Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Sleepwalking Into War With Russia: The West Instructs Zelensky - 'No Peace Agreements'

America Sleepwalks Into War With Russia



The United States and its NATO allies are slowly drifting into a war against Russia. The Biden administration and some of our NATO allies, while feigning caution and prudence, have gradually increased their involvement in Ukraine’s war effort. Some Western strategists talk of defeating Russia and forcing Vladimir Putin from power, even trying him as a war criminal. Victory, they say, is just around the corner as along as we continue to arm Ukraine.

I’m reminded of a memorable scene in the movie Nicholas and AlexandraRussia’s generals and politicians are confidently planning the mobilization of millions of troops against Germany on a huge table-size map. Against the advice of elder statesman Count Sergei Witte (brilliantly played by Sir Laurence Olivier), Tsar Nicholas II orders a general mobilization. Witte, old and gray, slumps in his chair and softly repeats the word “madness.”

This topic has assumed relevance today as the United States and NATO get closer and closer to co-belligerent status with Ukraine. Newsweek reports that 12 NATO countries, including the United States and Germany, have agreed to supply more tanks to Ukraine. The Biden administration will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks, while Germany is sending 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks. Ukraine’s ambassador to France said that Western countries have agreed to supply Ukraine with 321 tanks. Russia called this latest move a “blatant provocation” and more evidence of “direct involvement” in the war by Western powers.

Despite the seriousness of these decisions, some Western observers are acting like Russia’s generals in the lead-up to World War I. The Guardian columnist Martin Kettle claimsthat the new tanks will give Ukraine “a military advantage” that could transform the war to Ukraine’s favor. The new weapons, he asserts, have the potential to “put Kyiv in a position to dictate ceasefire and peace terms to Moscow.” TheEconomist opines that sending Ukraine tanks and long-range missiles will enable it to “withstand the next Russian offensive and to take back the territory that is theirs.”

American war hawk Max Boot is confident that the supply of tanks will enable Ukraine to mount a “successful offensive” and to take back its territory. Boot asserts that the tanks along with long-range rockets and advanced fighter planes supplied by the West will “determine the course of the war.” Jeffrey Cimmino and Shelby Magid of the Atlantic Council urge NATO to speed-up production and delivery of even more weapons systems to help Ukraine defeat Russia and integrate Ukraine in Western institutions.


Which leads me to ask: Where are the American Count Witte’s? There don’t seem to be any in the Biden administration. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are all in for co-belligerency in order to preserve the “rules-based international order.” 








I have been warned that my sources have constantly been whispering, and growing to yell and screaming, that the Biden Administration and NATO have been pushing for Ukraine to sacrifice all its people to weaken Russia so they could later come in for the kill. They were doing so by instructing Zelensky he was not to negotiate peace with Russia under any terms.

Now former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who mediated those contacts, confirmed what my sources have been saying from the outset. He openly said that peace might’ve been agreed upon between Russia and Ukraine shortly after the start of the conflict. However, Kyiv’s “Western backers” blocked the negotiations between them for they wanted war.

Make no mistake about it. Russia is now well aware that this is a war of all wars that is out to absolutely destroy their country, their culture, and their people. They will have no choice but to defend themselves against the aggression of the United States and Europe.




But instead will be coddled through a carefully curated and choreographed ventriloquist act in Ukraine.

One frothy contingent of the West is gleefully anticipating the upcoming, unprecedented infusion of Western armor into Ukraine as the prelude to Kursk 2.0, where peerless Western tanks will gloriously outman and outgun Russia’s Soviet-legacy armor. (well, the tragi-comic irony of the comparison doesn’t escape us)

It’s now come to light that Britain is busy furiously putting together plans to keep their Challenger-2 tanks from falling into Russian hands, so that Russia doesn’t get a peek at their much-vaunted ‘Chobham’ armor.

The plan consists of something we suspected all along: that secret teams will be in place to babysit and coddle the tanks at all times, taking fastidious care to make certain they are never in real danger of falling into Russian hands.

Britain led the world by pledging 14 Challenger 2s to Ukraine — but defence sources say it would be a nightmare if one was captured by Vladimir Putin’sinvaders.

Before we lay into the report, let’s first mention that even as far back as last summer, when HIMARs first began to arrive, CNN already inadvertently blew the lid: in this video at the 1:25 mark, the correspondent admits that the HIMARs will be a ‘high priority target’ for the Russians, and as such, there are exceptional pains taken to protect the American systems:

“A lot of care is being taken to ensure it stays safe, protected from Russian eyes and weapons. Somewhere in the woods nearby…air defenses and a special ground operation are guarding this site.”

A special ground operation? Well, we all know what that would be.

Now, in the new report British “top brass are working with Ukraine’s high command to ensure UK tanks can be dragged back to safety if one is knocked out of action.”

But that’s not all. It’s one thing to have a backup plan, but the problem is, in order for them to even be in a position to “drag them back to safety” they have to make sure the tanks never “overstretch” into an area where they may be at even slight risk:

“But the worst case scenario is that a tank is destroyed when the lines are collapsing and friendly forces are in retreat.

Step one is the training and working with mission planners to try and ensure the Challengers are not used in scenarios where they think that collapse a realistic possibility.

Woah, wait a second. So step one is to make sure that the mission planners never use the tanks in scenarios where a collapse is a possibility? Well, by George! But the AFU regularly collapses everywhere.

Every “military scenario”, particularly on the Ukrainian side has the risk of collapse, they are completely outgunned, outclassed, and soon to be outnumbered in vast droves.

 Do they intend to never use the tanks at all, other than as ‘trophy pieces’ to take photoshoots, make sparkly headlines as a boost to morale? Sort of like the equivalent of the U.S. Army’s tour of famous entertainers through frontlines during war time to cheer up the troops

“Step two is making sure, at the tactical level, the Ukrainians are trained to recover a tank under fire.They certainly don’t lack the courage.”

Other extreme options under consideration include having private military contractors on standby to recover stricken tanks.”

Read that again (and weep). Yes, you’ve read that right. The British high command, expects the abject Ukrainian cannon-fodder to literally die for their sacred Challengers.

But, we can say, ‘let the games begin’, because Russia apparently will not be sitting idly. This wire from the MI6 sheds light:

“MI6 transmitted intelligence to the President’s Office and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the Russian army has begun to create special units of “tank catchers”, the main purpose of which will be to take whole Western tanks.”

Not only that, but many Russian businesses have now made internal sport of offering hefty rewards to Russian servicemen for the kill or capture of Western tanks.






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