Why Should I Be Synthetically Evenhanded?
Prakash Jagannathan
Author of 'IT Killed Capitalism. Thank you Mr. Gates' || Enterprise Architect || Business Leader & Champion of Millennials
My last article seems to have attracted a big and growing readership. A good friend of mine expressed disapproval on my meandering into variety of topics. I did mention at the beginning of the article itself that I was going to pour out my pain about the human suffering this one country is causing relentlessly. It hurts to see young lives lost just because someone wants to seek re-election. Eh! Yes! I will explain down the line. Yet another reader wrote that everyone is killing people and so, why am I singling out only America. I understood the meaning of what the Marathi writer was saying. Truth is, in my 75 years of life, I have seen that only America has indulged in disturbing global peace by interfering in the affairs of other countries. There is no record of any other country having indulged in such interference. Therefore, why should I appear evenhanded synthetically?
Last year, I wrote in one of my articles that in April 2022, in Ankara Turkey, Russia and Ukraine had reached an agreement to disengage. Trusting that Ukraine would honour their part of the agreement, Russia even pulled out their troops from Kiev and Kharkiv. Boris Johnson visited Kiev and scuttled the deal. Not only did Ukraine renege on the agreement, they even claimed that Ukraine forces drove the Russian troops out of Kharkiv. The reason I am recalling these is because last week, Putin showed, to a delegation of leaders from 7 African countries lead by Ramaphosa - The President of South Africa, the agreement. The agreement was signed by both sides. It had addendums from both sides. Both had come with details of the extent to which Ukraine should maintain arms and ammunitions. Ukraine had agreed to stay neutral and not seek to join NATO. Russia would retain the Russian speaking areas in the Donbas region etc. The treaty was called “Treaty on Permanent Neutrality and Security Guarantees of Ukraine”.
The African leaders went to Ukraine and Russia with a peace proposal. Putin said that Russia was and is ready to talk anytime. Putin pointed out that it is the President of Ukraine who passed a decree of no negotiation with Russia. He asked the African delegation what Ukraine wants.
This is not the first time Russia and Putin have offered to talk. There are records to show that, in the last 14 months, on several occasions, both Putin and Lavrov have expressed their readiness to discuss. In the words of former Prime Minister of Israel, Bennett, America is not interested in ending the war. They scuttle any discussion about peace.
Talking of peace, Robert Kennedy Jr. said that his uncle John Kennedy was killed because he ordered the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam. Besides, Kennedy wanted to have friendly trade relations with Russia. Two things which are `No Go’ for the American Deep state. Exactly four days after he was killed, Lindon B Johnson withdrew the order for withdrawal of troops. Any similarity with Trump? Trump ordered to withdraw American troops from Syria. Trump wanted trade relations with Russia. (https://www.youtube.com/live/JPcSbFVuxrk?feature=share ). Trump is being hounded fiercely for that.?
?By the way, in the last three or four months, Saudi Arabia and Iran, arch enemies for decades, struck a peace deal. Both are opening their respective embassies in the other country. Iran and Iraq are building a rail line connecting both countries. The Kingdom of Bahrain and Qatar buried their differences and signed a peace deal. Saudi Arabia and Yemen buried their differences. Syria joined the Arab league. Syria and Turkey are getting closer. The internal strife in Sudan has come to a pause. Incidentally, one week before the internal strife started, Victoria Newland visited Sudan. Long standing enemies Armenia and Azerbaijan buried their enemities and signed a peace deal. What is the one common factor in all these? America was meticulously kept out. Whereas, when Trump was the President, he brought North and South Korea to shake hands, which Biden broke without delay, when he assumed office. Trump got Israel and UAE to sign the Abraham Accord, a peace deal. These are strictly not acceptable to the American Deep State.
Let us now discuss the Ukraine war. I have been expressing some confidence that a peace deal will take place soon. Unfortunately, I have lost hope in this regard. Biden and his Neo-Con friends, it appears, are keen on keeping the war active till the 2024 election as they want Biden to contest as a war time President. Let us see all the methods they have adopted to keep the war active. The collective west supplied big quantities of arms and ammunitions to Ukraine to launch the much touted counter-offensive. According to the Russian Défense Ministry, this is much larger than the arms and ammunitions used by America in Vietnam. Fine. What is the outcome? In less than two weeks, Russia destroyed more than 40% of all those Arms and Ammunitions. Ukraine lost over 15000 soldiers. The Ukraine forces could not even reach the first line of defense of the Russian army. So much so, the counter offensive is put on hold by Ukraine. According to Alexander Mercouris, it means that the counter offensive has been called off. The Russians said, that from the intercepts that they had picked from Ukrainian chats, that Russia had destroyed 245 tanks (Leopard tanks, Bradley, old Abrahm tanks etc.), 1500 armoured vehicles, 15000 soldiers. Russians are normally known to understate the trophies won by them.
Britain had supplied the Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine. When Ukraine used them to attack the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia, the Russian air defense system blew them in flight itself. The debris of those blown missiles fell on the bridge and caused a minor damage, which was immediately repaired by Russians. The use of Storm Shadow missiles was seen by Russia as crossing the agreed redlines by NATO. According to Alexander Mercouris, both NATO and Russia may have agreed to a few redlines between themselves. Alexander said that even during the Vietnam war, the Russian vessels supplying ammunitions to North Vietnam were not attacked by Americans. Since the Storm Shadow missiles were used, Russia said that they would take out decision making centers in Ukraine, which are manned by NATO officials. They did take one such center. It didn’t have any personnel but a number of computers and other equipment.
Yesterday, Russia attacked a hotel in Kramatorsk which had a Pizzeria outlet in the building. According to western media, 11 civilians were killed.?According to Russian defense ministry, Two Ukrainian Generals, 50 Ukrainian soldiers and another 50 foreign mercenaries who were staying in the hotel were killed. Garden Nixon, in a video post, said that some of the foreign mercenaries stupidly posted in their social media pages, selfies showing the hotel they were staying. One of them even posted saying that he was going to the Pizzeria for a meeting. Remember how a Russian soldier sent a new year greeting which Ukraine picked up and 60 soldiers were killed. This event appears to be similar to that.
In a press meeting in Germany, American Secretary of Défense Lloyd Austin said that Russia destroyed only three or four tanks and are showing the same videos from different angles. There are videos in the public domain posted by independent journalists showing the destruction. It is so unbecoming of a defense secretary to make such statements. In the same Presser, Mark Miley, The Chief of Staff of the American military said that America has trained over 40000 Ukraine soldiers in 36 different countries at 40 different locations for two months and prepared them for the counter offensive. Both Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson said that, if what Miley had said is true, then Miley had committed a war crime and he should be court marshalled. They both said that it is impossible to train the soldiers in different locations, that too in such short period as they would not be battle ready. It is like sending them to certain death.
Now, we must discuss Prigozhin’s mutiny. Last Friday, Prigozhin, along with 8000 Wagner soldiers, who constitute one fourth of his total strength of 32000 soldiers, started a march towards Moscow from the border town of Rostov. His men stood in front of the head quarters of the Russian Military in Rostov. Moscow is between 700 to 1000 KM from Rostov. It would have taken a minimum of 20 hours for Prigozhin’s men to reach Moscow. Russian troops did not fight them. The Chechen Akhmad army moved in to Rostov and blocked the march. At the same time, the Russian army moved into Moscow and fortified the city. All the political parties of Russia stood behind Putin. The military, Bureaucrats, all mayors of all towns and all the Governors of states supported Putin. Leaders of several countries called Putin expressed solidarity with him. The Belarusian President Lukashenko stepped in and diffused the situation. He negotiated amnesty for Prigozhin and his soldiers who joined the march. Prigozhin was given asylum in Belarus. At the end of it all, Putin emerged stronger than before with nearly 90% approval rating. The western media went berserk as if all the bulls in the west had simultaneous indigestion. On the contrary, on Thursday immediately after the mutiny, at a town called Derbent, Putin broke his security cordon and walked to the citizens. He was received like a rockstar. People young and old thronged to shake hands with him. Some young women could be seen crying that they could not manage to get close to him because of the crowd.
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Leaving the rubbish from the media aside, let us understand who is Prigozhin. He is neither a politician nor a military man. He was the contractor to supply men to the Wagner army. Wagner army was started by the Russian Intelligence group. Col. McGregor, Larry Johnson former CIA director, celebrated journalist Seymour Hersh were all suspecting that the CIA was aware and had encouraged Prigozhin in this adventure. They suspect that Prigozhin acted as a double agent. Their argument is that if Prigozhin was truly conducting a mutiny, Putin would have killed him. My two cents on this is that Putin, being a very shrewd individual, did not kill Prigozhin because, Prigozhin was till then seen as a hero by the Russian public for his Bakhmut victory. Killing him could result in unintended consequences. Besides, Putin wanted Prigozhin alive because, he would want to find out the entities behind his actions. Incidentally, Larry Johnson also pointed out that the Pentagon documents leaked by Jack Teixeira shows that Prigozhin visited Africa last June and met Ukrainian intelligence officials as well British MI6 officials. According to Johnson, Putin was aware of that and was keeping an eye on Prigozhin’s activities. During the Bakhmut war, General Surovikin instructed Prigozhin not to capture Bakhmut. He wanted to keep it as meat grinder to annihilate as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible. Prigozhin ignored the instruction and went ahead and captured Bakhmut. The Russian military cancelled his contract and asked him to integrate the Wagner army with the regular Russian army. He was asked to surrender back all the arms, tanks and ammunitions supplied to him by Russian army. He was asked to do so by 1st of July. So, we will come to know the whole story only in course of time. Incidentally, the western media are promoting a narrative that General Surovikin was with Prigozhin and so he is under house arrest. Truth is he is at the war front and conducting the war.
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Scott Ritter in a video said that the British MI6 had a few sleeper cells in Moscow. They had large quantities of explosives and other equipment to cause major terror activities. The Russian intelligence came to know of the sleeper cells and arrested all of them and confiscated the materials. Scott said that this was not reported in the media. Two days ago, a not very popular media outlet carried an article confirming what Scott said. The article also said that Prigozhin was depending on these sleeper cells to help him in his mutiny. When he realized that they have been caught, he decided to abhort his mutiny.
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These are the kinds of events that make me apprehensive about peace negotiations. I must also admit that there are unconfirmed rumours that some peace negotiations are taking place quietly in a Nordic country. If true, I will be delighted. My apprehensions are not without reasons. There are serious allegations of corruption against Biden and his son Hunter Biden. FBI had to pass on to the congress, the documents of proof against the father son duo, incriminating them for receiving bribes from a Ukrainian company. FBI is supposed to be having audio evidence of Hunter Biden threating the foreign person saying that his father is sitting next to him and the foreigner must pay the bribe sum of $10 million immediately. Besides, his approval rating keeps falling every day. Yet, in my opinion, the politicians from both parties would want him to get re-elected. That is because, in my opinion, his current opponents both Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. are talking of ending the Ukrainian war, starting commercial relationship with Russia, closing about 900 American military bases in other countries. These are not acceptable to the politicians who receive donations from the Military Industrial Complex. Anyway, cruel people, when they get desperate, would do anything. Of late, the neocons are using the `Nuke’ word frequently. They are talking of supplying f-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Ukrainians are repeatedly saying that Russia is about to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. It truly means that Ukraine is going to damage the plant. The Governor of Zaporizhzhia said that the power plant is well fortified with the Russian army and Ukrainians can’t reach it. Yet the threat is ominous. I only pray and hope good sense prevails and peace is arrived at.
Before I close, I must write about media since I have a lot to say..Some of them are quite humourous.
-??????I wrote about Nova Kakhovka dam, which was damaged, causing flooding of the Kherson town. Russia said that Ukraine damaged the dam and Ukraine blamed Russia. The western media obviously sided with Ukraine and even published a photo of a man saving a child by holding the child above the water. The fact checkers were quick to identify that the same photo was used 5 years earlier in another incident in Serbia.
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-??????Remember I wrote in my last article that both Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s Chief of Defense and Budanov, their Chief of Intelligence were suspected to have been killed? Well, 15 days ago BBC ran an article hailing the heroic contributions being made by Zaluzhnyi. The article said that BBC sought an interview with Zaluzhnyi, but he refused. What? For a powerful media like BBC which wanted an interview with him, that too after praising him so much, he refused to give an interview? Wow. The humourous part was that on the same evening as BBC’s article, the Ukrainian government released a postal stamp in Zaluzhnyi’s honour which carried his autograph too.
-??????Last week, the Ukraine government released two videos showing both Zaluzhnyi and Budanov being alive and in action directing the war efforts. The fact checkers were quick enough to point out the flaws and say the videos are fake.
-??????The American media were carrying stories about the bursting of Nord Stream pipelines, last July. The celebrated Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a report that Biden ordered the destruction and CIA used their own naval personnel (this way they could avoid going to the American Congress’s approval), with help from British MI6, to destroy the pipes. The mainstream media completely blacked out?his report from the American public. Now they say that Ukrainian soldiers in a Yacht carried out the blast. While American media was saying so, suddenly German media carried a story that Ukraine government under Zaluzhnyi’s supervision carried out the destruction. But, Zelensky has denied both allegations. Why? If he owns up to the crime, it means that Zelensky’s government was involved in a terrorist attack against the friendly country Germany. My point is, if Zaluzhnyi had done it and if he is alive, why doesn’t Germany arrest the terrorist? Got It?
-??????Remember, I wrote that the Ukrainian government has ordered its citizens not to photograph or take videos of destructions caused by Russian missiles? I also wrote about the arrest of American Journalist Gonsalves Vera by Ukraine as he was reporting about the true situation. He is still in prison and the American government is doing nothing to get him released.
-??????Last week, the African delegation, as referred above by me, visited Zelensky before meeting Putin.?They were proposing a peace plan. They met Zelensky first and then went to Moscow to meet Putin. They had to land in an airport in Poland and drive down to Kiev to meet Zelensky. The aircraft carried a 120 people contingent. At Poland airport, the journalists and the security personnel who accompanied the African leaders were not allowed to deplane. Lest they should report about the conditions in Ukraine. Even the weapons carried by the security personnel were confiscated. The journalists had to wait for their leaders to return for 9 hours inside the plane. Since the beginning of May 2023, there are some strange events of destruction of NATO arms and ammunitions taking place in Europe. These appear to be coordinated attacks. These do not get reported in the media. The latest French and British frigates that are being constructed were sabotaged by some unidentified people. They cut all the wirings of these frigates. Now the entire wiring has to be redone. The frigates may not get ready for a few years. An American military train carrying Shells and ammunitions was robbed in Poland. This happened despite NATO soldiers guarding the train. In June, in Latvia, two trucks caught fire. These trucks were carrying NATO trucks altering vehicle and military fuel tanks. A Latvian plant which produces Drones for the Ukrainian army caught fire and the factory was fully damaged. A warehouse in Bulgaria, storing Ammunitions for Ukraine, saw huge explosions destroying all of what was stored in it.?Neither NATO nor the local governments are able to identify the perpetrators of these sabotages. The important aspect is no one is accusing Russia of carrying out these sabotages. That means the local population are causing these damages. (https://youtu.be/DJKd_AkGs6Y )????
It is well known that people in most of the west and central European countries do not support NATO and they are against their respective governments aiding Ukraine in the war. The only impediment in arriving at a peace deal is Biden’s reelection bid. Until that gets out of the way, the neocons would want to drag the war.
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