- Russia’s original war plan vs. the new plan,
- Sooner or later, one of the Ukraine’s nuclear reactors will rapture,
- Civilians blessing and waving to Russian soldiers in Kharkov,
- War crime or TV crime drama?
- No, Russia won’t use WMD’s in the Ukraine,
- Russia targeting NATO arms shipments,
- A lesson from the Russo-Turkish war,
- Azov cries “uncle!”,
- A little about Trump,
- And other splendid tales of action and adventure!
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Russia’s Plan A and Plan B, explained
Please see the two video messages from me, below.
The first video covers the prospects for “Chernobyl 2.0”—a topic no one is talking about yet, but that everyone will be talking about, sooner or later.
The second (longer) video describes how and why Russia’s initial war plan FAILED (although the Ukraine’s military was severely degraded)…..
…..and, how it has been adjusted.
Heads will explode
I am asking everyone plugged in to “MSM thinking” to NOT watch the below video.
Your loved ones don’t want to have to clean your brains off the computer screen.
This video was taken in Kharkov province, the Ukraine. The forces in this video are Russian.
What’s going on here? Why are people greeting and even blessing the vodka-soaked invading demon-horde?
Clearly, these people are no longer afraid.
Some hundreds of kilometers to the southeast, a jerk in Kherson (under Russian control) killed blogger Valerii Kuleshov, a former Ukrainian soldier who wrote too favorably of the Russian presence in his city, and may have been trying to start a political career.

Evidently, he was not afraid enough.
This is terrorism, literally.
Top members of Zelensky’s regime stated in March that any local officials who recognize and cooperate with the Russians, are signing their own death warrants.
Well, it’s not just officials who can be a target, it’s anyone.
They have not (yet) killed any Russian soldiers in Kherson, but they sure know how to terrorize their neighbors.
However, Russia has huge experience with cleaning up “undergrounds” in the Caucasus. They can probably deal with it in the Ukraine.
Over the last week, close to 100 of the Ukraine’s “stay behind” personnel have been rounded up in Kherson and Zaporozhia, and huge quantities of arms seized.
I won’t bore you with the videos, but it’s crazy how much weaponry the Ukraine Security Service left behind for a partisan war, which did not get off the ground.
Nonetheless, there are those who are prepared to kill anyone who cooperates or speaks favorably of the Russian presence.
Sooner or later, they will all be cleaned up. As I have mentioned, these parts are going back to Russia.
Not enough war crimes, so let’s make some up
This reminds me of the joke line, “America is so racist that Jussie Smollett had to fake an assault on himself.”
The below photo has been going around Ukrainian media (social but not only), the same Telegram channels and other outlets that hyped the “Ghost of Kiev”, which great minds such as Congressman Dan Crenshaw fell for.
In an alternate universe, this photo shows the corpse of a woman who was killed and thrown into a sewer by Russian soldiers in hard-hit Borodianka near Kiev.
Conveniently, this photo circulated on the same day that the Prime Ministers of Spain and Denmark visited Borodianka to witness all the horror for themselves.

In our universe, the photo shows a minor Russian actress named Svetlana Vasilieva, from the Russian TV series След (trail or trace), which is Russia’s answer to the epidemic of crime scene forensic dramas in the USA.
Svetlana was so upset about the whole thing, she put out a video message to condemn it.
If you want to get in touch with her regarding any future roles, her contact info is here.
Let’s set something straight
Anyone (Boris Johnson comes to mind) who says or implies that Russia will or may use tactical nuclear weapons or chemicals weapons in the Ukraine, against Ukrainian forces, absent a direct NATO intervention in the Ukraine, is off their rocker.
You don’t use those weapons when you’re winning.
This talk plays into the hands of the Ukraine’s psychological operations machine, which has gone from “bodies on the street” war crimes, to mass rape allegations…..
…..and will soon have to up the ante to chemical weapons, just to stay relevant and keep people interested.
Anyone playing into this, is either smoking borscht, or is knowingly helping lay the groundwork for “something.”
Russia is awake, who could have guessed?
Russia has begun targeting ground shipments of NATO country weapons into the Ukraine.
In recent days, at least two separate NATO-donated weapons stores/caches in or near Odessa—“resting” but intended for movement eastwards—have been destroyed by cruise missiles.
Previously, Russia was unable to track down every minivan with Stinger or antitank missiles, but the volume has gotten so large now (and some of the equipment itself is much larger) that Uncle Sam & Co. must move it on larger vehicles, or on flatcars by rail, or store it in large piles in-between multiple legs of the trip.
The hunt is on.
As laid out in my last post, there is no way Uncle Sam & Co. can deliver all this stuff—at least, not without moving forces into the Ukraine to protect the shipments along most of their passage route.
But they will keep trying, because they’ve got nothing else—their populations don’t want to get involved “openly.” What else can they do?
If nothing else, they will force Russia to use up some of its cruise missiles to blow the stuff up in transit, or to knock out the Ukraine’s rail system entirely.
All Ukraine, all the time
Below is the “upper fold” of the Saturday, April 23rd print edition of the Washington Post. As you can see, the photo and three-quarters of the stories are about the Ukraine war.

For the MSM, the Ukraine has replaced George Floyd the corona. It’s all they have. They must remind you that “it’s Putin’s inflation” and “this is why we have to stand up to Russia”, so let’s get behind Brandon, this is the great crisis of our times.
This was predictable. Also predictable is that the “controlled opposition” (in the USA, we call it the GOP) and many of its voters have signed on to this, hard, like a cat chasing a laser pointer.
This is no surprise. There are dummies among conservatives in the USA, just as there are dummies among Democrats.
Perhaps, Republican “leaders” in Congress can see through the crap, but they’re all actors and they’re too weak and lazy to take on the Narrative.
Why go against the flow? Sure, it might “turn south”… in three or six months. But they expect the next election to just fall into their lap, regardless.
In that context, why challenge the Narrative? The Narrative will open up some new chapter in a few months, some other New Thing will come along. One can’t keep up!
Nothing to see here
American news (to include alternative news) sources have placed all Ukrainian Nazis into the Azov regiment.
The reality is, the Nazis are all over the place.
In the below video, two men of the Solnyshko (“Little Sun”) volunteer militia unit—from western Ukraine—are sieg-heil’ing at the camera. This is not the Azov.
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As for the Azov, as I’ve written before, it is only the most famous (or infamous) unit within the Ukraine Interior Ministry’s National Guard component.
The National Guard in its current iteration was formed as a politically-vetted backup army, after the regular army proved unreliable in the first weeks of the 2014 “Russian Spring” in the Donbass.
The National Guard recruited many thousands of “second chance”, “dead ender” losers and freaks like this guy, who was fortunate to be taken prisoner recently.

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In addition to regular army garrisons, the Ukraine permanently stationed various National Guard units throughout the Donbass, to keep a boot on the place, as the army, despite its enormous improvement since 2014, was still seen as insufficiently political, and likewise insufficiently motivated to intimidate the local population (e.g., identifying and having pleasant chats with suspected Russian sympathizers.)
Yes, the National Guard is the Ukrainian SS.
The most “internationally” well-known National Guard unit is of course the Azov, with its major (but not exclusive) base in Mariupol, where it functioned as a sort of mafia empire.
But the fact is, the entire Donbass was peppered with this filth.
Azov cries “uncle!”
This past week, we found out (who knew?) that the Azov holed up in the steel factory in Mariupol, have up to 1000 “camp followers” with them!
Saint Zelensky demands a “humanitarian corridor” to get everyone out!
Amazing, we just find out about this. How can we be sure their women and children are with them?
Well, there’s a video of a dozen or perhaps 20 people in a basement somewhere, complaining how it’s not fun to be down there.
Here’s one of those people:

Whoops! Wrong photo.
Russia has said, anyone who wants to come out, come out with your hands up, white flag, etc., you won’t be harmed.
But, no, the Azov wants to evacuate to Ukrainian-controlled territory in an automobile convoy, with at least some of its weapons, and of course with those civilians (if they exist)—and, it all has to be coordinated and guaranteed by some foreign power, say, France.
Did I mention, our MSM conveniently forgot these guys are Nazis?
Their shoulder patch insignia is based directly on that of the 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich.”
I don’t know about civilians at the steel factory, but I do know this female corpse, below, was found by Donetsk forces in the basement of a Mariupol school (which had been used as a military base), with a Nazi swastika painted on her stomach in (presumably her own) blood.
(CAUTION, NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. ALTHOUGH THE FACE IS NOT REALLY DISCERNABLE, IT’S STILL A BODY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WATCH THIS. DON’T SEND ME YOUR PSYCHOTHERAPIST’S INVOICE.)
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These jokers don’t deserve to be let out in some victory convoy. They need to surrender or die.
“Fickle peasant scum” will abandon the Ukraine
The Anglosphere is a funny thing. Public opinion turns nowhere faster than in the English-speaking countries.
During the Bulgarian rebellion of 1876, the British public got wind of rapine and mass murder committed by the Turks, and shortly thereafter, the UK saw the largest organized, peaceful outpouring of public opinion in the history of any nation, up to that time.
Thousands of church congregations, guilds, union chapters, party chapters, and other groups made a show of delivering letters to the Government, begging that something be done.
Well, something was done… by Russia. Russia moved in to support the Bulgarian insurgents. It was the Russo-Turkish war of 1876-77.

But, you see, the Brits didn’t want Russia to fix it—they wanted their own country to fix it. Public opinion turned harshly against Russia.
Everyone forgot about the Bulgarians (just as all the peasants today have forgotten about George Floyd and the corona.)
There were protests, riots. Police barely managed to turn a large mob away from storming the house of a retired top Government minister who was seen as too understanding of Russia. (Yes, history rhymes.)
What’s my point? As you can imagine, no one will care about the Ukraine in six months.
In the first days of the war, I said that in three or six months, American voters will have other concerns so pressing, they will sign away the Ukraine with a seller subsidy, and seller pays closing costs. (To non-Americans, this is real estate market lingo.)
It is preordained.
Is Trump reading the Dreizin Report?
Trump came out with a press release some days ago, saying the Ukraine will be wrecked, and it will be total carnage and everyone everywhere will die, unless there are peace talks and a deal can be reached.
Well, it’s nice to see POTUS 45 reading the Dreizin Report.
He went from “it’s genocide” to “they need to make a deal” in three days.
How can you make a deal with people who are “genociding” you?
Well, you know Trump tends to bounce around.
But it’s not enough. He is only five percent of the way to redeeming his dumb butt.
Trump needs to disassociate himself from the mass vakk-sin-ashun drive, yesterday.
He must come out and say the vakk-seenz should have been for the old and vulnerable only. That he never intended it to be for everyone.
Whether that’s true or not, doesn’t matter.
He must understand what’s coming. We should all understand.
We have never had a global mass vakk-sin-ashun campaign IN THE MIDDLE OF A FAST-MUTATING VY-RAL EPI-DEMIKK.
We have never placed the evolutionary pressure on any vy-rus, that we are putting on the corona now.
Anyone who gets their vy-rology news and views from experts, rather than pediatric doctors or hospital administrators on CNN, understands this.
But, what does it mean?
It means there is going to be a much deadlier strain, and (like the Oh-mee-kron) it will hit the vakk-sin-ated, because—as has been proven—they have lost the ability to produce authentic (“innate”) anti-bawdies to the corona, rather than the vakk-seen programmed anti-bawdies which are set, immutable, and cannot be adapted to changes in the virus.
This is a recipe for catastrophe. The majority in all developed countries are vakk-sin-ated, in most cases with a so-called “gene therapy” vakk-seen. Their immune systems can no longer keep up with the vy-rus. They are hard-wired to fight older versions of the vy-rus.
It’s not even clear there’s a way out that it will leave anything standing.
We don’t know WHEN it will happen, but it will happen, perhaps just in time for another virtual election.
(It will be funny if the Republican party elite—so certain of total victory—gets rolled again.)
Trump must publicly renounce his Big Wonderful Vakk-seenz, or at least, the vakk-sin-ashun strategy that came after him.
It’s also time his stingy, Scrooge McDuck butt wrote a check to Ashli Babbitt’s parents and/or her partner.
They have waited long enough.
She followed him to the death (maybe went a little overboard)—now it’s well past time for him to take a five-minute break from golfing at Mar-a-Lago, and acknowledge that she existed.
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Copy of message to Fox News.
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Russian soldiers appear with US Javelin missiles in music video.
See t=172 seconds
WE WILL TEAR FOR JUSTICE
Mar 21, 2022
https://youtu.be/SdjfbLcXtuU?t=172
Were these missiles captured from Ukrainians or bought from Ukrainians.
If bought, who will the money go to?
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Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin
Did you know that 2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich.” commited the worst massacre in France of WW2 in Oradour-sur-Glane. Everyone is a small town was murdered – men, women, children – in especially brutal ways, which I will spare you from describing. That France is now supporting Nazis who display this insignia… beyond shame.
Was that when they rounded up everyone into the town church and burned it?
“The 2014 revolution”…..????
Coup, whatever. I’m not on a teleprompter. You try talking without umm and ahem for 30 minutes straight! Good luck!
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Can you point to a good resource about this info? Genuinely trying to learn. Thanks!
I can’t help but add that I just happened to watch the movie “Wag the Dog” for the first time a few weeks ago, so I had to laugh when I saw the “Whoops! Wrong photo” image. So apropos!
Bulgarian here.
I am flattered you mention Bulgarian liberation war. This picture is from the Shipka battle. Where 3000 Bulgarians had to hold on 20 000 ottomans from supporting the north garnison in Pleven. The battle was hold in the Balkans mountain range in Shipka passage.
And the poem said:
“…Every tree is a sword, every stone – a bomb,
every object – a blow, every soul – a flame.
But stone and tree disappeared there.
“Seize the bodies!” someone screamed
and bodies dead soared
like demons black over black hordes,
tumbling, fighting as if again alive!
And the Turks tremble, having never seen
together to fight both dead and alive…”
full text:https :// bg-read.livejournal.com/5089.html (I add spaces)
The real problem came afterwords when England and France decided to split Bulgarian on pieces which lead to 20 years of genocide against Bulgarians from its neighbors, 2 000 000 replaced people and over 500 000 dead, most of which children. This political act from GB and France is the single cause lead to Balkans wars from 1911-1914 and the battles from the WWI on the Balkans.
No Bulgarian will fight against Russia, despite the passions of our “American spy” PM.
Sorry, i do not accept “stream of consciousness” comments, that is just pollution. Get to the point, or at least, stay on a topic and make a point.
After reading your reports, listening to the Duran, Gonzalo Lira , Scott Ritter and Patric Lancaster , I am amazed how corrupt our media is, even Fox News. I knew it all long, but now it is just confirmed. I am glad people like you and others still exist, free speech in US is slowly disappearing, keep reporting.
Great summery of what had happened.
I do think Putin had limited plans for Ukraine at first just secure the Donbas
But with their ship sunk and now their entire Black Sea fleet at risk I would imagine Russia will take over all of Ukraine in the south bordering the Black Sea and never give back
And like someone mentioned once they take over an area they can’t leave cause it will put the people at risk of being slaughtered by the Notsees
I just found your blog today thanks to a link posted by Alex in Cyprus who I have been following for a few weeks now. I am amazed by the accuracy of your reporting and your coverage of Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine. I have lived in Russia for over 30 years now (I moved here from the West in 1990) and have been trying to make sense of what is going on in Ukraine since the conflict escalated in February. You explain clearly what I have thought is happening (but vaguely) and the question that immediately springs to mind is “How do you know all this?” I have total trust in what you say, it’s just I am curious how an American knows all this – lol!
P.S. Well, I guess it is a big assumption on my part to say you are an American, I am only judging by the way you speak English )))
Yes, I am an American. Although, my Russian is almost as good as my English. Thanks for reading!
I dont think Russian Military is a juvenile kid that does not know about war games! What you are saying is that Russia invaded Ukraine without a plan. That does not sound like Russia. A country that have limited Resources and have invaded Ukraine with a disavantage of 3/4 to 1 military man, i think you should and could be more like Scott Ritter, that have give a more detailed explanation about the invasion, where they gave Ukraine something to think on Kiev, while they were attacking the south east – mariopoul, and then donbass, and than odessa, and then the west frontier with polony, and then kiev, this makes more sense than your little strategy.
By the way, for a country (on your view) that has no strategy, they get alway so easy from the goons from Blackrock and Vanguard strategy of stealing Russian money (350 billion dollars on Fed reserve) and then sanctions… Russia has been so good, so far, is this a failure? or are they any good?
I never said Russia had “no strategy.” You imagine what you want.
The USA went into Iraq with no plan at all. It happens. Putin is more intelligent than all the Bush people put together, and he certainly had a plan, but no, he’s not perfect, and the plan did not work. So, moving on to the next plan.
Too many silly people attribute God-like qualities (e.g., omniscience, infallibility) to Putin. This is medieval thinking. If he’s such a god, why did he lose the Ukraine in the first place, in 2014?
I don’t think he lost Ukraine in 2014, he was just not ready to act at that time. It was too soon and he didn’t have enough leverage or legitimacy. Russia supported the so-called separatists in Donbass at that time, but did not launch a full-scale military attack for understandable reasons. Things gradually unfolded over the following 8 years. There was the attempt to come to a peace settlement in Belarus – the Minsk Agreements – which were subsequently violated over and over by the Ukrainian side, followed by the ongoing attacks on Donetsk and Lugansk by the Ukrainians and these regions claiming their independence. But still it wasn’t time for Russia to recognize their independence, although it continued to support the DNR and LNR.
Push came to shove in February of this year when Ukraine began to mass its military might in the south with the intent of taking back Crimea. I knew Putin would not go into Ukraine unless the Ukrainians did something major to provoke it, orchestrated by the collective West. Which is what happened.
I’m not talking about the military aspect. Putin lost the Ukraine by allowing the Maidan to happen, and then to succeed. Russia’s ambassador was busy running his own pharmacy chain in the Ukraine, while America was preparing to take over the place. If Putin was omniscient, he would have found another ambassador.
Hi Dreizin
I have a slightly different take on the success / purpose of Plan A (Phase 1); I don’t know if it is correct, but I think it is worth considering.
How could a risky Phase 1 have been avoided? The assumption is that Russia could have done “Phase 1” better, but how are you going to do that in the satellite surveillance / cell phone/internet era?
It took the US more that 3 months to logistically prepare Desert Storm and Hitler the better part of year to prepare Barbarossa. Here is what the Germans had to do to conceal their Ardennes Offensive that became the Battle of the Bulge in 1944:
Chapter 5 The Battle of the Bulge (pg 54)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13807.11?seq=4
Look at how few German officers knew of the Ardennes Offensive before it happened.
There is no way such a buildup of Russian forces would have gone unnoticed. The United States can’t move an armored division around the United States without people noticing it and posting videos to Twitter. And US satellites would have seen the Russian army entraining all over the country as well as intercepted the communications traffic. Could Putin even have informed most people in his own government?
What do people think would have happened if Putin have mobilized 80% of the Russia army and placed it along the Ukrainian frontier? The Ukrainians would have moved their forces into defensive positions and buried all of their fuel and ammunition and may have flown their air force out of the country. An if the buildup went on long enough NATO could have declared a no-fly zone over Ukraine that Putin would have to dare to violate. (And stuffed Ukraine with S300 and Patriot missile systems as “non-offensive” weapons.) As it is now, the Russians have a “de facto” no-fly zone over Ukraine that NATO has to fear to violate. That is some accomplishment. IMHO
So, in order to ACHIEVE SURPRISE, the Russians had to proceed with a minimum number of forces minimally supplied. And I think this was the reason we didn’t see Russia’s best troops on the battlefield, lots of risk taking and higher casualties. And the Ukrainians were caught out, with troops in forward positions and supplies and air force out in the open.
The Phase II that we are witnessing now is the logistical / supply buildup that should have preceded Phase 1/ Plan A, but didn’t. For an operation the size of this one, a tremendous amount of time is needed to prepare for it. So, for those criticizing Phase 1 consider the required buildup phase that has to happen before operations of such magnitude are undertaken. When was/is it supposed to happen?
True, Phase 1 didn’t result in a collapse of the Ukrainian government, but it would have been wishful thinking to think that might have happened given the constraints Russia had to deal with in order for the operation to be a surprise. IMHO
I don’t know if I am correct, but I think this has to be factored into some of the analysis. IMHO
*Also think about this same factor in terms of Taiwan. Can China assemble a D-Day size force and keep it a secret? How would one plan for a “surprise” invasion of Taiwan?
What you’re saying makes a lot of sense. Brilliant analysis.
Another great report , my question is where and how do you think this is going to end ? do you think it could escalate ?
As of now, it is well on track to end with the destruction of the ukraine at a minimum. In the “Four Horsemen” scenario that I fear (I think we are in for some very hard times) it may even end with the total fragmentation of the U.S. hegemonic bloc.
Something I “noticed” often of the people waving at the Russian convoys… they’re actually making the sign of the cross over the soldiers and blessing them. Amazing.
Yeah, wild!
Those women giving the sign of the cross and blessing Russian troops is an atavistic repeat of the old WW2 eastern front videos where babushka babas blessed the troops defeating the Nazis in the great Moscow counteroffensive of 1941/42. That religious and patriotic fervor should scare the pants off any westerner vaguely familiar with Russia’s role in winning WW2. Faith and strong leadership – and superior weapons – will win this war. Russia will win this war and will go as far as they have to in order to win it. The signs of the cross mandate it.
Could it be that it’s not necessarily Russia that is rushing to absorb all these newly liberated territories into its own state but rather people and the leadership of these territories? They’ve seen what happened in Bucha, and want some security guarantees from Russia.They also know that Ukraine is broke, it has been in default since 2016, while Russia will be sure to invest in r4ecovery and provide social payments and services.
The Russians are already delivering pension payments to the areas they control. Russification is well under way, They intend to remain forever, just in case the message is lost on the Ukrainians and the collective West.
Saw the short yet informative enough videos and visited the page expecting dry walls of monotonous text. But there was colors and even some humor. Even political incorrectness, nice. In my country that is basically a crime btw.
Hah! You will find drywall at the Home Depot, not on my site. 🙂
As a fellow US Army veteran, I applaud your posts. When I was young and in the service, I did not understand. I now understand the single most dangerous force in the world today is the USA. We have been responsible for death and misery wherever we go. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much. Yes, we are the single most dangerous… and the single most beneficial. What is that called, a paradox? I am not sure.
You are correct – your statement is called a paradox. Don’t take my word for it, see, https://www.youtube.com/user/smoothieX12/videos
Plenty of people haven’t forgotten about covid. It’s just that the media and the Biden administration are in a rush to pretend it’s over.
Your new addition of Video Blog is a good move, but I wish you’d look straight at the camera.
Also, the last article “You Wanna F*** With Me? Say Hello To My Little Friend!” I picked Coke head and I was right. Check this video out where Saint Zelenski boasts about charging up with a snort of Coke to last him all day. I think the interview was before he became president. The look on the interviewer is priceless.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Y6CGIO0d8Tue/
Thanks, the videoblog thing is new to me. I will work it out.
Check out Andrei Martyanov’s progression from his first few video blogs (For context, I watched them all). He cleverly created signature intro and sign off phrases and stock opening photo. As you, he does not mince words and has a subtle sense of humor. https://www.youtube.com/user/smoothieX12/videos
Congrats on The Duran using your Plan A Plan B video and high praise from co-host Alexander Mercouris. Martyanov has referenced your work as well.
Thank you Mr. Dreizin for your report. It is very informative and concize. Thank you again
PLEASE REMOVE YOUR VIDEOS WITH YOUR FACE SHOWN IMMEDIATELY. Re-Do with a UKR situation map and your voice. A digital voice say the British accent sounds authoritative. THERE ARE EVIL PEOPLE HERE WHO WILL MURDER YOU JUST LIKE IN UKR.
LOL, my name and email address are all over this website.
Was it a Freudian slip: reactor will “rapture” instead of rupture?
Amazing, my first response to this comment disappeared. That’s the second time this has happened today, and it’s my site!!!
I did mean rapture. As in, go up into the sky.
As usual, excellent report. Great idea to add audio/ visual to describe/ explain complicated content. In future, would appreciate your views on the differences between neo-liberal, neo-con and their respective influences on US policy vis-a vis Ukraine and where Obama might fit in light of his reappearance as the cackler moves closer to replacing the “the big man.”
Thanks very much. I long had in mind to do a video on neoconservatives, namely, how they originated, and why they hate Russia so much. Nice to see there is some interest, I’m sure you’re not the only one. I will get around to it.
Neo-Conservatives as a class tend to be of the NWO type. As Russia is a strong nationalist state who vehemently oppose the NWO it has become the enemy of the Neo-Conservatives. Also there is some hold over from the cold war. Many of these cold warriors still see Russia as a totalitarian communist threat. I personally view them as an existential threat to the US as they seek to eliminate or at the very least substantially degrade our constitution.
I am reminded of Nietzsche’s comment as to how Imperial Russia grew its empire, with great patience gradually devouring and with a strong stomach, thoroughly digesting its gains. This is in the Russian soul and the Russian collective memory. The Deep State in Ukraine is recognized as an existential threat, a springboard for the West.
I am not so sure the “Plan A – Plan B” dichotomy best represents the game at hand, rather Phase A and then Phase B. Phase A was to present the UA a chance to stage a coup d’etat. That failing, the pivot to Phase B, secure the southern coast was seamless while also putting the pieces in position for Phase C, smashing the UA in the south facing the Donbas. Of course, at every stage the price of poker goes up for the Ukraine.
Russian tactics are meshed with their military capabilities. Theater ballistic missiles for long range strategic strikes, air dominance at the operation level and MLRS and artillery integrated with the armored forces at the tactical level. Beyond that the sanctions card more and more looks like the Deep State shot itself in its foot.
I think for Russia the biggest worry was a bold move by NATO but that threat has fizzled away. The sanctions turned out to be petard NATO hoisted itself upon with member states taking very different approaches to sanctions particularly in regards to Russian energy imports. One can only laugh at the high comedy of the US draining its strategic petroleum reserves to send to Euroland.
The Deep State is learning its one thing to steal an election in the US but quite another to steal victory from Putin and the Red Army on the border of Russia.
Great comment.
I believe that what happened in Bucha affected the decision now to keep the southern and other territories; they understood that if they return these territories, people there will have the same fate as people from Bucha and other places; the nazis will take revenge on them, even more as these territories have always been pro Russia. They took revenge on those who didn’t resist enough or get along with the Russian while occupied, imagine what they will do with ethnic Russians in case these territories return to Ukraine.
Here is a song that was popular in 1878
“The dogs of war are loose, and the ragged Russian Bear,
Full bent on blood and robbery, has crawl’d out of his lair;
It seems a thrashing now and then, will never help to tame
That brute, and so he’s out upon the “same old game.”
The Lion did his best to find him some excuse
To crawl back to his den again, all efforts were no use;
He hunger’d for his victim, he’s pleased when blood is shed,
But let us hope his crimes may all recoil on his own head.
REFRAIN:
We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do,
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too!
We’ve fought the Bear before and while we’re Britons true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople!”
By jingo!!!
Excellent report.