.... (A)llies are stepping up delivering many different types of weapons. ..........(W)e have a wide range of different types of support from different allies depending a bit on their inventories, their capabilities. But I urge allies to do more, and all allies realise the urgency.
Stoltenberg: NATO planning large, permanent military presence on eastern border
https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-jens-stoltenberg-military-presence-eastern-border-army-ukraine-russia-war/
Jens Stoltenberg: We need a beefed-up Nato to face down threats to European security
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/09/jens-stoltenberg-need-beefed-up-nato-face-threats-european-security/
Jens Stoltenberg is, thus, forthrightly trumpeting NATO's involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, in direct opposition, by the way, to Vladimir Putin's warning only several weeks ago that other countries should not militarily intervene in the Ukraine. Moreover, with his choice of vocabulary, Stoltenberg comes very close to calling the Ukraine a NATO ally. He implies it, without however directly stating it as a fact. But that cat is long since out of the bag, and whether or not the Ukraine is ever officially admitted to NATO membership, the alliance is already behaving as if it has been, making the issue all but moot, as military reality on the ground surges forward of its own momentum.
Now, Then, About Those NATO Officers Trapped in Mariupol ....
The Internet rumor mill has been positively atwitter over the last week or so about a large number of foreign, military personnel trapped in Mariupol with the hemmed in remnants of the so-called Azov Battalion, the ruthless, neo-NAZI force that has been attacking ethnic Russian forces and towns in the eastern Ukraine for the last eight years. The regular, Russian military and ethnic Russian forces from the Donbass have now trapped thousands of these Azov Battalion fighters within Mariupol, and are slowly tightening the noose on them, as they run out of food, supplies and ammunition.
The destruction of these Azov Battalion fighters is a foregone conclusion at this point. They will be defeated, and taken captive or killed. That's beyond question. Overwhelming military force is gradually taking them down, day by day.
But as the Russian military operation progressively unspools, other information has come to light: large numbers of foreign mercenaries are embedded with the neo-NAZIs in Mariupol. According to Russian Ministry of Defence spokesman, Igor Konashenkov:
The results of an analysis of radio intercepts show that in addition to neo-Nazi elements from the Azov regiment and the remnants of the Ukrainian armed forces, a significant number of foreign mercenaries are located in the occupied areas of the city .... In addition to Ukrainian and Russian, radio communications are being carried out in six other mainly European foreign languages.
https://sputniknews.com/20220408/radio-communications-indicate-significant-numbers-of-foreign-mercs-stuck-in-mariupol-russian-mod-1094598098.html
How very interesting! Six other, mainly European, foreign languages. Let me guess, the other "mainly" European languages are: Polish, French, German, English, Turkish .... and maybe Hebrew?
I expect that at some point soon -- perhaps even this week or next? -- we can expect the Russians to overrun the last holdouts in Mariupol, and uncover a viper's brood of MOSSAD/Israeli Defense Force (IDF) personnel, CIA, French Foreign Legion, Bundeswehr military personnel, British SAS, Blackwater/Academy mercenaries, Pentagon Special Forces, and other social misfits and goons of their ilk.
The Russians surely know whom they have caught in their net, just from listening to a couple of weeks of frantic, radio chatter. They already know the names, ranks, military or organizational affiliations, and battle plans. They've got these guys on the hook and are slowly reeling them in.
Over the last week, a number of Internet sites have sensationally reported that USSA Army Major General Roger Cloutier, Jr. was trapped with the foreign fighters, and that Russian forces captured him and have him under arrest. On its face, that rumor seems improbable -- but what if? Time will tell if there is any truth to it.
What is known is that over the last week, the Ukrainian military has sent in about seven, frantic, low level helicopter runs to attempt to exfiltrate high level military personnel from Mariupol -- but with little success. The Russian military has shot down all but two of the helicopters. And just yesterday, a Ukrainian cargo vessel tried to run the Russian naval blockade of Mariupol, in an attempt to ferry Azov battalion commanders to safety, but the Russian navy fired on the ship and took it into custody. There is no doubt that the conflict is now reaching a more fraught phase; the military tension is palpably ratcheting up.
This Is A Clash For All The Marbles
Just this past Monday, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, bluntly stated that:
Our special military operation is meant to put an end to the unabashed expansion [of NATO] and the unabashed drive towards full domination by the US and its Western subjects on the world stage...
https://www.rt.com/russia/553674-lavrov-military-operation-us-dominance/
Lavrov got right to the heart of the matter: Russia's military operation in the Ukraine is a battle for Russian national sovereignty and security. It is an open ended military operation with the objective of stopping the USSA/NATO/EU in their tracks. It implies that total war lies ahead.
Significantly, Lavrov's remarks came in counterpoint to public statements this past weekend by Josep Borrel, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who tweeted:
This war will be won on the battlefield. Additional EUR500 million from the #EPF are underway. Weapon deliveries will be tailored to Ukrainian needs. He added: ... the EU needs to continue to increase its pressure on Russia'. And concluded with: We have imposed massive sanctions already but more needs to be done on the energy sector, incl oil. On Monday, I am convening an EU Foreign Affairs Council #FAC to discuss next steps.
Josep Borrell's words also amount to a declaration of war by NATO, or more accurately, to an imminent, serious intensification of the war that is already underway.
In recent days, there has also been prominent mention in the international news media of possible NATO membership for both Sweden and the Ukraine in June of this year -- just two months from now. There have also been trial balloons floated about NATO membership for Finland. If these plans go through as have been bruited about in the news media, then expect the Russians to react proportionately.
Make no mistake about it, given events and statements by major players in just the last several days, we have now definitively crossed the Rubicon. War is coming, a really big war. You can feel the seismic, geopolitical shift. A direct military conflict between, at the least, Russia/Belarus and the USSA/NATO/EU is in the offing. It could happen at anytime -- later this month, May, June ... August, September ... November -- but it is coming.
Mind you, the opposing forces in this war that has already begun are both heavily nuclear armed, so mushroom clouds are a real possibility, in Europe and also in the mainland USSA, as well as in/at its overseas possessions and military bases.
The way things are trending, I believe that when the Kremlin sees that the outbreak of major military conflict with the USSA/NATO/EU is inevitable and imminent, that the threat of a Russian first strike against the Western Alliance will be very real. It could come right out of the blue, with absolutely no warning. It would not likely be a pinprick strike with a few Kalibr or Khinzhal missiles, not at all, quite to the contrary. On the principle of "go big, or don't go at all," the strike would likely be blindingly fast and mercilessly violent. It could be any day from now on, tomorrow, or July 4th ("by the rockets' red glare"), October 31st ("trick or treat"), or November 24th (mincemeat pie ...). I would expect scores of targets to be hit, maybe hundreds: New York City, the Pentagon, CIA-Langley, San Diego, Norfolk-VA, Laurel-MD, NSA-Bluffdale-UT, Washington-DC, Bangor-WA, Seattle, San Francisco-Silicon Valley, Albuquerque, Los Alamos-NM, White Sands-NM, Minot-ND, Omaha, Malmstrom AFB-MT, Chicago, Kings Bay-GA, Mayport-FL, Tampa, San Antonio, Cape Canaveral, Groton-CT, Pearl Harbor, Raven Rock/Site-R, Cheyenne Mountain, Newport News, Camp Peary and the Yorktown Naval Annex, the City of London, Brussels, Paris, Ottawa, Berlin, Frankfort, Ramstein, Toulon, Rota, Souda Bay, and many more.
It will be stunningly swift, merciless and ruthless, somewhat along these lines:
Like lambs to the slaughter, most people are in complete denial and ignorance about what is about to happen on this planet. I have said before, and will say again, that we are about to live through a time and circumstances like nothing in recorded history, not since the Fall of Atlantis about 12,000 years ago, a technologically advanced, global civilization that was violently wiped from the pages of history.
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