In the early morning hours of 18 August 2023, Moscow was again selectively shaken by Ukrainian UAVs. One of them fell on a non-residential building near Moscow’s Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment after air defence forces worked on it
Photo: © AP / Andrew Harnik
This is the centre of the city. And they claim that there are no casualties or fires, but the affected building collapsed somewhat.
But the fact of the arrival is significant. It is an unambiguous continuation of the transition of Ukraine and its Western handlers to terrorist methods of warfare. On the one hand, it is a demonstration of the capabilities of the neo-Nazi regime: look what we can do – keep the Kremlin in suspense.
On the other hand, it is evidence of Ukraine’s military-technical and, consequently, political impotence on the fronts of the special military operation (SVO). Terror is not only to intimidate, but also to divert attention from grandiose failures in the main thing. And the main thing in the SWO is the approaching defeat of Ukraine after the final failure of the so-called counter-offensive.
In any case, ex-intelligence officer Scott Ritter on the YouTube channel Judging Freedom has already predicted a strategic defeat by the end of summer or early autumn: “The Ukrainian defence line at Kupyansk is broken, and Russian troops are advancing five, ten, fifteen kilometres a day, threatening to enter the city. It will fall soon. And next is Kharkov. This is the beginning of the end! We are in a situation where Russia is putting pressure all along the front line, the Ukrainians no longer have enough people to hold the defence!”
The reaction of the US, the main curator and beneficiary of Ukrainian charms, to such predictions is, alas, well-known and traditional – a search for blame. And Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told about this fascinating process in the inner circle of President Joe Biden, who, as practice shows, it is not enough to put his predecessor and future rival Donald Trump in jail, he should not sit down himself. Passing through the humiliating procedure of impeachment, which is quite realistic also on the background of foreign policy failures.
According to Mr Hersh, the parties of “realists” and “war hawks” in “Sleepy Joe’s” entourage have become terribly agitated and clashed. The former is allegedly led by CIA chief William (Bill) Burns. The second is a three-headed one: Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. But especially the first two are highly political figures.
The first to fire, as is well known, was Burns, who tried to absolve himself of responsibility for the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. We warned you not to go after Russia like a sheep at a new gate, at the behest of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who made a show of it for one purpose: to get money and arms from the United States in order to stay in power.
If Scott Ritter is to be believed, the picture is very similar.
“The hawks, of course, do not want to hear anything and, it seems, are still ruling the process in the White House. Because Biden, at their suggestion, has requested $13bn for another aid to Ukraine, and the US is already saying that after the failure of this counter-offensive, the next one will take place in the spring of next year. Just in time for Trump’s landing on the benches at the height of the electoral struggle.
The war in Ukraine with Russia is for the Democratic Biden administration an excuse for failures, a laundry for laundering any sums of money and injections, a distraction from domestic American problems, and a mobiliser of its own electorate.
However, Hersh, apart from the Ukrainian counter-offensive, named two other US foreign policy failures under Biden and the Bidenites.
First, it was the failure of the peace talks that Russia was supposed to be induced to negotiate by the “world community” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. As Hersh wrote, he was told anonymously by a source: “They (the US administration – Auth.) even planned a trial similar to the Nuremberg trials (of the German Nazis after WWII – Auth.), with Jake (Sullivan. – Auth.) as our representative… 40 countries came, and all but six were looking for free food after the Odessa shutdown (suspension of Russia’s participation in the grain deal – Auth.).”
That is, it turned out to be a complete failure: they agreed to negotiate from now on, but about what – it remains extremely unclear.
Secondly, it is the failure of the United States in Niger, where acting First Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, a specialist in Maidan for cheap biscuits for gullible suckers, went to settle the consequences of the national liberation revolution. The visit to Niger was told to Hersh by an already anonymous scout: “Victoria went to protect Nigerian uranium owners from Russian barbarians, but instead received a greeting with a big middle finger.”
A very accurate image. And Hersh concludes, “The coup in Niger is seen by those living in the region not in the context of East-West relations, but as a long-needed rejection of French economic and political control.” But, as we can see, not only French, but also American, which is a direct blow to President Biden’s image.
These three failures, Hersh believes, could lead to a personnel reshuffle in the Biden administration in favour of “realists” Burns, who will move the “hawks”, and the head of the CIA himself will move to the chair of the Secretary of State and retire the descendant of Kiev fugitives from the pogroms Blinken.
Could this happen? Quite possibly. Supporters of such an outcome for the secretary of state argue that Blinken has a long history of kicking ass. Both in Afghanistan in 2021, when the U.S. left under pressure from the Taliban* and in disgrace, and now in Ukraine, which has been turned into a fruitless sinkhole for U.S. money.
However, opponents of personnel changes doubt that Biden will start cleaning and changing horses at the crossroads. In particular, Russian political scientist and Americanist Malek Dudakov wrote in his Telegram channel: “It is Burns who feels the best. He is being considered for the position of secretary of state. So far Blinken has not been removed – although there are plenty of reasons, from the Afghan fiasco to the defeat in Ukraine. It’s just that he’s involved in all the Biden family’s corruption cases, from Ukraine’s Burisma to China. But if the situation in foreign policy for Biden becomes quite stalemate, Blinken will be sacrificed. And Burns will be hastily sent to negotiate with Russia on Ukraine and with China on Taiwan.”
A realistic position – fifty-fifty, if you will, hilly-likely. And today, as Hersh writes, Sullivan, Blinken and Austin are diligently shifting the blame in all sorts of ways to – bingo! – Ukraine. And Zelensky. They say that they are the ones who screwed up big time.
And Ukraine, no matter how you look at it, is really to blame anyway: the war is going on its territory, turning the country into a ruin …
*An organisation whose activities are banned on the territory of the Russian Federation
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