Depicting a doomsday scenario in order to malign Russia’s calculated offensive in Ukraine to minimize collateral damage, mainstream reporting focused Friday, March 4, on the fire that broke out [1] at Zaporizhzhia plant, one of Europe’s largest nuclear power plants situated 550 km southeast of Kyiv. The fire has since been extinguished after the plant was captured by Russian troops and no radiation leakage has been detected.
The black-op of setting a building in the sprawling nuclear
complex alight and then posting doctored video clips of Russian tanks shelling
straight at the nuclear plant on social media, promptly verified as “authentic”
by corporate media, was clearly the dirty work of covert saboteurs who’ve been
advising and assisting Ukraine’s inept security forces and also taking active
part in combat operations in some of the most hard fought battles against
Russia’s security forces north of Kyiv and at Kharkiv and Donbas. After
capturing Kherson yesterday, Russian forces even apprehended several
“suspicious and armed” foreign nationals who are currently being interrogated
by Russia’s military intelligence GRU.
Volodymyr Zelensky reassured
his compatriots [2] Thursday, March 3: “Ukraine is already welcoming
foreign volunteers who are coming to our country. First ones from 16,000. They
are coming to defend freedom, defend life. For us, for everyone. And it will be
a success, I’m sure.” But unsurprisingly, he did not describe who those
thousands of “daredevil volunteers” willing to sacrifice lives and limbs in a
foreign war were.
Since the harrowing Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad in
2007, the Blackwater private military contractor, renamed as Academi in 2011
and becoming a subsidiary of Constellis Group following a merger with Triple
Canopy in 2014, has built quite a business empire for itself. In 2013, Academi
subsidiary International Development Solutions received an approximately
$92 million contract for State Department security guards.
After selling Blackwater to a group of investors in 2010,
Erik Prince, a former US Navy Seals officer and the swashbuckling founder of
Blackwater, has founded another security company Frontier Services Group,
registered at Hong Kong Stock Exchange, that advises and provides aviation and
logistical solutions to Chinese oligarchs for the security of their lucrative
business projects in Africa.
Further, besides advising and assisting the UAE’s
petro-monarchy in strengthening the police state, Erik Prince also reportedly
provided [3] weapons and modified aircraft to eastern Libya’s warlord and
former CIA asset Khalifa Haftar, backed by Egypt and UAE, in his thwarted military
campaign against the Tripoli government lasting from April 2019 to June 2020.
Using the good offices of his sister Betsy Devos, who worked
as Trump’s secretary of education, Erik Prince even made an offer to Trump for
outsourcing of the Afghanistan war to private military contractors advising and
assisting Afghan security forces following the withdrawal of US troops. But
Trump reached a peace agreement with the Taliban and then lost the re-election
bid before he could consider the bizarre proposal.
Although the Pentagon’s military contractors have known to
be training and advising several brigades of neo-Nazis backed by Ukraine’s
security forces in the Donbas region since 2014, Erik Prince along with his
associates from several other private security firms providing military
contractors to the US Department of Defense personally visited Kyiv early last
month following the Russian troop build-up and met with security officials of
the Zelensky regime, according to informed sources.
Before embarking on the clandestine Kyiv visit, Erik Prince
consulted with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Director National
Intelligence Avril Haines, with whom his relationship goes a long way back to
early nineties after she purchased a bar in Fell's Point, Baltimore, which had
been seized in a drug raid. She turned the location into an exotic bookstore
and café, offering “erotica readings,” among other licentious pastimes.
In his meetings with the high-ups in the US national
security agencies, Erik Prince reportedly obtained a “gentleman’s promise,” though
without any documentary assurances due to secretive nature of the Faustian
pact, that he and his associates would not be held legally liable for the dirty
work they do in the Ukraine proxy war.
The black-ops of NATO’s mercenaries in Ukraine were being
directed from Ukraine's Security Service (SSU) headquarter and the main center
for information and psychological operations in Kyiv. No wonder Russia formally
issued an ultimatum on Tuesday, March 1, that it would target the hub of covert
warfare.
In fact, private military contractors in close co-ordination
and consultation with covert operators from CIA and Western intelligence
agencies are not only training Ukraine’s conscript forces in the use of caches
of Stingers and Javelins provided by Germany and rest of European nations as a
military assistance to Ukraine but are also directing the whole defense
strategy of Ukraine by taking active part in combat operations in some of the
most hard fought battles against Russia’s security forces north of Kyiv and at
Kharkiv and Donbas.
Despite public display of uncharacteristic valor by sporting
military fatigues and flaunting images and video clips of soldiers proudly
standing beside caches of MANPADS and Javelins on social media, Ukraine’s
conscript army was so frightened following Russia’s military intervention that
it wanted to surrender territory and opted instead for mounting guerrilla
warfare by adopting hit-and-run tactics from the safety of border regions of
Poland and Romania.
But NATO’s covert operators embedded with Ukraine’s security
forces reassured them that the war wasn’t over and implored them to give their
Western mentors a face-saving by mounting at least a semblance of resistance
against the fierce onslaught by Russia’s professional security forces.
Although NATO powers did provide Stingers to their jihadist
proxies that helped turning the tide in the Soviet-Afghan war in the eighties, since
then, despite providing anti-tank munitions and rest of weapons to militant
groups during the proxy wars in Libya and Syria, Western powers have
consistently avoided providing MANPADS to proxy forces, because such deadly
anti-aircraft munitions could become a long-term threat not only to military
aircraft but also to civilian airlines.
In the sheer desperation to inflict maximum material damage to
Russia’s security forces, however, NATO appears to have breached its own
long-standing convention of curbing the proliferation of anti-aircraft
munitions. Following Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Germany alone has proudly
bragged [4] of dispatching caches of 500 US-made surface-to-air Stinger
missiles and 2,700 Soviet-era, shoulder-fired Strela missiles to Ukraine’s
conscript military.
Who would be responsible for the myopic and vindictive
policy of providing anti-aircraft munitions to Ukraine’s irregular militias
once Kyiv falls and those MANPADS are found in black markets posing grave risk
to civilian airlines across the globe?
Russia’s reluctant and delayed military intervention in
Ukraine is fundamentally a war of power projection, a shot across the bow to
perfidious former allies, the East European states, who’ve been joining the EU
and NATO in droves since the break-up of Soviet Union in 1991, that the
collective security of Eurasian nations is a shared responsibility, and NATO’s
eastward expansion along Russia’s western flank not only imperils the security
of resurgent Russia but also compromises the balance of power in the multipolar
world.
It’s worth recalling that before the Biden-Putin summit at
Geneva last June, Russia had a similar troop build-up along Ukraine’s borders.
Extending the hand of friendship, Russia significantly drawdown its forces
along the western border before the summit last year. Instead of returning the favor,
however, the conceited leader of supposedly world’s sole surviving super power
turned down the hand of friendship and even snubbed Putin.
Despite losing the empire in the nineties, as far as
military power is concerned, Russia with its enormous arsenal of conventional
as well as nuclear weapons still more or less equals the military power of the
United States, as is obvious from the unfolding Ukraine war where all the NATO
could do is watch it from distance, and not even attempting to enforce a no-fly
zone lest the conflict spirals into a mutually destructive nuclear war.
But it’s the much more subtle and insidious tactic of
economic warfare for which Russia has no antidote, as the global neocolonial
order is being led by the United States and its Western European clients since
the signing of the Bretton Woods Accord in 1945 following the Second World War.
Because any state, particularly those pursuing socialist policies, that dares
to challenge the Western monopoly over global trade and economic policies is
internationally isolated and its national economy goes bankrupt over a period
of time.
Despite having immense firepower at its disposal that could
readily turn the tide in conflicts as protracted as Syria’s proxy war, the
Russian advance in Ukraine has been slower than expected according to most
estimates because Russia is only targeting military infrastructure and doing
all it can to minimize collateral damage, particularly needless civilian losses
in the former Soviet republic whose majority population is sympathetic to
Russia.
Rather than mitigating suffering of Ukraine’s
disenfranchised masses held hostage by the Zelensky regime, the self-styled
champions of human rights are doing all they can to lure Russia into their
“bear trap project,” a term borrowed from the Soviet-Afghan War of the eighties
when Western regimes used Pakistan’s security forces and generous funding from
the oil-rich Gulf States for providing guerrilla warfare training and lethal
weaponry to Afghan jihadists to “bleed the security forces” of former Soviet
Union in the protracted war.
Of the $10 billion humanitarian and military assistance for
Ukraine announced by the Biden administration, the top brass of the Pentagon is
reportedly making preparations for allocating significant portion of the funds
for providing military training and arms to almost a million refugees who have
fled Ukraine following the war.
The Machiavellian plan of NATO’s military strategists is to
establish refugee settlements with the “humanitarian assistance” in the border
regions of Ukraine’s neighboring countries Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, and
then provide guerrilla warfare training and lethal arms to all able-bodied men
of military age in order to “bleed Russia’s security forces” in the protracted
irregular warfare.
Citations:
[1] Russian forces seize huge Ukrainian nuclear plant, fire
extinguished:
[2] 16,000 volunteers coming to Ukraine, Zelensky:
https://www.rt.com/russia/551149-zelensky-ukraine-foreign-fighters/
[3] Erik Prince provided weapons and aircraft to eastern
Libya’s warlord Khalifa Haftar:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/world/middleeast/libya-mercenaries-arms-embargo.html
[4] Germany to ship anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-ship-anti-aircraft-missiles-to-ukraine-reports/a-60995325
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