Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Zelensky is really Putin’s greatest asset. Read on and you will see why.
In his most recent video, the excellent Alex Mercouris talks about Kursk—pretty much confirming what I've been saying in my previous articles on this debacle.
A trap?
I have noted that two months ago Putin requested the Ministry of Defense to withdraw conscripts from defense duties in the border areas, replacing them with special forces and regular combat troops.
Mercouris has a trusted—and so far very reliable— source who apparently warned him some time ago that Ukrainians were preparing an attack on Kursk!
The Russians, appeared to be inviting it — they had demined the border areas, and withdrawn most of their heavy units to the rear, east of the Kursk nuclear power plant.
Was Russia indeed setting up a trap?
If it was, it would have to look like it was not expecting Ukrainians to attack across the border— even though Ukrainians had already done so, from time to time— with small group assaults.
Supporting this theory, as I also noted before, is the fact that the assault forces appear to have been put together haphazardly with little real preparation, drawing on a combination of of Ukraine's last elite units, mercenaries, and conscripts, along with all the armor and weaponry they had available on hand— as if they were in a really really big hurry to take advantage of a momentary lapse in military judgment on the Russian side— also driven perhaps by the necessity of doing something before the Russians took all of Donbas— now happening even faster.
To put together a competent force capable of achieving any kind of success, the Ukronazis had to draw on resources that could have been better used in the Donbas.
Clearly, Zelensky thought it was worth it.
The Kursk incursion is the kind of mistake that Zelensky has been making since the very beginning of this war, resulting in perhaps as many as a million casualties.
With Zelensky running things, Russians are assured of success. Yes, Zelensky is Putin's greatest asset.
As Mercouris points out, the Russians are now focused on destroying Ukrainian weaponry – that is, tanks and armored vehicles and artillery. Leaving Ukrainian troops for the last. The Russians have what it takes to do that,
But Zelensky continues to send in whatever reserves he can cobble together! The man simply does not learn.
Where Now?
Where did Ukrainians go from here?
Where does NATO go from here?
Where does the US go from here?
The Nazis— not just in Kiev and Lviv but in in Berlin and London and Washington are desperate.
Putin must therefore tread carefully.
Because desperate men do desperate things-- irrational things-- which can cause a lot of damage.
In Ukraine, for example, the Nazis are turning to out and out terrorism-- increasing their attacks on civilian targets like children and the elderly and sensitive infrastructure such as nuclear power plants….
It is a sign of weakness— just like Israeli terrorism in the Middle East. Or the US’s “soft” terrorism in Latin America, using a sophisticated combination of the media, bribery, propaganda and political coercion.
Putin has naturally put antiterrorism protocols into force along the entire Western Russian border the east side of the Dnieper.
The attacks on Donetsk city and Zaporozhya NPP, however, can only be prevented when Russia is able to extend its zone of control in southern Ukraine.
For that to happen Chasov Yar, Ugledar, and a few other places must fall.
Ukrainian and Western terrorism represents but an existential threat to the average Russian, stoking nationalist sentiment and increasing support for the military. From 30,000 volunteers a month, we can expect an increase of 5 to 10,000. Putin's upgraded million man army is on its way to becoming a reality.
The pace of offensive operations by the Russian Armed Forces, volunteers, and veterans has not only remained steady but has actually increased by fifty percent. Our troops are advancing along the entire front.
Lastly, another clear objective of the enemy is to create discord and division within our society, to instil fear, and to undermine the unity and cohesion of the Russian people. They aim to disrupt the domestic political landscape. However, the response from Russian citizens has been resolute: there is widespread support for those in need, strong backing for the army, and, importantly, a rising number of individuals eager to join the ranks of those heroically defending Russia. Recently, there has been a notable increase in the number of people signing contracts with the Ministry of Defence. Vladimir Putin. Meeting Aug. 12
Medvedev’s call to incorporate all of Ukraine in the Russian Federation increasingly resonates with the Russian public. It is now a long way from, 2022, when Russia’s 90,000 man contingent faced off against NATO’s best army of 400,000 (and won) in an effort to support the newly independent republics of Lugansk and Donbass. At that time, Putin did not have the support he does today. There was still a substantial “Atlanticist” fifth column in Russia. So he tried to negotiate to achieve his goals.
National Suicide
Civilizations do not die because they are murdered. They die because they commit suicide, Oswald Spengler
Now, Banderite Ukraine is committing suicide.
The Kursk incursion is very effectively demilitarizing Nazi Ukraine, destroying significant amounts of its last reserves of military equipment, as well as manpower.
The MOD says Ukrainians have lost over 1600 men— that is that they can count. In the case of casualties from bomb strikes – it's hard to count so the number is well over 2000. Out of the total number of 6500. You do the math.
This number will eventually reach 3000 or 4000 even. Russian forces will then be posed to to take positions in the Sumy region, threatening Kiev. Ukrainians must either withdraw forces from elsewhere to protect their capital — or move to Lviv where they are still vulnerable —to an attack from Belarus.
The end of Ukraine signals also the end of NATO, American domination of Europe, and the collapse of the American Borg!
The West is committing suicide too.
Special Report Part III
Part III of my special report on the decline and fall of the American Collective is coming soon.
It deals with this from several aspects — especially the failure of American democracy and neofeudal financialization, now being exacerbated by the misnamed “AI”.
Will there really be a “recession”?
Or is the term “recession” also a misnomer, as Michael Hudson thinks?
In any case, I wouldn’t’ be put too much stock in stocks right now. Nor look for what point we are at in “business cycle”.
The “market” is an economic wagon. It’s on a roll — downhill. A fun ride until it hits bottom.
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This new Battle of Kursk sounds more like the Battle of the Bulge than the WWII version of Kursk. The Germans threw the last of their armored reserves at Americans in Belgium in a desperate move to seize Antwerp and force the Western Allies to the negotiating table.
They had some success for a couple of weeks, and then Allied air power and armor finished them. This latest Ukrainian offensive strongly reminds me of that one.
Very lucid and persuasive analysis. The de-Nazification of Ukraine was Putin's stated goal, ab initio. Drawing them (and Nato mercenaries) into Kursk will hopefully eliminate the danger for the future. Brilliant if it works! It is difficult to deny the utter stupidity of both Zelensky and his Washington goon handlers.