Top Secret Report: Who Won the anti-Ukraine Argument?
We all know how the West's supply lines of life-saving medicine, food and supplies were sabotaged by Yemeni Hutis in the Red Sea. Imagine what Russia can do in the Black, Azov, Med and Atlantic!
Photo by the author in the Baltic as Russia prepares for the invasion of Crimea
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In the terrific NETFLIX documentary TURNING POINT - The BOMB and the COLD WAR, which you should all see, especially the sixth segment, a Russian official was asked about Russia’s determination to win in Ukraine. He replied, not verbatim: “Because we care more that you care. You will get tired, you already care less, and we will never get tired of caring!”
The West’s reply not yet understood by most Americans, even after having fought the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf I and II, after having left millions of young Americans buried, is humanity’s reply: its eternal aspiration for freedom; the faces you see in Segment Six.
The lesson from all these conflicts is that the enslavers will eventually self-destruct or change.
The Russians still seeking an empire have never learned from Hungary 1956!
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.” ― Sándor Márai, Embers
“Conservatives have congratulated themselves, over and over, for defeating communism. But they have done no such thing. It is a classic case of conceit…
Communists have always been a small group…they have always exercised power and influence beyond what their actual numbers would suggest. Why? Because they possess a missionary zeal. Because they are ruthless. Because they are better organized, better at strategy, better at infiltrating, sabotaging, and taking control. “ – J.R. Nyquist arguably describing today’s progressive-Democrats.
SO WHAT ARE THE ISSUES?
That the US has little national interests in Ukraine? Not exactly.
That Ukraine is Russia? Actually it isn’t and it never was.
That Ukraine needs to be de-Nazified? Can you stop laughing, please?
That Ukraine shut down the Russian Orthodox Church? The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was sanctioned by its origin, the Greek Orthodox, not the Russian that was, for all intent and purposes, excommunicated.
Was it that NATO encircled Russia? Not exactly, as Russia has also encircled NATO.
Was it Tucker Carlson’s and Seymour Hirsch’s NORDSTREAM Sophistry? Even Aesop would crack up.
That Ukraine is "corrupt?” Good thing Russia is not, and the United States isn’t either.
The issues are, as I had enumerated it almost two years ago (and they have not changed an iota) were revealed by Vladimir Putin himself. Too bad the leaders of the free world made every argument, but not ones that are clear:
First , UK EXPRESS - March 16, 2024:
Russia's control of Black Sea is the 'gateway to projecting influence over Europe'
EXCLUSIVE: An expert on the Russian-Ukrainian war has issued an alarming warning that Putin's forces could use the Black Sea to (sabotage) Europe.
As tensions continue, Dr. Hartwell, Senior Associate at LSE IDEAS, raised concern over Russia's ability to use the Black Sea as a "gateway to projecting influence" across multiple countries.
He told the Daily Express: "For Russia, the Black Sea acts as a gateway to projecting influence across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Europe."
He added: "Russia's primary base in the region is its Black Sea Fleet, headquartered in Sevastopol, Crimea, currently under Russian occupation. Sevastopol's strategic value lies in its deep-water port, facilitating year-round military operations."
He said: "Russia has leveraged the Black Sea as a strategic trade route, exporting grain, fertilizer, and other goods through its ports along the Black Sea."
An expert has warned that Vladimir Putin could continue his mission to "influence" Europe through the highly-contested Black Sea.
Dr. Leon Hartwell, an expert in conflict resolution and diplomacy, stressed that Ukraine must continue to fight and ultimately take down Russian forces in the region, or risk endangering other nations.
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YEMEN AND THE RED SEA - HUTIS BLOCK SUPPLIES!https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yemen-explainer-houthis-saudis-iran-1.7062381
If a relatively under-equipped terrorist force can do it to us, what do you think Russia will do to get its way? I predicted it in 2022!
IS UKRAINE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST? - October 28, 2022
CREDIT- WHAT DO I KNOW?
I wrote in 2022: “The United States’ common interests are shared with its trading and military partners and the world’s third largest economy, Europe. Europeans happen to be progenitors and scions of America’s founding fathers and America’s ancestors. In other words, they are us, and we are them.
NATO’s strategy is to block Russian forces from seizing for itself the trade routes, ports, rail and access roads to the underbelly of Europe and the seas that serve all, Azov, Aegean, Adriatic, Marmara, Mediterranean, Black, North and Baltic seas - routes to the Atlantic Ocean that connect them. These access routes are vital for American trade, American prosperity, global security, and the American military. Most importantly, these seas encircle the entire continent, and connect to North Africa and Asia.”
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DAILY MAIL March 16, 2024: Putin could be ready to launch war on NATO by 2026, report claims
“Russia is preparing for a large-scale conflict with the West by 2026, according to a classified German intelligence report seen by Business Insider.
Shocking new analysis warns of a 'significant intensification' of Russian arms production which could see Russia 'double its military power in the next five years' and war on NATO soil as soon as 2026.
The projections for Russia's ramped up arms race led intelligence services to conclude an attack deeper into Europe in the next two years can 'no longer be ruled out', according to the outlet.
NATO is believed to share similar concerns about recent escalations…”
UK EXPRESS March 16, 2024: WW3 fears soar as chilling new Putin analysis sets date for war with NATO
In recent months there has been concern about the outbreak of World War 3 as more countries join NATO and Vladimir Putin continues his illegal war with Ukraine.
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I wrote earlier:
Russian TV (RT) hammered conservatives with Putinesque fictions about Ukraine’s history and Ukraine’s “Nazis.” People believed it.
"…We've begun to see…a shift toward Russia trying to do “elite capture” to seize on certain segments, especially the American far-right…to use them as proxies to convey their messages," said Emerson Brooking, senior resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab…”
In one…featured clip, ex-FOX NEWS’ (neo-con basher) Tucker Carlson asks, "Is Ukraine really a sovereign country?"…almost verbatim with what Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his allies have said about Ukraine, trying to twist history in an effort to argue that Ukraine has no right to exist...”
These narratives have infiltrated conservative media.
The Soviet KGB and GRU have coined it as “Elite Capture.”
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THE RUSSIAN-NATO CONFLICT IS NOT A PARTISAN, DEMOCRAT v. REPUBLICAN ISSUE. IT IS A GEOPOLITICAL SECURITY, ECONOMIC, MORAL, and REAGANITE ISSUE.
Conflating America’s southern border with Ukraine’s distracts, redirects, and muddles the issue. Ukraine straddles the underbelly of Europe and its seas Azov and Black. These have direct access to all the other seas that surround America’s traditional allies, all of Western Europe and the UK. They control America’s and Europe’s trade and military routes by sea, rail and land to the entirety of the European, North African, and West Asian continents - as well as the Suez Canal and Arabia.
In other words, all of America’s military security and its economic exchanges to its east. Before it’s too late, the warriors in congress should contemplate the Hungarian, and now the Ukrainian experience:
A nation spoke up: “This is the end!”
The people just gaze there, mystified.
What drives this ocean’s almighty tide?
Why has the cosmos run a-riot?
A nation rose. Then all was quiet.
But people ask: What was it we saw?
Whose flesh and bones have changed there the law?
People born free in their native land
falter because they can’t understand
the fact that we will always recall:
Freedom is the greatest gift of all.” - Hungarian poet Sándor Marai
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IF NOT OBEYANCE TO THE RULE OF LAW, TO MUTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND TREATY, OBEYANCE TO WHAT THEN?
IRELAND FOR LAW: “On…1 August 1975, the then Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave was one of the signatories of the Helsinki Final Act governing relations between European states. He signed along with the United States, all other European countries (except Albania), and the USSR, which at the time encompassed both Russia and Ukraine.
Article one of the Helsinki Final Act said that the signatory states would “respect each other’s sovereign equality, juridical equality and territorial integrity”, and that they would refrain from the “use of force or the threat of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”.
“…Russia became a member on 28 February 1996 (and signed the Act). The Council of Europe is the source of a dense and comprehensive network of treaties on many topics... and its Treaties only have meaning to the extent that its members are willing to abide by international law.”
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ATLANTIC COUNCIL November 2022: U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS ARE BEST SERVED BY STOPPING PUTIN
“In 1994, Kyiv agreed to give up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal, comprising some 1900 Soviet-era strategic nuclear warheads designed, built, and deployed to strike cities and other targets in the United States. Eliminating those weapons mattered a great deal to Washington. The Ukrainian government agreed to their elimination in large part because Russia, along with the United States and United Kingdom, committed in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence, and further committed not to use force or threaten to use force against Ukraine.”
WHO “WON” THE ANTI-UKRAINE DEBATE?
THE COMMON SENSE OF THOMAS PAINE & THOMAS JEFFERSON WON.
THE COMMON SENSE OF RONALD REAGAN WON.
How is your common sense doing these days?
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FURTHER READING:
October 1, 2023 WHAT ABOUT THE $20 BILLION THE U.S. IS SENDING UKRAINE?
According to common math, cheaper than a world war. According to Ronald Reagan, a win-win. According to Putin, Medvedev, Carlson, MacGregor, Iran, Syria, China and HAMAS, bad news: NATO wins; Russia loses.
May 5, 2022: IS IT RUSSIA’S PENDING INVASION OF EUROPE?
February 23, 2023: RUSSIA’S & CHINA’S LONG TERM STRATEGIC PLANS FOR EUROPE & ASIA INCLUDE PSYOPS TO DIVIDE THE WEST The war in Ukraine is not a partisan, not an ideological, not a political, but a global security issue. PSYOPS are planned and coordinated Intelligence operations designed to target an enemy’s vulnerabilities and to influence their population. The elite capture of media personalities targets public sentiment - meant to divide Americans and Europeans, to weaken existing alliances.
October 21, 2023: THE VOLGOGRAD GAP: RUSSIA'S WORST NIGHTMARE
September 4, 2023: NATO in the Baltic - Understanding Geopolitics, Kaliningrad, and the Ukraine War
February 4, 2023: TUCKER CARLSON: PUTIN WILL NUKE YOU - BY NEXT THURSDAY THE LATEST!
April 5, 2023: THE GREAT AMERICAN RETREAT - Part I
NATO’S STRATEGY IS THOS JEFFERSON’S, JOHN ADAMS,’ AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S STRATEGY!
Even before Thos Jefferson, John Adams & Ben Franklin, America became a neo-con nation via George Washington!
America’s conservatives have split themselves between the principles of Classical Liberalism and Isolationism. Classical liberalism birthed modern neoconservatism.
Reactionarism and progressivism gave birth to isolationism. Neo-conservatives have always described themselves as classical liberals and internationalists, having allied America’s pro-active and cross-bred national interests legacy with Europe and the English-speaking world.
For the Founders these alliances were coupled to trade and the free passage of people, culture, goods and supplies, and commodities. This policy proved to have forged the path to widespread American prosperity and the growth of the global middle class.
FRONTPAGE’S JAMIE GLAZOV: PUTIN HAS BEEN SCAMMING AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES FOR DECADES!
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© Andrew G. Benjamin is in finance, real estate and equities, a former advisor to New York City mayor‘s office (Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget). Benjamin wrote extensively about politics, transnational and domestic, intelligence and military affairs, security and strategy, economic issues, Mideast, terrorism, technology and high end audio.