NUCLEAR WEAPONS EVACUATED. SENATORS WARNED. GET READY.
THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR: WE ARE CLOSE TO THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE - DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
HERE WE GO! NATO MOVES PATRIOTS TO BORDER, RUSSIA FULL MOBILIZATION OR BUST, BELARUS DEPLOYS NUKES
World War 3 Potential Kick-off Dates: June 12-24
Based upon information which came to me discreetly via postal mail, I have concluded that World War 3 can kick-off in less than two weeks, between the dates of June 12 thru 24. The largest NATO air 'exercise" - Air Defender 23 - takes place in that time period; may cover Ukraine "Counter-Offensive."
As described during my Memorial Day radio show last night, my wife and son came up to the house here in Pennsylvania, from our regular home in New Jersey, this past Saturday evening. They brought with them, postal mail from my P.O. Box which has accumulated for about 3 weeks.
In that postal mail was a discreet, but large, envelope, containing what can be described as intelligence material about certain NATO planning.
I perused the material and then set about trying to verify it. But with the entire US being on Memorial Day Weekend holiday, it was very difficult reaching my contacts from my years working with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), during which I handled National Security Intelligence, Terrorism, and Foreign Counter-Intelligence.
As of early this morning, Tuesday, May 30, I am able to reach several contacts from my FBI years, and am further verifying the material.
Here's what I can confirm:
NATO will commence its largest air exercise in history, called "Air Defender 2023" on June 12.
Air Defender 23 will be the most significant military exercise ever carried out in European skies. The event will involve the air forces of 25 nations.
More specifically, Air Defender 23 will represent the most extensive deployment exercise of air forces in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, commonly known as NATO. The unprecedented event will involve up to 10,000 exercise participants who will train their flying skills with approximately 220 aircraft. The military exercise will take place in European airspace and under the command of the German Air Force, or Luftwaffe.
By creating this joint exercise, Air Defender 23 aims to enhance and optimize cooperation among NATO forces and show the alliance's strength. But what exactly are the skills that Air Defender 23 intends its participants to train?
The 25 participating nations plan to investigate how their respective air forces would react and cooperate in case of a military crisis. Mainly, Air Defender 23 will be an opportunity to assess the participants' joint airborne response to a hypothetical emergency. In this context, Germany will act as a collective defense hub for European airspace.
Air Defender 23 will see the arrival of 23 different aircraft types, including the F-35 of the Americans and Dutch, a NATO Awacs reconnaissance aircraft, and, for the first time ever, a Japanese Air Force transport aircraft. Of the 220 aircraft involved, 100 alone will be arriving from 35 states in the US. Those US aircraft constitute the largest deployment of Air National Guard aircraft since Operation Desert Storm in Iraq back in 1991.
(HT REMARK: Not to put too fine a point on it, but one does not move that many aircraft, halfway around the world - and just outside an ongoing conflict zone in Ukraine - just to have an "exercise.")
NATO "Exercise" Covering for Real Attack
Readers may recall that another NATO Exercise "BaltOps-2022" was used as cover to plant explosives on the NordStream 2 gas pipelines. This was revealed by Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh who showed the Biden regime planned the Nordstream bombing attack in the White House, deployed specialized Navy Divers from a team outside the investigative purview of Congress, to plant explosives that could be activated by special tones emitted from a sonar buoy. Three months or so after the BaltOps-22 exercise, Hersh reported, a Norwegian air force plane was sent to air-drop the special tone-emitting sonar buoy, which detonated the underwater explosives, destroying much of the Nordtream 2 pipeline.
So NATO using an "exercise" to cover for an actual military operation, is nothing new, and still fresh in most people's minds.
Fast-forward to today, and NATO is planning its largest air strike exercise in history. It is doing so just outside the Ukraine-Russia conflict zone. Gee, what a coincidence!
NATO supports Ukraine and has been supplying Ukraine with massive amounts of money and military weaponry/ammunition.
None of it has succeeded in turning the tide in Ukraine's favor; Russia is winning, slowly-but-surely.
Now, the NATO countries have given almost all they can give to Ukraine, and yet Ukraine is still losing.
So NATO is coming to an inflection point: Either they admit they cannot help Ukraine defeat Russia, or . . . .
They come into the war on the side of Ukraine.
THAT, is what the postal mail material I received on Saturday, seems to indicate.
The only chance Ukraine has of turning the tide, and the ONLY chance NATO has of saving face after all its help to Ukraine failed, is for NATO to come into the conflict directly.
But there's a problem: Russia has not attacked NATO. Moreover, Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
So in order for NATO to come into the conflict, there has to be some action or event, that would "justify" NATO entering the fight.
CREATING AN INCIDENT
For months, the world has been hearing about the coming "Ukraine Counter-Offensive." It's been repeatedly stated that Ukraine is going to launch some blistering effort, to repel Russia out of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye Oblasts (states) which voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, and to regain control over Crimea, which seceded by vote in the year 2014.
Of late, mass-media in the West is also reporting that the U.S., through NATO, is working on giving fourth generation F-16 Fighter Jets to Ukraine and training Ukrainian pilots to operate those jets. Sadly for Ukraine, training a fighter pilot is not done quickly. It take upwards of a year.
Even worse, I reported (HERE) that the U.S. is not only pushing its NATO allies to donate F-16's but the U.S. is also insisting the planes be of the type with special modifications, enabling those planes to carry U.S. B-61 free-fall, nuclear bombs, and Ukrainian pilots be trained in using them!
This demand by the US has been met with strong opposition from a number of NATO allies.
However, the material sent to me via postal mail, indicates NATO plans to create an incident wherein they can justify NATO entry into the war, and use the coming "Ukrainian Counter-Offensive" as the means to do just that.
The papers mailed to me indicate the following scenarios are in-planning:
SCENARIO "A"
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Ukraine grants NATO permission to enter its air space to establish a nationwide no-fly zone. NATO agrees and enters.
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Russia has already warned it will engage and destroy such foreign aircraft. Russia then does what it says it would do, NATO screams it has been "attacked by Russia" and it's on like Donkey Kong.
The papers mailed to me also include other scenarios:
SCENARIO "B"
A) "Ukrainian F-16's" enter the fight and launch attacks into actual Russia. Belgorad is the likely attack zone. But since there are no qualified Ukrainian Pilots, the planes will be piloted by British and American pilots.
B) Russia shoots down the planes either in Ukraine or inside Russia.
C) When the pilots are either captured alive, or killed in the fight, their bodies will prove they were British and American.
D) Russia declares they have been attacked by the US and NATO and declare war upon us. Again, it's on like Donkey Kong.
SCENARIO "C"
Includes both Scenario "A" and Scenario "B" above.
i) NATO is granted permission to enter Ukrainian air space to set up no-fly zone and NATO enters.
ii) Ukrainian F-16's enter Russia and attack.
iii) NATO planes warn incoming Russian defenders they cannot attack the Ukrainian planes or they will be hit by some 200 NATO planes.
iv) Russia tells both Ukraine and NATO what's what, and commences hitting all of them. It's on like Donkey Kong.
In support of this intel received via postal mail, I can also report the USS Gerald R. Ford made a port call to Oslo, Norway last week, spending four days in port. It is shown entering Oslo harbor in the photo below:
The USS Gerald Ford is the largest warship in the world, and carries upwards of 90 aircraft for battle.
It even has small in-flight refueling tankers.
It's squadrons of fighter jets can take off, be refueled in-flight, enter northwestern Russia to launch attacks, and return to the aircraft carrier.
So Russia would be faced with intense air battles in Ukraine, intense air strikes into Belgorad, and other air strikes in northwestern Russia from fighters on the USS Gerald Ford, while US aircraft carriers in the Pacific, sail from Japan and perhaps launch additional attacks against far eastern Russia, from the Pacific Ocean.
The intel I received by mail claims this massive series of strikes would immediately overwhelm Russia's conventional forces, but it says that NATO concludes this would compel Russia to sue for peace.
I say that conclusion is flat-out wrong.
I say such an overwhelming attack, would compel Russia to use nuclear weapons because the survival of their country is at stake.
I say, if Russia has to resort to nukes, it won't be some small, tactical nukes on a battlefield. I say they are far more likely to make large, strategic launches, against western decision-making centers, which is precisely what Russia warned it would do if the West interfered with Russia's Ukrainian operations.
For what it's worth, I am going on record with this article saying that the time window of June 12-24 is the period when the outbreak of World War 3 seems almost unavoidable.
If this takes place --- and it may not ---- I suspect we in the west would be hit with nukes very early in the conflict.
The one variable that I cannot factor-in, is if Russia is able to thwart a potential Ukraine Counter-oiffensive, using missile strikes which take out Weapons Depots needed for such a Counter-Offensive.
IF Russia is able to wipe out a large portion of the few weapons Ukraine has left, then undertaking the scenarios above would be utterly futile for NATO unless . . . . unless . . . . this whole Ukraine conflict was set-up to pave the way for a war against Russia anyway . . . and whatever happens in and to Ukraine has never mattered.
If THAT is the case, then it seems to be June 12-23 is the date range for the actual start of World War 3.
I earnestly hope you and your family has emergency food, water, medicine, a generator for electric, fuel for your generator and for your cars, portable communications gear like a CB radio for each car and for your house, and a shortwave radio so you can get news from around the world, and a plan to "bug-out" if the nukes start flying.
If the intel I received by mail is accurate -- and I think it is -- then you have about two weeks left to plan, stock-up, and pray.
Get right with God.
Four Days Until NATO "Exercise" Begins . . . and Maybe Direct War with Russia
SCENARIO: "Airspace over Eastern Europe is contested. Article 5 of NATO Treaty was activated. Within hours, hundreds of fighter jets from the US/NATO transfer to Germany to fly against Russia. Nuclear-capable F-35 stealth aircraft are prepped for deployment – the first hours of a major war have dawned."
This scenario is the basis for the upcoming NATO "Air Defender 23" exercise ..."
which takes place from the 12th to the 24th of June.
The air war is simulated against an imaginary enemy who himself has a potent air force. The real meaning of this exercise is clear to anyone with a brain: Russia.
The maneuvering may still be cautious in their public communication, but Michael A. Loh, general of the US Air National Guard, expressed his motivation some time ago. In 2021, with a view to „ Air Defender “, he wished that his people „ think more about our impending dangers – China and Russia “.
The maneuver is carried out according to the principle „ Train as you fight “. Areas of application, tactics, logistics – everything should be as realistic as possible. It is therefore no coincidence that Germany becomes the central hub of the exercise. In an emergency, too, countless NATO jets would start and swarm out of German airfields. The flight routes that the fighter planes will test are just as realistic. They lead to the eastern borders of the NATO area, to the Russian and Ukrainian borders.
At first glance, what looks like a brazen but usual provocation is a tangible danger to world peace in times of war. An accident with Russian military aircraft, misguided navigation or a pilot error may be sufficient to make a training flight appear like an attack. It becomes particularly threatening if Ukraine uses the NATO exercise's slipstream to carry out attacks, while Russian air surveillance is forced to pursue NATO activities. Russian territory is currently being bombarded almost every day, and the Ukrainian president is threatened with major attacks. The escalation potential of a Ukrainian military strike while NATO jets are patrolling nearby is obvious in this situation.
The federal government is not only willing to accept these enormous risks, it even suspends the usual security measures. Russian observers who could ensure that the exercise is not used to prepare for an attack are not invited. There shouldn't even be a formal announcement. "We will not write them a letter. They will understand the news when our planes swarm out “, the highest German air force general Ingo Gerhartz replied at the beginning of April to the question of how Russia is informed.
This move away from an insurance policy is accompanied by a fight against diplomacy. Last week the Federal Republic of the Russian Federation banned the operation of four consulates. They must be closed by the end of the year.
So, shortly before the NATO exercise, the relationships are further burdened and important communication channels are sabotaged. The federal government appears to be doing everything it can to drive an escalation and increase the risk that the exercise could become a bitter reality.
NATO and its ilk have to decide very quickly. Obviously, the Ukraine offensive has stalled. It is indeed a question if Ukraine army is even capable of holding their positions or not. And the Russian army is making small but constant advances. It is probable that Ukraine army and state is on the verge of collapse. Because of that, it is time to make a decision. Either NATO enters officially into conflict or Ukraine is lost.
Of course, best moment to attack Russian army would be when all NATO equipment and personal are in Europe and are practicing that type of scenario. We only need a fabricated reason for war. Something like 9/11 at the WTC.
History shows the US federal government is perfectly willing to engage in treachery to cause the US to be involved in a major war.
In World War 2, the Roosevelt Administration KNEW the Japanese were coming to attack Pearl Harbor. They knew days in advance. While they told the US Military "you may be attacked" there was no ironclad statement that an attack WAS already on its way. The Japanese attack on December 7, 1941 caused the date to live in infamy. The American military was used as canon fodder to get hit and killed, bringing the US into the war.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was an actual fabrication by the US to get us into the Vietnam War.
Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, sat at a UN Security Council meeting, held up a glass jar containing ANTHRAX, and told Security Council members that Saddam Hussein of Iraq had "tons" of this bio-weapon and could destroy half the world. In to Iraq we went. We destroyed much of Iraq, searched high and low, but guess what? No weapons of mass destruction! It was all lies.
In 2014, the US, EU fomented, incited, and facilitated the forcible overthrow of Ukraine's President, Vikto Yanukovich, then funded a puppet government favorable tot he West. The US/EU want to place American missiles on Ukraine soil, with a five minute or so flight time to Moscow. Russia said "no." The West said "Too fucking bad."
In December 2021, Russia tried to negotiate ironclad, legally enforceable security guarantees. The West laughed and basically threw Russia's Diplomatic proposals in the trash can.
The Russians tried again, only this time warning that if Russia could not obtain ironclad, legally enforceable, security guarantees, via DIPLOMATIC means, they would attain them via military, or military-technical means. The West again quashed the Russian proposals.
On February 24, 2022, after giving Ukraine a five hour ultimatum that went unanswered, the Russian Army went into Ukraine. The West was mortified. It was never within the realm of possibility to them, that Russia would actually DO what Russia said they would do!
Here we are, over a year later, the war rages, hundreds of thousands are dead, and now NATO is (coincidentally) preparing its largest air defense exercise in history . . . right next to the Russia-Ukraine major conflict . . . where any misstep can open up the hellscape of World War 3.
Given the US track record of lying to get us into actual wars, is it any stretch of the imagination to believe that NATO and the US will do so again, four or so days from now?
Let me ask you: If, one day soon, you're up in the morning doing what you usually do, and suddenly, the Emergency Broadcast System tones start coming out of your cellphone, or your nearby radio, or on your TV, and the announcement tells you "The United States is under nuclear attack from Russia, take shelter immediately." what's the first thing you would do?
For most people, they have no friggin idea . . . . at all. Do you call your spouse? Do you make a mad dash to get the kids from school? (You and everybody else . . . and find an instant "Mad Max" scenario on the roads.)
Do you have any emergency food, water, medicine for after the bombs hit and the country is collapsing?
Do you actually think you'll be able to go to the supermarket and buy food? Upon a nuke blast, do you think your credit/debit cards will actually work so you can buy food? Nope!
Better start thinking about these things, because the way things are going, four days from now could see your whole world change.
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Video released on social media allegedly shows the Russians destroying a group of German-supplied Leopard tanks and US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicles in Ukraine as they grouped together in an open field.
Prominent D.C. think tank calls on Biden to give Ukraine nukes
AEI is funded by the defense industry, but now best known for transgender ideology and covid hysteria.
A senior official within the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which is one of the most influential Washington, D.C. policy shops, is calling on the Biden Administration to deliver nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
In a piece penned by Michael Rubin, a senior fellow with AEI, the “foreign policy expert” makes the case that nukes for Ukraine are not only their right to possess, but would act as a means to prevent Russia from using nuclear weapons on Kiev.
“The non-proliferation mafia might howl with outrage,” Rubin declares, in mocking the idea that there is any downside risk to arming Volodomyr Zelensky’s regime in Kiev.
Describing Russian President Vladimir Putin, a man with an 80+% approval rating in his country, as “desperate and erratic,” the AEI “expert” states:
“For Biden, the question is now two-fold: How to deter Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons and how to respond should he use them. The same strategy answers both.”
“The simple fact is this,” Rubin writes. “United States maintains nuclear weapons because they are an effective deterrent against other nuclear states. Ukraine should have the same right.”
While previously known as a slush fund for Bush-era neoconservative ideologues, AEI has since pivoted into the arenas of transgender ideology normalization and — through the employment of former FDA Director turned Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb — shilling for the pharmaceutical industry. AEI’s “roadmap to reopening” was published at the beginning of the covid hysteria, and it successfully convinced many policymakers to continue draconian measures while waiting for the vaccine. The “roadmap” was drafted by officials from Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, among other Pharma-funded snake oil salesmen.
An institution best known for its unapologetic advocacy for the devastating wars of the 21st century just cannot shake its thirst for human carnage. Unfortunately, AEI is hardly alone. Virtually all of the major D.C.-based foreign policy think tanks, whether “right leaning” or “left leaning” in their public facing composition, completely support the Uniparty’s indefinite war footing abroad.
White House Set To Approve Depleted Uranium Munitions For Ukraine
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2023 - 11:20 AM
The Biden administration is set to transfer depleted uranium shells to Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion began The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday.
Internal administration debate over the controversial munitions has been ongoing for several months, but an admin official quoted in WSJ says at this point there are "no major obstacles" to sending it, which will be used to equip M1 Abrams tanks provided by Washington.
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This came at the request of the Ukrainians themselves: "The Pentagon has urged that the Abrams tanks the U.S. is providing Ukraine be armed with depleted-uranium rounds, which are regularly used by the U.S. Army and are highly effective against Russian tanks," WSJ writes.
Already the UK has been providing armor piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium for its Challenger 2 main battle tanks. This was first announced by Britain's defense ministry in late March.
The condemnation from the Kremlin in response to London was swift, with a Russian foreign ministry statement at the time saying it was tantamount to using a "dirty bomb" - given the highly dangerous remnant health effects on the battlefield.
While the UK defense ministry asserted that "Such rounds are highly effective in defeating modern tanks and armored vehicles," Moscow responded "These shells not only kill, but infect the environment and cause oncology in people living on these lands."
There have been ongoing attempts over the years of international watchdogs to get depleted uranium shells banned by international treaty. EU parliament, for example, has long pushed for a ban.
A defense analyst cited in the fresh WSJ report describes why they are so sought after by Ukrainian forces:
"The projectile hits like a freight train," said Scott Boston, a defense analyst at the Rand Corporation and former Army artillery officer. "It is very long and very dense. So it puts a great deal of kinetic energy on a specific point on an enemy armor array."
But, as the report also notes, "The proposal has been debated at the White House, where some officials have expressed concern that sending the rounds might open Washington to criticism that it was providing a weapon that may carry health and environmental risks."
It is the "chemical toxicity" of the metals used which poses the biggest danger, also as upon explosion it is turned into toxic dust which is dispersed on the battlefield and can have a permanent presence.
The escalations continue.
And still no sane voices in mainstream politics calling for detente.https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-set-to-approve-depleted-uranium-tank-rounds-for-ukraine-f6d98dcf
— Primo Radical (@PrimoRadical) June 13, 2023
According to a summary of the hazardous weapons technology in the journal Scientific American:
Used as ammunition, it penetrates the thick steel encasing enemy tanks; used as armor, it protects troops against attack. And when it was used in the Gulf War and later during the Allied bombing of Yugoslavia and Kosovo, depleted uranium (DU) was hailed as the new silver bullet that would solve most of the military's problems.
After the end of Operation Allied Force, however, several Italian soldiers were diagnosed with leukemia. Politicians and the media soon forged a link between the disease and depleted uranium use. They further drew a parallel with Gulf War Syndrome, and in no time, depleted uranium became the Agent Orange of the Balkan conflict.
Russia will likely pursue its own form of escalation in response to the US decision. When the UK previously announced its authorization for depleted uranium, President Putin said he would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
Putin had justified the move toward nuclear escalation very specifically in response to London's decision at the time. But Washington has of course downplayed and rejected the association of depleted uranium shells with 'nuclear weapons'.
State TV: United States is in Moscow's Nuclear Crosshairs
A Russian state TV host has warned that if the Ukraine war escalates to a "nuclear phase," the Kremlin will strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons as it is "in the crosshairs."
Russian political commentator and president of Russia's Institute of the Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky made the warning in a clip that has now gone viral: [video embedded in article link].
This comes on the heels of a very high ranking Russian elected official, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council (Senate) who said "the likelihood of nuclear weapons being used, was growing by the day."
"In my opinion, concerns about climate change is nothing compared to the prospect of being at the epicenter of an explosion with a temperature of 5,000 Kelvin (scale), a shock wave of 350 meters per second and a pressure of 3,000 kilograms per square meter, with penetrating radiation, that is, ionizing radiation and an electromagnetic pulse," he said at an educational event in late April, according to Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
"Is there such a prospect today? (Unfortunately), yes. And it is growing every day for well-known reasons," he said.
The following article is dated January 2023.
Scott Ritter: 2023 Will Be Our Last Year on the Planet
“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked, and behold a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him”
— Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around
Scott Ritter, former UN nuclear arms inspector, hears Johnny Cash’s cancer-ravaged voice, speaking those haunting words at the end of his song, “The Man Comes Around.”
“That’s what we live in today,” the former US Marine intelligence officer said at a press conference aptly titled “Can Nuclear War Be Avoided?”
“This isn’t some sort of, you know, future look into a hellish earth,” Ritter continued. “Death is on a pale horse riding to us as we speak! And if you don’t recognize that, if you’re not aware of that, then you’re just gonna blissfully go to the abyss.”
World War 3 Will Happen
The untold ‘complicated’ history of Russia’s relationship with Crimea could be the spark that ignites WWIII: The West ignores this history to its own peril.
Russia has warned the U.S. and Britain they will be seen as “full-fledged” participants in the war in Ukraine if HIMARS or Storm Shadow missiles be used by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia or Crimea.
The Daily Mail reports that Vladimir Putin‘s defense minister Sergei Shoigu warned he will target “decision-making centers” in Ukraine, implying he plans to order his military to target Volodymyr Zelensky and his government leaders in Kiev.
Shoigu said: “According to our information, the leadership of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is planning to launch strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, including Crimea, with HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles. The use of these missiles outside the area of the special military operation would mean a full-fledged involvement of the US and UK in the conflict entailing immediate strikes on the decision-making centers in Ukraine.”
Meanwhile, Lt. General Ben Hodges, a recently retired four-star general who commanded all U.S. troops in Europe, came out and said the goal for Ukraine in its counter-offensive should be to “retake Crimea” from the Russians.
This comment by Hodges has been characterized as not only provocative but outrageous by several other military analysts such as U.S. Col. Douglas MacGregor (retired), former CIA agent Larry Johnson and former British diplomat Alastair Crooke.
Russia considers Crimea to be part of Russia while the West considers it part of Ukraine and this is the thorny issue that could bring the war to a new and dangerous stage.
Crimea has a complex history with Russia dating back to the 19th century. Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great annexed Crimea in 1783, a decade after defeating the forces of the Ottoman Empire in the pivotal battle of Kozludzha.
It stayed part of Russia proper until 1954, when the government of the former Soviet Union transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. This would be the equivalent of the U.S. moving the state of Maine from the U.S. proper to the U.S. Virgin Islands or some other U.S. territory. So when the West claims that Crimea should be part of Ukraine, it is defaulting to the Soviet era, when all Soviet republics essentially still answered to the Kremlin even if they operated under the façade of being an independent state.
And it’s an undeniable fact that a majority of the people living in Crimea speak Russian and would rather be part of Russia than Ukraine.
Western propaganda mouthpieces such as the UK-based Daily Mail, skip over all this complex history and simply report to the ignorant masses that “Putin forcibly annexed the Black Sea peninsula in 2014.” They refer to this peninsula as simply “Russian-occupied Crimea.”
According to the Wilson Center, the population of the Crimean peninsula — approximately 1.1 million in 1954 when the Soviets threw it into the Ukrainian Republic — was roughly 75 percent ethnic Russian and 25 percent Ukrainian.
The Wilson Center concludes that “The peninsula did have important economic and infrastructural ties with Ukraine, but cultural ties were much stronger overall with Russia than with Ukraine, and Crimea was the site of major military bases from Tsarist times on, having become a symbol of Imperial Russian military power against the Ottoman Turks.”
So until the United States is willing to accept that there is two sides to the regional feud between the folks in Kiev and the folks in Moscow, they will never be able to broker an honest peace. But it appears Washington is not interested in peace, only in dealing Russia a death blow. Because of this delusional path the U.S. has put itself and its allies on, it appears this volatile part of the world will once again draw the nations of the world into a devastating conflagration.
Check out this excellent analysis below from former British diplomat Alastair Crooke in an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano.
America to be plunged into 'UNIMAGINABLE MAYHEM' after first nuke goes off: Steve Quayle and Mike Adams