“THE IMPENDING WINTER”

How will the arrival of winter impact the combat zone and also the whole of Europe?

 

By Sidney Hey

No matter how strong the will of your men and the sophistication of the machinery that supports them, if the weather is unbearable it will undoubtedly hamper operations. Napoleon and his men learned this the hard way, Hitler and his mighty Panzer brigades learned it the hard way, the Anglo-Americans learned it in Iraq in both 1991 and 2003, and the NATO-paid mercenaries in Ukraine will soon learn it the hard way.

But these are only the immediate consequences of a conflict that should be resolved in negotiations without NATO interference. The consequences that are not yet visible but that will soon become impossible to hide are those suffered by the inhabitants of the EU who, because of the obsession of their rulers, who have surrendered to the designs of Washington, are condemned to suffer from a shortage of electricity and gas due to rationing that only their grandparents knew in the times of the Second Great War.

Scholz and Macron seem to be unaware of the deterioration their countries are suffering and that since the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines they have accelerated the crisis of their industries, affecting their economies and the standard of living of their inhabitants. The same is true of the current British government of former banker Rishi Sunak, which is following in the footsteps of its predecessors, leaving no doubt about the continuity of its actions against Russia. The Royal Navy's troubled naval activities in the North Sea are proof of this and will once again be the subject of a parliamentary enquiry into how the Ministry of Defence spends on maintaining its fleet.

It is easy for Joe Biden to say that there is no chance of negotiating with Russia, making it clear that in addition to not wanting to confront Putin, he is willing to sacrifice the Europeans in pursuit of his geopolitical goals. For the "old man" and his European minions, the war is unfair to Russia, but for them it must not stop. But how is the war going? The latest developments are not good. The president of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen made a terrible mistake in the information strategy by acknowledging in a video that the Ukrainian army had lost about 100,000 soldiers, i.e. acknowledging that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are completely destroyed.

Although the video was immediately taken down from the networks and uploaded again, edited to hide this part, it had already been heard by a large part of the members of the European Union and, of course, by the Ukrainian people themselves. Equally, editing a video is not going to change the reality on the ground, which is that the Ukrainian remnants and the Western mercenaries supporting the operations will soon have to face another implacable enemy, winter.

War is a dirty and dangerous business in itself, but under adverse weather conditions it can make it unbearable for even the most mentally prepared (or Captagon-drugged) men. It is estimated that few regular Ukrainian army troops are in combat, with most of those in uniform moving on the ground being mercenaries trained and paid by the CIA and special forces teams from NATO countries.

Considering the mercenary and specialised assassin component of the current fighting force, more prepared to operate through dirty tactics and behind-the-lines terrorism than to fight head-on like a regular army, when bogged down in muddy, icy trenches there are likely to be nasty incidents among themselves, as they may be skilled at hybrid warfare, killing civilians to create false scenarios or cold-blooded prisoners, but ill-equipped and ill-disciplined to withstand such limitations on the ground. 

At the same time, Western politicians behind their expensive and plush armchairs pushing this war are demonstrating that they have no interest in stopping it. Both Joe Biden and his EU minions with Von Der Leyen and Josep Borrell at the helm know that in seeking to include Ukraine in NATO membership, they are threatening Russia's security, but they are not interested. The Ukrainians in particular, but all the peoples of Eastern Europe are the flak jacket of the Anglo-Saxons who want to continue NATO enlargement at the cost of their blood. Even this can be seen by just taking a map and looking at how NATO has been deployed for the last twenty-six years, so that a child can realise who is threatening whom.

In view of this, the pretense of making the public believe that the European Union, inventing a neutrality it never had (because of its subordination to Washington), would push for a Court of Justice to try the Russian president and all his officials for the crimes committed in Ukraine, can only be a black joke that only Atlanticists can laugh at.

It is quite clear that this is not a crusade of the "democracies" against the "autocracies" as the Western media claim; this is a battle between Western Globalism (US, EU and Britain) against the Multilateralism founded by Venezuelan president Hugo César Chávez, which Russia has been promoting together with China and other partners ever since.

For the time being, NATO mercenaries will feel the rigours of winter with the addition of the constant pounding on their heads by Russian forces, but all European citizens (including those closest to Washington) will also feel the consequences. After enduring energy rationing, rising prices and utility taxes due to the cut-off of Russian gas supplies and extortive measures by the US, with winter on their doorstep it is very likely that they will have to sharpen their axes to go chopping in the forests and parks to heat their homes.