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All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’
There are clear signs that a major
war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the
NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan)
and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). The war over Ukraine will
essentially run along the lines of a full-scale military offensive
against the southeast Donbas region, targeting the breakaway ethnic
Ukraine- Russian Peoples Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk, with the
intention of deposing the democratically elected government, disarming
the popular militias, killing the guerrilla resistance partisans and
their mass base, dismantling the popular representative organizations
and engaging in ethnic cleansing of millions of bilingual
Ukraino-Russian citizens. NATO’s forthcoming military seizure of the
Donbas region is a continuation and extension of its original violent
putsch in Kiev, which overthrew an elected Ukrainian government in
February 2014.
The Kiev junta and its newly
‘elected’ client rulers, and its NATO sponsors are intent on a major
purge to consolidate the puppet Poroshenko’s dictatorial rule. The
recent NATO-sponsored elections excluded several major political parties
that had traditionally supported the country’s large ethnic minority
populations, and was boycotted in the Donbas region. This sham election
in Kiev set the tone for NATO’s next move toward converting Ukraine
into one gigantic US multi-purpose military base aimed at the Russian
heartland and into a neo-colony for German capital, supplying Berlin
with grain and raw materials while serving as a captive market for
German manufactured goods.
An intensifying war fever is sweeping the West; the consequences of this madness appear graver by the hour.
War Signs: The Propaganda and Sanctions Campaign, the G20 Summit and the Military Build Up
The official drum- beat for a widening
conflict in Ukraine, spearheaded by the Kiev junta and its fascist
militias, echoes in every Western mass media outlet, every day. Major
mass media propaganda mills and government ‘spokesmen and women’ publish
or announce new trumped-up accounts of growing Russian military threats
to its neighbors and cross-border invasions into Ukraine. New Russian
incursions are ‘reported’ from the Nordic borders and Baltic states to
the Caucuses. The Swedish regime creates a new level of hysteria over a
mysterious “Russian” submarine off the coast of Stockholm, which it
never identifies or locates – let alone confirms the ‘sighting’.
Estonia and Latvia claim Russian warplanes violated their air space
without confirmation. Poland expels Russian “spies” without proof or
witnesses. Provocative full-scale joint NATO-client state military
exercises are taking place along Russia’s frontiers in the Baltic
States, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.
NATO is sending vast arms shipments to
the Kiev junta, along with “Special Forces” advisers and
counter-insurgency experts in anticipation of a full-scale attack
against the rebels in the Donbas.
The Kiev regime has never abided by the
Minsk cease fire. According to the UN Human Rights office 13 people on
average –mostly civilians –have been killed each day since the September
cease fire. In eight weeks, the UN reports that 957 people have killed
–overwhelmingly by Kiev’s armed forces.
The Kiev regime, in turn, has cut all
basic social and public services to the Peoples’ Republics’, including
electricity, fuel, civil service salaries, pensions, medical supplies,
salaries for teachers and medical workers, municipal workers wages;
banking and transport have been blockaded.
The strategy is to further strangle the
economy, destroy the infrastructure, force an even greater mass exodus
of destitute refugees from the densely populated cities across the
border into Russia and then to launch massive air, missile, artillery
and ground assaults on urban centers as well as rebel bases.
The Kiev junta has launched an all-out
military mobilization in the Western regions, accompanied by rabid
anti-Russian, anti-Eastern Orthodox indoctrination campaigns designed to
attract the most violent far right chauvinist thugs and to incorporate
the Nazi-style military brigades into the frontline shock troops. The
cynical use of irregular fascist militias will ‘free’ NATO and Germany
from any responsibility for the inevitable terror and atrocities in
their campaign. This system of ‘plausible deniability’ mirrors the
tactics of the German Nazis whose hordes of fascist Ukrainians and
Ustashi Croats were notorious in their epoch of ethnic cleansing.
G20-plus-NATO: Support of the Kiev Blitz
To isolate and weaken resistance in the
Donbas and guarantee the victory of the impending Kiev blitz, the EU and
the US are intensifying their economic, military and diplomatic
pressure on Russia to abandon the nascent peoples’ democracy in the
south-east region of Ukraine, their principle ally.
Each and every escalation of economic
sanctions against Russia is designed to weaken the capacity of the
Donbas resistance fighters to defend their homes, towns and cities.
Each and every Russian shipment of essential medical supplies and food
to the besieged population evokes a new and more hysterical outburst –
because it counters Kiev-NATO strategy of starving the partisans and
their mass base into submission or provoking their flight to safety
across the Russian border.
After suffering a series of defeats, the
Kiev regime and its NATO strategists decided to sign a ‘peace
protocol’, the so-called Minsk agreement, to halt the advance of the
Donbas resistance into the southern regions and to protect its Kiev’s
soldiers and militias holed-up in isolated pockets in the East. The
Minsk agreement was designed to allow the Kiev junta to build up its
military, re-organize its command and incorporate the disparate Nazi
militias into its overall military forces in preparation for a ‘final
offensive’. Kiev’s military build-up on the inside and NATO’s
escalation of sanctions against Russia on the outside would be two sides
of the same strategy: the success of a frontal attack on the
democratic resistance of the Donbas basin depends on minimizing Russian
military support through international sanctions.
NATO’s virulent hostility to Russian
President Putin was on full display at the G20 meeting in Australia:
NATO-linked presidents and prime ministers, especially Merkel, Obama,
Cameron, Abbott, and Harper’s political threats and overt personal
insults paralleled Kiev’s growing starvation blockade of the besieged
rebels and population centers in the south-east. Both the G20’s
economic threats against Russia and the diplomatic isolation of Putin
and Kiev’s economic blockade are preludes to NATO’s Final Solution – the
physical annihilation of all vestiges of Donbas resistance, popular
democracy and cultural-economic ties with Russia.
Kiev depends on its NATO mentors to
impose a new round of severe sanctions against Russia, especially if its
planned invasion encounters a well armed and robust mass resistance
bolstered by Russian support. NATO is counting on Kiev’s restored and
newly supplied military capacity to effectively destroy the southeast
centers of resistance.
NATO has decided on an ‘all-or-nothing campaign’:
to seize all of Ukraine or, failing that, destroy the restive
southeast, obliterate its population and productive capacity and engage
in an all-out economic (and possibly shooting) war with Russia.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is on board with this plan despite the
complaints of German industrialists over their huge loss of export sales
to Russia. President Hollande of France has signed on dismissing the
complaints of trade unionists over the loss of thousands French jobs in
the shipyards. Prime Minister David Cameron is eager for an economic
war against Moscow, suggesting the bankers of the City of London find
new channels to launder the illicit earnings of Russian oligarchs.
The Russian Response
Russian diplomats are desperate to find a
compromise, which allows Ukraine’s ethnic Ukraine- Russian population
in the southeast to retain some autonomy under a federation plan and
regain influence within the ‘new’ post-putsch Ukraine. Russian military
strategists have provided logistical and military aid to the resistance
in order to avoid a repeat of the Odessa massacre of ethnic Russians by
Ukrainian fascists on a massive scale. Above all, Russia cannot afford
to have NATO-Nazi-Kiev military bases along its southern ‘underbelly’,
imposing a blockade of the Crimea and forcing a mass exodus of ethnic
Russians from the Donbas. Under Putin, the Russian government has tried
to propose compromises allowing Western economic supremacy over Ukraine
but without NATO military expansion and absorption by Kiev.
That policy of conciliation has repeatedly failed.
The democratically elected ‘compromise
regime’ in Kiev was overthrown in February 2014 in a violent putsch,
which installed a pro-NATO junta.
Kiev violated the Minsk agreement with impunity and encouragement from the NATO powers and Germany.
The recent G20 meeting in Australia
featured a rabble-rousing chorus against President Putin. The crucial
four-hour private meeting between Putin and Merkel turned into a fiasco
when Germany parroted the NATO chorus.
Putin finally responded by expanding
Russia’s air and ground troop preparedness along its borders while
accelerating Moscow’s economic pivot to Asia.
Most important, President Putin has
announced that Russia cannot stand by and allow the massacre of a whole
people in the Donbas region.
Is Poroshenko’s forthcoming blitz
against the people of southeast Ukraine designed to provoke a Russian
response – to the humanitarian crisis? Will Russia confront the
NATO-directed Kiev offensive and risk a total break with the West?
James Petras latest book is THE POLITICS OF IMPERIALISM:THE US, ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST (CLARITY PRESS:ATLANTA)
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