A recurring theme of my recent writings has been geography, and how it should form the basis of any material analysis of international relations – put plainly, you can’t spell geopolitics without the ‘geo’.
His army WAS greeted with open arms - if not wreaths and cheers, because the Donetsk & Lugansk regions have been under ongoing attack from the Ukrainian fascist-dominated battalions in that area for the past 8 years. And initially, the Russian presence was kept quiet - the independent Donetsk forces have been the main army pushing back the Ukrainians. Patrick Lancaster is an independent reporter in that area, and he shows more or less daily footage of what is actually happening in Donetsk. For example these Donetsk civilians are definitely welcoming the Russians: https://youtu.be/jCLXH_S_f70
"While navigating through today’s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean. The second quality is a strong power of logic, memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to process the mountains of data that slaps us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm."
Excellent overview! There are some analysts suggesting that the whole Ukraine situation has been set up by the US to entrap Putin and destabilise (and ultimately overthrow) his regime.
There is certainly a lot of war-mongering apparent from the NATO countries - they are doing nothing to try to broker a peaceful diplomatic resolution, just sending arms and inflicting on us the same sophisticated propaganda strategies that we saw with the scamdemic over the past 2 years.
Thanks Mara. Not ruling out the possibility that the West is planning Afghanistan 2.0. They have publicly said as much, and I think Putin would be well aware of that risk. However this is not Gorbechev's decrepit Soviet Union, and Ukraine is not Afghanistan. The offensive will need a few more weeks anyway, then we'll be in a better position to know the likely outcome
Putin has a black belt in judo. I certainly wouldn't be underestimating him, and if I had to place a bet on who had the better strategic skills, my money would not go on the Americans!
I tend to believe him, re his stated objectives in Ukraine, and I don't think he actually wants to take Kiev or any of those cities - just keep the Ukrainian forces tied up & eventually neutralised.
However, there are some indications that NATO is gearing up for escalation, and some have predicted a false flag in Kiev (or another large city in the north/western Ukraine), maybe involving chemical weapons (or a claim about their use), in order to justify NATO troops getting actively engaged. At which point, all hell is likely to break loose.
Fortunately, down here in Australia we are relatively insulated from whatever shit-show is going on in the northern hemisphere - with the emphasis on "relatively". Because there is no doubt that we will suffer from shortages, supply chain issue, and galloping inflation - at very least.
At worst, China will seize the opportunity to try to take Taiwan, and at that point, we will become much more actively involved.
It's going to be very interesting - preferably watching from a bunker somewhere in the mountains of Tasmania or suchlike!
His army WAS greeted with open arms - if not wreaths and cheers, because the Donetsk & Lugansk regions have been under ongoing attack from the Ukrainian fascist-dominated battalions in that area for the past 8 years. And initially, the Russian presence was kept quiet - the independent Donetsk forces have been the main army pushing back the Ukrainians. Patrick Lancaster is an independent reporter in that area, and he shows more or less daily footage of what is actually happening in Donetsk. For example these Donetsk civilians are definitely welcoming the Russians: https://youtu.be/jCLXH_S_f70
"While navigating through today’s propaganda-heavy world of misinformation, spin and outright creative writing which appears to have replaced conventional journalism, it is most important that two qualities are active in the mind of any truth-seeker. The first quality is the adherence to a strong top down perspective, both historic and global. This is vital in order to guide us as a sort of compass or North Star used by sailors navigating across the ocean. The second quality is a strong power of logic, memory and discernment of wheat vs. chaff to process the mountains of data that slaps us in the face from all directions like sand in a desert storm."
PS. 'independent country' my arse. Try 'US dirty money laundry'
Excellent overview! There are some analysts suggesting that the whole Ukraine situation has been set up by the US to entrap Putin and destabilise (and ultimately overthrow) his regime.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/
There is certainly a lot of war-mongering apparent from the NATO countries - they are doing nothing to try to broker a peaceful diplomatic resolution, just sending arms and inflicting on us the same sophisticated propaganda strategies that we saw with the scamdemic over the past 2 years.
Thanks Mara. Not ruling out the possibility that the West is planning Afghanistan 2.0. They have publicly said as much, and I think Putin would be well aware of that risk. However this is not Gorbechev's decrepit Soviet Union, and Ukraine is not Afghanistan. The offensive will need a few more weeks anyway, then we'll be in a better position to know the likely outcome
Putin has a black belt in judo. I certainly wouldn't be underestimating him, and if I had to place a bet on who had the better strategic skills, my money would not go on the Americans!
I tend to believe him, re his stated objectives in Ukraine, and I don't think he actually wants to take Kiev or any of those cities - just keep the Ukrainian forces tied up & eventually neutralised.
However, there are some indications that NATO is gearing up for escalation, and some have predicted a false flag in Kiev (or another large city in the north/western Ukraine), maybe involving chemical weapons (or a claim about their use), in order to justify NATO troops getting actively engaged. At which point, all hell is likely to break loose.
Fortunately, down here in Australia we are relatively insulated from whatever shit-show is going on in the northern hemisphere - with the emphasis on "relatively". Because there is no doubt that we will suffer from shortages, supply chain issue, and galloping inflation - at very least.
At worst, China will seize the opportunity to try to take Taiwan, and at that point, we will become much more actively involved.
It's going to be very interesting - preferably watching from a bunker somewhere in the mountains of Tasmania or suchlike!