BUILDING A NEW FRONT
Is the Romanian
government of Klaus Iohannis NATO's new ace up its sleeve? The EU supports
military exercises in the Black Sea, and that bodes ill for everyone
By Sir Charlattam
As an old colleague from the cold war days used to say, “if you see the same situation twice, that's confirmation”. Well, he may have been a very rigid man in his reasoning and even paranoid, but he was almost never wrong. I put this way of seeing things into practice with regard to what is happening in Ukraine, where I have seen how the British press has not published a single credible article on the situation in Bakhmut.
I became concerned
after receiving graphic and very clear news about the situation on the ground
and what is currently being planned in Brussels for damage control in the face
of what appears to be the inevitable fall of the city and the crumbling of the
eastern front.
It seems that NATO is
already preparing its stand-in fighter to jump into the ring and assist the
battered remnants of the Ukrainian forces who are retreating without a chance.
Not for now, it is not Poland but Romania, whose strategic exit to the Black
Sea could be the access route by sea for a possible offensive against
Russian-controlled coastal positions such as Mariupol or the Crimean peninsula
itself. It is also important to consider the readiness of the Romanians for
military action following their involvement in Afghanistan. This puts them in
certain danger of escalating hostilities into a nuclear retaliation that would
unleash hell.
It is not only the Kiev
regime that is desperate. While the media are lying and announcing a “Ukrainian
offensive”, Washington and Brussels are currently analysing all options to
contain a very possible disbanding of Ukrainian forces, including a ceasefire
to negotiate peace. French President Macron and European Commission President
Ursula Von Der Leyen's trip to China was part of these plans, although I
suspect that the objective was not at all altruistic, such as seeking a
solution to the conflict, and only aimed to buy time for Zelensky's regime to
reorganise itself.
Xi Jinping does not
suck his thumb. When he heard that these representatives with clear interests
in what is happening in Ukraine had asked to see him, he did no more than
respect the cordiality and respect that are a fundamental part of his Confucian
culture and received them without this being a guarantee of accepting their
pretended concerns for peace.
While Macron and Von
Der Leyen travelled to Beijing, NATO troops continued the movement of supplies,
armoured vehicles and equipment destined for Ukraine. In the face of these
activities, which are clearly aimed at fuelling the conflict and perpetuating
it over time, we continue to see the absence of the United Nations or, to put
it elegantly, its total impotence to “impose peace”. On the latter point, I
cannot fail to mention the absolute silence and resistance to open
investigations into the Pentagon's biological warfare laboratories and its “scientific
research” on the Ukrainian people themselves.
Any media stunt to
distract public opinion from all these inconsistencies is not enough. Neither
the colourful White House press spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, nor the
stunning spokeswoman inside Downing Street, Nerissa Chesterfield, can distract
the eye from the large phosphorescent elephant standing in the room.
Although it may seem
like news or a leak of secret information, in reality it is not. The movements
of US troops and their British counterparts under the name “Sea Shield 2023”
have already been discussed throughout the region. 30 warships, some 14 fighter
planes and more than 4000 infantrymen are very difficult to hide, don't you
think? If this information does not reach the western hemisphere or barely
appears in a small section of the news and newspapers, it is because of the
complicit opacity of the flagship media such as the BBC, CNN, The Guardian
etcetc.
What is not in the
public eye, and what has put the Russian counterpart on guard, are the computer
warfare and electronic intelligence exercises through which NATO searches for
vulnerabilities by scanning networks and communications.
The Romanian government
appears to have taken a decision that it will not be able to back down from and
that will have profound consequences. But also looming behind this decision are
some ethnographic ambitions and claims that could lead to Romanianising Moldova
and reclaiming Ukrainian territories in Romanian-speaking areas that came under
Ukrainian control in the two world wars, such as Transcarpathia, Chernovetsk,
Ivano-Frankivsk and Odessa. I would like to know if the puppet Zelensky is
aware of this.
This puts into
perspective an unexpected and counterproductive outcome for the ambitions of
Zelensky and his ultra-nationalists, namely the gradual loss of Ukrainian
territories to ethnic and cultural minorities who have begun to be seduced by
the siren songs of neighbouring governments who in turn are influenced by
Washington.
The defence of
Ukraine's sovereignty and unity that Zelensky has been arguing for and that the
collective Western media has been brandishing as a pasquin to keep the war
against Russia going, with this revealed double standard, is actually being
threatened by the very people who have been claiming to be helping him.
Romania's involvement could be charted as the drawing of a new trench line in
the service of NATO, and if so, does that mean that Ukraine's territory is
already lost?
For Volodymyr Zelensky
this would be unreasonable or even impossible because his political godfathers
in the European Union with Josep Borrell at the head, who are NATO's
interlocutors, have convinced him that he is a kind of “savior”, a politician
of the breed like our “Churchill” in bronze who escaped justice for the mere
fact of having been on the winning side in the Second World War.
Unless all these moves
are a ploy to distract Moscow, Volodymyr Zelensky should be preparing to flee,
not from the Russians but from his own countrymen.