Dissentral Intelligence

Here to show you what they won't

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The war is so unpopular, Trump officials are openly saying they’re planning to use Israel to goad Iran into attacking US military assets

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Arab states think they’re sitting at the table with Israel. In reality, they’re on the menu.

[Dissentral Intelligence @dissentralintel]

@hialishaq @agmhhh1997 @anyaparampil @majedalansari “My country got bombed today 🤣”

“We have no sovereignty and won’t respond 🤣”

[Dissentral Intelligence @dissentralintel]

@ericadamsfornyc

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

👀 Elon Musk Says the Request to Turn on Starlink in Crimea Came from the Ukrainian Government in the Middle of the Night

"We figured out that this was kind of like a Pearl Harbor like attack...So they really asked us to proactively take part in a major act of war"

@elonmusk @DavidSacks @theallinpod

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

David Duke believes his country's mission is to "lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led inferior races."

My bad -- it was actually Ukrainian Azov leader Andriy Biletsky who said that. He's armed by NATO & met with Zelensky last month.
https://t.co/A9GWnhL21g

[Chris Williamson @DerbyChrisW]

Wtf is happening to the Labour movement?

This warmongering kid is a @UKLabour MP who wants to fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. She's a member of the misnamed @socialistcam, too.
And Unions are voting on a TUC motion today to send more weapons to Nazis in Ukraine.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

50 years ago, an illegal CIA backed Coup took place in Democratic Chile.

50 years later, another illegal CIA backed Coup in 2014 set Ukraine on fire, leading the world to the brink. Same plan, same outcome, the regime change playbook hasn't changed in half a century..

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Putin welcomes Kim Jong Un

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Vostochny space base.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Why Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.

As the West’s proxy war in Ukraine slips inexorably towards utter failure, the neocons behind the debacle are faced with dwindling avenues of retreat.

Early confidence that Russia, in its current form, would collapse under the pressure of the harshest sanctions regime in history failed to materialize. Early Russian miscalculations on the battlefield were not followed by a military meltdown, but by a pragmatic display of strategic adaptability, which is begrudgingly admired in the military war rooms of the West. The Russian army, far from falling apart, has steeled itself into making bold decisions to retreat when prudent and advance when required, both of which have proven devastating for their Ukrainian opponents. It follows that, as the Western political elites that cultivated this conflict peer into another winter of political, military, and potentially economic discontent, it is now that we potentially face the most dangerous period in Europe since the outbreak of WWII.

The catalyst for a wider war in Europe isn’t, in fact, a limited conflict in Ukraine in itself, one that started in 2014 and, notably, had been largely ignored by Western powers for almost a decade. The real issue is that NATO, which is currently engaged in a proxy War with Russia, is facing a ‘damned if you do and damned if you don’t’ scenario regarding its growing military involvement in Ukraine. If the US-led bloc escalates further as defeat looms, it could likely lead to direct confrontation with Russia. If it doesn’t, its proxy will collapse and leave Russia victorious, a fate once utterly unthinkable in Brussels, Washington, and London, but now becoming a nightmarish reality.

Such a defeat would be devastating and potentially terminal for the prestige and reputation of the whole NATO brand. After all, despite the Soviet Union having long ceased to exist, the bloc still markets itself as an indispensable bulwark against  imagined Russian expansionism. In the event of an increasingly likely Ukrainian defeat, that ‘essential partner’ in ‘countering Russia’ will have been proven utterly impotent and largely irrelevant. More cynically, the vast US arms industry would also be denied a huge and lucrative market. So, how does a multi billion-dollar machine that has prophesied absolute victory against Russia even begin to contemplate defeat? And how do senior EU bureaucrats like Ursula Von der Leyen climb down from their quasi-religious devotion to the ‘cause’ of utterly defeating Russia, which she has shamelessly evangelized for over a year and a half? Lastly, how does the American administration, which has gone politically, morally, and economically ‘all in’ against Russia in Ukraine, contemplate what amounts to an increasingly inevitable European version of Afghanistan 2.0?

They will need to do two things: Firstly, find someone to blame for their defeat and secondly, find a new enemy to deflect public opinion onto. The ‘someone to blame’ will be quite easy to identify – the narrative will be flush with attacks on states like Hungary, China, and to some extent India, who will be accused of "undermining the unified effort needed to isolate and defeat Russia."

Blaming Ukraine itself will also be central to this narrative. Western media will insure it’s singled out as incapable of ‘taking the medicine’ proffered by NATO and therefore suffering the consequences, not listening to Western military advice, failing to utilize Western aid correctly and, of course – given that little has been done by Zelensky to tackle the endemic corruption in Ukraine – this fact will be easily weaponized against him and used to lubricate a slick narrative of ‘we tried to help them, but they simply couldn’t be saved from themselves’.

The ‘shift focus to another enemy’ narrative is the simplest and most obvious – that will be China. NATO is already trying to expand its influence in Asia, including via a planned ‘liaison office’ in Japan. The ‘China is the real threat’ narrative is bubbling steadily to the surface in Western media.

And, most worryingly, should Western powers fail to make their case for ‘plausible deniability’ around the culpability for this war, there is always the option of further escalating it. Such an escalation could rapidly lead to direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, an outcome no lucid observer on either side of the debate could or should be contemplating. The problem is, rational assessment and negotiation seem to have become so rare in Washington and Kiev that a devastating escalation could, quite remarkably, be considered an option by the deluded neocon think-tank advisers wielding disproportionate influence over an increasingly desperate political class in Washington and Brussels. In the event that NATO does indeed sanction a direct intervention into Ukraine, it will, of course, be justified as a ‘peacekeeping’ or humanitarian intervention by Polish or Romanian troops, but the categorization of the ‘mission’ will become gloriously irrelevant when the first clashes with Russian forces occur, followed by a potentially rapid spiral into all-out war between Russia and NATO.

It could be argued that the process to disassociate from Ukraine has already started, beginning with the embarrassment Zelensky faced at the recent NATO summit and progressing with the open spats between Western ‘partners’ over whether to give Ukraine ever deadlier weapons to essentially insure its self-destruction.

From here on out one thing is abundantly clear, nothing will happen by accident when it comes to the EU and NATOs interaction with the Zelensky regime. Whatever comes next may need to be spun both ways, to either pull out or to escalate. A case in point is the blame game being openly acted out around the obvious failure of Ukraine’s counter offensive, with open finger-pointing in the Western media by Ukrainian officials like the ambassador to Germany, Aleksey Makeev. Kiev’s top man in Germany recently blamed the West for the bloody failure of the ill-fated project, suggesting it was solely due to European and American delays in shipping weapons and cash to Kiev. According to the ambassador, it was this Western failure that apparently allowed the Russians to build their defenses in eastern Ukraine, where tens of thousands of unfortunate Ukrainian conscripts have met their fate in the past three months.

In the real world, the counteroffensive, which has now become a slow-motion calamity, had been telegraphed to the Russians and the wider world for almost a year and will surely be recalled as one of the greatest military misadventures in history. The fact that the Ukrainian regime openly advertised its intentions, even loudly pointing out the avenue of assault and strategic goals, is conveniently ignored by the likes of Makeev. It now seems apparent that Kiev believed that its overt saber-rattling would stimulate faster and larger weapons shipments from its increasingly concerned partners – it didn’t, and by the time those very same sponsors’ patience ran out with Kiev’s lack of progress on the battlefield, it was glaringly obvious any offensive against long-prepared Russian defenses was doomed to fail. Yet, because of Kiev’s PR need and demands from Western political elites, the counteroffensive began, wiping out entire battalions of Ukrainian troops and burning through a huge portion of the Western heavy weapons previously provided.

The situation evokes a kind of tragic romantic folly, with Ukraine desperate to woo NATO and the EU to the point of suicide, NATO and the EU playing the aloof lover; never having really considered marriage but willing to allow its admirer to throw itself onto the spears of the real object of their attention – Russia. Of course, the real concern now preoccupying the EU-NATO cabal is how to survive this tawdry affair and move on. While the hapless Jens Stoltenberg would have us believe NATO has never been stronger, the reality is far less rosy for the ‘defensive alliance’ that has bombed its way across Europe and the Middle East, and now seeks to expand to the Pacific. The reality is that the Ukraine conflict could destroy NATO. It has become something of a modern day League of Nations, adept at admonishing small fish, but utterly incapable of standing toe to toe with any peer adversary, a failed political institution, posing as a military alliance, that in reality would collapse in the face of a direct challenge from either Russia or China. Of course, it seems that NATO has also willfully fallen under the spell of its own propaganda.

The big question now is whether the bloc would in reality contemplate a direct confrontation with Russia in Ukraine? Or will the Western political elites who built the scaffold the Ukrainian conflict is now blazing on choose to reverse through blame or escalate through desperation?

One thing is indisputable: The fate of NATO and its credibility as a ‘defensive alliance’ is irrevocably intertwined with the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict, yet because NATO is, in reality, a political rather than military institution, these crucial issues will never be debated openly, as the answers would be akin to a priest announcing the nonexistence of God from the pulpit.

[Black in the Empire @blackintheempir]

Citizens in the West believe Ukraine is beating Russia, while the rest of the world is witnessing Russia beating NATO

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

"Now, as for bilateral contacts here on the sidelines of the forum, I haven't had any, because everyone understands what the Americans want from Russia. They want to get rid of a competitor. They want to strategically defeat us, as they put it. If they had anything new in mind, well, they'd probably find a way to communicate it somehow," Lavrov said in response to a question from Sputnik's correspondent during the G20 forum.

[Dmitry Polyanskiy 🇺🇳 @Dpol_un]

Nazis in Ukraine? 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺: What Nazis? 🙊🙉🙈

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Bin Salman: I believe the Middle East will be the new Europe. In 5 years, Saudi Arabia will be a completely different country.

"This is the Saudi war. This is my war. I want to see the Middle East on top of the world before I die.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Instagram has deleted a video of Elijah Wood for calling Zelensky a drug addict.

Elijah Wood in his stories addressed Zelensky with an offer to cure his drug and alcohol addiction. The actor advised the Ukrainian president to go to Betty Ford Rehab - a very expensive private clinic in California where many celebrities have been treated for addiction.

Ukrainians did not appreciate the joke: they flooded Wood's profile with complaints, prompting the social network to block his profile.

[Citizen Journalists @citizenjournos_]

This man is the establishment approved face of “the opposition”. The only thing he is opposed to is not being more establishment than the Torys. Nothing will change for the better for the people should he get in.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Warning Graphic Video

#Ukrainian soldiers ambush a clearly defenseless civilian vehicle as they make their way along a country track.

They execute the unarmed civilians, without even trying to detain, question or check their identity @BBCNews @CNN @rtenews #WarCrimes

[Dissentral Intelligence @dissentralintel]

In their never ending quest to confuse and disorient Ukrainians, the Russians have come up with their most dastardly invention yet: perspective

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kadyrov posted a photo with Putin. Peskov confirmed that the meeting took place yesterday.

In the photo, Kadyrov is very large and overwhelms Putin, who looks very small and old.

By the way, how many days did Kadyrov spend in quarantine before the meeting? Or is it not necessary for THIS Putin?

[John Moran @RueDaungier]

"This is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. This is a war declared by NATO, led by Washington. And Russia has a right to defend itself. Not alone. It's not an isolated Russia. This is a global issue," Ethiopian President Afwerki stressed.

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[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The @BBC and @CNN are shamefully ignoring the indiscriminate shelling of #Belgorod in #Russia by #Ukraine thats targeting and killing innocent civilians.

Just like they ignored it in #Donbass for 9 years and still do, Their paymasters (who also supply the weapons) forbid it.