2,961 Fort Russ... [Editor’s note: As of 12 hours ago, the Russian Air Force began its aerial campaign upon terrorist strongholds in Idlib, following a tremendously successful diplomatic and media campaign to gain support from necessary allies as well as endemically vacillating states like Turkey. In this must read article, Bentley explains among other things, that we are at this very moment facing the possibility of an all out war on three simultaneous fronts. The final liberation of Idlib can see a concerted effort on the part of the US deep state to push again on the Donbass. FRN has closely reported on the rebuilding of the Ukrainian Army, which was obliterated previously at Debaltseve. Ukrainian military leaders, though with exception and dissent, have expressed an unhealthy degree of over-confidence. With regard to the involvement of the KPRF’s involvement in the opposition protest discussed below, CSS has a separate analysis not shared with Mr. Bentley, but his reasons are nevertheless well articulated and, based on his prior forecasts and analysis, do demand consideration and respect.
Finally, we’d like to ask readers if they haven’t yet, and even if they have, to pick up a copy of Mr. Bentley’s excellent book, a war journal on his lived experiences as a front-line soldier during the peak years (so far) in the ongoing Donbass conflict. You can follow this link here, or click on the full size ad just below this message. – J. Flores ]
* DONBASS . The situation in Donbass remains tense. Our Army remains strong and cohesive, ready for whatever comes, but the political situation is in flux, and highly unstable at the moment. Elections are still scheduled for November. Since the assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko ten days ago, military units in the Republics have been on high alert. Information on reinforcements of the 12,000 strong Ukrainian Army, along with the openly nazi Azov Battalion as well as NATO soldiers, instructors and commanders moving into the Mariupol area are reasons for serious concern. Provocations by ukrop units all along the Front continue to escalate, particularly the use of snipers against front line Novorussian troops and artillery and incendiaries against civilians in front line areas.
I do not claim to have any “inside information” other than what I am told by my friends and comrades who are currently serving at the Front, and that which I can observe myself firsthand around Donetsk. But the Mariupol build-up is strange to me for several reasons. First, there is nothing of value, strategically, militarily or even economically between Mariupol and Donetsk. There are only two major roads between Mariupol and Donetsk, and one of them is already in ukrop territory. With the exception of a few small villages, the area between Mariupol and Donetsk is farmland and woodlands.
Second, a ukrop attack on Donetsk from Mariupol would entail a 100 Km advance in the open, along a single poorly maintained, but certainly well defended (by DPR Army) road, almost all of which would be within 20 Km of the Russian border. If Russia were to respond with artillery to this attack, they could wipe out the entire ukrop assault force without having to actually even cross the border. (Remember Debaltsevo?) So, in my opinion, the Mariupol build-up is either a ruse to get the DPR to commit manpower and resources to defend a few small villages and defensive positions, or a provocation to try to get the Russians to become openly militarily involved inside DPR (“Ukrainian”) territory.
The ukrop army holds positions on the very outskirts of all major Republican cities – Donetsk, Lugansk Makeevka, Yasynuvata and Gorlovka. The center of Donetsk city, where I am right now, is less than 10 Km from ukrop positions, which have also been heavily reinforced over the previous months. The same goes for the other cities. Why would the ukrops make a major assault across 100 Km of open country, when, if they can break through our front line positions, they can literally be in the center of our major (and strategic) cities in an hour or two?
It is the US military that controls and directs the Ukrainian Armed Forces, therefore, the UAF will be used to pursue US strategic goals, not Ukrainian tactical objectives. The Ukrainian civil war has always been a proxy war fought by the US against Russia. The main objective has always been to unite world opinion against Russian “aggression”, in order to justify the continuation and escalation of the economic, information and military war against Russia by NATO and Western powers. An attack into the major cities of the Republics will allow the ukrops to protect themselves from Russian artillery and airstrikes by using the civilian populations as human shields, even as they begin “cleansing” and “punishment” operations against these civilians.
Military operations in urban areas are highly destructive and time consuming, allowing the US and Ukraine the time to make “humanitarian” appeals for direct military involvement in Ukraine by NATO or the UN. Russian intervention against ukrop atrocities will be framed as “aggression” against Ukraine. As the battles for the cities drag on, the ukrop einsatzgruppen will be able to round up and exterminate many of those they see as potential resistance inside the Republics.
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SYRIA . The situation in Syria continues to escalate and is headed for either the final elimination of US-backed ISIS terrorists or a new and much larger conflagration. The SAA and the Russian air force have ignored the “warning” by Trump not to attack the final Idlib stronghold of the terrorists, and the naval stand-off in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea also continues. Syria and Donbass are both frontline flashpoints in the same war, and if one is ignited, the other will immediately follow. As the US actually has zero legal or political right to occupy or attack Syria or the Russian defenders there, it is reasonable to expect a military attack in Donbass to precede a confrontation in Syria between the Western powers and Russia. This will give the West a chance to attempt to induce world public opinion to support a military confrontation with Russia in Ukraine and in Syria, with the “Russian aggression” canard.
If by mistake or intentionally, things in the Syria zone are escalated by either side, it will be the “GO” signal for the ukrop military assault on Donbass, thus forcing Russia immediately into a two front war. But I believe the plan of Ukraine’s Western masters is to begin in Donbass as an excuse to escalate in Syria.
Current DPR intelligence (which is very good) indicates that the ukrop offensive will commence on September 14th. . That’s less than one week from today. Mark your calendar, and prepare. It is by now obvious that Trump is just another fascist tool, willing to start a world war in order to perpetuate US imperialism, in connivance with other fascist powers, particularly UK and Israel, along with their NATO henchmen. It is now too late to hope for any meaningful protest, much less any actual resistance, from the cowardly and brain-washed citizens of these regimes. They cannot and will not stop their rogue masters from starting this war, and it will be left to Russia and its allies to end it. By whatever means necessary. As goes Syria, so goes Donbass, and as I have said since 2015, “As goes Donbass, so goes the world.”
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In case of a failure of the military option and a failure to turn world opinion against Russia and towards support for a world war against Russia, the imperialist regimes are now executing a “soft power” attack against Putin and the RF in the form of widespread protests against the Medvedev clique’s proposed raising of the retirement age (“pension reform”) in Russia. These protests have led to street protests and a significant decline in public support for Putin, at a crucial time.
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Poster Comment:
The main objective has always been to unite world opinion against Russian “aggression”
Only objective is to return Ukrainian territory to Isrtael's Khazars so they can affiliate with NATO and get the latter's protection to keep the property in Palestine which Jew squatters have stolen from Arabs.
