Russia was supposed to Invade Ukraine on Tuesday. Or was it Wednesday? This week? Next week?
The Western media is struggling to make up its mind.
West and its puppet media have fallen prey to a cleverly orchestrated exercise by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Putin first massed his troops near its western and southern borders—Ukraine, Belarus etc—to send West and NATO in a tizzy.
His defence was that despite the West’s promise—“Not an inch to the East”—at the time of German reunification, NATO is encroaching on its area of influence. And that Russia has a duty to meet it with force.
After all, generations of Russians haven’t forgotten when Hitler’s divisions swept through the plains of Ukraine during the Second World War in 1941. It left 20 millions Russians dead.
In a carefully orchestrated moves on the geopolitical chessboard, Putin has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
Putin wanted to expose that
- Neither the United States nor NATO have any credible military response
- The option of further economic sanctions would bring out in open the rift between the US and European allies;
- It would show the faultiness of Western alliances which Russia could harvest in due course.
The “stress test” has worked like magic. The West and its propaganda media are predicting a war between Ukraine and Russia—the trouble is only Ukraine and Russia don’t see any war happening between them!
We now know that the US and NATO can’t put more than 8,500 American soldiers on high alert on Ukraine’s border which is like taking a jar of water to put out the fire in forest.
The split in West’ unity also came out in horrid shape. Germany is hesitant. Czech Republic and Bulgaria have ruled out their troops getting involved. Turkey is livid for it feels its being dragged down into a conflict with Russia to curtail its regional ambitions.
The European allies of the United States also fear the fallout of further sanctions on Russia. If their energy supply is cut off from Moscow, it would be suicidal for many a European nations.
Thus Russia, by its provocation, has shown that neither NATO carries a credible military threat nor there is a unanimity in its ranks. What’s more politically, it’s a house divided.
Russia laid the proof on the table when it engaged in the “Normandy Format” in talks with France, Germany and Ukraine over the crisis. Neither the United States nor NATO were present in these discussions.
If the West insists on powering Ukraine into forcing a showdown with Russia in Donbass—the flashpoint—it must contend with China which has made it clear it would stand with Russia. Above anything, China knows if it doesn’t now, the Beijing would be West’ next target.
Further, if NATO and it’s “Open Door” policy keeps encroaching on the region of Russia’s influence on its borders, Russia could pay in the same coin by putting its military pieces in place in US’ own sphere of influence—Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and a naval squadron in the Caribbean.
So either US vacates the neighbourhood of Russia to safeguard its own or force Russia to invade Ukraine which would split the West’ unity projected by its puppet media.
And that’s what Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this week: “The day—February 15, 2022 when planned invasion didn’t happen—would go down in history as the day when the propaganda of Western warfare failed…(The West has been) humiliated without a shot being fired.”
If Russia was really serious about invading Ukraine, its defence minister Sergei Shoigu wouldn’t have been in Syria this week to observe naval exercise—or Putin in winter olympics in Beijing.
All Russia is asking
(a) For NATO to guarantee that it would not deploy missiles in nations bordering Russia—which they already have from Slovenia to Romania, with Poland to follow;
(b) That Ukraine must not become a member of NATO;
(c) That the lapsed treaty between the US and Russia on intermediate-range nuclear weapons be restored again—the one US left in 2019.
Does it sound like a nation which is spoiling for war? Or is it a comprehensive plan for peace?
Does it sound like Putin is evil, a Hitler reborn; that Russia is worse than bad?
All this manufactured crisis of last few weeks has shown is that the West and its propaganda media, and the hysteria they create, is past by its sell date. Its’ credibility is in tatters.
