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.