Posted by Frenchie,
(This post was originally written during the fall of 2022, but not published. Never the less it remains true today)
President Zelensky and his puppet masters at NATO launched a counter offensive against Russian forces.
They chose a place where these troops were very few, and which Moscow was not set to occupy.
Therefore they can celebrate with lots of fanfare this "victory" without enemies, nor battles.
Lets go back on this propaganda campaign which so far has only convinced those who wanted it to be true, which is basically the western Mass media.
Kiev announced in a bombastic way a counter offensive in the region of Kharkov, which is located north of the Donbass region.
The "Ukrainian" forces under Nato's command and with its technical, and satellite support, have "liberated" a territory strip of about 70 km in length and 30 km in width.
President Zelensky himself visited the town of Izium with an entourage of western media, to declare an upcoming victory by Ukraine over the "Russian invaders".
The reality is strikingly different, the western led forces never entered the Donbass area, neither in the Lougansk nor in the Donestsk.. In fact they only reccuparated the territories that the Russians conquered early in their Special Military Operation (SMO), which they claimed, was to want to De Nazify (which for the Russians means to get rid of the radical Nationalist like the banderist and other extremist groups); yet never wanted to occupy.
From the beginning of the operation, Putin announced that the goal of the SMO was to help defend the two Russian Speaking Republics of the Donbass, but not seized the rest of the Ukrainian territory.
After the failure of the peace negociations between the Ukrainian and the Russian governments in late March, under the pressure of the Biden White House, Putin's approach evolved into wanting to punish the Ukrainian for the war the Russian see as having started in 2014 and the violent annexation of the southern territories, after these declared their separation, following the Maidan coup de force.
Following this new development after April of this year, Putin had two options: either to annex Novorussia or Makhnovchitchina, both areas of traditional Russian heritage which overlap quite extensively.
Makhnovchitchina is the territory where in 1918, the black flag army of the Anarchist Farmer leader Nestor Makhno triumphed over the the Extreme Nationalist of the Kiev government led by Symon Petlioura and Dmytro Dontsov, whose successors are governing Ukraine now. After a short life the libertarian farming communities of Makhno were massacred under the coordinated attacks of the Germans, the Ukrainian Nationalists and the Trotskysts Bolchevicks. The largest ever Anarchist State in the World had disappeared, and it was claimed by Kiev. The current counter offensive of Zelensky is a part of that territory.
Novorussia, litteraly the New Russia, is the colony of Russian population, conquered by Gregory Potemkine, (Tsarina Catharina II's lover), from the Ottoman Empire. It comprises the whole of the south of Ukraine, from Crimea all the way to a small sleeve of territory in Moldova, called Transnistria. Marshall Potemkine established a modern state, inspired by the Greeks and the Romans. This area never experienced the rough system of Serfdom, which the Empress was not able to get rid of, in the rest of her Empire.
In the end Putin chose Novorussia, to be annexed in the Russian confederation. This past weekend referendum were held under the supervision of several thousands of international observers, to ask the people of the Donestk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaparohzhia, areas if they wish to join the Russian federation.
Voting which is to last 4 days, has been massive despite the indiscriminate shelling by the Kiev government of civilian areas, to discourage people from voting. Artillery barrage, drone strikes and missiles have been used, while the Russians are using counter battery fire, anti drone systems, anti missiles as well as Air force to silence the incoming bombardments.
The escalation by Nato and Washington, has been addressed by Putin this week. He warned the west of severe retaliations in case of a continued escalation. At the same time he has recalled about three hundred thousands reserve troops. This is a major escalation, when you consider that most of the fighting on the Russian side so far has been done by the reservists of the republics of Donbass, Chechens volunteers, and what the Russians call with their dark sense of humor the "musicians" aka the mercenaries of the group Wagner.
On a legal and a technical level, once the referendum is over, and the Russian republics request to be integrated in the Russian federation is accepted by the Duma....any attack by foreign forces against Russian territory will be met by overwhelming military force. This means that we would move from a MSO to a full blown war against western aggressors. When you consider that so far, Putin has been a voice of moderation, compared to his public opinion, and unlike the madman described by western propaganda; one should ponder the risk of the full blown conflict we are facing.
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