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GUS: THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE UKRAINE PROBLEM IS TO DIVIDE IT IN TWO COUNTRIES — AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE: THE GALICIANS IN THE WEST, THE RUSSIANS IN THE EAST. END OF STORY.

 

Public opinion seems to be turning against the military draft in Ukraine, how will the Zelensky regime respond?

 

The Kiev regime has been ignoring discontent among soldiers and civilians and refuses to disclose casualty numbers 

By Maksim Artemyev

Five months into Russia's military offensive in Ukraine many in the latter state are starting to vocalise their objection to the draft imposed by the regime in Kiev. Especially as the propaganda about victory, any day now, starts to lose its power. 

Popular Ukrainian blogger and activist Yury Kasyanov recently made a post on his Facebook page, in which he complained: “Let’s stop the mobilization, open the borders, and dissolve all the military recruitment offices... Let the professionals do the fighting – after all, they get paid for it – and let the volunteers join in, because they want to fight. But I am an untrained civilian, unfit for war, I’m going to get myself killed. And I pay my taxes, too!”

With this provocative post, Kasyanov intended to spark a discussion about mandatory conscription in Ukraine. But the results of the debate came as a shock to the blogger: “Judging by the comments on the previous post, nine out of ten Ukrainians have no intention to fight; they oppose nationwide mobilization, as well as the ban on men leaving the country.” 

It should be noted that Kasyanov’s followers, like himself, are fierce supporters of the idea that Ukraine must fight Russia to the bitter end. And yet, even among them, the vast majority have no desire to die for the glory of Ukraine.

Modern civilization is built on a very self-conscious attitude toward one’s health. The first thing you see when you go online are banner ads that read ‘10 Warning Signs That You Have Cancer’ or ‘How to Relieve Joint Pain’, etc. Other core values include bodily integrity, the right to privacy, and of course, everyday comfort and convenience. None of these go together well with the squalid realities of the front line. One might say that the whole ethos of war stands in opposition to the values of today's society.

Ukraine is a country largely populated by one or two-child families. How many of its citizens would voluntarily go to war to be killed or crippled? It should come as no surprise, therefore, that Ukrainians do not want to go to war. Yes, if you listen to what they say, the majority of Ukrainians are patriots. But when it comes to getting up from the couch and actually going to the front, very few are willing to ‘walk the talk’.

And I don’t imagine that, after 30,000 more Ukrainian soldiers have perished on the battlefield, anyone would feel more motivated to join the cause. In fact, it would likely produce the opposite effect: ‘I don’t want to die like all the others’. It is much safer to engage in fiery debates on social media from home, or to follow the fighting on YouTube.

What’s more, Ukraine is going through a demographic crisis with its population shrinking from 52 million in 1991 to barely more than 30 million, even before the conflict erupted in February. The situation is so bad that the state has avoided holding a census for over two decades. 

I read Ukrainian mass and social media daily, which is heavily censored by the regime in Kiev. It's output is rather different from the reality on the ground. 

While the internet is flooded with videos of Ukrainian soldiers refusing to fight, complaining that their fleeing commanders are throwing them at tanks as cannon fodder– without any equipment or training. There are hundreds of these videos and new ones are uploaded every day. They are shot by Ukrainians in military fatigues, not Russian state media. Also, the number of videos showing Ukrainian women refusing to let their men be taken by the police or recruiters is also growing. 

Despite this, the Ukrainian media and elite bloggers avoid commenting on this. They, of course, want to silence a phenomenon which is key to understanding what is happening to the country. Over the course of numerous addresses to his people, not once has President Vladimir Zelensky mentioned the countless instances of soldiers refusing to obey orders, which is mostly the case with mobilized men and volunteers on the front line who thought they were going to serve near their home areas.

The reasoning is often that they are not willing to risk their lives so that Russian won't become a second official language, or Kiev can become a formal ally of the US. The price is too high for what is at stake.

There is little wonder why Ukrainian media pretends the issue doesn’t exist. The mere acknowledgement of the fact that so many soldiers are discontented would shatter the carefully constructed image of a nation united in selfless patriotism.

The gag order from the Ukrainian government preventing publication of any data on the army’s losses – unquestioned by Western media – is no accident either. The authorities prefer to keep their people in the dark when it comes to the number of those who have already been killed. This policy has been fruitful so far. The May and June polls by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology and NORC at the University of Chicago commissioned by the Wall Street Journal indicate that 90% of the population in Kiev-controlled territory trust the Ukrainian Army, and 85% trust Zelensky, who has banned the real opposition. Curiously enough, while 89% of the respondents voted against ceding any territory, only 66% said they believe that Ukraine can reclaim the territories already lost.

All of this provides a clear answer as to why Kiev is actively recruiting foreign mercenaries. Since they are better motivated than Ukraine’s own recruits, they can be deployed to the more dangerous zones. It’s possible that the regime's main problem is that it does not know how to deal with the fact that citizens en masse are trying to avoid being drafted and sent to the front lines. The official ban for all male citizens between 18 and 60 years old to leave the country is itself indicative of Zelensky's line of reasoning that those who are allowed to exit would hardly want to come back and fight. It doesn’t provide a solution though. Instead, it increasingly demotivates people.

Military enlistment offices are extremely disorganized. Recruitment campaigns are run in the streets, shopping malls, and even on public beaches. Recruiters have also been reported using their power to draft eligible males as leverage against them or a means of revenge or punishment. This again shows that many perceive the prospect of joining the army to protect the homeland as undesirable rather than an honor.

It’s not impossible that in the absence of civilian jobs with a decent paycheck, many will volunteer to join the forces just to feed themselves and their families. However, the budget is not big enough to fill the gaps with volunteers. A certain number of recruits will have to be drafted. It remains unclear how Kiev plans to tackle this pressing issue, when so many seem to feel the cause is not worth risking their own lives for.

By Maksim Artemyev, a Russian journalist and historian

 

 

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https://www.rt.com/russia/559447-zelensky-ignoring-critical-issue/

 

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Congressional Delegation in Kyiv Wants US Military Advisors Sent to Ukraine

Reps. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) favor the idea 

 

      By Dave DeCamp Posted on July 24, 2022Categories NewsTags 

 

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers visited Kyiv on Saturday, and two members of the delegation told Fox News that they support the idea of the Pentagon sending military advisors to Ukraine, which would significantly escalate US involvement in the war.

After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said he supported sending military advisors into Ukraine to oversee weapons shipments and help with intelligence and logistics. “It could be contracted, it could be civilian, but it could be military as well,” he said.

“I don’t think anybody is advocating for any [American] military on the front line, but helping with logistics, planning those operations, integrating the intelligence is incredibly important right now,” Waltz added said.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) also expressed support for sending military advisors to track weapons shipments. “It would be good to have a logistics officer here to make sure that we understand and track the weaponry that we’re sending,” she said.

Last month, The New York Times reported that there is CIA personnel operating in Ukraine to direct intelligence sharing with Kyiv. The report said there are also commandos in the country from Britain, France, Canada, and Lithuania to help facilitate the transfer of Western arms, but there is currently no known US military presence in Ukraine.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was also part of the delegation that visited Kyiv but wasn’t quoted saying he supported sending military advisors.

 

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https://news.antiwar.com/2022/07/24/congressional-delegation-in-kyiv-wants-us-military-advisors-sent-to-ukraine/

 

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GUS: THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE UKRAINE PROBLEM IS TO DIVIDE IT IN TWO COUNTRIES — AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE: THE GALICIANS IN THE WEST, THE RUSSIANS IN THE EAST. END OF STORY.

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korrupt ukraine….

Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz gas company is supposedly running a massive embezzlement scheme as it seeks to get billions of dollars from the government for alleged gas purchases even though Ukraine presumably does not need additional gas for the winter, Yulia Timoshenko, an MP and the head of the ‘Fatherland’ party, claimed on Monday.

According to Timoshenko, the lawmakers were about to pass several bills that would grant Naftogaz additional funding for gas purchases ahead of the winter. One of them would grant the company “compensation” from the budget that was worth 150 billion hryvnas ($4.08 billion) to purchase an additional six billion cubic meters of natural gas abroad.

 The government planned to use international financial aid provided to Ukraine by Western nations for that “compensation,” Timoshenko’s party wrote in a statement last week. According to Timoshenko herself, Naftogaz also sought to request another 150 billion hryvnas ($4.08 billion) from the budget to increase its authorized share capital and then use the money to buy the gas. 

Timoshenko, who also served as Ukraine’s prime minister between 2007 and 2010, also argued that this additional gas purchase for the upcoming winter heating season was not needed at all. According to the MP, Ukraine already produces and stores enough gas for the winter and might even get up to seven billion excessive cubic meters of gas during the upcoming heating season.

On Monday, Timoshenko claimed that Naftogaz was still planning the “scam of the century” by embezzling up to 264 billion hryvnas ($7.18 billion) and “sending them to offshores.” She also called on the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky to organize a meeting between his administration officials, MPs, and independent experts, as well as diplomats from the G7 nations to discuss the situation.

“Could the president not be aware? Are you not aware of the ‘scam of the century’ that Naftogaz is currently implementing?” she wondered in her post.

The lawmaker said that the Ukrainian MPs are set to discuss the relevant bills later in July. Last week, her party said it had blocked bills to supposedly prevent embezzlement by Naftogaz. RT could not independently verify Timoshenko’s claims related to the Naftogaz activities. Neither the Ukrainian presidential office nor the company itself have commented on the issue yet. 

Earlier on Tuesday, the Ukrainian media reported that Naftogaz creditors had rejected the company’s request for a two-year debt payment freeze. Naftogaz made the proposal earlier this month, citing “significant economic and business decline in Ukraine” caused by the ongoing conflict with Russia.

Naftogaz is Ukraine’s largest state-owned oil and gas company and a major source of income, accounting for almost 17% of the country’s total state budget revenue last year.

 

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https://www.rt.com/russia/559675-ukraine-timoshenko-naftogaz-scam-century/

 

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GUS: THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE UKRAINE PROBLEM IS TO DIVIDE IT IN TWO COUNTRIES — AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE: THE GALICIANS IN THE WEST, THE RUSSIANS IN THE EAST. END OF STORY.

 

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follow the money……….

 

BY Phil Butler

 

Money. There are a lot of very rich people making one hell of a lot of it off the Ukraine conflict. Big surprise, huh? Most of you reading this are probably like me. You can tell what’s really going on by watching Wall Street.

Take, for instance, the idiotic hype of the HIMARS mobile rocket systems US President Biden sent to Ukraine. According to every paid expert west of the Dnieper River, it’s a “game changer.” Well, it’s a game changer, alright, only the game is not on the battlefield. HIMARS, which is the American version of Russia’s 9A52-4 Tornado, is produced by Lockheed Martin.

So, in order to find out the truth about Russia’s imminent victory or defeat in Ukraine, all we have to do is look at stock prices, dates, and US strategic moves that only seem to be aimed at supporting Ukraine. If you look at Lockheed stock a few days before the Russians moved into eastern Ukraine, the stock stood at $386.46. The day after Russia’s units crossed the border, LMT was $409.49. By March 4th, it had climbed to $458.15, or about $72 per share.

Those of you who have not followed this conflict (and others) through the financial lens may be skeptical. Perhaps the stock gains are reactionary? But no, correlating White House announcements, US State Department decrees, NATO saber rattling, and other events show a clear pattern. And those “in the know” about what’s really going on are cleaning up. First in line behind the Biden or Ursula von der Leyen string pullers are the elites who run the newspapers. Oh yeah. Wouldn’t you cherish a midnight story about a weapons system headed to a war zone before the market opens?

You don’t have to be a deep thinker to imagine the buddy-buddy club that runs the west. HIMARS? Twelve or twenty mobile rocket systems tossed into the fray alter history! Most people don’t realize that the Russians have a much better similar weapon and a lot more of them. The 9A52-4 Tornado is Russia’s newest 300 mm multiple rocket launcher. It has far greater range, it fires twice as many guided rockets, and the Russians have hundreds of them. But weapons systems are really beside the point.

What the Russians do not have is the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the New York Times, the US Secretary of Defense, and the American president advertising for Lockheed Martin. Even if RT, RIA Novosti, or Channel One wanted to tilt Wall Street, the Russians are cut out of the information game altogether west of the Donbass. Imagine the control there. Not one American in one million knows the truth. A dozen American weapons, even nuclear ones, can’t push Russia back one inch. The HIMARS advertising campaign is good for stock prices and public relations. That’s it.

Here’s how I think the game works. The elites who run the military-industrial complex in Washington hook up with their president. Someone high up at the State Department contacts Ukraine puppet leader Zelenskyy. Meanwhile, a bill or memorandum is floating about at the White House or in Congress. Zelenskyy goes on an IMAX screen somewhere in Hollywood or Washington. Then the actor/comedian issues a demand/request for specific weapons systems like the HIMARS. The media picks this up, and the chips go down on defense stocks tied to these systems. Take the April 14th jump of Lockheed to $467.66. On the same day, a secondary defense media outlet reported Joe Biden’s $800 million in aid that included Zelenskyy’s request. Fox News reported Zelenskyy’s request the day before. I’ll leave you to figure out how you could make a pile of money with foreknowledge. Then factor in truly evil bastards.

The crisis in eastern Europe is a real moneymaker. Mr. Putin should be a hero to all American defense industry workers if the truth is known. The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin just inked a deal to build 375 F-35 multi-role aircraft in the next three years. Talk about job security. The planes come with a price tag of just under $100 million for those curious. Lockheed stock on February 18th, 2022, was $386.46, and by March 4th, it was $458.15. But, if you look at volume activity and price trends, it’s clear a lot of speculative trading has been going on at key times. That’s the bigger story, I guess, for somebody well funded enough to dig up who bought and sold.

What’s clear is the means, motive, and opportunity of this biggest crime against humanity in the new century. Could our leaders do it? Would it profit them to do so? Is the moment right to make huge profits off all the suffering we’re going through right now? Why they’ve even invented a social media #hashtag for their market manipulation scheme, it’s #ArmUkraineNow.

Oh, the title, I almost forgot. The Lockheed Martin F-35 midsection is made in California, the tail is built in the UK, and the pieces are slapped together in either Texas, Italy, or Japan, depending. In Texas alone, Lockheed employs 55,000 people. Talk about a network for death and destruction, profits and pain, we Americans know how to get business done.

 

 

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

 

 

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https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/26/arm-ukraine-now-california-the-uk-texas-italy-and-japan-need-you/

 

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GUS: THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE UKRAINE PROBLEM IS TO DIVIDE IT IN TWO COUNTRIES — AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FIRST PLACE: THE GALICIANS IN THE WEST, THE RUSSIANS IN THE EAST. END OF STORY.

See Ireland and England. See Serbia and Croatia.... et cetera......

 

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