The Ukrainian Great Offensive That Will Never Be
For many, many months Western governments, military “experts” and the mainstream media have been selling a phantasy about the “collapse” of the Russian economy, the “huge” Russian losses and the “successes” of the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as the “democratic” nature of a Ukrainian state that has banned all opposition parties, is forcibly shutting down the main independent Orthodox Christian Church and replacing it with the new “official” one, has complete propaganda control of the media and its’ representatives practice voracious corruption while selling what is left of the country to the highest foreign briber.
With the change in Russian tactics designed to maximize Ukrainian losses while minimizing Russian losses (about 7:1 in favour of the Russians) many, many months ago, and the Bakhmut “meat grinder” sucking in more and more of the Ukrainian army, the reality that the Ukrainian Army is not capable of a successful large offensive against the Russians is becoming obvious and increasingly difficult to hide; as are the scale of the losses in Bakhmut. This is with at least 250,000 Russian troops not yet committed to the fighting.
With the fall of Bakhmut, and the lack of any real Ukrainian offensive (and a possible Russian one instead as the ground hardens) there is a real chance of the Kiev regime unravelling under the weight of its own corruption and the massive military losses that it is taking. In addition, Western support may soon fade, in both financial and military terms, as Ukraine becomes a black hole for the West itself instead of the intended target, Russia. Although Ukraine may be made to fade away by the Western MSM, just like the massive failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, it will be seen for what it is by those outside the West. The West gave the destruction of Russia its best shot, short of outright war, and failed miserably. The Empire will be seen to be lacking some clothes, and its position in the world will be significantly diminished.
Update: The US MSM now seem to have started the process of resetting expectations about the Ukraine “offensive”, a piece from Politico.
The Desperate Attempts to Block the Truth Coming Out
The recent attempts of the US elites to stop the knowledge of the widespread collusion between the US security state, mainstream media and social media outlets to censor information and manage what is allowed to be known by the US public reminds one of the Soviet Union; only the state and civil society are dominated by an internationalist capitalist class instead of the Communist Party. The continuing revelations of the Twitter Files should already have resulted in widespread arrests of government officials, media company operatives, and politicians. Instead, apart from Fox News (who would have thought Fox News would have become a relative beacon of truth?) the US mainstream media, and mainstream politicians (Democrats and Republican In Name Only: RINO) have gone out of their way to trash the messengers and obfuscate the messages. This has now escalated into senior politicians threatening Matt Taibbi, a journalist involved with the Twitter Files, with multiple years of jail time. We are now fully into McCarthyism territory, only it is the Democrats and RINOs who are driving the political inquisition.
Then there is the Hunter Biden Laptop story which it now should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain and does not watch the MSM 100% of the time, was intentionally covered up by the MSM, intelligence services, Democratic politicians and social media to allow Biden to become President. The shocking contents of the laptop, which do seem to point to the reality of a “Biden Crime Family” with a coke-snorting womanizing son who seems to like very young women (no security risk there!) and very well-paid jobs that he is completely unqualified for as its main grifter, have been studiously ignored and disappeared by the MSM and social media. Now it seems, we have evidence that the whole “50 former intelligence officials say the Biden laptop is Russian disinformation” story was arranged by none other than current Secretary of State Blinken, then part of Biden’s campaign team, in collusion with those said 50 intelligence officials. This is enormous news, and is at a level of corruption that is greater than Watergate, lets understand what this means:
The Biden campaign colluded directly with the security services to gain a statement that has been shown to be a lie from 50 senior security state officials, a statement that was trumpeted by the MSM and social media in their censorship of the damning contents of the Hunter Biden laptop within weeks of the 2020 Presidential election. It is pretty evident that this constitutes a “stealing” of the 2020 Presidential election by the Biden camp through an astonishing level of collusion between the Biden campaign, the security state, the MSM and social media.
This of course builds on the utter rubbish that was purveyed for years as part of the “Russia, Russia, Russia!” campaign to subvert the power of, and delegitimize the election of, the sitting US President, Donald Trump. Of course, the MSM and social media organizations (excluding Fox) are studiously attempting to ignore and downplay these latest revelations. With Trump now officially a candidate for 2024, and the RINOs losing much of their strength, the slow leaks of such revelations are incredibly dangerous at an individual level to senior politicians, security state officials and MSM and social media executives. They simply cannot allow Trump to win in 2024 given the increasing amounts of information that have to be hidden from the American people to protect themselves. Their desperation to both cover-up the truth and to stop Trump are now increasingly stripping away the mask of the US international capitalist elite and their operatives in their security state, MSM and social media. Their own actions are delegitimizing themselves and bolstering Trump, with the ridiculous court case recently brought against Trump (see below) being a good example. The threatening of jail time to Matt Taibbi may only lead people to feel that he is in fact onto something.
Trump, even if he can (survive to) win the Presidency in 2024 will need to come to some kind of arrangement with the internationalist elite. He will not be allowed to bring the whole house down, and as he himself relies on that house for his own wealth and prestige he will not. So, the sacrificial lambs may be slaughtered, the Biden family, and much of the neocons (Blinken, Kagan, specific security state actors, media and social media executives) and perhaps the health bureaucrats such as Fauci (“he lied to me” Trump will scream). Those lambs know how quickly their “friends” can turn on them when required, so their level of desperation is increasing. Another possibility recently raised is an election of Robert Kennedy Jr., which would serve to calm the US public while making it look like a good house cleaning will be carried out. Again, a deal will be reached, and the sacrificial lambs slaughtered while the capitalist elite house remains safe.
In both cases, the complete Ukraine debacle can be blamed on those elite operatives, the COVID/MRNA misinformation campaign put to bed, Trump’s understandable lust for revenge met, and the joint US capitalist elites focused on the existential (to the US capitalist elites not the US people) struggle with China; something they can all agree on. Ukraine will find out what it feels like to be a used proxy now hung out to dry (as will the Poles), the Europeans may start to realize that they were utterly manipulated by the US into a losing position (with respect to both the US and Russia), US troops will move out of Syria, and some mutually acceptable “arrangement” will be worked out quietly with Russia. On balance a better outcome than another neocon Democratic President, but no real change in the US elite orientation to continue to attempt to rule the world. It will take many more years of failure and relative decline to change that self-serving belief that sits inside the heads of US elites and their operatives. Just look at the UK, 70 years after the Suez debacle and they are still dreaming of a “Global Britain”.
A good article by Glenn Greenwald on the widening censorship of free speech in the US.
Update: With Tucker Carlson now leaving Fox News we can remove any notion of truth telling from that network. Hopefully, Mr. Carlson will find another outlet for his (limited) truth telling, perhaps with a much bigger audience than he got on Fox News. As each capitalist internationalist establishment move seems to backfire at the moment, this may also be such a move; simply moving Mr. Carlson to create a larger platform for himself. A good segment from Jimmy Dore (yes a comedian provides more real news than any of the MSM) on this).
Are the US Internationalist Elites Trying to get Trump a Landslide in 2024?
The old saying is that a good district attorney could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and New York D.A. Alvin Bragg seems focused on proving this saying right. His case against Donald Trump is so utterly ridiculous that even Republicans in Name Only (RINOs) think that the case is utterly crazy. Yes, the Donald had a lover (Stormy Daniels) paid off to keep silent, but there are many, many reasons that he can give other than political ones; business reputation, to protect his wife from the revelations etc. It is not illegal to pay off a lover, so the D.A. is trying the flimsy charge that the cost was “misreported” as a business expense when it was a political pay-off. This was to “cover-up” a campaign finance violation that the Federal attorneys have repeatedly refused to indict Trump on!
To add to this legal ridiculousness, the star witness is Trump ex-lawyer Michael Cohen who is one of the sleaziest lawyers imaginable and who was found guilty of tax evasion and campaign finance felonies and jailed. Oh, and the daughter of the judge on the case seems to have worked for the Biden-Harris ticket! And he seems to be very ready to shut down Trump’s First Amendment rights during the trial. The D.A. has a reputation for downgrading felonies to lesser charges, but in this specific case he suddenly wants to upgrade a misdemeanour to a felony? After the government records Mar el Lago raid nothing burger, and the slow falling apart of the “Jan 6th” political pantomime, the US internationalist elites seem to now be scraping the very bottom of the barrel in their attempt to stop Trump running in 2024.
Given the so obvious show-trial political reality of this indictment, the only thing that will result is that Trump will become the unassailable Republican candidate for 2024 and a good chunk of swing voters will feel more like voting for him. As I have noted before, given the desperation of his elite opponents he should stay away from open top cars and locations ending in “Plaza”. I can also see the Democrats getting more desperate to dump Biden and Harris for some new “hopey changey” candidate who seems to arrive on the national political scene from nowhere. Trump by a landslide in 2024, either the Donald or Ivanka depending on whether or not the former is still alive. The internationalist US elites seem unable to change course when losing at home and abroad. It seems strange to me that I completely agree with a Tucker Carlson segment:
Not good news for the US populace, not good news for the Palestinians, not good news for China, perhaps some bad news for the Deep State, maybe good news for Russia, perhaps WW3 delayed. I consider Trump to be just another economic elitist, mouthing populist slogans, but the Democrats have shown themselves to be even worse on balance – especially with respect to the protection of free speech and their readiness to risk WW3. What wonderful choices the US elite allow the general population to have in their “democratic” elections.
" ...shutting down the main Orthodox Christian Church and replacing with a new “official” one.."
Unless I have misunderstood what I have read, which is possible, the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church can trace its roots to the Church that vollaborated with the OUN in the World War.
Lev Golinkin's Forward article is mu source.
https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/
Could be good news for China, which is not taking our calls anyway, and can capitalize on US infighting by, say, introducing 130 heads of state to the new settlement currency at BRICs upcoming 10th anniversary in Beijing. Let the barbarians fight the barbarians! I say.