The civil warfare between Ukraine and Russia is among the most poorly reported conflicts that I’ve ever witnessed. Western media has proven how a lot it has grow to be an arm of massive authorities.
A lot of our media and the British media have faithfully parroted Washington’s official occasion line on the warfare: saintly little Ukraine versus evil Goliath Russia. Not because the US invasion of Iraq has the American media so blatantly promoted a warfare or so vilified a overseas chief, President Vladimir Putin.
As we speak, he’s an ogre. However 20 years in the past, when his military was laying waste to the tiny Caucasian republic of Chechnya, the US authorities secretly financed Russia’s brutal repression of the independence-seeking Chechens.
Why? As a result of the Chechens had been Muslims.
Washington thought it could flip then Russian chief Boris Yeltsin right into a US consumer and produce Russia into America’s geopolitical orbit. US intelligence even equipped Moscow with a phone system offered to Chechen chief Dzhokhar Dudayev supposedly for ‘peace talks’ that was used to assassinate him.
One other tragic instance: one other third world chief. Gen. Jonas Savimbi, head of Angola’s UNITA anti-communist motion. In the course of the 1980’s, I used to be along with his guerilla military in southern Angola battling Angolan Marxists and their Cuban and East German allies.
Washington initially supported the charismatic Savimbi, one in every of Africa’s most succesful, clever leaders – till the Marxist regime in Luanda discovered much more oil and did a take care of the US to provide US markets.
After that, the devoted Savimbi grew to become a hinderance to US imperial oil plans in Africa. The CIA employed an Israeli hit squad that ambushed and murdered Savimbi – a reality confirmed to me by a former US ambassador.
The US then made allies of the oil-rich Angolan Marxists. As Henry Kissinger stated, being America’s ally may be extra harmful than being its enemy.
Ukraine ought to take this grim lesson to coronary heart. President Joe Biden clearly goals to complete off Putin’s Russia and Balkanize the previous Soviet state. Few know the way the US and its allies will take care of the manifest risks of an imploded Russia. Collapsed Yugoslavia in 1990 can be a doable analogy.
With excessive depth US media help and British machinations, the US neocons overthrew the pro-Moscow regime in Kiev and introduced within the present US ‘guided’ regime of President Zelensky, a former TV actor.
The highly effective oligarchs and legal dons who truly ran pre-1991 Ukraine had been stored within the wings by their American benefactors.
Having deserted Afghanistan’s drug barons, who equipped 90% of the world’s heroin provides, the US now took over as unofficial godfather of highly effective Ukraine’s underworld. Name it payback for the collapse of the US-installed puppet regime in Afghanistan.
Now, media hysteria has targeted on the difficulty of armed drones. These are little greater than grownup toys. Their army impact has been minor, apart from reconnaissance. Artillery has grow to be the actual decisive arm on the battlefield.
Throughout World Battle I it took a mean 1,600 – 1,800 artillery shells to kill a single enemy soldier. The NATO members are down to close empty in the case of shops of artillery shells over 120mm. Germany has admitted it’s nearly out of spare components and backup munitions. At one level, Germany had solely 15 operational tanks.
155mm shells, equivalent to these lavishly equipped to Ukraine by the US, Britain and Germany price from US $300 to $1,800 relying on if they’ve an inner steerage system. Fee of fireplace is 1-4 rounds a minute. A number of barrages of 155’s can rapidly quantity to an enormous amount of cash. To this point, the Biden administration has poured $95 billion into Ukraine’s warfare effort. US European allies have added about $50 billion to Kiev’s army.
This dreary warfare is prone to drag on for years. Either side face the chance of inner collapse or rebellion. Paradoxically, Putin introduced that Russia would reduce on army spending shortly earlier than Ukraine’s US-installed authorities determined to grow to be an ally of US-run NATO. At the moment, Putin had declared Russia would minimize method again on its previously highly effective typical forces and more and more depend on tactical nuclear weapons. Funds saved would go into the civilian economic system.
The end result: Russia’s typical forces had been critically weakened. Russia’s armored forces, navy and air forces suffered extreme cuts – simply because the Ukraine Battle exploded. Battle shares had been run down and never replenished. Curiously, the identical technique of gradual however largely hidden disarmament occurred amongst NATO members, notably Germany, whose army had grow to be a laughingstock. Neither facet would admit that they had critically depleted army forces.
If NATO’s proxy military in Ukraine breaks by way of and begins to advance into Crimea and southern Russia, Moscow may very well be compelled to make use of nuclear weapons or name on China’s giant armed forces for assist. President Biden and his neocon allies are so enthralled by the prospect of a pre-election army victory that they ignore the manifest risks such a improvement would convey.
