A SLIPPERY EDGE TO THE PRECIPICE

Contempt or stupidity What are the Americans' rationales for bringing Europe and the rest of the globe to the brink of nuclear catastrophe?

 

By Sidney Hey

For many of the Western slanderers of the launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, that view has begun to change, thanks to the very actions of the segregationist regime they have been supporting. In Washington and in EU political structures, criticism is beginning to rumble through the corridors of government agencies over the slippery slope being taken by Ukrainian intelligence operations, which, incidentally, are largely supported by the CIA and MI6.

Perhaps for the gullible innocents who believe in the slogan of the US as the leader of the free world, democracy and other such nonsense, they may not quite understand what this is all about. But for the old jackals who have spent more than two decades in the shadows, in charge of covert and dirty operations, this is just another chapter in their profession.

Unlike what they orchestrated against the Iraqis and the wider Arab Islamic world they must tread carefully today if they are not to lose their heads in the process.  On that occasion they fabricated a casus belli tailored to the interests of the neocon Bush and Cheney[1] administration and on the basis of that, with the cooperation of the media, they got a war. Here it is the other way around. What they have been trying to do is to provoke Russia into making a wrong move and justifying a whitewash of its interference in Ukraine. Using the tactic of terrorism executed by proxy hoaxes, they have been trying to create that sense of insecurity and terror that during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan those henchmen knew how to create in order to dissociate the inhabitants. During that dark period, they made an orgy of bloodshed with the Arabs and Afghans but paid the ultimate price in defeat and at best a Pyrrhic victory.

For the Foreign Office bureaucrats, it is just a new agenda to put the Vauxhall boys in charge who as part of the establishment's foul sewer of power are grateful to get to work with shit. They have long been operating around the Russian Federation especially moving assets in the Caucasus to use against Moscow.

At the core of these operations are simple acts of terrorism in Russian cities against the Russian civilian population. Infiltrations by Ukrainian armed groups to mercilessly shoot at ordinary residents of Russian border towns, bomb attacks and sabotage against public buildings inside Russian territory have crossed all lines of tolerance. But this took on a darker colour when the head of Ukrainian military intelligence Kiril Budanov[2] threatened to extend his terror campaigns against all Russian citizens around the globe. The official's remarks confirmed that the regime in Kiev poses a real threat to Russia's security and in that plan they are responding to a campaign of terrorist attacks that have been targeting Russian intellectuals and informants who support Vladimir Putin's government.

Apart from the brazen drone attack on the Kremlin palace, the latest terrorist actions include the attempted assassination of Russian novelist and activist Zakhar Prilepin[3] and the death of his driver who was driving the car in which they were travelling on a street in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, 425 kilometres from Moscow. It is not only the work of Ukrainian intelligence but also the shadow of their American and British advisors, who have extensive experience in setting up such plots. Precedents such as the blowing up of the Kerch bridge, the Nord Stream I and II pipelines, the assassination of Darya Dugina (whose murderer was silenced) and the murder of Russian blogger Maxim Fomin are perhaps the most salient bloody events to account for the actions of the “democratic” Anglo-Americans.

Although in the past it was very easy for the sponsors of these acts to hide behind religious masks by manipulating local extremism (cooperation of Arab agencies), this is no longer possible. Despite the scandalous attempt to censor information coming from Russia or to distort it through intoxication, news is still circulating and episodes such as the one in question highlight the responsibilities of the instigators and collaborators of this Slavic terrorism. It seems to be bad news for the creators of these monsters of the Western Intelligence Community who, like “Al Qaeda”, “Al Nusra” and “ISIS”, seem to be losing control of these philo-Nazi monsters.

Once again, we must remember the differences between then and today's international framework. Here, neither Western governments nor even less credible media will be able to disguise this complicity, so if the SBU and its neo-Nazi cells continue their criminal operations against Russia, Washington and London will be held accountable for their actions.

Undoubtedly, for Joe Biden and his inner circle (including his son Hunter), the war is the best business he has ever been able to conduct in his entire political life. Yes, for him and his mafia associates, not for the simple American citizens, and much less for the European lackeys who, with guys like Joseph Borrell, can only aspire to be nothing more than a scouring pad for cleaning latrines. Equally, Europeans are gradually laying the foundations for a change that will put an end to their leaders' subservience to Washington's policies.  Perhaps French President Macron's latest moves with China, which so annoyed British bureaucrats, are a sign of such changes.

If Europeans come to their senses, Washington's eagerness to perpetuate war by any means, including terrorist provocations against Russia, peace will be possible.

Perhaps this deployment and encouragement of such acts has a far more sinister, and potentially more profitable, covert objective for Washington's interests. Perhaps the Americans hope that Moscow will engage in a covert war with Europe and the Americas as its sphere of action. And while Putin may be aware of this trap, it would not be surprising if the CIA and MI6 fabricate a convenient event to pin it on Russia.

 

 

 

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[1]   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

[2] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrylo_Bud%C3%A1nov

[3] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zajar_Prilepin

 

¿HAY FUTURO

GEOESTRATEGICO?

Sea cual fuere el próximo gobierno en Buenos Aires deberá definir una geopolítica seria y sostenible ¿Cuál será su orientación?

 

Por Charles H. Slim

Hablar de este aspecto de la realidad política de la Argentina es como hablar del agua potable en medio de un desierto. Así de importante ha sido para sus gobernantes y políticos en general, los temas de la macro política y su geopolítica en medio de una rampante evolución que se ha venido dando desde finales del siglo XX hasta estos días.

Mientras la geopolítica de las naciones ha evolucionado de forma crítica en medio de un mundo cada vez más complejo y agresivo, la Argentina se quedó parada como un mero espectador mirando desde afuera y sin ninguna expectativa como el mundo cambia por efecto de nuevas relaciones culturales, políticas, comerciales y financieras no solo generadas pacíficamente sino también las nacidas de la guerra y la agresión entre las naciones en medio de un tironeo entre el decadente hegemonismo estadounidense y la propuesta de un multilateralismo con apoyo en Oriente.

En proximidades de elecciones para elegir un nuevo gobierno, no hay claridad sobre cuál será el rumbo geopolítico para el país.

Esta parálisis y consecuente degradación del estado argentino sin dudas tuvo origen en 1983 con asenso del gobierno de Raúl Alfonsín que rodeado de pura mística y un voluntarismo infantil, impulsado por mero revanchismo ideológico solo se aboco a desestructurar las bases estratégicas del estado sin volver a montarlas con renovadas y pulidas estructuras.

Así se continuo con el devenir de las décadas para llegar al actual estado nación deficitario, obsoleto, sobredimensionado y financieramente inviable que además, se halla paralizado en todo lo referente a sus funciones estratégicas que como cualquier ente de su categoría debe apuntar a desarrollar con el avance del tiempo.

El problema en Argentina siempre es el dinero. Nunca parecen alcanzar los presupuestos y sus asignaciones terminan desviándose a cualquier otro lugar (o a las manos de los vivos) pero nunca para los proyectos designados o estratégicamente prioritarios. Es por ello que en este país a la ley presupuestaria que anualmente sanciona el Congreso se la considera la más importante de todas. Bajo esta dinámica durante los últimos veinte años y en especial en los últimos cuatro, los dineros del PBI se han volcado a la subvención y subsidio para administrar la pobreza y para financiar secretarías y direcciones tan innecesarias como inútiles y que solo sirven para costear ampulosos sueldos de funcionarios nada funcionales.

La democracia argentina ha sido el muestrario más acabado de esta corruptela institucionalizada. Los trajes y las corbatas de los burócratas políticos que reemplazaron los uniformes militares en 1983, han pretendido ser una justificación de este robo continuo que ha llevado a la situación actual. Tanto unos como los otros (de izquierda a derecha y ni hablar de los centristas liberales) han seguido cayendo bajo los engañosos influjos de Washington.

Por supuesto que esto no pudo haber sucedido sin la anuencia y permisión de los mismos ciudadanos que un tiempo después, despotrican contra lo que ellos consagraron. Similar situación se ve los estamentos periféricos al poder político y en especial con los allegados al llamado Peronismo como son los sindicatos (en especial la CGT y Camioneros), convertidos en verdaderos Lobbies oportunistas y grupos de presión contra los empresarios, los sectores y gobiernos no-peronistas.

Precisamente sobre la degeneración socio-político-económica e institucional en la que el país actualmente se vive, ya comienza a mostrar sus inéditos efectos en el campo geopolítico. Sin una moneda con valor sustancial, mucho menos soberana (que es la demostración de ausencia de soberanía política), con una educación elemental en crisis (por una deficiencia notoria de los educadores más dedicados a la actividad sindical que a educar), sin estructura de seguridad interna y ni hablemos de la aniquilación de la defensa exterior (en momentos que más que nunca se hace necesaria), el país en cuanto a su política económica no solo es inexistente sino que, ya se ha convertido en un polo de ventajosas operaciones económicas no ya para Corporaciones extranjeras o incluso otros estados, sino para los simples habitantes de los países vecinos que cruzan las fronteras para llevarse toda clase de mercaderías y servicios por unos cientos de dólares.

De esta manera toda la geografía fronteriza del país se ha convertido en un gigantesco mercado de pulgas que sin estructura macro-económica coherente y solo dedicada a la especulación financiera, con un sistema político archi corrupto que no distingue entre oficialismo y oposición y un gobierno federal (con su sede en la ciudad de Buenos Aires) meramente decorativo sin autoridad institucional, no se puede esperar que el país o más bien, su estado desarrolle los altos temas de una geopolítica propia. En resumidas cuentas, hay un vacío en este campo altamente peligroso que desde hace tiempo (y en lo que se refiere a todas las áreas estratégicas) buscan llenar otros estados imponiendo sus particulares puntos de vista (especialmente el jurídico) que obviamente, atienden solamente a sus intereses.

Para los polos de poder en occidente y también de oriente, la Argentina es un país quebrado e impotente en el cual todo esta por hacer y es allí donde radica su valor como plaza estratégica para los intereses de cada uno de ellos. Sin dudas que los británicos corren con ventaja no solo por la ocupación que mantienen en el Atlántico sur sino, por la complacencia y anglofilia existente (que sueñan con ser parte del Commonwealth) en un núcleo de la elite política y financiera capitalina que bien se identifica con el PRO y otros exponentes políticos del llamado Frente por el Cambio. Todos estos en lo referente a Ucrania se han alineado detrás de la política atlantista que encabeza Washington demostrando esa vocación por tratar de pertenecer a un club sin contar con los requisitos (poder político, fuerza militar e importancia geopolítica) indispensables para su membrecía.

Para peor, hay sectores de la política argentina -del lado del oficialismo y de la oposición- que desde hace tiempo coquetean con esos intereses sin (aparentemente) darse cuenta los riesgos que ello implica máxime si tenemos en cuenta como actores de gran peso geopolítico han violado no solo el derecho internacional y toda la doctrina humanitaria que lo complementa sino incluso, la letra de acuerdos que ellos mismos habían firmado un tiempo antes.

Con este panorama en danza, es evidente la existencia de otra “grieta” que se proyecta en los altos niveles de la política y la diplomacia que se dividiría entre un posible gobierno de pro-atlantistas y otro favorable al multilateralismo que impulsan China y Rusia. En cualquiera de estos escenarios la Argentina no se halla preparada para ser un actor decisivo en cualquiera de estas tendencias ¿La razón? Décadas de degradación y falta de desarrollo lo imposibilita.

El amateurismo de la clase política argentina es imperdonable, pero ello no excusa la que les cabe a sus electores. El público argentino parece estar anestesiado o tal vez más bien, metido en los problemas cotidianos y meramente contingentes que no van más allá de sus propios bolsillos.  En este año de elecciones, la oferta electoral en danza no es nada brillante y en honor al realismo político, ninguno de los candidatos tiene la fórmula ni la fuerza para resolver una situación altamente compleja.

En este trágico y abúlico escenario, los altos intereses del país se ven tironeados en la actual compulsa por el control de la realidad global entre los partidarios de una moribunda pretensión angloestadounidense de seguir sujetando a los estados con el yugo hegemonista y las expectativas de las potencias orientales con China a la cabeza para extender las relaciones comerciales con el resto del mundo.

 

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.