Don’t use the ‘E-word!”

 

 

It is becoming more and more difficult to find reliable reports and analyses regarding the situation in Ukraine. This is exacerbated by the shenanigans of Western politicians who posture with ever new ‘punitive’ proposals to achieve their goal, to ‘degrade’ Russia’s economy, as if we, the hapless taxpayers, won’t be affected in the slightest. Higher gas prices? Peanuts, just another small sacrifice we’ll make for Ukraine!

I won’t need to mention here the inglorious role our MSM play in this unfolding catastrophe. Over the last two years we’ve surely learned that their reporting cannot be trusted, that they are nought but government propaganda outlets, that we needed to rely on other media to find out about the truth the MSM and government tried to hide. 

The current situation is however unprecedented. Not only can we trust the MSM even less regarding their reports: are they based on reality or on fake ‘news’? It’s worse because sources ‘from the other side’ have been made unavailable thanks to western sanctions on Russian news outlets.

I am however going to mention a report in the DT because it demonstrates that US intelligence is fully aware of what happens on the ground:

“A US defence intelligence official said in a briefing that emerged overnight: “We continue to observe that the airspace over Ukraine is contested. Ukrainian air and missile defences remain effective and in use. The Ukrainian military continues to fly aircraft and to employ air defence assets. Both sides have taken losses to both aircraft and missile defence inventories. We are not going to speak to numbers. We assess that both sides still possess a majority of their air defence systems and capabilities.” (paywalled link)

Interesting – so the ‘news’ about Russia having lost their air supremacy are fake, are they? I cannot verify the rumours on various blogs that Ukrainian forces are getting up-to-date military information from US intelligence. I can and do wonder though why it is that the humanitarian corridors are allegedly being shelled and bombed by Russians if Ukrainian air forces ‘remain operational’.

Are the US spy services not telling the Ukrainians in ’real time’ where these Russian forces are concentrated so they can do those shellings? Are the Ukrainian forces neither capable of attacking those Russian forces nor willing to warn their citizens?

After all, not even those Ukrainiain battalions like the Azov one, a proudly neonazi one, would shell and bomb their owm people, would use them as human shields. Surely not! That would be fake news, wouldn’t it! Only – who knows when we cannot even access ‘fake news channels’, not even to point out their ‘fakeness’ but must accept what our own fake-news providers tell us?

Then there’s the economy. Of course, “we” are not only happy to bear the inflation now in full swing, “we” are surely willing to do so because our sacrifices will force Russia to her knees – or so Ambrose Evans-Pritchard tells us: “Vladimir Putin never believed the West would cut off Russian oil: that was a grave mistake” (paywalled link) Does he realise what his gloating description implies:

“The West has the strategic depth to endure the sudden loss of 4.3m barrels a day of Russian crude, the lion’s share sold to Europe and Nato democracies. It will be painful but is technically and economically doable. A crude blockade will make it impossible for the Kremlin to continue waging serious offensive war in Ukraine beyond a few weeks. There is a high chance that it will set off the internal disintegration of Vladimir Putin’s siloviki regime (KGB mafia), though by what mechanism remains obscure.” (paywalled link)

‘Tis a ‘cat-out-of-the bag’ moment: it’s not about helping poor innocent Ukraine, it’s about destroying Russia and toppling Putin. The rise in price for crude oil, at the time of writing standing at around $130 per barrel: aww, who needs oil nowadays!

Meanwhile, the EU will be happy to do without all Russian gas, even were Russia make good on their threat to stop all deliveries (link). It’s irrelevant that there’s been a gas shortage on the world market since last autumn. It’s irrelevant that gas is needed for more than just heating homes or running power stations. “We” can bear that and the oil shortage because AEP tells us that “The White House is sending emergency missions to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to find extra barrels.” (paywalled link), giving a whole new meaning to ‘America first’. Let the devil take the EU hindmost ….Next he gloats:

“It is this – as much as comments by top US diplomat Anthony Blinken – that tells us Washington really is going for broke. You can hear the footsteps of the world’s only real superpower bearing down fast.” (paywalled link)

It doesn’t seem to occur to those diplomats and indeed AEP that those countries might not be willing to play ball, not when the USA have just disrupted the international banking system. Even those ‘minor’ world leaders might ask themselves if there’ll be any guarantee now that their banking assets might not equally be ‘sanctioned’ as Russia’s in order to create ‘regime change’.

However, various economic analysts are not gloating, they warn of the economic consequences of the USA’s destruction of the global trade network, see for example Phil Mullan’s article in Spiked Online (link), this one by Michael Hudson or this analysis by Alistair Crooke (link).

Certainly we can also hear ‘the footsteps of the world’s only real superpower bearing down fast’, as AEP gleefully writes. However, these footsteps don’t herald the ‘end of Putin’, they herald the wilful destruction of the global economy. I sincerely doubt that ‘Teh West’ is prepared for this.

While the Johnsons and Trudeaus of this world posture and signal their anti-Russian virtue, we’re going to have to face inflation, even higher taxes and further destruction of businesses big and small. Where’s the security of  our energy supply and where’s the security of our food supply? Shall we have to eat all those solar panels which are now being ‘farmed ‘everywhere? 

The footsteps I hear aren’t those of ‘the only real western superpower’, they are the footsteps of the four riders of the Apocalypse.

 

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