Happy Donbass Day

Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry; From behind them pale moonlight Flickers where the snowflakes hurry. Dark the sky and dark the night. Alexander Pushkin

Today, February 24, 2023, is the anniversary of Russia’s entry into Donbass, which was intended only to free Donbass of Ukraine military and neo-Nazi militias.  It was not an invasion of Ukraine.  But by under-committing military resources and imposing crippling rules of war, Putin guaranteed that Washington would use the generous time Putin provided to greatly widen the war.  Now Putin is faced with the likelihood of missile attacks on the Russian naval base in Crimea. Why is this unimaginable when Washington had no hesitancy in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines?  What will be the next target for attack?  Moscow?

When the expected Russian winter offensive did not materialize, those who reported a large buildup of Russian troops and weapons on Ukraine’s border said that Russians were a symbolic people and were delaying the attack for the anniversary date.  The date has arrived.

If the attack does not occur, the neoconservatives will become even more confident.  Provocations will worsen as they accelerate.  Putin will find Russia backed into a corner where nuclear weapons are his only option.

Putin doesn’t realize it, but his inability to act decisively in Ukraine is dooming the world to nuclear war. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/02/24/washington-egged-on-by-its-neoconservatives-has-concluded-that-putin-has-no-stomach-for-war-beyond-a-limited-police-action/

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Mr. Roberts:

Why do you paint this picture? What if Putin does not care about what acting decisively means to YOU or his Military or his Russian people? Suppose this war is to do all short of total war to bleed US and NATO munitions and equipment and money at little risk to the Homeland. And when the time is ripe for Total War why China, NK, and Russia join hands. And nuclear weapons are used as justification in response to the “escalation” by one side or the other. I find your analysis to be naive. Putin is not his own man. Oligarchs and the Security elite brought him to power. In fact we do not know if Putin lives and a succession of body doubles are used instead. Russia wants to be in the New World Order and China does too. The WEF is creating this New World Order and treaties with WHO facilitate it arriving just in time. A war in Ukraine can release a pathogen used to justify a forced peace by WHO. An Ethiopian communist backed by China runs WHO. Hmm. Nothing to see there since WHO has no soldiers, just needles.

Biden and many Beltway Democrats are willing and witting Chinese agents. Suppose further the Trotsky Neo-Cons are also agents of a communist future despite propaganda insisting they seek American global hegemony maintained by force? Lastly suppose https://historyofrevolution.com/2021/05/13/the-soviet-union-never-fell-perestroika-was-a-deception/

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