The situation just got more tense in the standoff between Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. The Russians have deployed 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border. Now, NATO is in the act.
Russia has been trying to destabilize Ukraine for years by fomenting a civil war using Russian mercenaries on the Ukrainian eastern border. It has recently used Russian puppet Belarus to send thousands of unwanted refugees to Ukraine. Russia has been utilizing other methods including propaganda and subversion to bend Ukraine to its will. Why? Because Ukraine considers itself a Western nation and a European nation and ergo not in the Russian orbit.
But given traditional Russian paranoia, it doesn’t see Ukraine as a bridge between Russia and free Europe, but as another potentially hostile nation on its flank. Thus, it’s open season on Ukraine. Bravely, the French tried to arrest that process and recently said they would stand by Ukraine in the event of conflict. As of yesterday, NATO said it would do the same. That brings up the possibility of military action between NATO, namely us, and the Russians. This would not be across the Fulda Gap, as was once expected and I served in Germany to forestall, but much farther east. On the steps of Moscow itself.
It is interesting Biden would commit to this because when earlier asked about Ukraine and NATO membership he said, “It depends on whether they meet the criteria. The fact is, they still have to clean up corruption. The fact is, they still have to meet other criteria to get into the action plan. You know, school’s out on that question. It remains to be seen.” That statement is ironic indeed, as much of the corruption there centers on the Biden family.
How would a war in Ukraine play out? Hard to say. It recalls the old line that Russia is never as strong as she looks or as weak as she looks. Her Army is a paper tiger, only beating up little Georgia over the last two decades. But Belarus would join them in a Ukrainian attack. NATO has forces close in the Balts and in Eastern Europe. But enough to counter the Russians, given the logistical challenge of resupply? Again, iffy. What is not unknown is the climb up the escalation ladder this war could cause. It could get out of hand and quickly. As we are wont to say as of late, Admiral Joshua Painter, call your office.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on November 16, 2021. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.
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Ez 38 39 war begins in the Euphrates River area NT OT Bible.
But still WW3 ahead
I don’t think WWIII is possible with super chicken as president.
Your average atheist would not believe what you say..!!
Biden is so corrupt that he doesn’t even see his own corruption!!
An interesting piece of propaganda excusing own (Obama = Biden) war preparations in Ukraine: The Maidan Massacre was not started vy the outgoing President but by Obama’s “Our Yats” -aka. Yatseniuk, chief of Ukrainian Fascist Party as US/CIA supported “Regime Change”. The secessions that followed in Krym (Crimea) and Eastern Ukraine were a result of Fascist oppressive policies. The whole program and military plan, however, was the creation of a WAR FRONT ON RUSSIA’S DOORSTEP. What follows, as usual, is to push the blame for dangers into other people’s shoes.
None of this was happening with President Trump in the White House, Putin didn’t dare to test President Trump’s resolve. Now it is just like during Obama/Biden weak incompetent regime, Russia is acting up against its neighbors, China against Taiwan, Iran is emboldened again. This is what incompetence and weakness in the WH promotes.
Beginning to sound like the beginning of WW1 (Read “The Guns of August” and “Dreadnought”). Russia and China will act together after the Winter Olympics. China will create an “incident” in the Formosa Strait diverting Western Attention and Russia will move into Eastern Ukraine. The present Socialist Regime in DC cannot handle one foreign crisis let alone two simultaneously.
A lot of “turning things around” is played in our newsrooms – and is enforced to do so by the “embedded” situation our Media and “free” press have accepted, ever since Afghanistan and Iraq.
What is mostly turned around in the Ukraine-Crimea-Russia scenario is the undercover and proxy side: What set it all on course was a hefty CIA presence in Kiev (and an equally unhealthy alliance with fascist and openly anti-Jewish and generally xenophobic ultra-nationalists).
What happened then, on the Maidan Square, cannot have been the “bloodbath of the Yanukovic police”, as the “Fake News” of Washington DC still try to convey, as the immediate Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament found that “all victims were killed by the same weapons, which were neither police not Berkut (special police) issue”.
What followed that murderous “regime change” in Kiev was a popular movement which was caused by the first few days of the fascist take-over in Kiev, when decrees were coming out that made the use of Russian language a crime – as well as any other “non-Ukrainian” cultural activities. And this decree of the new Junta-Chief, Mr. Yatseniuk was accompanied by fascist militias, the “Asov” and”Adar” brigades, wearing (Nazi) SS insignia on their uniforms and terrorizing regions with Russian-stock populations (which make out more than 1/3 of Ukraine).
I’m sorry, but that sounds just like “non-Aryan” ones, and we know what that means to Ukrainian nationalists: Remember Baby Yar where 80% of the mass murders (on Jews and Russians) were carried out, not by German troops or GeStaPo, but by ‘fascist National Ukrainan SS units.
To blame the self-defense of populations threatened by such “activists” (who anyone in EU or any other decent region should be ashamed to have on theirr side) on their brothers and sisters on the other side of the border is blatant ‘victim blaming’. It’s as with the (also Russian stock) people of Avkazia and South Ossetia in Georgia who were, on order of the, now ousted, President Sakashvili, bombarded with heavy artillery in a clear attempt of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’, before the asked for help and rescue from Russia. [By the way, Mr. Sakashvili, then, changed his loyalties and became Governor of Odessa (in Ukraine) where the second big massacre of over 100 people, this time Russian-speaking demonstrators, took place.
The EU in Ukraine would be tolerable to Russia, were not behind it the NATO – as usually follows that step! – And with that old Cold War machine still in Cold War strategies – and expanding into a siege circle around Russia, closing it with Ukraine – is that not worse than Cuba ever was? – Much more threatening than some missiles on one’s doorstep, esp. after our last two decades which have shown aggression, invasion, bombing, and covert undermining to be considered perfectly legal steps in some places.
And to play a sharade of surprise that someone whom we “contain” in old McNamara style of the Cold War could possibly see a threat in such encirclement is a bad back-street farce. It was clear from the start that this would frighten anyone who gets grabbed into an aggressive military pincer movement, whether they are called Vladimir or JFK – just that Vladimir has a lot more good reason to fear the US siege..