WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[ExomatrixTV]

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters accuses Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, and Victoria Nuland of engineering the War in Ukraine: "You could have kept Secretary of State Baker's promise not to advance NATO... You could have refrained from engineering the illegal Maidan coup d'etat... You could have supported the Minsk accords." "Now we are told by Angela Merkel they were just a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine for the war that you were engineering."

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[Helvetic]

People behind Biden responsible for US Russophobic policy & Nord Stream attack - Pepe Escobar | March 1, 2023

Source: rt.com


Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v28sgn2

'The Biden combo,' including Sullivan, Blinken, and Nuland (who almost unambiguously planned the Nord Stream bombing) are the driving forces behind the absolutely psychotic Russophobic American foreign policy - Pepe Escobar, journalist and geopolitical analyst.

[ExomatrixTV]

• Zelenskyy Says US WILL Send Their Children To DIE For Their War

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PYyl8J9UthU

Calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "hero" is like calling Ukraine a "democracy".

[Vicus]

Russian regions come under mortar fire from Ukraine 2 Mar, 2023 09:08

Kiev’s forces have carried out artillery and mortar strikes against civilian buildings in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, officials report

Villages in the Russian regions of Kursk and Bryansk came under heavy artillery fire from Kiev’s forces, the governors of the two regions neighboring Ukraine reported on Thursday morning. The attacks have damaged several residential buildings and civilian structures. Several people have reportedly been killed or injured.

Kursk governor Roman Starovoit wrote in a Telegram post that Kiev’s troops had shelled the village of Tetkino, which is on the Russian-Ukrainan border. At 11:17am local time he reported that the attack was still ongoing and that Russian forces were returning fire.

He also noted that there had been casualties from the attack and that emergency services had been dispatched to the area. Kursk officials have since confirmed that one person was killed and another was injured in the attack on Tetkino.

At the same time, Bryansk governor Aleksandr Bogomaz reported that the villages of Sushany and Lomakovka were also attacked using mortars and drones, which damaged several residential buildings. No casualties have so far been reported there, according to the governor.

While the shelling was taking place, a group of Ukrainians launched a raid in Bryansk region, attacking a vehicle and reportedly killing at least one person and injuring a ten-year-old child, according to Bogomaz. He added that Russian forces were taking all required measures to eliminate the saboteur group.

An explosion was also reported in a forest area in the Tula region at around 8am on Thursday. Locals said they heard a loud bang that was strong enough to shake the walls. There was no damage or casualties as a result of the incident, local officials said. Authorities have yet to confirm the cause of the blast, but one of the versions being investigated is a drone strike.

Tula governor Aleksey Dyumin has ordered increased security measures in the region in light of the recent attacks on Russian territories close to the Ukrainian border. His press service has insisted, however, that there is currently no threat to the residents of the Tula region.

Russian regions bordering Ukraine have repeatedly come under attack from Kiev’s artillery and drones since Moscow launched its military operation in the country one year ago. The strikes have targeted energy infrastructure and residential areas, destroying civilian buildings and leading to a number of civilian casualties.

https://www.rt.com/russia/572310-rus...rtillery-fire/

[Vicus]

Russian security service comments on Ukrainian saboteur attack
2 Mar, 2023 14:13


Authorities say they have found a large number of explosive devices after Kiev's operatives carried out a cross-border raid

The situation in Russia’s Bryansk Region is under the control of law enforcement agencies, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday after an attack by Ukrainian saboteurs. The agency also confirmed earlier reports that one local resident had been killed in the attack and that an 11-year-old child had received a gunshot wound.

Bryansk officials have since added that a second man has also been killed by the saboteurs in the village of Lyubechane.

The FSB has stated that the area is currently being checked and that a large number of explosive devices of various types have been found. Bomb squads are working on the scene to disarm the explosives.

On Thursday morning a number of Ukrainian saboteurs crossed the Russian border and launched raids on Lyubechane and Sushany. The gunmen attacked a civilian vehicle, killing one man and injuring a child. At the same time, Bryansk Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz also reported artillery and mortar strikes in the area.

The FSB along with the Russian Defense Ministry have since reported that they are taking measures to eliminate the attackers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the incident as a “terrorist attack,” identifying the people responsible for such acts as “neo-Nazis and terrorists.” He also suggested whoever was behind Thursday’s attack may have also been responsible for the assassination of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, whose car was blown up near Moscow in August.

Russia’s regions bordering Ukraine have been repeatedly attacked by Kiev’s forces in recent months. On Thursday, the governors of Bryansk and Kursk regions reported that Ukrainian troops had shelled local villages. Kursk officials confirmed that one person was killed in the attack.


https://www.rt.com/russia/572329-fsb...ryansk-attack/

[Tintin]

"Now here’s where it starts getting interesting. Not only do we begin to get into specific tactics, but a revelation is made: this new ‘Assault Detachment’ purportedly meant to ‘replace BTG’s’ is not really a new type of unit per se, but rather more of new set of doctrinal fighting tactics designed around the specific task of solving the ‘intractable’ tree-line trench problem which has come to dominate the current mode of conflict.

It turns out, this is more a doctrinal manual on newly evolved tactics—not the description of an entirely or revolutionarily new type of fighting formation. But this fact will become more apparent."

- Simplicius

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Simplicius formerly Nightvision who used to provide copy for The Saker blog has provided a most interesting and revealing article on his Substack page.

I'll not copy the whole article here but extract a handful of key takeaways which demonstrate that some of the mythos surrounding Russian BTG constitution are effectively busted. It was eye-opening for me.

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The BTG Is Dead, Long Live The BTG!
We examine recently 'recovered documents' outlining a new Russian doctrinal replacement to the BTG system.

A Ukrainian reserves military officer has written a very interesting twitter thread, which was subsequently picked up by a host of other analysts from DailyKos to a retired Major General in the Australian army.

It details a purported major doctrinal shift in Russian combat group structure in Ukraine, which was discovered by way of (reportedly) captured documents. While typically, things like this are to be taken with a pinch of salt, in this case there are no obvious incentives for the UA officer to lie or make it up, seeing as how it’s not something that paints Russia in a negative light (well, they attempt to do so anyway), but in some ways the reverse. And secondly, to the keen observer, it’s something that’s already being corroborated by actual on the ground circumstances we’re seeing as well as British intel MI6 reports.

As a quick contextual primer—the BTG was not created for the type of conflict that this war has transitioned into. And while Russia may have used the BTG structure in the opening—the tenor of that conflict was far different than what it is today.

In the beginning of the SMO, Russia was hardly even assaulting positions, but rather doing what in Soviet military parlance were called ‘raids’. As is always the case with American/Western exoticization of all things Russian, they deliberately created a factitious ‘mythos’ surrounding the BTG which never existed in reality, for the general purpose of later declaring it a ‘failure’ when in actuality they’ve never fundamentally understood it.

The vast majority of Western ‘experts’, completely misunderstand the purpose and origins of the “BTG”, owing to this delusional aggrandizement and mythicization. I’m going to demystify how and why the BTG was formed very succinctly for the laymen amongst us:

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Russia needed a basic, self-sufficient unit which could have all the same maneuvering and asset capabilities as a brigade, but have complete, guaranteed readiness, so they began to structure the armed forces around these BTG’s. Also, in an era of more centralized corruption and lackluster command chains / OODA loops, it was better to use a unit structure which retained its own inherent capabilities. For instance, why rely on having to phone in the central anti-air command to notify them you need help shooting down an enemy plane/UAV, in an era where such cross-unit communications were not exceptionally streamlined or efficient, when you can just have the air defense yourself under your own roof. Same goes for artillery, etc

In floundering around this BTG concept, most ‘analysts’ gabble on about the wrong things, but omit the key central precept behind its formation: that of ‘high combat readiness’. This translates into full manpower constitution, assured training of the unit (as opposed to having part of the unit be lesser trained conscripts, or some mishmash), and professional contract troops. In short, BTG’s were something done more out of temporary necessity than some far-flung or deeply engraved doctrinal shift or re-conceptualization.

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One thing of note, however, is the passage:

“The platoon commander controls mortar fire. • The platoon/company commander decides on artillery targets, but only the unit commander can provide the air support.”

This is very interesting, as it is a direct repudiation of the popular, albeit naive, trope that Russian forces lack trained NCO’s, have no bottom-level initiative or authority, are highly ‘centralized’ in some stark-caricature of Soviet bureaucratic rigidity, that their recon forces subsist on ‘Command-Push’ rather than ‘Recon-Pull’ strategy, etc, etc.

But in fact, little by little, corroboration continues to trickle in from this war of something I’ve said and believed since the beginning—that it’s actually the complete opposite: Russian officers have more autonomy than their NATO equivalents. There’s a wealth of evidence that supports this, but unfortunately would derail this narrow-scoped topic.

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The quote about platoon commanders above, confirms that Russian commanders are trustingly delegating the designation of artillery targets down to unit level—this is something even the U.S./NATO doesn’t have, not least of which reason being that Western armies don’t even have artillery at below the brigade level, at which point you need a Major General or at least a Colonel’s permission to even strike a target.

Here, Russia is letting mere Lieutenants decide for themselves. This is massive. A type of revolutionary small unit autonomy NATO/U.S. can’t even dream of, and has sent ex-U.S. Army ‘experts’ like this one into wildly fevered paroxysms of excuse-making and cognitive-dissonance-inducing rage to try and explain away.

The fact is, it’s become obvious that it is now the U.S. and NATO which are the stilted and stultified, rigidly bureaucratic, un-evolving monstrosities they so desperately try to portray Russia as. And Russia is in fact the highly dynamic, battlefield-evolving force built around strong small-unit leadership and NCO initiative that the West feigns to paint themselves as. What a wonder!

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In the end, all of these dramatic calls are in fact silly and wrong. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of this article, I do not believe the BTG is ‘dead’, but rather simply that Russia is adapting new tactics for the very specific constraints and problems facing them at this one specific phase of the SMO. Once other phases kick off, they may very well revert back to other structures and tactics. Though as mentioned earlier, the BTG was never designed to be the permanent replacement of Russian force-structure but rather more a temporary stopgap measure.

Contrary to what ignorantly mystified Western think-tankers are sputtering, the fielding of new tactics demonstrates strong adaptive capability on Russia’s behalf. It means their generals, leaders, and commanders are analyzing, thinking, creatively problem-solving, and evolving—in spite of the West’s continued dull-eyed, slack-jawed, and ill-conceived derogations.

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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...-break-through

All Seeing Eye: Can Russia Break Through The West's ISR Overmatch?
We explore how Russia can deal with NATO/Five Eyes' vast space-recon capabilitiess during the coming offensives.

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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...-urgent-update

[Tintin]

Map of Ukraine with suggested areas of administration



A fascinating glimpse, I propose, of what the reconstituted Ukraine might look like following the cessation of hostilities in the current conflagration, should that happen of course.

Had more sensible and less nefarious heads prevailed following Ukraine ceding from the former Soviet Union in 1991, with the borders shown here intact and not redrawn to include the territories shown, then much of what has happened since then could well have been avoided, although given some of the commentary on page 8 (below) perhaps it was always going to be a tough, or nigh on impossible call.

And then of course there was Kruschev's decision - perhaps under the influence of alcohol - to gift Crimea to Ukraine (1954).

Source: CIA
Source - CIA (2): https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docu...002300220007-1

Avalon library copy: CIA-RDP81-01043R002300220007-1.pdf

Summary taken from dana Twitter account:

"The CIA prepared the war in the Donbass as early as 1957 as part of an anti-Soviet uprising". The CIA was planning special operations in Ukraine.

According to American analysts, the anti-Soviet uprising would be sustained in many parts of the Ukrainian SSR, and the division for and against Moscow would follow approximately the same border that today separates the DPR, LPR and Crimea from the rest of Ukraine. Such conclusions can be drawn from a study ‘The factors of resistance and areas of operation of special forces. Ukraine. 1957'. The CIA declassified this study and it is quoted in detail by the BBC.

The study divides Ukraine into 12 zones based on loyalty to US interventionists. The task of the intervenors is to provoke an uprising against the central government. As expected, the western part of the country - in particular the Volyn region and the Lutsk region, which includes cities like Kovel, Lutsk, Kostopol and Vladimirovets - was deemed the most "promising". By contrast, Crimea and Donbass are already characterized as "unpromising", as the local population supports the central government and, in fact, sees itself as Russian rather than Ukrainian (zones I and II). It was the conflict of Zones III-XII with Zones I-II that was described in 1957 as most likely, and potentially feasible, to escalate within the USSR in preparation for its collapse.

That said, there are also Areas 3, 4, 5 (Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye), which the CIA believed in 1957 would have sided with Donbass following the start of the conflict.

Therefore, it is interesting to evaluate the map of Ukraine that the CIA created in 1957. As we can see, the American plan was implemented 60 years later... For skeptics, look up the report and in particular see page 86.

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Related resource: CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953
by Wayne Madsen | Voltaire from January 2016

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must read
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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...offensive-part

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Posted by Tintin (here)

"Now here’s where it starts getting interesting. Not only do we begin to get into specific tactics, but a revelation is made: this new ‘Assault Detachment’ purportedly meant to ‘replace BTG’s’ is not really a new type of unit per se, but rather more of new set of doctrinal fighting tactics designed around the specific task of solving the ‘intractable’ tree-line trench problem which has come to dominate the current mode of conflict.

It turns out, this is more a doctrinal manual on newly evolved tactics—not the description of an entirely or revolutionarily new type of fighting formation. But this fact will become more apparent."

- Simplicius

-------------------------

Simplicius formerly Nightvision who used to provide copy for The Saker blog has provided a most interesting and revealing article on his Substack page.

I'll not copy the whole article here but extract a handful of key takeaways which demonstrate that some of the mythos surrounding Russian BTG constitution are effectively busted. It was eye-opening for me.

---------------

The BTG Is Dead, Long Live The BTG!
We examine recently 'recovered documents' outlining a new Russian doctrinal replacement to the BTG system.

A Ukrainian reserves military officer has written a very interesting twitter thread, which was subsequently picked up by a host of other analysts from DailyKos to a retired Major General in the Australian army.

It details a purported major doctrinal shift in Russian combat group structure in Ukraine, which was discovered by way of (reportedly) captured documents. While typically, things like this are to be taken with a pinch of salt, in this case there are no obvious incentives for the UA officer to lie or make it up, seeing as how it’s not something that paints Russia in a negative light (well, they attempt to do so anyway), but in some ways the reverse. And secondly, to the keen observer, it’s something that’s already being corroborated by actual on the ground circumstances we’re seeing as well as British intel MI6 reports.

As a quick contextual primer—the BTG was not created for the type of conflict that this war has transitioned into. And while Russia may have used the BTG structure in the opening—the tenor of that conflict was far different than what it is today.

In the beginning of the SMO, Russia was hardly even assaulting positions, but rather doing what in Soviet military parlance were called ‘raids’. As is always the case with American/Western exoticization of all things Russian, they deliberately created a factitious ‘mythos’ surrounding the BTG which never existed in reality, for the general purpose of later declaring it a ‘failure’ when in actuality they’ve never fundamentally understood it.

The vast majority of Western ‘experts’, completely misunderstand the purpose and origins of the “BTG”, owing to this delusional aggrandizement and mythicization. I’m going to demystify how and why the BTG was formed very succinctly for the laymen amongst us:

-------

Russia needed a basic, self-sufficient unit which could have all the same maneuvering and asset capabilities as a brigade, but have complete, guaranteed readiness, so they began to structure the armed forces around these BTG’s. Also, in an era of more centralized corruption and lackluster command chains / OODA loops, it was better to use a unit structure which retained its own inherent capabilities. For instance, why rely on having to phone in the central anti-air command to notify them you need help shooting down an enemy plane/UAV, in an era where such cross-unit communications were not exceptionally streamlined or efficient, when you can just have the air defense yourself under your own roof. Same goes for artillery, etc

In floundering around this BTG concept, most ‘analysts’ gabble on about the wrong things, but omit the key central precept behind its formation: that of ‘high combat readiness’. This translates into full manpower constitution, assured training of the unit (as opposed to having part of the unit be lesser trained conscripts, or some mishmash), and professional contract troops. In short, BTG’s were something done more out of temporary necessity than some far-flung or deeply engraved doctrinal shift or re-conceptualization.

-----------

One thing of note, however, is the passage:

“The platoon commander controls mortar fire. • The platoon/company commander decides on artillery targets, but only the unit commander can provide the air support.”

This is very interesting, as it is a direct repudiation of the popular, albeit naive, trope that Russian forces lack trained NCO’s, have no bottom-level initiative or authority, are highly ‘centralized’ in some stark-caricature of Soviet bureaucratic rigidity, that their recon forces subsist on ‘Command-Push’ rather than ‘Recon-Pull’ strategy, etc, etc.

But in fact, little by little, corroboration continues to trickle in from this war of something I’ve said and believed since the beginning—that it’s actually the complete opposite: Russian officers have more autonomy than their NATO equivalents. There’s a wealth of evidence that supports this, but unfortunately would derail this narrow-scoped topic.

-------

The quote about platoon commanders above, confirms that Russian commanders are trustingly delegating the designation of artillery targets down to unit level—this is something even the U.S./NATO doesn’t have, not least of which reason being that Western armies don’t even have artillery at below the brigade level, at which point you need a Major General or at least a Colonel’s permission to even strike a target.

Here, Russia is letting mere Lieutenants decide for themselves. This is massive. A type of revolutionary small unit autonomy NATO/U.S. can’t even dream of, and has sent ex-U.S. Army ‘experts’ like this one into wildly fevered paroxysms of excuse-making and cognitive-dissonance-inducing rage to try and explain away.

The fact is, it’s become obvious that it is now the U.S. and NATO which are the stilted and stultified, rigidly bureaucratic, un-evolving monstrosities they so desperately try to portray Russia as. And Russia is in fact the highly dynamic, battlefield-evolving force built around strong small-unit leadership and NCO initiative that the West feigns to paint themselves as. What a wonder!

------

In the end, all of these dramatic calls are in fact silly and wrong. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of this article, I do not believe the BTG is ‘dead’, but rather simply that Russia is adapting new tactics for the very specific constraints and problems facing them at this one specific phase of the SMO. Once other phases kick off, they may very well revert back to other structures and tactics. Though as mentioned earlier, the BTG was never designed to be the permanent replacement of Russian force-structure but rather more a temporary stopgap measure.

Contrary to what ignorantly mystified Western think-tankers are sputtering, the fielding of new tactics demonstrates strong adaptive capability on Russia’s behalf. It means their generals, leaders, and commanders are analyzing, thinking, creatively problem-solving, and evolving—in spite of the West’s continued dull-eyed, slack-jawed, and ill-conceived derogations.

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Thanks for discovering this channel !

[BMJ]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
https://rumble.com/v2b8hek-former-us...t-rt-excl.html

Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v28n1k8

It seems possibly this James Bond might in fact be a James Pond, as this secret agent has been living a meth, alcohol and low IQ induced fantasy.

A screen shot of the first twit, there are several more.

[shaberon]

Posted by BMJ (here)
I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.

Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

[Johnnycomelately]

I thought this comment was too good to not respond to.

First thought was of the apparent intellectual neediness of the average CT. IMO, just my take on human nature, that is a problem. A problem likely to get noticed by a solution that’s looking for a problem.

I’ve not followed the Q story, but have noticed it. Now that I reflect, those communications feel like fake-hope salesmanship. Same kind of vampire that steals material goods, only worse.

Cheers Shabs, and good weekend to you and yours.

Posted by shaberon (here)

Posted by BMJ (here)
I trust the source for the most part, if you don't then shaberon go do the leg work and confirm it if you wish to, because im not going to spoon feed you.

Thanks. I can see why this Q source shredded the forum a while back.

[Rizotto]

"Scott Ritter - Odessa and Kharkov: The Next Targets in Russia's Offensive" (19 minutes)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LfkNbFudSL8

[Rizotto]

"Hersh: US bombed Nord Stream to prolong the Ukraine proxy war" (44 minutes interview with Aaron Mate, at the Grayzone)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b8QRWPxWP0o

[ExomatrixTV]

• Ukrainian Army Has A Big Nazi Problem, Says American Ex-soldier Who Fought With Them:

Source: https://odysee.com/$/embed/@RT:fd/John-McIntyre_-interview_2802:e

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• Above Video is From This Original Unedited RT News - February 28th 2023:

War crimes, human shields, barbarous acts, cocaine and other hard drug use, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. RT speaks exclusively to a former US mercenary in Ukraine who defected to Russia to report on alleged war crimes by Kiev, also revealing the role of US intelligence in the conflict.

250 Ukraine troops have been eliminated as Russian troops continue their advance. RT talks to Denis Pushilin.

Deadly landmines: Nearly a hundred civilians, including children are injured just this year as Ukraine continues scattering banned landmines throughout residential areas in the Donetsk republic. They are illegal for use in civilian areas under every convention of war. Roman Kosarev reports

• source

[Tintin]

Deputy Russian foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at the UNHRC, March 2nd 2023

Source: https://t.me/MFARussia/15065

Text:

🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov speaks on the deplorable human rights situation in Ukraine at the UN HRC:

💥 Western-supplied weapons are actively used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike residential buildings, schools and hospitals, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.

❗️ These are all war crimes, violations of the international humanitarian law, in which NATO countries are entangled, whose representatives very much like to moralize and make hypocritical statements on the human rights from the HRC rostrum.

🇺🇦 Meanwhile, the Kiev regime systematically violates fundamental human rights and freedoms. In breach of the Ukrainian Constitution and its international obligations, a number of laws on total “Ukrainization” was adopted, which affected education, science, culture, media, radio, television, the Internet, advertising, and the service industry.

🇷🇺 The Russian language, a mother tongue to millions of Ukrainian residents, has been targeted the greatest.

[Delight]

If I were a young person, I'd seriously consider emmigration to Russia.