1 Year on from Putin’s Invasion – an orgy of violence, ego and corporate war profits

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Martyn Bradbury
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One year ago this week, Putin embarked upon his invasion of the Ukraine.

His campaign to counter perceived Western influence in Russia’s backyard was a complex mix of his own Christian faith, his sense of history amongst Russia’s pantheon of great leaders, his use of the Orthodox Church and his manipulation of a poorly informed Army have all combined to create the largest land war since World War 2.

The geopolitical impact of two base ingredient countries at war has inflated prices for metals, minerals, grains and oil that is fuelling global inflation.

Despite  200,000 casualties, Russia shows no sign of stopping and Putin’s only regret is he didn’t invade earlier.

He wasn’t tricked or deceived, Putin chose this war.

Sure there were issues of American interference in the Ukrainian revolution and the French and Germans admitted the Minsk Accord was a delaying tactic and many thousands of Russian speaking Ukranians were harmed and killed, but that’s still no excuse to launch an ill conceived vanity project war because you want t  shine next to Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Vlad the Impaler.

The possibility of miscalculation leading to a mass destruction weapon event between the West and Russia is as serious now as it has ever been.

This war is far from over and the fuse of internal civil unrest has been lit in a dozen proxy fronts from the middle East, through to the pacific, through to Africa.

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The only winner here is the American Military Industrial Complex who have made billions in sales and who will fight Russia to the last Ukrainian to keep profits high during economic hardship.

There is no military solution to this obscene wound and it will continue to impact geopolitics all year.

 

 

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42 COMMENTS

  1. Correct Martyn.
    It’s what happens when a nuclear power is run by one man without checks or balances. One 70-year-old man with a background in state sponsored thuggery in the KGB.

    • OPPS – for a minute there Andrew I thought you were referring to Biden – sorry. But as opposing narratives compete to “out-fact” each other it’s a common mistake these days. Also, as attempts are made to woo supporters of US imperialism over to the other side, phrases like; “Putin’s a prick but…..” are increasingly common . And with words like; “perceived Western influence in Russia’s backyard”, to explain Putin’s motives, even old Bomber is getting in on the act. And now, to counter the claims that Ukraine is multi gold medalist in the Corruption Olympics, apologists for US foreign policy say that’s only because Russia wasn’t allowed to compete. Suffice it to say, if history teaches us anything, it’s that, when push comes to shove, people, (even seasoned media hacks) are putty in the hands of the propagandists. Call me simple but I just believe there’d be no war in Ukraine if the US hadn’t engineered it.

      • Thanks Malcolm, it’s amazing how deeply Cold War propaganda conditioned most Westerners thinking. In NZ the anti Russian conditioning goes back further to British imperial settlement, we spent a heap on building forts due to the non existent “Russian threat” in the late 1800s.
        So now the Soviet has broken up we neatly have had our minds conditioned to accept Soviet and Russia as synonymous, FSB with KGB, Putin with Stalin. That is the power of concentration of media ownership aligned with propaganda. It relieves us of the need to think, to research the truth. It gives credit to laziness.

    • Thats in interesting question. The Israelis have embarked upon a 2000 year old project to control Palestine and Putin is the latest Russian leader in an 800 year old project to control Kievan Rus’ and he isnt planning to allow it to become American Rus.

  3. It’s quite easy to see why Putin didn’t invade in 2014 to protect Russian speakers from genocidal psychopaths like Kolomoyskyi and his Azov puppets, the need to fortify the Russian economy against illegal unilateral sanctions from the Americans and their dogs, but really, not excusable that it took this long. The likes of Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky were never honest, they were always genocidal, they always had to be stopped.

  4. I don’t think history or recent remarks by MANY European ‘leaders’ would agree with this remark of yours Martyn……….’He wasn’t tricked or deceived, (Putin chose this war)’.

    • He sure as hell did choose this war.
      Putin has spent 30 years building up to it.
      He wants to recreate the old ussr along with his ex KGB mates.

      Read the book Putins’ people and how the KGB took back Russia by Christine Belton.
      It can be borrowed from any library or ask your local one to get it in.
      A very enlightening read.

      • Her name is Catherine Belton (not Christine)and her publisher had to admit several inaccuracies (lies)concerning in particular Abramovich , with the book having to be revised,apologies from Belton and the publisher made to Abramovich and money paid to a charity of his choice
        Over 1700 words had to be changed or deleted

  5. “There is no military solution to this obscene wound….”

    There is a military solution. That is for the people of Ukraine to liberate themselves from the invader.
    The sooner that is done the better. Western weapons will speed that result.

    • Exactly.
      The Ukraine should be given a batch of ATACMS missiles immediately to cut off the Kersh Bridge and knock out ammo dumps and command structures. It would end the war in a month. The problem is western dithering.

  6. If Putin’s motives can be described as that of a man merely seeking self-aggrandizement, then the same could be said for much of the rhetoric on TDB. As keyboard warriors comment on events, often in terms far removed from their real ability to know, they risk forgetting that real people, mothers and fathers, wives, sons and daughters, cities and towns, farms and villages are being destroyed in these events. Imagination is one of the great advantages we have over other living things but it’s no substitute for research into the facts. As Professor Neil deGrass Tyson famously said; “One of the great challenges of this world is to know enough to think you’re right, but not enough to know you’re wrong”.

    • “….real people, mothers and fathers, wives, sons and daughters, cities and towns, farms and villages are being destroyed in these events.” Malcolm Evans

      They are not being killed by events they are being killed by the Russian Federation.

      Real people, mothers and fathers, wives, sons and daughters, cities and towns, farms and villages are being destroyed by Russian Federation forces.

    • Supporters of Russia’s war against Ukraine use euphemisms to sanitise what the Russians are doing in Ukraine.

      Russia is not fighting a war against Ukraine, – Russia is conducting a “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine”.
      People aren’t being killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, – they are being ‘destroyed’ by “events” in Ukraine.

      Makes me wonder Malcolm, the next time the Zionist forces bomb Gaza, will you be saying Palestinians were ‘destroyed’ by ‘events’ in Gaza.

  7. The EU. That woman wearing a crown of 12 stars, clothed in the sun (Greenland flag), and the moon under her feet (Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan flags)… I’m going to try and drown her with WAR(ter)

    But even with my buds China (Beast from out of the earth who talks like me) and the US (far right. Beast from out of the sea)… I know I’m going to LOSE

  8. From what I understand Nato has never sent military force to areas that don’t already have conflict happening, or are members under threat. They have never attacked a country like Russia where within its borders there is no conflict. I’m sure I will be corrected if wrong. The decisions by NATO to act anywhere has to have the general agreed consensus of the 30 member countries or it wouldn’t survive as a group. I’m not naive enough to believe the US has no influence, but if there wasn’t consensus the group wouldn’t survive. So if I’m right, and acknowledging the Russian historic gripes, Putin has no basis for believing NATO build up along it’s borders are for attack purposes, but that they are doing this to protect their members. To legitimise Putin with the excuse of provocation is IMO nonsense. I will take the decisions of 30 countries and their governments over one psychotic leader who makes unilateral decisions for his country without asking and who is willing to kill thousands of the people he says he is fighting for. The US might be corrupt and can see profit, but Putin is sub- human.

      • There was already civil unrest in Libya which is the point I am making. There is no civil unrest in Russia that I’m aware of so why would NATO attack RUSSIA unless one of its members was attacked. Yes Quaddafi’s downfall was orchestrated but Libya is better without him.

    • Sub-human?
      Grow up, New+view. Have you heard Putin speak English, a second language for him? He is more coherent in expression in English than doddery Biden or all the silly jumped up leaders of the so-called western World.
      And you are so expert in language and deep political knowledge as to be able to pronounce him sub-human?
      It seems to me that you yourself are overtly sub-standard in making judgements.

      • In Vino. I’m quite grown up thanks. Yes wrong choice of words as of course being Human or sub human is no guarantee to act with empathy and thought for others. Neither is being well educated. Biden hasn’t made a habit of aiming missiles directly at apartment buildings full of people. If he did how long would he remain in power as a silly leader of a jumped up Western world. It’s the subtle difference between democracy and authoritarian rule. Russian people don’t get to have a say but Americans do. Like I’ve said if Putin was genuine about his concern for so called Russian Ukrainians why is he killing them.

  9. From what I understand the US designates some country destabilisation and regime change then calls Nato to recommend the 30 countries be among the “coalition of the willing” lest they be cast among the sanctioned in one way or another “unwilling”. Then a death and destruction advertisement is rolled out for the latest weapons. The regime change in 2014 was Ukraine. Next Putin. Then Xi.

  10. Heres an oldie … Sy Hersh again telling it how it is.
    Who killed Osama, Syria-Bashir and who cooked up the Sarin gas and who got rid of it and all of this on Obama’s watch.

    You cant trust Americans or the msm.

    https://youtu.be/fIBxGm08KY8

  11. Citation required:

    “….many thousands of Russian speaking Ukranians were harmed and killed”

    Unsubstantiated

    Putin alleges that Ukraine is targeting – and killing – Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed rebel separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian government since 2014….

    ….Russian ambassadors have circulated a document at the U.N. claiming Ukraine is “exterminating the civilian population” in Donbas. Russian representatives have also spoken of mass killings of people in eastern Ukraine who speak Russian.”

    But these Russian claims have been found by a number of observers to be baseless and even fabricated, serving only to justify a military intervention….

    https://theconversation.com/putins-claims-that-ukraine-is-committing-genocide-are-baseless-but-not-unprecedented-177511

    There is zero evidence that Russian speakers are persecuted in Ukraine.

    Volodimyr Zelensky’s mother tongue is Russian.

    Ukraine President Volodimyr Zelensky speaks to the Russian public in Russian.
    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/international/ukrainian-president-zelenskys-address-to-russian-people-goes-viral/videoshow/89829108.cms

    Though the persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine is a propaganda staple, it has zero basis in fact.

    Odessa is a Russian speaking city that has been constantly bombed by Russian Federation forces.

    The one attacking Russian speakers in Ukraine is the Russian Federation.

    Russian speakers in Ukraine tell Russian Federation troops, to Fuck Off, in Russian.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgmKygmkqSA&ab_channel=RadioFreeEurope%2FRadioLiberty

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