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Written by Eric Zuesse
Speculation is rife that U.S/NATO are winning the military war in Ukraine (by arming and commanding Ukraine’s armed forces — it’s a proxy-war on the U.S. side), and also is rife that Russia is winning the military war in Ukraine (using its own forces), but “the fog of war” and propagandistic agendas dominate the military war on both sides (both the U.S.-and-allied side that gets its ‘information’ from Ukraine’s Government) and the Russian side that gets its ‘information’ from Russia’s Government).
It’s a two-front war: the military front, and the economic front. And that “fog of war” pertains ONLY to the military aspect of the war. It does NOT pertain to the economic front.
The ‘fog of war’ is almost 100% uncertainty on the military front, and nobody yet really knows which side is is actually winning this war militarily.
BY STARK CONTRAST: The economic front is 100% controlled by investors and is indisputably shown in the changes in the respective values of the currencies on the two sides: the value of the ruble relative to the dollar, and to the pound, and to the euro, today versus on 1 January 2022, which initial date was before anyone had any clear knowledge that Russia would invade Ukraine on 24 February 2022 and would promptly be hit by an all-out economic war against Russia: intense primary and secondary sanctions to create an economic iron wall between East and West, an economic blockade (by “The West”) against Russia.
Here are those economic changes, and the victor, thus far, in the war’s ECONOMIC front is clearly and unambiguously shown in each of these three graphs:
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As that shows: The immediate response by investors to the 24 February 2022 invasion was to think that Russia’s economy would be crushed by “The West”; but, ever since May, there has been a remarkably stable belief by investors that instead Western (i.e., UK/U.S.-and-allied) economies will be crushed — crushed by What? Crushed by the UK/U.S.-and-allied sanctions and by the U.S./UK blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines in order to lock Europe out of what was and had long been Europe’s cheapest and most plentiful energy-source: Russia. Now, both consumers and industry in the EU will be grossly overpaying for energy because their Governments are allied with UK/U.S against Russia, instead of with Russia against UK/U.S. They will be paying a hefty price for years to come, because they are allied Westward instead of Eastward.
Nazis overwhelmingly support Ukraine against Russia, and now are leading throughout The West. Consumers and industries in UK and in Europe — and even in America itself — will be paying hefty prices for the nazi policies by their leaders. Are they democracies? One might also ask: Is Russia a democracy?
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
Russia is loosing the Ukraine war. Russia never committed to a full scale war. It was always joking as a special military operation with just 250, 000 soldiers including those from Donbass. Ukraine has 1 million soldiers including those NATO soldiers wearing Ukraine uniforms and bought mercenary soldiers. You can’t expect miracles from Russian soldiers when their leadership is not willing to bring the necessary number of soldiers. If no change in the thinking of the Russian leadership, then they will all withdraw from Ukraine and Ukraine will attack Russia proper supported by NATO.
Everyone knows who is going to win the war except south-front and it’s embecile readers (excluding sephirotj hehe)
Judging by the information of the Russian ministry of defence, they are crushing it. Judging by the progress of the Russians and their current control over the 4 provinces they claimed, not so much. Judging by the fact our media in the west always lies and pretty much says the opposite of the truth, that supports Russia crushing it in Ukraine. From those things, one can draw the conclusion that one possible scenario is this: Russia IS crushing it in Ukraine, and they are taking their time doing so. They want to avoid as much civilian casualties in Ukraine as possible, and they are taking the necessary time to do everything in the best possible way. Like letting the enemies come to them and destroying them, while taking very few losses. If Russia was to rush to take all the claimed areas immediately, they would take far more losses, and it would come at a high cost for civilians too. Russian stated goals are to destroy the military capabilities of Ukraine, and what the Russian MoD is reporting, they are doing just that. Another stated goal was Luhansk and Donetsk, and they have all Luhansk, but have failed to progress much in Donetsk (about half of it is still in Ukraine hands). But then they expanded their goals during the campaign to include 2 other provinces. They must have felt confident if they expanded their goals like that.
One major norm in the west (where I live) is to project. Meaning that you project your failures and madness and all that onto others, instead of correctly attribute them to yourself. And the west is talking continually about massive failures of Russia in Ukraine. While that might be possible, and a few things could support that, like failures to take all provinces, the slow pace of things and the lack of any offenses for quite some time, knowing how western propaganda works, the more likely explanation is projection.
Our media here in the west and politicians are outright liars and deeply delusional, and they prove it over and over again. They project, they lie and manipulate and all the rest. But does that mean they cannot ever tell the truth? No, but it seems unlikely generally. They continually reveal their delusions, and the lies are so ridiculous they are easy to uncover. And it is all so flagrant and constant that it is the norm.
In the end it is difficult to know what is going on in Ukraine at all, even more so knowing that our media and politicians always lie, deceive and manipulate. But getting full information from Russian (and other media) is not exactly much easier, and I wouldn’t say we should automatically trust Russian MoD either.
But for me, Russian MoD seems like the most trustworthy source of accurate information, yes, SEEMS. I don’t know it. And the most likely scenario is that Russia is kicking ass in Ukraine, and brutally so as well, and they are doing it tactically, taking their time and not rushing to accomplish their stated goals.But according to Russian MoD, they are destroying hundreds of Ukraine fighters every day, and dozens of military equipment. Which is not really that much, but since it is every day, it seems to align with their goals of destroying Ukrainian military capabilities (of which larger portions was destroyed in the campaign at the start).
The fact that our media and politicians seem to be rambling on about the opposite scenario, it does point towards the Russian MoD scenario being more correct. Generally these days you have to look at our media in the west and assume the opposite of what they say is true.
I sympathize what you have written, but I am getting tired of obvious explanations by both mainstream and alternative media. See my comment above. The missing word is “orchestrated” (sabotage).
Now my comment appears below. Let´s see how long it will last here.
WINNING!???…
I think Zelensky is “inspired” by that Oscar and more “crack” between the two of them to do “great things” for himself https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-says-eus-eu18-billion-aid-what-true-solidarity-looks
I would like to turn your argument completely upside down. In my view, the most logical thing to do now is to listen to what Russian authorities say and then assume the the opposite is true. For example: The “special military operation” (it is forbidden to say war in Russia you know…) goes according to plan. This was a mantra repeated by the Kreml for months until they finally made a U-turn and started a massive mobilisation.
Our media and politicians are living in a fantasy make-belief world, a reality distortion field. They believed their own propaganda and infallibility. So now rather than correcting course, they prefer to double down whenever there’s a setback. And since this fiasco started, it’s been a comedy of errors, one after the other. Where are we now? 8 or 9 rounds of sanctions? You can’t make this stuff up.
The Russian army is a formidable force, however it has not used every available month to win the battle. Altam in turn has used all available means to attack Russia.Unfortunately, it is evident that the withdrawal at Kherson is a major setback for the Russian campaign.The lack of personnel on the battlefield and the fear of using all my weapons possible excluding the nuclear arsenal has led Russia to retreat step by step on the ground. As a citizen of the world Living on the periphery of capitalism, I know that NATO’s success is a defeat for the other countries that are not part of its club.
Sabotage is the word that fits best description of what is happening just before our eyes in the U.S. and Russia. Kremlin simply does not want to wage and win the war in Ukraine. American people are betrayed by their Jewish masters in the same way as their Russian counterparts. Unless there is a new revolution in both, we will be divided and pushed to fight for big banks dominated by jewish kabala and neomarxist zionists.
The author of this article is either seriously confused or intentionally try to mislead the readers into thinking that the western countries supporting Ukraine are “Nazis”. This statement is based on another article of this author, where he writes: “As I headlined on November 6th and documented, “U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.”. Well, this statement is based on the fact they they voted against a UN resolution proposed by Russia to condemn nazism. The US has provided a very good answer to why they voted against:
“The United States once again expresses concern and opposition to this resolution, a document most notable for its thinly veiled attempts to legitimize longstanding Russian disinformation narratives smearing neighboring nations under the cynical guise of halting Nazi glorification. The United States is proud to have fought with our World War II allies, including the Soviet Union, and to have made decisive contributions to the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. We categorically condemn the glorification of Nazism and all modern forms of violent extremism, antisemitism, racism, xenophobia, discrimination, and related intolerance.
That said, the United States continues to oppose the Russian Federation’s use of the UN system to spread disinformation. This resolution is a cynical attempt at best by Russia to further its contemporary geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and the Second World War to malign other countries. This is all the more egregious now, when Russia uses false accusations of Nazism to try to justify its unconscionable ongoing violence against the people of Ukraine. The Russian Federation’s resolution is not a serious effort to combat Nazism, antisemitism, racism, or xenophobia — all of which are abhorrent and unacceptable. Instead, this resolution is a shameful political ploy. It is a thinly veiled effort to justify Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
We fully support the amendments presented today, which re-introduced into this resolution the report by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism. The report “Notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.” The evidence is clear and was reaffirmed by the amendments passing. Despite the amendments passing, we continue to have serious concerns with this resolution’s invocation of Article 4 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to justify restrictions on freedom of expression.
We also take this opportunity to note our concerns regarding the process by which this resolution was run. The Russian Federation failed to provide any opportunity for Member States to engage “
So far Russia is winning the war.
With our help our brothers are overcoming Russia invasion and taking back the promised territory inch by inch. Our Russian friends made a big mistake. The war will be taken into Russia once Ukraine wins. We will ensure this, as terror must be defeated 🦾🇮🇱🦾
Russia lost. Putin and the “professional” army have proven to be incompetent and ineffectual.
Nazis? Sure, I couldn’t help but notice all the “German” names involved in the Banking and Finance industries.
Russia biggest cope yet
“Nazis overwhelmingly support Ukraine against Russia”
Source: The jews who unilaterally support Ukraine against Russia.
‘Muricans kneel to niggers, support racemixing, and cut their dicks off because they are Nazis…
75% of US cabinet is jews, not a single “Nazi” anywhere in any position of influence in any “western democracy”. Seriously name ONE bone-fide extreme righter in any western “Democracy” (conserva-cucks don’t count). Just ONE.
Seriously if “Nazis” had any pull in the west it would be a vastly different west.
The west is and always has been imperilaist – but the benficiaries of this imperialism are the jews, and the wealthy. Same horse, different master.