WAITING

THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

When, How and From Where Will the Kiev Counteroffensive Come? Rambling through the streets of Novorosiyya

 

By Sir Charlattam

A stroll through St. Petersburg was just what I needed. I am talking about the legendary Russian city on the Baltic Sea. It had been several years since I had boarded a plane to visit old Russia and what better time than now. When I arrived and wandered through its streets I realised that the publicists of the collective West should pay a visit to clear their heads of the information toxicity of the companies that pay their salaries and see up close the reality that is not as they tell it.

Admittedly, that was the quiet, touristy part of my trip. What mattered most was to see with my own eyes the situation in the hot zone. I was motivated to walk through the Slavic territories of historic Novorossiya (New Russia) liberated by the Special Military Operation and see for myself what the terrain looks like in the face of the much-heralded counteroffensive that Kiev and its Anglo-American backers were preparing just beyond the horizon.

After travelling by van through one of the settlements near Lisichansk in the Lugansk Oblast, it is still necessary to go around certain roads or simply go down and continue on foot through the mud that saturates the roads. Looking out over an expanse where you lose sight of it, it would seem easy for brigades of NATO “donated” tanks and ARES armoured personnel carriers, FV103 Spartans and old British-built FV430s to speed through the yellowing fields, supported by air assistance. It sounds easy, but it is not.

Of course, for such a thing to happen (if that were the plan), the roads would have to be dry and the vanguard would also have to be well equipped with anti-tank systems. This is probably why the Pentagon signed a juicy $7.2 billion contract with Raytheon and Lockheed to supply some 4,000 Javelin missiles a year.

I couldn't help thinking that while we were walking with a LPR militia patrol, NATO satellites and their stationary high-altitude drones are 24/7 scanning the whole territory. I know. Their technology has been an advantage they exploited with small Arab and Latin American countries, but here it is different. This is Russia and unlike those countries it can strike back even before Brussels and Washington have given the order.

We should not lose sight of the fact that the US administration has invested the not inconsiderable sum of 160 billion dollars to finance (in addition to the luxuries, cars, prostitutes and cocaine of its officials) the war apparatus of the ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev. Of course, into that account go the millions of British pounds and a substantial stock of Javelin missiles paid for out of the taxes of British citizens. Charming indeed! Don't you think so?

The morale of the Lugansk fighters is high and they know that Kiev and its sponsors' military advisers are preparing for a desperate onslaught, but they are prepared and confident that they will not do it head-on. That was a point of view that struck me and so I asked, "How do you think they will do it? All I got was a few laughs and that was it. The attitude is understandable and even though they know my position, they are not going to risk it.

Even though we continued our excursion, I couldn't get what I had been told out of my head and began to ponder the point. A Blitzkrieg sounds rather old-fashioned in today's military reality. A wave of thousands of tanks all breaking through at the same time along the entire front for thousands of kilometres is impossible. If so, a significant section of that spearhead would have to cross the Dnieper River and many of the donated armour would not float. That begs the question: who will provide the bridges or the armoured vehicles that can cross it?

Another problem with this idea is where will so many Ukrainian tankers come from? Nowhere, as most of the regular crews are either dead or prisoners. Add to this the fact that it will not be the old Soviet-era T-72s but Bradley tanks, Abrams and Leopards, and the number of trained tankers is much smaller. Although it should not be ruled out that crews were already being trained even before the war in the US and obviously in Britain. With regard to the latter, it would not be surprising if Ukrainians in British uniforms were being trained in any of the three armoured regiments.

Undoubtedly, many of these vehicles will be manned by NATO troops who, while wearing Ukrainian uniforms, are foreigners in camouflage.

Such an offensive would require substantial air cover unless NATO creates a naval diversion in the Black Sea that forces a significant part of Russia's aerospace force to come in support of its fleet. Such a trick would be an amphibious mobilisation that looks like preparations to invade Crimea by sea.  Another possibility would be to create movements at air bases in Poland and Romania that would give the appearance of preparations for a massive incursion into Ukraine, or even to put false radar echoes in the air that would give the impression of an air strike from unexpected directions.

NATO assets could also conduct massive movements of artillery pieces to give the appearance of providing cover for an imminent attack.

In reality, whatever stratagem the Kiev regime employs, it is clear that it will not be without NATO's superlative assistance, making its interference in the hostilities politically no longer excusable and allowing Moscow to draw on its strategic nuclear assets to ward off and defend against an imminent threat to its national security.

 

 

 

THE FOCUS

NATO

Why aren't the terror tactics and strategy that Kiev is trying to implement on Russian targets of their own making?

By Danny Smith

We have entered the second year of a bloody war that apparently is confined to Ukrainian territory and is limited to two sides. As I say, apparently since the short introductory sentence is rather misleading.

At this point, to believe that there is only one confrontation between Russia and Ukraine is to insult the intelligence of the average citizen. From the taxi driver in Canberra to the guys who serve you a beer in London pubs or a simple farmer in Utah, they know that it is the rulers and the US military who are the main promoters behind maintaining a regime at the hands of a comedian with nasal addiction problems.

It doesn't matter which part of Europe you go to. Anywhere with ordinary people today juggling economics to survive by their governments' humiliating subservience to Washington's policies, it is clear to them that the media has inflated hatred against Russia and all things Russian to unbelievable and outrageous levels.

The crisis that has spread across Europe and obviously reverberates throughout the world has been imposed by Washington's political and financial elite, and it is for this reason that citizens everywhere and to varying degrees are rising up against their rulers.

I think people have matured and I include myself. Swallowing the silly version that Russia and all Russians are evil with fangs sounds like the hateful Eastern European “pogroms” of the 1920s and 1930s in the last century and closer in time around the turn of the century, the fueled hatred and mistrust that the western media being functional to a neo-conservative-Zionist administration scattered with false generalizations about the 9/11 attacks on Islam and Muslims in general.

The plan to manipulate the world with these tactics has failed and added to the fact that military aid is not enough to weaken Russia on the battlefield and the collapse of the situation in “Artemovsk” (which is a gigantic cemetery), the brains of NATO they have been trying to open new fronts using terrorism as a covert tactic to embarrass Moscow.

Before Vladimir Putin ordered the intervention in Ukraine, US think tanks like the Rand Corporation had already been analyzing and providing reports to the Pentagon on how to weaken Russia in anticipation of a potential war. The frontal collision was ruled out. The strategy to try to weaken the Russian Federation is based on fomenting or creating various conflictive situations that force Moscow to divide its forces and resources. Thus we saw the curious and sudden riots in Kazakhstan, the provocations in Transnistria, the attempts to revive the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and the tricks of the Kosovars against Serbia. The public exposure of these dirty tactics and their dissemination has created public relations problems for the White House.

Added to this, the Anglo-American media has been creating a wave of disinformation launched from Washington that tries to install lies such as that PMC Wagner was breaking up, that they were having ammunition supply problems and that they would even have serious morale problems of course comments from their leader Yevgueni Prigozhin that suggested abandoning operations. All part of a pure and hard poisoning.

Regarding this, it is possible that the alleged leaks from the Pentagon accused of a young and inexperienced member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard are just that, alleged. Maybe it's even a big red herring. If we look at them carefully, they do not report anything new that the Russian military intelligence GRU and its foreign intelligence from the SVR have not collected throughout the development of the Special Military Operation.

Russian intelligence and especially the old fox Putin, know that the Americans and especially the British are experts in creating illusions and deception and that they have no limits in trying to make believe that something apparent is just a mirage. There was no need for a document and maps reporting Kiev's alleged plans to attack Russian troops in Syria. Really? I don't think the SDF hired Kurds would have subordinated themselves to Ukrainian officers, unless they were seconded by American agents.

Continuing with these supposed Master Plans, they do not explain how those Zelensky commandos would arrive in Syria camouflaged. Perhaps passing as tourists by Turkish Airlines or Emirates? If Joe Biden and his sinister sidekick Blinken could, they would try to introduce him.

On the field, the reality is completely different from this scenario of the Biden administration. Raids by Ukrainian armed groups on border areas are the mark of Kiev despair. Russia has responded harshly, launching several targeted attacks in recent days against highly strategic targets in Ukraine, especially arms depots, train convoys loaded with equipment received from the West, and missile fuel factories to delay any attempt to launch the war. so announced counteroffensive.

Due to what happened at dawn on Wednesday in Moscow, a few days before the commemoration of Victory Day to be celebrated on May 9 with an attempt to attack the Kremlin with drones and which the Russian authorities consider a planned attempt to assassinate President Putin, it is clear that not Zelensky who is just a puppet but his Anglo-American patrons have gone too far and this will bring more serious consequences.

 

 

 

 

DESTRUCCION MASIVA

ASEGURADA

Tras la invasión a Iraq en 2003 los estadounidenses no lograban capturar el aeropuerto de Bagdad y fue por ello que utilizaron un dispositivo no convencional que dejo residuos que radio toda la zona ¿Acaso fue el despliegue del rayo de la muerte?

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Según la Convención sobre la prohibición de uso de armas químicas y el Tratado de No Proliferación de Armas Nucleares que abarcan la prohibición del uso de toda arma de destrucción en masa y que se hallan en vigor desde 1997 y 2017 respectivamente, ningún estado debería utilizar y menos en una zona urbana, armas de este tipo. Pero como se ha visto en ciertos casos, hay estados que mientras declaman en público su acatamiento en la realidad y bajo total secretitud, utilizan este tipo de armas sin importar las consecuencias colaterales. Los ejemplos más conocidos son el uso del fósforo blanco, Napalm y el Uranio empobrecido.

Pero hay otra clasificación de armas de este tipo que son altamente clasificadas y que algunos gobiernos niegan cínicamente.

En abril de 2003 en medio de la invasión que EEUU y Gran Bretaña llevaban adelante sobre Iraq, se produjo un evento notablemente curioso y destructivo que durante estos veinte años ha sido muy bien silenciado pero que sigue despertando cuestionamientos sobre su desarrollo. Este evento fue decisivo para concretar la invasión. Sumado al caos que se desataría con la ocupación, el asunto que podríamos llamar el “asalto al aeropuerto internacional de Bagdad” quedo sepultado bajo el más estricto secreto del gobierno colaboracionista y alejado de los curiosos en los archivos del Ministerio del Interior y del Mukhabarat bajo control de la CIA y de los iraníes.

En aquella oportunidad, los estadounidenses estaban tratando de entrar a Bagdad y pese a controlar el espacio aéreo la infantería y los tanques no podían saltar las fortificaciones, las trampas explosivas y las defensas que habían montado los iraquíes en torno a los accesos de la ciudad. Las incursiones de los paracaidistas en Irbil había sido un desastre a pesar de contar con la ayuda de los Peshmergas kurdos y pese al intento de silenciar las bajas, los primeros videos de la resistencia iraquí mostrarían como caían muertos los estadounidenses.

En las afueras de Bagdad La Tercera División estadounidense estaba atascada por la feroz resistencia de una sección de la Guardia Republicana y los grupos irregulares iraquíes golpeaban de forma esporádica a las líneas de suministro en la retaguardia. Los mandos estadounidenses con el Gral. Stanley McChrystal a la cabeza, estaban seriamente preocupados por la resistencia presentada que podría llevar a un posible fracaso que podría terminar en una masacre de sus fuerzas y una calamidad política para Washington.

Tomar el aeropuerto era crucial para desembarcar el grueso de la fuerza invasora pero se les hacía imposible avanzar un metro sin perder hombres y equipo. Aunque la CNN ni ninguno de los medios europeos afines lo iba a mostrar, los estadounidenses prácticamente no podían levantar la cabeza en el trayecto a la ciudad ya que los disparos provenían de todas las direcciones. En el distrito de “Al Furaq” la situación era desesperante y las defensas iraquíes eran imposibles de vencer y fue así que los estadounidenses saturaron con bombardeos esa parte de la ciudad. Si no hubo más bajas estadounidenses fue gracias a la armadura que usaban los soldados y al “kevlar” de sus cascos. A causa de esto y del pánico que les gobernaba, los estadounidenses no dudaron en abrirse paso disparado y pasando con sus tanques Abrams por encima cuantos vehículos con civiles encontraban a su paso.

Los estadounidenses no podían abrirse paso hacia el interior del aeropuerto y no había forma de que los aviones o los helicópteros brindaran un apoyo sustancial para lograr su objetivo.

La batalla que se produjo entre la noche del 4 al 9 de abril involucro el uso de un equipamiento no convencional que fue decisivo para tomar la totalidad del aeropuerto y que los defensores iraquíes testimoniarían tanto los que sobrevivieron como los cadáveres de quienes allí quedaron.

Los combatientes iraquíes que lograron sobrevivir y que pudieron retroceder hacia el norte de la ciudad hablaron de un vehículo similar a un blindado color negro sin marcas que con una torreta similar a un panel lanzaba una especie de rayo o flujo similar en su coloración a un rayo de tormenta y con flashes parecidos a los relámpagos. Todo lo que tocaba aquel haz lo carbonizaba y a los vehículos los derretía (http//pensamientoestrategico.com/1/1/2016). Según uno de estos sobrevivientes, cuando intentaron pedir apoyo de artillería por radio fue imposible ya que el equipo murió repentinamente como si hubiera dejar de funcionar sin motivo. Los defensores del aeropuerto se encontraron con un dilema irresoluble ¿Cómo hacer frente a semejante arma?

Aunque ello parece la escena cinematográfica de una película de ciencia ficción y por lo cual los estadounidenses han negado el uso de semejante armamento, lo cierto es que esa tecnología estaba disponible y se venía ensayando desde hacía tiempo. El desarrollo de Láser Químicos HF/DF (los cuales cortan y funden metales), ATL (Advanced Tactical Laser) y otros cañones de energía a base de poder nuclear de empleo táctico venían siendo ensayados con montajes en aviones y navíos desde 1996. En dicha empresa se vieron involucradas empresas como “Lockheed” y “Boeing”. Una de las corporaciones involucradas en su desarrollo fue nada menos que “Raytheon” que mejoro las capacidades de esta arma, entonces ¿Por qué no iba a estar disponible una versión terrestre de este monstruoso artefacto?

Si EEUU hubiera reconocido usar este tipo de arma hubiera sido un acto bochornoso y muy difícil de explicar ante la opinión pública ya que, si una de las excusas para invadir era la supuesta existencia de armas de destrucción masiva iraquíes ¿Cómo explicarían el uso de las suyas en medio de una zona urbana?

La captura del aeropuerto posibilito en los días posteriores a este evento facilito a los estadounidenses la limpieza de la escena sacando los restos de vehículos incrustados sobre el pavimento quemado, cadáveres achicharrados y reducidos al carbón y los cadáveres de las tripulaciones completas de varios tanques iraquíes que no presentaban impactos de ninguna índole pero que al parecer fueron afectados por ese rayo.

Los estadounidenses vallaron toda la zona donde ocurrió ese hecho y con equipos protegidos con trajes NBQ retiraron los restos de la batalla nocturna e incluso hasta más de un metro de tierra de todo el lugar que fue transportada supuestamente a fosas previamente cavadas por buldosers a unos kilómetros de Bagdad.

Sobre los restos de los combatientes iraquíes que perecieron allí y de los cuales quedaron sus cadáveres intactos (los tanquistas) y de aquellos que solo quedo una masa reducida de carbón amorfa, fueron embalados en cajones forrados con láminas de aluminio, sacados discretamente en camiones y enterrados de forma secreta en fosas comunes ¿Qué diablos ha hecho el gobierno títere iraquí para aclarar todo esto y darle respuestas a las familias de los cientos de soldados que allí perecieron? Obviamente nada, ya que son empleados de Washington.