“A MODERATE PERSPECTIVE”

The UK is only just entering the storm brewing over Boris Johnson and his Tories' genius idea to join the US in its geopolitical games against Russia. Now it emerges that the billions spent were for nothing.

By Sir Charlattam

The Tory euphoria in Parliament over the benefits to Britain of Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems to have gone down like the froth on beer. Well, I guess my subconscious had betrayed me to find the perfect excuse to meet up with my travelling source, "Joe", who just two days earlier had arrived from Prague with news of how things are going in the East.

As usual we take these appointments very seriously and once we've made sure the meeting place is clean, we meet up for drinks, chat and exchange information. Everything seems to shake in a violent way, something we both agree on. In Prague, the impact of the war is felt and energy restrictions are conditioning economic growth. While the Czechs have been early collaborators with Washington and London in cooperating with Georgian units in NBC operations, today government politicians are chomping at the bit for pursuing a strategy of economic strangulation with sanctions on Russia that is hitting them.

The great secret weapon of our governments has been the financial noose, but with Russia it has not worked. Worse, it has been turned against us and, as we have seen, inflation is rising. So far the government has announced that it has sent £1.5 billion in “humanitarian aid”. Even with this advantage our boys and their NATO colleagues in Ukraine have not been able to stop the Russians. It is here that Joe gives me an update on what is happening in Ukraine, telling me: “Ukrainian conscript morale is low and the problems of covering such a large front are compounded by logistical problems and defections on several fronts”.

All the weaponry that has been sent has not provided the expected counterweight. On the contrary, it has created mafias of traffickers who are diverting the few that arrive via official routes from Poland. The only intact shipments that have arrived are the M142 HIMARS systems because it would be difficult to hide them and pass them along the rat route.

As soon as he made that revelation I could not contain my curiosity as to what our Foreign Office officials and their extensions in Prague were doing to contain this disaster and so the answer could not be more succinct and clear: “Nothing at all”. It seems that the strategists and advisers that the MoD and MI6 have working in Kiev are unable to control the operations of their task forces for the simple fact that they have either been lost to Russian fire, i.e. shot down or captured, or have fled on their own and only the good Lord knows where they are. What is certain is that the Russian special groups have been very effective and deadly. They certainly are and that is why the BBC and the tabloids have created a campaign to degrade them in the media.

This last comment interested me as I had been aware of some incidents in the vicinity of the Crimean peninsula where the Ukrainians had managed to shell Russian targets. But after tightening the screws the “Spetsnaz” 48 hours ago managed to hit several key locations. One of those hits was a location in Energodar very close to the Zaphoriye nuclear plant where they managed to disrupt a cell armed with explosives, Javelin missiles, communications equipment and other S.A.S. toys. They had up-to-date maps and satellite details of the Russian defences on the perimeter.

That's too many bad signs for Parliament but more so for the bullying Liz Truss who really does seem to have ambitions to sit her pompous hips on the Downing Street couch for sure, unless Sunak moves her seat. I honestly don't know who would be worse, Truss or Rishi Sunak as they are both stalwart airheads of the Conservative Party and the corrupt political system. They both have the same script only tweaked and they are both part of the Anglo-American Zionist Lobbie's ass-licking club and supporters (like monkey cheeks Johnson pretended to be) of war as a vehicle for recapturing the old glories of Empire.

But reality strikes mercilessly and it seems that more consequences of the sanctions rebound are to be expected. The G-7 proposal (ordered from Washington) to cap Russian crude oil prices was met with a decision by Russian companies to cut off the Nord Stream gas pipeline indefinitely. “Check!”. What are we going to do now? European citizens (including the British) are already bracing themselves for a harsh winter without gas and their governments are not only without a solution, they are also part of the problem.

hen Joe told me that there seem to be two Europes. One is the one that is going straight over the cliff following Washington and the other with countries like Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria and Serbia that are far from lending themselves to these games, have increased their business with Russia and Russia has doubled its profits at the same time.

But even within Western Europe the bickering reigns. There is strong tension between those who want to relax sanctions so as not to cut off Russian oil and gas supplies completely and those who blindly obey the US. Dissatisfaction with US-NATO, especially from key EU members, is making agreement on a new common security system disconnected from Washington more likely, and this could be an opportunity for us or a dilemma.

As things look, our officials and those of the bloc will have to content themselves with anticipating how to get through the winter as there is no prospect that the war will stop yet, let alone that the Russians will back down, let alone that Zelensky's neo-Nazi gang will win it.