Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Establishment Alarmism in Overdrive as Raytheon Lloyd Threatens Congress with War
I wanted to do this quick nightly update as there are a few developments that couldn’t wait.
Most astonishing of all, is the panicked tenor with which the U.S. establishment is now desperately trying to convince Congress of the need for Ukrainian aid.
You’ll recall in the last report I emphasized how the tone was now shifting to: “Russia will invade Europe next!” But even I didn’t expect them to run with that new narrative in such a provocative and alarmist way.
Now a new raft of reports and statements from the usual suspects gives us insight into how desperate the establishment warhawks representing MIC interests have really become.
First, these two videos. Biden openly says that American troops will have to fight Russian troops if Ukraine is not shored up immediately:
(BIDEN: AMERICAN TROOPS FIGHTING RUSSIA/ MSNBC)
Kirby and Blinken stepped up the fearmongering as well, evoking spilled “American blood”:
(KIRBY/ FOXNEWS)
(SULLIVAN/ USGLC.ORG)
They’re dialing up the fearporn to a hysteric level like never before:
(SEC DEF AUSTEN/ CONGRESS)
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But most startling of all, is a new report, which Tucker Carlson says is “confirmed” by his private sources, that Lloyd Austin has resorted to outright threatening the Republican House holdouts, telling them “We’ll send your kids to fight Russia” if they don’t break their deadlock over the Ukrainian aid:
Essentially saying pay them, or we’ll kill your kids...
Add the above to recent reports of the NATO ‘military Schengen’ which I recently covered, and we get a clear picture of the slow attempt to move Europe onto a war footing, with the attendant infrastructural revampments.
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So, according to them, [Kiev] even if the funding were to have processed this month, they wouldn’t get the first major deliveries until March and April. So now imagine what happens if it’s true that the funding is dead for this year. Congress won’t come back from recess until January and their docket will be full. They won’t have opportunity to begin even attempting to vote on Ukraine again until well into Jan or even February.
If they happen to reach some agreement, major equipment may not arrive until April, May, or even later. Ukraine may be in a complete deadzone for months from this point forward, and that’s on top of a potentially hellacious winter campaign of infrastructural strikes Russia plans to carry out.
Lloyd Austin, Biden, and co., have dialed up the fearporn precisely because they see the above projection and know what it entails. So they’ve resorted to trying to scare the pants off the GOP congressmen to ram through that aid, but it seems the cheap tactic didn’t work.
That’s not to mention the fact that Russia is now advancing on every single front, with breakthroughs everywhere ...
MUCH MORE AT https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/establishment-alarmism-in-overdriv
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Quote:Politicians who are farsighted don't get elected. Nearsighted? Perfect for the average voter.
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What? He means that after almost 70 YEARS of Germany in NATO, they're JUST NOW getting around to the idea of fighting a defensive war???
WTF have they been doing all these years???
And maybe if they'd been more on the defense and less about World Domination and Global Hegemony, they wouldn't be in the pickle they are now.
They have got to be the stupidest bunch of sychophants ever!
That whole generation of "leadership" needs to be replaced. Just vote 'em out en masse, never to return.
Russia wants to roll back NATO to the boundaries that existed when Germany was unified and the west promised "not one inch eastward". But once Ukraine has been neutralized... literally... I believe Russia's next immediate targets are those AMERICAN MISSILE BASES in Poland and Romania. I see no way for Russia to address those concerns without directly confronting NATO.
BUT. Russia has been VERY CLEAR what its concerns are: Border and "near abroad" security. It's not like Berlin or Paris or Italy are going to be invaded.
I wish our collective neocon fuckers would get a gorram clue about the real world and start behaving rationally about it.
Come to think of it, that preference for short-sightedness is why families stumble from one unanticipated crisis to the next perfectly predictable crisis that could have been quickly and easily handled before it became a crisis but wasn't because they didn't think ahead.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Where the Russia-Ukraine war is headed in 2024
by Mark Temnycky | 12/11/23 8:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4350387-where-the-russia-ukr
aine-war-is-headed-in-2024/
To date, the U.S. has provided more than $46 billion in defense assistance to Ukraine and sent more than $26 billion in financial and humanitarian aid. The slow pace at arming Ukraine was alarming, and it may have prolonged the war. Delays in assistance gave the Russians time to fortify their positions in southern and eastern Ukraine.
The European Union provided Ukraine with more than 30 billion euros in financial and humanitarian assistance. The EU also provided nearly 30 billion euros in defense equipment.
According to a Pew Research Center study, European populist groups are on the rise. They are also gaining traction in the U.S. Many of these groups oppose sending aid to Ukraine.
Given that several of Ukraine’s European allies (such as Belgium, Finland, Germany and Romania) will be holding their own local and regional elections next year, this could lead to further trouble. The outcome of these elections will determine the future of additional European aid to Ukraine. Election results during the 2024 elections in the United States will also be crucial to the future of American assistance to this Eastern European state.
Should American and EU public support remain strong for Ukraine, and if American and European leaders can increase the speed at which they provide defense aid to Ukraine, then the Ukrainians will win.
But the U.S. and Europe need to decide if they are determined to help Ukraine finally end the war.
For comparison: Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion. That is $8,000 billion vs $72 billion for Ukraine.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Is Putin Winning In Ukraine? Fiona Hill Says, 'He's About To. And It's on Us.'
We’ll Be at Each Others’ Throats’: Fiona Hill on What Happens If Putin Wins
The veteran Russia watcher is deeply alarmed as Washington reaches an inflection point on the war in Ukraine.
By Maura Reynolds | 12/12/2023, 11:43 AM EST
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/12/fiona-hill-ukraine-p
utin-00131285
When we spoke this week, she made clear that the decision of whether Ukraine wins or loses is now on us — almost entirely. As Congress debates how much more money to authorize for Ukraine’s assistance amid growing Republican opposition, she says that what we are really debating is our own future. Do we want to live in the kind of world that will result if Ukraine loses?
Hill is clear about her answer. A world in which Putin chalks up a win in Ukraine is one where the U.S.’s standing in the world is diminished, where Iran and North Korea are emboldened, where China dominates the Indo-Pacific, where the Middle East becomes more unstable and where nuclear proliferation takes off, among allies as well as enemies.
“Ukraine has become a battlefield now for America and America’s own future — whether we see it or not — for our own defensive posture and preparedness, for our reputation and our leadership,” she told me. “For Putin, Ukraine is a proxy war against the United States, to remove the United States from the world stage.”
Hill sees U.S. domestic politics as the main obstacle to Ukraine’s ability to win. She has long warned, including in a book published after she left the White House, that high levels of partisanship in the United States promote authoritarianism both at home and around the world. She’s been talking to some lawmakers about Ukraine, and she’s worried that their partisanship has blinded them to the dangers the country faces if Putin gets his way.
“The problem is that many members of Congress don’t want to see President Biden win on any front,” she said. “People are incapable now of separating off ‘giving Biden a win’ from actually allowing Ukraine to win. They are thinking less about U.S. national security, European security, international security and foreign policy, and much more about how they can humiliate Biden.”
“In that regard,” she continued, “whether they like it or not, members of Congress are doing exactly the same thing as Vladimir Putin. They hate that. They want to refute that. But Vladimir Putin wants Biden to lose, and they want Biden to be seen to lose as well.”
Much more at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/12/fiona-hill-ukraine-p
utin-00131285
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Where the Russia-Ukraine war is headed in 2024
by Mark Temnycky | 12/11/23 8:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4350387-where-the-russia-ukr
aine-war-is-headed-in-2024/
Alexander Mercouris mentioned that Russian Ambassador- at - large (don't recall his name) just said that Russia isn't going to negotiate with Ukraine. Assuming he's serious, that means Russia will lay down terms of surrender and Ukraine will comply.
He said they'd negotiate with the USA.
Again, if true, how does Russia intend to pressure the USA? Or does it just intend to kick the props out from under us ... petrodollar, political support, world trade ... and watch us crumble, and THEN get back to us?
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For comparison: Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion. That is $8,000 billion vs $72 billion for Ukraine.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
War on Terror was a monstrous, hypocritical waste of money on behalf of Israel. Ukraine is another waste of money. We sure know how to waste money!
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Quote:The War on Terror was Bush/Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld's quest to stay in the White House despite failing, again and again, to find Osama bin Laden. Since they couldn't find one man, they cranked up The War on Terror as a distraction. I wonder who found bin Laden? You don't hear about him much, anymore.
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Again, if true, how does Russia intend to pressure the USA? Or does it just intend to kick the props out from under us ... petrodollar, political support, world trade ... and watch us crumble, and THEN get back to us?Quote:
For comparison: Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion. That is $8,000 billion vs $72 billion for Ukraine.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
War on Terror was a monstrous, hypocritical waste of money on behalf of Israel. Ukraine is another waste of money. We sure know how to waste money!
The war in Ukraine is also about one man, Putin, since the invasion was his pet project. I wonder what will happen to him? Signym, do not repeat Russian talking points. Those are to shift focus away from Putin's total culpability for starting an arbitrary war based on his capriciousness and his need to be remembered as the next Peter the Great/Catherine the Great. I hope that another Prigozhin comes along, but this time goes all the way and makes Putin just another plot twist in history like bin Laden.
The Wagner uprising: 24 hours that shook Russia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/prigozhins-march-on-mosc
ow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup
Last Thursday Yevgeny Prigozhin let rip on his favourite subject: the incompetence and vanity of Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu. Seated in front of a Wagner flag and sipping from a mug of tea, he called his bitter enemy a scumbag. Shoigu was a craven PR man and oligarch who had never held a weapon in his life, he raged.
The defence ministry had duped Vladimir Putin into last year’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Prigozhin added. The decision had nothing to do with “denazification” or “demilitarisation”, or an imminent Nato attack on Russia – the official reasons for the war. It was all about Shoigu’s wish for a second “hero of Russia” medal, he claimed.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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US intelligence reportedly assessed that Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine in fall 2023 and through the upcoming winter aim to weaken Western support for Ukraine instead of achieving any immediate operational objectives.
The US intelligence community reportedly shared a declassified intelligence assessment with Congress on December 12 wherein US intelligence assessed that Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine aim to weaken Western support for Ukraine but have only resulted in heavy Russian losses and no operationally significant Russian battlefield gains.[1] This assessment of high Russian losses and lack of operationally significant Russian gains is consistent with ISW’s assessment. US National Security Council Spokesperson Andrienne Watson reportedly stated that Russian forces have suffered more than 13,000 casualties and lost 220 combat vehicles along the Avdiivka-Novopavlivka axis (Avdiivka direction through western Donetsk Oblast) since launching offensive operations in October 2023.[2] Watson added that Russia appears to believe that a military “deadlock” through the winter will drain Western support for Ukraine and give Russian forces the advantage despite high Russian losses and persistent Russian shortages of trained personnel, munitions, and equipment.[3] ISW has assessed that Russian forces have been trying to regain the theater-level initiative in Ukraine since at least mid-November 2023 and have now likely committed to offensive operations in multiple sectors of the front during a period of the most challenging weather of the fall-winter season in an effort to seize and retain the initiative.[4]
Russian forces may be conducting costly offensive operations at a time unfavorable for ground maneuver to time the potential shift in battlefield initiative with ongoing conversations in the West about continued support to Ukraine. Russian forces launched a large offensive effort to capture Avdiivka on October 10 and subsequently intensified localized offensive operations elsewhere in eastern Ukraine while Ukrainian forces started to scale back counteroffensive operations on their own accord.[5] The Russian military command decided against waiting to prepare for offensive efforts later this winter or in spring 2024 following the decreased tempo of Ukrainian counteroffensive operations, as they had done between the successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in summer and fall 2022 and the failed Russian winter-spring 2023 offensive.[6] The Russian military command’s decision to launch offensive efforts in fall 2023 may have been an opportunistic reaction to a perceived wavering of Western support for Ukraine. The increased Western discussions about continuing military assistance to Ukraine following the relatively successful Russian defensive operations in Zaporizhia Oblast was predictable and may have factored into the Russian command’s calculations. The Kremlin has been orchestrating long running information operations aimed at deterring Western security assistance to Ukraine, and the Russian command may have determined that those information operations were yielding increasing returns and that Russian military efforts to seize the initiative could prompt further Western debates about aid to Ukraine.[7]
Russian forces have routinely conducted military operations in Ukraine aimed at shaping Western behavior instead of achieving operational battlefield objectives, and the US intelligence assessment that ongoing Russian offensive operations do not have an immediate operational military objective is entirely plausible.[8] Russian forces have yet to seize the initiative throughout Ukraine, but Russian forces may attempt to pursue an immediate operational objective if they do seize the initiative. The Russian military command has also reportedly conducted offensive operations with domestic political goals in mind, and internal Kremlin dynamics may be influencing Russian military decisions about ongoing Russian offensive operations.[9] ISW is not offering an assessment of the primary intent of
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Again, if true, how does Russia intend to pressure the USA? Or does it just intend to kick the props out from under us ... petrodollar, political support, world trade ... and watch us crumble, and THEN get back to us?
SECOND: For comparison: Nearly 20 years after the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan, the cost of its global war on terror stands at $8 trillion. That is $8,000 billion vs $72 billion for Ukraine.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
SIGNY: War on Terror was a monstrous, hypocritical waste of money on behalf of Israel. Ukraine is another waste of money. We sure know how to waste money!
SECOND: The War on Terror was Bush/Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld's quest to stay in the White House despite failing, again and again, to find Osama bin Laden.
You have a child's view of the world.
Call me a Russian troll ... Im sure you will! ... but I can't help but draw straight line between certain facts:
Our various admins and think tanks were and still are dominated by Jewish Zionisrs and neocons. They openly called for the destruction of Syria, Iraq, and Iran LONG before 9_11 and the Bush "GWOT."
All of these plans for invasion and nation-destruction were made YEARS before 9-11 AND CONTINUE TO THIS DAY.
And I can't help but draw a straight line between PNAC's call for "a new Pearl Harbor" and its "fortuitous" occurrence three years later. Also, please note: the so-called "Patriot Act" was also written before 9-11.
CHENEY NEOCONS AND ZIONIST AGENTS
The Cheney/ Bush admin was especially full.
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The link between active promoters of Israeli interests and policymaking circles is stronger by several orders of magnitude in the Bush administration, which is peppered with people who have long records of activism on behalf of Israel in the United States, of policy advocacy in Israel, and of promoting an agenda for Israel often at odds with existing U.S. policy. ... Dual loyalties. `The issue we are dealing with in the Bush administration is dual loyalties
https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/09/06/the-bush-neocons-and-israel/
They included
Rumsfeld, Sec Def
Bolton, State Dept
Wolfowitz, Sec Def
Wurmser, ME Advisor to Dick Cheney and Special Asst to John Bolton
Feith, Undersec Def
Perle, Asst Sec Def
A CLEAN BREAK
"A Clean Break" was foreign policy paper written for the Israeli Netanyahu Government by RICHARD PERLE. "The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated". http://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf
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A Clean Break” slated Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as first up for regime change. This is highly significant, especially since several members of the Clean Break study group played decisive roles in steering and deceiving the United States into invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam seven years later.
The Clean Break study group’s leader, Richard Perle, led the call for Iraqi regime change beginning in the 90s from his perch at the Project for a New American Century and other neocon think tanks. And while serving as chairman of a high level Pentagon advisory committee, Perle helped coordinate the neoconservative takeover of foreign policy in the Bush administration and the final push for war in Iraq.
Another Clean Breaker, Douglas Feith, was a Perle protege and a key player in that neocon coup. After 9/11, as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Feith created two secret Pentagon offices tasked with cherry-picking, distorting, and repackaging CIA and Pentagon intelligence to help make the case for war.
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You have a child's view of the world.
That's because he's a man child living in his mother's basement.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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The Kremlin appears to be returning to expansionist rhetoric last observed before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in an effort to resurface its claims that Ukraine is part of historically Russian territory and discuss the borders Russian leaders regard as appropriate for a rump Ukrainian state.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev misrepresented US President Joe Biden’s response to a media question about whether the United States’ policy is to win the war or help Ukraine to defend itself during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on December 12.[1] . . .
Medvedev routinely and deliberately makes outlandish statements, but the timing of these statements and focus on the idea that Ukraine could exist only as a rump state within the territory of Lviv Oblast is consistent with earlier indicators that the Kremlin is returning to its domestic framing that Russia is fighting the war to “liberate its historic lands.” Medvedev’s comments follow shortly after Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s December 9 interview with AFP, which had likely marked an official rhetorical shift in the Kremlin’s framing of the war.[4] Zakharova reiterated the Kremlin’s maximalist demands for full Ukrainian political capitulation and Kyiv’s acceptance of Russia’s military terms and introduced a vague prerequisite that Ukraine must withdraw its troops from “Russian territory” to resolve the war. ISW assessed at the time that Zakharova was likely referring to the illegally annexed four Ukrainian regions – which are not fully under Russia’s occupation.[5] Zakharova’s statement, however, may have been purposely vague to allow Russia the freedom to define what it deems to be “Russian territories.” Medvedev‘s and Zakharova’s comments closely parallel Russia’s long-standing information operation that Ukraine could be partitioned into Russian-controlled “Malorossiya” (most of Ukraine) and a small rump Polish-controlled western Ukraine.[6] ISW observed Russian propagandists intensify this information operation in the lead-up to the full-scale invasion and its notable decrease from then until now.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campai
gn-assessment-december-13-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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