On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said there will be no war in Ukraine if it’s up to Russia and warned of possible escalations in the Donbas from the Ukrainian side.
“On the part of the Russian Federation, there won’t be a war [with Ukraine]. Yet I do not exclude that somebody would like to provoke military actions [around Ukraine],” Lavrov said in a radio interview, according to Tass.
Russia and Ukraine held talks in Paris on Wednesday and agreed that the Donbas ceasefire must be upheld. But Lavrov warned that the Ukrainian government doesn’t have control over “an enormous number of servicemen” that are deployed near the conflict zone.
“According to Western data, I think, there are even about 100,000 of them at the line of engagement. And the regime in Kyiv does not control the majority of these armed people,” he said.
Russia has repeatedly denied Western claims that it is planning an invasion of Ukraine. But a flare-up in the Donbas could be enough for the hawks in Washington to take action against Moscow, even if the Russians have nothing to do with it.
Earlier this month, the US claimed without evidence that Russia is planning a “false flag” against the separatists in the Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Meaning the US is poised to blame any violence in the region on Moscow, no matter who the aggressor is.
Washington’s narrative about the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is starting to fall apart. After a phone call with President Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Western powers for creating a “panic” by making the claim. “I’m the president of Ukraine and I’m based here and I think I know the details better here,” he said.
There you go. Lavrov just spilled the beans about what Russia *really* thinks is going on, based on their intelligence network inside Ukraine. He’s explicitly referring to the neo-Nazi battalions, Islamic jihadists, and US mercenaries who are operating in the Ukraine military. And that those people are under the control of the CIA and neocons and Ukrainian hard liners – or can be manipulated by the same.
This confirms what Moon of Alabama, The Saker and I have been saying. This has nothing to do with a “Russian invasion” and everything to do with the CIA, the neocons, etc., wanting a war to further their agendas. This is what people like Ray McGovern, Gilbert Doctorow, and even Alexander Mercouris don’t seem to get. Granted, we don’t have absolute proof of this – because without a whistleblower that’s impossible – but one can tell just by analyzing the movements of the forces on the ground that is the situation.
Nicely put together and I very much agree… I’m going to stock up the ol’ bomb shelter, just to be on the safe side.. And you good sir; Rock!
Here’s a list of the sort of people Ukraine has on the contact line who could be used to start a provocation with or without Zelensky’s permission:
Organizations:
Al-Shabaab — short for Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa that’s aligned with al-Qaeda
Atomwaffen Division — neo-Nazi group founded in Florida in 2015 that promotes societal collapse through chaos and violence, inspired by Charles Manson
Azov Battalion — ultranationalist militia that is integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard
Georgian National Legion — battalion of foreign fighters integrated into the Ukrainian armed forces
Iron March — secret global neo-Nazi internet forum that was active from 2011 to 2017
Misanthropic Division — worldwide neo-Nazi network with links to Azov and Right Sector
National Corps — political wing of Azov
Patriot Front — US neo-Nazi group formerly known as Vanguard America, and before that, American Vanguard
Right Sector — ultranationalist militia that operates outside of the formal command structure of the Ukrainian military and police
Huge article at Raw Story:
Revisiting ‘The Lost Boys of Ukraine’: How the war abroad attracted American white supremacists
https://www.rawstory.com/white-nationalists-fighting-in-ukraine/
Good Lord these are some scary names…
Just watched Alexander Mercouris’ video today, in which he analyzes a phone call between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Blinken. Wang Yi ran over Blinken with a truck, basically.
What interested me was Wang Yi’s accusation that the US was “interfering in the Beijing Olympics.” Mercouris tied this to the incident where a diplomat in China – presumably an American – floated the story that Xi Jinping had asked Putin not to “invade Ukraine”, which China and Russia both denied. Mercouris says the Chinese were “absolutely incandescent” over that incident.
I would like to suggest an alternative or complementary explanation. I suspect that Russia has been keeping China in the loop over what is happening in Ukraine, with regard to the possibility of a Ukrainian provocation or new offensive on Donbass. China is obviously well aware that if such a thing happens during the Beijing Olympics it would disrupt the coverage of the Olympics in the world media and thus hurt China. I suspect that this is why Wang Yi brought up the issue of Ukraine, and specifically supported Russia’s security proposals. Mercouris reported on articles and editorials in China’s Global Times which also specifically addressed the Ukraine issue in support of Russia. The diplomat incident was not actually addressed in those.
As an aside, Mercouris also wondered exasperatedly what Blinken is achieving by continuing this crisis. Well, he needs to consider the possibility that this whole thing is a CIA/neocon geopolitical/intelligence operation intended to get a war in Ukraine in order to achieve whatever they do think is their agenda. He appears to have been oblivious to that possibility this whole time. He continues to believe that the whole crisis was whipped up by the US State Department – Blinken and Nuland – for…what? Approaching it that way certainly makes it hard to comprehend the reason why. I suggest he expands his considerations beyond what is considered “politically correct” and to the region that might be called “conspiracy theory.” Well, some conspiracies are real.
Wang Yi ‘Overwhelms’ Blinken, Confirms China Backs Russia on Ukraine, NATO in Furious Call
http://thesaker.is/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-interview-with-radio-stations-january-28-2022/
Sergei Lavrov interview with radio stations.