Conservative Patriot: What a war between Ukraine and Russia will look like

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

What a war between Ukraine and Russia will look like

Submitted by: Don Hank

What a war between Ukraine and Russia will look like

Global Research is one of those web sites targeted by the censors in the State Department, who are deathly afraid that you the public might find out the truth about delicate issues like Ukraine, Russia, China, Iran and other issues around which the US is building an information cordon. You’re

NOT SUPPOSED TO know facts and situations that are absolutely the most vital to you if the US is a real democracy – which, of course, it is not (because in REAL democracies, issues vital to how you vote are out in the open). Just as you were not allowed to know that there were no WMDs in Iraq in 2002. Otherwise you may have protested the sinister US plot to invade and destroy a well-oiled democratic and stable government and kill a million or so mostly civilians while destroying their infrastructure making it impossible for thousands to get adequate drinking water and sewerage and food for their families. The aftermath was the emergence of ISIS and a total breakdown of statehood in Iraq. Meanwhile the Iraqi parliament voted in 2019 to expel all US troops, but guess what? US troops still illegally trespass on Iraqi soil and kill at will.

Killing and inflicting horrible suffering is now part and parcel of US global strategy.

One important reason for trying to censor Global Research is that this site does not bow to pressure from Washington and sugar-coat its reports about US crimes and failures.

Here, ex-Marine Intel officer Scott Ritter analyzes the shape of a potential war between the US-backed Ukronazis and Russia. His expectation is that Ukraine would cease to exist as a state but that Russia – unlike the US in Afghanistan -- would not allow itself to be saddled with the job of maintaining this failed state. The fools in Washington who figured the Russia-Ukraine conflict would end like Russia’s Afghan adventure in the 80s were soooo wrong.

It would be a lesson for the State Department and DoD, but the problem with US agencies is that, while they receive dozens of vital lessons from their egregious mistakes, eg, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, they almost never learn them!

Scott Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-war-russia-would-look-like/5766810

Europe follows US lead in fomenting war with eyes closed.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-secretary-general-says-alliance-prepared-war-europe/5766840

Russian military expert Andrei Martyanov has said that if NATO encroaches aggressively on Russia in Ukraine, “NATO will cease to exist.”

Ony YOU can prevent the next world war

Each war after WW II has been promoted by the msn, each time by blaming a country for something, often with little substantiation (eg, WMDs in Iraq). But the most egregious lies and fables are the accusations against Russia and China. And these are the most dangerous ones since both are nuclear powers.

What the US government is doing is tantamount to climbing through a fence into a pasture hosting a raging bull and kicking the bull in the shin.

And now, that bull – Russia -- is seeing red like never before, threatening real, hot war and it's not about to back down because, as Putin has said, it has nowhere to fall back to.

The official US narrative rammed down your throat by the warmongering Establishment (not just one party) falsely claims that Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine.

But in fact, the Ukraine government has been attacking residential areas in Donbass ever since the US invasion of the Maidan in Feb 2014. These lethal attacks are never reported in the lying US msn. Here is the latest story on these attacks:

https://anna-news.info/the-situation-in-donbass-is-escalating/

The situation in Donbass is escalating. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Ukrainian troops are conducting offensive operations in some areas of the DPR and the LPR. According to the official spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, this is indicated by the reports of the special monitoring mission. She clarified that the offensive operations are being conducted near the settlements of Granitnoye and Staromaryevka. “Some information continues to be received about the use of weapons, prohibited by the Minsk agreement, but still supplied to Ukraine by the NATO countries» — the spokeswoman announced.

Another US plan to interfere in supply chains is guaranteed to undermine US manufacturing – again

By Don Hank

You Will recall several instances of US interference in the supply chain that wound up boomeranging on the US itself.

The US is stuck in a mindset contending that hurting the economic competitor will somehow redound to increased US prosperity.

Now there is no objective support for this notion, either in theory or in practice. But the US is stuck on zero-sum mode – in contrast to the Eastern (eg, Chinese) principle of win-win, which is just the opposite. The win-win principle teaches that a world power helping its partners prosper will redound to increased prosperity of that power.

And sure enough, based on this principle, China has had world record economic growth for decades even as the zero-sum US falls farther and farther behind.

The latest example of US zero-sum thinking was the brilliant US idea to forbid chip manufacturers to sell their high-end products to China – in a bid to stop Huawei.

But it not only hurt Huawei.

US auto makers began having trouble getting chips for their cars and lost $65 BILLION as a result – a casualty of cold war.

Another example of shoot-yourself-in-the-foot zero sum thinking was the US hysterical attempts to stop the construction of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, starting in 2019, over 2 years ago. These sanctions forced the European investors in the project to quit, losing millions of dollars. Though the Russians pulled an old pipelaying ship and a working barge out of mothballs to continue the project to completion, 2 years were lost, during which Europe had no use of this pipeline – and in fact, Germany and the EU are using bureaucratic tricks to delay the startup of the pipeline. So two years and counting, Europe has no gas from the pipeline.

As you know, the reduction in the availability of any commodity raises the price. And as could be expected, gas prices shot through the roof recently, causing a worldwide crisis.

And as usual, the US blames Russia for the increased gas prices.

But the higher prices are not Russia’s fault. Asia is paying top dollar for gas and even the US has been sending its LNG ships to Asia. Recently, it has also sent some gas to Europe but it is not enough to reduce the prices in the world market.

Again, US interference has caused a crisis and both the US and the world at large are suffering as a result.

So now, the US War College in Carlisle, PA, has come up with another brilliant idea to intervene in the global supply chain and choke up the supply of semiconductors from Taiwan.

What could possibly go wrong? Read about it here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwan-should-destroy-islands-semiconductor-plants-if-china-invades-paper-says

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