ERIC ZUESSE—Earlier this week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once again waved the warning flag on this pending cataclysm, posting: “The situation in Ukraine is on the brink of calamitous escalation. Do the military imperialists in Washington and their lackeys in Europe have any idea the danger they are courting? They are conducting foreign policy as if it were a game of ‘chicken.’”
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EDITOR—Garland dives deep to explore the nature of Ukraine and the Ukraine War (“the Ukraine Project”, as US neocons call it). For starters, Garland affirms that Ukraine is not so much a nation, let alone an independent, sovereign nation, as Western propaganda claims, as a tool of the West to harm and irritate Russia so as to provoke the conditions for social turmoil that could usher in the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Ukraine is not making the critical war decisions, notes Garland, and this is especially true for the deployment and use of advanced weapons, whose use is decided and implemented entirely by NATO.
The ultimate end is to remove Russia as a great, peer power blocking US global domination, and the same goes for China and other powers such as Iran, Brazil, and others that may aspire to independent action and sovereign multilateralism. The strategy being used by the West is constant terrorism and war. Having lost the war in Ukraine, a huge humiliation, the West is clearly engaged in a campaign of indefinite terrorism inside the Russian Federation and its BRICS allies. In this effort, the West relies on numerous “assets” cynically created over the years, chiefly ISIS, al-Qaeda and other extreme jihadists.
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EDITOR—Garland carefully dissects the Russian way of war, its by now irrefutable capacity to out-produce and out-match the West in war materials and military personnel qualifications, and how Moscow is now systematically using its accumulated strategic weight to cause a gigantic tide of collapse—political and military—across Ukraine, leaving the West no real options, except delusions and stubborn propaganda, none of which will deny the facts on the ground imposed by the Red Army. Since the end of WW2 (if not far longer) the West has been plotting the encirclement and downfall of first the Soviet Union and then Russia. Protestations by Russia that this was unacceptable fell on deaf ears. Eventually, after the US coup in Kiev in 2014, the Western alliance showed up literally on Russia’s doorstep, “Moscow’s front yard”, forcing the country, now under Pres. Putin, to rapidly put its economy and military industries on a war footing.
Russia again tried the diplomatic route to no avail until 2021, but in 2022 Pres. Putin, witnessing the way the Kiev regime’s army was shelling the Donbas area with a view to conquering those rebel provinces by force, ordered the SMO into Ukraine. Three or four NATO-trained and supplied armies later, and probably no less than 300,000 to perhaps even 500,000 dead and wounded, plus substantial destruction of Ukraine’s infrastructure… -
EDITOR—Episode 77 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Dust James and Greg Rosen.
The roundtable discusses the most recent developments in the global battle between Russia and its Eurasian allies and the collective West, the latter representing the dying values of exploitative hierarchy, hegemony, colonialism and imperialism at any cost. The world is quickly approaching flashpoints where tactical nukes could be employed, something that could easily happen in both the Ukraine and Middle East, where the main problem is the uncontrolled and depraved conduct of the Israelis, currently celebrating the start of their offensive on Rafah. The panel also weighs the honesty or dishonesty of US attempts to restrain Israel from committing further acts of genocide on helpless Palestinians. -
GUY METTAN—I didn’t pay much attention to it when I arrived, because of my fatigue, and the intense emotions provoked by all I was seeing. But when I woke up at 3 a.m., I was suddenly struck by the sound of the cannon. Every two or three minutes, a shot goes off, rattling the windows and lighting up the sky with an orange glow: It’s Russian artillery firing on Ukrainian positions a few kilometres from the town centre. The Ukrainians retaliate with missiles, drones, or HIMARS rockets, which trigger Russian counter-battery fire, at a rate of one or two an hour, I believe. The next morning, I was taught to distinguish one from the other. The HIMARS rockets are silent until the final explosion, the French SCALP and British Storm Shadow missiles make an airplane-like hum, as do the Russian anti-missile batteries, while the ordinary shells fall with a whistling sound.
