Putin Has Been at War in Donbas for Longer than It Took Stalin’s Red Army to Defeat Nazi Germany
Putin Has Been at War in Donbas for Longer than It Took Stalin’s Red Army to Defeat Nazi Germany
Paul Craig Roberts
No one is afraid of Russia, not even tiny Moldova. Transnistia is a disputed territory that seceded from Moldova. Washington, having engineered an end to the Russia-Ukraine natural gas transit agreement means energy supply problems for Moldova, the president of which has “demanded that preparations be made for a violent seizure of the power station” in Transnistia, which, unless Putin surrenders to Moldova, means conflict with Russian peacekeepers. https://sputnikglobe.com/20241223/moldovan-president-sandu-plans-to-seize-transnistria-power-station—russian-intel-service-1121243803.html
Considering all the hot spots Washington has created for Russia–US missile bases on Russia’s borders in Poland, Romania, and Ukraine, the loss of Syria and possibly Russia’s naval and air bases, and troubles in Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova, Putin should have done a better job in projecting Russian power and protecting Russia’s military reputation.
With the neoconservative ring closing around Russia and even China insisting on a non-military solution in Georgia, can Trump agree to Putin’s terms for a settlement in Ukraine?
Putin has been fighting in Ukraine for longer than it took Stalin’s Red Army to defeat Nazi Germany. The Battle of Stalingrad, which stopped the German advance into Russia, ended on February 2, 1943, and the Russian counteroffensive began. By May 1945 Germany surrendered.
It took the Red Army 28 months to defeat Nazi Germany. Putin has been fighting in Donbas for 34 months and still has not cleared Ukrainian forces from the Russian territory, much less defeated and occupied Ukraine itself, and there are still Ukrainian forces inside the Kursk region of Russia itself.
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Paul Craig Roberts
As President-elect Trump’s inauguration approaches, Trump supporters are happy in their thoughts that Trump will halt the inflow of immigrant-invaders, pardon the wrongly imprisoned Jan 6 attendees, stop America’s participation in wars that benefit only Israel, and hold accountable scoundrels such as FBI director Wray, AG Garland, and a large number of FBI, DOJ, and CIA operatives who committed high treason by engaging in frame-ups of the President of the United States.
The ruling establishment is unlikely to accept these goals and can use its control over House and Senate that its campaign contributions provide to water down, if not block, these initiatives.
It is time for MAGA America to think beyond specific agenda items. The restoration of America requires the restoration of truth, justice, the rule of law and respect for the Constitution.
The restoration of truth requires the breakup of the six mega-corporations that own 90% of the American media. The print and TV media must be returned to a combination of private and smaller corporate hands.
The restoration of justice requires the abolition of plea bargains. When guilt had to be determined by jury and not by self-incrimination, a prosecutor’s budget required him to focus on the most serious crimes with the most likely success in conviction. Plea bargaining permits anyone to be charged for anything and coerced into a self-incriminating plea bargain. Consequently, the evidence against the person is never tested in court.
The restoration of the rule of law requires serious punishment for prosecutors who weaponize law and turn it into a weapon in the hands of the state instead of a shield of the people.
To restore respect for the Constitution requires a total cutoff of federal funding for every university the law school of which disrespects the Constitution. The United States is the Constitution. Disrespect for the Constitution is disrespect for the United States. Universities and law schools that disrespect the US Constitution are actively working against the United States. They are agents of a hostile ideological agenda to overthrow the United States and to replace it with something else.
This does not mean that reforms cannot be achieved. There have been reforms over the course of our history, many of which were ill-considered and damaging. The Constitutional grounds for some reforms were non-existent and were invented by progressive Supreme Court judges to serve ideological agendas. Bad judgment aside, the Constitution does not prevent reforms.
The agenda I propose is more likely of success. It does not directly attack the immediate economic or financial interests of lobby groups that want cheap labor and wars that produce armaments profits.
It is difficult to oppose conviction by evidence instead of self-incrimination. It is difficult to oppose faithfulness to and respect for the US Constitution. Top officials still take their oath of office on it.
It is difficult to champion propaganda over truth.
It is difficult to defend double standards in law and punishment.
My fear is that Trump, having assembled a government of Zionists, will achieve nothing but a war with Iran for Israel’s interest.
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