PEPE ESCOBAR—The prospect of yet another color revolution inevitably comes to mind: perhaps Turquoise-Yellow – reflecting the colors of the Kazakh national flag. Especially because right on cue, sharp observers found out that the usual suspects – the American embassy – was already “warning” about mass protests as early as in December 16, 2021. Maidan in Almaty? Oh yeah. But it’s complicated.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Russophobic U.S. Think Tankland would very much cherish a Russian “invasion”, out of the blue, and could not give a damn about the inevitable trouncing of Ukraine. The problem is the White House – and the Pentagon – must “intervene”, forcefully; otherwise that will represent a catastrophic loss of “credibility” for the Empire.
So what do these people want? They want to provoke Moscow by all means available to exercise “Russian aggression”, resulting in a lightning fast war that will be a highway to hell for Ukraine, but with zero casualties for NATO and the Pentagon.
Then the Empire of Chaos will blame Russia; unleash a tsunami of fresh sanctions, especially financial; and try to shut off all economic links between Russia and NATOstan.
Reality dictates that none of the above is going to happen.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Few armies have deserved the fruits of their victory better than the Red Army. Those who do not understand why this is so need to comprehend the stunning immensity of the horrors visited on the Soviet Union by the conquering German armies. Wholesale and retail death by bombs, bullets, bayonets, hanging, burning alive, freezing and starvation, not to mention torture, are just some of the methods employed. Use your imagination, and reality will exceed it: every kind of atrocity was indeed used by the Nazi legions to break the spirit of the first workers’ state, and they failed. Berlin was a hard battle. Soviet forces sustained 81,116 dead for the entire operation, and another 280,251 were reported wounded or sick during the operational period. The victory was indeed sweet when the Great Patriotic War finally came to a close.
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THE SAKER—he world is headed for war and has been headed that way for quite a while now. Several times, just at the brink, the West decided to pull back, but each time it did that, its ruling elites felt two things: first, they felt even more hatred for Russia for forcing them to back down, and, second, they interpreted the fact that no shooting war happened (yet) as evidence, at least in their minds, that standing on the brink of war is a pretty safe exercise.
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DMITRY ORLOV—An array of mechanisms, from cultural exports to ad campaigns associated with popular brands to social media initiatives designed to corrupt the minds of the young, exists in order to exert US influence on other nations.
