Subtext: You Better Believe It
The Quest to Save Sebastopol
Let’s be honest, for a country, Ukraine is an unnatural and artificial construct. Huntington would have defined Ukraine as a fault-line civilization– much like the Balkans. Given this fact, this region is tailor-made for a conflict. Over the millennia, empires have washed up like the tide and left their mark on the Caspian steppe. Every empire from Roma to Byzantium.
As we know, the two civilizations that are in conflict on the steppe at the present moment are the Roman Catholic Ukrainians and the Russian Orthodox Christians. Orthodox in the east and Roman Catholic in the west. In the Huntington model, there’s a mix of religions and complexity (but) the vast majority of people in Ukraine are divided among those lines.
To the United States, the war on the steppe is an opportunity to save its dying empire.
To capitalize on this opportunity, in February 2014, the CIA orchestrated a coup called the Maidan Revolution. As this 5-day Revolution was in full swing in Kyiv. Russia, simultaneously annexed Crimea with the single objective to save their warm water ports in Sebastopol. For the Russians, a pro-NATO Ukrainian government in Kyiv would have meant the cancellation of its port leases in Crimea.
Severely limiting Russian Access to the Sea
To help Washington accomplish its goal of shutting down Sebastopol and placing pressure on Moscow. From 2015 to 2022, NATO advisers were sent to Kyiv ―by Washington― to build up the Ukrainian Army. This was to make the Ukrainian military (interoperable) with NATO as a whole.
From 2016 on, US-NATO advisors were busy building battalion-size combat units in Ukraine every 30 days―(or so). Until finally, Ukraine had built a relatively large force of approximately 120,000 troops. A force that could have easily overrun the ethnic Orthodox Christians in the East. Additionally, a force of this size could have been used as a blocking element against Russia in the north — to hold Moscow hostage with hypersonic systems such as the– Dark Eagle.
Cynically, the building of this NATO-controlled force was all done under the cover of the (Minsk Accords) as Angela Merkel opined.
From 2017 to 2022, Russian satellites passed over this region regularly, and Russian intelligence could see a large NATO force building in central Ukraine. We can never forget that Russia cannot have a large NATO force on its frontier– especially this close to Moscow.
Let me make this clear, It does not matter who the Russian president is. It could be Putin or someone else. The politicians in the Duma will never allow a large NATO force to exist in the Dombass under any circumstances. The pressure on the Russian president will be immense and never-ending. Therefore, President Putin needs to end the threat in the south. That is precisely why Russia is engaging in a Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
The best way for Americans to look at this holy horseshit that the Russians have to contend with.
I want you to imagine that its 1977 and the Soviet Union came into Monterrey Mexico and allied with the Mexican Government. Then started building an army in northern Mexico.
Over a 5-year period, they built up a force of 500,000 Soviet-Mexican fighters that seem to be hell-bent on righting the wrongs of the Mexican-American War. As the Soviets were building this army they ran media campaigns against President Carter– calling Jimmy a dictator and that he needed to be tried in the Hague due to war crimes in Vietnam.
Then, Kosygin ordered this Soviet-Mexican force up to the Texas border with thousands of artillery systems and armor.
I know this is a funny example. but…
…You just have to ask yourself one question: What would America do in this situation?
And you have your answer.
Russia is Leaving the West
In the interest of full disclosure, there’s a bonus in this for Russia. Many politicians in Russia wanted to leave the West completely. The problem with this was that the Russian economy was too integrated with the West. Given that the dumbshits in Washington sanctioned Russia totally, it gave the leadership in Russia the ability to separate itself from the West completely. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be politically possible in Russia.
Many in Russia perceive the United States as socially and economically collapsing and this faction in Russia wants no part of the West
―Chris