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Ex-CIA adviser says Ukraine losing badly in war against Russia
By JIM RICKARDS for
The Daily Reckoning
It’s extremely difficult to find the truth about the war in Ukraine. The first reason for this is because… it’s a war. Wars are always difficult to gauge in real-time. The phrase “fog of war” was invented to convey the uncertainty and imprecision about the progress of any particular war.
Still, there’s another reason the war in Ukraine is confusing for so many. It’s because the Ukrainian propaganda effort is one of the most astonishingly effective concoctions of lies ever seen.
From the “Ghost of Kyiv” fighter ace to the “Heroes of Snake Island” to wildly exaggerated claims of Russian casualties to the suppression of any news that reflects badly on Ukraine, the Ukrainian propaganda machine has been firing on all cylinders.
This might be expected given that President Zelenskyy is a former actor and comedian. He’s used to the media stage and making up scenes for the audience. Zelenskyy is backed up by a small army of media advisers and amplified by sympathizers including President Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and outlets like The New York Times.
Courage Under (Phony) Fire
The latest propaganda stunt was Joe Biden’s trip to Kyiv a few days before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion. Biden made a canned speech, authorized another $500 million in weapons and hopped back onto a train to Poland.
The propaganda pièce de résistance was when Biden and Zelenskyy walked into an open courtyard and the Kyiv air raid sirens began blaring. The Russians had been advised in advance that Biden would be there, and they agreed not to stage any raids during Biden’s visit.
In fact, there had been no raids for some time. No one saw any planes, drones or missiles. The sirens were just a stage effect intended to create a false sense of danger to be picked up as a soundtrack by global media. Ukraine is losing the war badly but you can’t blame Westerners for believing otherwise. They’re all victims of the Zelenskyy-Ukraine propaganda machine.
What about the sanctions? How are they working out? U.S. and EU sanctions on Russia because of Ukraine have been worse than a complete failure. They have failed to change Russia’s behavior, have failed to hurt Russia’s economy in a material way and have boomeranged to hurt the U.S., Europe and many Western financial institutions.
I wrote about this last year in March and April not long after the war began. My comments were greeted with skepticism (at best) and extreme criticism (at worse). No matter. I was right then and the evidence since has been overwhelming.
The Russian economy was only down about 3% in 2022 (earlier estimates expected it to fall around 20% or more), and the Russian economy is expected to show modest growth this year versus likely recessions in the U.S. and Europe. Russia and China are far along in developing an interoperative payments and settlement system for international transactions that will replace the SWIFT system that Russia was ejected from.
Actually damaging Russian institutions is extremely difficult because Russia has spent years preparing for just such a financial attack from the United States. Its banks are robust with good liquidity and access to interbank facilities, even without the benefit of SWIFT or Western correspondents.
Meanwhile, Russia continues to destroy the Ukrainian army with missiles from North Korea, drones from Iran and its own massive industrial capacity.
The Only Card the U.S. Can Play
So Ukraine is losing on the battlefield and the U.S.-led sanctions regime against Russia has failed. The only U.S. response is to escalate the conflict.
The escalation of U.S. weaponry provided to Ukraine is stunning. We started with Stinger surface-to-air missiles to shoot down Russian aircraft, and Javelin missiles, which are potent anti-tank weapons (although the British NLAW system being used in Ukraine is apparently better).
Next, we provided the HIMARS, which is a long-range heavy artillery piece with precision-guided shells. Ukraine has used it to good effect, although it seems the Russians have developed means to counter it. Contrary to what the propaganda machine says, the Russians aren’t idiots. In fact, the very head of Ukraine’s military has said that “all military science is located in Russia.”
Anyway, since the delivery of HIMARS, the U.S., the U.K. and Germany have pledged to provide top-of-the-line tanks including the U.S. Abrams tank, the U.K. Challenger 2 and the German Leopard 2. Incidentally, there are unconfirmed reports that some Leopards are now appearing on the battlefield.
Then, without skipping a beat, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy demanded F-16 fighter jets. Biden said no, but he also said no to tanks at first. It’s likely just a matter of time before he approves the F-16s. All of this has been backed up with billions of dollars of intelligence, surveillance and communications systems designed to spot Russian targets and direct the application of U.S. weapons.
That’s to say nothing about the actual presence of NATO forces on the ground in Ukraine. Some sources indicate that as many as 20,000 Polish troops are on the front lines dressed in Ukrainian uniforms, making them foreign mercenaries. U.S. and U.K. forces are also on the ground there not in uniform, which is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Of course, this is no secret to the Russians. They recently warned us to withdraw all NATO personnel and equipment from Ukraine. If we don’t, the Russians renewed the warning that they could become legitimate targets.
Still, none of this assistance has been particularly effective. Ukraine is losing the war badly as Russia slowly and methodically wears down Ukrainian forces along a broad front. Russia nearly has the strategically important city of Bakhmut encircled and will probably have it completely cut off before long, trapping 20,000–30,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
The loss of Bakhmut will be a significant defeat for Ukraine, as it will significantly weaken their defense line in the Donbas. They really only have one defense line to fall back to, and it’s notably weaker than the line they’re currently fighting to hold.
If Russia eventually manages to break through that last line, there’s very little between that line and the Dnieper River to stop them.
None of this is an indictment of the Ukrainian military, by the way. They’ve fought hard and bravely, and continue to do so. It’s just that they’re facing a superior force that significantly outnumbers them in tanks, aircraft, artillery and, importantly, ammunition. They’re simply outgunned.
Where’s the Cavalry?
Meanwhile, many of the weapons pledged (including the tanks) have not actually arrived and may not be ready for six months or more. Ukraine could sure use them now! The F-16s in particular are a pipe dream because Ukrainian pilots don’t know how to fly them, and training can take almost a year. It’s possible that NATO pilots could secretly pilot them, but just think of the Russian propaganda victory if they shoot down and capture NATO pilots who aren’t supposed to be flying over Ukraine.
Still, apart from their effectiveness, another question arises. Can the U.S., the U.K. and Germany actually afford to provide these weapons without damaging their own readiness in the event of wars elsewhere?
The fact is Western arsenals have been badly depleted because of the weapons and ammunition provided to Ukraine. The European arsenals were not large to begin with, but even the U.S. supplies dropped into the danger zone. The situation is worse than that because the shortages cannot be made up quickly.
The U.S. has shut down many ammunition factories since the Cold War ended. These can be restarted but full wartime mobilization takes years, not weeks. World War II is a good example. By 1943, the U.S. was producing wartime aircraft at a rate of almost 100,000 planes per year. But in 1941, that number was only 18,000. The Ford Motor Co. basically stopped automobile production and converted its huge River Rouge factory to aircraft production for the duration.
That fivefold increase in fighters and bombers took two years to achieve. It was not done in months. It’s fair to ask if this war is worth it in broad terms. It’s even more pointed to ask if it’s worth jeopardizing U.S. national security by running down vital inventories of weapons to prop up a corrupt oligarchy in Eastern Europe. The American people may discover the hard way that the answer to both questions is no.
Jim Rickards invites comments at feedback@dailyreckoning.com
US militias take southern border control into their own hands
By TONY MOBILIFONITIS
AMERICAN militias, those organised groups of gun-owning Yanks, are reinstating control of the US-Mexico border that has been abandoned deliberately by Joe Biden’s Democrat regime on behalf of his neo-Marxist globalist puppet master Barack Obama.
The Biden regime’s border abandonment is a classic Marxist-globalist tactic designed to destabilise the nation state and provide the Democrats with millions of names to be used for illegal vote harvesting in state and federal elections.
The influx of an estimated 6 million illegal immigrants since 2020 also provides the US corporates with cheap labor while criminal elements profit from human and drug trafficking. The drug trafficking, primarily fentanyl manufactured in China, is killing 110,000 Americans a year and turning others into physically and mentally crippled zombies.
So dire is the situation – literally an invasion facilitated by federal immigration and “Homeland Security” personnel – that thousands of armed American patriots have decided to take the matter into their own hands under the name of Patriots for America, Veterans on Patrol and other groups.
They are co-operating with federal US border patrols whose job has become almost impossible due to the high volume of illegal immigrants crashing the border.
Many of those joining the border militia are former police and military and others who are even quitting workplace careers to join.
“Some of our members have left their jobs and families to provide protection and support for families and law enforcement dealing with the overwhelming impact of crime and danger happening at our southern border due to the current ‘Open Border Policy’,” the Patriots for America website states. Sheriff Brad Coe of Kinney County, Texas, one of the main routes for border crashers, said he anticipated the need for help for an additional three years.
Populist commentator and academic Dr Steve Turley said there were so many volunteers helping the border patrols that there was some tense competition to go the areas with the most illegal activity and mainstream media are upset. “I kid you not, they’re not only upset that the militias are interfering with people crossing the border illegally into our nation, but I kid you not, they’re upset that these border militias are illegally crossing into Mexico,” Turley exclaimed.
“The American militia, a breeding ground for hate, is pulling in cops on Facebook,” a frantic Washington Post headline declared, sounding also like a signal to Zuckerberg’s Silicon Valley kids to start censoring them. The lame lefties at The Guardian took it a step further, declaring “White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says”.
Militias are provided for in the US Constitution, in the 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The intent couldn’t be clearer and some 300 years later the need for armed US militias is greater than probably at any time in US history since the Civil War of the 1860s because America, is literally under attack from the very White House within and without from the Mexican crime cartels.
Patriots For America link to Answer International, a non-profit organisation founded by Troy Brewer as the answer to the epidemic of human trafficking, including child sexual exploitation and trafficking, forced slave labor, bonded labor, and involuntary domestic servitude. Brewer is asking people to partner with him to abolish slavery around the world.
Deep State igniting the war machine in Europe
Conflict will begin in Ukraine soon
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-01-24-where-will-you-be-when-the-nukes-start-falling-on-america.html
by Mike Adams
The anti-human globalists knew their depopulation / extermination agenda couldn’t hold out forever. That’s why they were in a mad rush to achieve maximum clot shot injections before the awakening gained traction and people began to question the insanity of the entire scheme.
Last weekend’s rally in Washington D.C. was the turning point on all this. There were similar protests in over 170 countries around the world. The masses are awakening to the plandemic scam — and the vaccine death agenda — and time has run out for the globalists and their spike protein extermination scheme.
Hence, they are now preparing to unleash the next phase of this global war against humanity: World war.
What the demonic globalists have already figured out is that if they kill enough people with nuclear war, nobody will be able to track the vaccine deaths over the next decade. The genocide via needles will be overwhelmed by genocide via radiation (and starvation, disease, etc.).
A lot of the vaccine coercion, after all, was merely designed to kill off as many member of the U.S. military as possible, while gutting America’s health care infrastructure and economic resilience. That phase has now been largely accomplished. So now the push is focused on engineering food scarcity by shutting down trucking and transportation. The ban on non-vaccinated truckers entering the U.S. from Mexico or Canada went into effect two days ago. From here forward, food supplies are going to experience a steady decline, and even oblivious leftists won’t be able to maintain their delusions for very long once the store shelves are half empty.
But as you’ll see here, food scarcity may be the least of America’s problems if the enemies of America (Biden, Obama, etc.) get their way.
Igniting the war machine in Europe
You may recall that had Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election, efforts were in place to have the US deep state nuke an American city using weapons material sourced from Russia via the Uranium One scheme (which was run by not just Hillary, but also Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. John McCain and others). Never forget that the U.S. deep state carried out 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (100% run by the FBI) and nearly every other mass death event that has taken place in the last 50 years. The FBI has black ops teams that possess nuclear material and are more than willing to nuke U.S. cities if it means furthering their anti-America agenda.
The FBI is a rogue terrorist organization, of course. Everybody sees it now.
There is an accelerating buildup of US and NATO military hardware and personnel taking place in Ukraine. Last week, the CIA mouthpiece Washington Post declared that Russia would carry out a false flag attack in Ukraine in order to justify its own invasion. This was the final proof we needed to know that America’s deep state forces may be planning on detonating a nuclear warhead in Ukraine, using the same Uranium One-sourced weapons grade material they’ve possessed since well before 2016.
There are actually multiple such nukes in the possession of the US deep state, and you may recall that Trump was threatened with multiple nukes being detonated in US cities if he didn’t back down and allow the 2020 election rigging to go through. The enemies of America were ready to pull the trigger on those nukes in December of 2020, but Trump actively shut down all efforts to correct the stolen election, thereby preventing a nuclear holocaust on US soil.
Unfortunately, as Trump has learned, you should never negotiate with terrorists. Because by failing to correct the rigged 2020 election, those same death cult lunatics (the people running Biden) are now in power, directing the entire US armed forces to carry out even more heinous crimes against humanity, involving potentially tens of millions of Europeans as well as Russians and Americans.
Now, warmongering lunatics like Alexander Vindman — remember him? — are declaring a near-certainty of a “large European war.” Of course he is. Because it’s people like him who are going to start it.
The anti-human globalists knew their depopulation / extermination agenda couldn’t hold out forever. That’s why they were in a mad rush to achieve maximum clot shot injections before the awakening gained traction and people began to question the insanity of the entire scheme.
Last weekend’s rally in Washington D.C. was the turning point on all this. There were similar protests in over 170 countries around the world. The masses are awakening to the plandemic scam — and the vaccine death agenda — and time has run out for the globalists and their spike protein extermination scheme.
Hence, they are now preparing to unleash the next phase of this global war against humanity: World war.
What the demonic globalists have already figured out is that if they kill enough people with nuclear war, nobody will be able to track the vaccine deaths over the next decade. The genocide via needles will be overwhelmed by genocide via radiation (and starvation, disease, etc.).
A lot of the vaccine coercion, after all, was merely designed to kill off as many member of the U.S. military as possible, while gutting America’s health care infrastructure and economic resilience. That phase has now been largely accomplished. So now the push is focused on engineering food scarcity by shutting down trucking and transportation. The ban on non-vaccinated truckers entering the U.S. from Mexico or Canada went into effect two days ago. From here forward, food supplies are going to experience a steady decline, and even oblivious leftists won’t be able to maintain their delusions for very long once the store shelves are half empty.
But as you’ll see here, food scarcity may be the least of America’s problems if the enemies of America (Biden, Obama, etc.) get their way.
How a US false flag nuke attack in Ukraine ends up starting World War III
Although there are too many variables to know with absolute certainty how this is all going to play out, the signals are pointing in the direction of something as follows:
Step 1: America’s deep state forces detonate a nuke in Ukraine, using Russia-sourced nuclear material to give the radioisotopes a clear fingerprint of Russia origin.
Step 2: The media goes into coordinated mass hysteria, claiming Russia just started World War III. It will be 24/7 news coverage everywhere. When Russia denies responsibility, the western press will declare Putin to be a psychopathic liar more dangerous than Hitler. This will provide the emotional fanaticism to get the gullible US public to support the next steps.
Step 3: Government and media mouthpieces — all run by the same CIA that carried out the bombing of course — call for NATO to strike back at Russia with overwhelming military power. Russia is also cut off from the SWIFT financial system.
… but here’s where it all goes off the rails…
Step 4: NATO / US forces vastly underestimate the military readiness of Russia, the military technology (hypersonic missiles, hypercavitating torpedoes, etc.) and the moral resolve of Putin, who correctly sees the current rogue leadership of the USA as the true enemy against all humankind, not just Russia or Ukraine.
Step 5: NATO and the US launch escalating attacks against Russia in order to provoke a nuclear retaliatory strike on the USA. This is the goal of Obama / Biden and the globalists. Russia has multiple submarines with nuclear missiles parked off both the west and east coasts. They can rain down nuclear devastation on US military targets within minutes.
Step 6: Taking advantage of the situation, China moves on Taiwan, immediately thrusting America into a two-front war for which it is not prepared.
Step 7: Having accomplished the final wrecking of America, Obiden declares martial law and unleashes death squads to mass murder all conservatives, Christians, gun owners and Trump supporters, all under the emergency of world war, using the language of “covid internment camps.” (You didn’t think they activated all those concentration camps just for covid, did you?)
Step 8: America is invaded by a combination of Chinese and Russian land forces that were merely waiting for a sufficient die-off in order to launch their attack.
Remember, the goal of Obiden is the complete destruction of America and the installation of communism everywhere. Never forget that over half the US congress works for the CCP. We are being run by the communist Chinese right now, and they are vectoring us into a suicide pact with Russia, where Russia has no choice but to start dropping nukes on US military targets.
Ultimately, China doesn’t want all the food farmland across North America to be radioactive, because they need to be able to grow food and feed their (starving) masses. That’s why China would prefer that Russia nukes Hawaii, where the radiation cloud is far from mainland America. There are significant military and deep state assets on the Hawaiian islands, by the way, making them a juicy military target for multiple strategic reasons.
The US military will be nullified in a few short weeks
Under the leadership of libtard woke freaks and gay parade generals, the US military is but a shadow of its once great strength. In contrast, Russia trains men to be men, and their soldiers are among the most vigorously trained and prepared in the world.
Similarly, China has banned soy boy fairy feminization across its culture, and its own soldiers are also highly trained, capable and deeply obedient.
America’s military forces, sadly, have been deliberately shaped into weakness by the woketard generals, to the point where obesity is a common problem among the ranks of the active duty. The US military is far more interested in announcing an all-gay helicopter squad than in doing anything meaningful to protect America’s strategic interests.
As a result, the battle to take out the US military won’t take long at all.
Don’t forget to factor in China’s exotic drone weapon systems and Russia’s nuclear-powered hypersonic missile superweapons. In addition, Russia has extremely advanced electronic warfare capabilities that can instantly nullify all the flight controls of America’s most “advanced” fighter aircraft such as the F-35. (There’s a reason they keep falling out of the sky…)
Where the military fails, We the People will need to rise to the defense of America
All this means the defense of America comes down to the people defending their nation from foreign invaders. Once China launches its invasion of North America, the unprepared, pathetic, sedentary masses of pharmacy-addicted TV watchers will last about five minutes. The real defense of America will come down to the brave men and women who were smart enough to reject the vaccines and wise enough to stockpile guns and ammo.
The communist Chinese are going to have a very hard time taking North America. But they’ve got a couple hundred million soldiers, if needed, to throw at the problem. This means the American people are going to have to get very good at killing PLA soldiers on US soil, if we hope to survive this at all.
The one x-factor in all this is America’s “space force” space weapons systems which, I’m told, were developed from exotic technology that’s a quantum leap ahead of anything you and I have ever seen. Orbiting weapons platforms might be game changers, and if there are still any patriotic Americans remaining in Space Force or the Air Force, we may yet see these weapons unleashed against the CCP to devastating effect (possibly targeting the Three Gorges Dam).
Where do you want to be during all this? As far away as possible from any military base or large city.
You want to be off grid, resilient and fully stocked. Once this begins, there’s no going back to the relative normalcy of today. This entire situation can go from “calm” to “world war” literally overnight. With one explosion.
If past experience is any lesson, NATO and US forces will probably require another 1-3 months to build up their military forces in Ukraine before they pull the trigger on all this. So use the time wisely, and pray that Biden gets removed from power before this insanity is unleashed on our world.
Australians had better be prepared for this conflict. Although it is doubtful we would send troops to NATO, and the military has already alluded to that, we will have to closely watch China.
How many dumbed-down Aussies could handle such a conflict? Few, we say. Loyalists who want to protect this ailing country, had better be prepared. Our ‘roo shooters could mount a better home defence than our troops.
Keep adequate fuel supplies on hand, non-perishable food and survival items for a prolonged period.
Traitors in the US Senate give Creepy Joe Biden the Presidency in spite of widespread voter fraud evidence
Congressional lawmakers voted to certify the Electoral College tally affirming the election of Joe Biden for president.
For any Australian concerned with the fate of our country under the Democrats and Biden this is a must see video.
Letter to Editor
Ed I have watched the US senate LIVE…….something very wrong! The only senator that was JUST ABOUT TO SPILL THE BEANS ON CORRUPTION PROVING FRAUD ECT…… all of a sudden …….he asked to “STOP THE DISRUPTION”…. then it all started to happen….HE could NOT FINNISH…..had to leave…SO WELL TIMED ! Looked like lots of “LARGE AFRO AMERICANS” running around the corridors! Biden said we are USA ….we are a Democratic country ( LOL). the world is watching, this is an insurrection….we cannot have this…..we ALL have to obey the law …….. a CNN reporter Poor English ( Latin) yelled out its TRUMPS Fault ……the She started rambling in a Latinto a camera……. Looks to me a set up!!!!!!!!
P Lockwood
Trump launches fight to maintain wins as crooked Biden games system
Trump addresses another big crowd in Pennsylvania during his barnstorming campaign across the state.
By EDITOR, CAIRNS NEWS
THE Biden crime family is desperately trying to fight off a resurgence by Donald J. Trump across the US, with the president raising the spectre of Democrat cheating through the 101 million mail-in votes, millions of which could be invalid.
Biden, whose family sold access to his vice-presidential office for millions of dollars while doing other business deals with the Communist Party of China’s business fronts, is tactically trying to bring the Trump victory into doubt through the recounts. Big media is co-operating with the tactic by failing to call states that Trump has clearly won.
However, Trump has already initiated legal action to force scrutiny of ballots and recounts in Democrat-run states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where electoral systems run by those states are highly questionable and open to corruption. The Trump campaign has sued to halt counting in Michigan where 135,000 Biden votes appeared between 4.30am and 5am on the post election morning; sued to halt counting in Pennsylvania where officials a a million mail-in ballots are to be counted and requested a recount in Wisconsin.
Speaking after the polling close Trump said he was on track to win and then “suddenly everything stopped”. This was noted by a Twitter poster who said the counting suddenly stopped in six states Trump was leading and all six were Democrat-run at a state level.
Speaking at the White House after the long election night, Trump wasted no time in raising the real spectre of Democrat cheating, already well documented by Project Veritas and flagged at a possible intelligence agency level by leading USAF figure Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney (Ret.).
The highly respected general appeared on Steve Bannon’s Pandemic War Room show on Monday warning of possible Democrat abuse of a national security program called Scorecard, that has the capability to switch 3% of votes.
Steve Bannon on his War Room Pandemic show with Lieut. General Thomas McInerney, who raised the alarm over possible Democrat vote rigging.
The program was inserted into the so-called Hammer national security surveillance system under the Obama administration and was part of the apparatus used to illegally spy on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Hammer was developed by the National Security Administration (NSA) then picked up by the CIA during Obama’s time. Whether or not Scorecard was used has not yet been established, but Trump’s poll watchers have been closely watching key polling locations such as Pennsylvania, where Trump developed a strong lead in counting ahead of the counting of some 3 million postal votes.
Nevertheless, the stubborn and corrupt globalist/socialist Democrats continued to put up their resistance to the American voters by insisting that all mail-in ballots must be counted in the seats already won by Trump. For instance, in the key Democrat-run state of Pennsylvania, where Trump had a commanding lead, the Democrats claim to have more than 3 million outstanding mail-in votes.
The big media were also running with the Biden tactic of calling into question any obvious Trump lead by failing to call North Carolina, for instance, with 94% of the vote in and Trump with a clear lead. Rich Baris of Big Data Polling, a guest of Bannon’s election show, was emphatic there were not enough outstanding votes to take away Trump’s lead, despite the Associated Press failing to call the state. Baris, highly regarded by Bannon as a numbers man who called the 2016 election in contrast to 99% of other pollsters, said he was perplexed by the media’s failure to call North Carolina and Georgia.
Crime family boss ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden with his wife, spinning his typical con after the election. In the case of the New York Times failing to call Georgia, Bannon asked Baris if the Times was “once again trying to play games with people”. “Yes, I think that it really is,” said Baris. He said for the Democrats to overcome Trump’s 300,000 vote lead in George “strains credulity”. Baris had earlier called Florida for Trump three hours before the Times finally decided to do so.
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