THERE WILL BE NO LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE (On the invasion of the Russian army into Ukraine)
March 2, 2022.
To those who signed the Declaration for Life:
To the national and international Sexta:
Comrades and Sisters:
We give you our words and thoughts on what is currently happening in the geography they call Europe:
FIRST.- There is an aggressive force, the Russian army. There are interests of big capital at stake, on both sides. Those who are suffering now because of the delusions of some and the crafty economic calculations of others are the peoples of Russia and Ukraine (and, perhaps soon, those of other geographies near and far away).
As Zapatistas we do not support one State or the other, but those who fight for life against the system.
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) program in the Republic of Georgia. Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
While the US is planning to increase its military presence in Eastern Europe to “protect its allies against Russia”, internal documents show what American “protection” in practical terms means.
The Pentagon has conducted biological experiments with a potentially lethal outcome on 4,400 soldiers in Ukraine and 1,000 soldiers in Georgia. According to leaked documents, all volunteer deaths should be reported within 24 h (in Ukraine) and 48 h (in Georgia).
On March 5, shocking information was received from Mariupol. Members of the so-called “territorial defense” units, who had previously arrived in Mariupol from western regions of Ukraine, had mined and blown up an multi-storey civilian building.
All week reports have come in of a planned False Flag attack by the Azov and other proudly nazi batallions who have come to the ethnic Russian city and by all accounts are ‘holding the civilian population hostage’ or using them as a ‘human shield’.
The surrounding Russian and DPD (Donetsk) forces therefore cancelled plans to take over Mariupol and Volnovakha and yesterday (5th March) declared a one day ceasefire to allow evacuation.
“Not a single civilian could get out along the designated humanitarian corridors. The population of these cities is held by Ukrainian nationalists as a ‘human shield’,” however, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
On March 5, several explosions took place in Mariupol. Despite the ceasefire regime proclaimed by the Russian Defense Ministry since 9 a.m. local time, so that civilians could leave the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in accordance with the agreement reached during the second round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.
The explosions took place at around midday local time. Columns of black smoke were seen in in the city center, on the left bank of the Kalmius River.
Shortly thereafter, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported that the militants of the Azov battalion blew up a civilian house in Mariupol at 15/20 Meotidi Boulevard. The building is located in the eastern part of the city.
Up to 200 people were trapped under the rubble, most of them women and children.
According to the updated data, the crime was committed not by the fighters of the Azov nationalist battalion, but by volunteers of the so-called ‘territorial defense’ detachments who arrived to Mariupol from the western regions of the country. they have recently carried out a massive mining of entrances to the civilian houses.
Territorial defence. Illustrative Image
The Investigative Committee of Russia, in accordance with the instructions of the head of the department, opened a criminal case on the fact of blowing up a residential building in Mariupol.
For several days, the left bank district of the city remains the main stronghold of the Ukrainian nationalist battalions. The joint Russian and DPR forces have not entered this region yet. Thus, they could not carry out the mining of the civilian multi-storey buildings. The street fightings have not yet begun in Mariupol, the Russians remain on the outskirts of the city.
As the ceasefire regime is now broken, the mopping up of the city is likely to begin in the coming days or hours.
Civilians are persuading Ukrainian nationalists not to deploy their positions near their house and the hospital:
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At the same time, nationalist battalions take in hostage the local civilians. While the central command of the UAF have lost control over the forces in the blockaded city, the nationalist are using members of the so-called territorial defence to commit bloody war crimes.
Civilians waited for several hours attempting to leave the city, but they were stopped by forces of the Azov nationalist battalion
In the village of Bezymennoye near Mariupol, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR has equipped a reception point for refugees.
In the village of Bezymennoye near Mariupol, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR has equipped a reception point for refugees.
The Russian forces secured the humanitarian corridor for civilians in Mariupol a few days ago, but to reach it they have to leave the city first. Armed Ukrainian militants are shooting at them and the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces blocked the exit to the civilians, as they blew up bridges when they were leaving the city.
“Nobody told us anything, the Ukrainian soldiers blew up the bridges after they left the city and that’s it – we were left isolated” – civilians from Mariupol reported.
The families who managed to get out of Mariupol said that they had not even heard about the humanitarian corridor. They were leaving under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for almost a week.
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Of the declared 200 thousand civilians from Mariupol and 15 thousand from Volnovakha, no one has arrived at the open humanitarian corridors so far. In total, only three families got out of the city, according to the DPR-linked sources.
The DPR officials have recently warned of the upcoming provocations with mass killings of the civilians in Mariupol. Kiev makes its best to blame Russia in all crimes during the conflict but a simple analysis of the situation on the ground reveals that the majority of such claims are lies and bloody provocations committed by the Kiev regime.
We don’t talk about racism much at OffG, except in meta-analyses of its political weaponisation.
A lot of the time “racism” is used by the establishment to attack people who pose a threat to the status quo (see: Jeremy Corbyn). Other times it is used to simplify complex political matters into good guys and bad guys.
HOW long until we get reports of people pelting Siberian huskies on the street?Probably not too long. Already there are videos of Russian food shops being vandalised such as this one in Germany.
This is a Russian store in Germany. People have so easily forgotten that Jewish shops were vandalised in the 1930/40s, have we learnt nothing? pic.twitter.com/SKcXv3dJ4h
— Know Your Human Rights (@HumanRights4UK) March 4, 2022
The marketplace of ideas has become saturated with contorted attempts to turn everything into a simple question of race, to the point it has almost robbed the word “racism” of any meaning at all.-
It’s always been pretty clear that beneath this ersatz outrage there lurks – ironically – some of the most ignorant and most unreconstructed racism currently being manifested anywhere.
The indignation, for example, among the woke, that Tolkien’s orcs are ‘obviously’ intended to represent black people (because orcs are stupid and violent), or that this mural must show Jewish bankers (because of the “hooked Jewish noses”) – only shows that the wokest middle class whites have an image of blackness as dumbly bigoted as any white supremacist.
So, it probably shouldn’t shock you – though it will – to realize one very potent reason the war in Ukraine is particularly upsetting is because it’s happening to white people.
Don’t believe me? Then take a look. From page to screen to social media the message has been loud and clear that this war is especially bad because it’s being waged in Europe on a population with “blond hair and blue eyes”:
[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC – “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” – Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze pic.twitter.com/m0LB0m00Wg
A CBS reporter talked about Ukraine being “civilised” and “European”, “not a place like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict for decades” and provoked this response –
On March 5, the Russian Defense Ministry announced a one day ceasefire to evacuate civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha.
These are the key strongholds of the Ukrainian Army and nationalist battalions in Donetsk Region. Both of them are now encircled by joint forces of Russia, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
Mariupol is a big port city, mainly ethnic Russian, situated in the part of Donetsk still controlled by Ukraine, between the Russian controlled areas of Donetsk Repuiblic (DPR) and Crimea. The Ukranian Nazis aim to again keep the city by any means (as they did in 2014) and have prepared a trap which threatens to cause a bloodbath as Russianand DPR troops close in.
A victim is hospitalized after shelling in Mariupol
The Mayor of Mariupol had appealed for help saying there was little food, water or electricity in the city. Russia and Ukraine have now agreed on setting up huimanitarian escape corridors from cities and Russia has begun a humanitarian aid program.
According to the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, humanitarian corridors and exit routes have been agreed with the Ukrainian side.
Kiev authorities claim that 200,000 civilians want to leave Mariupol and 20,000 civilians – Volnovakha. It is obvious that members of Kiev forces will try to leave the areas via the opened humanitarian corridors. Nonetheless, they will not be able to do this with weapons and in military uniforms.
“From 1000 am Moscow time (0700 GMT), the Russian side declares a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha,” Russian news agencies quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying.
The headquarters of the nazi Azov special detachment in Mariupol were hit yesterday with the Tochka-U tactical missile system by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to the DPR People’s Militia.
According to the report, more than 20 militants were killed.
“The location of the headquarters of a separate special purpose detachment “Azov” in the south-west of Mariupol was struck by the armed forces of Ukrainewith the “Tochka-U” tactical missile system. As a result of the strike, more than 20 militants and 10 pieces of equipment were destroyed,” the report says.
The attack was a result of the contradictions between the UAF command and commanders of the Azov battalion.
Members of the Azov nationalist battalion, who are now blockaded in the city of Mariupol, reportedly refuse to obey and coordinate their actions with the command of the Ukrainian Army.
The nationalist battalions pose a big threat not only to the Russian soldiers, but also to the local civilians, who were kept in hostage in the city, as well as to the current regime in Kiev and President Volodymir Zelenskiy.
Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South.
One of the key underlying themes of the Russia/Ukraine/NATO matrix is that the Empire of Lies (copyright Putin) has been rattled to the core by the combined ability of Russian hypersonic missiles and a defensive shield perhaps capable of blocking incoming nuclear missiles from the West, thereby ending Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)
This has led the Americans to nearly risk a hot war to be able to place hypersonic missiles that they still don’t have on Ukraine’s western borders, and so be within three minutes of Moscow. For that, of course, they need Ukraine, as well as Poland and Romania in Eastern Europe.
Hypersonic Missiles test
In Ukraine, the Americans are determined to fight to the last European soul – if that’s what it takes. This may be the last roll of the (nuclear) dice.
Thus the next-to-last gasp at coercing Russia into submission by using the remaining, workable American weapon of mass destruction: SWIFT.
Yet this weapon could be easily neutralized by rapid adoption of self-sufficiency.
With essential input by the inestimable Michael Hudson I have outlined possibilities for Russia to weather the sanction storm. That didn’t even consider the full extent of Russia’s “black box defense”– and counter-attack – as outlined by John Helmer in his introduction to an essay that heralds no less then The Return of Sergei Glaziev.
Glaziev, predictably detested across Atlanticist circles, was a key economic adviser to President Putin and is now the Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).
He has always been a fierce critic of the Russian Central Bank and the oligarch gang closely linked to Anglo-American finance.
His latest essay, Sanctions and Sovereignty, originally published by expert.ru and translated by Helmer, deserves serious scrutiny.
This is one of the key takeaways:
“Russian losses of potential GDP, since 2014, amount to about 50 trillion rubles. But only 10% of them can be explained by sanctions, while 80% of them were the result of monetary policy.
The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) program in the Republic of Georgia. Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia
