THE 100 YEAR WAR: CONTINUING U.S. ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY RUSSIA

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The Beginning.  “I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer’s boy, or the son of some poor widow – who will have to do the fighting and dying.”  Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1913-1921.

Woodrow Wilson

So much for politicians’ lies.

Here’s the reality.  In July 1918, Peace-Loving Democrat Woodrow Wilson intervened in what was becoming the U.S.S.R.—against the Bolsheviks.  He marched 13,000 U.S. soldiers into the country:  5,000 men to Archangel and 8,000 to Vladivostok.  His intent?  To support the 70,000 fighting men of the Czechoslovak Legion, former war prisoners, who were combating the Communists in Siberia.  He also asserted that the Americans would aid the Russians with their own “self-government or self-defense.”  Wilson-speak for intervention in the on-going civil war on behalf of the White Russians battling the Red Russians.

But the Americans weren’t alone.  The British Empire was there as well:  more than 57,000 Tommies were fighting the Communists alongside nearly 5,000 Canadians. By the end of 1919, most foreign soldiers had left the newly-established Soviet union.

And Then.  At the end of World War II, the U.S. Army’s CounterIntelligence Corps began making contact with dissidents from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, an integral part of the Soviet Union, an area about the size of Texas, roughly 600,000 square kilometers/230,000 square miles.  These were not disgruntled people, dissatisfied with war-time changes.  They were Nazis, Nazi collaborators, as well as murderers, war criminals, and human rights violators.  Their leaders were Stepan Bandera and Mykola Lebed.  The Army later handed these people off to the Central Intelligence Agency (and its predecessors, the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, and the Strategic Services Unit, SSU).

Bandera was an uncompromising leader of the militant, terrorist branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Bandera became a Nazi collaborator who lived with his deputies under German protection after World War II began.  In preparation for the attack on the U.S.S.R., the Nazis recruited Bandera’s followers to act as Ukrainian-speaking policemen and to serve in two Ukrainian volunteer army battalions.  By working with the Nazis, Bandera hoped to free the Ukraine from Soviet rule and establish his own government there.  An independent Ukraine, Bandera promised, would remain friendly to Germany.  Bandera’s people never disagreed with the Nazis’ Jewish policy there, which eventually killed over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews.

On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko honored Stepan Bandera by posthumously bestowing on him the state honor, “Hero of the Ukraine.”

Stepan Bandera

Mykola Lebed was no statesman, either.  He was a close associate of Bandera and was his intelligence chief. Lebed had proposed “cleans[ing] the entire revolutionary territory of the Polish population,” so that a resurgent Polish state would not claim the Ukraine as in 1918. Ukrainians serving as auxiliary policemen for the Germans now joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).  “Bandera men [and Lebed’s] … are not discriminating about who they kill; they are gunning down the populations of entire villages.… Since there are hardly any Jews left to kill, the Bandera gangs have turned on the Poles. They are Collaborators literally hacking Poles to pieces. Every day … you can see the bodies of Poles, with wires around their necks, floating down the river Bug.” On a single day, July 11, 1943, the UPA attacked some 80 localities killing perhaps 10,000 Poles.

CIA handlers pointed to Lebed’s “cunning character,” his “relations with the Gestapo and … Gestapo training,” and that he was “a very ruthless operator.”  A CounterIntelligence Corps report from July 1947 cited sources that called Lebed a “well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans.”

In the mid-1930s, Bandera and Lebed participated in the murder of the Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki.  Tried and jailed, they escaped when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

Today, Ukrainian school children get their Nazism in class, where they sing a hymn to “Mother Ukraine and Father Bandera”.

Mykola Lebed

Enter the Lack of Intelligence Agency.  From 1946 to 1953, American intelligence, as part of Operation AERODYNAMIC, threw saboteurs from the ranks of extremists into the territory of the Soviet Ukraine, but, once on Soviet territory, most of the saboteurs disappeared without a trace. It turns out that the KGB knew about the operation and conducted a radio game with the CIA as part of the counter-operation “Link”.

Frank Wisner, who conceived and ran AERODYNAMIC, had been head of the Office of Policy Coordination (covert operations and the Clandestine Service), allegedly used his son’s shotgun to kill himself after many years of instability.  He had had a mental breakdown in 1958, retired in 1962, and died in 1965.  He coined the term Mighty Wurlitzer to describe the CIA’s propaganda machine.  (The Wurlitzer was a powerful organ used in theaters and concert halls to set the mood and influence people’s attitudes)

Fearing the increasing possibility of general war, the CIA decided to refuse armed support for Ukrainian nationalist, phasing out the aggressive actions of AERODYNAMIC.

Beginning in 1953 AERODYNAMIC began to operate through a Ukrainian study group under Lebed’s leadership in New York under CIA auspices, which collected Ukrainian literature and history and produced Ukrainian nationalist newspapers, bulletins, radio programming, and books for distribution in the Ukraine. In 1956 this group was formally incorporated as the non-profit Prolog Research and Publishing Association. It allowed the CIA to funnel funds as ostensible private donations without taxable footprints. To avoid nosey New York State authorities, the CIA turned Prolog into a for-profit enterprise called Prolog Research Corporation, which ostensibly received private contracts.

Prolog recruited and paid Ukrainian émigré writers who were generally unaware that they worked in a CIA-controlled operation.  These activities encouraged Ukrainian nationalism, strengthened Ukrainian resistance, and provided an alternative to Soviet media. In 1957 alone, with CIA support, Prolog broadcast 1,200 radio programs totaling 70 hours per month and distributed 200,000 newspapers and 5,000 pamphlets. In the years following, Prolog distributed books by nationalist Collaborators, Ukrainian writers and poets.

QR/PLUMB grew out of AERODYAMIC & QR/DYNAMIC (which had provided support for Prolog).  During the period of the active dissident movement in the Soviet Union, QRPLUMB conducted one of the most effective covert operations supported by the Agency. It provided material and moral support to active Ukrainian dissidents, established and maintained personal contact with many of their key leaders; exfiltrated numerous dissident samizdat works and published them abroad for publicity and especially for return infiltration into the Soviet Ukraine; publicized dissident causes in the free world (via publications, broadcasting, international conferences/fora); and conducted selected political actions targeted on the Soviet Ukraine.

And it Gets Better.  The next phase of the covert war against Russia, whether it was the Soviet state or the newer Russian Federation, was moving CIA officials into the Ukraine.  Prior to the 2014 coup, many very experienced ex-CIA officers visited the Ukraine to train local organizations and people as well as setting up special NGOs and funds.  Among them were Franklin D. Lindsay (Frank Wisner’s former deputy); Henry Crumpton (CIA, FBI, State Department Ambassador).  Other participants were the CIA Chief of Station in Kiev, Mark Davidson (now retired) and the MI6 Kiev Head of Station, Ian Lunt, awarded the OBE.  (He was later Head of Station in Moscow.)

As the Canadian newsmagazine Canadian Dimension noted, Ukraine’s political divisions exploded into the limelight with the Orange Revolution. In 2004, Western-backed civil society groups protested a presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovich officially garnered 49.4 percent of the second-round vote while his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, earned 46.7 percent. Two weeks of protests against the results spurred the Supreme Court to call for a rerun of the vote. In an article titled “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev,” The Guardian reported that the Orange Revolution was “an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing,” which included “US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations.”  According to noted film director Oliver Stone, quoted in BuzzFeed, the CIA had laid the groundwork for the 2014 coup.  Stone compared the Maidan protests, which started in late 2013 as part of a backlash to Yanukovych’s pro-Russian, anti-European policies and eventually led to his overthrow, to protest incidents in Venezuela in 2002 and earlier this year. “Create enough chaos, as the CIA did in Iran ’53, Chile ’73, and countless other coups, and the legitimate Government can be toppled,” Stone wrote. “It’s America’s soft power technique called ‘Regime Change 101.'”

In Stone’s telling, the deal that Yanukovych agreed to that would keep him in power was tossed aside “when well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals forced Yanukovych to flee the country with repeated assassination attempts. By the next day, a new pro-Western government was established and immediately recognized by the US (as in the Chavez 2002 coup).”

Following that revolution, Covert Action Magazine stated “Censored reports from the Donbass in Eastern Ukraine, however, make [it] clear that the war was started eight years ago by Ukraine–after its legitimate government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup (known as the Maidan revolution), and the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces voted to secede.”  Patrick Lancaster, a video journalist, “…posted [a tape] on March 10 [which] shows how people living on the edge of Donetsk, one kilometer from the Ukrainian position in Peski, have been subjected to constant shelling by the Ukrainian military over the last eight years and have had to survive living underground in bomb shelters…”

Continuing, Covert Action noted:

“According to Danya, a young man Lancaster interviewed, the Ukrainian army did not have exact targets but “just shoots and don’t care where it lands.

Another woman said that the targets that were hit “were not new targets. In 2014, they shelled here too. Exactly in this place. The same coordinates. Torturing us all these eight years.”

Fighting back tears, the woman continued: “They shoot and shoot and we still stay in our houses, with our children, with dogs…the children stay at home, in basements, running through broken windows, do not go to school, the whole day they sit at home. And I come from work now, I barely managed to work…how can we live in such conditions? It’s been war here since 2014 and we haven’t left. And there’s no end, and no truth from anybody. They shoot with no break. In the daytime, in the morning, in the night, in the evening with no stop.”

Lancaster was taken into a cellar where families had been living for the last eight years. A woman told him that her daughter had been born on June 26, 2014, and that the war began in her village on July 19. She has “now been sitting here for over 7 years without leaving, a real child of war.”

Prior to Russia’s 2022 de-Nazification efforts, the Ukrainian government had murdered roughly 14,000 ethnic Russians in the Donbass.  Manuel Ochsenreiter, the German journalist, prior to his mysterious death in Moscow, had reported extensively on Ukrainian actions in Lugansk and Donetsk.

The Proxy Wars.

Afghanistan.  In 1979, the Soviets supported the Communist government in Kabul, the capital.  The CIA advocated secret American backing for Afghans resisting this régime.  The boys in Langley sold the idea to President Jimmy Carter (D-Ga.) and his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.  The plan was to send weapons to the opposition through Pakistan using, inter alia, Saudi money.  Carter authorized $500,00 in “non-lethal aid” to the insurgents.  Brzezinski allegedly sent a note to the president asserting that this would provoke direct intervention by the U.S.S.R.  Things went downhill from there, with the Soviets marching into the country on December 24, 1979.  The intent was to replace an unmanageable but pro-U.S.S.R. government with a more flexible one.  Over the next few years, the first tranche of  $500,000 jumped to tens of millions of dollars and then to $3 billion in the 1980s.  Besides money, the U.S. government provided thousands of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.  Carter’s and his successor Ronald Reagan’s government also recruited and financed terrorists to fight the Soviet Union’s forces.  These later became the name-changing Al-Qaeda, rebranded later as ISIL or IS, also directed from Washington.

In 1986, the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service began moving these fanatics across the Amu Darya River from Afghanistan into the Muslim Soviet Socialist Republics.  The goal was to sow fear and destruction throughout the U.S.S.R., hopefully splitting the country apart, thus eliminating Reagan’s “Evil Empire”.

But what was the cost?  Besides creating Islamic terrorism, Carter’s and Reagan’s actions, according to the Atlantic, resulted in an estimated one million civilians killed, as well as 90,000 Mujahideen fighters, 18,000 Afghan troops, and 14,500 Soviet soldiers.  Carefully manipulated international opinion condemned not the U.S. but the Soviet Union, leading to a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics and an embargo on grain and high technology equipment sent to the U.S.S.R.

(For more detail, see Visas for Al Qaeda:  CIA Handouts That Rocked The World.  J. Michael Springmann; Daena Publications LLC; Washington, D.C. 2014.).

The Ukraine.  Again drawing from its successful playbook against the Soviet Union/Russian Federation, Washington, D.C. and its subservient European states, including NATO and European Union members, began supporting, politically and militarily, a series of Ukrainian governments increasingly hostile to Russia.  Ignoring the 14,000 dead Russians murdered in the Donbass, America and its puppet states loudly denounced the Russian Federation as repressive and repulsive, even accusing it of a Ukrainian crime, the shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner flying through hostile airspace.

Using NATO, the United States openly threatened Russia.  Despite a 1989 President George H.W. Bush pledge to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, not to expand the Alliance “…one inch to the east”, nevertheless, the organization steadily advanced to the Russian frontier.  Now, in 2022, NATO stretches from the Baltic to the Balkans.  Member countries host many U.S. bases.  Additionally, Russia is ringed with many more American military centers.  U.S. warships routinely sail into or near Russian territorial waters while Yankee warplanes (and those of NATO countries, especially Britain) fly into Russian airspace.

NATO MEMBER FLAGS

Following NATO’s expansion and provocative air and naval incursions, along with years of Western training Ukrainian forces in service to a government that reveres Nazis and includes Nazi elements among its army, such as the Azov Battalion, Russia decided to cancel the threat.  In February 2022, it moved its air force and army into the Ukraine.

Predictably, the U.S., which had been opposing Russian-built gas pipelines into Europe, slapped economic, trade, and financial sanctions on the country.  America then pressured its European puppet states to do the same.  Unfortunately, they complied, triggering energy shortages and exploding inflation in countries already hard hit by the Yankee Covid-19 bioweapon.

Unfortunately for the master planners in the Biden Administration, this had no effect on the Russian economy.

However, it’s having an effect on the U.S. economy.  With rising unemployment, no national healthcare, falling housing starts, and galloping inflation, Biden’s $9 billion in military aid and another $50 billion in financial support are going down the drain to a lost cause.  The Europeans have ploughed nearly €16 billion into a failing state.

Worse, in an effort to shore up the Ukraine’s collapsing military, America and Europe are shipping heavy weapons from their own stocks to President Zelensky’s Nazified government.  This nonsense has reached the point where European and American armed forces are beginning to complain that their own military preparedness is being harmed. Still worse, are the fears that the armaments will not stay in the Ukraine but end up elsewhere, doing still more harm to peaceful states.  There are already press reports that these weapons are being sold on the black market.

Then there is the al-Qaeda precedent.  Zelensky has created an International Legion of Territorial Defense, supposedly recruiting 20,000 fighters from 52 countries, including from Israel’s IDF. Many of these have been illegally enlisted in the United States through its embassy on M Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.  Having sought out men with military experience or simply those with a will to fight, will Zelensky keep them in the Ukraine with offers of land and funds?  Or will these mercenaries move on to the next conflict?  Or will they, having been combat-hardened, be used by the Americans to ignite a war somewhere else?

Finally, what of the gentlemen of the press?  They have been cheerleading the war against the Russian federation, just as they did in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.  Newspapers, magazines, radio, and television shamefully and shamelessly promote the absolutely insane concept that the Ukraine is winning the war against Russia which the U.S. had provoked.  In Europe, the Russian news network RT is banned in Britain and Germany.  Facebook and Twitter keep up the charade, with Twitter banning Russian comments questioning the origin of the Covid bioweapon.

Does this prove that Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s 1950s-era program to manipulate the American news media and its reporters with planted stories and pressure to print them, is still running?

And none of the presstitutes question the concept that a deliberate, coordinated attack on Russia might well result in nuclear war, annihilating the planet.  Already, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has placed the hands of the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to Midnight.  They were never that close, even in the first Cold War.

But, in the end, it is the Ukraine which will pay the heaviest price.  While American soldiers are operating there and British special forces are protecting the irrational Zelensky, the country is being destroyed.  Its cities and infrastructure are in ruins, all because the Yankees want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

 

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the American-created alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab and Russian news programs.

He is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, the country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that it’s government is Nazified.

 

 

 

 

 

THE UKRAINE: A TALE OF TWO REALITIES

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The Beginning.  Being ‘satiably curious like the Elephant’s Child, I began to wonder about the Russian police action in the Ukraine.  The film V for Vendetta noted that it’s the government’s job to manufacture the news while it’s the media’s job to report it.  Or, as noted musician and political thinker Gilad Atzmon recently commented, we read the 4th Estate’s comments to learn what is not happening.

For example, The Washington Post daily fills its pages with lots of ink about the failed Russian “invasion” of the Ukraine.  Russian armed forces have run out of men and materiel.  Its officers are being assassinated by valiant Ukrainian soldiers.  The entire world reviles the brutal baby killers and mass murderers of the Russian Federation.

That’s one reality.

Another is historical and based on something other than fantasy.

Background.  In 2014, US President Barak Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Victoria Nuland worked with the American Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the Ukraine’s legitimate government.  Why?  The Ukraine favored a more advantageous economic deal with the Russian Federation, rather than the one the European Union (EU) offered.

The inept, Neo-Nazi government the US put in place made a mess of the Ukraine’s economy and began a war against the ethnic Russians of the eastern Donbass Region (Donetsk and Lugansk).  Killing roughly 14,000 people, displacing 1.2 million others, in these now-independent areas, successive governments led by candy-king Poroshenko and high-heel wearing comedian/actor Volodymyr Zelensky flatly refused to implement the Minsk Agreement.  Basically, this accord included a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons, release of prisoners of war, reform in the Ukraine granting self-government to certain areas of the Donbass, and restoring control of the state border to the Ukrainian government.

Fed up with failed efforts to get the international community to recognize the Ukraine’s war crimes in the Donbass, Russian President Vladimir Putin then looked to what the United States and its creature NATO were doing in the area.  In1990, James Baker, then US Secretary of State, and President George H.W. Bush reassured the Soviet government that NATO would not move one inch to the east.  Yet, NATO, originally a defensive alliance, added more members directly abutting the Russian frontier.  This included countries such as Poland and the Baltic States, with historical antipathies to Russia and its predecessor governments.  NATO also participated in American wars half a world away, such as in Afghanistan.

The Ukraine wanted to join NATO as well.  Moreover, it appeared to be planning another attack on the Donbass.  Putin, apparently fearing a renewed effort to destroy the Russian State, its culture, and its religion, ordered his armed forces into the Ukraine to preserve Donetsk and Lugansk as well as to put an end to the country’s Neo-Nazi government.

The Reality.  While the Post and other US and European media touted the ferocious fight against a weakened Russian government and its failing, incompetent armed forces, they seemed to omit some glaring problems that perspicacious folk twigged to.  The fictional stories the media put out were, as the New York Times commented, designed to buck up morale amongst the Ukrainians.  Some of the tales, told by “responsible” journalists included the “Ghost Fighter of Kiev”, who supposedly shot down a good bit of the Russian air force.  However, if the Ukrainian armed forces were so good, why did they need millions of dollars of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons from NATO countries?  And why was the Ukrainian government recruiting a Foreign Legion to bolster its army’s ranks?

Mercenaries.  Deciding that the mainstream media was hiding some important information, I went directly to the source, the Ukrainian Embassy here in Washington, D.C.  Failing repeatedly to make contact by telephone, I emailed its Press Secretary, Volodymyr Rizichenko, asking a few pertinent, non-controversial questions:

Mr. Riznichenko:

The Embassy’s phone is constantly busy.  I’m drafting an article for publication about the subject matter.  [Ukraine’s Recruiting of Foreigners]

I’d like you to help me follow-up on a March 21 Washington Post story about volunteer foreign fighters.  Some of the details are kind of sketchy and you might be able to flesh out some of the missing information.

  1. How many American citizens or permanent residents have contacted your Embassy about going to fight for your country?
  2. Do they reach out to your Embassy first or do they go to the website FightforUA.org?
  3. What sort of background do they have?  E.g., none or prior military experience, policemen, active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen?  And what prompts them to volunteer?
  4. If they don’t meet your army’s requirements, what other militias can they apply to join?
  5. What are these militias like?  Only the Azov Battalion seems to pop up.  There must be others.
  6. What requirements do the militias have for volunteers?
  7. Regarding total volunteers, the numbers seem to be up and down, widely differing in total.  Can you give me a good estimate, including by country?

Many thanks for your help.

Mike Springmann

As of this writing, I have received no response.  Unfortunately, I posed the same questions to the Russian Press Office.  And also received no response, following a question of “Why do you think we know more?”

The Law.  It’s pretty clear:

18 U.S. Code § 960 – Expedition against friendly nation

Whoever, within the United States, knowingly begins or sets on foot or provides or prepares a means for or furnishes the money for, or takes part in, any military or naval expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States is at peace, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

As far as I know, the United States Congress has not declared war against the Russian Federation.  Moreover, it would appear to be a breach of diplomacy for a foreign state to recruit soldiers within this country for war against a Power at peace with America.

The U.S. Department of State notes that, while it may be possible for a US citizen to go abroad to fight for a foreign power, recruitment or hiring in the United States may be a violation of the law.  Citing Wiborg v. U.S., 163 U.S.632 (1896).  N.B., this was tied to a filibustering expedition against Spanish Cuba and the decision should be seen in that light–and the subsequent war against Spain in 1898.

The State Department notes that prosecution of such persons is the responsibility of the Justice Department.  (The U.S. Attorney General Garland is a Jew, the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, and the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland are all Jews, as are the President of the Ukraine Zelensky, and its Prime Minister Groysman.  Cousins protecting Cousins?)

The Mercenaries.  According to a March 6, 2022 Jerusalem Post article, Zelensky, whose army includes the Neo-Nazi, white supremacist Azoz Battalion, has recruited some 16,000 foreigners to serve in its war against the Donbass and Russia.  No details, of course, were available on the nationalities of these people, whom the Russian government asserted were not subject to the laws of war as legitimate combatants.  Naturally, “The UK, Latvia, and the Canadian government have all stated that they will allow the enlistment of citizens to the legion.”

In an undated article in Deutsche Welle (Germany’s state-owned international broadcasting service), the organization claimed “Ukraine’s bid to recruit fighters from Africa sparks uproar:  Nigeria, Senegal and Algeria have criticized Ukraine’s efforts to enlist international fighters as it resists the Russian invasion. Analysts say those who have responded to the call need to reconsider.”

Definition. West Point’s Lieber Institute says this:

In 1977, the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions (AP I) significantly changed the law for mercenaries. AP I, Article 47 begins by withholding from a mercenary “the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war.” It defines a mercenary as any person who meets six criteria, specifically any person who:

  1. a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict;
  2. b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;
  3. c) is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party;
  4. d) is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict;
  5. e) is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and
  6. f) has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces.

Furthermore, the article states:

…Ukraine [is a] part[y] to AP I. Therefore, [it] is bound by Article 47 in the current armed conflict. Additionally, Ukraine is a party to the 1989 International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing, and Training of Mercenaries. The 1989 Convention creates a criminal law regime for mercenarism—it identifies and defines criminal offenses, establishes rules of jurisdiction, and obligates enforcement measures. Furthermore, Article 1 of the 1989 Convention expands the AP I, Article 47 definition of “mercenary” by removing the condition that a mercenary actually take part in hostilities. Unlike AP I, the 1989 Convention criminalizes direct participation in hostilities by any person who meets the Article 1 definition.

So.  On March 3, 2022, The Middle East Eye wrote, in part apropos of the Ukraine:

However, sources told Middle East Eye that there are also private military contractors with significant war experience among the volunteers. The sources said some of the private contractors had arrived in the country for extraction, evacuation and defence purposes having been hired by private companies.

A job advertisement that appeared this week on Silent Professionals, a listing website for defence and private security jobs, is looking for multiple “extraction and protective agents” to conduct evacuation operations of individuals and families throughout Ukraine’s countryside and major cities.

“Employer is a US-based corporation. Both male and female agents are welcome to apply,” the advertisement says.

“Only highly experienced candidates who possess at least 5+ years of military experience in this region of Europe will be considered for this role.”

The ad says the payment would be $1,000-2,000 per day and a bonus will be available after the completion of the operation.

Amazing that this is out, without any detail on numbers of mercenaries and their citizenship included.

Yeni Safak, a Turkish news service, wrote on March 4, 2022:

“The Russian Defense Ministry accused the West on Thursday of sending mercenaries to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian armed forces.

At a daily briefing in Moscow, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the employees of private military companies raid Russia’s military convoy, attack aviation, using US Javelin and UK NLOW anti-tank missiles and a man-portable air-defense system Stinger, and other weapons, supplied by the West.

Meanwhile, Konashenkov said the US intelligence launched a mass campaign to recruit more mercenaries.

Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, and Croatia legally authorized their citizens to take part in the hostilities in Ukraine, while France plans to send ethnic Ukrainians serving in its foreign legion to Ukraine as well, he continued.

“According to Zelenskyy, about 16,000 foreign mercenaries are expected to arrive in Ukraine in addition to those already available to compensate for the crushing military failures of the Ukrainian security forces. A visa-free regime is officially introduced for them,” he noted.

“Last week, about 200 troops arrived in Ukraine from Croatia, they joined one of the Nazi battalions,” Konashenkov added.

It’s certainly good to know that the “intelligence” services are continuing to seek the end of the Russian Federation.  The Washington Post certainly won’t report this.  However, Veterans Today, on March 4, 2022, recounted that Erik Prince of name-changing Blackwater infamy, traveled to Kiev to confer with Ukrainian officials.  However, before his secret travel to the Ukraine, Prince consulted with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Director National Intelligence Avril Haines (another of the Cousins).

So, Who Are We Really Dealing With?  Germany’s Deutsche Welle noted that the Azov Battalion is defending Mariupol, a city where the opera house, allegedly filled with refugees, mysteriously exploded—without any visible casualties.

The Azovs are, as Al Jazeera noted in a March1, 2022 piece, a far-right, neo-Nazi group that is part of the Ukrainian Army, is a street militia, and is a political party.  They coat their bullets in pig fat to use against any Muslims fighting in the Russian army.  They are white supremacists and ultra-nationalists.  Nazi symbols and SS regalia are part of their uniforms.  They display the Wolfsangel, resembling a swastika, on a yellow background.

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Knowing the kinds of people recruited, the Jewish Telegraph Agency wrote on February 27, 2022, that the Ukraine’s Embassy in “Israel” tried to enlist its citizens to fight the Russians.

The New York Jewish newspaper The Forward commented:  The very first thing Ukrainians see as they walk into Poland at the Medyka checkpoint is a large Israeli flag. Two, actually – one pinned to the army-green tent of the Jewish Agency, another waving on a pole above the tent of the emergency-medical group Hatzolah Without Borders. Asked how they got such prime real estate, the men running these operations hoisted their elbows and shrugged, “We’re Israeli.”

So, There You Have It, Dear Reader.  The United States and the European Union are working with Zionists, Neo-Nazis, and extremists of all sorts to destroy Russia.  They are violating their own laws as well as international law.  Why?  Because Russia, like the now-destroyed Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, did not always do or think the way the Western states desired.  In fact, at times, they opposed the Western militarist, capitalist, and globalist viewpoint as hazardous to their national existence.

And Joseph Robinete Biden, Jr. called for the removal of Russian President Putin on March 26, 2022.  Wouldn’t it be better for the entire world if Joe Biden found a new line of work?  Before one of the Stinger anti-aircraft missiles hits his own plane or a civilian airliner?

WE’ VE GOT 1,000 TERRORISTS: WHAT TO DO?

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This was originally published in the American Herald Tribune, now shut down by the US government.

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On February 15, 2019, The Military Times reported that U.S. forces occupying Syria, along with some of their “allies” were holding about 1,000 ISIS fighters. With Syria becoming unified under its legitimate government, the question now is:  What do we do with the terrorists? Release them? Imprison them? Send them home to one of the dozen or so countries that contributed them?   Pack them off to Guantanamo Bay, as one U.S. Senator, Tom Cotton (R-Kan.), suggested?

The Past Isn’t Past.   In the American Herald Tribune of February 1, 2019, C.J. Werleman asked “Could ISIS be the United States’ next ally in its war against the Taliban and other insurgent groups?” Citing Taliban and Russian assertions, he noted that the U.S. had ferried arms and supplies to ISIS groups operating in Afghanistan. Continuing, Mr. Werleman said “that the Iranian English language news service Tasnim News Agency published a report alleging US forces operating in Afghanistan carried out a secret military operation…which helped ISIS inmates escape the prison the Taliban held them in.”

Esteemed Reader, the United States of America created Islamic Terrorism.  What ‘s worse is that America then worked closely with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to train and supply it.

Look back to what people think is the past. In the 1980s, the U.S. wanted to move its National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence listening posts from Iran, lost through the fall of the Shah, to Afghanistan.   Unfortunately, the Soviet Union was occupying that latter country.

The obvious solution was to remove the Soviets, give them their own Vietnam, and let the Watchbirds watch (or listen).

How Did Presidents Carter and Reagan Handle This?  With Osama bin Laden’s help (and that of the State Department), they recruited wild men from all over the world. They used American diplomatic posts in Saudi Arabia, principally in Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast. These issued visas to enter the U.S. for training at military facilities.  Additionally, there were 52 recruiting offices in the United States, including one in Washington, D.C. Then, they were called mujahideen (those engaged in struggle). Using American and other countries’ weapons, the “muj” eventually pushed the USSR’s army back across the Amu Darya river into the Soviet Union.

Then, the United States was left with a well-trained cadre of terrorists able to shoot things down and blow things up. The choice then was let them go, send them home, or use them to destabilize and overthrow countries Washington didn’t like. This was the birth of what this author calls the Arab-Afghan Legion.

The Legion saw its first action in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.   Osama bin Laden plus about 5,000 Saudis and others moved into the country, worked closely with NATO, and helped turn a real country into a series of dysfunctional statelets.

Next.   At the end of his February 1 article, Mr. Werleman summed things up by writing “…the United States has a long and distinguished history of arming past enemies to fight current foes, and arming ISIS might turn out to be merely its next desperate measure in its increasingly desperate military presence in the “graveyard of empires.”

Well, it’s more than Afghanistan. It’s also re-branding of the muj to Al-Qaeda and then to ISIS, then sending them off to fight new enemies.

Iraq  he United States moved Osama’s Arab-Afghan Legion from Yugoslavia to Iraq. According to Professor Edmund Ghareeb, Al-Qaeda didn’t exist in the country until the American invasion of 2003. Working with the Marines, British Special Forces, and former officials involved with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) death squads in Central America, U.S. policy helped destroy Iraq, the Land Between Two Rivers. American Marines create their own militias, the British broke captured terrorists out of jail, and John Negroponte, then ambassador to Iraq and formerly to Honduras, imported into Iraq men who had helped him run death squads in Honduras. Terrorists captured while crossing the Iraqi border were freed by U.S. soldiers and secretly flown elsewhere.

Libya.  Deciding that Moammar Gaddaffi had to go. He didn’t fit the American view of leader. Gaddaffi had established the highest quality of life in his country than could be found in all
Africa. He was seeking to organize the continent behind his management.

Fighters trained in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia and Iraq suddenly appeared in Libya.  The U.S. and NATO and their secret intelligence services so supplied the “rebels” with such quantities of weapons that their arms exceeded those held by the British army.

Syria.   In Shia member Bashar al-Assad’s socialist state, the only Arab holdout against American Middle East policy, suddenly uprisings began all over the country. Then, experienced fighters with ties to the Arab-Afghan Legion began battling the legitimate government and its forces. Weapons were transferred from Libya to Syria and the American ambassador, once political counselor in Iraq, began working with “dissidents”.

Continuing the Pattern.   The 1,000 ISIS members now held in Syria aren’t going to be disposed of.  So many men trained in the skills necessary to destroy entire countries are too valuable to waste. They’re going to be used.  Likely not in Morocco. That country, monarchical and conservative, fits the American pattern of “allies”. But Tunisia has bountiful “Islamic militants” and corruption. Algeria is lumbered with its ailing, problematic economy, jihadists, and absolute presidential control. It has an aged, infirm president and a secretive group of power brokers around him. Jordan is too useful to the Americans as a staging and training area for its attacks on Syria.

But there is Iran. It has a restive Arab minority in the west and it is number one on the American/Israeli hit list. Even its conferences bringing together journalists, authors, activists, and thinkers are now targeted. Why?   They bring foreigners to Iran and show that it is not Hell run by demons with horns and pointy tails. For example, the New Horizon Conference and its management have now been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department after the organization’s successful May 2018 event, bringing former American government officials and an anti-Israel Rabbi, Dovid Weiss, to Iran.  According to the U.S. government, the conference’s real goal was to recruit U.S. spies and support the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force. (This writer attended that event and must confess that no one ever asked him to spy for Iran.)

Short of an outright war, which might cost Israel and the U.S. dearly, the 1,000 captured ISIS members have the best chance of bringing about “regime change” in Iran, along with help from the sanctions targeting the economy. They’re cheap, well-trained, and easily disposed of.

(For details on the U.S. and its creation of Islamic terrorism, see the author’s book Visas for Al Qaeda:  CIA Handouts That Rocked The World.   Available from Amazon.)