This weekend saw the beginning of a huge Russian military push in the Kharkov region of eastern Ukraine. For months now the Kiev regime has been assuring its western backers that any moves in this direction by the Russians would be halted by the Ukrainian defence lines. These defences had allegedly been built compliments of the massive western aid.
Indeed, Zelensky recently released a propaganda video showing these impregnable modern defences in the east that would greet and halt any Russian advance. Like most of the words spoken by this Ukrainian Regime the reality did not meet the rhetoric.
The ease with which the Russians have been able to advance shows that the alleged $€£ billions that were allocated for defensive lines has instead been stolen or stashed elsewhere.
Over the weekend the Russian offensive was able to penetrate deep into the Kharkov area. Town after town, village after village quickly fell into Russian hands. Resistance has been minimal and literally hundreds of Ukrainian conscripts have been surrendering rather than fight.
The Ukrainian high command has had to rush reinforcements from all along the front weakening their defences elsewhere. The recriminations over the ease of the Russian advance have begun with commanders blaming each other for the failure to defend themselves against the Russian advance. Commanders have been replaced and the reality of the endemic Ukrainian corruption exposed to the entire world.
The question we are asking today is this the start of the much vaunted Russian offensive or merely the Russian army creating that buffer zone that President Putin promised the Russian people during his recent landslide election victory?
Russian cities like Belogrod have been subject to Ukrainian missile and artillery attacks. These are always concentrated on civilian areas, never military targets. These are, of course, war crimes that are never reported in the western media. Just this week in Belogrod 19 civilians were killed when a Ukrainian missile hit a residential apartment block in the border area.
We question if this incursion by Russian forces is in response to these terror attacks on its civilian population or is it part of a far greater military plan to finally end this dreadful war?
I am joined by Lloyd Quinan and Finbar Markey as we discuss this latest development in the SMO in Ukraine. We also find time to bring you some more news from the killing field that is Gaza.
As three committed peaceniks we ask this question, Is this the beginning of the end or just another doon to be meat grinder?
If it is the End for Ukraine its America to blame, for sure. If you had asked me in 2017 whats going to come first world war 3 or Scottish independence, I would have said Independence and I’ll never see a third world war in my lifetime, how wrong was I.
It doesn’t take a genius and I’m no genius to realize that the English and the Americans have screwed over so many country’s that when the bigger war come which side will the rest of the world take and it won’t be the west, even now it can be avoided if only the England and America changed course from being an aggressor.
If even if we ruled out nuclear weapons the next world war will be on a much lager scale. Everything Ukraine was asking for in the begging has been given to them in dribs and drabs here and there from over there to other there its been pathetic.
My sorry is England will take Scotland down a path of no return, but our politician are more interested in less than 1% than seeing the bigger picture.
This war is coming and its going to affect Asia, America’s and Europe and Africa and now the middle east are all preparing for it.
Just look at whats happened since the begging of 2020, Covid, Gas, electric and and food prices none of what the UK was able to control which I believe was China and Russia idea to see how the west would cope and from their point of view it was a great success, make no mistake Covid and the cost of living crisis was no mistake and the West knows it.
History will reflect on how this period was the turning point in the West’s military and economic hegemony.
The US and their allies are no longer the uni polar military hegemony.that they try to posit that they are.
Neither are they the economic superpower that they once were. The rest of the world has woken up. China is a bigger economy than the USA. It, and India have lunar missions.
Moreover, in an act of unparralled folly economic sanctions are hurting the sanctioned and not the sanctioned. Sanctioned whilst the economies moreover are out perming the sanctions economies. economies.
Just look at Britain. It’s a country down on its uppers. A burst ball.
And moreover the West’s policies have driven Russia and China along with many other countries into a new alignment. The world has tilted and the West’s dominance is over.
A world war if it comes will be a Holocaust. But this time round London and Washington could, like Gaza be reduced to rubble.
A taste of their own medicine. No one wins in war but some lose bigger.