Ukraine - The Awaken of Eurasia? Hybrid Scenario and NATO Proxy?

The Ukraine was always considered a jump for Eurasia to NATO and a strategic place to Russia to promote its hegemony to Europe. 

But Ukraine has one of the most prohiminent capability to restore the unit of its own hegemony. This capability came in the last years when the country joined NATO and than the ultranationalists took front for the conflict and made a politic of ultra nationalism, restoring the identity of the Ukrainians and the identity of the country as a unity of tradition and military-politic strenght.

The problem is that, the particularity of the traditionalism in Ukraine was never a positive point for the west and the Russia, raising a possibility of a conflict more serious in the region.

The awaken of Eurasia and the Eurasianism is a pariah for the west, but also, the Eurasian countries still want their hegemony, and they have a problems of identity to between the politician of Russia and NATO, becoming a vaccum of military power and political influence in Balkans, easy to manipulate the media and promote upheaval and social unrest, being easily able to influence.

The problem is that Ukraine is in the way ahead of west and Russia to promote influence and a passage for the Middle East and dominate Eurasia. The Chaotic Doom in the Country symbolized by the geographical position and the ex-members of the parties, the ex-Russian nationalists in there, also, the identity of the people with the old U.R.S.S. nationalism, spawned in Ukraine a division between being on Russian side or being Ultranationalist, and in the survival position, the liberal politics of being side of NATO.

In Primis, there is a position of identity of the Ukrainian people with their own pagan traditions, far from the Catholic church and with the position of nationalism of realism and neo realism, regret the police to the protection of the Ukrainian people and promote the ideology of self preservation. Raising in the chaotic conflict between west and east the point of to stablish the military power and the political unity, with international comerce and international position, without the globalist phylantropy.

The political change started with the psychossocial position on break the paradigm pre-stablished and promote a new paradigm, as in Balkans, every unity is searching for this new position. We have now a clash of the Eurasianism and the new parties with Traditionalist ideals inspired by Evola. The parties promote their own militias and promote the support to the Ukraine's Armies and the Azov Battalion, against the pro-Russian forces in Ukraine. The point is to re-educate the youth and promote a new media corporation to promote nationalism and culture, restoring the Urakine as a nation.

According to the Traditionalist - https://traditionalistblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/evola-in-ukrainian-parliament.html

Evola in the Ukrainian parliament

Ukraine needs to be added to the list of countries where a political party inspired by Julius Evola is represented in parliament. The party in question is the National Corps (Національний корпус) of Andriy Biletsky (Андрій Євгенович Білецький, pictured). It currently has only two seats, but it does have its own militia, the Azov Regiment, a volunteer unit now under the umbrella of the Ukrainian National Guard that operates against pro-Russian forces in the eastern Ukraine.

The National Corps also has an international relations section headed by Elena Semenyaka, a young political scientist whose academic specialization is the Conservative Revolution. Semenyaka was previously identified with Alexander Dugin and the Russian Eurasianists, but since Dugin and his Russian followers support the pro-Russian forces in the eastern Ukraine, Semenyaka and her colleagues are now engaged in trying to steer the European right away from Russia towards an “Intermarium Union” that aims to unite Ukraine with other eastern and central European countries, in effect a rightist version of the Visegrád Group. The Intermarium Union takes its name from a plan developed by the interwar Polish prime minister, Marshal Józef Piłsudski.

Interest in Evola in Ukraine is not restricted to the National Corps. It also includes members of Plomin’ (Пломінь, Flame), a “literary club” in Kiev that meets for lectures on philosophers and political thinkers, notably Evola and the thinkers of the Conservative Revolution.

Other point is that Urakine has a kind of two far rights. Both opposed to the USA legacy in country. There is a far right wing that supports the ultra-nationalism and is against the Russia and Nato, and, there is another side os this wing that supports the pro-Russia, with a joint of neo-nazis, national-Bolchevism, nationalists pro-Eurasia, that direction of Stalinism, that still is strong in Ukraine, Kyev for a lot. Once a friend from Lativja told me that he was born in Kyev but he is Russian in his document, and he consider himself Russian, not Ukrainian.

Well, anyway, this subject points for a new level of the hybrid situation that Ukraine is pointed. Ukraine is a proxy for NATO and Russia, and considering the new theoretics, the possibility of a new war can happen in Ukraine, keeping the scenario European and not Arabic.

So, the hybrid scenario now focued on the west x east projection through Eurasia and the Russophilia is more explored in the question of the traditionalism to Ukraine, the still strenght pagan battalions, anti and pro-Russia in Ukraine are strong and searching for their unit and identity in their local living style.

Also, the anti-Russian still keep their need to Ukraine be considered a country capable to support their own international relations, without a guide from Russia or USA, nor European Union, that brings for another problem in Balkans, the other countries can request their unit to restore their capability of their international relations and their military units.

It brings Ukraine for a possible conflict between three fronts, one ultra nationalist, one pro-Russia, with Russian mercenaries and armies, and another with NATO, with promisses of support the government but attacking the ultra-nationalists and projecting power through Ukraine to Eurasia and Middle East, raising a potential scenario of total warfare, with small wars units promoting local influence and the international media supporting the conflict and international bankers exploring the pacificism and phylantropy in there.

The scenario of a total warfare can be promoted by the situation of the missiles from the URSS that stayed in the Ukraine, and the military capability from the Soviets, that are in Ukraine, the main state of the military projection of Russia, mass destruction, etc.

Ukraine is strategicaly well positioned to USA promoting the invasion to Middle East and the strategic position to USA influence the Eurasia and siege Russia.

Also, is strategicaly positioned to Russia, promoting the influence in Eurasia and the limitation of the western politics in Middle East and in Russia dominions.

The exports of the Russian gas by the pipelines, the economic business of Russia depends on Ukraine to promote exportaion to the west. So, the wage of a proxy is certain.


The strategic military position is that, the numbers of military personal in Ukraine is very strong and the logistics of Ukraine is very strategic for both countries and Ukraine. It's also possible to keep a strong bloc with Middle East and Turkey, for the Black Sea, closing the position of Russia and USA.

And now with Trump, the focus of the Ukraine is not against Putin directly, but with Middle East, but the idea is to use the territory as a test for provocation of Russia military power.

A possible conflict opening two fronts one fought with mercenaries and ultras, and other with the federal army, focused in the political defense and other fighting the advance of Russia, and the mercenaries from other countries that can take part, for exemple Turkey and EU countries to support NATO and Russia, can put Urakine in a proxy to promote the strenght capability of east and west.

Ukrainian far-rightists: doomed to be Russian

https://www.nihilist.li/2018/01/14/ukrainian-far-rightists-doomed-to-be-russian/

What is the difference between us — the fighters for equality, and the far-right fighters against it? The answer is simple: we want people to live better right here and right now. That women are not discriminated because they do not have a dick and balls, that gays are not beaten because they love men, everyone can work in spite of gender, sexual orientation and so on. Because this is a real problem for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.

The far-rightists does not want a better life for everyone, and now, they want cultural domination, and equality is a real threat for their ideology. The concept of gender is making them panic. They can’t be allowed to move the Overton window away from their dense concepts. Well, it’s just that no one will vote for their party if women start combating discrimination in large numbers, and gays stop hiding in fear. It will cause changes in politics and many interesting things will begin, and the far-rightists will be forgotten. Really, who needs these obscurantists, when there is a life everywhere?

Every time the far-rightist protest against the legislative protection of women’s rights, they attack feminists, they beat homosexuals — they intimidate society in order to discourage it from the evolution of ideas. If common ideology goes far ahead — their path to power will be closed. The far-rightists will have to return to the position of useless marginal, interest groups or small gangs of terrorists. There are no other perspectives for movements that are incapable of evolution. And this is not the most pessimistic scenario for them.

Worst of all, if yesterday’s victims — women, LGBT people, national minorities and others — begin to hit back. Then far-rightists will not only huddle together in the specially designated for racial hatred places, becoming rats, but also to develop. They will need to revise their ideologies, doctrines, theories, change the way of life, image, the concept — and then, perhaps, people will tail after them again. The far-rightists in the West have spent years on this. In the United States, for example, they had lie in hiding from the 1990s, until their ideology from a very unexpected side was reborn in the Alt Right movement in the 2010s.

The remains of the far-right ideologies are being dumped by the whole world into wastewater. Ukrainian traditionalists, racists, ethnicists etc gratefully collect this garbage to raise it later as a banner. They haven’t learned to have their own meanings. Actually they have, but the problem is that everything that is meaningful and viable naturally stops being far-right and moves towards a more decent policy. And this is good.

Do you know what is even better? However this may sound ridiculous, geopolitics has placed the Ukrainian far-rightists before a very unpleasant fact. All their degenerate Western friends don’t give a fuck about dealing with Ukraine — for them there are no independent Ukrainians who have any of their desires. The idol of the new-fashioned Alt Right is Vladimir Putin, the public ideal is the Russian Federation, in which it is always cold and nothing can be done, and favorite philosopher — the Eurasian Alexander Dugin, who has recently urged to kill Ukrainians. In fact, Ukrainian far-rightists also love Dugin, but can not openly admit it. Ukraine has suffered from Russian «spiritual joints», reinforced by «Grad» rockets.

Their love to everything Russian is so obvious that it’s too lazy to repeat it. But, obviously, it is necessary. The godfather of Ukrainian fascism willingly collaborated with Alexander Dugin and organized joint with the Eurasian Youth Union anti-Western in form and anti-Ukrainian content.

Alexander Dugin called on everyone to «be ready for war,» because «the Maidan in Russia is inevitable.» And the leader of the «Bratstvo» party, Dmitry Korchinsky, who arrived from Ukraine, confirmed with conviction: The war that is currently taking place in Ukraine will be mandatory in Russia. Ultra-patriots from Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States early in September announced the creation of a single «Youth Anti-Orange Front» that was based on the Eurasian Youth Union of Alexander Dugin, one of the founders of the National Bolshevik Party. There have already been in Newspaper an article about the alliance included representatives of the most odious nationalist organizations. Among them there were activists of the Union of Bashkir youth, who declared themselves to be a branch of the Turkish right-wing terrorist organization «Gray Wolves». Another member of the alliance is the Ukrainian party «Bratstvo».

It seems that nobody remembers it. A short memory is bad for politics. Korchinsky, of course, justified his cooperation with Dugin with his oppositionism. But we know what type of «opposition» Dugin provides.

The other wing of the ultra right can flirt also with the nationalists from Turkey and Hungary, and also to jihadist terrorism contracted as mercenaries. Also the anti-Socialist and anti-Globalist policy of anti-Immigration, anti-LGBT, against multiculturalism promotes the nationalism being more close to the Russian ideologies, than the western, European east and USA.

A part of AZOV flirted with the Russophilia, with some sense of limitation, to promote the anti-Western ideologies, and keep acting the traditionalism and nationalism, both ideologies denied by west and globalists.

The problems of the ideology of the Fourth Political Theory and the Dugin anti-Western and Eurasianism is that some of the parties that support this ideology, flirt with Bolchevism, and Ukraine for sure consider communism as a criminal activity and the worst evil ideology, the Nationalist Slavic parties promotes the total rejection of communism.

Nationalism in Ukraine finds more close to fascism, that promotes the anti-liberalism and anti-communism, and promote the restore of traditionalism and paganism, and there are more focused militias in promotion of local religions and individualism, making Ukraine a very particular country and very special case of study.

The possibility of being a next proxy of NATO is not distant as it's not close to happen, but the eastern Ukraine lives a period of warfare with small units and mercenaries, that tests the local politician and local media and influence of the hybridism of different ideologies to promote stability, and it's hard to find this peaceful solution when the government is under two superpowers that role plays all the time with media and international observatories.

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The ideologist of the far-right «Azov» movement Eduard Yurchenko, who previously «for ideological reasons» was in the former ruling conservative right Party of Regions, recently he has called for strengthening the relations of «fraternal folks of Ukraine and Russia», and not in the sense of equal relations.

According to the reviewer of Yurchenko’s speech in Voronezh on the site of the Ukrainian Traditionalist Club, «Ukrainian nationalism is really anti-Western», and Russophobia is an «unfortunate misunderstanding that has arose in connection with the difficult economic situation».

The aspiration for the independence of the Little Russian lands [russian chauvinist title for Ukraine], was revealed after the tragic events of 1917, and in Eduard Yurchenko’s opinion, it was not due to the rejection of Russia as a Slavic center, but exclusively with rejection of the ideals of communism […] Nowadays, the existing elements of Russophobia in the mood of Ukrainian society are connected, according to Eduard Yurchenko, with the anti-Soviet attitude that has been preserved since the 1920s, when representatives of the agrarian part of the society of Little Russia found Bolshevism as the worst of all possible evils.

Now this man is working with the movement that prizes Ukrainian sovereignty and national identity above everything. Everybody pretends that everything is alright.

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Yury Noevoy, one of the prominent functionaries of the «Svoboda» party, is in the traditionalist organization  Catechon, the twin sister of Catechon from Russia (led by the Russian oligarch and the architect of the russian ivasion in the Donbass, Konstantin Malofeev). His job is repeating the experience of his Russian colleagues: he sues art galleries, which, in his opinion, offend the feelings of christians.

The last action of the Ukrainian Catechon against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention revealed its Russian background once again, which was well written by Anna Gritsenko: Noteworthy here is not even a funny poster with a woman in it, who wants to be tamed, but the fact that the girl with this poster draws its ideas from Natella Speranska, the follower of Dugin, and Eugene Golovin, whose follower is Dugin himself. (Subsequently, Speranskaya was removed from the post, but you can see the history of the changes.) I think from this moment it’s safe to say that the coincidence of the names of the Ukrainian and Russian Catechons is not accidental.

In just three examples, if not pro-Russian, then at least inspired by Russian experience, the character of the Ukrainian far-right. «Bratstvo», «Azov» movement, Catechon, «Svoboda» party… Who is the next to admit sympathy for the bearded Russian fascism?

In conclusion, we can say that the Ukrainian far-right faces a very complicated and at the same time a ridiculous choice. Why is it complicated? Yes, because they have three options: to become Russians not only in spirit, but also in form, and openly support Russia; remain Russian in spirit and fight with Russia; cease to be Russian in spirit, that in our situation in general means to stop being far-right.

The first option will lead to arrests and an «underground» situation — it’s boldly, but very recklessly. The second option simply preserves their position in the current contradictory state, which, most likely, will soon lead to collapse. The third option is already in full use by the most desperate, who are tired enough to sacrifice their identity.

In fact, the choice is to be or not to be spiritually Russian. It would seem, how is this possible in a country that has been suffering from Russia’s military aggression for several years? And it’s very simple: Ukrainian traditionalism has outgrown the Russian traditionalism and continues to be at the deepest, most fundamental level. The social base of the Ukrainian far-right is completely tainted with this spirit. They are doomed to be Russian.

So, with the possibility of this proxy, and the hybrid scenario of a country focussed in media, warfare, mercenarism, international observatories and both countries finding a way to impose their own politics.

This agression from the both sides restore the Evolian traditionalism in Ukraine and restore of the identity of Russian and Slavonic pride, that restore the spirit of far-right with the possibility of a future dialogue with Russia, promoting the unit of Ukraine as an international actor promoting their international business and a bloc close to the Balkans and maybe Russian, not closed to globalist position.

And a point is that, the Eurasian Spirit can be found also in Ukraine, not military, but traditionalist, being a influence and exemple for the Balkans for the restore of the international capability and start a promotion of international relations.


The point of Eurasianism is a promotion for the Russian Hegenomy, but with the awake of Ukraine can make a more individualist position and a new military bloc in Balnkans and Eurasia, promoting identity and a very strong military exercise in region, with the promotion of anti-Western propaganda, and not the globalist strategic position to siege Eurasia.

THE ISIL IS IN UKRAINE: AMERICA’S “AGENTS OF CHAOS” UNLEASHED IN EURASIA

https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/957-the-isil-is-in-ukraine-americas-agents-of-chaos-unleashed-in-eurasia.html

Then again, what is the ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH? It is a loosely knit band of militias, just like its predecessor Al-Qaeda. Included in its network are groups from the Caucasus, which have been fighting in Syria and Iraq. Now they are in Ukraine and using it as a steppingstone into Europe.

The Agents of Chaos and the War for Eurasia

The conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen are all fronts in a multi-dimensional war being waged by the US and its allies. This multi-dimensional war aims to encircle Eurasia. China, Iran, and Russia are the main targets.

The US also has an order of operations with which to takeout these countries. Iran is first, followed by Russia, with China as the last part of the Eurasian set comprised of this «Eurasian Triple Entente.» It is no coincidence that the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen are near the borders of Iran and Russia, because Tehran and Moscow are the nearer term targets of Washington.

In the same vein as the interlinked nature of the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen, there is also a connection between the violent, racist, xenophobic, and sectarian forces that have been unleashed as «agents of chaos.» It is no mere coincidence that Newsweek had a headline saying «Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing ‘ISIS-Style’ War Crimes» on September 10, 2014. [1] Whether they know it or not, these deviant forces, whether they are the ultra-nationalist Pravy Sektor militias in Ukraine or the head-cutting gangs of Al-Nusra and the ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH in Syria and Iraq, all serve one master. These agents of chaos are unleashing different waves of constructive chaos to prevent Eurasian integration and a world order that is free of US dictates.

The «constructive chaos» that is being unleashed in Eurasia will eventually wreck havoc in India. If New Delhi thinks that it will be left alone, it is foolishly mistaken. The same agents of chaos will plague it as well. It too is a target like China, Iran, and Russia.

Strange Alliances: Alliance between the ISIL/DAESH and Ukraine’s Ultra-Nationalists?

It should not come as a surprise that the different agents of chaos are loosely aligned. They serve the same master and they have the same enemies, one of which is the Russian Federation.

It is in this context that Marcin Mamon has reported about the ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH connection in Ukraine. He even explains that some of the fighters from the Caucasus feel that they have a debt to Ukrainians like Oleksandr Muzychko. [2]

Mamon is a Polish documentary filmmaker who has produced a number of documentaries about Chechnya, such as The Smell of Paradise with Mariusz Pilis in 2005, for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Storyville program. He is also openly sympathetic to the cause of the Chechen separatists against Russia in the North Caucasus.

Mamon’s travels to Afghanistan and his interaction with Chechen separatist fighters have resulted in the Polish filmmaker having contacts with the ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH inside Syria and Turkey. This extraordinarily led him down a new path to Ukraine.

«I didn’t even know, at that point, whom I was meeting. I knew only that Khalid, my contact in Turkey with the Islamic State [ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH], had told me his ‘brothers’ were in Ukraine, and I could trust them», he writes about his meeting in a «potholed street in Kiev, east of the Dnieper River, in an area known as the Left Bank.» [3] In an earlier article Mamon explains that these so-called «‘brothers’ are members of ISIS and other underground Islamic organizations» who «are on every continent, and in almost every country, and now they are in Ukraine, too.» [4] He also explains that «Khalid, who uses a pseudonym, leads the Islamic State’s underground branch in Istanbul. He came from Syria to help control the flood of volunteers arriving in Turkey from all over the world, wanting to join the global jihad. Now, he wanted to put me in touch with Ruslan, a ‘brother’ fighting with Muslims in Ukraine». [5]

Ukrainian ultra-nationalists like Muzychko also became so-called «brothers» and accepted into this network. Mamon explains that the Chechen fighters accepted him «even though he never converted to Islam» and that «Muzyczko, along with other Ukrainian volunteers, joined Chechen fighters and took part in the first Chechen war against Russia» where they «commanded a branch of Ukrainian volunteers, called ‘Viking,’ which fought under famed Chechen militant leader Shamil Basayev.» [6]

Why is the ISIL manning Private Battalions in Ukraine?

What does it say when Chechen separatists and the transnational network of so-called «brothers» tied to the ISIS/ISIL/IS/DAISH/DAESH are being recruited or used to fill the ranks of private militias being using by Ukrainian oligarchs? This is a very important question. It also clearly demonstrates how these elements are agents of chaos.

Marcin Mamon travelled to Ukraine to meet the Chechen fighter Isa Munayev. Munayev’s background is explained thus: «Even before he arrived in Ukraine, Munayev was well-known. He fought against Russian forces in both Chechen wars; in the second, he was the commander of the war in Grozny. After the Chechen capital was captured by Russian forces between 1999 and 2000, Munayev and his men took refuge in the mountains. He fought from there until 2005, when he was seriously injured and went to Europe for treatment. Munayev lived in Denmark until 2014. Then war broke out in Ukraine, and he decided it was time to fight the Russians again.» [7]

The above is an important passage, because it illustrates how the US and EU have supported militants fighting against Russia. In the US and the EU, the refuge that Denmark gave Isa Munayev is not questioned, whereas the allegations leveled against Moscow for supporting the soldiers of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic are seen as criminal. Why the double standards? Why is it okay for the US, EU, and NATO to support separatist movements and militias in other parts of the world, but criticized and forbidden for other countries to do the same?

«An older man in a leather jacket introduced me to Munayev. ‘Our good brother Khalid recommended this man,’ the man said. (Khalid is today one of the most important leaders of the Islamic State. Khalid and Munayev knew each other from years spent fighting together in Chechnya),» Marcin Mamon explains about the connections between the Chechen separatists and ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daish/Daesh. [8]

Munayev has come to Ukraine to establish «one of what would become several dozen private battalions that sprang up to fight on the side of the Ukrainian government, operating separately from the military.» [9] His militia was named the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion, which was named after the separatist president of Chechnya.

NOTES

[1] Damien Sharkov, «Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing ‘ISIS-Style’ War Crimes,» Newsweek, September 10, 2014.

[2] Marcin Mamon, «In Midst of War, Ukraine Becomes Gateway for Jihad,» Intercept, February 26, 2015.

[3] Marcin Mamon, «Isa Munayev’s War: The Final Days of a Chechen Commander Fighting in Ukraine», Intercept, February 27, 2015.

[4-6] Marcin Mamon, «In Midst of War,» op. cit.

[7-9] Marcin Mamon, «Isa Munayev’s War,» op. cit.

US Switching to Ukraine as Location to Start World War III

https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/06/us-switching-to-ukraine-as-location-to-start-world-war-iii/

The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the U.S. is switching to Ukraine as the locale to start World War III, and from which the nuclear war is to be sparked against Russia, which borders Ukraine.

Here is why Syria is no longer the U.S. alliance’s preferred choice as a place to start WW III:

On September 4th, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly threatened Syria, Iran and Russia that if they exterminated the jihadists in Syria’s only remaining jihadist-controlled province, Idlib, then the U.S. might launch a full-scale invasion against Syria, Iran and Russia in Syria. Either the U.S. or Russia would then quickly escalate to nuclear war so as not to lose in Syria — that would be the conventional-war start to World War III.

The leaders of Russia, Iran, Turkey, and Syria (Putin, Rouhani, Erdogan, and Assad), agreed in two meetings, one on September 7th and the other on September 17th, to (as I had recommended on September 10th) transfer control of Syria’s only remaining jihadist-controlled province, Idlib, to NATO-member Turkey. This action effectively prevents the U.S. alliance from going to war against Russia if Russia’s alliance (which includes Syria) obliterates all the jihadist groups in the Al-Qaeda-led Syrian province Idlib. For the U.S. to war against Russia there would also be war against fellow-NATO-member Turkey — out of the question.

The U.S. has been using Al Qaeda in Syria to train and lead the jihadist groups which have been trying to overthrow Syria’s Government and to replace it with a government that has been selected by the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia. Ever since 1949 the U.S. Government has been trying to do this (to place the Saud family in charge of Syria). That plan is now being placed on-hold if not blocked altogether, because of the Russia, Turkey, Iran, Syria, agreement. As I reported on September 25th, “Turkey Now Contols Syria’s Jihadists”. The U.S. would no longer be able to save them, but Turkey would, if Erdogan wants to. “Turkey is thus now balanced on a knife’s edge, between the US and its allies (representing the Saud family) on the one side, versus Russia and its allies (representing the anti-Saud alliance) on the other.”

During the same period in which the U.S. Government was setting Syria up as the place to start WWIII, it was also setting up Ukraine as an alternative possibility to do that. U.S. President Obama, in a very bloody February 2014 coup which he had started planning by no later than 2011, overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected President, and replaced him by a rabidly anti-Russian racist-fascist regime whose Ukrainian tradition went back to ideologically nazi Ukrainian organizations that had supported Hitler during World War II. Though communism is gone from Russia ever since 1991, the U.S. aristocracy never ended its goal of conquering Russia; the Cold War was secretly continued on the U.S.-NATO side. Ukraine’s nazis (meaning its racist-fascists) are now the U.S. and UK aristocracies’ chief hope to achieve this ambition of a U.S.-and-allied global conquest. Here are the recent steps toward WW III regarding the U.S. alliance’s new (since 2014) prize, Ukraine:

On September 28th, John Siciliano at the Washington Examiner bannered “Ryan Zinke: Naval blockade is an option for dealing with Russia” and he reported that Trump’s Interior Secretary Zinke had said “There is the military option, which I would rather not. And there is the economic option. … The economic option on Iran and Russia is, more or less, leveraging and replacing fuels.” He was saying that in order for the U.S. to get its and its allies’ (mainly the Sauds’) oil and gas into Europe replacing some of Russia’s dominant market-share in that — the world’s largest energy-consuming — market (and also shrink Iran’s market-share there), a military blockade against Russia and Iran would be an option. Currently, most of Russia’s oil and gas into Europe goes via pipelines through Ukraine, which the U.S. already controls. Siciliano’s news-break received a follow-up on September 30th from Zero Hedge.

On October 1st, George Eliason, the great investigative journalist who happens to live in Donbass, the southeastern part of Ukraine that broke off from Ukraine when Obama’s coup overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian President who had received over 90% of the votes in Donbass, reported at The Saker’s site, that Ukraine’s war against Donbass was now returning in full force. Headlining “War Crimes in LNR and DNR [Donbass] —The Unannounced War”, he opened:

On September 28th, Lugansk Peoples Republic (LNR)Deputy Foreign Minister Anna Soroka and Andrey Chernov gave a presentation unveiling a photo album entitled Unannounced war. This collection of 150 images details the war crimes by the Ukrainian government during the war from 2014-2018.

Over the last 4 years, many journalists including myself reported on the war crimes committed by Ukrainian punisher battalions and sometimes the Ukrainian army. These war crimes are privately funded by Ukrainian Diaspora groups led primarily by US and Canadian citizens.

The Ukrainian punisher battalions and Ukrainian volunteer battalions take pride in the fact there is no need to hide any of Ukraine’s crimes from the West’s prying eyes.

Even now, when there is supposed to be a ceasefire so the children can go to school, Kiev is shelling cities and towns across Donbass. On September 29th, in just 24 hours Ukrainian army units shelled DNR (Donetsk Peoples Republic) over 300 times violating the ceasefire.

The U.S. Government is trying to bully Russia and its allies, and now is overtly threatening to go to a naval blockade against Russia. Those two warships that the U.S. just donated to Ukraine could be helpful in such a blockade. Alternatively, Ukraine’s re-invasion of Donbass might become Trump’s opportunity to ‘aid a NATO ally’ and precipitate WW III from a conventional war in Donbass.

Either way would likely produce from Russia a nuclear blitz-attack to eliminate as many of America’s retaliatory weapons as possible, so as to beat the U.S. to the punch. In military terms, the side that suffers the less damage ‘wins’, even if it’s a nuclear war that destroys the planet. The side that would strike first in a nuclear war would almost certainly suffer the less damage, because most of the opponent’s retaliatory weaponry would be destroyed in that attack. Trump is playing nuclear “chicken” against Putin. He is sorely trying Putin’s patience.

If the U.S. regime uses any of these entry-points to a conventional war, Russia would simply be waiting for the U.S. to nuclear blitz-attack Russia, which the U.S. regime has long been intending to do. Regardless which side goes nuclear first, the blockade and/or re-invasion of Donbass (repeating there such things as this and this) will have started WW III. And, clearly, any survivors would likely view the U.S. in the way that most of today’s world views the fascist powers in WW II: as having been the aggressors.

Consequently, if the American people cannot first overthrow the U.S. regime and establish an authentic democracy here, then WWIII seems likely to result, which would be an outcome far worse, for the entire world, than an overthrow of the government that the entire world considers to be by far the most dangerous on Earth.

Originally posted at strategic-culture.org

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

PUTIN IS WAGING A PROXY WAR AGAINST THE WEST IN UKRAINE
STEPHEN BLANK
ON 2/22/18 AT 10:46 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-waging-proxy-war-against-west-ukraine-816226

This article first appeared on the Atlantic Council site.

One of the Russians attending the Munich Security Conference last week tweeted that based on the speeches he had heard, Ukraine was an afterthought in Europe.

Nothing would comfort Moscow more than to believe that for the West, Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is merely a minor concern.

That would make the tasks of obstructing the implementation of the Minsk accords and steadily undermining Ukraine through military pressure, economic warfare, terrorism, and information warfare much easier.

But even if the tweet was wholly incorrect, this Russian gloss on the proceedings there, taken in the context of last week’s other news, proves two conclusions.

First, messages like these emanating from Moscow continue to illustrate that for the Russian government and some of the expert community, Russia’s aggression is fully justified, and Ukraine has no right to an independent existence.

In other words, Ukraine and its people are really Russia and Russians, albeit misguided and straying members of the family. They have no independent history, culture, religion, or right to exist as a sovereign state within internationally recognized boundaries.

Indeed, one cannot read Russian foreign policy literature or that of Putin’s apologists in the West without findings echoes of these arguments. And as long as Moscow thinks this way, the war will continue, and with it the overall Russian war on the West—as shown by the indictments of Russian front groups last week in Washington.

For this reason, US and European support for Ukraine remains of the utmost importance. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was the most naked form of aggression in Europe since World War II and globally since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, and it must be acknowledged as such.

Western support for Ukraine that includes weapons assistance must continue, along with constant Western pressure on Ukraine to live up to its goals of democratic reform, without which it would be vulnerable to Russian pressure.

As everyone west of Russia recognizes, an independent democratic Ukraine secure in its 1991 borders is not a threat to anybody. In fact, as Sherman Garnett wrote a generation ago, Ukraine is “the keystone in the arch” of European security.

These considerations lead to a second conclusion. This confluence of events—the activities in Munich and the recent indictments—shows that Ukraine’s war is our war, indeed that Moscow is still at war with the West.

The Mueller indictments reveal that the actions under review there began in 2014; they grew out of the Western reaction to Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine. These facts also make mincemeat of the argument, offered by Russian apologists in the West, that Moscow is somehow entitled to a “sphere of influence” that includes Ukraine, and that it is simply a great power who wants in on the world order.

Moscow’s war with the West shows that Russia is not merely interested in having a sphere of influence but in revising the entire post-Cold War order so that it has total freedom to do as it likes in world affairs.

As the indictments and testimony by US intelligence agency leaders make clear, Russia’s war on the United States and Europe continues, just as it does against Ukraine. This fact obliges both the US and European governments not only to forge a durable, credible, and multi-dimensional strategy against Russia but also to assist Ukraine in achieving the same.

While the Department of Justice’s indictments are specific to the United States, Europe is also deeply affected by Russia’s actions. Despite the multiple challenges and crises afflicting Europe, the EU will not be able to make progress on any of them until it realizes the nature of this one.

The other challenges—migration, lack of cohesion, economic stagnation, and related populist issues—pale before this one because Moscow has found a way to inflame all of the others.

Therefore, both the United States and Europe must emphasize that Ukraine is not an afterthought, and that they embrace Ukraine’s cause, no matter how difficult that may be, by simultaneously pressuring it to reform, providing it with the means of self-defense, and insisting that Russia abide by the Minsk accords and pull out of the Donbas and Crimea.

Only when that happens might Moscow realize that it cannot continue to threaten Western security without risking a much greater disaster at home. And only then may it actually seek to repair some of the damage it has created.

Stephen Blank is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He is the author of numerous foreign policy-related articles, white papers, and monographs, focused on the geopolitics and geostrategy of the former Soviet Union, Russia, and Eurasia. He is a former MacArthur Fellow at the US Army War College.