On Monday, July 25, 2022 at 12:14:10 PM UTC-5, Oleg Smirnov wrote:
ltlee1, <news:e78bd243-b8f5-4bd5...@googlegroups.com>
"How do you assess the situation in Ukraine from the standpoint of global politics?"
"At the last G7 meeting, the West approved aid packages to Ukraine worth $24
billion for the current and upcoming years. They include a whole package of
military aid that no one has ever seen. The Americans supply tanks, heavy artillery, rocket artillery, and anti-aircraft missiles to Poland. Ukraine has not received those weapons before.
True.
"The war takes on total character, similarly to how it was in Milosevic's Yugoslavia. In this case it is the West vs. Russia. It is amazing that Germany has been promoting the image of Russia as the center of evil. Germany apparently wants to get rid of its WWII demons.
"We have been dragged into the war that the West will not let us leave. MI6
and the CIA hope that the internal situation in Russia will begin to deteriorate sharply by autumn. They currently make every effort to instigate
a conspiracy against Putin.
"Therefore, they make us experience a war of attrition. Arestovich said they
would fight as long as it takes, even for ten years. They realise that Ukraine may disappear, and a number of other states may appear in its place,
as was the case with Yugoslavia.
Arestovich is a TV-propagandist of the Kiev regime, who appears on their
TV every day and tells something "psychotherapeutic", intended to maintain enthusiastic pro-war sentiment among the populace in the Kiev-controlled territory. I.e. it's not a rational political-military analysis but a kind of pop-show decorated to resemble an analysis. This genre does not imply such responsibility for claims and predictions that might be expected from
a real political analyst, because it's mainly "psychotherapeutic-hypnotic".
Thus Arestovich doesn't hesitate to make claims that boldly contradict his own claims made few days before. In the recent months, he managed to make dozens of brave predictions that have not come true. All this means little given that he sells not an understanding but "healing hypnosis", - and his audience are listening to him mainly for that.
I've tried to explain this, because for a real political-military analyst, such a reference to "Arestovich said" - as if it was something rational, - would be a sign of self-disrespect.
So I went to look up who is this man, Sergey Gorodnikov, whom Pravda.ru presents as Director of the Center for Global Policy Development (and whom
I never heard about before). It turned out, Gorodnikov is also not really
a political analyst. He had written several fiction books (quasi-historical and detective novels, "science fiction"), and also few non-fiction books where he offers some pretty extravagant and "catchy" concepts pretending to be a politology, but in essence it's rather a kind of entertaining reading.
The website of this "Center for Global Policy Development" had been opened in 2008 <http://www.globpolitika.narod.ru>, and the very last update on the website dates back to 2010.
In Russia, any creative person can establish sort of think-tank, name it something like "Academy of Global Research of Global Everything" and then promote him- or her-self under this brandname, - there are dozens of such organizations or "organizations", some of them may be somehow "registered", some purely virtual.
One of the well-promoted Atlanticist narratives about Russia is that "the Kremlin's typical tactic of disinformation" supposedly is in injecting
into the infospace multiple contradictory claims / narratives, to produce
a confusing noise intended to "conceal the truth". This misinterpretation takes place from the basic cultist view on Russia as a tough dictatorship, so any voices from Russia, any opinions in the Russian news media, must be somehow linked with the Kremlin (except only those few brave ones who are already known as staunch oppositionaries and "foes of Putin").
In real fact, in Russia, there's an abundance of folks willing to analyze
or comment on something. These analysis and commentary may be of various quality, some of them may be relevant and wise, some may be silly. These opinions, "versions", suggestions and predictions may appear in privately owned media outlets (like Pravda.ru) as well as in state-controlled media (and the fact someone claimed something on a state-controlled TV doesn't mean it was surely approved by the Kremlin). From the foreign perspective, some claims issued by different persons my be seen "in support to the Kremlin" but at the same time they may be mutually contradictory. And then the Western mass media misrationalize this situation so as if the Kremlin injected mutually contradictory narratives deliberately, for confusion.
The underlying premise for this misrationalization is the fact the West seeks to "deny Russia the right" to have its own intra-national discourse, where sincere opinions of people are not necessarily "pro-Western".
Back to Kiev regime's Arestovich, one of the amusing facts of his bio was the fact that in the mid-2000s, Arestovich was a member of the Ukrainian branch of the Dugin's "Eurasia Movement". Arestovich made initial career
as an officer in the Ukraine's military, then in 2005 he retired with the rank of major and turned to be a TV actor, and at the same time he became engaged in political activism, hypnotism and occultism (the latter drove
him within the Dugin's Eurasia Movement, where he was for about 3 years). Another amusing fact about Arestovich is that he became most popular as an actor when he performed a female character <https://youtu.be/UOBggWPw7GY>.
"Yet, Russia does not want Ukraine to turn into another Yugoslavia - Russia
needs to have control over this space. We must not let the West seize any part of today's Ukraine, not even Galicia. Putin put forward a clear ultimatum: NATO should go back to its borders before 1997. In other words, Russia needs to have not only Ukraine under its control, but also Poland, Slovenia, Romania and Hungary.
"Russia wants NATO to go back to its 1997 borders, when the alliance incorporated Germany. Otherwise, we will not survive World War Three that is
now brewing. The West is very tempted to strike a nuclear blow on Russia that we would not be able to respond to. If they bring their missiles closer
to our borders from all sides, then we will not have enough air defense to stop them. They will destroy us."
https://english.pravda.ru/world/153214-west_ukraine_yugoslavia/
The West will not let Russia do away with Ukraine crisis quickly per the title while Russia is at present the stronger side of the conflict. In response, Russia says it wants NATO to go back to its 1997 borders.
Intriguing.
Is it possible for NATO to go back to its 1997 borders?
If Russia deteriorate, would it make Putin THE MAD MAN?
Let us wait and see.
I appreciate the Russian point of view, and unlike American politicians, both parties, I agree that US provoked Russia to attack the Ukraine like the Pope said.
I understand exactly why NATO wants Crimea having been raised on NATO bases and educated in USAF financed elementary and secondary schooling.
Yes, I oppose the war and do wish that Ukraine would learn to compromise and realize nationalism is a ting of the past as the world must learn to live together without discrimination with regard to race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or nationality as
our universal GOD would expect of humanity in order to survive overpopulation problems, which includes global warming.
Indeed, what else would one expect a true Messiah or Mahdi to profess?
Both US and Russian intelligence must be aware of my posts, and also I have zero earthly authority. The expectation is that truth will resonate on its own, once sourced.
My neutrality may swing to favor to the Americans though, as a warning to Putin. Both sides lie, as well as Ukraine. Ukraine lies a lot, and I do favor a regime change in Kiev and that requires the Ukrainian people to make peace with Russia which will
be very hard now, so a demilitarized buffer zone is to be expected in the end.
Regardless, sometimes it is the little things that makes the difference. My neutrality or slight support for Russia may be changed if Russia does not free the pot smoking lesbian basketball player.
It is such a little thing, but if Putin values my support, I recommend dropping drug charges against my American pot smoking friends. I enjoy the healing effects of GOD's special plant, and we did discover from Vietnam that it has medical properties
that address PTSD issues caused by wartime.
If pot delivered to war front, it would make the Russians not want to fight and would cause Ukrainians to be less anxious from induced fears. i.e. Made American youth unafraid of confronting the police and the law while not wanting to fight in Vietnam.
Bomb Eastern Ukraine with bales of marijuana and watch Russian communist lifers shoot their own young soldiers for having a smoke in between combat sorties.
But my shit isn't read by very many, just the spooks, from both sides. The Russians believe in remote viewing. I am fascinated by other explanations, synchronicity, quantum entanglement, psychic, etc.
Anyhow, I'll see if Russia frees the pot smoking basketball player and start rooting for the Ukrainians if Russia does not. Trump will not be able to give Putin the peace that Russia desires, but will of course only make matters worse as could be easily
prophesied. Let the direction of American democracy go its own way. It is not my way. At the moment I am still neutral. I give Putin and GOD 30 days to free the girl, and will rethink my support then.
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