A Look
at the People of Donbass and the possibility of a US-Russia confrontation
Heroism,
religious faith, and a profound sense in the justness of their cause–these are
just a few of the reasons the people in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine
are not going to go down easily.
On
February 2, I posted a video featuring a press conference
by Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the Donetsk Peoples
Republic, who put it rather eloquently. Speaking shortly after DPR forces had
stormed and captured the town of Uglegorsk, throwing Kiev troops into a route,
Zakharchenko discussed the recruitment of volunteers and the willingness of
locals to join
the fight.
The
units will have time to undergo the combat training, have military exercises,
work the combat coordination of the units out, and we’ll face the spring in
different numbers than we have now for sure…It’s the reserve that will allow us
to withstand any strike, and in case of success, to develop the offensive,
solving the list of operative tasks…The recruitment of the volunteers is going
to be announced–that’s the first stage, and then we’ll see. If the number of
volunteers would suffice then we won’t even have to declare the mobilization. I
guess after the latest events, there will be only more volunteers. Well, you’ve
seen it yourself. When in Uglegorsk, the recruits joined practically on the
streets. So those units that fought in Uglegorsk were able to replenish their
ranks with the Uglegorsk residents. So we enlisted more than 200 men within 24
hours.
At this
point, Zakharchenko was asked if there were any limitations on who could join
the ranks of the resistance. His answer was quite telling, and also provided a
very descriptive contrast between growing public support for the resistance in
east Ukraine on the one hand, versus diminishing public support for the
pro-Western government in Kiev on the other:
You
know, if you are able to hold a gun and you are ready to defend your country,
then we have no limitations in this case. We have grandpas serving as snipers,
and they shoot even better than youth. In order to force us to sign some ‘peace
agreements’ on Minsk meetings, regarding the ‘ceasefire,’ they’ve intensified
the shelling of the peaceful towns. They’re striking the residential quarters
to terrorize the peaceful civilians…and they only achieve the effect that there
are long queues of people to the military commissariats, people who want to
enlist, to join and serve in the army–That’s what Ukraine achieves. They have
it mirrored: their people are running from their mobilization offices, and our
people join us.
Indeed,
the government in Kiev is losing quite a bit of
public support. This is bad news for the US and the EU. The vast
majority of Ukraine’s industrial wealth is in the eastern part of the country.
It is here that all the coal mines and metal working factories are located. If
the US and the EU end up with nothing but the western part of the country, they
will have gained nothing but an economic basket case for their trouble. And it
looks like that’s the direction things are headed in now.
The
video above offers us a very stirring look into the lives of the people of the
Donbass, how they have been impacted by the war, and how they are responding to
it–from school children all the way up to adults. The film features people from
all walks of life, including interviews with academics, students, miners,
artists, this as the camera takes us from bombed villages, to a training camp
where new volunteers are taught how to fire rifles, to a university, to an
opera stage in the city of Donetsk–as well as to the front lines of battle.
Everyone shown in the film, young and old alike, exhibits resolve. As one man
puts it, “People who are ready to fight gather here, the ones who defend their
land.” Another says, “You see? They have awoken the Russian bear.”
And yet
another says, “Who started it? Everyone knows who started this. How to put it
better? Everything started by America’s hallooing. The same sh#t happened with
Georgia, and now here in Ukraine.”
The
government in Kiev has been unable to defeat the Donbass resistance, and now
there are reports of large numbers of soldiers deserting as well as conscripts refusing to show up for duty. And on February
5, the Ukrainian parliament took the step of allowing Army commanders to shoot deserters, with 250 MPs (out of a total of
320) voting in favor of the measure.
Clearly
the enterprise that began in November 2013 with Victoria Nuland handing out
cookies in Maidan Square is now in danger of running off the tracks. Salvaging
it will require some sort of action by the US. What that action may be, along
with the risk it runs of a headlong confrontation with Russia, is analyzed in
an article by Stephen Lendman, who believes Ukraine
is a “hugely dangerous flashpoint,” and who is concerned particularly about a
new Authorization for the Use of Military Force, or AUMF, now being considered
by Congress. Supposedly the measure is aimed at ISIS, but the danger, says
Lendman, is that Congress will make it open-ended enough for it to be applied
to Ukraine as well.
Lendman
also speculates on the possibility of a false flag event used to justify US or
NATO intervention. There’s evidence to suggest that such an operation may have
actually been planned, but possibly averted, through the capture and
interrogation of an officer in a Kiev regiment.
What we
have here are wars and
rumors of wars and
the beginning of birth pains.
In the past several days the mainstream media have reached new levels of
absurdity in their efforts at demonizing Vladimir Putin. On February 5 USA Today put
out a story, picked up by much of the rest of the media, speculating on the
possibility that the Russian president has Asperger’s syndrome.
The
article cited a study conducted by a “Pentagon think tank” in which a
researcher, described as an “expert in movement pattern analysis,” offers the
opinion that Putin’s “neurological development was significantly interrupted in
infancy,” resulting in Asperger’s, a form of autism.
The
researcher is identified as Brenda Connors, of the US Naval War College, who alleges that
Putin’s “primary form of compensation is extreme control and this is
isomorphically reflected in his decision style and how he governs.”
Note the
use of the polysyllabic “isomorphically” to give it a nice scientific ring. But
in some quarters, the inanities go even farther. One day prior to the Aspergers
article, the Fiscal Times published a piece by Rob Garver, who offers the view
that Putin is deliberately plying the Russian people with “cheap vodka.”
“As the
country’s economy continues to crumble, the Kremlin recently acted on a promise
to cut taxes on the popular liquor, dropping the price as ordinary Russians
watch the cost of virtually everything else soar,” states Garver.
“When
there’s doubt, get your people soused,” reads a subhead near the top of the
page.
But
maybe there’s something here besides a display of puerile silliness. Robert Parry notes
that from the very beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, the US and Russia have
put forth almost completely opposing narratives on the situation. It is as if
there are two different realities: reality A, and reality B, antinomical
perspectives that have become locus
communis, conventional wisdom in other words, but that actually
amount to reversed images of each other. One reality of course is false, while
the other is true. But their existence in contravention to each other could
have disastrous, planetary consequences.
“This
distorted American narrative has represented one of the most unprofessional and
dangerous performances in the history of modern U.S. journalism, rivaling the
false conventional wisdom about Iraq’s WMD except in this case the media
propaganda is aimed at a country in Russia that really does have weapons of
mass destruction,” Parry says.
One must
ask the question: why is the organized crime cabal that runs the US
deliberately provoking a confrontation with Russia–almost as if they are doing
so deliberately? Is it because they feel they can win a nuclear war should it
come to that? Are they confident that weapons such as the Aegis Missile Defense
System will enable
them to launch a nuclear first strike on Russia without having to worry about a
counter strike in return?
Built by
Lockheed-Martin, the Aegis system allows the US to detect, track, and
theoretically simultaneously intercept one or more missiles of all ranges,
including ICBMs. There are land-based components to the Aegis system, known as
“Aegis Ashore,” as well as sea-based capabilities. As of December 2014, a total
of 33 US ships, 16 in the Pacific fleet and 17 in the Atlantic fleet, were
reportedly equipped with the system, each ship with its own track-and-destroy
capability. Tests reported as successful were said to have been carried out in May and November of last year.
Does
Russia possess the capability of circumventing the Aegis system? Perhaps more
pertinently, might there be those within the US government who believe, either
correctly or mistakenly, that Russia lacks such capabilities at the
moment? A small shot glass of overconfidence in that regard, combined with a
zealous belief that the US must strike before the “Russian aggressors” acquire
the comparable technology, could lead to the nuclear decimation of one or both
countries.
Of
course this hasn’t deterred the New York Times and
the Washington Post from
supporting the calls for lethal weapons to be supplied to Kiev.
“President
Vladimir Putin has sharply cranked up his direct support for the rebels in the
provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, while continuing to baldly deny it and to
blame all the violence on the United States,” says the Times.
Chunks
of dead meat tossed to the gullible masses.
Meanwhile,
perhaps a little like vultures, a number of foreign, pro-Western “reformers,”
including some Americans, have rapidly descended upon Ukraine, some of them
taking positions in government:
·
Natalie Jaresko, a former US diplomat who on December 2 was granted
Ukrainian citizenship, and appointed to serve as the country’s finance
minister–all in one day. Jaresko had previously been in charge of a
Ukrainian investment fund financed by the US government to the tune of $150
million, and according to Parry, the fund has paid more than $1 million a year
in fees to a management firm that Jaresko herself created.
·
Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, has been named to the board of directors
of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas firm;
·
Aivaras Abromavicius, a Lithuanian investment banker, appointed to serve
as the Minister of Economy and Trade;
·
Alexander Kvitashvili, the new Health Minister. Though from Georgia,
Kvitashvili attended New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of
Public Service;
·
Jaanika Merilo, a voluptuous Estonian who has been put in charge of
“attracting” foreign investments and who reportedly “likens herself to the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie.”
Despite
the illustrious array of talent (or perhaps because of it) Ukraine is starting
to take on certain characteristics of a failed state. The hryvnia, the
country’s main unit of currency, has plunged approximately 50 percent in
value in the past two days. In addition to a $17 million IMF bailout received
last year, Jaresko is now saying the country needs about $15 billion in
“additional, incremental” funding.
With the
majority of the nation’s natural wealth in the eastern region, an economic
recovery would appear less likely if the breakaway republics continue to go
their separate ways–something which apparently cannot be tolerated. As the New
York Times put it:
…if the
evidence continues to accumulate that Mr. Putin and the rebels are carving out
a permanent rebel-held enclave in eastern Ukraine, à la Transdniestria,
Abkhazia or South Ossetia, he must know that the United States and Europe will
be compelled to increase the cost.
As Jesus
once said, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”
It is
from a ringside seat that the people of Donbass now watch the vultures feast.
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DONBASS-INFORMATION : 09.02.2015
Facebook Reinhard
Lenfant
DONBASS-INFORMATION : 09.02.2015
:
Evacuation of civilians from #Chernukhino. DPR
Militia bring civilians. out with BTRs. http://youtu.be/71pLnbk3LeI
#NAF took Logvinovo. It means that Debaltsevo
boiler is finally closed. Logvinovo is important point at E40 highway.
DEBALTSEVE: #NAF tanks are
possibly around this area!! Village is posibly taken to!!
#NAF advance in SW of #Debaltsevo cauldron, taking #DNR#KrasnyPakhar #Groznoe and #Aleksandrovskoe
#Ukraine's loses
17.01-14.02: 3 jets, 1 helicopter, 146 tanks, 114 LAVs, 91 artillery systems,
64 cars, 1738 soldiers killed, 52 captured.
#Ukraine destroys Donetsk infrastructure.
Last day 63 electricity substations were damaged. Chemical plant was destroyed
with Scarab rocket.
SIT REP NAF have taken 2 hills in
the outskirts of #Svitlodarsk, both 3
km from the town: one W of #NovoLuganske, the
other N of #Lozove!
While closing the #Debaltsevo
cauldron NAF continue to build the new cauldron around #Svitlodarsk! Very good! #Novorossiya
#NAF controls road #Debaltsevo - #Artyomovsk…
cauldron is closed!http://itar-tass.com/en/world/776338 #NovoRossiya ex #ukraine
#NAF take #Logvinova right on #M03 road, strengthening #Debaltsevo
cauldron http://russian.rt.com/article/73258
#Donetsk republic begins military mobilization
— #DPR DM http://itar-tass.com/en/world/776372 #NAF And no one is fleeing country, as
they want to fight.
NO DEALS - NO DEMILITARISED ZONES
- NEW INITIATIVE IS A HEAP OF MANURE DESIGNED TO GIVE KIEV TIME TO REGROUPhttps://www.facebook.com/novorossiyanews/photos/a.759189124122590.1073741828.757925004249002/824238914284277/?type=1 …
SIT REP Confirmed! #Aleksandrovska,
#Grozne and #KrasnyiPakhar are in NAF hands! #Olegovka S of Aleksandrovska is
encircled! #Debaltsevo
By this pace I don't know what
will happen within the end of the day! I see the fingerprints of Motorola &
Mozgovoy! Let's go NAF!
Breaking! BOOM! #Logvinovo under
NAF control! #Debaltsevo completely encircled! #DNR #Novorossiya
BOOM! Confirmed! #LNR 2nd Brigade
is conducting a massive attack with tanks and artillery on Ukie positions in
the NW side of #Debaltsevo!
In Donetsk. RT @oplottv 09.02.15
Shelling of #Tekstilshik area of #Donetsk. Car got direct hit on #Petrovsliy
Bridge.
#DNR #LNR E.#BASURIN : The
#Debaltsevo cauldron can now be considered officially closed off. Video report. https://vk.com/strelkov_info……
DEBALTSEVE: #kalynivka ,
#lovynove are taken by #NAFBREAKING: ukie sources say 'NAF tanks on the road
#artemivsk - #debaltseve ' main supply line i if true officialy cut
BREAKING: #debaltseve pocket is
coming to a close as we speak!! Main supply route is cut #NAF #offensive
#novorossiya #pocket
Ukra-Troll : #Russia|n tanks are
already on the #Artemivsk road!
SIT REP Ukie shellings on
#Bryanka! South of #Stakhanov! Civilian casualties reported! Ongoing fightings
btwn #Krymske and #Kryakovka! #LNR
Breaking! UNCONFIRMED! Ukies
retreated from the towns of #Aleksandrovska and #Grozny without fighting! East
of #Uglegorsk! #Debaltsevo
MAP: #Novorossiya, Status Quo at
#Debaltseve sector, 12hours of February 9. #Ukraine forces surrounded, NAF
attacking
Great song- "NOVOROSSIYA LNR
DNR" http://youtu.be/FCSBvD4JNjc | Drago Babaj. #Novorossiya #DNR #LNR
BOOM! Confirmed! #LNR 2nd Brigade
is conducting a massive attack with tanks and artillery on Ukie positions in
the NW side of #Debaltsevo!
Sounds like Battalion #Donbass
has been surrounded by #NAF in the #Debaltsevo cauldron. Ukies starting to
squawk about it #Ukraine
#Debaltsevo is now surrounded by
the side NORTH, EAST and WEST.
SIT REP NAF have taken 2 hills in
the outskirts of #Svitlodarsk, both 3 km from the town: one W of #NovoLuganske,
the other N of #Lozove!
SIT REP Ukie shellings on
#Bryanka! South of #Stakhanov! Civilian casualties reported! Ongoing fightings
btwn #Krymske and #Kryakovka! #LNR
While closing the #Debaltsevo
cauldron NAF continue to build the new cauldron around #Svitlodarsk! Very good!
#N ovorossiya
It's true. Pantsir has already
been used to shoot down the Tochka missile last week near #Lugansk.
Rally in Bulgaria in support of
Novorossiya, Russia and against NATO today
9 #Ukraine soldiers killed, 26
wounded in past 24 hours - military spokesman
Ukraine peace talks: Mon:
Consultations, Berlin Tues: Contact Group meets (Rus, Ukr, OSCE + rebels) Weds:
Merk, Holl, Poro, Putin in Minsk
Few different angles on the
massive explosion in #Donetsk over nighthttp://youtu.be/chD7uFjsfH0
Oft-ignored, but heroic war-zone
fire fighters put out a fire caused by #Ukraine's shelling, Kiev district,
#Donetsk.
Locals report Kazenniy Chemical
Plant in #Donetsk was struck tonight. Meanwhile, #Ukraine gov't sources say it
was arms depot.
Neighbourhood near chemical plant
#Donetsk under artillery shellings. Plant wasn't hit. Fireball came from explosion
missile #donbass
Just for the record. #Ukraine
media R boasting that the huge explosion in Donetsk was caused by Tochka
ballistic mis.
So this was the giant explosion
that we felt in Donetsk last night, then.http://youtu.be/ZuQ5EPnSE_4
#PUTIN: #Kiev must hold dialogue
with #Donbas to end conflicthttp://bit.ly/1DU7VRx
#Horlivka. Shell landed in a
house killing a whole family including a child #горловка #Donbas
Rebels shot down a helo MI-8 near
#Debaltsevo and destroyed a mobile artillery piece SAU. Batman Brigade http://bit.ly/1xULbfI
VIDEO: More armor heading to the
front for #Ukraine. Some lacking white stripes it seems. via @bibodude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0cGf8lD28 …
#NAF take strategic village
Nyzhnje Lozove, 5 kilometers north of #Debaltseve near E40
#NAF report they have taken
almost all of #Chernukhin #NizhniLozove & another part of #Debaltsevo. #NAF
losing abt 10 KIA per day, #Ukies 40
Reportage Donetsk: 'Er gaat geen
dag voorbij zonder dat er wordt geschoten' http://nws.fd.nl/1DTxMsI
English subtitles now on this
interview with Tanya, twice a victim of Ukrainian shelling, her husband a
victim -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vQgFmsSiM …
Ukrainians are not just
escalating the intensity of their shelling, they are shelling new places -
Brianka, Lugansk region,hit for 2nd time
2/2 ...fortunately no casualties
this time. Brianka tonight. #Ukrainewar #Novorossiya #Donbass #Lugansk #LPR
In Vuhlegirsk, DNR battalion take
up positions on road to #Debaltseve.
#Donetsk under severe shelling by
UAF today 08.02.15https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jmOYih_a8 …"
#Brazil for #NAF. #Donbass
#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/4ijRgL6DTe
There are separatist movements in
WEST #Ukraine, #Galicia and #TransCarpathia - growing opposition to #Kyiv
regime. Ukr is falling apart
#Oligarchs beginning to realize
the #Kyiv regime has failed & will soon be swept away. Now want to
negotiate with #Novorossiya
#Lugansk rebel scouts have
discovered #NATO tanks being positioned near #Debaltsevo cauldron. #Ukraine
#Novorossiya
I don't believe was a TOCHKA-U
ballistic missile precisely because those explosions were small, big blast
might been the chemical ignited.
This is typical CRIMINAL behave
of #Ukraine, as it "negotiates", it hits plant w/ dangerous CHEMICALS
w/o reason & w/ unpredictable results.
Kiev press celebrate mass murder
in Donetsk, claims it was Tochka U ballistic missile
IMHO, #Novorossiya shouldn't
accept less than #Ukraine get out completely from NR or we WILL CONTINUE c
attacks w/UA saying is NAF itself
Swiss TV on terrible Junta morale
in #Debaltsevo: "It's cold & it's wet here... & there is
war." No shit... http://youtu.be/eJAfkqW9Gog
Swiss neonazis send money and
military clothes to Ukraine – Swiss
Buildings on fire in Lugansk http://youtu.be/6udEVCS7p7o
Моё видео #Углегорск. Дама:
Неделю мы прятались,сидя в ванне. ДНРовец: Здесь нет рос.солдат,нам прислали
форму из РФhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXcDNzSPOk …
Ukrainian captive with parents
visited Republican Traumatologyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5_3fpbYx0 …"
Feb.09, 2015
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