Monday, April 18, 2022

Links — 18 Apr 2022 Part 2

The Vineyard of the Saker
Sitrep: Operation Z
Nightvision
http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-11/

Moon of Alabama
The Ukraine Is Still Losing So What Is Its Plan?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/the-ukraine-is-still-losing-so-what-is-its-plan.html

Reminiscence of the Future
It Is Only Natural...
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/it-is-only-natural.html

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Unasked, unanswered questions
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/18/unasked-unanswered-questions/

Sputnik International
Russian Strike Wipes Out Logistics Base Near Lvov Containing Large Amounts of Western Arms: MoD
https://sputniknews.com/20220418/russian-strike-wipes-out-logistics-base-near-lvov-containing-large-amounts-of-western-arms-mod-1094866925.html

US Plans to Take Apart Russia’s ‘War Machine,’ Disrupt Supply Chain, Treasury Says
https://sputniknews.com/20220418/us-plans-to-take-apart-russias-war-machine-disrupt-supply-chain-treasury-says-1094869160.html

Zero Hedge
US NatGas Spikes Above $8 For First Time Since 2008 As LNG Exports 'Save Europe'
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/us-natgas-jumps-13-year-high-dwindling-supplies

The Monopoly On Your Mind: These 6 Companies Control 90% Of What You Read, Watch, & Hear
Rebecca Strong
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/monopoly-your-mind-these-6-companies-control-90-what-you-read-watch-hear

Popular Resistance
Resource Limits And Our Strange Game Of Musical Chairs
Kurt Cobb, Resilience
https://popularresistance.org/resource-limits-and-our-strange-game-of-musical-chairs/

Strategic Culture Foundation (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
Errors, Both Tactical, and of Strategic Consequence
Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/18/errors-both-tactical-and-of-strategic-consequence/

The Ultimate False Flag – Russia Nukes Ukraine (Ukraine's fallback position? That or chemical weapons? US seeding the ground with infowar?)
Kari Haki
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/18/the-ultimate-false-flag-russia-nukes-ukraine/

Consortium News
Joe Lauria
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/18/information-warfare-from-pre-history-to-ukraine/




14 comments:

Footsoldier said...

The US is convening an urgent meeting with world leaders due to phase 2 of the new offensive of the RF Armed Forces.

Joe Biden plans to hold a meeting on April 19 with the leaders of France, Germany, Britain, Canada, Italy, Poland and Romania. NATO Secretary General will also take part.

The agenda is clear. The Russians are going to destroy the 60,000+ Nazis in the east, who have been armed, trained and funded by the US and NATO for 8 years. Tens of billions of dollars of investment in fascism and years of work to destroy the Donbass and Russia has been a complete waste of time and effort. Regime change in Russia has completely failed.


What are the psychopaths going to talk about ?


a) Do they NOW really push for peace to save these lives to keep a foothold in Ukraine so they can use them to try again in a few years time. Keep control of the framing and narrative. Keep hold of large parts of Ukraine. Make it look and sound like a Russian defeat.

Or

b) lose everything, most of Ukraine and lose control of the framing and narrative as it will be a heavy defeat after telling everyone Russia was losing. The truth will come out of the atrocities they have committed during this war. Worry when even more Americans, British, Canadian and French NATO soldiers are captured when Mariupol falls.


Or

c) Milk the Ukraianians to the very end and send them more shite for western profits. Add more sanctions.


d) Enter the war and send troops into ukraine.


e) None of the above.



Peter Pan said...

c)

Peter Pan said...

Followed by stripped down version of a)

Peter Pan said...

b) is what is likely to happen, despite Washington's plans for the future.

Footsoldier said...

If Gonzalo Lira has indeed been disappeared by Ukraine's SBU, he joins a long list of dissidents, leftists, human rights activists, and local officials kidnapped, tortured and even assassinated by Zelensky's death squads – and with Kiev's open support.


Under Zelensky's watch, Ukraine's SBU has partnered with neo-Nazis from Azov and C14 to hunt down left-wing activists

This is from a video posted by Azov members during the SBU's torture & kidnapping of leftist Alexander Matjuschenko in Dnipro – targeted for his political views




https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1516138550399361024

Footsoldier said...

I think they can talk as much as they like.


For me Russia holds the stopwatch and will end this on their terms. That means Russia needs Zelensky alive until new elections are held in what is left of Ukraine when this is over.


The West will try and create a foreign government with Zelensky based abroad somewhere and say he is the ruler of Ukraine from there.

Refuse to recognise any independence elections or any general election while Zelensky is abroad.


Not that it matters to Russia because it that happens they'll just absorb parts of Ukraine into Russia. There's nothing anybody can do about it.


For me this will end how Russia wants it to end.







Matt Franko said...

Does Russia ever have elections?

Footsoldier said...

Turkey waltzed into Syria and claimed parts of it and nobody said a word because it was Syria. That's the hypocrisy from Erdogan every time he opens his mouth regarding this war.

Who's going to stop Russia from taking everything East of the Dnieper river use the river as a demilitarised zone. Give the people a choice leave or stay.


Turn Ukraine into a a little country of nothing of very little significance. If the EU wants what's left they can have it. They can absorb the nazis.











Footsoldier said...

Does Russia ever have elections?


Does America ?


They are all one party nation states today.


Democracy is a sham.



Footsoldier said...

I've come to the conclusion. That the UK government have lied to me since the day I was born. Has done so for hundreds of years to every person that has been born in the UK.

It has taken me 50 years to realise it. I wish I had come to that conclusion when I was 18. Life would have been so much easier.









Footsoldier said...

There you go it is starting already



https://t.me/intelslava/25909



Residents of the village of Rozovka, Zaporozhye region, voted at a people's meeting for joining the Donetsk People's Republic.

Thus, the territory of the DPR is expanding beyond the borders of the former Donetsk region of Ukraine. Everything will be DNR.



The West and Zelensky will now come out and not recognise it.

Matt Franko said...

Sounds like a textbook civil war of former soviets..

Matt Franko said...

New Cold War on steroids with rearmament of Western Europe and initial armament former Soviet Eastern Europe looking good..,

There is more munnie to be made there than doing measly oil and gas deals with Russia..,

$1T US Defense budget next FY…

Peter Pan said...

Kurdistan should join NATO. Would be lots of excitement following that announcement.