WAR IS A RACKET - UKRAINE

War Certainly Is A Racket

Iain Davis - Major General Smedley Butler's book

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Both sides secretly agreeing to extend war between Russia and Ukraine/NATO?

Power struggle inside Russia as people demand more decisive action

There is evidence that both sides in the Ukraine conflict are co-operating behind the scenes to extend the war at a somewhat 'stalemate' level, with no decisive action to end it and no significant negotiation

Such long prolonged war provides:

- Huge profits for armaments oligarchs in both the West and Russia

- Ongoing distraction from economic and social justice matters

- Hardship and pretexts enabling 'Great Reset' and other government-control agendas

Iain Davis covers some of the evidence in Off-Guardian, noting oddities such as Russia being allowed by the EU to sell oil to Bulgaria, which in turn sells fuel to Ukraine to provide energy to kill Russians:

https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/13/war-certainly-is-a-racket/

Russia is one of the perhaps 3 'self-sufficient' countries in the world, along with the USA and France, entirely able to live on its own energy, food production and industry ... versus e.g. China which must import both energy and food. 'Sanctions' on Russia only limit consumer product variety, nothing that would lead Russians to surrender to the West.

But now that the fires of 'patriotic war' have been stoked, the threat to Putin comes from the popularity of aggressive, effective 'men of action' - who suffer sidelining by Putin despite their war-fighting success. Russians wanting victory are angry.

Rolo Slavskiy provides the background:

https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/the-anti-shoigu-campaign-continues
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/southfront-reports-shell-shortage



3 major Russian figures now, are implicated in seeking to remove Russia's allegedly corrupt and ineffective defense minister Sergei Shoigu:

(1) Evgeny Prigozhin who leads Russia's Blackwater-like private military contractor Wagner, doing the most effective fighting of the war. Wagner's troops have included private volunteers and mercenaries, and convicts from Russia's prisons, offered pardon and freedom if they fight for six months. These people were hugely successful in battle.

But Putin has 'mysteriously' ended the successful prison recruitment program ... plus Wagner now is not being supplied with sufficient ammunition.

(2) General Sergey Surovikin whose ruthless bombing of Ukraine infrastructure nearly brought Ukraine to its knees, but was then removed from the top position.

(3) Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin, the hero leader of the 2014 Donbass uprising, sidelined by Putin after winning great successes, and now a major critic of Russia 'holding back' on what can win the war.

Putin is delivering a major address this coming Tuesday the 21st. Russians fear he will further depress expectations of decisive action ... whilst the West will continue to supply Ukraine with only enough to continue more killing.

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