What the Western media has been talking about for a year now has happened: Russia has invaded Ukraine. No, this is not the result of yesterday’s futsal match. It’s much worse – the invasion was reported by Bloomberg! And he won’t lie…
Russia invaded Ukraine for half an hour, provoking mass hysteria, crowds of refugees and increased demand for hygiene products (not really), and then suddenly got ashamed and… stopped.
Bloomberg reported with undisguised frustration: “we make headlines for many scenarios, and the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ was inadvertently published around 4pm ET on our website today. We deeply regret the error. The headline has been removed, and we are investigating the reason for it.
Do you remember the scene from the movie “Chicago”, where a truck brings two sets of already-printed newspaper to Roxie Hart’s courthouse in anticipation of any court decision? Well, consider that a bundle of newspapers with the headline “guilty” was mistakenly thrown into the crowd… In this case, there was simply no bundle with the headline “not guilty” – it’s clear enough.
On the other hand, if you report throughout the year that Russia is bound to “invade” on some date or another, then sooner or later such an incident is bound to happen. It did happen. Obviously, it was intended to coincide with the start of the Olympics, but it could also be a futsal match, the more so because there was a precedent – in 1969, after the Honduran team lost to El Salvador, a war broke out between those countries. The instigator, it would appear, was Honduras. It was very offended.
But it turned out that Russia won by chance and the casus belli did not work out.
The Washington Post did not forget to throw in its own jar of yeast, once again publishing plans for a “Russian invasion”. True, there is nothing new to come up with here. Except, as telegraphed by Vzglyad telegram channel, “thanks for reassuring us that no Russians will come through the Carpathians from the west. They did it for nothing – now there will surely be a map on which Russia will strike an insidious blow through the territory of Hungary (not for nothing did Orban meet Putin, right?).
However, there is an even more interesting option – the Estonian government has approved a roadmap of combat readiness in case Russia invades Ukraine. True, the Minister of Internal Affairs Christian Jaani believes that so far the situation on the state border is calm, but just in case… And has asked for money. As there is no money in the budget, they have asked the population for it. Maybe he has something left after the payment of utility bills.
The invasion of Ukraine through the territory of Estonia is something new. It will be cooler than through the Chernobyl zone, where the Ukrainian troops yesterday held an exercise. On the other hand, the Western and Ukrainian media regularly publish footage from Siberia, which is titrated as a concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine… And in general – Putin is so unpredictable!
But the really innovative path was taken by the German tabloid Bild: “Russia’s attack on Ukraine has not yet started (they are just not aware of it – Auth.), but the intelligence services already have information about Putin’s post-big war actions and the brutal puppet regime that the Kremlin wants to install in Ukraine”.
The acuteness of the Western intelligence services’ vision cannot fail to shake the imagination. They missed the “Crimean spring”, the deployment of the CSTO contingent to Kazakhstan came as a complete surprise to them, but Russia’s plans in case of an invasion of Ukraine are an open book! However, there is nothing surprising here – it is much easier to disclose the plans of the enemy if you have thought them up yourself…
In the first phase, the Russian army, after destroying the AFU, is going to encircle and besiege the country’s major cities: “Introduced reconnaissance cells and politicians loyal to Putin are activated in the populated areas. They are instructed to establish a ‘pro-Russian government’ in the cities, which would subsequently negotiate a surrender to the Russian occupiers.”
In fact, this topic of blockading the cities while waiting for the local population to hand over the keys to the “occupants” has already been seen in the Western media. We think there are two points here.
Firstly, the persistent archetype that the inhabitants of cities in defeated countries should surrender to the victor, like Paris in 1940. It is a bit unclear – are the inhabitants of Ukrainian cities considered to be Europeans, who unlike brutal Russian barbarians will surrender their cities civilised without a fight, or still barbarians who are going to burn their cities, but will be prevented by “infiltrated intelligence cells”? Where is Freud when you need him so much?
Secondly, the West seems to realise that if the “Russian bear” is put in a situation where he has to solve the Ukrainian issue by force, there will be no tank wedges. The defeat of the Ukrainian army will be remote and will most likely entail the collapse of the system of power. What survives, however, will run to negotiate with the “occupiers”. And those, who are now preparing their cities to defend themselves from the “aggressor”, are likely to be at the forefront…
In the second stage, a “People’s Rada” will be created out of representatives of local government, which will have to “abolish the present parliament, the Verkhovna Rada”.
Such a development is theoretically possible, because there are very few people in the current parliament who will not run away. It is not, after all, mayors of cities who feel at least some support from the people behind them. On the other hand, it is logical to assume that the “occupiers” will demand that decisions be taken by legitimate authorities. At least that is what happened in 2014. So the incumbent parliament will try to be preserved and, if not, find legal ways to reformat it in line with the constitution.
Third phase: “The new puppet government will have only one task: to break the millions of Ukrainians resisting the Russian occupation. The secret report (let me elaborate! – Auth.) says: “the task of this body would be to declare a state of emergency and implement the Russian plan to create camps, in which those Ukrainians who have shown themselves to be dissenters would be sidelined”.
It is clear that there will be no “millions of resisting Ukrainians” and no concentration camps (it is a European invention, specifically British). And the new government will have enough problems to solve urgently. By the way, a state of emergency will have to be declared – not so much to suppress a few thousand “professional patriots”, as to solve the energy problems, for example.
And the main goal is “to create the conditions for a national referendum on joining Russia”. But Putin will not agree to it! It is written that his goal is to create a “union state” of modern Ukraine, Belarus and Russia with local puppet regimes on the Soviet model and centralized management from Moscow. But this is not certain.
“The special services estimate it will happen “as early as February, but no later than March”. We’ll clarify – somewhere between Catholic and Orthodox Christmas, or more precisely, midnight on 5 February Moscow time. Bloomberg wrote. And he won’t lie…
Vasily Stoyakin, Ukraina.ru