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February 18, 2023

“Propaganda Rather Than Evidence And Logic” Used By West Meets Putin “Long Game” Reality

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An enlightening new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin spoke via video link at an event dedicated to the 30^th Anniversary of state energy company Gazprom, says he assessed that natural gas will continue to be a valuable resource with high global demand for a considerable period to come, noted that global gas consumption has nearly doubled in the last 30 years, and is expected to increase by at least 20% in the next 20 years, and stated: “Well, here are the Bovanenkovskoye and Kharasaveyskoye gas fields...The first one contains 4.9 trillion cubic meters of proven reserves, almost five trillion...The second one about two trillion cubic meters...These are astronomical reserves for any country”.

Over the last 30 years, this report notes, Russia, the largest country on the world’s biggest continent Eurasia, was able to fuel the economic growth of Europe and Asia with cheap natural gas via pipelines, that the United States couldn’t in any way compete with because it had to first liquefy its natural gas and transport it via shipping tankers—in a bid to capture the European natural gas market for itself, the United States used its NATO military bloc to provoke a war Russia, than along with natural gas rich Norway blew up the Nord Stream pipelines owned by Russia in a deliberate act of war—and in knowing the truth of what his own socialist government has done, yesterday it caused world-renowned American legendary Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh to observe: “It’s impossible to believe just how dumb Biden’s leadership was...It was suicidal to think you can win that war, that Ukraine can win the war against Russia...There’s just too much corruption...That was a very, very bad decision...Biden basically blew off NATO in Europe by telling allies that he is backing Ukraine with its totally corrupt government that glorifies Stepan Bandera, the great pro-Nazi who killed Jews like crazy during World War II”.

Earlier today at the Munich Security Conference, this report continues, Director Wang Yi of the Chinese Central Foreign Affairs Office told the socialist Western colonial powers that China will come up with position paper on Ukraine by the end of the month, and stated: “China’s position boils down to supporting talks for peace”—after which Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun to the United Nations observed and warned: “The main reason for Europe’s current security plight is NATO’s insistence on pursuing absolute security and political exclusion against specific countries...NATO’s self-contradictory behavior, where it promotes itself as a defensive alliance while at the same time constantly seeking to breach its geographic confines and expand its agenda, stoke division and tensions, create fears and confrontations...Europe, and even the whole world, will be caught up in greater turmoil unless NATO changes its mindset”.

Also at the Munich Security Conference today, this report notes, it saw NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg proclaiming like a madman: “Some worry that our support to Ukraine risks triggering escalation…Let me be clear: there are no risk-free options, but the biggest risk of all is if Putin wins...This will make the world more dangerous and us more vulnerable”—and in quick response to, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev observed: “Well, how did they screw up there in NATO…Stoltenberg said that the risk of Russia's victory is much higher than the risk of an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine…I translate into understandable Russian: the risk of starting a third world war is significantly less than the risk of our country winning…Freaks…They hate and fear”.

Among those sane enough to know the truth that Russia winning in Ukraine is much more preferable than World War III, this report details, is famed American investigative journalist Brandon Smith, who throughout the entirety of conflict has near accurately predicted everything that’s happened due to his impartial examination of facts and truth, in his just released article “What Happens Next In The Ukraine Proxy War?” factually assessed: “Putin has been playing the long game” and observed: “It is important to put these events in context of the bigger picture; the mainstream media and a majority of pro-Ukraine people argued that these scenarios were not going to happen…They were wrong…They will continue to make wrong predictions because they are basing their conclusions on propaganda rather than evidence and logic”.

Also using “evidence and logic” instead of “propaganda” to assess the current conflict, this report concludes, is world-renowned American geopolitical investment risk advisor James Rickards, who, in his just released open letter “The Horrifying Endgame In Ukraine”, observed and warned:

Today I’m discussing what is by far the most alarming topic on the geopolitical landscape today. That’s the war in Ukraine and the dangers of escalation.

The first is that Russia is actually winning the war.

U.S. outlets such as The New York Times (a channel for the State Department) and The Washington Post (a channel for the CIA) report endlessly about how Russian plans have failed, about how incompetent they are about how the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have pushed back Russians in the Donbass, and how NATO weapons such as U.S. Abrams tanks, U.K. Challenger tanks and German Leopard tanks will turn the tide against Russia soon.

This is all nonsense. None of it is true.

Reality Check

First off, the Ukrainian advances that took place in late summer were against lightly defended positions that the Russians quickly conceded to conserve forces. The Russians were willing to give up the land so that they wouldn’t lose valuable men and materiel.

The Russians withdrew to more defensible positions and have been badly mauling Ukrainian attacking forces ever since. Ukraine has wasted incredibly large amounts of men and equipment in these futile and ill-advised attacks.

In all, credible reports indicate that Armed Forces of Ukraine casualties are nearing 500,000 and are increasing at an unsustainable rate.

On the other hand, reports of 100,000 Russian dead are almost certainly wild exaggerations put out by Ukraine. The BBC attempted to verify these numbers and could only find about 20,000 confirmed Russian dead based on extensive searches on funeral notices, public records, etc.

Send in the Tanks — Eventually!

What about the tanks NATO is supposedly sending? Well, the tanks have not been delivered yet and most won’t be for months or longer. Our own M1 Abrams tanks might not even arrive for a year or more.

We actually have to custom build these tanks so that they don’t have the special armor and other advanced systems that our own M1s have. The Pentagon doesn’t want them falling into Russian hands if they’re destroyed or captured. Besides, we’re only sending 31 tanks anyway.

When the NATO tanks do arrive, they’ll likely quickly be destroyed by Russian artillery, anti-tank weapons and precision missiles. They’re good tanks, but far from invincible. For decades, the Russians have been developing powerful weapons specifically designed to destroy these NATO tank models. The Russians aren’t particularly worried about them.

Aside from that, tanks rely on effective air cover for protection, which Ukraine lacks. They’ll be sitting ducks on the battlefield. It doesn’t really make sense to send tanks to Ukraine unless you send combat aircraft to give them cover.

Russia’s Winning on the Battlefield

Meanwhile, Russian forces have nearly encircled the city of Bakhmut, which is a major transportation and logistics hub, with several key roads and rail lines passing through it. It’ll probably fall to the Russians within weeks.

Losing Bakhmut will be a major blow to Ukraine, despite claims in the western media that it really isn’t very important. Ukraine’s entire 800-mile defensive line would probably begin to crumble, and they don’t have heavily fortified positions to fall back on. Ukrainian troops, while brave and competent soldiers, are exhausted and running out of supplies as it is.

On top of that, it appears likely that Russia is preparing a devastating offensive with massive amounts of men, tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, helicopters, drones and fixed-wing aircraft.

This Russian army is not the same army that invaded Ukraine a year ago. It’s much better trained, led and equipped. It’s learned from the mistakes it made during its initial invasion last February. Ukraine shouldn’t expect them to repeat those mistakes.

Does all this mean I’m cheering on a Russian victory in Ukraine? No, I’m just observing the facts on the ground and consolidating them to perform an objective analysis.

That analysis leads me to believe that Russia will win the war militarily. Western military assistance may prolong the fighting but won’t affect the ultimate outcome. It’ll just delay the inevitable and get a lot more people needlessly killed.

The Much Greater Risk

The second facet of this war not reported in the media, or at least downplayed, is the growing risk of nuclear war.

This risk increases with every escalatory step by both sides. The U.S. is the leader in reckless escalation by supplying long-range artillery, Patriot anti-missile batteries, intelligence, surveillance, and now the tanks. Russia responds at each step.

There’s a number of steps before the two sides arrive at the nuclear level, but neither shows a willingness to step back.

By the way, Russia has every legal right to attack those NATO countries supplying arms to Ukraine. By supplying arms to a party to the conflict, they’ve given up their neutrality and have become, in effect, combatants. Russia hasn’t done this because it doesn’t want to bring NATO directly into the fight. But legally, it can.

Is Anyone Really Prepared for This?

The U.S. won’t end the weapons deliveries because Joe Biden is afraid of losing face and his closest advisors such as Victoria Nuland have an irrational hatred for Russia and are total warmongers.

Now, we can add a new danger, resulting from desperation. This is the fact that the U.S. itself may be the biggest loser in the war.

As Ukraine disappears under a massive Russian onslaught, the U.S. will grow increasingly desperate. Its credibility is on the line after committing so much money, materiel and moral weight to Ukraine’s defense.

The Biden administration has essentially turned the war in Ukraine into an existential crisis for the U.S. and NATO, when it never should have been. Ukraine has never been a vital U.S. interest. But the war is existential for Russia, and won’t give up.

Is the U.S. just going to throw up its hands and concede Russian victory? NATO may actually disintegrate in the face of such spectacular failure. So, we’ll probably double down.

Maybe a desperate Biden orders troops into western Ukraine as a buffer against a complete Russian takeover of the country. You can imagine what could go wrong. That situation may quickly devolve into a direct war between the U.S. and Russia rather than the proxy war that it is now.

The American people and investors in particular are not prepared for any of this. They should be. It’s becoming increasingly likely.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

https://youtu.be/SKUtg-4BxMY

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