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RUSSIAN OPINION POLLS SHOW SUPPORT FOR KREMLIN WAS SURGING BEFORE THE MILITARY
OPERATION BEGAN – AND HAS CONTINUED

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By John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

Nationwide polls revealed brimming Russian confidence in the future and also in
the political leadership of the country in the month of February, before the
announcement by President Vladimir Putin of the military operation against the
US plan of attack in Ukraine.  

The single largest jump in confidence in Putin and in Prime Minister Mikhail
Mishustin was registered in the week of February 20 to 27; that’s between
Putin’s speech of February 21 announcing the US plan of attack and Russian
recognition of the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) people’s republics, and his
speech of February 24 initiating the full-scale operation to demilitarize the
Ukraine.

The first, and so far the only Russian poll to have been taken on the operation
itself and published on March 5, shows  84% public support for the army, the
highest level ever recorded; and 71% approval for the operation in the Ukraine.
Disapproval was reported by one in five Russians, 21%.  The poll was taken by
telephone last week, and was published by the All-Russian Centre for the Study
of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) on March 5.  

Roughly one-half of Russians back the demilitarization objective and say they
believe the military campaign aims to defend Russia and prevent the deployment
of NATO bases on Ukrainian territory.  Support for the de-Nazification objective
is less. One in five believes the operation is being carried out to purge the
Ukrainian fascists and change the political course of the Kiev government toward
Russia (19%); 18% think the goal is to protect the Russian–speaking population
of the DPR and LPR.

A Boston newspaper reporter of Canadian extraction has attempted to explain away
the poll results as a case of “average Russians experiencing a rally-round-the
flag moment”. The reporter said he himself prefers the opinion of “thousands of
mainly urban, educated Russians [who] have taken to the streets in recent days
and signed petitions to express their dismay over the unprovoked attack”.   

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by Editor - Sunday, March 6th, 2022
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ON THE ECONOMIC WAR FRONT, THE NEW TRIBUTARY SYSTEM & THE RUSSIAN KOWTOW

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By Olga Samofalova, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

The ancient difference between the confiscation of your assets and a tax by
force was the mandate of Heaven. This was the public announcement from God,
transmitted through fellows wearing funny hats and costumes accompanied by
drumbeats and whistles. When God wants to stick you up, they said, you’d better
hand over your money or your life.

These days the rulers of the US, the European Union (EU) and Canada call this
the “Rules Based Order”. That’s to say:  I make the rules, you take my orders.
The meaning is still the ancient one – your money or your life.

The Chinese empire has been famous for a dress-up ceremony in which those who
made the rules received the agreement of those who took the orders. It was
called the kowtow. Nine kowtows were the standard,  plus expensive gifts.   The
Roman empire and most of its successors, called it tributum, tribute.  Over the
years, other names for it have been tax, protection money, and a gender specific
form of kowtow popular in England and France called the ius primae noctis, droit
de seigneur, or lord’s right.

The quaintness of the ceremony varies from place to place.  The British empire
demanded its colonial peoples wave a small Union Jack in the left-hand corner of
their independence flag. They also required their subject children’s pilgrimage
at least once in their lives to the fence of Buckingham Palace in London for at
least one performance of the Changing of the Guard.

In keeping with the times since 1945, the US empire has been more
straightforward. It doesn’t require pilgrimages to the White House fence for
children of tender age.  It does require you keep the US dollar in your pocket,
or the local currency whose value is fixed in proportion, and whose state
surpluses of taxation and pension funds must be stored in US Treasury notes, as
well as the dollar.

In Russia, starting in 1991, Boris Yeltsin innovated on these measures by
inviting US advisors  to run the Russian economy, which Yeltsin paid for by
imposing a 100% tax on ordinary Russians’ salaries. This started the system of
oligarchs whom Yeltsin allowed to dispatch and store, tax free, in the US, UK
and EU as much state capital and income as they could carry off.  How that
system has worked for the past thirty years, oligarch by oligarch, has been the
subject of analysis here.    The effort has not gone without recognition.   

At this very moment, the oligarchs are facing a Christian tax, but it’s not the
Russian one you might think they have earned.  Instead, the 100% tax is being
imposed in the form of  confiscation statutes by the US, UK and EU.   This is
 not economic warfare so much as the application of the principle that what the
oligarchs have been doing to Russians should now be done to them, according to
the Mandate of Heaven as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31. 

The Mandate of Heaven can also be found on the bottom of the US dollar note.
That’s the signature line where the Treasurer of the United States and the
Secretary of the Treasury promise to pay “all debts public and private”. Like
other US treaty signatures, this no longer applies to  Russians, common ones,
oligarchs, or the state, according to this novelty in the Rules Based Order.
Russians must now sell everything in the country of value for US dollars – oil,
gas, coal, uranium, aluminium, titanium, wheat, potash, urea, bank loan debts,
airplane leases, etc. But  those dollars cannot be used by Russians to buy
anything else. That value has been confiscated.

The response is still being formulated in Moscow. Russian government officials,
members of the State Duma, the Central Bank of Russia, the General Staff, the
oligarchs and their lobbyists have yet to agree. The terms of the debate are
still largely secret; here was an opening shot against the Central Bank by
Sergei Glazyev.

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by Editor - Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
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OPERATION BARBAROSSA IN SLOW MOTION — THIS IS THE OFFENSIVE CAPACITY THE US WAS
PREPARING IN THE UKRAINE UNTIL LAST WEEK

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By Nikolai Storozhenko, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

The US has been installing American-directed military bases in the Ukraine for
stockpiling advanced weapons to strike Russia by land, sea, and air.

In these plans for attack deep across the Russian frontier, Ukraine was already
a platform with the potential for nuclear battlefield operations without formal
admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO); without acceptance by
the NATO member states; without comprehension or vote of approval by the
Ukrainians themselves.  

On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed a non-aggression treaty
with the US which included explicit provisions to negotiate the withdrawal of
this threat. Article 3 proposed “the Parties shall not use the territories of
other States with a view to preparing or carrying out an armed attack against
the other Party or other actions affecting core security interests of the other
Party.” Article 4 of the pact proposed:  “The Russian Federation and all the
Parties that were member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as of
27 May 1997, respectively, shall not deploy military forces and weaponry on the
territory of any of the other States in Europe in addition to the forces
stationed on that territory as of 27 May 1997.” Article 5 said: “The Parties
shall refrain from deploying their armed forces and armaments, including in the
framework of international organizations, military alliances or coalitions, in
the areas where such deployment could be perceived by the other Party as a
threat to its national security, with the exception of such deployment within
the national territories of the Parties.” Articles 6 and 7 were more explicit on
the deployment of nuclear weapons: “The Parties shall undertake not to deploy
ground-launched intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles outside their
national territories…The Parties shall refrain from deploying nuclear weapons
outside their national territories.”  

The State Department reply released on February 2 dismissed each of these
proposals. 

On February 19 in Munich, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky made his threat
to deploy nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory;  he expressed this as his
unilateral revocation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum although Ukraine was not a
signatory of the agreement.   

“This is not empty bravado,” President Vladimir Putin responded two days later
in his Donetsk and Lugansk recognition speech on February 21. The Ukraine threat
to attack Russia was “a foregone conclusion, it is a matter of time”, Putin
added.

It is Operation BARBAROSSA, the code name of the German invasion of 1941,  in
slow-motion.

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by Editor - Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
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BLACK BOX DEFENCE FOR THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – DOLLAR DEBT REPAYMENTS BLOCKED; GAS
AND OIL DELIVERIES TO GERMANY STOPPED; OLIGARCH ASSETS NATIONALIZED

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By Sergei Glazyev, translated and introduced by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

On Friday morning, February 25, Sergei Glazyev published the following analysis
of US sanctions against the Russian economy and of the Russian options for
defence and counter-attack.

Glazyev is a Russian state official with ministerial rank. He has served for
many years as an economic policy adviser to President Vladimir Putin; since 2019
he is the minister for integration and macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic
Commission, the bloc of former Soviet states coordinating customs, central
banking, trade and fiscal management policies together.  

Glazyev, now 61, has also been the longest surviving force on the left of
Russian policymaking since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and of Boris
Yeltsin’s destruction of the Congress of People’s Deputies in 1993. He has been
a consistent critic of the monetary policies of the Russian Central Bank; and of
the oligarch system promoted by Anatoly Chubais, Alexei Kudrin, German Gref and
their business allies in Moscow, and by the financial centres of New York and
London.  For 25 years they have proved stronger inside the president’s circle
than Glazyev; they have persuaded Putin to overrule him publicly, then ignore
and sideline him. Until now.

Commencing with Putin’s February 21 speech, the recognition of the Donetsk and
Lugansk  People’s Republics, and the commencement of the military campaign in
the Ukraine, the management of the Russian economy has moved on to a war
footing. In the interpretation of a leading European banker,  the escalation of
US and European Union (EU) sanctions intends to  confiscate Central Bank assets
and destroy all financial links between Russia and the west. He comments that
nothing on this scale against a major world power has been attempted since
President Franklin Roosevelt froze the foreign assets of Japan on July 26, 1941,
and imposed an embargo on Japanese oil and gasoline imports six days later.  

The new sanctions commenced on February 22 in response to Russian recognition of
Donbass independence, and the signing of a treaty of military and economic
cooperation. The first  sanctions strike targeted two state banks; three sons of
Russian state officials;  and state bonds to be  issued from Wednesday of this
week.

The second-strike sanctions escalated on February 24 to “target the core
infrastructure of the Russian financial system — including all of Russia’s
largest financial institutions and the ability of state-owned and private
entities to raise capital — and further bars Russia from the global financial
system. The actions also target nearly 80 percent of all banking assets in
Russia and will have a deep and long-lasting effect on the Russian economy and
financial system.”  

In addition, the targets were expanded to include for the first time state-owned
Alrosa, the diamond producer and international diamond market maker;  and
Sovcomflot, the world’s largest energy tanker fleet operator.  At the same time,
the US Treasury said it would not block Russian payments for “agricultural and
medical commodities and the COVID-19 pandemic; overflight and emergency
landings; energy.”

The third strike began overnight between February 26 and 27. The White House
announced the disconnection from the SWIFT interbank payments system for
“selected Russian banks” . Russian press reporting has speculated that Sberbank
and VTB will be disconnected, along with the other banks targeted on February
24. It is not clear whether Alfa Bank, the leading commercial bank owned by
Mikhail Fridman, will appear on the SWIFT disconnection list.   

The White House also announced the launch of “a multilateral Transatlantic task
force to identify, hunt down, and freeze the assets of sanctioned Russian
companies and oligarchs – their yachts, their mansions, and any other ill-gotten
gains that we can find and freeze under the law.”   

US and European Union officials are claiming that “restrictive measures that
will prevent the Russian Central Bank (CBR) from deploying its international
reserves” amount to a freeze on the Central Bank’s US dollar and Euro
denominated holdings. As of January 31, the CBR reported holding $469 billion in
foreign exchange.   Of that aggregate, year-old CBR data suggest that 22% is in
US dollars; 29% in Euros, and 6% in British pounds.  

London banking sources and a leading oil trade figure believe that if the
third-strike sanctions halt US dollar and Euro payments for Russian oil, gas,
coal, titanium, palladium, diamonds, and other commodity exports, along with
servicing of interest and principal loans, then the Russian side will stop all
debt payments. They will also stop all deliveries to the US and Europe.

The domestic Russian political implications are not less dramatic; they are
potentially revolutionary, though not in the direction US figures like Antony
Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and William Burns have been calculating in public.
Glazyev is one of the Russian revolutionaries they least want to see take power
over the oligarchs now.  

For reporting on Glazyev’s responses to the first round of US sanctions in March
2014, read this,  For a longer archive on Glazyev back to 1993, click to open.  

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by Editor - Sunday, February 27th, 2022
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NOVICHOK CLAIMS NEW BRITISH VICTIM – CORONER HALLETT RESIGNS ABRUPTLY;
GOVERNMENT CAN’T FIND REPLACEMENT

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

Baroness Heather Hallett (lead image, left), the second British state coroner
responsible for investigating the cause of Dawn Sturgess’s death on July 8,
2018, revealed in a London court on Friday that she has resigned after less than
a year in the coroner’s post.

Sturgess died in Salisbury District Hospital four months after Sergei and Yulia
Skripal were allegedly attacked by Russian military agents carrying the nerve
agent Novichok; the Skripals recovered but have subsequently been held
incommunicado.  

Hallett’s appointment was announced in March 2021, after the Wiltshire county
coroner David Ridley was removed; he had lasted thirty-three months in charge.
Hallett has already announced on the inquest website her conclusion before
hearing the evidence. “The post mortem indicated the cause of her death was
Novichok poisoning,” the website declares on its home page.    In fact and in
British law, the post-mortem evidence has not done this.

Ridley was replaced by Hallett when he refused to allow testimony and evidence,
and refused to rule that the cause of Sturgess’s death had come from Russia in
the form of an assassination plot to poison Sergei Skripal, the Russian double
or triple agent. Ridley also refused to release  the medical and pathological
evidence; and concealed the cremation certificate he had himself signed on the
cause of Sturgess’s death.

In a prepared script Hallett took into court and read out on February 25, she
said “in late December last year, I accepted a request made by the Prime
Minister to become the chair of the Covid Inquiry.  Because of the demands of
that role, it was agreed that another judge would be appointed to chair the
Sturgess Inquiry.”

The timing is inaccurate. Hallett’s appointment was announced by Prime Minister
Boris Johnson in a statement to parliament on December 15.    The negotiations
for Hallett’s new post began days, possibly weeks before. No agreement was
reached then, nor publicly announced, for Hallett to resign from the Sturgess
proceeding, and for another judge to be appointed in her place. That came later.

By resigning, by concealing this for two months, and by falsifying her
circumstances in court, Hallett appears to have been unwilling to take personal
responsibility for directing her investigation to reach the outcome the British
government requires. That is the conviction of the Russian military command, the
Kremlin, and President Vladimir Putin himself for making the Novichok; for
ordering a group of soldiers to use it in Salisbury in March 2018; and for
leaving behind the bottle of Novichok which Sturgess allegedly used to perfume
herself, with fatal effect.

In the 35-minute hearing Hallett chaired on Friday, the retired Court of Appeal
judge also revealed that after more than two months the British Government has
been unable to name another judge willing to replace Hallett and do what she was
told to do. That’s to say, no judge has agreed to take the job, yet.

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by Editor - Sunday, February 27th, 2022
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GORILLA VERSUS GALICIA (PLUS NO-MONKEY FOOTNOTE)

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

“It’s an attempt to tell an old truth in order to remind us what the new truth
we now face will cost us if we open our eyes.”  

On Gorilla Radio yesterday we concluded on this line. The recording of the
interview ended just before 5 in the Moscow morning on Thursday (Wednesday
afternoon Pacific Standard Time). One hour later President Vladimir Putin
announced the start of the military campaign to demilitarize and denazify the
Ukraine.  The narrative of what happened next, gathered from eyewitnesses, war
front reporters, and open media sources by Boris Rozhin on the Colonel
Cassad website’s Telegram platform, can be followed here.   

In advance of what we didn’t yet know, we already knew three things: the Stavka,
not Putin alone, decides.   There was a change of decision between Monday
evening’s speech by Putin  and Thursday morning’s speech;  this was not,
however, a change of plans; they have been ready for some time, as everyone can
see now. The black box defence would still be a surprise.

With the retrospect of hours, demilitarization of the Ukraine and denazification
of the Galicians cannot be a surprise if you are Russian or Ukrainian. To them
it is welcome. By contrast,  Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister of
Canada, has repeated the lie which enriched her grandfather, her mother,  and
the Galicians she represents: “We cannot allow Russia,” she said, “to destroy
the rules based order Canadians died to defend in the Second World War…”   When
the Galicians go on trial for their war crimes in the coming months – this is
part of what denazification will mean — Canadian judicial observers will be
invited to attend and investigate the evidence; the Dutch too.

In the interview we also discuss what it’s like to think like the Russians and
Ukrainians do when the choice is – do now for yourselves, or wait to die later
when they will kill you.

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by Editor - Friday, February 25th, 2022
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THE BODY LANGUAGE OF THE SPEECH — PUTIN HAS REPUDIATED LENIN, STALIN, GORBACHEV,
YELTSIN & MOBILIZED RUSSIA’S DEFENCE AGAINST US ATTACK AS NEVER BEFORE

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

Not in his entire life has President Vladimir Putin made a speech like Monday’s
Donbass address to the Russian people.   

Nor has he ever named the Americans to be Russia’s national enemy in such
unequivocal Russian terms – American promises worthless, American intentions
deadly, American speeches lies, American actions intimidation, extortion,
blackmail.  

“So I want to ask”, Putin said: “why, why all this, for what? Okay, you don’t
want to see us as a friend and ally, but why make us an enemy? There is only one
answer: it’s not about our political regime, it’s not about anything else, they
just don’t need such a large independent country as Russia. That’s the answer to
all the questions. This is the source of traditional American policy towards
Russia.”

“The pretext for another sanctions attack will always be found or simply
fabricated, regardless of the situation in Ukraine. There is only one goal – to
restrain the development of Russia. And they will do it as they did before, even
without any formal pretext at all, just because we are and will never give up
our sovereignty, national interests and our values.”

Unlike the most famous of English and American mobilization speeches against
French, German and Confederate enemies – King Henry’s Agincourt, Winston
Churchill’s Dunkirk, and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speeches – Putin didn’t
wave his arms or move significantly his head, neck, shoulders, or right hand.
 Putin’s right hand is the operational one.

Watch and listen. The stillness of the body language, the pauses for breathing,
the speech pitch, pace and modulation – these mean to all Russians: Do or die —
now we do for ourselves or else the Americans will kill us.

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by Editor - Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
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URGENT LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE ON THE UKRAINE AND SYRIA FRONTS – HOW THE US
GOVERNMENT AIMED AT DESTROYING THE ARABS, KILLING THEIR LEADERS, PAYING PROXIES
TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK, REWRITING THE HISTORY OF THE GENOCIDE CRIME – NEW BOOK
OUT TODAY

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

For eighty years since the US invaded Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in 1943,
American spies have targeted the Arabs for destruction, marking their leaders
for assassination, stripping their people of the power to govern themselves.
 The US government agents planned the sabotage of Arab oilfields and theft of
their water. They bribed the Arabs to fight each other.  Convinced of American
exceptionalism, lobbied by Israel, and bribed by US corporations, the OSS, CIA,
Pentagon, State Department, and every president since Roosevelt have imposed
their protectorate over the Middle East.

They have compelled the Arabs to pay Washington or die.

They have rewritten the law of genocide so that the murderers have gotten away
with their crimes. They have covered their tracks with a blitzkrieg of
propaganda and censorship. This is rassenkampf – race war as the Germans once
pursued it.  

Before the US Government went to war against the Russians in Europe, after the
end of the Soviet Union in 1991, they practised in the Middle East on the Arabs.
The methods and targeting are the same.  

“My complaint has been the CIA isn’t overthrowing enough anti-American
governments or assassinating enough anti-American leaders, but I guess I’m
getting old”, said the CIA agent who plotted the murder of Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt as well as Arab leaders in Iraq, Syria,  and Lebanon. As each of those
plots turned into disaster, as US casualties mounted, and the price of oil
skyrocketed, the American spies profited with personal promotions and wealth in
retirement.  “Nothing succeeds quite like failure,” concluded the Pentagon spy
who paved the way to the fatal bombing of the US Marines in Beirut — the
bloodiest episode in this history until the 9/11 attacks were followed by the
defeats of the US wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.   

This book reports from secret spy files discovered where they were buried in
Washington.  It is the first book to report in English from unpublished
interviews with the Arab leaders themselves, including Saddam Hussein, Muammar
Qaddafi, Saud al-Faisal, and George Habash.

The book manuscript has also survived the efforts of the CIA and the original
New York publisher to bury it, just as the Arabs have been buried.  

Read here of graves, worms and epitaphs, and sad stories of the death of kings.
Read on to understand what happens next.

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by Editor - Monday, February 21st, 2022
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THE UKRAINIAN ARMY ON THE DONBASS CONTACT LINE HAS AN ACHILLES HEEL, MAKE THAT A
TURKISH HEEL — AGAINST RUSSIAN DEFENCES, THE BAYRAKTAR DRONE IS WORTHLESS

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

In a report published today by the Nordic Monitor, a leading source of
independent analysis of Turkish political and security affairs by Abdullah
Bozkurt in Stockholm, it is revealed that the Turkish drones supplied to the
Ukrainian military forces now threatening the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s
Republics, are duds when they face defenders armed with Russian electronic
countermeasures and missile systems.  

Bozkurt’s analysis follows from a report by the Panel of Experts on Libya to the
United Nations Security Council, published almost a year ago on March 8, 2021.
The UN report was primarily concerned with violations of the Libyan arms
embargo. In passing, the report noted that in the Libyan civil war, the
“Turkey-supplied Bayraktar TB-2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles…were vulnerable
to ground attack. When launched they were easily destroyed in the air by the
Pantsir S-1 air defence system.”

A leading Cyprus military source says that Cypriot and Greek defence planners
are well aware of the vulnerabilities of the Turkish drones. “The big news”,
adds the source, “is that Turkey has been pushing military conflict – for
example, in Karabakh and in the Donbass — to test the weapons they have for
sale. They then tout joint ventures like the one with the Ukrainians for
 promotion of weapons attacking Russian defences.   There has been a strategic
decision for Turkey to sell cheap weapons to poor and corrupt Third World
leaders – the regime in Kiev obviously qualifies – as western weapons are
expensive and come with conditions. They are attempting ‘copy cat’ operations
like those of Pakistan, Korea, Singapore. The Ukrainian venture will be great
for them so long as the drones aren’t fired and tested against Russian
defences.”

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by Editor - Monday, February 21st, 2022
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RUSSIAN BLACK BOX DEFENCE AGAINST AMERICAN BOOBY TRAP OFFENCE

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by John Helmer, Moscow
  @bears_with

In the Foreign Ministry’s new paper for the State Department, delivered on
Thursday afternoon and then published on the Ministry website,   there is a
restatement of the Russian proposals for security in Europe which the US refuses
to address. There is also nothing new in the threat: “In the absence of the
readiness of the American side to agree on firm, legally binding guarantees to
ensure our security from the United States and its allies, Russia will be forced
to respond, including through the implementation of military-technical
measures.”

President Vladimir Putin said the same thing to the assembly of the Russian
officer corps on December 21. “Is anyone unable to grasp this? This should be
clear…I would like to emphasise again: we are not demanding any special
exclusive terms for ourselves. Russia stands for equal and indivisible security
in the whole of Eurasia. Naturally, as I have already noted, if our Western
colleagues continue their obviously aggressive line, we will take appropriate
military-technical reciprocal measures and will have a tough response to their
unfriendly steps.”    

Putin’s point was repeated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Geneva
on January 10, following his talks with his State Department counterpart, Wendy
Sherman.  For more detail on those talks, read this.  

What is meant by “military-technical measures” is Russia’s black box defence.
This is not the place – it will not be the place – to read what this will be.
Anglo-American think-tankers are paid by their governments to guess what is
inside the box, as is the new source for analysis of Russia in the
Anglo-American media, the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Three things are certain about what is inside the black box. The first is
spelled out emphatically in yesterday’s Foreign Ministry paper: “There is no
‘Russian invasion’ of Ukraine, as the United States and its allies have been
officially declaring since last autumn, and there are no plans for it.”  This
rules out a land force invasion of Ukraine, as well as aerial bombing, missile
and drone strikes launched from Russian territory.

The second sure thing about the black box defence is that it is black: it will
be a surprise.

The third thing is, as Putin said last December, it will be “reciprocal”. This
 means the Americans and their European allies are already using comparable
measures in their attacks on Russia directly and in the Donbass. Reciprocal in
this Russian vocabulary may mean comparable; it does not mean symmetrical along
the Russian land border with the Ukraine; offshore, in the Black and Azov Seas;
in the airspace above the Donbass or in the cyberspace .  

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