About Ukraine 2

Yesterday, ceremonies in Belgrade marked the anniversary of the two month NATO aerial bombardment of the Serbian capital that began on March 24 in 1999 and resulted in over 4,000 civilian deaths, including from bombs containing depleted Uranium, and the destruction of most of the civil infrastructure of the city.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is viewed even by staunch anti-imperialists as a terrible mistake, as unnecessary, callous, maybe even counterproductive. And yet, many quietly hope, that USA/NATO one day will pay the price for the millions of victims, the unimaginable destruction and the pain, which USA/NATO wars have caused.

But, helpless and powerless, the tiny voices for peace will not easily be heard in the bombastic drumbeat for war. There are also many people who keep their believes and knowledge to themselves. Once one is in a "fringe" spot, life becomes difficult. Many dissenters see the hypocrisy: Outcry against the invasion of Ukraine while "we" wage wars for commodities to secure our luxurious and wasteful lifestyle at the expense of everybody else.

The dissenting voices keep their heads down right now while the propaganda onslaught is putting pressure in the boiler.

The world condemns Russia

According to Western news media, the world collectively and univocally condemns Russian aggression against Ukraine. 

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for Russia to end its "absurd war." "Even if Mariupol falls, Ukraine cannot be conquered city by city, street by street, house by house," he said. "This war is unwinnable. Sooner or later, it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table."

At an emergency session in New York, 141 of the 193 United Nations member states backed a motion condemning Russia’s decision to go to war with Ukraine.

35 UN members abstained, five voted against and 12 didn’t vote at all. The outliers were:

North Korea, Eritrea, Belarus, and Syria voted against, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Congo, Cuba, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe abstained, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela did not vote.

Dissident voices (censored by mainstream media) object, that the countries who did not vote for the UN resolution represent the majority of the world’s population.

Dissident voices, censored by mainstream media but accessible in the dark corners of the internet, highlight the fact, that the USA and NATO expanded up to Russia’s borders, and even beyond to places like Colombia; bombed and invaded one nation after another (e.g., Serbia, Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen); acted militarily against other countries (e.g., Serbia, Iraq) without even seeking UN Security Council authorization; ignored the decisions of the International Court of Justice and withdrew from its jurisdiction; and even sanctioned International Criminal Court officials (Fatou Bensouda, Phakiso Mochochoko) for announcing their intention to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan.

Dissident voices claim, that Russia with its Ukraine operation is acting within the self-defense provision of Article 51 of the UN Charter, given the real and imminent threat that Ukraine forces represented to Russia and to the ethnic Russians living in Ukraine (many of whom are Russian citizens). The Ukraine obstructed the Minsk negotiations and, in violation of the Minsk Protocol, constantly shelled the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, causing thousands of deaths.

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (victim of a US-backed coup in 2019) called for an “international mobilization to stop the interventionist expansionism of USA and NATO.”

No neo-Nazis in Ukraine

Or only a few. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish. Case closed.

In the aftermath of the US supported Euromaidan uprising in 2014 (where Nazi elements played a leading role), the first post-revolution government was quick to install a number of neo-Nazis from the Svoboda & Right Sector parties to high office, including the positions of Deputy Prime Minister (Oleksandr Sych – Svoboda), Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (Andriy Parubiy – Svoboda), Deputy Secretary of National Security (Dmytro Yarosh – Right Sector), Minister of Ecology & Agricultural (Andriy Mokhnyk – Svoboda), Prosecutor General (Oleh Makhnitsky – Svoboda), and Minister of Internal Affairs (Arsen Avakov – not a member of a fascist party but a nationalist Nazi sympathizer who would go on to become the patron of Azov)

Dmitry Yarosh, leader of the Right Sector (Pravy Sektor) is an adviser to the head of Ukraine's general staff, Valery Zaluzhny.

Yevhen Karas, influential leader of the far-right organization C14, was elected to the Public Council under the Ministry of Veterans, along with a number of other C14 members.

StopFake, a self-described “fact checking” outlet that is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, Atlantic Council, Czech and UK foreign ministries, and the International Renaissance Foundation (funded by George Soros’ Open Society) employs multiple figures closely tied to neo-Nazis.

After the coup-government was put in place, and as fighting broke out in the eastern Russian-speaking regions, a number of neo-Nazi militias emerged in response to the perceived Russian threat. 

First among these was the Azov Battalion which came to prominence when they re-captured the Russian-speaking city of Mariupol from separatists. With patronage from Avakov and support from other high level officials, Azov was formally incorporated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Azov founder Andriy Biletsky has unapologetically stated that the mission of Ukraine is to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against Semite-led [Jewish] Untermenschen.” Azov, who flies an SS emblem as their battle flag, has proclaimed that they intend to cleanse Europe of immigrants and homosexuals.

Azov, now a “Regiment” is not only active in the south but is additionally taking part in the defense of Kyiv. The organization is also in the process of setting up three more battalions throughout Ukraine.

Azov has also organized Hitler Youth-like summer camps and “educational” programs in line with their Nazi ideology. Presently the Azov regiment is actively recruiting Nazis, fascists, and white nationalists from Europe and North America to join their ranks in Ukraine as ideologically driven armed fighters.

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) issued a report on the Azov Battalion in 2016, where it asserts that Azov has been guilty of torturing and raping civilians in areas where it is operational. The US House of Representatives in 2015 voted unanimously to bar US assistance going to the Azov battalion because of its Nazi ties.

The Azov Battalion (now Azov Regiment) is at the moment fighting Russians in southern Ukraine and is central to the Ukrainian defense of Mariupol.

Democratic Axe and the armed wing of Right Sector are two other prominent Nazi-organizations. The National Militia, a paramilitary group allied with Azov, has for some years been operating throughout Ukraine, including in Kyiv, as a kind of fascist vigilante group. These groups are often working in coordination with the local police.

Ukraine has dedicated hundreds of statues, memorials, plaques, and street names to Stepan Bandera and other World War II-era Nazi collaborators who played a direct role in the murdering of thousands of Ukrainian Jews and other ethnic minorities in the 1940s.

The 2019 fascist defeat at the polls does not diminish the truth that the Ukrainian state presently provides support, arms, financing, and legitimacy to dangerous Nazi organizations. 

Nor can anything negate the reality that Zelenskyy’s government has outlawed the left-leaning opposition parties throughout the country including the Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, and Socialists Party. Previous governments had already banned the Communist Party of Workers & Peasants as well as the Communist Party of Ukraine (which as recently as 2002 was the third-largest party in the country with 64 seats in parliament).

Parallell universes

The mainstream media information universe is solidly pro Ukraine, pro NATO, and especially reports Russian atrocities and disregard of civilian lives, Russian incompetence and inaptitude, Ukrainian heroism and sacrifice, and Western generosity but lack of courage to stop the Russian war criminals.

All Western observers agree, that Putin and his generals overestimated their own military prowess while grossly underestimating Ukraine's defenses. High combat losses now challenge Kremlin’s ability to sustain the war in Ukraine.

NATO estimates that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in one month of war in Ukraine, where fierce resistance from the country’s defenders has denied Moscow the lightning victory it sought.

Throughout the war, Russian troops have been hampered by persistent supply shortages, struggling to get food and fuel, and lacking proper cold weather gear.

It is now common knowledge that he Russians are bogged down and suffer unsustainable casualties and loss of equipment, but Russia still rains down missiles and bombs on cities.

With its ground forces slowed or stopped by hit-and-run Ukrainian units armed with Western-supplied weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s troops are bombarding targets from afar.

A no-fly zone is still considered too dangerous but NATO allies eventually could fly patrols to protect Ukraine’s airspace (?).

A tightening noose of sanctions around Russia’s trade and finance is expected to break the economy and maybe even topple the Putin regime. Germany says that it has forged contracts with new suppliers that will significantly reduce its reliance on Russian coal, gas and oil in coming weeks.

Ukrainian authorities claim that about 300 people died when a Russian airstrike blew up a theater in Mariupol where hundreds of civilians were sheltering. This was tweeted with no further evidence offered. Local Ukrainian authorities left the city “in order to better coordinate regional operations,” and there are only industrial areas remaining under control of the defenders.

Ukrainian forces conducted a successful attack on Russian ships docked at the occupied port of Berdyansk, likely sinking a landing ship and damaging or sinking another. Ukraine’s demonstrated ability to inflict serious damage on Berdyansk may disrupt Russian forces from renewing attempts to reinforce operations in Mariupol and around Kherson by sea.

The fire on the hull of the ship Saratov in the port of Berdyansk was acknowledged by Russia. The ship received serious damage and landed on the ground near the quay wall. Another BDC was also damaged in the explosion, the fire on it was extinguished after it left the harbor.

Ukrainian forces repelled renewed Russian attempts to advance toward Brovary from the northeast and complete the encirclement of Chernihiv. In Chernihiv, where an airstrike this week destroyed a crucial bridge, a city official, Olexander Lomako, said a “humanitarian catastrophe” is unfolding, as Russian forces target food storage places. He said about 130,000 people are left in the besieged city, about half its prewar population.

Russian precision-guided missiles are failing up to 60 percent of the time in Ukraine, three US officials with knowledge of intelligence on the issue told Reuters.

Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said, one of the strongest indications yet of a shift in momentum in the war. The mayor of a suburb east of Kyiv said Ukrainian troops had recaptured a nearby village and thousands of civilians were now leaving the area, answering a call from the authorities to get out of the way of the counter-attack.

Russian forces continue to shell Kharkiv and struck a humanitarian aid delivery point, killing six and wounding 15.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine, and the USA will work to prosecute the offenders. He cited evidence of indiscriminate or deliberate attacks against civilians and the destruction of apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers, and other sites.

Ukraine accuses Moscow of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia to pressure Kyiv to give up. Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudsperson, said that 402,000 people, including 84,000 children, had been taken against their will to Russia, where some may be used as “hostages” to pressure Kyiv to surrender.

Wester media bemoans the enormous trauma being suffered by Ukraine’s zoo animals (they shouldn’t be in a zoo anyway, but live undisturbed in a big enough sanctuary).

Dissident universes, black holes, dark matter 

Dissident media, censored but still accessible via cumbersome processes, maintain that Russia tries to avoid civilian casualties, is systematically pursuing its operation plans, and has destroyed crucial military installations and hardware.

For the dissident mind it is clear that this is not only a war in Ukraine, but an attempt by USA and NATO to weaken Russia first, then China, and reinstall “full-spectrum dominance” (hegemony).

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ statement, that “Ukraine cannot be conquered city by city, street by street, house by house," is correct. But this was never the aim of the Russian military. 

Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist taught, that one needs to destroy the enemy army first before approaching the cities and he warned against urban warfare. The Russian conduct shows clearly, that the destruction of Ukraine’s army is the main goal and that cities are only surrounded to tie up Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine’s air and air defense forces have been almost completely destroyed, and the country’s navy has effectively ceased to exist, Russian General Sergei Rudskoy said.

The campaign to demilitarize Ukraine is taking place via precision strikes against military infrastructure facilities, areas of deployment of formations of troops, as well as airfields, command posts, arsenals and depots containing weapons and equipment, plus battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Ukraine’s armed forces have suffered losses of 14,000 killed and 16,000 injured. The Russian military has prevented the replenishment of forces in Donbass, taking control of railway junctions and key roads. The supply of missiles, ammunition, fuel, and food has been almost completely stopped.

113 tanks and other armored vehicles, as well as 138 trophy Javelin and 67 NLAW anti-tank missile systems which Russia captured have been transferred to the Donetsk and Lugansk militias.

A salvo of cruise missiles launched from ships destroyed a massive Ukrainian fuel base used to supply the Kyiv region’s defenses.

Russian ground forces appear to be digging in and setting up defensive positions 15 to 20 kilometers (9 to 12 miles) outside Kyiv.

Russian troops appear to prioritize the fight in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of the Donbas, in what could be an effort to cut off Ukrainian troops and prevent them from moving west to defend other cities.

Russia acknowledges, that 400,000 Ukrainian civilians were relocated, but said they were from predominantly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and wanted to go to Russia.

Reports of Nazi atrocities: https://t.me/boris_rozhin/34690 

Rough translation: In Mariupol, two Nazis killed the parents of two kids and tried to pass through the checkpoint with the kids silently crying in the back of the car. The children were spotted in their distress, taken away and asked about their parents at which point they revealed the fact that the persons traveling with them were not their parents. Antifascists took care of the bandits.

Surviving citizens of Mariupol shared with a Russian journalist stories of civilians been thrown out to the ground of thirteen floor high apartments so that Azov fighters could set up firing positions.

Cracks in the narrative

Newsweek writes: 

As destructive as the Ukraine war is, Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, US intelligence experts say.

Russia's conduct in the brutal war tells a different story than the widely accepted view that Vladimir Putin is intent on demolishing Ukraine and inflicting maximum civilian damage — and it reveals the Russian leader's strategic balancing act. If Russia were more intentionally destructive, the clamoring for US and NATO intervention would be louder. And if Russia were all-in, Putin might find himself with no way out. Instead, his goal is to take enough territory on the ground to have something to negotiate with, while putting the government of Ukraine in a position where they have to negotiate.

A retired Air Force officer is quoted: "If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict."

"I know it's hard ... to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is," says the DIA analyst. "But that's what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations.

A second article directly undermines Biden’s dramatic warning about a false flag chemical attack. Reuters reports:

“The United States has not yet seen any concrete indications of an imminent Russian chemical or biological weapons attack in Ukraine but is closely monitoring streams of intelligence for them, a senior U.S. defense official said.”

It quotes the Pentagon official as saying, “There’s no indication that there’s something imminent in that regard right now.” Neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post published the Reuters article, which appeared only in the not widely read US News and World Report.

Thought and info splinters

Every participant in this war, including Russia, Ukraine, the USA, and all NATO allies, have in common that their nations have all experienced a massive loss of life from the COVID-19 pandemic. If one contrasts the resources which exist for the military to what has been done to stop the spread of COVID-19, the USA leads the way for sheer indifference to its population.

The trauma of war shapes the mood of a nation for generations. The largest WWII casualties were in China and the Soviet Union, 26 million in the Soviet Union, while China estimates its losses at approximately 20 million deaths.

David C. Gompert, a former acting director of national intelligence under the Obama administration, wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that the US “has more survivable, accurate and reliable offensive nuclear forces that could further decimate Russia’s strategic deterrent on the ground. Whatever Russian missiles survive such disarming strikes would be picked off by US missile defense systems.”

A nuclear decapitation strike is still in the minds of US strategists, and missiles in Ukraine who could reach Moscow or Saint Petersburg in five minutes would be a dream come true for the decapitators. 

A few links, some of them maybe outdated

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/25/media-watch-when-parallel-lines-converge-stand-clear/
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/neo-nazis-in-ukraine-fake-incidents-to-gain-more-western-support.html#more
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/16/report-secret-cia-training-program-in-eastern-ukraine-helped-prepare-for-russian-invasion/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/was-the-azov-battalion-behind-the-mariupol-theater-bombing-or-was-it-russia
https://www.rt.com/russia/552266-mariupol-theater-civilians-survived/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/18/russias-us-biowarfare-claims-in-ukraine-need-serious-answers/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/22/u-s-lied-about-funding-dangerous-pathogen-research-in-secret-ukrainian-biolabs-newly-leaked-documents-reveal/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/who-is-volodymyr-zelensky
https://www.newsweek.com/us-treasury-will-pay-tipsters-who-help-lead-seizure-russian-assets-1688796
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-18/south-europe-fears-livestock-culls-as-ukraine-conflict-prompts-feed-shortage
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/high-energy-costs-trigger-unrest-parts-europe-83528123
https://www.rt.com/russia/552233-ukraines-president-nobel-peace-prize/
https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/ned-ukraine-1/
Washington deletes all details of US/NED funded bodies in Ukraine.
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/
An alternative view in German. Google translation works fairly well.
https://www.rt.com/news/552295-ukraine-canada-military-aid/
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/LIVE-Russia-Destroys-Arms-Depot-in-Western-Ukraine-20220319-0006.html
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/what-will-be-the-geographic-end-state-of-the-war-in-ukraine.html#more
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/18/who-are-the-foreign-fighters-traveling-to-ukraine-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont/
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-links-to-ukraine-neo-nazi-movement/279936/
https://www.leftvoice.org/italian-airport-workers-stop-arms-shipment-to-ukraine-under-guise-of-humanitarian-aid/
https://johnplatinumgoss.com/2022/03/20/the-mariupol-theatre-bombing-what-really-happened/
http://eu.eot.su/2022/03/19/mariupol-resident-nazis-blew-up-the-drama-theater-with-those-who-wanted-to-evacuate/
https://rumble.com/vxz90v-breaking-ukraine-orders-to-castrate-all-russian-pows-because-they-are-cockr.html
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/ukraine-updates-and-scott-ritter-on-russia-military-strategy-and-progress.html
https://www.rt.com/russia/552408-kiev-mall-bombing-military/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/22/russ-m22.html
Opposition to war, fault-lines in Russian society. A very astute overview.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/larry-c-johnson-the-ukrainian-army-has-been-defeated-whats-left-is-mop-up/
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/22/what-the-chattering-classes-of-russia-are-talking-about-update/
https://www.donbass-insider.com/2022/03/22/mariupol-civilians-denounce-the-crimes-of-the-fighters-of-the-neo-nazi-azov-regiment/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/23/covertaction-bulletin-podcast-u-s-hypocrisy-cia-trains-insurgents-in-ukraine/
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/21/opposition-political-parties-banned-in-ukraine-and-unified-information-policy-imposed/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/24/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-signifies-the-end-of-an-era-of-unipolar-american-power/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM4psW9M-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NFngc_8RiVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGEVIAZZqc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMefnsUCQ1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4slqlALvx-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAGgLCp7t4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UzUMrEEXM&list=LL 

Media and propaganda news

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/15/parallel-worlds-or-parabolic-mirror-images-media-coverage-of-the-russia-ukraine-war/
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/a-uk-crackdown-on-academic-freedom/
I commented this post: Thank you for still not giving in and not retreating into inner emigration in the face of a gargantuan media machine that is surpassing everything what Orwell predicted.
https://www.rt.com/news/552494-scotland-professor-ukraine-theater/
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/john-helmer-zelensky-himself-is-now-in-polish-hands-march-15-summit-with-polish-czech-and-slovenian-prime-ministers-in-przemysl-poland-not-kiev.html
https://fair.org/home/how-much-less-newsworthy-are-civilians-in-other-conflicts/
Important!
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/03/20/hiatus/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/end-free-speech-online/5774673
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/
https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/counterpunch-when-the-good-guys-censor/
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/pentagon-drops-truth-bombs-to-stave-off-war-with-russia/

About Ukraine

Human history is a tale of crime, oppression, exploitation, and mass murder, glossed over, camouflaged, and whitewashed by hypocritical sermons and hymns of kindness and compassion.

Human history is a tale of ruthless fights for food, land, natural and mineral resources, of fights to exterminate everybody who could challenge the rule of the feudal elites.

War is a crime

There is no doubt, that the invasion of Ukraine, under post-Nuremberg laws, is a criminal war of aggression. People suffer and die needlessly and it is the poor and marginalized who will suffer the most.

Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry. It has an existential interest in keeping NATO away from its border. Russia will no more tolerate US missiles in Ukraine than the USA would tolerate Russian missiles in Cuba.

But to understand is not to condone. There would have been alternatives. Russia could have fortified the Donbass region and Crimea. It could have targeted with precision strikes all Ukrainian artillery which constantly shelled Donetzk und Luhansk.

Russia could have made a showcase of Crimea and the Donbass, eliminating corruption, serving the people with good governance and ecologically sound development. To some extent this happened in Crimea, but in Donetzk und Luhansk corruption remained high and opportunists ruled. 

As the Ukrainian military massed troops on the line of contact in Donbass, Russia did the same along all of the Russia-Ukraine border. If this would not have deterred an attack on the two Donbass enclaves Russia would have been in a good position to beat back the attackers and send them back across the line of contact with a bloody nose.

If the Ukraine would have pressed on with their attack, Russia could have targeted crucial military installations to cripple the Ukrainian forces and make the attack on the Donbass enclaves more and more costly for the enemy.

This would have still not been an invasion and would still not have caused civilian deaths. It would have been only a temporary solution and maybe would not have deterred NATO to send more weapons, especially missiles and anti-aircraft weapons, to Ukraine.

It would nevertheless have avoided thousands of deaths on both sides.

Many other opportunities of avoiding war were missed:

Russia could have organized a second vote in Crimea on unification under international observeation. People near the contact line could have been evacuated and resettled. Russia could have offered infrastructure development and cheap long-term loans, like it is done in China's belt road initiative. 

Russia could have tried tirelessly to increase cultural and economic ties, inviting artists, scientists, and other renowned public figures; it could have offered collaboration in technology, joint ventures, and participation in pioneering projects; it could have offered education, training, and jobs to unemployed Ukrainians.

There were admittedly some initiatives in this direction but it was far too little.

Russian President Wladimir Putin has destroyed his legacy. To start the war was not his lonely decision, the circle of advisors and high ranking officials around him surely contributed to the decision and they all share the responsibility for the ensuing carnage.

Many people in the West who hoped that there were at least two cool headed and rational acting eminent decision makers to block and placate the US-led imperium are deeply disappointed. Putin apparently has forgotten what he learned from judo and also has forgotten the lessons of Afghanistan 1989, Hungary 1956, and Czechoslovakia 1968.

Xi Jinping is the last remaining hurdle on the road to armageddon. One can only hope that, as he observes and evaluates the situation in Eastern Europe, he will ruminate about peaceful solutions and in the end show more imagination and vision that Putin.

Environmental impact of war

War makes all other human caused crises worse. Explosions and fires pollute air, water, and soil, infrastructure is destroyed, cities turned into heaps of rubble, gas guzzling military vehicles devastate fields, forests, and tear up sensitive wetlands.

Both the military build-up, and the short term and long-term impacts from the fighting have generated greenhouse gas emissions. Reconstruction, if it ever comes, will be a further and significant carbon cost caused by the conflict.

The Ukraine was already one of the worst air quality areas in Europe. Now, with missiles, shells, and tank rounds exploding, a wide array of materials are flung into the air, from heavy metals in industrial sites, concrete, cables, and pipes in roads, to asbestos from buildings. There are heavy metals and various carcinogens in the explosives themselves.

The eight-year conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk provinces already showed how war can compound environmental problems. This area is one of the world’s largest coal mining regions, containing 900 active and inactive mines. The mines are on average over 700 meters deep and need to be regularly pumped to prevent groundwater from flooding them. Before the conflict began, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources identified 4,240 sites as potentially hazardous, due to methane leaks, hydro-dynamics, biohazards, and radiation. Before the war started, the ministry monitored these sites to manage environmental and health risks.

Degrading and damaged infrastructure has interfered in trash removal and wastewater treatment. As of 2018, household and industrial sewage was flowing untreated into surface waters, increasing pollution in the Donetsk River, causing fecal coliform levels to surge.

Even more concerning, the ministry identified 35 mines in 2016 where groundwater pumping had ceased, so the mines flooded. Such floodwaters can dissolve heavy metals like mercury, lead, and arsenic and contaminate groundwater. In some cases, these sites were originally mined via nuclear detonations, meaning they are full of irradiated debris which could be carried out by floodwaters if they aren’t regularly pumped. By 2016, 55 of 66 drinking water sites that had been tested were deemed non-potable; three of them had significantly elevated radiation levels.

Environmental management of industrial sites will stop during the conflict. In the port city of Mariupol, residents until now endured the constant belching of soot and smoke from two steel plants.

The environmental management director of the plants blamed the slow progress of environmental upgrades on the ongoing conflict with Russia, which has indeed depleted the regional workforce of engineering and construction experts, forcing the company to direct limited resources to repairing neighboring facilities damaged by fighting.

Mariupol is now in ruins and the steel plants are nothing else than toxic waste landfills.

In the sea town of Berdianske, seven miles from Mariupol in the province of Zaporizhia, the beaches and fields are littered with land mines. Unexploded ordnance may leach toxic chemicals into soil and groundwater. Swimming and fishing are off limits.

There are many other local environmental catastrophes happening, like the explosions at an oil reservoir in the town of Vasylkiv, just outside of Kyiv, which spewed unknown toxins into the air.

Forest fires from military shooting or explosions are another danger. In 2020  20,000 hectares of forest in the Luhansk region burned down.

As the war disrupts electricity generation across Ukraine, people may switch to backup generators running on diesel, adding those fumes to the toxic mix of polluted air.

There is also the possibility that fighting could damage one of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors, located at four different sites around the country.

Fighting in the Belarus-Ukraine border area near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with artillery, mortar, and multiple rocket-launchers surely has dispersed radioactive debris in the soil.

War and the pandemic

It is not good to inhale particulate matter, not even natural materials like dust. Lungs have evolved to clear these foreign objects by coughing up mucus, but PM 2.5 (particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers) can slip past these defenses and get deep into the lungs, eventually passing into the bloodstream. That can deliver heavy metals and organic pollutants all over the body, which then persist in tissues.

When particulate matter gets into the lungs, immune cells try to engulf those foreign objects and thereby get distracted from attacking microbes, making viral infections like COVID-19 worse. 

War zones provide the ideal conditions for infectious diseases to spread. Distracted government institutions, faltering health services, and the congregation of large numbers of vulnerable people can create perfect conditions for a catastrophic infectious disease outbreak.

Large numbers of people crowding in basements, metro stations, or on trains and busses are perfect “super-spreader” events.

Only around 34 percent of Ukrainians have received two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, and the country has reported 107,340 deaths from the virus so far. 

Ukraine’s Covid-19 cases were “increasing significantly” between January and February, peaking on one day in early February with more than 43,000 positive cases recorded. 

Until now the Ukraine has counted 107,340 death from COVID-19 (2,480 per million), while Russia has 363,039 casualties (2,486 per million), the USA 994,739 (2,976 per million) and China 4,636 (3 per million).

There will be a rise of COVID-19 in Ukraine tied to Russia's invasion, but also a surge in other infectious diseases like polio, cholera, measles, tuberculosis, and HIV. 

The presence of HIV and tuberculosis in Ukraine is among the highest in Europe, and the UN agency for HIV/AIDS has warned that the country has less than a month’s supply of HIV drugs left. The Ukraine’s rate of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis infections is also one of the highest in the world; left unaddressed, transmissions could increase and amount to another epidemic.

There was a polio outbreak in 2021 and in 2011 Ukraine was the last country within Europe to have a cholera outbreak (in Mariupol, where water and sewage systems are in ruins now).

There are over 2.3 million people with diabetes in Ukraine (7.1 percent of the population), and the country is now facing an insulin shortage.

All this together constitute the perfect scenario for an unprecedented health catastrophe. 

There are no informations how many Russian and Ukrainian soldiers are stricken by COVID-19, but toxic fumes from explosions, diesel exhaust fumes, crammed combat vehicles, and crowded quarters certainly will increase infections.

It could well be, that a COVID surge significantly impacts the capabilities of both invaders and defenders. Russian forces are said to have logistical problems and low moral, which both could be a result of a pandemic surge among the troops. 

Cannon fodder shortage

A deluge of fairytales from Western media propaganda and maskirovka (Russian military deception) make it nearly impossible to guess the actual state.

There seems to be a shortage of cannon fodder on both sides.

Putin told his national security team that Russia should begin accepting “volunteers” from the Middle East, to fight in Ukraine. This probably will be mainly soldiers from Syria. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly traveled to Ukraine, where members of his feared militia force are believed to be fighting.

Private fighting forces are being sent from NATO countries to Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine would establish an international legion for its war against Russia, saying, “Anyone who wants to join the defense of Ukraine, Europe and the world can come and fight side by side with the Ukrainians against the Russian war criminals.”

UK Foreign secretary Liz Truss said Sunday that she “absolutely” supported British citizens traveling to Ukraine to serve as combatants.

The networks for the deployment of these soldiers of fortune have been in existence since 2014. They have funneled far-right elements to Ukraine and back to their home countries, where they have on occasion been found guilty of white supremacist terrorism. 

In Ukraine, these organizations worked with the Azov battalion and the Georgian National Legion. They are now receiving open assistance of the British and the US government. More than 60 fighters, most of them retired special ops forces, have traveled from the UK and at least six from the USA in the past week.

Details and photos of UK commanders meeting with the NGU (Ukraine’s National Guard) in Kyiv last year were recently posted. The NGU includes a thousand men strong neo-Nazi unit. Members of another far-right Ukrainian group were trained at Sandhurst in 2020.

The UK MoD told journalists it has no plans to train the NGU and that British commanders were misquoted. The UK military is engaging with the NGU and aware of “the peculiarities of its combat operations.”

These groups are displaying pictures of Stepan Bandera (a fascist politician who collaborated with Hitler), use the Wolfangel logo, and regularly shout the phrase “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!,” which was used by fascist nationalist groups in WWII. It was banned in the USSR.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s the slogan began to be heard at rallies and demonstrations. After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the phrase “Glory to Ukraine” became a common patriotic slogan. In 1995, President of the United States Bill Clinton used the phrase in his speech in Kyiv (together with “God bless America”)

An Ukrainian hero

Ukrainian-Israeli-Cypriot Oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi was dismissed as governor of the Dnipro area oblast in 2014, and immediately turned around and helped ensure that “Servant of the People“, the show where Volodymyr Zelensky acted as president, was aired on his 1+1 network in Ukraine, of which he owns 70 percent.

This is the power behind Zelensky though, a grifter and mobster who has been ripping off Belarussian and Russian fellow oligarchs for billions.

Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up Ukraine, but the Pandora Papers reveal that he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.

Who is responsible for the war?

Red lines are only a deterrent when they are enforced. Washington tried to call Putin’s bluff and he had to show them that he is not bluffing. 

The regime in Kiev, infested with neo-Nazis, is a threat to Russia and is actually on Russia’s border. The Ukraine wants to enter NATO and the military doctrine of the Ukraine includes the goal of the reconquest of Crimea by force.

Which means that in all likelihood the Ukraine intends to join NATO and then attack Crimea, which means that Russia will go to war with NATO.

The Ukraine's leadership hinted that they will use spent nuclear fuel to make dirty bombs and use their existing rockets to shoot it at Russia.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would be a "golden dream" for Washington.

"The US deployed its nuclear weapons on the territory of European countries. It’s not France and the UK that have their own nuclear weapons. This is Italy and many other countries that possess the US nuclear weapons but they do not have access to them. The US controls them there. It was a golden dream that they would appear in Ukraine.” 

NATO mad clear, that it will not fight on Ukrainian soil against Russia and not try to impose a no-fly zone. Instead arms and equipment will be sent to the Ukrainian military.

Was NATO’s recently declared restraint an invitation for the Russian military? Was it intended as a trap?

Why couldn't NATO give assurances that Ukraine will not join?

What we saw over the last few years and months and weeks was increased threats to contain and punish Russia and insistence that Ukraine could join NATO along with Georgia and any other neighboring nation.

US and European officials issued increasingly bellicose statements that they are planning for direct war with Russia. The addition of 7,000 US troops to Eastern Europe announced by the Biden administration will bring the total US deployment on the continent to over 100,000.

Increased attacks against the two Donbass enclaves made some kind of action necessary. There was a diplomatic solution for the two Donbass enclaves: The Minsk Agreements, which stipulated the granting of amnesty and autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine deliberately chose to ignore those agreements for seven years and shelled Donetsk and Luhansk during that entire time.

Almost 643 attacks were registered on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic in the 11 days before the invasion. In this period, 15 people were killed and 34 more were wounded, as the representatives of the republic reported at the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime.

The protection of Donbass and the neutralization of Ukraine though are only the most visible causes of the conflict. The second set of causes, and by far the most important, relates to the balance of strategic forces and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction in the event of a nuclear attack. 

If Ukraine would fall into Western military orbit, NATO would be able to install its nuclear weapons there like in Poland and Romania, placing Moscow five minutes away from total destruction and preventing it from threaten to retaliate with equivalent nuclear fire.

This scenario would have ruined Russia’s independence and sovereignty. Just as the installation of Russian nuclear rockets in Cuba would have destroyed the ability of the USA to defend itself and force it to submit to Moscow’s will. 

Russia feels all the more threatened as the United States has unilaterally denounced nuclear treaties INF (2019) and Open Sky (2020) that guaranteed a certain security and maintained a strategic dialogue. Under these conditions, the establishment of a buffer zone between Russia and US nuclear missiles in Europe (Ukraine and Georgia in this case) became an existential issue for the Russians.

Wladimir Putin surely had NATO’s air war against Serbia in 1999 in his mind, when he addressed the nation on February 24. From his speech:

Those who aspire to global dominance have publicly designated Russia as their enemy. They did so with impunity. Make no mistake, they had no reason to act this way.

Even now, with NATO’s eastward expansion the situation for Russia has been becoming worse and more dangerous by the year. Moreover, these past days NATO leadership has been blunt in its statements that they need to accelerate and step up efforts to bring the alliance’s infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders. In other words, they have been toughening their position. We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us….

The purpose of this operation is to protect people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime. To this end, we will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian Federation.

Information warfare

While Western media channels report the destruction of hospitals, apartment buildings, and other civilian installations, depicting it as Russian atrocities and warcrimes, officials in Moscow insist that Russian troops only attack military targets and do their upmost to avoid civilian casualties.

Russian, Chinese, and a few dissident media channels claim, that neo-Nazi militias (Azov Battalion, Right Sector) deliberately setup firing positions in civilian buildings, use civilians as human shields or hostages, and fire on vehicles who try to flee the carnage via evacuation corridors.

Both sides warn of “false flag attacks.” 

When a theater in Mariupol was destroyed with dozens of people sheltering there dead, the Russian Defense Ministry said there had been no strikes against civilian targets in the city, and accused the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion of blowing up the theater and killing its hostages (the paramilitary Azov Battalion has made Mariupol its base, and reportedly prohibits civilians from fleeing to safety).

Western intelligence agencies announce, that Russia's offensives in Ukraine have stalled on all fronts and troops continue to suffer heavy losses. "Ukrainian resistance remains staunch and well-coordinated. The vast majority of Ukrainian territory, including all major cities, remains in Ukrainian hands."

There are also reports that at least four Russian generals have been killed, that moral of Russian units is low, and the offensive is hampered by misconceptions and errors. US intelligence estimates that more than 7,000 Russian troops have died during the invasion.

There is an acrimonious debate about 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine and alleged research in bioweapons.

Thousands of photoshopped and otherwise doctored images are put on social media to document Russian war crimes, Ukrainian heroic resistance, and heavy Russian casualties.

At the moment it is impossible to get a clear picture what is going on — only time will tell.

Global impact

The Ukrainian war is also one episode of a war for world supremacy, with the Anglo-sphere seeking to achieve complete hegemony by subduing as many Latin America, African, and Asian nations as possible. Europeans are already obedient vassals, while others are still fighting for a multipolar world. 

It is also a new version of the centuries-old struggle of the white world against the coalition of Blacks, Colored, and Yellows. This explains why 40 Asian, African and Latin American countries (representing 4.5 billion human beings) refrained from sanctioning Russia in the United Nations vote, and are watching the spectacle from afar and with the secret hope that Russia will win its tug-of-war.

The World Bank warned that the war in Ukraine will cut global growth (good for the environment), but rising global energy prices and inflation in particular will hit the poor the most.

Both Russia and Ukraine are big food producers. Ukraine is the world's biggest producer of sunflower oil, with Russia number two. Between them they account for 60 percent of global production. The two countries also account for 28.9 percent of global wheat exports. Wheat prices on the Chicago future exchange have been trading at 14-year highs.

About 39 percent of the EU's electricity comes from power stations that burn fossil fuels, and Russia is the biggest source of that oil and gas.

The conflict in Ukraine has caused Western governments to hastily attempt to untangle themselves from a reliance upon Russian oil and gas. The European Union, which gets about 40 percent of its gas supply from Russia, is working on a plan to rapidly upscale renewable energy, bolster energy efficiency measures, and build liquified natural gas terminals to receive gas from other countries.

Joe Biden, meanwhile, has relented to pressure from US lawmakers to ban imports of Russian oil. The ban, the US president said last week, will deliver a “powerful blow to Putin’s war machine. We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war.” Biden said the US will work with Europe on a long-term plan to phase out Russian oil and gas.

Hate and disdain

According to the universal accepted narrative, Russia invaded Ukraine because there is a monster called Putin, just as there were monsters named Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Slobodan Milosevic.

US senator Lindsey Graham already suggested that Vladimir Putin should be assassinated,  "Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?" the South Carolina Republican asked. Later he was telling Fox News that Russians must “rise up and take Putin down.”

Europeans were flabbergasted by the violence. How could war happen here in civilized Europe, we are better than this, surely? Only the global south and the muslims and the asians should have to endure this. War on peaceful Europe is impossible, it only happens "over there.”

(The world cries for Ukraine, but when Middle Eastern and Afghan kids die, no one cares.)

It's understandable that people are scared and angry. However, the pearl-clutching perception that "national sovereignty" and "international norms" have been violated in an unprecedented way is somewhat sickening given the various and longstanding interstate conflicts in the Middle East — many of which did involve blatant sovereignty violations and destruction far more brutal that anything Russia has done in Ukraine so far.

What’s going on

As millions of Ukrainians are fleeing the country, and thousands are joining the fight against Russia, the workforce has shrunk dramatically, which is making it difficult to keep the war time economy going. Production is collapsing and there are disruptions to vital food and energy supplies.

Some of the larger Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems may be still operational. In addition it appears Ukraine has received another few hundred man-portable anti-aircraft weapons. It also possible that Ukraine got some smaller vehicle mounted anti-aircraft systems which would be a step above the man-pads.

Thus the Russians are likely to be not yet willing to risk too many aircraft as they continue to grind down the Ukraine forces.

The conflict on the ground seems to be going pretty well for Russia so far, as the best units of the Ukrainians seem to be close to complete encirclement in eastern Ukraine.

Only the Russians know what they intend to do in the coming weeks. Based on Russias past experiences in Syria and Chechnya the Russians believe that the majority of opponents can be pressured/persuaded/bribed into surrendering or changing sides. Some of the most impressive advances in Syria occurred because weeks of intensive negotiations meant that local warlords simply switched sides before a major advance.

In simple terms, while the US tries to sort people into “who is with us, who is against us”, the Russians sort people into “who can be persuaded to surrender”, and “who will fight to the last man”.

The strategy would be to use the initial shock to sort out the two elements. Once they work out who will surrender, and who won’t, they’ll go for all out assault on the latter. The danger of this approach is that some elements may simply go underground, and wait for an opportunity to strike back.

Despite the optimistic talk in the mainstream media of Ukraine steadfastly holding out against the invading forces of Putin and claims that the Russian offensive has become bogged down, the reality is that Washington expects the Ukrainian government to eventually fall.

Dusting off a proxy war strategy from the 1980s, the USA is planning to direct a long-term insurgency fight in Ukraine modeled on the CIA’s Cold War clandestine interference in Afghanistan. That imperialist action fueled a deadly civil war and empowered the forces behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

This time, it would mean raiding public coffers in the USA to arm a hodge-podge army that includes not just well-intentioned Ukrainians struggling to defend their homeland but also neo-Nazi elements fighting a war for ethnic cleansing.

To avoid a bloodletting like in Afghanistan the Russian leadership would be well advised to look for a dignified or at least face-saving exit and a compromise which guarantees Ukraines neutrality and the acceptance of Crimea’s annexation. 

Some links

https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-zelensky-from-comedian
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/5/pandora-papers-no-re-election-for-ukraines-comedian-president
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a hero in Western news channels, but his reputation is tainted by solid evidence of corruption.
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2022/03/16/30-nonviolent-things-russia-could-have-done-and-30-nonviolent-things-ukraine-could-do-by-david-swanson/
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/11/day-sixteen-of-the-russian-ukrainian-war-changing-realities-changing-mood/
Important!
https://intellinews.com/eastern-ukraine-has-almost-completely-fallen-but-putin-now-needs-a-peace-fast-237784
https://www.indianpunchline.com/ukraine-faces-defeat/
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ukraine-economy-could-collapse-if-war-drags-imf-2563941
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/russia-ukraine-war-un-chief-warns-global-food-system-meltdown-2564101
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/10/nato-arming-training-nazis-ukraine-azov/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/business-as-usual-facebook-russia-and-hate-speech/
https://theduran.com/syrian-chemical-attack-ukraine-edition-coming-soon/
https://theconversation.com/ukraine-how-the-global-fertiliser-shortage-is-going-to-affect-food-179061
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Calls-for-Verification-Mechanism-On-Ukrainian-BioLabs-20220315-0009.html
https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/there-are-25-us-funded-biolabs-in-ukraine-former-us-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard/
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/far-right-extremists-in-ukraine-brag-they-have-received-training-from-the-canadian-forces-report
https://www.rt.com/russia/551975-nazi-influence-ukrainian-politics/
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/10/nato-arming-training-nazis-ukraine-azov/
https://rhyd.substack.com/p/the-haunted-mansion-of-modern-freedom
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/washington-is-considering-escalating-financial-war-against-moscow-despite-risks-to-europes-banking-system.html
https://www.energyintel.com/0000017f-307c-d3e7-a17f-f1fdfee40000
https://www.rt.com/news/550337-american-ignorance-russia-policy-putin/
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/24/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/02/25/global-research-weekender-why-did-russia-attack-ukraine/
A useful compilation of articles.

Older articles:

https://thewallwillfall.org/2022/02/26/what-is-really-going-on-in-ukraine/
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/24/timeline-euromaidan-the-original-ukraine-crisis
https://patrickarmstrong.ca/2022/02/25/russia-ukraine-1
https://gowans.blog/2022/02/25/the-struggle-of-russia-and-the-united-states-for-ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine criticized from a socialist point of view.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/26/pers-f26.html
A campaign to promote anti-Russian hatred.
https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/150475-usa_arrogance/
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/LIVE-Ukrainian-Gunboats-Attack-Ships-with-Captive-Servicemen-20220226-0003.html
https://declassifieduk.org/uk-commanders-in-ukraine-met-neo-nazi-linked-national-guard-to-deepen-military-cooperation/
https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-countries-to-send-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-borrell-01645994409 
What could go wrong?
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/01/repeating-70s-strategy-of-grand-chess-master-zbigniew-brzezinski-biden-administration-appears-to-have-induced-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-bankrupt-russias-economy-and-advance-regime-cha/
https://marktaliano.net/thoughts-on-the-endgame-in-ukraine-by-tony-kevin/
https://www.resumen-english.org/2022/02/russia-ukraine-an-avoidable-tragedy/
https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/01/on-humiliation-and-the-ukraine-war/
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/03/02/u-s-has-its-knee-to-the-neck-of-europe-in-the-form-of-nato-an-interview-1-march-with-radio-belarus/
https://freewestmedia.com/2022/03/02/ukraine-supplies-90-percent-of-us-semiconductor-grade-neon/
https://iacenter.org/2022/02/25/who-gains-from-a-war-in-europe-u-s-targets-supply-of-russian-gas-to-europe/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/did-nato-just-declare-war-on-russia/
https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-exposes-white-supremacist-foreign-policy
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/03/lead-m03.html
NATO floods Ukraine with weapons.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-02-why-did-us-embassy-website-remove-all-evidence-ukrainian-bioweapons-labs.html
http://infobrics.org/post/35258/
France openly declares that “Russian people will suffer.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/ukraine-war-highlights-tensions-in-putins-objectives-will-he-win-the-war-and-lose-the-peace.html
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/reader-apologies-re-highlighting-out-of-date-scott-ritter-video-wall-street-buys-russian-bonds-mbs-snubs-us-investments-biden-tries-to-arm-twist-india-and-putin-can-still-blow-the-peace.html
http://johnhelmer.net/on-the-economic-war-front-the-new-tributary-system-the-russian-kowtow/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/01/greek-in-mariupol-fascist-ukrainian/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/04/how-russia-will-counterpunch-the-us-eu-declaration-of-war/
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/2/covid-and-the-russian-invasion-ukraines-dual-crisis
https://peoplesworld.org/article/ukrainian-communist-youth-leaders-reportedly-arrested-by-government-targeted-for-death/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/09/afri-m09.html
Ukrainian security forces’ mistreatment of Africans fleeing war.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/national-endowment-for-democracy-deletes-records-of-funding-projects-in-ukraine/
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/discerning-volodymyr-zelensky.html
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/navigating-our-humanity-ilan-pappe-on-the-four-lessons-from-ukraine/
https://ericmargolis.com/2022/03/stop-the-crazy-war-in-ukraine/
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/03/09/the-us-chose-this-conflict-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
https://www.rt.com/russia/551583-ukraine-nationalists-chernobyl/
https://www.rt.com/russia/551510-nuland-ukraine-biolabs-attack
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-was-all-written-rand-corp-plan/5773288
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological
https://www.marcotosatti.com/2022/03/07/declaration-of-msgr-carlo-maria-vigano-on-the-russia-ukraine-crisis/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/10/the-afl-cios-nazi-friendly-union-in-ukraine/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/12/biod-m12.html
More stonewalling by the White House and US media about the Ukrainian biolabs.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-admits-funding-biological-laboratories-ukraine-dilyana-gaytandzhieva/279904/
https://www.indianpunchline.com/zelensky-rubbishes-bidens-war-on-russia/
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57043.htm
Sanction backlash.
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/washingtons-resolve-to-protect-ukraines-nazis-the-un-general-assembly-extraordinary-vote-of-ukraine-and-the-usa%EF%BF%BC/
https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/the-man-who-sold-ukraine/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/13/censored-reports-from-donbass-make-clear-ukraine-and-not-russia-started-the-war-eight-years-ago/
https://slavyangrad.org
A view from the other side.
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2022/03/12/ukrainian-authorities-unleash-witch-hunt/