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by Phil Butler, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.

[ Editor’s Note: The US continuing love affair has moved on from proxy terrorism to proxy conventional warfare, with Ukraine being the current sacrificial lamb, where with Zelensky at the helm having willingly offered himself up.

He will end up either under tons of concrete rubble or hustled away to some Western hideout as a government in exile. Option number two is that what is left of the Ukrainian military will hang Zelensky in Kiev and just leave the body up, for the destruction he has wrought upon his country.



He is the classic wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time, with a strange mix of handlers, ranging from the ever present oligarch handlers, Israel, and NATO Intel agencies for using proxy players to do their dirty work while the former make all the money.

There is already talk in Ukraine of the top military commander not being happy while watching his military being destroyed in a war that I assume he knows he cannot win, and would rather see a settlement and division with Russia and still have an army. NATO might veto that if it feels he has not incurred enough Russian casualties.

There are wild card scenarios that could also be the ending…to make Russia look like the main culprit. The one I fear the most is a nuclear poisoning of the water and a large section of the extremely valuable farm land, as in “if Kiev can’t have it, we don’t want anyone to have it.”

As for the US sitting back and watching a proxy war that it has complete control over, as it continues to shell Donetsk civilian areas purely out of frustration of losing to the Russians who are there trying to save them from being mass murdered by Kiev and NATO, the situation is a stain on the Western culprits that will never wash off, despite 99% of Western media fully onboard the slaughter.

As the war crimes trials in Donbas proceed, those who are going to be executed will have nothing to lose by identifying who put them up to doing what they didJim W. Dean ]

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SE Ukraine got a nasty dose of the West’s new Cold War

First published May 26, 2022

When the Russians first warned of the potential for armed conflict in Ukraine, the world looked on with pandemic blinded eyes. The public turned an unconcerned head, naturally, to still more “Russia” problems framed with the ever present “Putin” headline. Few suspected a more troubling underpinning. Then Russia marched across the border.

The question of “why” still echoes in the bottomless pit of international detente, media, and monetary policies.

Well, the “Nazi makers” who stand behind this Ukraine proxy war are wielding massive profit levers against the Russians, the Chinese, India, and all nations opposed to their order. For instance, all those who wonder at Poland’s renewed lust for killing Russians, news that US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Warsaw is telling.

I’m no economist, but I know there is no such thing as a coincidence. Yellen is in the eastern European country to push forward a new reformative tax regime that would benefit mightily rich nations like France, Germany, and even Poland, perhaps. As I said, I’m not a tax lawyer, but the “OECD Two-Pillar Solution” seems like a sort of bribery to me.

Maybe some of you readers are economists? All analysts like me have to go on corroborative evidence.

Let’s see. The Biden Administration needs Europe to go full-mental on Russia over the Ukraine situation. Okay. That means that Warsaw’s leadership needs to be willing to accept Russian nuclear missiles at any moment. The Poles’ traditional distrust and hatred of Russians must be rekindled, and even old Polish tanks and artillery must be pulled out of mothballs to help Kyiv.

The possibility of a new Polish Empire might even be thrown in? At the very least, Poland’s right-wing leadership needs to toe the line, especially right now. This passage from a National Interest story, helps my premise here:

“Poland remains a frontline NATO member and an important American partner to challenge Russia’s ongoing aggression, reported war crimes, and corruption. However, the Biden administration must focus on Poland not only as a European ally but also as a credible democratic nation. Thus, both the United States and the EU must engage and assist Poland instructively—especially in political, economic, and military realms.”

Alright. Now, the US Treasury Secretary (not her EU counterpart?) being across the border from a brewing World War makes sense. It’s an offer for guaranteed Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other US multinationals tax profits for Warsaw and the rest! Or, am I wrong?

Then again, perhaps the Ukraine proxy war is designed to leverage NATO countries to simply comply with anything the Biden administration comes up with? I hope you see my logic. Not knowing the ins and outs of Davos meetings, having skipped through both micro and macroeconomics courses in college, all I can attest to is that wheeling and dealing with these people always leads to something really bad for the rest of us.

After all, Russia is ready to launch “technical solutions” should Washington and Brussels convince Finland and Sweden war is the only path. How about the “levers” there?

Finland may be ready to send its citizens below ground into an underground city capable of housing 900,000 people, or about a third more than the city’s entire population. Finland President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin confirmed the other day that their country would seek membership in NATO now.

This would break a treaty with the Soviets at the end of World War 2, which essentially allowed Finland to exist even though the country had sided with Hitler’s Third Reich. The fact that Finland is also one of the most militarized nations in Europe, has not escaped the Russians, either.

The Kremlin response to Finland’s move is one of cool pragmatism, as the Russians say the NATO bid would “definitely” be viewed as a threat. Putin assured the Finns that Russia would be “forced to take reciprocal steps, military-technical and other, to address the resulting threats.” Finland as part of NATO extends Russia’s Europe borders with NATO friendly nations by 2x. So, it’s clear Russia will not back down on this one.

Still, the question of “why” remains for both Sweden and Finland. Why now?

The “levers” here are a bit more complicated than in Poland. But monetary gain and the extension of the existing liberal order are the answers. Finland, the Baltics, and the greater EU have big plans coming up. It all starts with segregating fossil fuel suppliers, then interposing so-called “green alternatives” when gas and oil prices get intolerable.

This story about converting Germany’s LNG terminals to hydrogen hubs clues us. Finland is already ahead of the game in setting up the game against Russia and its gas. This story is about floating LNG production connected to the Baltics, but other moves are in the works to shift profit from Russia to the US and other suppliers.

Then you can expect “new technologies” to follow on with funding from public sources. But the whole Finland affair is more about cutting off Russian oil and gas exports to the west, than anything else. See the port of Primorsk and exports for more on this.

The western alliance is leveraging Finland the easy way, through the threat of pulling back on imports. Finland’s 5.5 million people have been so well off all these decades because 60% of the country’s GDP is tied to international trade. And most of this is with the EU, where Finland is the only nordic country using the Euro.

I won’t get into how Nokia, the country’s biggest enterprise, screwed the pooch and let down the Finnish people. As further evidence of “arm twisting” in Helsinki, this European Commission €2 billion euro partnership just announced, stands as further proof of bribery.

By now, the reader is wondering how all this is going to work out. Well, if NATO does not force the Russians to launch a full-scale military response across a wide NATO-Russia front, it will play out something like this. I will summarize making use of a Yahoo! News quote:

“Germany plans to abandon fossil-fueled power by 2035. But instead of shutting down natural gas infrastructure, it’s speeding up construction of several new terminals that will allow companies to import the planet-warming fuel by ship for decades to come.”

Now, the west-order is planning to first optimize profits from fossil fuels by cordoning off Russia and other energy giants. America and British companies will gain massive profits from partitioning supply, elevated prices, and a new kind of monopoly. Meanwhile, “green alternatives” will be hyped, and ultimately funded by the public to the benefit of western corporations, state owned, and private companies.

Russia will benefit in the short term, but ultimately her natural gas and oil will be all but worthless once replacement technologies and infrastructures are in place. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela will eventually be left holding gas stove energy, and lubricants.

At least, this is an ingenious plan, it seems. The plan for Making America Great Again, probably includes the rest of the world dying in mass, and American citizens funding electric car/home development for Elon Musk. At the end of all this, we become the ultimate consumer/batteries of progress.

I think, perhaps, the elites of this order anticipate Russians, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Brazilian slave laborers making wonder new appliances, for the superior race living to the north and west. Or, I should say, “continuing” to make.

And It’s all done with the smoke of war, economic mirrors, and the clever application of obvious levers.

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. We go opposite ways on this issue. Natural gas is the cleanest energy there is. This statement is BS…….”Russia will benefit in the short term, but ultimately her natural gas and oil will be all but worthless once replacement technologies and infrastructures are in place.” Replacement is NOT POSSIBLE and is a wet dream.

    China and India are already reaping huge energy advantage from discounted Russia gas and oil while the EU and West have DOUBLED their cost of refined product…..and will shortly hit US customers with natural gas high prices, where NG was sufficient but will now be shorted.

  2. It amazes me how quickly and completely the EU capitulated to the Russophobia pushed by Biden and Blinken, throwing their citizens economically under the bus. Shameful, weak leadership in Europe. It resembles nothing of representative government, rather rule by edict of oligarchical puppets.

    • 99% of the USA and EU are not independent. And we know this well. And even if some of them dream and promise to be self confident, – it doesn’t work in that system. Follow or fail.

  3. “The US continuing love affair has moved on from proxy terrroism to proxy conventional warfare”.

    No it is still proxy terrorism and the terrorists are the Nazis and their paycheck is not just a few hundred dollars a month but rather the entire NATO war budget.

    Just because they have a fancier name than Daesh or just because they’re not Muslim, it doesn’t change the equation.

    • Its 3000 USD a month average salary for a Ukrainian soldier, 260 USD average for normal civilian job.
      The USA is paying those salaries, not Ukraine of course they are broke… also a Ukrainian soldier killed in the war has about 300,000 USD sent to his surviving family.
      You can look this up on google if you dont believe me.
      So there you go how much it costs to employ 600,000 slavic induced-nazi mercenaries for the USA/NAZO program to kill thousands of fellow slavic Russians until Russia cannot take it anymore and collapse from the fear of the power of the US dollar (not)
      Difference between conventional war and terrorist war is conventional means clear sides to the slaughter, who pays them who arms them (Russian army vs USA/NAZO army)
      While in terrorist war, who pays, who arms and just WHY they are really doing what they do is kept in dark. Usually the CIA or Mossad simply pay them a good wage to do their bidding.
      The 250,000 “terrorist islamic mercenaries” (AL Queda) shipped into Libya were paid about 2000 USD a month with big bonuses for personal kills and heads and limbs chopped off.
      The western narrative was that they were all rebels in a civil war to overthrow the mad dog Ghaddafi dictator but truth was far from that.

    • Konehead: “Ukrainian soldier killed in the war has about 300,000 USD sent to his surviving family”.

      This is why they refuse to get dead soldiers bodies back, if it is true. None of ordinary ukie family would get such fantastic sum of ” dead presidents”. In this corrupt Ukraine all money will go to big-wig’s pockets.

    • Yes but he’s talking about “proxy” terrorism and “proxy” conventional. You took both of them out. There is no clear sides to the “Ukrainian” war. Only one side is clear. The “Ukrainian army” has third party financing arming etc.
      And I’m saying the Nazis are just like Daesh that have existed in Ukraine as day laborers and now they are out of their caves and joined as hired guns.
      The term “denazification” means that after karchering the trash terrorist from Ukrainistan, the place is disinfected of terrorist.

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