Defeat in Ukraine
As we approach the second anniversary of the Special Military Operation in the Ukraine it might be wise and prudent to ponder the reasons for the defeat of the West.
Strictly speaking, as I pointed out in my previous letter, the conflict in Gaza and the one in the Ukraine are intimately intertwined. The war in the Ukraine and the one against the people of Gaza (not Hamas as is falsely claimed) are part of a scramble for economic resources in competition with Russia and China.
The West wasn’t happy when Russia thwarted its proxy war in Syria just as it wasn’t delighted when China did the same in the Sudan. It’s because the imperialists in the West (e.g. the neo-cons) can’t brook contradiction that the world is set firmly on a path to World War Three.
The West’s obsession with the “recapturing of Crimea” is interlinked with Russia’s influence in the Middle East in general and its ongoing logistical support for Syria in particular.
There are also interesting parallels between the Ukrainian and the Crimean War, which raged between 1853 and 1856.
The Crimean War (October 1853–February 1856), the Britannica tells us was “fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between the Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish, with support from January 1855 by the army of Sardinia-Piedmont. The war arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian
demands to exercise protection over the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman sultan. Another major factor was the dispute between Russia and France over the privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places in Palestine.”
“Supported by Britain, the Turks took a firm stand against the Russians, who occupied the Danubian principalities (modern Romania) on the Russo-Turkish border in July 1853. The British fleet was ordered to Constantinople (Istanbul) on September 23. On October 4 the Turks declared war on Russia and in the same month opened an offensive against the Russians in the Danubian principalities. After the Russian Black Sea fleet destroyed a Turkish squadron at Sinope, on the Turkish side of the Black Sea, the British and French fleets entered the Black Sea on January 3, 1854, to protect Turkish transports. On March 28 Britain and France declared war on Russia. To satisfy Austria and avoid having that country also enter the war, Russia evacuated the Danubian principalities. Austria occupied them in August 1854.”[1]
If one thinks about the official explanation then one thing seems obvious: The Russians were willing to withdraw after diplomatic pressure from Vienna and there was never a real reason for war to begin with. The same can be applied to the Special Military Operation. The aggression against Russia, which began with the coup against the democratically elected government by the neo-Nazis in Kiev in 2014, was eventually parried by the Minsk Accords. Only when diplomacy completely and utterly failed, due to the (freely and shamelessly admitted) bad faith on the part of the West, did the Russians resort to war. And even while war was raging the Russians were willing to make broad concessions. When agreement between Zelensky and Putin was eventually reached and a treaty signed it was sabotaged by the UK & US.
Just as the Crimean war wasn’t really about “privileges of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in the holy places in Palestine” so the NATO proxy war in the Ukraine and the US/Israeli war against the women and children of Gaza aren’t about their ostensible reasons (imperialistic Russian “aggression” or Palestinian “terrorism”). In all three cases imperial rivalry are or were involved. There are, in addition, other dimensions which oughtn’t be discounted: the power of the military industrial complex, which is currently swallowing up billions in both America and Israel and the scramble for natural resources off the coast of Gaza and in the Ukraine.
Russia, which was Britain’s most dangerous imperial rival in the nineteenth century, wasn’t weakened by British sponsored revolutions of the 1840s so another tack was taken: a direct invasion of Russia. This too failed before, eventually, revolution destroyed Russia in 1917. This shouldn’t surprise, especially given the fact that Britain’s imperial pretensions and enemies (especially Russia) were pretty much identical with those of the Freemason/Illuminati plan adumbrated by Pike in 1871.
The focus, then as now, is the destruction of Russia. The difference is that the ideologies, such as Marxism, which were once in play, are spent forces and there’s nothing remotely as powerful to replace them (as a footnote it’s worth mentioning that Zionism was promoted at the time as an antidote to “Jewish Marxism”; it was pushed as a “means of getting rid of the troublesome Jews”).
Returning to the matter at hand (after much circumlocution): The principle reasons for the current Western failure are the fact that it has underestimated Russian financial stability, economic robustness, military industrial capacity, the insane depths of Ukrainian corruption (when given the choice of fighting or feathering its own nest: the Ukrainian leadership has invariably chosen the latter, with disastrous consequences on the battlefield) and has overestimated its own military capability.
NATO, which is exploiting the Ukrainians as its proxies, is simply not as effective as assumed. When asked how to deal with minefields Ukrainians were instructed to “drive around them”. This NATO philosophy simply hasn’t worked in the Ukraine.
The Russian military intervention was limited in nature and under resourced (in contrast to the US/Israeli assault on the women and children of Gaza), which proved a near fatal weakness when the Ukrainian/NATO forces counter-attacked in the autumn of 2022. The Russians have since corrected this error and have committed substantially more troops, which has made a Russian victory all but inevitable.
The fact that the Ukrainians are now calling up every last able-bodied pregnant woman and child is a declaration of bankruptcy reminiscent of Germany in 1945; it has literally run out of men. Militarily it is doomed regardless of the latest “Wunderwaffen” the West throws in its direction.
Much in the same way that the “Charge of the Light Brigade”, which Tennyson wrote of, symbolised the twinning of heroism and the futility of war, so the Ukrainian attack on Robotyne will be remembered on account of its sheer insanity. Armoured vehicle after armoured vehicle was sent into mine fields and roughly 20,000 Ukrainians are said to have perished (in the Financial Times these appalling losses were dismissed as a “few dozen men”). Afterwards Zaluzhnyi is reported to have said that he hadn’t expected the Russians to employ mines! Others claimed that the Ukrainians had been told that the Russians would flee!
That Ukraine, principally on account of its corruption but also on account of Western military incompetence and sheer political stupidity, is a lost cause. This should, by now, be abundantly clear to all.
If one needs a reminder of past military incompetence and sheer, suicidal stupidity one need merely read Tennyson once more:
The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
II
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
III
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
IV
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
V
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
VI
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
I just read Sunak UK PM, has promised £3.5b to Ukraine as US funds drying up.