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UKRAINE: THE UNTHINKABLE FOR THE WEST IS ABOUT TO OCCUR
All the positive and wishful thinking up to now was never going to affect the inevitable outcome in Ukraine. None of the one-sided commentary and reporting has not and is not going to either. Russia is about to achieve its goal of securing the Donbass region against further Ukrainian military attack.
The goal of autonomy first sought by the people of the Donbass in the Spring of 2014 after the insurrection in their then capital city of Kiev will be more than accomplished, full sovereignty is about to become a reality. What the people of the Donbass do then is of course up to them, however, I predict that by a vast majority they will choose to join the Russian Federation in a quickly-held referendum once the region is fully secured.
This event will be a body blow to a western world that has been telling itself fairy stories about the Kiev authorities and assorted military and militia forces winning against a Russia absolutely sure of the need to secure not only the Donbass but thereby its own security in perpetuity. What will the reaction of the western world, specifically the western political elites, be regarding these facts?
By this point in time, subsequent to the Russian intervention in Ukraine, the West has thrown everything it could at Russia to no evident avail. The big financial and economic guns have been deployed and have largely missed their target. Some of the shells have in fact boomeranged back to their gun-emplacements causing financial and economic damage at home.
Russia began its 'special military operation' with all its financial and economic resources presenting a sound barrier to the western attacks known to come no matter what it did. These are the sentiments expressed by its president, Vladimir Putin. Better in for a pound than a penny, you might as well be hanged for a sheep than a lamb. Besides, the importance for Russia that circumstances changed from the ever-worsening situation regarding NATO and the ever-increasing belligerence by Kiev, had become painfully clear.
If almost every weapon in the western armoury has been spent or is known to be metaphorically out of commission, what then?
This event will be a body blow to a western world that has been telling itself fairy stories about the Kiev authorities and assorted military and militia forces winning against a Russia absolutely sure of the need to secure not only the Donbass but thereby its own security in perpetuity. What will the reaction of the western world, specifically the western political elites, be regarding these facts?
Just perhaps, some kind of reconciliation may be a possibility. A little realpolitik rather than the hysteria and breast-beating by western powers that we have seen up to now. What other choice is there for the West? To keep on fighting, keep on supplying the Kiev authorities and its dwindling military power with weaponry? Perhaps. The incentive is clearly there for the USA and UK in particular to try to do as much damage to Russia as possible.
The goal of weakening Russia is certainly a goal these two close allies have in common and there will be enthusiasm by the hawks within their hierarchies to keep the war going even when Russia is calling for all hostilities to cease. This policy will risk being seen as a totally callous one quite uncaring that through it the deaths will continue when Russia is clearly calling for an end to them.
We all await these coming events with both hope and trepidation. As ever with geopolitical events where national interests are involved it may be a mistake to believe that the usual and best human characteristics of compromise and agreement can prevail.
We will soon see...
UKRAINE: THE TERRIBLE UNCONSCIONABLE ADVANTAGE OF KIEV'S EXTREMIST FORCES
There is a fact that it appears most western audiences are blithely unaware of, even though this is a primary detail concerning Ukraine that lies at the heart of the current violence.
Ignorance of this fact gives the most sadistic and most conscience-free of Kiev's forces an enormous advantage, though one that when understood must surely cause great revulsion (and perhaps even rejection of the fact) in one being enlightened concerning it.
That most salient of facts concerns the split down the middle of the country with one side looking east and the other west. Ukraine is to all intents and purposes, two countries in one. Two entirely distinct histories and loyalties as well as language divide Ukraine.
So, what is the largely unknown fact among the general population of the western world that gives the most extreme of Kiev's forces an advantage?
It is that they perceive those of eastern Ukraine essentially as non-humans, as traitors to the Ukrainian state, as, when brought down to their most crude interpretation, as Russians.
These perceptions, of families who have lived for as many generations as themselves in Ukraine, generates an unbridled hatred among the most extreme of those imbued with the sense that they are "saving" Ukraine from them. The acts fueled by these concepts, that these are lesser, dangerous, expendable and loathed non-humans, is linked indelibly in emotional terms with the concepts of white supremacy, and is utterly deadly in their remorseless execution. The 'White Power' symbol and words are in fact almost as common on the military uniforms of these 'executioners' as those of symbols very closely mimicking those of Nazi Germany during world war two.
How do these virulent and rabidly-held feelings toward half the Ukrainian population by the most extreme of Kiev's forces show themselves?
Being a target alongside and equal to their known foe, the Russian army, the 'Moskals' as these people call the entire population of eastern Ukraine, they are subject to any attack imaginable and for no other reason that they are 'Moskals'. Indeed, if anything they are loathed and hated even more than actual Russians as, for them, they as has been said are 'traitors' to a Ukrainian nation that has struggled for generations to be free of outside influence.
These expendable millions become a useful tool in the hands of the most desperate of Kiev's most extreme forces, now, since their ruthless demeanour and ultra-violent methods were first seen on Kiev's Maidan Square, have been taken into the Ukrainian military and National Guard.
What have been the effects of this attitude of unbridled hatred for every man, woman and child in eastern Ukraine in recent times? Firstly, the events of 2014 up to February 24th of this year and especially in the years 2014 and 2015 when such people arrived in eastern Ukraine and began firing random mortar shells into the midst of the civilian populations there. Fourteen thousand fatalities and uncounted injuries have taken place. Secondly and in recent times, during the current conflict, the Kiev extremists have used the opportunity to cause mass death incidents perpetrated upon this hated community in the east and, due to the general ignorance of western readers and viewers these have been portrayed as Russian attacks.
The destruction of the theatre in Mariupol, the shelling of people gathered at the train station in Kramatorsk and the unconscionable atrocity (in fact massacre) that took place in Bucha. All inflicted upon those the extremist Kiev fighters call 'Moskals'. But to a largely ignorant western audience via a western mass media news service that is more than willing to blame Russian forces for anything possible, this appears believable. However, when you understand that in each case those who died were the very population that Russia came to rescue from the eight year attacks that western Ukraine had put them through. I think you will agree they represent an extremely poor target for Russian forces to expend their weaponry upon.
They do represent a fine propaganda narrative for Kiev however. In war the enemy is always demonized to the greatest extent possible and Russia has been demonized in this way before and the narrative has been carried forward remorselessly by western mainstream press and media. The same story was seen in Syria where Russian military officers were supposedly waking up each morning wondering how many school children or hospital patients they could kill that day. Those children and those patients of course being the same ones that Russia was attempting to save from the violent militants and ISIS terrorists in Syria.
Logic need not apply in these cases as raw emotion fuelled by misinformation, jingoism via a persistent war mode mentality and outright propaganda are very effective in the absence of detailed knowledge.
And this is exactly what is occurring in the case of recent scandalous atrocities which have taken place in eastern Ukraine. An existing hatred and unlimited loathing for millions of innocent families, framed in terms of each and every one of them being 'vile traitors' is causing the active contemplation of ever further and even more lethal and horrendously brutal attacks. The next form of attack may well be through the use of some form of chemical weapon. The goal? To stimulate further outside interventions in this the hour of the perpetrators greatest need as they see defeat staring them in the face. That defeat will ensure the future safety of those they hate most in all the world, the 'Moskals' of eastern Ukraine and the breakup of the Ukrainian nation they have sworn, as their undying duty and by all means possible to maintain intact.
Ignorance of the background to all this then is the terrible advantage used in past atrocities and to be used in any future atrocities that can so easily be turned again and again into useful propaganda against Russia.
The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of The Greanville Post. However, we do think they are important enough to be transmitted to a wider audience.
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@GUI ROCHAT
Babi Yar is a nightmare of fabricated war black propaganda.
Where is the forensic evidence that a massacre of between 200 000 and 700000 Jews allegedly happned there ?
@GUI ROCHAT
Babi Yar is a nightmare of fabricated war black propaganda.
Where is the forensic evidence that a massacre of between 200 000 and 700 000 Jews allegedly happned there ?
@GUI ROCHAT
Babi Yar is a nightmare of fabricated war black propaganda.
Where is the forensic evidence that a massacre of between 200 000 and 700 000 Jews allegedly happned there ?
What is “war black propaganda” supposed to mean? And, by the way, no “forensic evidence” could convince the likes of you! Didn’t you see the pictures of proud SS posing, and there exists even a great moving picture of the event!