By Brandon Smith
The purpose of NATO involvement in the Ukraine War has, to me, always appeared obvious. Ukraine has nothing to do with the interests of the western public, nothing to do with the security of Europe and nothing to do with the economic advancement of the United States. Yet, NATO and the globalists have been politically interfering in the region since at least 2014 and preparing the ground for an eventual war with Russia.
To be clear, I don’t favor Russia any more than I favor Ukraine. The Kremlin has long had its own ties to the globalists, as I have outlined in numerous articles. How deep those ties go is up for debate – Maybe the honeymoon is over and Russia is truly done trying to get a seat at the globalist table. What I do know is that western elites want a world war and they have done everything in their power to start one.
Look at it this way: What if you were to make a list of all the covert and overt NATO operations in Ukraine and then flipped script? What if Russia was pursuing all the same agendas of destabilization, control and arms proliferation in Mexico (as the Soviets did in Cuba in the 1960s)? If the US invaded Mexico preemptively it would be completely understandable.
Whether or not Putin is acting in the best interests of Russia doesn’t really matter. The war was inevitable anyway because NATO made sure it was impossible to avoid. But what purpose does such a proxy war serve? Well, it doesn’t serve much purpose at all…unless the goal is to instigate a wider world war between the East and the West. In that scenario the globalists benefit greatly.
They get a scapegoat for the economic collapse they’ve already set in motion. They multiply the global fear factor and make the public desperate for the political elites to step in and solve all their problems. And, they can get rid of their domestic enemies (conservatives and patriots) by accusing them of “working with Russia” to undermine the war effort if they dare to rebel against unconstitutional mandates.
Beyond that, they also get an opportunity to send young men (who might rebel) off to the meat grinder in Ukraine so that there’s no new generation of freedom fighters to deal with. World War III is a win-win-win for the Davos crowd, as long as it doesn’t go full-on nuclear holocaust and wipe out their carefully crafted surveillance states.
But how do they turn the proxy war into a world war without looking like the bad guys? That’s the trick, isn’t it?
The proxy (in this case, Ukraine) would have to take actions that provoke Russia into an explosive outburst. Russia would have to utilize tactics or weaponry that puts a vast number of civilians at risk, requiring greater NATO involvement and perhaps even UN intervention. They need Russia to level a major city containing hundreds of thousands of civilians. They need Russia to drop MOABs or nukes. They need a dramatic war crime; otherwise, the western public is not going to support boots on the ground or agree to a military draft.
Popular support for monetary and military aid in Ukraine is waning quickly and Ukraine knows they are about to lose. The Kursk offensive looks like an act of desperation triggered by this reality.
The Kursk region has almost no modern strategic value. It’s a rural agricultural area with a limited industrial base. It does have natural gas pipelines that send energy to Europe, but that doesn’t help Ukraine. They’re already in trouble with Germany for blowing up the Nordstream pipeline. There is also a nuclear power plant in the area but it’s too far away for Ukraine’s troops to seize it (They could try to destroy it with drones and cause a nuclear incident, but this would have to be done covertly without Ukraine taking direct credit).
Mainstream strategists argue that the Kursk operation was designed to force Russia to move crack troops away from the Donbas front where they are making impressive gains. This would allegedly slow down Russia’s attrition based offensive and change the direction of the war. But if that was the plan, it failed miserably.
Ukraine’s troops in Kursk have reportedly been contained. Using NATO-style maneuver tactics to invade Kursk has also done nothing to slow Russia’s advance as they are now primed to take the key city of Toretsk. They are also approaching Pokrovsk (the main staging ground for Ukraine’s forces in the east). These areas are heavily defended with long term entrenchments, but Russia is rolling right through them. The lines beyond these cities are thin or non-existent. Ukraine would immediately be forced to negotiate a cease fire.
Russia also launched the largest missile and drone strikes of the war in fifteen Ukrainian oblasts, causing even greater disruptions to utilities. This proves two things: The Russian military has NOT been diminished or crippled and they still have ample long range ordnance, despite what NATO officials originally claimed
There’s a reason why Kursk was so lightly defended by Russia – It’s not worth anything to Ukraine in terms of winning the war. That said, I would like to offer an alternative theory on why Ukraine made such a move…
The moment Ukraine crossed onto Russian soil the media and political narrative changed. The word today is that the Kremlin’s “red lines” are meaningless and that Ukraine has proven that Putin is “all talk” when it comes to nuclear weapons and metropolitan strikes. The discussion has turned to the use of US and European long range missiles deep into Russian territory. The Ukrainian government (with NATO behind it) is demanding that US and European officials allow them access to the big-boy toys.
Again, the Biden Administration has to at least appear resistant to this idea. They know if they openly give the green light to offensive ATACM strikes on Russian soil beyond the front that they will be seen as stepping over the line of logistical “support” into the realm of direct warfare with the Russians. Yes, I’m well aware that NATO intel and “advisers” have been on the ground in Ukraine since before the war began. The point is, it’s not official policy because the public would not accept it.
Long range strikes into Russia, I believe, will set in motion more Russian strikes on major cities in the west of Ukraine where the majority of the population lives. These areas have gone largely untouched during the duration of the war. Putin, despite what the media claims, has been careful to limit the targeting of larger civilian centers. That will end if NATO missiles hit Russian cities.
Kursk may have been an attempt to embarrass Russia into wild strikes on civilian targets, thereby giving NATO a reason to intervene. That’s one theory. Another theory is that the Kursk operation is designed to convince western policy makers and the public that there will be no nuclear repercussions; that Putin is all bluster and Ukraine should be given more advanced tools to bomb Moscow.
This narrative is largely promoted by the Atlantic Council, a globalist think-tank with ties to the World Economic Forum and the “Three Seas Initiative.” The Atlantic Council directly advises the Ukrainian government on all aspect of the war, including strategy through their Eurasian Center. They also advise NATO through their Scowcroft Center. As their website notes:
“The Eurasia Center has worked tirelessly to respond to the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, using our well-respected and high-visibility platform and leveraging relationships in government, civil society, and the media to have great impact. The Eurasia Center offers recommendations directly to the U.S. administration and Congress, senior Ukrainian officials, European leadership, international media, and civil society. The Center tracks the military and political situation within Ukraine and advocates for stronger, faster measures to stall and mitigate the damage of the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine.”
I would argue that the Atlantic Council is the primary globalist “influencer” in the Ukraine war – The source for the majority of strategic decisions and propaganda. Their support of the ‘Three Seas Initiative” since 2014 has been the driving force in the effort to bring Ukraine into the EU and NATO (the primary reason why the war started in the first place).
Lindsay Graham, a Neo-Con and rabid proponent of using Ukraine as a proxy to ignite a war with Russia, has been participating in Atlantic Council projects since at least 2010.
It’s the Atlantic Council and their media contacts, in my opinion, that are pushing for large scale missile strikes into Russia. They are also the source for the claim that Putin’s red lines are a fake out. They state on their website:
“Ukraine’s offensive is now posing serious questions about the credibility of Russia’s saber-rattling and the rationality behind the West’s abundance of caution. After all, the Ukrainian army’s current invasion of Russia is surely the reddest of all red lines. If Russia was at all serious about a possible nuclear escalation, this would be the moment to make good on its many threats. In fact, Putin has responded by seeking to downplay the invasion while pretending that everything is still going according to plan.”
This is the same propaganda that has been spreading into most establishment media platforms in recent weeks. (As a side note, the Atlantic Council was also heavily involved in the funding of covid mandate and vaccine propaganda during the pandemic scare).
The idea that ballistic volleys into Russia using NATO supplied missiles won’t result in Putin using MOABs or nukes is truly insane. Keep in mind, long range strikes into Russia will do nothing to change the conditions on the ground in the Donbas.
Even if the globalists can’t convince western populations to give the thumbs up for ballistic attacks on Russia using weapons paid for with our tax dollars, the powers-that-be have a contingency plan. Ukraine has recently announced that they have developed their OWN long range ballistic missile, and those weapons supposedly don’t fall under the supervision of the US and Europe.
Eventually these kinds of strikes will lead to a Russian response that will appear brutal; and western warhawks will squeeze that event for all it’s worth. They’ll run with it straight to the Pentagon and demand a plan for US military conscription. If this is the agenda then they’ll need to make it happen BEFORE the elections in November.
Donald Trump is looking increasingly likely to be the winner of the presidential race. I have long held that the globalists will wrap up an economic collapse or a world war and throw it in Trump’s lap. They already tried to do the same thing with the covid pandemic and the inflationary crisis.
The timing of the Kursk offensive and the call for missile strikes on Russia is not a coincidence. Trump claims that his intention is to end the Ukraine war as quickly as possible once he enters office. This will likely mean a leveraged peace settlement that will involve Ukraine giving up the Donbas region to Russia. If Trump is sincere, then there are many elites in the Atlantic Council, the WEF and NATO that will not be happy.
They need to escalate the war into something bigger, something that can’t be undone. Right now, the war can be ended – All it takes is some diplomacy and forcing Ukraine to understand that they’re not going to get the Donbas or Crimea back no matter how many lives they sacrifice. But if there are massive civilian casualties on either side, the situation becomes irreversible. I suspect this is what the globalists want.
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There is no way they will allow Trump to return to the White House. I believe they are going to steal the election in November like they did in 2020. This is why we’re seeing fake polls in the mainstream media that show a close race between Trump and Harris. The race has to be close in order for them to steal the election.
The votes have to be close for them to rig the election, not the polls. The polls all showed Hillary winning in 2016, and we all saw how that turned out. But I get what you’re saying. I still think it’s going to be Trump in 2025, unless the election never happens.
“Unless the election never happens.” That’s been my take for awhile.
I don’t think Ukraine took out Nordstream. That clearly seemed like a NATO or US action. The story of it being planned and executed by drunk Ukrainians is too suspicious to be remotely believable.
The crux of all this is that the neocon psychopaths really believe they can thread this needle and control the outcome of calling Putin’s bluff. They’re insane and their hubris is going to destroy everything. The only path away from this self destructive madness is for we citizens to take action. Waiting and hoping is not a winning strategy.
I’m leaning towards them trying to stop the election all together. Right now the deep state is throwing everything including the kitchen sink at trying to do another steal. This one is going to be “Too big to rig” as Trump says. Once they see they can’t print, re-feed, or harvest enough ballots to shore up the difference they will just pull the rug out from under the whole system.
I am believing more and more there will not be elections.
Jake Sullivan and company have us on the fast track to icbm’s crossing in the sky.
Yes you are correct sir. And don’t forget 2022 as well and there is NO doubt for 1 second they will Not cheat – they are masters at that mess. It is NOT going to end well at all folks.
I love the quote by Gerald Celente when he says: “Trade wars, currency wars, world wars. When all else fails, they take you to war”. The globalists know full well the system they have created and protecting is now collapsing. They don’t want a World War, they “need a World War” to use it as cover for what will eventually happen on its own.
“The Kremlin has long had its own ties to the globalists, as I have outlined in numerous articles. How deep those ties go is up for debate – Maybe the honeymoon is over and Russia is truly done trying to get a seat at the globalist table. What I do know is that western elites want a world war and they have done everything in their power to start one.”
Yeah I too have had my doubts about Putin many times over. However Paul Craig Roberts sees Putin as a leftist who is sincere in his beliefs that he can do business with the West.
Everything about Ukraine vs Russia seems so scripted and strange. Why does Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev continue to create Red Lines, that must not be crossed, only for the US, NATO and its Allies to cross them and the threats are ignored by the same cast of characters. Then Ukraine starts to bomb inside Russia, when Russia begins to express more Red Lines and nothing happens when those are ignored.
The Russians are still showing themselves as those who find it hard to believe that the US is behind all of this. A 5th grader could figure it all out, that the United States is at War against Russia and is using Ukraine as cannon fodder.
And somehow Putin is NOT smart enough to see through this? I find it all too hard to believe.
Well, to be fair, Kursk is not the crossing of a “red line” just because the Atlantic Council says it is. The Russians know they are winning soundly in the east. They don’t need nukes just because Ukraine moves troops into an agricultural area with no strategic value. It’s a clear provocation that they’re not falling for. The real test will be if Ukraine starts launching ATACMs into Russian cities, which is looking increasingly more likely.
“Yet, NATO and the globalists have been politically interfering in the region since at least 2014 and preparing the ground for an eventual war with Russia.”
In facts, at least since 2004 and “Orange revolution” in Ukraine with 2 “heroes” : Viktor Iouchtchenko the future president of Ukraine (2005-2010) and Ioulia Tymochenko(1st woman to become PM). At the time, i focused on this “revolution”; it was too “perfect”: the “good guys” on one side and the “bad guys” on the other.
Zbigniew Brzeziński(President Carter’s former Secretary of State, one of the main globalist figure, friend of Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama’s mentor) mentioned Ukraine and Russia in his famous book “The Grand Chessboard” (1997)..
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Quote: ““It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire [95].”
― Zbigniew Brzeziński, “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”.
Does Russia really want to become an “empire” again?!…or are we witnessing kabuki theater between West and East?!
“Ukraine has nothing to do with the interests of the western public… the goal is to instigate a wider world war between the East and the West. In that scenario the globalists benefit greatly.”
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There has never been a successful Nation on Planet Earth where the leaders of that Nation truly hated their own citizens… and said leaders did nothing to benefit the Public Good but only did things to enrich and empower Themselves.
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Ukeland happens to be the place where this useless exercise in World insanity is taking place. But if it weren’t going on there it would be going on someplace else today because the Western Dark Side is hell-bent on toying with Armageddon. A catastrophe that these soulless ghouls have been planting the seeds for and engaging in foreplay for like a teenage boy in heat for a good long time.
When a teenage boy has ‘one thing’ on his mind.. that’s all he can think about. And so it is with the Dark Side that has only had one thing in mind for generations – the complete installation The New Dark Side Empire and the obliteration of everything else that stands in the way.
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How does humanity survive in the face of such insane nonsense? That is the biggest question of the day… for all other questions pale in comparison to the vaporizing of Planet Earth and the erasure of human life thereupon.
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A one-time comic is leading Ukeland…being funded and advised by current comedians within the Dark Side who are comedic but seriously not funny in the least.
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Try to reason with a teenage boy with one thing on his mind. Then, picture trying to reason with a room full of them (along with ‘hungry’ women) with one thing only on Their minds as They work themselves up into a fever pitch with wide-eyes and a look of desperation.
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That’s where our World is today. Our future is in the hands of those with passions They cannot control and don’t even want to.
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Perhaps the only path forward for Planet Earth is to see that lots of hot-and-bothered unhinged eager-lings get a good and long cold shower. Planet Cooling, anyone? Can’t hurt to try.
I think that one of the biggest stories that no one is talking about is that Trump couldn’t be potentially sentenced to jail on Sep 18 2024.
It’s a rather large puzzle. Kruschev banged his heal on the coffee table and told Nixon that USSR would bury the United States. Their Communism took over American politics, culture and universities because at that time, they couldn’t do it militarily. But you have to remember that all of the devils servants are working together, even when they are fighting each other. Communists, Globalists, Atheists and all other ists. Zbignew Brzenski, not to be confused with Zelinsky, hated Russia with a passion. But he’s still working with the Globalists for global domination. Having said all that, we have to remember that when technology and weapons are this modern and powerful, a nation can’t just isolate itself and hope nobody else bothers them or takes them over, because someone else will if we don’t. It’s kind of a catch 22. Now that the U.S. government has taken over most of the world, we have to be concerned that the same totalitarians we were concerned about creating dictatorships elsewhere will grab the reigns of power, corporate, governmental, educational etc…. in our own country, which they did long ago.
The reality is that the globalists, with all their power and technology, still fear a public uprising. So much so that they went through the elaborate ruse of a pandemic event just to try to trick the population into accepting tyranny willingly. Why not simply use those advanced weapons to force the populace to bow down to them? Because they know they will lose in a direct confrontation. The public has the real power. The sooner everyone realizes it’s time to take action the sooner we can rid the world of these degenerates.
You definitely have a point there Brandon. It’s all a battle for the mind of the public. But up until the present, our education system has pretty much been used to conquer the minds of several generations with Marxism and Darwinism. That’s why we are where we are, and it was Kruschev who told Nixon that his Grandchildren would be Communists. Well, he lied. It happened to the generation before Nixons Grandchildren. Nixons response? Ok, Mr. Kruschev, but you better not try to take it by force. Personally, I think the Globalists/Communists are at a juncture where they have to make a physical move and kill off much of the population before somebody sounds a more effective wake up call than they can squelch.
Brilliant, I 100% agree with you.
“Eventually these kinds of strikes will lead to a Russian response that will appear brutal; and western warhawks will squeeze that event for all it’s worth. They’ll run with it straight to the Pentagon and demand a plan for US military conscription.”
We ended the draft in 1973 rather effectively. It was not ended by Richard Nixon’s magnanimity but rather by massive non-compliance. Unfortunately we did not drive a stake through its heart. They can attempt to resurrect it, but the tactics that made it untenable in the 1970’s have multiplied with social media. The recent change in the defense law that allows for draft registration from public records rather than by individual compliance is a clear shot at one of the tactics we used back in the day. So while it does appear that they are contemplating and indeed salivating for a renewed draft, we do know how to end one in its infancy. Whether or not they are willing to go to the extremes of tyranny necessary to prevent those tactics is the question.
We’ll also have to keep an eye on what’s happening in the MidEast.
https://www.unz.com/article/we-told-israel-look-if-you-guys-have-to-go-were-behind-you-all-the-way/
Not to mention the China Sea and Taiwan…
Off topic: happening now in Montana state: really, Brandon?! :
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/rare-august-snow-clips-montanas-peaks?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2118150&post_id=148255432&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3yjxpy&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
HAARP?!
Yes. It melted in a day though. Not completely uncommon.
It’s not true that Ukraine has nothing to do with Western interests. We have weapons labs there that nobody else wants. We use it to keep an eye on Russia. and we have an interest in their scant resources. But you are correct the level of our involvement is mostly about the war agenda.
That’s not what I said. I said it has nothing to do with the interests of the western PUBLIC. Big difference.
Regarding the upcoming so-called elections here, I will refer to Paul Craig Roberts interesting analysis:
“Ask yourselves how in less than one month Kamala Harris went from the most disapproved of American politicians to being the front runner in a presidential election and such an inspiring candidate that the voting rolls are bulging with new voters for Kamala.
The answer is that it is all a media and establishment orchestration to create the impression in the limited minds of insouciant Americans that as Kamala is leading, the election wasn’t stolen.
As Republicans and American citizens are apparently incapable of acknowledging reality, they have taken no effective steps to protect the integrity of US elections.
Theft it is, and theft it will be.
And no one will do anything about it.”
Nuff said.
Where I live in Wisconsin, ballot drop boxes are back because sleeping Republicans allowed the state supreme court to go full leftist. They even gerrymandered our election maps this year forcing all to be re-elected in the state Senate, guaranteeing communist leftists more seats at the table. Republicans refused to fight and let the courts decide our election maps.
Now the Wisconsin Elections Commission refused to remove Kennedy from the ballot, even you know he dropped out. Again, election interference, but nobody stands up, we continue to allow this bullshyt on our watch. I wrote the WEC about this to no avail. They do not care, nor do they listen anymore.
Biden and Evers won Wisconsin by the smallest margins, under 20,000 votes. It does not look good at all, rigging will be easy by the communist leftists.
We are doomed and Ukraine could be the trigger.
Conscription won’t happen without some domestic disaster/event. There’s not nearly enough political juice to send young Americans to the meat grinder out in Ukraine against their (and their mothers’) will. Even less if they’re slinging strategic weapons at one another.
They will attempt conscription with social credit-style punishments attached if people refuse. Not saying they will succeed , but they’re definitely going to try. They’ve been building up to it for the past four years.
And that’s where CBDC’s come into play. If you don’t do as we say, we’ll cut you off from your money.
Well-written essay and good comments. I appreciate your replies to comments.
I have little doubt the Russian Federation will dictate peace terms to Ukraine in due course, although, I still do not understand the Russian’s battle strategy. For instance, why are there any bridges still spanning the Dneiper River supplying Ukrainian troops? Why continue fighting trench warfare when a massive, concentrated series of offenses would break Ukrainian defenses (like in The Great War)?
Never blow up bridges if you might need to cross them in the future. To answer your second question – DRONES. The days of maneuver warfare are over.
I was thinking about conscription and how it might be counterproductive even if people complied. If they conscripted they would have to conscript younger men first right? Wouldn’t younger men tend to be more liberal? How does it help them to ship off their supporters to die? Are they actually only going to conscript boomers from red states?
No, Gen Z men are now leaning far more conservative than liberal. But if they get conscription enforcement in place I suppose they could try to draft anyone they want, including red state conservatives. We’ll go to war with them first, but they could try.
Even the youngest boomers are getting a little too long in the tooth for conscription.
I’m one of the youngest boomers left and I turn 60 in December. Isn’t 59 years old way way too long in the tooth for conscription?
Generally yes, unless the government wants to get rid of you or they are desperate for bodies. Look at some of the gray haired guys they got on the front lines in Ukraine.
Well here you go. Hot off the press.
“ THURSDAY, SEP 05, 2024 – 11:35 AM
The Kremlin has just threatened to take over and directly occupy essentially the whole of Ukraine, extending the main theater of war far past the Donbass in the East, in a warning aimed at Washington and NATO as President Biden mulls allowing US weapons for long-range attacks deep inside Russian territory.
The fresh warning was issued by the Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who is certainly no stranger to issuing boisterous, hugely threatening statements. He told a press briefing with correspondents from TASS that a future permanent buffer zone along Russia’s southern border with Ukraine will crucial in staving off cross-border shelling and attacks.
But, he explained, if the West supplies longer range missiles to Kiev and greenlights their use on Russian soil, Russia’s military will then expand the proposed buffer zone all the way to Poland. Reuters this week has reported the Biden administration is getting closer to approving the long-range missiles the Zelensky government has been pleading for.”