Encourage A Coup In Russia

The United Nations Charter Article 51 gives inherent right of individual or collective self-defense in the event of an attack against a UN member state. 

UN member Ukraine has been attacked, we have the right to defend it. 

The best thing the Russian military, and its elite Wagner PMC, can do, is a coup. 

If Russian generals arrest Putin, they will redeem themselves: they will be able to argue that they were forced to obey orders until it became absolutely clear they were led by a corrupt, demented clique, and that the orders given to them violated the United Nations charter.

The coalition of more than 50 democracies providing weapons to Ukraine is acting in obedience of Article 51 of the UN and that should inspire Russian generals. 

Nazism was made possible because it had too many investors (US plutocrats) and allies (Kremlin, Japan). In general the fascist dictatorships of the 1930s, even Japan and the USSR depended, physically and psychologically upon trade or investment from wealthy Western actors. 

Major Western companies which still trade with Putin. They should be forced to stop.

Corruption in Russia has been made as profitable as it is because it traded what was stolen in Russia against what the oligarchs wanted in the West… and got from their plutocratic alter ego in the West. For example, hotel chains… 

The German army failed to arrest the Nazis, because they didn’t get support in the West (they asked) [1]. Let’s not repeat the mistake. 

Patrice Ayme

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[1] As early as 1937 the German military (army, navy and intelligence) plotted a coup against Hitler. They just asked the UK and US to officially side with France (against Nazism). I have written exhaustively on this, it can also be found in the book “In the Garden of the Beasts”, where the French and US ambassador met to avoid the listening devices. Roosevelt reacted by firing the amabassador, his friend U of Chicago history professor Dodd…. And replacing him by a pro-Nazi (as he did in London).

There is no doubt a coup would have worked. The history of the world would have been very different. Not as US Deep State friendly, one may guess…

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[New York Times ran an editorial 7/12/2023 on “How to manage Putin”. The comment above was my answer. The NYT didn’t publish it. Probably didn’t like the part about corruption in the West being the root of the problem…]

General “Armageddon” on the left, named thus for his butchery in Syria, is on the left. More specifically, Sergei Surovikin, a man Russian media have dubbed “General Armageddon” to hype his fearsome reputation as the guy who flattened the huge Syrian city of Aleppo in 2016, using mostly aircraft. Surovikin is the chief of the Russian air force (which was dispatch to flatten Wagner, but suffered heavy losses instead).

Surovikin is an ally, and maybe secret VIP member, of Wagner PMC. He has the same rank (four star) as Gerasimov, the armed forces chief of staff, on the right, who is apparently devoted to Putin and author of the botched invasion of Ukraine and great theoretician of “hybrid warfare”. Hybrid warfare depends heavily on fith column elements in the West such university professors, corrupt politicians (Marine Le Pen?? Trump???? Obama? Certainly Schroder, Berlusconi, and Merkel…), and journalists and bloggers all over claiming Putin is wisdom reincarnated, under NATO assault…)…

The tale gets further twisted by the fact that multi billionaire Prigozhin, “Putin’s chef”, an ex-convict, was the head of the Internet propaganda effort of Gerasimov’s hybrid warfare…

Yevgeny Prigozhin might want to watch out for any poisoning attempts by Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden joked during a press conference on Thursday 7/13/2023.

“If I were he I’d be careful what I ate. I’d keep my eye on my menu,” Biden said during a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in Helsinki.

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[As my censorship by the NYT shows, the entanglement of corruption in Russia and the West is the bottom problem; NYT knows very well the Deep State advises never to approach that subject… which is fully obvious in the case of Hunter Biden, who seems to have got well above 5 million dollars, just from one billionairess in Moscow and one company in Ukraine… for “consulting” then he presented this as loans, and instead of trying to send Hunter to prison, the IRS, well, didn’t do much, although the whole planet knows…]

Ukraine Needs Air Supremacy To Break Through The Trenches Of The Criminal Tyrant’s Nuclear Rogue State

Ukraine has found it nearly impossible to break through the Russian fortifications, which are dozens of kilometers deep, with millions of mines. 15% of US armor engaged was destroyed. Ukrainians have used sophisticated rocket systems destroying hundreds of mines in one shot, but Orcs come back, reinstall mines. Orcs’ loitering drones (“Lancet”) and attack helicopters have been effective.

We’ve seen this before, in WW1 and WW2. Air supremacy is key. Ukraine must have it. With air supremacy several problems hindering Ukraine will be solved, and Putin’s lines will be pounded (planes carry much higher loads of bombs than missile systems: a French Rafale stealth fighter bomber can carry nine tons of bombs, and an F16 nearly seven tons!)

In 1939, 40 French divisions couldn’t breach the Nazi “West Wall”. That “Wall” even deprived of its heavy guns (sent to coastal fortifications by the Nazis), stopped the Allies for 6 months in 1944-45. 

In central Italy Nazi lines held for years. In particular at the Hitler (later, “Gustav”) line going through Monte Cassino. The Allies found necessary to destroy Monte Cassino, a world famous monastery, and many other monuments.

Formidable entrenched lines are nearly impossible to breach. At Bir Hakeim, in May-June 1942, 3703 French soldiers, carefully buried in the flat desert with mines fields and prepared firing positions, were able to stop the entire Afrika Korps led by Rommel in the front lines, and the entire Italian armor, for 16 days, preventing the encirclement and destruction of the only British (and Allied) army between Britain and India. The French finally evacuated after losing one third of their force, running out of ammunition and accomplishing their mission. Rommel said of his own front line fighting:”The fate of my army depended upon it”. 40 planes were shot down over the battlefield.

As the US force bottled at Anzio showed, air supremacy is crucial. When the black 99th fighter squadron showed up, the beachhead was saved. 

Ukrainians must have air supremacy above Ukraine to block attacks by drones, helicopters and flying bombs dropped from afar. Then they will be able to clear the minefields and trenches in peace. As the Wagner group just showed, in an area without minefields, an armed column can advance very fast with portable anti-aircraft means.

Send F16s!

F16s will not just clear the air, but clear the trenches…

Now, granted a lot of the slow going in providing weapons to Ukraine is that the West… come from the West having no weapons to send. For example, Rafale fighter-bombers would be better than F16s… But there are not enough of them. A bit more than one Rafale a week is produced now (hundreds of suppliers are involved)… The production should be ten times that…  

It takes time to relaunch the production lines. For example, Thales`a giant French military electronics company has decided to relaunch production of Starstreak, which has proven highly successful in Ukraine. Starstreak is an ultrafast anti-aircraft missile with three tungsten darts, a unique conception impervious to jamming and lures. However it will take a year for the new missiles to come out of the Northern Ireland factory. Lockheed suggested restarting the production line of F16s…  

The war Putin launched is a world war: more than 40 democracies are sending weapons to Ukraine, and even the lower assembly of Switzerland, moved by the losses of Leopard tanks trying to breach through the giant Putin fortified lines, has decided to send 25 tanks to Ukraine (through Germany)!

The recently aborted coup of Wagner, the best unit of the Russian army, showed the danger that power in Russia would go from one demented thug who thinks he is an elected president (Putin)  to thugs who know they are thugs and act accordingly. So we are more than ever under the threat of a nuclear exchange, and the more the West dither about winning this war without upsetting who caused it, the greater the risk of nuclear exchange.

So make it so that Ukraine gets air supremacy. Between F15, F 16, F18, Rafales, Grippens and Typhoons, the West has literally thousands of fighter bombers not of the latest generations, but still better than what Ukraine has. They must be sent, and, if anything, the Wagner semi-coup shows that Russia is a nuclear rogue state. 

It needs to be disarmed…

By the way, congratulations to France and Britain for sending SCALP/Storm Shadow stealth cruise missiles to Ukraine. Three French missiles destroyed two bridges (the fourth missile barely missed) between the continent and Crimea.

Chonhar bridge hole from FRENCH SCALP missile used by the Ukraine Armed Forces. Another bridge close by was also disabled in the same strike by another missile (the Russians to their dismay found metal engraved inside with MBDA FRANCE).

Patrice Ayme

Benedict of Nursia established the very first monastery of his new order on this promontory in 529 CE. In Benedict’s time, the road leading to the monastery was already more than 10 centuries old and led to an ancient temple of Apollo. The Nazis used Monte Cassino as a fortress on the Hitler line, south of Rome. So the US Air Force demolished it. The danger to humanity posed by the nuclear rogue state is greater than the danger posed by the Axis in WW2. We have heard it, from the associates of Putin himself:”A world without Russia is not worth having!” (Russia, their way, with themselves on top…)

Ukraine Fighting For Freedom Since 1240 CE. Not NATO’s Fault. Stop Trying To Please Psycho Putin!

The Maidan Revolution of 2014 was brought about by the betrayal of the Ukrainian president, the Russia-leaning Viktor Yanukovych. Under Putin’s order, Yanukovych tried to ignore laws passed before his rule on preparing Ukraine to join the European Union. The Ukrainian youth saw that this subjugation to the Kremlin tyrant meant indefinite servitude to the Kremlin tyrant and his lackeys (because this is what happened multiple times in Ukrainian history in the last 8 centuries; Ukraine has its own tradition, alphabet, language, and is much more Scandinavian than the Kremlin, which tried to westernize, after being mongolized, as early as under Ivan The Terrible, circa 1560 CE…).

Ukrainian youth revolted, as it should have (Putin agents, leaning on the fact history is little studied, claim it was all US instigated, as if Ukraine fight for freedom had not started 8 centuries ago…) And that was a good thing all progressives and partisans of freedom ought to support. 

Ukraine has been fighting for recovering its independence since 1240 CE, when Kyiv was annihilated by the Mongols, and the master of the Kremlin, Saint Alexander Nevsky, was made “Prince of Kiev”… by said Mongols. The Mongols would come back two centuries later and sack Kyiv again (Ukraine keeps rising from its ashes as the land is wealthy and its people brave). Then the Kremlin would try, for centuries, to conquer Ukraine, by hook or by crook… Because Ukraine is so wealthy in well irrigated agricultural lands and abundant in minerals (the Donbas industry was developed by Western European capital).

Ambitious and murderous German princess Catherine II is the one who conquered Crimea for the Kremlin. Initially Kyiv had liberated Christian Crimea in the Tenth Century and as a reward, Vladimir of Kyiv married Anna, the sister of the emperor in Constantinople.
In the Eleventh Century, the Princess of Kyiv, also named Anna, became the ruling queen of France: she spoke six languages. She thought the Franks over whom she ruled were barbarians. Her descendants ruled France. There are statues of her in France, there should be more.

Prince Vladimir the Great on the right, leader of Kyivian Rus, 1050 years ago. Obverse of the coin shows the Ukrainian Trident, originally a Swedish symbol two thousand years old (at least from island of Gotland, hence the necessity to use a trident to harpoon fishes; now used to harpoon Orcs.

The Kremlin grew as the collaborative executioner arm and tax collector of the occupying Golden Horde. This brutalism enabled it to subjugate and conquer the greatest land empire. But this is not the time for subjugation, which can only bring holocausts.

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The preceding is a slightly expanded and more biting version of a comment sent to the New York Times in answer to a lying article on 6/16/2023, which accused NATO of causing distress to a man, Putin, and thus, bringing the invasion of Ukraine. The article urged the “West’ to lower its expectations and stop causing wars. An amazingly corrupt article rolling out no deep fact.

My comment was of course not published by the propaganda newspaper. That kind of censorship should be against the law, because it enables the NYT to propagate lies. Democracies should not allow the propagation of lies which can kill millions. After all that applies to social networks, and the NYT is the core of the most influential social network in the world.

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Talking obsessively about NATO hides the fact that Putin hates the EU even more. Putin uses his NATO pain as a Trojan Horse against the EU. It’s the other way around from what gullible Putin agents have it.

The mutual defense clause, Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union, provides that if a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States have an obligation to aid and assist it by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.

So why are Putin agents not accusing the UN, as they are at it?

In the 1930 s and 1940s, an entire class of highly influential US plutocrats, many of them close friends of Roosevelt (Hopkins, Harrimans, etc.) discovered that they could leverage the US empire and their personal powers, by making deals with psychopaths like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, Franco even Ho Chi Minh. The French government protested, and thus Roosevelt hated France and tried to lie to France as much as he could. Next he gave Stalin, who had crucially helped in the invasion of France in 1940, all he needed to invade and occupy half of Europe.

Rule number one was to hide what those US plutocrats and imperialists were doing under the cover of lenifying discourses to the contrary (that always work with simple minds). This sort of policy was pursued under Putin and Xi and made those tyrants ever more powerful to the point of clear and blatant danger. That worked well until it transpired that Xi wanted to conquer Asia (Xi started by invading the EEZs of no less than seven countries in the South China sea), and Trump really didn’t like it.

The ever fungible Obama stayed friends with “Vladimir” even after the latter invaded countries. Dems, to confuse thoroughly, then accused Trump of being a Kremlin agent, when actually Obama’s policies had been extremely Russian friendly. Years earlier, France, which had been extremely helpful to Putin, especially for developing oil and gas infrastructure and plants in the Arctic Ocean,  had decided that selling to the Kremlin the aircraft carriers it had ordered was not moral or smart, and refused delivery…

Fortunately Biden followed Trump, not Obama or his own son Hunter, in finally resisting Putin…

Anyway, here we are: NATO has nothing to do with attacking Ukraine. Just like the Jews had nothing to do in causing World War Two, although the Nazis used to say that… doesn’t make it true. So Putin says he had to destroy Chenchya, and invade Georgia, or Ukraine, because of NATO. Psychopaths tend to hurl lots of accusations, but only banana brains take them seriously.

Patrice Ayme

Send Rafale Jets And Encircle Putin At Bakhmut

The Armed Forces of Ukraine must seize an opportunity. AFU is not so powerful that it can just overwhelm the Russians, who have more men, more equipment, more ammunition and an intact air force. So AFU needs to pierce, and then encircle.

As Putin’s soldiers are entrenched often for a year, and sometimes many years, AFU must create an opportunity. Bakhmut may be such an opportunity: at Stalingrad, Von Paulus’ Sixth Army, an elite army of thoroughly trained professionals which had conquered France, fought for months to conquer most of the city. It was not the sort of movement war the 6th army was best at, and its losses inside Stalingrad were huge. (As the Stalin cult diminished, Stalingrad is back to its original name of city on the Volga, Volgograd.)

But then, with the German 6th army fighting within the last blocks and factories of Stalingrad, in Operation Uranus, Soviet armies cut Paulus off from behind, far from Stalingrad, in a pincer movement. Uranus went through weaker,less motivated Italian and Rumanian armies.

Looking at the map, and where the elite Putin forces are, Bakhmut may present a similar opportunity. And indeed the AFU has been attacking the flanks of the Wagner PMC, perhaps the last elite force in the Russian armed forces after the huge losses Putin’s elite soldiers suffered in the first few days and months of the war.

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Modern jets would help Ukraine as they would prevent distant strikes from Su35 jets launching rocket assisted bombs. Su35s, the best Russian jets, have very long range radar and very long range missiles, plus long range bombs. As it is, Ukrainian ground radar operators can see Su35s target Ukrainian planes and launch long range (150 kms) missiles against them. After the alert is sent to Ukrainian planes, all they can do is dive for the deck, at three top level, to hide in ground clutter, to throw away the lock the missiles have on them.

Ukraine’s Mig 29s, Ukraine’s most advanced jets, are extremely maneuverable, at least initially, but they do not have the advanced radars, nor the long range missiles to deal with the Su35s.

Long range Putin bombing from aircraft is the argument for the F16s: recent F16s could see the approaching Su35, and launch their own missiles, before the Su35 could be close enough (50 kms to launch guided rocket assisted bombs). Worldwide, there are hundreds of recently made F16s with AESA radars… Unfortunately the F16s require long, very slick runways, of which Ukraine has relatively few.

But two European canard jets have even longer range missiles, the European Meteor, a ramjet, which can go further than any US air to air missile, and the European jets can handle worse runways than the F16… actually, because of their canards, they can take off from roads: the French Rafale and the Saab Gripen are arguably the best war fighting jets in the world. The Rafale has performed superlatively in Afghanistan and Libya… where it demonstrated its stealth effectiveness. Having the active stealth Rafales would nullify Putin’s air superiority. The hypersonic METEOR has a range of 200 kilometers, and has a no escape range of 60 kilometers (at least). Its big advantages is that it is very small, thus stealth, and throattable (so it can cruise below its max speed, and then accelerate to max speed)… This would enable METEOR to surprise its target… It’s the best air to air missile in the world. 

Britain courageously just sent Storm Shadow stealth cruise missiles to Ukraine. Storm Shadow is an Anglo-French low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace… The French call it SCALP, and like the METEOR, it’s manufactured by MBDA… The French used it in Syria.

And what of Putin’s nuclear blackmail? A risk not to be taken is to consider that Putin is ready to use nuclear weapons: that would be tantamount to empowering the Kremlin tyrant with a life and death position of power over all of humanity. Paradoxically, taking that deranged tyrant seriously, encourages him to do more of the same, and discourages honorable Russian military officers to do the right thing, go and arrest Putin. The longer this war lasts, the worst it is for everybody, except for the criminal clique around Putin.

Patrice Ayme

What Ukraine, and the democracies need: European jets fighting Putin.

Two Swedish Gripens. The Gripen is a light fighter bomber, superficially similar to the Rafale, but smaller, and with just one engine (the Rafale has two). Both Gripen and Rafale are equipped with Meteor, a European ramjet missile with unsurpassed long range characteristics (the ramjet uses air as oxidizer, which allows it to go twice further, for the same mass, relative to solid fuel…) The Rafale carries much more bombs and missiles, has active stealth and can super cruise, at mach 1.4, fully armed. Both Rafale and Gripen can take off from roads… Rafale needs only 400 meters (less than 1,500 feet)… a huge advantage in the Ukraine war…

Lesson Learned: 2023 Not Like 1936. So Far.

Chinese balloons crammed with electronics all over. The US shoots down four in ten days. What’s going on?

US Department of Defense confirmed that on two occasions F-22 jets took off from Anchorage, Alaska and objects were shot down, one with a Sidewinder AIM 9X missile.

Philosopher Nigel Warburton#FreeUkraine@philosophybites asked: What’s going on?

What’s going on is that tyrannies keep pushing, to see how far they can go. A tyranny makes war to its people, inside, and justifies that by claiming it is saving the people from a war, outside… which it self-engineered. As tyrannies get away with some aggressive actions, going further than any before, they feel encouraged, and encourage each other. Thus ever more excited, tyrannies repeat the process. This is what happened in the 1930s, after the invasion of Manchuria by a rogue Japanese army: Mussolonini, Hitler, Stalin, Franco, and their ilk felt encouraged. It was truly the start of World War Two… because the military reaction, the declaration of war of Britain and France, waited until 1939, when the alliances of the tyrants Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Franco had been made official… And because, as late as 1940 and even 1941, the USA was de facto allied with the Axis powers (for example by fuelling the Japanese army invading China). 

 

What’s going on now is that what’s going on is not like what happened in 1936: instead of letting tyrannies fly from success to success, insolence to insolence, testing new weapons, and tactics, expanding territories, democracies have learned something from the 1930s and thus, woken up this time, and are fighting back, in a timely manner.

https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/world-wars-are-culminations-of-brutish-processes-wwii-started-when-a-rogue-japanese-armyinvaded-manchuria-in-1931/

F22 high altitude interceptor, balloon killer.

Scott Kelly, US Senator ex International Space Station Commander, wrote February 10 to @elonmusk:

“Ukraine desperately needs your continued support. Please restore the full functionality of your Starlink satellites. Defense from a genocidal invasion is not an offensive capability. It’s survival. Innocent lives will be lost. You can help. Thank you.”
Elon Musk replied, with some condescendence: @StationCDRKelly: “You’re smart enough not to swallow media & other propaganda bs. Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine, especially at the front lines, where almost all other Internet connectivity has been destroyed.

But we will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.“

This is a problem with endowing single individuals with so much power. SpaceX is a sort of second foundation of NASA… As I pointed out long ago, it would not exist without the largesse of the US government. SpaceX was actually saved by US government contracts when it was so close to bankruptcy, around 2009, in spite of injection of funds from Tesla, that Musk had only a few hundred thousand of dollars left, and he had to meet payroll, let alone pay for equipment! Landing rockets was researched and done by NASA, starting in the mid-sixties.  

Musk: elite entrepreneur and engineer. He also has apparently diversified to historian of war, and knows what escalates conflict. How does one escalates when one has been attacked by a bear? Should one defend oneself just so, but not too much? However bear only fears personal injury. Passive defense that doesn’t look as if it were going to hurt doesn’t work.

Zelinskyi has compared in 2023 Putin to a dragon who muster devour. But Putin’s behavior is more reminscent of that of an aggressive bear. Musk has probably never fought a bear. Yours truly actually has had several confrontations with bears, caused by wandering unarmed many times where bears are found in abundance. I had to threaten very aggressive bears both brown and black. Hitting a proximal surface with stones was often enough of a deterrent. But I had to hit a charging bear (who had just attacked a dozen high Sierra campers, and was now interested by the food I was carrying) with a (very large) stone, once… Bears fear stones, because they have been hurt by them and they have respect for those who can muster stones… In any case, that bear fled for dear life. But that bear attacked people again, wounded a grandmother, and three weeks later, rangers executed it.

Putin will not stop. Like a serial killer, one who has killed now more than 200,000 people, for all to see, his only hope to survive, or to justify himself, is to keep on going, as Hitler once did. So he has to be stopped. World War Two would have been aborted if, even as late as 1940, the USA had stood with France and Britain. 

So this time is different. But this time the stakes are also higher…

So it is good that the US is not playing games, this time.

As in the 1930s, though, tyrannies have their agents. In the 1930s, many intellectuals were following either Hitler or his ally Stalin. This had disastrous consequences on the war readiness of France (new planes were not equipped with guns, from fear that workers, aligned with Stalin, thus Hitler, would seize them and make a revolution… As a consequence Nazi Germany was able to acquire air superiority over France where it needed it!) 

Putin knows all of this, and that makes him hope that he will be able to change public opinion. After all, he has just three democracies’ public opinion to work on….

Patrice Ayme  

Let Ukraine Free Crimea

Illogical cowards say: Czar Putin threatened to nuke us, let’s do what he wants, whatever he wants, this is safer! Logical heroes say: a terrorist threatened to nuke us, let’s arrest him! 

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.”…sadi Winston Churchill to those who ephemerally appeased Hitler. 

Prince Vladimir of Kyiv, more than 1,000 years ago, conquered Crimea from the Khazars who had invaded and occupied the peninsula a few generations earlier. So the Ukrainians liberated the Greeks! Dorian Greece had settled the area 17 centuries before Hence the Greek names of southern Ukraine: Melitopol (City of honey), Mariupol (city of Mary), etc… 

Prince Vladimir then converted to Christianity (from his original Viking faith).

Kievan Rus was the largest state in Europe, and was so democratic, it turned into its undoing when the Mongols invaded: no coherent defense could be mounted as the Mongols picked up one Kievan principality after another, finishing with the annihilation of Kyiv in December 1240. Then Alexander Nevsky, an enthusiastic Mongol collaborator who founded the Kremlin anti-democratic and theocratic doctrine, was made Prince of Kyiv. The Mongols would return to destroy Kyiv again later, and then the Kremlin, for centuries tried all it could to destroy ever more any democratic state in and around present day Ukraine.

Thus this is an old fight: obscurantism and tyranny from Moscow against enlightenment and diversity in Kyiv. 

Nowadays, though, with a small planet and nukes all over, democracy can’t afford to lose that fight, because it would be the last it would lose.  

Modern tech enables tyranny to become worse than ever. We can’t have tyrant blackmail democracy with nukes. Actually tyrants should have no nukes: hated by their own populations, they have interest to wage foreign wars to justify domestic terror, as the Kremlin did, for 8 centuries.

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The attempted destruction by the Kremlin of a democracy has already lasted a quarter as long as the attempted destruction of democracy in Europe by the Kaiser and his goons in 1914-1918. 

“We think now is the right time to intensify our support for Ukraine,” Britain’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said while on a visit to Washington in 2023. “We can’t allow this to drag on and become a kind of First World War attritional-type stalemate.”

The reason for the length of WWI was that the Kaiser and his goons were able to avoid a full Franco-British blockade in 1914-1917, as crucial goods, typically shipped from the USA, reached Germany through the “neutral” Netherlands and “neutral” Denmark. France and Britain protested in vain: they were not going to issue an ultimatum to their rambunctious, self-obsessed US child.

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When the US belatedly joined its democratic parents, France and Britain in war against the fascist Prussian invader, the blockade became effective. The German military and civilian economy collapsed: by 1918, the French explosive production was more than ten times that of Germany; and the Allied breakthrough in southern Europe deprived Germany of food… 

At this point, the genocidal Kremlin tyrant has few friends: India and China informed him that he must not use nukes. So Putin has decided to boost the size of his army and weapon production, the latter rendered possible by a breaching of the blockade (say through the Caucasus mountains). 

However, during a long war, tyrants can make friends, or force coups in otherwise unfriendly nations: history is replete with such examples of desperate tyrants going for broke: faced with torturous extinction, they try whatever… and sometimes they score. Putin claims to have achieved an “union” with Belarus. Well, not really, but conveniently Putin’s main opponent in Belarus died… As so many of Putin’s opponents have died recently.

The longer this war goes on, the more dangerous it gets.

And democracy, representative or not, can’t afford not to win it: should thermonuclear tyranny win, the same concept will go for broke, again and again.

Let’s not forget, as the forces of evil known as the WEF, the World Economic Forum, gather at Davos to conspire in plain sight of the entire planet, protected by 5,000 soldiers, that the WEF made Putin one of their masterpieces. Putin even became one of the architects of Davos, as the Kremlin nuclear dictator met very officially with his chairman and founder, Klaus Schwab, his evil name, to plot in plain sight.

Amazingly, so great is Putin’s propaganda control on the Western pseudo-left, pseudo-ecology, and much of the population of failed states, that many deluded souls believe that Putin, that master piece of world plutocracy, is actually an opponent of the world plutocracy.

The credulity, stupidity and venality of many on the left has been amazing consider the French and German supposedly socialist PMs around 2000 CE, making deals with the Kremlin and its agents, such as European pseudo-ecologists… How did that advance socialism, or Europe? Or on the right: consider Brexit, or the invasion of Iraq (which aimed at making fracking profitable and lift the US as the world’s fossil fuel superpower, once again…). Or consider the subprime, zero-interest, and COVID Ponzi scheme… Consider Fauci, financing the Wuhan Institute of Virology to make lethal and hyper contagious bat coroonaviruses, even more so… Biden finally fired him discreetly, and his successor’s discourse is diametrically opposed…  

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One may wonder how come 51 (fifty-one) representative democracies are arming Ukraine? … if they are controlled by the world plutocracy? As I hold…. 

The answer is that those representative oligarchies claim to be democracies, people-powers. So world plutocracy attempted to control them, and achieved great, but not full control: appearances have to be maintained, lest mobs overrun national assemblies… 

When the armed people of Ukraine showed their power by repelling 200,000 professional maniac killers of Putin, killing many in the process, the representatives of these representative democracies, who view themselves as really representing democracy, had to get along. Now they are progressively warming up to the realities of war….  When Obama let Putin invade Crimea and then the Donbas, a process was started, as when the world let Japan invade Manchuria in 1931: Japan claimed it was reconstructing China… Representative democracies condemned, 42 to 1 the Japanese army invasion. Japan, one of the League four permanent members (with France, UK, Italy) had to resign.

In retrospect, clearly, what should have been done was to arm China and blockade Japan. By the late 1930s, Japan produced only 7% of the oil it consumed. It imported the rest, with 80% coming from the U.S., mostly California, and 10% from the Dutch East Indies. The USA waited until August 1, 1941 to block the exportation of oil to Japan. By then Japan had killed millions in China and Indochina. 

Arming China was done much later and through a Private Military Corporation, the Flying Tigers…

Wisdom teaches to do all of this, to make war, faster. Extending torture and temptation will be bad for all… So let the Ukrainian free Crimea again!

Patrice Ayme

The Greeks colonized Southern Ukraine 16 centuries before Prince Vladimir/Vlodimir freed Crimea from the Khazars, and two millennia before Kremlin Russia arose from being the tax collector of the Mongols:

P/S: The essence of the essay above was banned, censored, vilified and unpublished by the New York Times.

Putin Propagandists Are Criminal Against Humanity, Block Them!

Example of assertion made publicly against yours truly (by DK):

A few examples of assertions made publicly against yours truly (by DK), a little bit of anti-Patrice hatred, while feeling the love for Putin. That was published, against me, on Facebook, for all to see. : “You refuse to recognize the suffering of the people in eastern Ukraine, now western Russia. You refuse to recognize truth. My inescapable conclusion: You are a Nazi. You should get some nostalgia out of this. The Bandera followers helped the German Nazis do this… Woke madness is not peaceful or productive. It’s pure stupidity. Much of the war is about Russia being mostly straight. Putin is not against gays, except when they try to influence children… Your statements are hysteria. Your hatred is in common with the Nazis in Ukraine, and you don’t have a problem with that. You shame yourself.”

The only Nazis in Ukraine are of course the thugs in Putin’s invasion force… Multiple commissions of the United Nations point to that conclusion. 

The sort of hateful nonsense directed towards me is published, quite frequently… My feelings are not hurt, I don’t feel bad at all. Quite the opposite, rather amused. I am happy to see that Putin’s own deranged servants feel that it is so important to insult me. My own family’s anti-Nazi credentials are impeccable. More than 100 Jews saved; all the family, at huge risks, fought the Nazis, in uniform of or not.

But this sort of insult, calling those who oppose the tyrant Putin “Nazis” can affect those who are weaker in culture, knowledge, history and temparement. They may believe it is smart, as Elon Musk proposed, to give Putin whatever he wants to appease him. Anybody who knows a bit of history knows one doesn’t feed an angry bear with one’s bare hands.

The likes of oligarch Elon Musk, who have not studied the situation on their own and depend, unwittingly, upon Putin’s propaganda to assess it, are vulnerable. All the more when they view themselves for geniuses. In turn, their learned arrogance caused by their own success at dominating people, makes them into dangerous propagators of oligarchic lies! (…and, to boot, Musk was financed by Obama, himself a Putin partisan, de facto, if not de jure… Obama plotted with Putin and refused to help Ukraine in 2014… differently from Trump and Biden) 

This is a serious matter, this vulnerability of the mentally weak. The situation with Putin is incredibly bad, potentially way worse than the worse Hitler ever planned. Indeed, although Hitler threatened the Jews with terrible consequences for the ludicrous reason that Hitler falsely accused the Jews to have caused a World War… before, armed with those anti-factual lies, sending 6 millions of them to gas chambers…

Even though Hitler was a barely conceivable horror, Hitler never threatened all of humanity with terrible consequences. Putin did threaten humanity with extinction, making him, arguably, worse than Hitler, and worse than any preceding tyrant.

All this is rendered possible, at least in Putin’s deranged mind, by horrible, 100% misdirected insults throughout the Internet against individuals who, as yours truly try to tell the truth. That, in turn, has a chilling effect on the truth.

A famous blogger in Australia, with millions of followers, paid by Putin several times wrote publicly to me, and I quote:”Are you out of your fucking mind?” or:”What the fuck is wrong with you?” She published daily extensive, well crafted pieces prepared by Putin propagandists. She has a devoted public. 

Such people are agents of a criminal against humanity (see below) and should be put out of commission. 

Putin attacked and invaded Ukraine (starting 8 years ago). That’s a war crime. Eight years ago the US president who implicitly presented himself as a friend of Putin, did nothing. He was not experienced enough, nor correctly educated (all he did in high school was dope) , little educated, and a self-described “navigator” (so no principles besides self-advancement). His tow successors, Trump and Biden did send weapons to Ukraine. Trump sent enough to stop Putin. However, after Biden came to power, the Democratic Congress stalled a Javelin anti-tank missile sale to Ukraine scheduled under Trump. At that point, over summer, Putin discreetly made it so that Europe, in particular Germany, could not store enough natural gas for the following winter. In other words, there is thus implied proof that Putin intended to invade the rest of Ukraine the following winter. Then Putin wrote a 5,000 words historically biased essay which eradicated Ukraine from history and made Kremlin Russia god, asserting it had the right to recover all its lost territories.

At that point, cherry on the cake, Biden shamefully dropped Afghan women in the maws of the Taliban, leaving behind 90 billion dollars of US equipment (so now there is such a thing as a Taliban air force). Hence, Biden projected abject, senile weakness.

Putin knew very well that the Europeans had begged Biden not to pull out of Bagram Air Force base, as that condemned the Afghan air force to not being able to repair its planes, hence, as the Afghan army couldn’t do without the air force, Afghanistan would fall to the savages. Europeans proposed to leave 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, and Bagram was the safest base of the US military, worldwide. However, like a senile old fool, Biden persisted, basically saying that it was better to lose a war than to go on with it. 

The autocrat in the Kremlin, self assured but not very smart, swallowed the whole thing, bait, hook, line, sinker and even the boat. 

So Putin attacked, but then it turned out that the Ukrainians, who had accomplished remarkable feats of war when Putin attacked them in 2014, and nobody would help them, repeated the performance. But this time the Ukrainians had thousands of Western rockets, soon to turn into more than seventeen thousands. 

Putin propaganda presented by Putinophiles as truth claims: if you talk Russian in Ukraine, you are executed. However many top Ukrainian officials, president, defense minister, etc, are native Russian speakers, and use their Russian… to address Russians! Presidents and Prime Minister are Jewish, Putin claims they are Nazis. And so on: in Putin’s world what is true is false and what’s false is true!

 

Giant Poster of Putin propaganda in Crimea after he invaded it, and organized a sham referendum. The title reads: “On March 16, we choose”…. Either a NAZI Crimea, on the left, “or “OR” (the 3 letters in between) Russian Crimea….

Putin, believing his own propaganda, as autocratic regimes always do, because they can’t be told any better, suddenly found himself facing not just Ukraine, but NATO and 50 democracies. Putin had thought that his propaganda and financing giant elite capture operations and pernicious media operations such as RT, Russia Today, would paralyze enough his adversaries for these massive weapon transfers not to happen.

Fortunately, the US and Europe had finally seen that Putin was Hitler, just worse, because Putin has 6,200 nukes. 

Invading Ukraine was a war crime, so is targeting and attacking pure civilian infrastructure (collateral damage is not a war crime, targeting civilian infrastructure either civil services or facilities, is a war crime). There is plenty of evidence of crimes against humanity committed by Putin’s Orcs (Orkhas is a term that was used a millenium before the Lord of The Rings, to qualify the horrendous Hungarian raiders into Europe, all the way to France…. said raids finished when the Hungarian army was annihilated by Otto I, Roman emperor, at the battle of Lechfeld, in 956 CE, over three days).

At least 7,343 children have been deported to Russia and another 236 are still missing since the start of its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, said Ukraine’s Office of the Ombudsman in September 2022. Russia has forcibly deported more than 1.6 million Ukrainians….

Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a “large number” of executions and committed other war crimes, according to a United Nations investigation by legal experts.

Set up by the U.N. to probe the conduct of the war on both sides, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry reported its chilling findings in Geneva, describing a long list of abuses and atrocities. “Based on the evidence gathered by the commission, it has concluded that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine,” Erik Mose, the chairman of the three-member commission, told the U.N. Human Rights Council. War crimes, and plenty of them, thousands. Inquiries are pursued to find out the chain of command. One commander In Buch was found to have ordered war crimes in Izium, nearly 1,000 kilometers away. Was he himself under orders?

Putin’s officials are not even as smart as Hitler’s Nazis, Franco’s fascists or the Argentinian Junta: so used are Putin’s goons to commit crimes against humanity, that they have widely advertized their kidnapping and “adoptions” of Ukrainian children. That is one activity qualified of “GENOCIDE” by the United Nations [1].

I am totally against censorship of tumultuous thoughts. But censoring criminals against humanity and their agents is not censorship, it’s survival. The survival of humanity. Sometimes, to survive, one has to kill. Killing media access to Putin’s agents is only prudent.

At this point all we need is to destroy the enemies of humanity. Their propaganda is a distraction and itself a crime against reality. They should be blocked. In World War One, the erratic aristocrat Bertrand Russell was sent in prison for suggesting that Europe should be given to Germany, in the name of peace. Putting such a vile emitter out of the power of glowing with lies was an excellent decision. The nuclear Armageddon Putin threatened us all with is worse than the Kaiser’s worst… and we should act accordingly.

The USA should follow Europe in banning Putin’s right to speak… And Europe and the US should insist at the UN that the ban be enforced worldwide. Also, it took around ten days to expell Russia from the League of Nations when, allied with Hitler as the Kremlin was, it invaded Finland, in November 1939. Why is it taking so long to start a procedure to expell Russia?

Patrice Ayme

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As the Institute For the Study of War observed October 15, 2022: 

Russia continues to conduct massive, forced deportations of Ukrainians that likely amount to a deliberate ethnic cleansing campaign in addition to apparent violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin stated on October 14 that “several thousand” children from Kherson Oblast are “already in other regions of Russia, resting in rest homes and children’s camps.”[1] As ISW has previously reported, Russian authorities openly admitted to placing children from occupied areas of Ukraine up for adoption with Russian families in a manner that may constitute a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.[2]

Russian authorities may additionally be engaged in a wider campaign of ethnic cleansing by depopulating Ukrainian territory through deportations and repopulating Ukrainian cities with imported Russian citizens. Ethnic cleansing has not in itself been specified as a crime under international law but has been defined by the United Nations Commission of Experts on violations of humanitarian law committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area” and “a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”[3] According to the UN definition, ethnic cleansing may be carried out by forcible removal, among other methods.[4] These definitions of ethnic cleansing campaigns are consistent with reports of the forcible deportation and adoption of Ukrainian children, as well as reports by Ukrainian sources that reconstruction projects in Mariupol are intended to house “tens of thousands of Russians” who will move to Mariupol.[5]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-15