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Do European Governments Buy Overpriced Steel From Ukrainian Oligarchs?
Anonymous Europe, allegedly some hacker group, claims in a video uploaded three days ago to have letters from officials near the German chancellor Merkel to officials in Poland. The letters are about deals of buying hundreds of thousand tons of Ukrainian steel from Ukrainian oligarchs at above market prices. Other countries supposed to buy overpriced Ukrainian steel are Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria.
I have no idea if these claims are true and the copies of the letters shown are legit. The uploaded video seems to have only some 820 views so far which seems very low.
If these claims are true there will certainly be some scandal about this abuse of taxpayer money for bribing Ukrainian oligarchs and subsidizing the coup government in Ukraine.
(Screenshots of the letters below the fold.)
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from ex-NATO military intelligence Army captain (who gives a balanced & pro-militia view) who gave & gives accurate analysis (his predictions since July have been true) of how the Ukraine forces were lured into traps/cauldrons, encircled & destroyed
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well the the 1,000s of East Ukrainians that fled to Russia as refugees were then trained in Russia to operate tanks/artillery & returned for the current offensive (Militia commanders said their forces QUADRUPLED from it)
http://rocksolidpolitics.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-ukraine-rope-dope.html & http://winterpatriot.com/node/921
Rather than recognize what should have been the obvious, the Ukraine government continued with the policy of “not giving one inch” and remained in place, trying all the time to crush the will to defend by massive artillery strikes on cities.
However, just like Hitler did to his Generals, notably the 6th in Stalingrad, the Ukraine government refused to give ground to a more favorable position.
The result of that somewhat reckless decision is now the same result Hitler found – encircled forces.
At the time of this post there are 9 encircled formations of Ukraine troops with an estimated total strength of 20,000. For an army the size of Ukraine’s, this number represents a decisive loss.
What makes matters worse is the knowledge that the units now trapped, and the ones trapped prior to this and already eliminated, represent the entire core of Ukraine’s professional army.
The situation in north and central Luhansk is essentially a standoff, with neither side making any bold moves at this point. It has become a static front.
The same applies to the west of Donetsk city. Ukraine continues to try and make fruitless attempts to cut off Gorlovka, north of Donetsk, from the rear. The result has been mixed, and has resulted in high casualties with no tangible reward.
It is to the south of both Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (provinces), lined by the Russian border, where Ukraine has suffered the most dramatic and catastrophic losses – in men and position.
It began with several Ukraine brigades being trapped in the “South Pocket” along the Russian border, and ended with approximately 1500 soldiers being released back to Ukraine with 10,000 missing.
It also resulted in the capture of large amounts of Ukraine tanks, and more importantly artillery.
With the essential destruction of the Ukraine air force, artillery on both sides has become the tool for battlefield dominance.
That brings us to today, and tomorrow.
Having tied up a large percentage of Ukraine troops at the north and central fronts, and with Ukraine thus far refusing to withdraw to positions more defensible with fewer troops, the NAF has moved in the South.
Essentially, the move came from near the Russian border two days ago, including an amphibious landing just east of Mariupol on Ukraine’s south coast.
Simultaneously, NAF units in Donetsk city counterattacked toward the South.
The resulting squeeze caused a large Ukraine retreat, but not before two more large pockets of trapped troops were created. At the time of this post Mariupol is surrounded on two sides, with the western resupply/escape route being rapidly closed.
NAF units are fanning along the north of Mariupol in an attempt to block Ukraine units from moving south to intercept advancing NAF forces.
The goal appears to be the City of Melitopol. From there the NAF have quick access to the Crimean border (Russia) and the Dnieper River cities to the north.
I call this the “Left Hook”. Basically a very large flanking maneuver. Having sustained all the blows the Ukraine army could throw at it, the NAF is now countering an exhausted foe – hence the title “Rope a Dope”.
With Ukraine’s entire rear exposed, including all the way to the capital Kiev, it will have no choice but to rapidly withdraw West, and re-position forces to its southern rear.
That opens the door for the NAF to easily move West, and that is where the next move comes – the “right uppercut” if you will.
The NAF will then be in position to move on Kharkiv city, and the oblast in general – in the North.
It will be free to advance in the centre and bypass (if still heavily defended) or capture Slavyansk and area moving directly to the City of Dnepropetrovsk on the Dnieper River – which is to become the new westerly border of a new Novorossyia (New Russia).
The last front to be explained is the Kherson/Odessa areas. Once the NAF capture and secure Melitopol, the Ukraine defences along the Crimea border are exposed from the rear.
At that time the separatist region of Moldova, Transnistria, which houses Russian and “Transnistria Self-Defence Forces”, is likely to strike southward toward Odessa.
All these moves combined mean a few things.
Firstly, it appears that although there are peace or cease fire talks ongoing, they are likely for show at best.
Secondly it means that Ukraine will cease to function as a country.
Its already desperate financial position will be crippled by the loss of one half of the country – the most resource rich part.
Thirdly it means that Ukraine will become landlocked and essentially a new “pocket – like” area.
If NATO were to move into this area, they would be surrounded on three sides by Russia, Novorossyia, and Belarus. It would be indefensible.
Therefore, Ukraine, or what’s left of it, turns into an economically barren no mans land between East and West.
In any case, the “Mouse Trap” is done, the “Rope a Dope” is done, and now it’s time for the “Left-Right” combination punches. I understand Putin is a judo champ, and he may have a judo analogy for this, but for now this is mine.
Posted by: www.MythFighter.com | Sep 5 2014 4:21 utc | 25
@guest77 #29 re: Webster Tarpley
You are right that Tarpley is very hit-and-miss. He can sometimes be very accurate, and is often overly Pollyanish. At my most paranoid, I think of him as somewhat “controlled opposition,” but again, only at my most paranoid. Mostly I just enjoy him as he so clearly enjoys himself. I listen to Tarpley (not religiously, but often) for several reasons:
1. He grew up two miles away from me near John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens, and I enjoy the accent tremendously. (Since I haven’t spent any time around there since the mid-eighties. By the way, the local “underground” newspaper in those days was called the ”Flushing Toilet.”)
2. He is relentlessly upbeat, which is a good balance for me politically — who comes more from “the sky is falling” camp.
3. He espouses an unusual and fairly unique political point of view, which in itself is quite valuable.
4. He is good at what he does, he is entertaining, he is quite bright and knowledgeable.
5. I like his world political synopses, and the reformist US political candidates and activists he has on. He is not full of himself when interviewing them.
That said, he is definitely unique and his success improbable. He is an ex-Larouchie cult member — some (not I) say he has never left — and was regarded somewhat humorously while with the group. He was a classmate with fellow ex-Larouchie, William Engdahl (who I also admire), at Princeton. What changed him, and forced him to grow up, was his investigation into the murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro — which he rightly concluded was a Gladio-type event. Well, the Larouchies always had a conspiratorial view of the world, but now Tarpley was on to real, not imaginary, conspiracies.
As far as his political viewpoint, he is a leftist, but he opposes standard and far left (me) viewpoints. I learn more from someone like him who challenges my natural viewpoints, but from a similar basis, then someone who more echoes my natural inclinations, like say Chomsky, who I can recite in my sleep. Tarpley calls himself a Roosevelt Democrat: He is pro-development (including nuclear power, which I deeply oppose), anti-austerity, anti-Wall St., in favor of much of Susan George’s positions like the Tobin tax, and a political realist against martial foreign involvement. He has been adamantly against the wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria — where sadly, the majority of those who would place themselves in the radical left camp have supported, or excused, those invasions.
What have I learned from him? I enjoy his conspiratorial histories, which I consider largely on point, as I see history as a dialectic between social forces and material conditions, and the plans of the elite, which are generally secretive and hence conspiratorial. His predictions and coverage of the 2008 financial crisis was excellent, his viewpoint similar to Michael Hudson’s. (There is an unexplained antagonism between the two.) His pre-election biography of Obama was brilliant, especially his exposé of Obama’s time as an “activist” in Chicago. I learned a lot, and now essentially agree, with his take on how the Alinsky-style organizing tactics are used to keep the left caught up in fighting small battles, and away from mobilizing in any big-picture comprehensive way. I think Obama, like Bill Clinton, is a master of this type of tactic which renders the left powerless. His work on 9-11 was pretty good, even if I don’t agree with everything he says. But, moreover, his concept and explanation of “synthetic terrorism” — government sponsored terrorism opened my eyes at the time. Now, we here on this blog consider it quite unremarkable to say that the US has been behind Al Qaeda. But he also followed false-flag domestic terrorism. He has given a number of very good interviews with Bonnie Faulkner of “Guns and Butter” radio over the years.
Again, being an optimist, he called Libya wrong, thinking Gaddafi has going to escape being toppled. And he has made many other such wrong calls. But I’ve followed him for so long now that I can predict and allow for these weaknesses as a political analyst.
So that is the “complete Tarpley for dummies.” I also note that Rowan Berkeley is quite fond of him too.
Posted by: Malooga | Sep 6 2014 6:06 utc | 71
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