A Bright Red Line
Blinken, Burns and NATO's Bid for Ukraine
From the very outset of the war in Ukraine, when the United States made it immediately clear that we’d be taking primary responsibility for funding and arming the Ukrainians, one question has continued to remain unanswered: why should the American Taxpayer care about who owns what land in Eastern Europe?
It is unquestionable that U.S. funding of this war adversely affects Americans economically, but it is still not entirely clear in what way this war is supposed to somehow be in the peoples’ best interest.
Another question that remains inadequately answered is why Putin decided to invade Ukraine in the first place. As with Iraq, Afghanistan and just about every other war in the last several decades, we are only given the explanation that best suits the Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Security State.
Should we accept that Vladimir Putin, once described by Bill Clinton and every subsequent president as rational, suddenly turned into a psychopath over night? That he just woke up one day and decided to attack Ukraine for no reason at all, and is planning to march across Western Europe, attacking NATO countries next?
These propagandized, real-life super villains don’t just spring up out of nowhere, for no discernible reason and start wars arbitrarily. There are always motivating factors, and these factors almost always suppressed so that they never reach Western audiences.
Not long ago, the Bin Laden letter was circulating on TikTok until the U.S. government, as it so often does, proceeded to force TikTok to remove the content.
In so many words, the letter conveyed a side of the story that is typically never allowed to see the light of day, and while its contents are certainly controversial, you don’t have to agree with the position put forth in the letter to realize that the text provided a story that ran totally counter to the narratives put forth by the U.S. Security State.
These Muslim extremist cells across the Middle East didn’t simply “hate us for our freedoms,” like George W. Bush told us, but rather as the direct result of decades of U.S.-sponsored murder, regime change and general destabilization in the region.
The same is true when it comes to Russia.
We are repeatedly told that “Putin is a mad dog,” and are expected to believe that he takes joy in the suffering of the people of Ukraine, but as with every other conflict instigated by the Military Industrial Complex, there is a side of the story that we are being denied.
Thanks to the individual efforts of people like Juliane Assange, Tucker Carlson, Oliver Stone, Douglas Macgregor, RFK Jr., the late Gonzalo Lira—as well as many others—we are able to better see a perspective that has been conveniently omitted from Western media.
The alternative picture being painted shows a nation that has observed U.S. sponsored regime change taking place in neighboring countries despite promises to the contrary, followed by the sending of arms to said neighbors and the insistence that NATO would expand to include Ukraine, which occupies Russia’s most sensitive border. This is a border, by the way, that played a critical role in how Russia was attacked in both World Wars.
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As all of this happening, concerned onlookers are told, ‘oh, it’s just a figment of the paranoid Russian imagination that Ukraine will ever join NATO—that’s just the pretext that Russia made up to justify their invasion,’ and yet, here we are today, with the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at a summit of NATO foreign ministers, saying unequivocally that “Ukraine WILL become a member of NATO.”
And the drums of war beat steadily on.
You may have noticed the language shift … no longer are they saying, ‘oh, we’re in discussions’ or ‘we’re making preparations negotiating the possibility of a MAP [membership action plan] for Ukraine,’ no; the language now indicates that Ukraine membership is decided and is inevitable.
This just so happens to be the one thing that will take negotiations with Russia completely off the table. The Western Neocons in the Security State, in Congress, and at the State Department are all well aware of this, but not only are they aware of this, they are actually hungry for it.
It’s only natural a country like Ukraine, with an installed leader who is subservient to the West and is currently in the midst of a conflict with a global superpower, would want to join NATO. Membership ensures that every native NATO member, including the US, has an obligation to respond to any attack on their nation as if it were their own.
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.” — NATO Collective defence and Article 5
In the wake of 9/11, Article 5 was invoked, and so member nations were obliged to follow the U.S. into Afghanistan and offer assistance for Iraq. It shouldn’t take much of an imagination to imagine what will happen when Ukraine joins NATO; it will likely mean a hot war with Russia in Eastern Europe.
The idea that NATO membership would prompt an attack from Russia has been common knowledge throughout the highest levels of Government for a long time, they just needed time and enough propaganda to convince most people to go along with it.
It was really back in the Bush administration when you had people like Condoleezza Rice and the perpetually bloodthirsty Victoria Nuland—who happened to be the ambassador to NATO at the time—affirmatively discussing the expansion of NATO to include Ukraine specifically.
At the time, Joe Biden’s current CIA director William Burns was working in the intelligence community, and he wrote a cable—one that was never intended for public consumption—but that, thanks the efforts of Julian Assange and Wikileaks, we have access to; it spells out in very clear terms how Ukraine’s admission into NATO would be viewed by Russia, not only the Putin government, but the entire Russian population.
Here is what William Burns wrote in that secret cable back in February of 2008 after his assessment of the situation:
Ukraine and Georgia's NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia's influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests.
Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war.
Consequences of a premature MAP offer, especially to Ukraine. Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin).
The key phrase here being “brightest of all red lines,” which implies that there is nothing you could possibly to to provoke Russia more than this single action, which would cause Russia to feel insecure and threatened in the extreme. Burns makes perfectly clear that to do so would essentially be seen as a declaration of war.
This isn’t just the Putin Government’s stance, but the stance of all of Russia.
The cable continues:
In my more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers In the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin's sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.
The idea that there exists a subsection of the Russian population who love Western hegemony and are rallying behind a puppet like Alexei Navalny is a complete myth, which is perfectly exemplified by the quote above.
It is worth reiterating that these are internal documents never meant for public scrutiny, meaning these texts void of the typical propaganda and largely deal in geopolitical fact. The Russian people, though not always in complete agreement, are united against NATO encroachment.
NATO first began its expansion during the Clinton Administration, creeping steadily eastward towards Russia in exactly the way that Mikhail Gorbachev was promised would never happen after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russians were obviously distrusting and fearful of the NATO countries, who had been their devoted enemies for decades at this point, and so when negotiating the reunification of Germany, it was agreed that NATO would not expand “one inch” eastward.
A reunified Germany was already a difficult pill for Russia to swallow—there was a reason that Germany was divided between East and West after World War II. A reunified Germany was in many ways one of Russia’s worst nightmares, as they lost tens of millions of their citizens to the Germans in the 20th century across both world wars.
The United States honored the agreement for a time, but it was never an agreement it had intended to honor indefinitely. When the Security State sets its sights on something, it doesn’t let go, it bides its time and sets the stage until the moment is right, and so it was the Clinton administration that saw the plans start to move forward, continuing into the Bush administration and reaching a fever pitch during the Obama era.
This cable is Bill Burn’s warning to an incoming administration that was at least outwardly cultivated the appearance of a desire for a tenable relationship with Russia.
The cable continues:
At this stage, a MAP offer would be seen not as a technical step along a long road toward membership, but as throwing down the strategic gauntlet. Today's Russia will respond. Russian-Ukrainian relations will go Into a deep freeze, with Moscow likely to contemplate economic measures ranging from an immediate increase In gas prices to world market levels to clampdown on Ukrainian workers coming to Russia. It will create fertile soil for Russian meddling in Crimea and eastern Ukraine
Washington, at the highest levels of the U.S. government, has known for at least the last 15 years exactly what would happen if they continued down this path, and yet knowing these things, they chose to steadily apply pressure until a breaking point was reached and Vladimir Putin initiated the special military operation in Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022.
Though the global community definitely sees the U.S. as the primary facilitator of Ukraine and most likely to get involved militarily if and when Ukraine joins NATO, the American people have made it abundantly clear that they have no interest in going to fight and die for Ukraine.
It was well known to just about anyone who wasn’t getting their information from a major network that this was a war Ukraine couldn’t hope to win. It largely boiled down to the number of soldiers on each side, which is to say nothing of the abyssal gap between both nation’s artillery production capabilities.
That is why, as you can see from the headline below, Ukraine began to plead with the Westerners who claimed to support the cause to enlist and fight instead of simply virtue signaling and putting tiny Ukrainian flags in their profile pictures.
Remarkably few Americans heeded this call, and that’s because, outside of those ruled by identity politics, most people really do not care who controls what land in Eastern Europe, which is a very reasonable position considering our own domestic troubles.
The desperation for cannon fodder has caused Volodymyr Zelensky, who’s already working with a vanishingly small conscripted army, to lower the draft age to 25.
But even with a lowered draft age, it will not be enough to keep the war effort dragging on much further into the future, and it certainly won’t be enough to beat back the Russians. If Ukraine joins NATO, which it pretty much has to do in order to keep this one-sided war of attrition going, it could very well be the United States military shipping off to the front lines.
The sad irony here is that many of those same individuals who plastered their social media with Ukrainian flags and who faked tears on TikTok videos are now the young people who are currently serving in the military.
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I’m not one to disrespect those who serve, and obviously there are still many great fighters prepared to lay down their lives for our country, but the general consensus around the world is that the U.S. Military is quickly becoming the softest fighting force on earth.
When you see this juxtaposed against the training of Russian Spetsnaz forces, a rather bleak and grim picture starts to emerge. The United States military in its current form, with recruitment at an all time low could well be the cannon fodder that Zelensky requires.
It’s hard to see a rational end goal here for the West. We are doing everything wrong, and it seems to be by design. That being said, there are two distinct lenses among many that I tend to see this greater conflict through.
All conflicts and brewing conflicts across the globe presently are really just fragments of the one great war, which could be seen in a variety of ways. You could see it as BRICS and BRICS allied nations against the Western hegemony if you’d like, though I believe this to be a very surface-level interpretation. You could see it as “country-first” representatives from nations around the world fighting back against what Winston Churchill referred to as the “High Cabal.”
That everything we are witnessing is quite fake and exceptionally ghey. That this is all a theatre of war designed for mass population awakening.
Regardless of whether you are in the black-pilled doomer camp or the "patriots are in control" camp, or if you, like me, exist somewhere in between, it is still worth observing and dissecting this conflict.
The plus side of all of this is that, with each new major earth-shaking event in the war of stories, more people are jarred awake. Imagine what would happen should the woke contingent who joined the military for money suddenly were faced with the very real prospect of deploying to the middle east or Ukraine?
Just like COVID-19, these conflicts could become the inciting incidents that trigger another huge swath of the population to wake up to the real game.
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I have noticed that there has been little or no response to the Fact that Victoria Nuland headed up the CIA operations in Ukraine. She admitted that there were 46 bio-labs operated by the CIA in Ukraine.
I think this was a reasonable reason for Russia to retaliate and take these labs out.
Mike
from my readings, putin,trump,Q-team are working together to take out US bioweapon labs in Ukraine, take down the nazi government, dump billions of dollars of useless weapons on Ukraine, take out globalist zionist nazis in Ukraine, switzerland, israel, District of Columbia. I don't know where the billions of fiat dollars of aid to Zelensky ends up, most is be laundered, redirected. Pretty sure Ukrainian mercenaries are being shot in the back by their bosses.