Andrei Raevsky
EDITOR, THE SAKER BLOG
Fun headlines for CNN:
- US and Ukraine at odds over threat of Russian invasion
- US and UK embassy withdrawals were a “mistake,” says Ukrainian president
What?? Is that really CNN?
It is.
Furthermore, there are reports that Biden and Ze had a stormy telephone conversation which saw a furious Biden telling Ze that the invasion would happen. Apparently, Ze disagreed.
So what is going on here????
Bernhard at Moon of Alabama thinks that “Washington Will Soon Dump Ukraine’s President Zelensky“.
I concur. In fact, I think that the US is basically dumping country 404 aka Banderastan, and as I explained here and here in some detail, there is only one thing Uncle Shmuel wants from Ze and the Ukraine: for them to force Russia to intervene, either by a suicidal attack on the LDNR or by means of a false flag, or by some kind of atrocity.
A real nightmare for the AngloZionists is taking shape. Here are its components:
- In spite of all the external (and even INTERNAL!) pressures, the Kremlin does not want to invade the Ukraine at all. There are exactly ZERO signs that an attack is imminent or even planned.
- In case of a Ukie attack on the LDNR there is a very real possibility that Russia will not openly intervene, I explained it all in detail here.
- The US PSYOP about Putin being weak, indecisive or a puppet of the USA/Israel (I explained the nature, function and purpose of this CIA PSYOP in details here) is falling apart, not only was the ultimatum very much an ultimatum, but the Russians are backing it with things like these.
- NATO is cracking at the seams: the Croatians already said “no thanks”, the French and Germans don’t want to commit energetic seppuku, the Bulgarians are demanding details and guarantees and the French MPs are discussing whether to stay in NATO or not (they will stay, of course, but the topic is now raised).
- Neocon freaks like Nuland and Blinken are in full panic mode; they more than anybody else want a war and now that Russia seems to be able to deny them that, they will stay stuck with their own corruption, failures and potential electoral apocalypse in November.
- The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley warned a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be “horrific” for the country and would result in “significant” casualties. No kidding!
As for Ze, here are three headlines linked to his latest and, frankly, amazing statements:
- Ukraine crisis: Don’t create panic, Zelensky tells West
- Ukraine’s President Zelensky urges world leaders to tone down rhetoric on threat of war with Russia
- Volodymyr Zelensky accuses the West of causing ‘panic’ with warnings of a Russian invasion that hurts the Ukrainian economy
If anything, this open conflict between “Ze” and “Biden” shows two things:
- Zelensky does not want to die, not even for the United States
- Biden is losing control of the Ukie narrative, thus losing control of country 404
Keep in mind that all these fake news about a Russian invasion are resulting in an economic disaster for the Ukraine. Just like the AngloZionist sanctions ended up hurting the West a lot more than Russia (hence they had to give up the plan to disconnect Russian from the SWIFT).
Interestingly, the head of the German intelligence service felt compelled to support Biden’s “Russia is about to attack in 30 seconds, and that’s a fact” point of view. That will result in internal tensions inside Germany who just fired the head of the German Navy for disagreeing with the official AngloZionist narrative.
Chaos and panic at all levels and everywhere.
Except in Russia and least of all in the Kremlin, of course.
There are signs that the worst nightmare for the Neocons might actually happen and Russia won’t be forced to invade the Ukraine.
What do Neocons do when they panic? Correct – false flag operations: that is what MH-17 was all about. And the Skripals. And the “chemical attacks” in Syria. And Navalny. And so many others that I won’t list them here.
We can be sure they will try, what is uncertain is whether they will succeed.
These are the same people who did 9/11, and they are literally capable of *anything*, including a dirty bomb in downtown Kiev, a nuclear accident in the Ukraine blamed on Russian “saboteurs” or missiles, another civilian aircraft (or ship) destroyed a la MH-17, blow up a damn – you name it: if it is depraved, evil, ugly and based on accusations but zero evidence – you know its the Neocons who are at it.
Let’s wait for the US and NATO replies to become public before we try to guess what will happen next. The actual texts should be leaked soon.
—Andrei
SELECT COMMENTS FROM THE ORIGINAL THREAD
Thanks for your post Andrei.
I was furious about the MSM slander against Russia presented by Danish TV2.
https://thesaker.is/andrei-martyanovs-commentary-on-the-us-response-to-russia/
Later I saw that Canada is blowing up. Trudeau seems to have P++++ off the Canadians.
Today there are reports that Americans are protesting against more wars in DC
A Politician in Brussels (Demanding Anonymity) has told the German Bild that the US has acknowledged to the EU, that Russia probably does not intend to invade Ukraine.
PS.
A week ago DR news flash wrote that a British destroyer was passing by Copenhagen on its way into the Baltic Sea. Denmark do not accept foreign Navy with nuclear weapons onboard passing by Copenhagen.
Does Russia have a full overview of the location of all NATO ships in the Baltic Sea?
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> Does Russia have a full overview of the location of all NATO ships in the Baltic Sea?
Yes.
As do we armchair generals. There are open source trackers of all global flights, and all marine traffic.
And there are people globally who sit and watch these trackers all day and all night for fun. And report what they observe in chat logs.
Ok. It’s not 100%. And of course super-secret military moves are more difficult to track. But don’t underestimate these obsessives.
@White Whale
This goes with the shortwave radio junkies like myself too, formatting has been cracked and transmission sites of number stations has been located, although you still can’t actually decrypt anything if you aren’t the intended recipient. ))
There was a NO WAR WITH RUSSIA/ DISMANTLE NATO Anti War demonstration yesterday in Washington DC.
“Hope some sane people in the West will stand up and speak out loud and …”
There are people doing this but the problem is the “Rupert Murdoch” media cabal won’t let it be reported fairly and openly.
Walter
” Hope some sane people in the West will stand up and speak out loud … “.
Yes, that would be nice. However, what at the moment is important is the fact that a rift has arisen within NATO regarding Ukraine, with European members beginning to refuse any potential military participation. It was to have been expected.
As I have written before, two world wars were fought on European soil and there is no mood for World War Three, as the two previous conflicts have not been forgotten, especially World War Two. This is something that the neocons in Washington DC and New York are incapable of understanding, nor do they wish to understand.To them Europe is a playground for American interests. A European reaction was inevitable. It will increase in due course.
We are getting a lot of military and technical information, 1) but what about drones? Wouldn’t that be the best way to take down special forces? 2) All money is in computers. We take down other people grids like it is our right. Doesn’t the great reset imply we have no money so they can use theirs? Does WEF actually need to take the grid down?
Russia doesn’t do invasion. She does, however, do assistance. Consider her not so recent actions in Syria and her very recent actions in Kazakhstan. What if, admittedly a big what if, Zelensky were to ask Russia for assistance? The current Russian naval manoeuvres are interesting. Quite a lot of ships are reportedly heading for Syria. Is it time to finally clean up Idlib? On the other side of the Eurasian landmass there’s Taiwan. Let’s not forget Taiwan. Sooner or later Xi will have to lance that boil, but not before his Olympic party.
The gauntlet has been thrown. The tension is exquisite.
The ships going to Tartus in Syria appear to be using that as a port to engage in the military exercises Russia is conducting in the Med. Of course, they also provide additional support for the Russian navy in the Med to counter the US fleet exercises also going on in the Med.
Of course, both sides are merely positioning themselves in case something kicks off that escalates. Standard operating procedure during a crisis.
It appears, however, that Russia considers this a serious crisis, because allegedly this is the first time since the Soviet Era that the entire Russian navy (except ships in for repair and refitting) are going to be at sea. I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is it would appear Russia is pulling out all the stops to make a point.
One wonders if Xi will ask Putin on the 4th Feb for some naval-air cover over Libya (as well as Syria) as China gets on with a Syrian-Libyan post-Nato reconstruction programme?
If Xi wants naval air cover, he can get the PLA-Navy to do so. They have the resources.
I bet the raising of ISIS ugly head is another reason for fleet groups heading to the Mediterranean – it directly equates to a matter of national security. It also ensures that whatever ships Nato puts in the Black Sea can basically become trapped inside, or prevent too much stuff from going in, however you want to put it.
“bet the raising of ISIS ugly head is another reason for fleet groups heading to the Mediterranean”
No, not the case at all. It is a tried and tested situation that the Russian Navy has done before.
Pacific Fleet’s cruiser Varyag was sent in autumn 2013, to boost the presence there, with heightened tensions over Syria which resulted in chemical weapons disposal under UN supervision.
2013 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-russia-navy-idUSBRE97S0AK20130829
https://archive.shine.cn/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=196078
2018 another instance of Russian Navy boosting its presence in the Mediterranean https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-massive-naval-armada-syria-us-chemical-weapons-strike-2018-8
So, it is not a one-off but shows the urgency and seriousness of the overall geopolitical situation. Not forgetting that there are 3 aircraft carriers on NATO exercises in the central Med, Neptune Strike. U.S, Italian and French. So, the Russian Navy is wary and monitors their presence:
AGI radio comms: https://twitter.com/nat_ahoy/status/1486317736783491076
To be honest, I would prefer Russia to be allied with Ukraine again.
There are plenty of things that need to change though, like purging the nazi fascists, new leadership (that isn’t a puppet of the West), crackdown on rampant corruption, expelling the West, reparations to Donetsk and Luhansk etc.
Only after these things are complete can Ukraine start acting like Russia’s brother again.
Now, will it happen? Highly unlikely.
Meanwhile, internal pressure is building on Biden.
The Republicans are clamoring for the transcript of the Ze-Biden phone call. Like the Dems demanded and got the “perfect phone call” between Ze and Trump.
A true sign of Biden’s policy was delivered by gravity today.
The Bridge to Tomorrow (my name for the mortally wounded edifice) in Pennsylvania fell before Biden could get there.
A fateful “burning bridges before you cross them” is symbolic of all Biden’s geopolicies. He never helped his birth home state in 50 years of Congress and Senate. He stuffed all the dough in his own pockets.
Today, he went to sell his domestic agenda in a state that has 1,000 bad bridges and half its roads riddled with potholes. And he hopes for this, his native state, to deliver resurrection of his collapsing poll numbers.
Biden is symbol of the US condition. Old, broken, dangerous and ready for gravity to pull it all down.
So goes Joe, so goes Ukraine, so goes Uncle Sam.
US engineers have been saying this for years, billions need to be spent to just
fix current problems never mind building brand new infrastructure like in China.
Like you say it’s all gust falling apart round their corrupt ears.
“. He never helped his birth home state in 50 years of Congress and Senate. He stuffed all the dough in his own pockets. ”
I believe Biden did help/protect the usurious credit-card corporations in Delaware big-time. In so doing he has significantly hurt minority and other communities in the USA, since these corporations, with their debt hooks, have creamed off huge profits from all of the USA’s poor, and minority communities especially, whose members were unable to get credit elsewhere.
And, Biden has protected Delaware as a financial haven for many large US corporations. So he might have done something for the employees of those companies who live in Delaware. But not for anyone else!!
And I’m sure his pockets have been well lined in return for these protections.
Of course it is the same deal with Texas politicians and the oil industry. And California politicians and Silicon Valley. Etc.
Taffy,
You are correct regarding the state Amtrak Joe represented.
However he was born in Pennsylvania. The bridge collapsed in that state.
But everything’s fluid now in the USA. Like “Liberace in a flowing gown of glittering rhinestones (c)”
Who remembers where anyone was born? Do we even know where Obama was really born
They say there were only 3 minor casualties, totally dismissive of a huge down & out tent city who lived under that bridge, much like the disenfranchised do under most bridges in America.
“Biden is symbol of the US condition. Old, broken, dangerous and ready for gravity to pull it all down.” Good one. I’ll be quoting that one in the future, with your permission and credit.
What’s remarkable is that both Russia AND Ukraine are essentially saying that no invasion is on the cards even as the US and it’s closest satrapies in the 5-eyes insist if it is.
It seems to dawning on Zelensky that the role his DC patrons demand of him is one who will lead his country into a ruinous war for their benefit. No doubt Zelensky personally is being offered all sorts of post-war jobs: a high-paying sinecure in a NATO think tank/tech corporation/consultancy firm.
It should also now be abundantly clear to even average Ukrainians and any intelligent Europeans, that the Washingtonian Empire sees Ukrainians as disposable cannon fodder for the war they want – even desperately need for their own domestic reasons – with Russia which apart from killing Russians will serve as a trigger for the teed up sanctions – the real aim – that will severely impact both Russia and as a bonus Europe thus keeping them under the US/global elites mercy. All this with no cost to the US/UK and a huge benefit to their “defense” companies (who recently quite openly spoke about how it will be good for business.
The biggest threat to Russia as a nation after all is NOT a military war but an economic one. While Russia is relatively well protected militarily, its economics are less so as much as Russia has tried to decouple and protect itself from outside pressure. War is a means to an end, and the end that Washington desires is a fractured Russia like it was after the dissolution of the USSR (which imploded without a shot being fired from the West but having the same result as a full-blown invasion: a massive collapse of state power in all external and internal dimensions.
The sanctions then – and with it the total subservience of Europe – are the true prize and the ones Washington seems determined to find reasons to impose. And this is what Russia needs to figure out how to mitigate against.
I would argue that sanctions will turn fully against the U.S. First, Europe will not be happy with them and their economy will suffer greatly from lack of interaction with Russia. Secondly, the blowback from that and from other countries looking at Russia and China decoupling from the Washington consensus of global financial institutions (WTO, SWIFT, IMF, World Bank, BIS et al) well may lead them to join more tightly with Russia and China, thus slaying the US$.
Just conjecture, I’m not a fortune teller, and above all, I hope that Russia can out wait and outwit the US establishment.
@Jim Miles
Two days ago president Putin was talking to Italian businessmen in a zoom conference, and it seems there was the basis to continue their profitable relationship in the future. It seems to me that both Russia and China must have thought about a substitute for SWIFT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPbdGK80zxM&t=886s
For me, yours is the most perspicacious comment in this string.
It’s what Russia and China need to figure out. Russia is not on its own economically this time around.
I suggest that the biggest threat to US as an A-Z empire is both a military war AND an economic one. The shylock banksters are desperate for a war to cover their bad bets and keep the house of cards propped up. The pandemic and vax campaign is losing steam.
Not convinced by that argument. The shylock banksters are the ones driving this war because it will collpase the global finacial system and the national economies. They will then clean up by foreclosing on all the defaulting loans they have on their books. Those defaults will allow them to take ownership of real estate and businesses that were purchased with money that never existed until the shylock banksters put the digits in the borrowers bank accounts.
The problem is that this is all the work of narcissistic parasites whose self absorbed insanity gets in the road of realistic appraisals of the odds of success. The resistance is growing by the day and it is possible to come away feeling a little bit hopeful if one reads beyond the mainstream.
The biggest economic threat to Russia is their Central Bank, which has strangled Russia with high interest rates for a decade. Bragging about low or no government deficits is stupid. That is a guarantee of economic stagnation. I don’t know how history can be any more clear on that.
Based on various negative comments, a question arises, why is Russia letting The Rothschild Group operate in Moscow. The Rothschild Group is involved in restructuring, investment advisory, … Since when?
Also, why is PJSC Sberbank a state-owned Russian banking and financial services company headquartered in Moscow listed on Wall Street (SBRCY)? State doesn’t have money? Why share important information with an adversary by listing on their financial markets?
Since 2007 it has been known to the awakened that the Financial Empire is going to capture Russia again and bring it under control as was the situation in 1990s. The Empire has been pursuing “encirclement” and “containment” of Russia and before that the Soviet Union since 1947. There is nothing new about it. Just read the Bilderberg meeting notes. Even in 2019 Bilderberg, Russia was a key topic. When will Russia address this challenge?
“Six Russian companies have successfully gone public in the past 12 months and at least 10 more are rumored to go public in the coming months. Russian IPO market returned to life in late 2020.
Russian firms raised around $7 Billion in 2021 listings,” Russia has no money for its companies? No $7 billion? Why list on the Adversaries’ markets? How many listed & raised in London? Has Russia been Sleeping? What does Russia not understand?
“At least 10 Russian companies could hold an initial public offering (IPO) in 2022,”
– Dec 14, 2021
Any article that misses the important dimension of Money, ignores financial markets,… is mistaken or misleading, most likely. Follow the money. Numbers validate the assumptions and hypothesis.
Russia is strong militarily but weak monetarily?
Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-rothschild/rothschild-bucking-trend-contemplates-new-hires-in-russia-idUSKCN0WI27W
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/11/12/russian-oil-magnate-who-sued-rothschild-sees-ny-case-dismissed
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sbrcy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2021/09/12/quietly-russia-beating-the-market-now-wall-street-eyes-new-ipos
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/least-10-russian-companies-considering-ipos-2022-advisers-say-2021-12-14/
Regards,
Max