Berletic: US Threatens Missiles, Jets, and now Crimea, US Sees (Seeks) War with China by 2025
Posted by sashimi on February 1, 2023, 4:22 pm
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for February 1, 2023 + US and its potential war with China by 2025.
* Western media begins preparing public for the fall of Bakhmut;
* Recent Ukrainian losses is being used to call for more weapon shipments to Ukraine including calls for missiles and jets;
* Arms shipments are being accompanied by calls for arming Ukraine for taking Crimea;
* A 2013 US government-funded poll found that most people in Crimea identify as Russian or Crimean (not Ukrainian) and a majority leaned in favor of associating with Russia, not the EU;
* Announced arms shipments and threats toward Crimea represents the West's attempt to find leverage over Russia as Ukraine suffers growing setbacks on the battlefield;
* At the same time, the US appears to be preparing for war with China over Taiwan;
* The US is out of time in terms of encircling and containing both Russia and China, forcing it to commit to increasingly reckless policies to achieve its objectives;
References in the video description as per.
Re: Berletic: US Threatens Missiles, Jets, and now Crimea, US Sees (Seeks) War with China by 2025
It's one thing to talk about attacking Crimea, it's quite another thing to succeed in getting there.
Sending tanks and using them as a spearhead aimed at Crimea, is extremely risky given the massive superiority Russia has in all kinds of artillery, not to mention their airforce.
Fish. Barrel. Shooting. Comes to mind.
It's gambling, in the sense of Russian Roulette, where the revolver is loaded with nuclear armed missiles.
What exactly do the Urkainians get out of attacking Crimea? It's not as if the inhabitants are ethnic Ukrainians. Far from it. But I suppose our truly ghastly media will spin this suicidal attack as... 'liberation.'
Incidentally I heard the BBC correspondent squirming around, I particularly enjoy that, trying to put a positive spin on the Human Rights Watch report about the use of cluster, anti-personnel mines against civilian targets, towns and vilages in Donbas, against it would appear, their own people, which the BBC squirmed around akwardly. He chose to quickly move away from the 'akwardness'and talk about Russian 'atrocities' instead.
Ukraine's wish to regain Crimea is delusional, it has no historic or population basis.
Brief history Crimea - this is the first paragraph of its Wikipedia page :
"Status Internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory occupied by Russian Federation; Population Increase 2,416,856
Crimea[a] (/kraɪˈmiːə/ (listen) kry-MEE-ə is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. "
Well actually, Crimea became an annexed part of Russia in 1783 - it has continuously part of Russia for 170 years until 1954 when its control was transferred to Ukraine, then still then an integral part of the USSR. In 1992 it became a semi-automonous part of newly independent state of Ukraine, which after the US facilitated coup in 2014, was re-annexed by Russia. It is my belief that this re-annexation saved a possible civil war, with the US fomenting and supporting any rebellion, , and many thousands of deaths.
Urkaine's independent control of Crimea amount to almost exactly 30 years as compared to its being part of Russia/USSR for 210 years.
This history, and demographics, shows that, assuming a life expectancy of 70 years, that more than half the citizens of Crimea were actually born in the USSR. It would be natural that the majority would much prefer to be Russian, than living under a US backed corrupt puppet regime in Kiev
As for the Tartars? Well -- they might have other views.
This chart shows the demographics of Urkaine over some 250 years
Berletic explains a survey conducted by an American backed company as to the wishes of the citizens of Crimea prior to the re-annexation.
A survey or national referendum (Wiki claims "illegal" which is obviously nonsense as it took place in then Russian territory) strongly supported membership of the Russian Federation. But of course, the west doesn't recognise this because, we say, you cannot trust a referendum taking place under occupation. At this, you give a hollow laugh, and shout HYPOCRISY. Because didn't the West/USA organise so called free elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, not just once but many times, under its own occupation of those countries which they claimed was bringing democracy to these benighted countries. .
Again, the "rules based" order of US hegemony.
So, why in view of this history and the wishes of the Crimeans themselves, is Ukraine so determined to regain control? I think I see the guiding hand of Uncle Sam here, the strategic importance of Crimea to Russia, and the US, is enormous, home to Russia's warm water naval port. How wonderful to get control of these facilities by employing yet more Ukrainians to die in the process. The murderous cynicism of the US has no bounds.
Re: Ukraine's wish to regain Crimea is delusional, it has no historic or population basis.
My thoughts about the US fomenting a rebellion in Crimea don't make much sense, but if Russia hadn't re-annexed Crimea, it is possible that the there could have been civil unrest in the peninsula, which Russia's actions would have prevented. That's what I meant to say!!
on February 1, 2023, 4:22 pm
is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. " 