Putin can save Syria AND Europe

"Russia's deployment in Syria is an important signal to the world that in the future, things won't work without Moscow."

Analysis by Henry PAUL

in Contra Magazine, Austria, October 10, 2015

October 12, 2015

Translated from German by Tom Winter

Note: Sputnik published a short piece based on snippets from this Contra Magazine essay. We found the original, and give you the whole essay. Many points of interest, with blunt speech!

October 12, 2015

Russia's deployment in Syria is an important signal to the world that in the future, things won't work without Moscow. The US is slowly but surely becoming obsolescent as a dominant force on the planet. Europe, too, will have to accept this.

Russia has interposed itself into the proxy war against Assad, because it is mandatory and necessary. Erdogan (Turkey) wants to set up a secret "no-fly-zone" between Turkey and Syria (under the banner of war against Syria) to further his own fight against the Kurds, because he wants, no matter the cost, to prevent Kurdish self determination.

The entry of Russia has twice led to a border complaint: Twice Russian fighters have overflown the alleged border of Turkey; On closer analysis, this came down to Turkey's unapproved "no-fly-zone." This time, a Russian fighter plane, with a Turkish patrol close by, let it be known that it is the last time that Turkey can violate Syrian airspace - from now on any Turkish fighter plane there will be shot out of the sky by a Russian jet. This message was unmistakable.

Russia alone has the right (beside Assad) to operate troops in Syria since Assad has asked Russia for assistance (International Law).

It is clear now that all private mercenary armies -- the USA's "moderates", the extreme jihadists of the US, and the "Islamic State" forces of the US, have nothing more to do in Syria, likewise Turkey or the secret alliances of NATO. i.e. France and mercenary-NATO units in Syria. The stirring of the soup comes to an end. The prudent ruler of the Syrian state, Assad, again has his country under control, since Russia, called upon to assist a friend, will expel the enemies.

The United States must officially backpedal, propaganda and all. Explanations of escalation on the part of the Russians, or actions in violation of international law on the part of Russia, or the indoctrination of the EU with respect to a possible outbreak of war via Syria -- all come to so much wastepaper. Obama was not paying attention, and the United States believed their policy of total attrition of entire regions and states via color revolutions, mercenaries, NGOs, and various types of armed terrorists, would lead to the goal: Assad must go. The belief is ignorance.

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You really have to ask yourself: a head of state must go, because a territorially completely distant country wants the elected chief to resign? The remote country is neither a neighboring state, nor does it have a conflict with Syria; there is no reason, and no evidence of any trespass of an international legal nature. So why should a state, foreign and afar off, force a ruler to resign? This hegemonic thinking, along with ongoing war measures absolutely contrary to international law, show the world once again that the United States is a rogue state, and wants to stay one. They proclaim themselves the exceptional country, which should enjoy more rights and more privileges than all other countries in the world, and so, as policeman of the world, they can bully, assault, occupy, enslave and militarily attack anyone else. With support through "inaction and acquiescence" of the UN, NATO, and the EU.

Through the intervention of Russia in the Syrian war, the problems for Erdogan regarding the Kurds have intensified; there are now the Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iraq, and all are working together - even the two different established parties (the Democratic Union PYD one hand, and the Workers' Party PKK on the other) to take advantage of Turkey's present situation, and regroup. It is foreseeable that the Kurds finally sooner or later get their own state - it would be a welcome thing.

At least Erdogan has no chance - so long as Putin is in the mix - to wage a campaign of destruction against the Kurds, under whatever cover story or under what excuse. The Kurds have a right to a state. They ought be constituted in all three countries and to hold a referendum. It really is time to end the 300-year old struggle and to establish a state.

Domestically, Obama has pretty much messed up everything there was to mess up. Not only that he had not fulfilled his declarations, but he was also proceeding along a fickle, indecisive and apolitical, path, taking his military power as a given, and acting as a one-man show, able to take any old false-flag-actions to force any ruler to genuflect.

Putin showed him up.

Putin has made it clear for the third time that he is an honorable politician who adheres to international law, who doesn't go around screaming, but is hardworking in the background and operating openly; who can aptly assess his opponents and above all, that he is interested in peace and sovereignty. The whole silly chatter of the United States about territorial violations in Ukraine or Georgia, and especially in Syria for alleged attacks on US property ("US assets"), the dumbies can just get out of their heads. These incitements and these hoaxes, this lousy propaganda, this documentation with brutal lies and false allegations (especially in Germany!) -- are are vomit-stirring feathers in the back of the throat.

And now Obama is trying (very cute thinking) to build up new military power in Turkey with large ground forces and air support. In Incirlik in southern Turkey housing is being built for these troops. Obviously, ongoing destabilization of the Orient is in view, until all oil fields are in US hands. The US is gearing up for ground war in Syria via Turkey. Although the NATO and US top military had already expressed that these measures are just for temporary actions, this is barely believable, because Incirlik, a tent city for the past four years is now being expanded. We can prepare ourselves, then, to see US combat missions in Syria. The election of the next president will tell how quickly it will come to war. [I wish this were true. I fear that no matter who we elect for president, the ineducable neo-cons will still be in charge. Barack H. Obama, for instance, turned into George W. Obama. -- Tr]

The old bag Brzesinski has been making the rounds in the press for weeks about Syria: he calls strong countermeasures - and even retaliatory strikes (Retaliations). Because the terrorists are indeed US property, intended to militarily destabilize Syria and cause as many "divide-and-conquer skirmishes" among the population as it takes until everybody is fighting everybody, in which circumstance Assad could be overthrown. This no longer works due to Putin and the Russian air force. 

Russia is clever. They offer NATO and US the opportunity to observe the air strikes with the Geo-data of the strikes, so everyone could see for themselves that the air strikes against the "Islamic State" are precise and concrete - not as in the USA, which only pretended to fight these terrorists and was actually bombing Assad troops. The US doesn't want to see it.

So there remains, as a last chance for peace in Syria, a UN Conference in Geneva, in which the differences of political deputies are quite clear. Russia wants Assad and his first political parties to participate in Syria at the conference. The US wants to prevent. They want the opposition forces (US terrorist forces of all sorts and sizes) to determine the conference process, together with NATO and USA, possibly the EU. 

This is going to be exciting. Then it becomes clear whether the UN is impartial and peacefully-minded or just a lackey of the United States. 

We in Europe should be truly thankful to Putin:
* He is a statesman
* He acts neutral and with international law
* He provides clear conditions
* He is committed to the sovereignty of the attacked countries
* He neutralized prohibited, international law-breaking combatants and armies


It would be suitable to reconfigure Europe to liberate Germany from the yoke of the unspeakable US occupation and to give back to us our dignity, honor, constitution, and nation, even if it were only a rump Germany.

UNCONFIRMED: ISIS leader wounded by Iraqi-Russian coordinated airstrike

October 12, 2015 - 

RusVesna - 

Translated for Fort Russ by J. Arnoldski

“Breaking: ISIS leader severely injured as a result of an Iraqi airstrike in partnership with Russia, western media withhold information - Kurdish militia intelligence”

Oct. 11, 2015 23:32

This sensational information was relayed to “Russian Spring” by a militiaman from Donbass, call-sign “Timur”, who is now among the Kurdish resistance detachments and responsible for coordinating operations with the Syrian Army.

Contrary to the claims of Western media, the head of the terrorist organization “Islamic State”, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured, along with ISIS leaders, by an Iraqi airstrike on a convoy in the city of Karabilah in the Iraqi province of Anbar. 

Currently, the wounded thug leader is in the Syrian city Al-Bukamal near the Iraqi border, where around 1,000 fighters are concentrated.

It should be noted that repeated attempts by US and NATO special services to liquidate the odious terrorist leader were without effect. However, shortly after the beginning of Iraqi-Russian cooperation in the framework of an anti-terrorist coalition and the opening of a joint information center in Baghdad, the Iraqi air force received the necessary data for a strike against top ISIS leaders. 

Note from J. Arnoldski: The news of al-Baghdadi's wounding by an Iraqi airstrike made possible by the efforts and intelligence of the joint, anti-ISIS coalition consisting of Russia, Iraq, Iran, and Syria is so far UNCONFIRMED. And, indeed, almost all major Western media have remained silent, refusing to even consider alleged reports. However, RT has covered the news citing Iranian news agencies and the report of the Baghdad Information Center. In addition, the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur has published the news and The Jerusalem Post reported that, while the airstrike targeting the ISIS convoy did in fact kill several ISIS leaders, Baghdadi was not among them according to "hospital sources and residents." The Independent cited the first statements from the Iraqi military that al-Baghdadi's fate was "unknown" and that he was "carried away by a vehicle. His health condition is still unclear." BBC merely passed on the Iraqi report that al-Baghdadi's convoy was hit. Both the BBC and the Independent, the only two significant Western news sources which have brought any attention to his alleged harm, spent considerable time assuring that the incident is most likely another false-flag, hysterical report akin to those from April, November, and July, 2014. ISIS itself, meanwhile, according to statements spread on Twitter, has at least denied that the leader is dead. 

While only time and investigation will tell if al-Baghdadi is indeed injured, or dead, there are several reasons why major Western media and ISIS itself will most likely shy away from any coverage or confirmation. The most important reason is clear: a confirmed kill, or at least wounding, of al-Baghdadi would irreparably disgrace and discredit the Western media campaign against the Russian-led anti-ISIS coalition, as such a success would prove the viability, efficiency, and integrity of the coalition's mission, intelligence, and strikes. This would openly contradict the mainstream corporate media line that the coalition is bombing the FSA and anti-Assad groups, not ISIS, and that the coalition is little more than a cunning scam to "save Assad" under the guise of "fighting terrorism" whose "clumsiness" and "faulty intelligence" have led to (provenly fake) civilian deaths. 

As for ISIS itself, it is unlikely that any information will be released, as al-Baghdadi's location, condition, and the status of the leadership in general are purposefully shrouded for security and political reasons. Between the shadows of the ISIS leadership itself and the prejudices of Western media and Western governments lies the uncomfortable truth concerning ISIS's relationship to the United States. The last thing the US needs or wants is publicity on a successful Russian-led coalition bombing of the leader of the organization which is (directly and indirectly) aiding its geopolitical aims in the Middle East and its information war against Russia. 

Littlehirosima:Cycle of Goodness

Original written by Yevdokia “Dunya” Sheremetyeva and published on her littlehirosima blog;  translated from Russian by J.Hawk and originally posted at South Front. October 12th, 2015

 –We’d like some Spanish literature.
–Hmmm….Borges?
–Something merrier. Do you have Don Quixote?
–For whom are you buying?
–We’re heading for a retirement home. To see an old guy.  In the Donbass.

The bookstore suddenly came to life. The staff dropped everything and went off to look for books for us.


We arrived at the retirement home at high speed and with a great deal of noise.

–We’re here to see Yuriy Loginov, please!

I’m walking with a purpose.
The packages I’m holding are so heavy, my hands are barely holding them.
Packages of letters and post-cards from the whole world–Germany, US, Australia, Turkey, for the elderly and for Yuriy personally. Then there are books.
Zhenya is walking behind me with bags of cookies, candies, and gingerbread, and is trying to stop my freight train. But it’s no use–the boiler has been stoked, and steam is coming out of every crack.

The nurse is confused:
–Loginov? I don’t even know where his bed is.
–I know–on the second floor. Take us there. To the left.


 
Yuriy was holding a book, just like last time.
–We’re here to see you. Remember me?
Yuriy did not react - too astonished.

 I sat down on the floor next to his bed and started taking out letters. Letters written especially for him, after I posted about him.
The whole blanket was covered with post-cards, and we still needed to find room for all these candies and cookies. And tell him about the books.

 –You read English?
Yuriy, chained to this spot for all eternity, not having any relatives and living his internal life, simply has dropped out of reality.
–No, but I used to know German pretty well.


 
–Well, unfortunately, this German woman sent you a letter in English.
–Please translate it. May I have a bun?
Yuriy's manner of speaking is very cultured and polite. As if he were a university professor in his office. I’m always embarrassed to use jargon when speaking with him.

Right there, on the floor, I start to read one letter after another.
My head is spinning. For some reason there are tears in my eyes.
Yuriy began to cry. And I keep on reading.
One card, then another.
Dear God, people, can you imagine what you have done for him with your letters?
Just don’t cry, OK?


 
–"Yuriy! Write me a letter!) I am leaving a photo for you, and you send me a letter".
–I have nothing to write on.
But we foresaw everything. We brought notepads and pens with us.
While I was making a mess on the floor, Yuriy’s neighbor rode into the room in his wheelchair.
I’m gesturing to the nurse. She half-whispers…
–It’s Ivan Ivanovich Shargorodskiy.
I’m grabbing Kordula’s post-cards–she’s an awesome woman from Germany who sent post-cards with chocolates in which she touchingly wrote in Russian, using an internet translator, about “greetings from Freiburg to dear grandpa.”
–Ivan Ivanovich, she wrote to you too.
Ivan Ivanovich got a confused look on his face, then softly smiled while his hands were filled with sweets, which they simply don’t get at the hospice.
–Wow, thanks.



I also had a bag of homemade post-cards from the Moscow Psycho-Neurological Dormitory No. 18. A remarkable girl by the name of Zhenya Birman gave them to me to pass on to the old folks. They are all different and signed. Colorful papers, cut-out newspaper articles. You can see the gaps where cut-outs were re-glued many times, because they weren’t evenly spaced the first time around. They were made with a great deal of commitment and love.

When Zhenya was asked about the dormitory, she answered: “A few years ago we somehow organized ourselves into a group of volunteers to go there on the weekends and do what we could. Mostly group activities: art therapy (we draw, sculpt, glue, cut out), literary circle (we read a poem with them, roleplay, etc.), in the summer we play various games outside, there are individual activities with those who can. I, for example, teach one girl math, sometimes we take someone who is allowed to go outside for a walk. We also provide physical labor to the institution. We painted fences and benches, planted flowers, organized a party. The people who live there are adults, 18 years and older, some have parents or relatives who visit, others are orphans who spent their entire life in the system.  The department has people with various developmental “particularities.” But not severe cases, they are all capable of communicating, some of them are genuinely bright, though their behavior is a bit off because they don’t know any other life.” There are such amazing volunteers in Moscow, and they got involved in organizing post-cards for the abandoned elderly of the Donbass. I sent a photo today for Zhenya–she simply answered “Hurrah! I’ll make copies and bring to my people. How wonderful.” See? “My people”? It’s Yuriy, Seryozha Kutsenko, they are already “mine.” The natural cycle of goodness.
And these post-cards made it to the Home for the Elderly in Rovenki.


 
–This is Nikolay Maksimovich Prudnikov! It’s his 83rd birthday. It just so happened that we showed up on his birthday.
Nikolay Maksimovich is missing one hand, but he is fully alert mentally.


 
This is Aleksandr Levenko–he is blind, but understands everything.
I got a cardboard postcard. There are many cut-outs inside. And a huge butterfly glued to the outside.
–Here’s a big butterfly. Can you feel it?
Aleksandr takes it from me while looking through me, and starts feeling it. The butterfly moved its whiskers under his touch.
Aleksandr smiled so broadly that everyone around laughed.
–Here are some candy for you!
He couldn’t even find words. He was flabbergasted.


Here’s another girl, Galya. A journal editor. Lives in Turkey. She loves the sea and diving. Like me. She found me by the metro with a package of letters: “pass them on to the old folks.” Galya is a beauty with three kids–and she wrote touching letters. I vilely read them, since the envelopes were not sealed. They are simply astounding. All different, no two alike. All expressing great concern. Each with a soul.
And we delivered all these letters and post-cards. We didn’t do it all ourselves–there wasn’t enough time, many patients slept when we came, others were taking their walks. There were many letters. Some were in English and I had to translate them. Others were emailed, and we printed them out.



Before leaving the Home for the Elderly, the nurse took me to Zinaida Andreyevna Antipova’s room. She’s only 69. To be honest, I didn’t even understand how she ended up there–she’s an energetic and friendly woman. She could be digging up her garden and feeding her grandkids jam. She has a son–he’s the one who dropped her off here, and he doesn’t visit. He simply never shows up. Perhaps he left the region for good…
She’s been at the Home for four years.

 

After talking to her I was about to leave when a man walked into the room.
I’m thinking–what’s this? Men and women live quite separately from one another here.
While I was thinking, the man walked up to me:
–Dunyechka, you don’t remember me?
Quietly and softly–and fatherly.
Right! The last time he helped us unload the sweets and the diapers.
He remembered not only me, but also my name.
It turned out to be her husband, Nikolay Antipov, 70.
They got to know each other here, at the Home. Got married a year and a half ago. She took his name.
He also has a son. Who also doesn’t remember him.
But now they are together. Just look at them.
–Can I photograph you together?
–Just a second, I’ll comb my hair, wait, Dunyasha! Kolya, take off the bandage!
They got busy. Kolya lovingly says to her:
–Zinochka, you are my most beautiful no matter what!


 
We were alone in the room. Zhenya and nurse had left.
I held on to the Antipovs, and they held on to me.
–Will you print us a copy of the photo with you?
So I had to make a selfie.
But I don’t know how to make one)


 
When people do nice things for you, you want to reciprocate. When people compliment you, you grow wings. When they think of you and give you a present from their soul, your heart fills with warmth which you wish to share. And the more caring you share, the more people share it with you, in a cycle. And so on, to infinity.

I am getting banal and boring, but one thing is coming to my mind–one has to multiply the goodness. Breed it, grow it. You simply can’t imagine what you’ll receive in return.



If you want contribute to humanitarian assistance to the people of the Donbass, contact me in person through my livejournal account, through Facebook, PayPal, or via email: littlehirosima@gmail.com

Knyrik, Bobrov, and "Viking" on the situation in Donbass

October 12, 2015 -

Novorossiya - 

Translated for Fort Russ by J. Arnoldski 

“What next? Konstantin Knyrik, Gleb Bobrov, and “Viking” on the ceasefire, Minsk Agreements, and the future of Ukraine and Donbass”

The Minsk Agreements have recently become the main topics in media as well as everyday kitchen conversation in Novorossiya and Russia. Will Ukraine fulfill them or not? Will the ceasefire last? What future awaits Ukraine and will Donbass return to Ukraine?

Konstantin Knyrik, head of the legendary news agency, News Front:

"If we’re speaking about the prospects of the truce, then three days ago there were serious violations, and the long-suffering Kubyshevsky district of Donetsk was hit by mortar fire from the Ukrainian side. Forecasts do not look optimistic as long as Ukraine is not complying with the truce, sure, not to such an extent as before, but, nevertheless, it is violating it.

The matter at hand is that Ukraine is not completely independent in making its own decisions and when it receives an order to resume hostilities. Information and video confirmation of the constant relocation of Ukrainian equipment to the so-called “ATO” zone are being systematically received.

Concerning Minsk in general, not a single point of the Minsk Agreements wasn’t fulfilled by the DPR and LPR in their deeds. This includes moving elections and giving a last chance to Ukraine to listen to the Normandy Format and fulfill them. 

But I don’t think that Ukraine will fulfill them, because the government in Ukraine now needs war, and war is the only instrument for maintaining the authorities. The people came [to power] by blood. And only blood can keep them in power.

I would like to be an optimist and believe in peace. Today, the republics are being built amidst the realities of war. They are building their statehood and doing this quite successfully. There are some kinds of welfare payments, the heating season has started, there are new factories, and there are new market outlets in the Russian Federation. Not long ago, the Lugansk meat-packing plant received approval to export meat products to Russia.

Only time will show how events develop further, but it is a fact that Ukraine can resume hostilities again in any moment. They are preparing for this, because they have no other path than war."

Gleb Bobrov, chairman of the LPR Writers’ Union, legendary author of “The Era of the Stillborn”, in which he foretold current events and the war in Ukraine and Donbass 10 years ago:

"Unfortunately, Ukraine is not going to fulfill any agreements. Instead of fulfilling them, they come up with all sorts of interpretations, artificial events, provocations, and so on. What Poroshenko said in Paris in the presence of Putin, Merkel, and Hollande is no more than a bluff. No one is going to fulfill anything. 

The problem is that the fulfilling of the Minsk Agreements is impossible for one reason: of Ukraine fulfills them, then it will cease to be Ukraine. The agreement assumes that a single, unitary Ukraine will simply cease to exist and turn in to a confederation.

If Donbass at first wanted to be heard, wanted mild autonomy in regards to our worldview, culture, history, and just basic respect, then now Donbass will not go for anything less than a confederation.

Ukrainie itself cannot change. After three major Ukrainian military defeats, taking into account losses of 15-20,000 dead, 35-50,000 crippled and maimed people with disabilities, the territorial losses of Crimea and Donbass, and a destroyed economy, the questions: for what sake is all of this? The current Ukrainian leadership still hasn’t been asked this question, and not simply asked, but demanded to find those at fault. And then someone will have to be hanged from lampposts. 

Now there is a real checkmate. Any further action will lead only to a deterioration of the situation. Therefore, the Ukrainian leadership is simply stalling according to an old Ukrainian tradition: “So be it.”

Today, they are increasingly robbing and ripping the last shreds of wool from a half-dead sheep, stuffing their pockets. Not even us, but the Ukrainian “hundreds” themselves say that they’ve never seen such corruption before. They are selling everything, even fake bulletproof vests. You see, it’s already come to the point of selling “Grad” systems. Just imagine: they wanted to sell a “Grad” from Western Ukraine to Romania. And what is there to say about little things like guns - we have the UAF fighters who went around Bolshaya Vergunka, selling them for 700 hrivnya. And this still isn’t the end. I think the situation will only worsen. 

In a year and a half, they’ve brought the country to default, the level of external debt has reached $70 billion, and Yatsenyuk goest up to the podium of the Verkhovna Rada says that they’ve prepared for winter: they intercepted a billion here, three billion there - is this such a normal preparation? 

They all have an absolutely childish attitude. Apparently, they believe that after everything they will have time to run to the border. 

Not long ago, we completed a sociological survey, in which we managed to talk with 28 people from the Ukrainian side of Lugansk, with those who didn’t recognize the Russian Spring or the LPR, but are still people. Read it, you won’t regret it. So here they are, on the other side, who consider us to be separatists, and they openly say that yes, we have an economic and humanitarian catastrophe,. Yes, we have complete lawlessness and arbitrariness, and as a norm they don’t know what will happen next. 

You know, I recently spoke with the famous writer Herman Sadulaev and asked him how the Chechens and Russians were able to overcome the consequences of the war. Three things turned out to be: the will of the people, which didn’t want war, sande leaders in the form of Putin and Akhmat, and later his son Ramzan Kadyrov, and the economic component. And that’s it - the terrible conflict was overcome. 

Now show me at least one sane politician from the other side? There is silence on this point. Is there simply at least one sane person with whom we could speak? Here’s the very “fulfillment” of the Minsk Agreements and all." 

Active participant of “Russian Spring” in Donetsk, militia commander Aleksandr Matyushin, call-sign “Viking”:

"A more or less silent regime has been established at the front. Again, it is a relative silence, as we see that Ukrainian troops continue to periodically violate the ceasefire. 

In particular, the day before yesterday the UAF struck the Kiev district of Donetsk with 120mm mortars. Almost immediately they renounce what they’ve done, and Ukrainian media announces that it was the DPR who attacked, and they say at state assemblies that the “militants” have destroyed their notorious commanders, “Givi” and “Motorola.” I will immediately say that this is a lie. 

Ukrainian troops not only didn’t remove their weapons, but they also continue to enlarge troop groupings in main areas. For all those who say “they ditched us”, I will say at once that we also aren’t in too much of a hurry to remove our armor and weapons, despite all the loud statements of Denis Pushilin in Minsk. Already now, judging by the concentration of enemy forces, it is possible to say that peaceful plans envisaged. 

Thus you can guess the approximate scenarios of a development of hostilities if the Kiev government decides on a full-scale war. The concentration of forces and political statements say that Kiev is deciding to repeat the scenario of the Croatians against Republika Srpska Krajina and the UAF will act in the same way. They are waiting until all heavy and not-so heavy weapons will be allotted to the rear under the supervision of various peacekeeping missions (like the OSCE). On one fine day (probably in autumn when the mud dries, o r maybe in winter, as who knows what goes on in the minds of the descendants of great Ukros), an offensive will be started on three fronts with artillery support. 

Now it’s already possible to discern that a southern offensive will come from the town of Volnovakha, and a strike will come from Kurakhovo via Marinka against Donetsk (western direction), and respectively from the north in the direction of Gorlovka. 

Given that Ukrainian pilots are afraid of our defenses, they are now learning to fly at very low altitudes, and I do not exclude the use of aircraft by the UAF. Also not excluded are fights on secondary fronts, such as the Donetsk airport or the recent one repulsed by us at Debaltsevo, in order to divert our attention and additional reserves which could be thrown at preventing a breakthrough by Ukrainian troops.

This scenario isn’t the only likely one - it is one of the possible scenarios which was voiced by some Ukrainian military men and politicians (in particular Mr. Parubiy spoke about the repetition of the Serbian scenario). But knowing our officers, I think that they already long ago reviewed this scenario and I think (and I know many officers personally, and they are far from stupid people) that in case of all sorts of “unexpected surprises,” they have a few surprises which could shock Ukrainian soldiers. 

What should the civilians of DPR do? Enjoy the last sunny and peaceful days..."

Fact vs. Fiction: Texas on the Dutch MH17 Coverup

October 12th, 2015 - 

by: Russel "Texas" Bentley - Fort Russ - 

Texas is an American volunteer fighting against US-supported Ukrainian fascists, and for the independence of Novorossiya - 

The Dutch cover up report on MH17 comes out on Monday. Of course, I have not read the final draft yet, because the contents are secret, but I know bullshit when I smell it, and I can smell it all the way from Amsterdam. I do not have to read it to know it is a lie. But I will, and it will be. How can I be so sure? 

Because I know what happened, I have been told by an eyewitness. But even before that, all the circumstantial evidence really puts the answer beyond any reasonable doubt. And when the Dutch publish their lies on Monday, I expect the Russians will reply with the truth, and with their proof. In the meantime, let's consider what we already know...

There are already far too many discrepancies for any serious person to give the Dutch "report" any credence, regardless of what it says. If this report was not a cover up, if it actually was concerned with the truth, instead of just being a cover up of an obvious false flag, it would have come out at least a year ago, rather than 16 months after the fact. Why do you think it took so long?

False flags are used by fascist warmongers the way a carpenter uses a hammer. It is one of their primary tools: Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, Iraqi WMD's, Syrian sarin, MH17... You don't have to be a genius to see the pattern here. And many people do. Gone are the days when eyewitnesses in Dealy Plaza or Lower Manhattan will say "I thought I knew what I saw, but after reading the government report, I guess I was wrong." 

The Fascists have learned from their past mistakes. The world is much more informed and aware than it was in November '63 or September 2001. So this time, they take their time to craft their lies carefully, to try and avoid another "magic bullet" or WTC 7. But a lie is still a lie, and the truth will out. Many people around the world are waking up and refusing to believe the lies, and I am sure it will be the same with the MH17 report. But this time, let's do something about it.

How can I be sure the report will be a lie if I haven't read it yet? Well, for one thing, the authors of the report have been lying all along, with their leaks and comments and misleading innuendo. This article is an excellent example of what I mean. But even without all these documented falsehoods by the authors, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to draw an accurate and obvious conclusion from the circumstances. Let's do our own investigation of the publicly acknowledged historical facts...

First, always ask "Cui bono", who benefits?  Certainly not the Russians or the Novorussians. Is it really possible to believe that either would shoot down a civilian airliner on purpose or by accident? On purpose, not possible.It would be suicidal for them, as well as criminally insane to do so. By accident? Do you really think soldiers trained on a sophisticated weapons system like the BUK could not tell the difference between the radar signature of a civilian airliner and a military jet fighter? No, whoever shot MH17 down, knew it was a civilian airliner, and targeted it on purpose, but there are many reasons to doubt it was even shot down by a BUK.

The photographs of the fuselage of MH17's cockpit are all you really need to see. The perfectly round  30 mm holes can be seen in photos on Google Images . Or listen to what Canadian citizen and OSCE monitor Michael Bociurkiw said, just a few days after the event. Russian military radar detected at least one SU-25 in close proximity to MH17 just before the crash, consistent with eyewitness accounts from people on the ground at the time, including DNP Prime Minister Alexander Zaharshenko (6:14) 

Interestingly, the Wikipedia and other information sources about SU-25 flight capabilities were edited and changed before July 17th, to reduce the flight ceiling from 10,000 meters to 7,000 meters. The SU-25 CAN fly at 10,000 meters, (10:50) the height that MH17 was at when it was attacked. The SU-25 is armed with two 30 mm cannons. The Ukrainian Air Force has Su-25's. The DNR does not.

But beyond all the evidence out there for anyone who wants to find it, just ask yourself the obvious questions - why did Yatsenyuk resign less than a week later, only to be ordered to return. Why did it take 16 months for the report to come out, why does the US release meticulous satellite images of Russian forces in Syria, but releases none from Ukraine, when it is a known fact that the US had a satellite over Ukraine when MH17 was shot down? What ever happened to the air traffic control tapes from Kiev ATC, or the air traffic controller Carlos from Spain who tweeted about Ukrainian SBU agents confiscating the tapes minutes after MH17 went down? If the Dutch report does not include US satellite images, info from the Black Boxes (that the DNR turned over to investigators days after they were found), the Kiev ATC tapes, and the info about the metal fragments found in the autopsies of the victims, it is total bullshit. Which is what I expect.

I went to the MH17 crash site a few days ago. I visited two memorials for the 298 victims who were murdered in the skies above Novorussia. Two places where human bodies fell like rain. Innocent men, women, and 80 innocent children, sacrificed by genuine Evil, to perpetuate a lie. As I stood there, I thought to myself that I had never been to the site of a mas murder before, and then it occurred to me that indeed I had. 

When I was in the US Army, stationed in Germany over 30 years ago, I went to Dachau concentration camp, outside Munich. I did not want to go, but I felt a moral obligation to do so, to look true Evil in the face, to see its work, and I did the same outside Torrez last week, again. And before I went to Torrez, I wondered what kind of person could pull the trigger, sending 298 innocent human beings to their deaths, and standing there at the memorial in GOLOBO, I knew. 

Those that did this are the same as those who filled the ovens at Dachau, and who burned men, women and children to death on Odessa. Those that can say killing half a million children was "Worth it", those who can use the words "infinitely easy" and "kill a million people" in the same sentence. Nazis. You know who did this, and so do I. And I understood that those who did this, and those who ordered it to be done, are not human, they are monsters. As are their Dutch lying lackeys who will try to cover up this crime on Monday, October 13th, 2015.

I have been to Amsterdam many times, and have flown out of Schiphol Airport more than once myself. The people who boarded Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on that terrible day back in 2014 did not think the war in Donbass could ever effect them. It did. Those of us still here must take a lesson from them. 

Or we too will suffer their fate. There is a war going on, all over the world, right now, today. This war is between Humanity and those who want to exterminate most of us and enslave the rest. Donbass and Syria are the front lines, and what happens in these places will determine the future for us all. Remember that, and think, and engage, with your heart and with your mind. 

We are all in this together, and the day of reckoning is near. Forego the comforting lie and face the hard truth. The future of Humanity depends upon your doing so.

Erdoğan sheds light on Syria ... a blue flame

"Assad, refusing the transit of Qatari gas and becoming a potential competitor in the European market, would have to be be eliminated."

Analysis by Ronald ZONCA
in Boulevard Voltaire October 11, 2015

October 12, 2015
Translated from French by Tom Winter
In a recent statement following the Russian air raids, President Erdoğan threatened to end all gas-line cooperation with Russia , adding that Turkey might consider other sources. Since the other source is Qatar, Erdogan's statement brings us to the real origins of the destabilization of Syria.

Syria suffers a double whammy in our world which is made up of the pillaging of the poorest. Not only has it discovered a large gas field along its coast but, in addition, its location made it the natural host for pipelines to supply Europe.

Assad, refusing the transit of Qatari gas and becoming a potential competitor in the European market, would have to be be eliminated. Physically, according to Fabius; at least politically, according to Western leaders.

Faced with such insubordination, Messrs Sarkozy and Juppé, then president and foreign minister, were quick to show him their disenchantment. From 2012, the break was consummated, despite the previous outbursts of affection shown in those parades on the Champs Elysees.

The interests of the United States and Qatar are a priority for our diplomacy, no matter what the consequences for France and Europe. Messrs Hollande and Fabius have only walked in the footsteps of their predecessors.

The Russian intervention in Syria has caused surprise in the Western camp by its speed and efficiency. Further, it gives rise to a serious problem for the Turkish president. The progress of the Syrian army from west to east will result in movement of troops of the Islamic State. They can not go to Iran and Kurdistan because of the military power of Iran and Kurdistan. As for Iraq, its leaders are beginning to take the lead in pondering a possible Russian intervention for them, too. This doesn't leave anybody but Turkey to host the monster created by the Westerners.

In the face of the level of barbarism and the potential damage posed by these fighters, Erdoğan's worry is justified. This explains why he would rather have the troops of the Islamic State stay in Syria and not in Turkey. 

Consequently, there remain just two solutions for Turkey: to participate in the destruction of the Islamic state in Syria, thus violating the instructions of the USA, or let an army of terrorists wash over Europe.

Resisting the greed of the West, the Syrian president could not have imagined they would be crazy enough to create the Islamic state without measuring the consequences for the region and for Europe.

We can appreciate his leadership of the Syrian nation in different ways, but he showed respect for the job of a president in defending the wealth of his country.
Unlike our elites, Assad can not be accused of having sold his country to foreign powers.