The Theatre of War

Whether an “invasion” is going on in the Ukraine or not is irrelevant

Letters from Vienna #36

The Theatre of War

In the same way that the Scamdemic might well have had a real element, Covid-19 might or might not exist (its existence is yet to be established), so whether an “invasion” is going on in the Ukraine or not is ultimately irrelevant. What is clear is that the violence will have economic, geopolitical and political repercussions (and will be highly profitable for the military industrial complex and some energy speculators regardless of any outcome (see letter #25)).

Western public opinion, most importantly in Germany, is being manipulated once more. “Experts” are sprouting up like mushrooms. In fact: anyone who has a TV seems to regard themselves as one. And all of a sudden people seem to care passionately about “democracy” and “human rights” in the Ukraine! The fact that they are actively supporting Nazis seems beside the point;[1] misinformation is the order of the day[2].

Dmitry Orlov wrote: “People who are now speaking out against Russia’s military action in the Ukraine need to answer a simple question: Where have you been for the last eight years while the carnage in Donetsk and Lugansk was going on, while people were being burned alive in Odessa, while the Ukrainian government organised terrorist operations on Russian territory and while the entire Ukrainian population has been forced to kowtow to Americans and to speak Ukrainian, most often against its will?”[3]

Eva K Bartlett posted the message: “It’s all nice & good to say you’re anti-war. But what have you done to support people, like in the Donbass, who have been shelled daily for the past 8 years?”

Dmitry Orlov goes so far as to actually justify Russian actions: “Russia had the full legal right to invade the Ukraine from several perspectives: to defend its allies in Donetsk and Lugansk; to defend itself against Ukrainian WMDs, which the Ukrainian president threatened to start producing at the Munich Security Conference; and to stop NATO from continuing its advance toward Russian borders in violation of its previous commitment of “not an inch to the east.” Russia exercised its right of self-defence under article 51 of part 7 of the UN Charter. The Ukraine had forfeited its right to territorial integrity under the 1970 UN Declaration by refusing to honour the rights of its Russian-speaking population. It also refused to renew its Friendship Treaty with Russia and therefore no longer had a defined border with Russia that Russia was obligated to honour.”[4]

Whether the current round of violence will be employed to trigger a planned financial crash and economic meltdown remains to be seen. Whatever happens it will undoubtedly be used to further the Globalist authoritarian agenda of 4IR (aka “Global Auschwitz”), something one must note: Putin actively supports[5]. This raises the obvious question as to whether Putin is part of the Global Deep State or not: he certainly seems to be acting on its behalf.

Was the Ukrainian request for nuclear weapons or membership of NATO to be taken seriously or not? Was the fighting in the disputed territories escalating or not? Did Ukraine provoke a Russian reaction or not? Did Ukraine pose a serious military threat to the breakaway republics or not? Did the Ukrainian bioweapon labs pose an imminent threat to Moscow or not?

Ultimately, we’ll never know the answers to these and a host of other questions and in reality: they don’t really matter. Ukrainians are acutely aware that they’ve long been a geopolitical football and have long been a source of raw materials to be exploited by outsiders, whether from the East or the even more rapacious West. This consciousness was the little I garnered from just a few minutes listening to what was said at a demonstration by Ukrainians concerning the Ukraine in Vienna yesterday.

The military issues are secondary. If Russia is indeed attacking the Ukraine, despite the vast quantities of weaponry provided by America, the UK, Israel[6] etc. etc. the latter will fold for three reasons: the Ukrainian army, which consists largely of poorly motivated conscripts, won’t fight or at least not much, the Russian army has shown itself technologically sophisticated and well-led, and thirdly: the Ukraine is next to impossible to defend. Even if the Ukrainian army were motivated and cohesive it would be confronted with a next to impossible task.

According to some reports: the Russians are using airmobile units. This should hardly surprise: Russia was a pioneer of this form of warfare long before the Americans employed helicopters on a large scale. The Ukraine is largely flat while the prowess of Russian armoured forces is legendary. The Russians can also attack from the sea and seem to have done so. In short: if a Russian “invasion” is in fact unfolding: the Russians have all the strategic advantages on their side. What is actually happening on the ground will only become apparent over time.

Much more important are the geo-political and economic ramifications, which the average TV viewer will only dimly grasp.

Perhaps the key to whole situation is Mackinder: “Washington policy was classic geopolitics,” Engdahl once explained in his masterly fashion, “as outlined almost a century earlier by Sir Halford Mackinder. Mackinder had warned a British elite that an alliance of the major Eurasian powers of the time, including Germany, Russia and central Asian states, held the potential to become the dominant global power, since it would be geographically coherent and would possess all the necessary economic raw materials and a sufficient population to challenge any rivals.”

“At the end of the First World War, Mackinder had stated, ‘Who rules Central Europe, commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland, commands the World Island; Who rules the World Island, commands the world.’ In other words, if the nations around Germany and France in Europe were to dominate the Russian-centered Eurasian ‘Heartland,’ as Mackinder termed it, that combination would hold the potential, the resources and the geographic advantage to dominate the entire world.”[7]  

“In 1904, a British geographer, Halford Mackinder, presented a series of theses to the Royal Geographic Society in London under the title ‘The Geographical Pivot of History.’ Almost a century later, American security adviser and strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke in admiration of the work of Mackinder and his theory of Eurasian geopolitics. It quietly but clearly guided American global strategy. The occupation of the oilfields of Iraq, the war in Kosovo and the Balkans, endless civil wars in Africa, financial crises across Asia, the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent emergence of a Russian oligarchy, blessed by the International Monetary Fund and by Washington, all assumed coherence in a world where geopolitics, power and control dictated relations.”[8]

Thus, the geopolitical significance of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline project is not to be underestimated.

“Germany on Tuesday halted the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline project,” Reuters reported “designed to double the flow of Russian gas direct to Germany, after Russia formally recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.”

“Europe’s most divisive energy project, worth $11 billion, was finished in September, but has stood idle pending certification by Germany and the European Union.”

“The pipeline had been set to ease the pressure on European consumers facing record energy prices amid a wider post-pandemic cost of living crisis, and on governments that have already forked out billions to try to cushion the impact on consumers.”

“But on Tuesday the European benchmark gas price, currently the Dutch March contract, was up 9.8% at 78.95 euros per megawatt hour (MWh) at 1607 GMT, much like the price for the fourth quarter, when Nord Stream 2 had been expected to start.”[9]

Similarly, there were other dramatic knock-on effects in Germany: “German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a plan to beef up the German military on Sunday, pledging €100 billion ($112.7 billion) of the 2022 budget for the armed forces and repeating his promise to reach the 2% of gross domestic product spending on defence in line with NATO demands.”[10]

That powerful financial interests will benefit from the current crisis is clear; that the average citizen whether in the Ukraine or in Western Europe will suffer as a consequence is also beyond any reasonable doubt. What is also abundantly clear is that the untold human tragedy was avoidable.[11]

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[1] https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR2oBaQwEFVBrnV69CEtJGbMjnDqOMu_Bl_5WLXLI_AVoIg_ZteTxxra7kc

[2] https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/27/7-fake-news-stories-coming-out-of-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR1gVsNIhgxgaXs_C2g8HlpfPxW2zW-HevPJQ6y48Fq2YOwhXnc54V0umxY

[3] http://thesaker.is/the-situation-in-the-ukraine-predictions-vs-reality/?fbclid=IwAR1EmtmOIG0oFdKd0_Vg9uKFqdgqm4vdZo7g6DEewcGU4lX4QJXrjzuF_Vc

[4] Ibid

[5] https://blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/84012910/how-the-ukraine-situation-was-driven-into-reality-vaccine-induced-liver-failure-covid-insurance/?fbclid=IwAR2Fc2FBtZ58pAvAHPMQvJMsEHn9TRXELdT-fmylUoMCaTP9DO6ZT6asST4

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[7] p.243 “A Century of War” F. W. Engdahl

[8] p.8 “A Century of War” F. W. Engdahl

[9] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-scholz-halts-nord-stream-2-certification-2022-02-22/

[10] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-commits-100-billion-to-defense-spending/a-60933724

[11] https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/02/26/it-could-have-been-avoided-daniel-mcadams-on-ukraine-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR3D5NFJeHPu_a20eibLLOxmib9phO5aMKpZSGLMhKeIe2nUQtqYmZx-WmI