SIGNS OF THE END - OR THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER WAR?

The definition of war in Ukraine is near. Zelensky's regime cries ammunition shortage and the frontline in Donetsk crumbles How does Washington try to avoid the inevitable?

By Sidney Hey

The death of Alexei Navalny in Russia's high-security K3 prison at the Arctic Pole has been used by Western governments as a new argument to try to smear and demonise the image of the Russian government and especially that of its president. But who are these declamators and what is their political and moral legitimacy?

To begin with, and recalling the command of Jesus of Nazareth, these bombastic accusers should be reminded that “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. Perhaps this teaching does not interest them or is meaningless, since most of them may call themselves Christians, but in reality they are deep down supporters of that Pharisaic ideology called Zionism.

Alexei Navalny, who was a lawyer and an opponent of the Russian government, was not a convinced democrat, a humanist or a fighter for the independence of the individual from the jaws of an oppressive state led by a “Tsar”. Nor was he a supporter of the Kiev regime, or at least not that. As his past reveals, because of his proven lack of scruples and known approval for the brutal intervention in Chechnya, he was not exactly a democrat (except in the American sense). This made him a highly useful element for the West and it was therefore worth inflating him against the Kremlin.

In that role, Anglo-American governments gave him all possible support to try to create and lead an opposition movement that will lead Russia to political collapse. In doing so, he focused on criticising the management and person of Vladimir Putin as corrupt, something that the bureaucrats in Washington and their Western media reporters saw as earning him a poisoning attempt in 2020 allegedly ordered by Vladimir Putin.

In reality, if that had any semblance of veracity, the FSB's executors would not have failed, as Putin himself claimed in response to a journalist's question. Moreover, London's embarrassing and unsuccessful attempt to frame Putin for the attempted poisoning in the Skripal case is still not forgotten, remember that?

Navalny was presented by Westerners as a “liberal hope” in the midst of a depressed Russian society besieged by a “repressive regime”, a description clearly novelised by the CIA's psychological warfare specialists.

But that was not what led to his arrest, trial and 19-year prison sentence. His activities began to go beyond mere public criticism and organising street demonstrations. There is a good part of this “liberal's” activities that the Western media will never tell. Because of his interest in Washington and London, he was supported in every possible way -albeit very cautiously- to complicate Putin's governance. He was a useful pawn in subverting the Russian Status Quo. Precisely his contacts with US and British agents (who devote their time to such matters) for the purpose of operating within the Federation put him at the centre of the Russian authorities' observations.

Although there is no diagnosis of the cause of death, the Anglo-American governments are accusing him, without evidence, of murder. It was to be expected that his wife Yulia Navalnaya would come out in support of the Western accusations.

But the first thing that needs to be addressed is who are the accusers? The world witnessed the persecution of the researcher Julian Assange, whose assassination was demanded in Washington and after he was granted asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, the brutal raid to drag him to the scaffold to be in the hands of the specialised “interrogators” of the CIA and MI6. And what was his crime? Ah yes. Showing the truth of what the US and its British partners were doing in Iraq. No doubt a great demonstration of respect for freedom and democracy.

The same with Guantanamo, a double aberration since, besides being a territory occupied from Cuba, its facilities have become a detention centre to carry out all kinds of tortures to “suspected” terrorists, all of them Muslims. The use of terrorist tactics inside Russia (supported by the CIA and MI6) is another of the opacities of Western “democracies”. And the list of the West's inconsistencies goes on and on, and Russia is well aware of this, so the Kremlin is rightly asking itself who are these gentlemen to come here and insult us with these falsehoods for free?

These accusations are (in addition to supreme hypocrisy) the sign of an undeniable desperation in the face of imminence. While Zelensky was strutting around at the Security Conference in Munich, his troops were already beginning to flee in disarray in all directions from the front in north-eastern Donetsk, leaving the way clear for Russian troops who have found several cellars where ethno-politically motivated torture of local citizens was taking place. Zelensky was obviously being informed of this but the clown had to keep on smiling.

The fall just a few hours ago of the strategic town of “Advidka” is undoubtedly part of the desperation not only of Zelensky's regime but of its Anglo-American backers and the death of Navalny is a desperate card to try to cover this up.

It is now up to the Biden administration in Washington and NATO to decide whether they want (without dirty tricks) to sit down and talk or to double down with the risk that this might entail.