Critically Linking NATO'S War (50) June 26 2022
Discussion
A Western Debacle Looms
So the main themes for today, and I don’t have too much time to discuss them in detail, are as follows:
(1) Russia has pretty much won the Donbass war, and the Ukrainian army has been defeated. It has been defeated for a few principal reasons, in my view: (a) Although it has strength in numbers Ukraine is very far behind in the supply of ammunition and weaponry in general. This may seem surprising in the face of all the Western daring-do propaganda about the supply of arms (supposedly in place of “feet on the ground,” but that too is a lie - there are plenty of US/NATO feet on this ground), but the West cannot keep up with the consumption (i.e. volume of firing) of Russian artillery, nor will it be able to do so for some time. (b) There are many other weaknesses that afflict the Ukrainian side, but I will single out one, which is the view of a war fought by script-writers, the kind of people whom the great leader of “Democracy,” Zelenskiy, professional comedian, picked up from the world of televised entertainment and pushed into leadership roles. From this perspective, this is a war fought for the television screens, a world in which it doesn’t matter that you lose, what matters is that the manner of your losing can attract more money and weapons from the West. (c) Inevitably, therefore, as reality begins to trump delusion, there are greater rifts opening in Kiev between politicians, military, fascists, the SBU (and CIA) and western sponsors. And (d) Kiev and Washington have seemingly been duped by their own propaganda against Russia and the Russian army, with the disastrous consequence that they have vastly underestimated the intelligence, diligence, strategic skills, and advanced weaponry of their enemy.
(2) In response to the debacle of the Donbass, the more and more evident vacuity of western leadership, the Odious NeoCons have moved forward into the spotlight, blathering about the decolonization of Russia, thus demonstrating their abysmal grasp of history and of geopolitical reality, and their ignorance as to the enormity and ignominy of their own crimes.
(3) Zelenskiy is in a very strange position: on the one hand he behaves more and more like the authoritarian, even the dictatorial leader that the West keeps telling us (falsely) is best represented by Putin - he or his forces act boorishly, abolish political parties, shut down media, kill dissidents, threaten cultural annihilation of anyone they don’t care for and yet, at the same time, Zelenskiy shows himself more and more the puppet of both Washington and of the Ukrainian Fascist Militia and the leaders these have maneuvered into the power structure. But the puppet masters don’t know what they are doing.
(4) NATO and the EU look more pathetically out of their depth each day. They offer EU candidature “status” to the highly unstable Moldova, even as several EU politicians deride this as a political stunt, entirely useless; they show themselves hesitant on Georgia which, quite sensibly, does not agree to EU sanctions policy; they seem unprepared for Lithuania’s suicidal leap into shutting down Russian access to Kaliningrad (possibly signaling an end to the Baltics) and reduce the number of things they say cannot be transported.
(5) Western media have nothing intelligent to say about the threat of nuclear war - the single greatest issue in all of this. Nor about China. They show little enthusiasm for making the connections between problems of inflation and food insecurity and the reckless throwing of money at Ukraine, evidenced yet again by the alarming scale of medical debt in the US. that now afflicts 100 million Americans in a time of high inflation and job insecurity. For how long can ordinary people simply stand by and watch their taxpayer money squandered on behalf of the war industry and its acolytes without moving in either leftward or rightward directions that will truly undermine this generation’s hegemonic and incestuous coalition of establishment idiots?
(6) The shutting down of media voices continues unabated. It becomes more and more difficult to access non-establishment accounts of the war, particularly meaningful voices from Russia, China and India who, even at the very best of times, are mere ghosts at the feast of “western media freedom.” (Yes, vomit would be an appropriate response. Forgive me, when pushed to speed, the temptation is too great).
1. BioTerror
The CIA's Assassination Chemical Weapon - Secret Heart Attack Gun - Senate Testimony (1975)
The Roots of BioLabs Along Russian Border
2. China
Chinese Journalist Hu Xijin: China Needs To Strengthen Its Offensive Nuclear Capabilities
3. Donbass
(and why US weapons are not making much difference and US drones are useless)
Russian Ops in Ukraine (June 24, 2022): Russian Encirclement Closes on Ukrainian Forces
First Look Into Russian Controlled Kharkiv Region Ukraine (Special Report)
Foreign Fighters of Donbass (2022)
Foreign Fighters for the Donbass Republics
The last days of the Azot
Heavy Defeat for Ukraine as Russia Captures Severodonetsk, Hold East Bank of Seversky Donetsk River
Russia Fighting in Lysychansk, Ukraine Announces Tactical Withdrawals, EU Distances from Lithuania
EU, Ukraine and Moldova; Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
4. Economic Dimension
AP PHOTOS: Despite dark times, Russian economic forum shines
The untold burden of healthcare debt
100 Million Americans are More Worried About Medical Debt than Sending Their Money to Ukraine
5. Making Sense of the War
Good thing he noticed
Kremlin Official Sees NATO Preparing for War With Russia
6. Media, Censorship and Propaganda
Moronic Neoliberal Neo-DeColonization
NICCOLO SOLDO: DELUSION – THE US GOVERNMENT’S COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE (CSCE) HOLDS A BRIEFING ON THE “MORAL AND STRATEGIC” NECESSITY OF PARTITIONING RUSSIA
An Iron Curtain descends on Europe and the USA
The Iron Curtain Against Thought
Beatles – time to let go
Paul McCartney, Special Agent for Ukraine
Dump the Guardian!
FRED WEIR: FOR RUSSIAN PUBLIC, HOW FULL A VIEW OF WAR DO FRONT-LINE REPORTERS GIVE?
7. NATO
Will the Kaliningrad Crisis Lead to War?
Lithuania's Folly, Even Alarms the EU