpsychotherapeutic reasons\u201d (I have explained that MANY times in the past), this is not the case with NATO strikes, including the \u201cnon-claimed\u201d ones against Engels.<\/p>\n

Second, after each of these strikes many people will wonder what Russia will do about it.\u00a0 The precedent is the attack on the Crimean bridge which gave Russia a pretext to switch off the lights in Banderastan. And yes, it was clearly only a pretext, as such massive strikes campaign cannot be quickly planned and executed in a few hours\/days.\u00a0 The self-evident truth is that the Russians were quite ready to unleash their strikes long BEFORE the Crimean Bridge attack, but that they were more than happy to have that attack as a pretext (as opposed to a *reason*) to strike.<\/p>\n

And, if you wonder, Russia is still conducting such strikes on a daily basis, including strikes involving hundreds of missiles!\u00a0 These follow on strikes are almost not reported in the western media because 1) \u201cZe\u201d banned any images\/videos of the results of these strikes and 2) reporting their true magnitude would undermine the official narrative (including the one about Russia running out of ammo).<\/p>\n

Still, NATO does not act just to show that it can act.\u00a0 There is a real, military, purpose behind these strikes.\u00a0 And it is not \u201cjust\u201d to provoke Russia<\/strong> into some kind of response (not with tens and even hundreds of Russian missile strikes every day already taking place).<\/p>\n

The war is already going on, the Russians are already fighting along a very long frontline, the Russian Aerospace Forces are already striking targets over the entire Ukraine, so what is there more to provoke\/trigger?<\/p>\n

I submit that there is only one thing which the Russians have not done yet, and that is the fullscale combined arms operation the Russian General Staff is obviously preparing<\/strong>.\u00a0 And since this major offensive is almost certain to happen, the only thing which such NATO strikes could affect is the timing of the attack.<\/strong>\u00a0 And since there is no way that these NATO (pinprick) strikes could delay the Russian offensive, their only possibly goal would be to make it happen sooner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why would NATO want the Russian offensive sooner rather than later?\u00a0 In all its other actions, the AngloZionists have tried to draw out this war for as long as possible, so why would they want to make the Russians attack sooner rather than later?<\/p>\n

Because the Russian General Staff is waiting for all the \u201cducks to be lined\u201d up before attacking.\u00a0 Thus by trying to force the Russians into a premature attack date, NATO is, very logically, trying to prevent all the said \u201cducks\u201d to be \u201clined up\u201d.\u00a0 In other words, NATO is trying to force the hand of the Russian General Staff by increasing the pressure on the Kremlin to \u201cfinally take action\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trying to force your enemy into a premature attack makes perfect military sense (as would any effort to seize the initiative and impose your tempo on your enemy).<\/p>\n

These efforts are greatly aided by the following categories:<\/p>\n