No more shadow play. It’s now in the open. No holds barred.
By Pepe Escobar
Exhibit 1: Friday, March 22, 2024. It’s War. The Kremlin, via Peskov, finally admits it, on the record.
The money quote:
“Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has a documented intention to use any methods to take Crimea away from it, not to mention the territory of new regions.”
Translation: the Hegemon-constructed Kiev mongrel is doomed, one way or another. The Kremlin signal: “We haven’t even started” starts now.
Exhibit 2: Friday afternoon, a few hours after Peskov. Confirmed by a serious European – not Russian – source. The first counter-signal.
Regular troops from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. A substantial force. No numbers leaked. They are being housed in schools. For all practical purposes, this is a NATO force.
That signals, “Let the games begin”. From a Russian point of view, Mr. Khinzal’s business cards are set to be in great demand.
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Exhibit 3: Friday evening. Terror attack on Crocus City, a music venue northwest of Moscow. A heavily trained commando shoots people on sight, point blank, in cold blood, then sets a concert hall on fire. The definitive counter-signal: with the battlefield collapsing, all that’s left is terrorism in Moscow.
And just as terror was striking Moscow, the US and the UK, in southwest Asia, was bombing Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, with at least five strikes.
Some nifty coordination. Yemen has just clinched a strategic deal in Oman with Russia-China for no-hassle navigation in the Red Sea, and is among the top candidates for BRICS+ expansion at the summit in Kazan next October.
Not only the Houthis are spectacularly defeating thalassocracy, they have the Russia-China strategic partnership on their side. Assuring China and Russia that their ships can sail through the Bab-al-Mandeb, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with no problems is exchanged with total political support from Beijing and Moscow.
The sponsors remain the same
Deep in the night in Moscow, before dawn on Saturday 23. Virtually no one is sleeping. Rumors dance like dervishes on countless screens. Of course nothing has been confirmed – yet. Only the FSB will have answers. A massive investigation is in progress.
The timing of the Crocus massacre is quite intriguing. On a Friday during Ramadan. Real Muslims would not even think about perpetrating a mass murder of unarmed civilians under such a holy occasion. Compare it with the ISIS card being frantically branded by the usual suspects.
Let’s go pop. To quote Talking Heads: “This ain’t no party/ this ain’t no disco/ this ain’t no fooling around”. Oh no; it’s more like an all-American psy op. ISIS are cartoonish mercenaries/goons. Not real Muslims. And everyone knows who finances and weaponizes them.
That leads to the most possible scenario, before the FSB weighs in: ISIS goons imported from the Syria battleground – as it stands, probably Tajiks – trained by CIA and MI6, working on behalf of the Ukrainian SBU. Several witnesses at Crocus referred to “Wahhabis” – as in the commando killers did not look like Slavs.
It was up to Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic to cut to the chase. He directly connected the “warnings” in early March from American and British embassies directed at their citizens not to visit public places in Moscow with CIA/MI6 intel having inside info about possible terrorism, and not disclosing it to Moscow.
The plot thickens when it is established that Crocus is owned by the Agalarovs: an Azeri-Russian billionaire family, very close friends of…
… Donald Trump.
Talk about a Deep State-pinpointed target.
ISIS spin-off or banderistas – the sponsors remain the same. The clownish secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, was dumb enough to virtually, indirectly confirm they did it, saying on Ukrainian TV, “we will give them [Russians] this kind of fun more often.”
But it was up to Sergei Goncharov, a veteran of the elite Russia Alpha anti-terrorism unit, to get closer to unwrapping the enigma: he told Sputnik the most feasible mastermind is Kyrylo Budanov – the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The “spy chief” who happens to be the top CIA asset in Kiev.
It’s got to go till the last Ukrainian
The three exhibits above complement what the head of NATO’s
military committee, Rob Bauer, previously told a security forum in Kiev: “You need more than just grenades – you need people to replace the dead and wounded. And this means mobilization.”
Translation: NATO spelling out this is a war until the last Ukrainian.
And the “leadership” in Kiev still does not get it. Former Minister of Infrastructure Omelyan: “If we win, we will pay back with Russian oil, gas, diamonds and fur. If we lose, there will be no talk of money – the West will think about how to survive.”
In parallel, puny “garden-and jungle” Borrell admitted that it would be “difficult” for the EU to find an extra 50 billion euros for Kiev if Washington pulls the plug. The cocaine-fueled sweaty sweatshirt leadership actually believes that Washington is not “helping” in the form of loans, but in the form of free gifts. And the same applies for the EU.
The Theater of the Absurd is unmatchable. The German Liver Sausage Chancellor actually believes that proceeds from stolen Russian assets “do not belong to anyone”, so they can be used to finance extra Kiev weaponizing.
Everyone with a brain knows that using interest from “frozen”, actually stolen Russian assets to weaponize Ukraine is a dead end – unless they steal all of Russia’s assets, roughly $200 billion, mostly parked in Belgium and Switzerland: that would tank the Euro for good, and the whole EU economy for that matter.
Eurocrats better listen to Russian Central Bank major “disrupter” (American terminology) Elvira Nabiullina: The Bank of Russia will take “appropriate measures” if the EU does anything on the “frozen”/stolen Russian assets.
It goes without saying that the three exhibits above completely nullify the “La Cage aux Folles” circus promoted by the puny Petit Roi, now known across his French domains as Macronapoleon.
Virtually the whole planet, including the English-speaking Global North, had already been mocking the “exploits” of his Can Can Moulin Rouge Army.
So French, German and Polish soldiers, as part of NATO, are already in the south of Kiev. The most possible scenario is that they will stay far, far away from the frontlines – although traceable by Mr. Khinzal’s business activities.
Even before this new NATO batch arriving in the south of Kiev, Poland – which happens to serve as prime transit corridor for Kiev’s troops – had confirmed that Western troops are already on the ground.
So this is not about mercenaries anymore. France, by the way, is only 7th in terms of mercenaries on the ground, largely trailing Poland, the US and Georgia, for instance. The Russian Ministry of Defense has all the precise records.
In a nutshell: now war has morphed from Donetsk, Avdeyevka and Belgorod to Moscow. Further on down the road, it may not just stop in Kiev. It may only stop in Lviv. Mr. 87%, enjoying massive national near-unanimity, now has the mandate to go all the way. Especially after Crocus.
There’s every possibility the terror tactics by Kiev goons will finally drive Russia to return Ukraine to its original 17th century landlocked borders: Black Sea-deprived, and with Poland, Romania, and Hungary reclaiming their former territories.
Remaining Ukrainians will start to ask serious questions about what led them to fight – literally to their death – on behalf of the US Deep State, the military complex and BlackRock.
As it stands, the Highway to Hell meat grinder is bound to reach maximum velocity.
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27 responses to “It’s War: The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now”
Goodbye, Ukraine. Your remaining men will pimp your toothless hags. Just remember to thank Uncle Sam!
Can this all be proven? It will mean world war in full heat, even nuclear, if all true. I hope not, but kindly let us have the evidence of all you have said.
It has been world war in full heat for centuries, since tribal war cults emerged from our simian ancestry into transgenerational vendetta ideologies, now a hi-tech indU$tria£i$€d co££ective self-hypnosis bent on ‘full spectrum dominance’ …or the Samson option of we’re taKKKing you all with us if we cannot own everything.
Even nuclear? You betcha.
The writing was on the wall with Thatcher’s TINA (There Is No Alternative), re-emphasised by Cheyney/BU$h’s ‘With U$ or Against U$’…both TOTALITARIAN announcements.
My way or the highway cannot a democracy represent.
Daddy BU$h famously requested we ‘Read my lips’…Baby BU$h broKKKe the news.
But then when the world was rocked into acceptant somnambulance of the falsified ‘security’ of nuclear umrellas the die was cast.
I put the blame of the whole “Ukrainian Affair” squarely on Putin’s shoulders. His openly pro-capitalist tendencies, made him wait 10 years even after 14 thousands ethnic Russians were massacred by the Nazi regime for him to take measures, obviously forced by the circumstances. Another leader would never had allowed the 2014 Maidan coup to materialize in the first place. President Yanukovych’s intelligence services learned about the coup in advance, and he begged Putin to intervene, proposal that he refused to act upon. Let’s see if now he finally decided to put and end to the conflict by flattening the Kyiv Nazis once and for all. The whole event was a real disgrace the way it was handled by Russia, from beginning to end.
Not to worry, soon. You may see Ukraine, NATO, and the Western influence disappear and a whirlwind and justifiably so. No more waiting and that should make you happy
With such omniscience you beg the question of …so why did you not step in 10 years ago and sort it all out??
Such armchair generalship earns you instant promotion to corporal.
Shame on you for talking nonsense, are you denying that Putin’s refusal to intervene even before the Maidan coup, event that obviously represented an existential threat to Russia was a correct decision? If that is the case why did he decided to intervene after 10 years when the burden of 14 thousands dead Russians in the Donbass by the Ukronazis became too much of an embarrassment to bear. I’m talking about a man who even after the SMO started in 2022, for a while still continued to call the NATO-US gang intent in destroying Russia “our partners”. Unless you decided to call me a liar who fabricates events to prove a point. That is something that I never do and rather ask the readers to check and confirm my opinions on their own. I’m not saying that I can not make mistakes, but to mislead people with false assertions is a very different story. I recognize the great achievements of Putin in recovering Russia’s economy and particularly making its military, second to none in the world. However, I oppose his firm allegiance to the dead end Capitalist system on ideological reasons. That I confess and it was something never hidden by me in all the years frequenting these pages.
Hi scrdmgl, I’m trying to understand the meaning of all this, from a more general, scientific, therefore Marxist point of view, along the lines of Engels and Lenin’s grandiose predictions about the world wars that broke out in the following decades. According to the idea I have had so far, the crisis of capitalist development, today in its most degraded imperialistic phase, makes the leaders of the Western dominant classes – which I place mainly in the Anglo-Saxon sphere – aware that there is no other solution than a counter-revolution against the subordinate class. I also believe that artificial intelligence military and social simulation systems are being used to outline their scenarios and strategies. The counter-revolution would take shape along these lines: aiming for an expansion in Russia, to open the markets and appropriate their wealth, betting on a dissolution of the borders and the internal regime, but obviously without going beyond the line of nuclear conflict, or limiting it within the Eastern European area; if this plan were to fail, the positive result would remain the paralysis and cancellation of any European ambition for independence from Washington, and in any case the business cascade caused by the war commitment, albeit limited, and at the same time the neutralization of the revolutionary danger within the US, the UK and Israel, even at the price of their own regional political dismemberment. As regards the Pacific theater, I don’t think it’s realistic to think that Western elites can believe they can fight and win a war against China and its possible Russian allies, even managing to obtain the support of Japan, India, etc. I therefore believe that the tactic on Taiwan is a kind of party game with Beijing, knowing full well that reunification will be inevitable, and I believe that there is a great conspiracy underway, probably at an embryonic level, whereby the United States and China are preparing to divide the world into geopolitical spheres to the detriment of all others, taking Europe, Russia and Japan in a pincer grip, with the obvious dividend of respective destruction of any possible proletariats unification. The South of the world, therefore South America, Southern Africa, Australia, oceanic islands and Antarctica would remain out of the picture, ready to serve as a backup if things were to take a turn for the worse. India remains a great unknown, which would be co-opted, in a subordinate position, if it renounced being the Russian support against Chinese imperialism, and perhaps destined to supervise the order of the non-aligned countries of the South. I’m calculating, as possible dates, progressive, accelerated phases of fascist control and international turmoil beginning 2024 into 2028-9, along with planned fictional internal crisis like biohazards, digital money and biochips, A.I. disruption, electrifcation, climate mandates, shifting agricultural and nutritional practices, state terrorism, and every means to enhance confusion and chaos among people. Going toward 2030-32, history should bifurcate either towards the success of such bourgeois strategies, or towards unpredictable scenarios such as a world war – perhaps limited to conventional instruments, by mutual agreement – or the communist revolution.
Finally, remains the distant possibility that even the conflict with Russia is only apparent, and that even in that case there exists a sort of agreement to the exclusive detriment of their respective working classes, keeping them “in a constant state of panic over manufactured crises so they cannot focus on real problems and their obvious solutions” (m. mathis).
I wish in your previous comment you had used paragraphs.
That said, I find your analysis interesting, but would still prefer being a working-class person in Russia to one in USUK. I’d move there as soon as they would let me if I weren’t elderly and disabled, and could be of positive use.
Trusting the United States Government is like trusting a small hand-held balloon to take you across the Pacific Ocean. As a Viet Nam veteran, the U.S. committed mass murder in Viet Nam every single day and night. Killing innocent civilians were high value military targets every single day and night. If Americans ever want to know the absolute truth about what their government does behind closed doors, just instigate the military draft. The U.S. objective from the start was to move closer and closer and closer to the Russian border. The U.S. wants to put missile sites in every country that surrounds Russia. I have always felt dreadfully sorry for all Ukrainians who think the U.S. has their best interests in mind. The U.S. Empire is the most Brutal Narcissistic World Empire that has ever existed. The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, yet it has 750 U.S. military bases around the world. You can lead a U.S. Narcissistic Horse to water, and he will drink it all.
Mike Hastie
Army Medic Viet Nam
W A R = Wealthy Are Richer
I just want to say, Mike, that I really appreciate veterans who speak truthfully. So preferable to my neighbor who expected me to thank him for his “service.” (I’ll bet you anything he never saw the frontlines but his brother may have as his Christmas decoration was a huge peace symbol.)
And until this country fully faces its past and stops pretending “it was a mistake” or whatever nonsense, we can expect no change. Best wishes to you.
Cui Bono?
Zionist Israel.
The original creators of ISIS.
Gross simplification, turtle.
I$ra€£ is jU$t one of the b€$tia£ fronts of ye o£de Brutish Vampire.
Oh Please!! What a simpleton! Good grief
I was just young enough to miss the draft, but do mention My Lai in my book ANGRY LOUD AND CLEAR TRUTH. I have known better than to trust a politician, have not voted for several elections. Al Baghdadi was really Mossad agent Simon Elliott. Blaming Putin is like blaming blacks for being slaves. IT is always somebody else’s fault. The US government is so virtuous and American Christians are so holy. I am not Muslim, I am an ex-Christian Ashkenazi who hates Israel for its deeds. I was Christian for ten years, then finally saw through all the lies. Took me a while to learn, but I did.
https://truthforce.work
I am waiting for evidence for all the stated actions in the article. Hope to get some evidence soon.
Good for you.
I can totally understand your feelings regarding Christianity. Jesus was one of the most radical prophets the world has ever seen, and Christians dismiss him as someone who was sacrificed for “their sins” so they can go to heaven (and they never seem in any hurry to get there).
I love good liturgy — which should include incense, but everyone seems to have allergies — but I can only stand so many lies before I stop going to church. “Deceit in their mouths,” indeed! Such an evocative comment from the Bible. The only churches I’ve ever stuck with were Universalist (not Unitarian) and a gay church with the best minister ever (retired Navy airplane mechanic, but she went to school while in the Navy and became a counselor). She even gave the dogs communion at Animal Sunday!
I am more radical. My book THE UNTOLD NATURE OF CHRISTIANITY debunks the Bible deep in its own dirt using many hundreds of scriptures to make scores of points. You can’t expect truth from a religion whose foundation is built on contradicting concepts, occult symbolism, spells, bad values, and outright lies. Your “radical prophet” told us to tithe and pay taxes after he cleansed the temple twice using a whip, called it a “den of thieves” and spent a chapter ranting against the pastors and governors of his time= pharisees= calling them serpents, whitewashed corpses, filthy vessels, blind guides, children of hell, hypocrites, and more; all in one chapter. Matthew 23. But then he says “render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars, and unto God what is God’s” Do you trust that? Radical?
The Russian leadership is the world’s master of empty rhetoric. Russia is in a long quagmire orchestrated and funded by the U.S. and it “Collective West”. The “Special Military Operation” (copy and paste from U.S. barbaric operations around the world) has turned into war after exhausting Russia and with no end insight despite Russia’s begging for peace. Many people argue that Russia is in a worse situation now than that before the war. Who is to blame. Russia or Ukraine. Take you pick.
Who is to blame, Russia or Ukraine?
And the answer is USUK!
” Russia is in a long quagmire” – haven’t been to Russia recently?
I am just one more in a list of commenters that want some type of conformation that: “Regular troops from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev.” Dropping a bombshell like that Friday demands something more than Mr Escobar’s unnamed source.
I don’t know what your sources of information are but I recommend to you and all readers of these pages two truthful and excellent daily commentary on these issues. One is Borzikman and the other, a financial and political review of world events by an annalist named Sean Foo writing from Singapore. Both available on YouTube. After more than two years, Russia has killed thousands of mercenaries from all over the world. From Europe Canada, US, Colombia, Brazil, you you name it. Additionally, effectives from American and NATO armies until this very day most of them manning missile batteries and other very sophisticated pieces of equipment.
Among those high ranking US and European officers (no mercenaries) to these very day. In many cases Russia informs of their elimination, but not always for some unexplainable reason in my view. Please confirm what I’m telling you and learn, there is nothing new in what Escobar is saying I swear to you, this is old hat from day one. Not to mention CIA terrorist operations planned and executed by Azov and Right Sector Nazi battalions and other similar members of Ukrainian extremists. In case that you don’t know about those either, check the web under Banderistas.
It is reliably known that the perpetrators of the terrorist attack are in Ukraine. Now the Russian special services are finding out who ordered the terrorist attack, and when they find out, the orderers will be killed. Regardless of what country they live in and what position they hold. They signed their own death warrant.
All will be presented in open, and will be dealt with.
https://philosophyofgoodnews.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/brave-19-countries-and-psychopathic-terrorists-are-driving-humanity-towards-destruction/
When I read Pepe, I can’t help but wonder what he’s smoking. But then, maybe I’m so ignorant of what’s happening that reality seems like a fantasy.
But where does Pepe get all his info? It would help if he didn’t speak in such abbreviated ways. Many of his statements go over my head, and his tendency to make up words and phrases only makes him more incomprehensible.
However, I think I get his main message, that we are in deep shit.