9/11 Russian style"?
You remember 9/11 don’t you? A bunch of Saudi guys with box cutters hijacked American aircraft and a lot of Americans died. So the US attacked and invaded Afghanistan and Iraq who had nothing to do with it — without a declaration of war, mind you. Probably a million innocent people died.
Why? Because it was an attack on American soil. And we didn’t like the Afghans and the Iraqis (but the Saudis were BFFs). Something to remember.
Now Russia has been attacked—Sevastapol and Dagestan. Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the US was directly involved.
So what should Russia do? If it were the US, it would go to war, kill a lot of innocent people.
What’s stopping them?
Well, the Afghans and Iraqis didn’t have nukes. The US does.
So revenge will be served cold — very cold
Terrorism American-style
The US is increasingly desperate. It is trying to provoke Russia to do something— anything. One reason is simply a growing sense of powerlessness. The American Eagle is old. It can barely fly or hunt — and lives on carrion, like a vulture
This sense of powerlessness motivates the US to double down on its storyline that Russia is the Big Bad. It has been doing this not just since the dissolution of the USSR-- but since 1945 . If Russia is BAAAADDD!— then anything goes. Everything is on the table — lotsa box-cutters.
Terrorism, American-style.
Small problem, we all know that terrorism is a weapon of weakness… and also …um…BAAAADDD!
So, the US modus operandi is what you might call "proxy terrorism", providing funding and guidance for any and all groups with a grievance against Russia—Nazis, ISIS, rabid dogs. Our hands are clean. And we use breath mints.
Wasn’t us! (except maybe the guy on the left…)
How it all started
Many analysts will say say that this policy of mayhem started with CIA instigated Chechen terrorism —and the two Chechen wars.
But in fact, it has been US policy since the end of WWII when the US intelligence services began to cozy up Ukrainian ultranationalist groups such as the OUN. Which had been responsible for genocides of Jews and Poles in the Ukraine during the war. Not unsurprising, of course, since at the end of the war under the Truman administration the US began recruiting Nazi intelligence officers or its own services .
After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents. The New York Times
It wasn’t until 1959, when which is when Stepan Bandera was finally assassinated in 1959 after multiple attempts which began in 1954, the Soviets were able to suppress Ukrainian Nazis．It helped that the First Secretary of the Communist Party in the USSR at the time was born in Kursk o the border of Ukraine—Nikita Khrushchev— who illegally gave Crimea to Ukraine.
After that, Ukraine enjoyed a period of relative peace and development.
Not that the US didn't try to cause trouble—mounting propaganda campaigns, inventing the myth of the whole of the "Holodomor-"- or rather reinventing the story — since it'd already been used by the Galician neo-Nazis during World War II and prior to it. The American version was just as awful-- but better crafted.
There was in fact no "Holodomor"—not as described by neo-Nazi Ukrainian refugees at the end of World War II and popularized in the media.
Natural drought played a role in creating the situation
Ex-landowning kulaks and Ukrainian nationalists did in fact refuse to work, murder collective workers, slaughter their own cattle, and otherwise actively sabotage the sowing and harvesting campaigns
Importing industrial machinery was the reason for exporting amounts of food in order to increase production as fast as possible
The cycle of famines which had existed for centuries prior and inherited by the Soviet authorities ended after the industrialization and collectivization policies had been fully implemented and the nazi invasion had ended
Under Stalin, the Ukrainization policy went into effect for over a decade before being changed due to rabid bourgeois Ukrainian nationalist elements exploiting it for treasonous activities
Stalin did not harbor any unique hostility to the Ukrainian nationalists anymore than he did the Russian nationalists who he fought in the civil war or even the Georgian nationalists who he fought in the August uprising
The Ukrainian nationalist movement in question was heavily tied to anti-semitism & fascistic beliefs before the 1930’s and exposed themselves in their true goals by aligning with nazi Germany in their hopes to create an ethno-state
Central Soviet Authorities sent hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food to the Ukrainians from other regions and Stalin himself personally intervened to scold a regional Russian official objecting to sending aid and made him send food
The situation of hunger encompassed the entire union to varying degrees, including impacting ethnic Russians
The situation in Ukraine during 1932–1933 was not intentional or man-made by Joseph Stalin or the Central Soviet Authorities
The overwhelming and vast majority of countries on this planet do not recognize this situation as being a “genocide”
The idea of “Holodomor” as an intentional or man-made genocide which specifically targeted Ukrainians and was used to crush Ukrainian nationalists fails on multiple fronts.
The myth of the Holodomor as the Ukrainian "Holocaust" would be used over and over –and of course by the neo-Nazis in 2014 to justify their program of expunging Russianness-- that is ,the Russian language, Russian culture—and Russian people in Ukraine .
It was in fact used in a similar way to the way the Israelis use the Holocaust to justify genocide of the Palestinian people. Stepan Bandera was resurrected as the Messiah of the "new" Ukraine.
Big lies made bigger
The US strategy since 1945 and therefore has been to use its control of the media to shape world opinion -- first against the Soviets – then against the Russians.
They took the Nazis concept of the “Big Lie” which the Nazis mostly used to control their own people, to not only indoctrinate and control American people— but all others. The world was America's Reich—it’s “realm”….
It was more than even Hitler attempted since he was less concerned with world domination than with creating a new Germany.
Hitler and Mussolini were were fascists – and “fascism” is by definition corporatism but Hitler and Mussolini did not let big business rule-- for power was vested personally in themselves, individually.
From 1945 on, power in the US was shared by FDR's nemesis – "organized money" No one person dominated —no Duce or Fuhrer— but an invisible oligarchy. From an elementary school, kids are taught they lived in a democracy —"of the people, by the people, for the people" when nothing further could be true
The success of this system cannot be denied. At least for the Few who own everything. But it success is also its weakness. For controlling the Many means creating a world of illusion and delusion – in which almost everything is fake on the one hand, temporary on the other. At the same time it leads to narcissistic delusions of grandeur and power, disconnected from reality.
To the extent that this American Reich 's extraterritorial, exploiting the world, It only works when the US is the "One"— all-powerful. But it is no longer the world power that it used to be. Militarily and economically and socially it is second rate— or lower.
Nor can information be controlled as it used to be.
So the US is losing in every area – which prompts it to extreme actions— hoping he can get his way as it used to .
The attack on Sevastopol — using banned cluster munitions on civilian targets—was a war crime— one of many perpetrated by the Ukrainians with American assistance so far.
The casualties on the beach may have been accidental since they were the result of intercepted missile which went off course and exploded. That doesn't matter—-because international law bans such attacks in civilian areas.
The role of American drones over the Black Sea is debatable. To what degree, if any, did they assist targeting and course correction? Nobody knows. The Americans have radar aircraft and satellites as well. And certainly only they have the expertise to program the ATACMS missiles .
However, what exactly is the rationale for American surveillance drones in a war zone—-international airspace were not?
The Russians would be justified in extending their exclusionary zone over the entire Black Sea—and shooting down any drones or surveillance aircraft found there.
I doubt they will do that. Ukrainians would still fire ATACMS missiles, with or without drones, relying on satellite information. You have to kill the satellites too.
Rather, the Russians will just keep on doing what they're doing in the Ukraine, and respond asymmetrically elsewhere as they have done with North Korea and Iran, supplying them with more advanced weapons systems. Shortly after this attack the Russians announced they were strengthening very mutual defense agreement with Iran— which also serves as their proxy in strengthening the military capabilities of both the Houthis and Hezbollah.
At the same time the Americans engineered their proxy attack on Crimea, they organized a terrorist attack in Dagestan on churches and synagogues which led to the deaths of 15 policemen. Muslims in Russia see this for what it is – and will be even more supportive of the Chechen initiative in the Ukraine, which is the matter of pride for the Muslim community.
All in all these attacks, while horrible merely serve to strengthen Russian resolve. Expect to see a remarkable jump in the number of Russians volunteering to serve.
Russia will not be distracted.
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Special article—BRICS changes everything
Still working on the special article. I need to explain how BRICS works— and why it is an absolute necessity for it to take over the global economic system, as the world shifts to a new paradigm.
From what I can see, we are shifting from currency based economic relationships manipulating debt to commodity-based relationships, as with the recent Chinese Argentinian transaction where the Argentinians paid in beef!
Many countries are selling their bond assets— most recently the Japanese— and buying gold, or other assets.
How to explain all this in simple terms? And put things in context ?
This is a hard article to write—unexplored territory— but I will finish it soon.
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9/11 was an inside job!
If I was a US soldier in US occupied Syria or overstaying my 'welcome' in Iraq I would be getting quite nervous.
Interesting article but, although I agree the old eagle is getting reckless, there is some method in the US mayhem. It suits Russia to take its time and destroy the NATO/Ukrainian army whilst staying a thousand kilometres from NATO supply bases - easy logistics and low casualties. The idea of terror attacks is to make it harder for Putin to continure with this policy. It puts pressure on him to rush things - more difficult logistics and higher casualties. Knowing the sort of people they are dealing with, no doubt, the Russians have thought long and hard about this. It will be interesting to see what they do but for political reasons it cannot be nothing.