Former NATO Military Analyst Blows the Whistle on West’s Ukraine Invasion Narrative

It is therefore not a question of justifying the war, but of understanding what led us to it. I note that the “experts” who take turns on the television sets analyze the situation based on dubious information, most often hypotheses turned into facts, and therefore we no longer manage to understand what is happening. That’s how you create panic.

The problem is not so much who is right in this conflict, but how our leaders make their decisions.

[scheerpost.com]

Out of the gate I'll argue that Jacques Baud is quite generous within some comments he makes. Who does he view as being thee "experts"? Surely not the desk jockey reporters who often get a false label of investigative journalist, who rarely, if ever, go into the field of what they're reporting on. Taking a trip to a city outside of the city their routine studio is in to do a show in another studio or street show isn't investigative journalism. It's just a shit show in another arena.

The "experts" he's most likely referring to are, in this case of Ukraine, various types of X military and intelligence agents who are paid to come onto MSCM shows. Possibly with a few politicians thrown in with this deception. And you can be assured it is deception. They come with the agenda to sell war for the companies they most likely sit on boards of or lobby for. They don't deal in hypotheses, they deal with selling agendas. It's a win win for these experts, to get paid by both the MSCM and those companies.

And I'm fairly certain panic is a thing of the past. Most Americans have seemingly become numbed down to a point of acceptance. Panic left as the case of terrorist attacks in America has flew its use. Domestic terrorism has even seemingly been numbed down to acceptance as real as it is. I'd highly suggest you hold that thought though with grave concern considering the funding and support of fascism that we've taken under are wing within the Ukraine case though.

Dubious information? I hope by now some have come to the realization that MSCM serves us prepared information (approximately 80%) from various ruling class owned transnational public relation firms, NGO and think tank groups. The last 2 can also be highly managed by wealthy donors who set the tone for their agendas as the mega donors they are, or started by any variation of types of people usually related to politicians, corporations, intelligence agencies, etc who all are willing to follow the core agenda line while making themselves rich/er. They may have come from politics or have a desire to get into politics. It's a means to get to where the money is while selling chaos. The next best thing to strive for is being a lobbyist for a corporation these groups benefit. And currently the top beneficiaries today in this Ukraine case is the military industrial complex. They pay their lobbyist quite well.

If you've done your homework on Ukraine productively, or followed my post productively, you've found how much involvement all these groups have played a key role in creating chaos, death, and destruction. If you listened with clarity as these "experts" are on these MSCM shows you should have noticed their speak always leads away from the real issues and facts while advocating for more demonization and war. It's what sells the going perception management and agenda for profits.

It's likely you'll even see commercials from various military complex companies also. If not during the breaks, but also during the reporting. The best place for them to sell you on the glorification of their products. It sure as hell won't be in the photos or videos of missiles laying on the ground in Ukraine such as the recent train station attack currently being blamed on Russia. Of a missile Russia put out of commission 3 years ago along with a photo of one they use today clearing showing a different wing style. They won't show you this though. When, if, that knowledge is finally made public they count on you having lost any concern by then to coherently relate it to their deceptions. Agenda accomplished. I guess the good part of this is that our men and women aren't being murdered for their causes this time?

What I also haven't seen yet in this vast reporting of Ukraine glorification is a missile made by any western government that has killed civilians or Russian troops. You know it's there, but not there? I hear and see a lot of hype of this greatness but it only comes when Russia is being demonized. Both sides can show all the dead tanks and vehicles they want ofter the damage is done. Odd when it comes to bodies only Russia can produce this, with the demonized accusations that come with them. Ukraine is afforded a perfect war scenario though? Best god dam fucking warriors and military precision on the planet I guess.

{Let’s try to examine the roots of the conflict. It starts with those who for the past eight years have been talking to us about “separatists” or “independence” from the Donbass. It’s wrong. The referendums conducted by the two self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in May 2014 were not ” independence ” (независимость) referendums , as some unscrupulous journalists claimed , but ” self-determination ” or ” autonomy (самостоятельность). The term “pro-Russian” suggests that Russia was a party to the conflict, which was not the case, and the term “Russian speakers” would have been more honest. Moreover, these referendums were conducted against the advice of Vladimir Putin.

In fact, these republics did not seek to separate from Ukraine, but to have a statute of autonomy guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language. Because the first legislative act of the new government resulting from the overthrow of President Yanukovych, was the abolition, on February 23, 2014, of the Kivalov-Kolesnichenko law of 2012 which made Russian an official language. A bit as if putschists decided that French and Italian would no longer be official languages ​​in Switzerland.

This decision causes a storm in the Russian-speaking population. This resulted in fierce repression against the Russian-speaking regions (Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Lugansk and Donetsk) which began in February 2014 and led to a militarization of the situation and a few massacres (in Odessa and Mariupol, for the most important). At the end of summer 2014, only the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk remained.}

{In 2014, I am at NATO, responsible for the fight against the proliferation of small arms, and we are trying to detect Russian arms deliveries to the rebels in order to see if Moscow is involved. The information that we receive then comes practically all from the Polish intelligence services and does not “match” with the information from the OSCE: in spite of rather crude allegations, we do not observe any delivery of arms and materials Russian military.

The rebels are armed thanks to the defections of Russian-speaking Ukrainian units which cross over to the rebel side. As the Ukrainian failures progressed, the entire tank, artillery or anti-aircraft battalions swelled the ranks of the autonomists. This is what drives the Ukrainians to commit to the Minsk Accords.}

As was reported by Robert Parry of Consortium News in 2014, Russia never sent any weapons into Ukraine. Very few people here even bothered to view those post to be self educated on these facts though. To avoid being conned into the Russian hysteria of demonization and supporting fascist today. To avoid electing a president who has crimes and unethical practices against our Constitution to hide from those years for the many involved along with himself. The entire scope of western governments are involved in these crimes. NATO and the US being used as the primary instrument to conduct them.

Ukraine never committed fully to the Minsk Accords. They were afforded funding and weaponization by the western governments and expanded a more lethal killing field. Every time the Donbas regions have managed to hold their homeland from the Ukrainian army's assault they have been revamped with weapons off our backs. These crimes have our names all over them! The citizens of Ukraine are billions in debt today that the government can't pay back. Already facing servitude from years before they now face deeper austerity measures in the future. This is a major crime on humanity there, their citizenship.

As with every intervention in this western European region, those that have ended up illegally, and forcefully, into NATO, have faced large scale population evacuations due to manufactured wars which have left these countries with less in means of those who return and austerity measures for those who remain. These countries then become pillaged by the west and corrupt to the core. Particularly the younger generations lose any hope and don't return.

Well, I got ahead of the article again. He explains Minsk 2.

{This is why since 2014, Russia has systematically demanded their application while refusing to be a party to the negotiations, because it was an internal matter for Ukraine. On the other side, the Westerners – led by France – systematically tried to replace the Minsk Accords with the “Normandy format”, which brought Russians and Ukrainians face to face. However, let us remember, there were never any Russian troops in the Donbass before February 23-24, 2022. Moreover, OSCE observers have never observed the slightest trace of Russian units operating in the Donbass. Thus, the US intelligence map published by the Washington Post on December 3, 2021 does not show Russian troops in Donbass.}

A note on the OSCE. Reports have been spotty on their coverage. Seemingly they rarely involve themselves in areas the Ukraine army operates. Only coming into civilian areas after the Ukraine army leaves or is pushed out of and rarely interview the citizens to get reports of their crimes. And there are many of them being reported to independent and the RT corespondent. You won't get the actually citizens views from MSCM without being carefully screened. Or from those from the 8 year long documentary.

{In October 2018, after four years of war, Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor Anatoly Matios said that Ukraine had lost 2,700 men in the Donbass: 891 from disease, 318 from traffic accidents, 177 from other accidents, 175 from poisoning (alcohol, drugs), 172 from careless handling of weapons, 101 from breaches of safety rules, 228 from murder and 615 from suicide.

In fact, the army is undermined by the corruption of its cadres and no longer enjoys the support of the population. According to a UK Home Office report , when reservists were called up in March-April 2014, 70% did not show up for the first session, 80% for the second, 90% for the third and 95% for the fourth. In October/November 2017, 70% of callers did not show up during the “ Autumn 2017 ” callback campaign. This does not include suicides and desertions(often for the benefit of the autonomists) which reach up to 30% of the workforce in the ATO zone. Young Ukrainians refuse to go and fight in the Donbass and prefer emigration, which also explains, at least partially, the country’s demographic deficit.

891 from disease is a rather concerning image considering the knowledge of bio labs in that region, where unusually deadly flu deaths have occurred. Or this army has a lot of elderly in it dying from covid. How can anyone trust what our MSCM tells us with this added knowledge of the conditions of the Ukrainian army, and the views of the citizenship. I have placed conjecture of the views from reading comments in articles that indicated most of the population wasn't on board with the false narratives being spewed, but this provides a very negative outlook that I didn't expect to be so high. How have so many remained in a country with such high glorification of fascist ideology from WWll onwards to today felt comfortable enough to live there, and not got out after 2014 knowing what was going on. I imagine it has a lot to do with poverty. If I had the means to I'd get the fuck out of the US. Every day I envision a nice quiet village approximately 75 miles outside a China city where the abstracts of geopolitical strategics are absent where I can wake up everyday and say fuck you to all this shit.

{Thus, to compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. They are essentially made up of foreign mercenaries, often far-right activists. As of 2020, they constitute around 40% of Ukraine’s forces and number around 102,000 men according to Reuters . They are armed, financed and trained by the United States, Great Britain, Canada and France. There are more than 19 nationalities – including Swiss.}

But they'll whine about 56 voluntary Russian fighters? He goes into down playing the terminology of Nazi fascism being used and an attempt of Putin reversing history to finish part 1. I'll argue if it quacks like a duck it's a god dam duck. You can apply any semantics to it you want to but if it correlates with the ideology it's a form of it that will eventually lead to the rest. Just ask Latin American and African people how that works.

{Placing Putin on the same boat as Stalin's period doesn't float with me either. There will never be any possible excuse for what Stalin did in that era of course, but there's no correlation to today's events other than ethnic sympathies and the importances the Donbas regions hold on the world stage now going to waste. I see it as misuse of the regions history towards further demonization of a legitimate concern that simply contradicts some of his previous points.

On February 17, President Joe Biden announces that Russia will attack Ukraine in the coming days. How does he know? Mystery… But since the 16th, the artillery shelling of the populations of Donbass has increased dramatically, as shown by the daily reports of OSCE observers. Naturally, neither the media, nor the European Union, nor NATO, nor any Western government reacts and intervenes. We will say later that this is Russian disinformation. In fact, it seems that the European Union and some countries purposely glossed over the massacre of the people of Donbass, knowing that it would provoke Russian intervention.}

As stated before. When the weapons become depleted, just send more to expand the warring again. As are the plans today. According to the above they just need more recruits for cannon fodder to send over. With so many Americans willing to support Ukraine your family members are ripe for the picking now. Some of you might be possibly interested.

{At the same time, there are reports of acts of sabotage in the Donbass. On January 18, Donbass fighters intercept saboteurs equipped with Western equipment and speaking Polish seeking to create chemical incidents in Gorlivka . They could be CIA mercenaries , led or “advised” by Americans and made up of Ukrainian or European fighters, to carry out sabotage actions in the Donbass Republics.}

Breaking out the Syria tactics now.

{In fact, as early as February 16, Joe Biden knows that the Ukrainians began to shell the civilian populations of Donbass, putting Vladimir Putin in front of a difficult choice: to help Donbass militarily and create an international problem or to sit idle and watch Russian speakers. from the Donbass being run over.

If he decides to intervene, Vladimir Putin can invoke the international obligation of “ Responsibility To Protect ” (R2P). But he knows that whatever its nature or scale, the intervention will trigger a shower of sanctions. Therefore, whether its intervention is limited to the Donbass or whether it goes further to put pressure on the West for the status of Ukraine, the price to be paid will be the same. This is what he explains in his speech on February 21.

That day, he acceded to the request of the Duma and recognized the independence of the two Republics of Donbass and, in the process, he signed treaties of friendship and assistance with them.}

Our MSCM has been adamant in regards to making it seem as though Russia isn't doing so well in their objectives. But he goes into details highly contradicting their false narratives with the precision and descriptions of how well, actually brilliant, the strategy has been.

{The “slowdown” that our “experts” attribute to poor logistics is only the consequence of having achieved the objectives set. Russia does not seem to want to engage in an occupation of the whole Ukrainian territory. In fact, it seems rather that Russia is trying to limit its advance to the country’s linguistic border.

Our media speak of indiscriminate bombardments against civilian populations, particularly in Kharkov, and dantesque images are broadcast on a loop. However, Gonzalo Lira, a Latin American who lives there, presents us with a calm city on March 10 , and on March 11.}

In other words. Our MSCM have a perception management campaign to adhere to. I'll argue that also involves false stories of civilian attacks as the wheels of Kharkov and Bucha incidents have fallen off of.

This goes on to a 3rd part which I'm worried about space on this post. I hope you'll finish the rest of part 2 and 3 with me. As I quickly skimmed through some of it I see it's essentially more suggestive material as above that highly contradicts any and most information our MSCM give us. Breaking the Iraq syndrome.

RT was reporting on the attempted rescuing of these people yesterday. Unsure then of who they were so desperately trying to get out. Now we know.