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U.S. Pushes Fake Stories To Goad Russia Into Escalation
The geniuses (not) at the National Security Council want to goad Russia into direct attacks on U.S. forces or interests. That would give the U.S. an excuse to further escalate the war in Ukraine into an open confrontation. It would also diverts the attention away from domestic problems.
To achieve this the NSC has pushed a number of stories to the media which claim that alleged Ukrainian successes are based on U.S. intelligence.
U.S. Intelligence Is Helping Ukraine Kill Russian Generals, Officials Say, May 4, NYT
WASHINGTON — The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.
Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.
The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
The story is obvious bullshit because there are only two Russian generals who have died so far during the Russian campaign in Ukraine.
Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky was killed on February 28 and Major General Vladimir Frolov was killed in early April. Both deaths were immediately officially acknowledged and reported in Russian media. Both men were buried with military honors.
All other 'killed Russian generals' are victims of the 'ghost of Kiev'. The Ukrainian propaganda apparatus likes such stories because it knows that 'western' media will pick up on them.
Russia does not hide the death of high officers. It is impossible to do so over longer periods as such men are known by many others. It would be bad for any government to get caught in such a scheme. There is also no reason to do so.
Some U.S. sources claim that a general's death will demoralize the troops he led. The opposite is the case. Generals getting killed on or near the frontline demonstrate to frontline soldiers that they are not alone in their fighting and that their officers are doing the job while carrying the same high risk than they do.
The Pentagon denied any involvement:
The Pentagon denied Thursday that the U.S. has shared intelligence with Ukraine with the intent of targeting and killing senior Russian military leaders, stressing that the goal of U.S. intelligence is simply to allow Ukrainian forces to defend themselves against Russia's invasion.
The generals in the Pentagon are keen to not become targets for Russian reprisals.
Here is another such story:
U.S. intel helped Ukraine sink Russian flagship Moskva, officials say, May 5, NBCnews
Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped Ukraine sink the Russian cruiser Moskva, U.S. officials told NBC News, confirming an American role in perhaps the most embarrassing blow to Vladimir Putin’s troubled invasion of Ukraine.
A guided missile cruiser carrying a crew of 510, the Moskva was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. It sank on April 14 after being struck by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles.
It is in fact still not clear what has happened to the Moskva. Russia only said that the ship had an explosion on board that ripped the hull below the waterline and caused a fire. There are other possibilities but hits by two Ukrainian anti-ship missiles seem unlikely.
The Pentagon again denied any direct involvement:
In a statement released after this story was published, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the U.S. did not provide Ukraine with "specific targeting information for the Moskva."
"We were not involved in the Ukrainians’ decision to strike the ship or in the operation they carried out," Kirby added. "We had no prior knowledge of Ukraine’s intent to target the ship. The Ukrainians have their own intelligence capabilities to track and target Russian naval vessels, as they did in this case."
The last sentence is incorrect as Russia destroyed all Ukrainian naval radars that were stupid enough to radiate.
Russia will not react to such stupid stories. It knows that the U.S. is pushing all kinds of battlefield information as well as weapons to the Ukrainians. It is also assumed that foreign generals are 'consulting' the general staff of the Ukrainian forces. Neither will help the Ukraine to win the war.
Over the longer term Russia may well seek revenge for the U.S. proxy war against it. But President Putin is a patient man and revenge is a dish best served cold.
I’m reading this blog and most comments daily, sometimes have the urge to contribute, but often others have already said what I wanted to say. What I (almost?) never read about is the following thought, which is curious because it’s really not that far fetched: I think it’s absolutely possible, and entirely plausible, that north american decision/power structures have been infiltrated by religious extremists who actively seek to incite Armageddon – as the final war between good and evil. The good of course being them, the true believers, and the evil are all the rest of the world, the infidels, the sinners, the unworthy. I read this idea first about 25 years ago in a book by my then favourite author Tom Robbins, “Skinny legs and all”: There is one thing apocalyptic christian evangelists and jewish ultra-orthodox have in common, even though the outcome for them differs immensely, depending on point of view.
Both think the war to end all wars will play out for them in favour, while each side is sure that of course THEY will be (or already are) the chosen ones. I don’t know about the jewish imaginations what happens after death, but at least for the christian side it matters not at all if they survive this war or not – having been on the righteous side will not only save them a spot in their imagined heaven, but a spot closer to god than others will have (having a western mind, they naturally assume there’s a hierarchy even in the afterlife). Kinda similar to the islamic wishful thinking of the 72 virgins waiting for each martyr in the afterlife. (I once read though that the translation of the original koran is not all that clear about that, could be doves instead of virgins – wouldn’t that be hilarious.) And btw of course in the islamic belief system this end-war also plays a big role, especially for extremists. The difference: they are not embedded (yet?) in the power structure of the country with the most nuclear weapons. The other two groups are.
Keeping that in mind would explain a lot regarding relationships between US and Israel in the last decades. Both sides utilize each other, each being sure to be the winner in the end. And I don’t think I have to mention that muslims as well as orthodox christians and ALL the rest of humanity are of course totally wrong and (a little bit) sadly, but consequently, are collateral damage if it finally comes to god’s “Endloesung”.
While we’re all struggling to find a rational explanation for the madness, insanity and plain dumbness of the actions of the political top level executives in the west – there might be none! Instead they might just work all the time on a rationalization of their irrational beliefs, not for their benefit, but for ours. They might try to translate their apocalyptic goals, or better: the ways how to achieve them, into something WE can rationalize. Because surely they know most of us don’t share their views. But to make us tools, means to their wanted end, they have to convince us that all they do is good for us expendables.
I don’t even think that those apocalyptic extremists, of what belief ever, are a majority in the structure. But they don’t have to be, a few key positions are enough – the rest is string pulling and corruption, or blackmail. I would even go so far to say that it might not even have to be a conspiracy, or ever was supposed to be one. Maybe it was just some kind of inevitable evolution in the western political system that brought those people into power. The weak-mindedness, greed, corruptability and lack of vision of most of today’s politicians make them easy targets and tools for others with serious goals and convictions.
However it happened and whoever they are, I think the apocalyptics are a strong force and well positioned in the structure, and they’re playing their cards now. So in the end money or ressources or power might not be the only reasons our beloved leaders are willing to let us die for in a horrible nuclear wipeout. It also might just be their perception of gods will.
In the west shall rise, a sinister creed
The rich will get what they want,
the poor will lose what they need
The devil knows our fears, he told all his friends
They’ll block the sun with their lies, as darkness descends
Oh Lord, the Great Collapse
Won’t be our end
When the world falls into the flames
We will rise again
We will rise again
Let the wars begin, we’ll keep our pistols near
Our neighbors frail and thin, as they disappear
Let the chaos come, let our houses freeze
The lights will all go out, but we’ll finally see
When the sky has cleared, and the storm has passed
We’ll walk arm in arm, down our promised path
We’ll watch the sun come up, from its bed of black
We’ll enter Eden’s Garden, and never look back
(part of soundtrack Far Cry 5 (2018), one of the most insightful games ever)
https://genius.com/Dan-romer-we-will-rise-again-lyrics
Posted by: xototox | May 6 2022 23:23 utc | 147
Thanks for the replies. In Escobar’s latest, which I link again, he introduces us to a Serbian Literature professor and writer, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic, who Alastair Crooke told Pepe about:
His main thesis, in a nutshell: ‘Megalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis – it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.
Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in Ukraine is “a great catastrophe for Orthodox civilization” – mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities.
Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: “The key difference between the former West and today’s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.”
So now “it is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy” because of a “trivialization of knowledge”. What’s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, “filled by promoting terms such as ‘posthumanism’ and ‘transhumanism’.”
And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: Russia fiercely opposes the Great Reset concocted by the “hackable”, self-described “elites” of Megalopolis.
Wow! I went looking to see what I could find, an essay, interview, anything that might tell me more. In my brief search, I discovered this interview, which of course is in Serbian–“Personality vs. Megalopolis”–here are the first two machine translated paragraphs:
Yes, Megalopolis. In my book, that word means not only a great city, but also a type of organization of life dominated by economic totalitarianism. Economic totalitarianism means a situation in which the economy governs all other spheres of society. For example, most scientific institutes are not researching, but primarily making money (therefore, they are willing to falsify the truth, if that’s how they can make money); most medical facilities do not treat people, but make money (therefore, they are willing to sacrifice people’s lives, if they can profit from it); large universities no longer serve to reveal the truth and pass on the truth to students, but to make money (therefore, the student is not someone who gains knowledge, but buys a diploma, and the buyer is always right); systemic political parties do not care about the general interest, but about the division of prey won in the elections; media is not the conscience of society but the public relation service of those who pay for them or own them, and they are not readers or viewers, much less employed journalists.
Economic totalitarianism is, therefore, the ultimate antihumanist state of society, because it depends on its presence in economic flows, which are increasingly narrow and in which it is increasingly difficult to survive. Of course, in such a social order, there is a minority government that directs and determines cash flows, which is the financial elite, i.e. banksters. The rest are slaves to Megalopolis, slaves to that elite. Modern society, therefore, is no longer civic, much less democratic. If we had to describe it somehow, then we’d say it has a notion of a neophyte and a neo-Bosnian society. [Emphasis Original]
Clearly someone who needs to be looked into more deeply. As far as I can tell, his books are all in Serbian. I’ll ask Pepe if he has any links to related writings, which I’ll pass along. Pepe also links to Glazyev’s website, so if you missed my posting that link you’ll get another chance.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 7 2022 0:30 utc | 176
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