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The Cold War propaganda never stops. From having kids hiding under desks in case the Russians dropped an atom bomb on them at the end of World War II, to the lie—since not a shred of proof has been attained and those who promoted it have been discredited—that the Russians sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign so Donald Trump would get elected President of the United States in 2016… for the past several months, the big news has been Russia will invade Ukraine.
Keeping the invasion fear spreading, without providing any evidence, the Biden administration accused the Kremlin of putting saboteurs in Ukraine to carry out a “false flag” operation to better justify an invasion—a charge that Moscow has denied.
“Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating a pretext for invasion,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, told reporters.
She said these acts could include “sabotage activities and information operations, by accusing Ukraine of preparing an imminent attack against Russian forces in eastern Ukraine,” according to The New York Times.
Dmitri S. Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the U.S. claims “unfounded” and pointed out that they have “not been confirmed by anything.”
The paper said the U.S. was taking a risk by going public with the information given that it did not provide any evidence. John F. Kirby, the spokesman for the Pentagon, called the intelligence “very credible.” The paper spoke to two U.S. officials who said the intelligence was based on intercepts and movements on the ground.
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the tensions in eastern Ukraine and the worsening relationship between the White House and the Kremlin. (See “KREMLIN BLAMES UKRAINE FOR STOKING TENSIONS AT BORDER,” “U.S. VOWS UKRAINE SUPPORT” and “BLINKEN BELLOWS: U.S. COMMITMENT TO UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNTY IS ‘IRONCLAD.”)
As we have reported in recent issues, one of the main points of contention for Putin is what he sees as NATO’s reach into his backyard.
Putin has raised concerns about weapons systems being placed near Russia’s borders and called these moves “red lines.” He has said a Tomahawk missile could hit Moscow in minutes.
In response, Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said Moscow could send “military infrastructure” to Cuba or Venezuela if tensions with the U.S. continued.
“I don’t want to confirm anything, I will not rule out anything…Depends on the actions of our American colleagues,” he said in a recent interview in Russia.
Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, told reporters that he would not respond to Ryabkov’s “bluster” but if the Kremlin “were to move in that direction, we would deal with it decisively.”
The NYT reported that the U.S. warned Russia that an invasion of Ukraine could result in tough sanctions and the prospect of Washington providing Ukrainian fighters with weapons so they could draw out the conflict with their more powerful adversary.
Biden has not hidden his feelings towards his Russian counterpart. He once called Putin a killer during an interview and his rhetoric during the 2020 campaign sparked the Russian leader to speak out on the subject. (See “PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES BIDEN’S ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC.”)
The U.S. president needs a foreign policy victory, but despite the tough talk, he is not going to get into a war that he cannot win against Russia. (See “BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN: FUCK THAT.”)
Sullivan said that Russia has amassed about 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s border but indicated that it is not certain that an invasion is inevitable.
John Bolton, the former national security adviser for President Trump, wrote in The Washington Post on Sunday that the West’s consensus is that Putin is preparing to invade, “finishing what he started in 2014 with Crimea, this time annexing all of Ukraine.”
Bolton, who never saw a conflict he didn’t like, said the U.S. and NATO should “surge shipment of lethal military assistance to Ukraine” and “redeploy substantial additional forces there—not to fight, but to train and exercise with Ukrainian counterparts.”
He wrote that “Russian generals should look through their field glasses and see American flags in Ukraine and wonder what it means.”
“If we fail Kyiv (again), thereby endangering nearby NATO members, Putin will have perfected a road map to further erode NATO’s deterrence and its entire collective defense rationale. He not only has a strategy, which the West doesn’t, he has also proven himself an adroit tactician. Today, he is still calling the shots. That needs to change,” he wrote.
TREND FORECAST: Gerald Celente has said that the U.S.—despite having the largest and most expensive military in history—has not won a war since World War II and cannot even win against third-world nations, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, etc.
The U.S.’s disastrous withdrawal from Kabul has further negated America’s military’s reputation. By their deeds you shall know them, and considering the U.S. unbroken line of military defeats, Beijing and Moscow see the U.S. as a fading power.
However, despite these deadly and costly failures, once again both political parties in Washington awarded the military industrial complex a record breaking defense budget. As a Christmas gift, on 27 December President Biden signed a nearly $770 billion defense bill.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Rumor (history?) has it that the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, which began in 1947, ended in 1991. But rather than seeking Peace on Earth and keeping relationships respectful, most of America’s politicians and all of the military-industrial complex—and their western counterparts (i.e., “allies”)—have not stopped waging the Cold War.
As we have been reporting since the end of the Cold War—from America’s Gulf War, Kosovo War, Afghan War, Iraq War… to its military interventions in Somalia, Libya, etc., plus its 800 military bases in 70 countries—Russia is a minor war-mongering nation compared to the U.S. track record of killing millions and stealing trillions from its taxpayers to wage these wars.
And, as we have reported in detail since the so-called “Russiagate” was launched by the Democratic Party and its media Presstitutes immediately following Trump’s win of the 2016 election, there has not been one shred of hard evidence proving Russia interfered with the election.
Yet, the drama continues, and most people buy it, just as most have swallowed other lies sold to them by their governments over the centuries. “Remember the Main”?
As the founder of Occupy Peace & Freedom, as I see it, to keep pedaling hatred between the two nations, rather than creating movements toward peace, is morally, spiritually, and economically destructive.
Indeed, America was an ally of Russia in World War II and would not have achieved victory when it did without them.
Yet, following World War II, Russia became its enemy, while Japan and Germany—for which over 400,000 Americans died fighting—became U.S. allies and business partners.
TRENDPOST: Long forgotten was the U.S. and NATO’S pledge not to expand into Eastern Europe following the deal made during the 1990 negotiations between the West and the Soviet Union over German unification.
Therefore, in the view of Russia, it is taking self-defense actions to protect itself from NATO’s eastward march.
As detailed in the Los Angeles Times back in May of 2016, while the U.S. and NATO deny that no such agreement was struck, “…hundreds of memos, meeting minutes and transcripts from U.S. archives indicate otherwise.” The article states:
“According to transcripts of meetings in Moscow on Feb. 9, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation with Germany, the U.S. could make ‘iron-clad guarantees’ that NATO would not expand ‘one inch eastward.’ Less than a week later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to begin reunification talks. No formal deal was struck, but from all the evidence, the quid pro quo was clear: Gorbachev acceded to Germany’s western alignment and the U.S. would limit NATO’s expansion.”
TRENDPOST: As we have reported, completely absent in the American media reports of the current U.S. stand with Ukraine is the role Washington and Victoria Nuland played in the overthrow of its government in 2014.
A report from 2014 in the Trends Journal laid out the political maneuvers at the time in Ukraine: “Washington’s coup in Ukraine brought not only a threat to the Russian population in Ukraine but also a direct strategic threat to Russia itself.”
Nuland, who speaks Russian and French, boasted that Washington had invested $5 billion in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ukraine. Allegedly, the purpose of NGOs is to “teach democracy.”
Ukraine, however, already had a democracy. In reality, the NGO organizations are U.S. fifth columns that can be used to organize protests and to provide support for Washington’s candidates for the Ukraine government.
Indeed, in early February 2014, a recording was leaked of Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Victoria Nuland, telling Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, that the UN was on board to “help glue” the plan to replace Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych with Arxeniy Yatsenyuk.
“Yats is the guy,” Nuland informed Pyatt, urging her to move quickly because “the Russians will be working behind the scenes to torpedo” the deal. “F#&* the EU!” Nuland told Pyatt.
“Exactly,” he responded. Shortly thereafter, Yanukovych was overthrown and “Yats” became president.