Kermit Heartsong - Ukraine - ZBIG's Grand Chess Board & How The West Was Checkmated

Again, if one were to judge solely on the deafening silence and evasion of the West, the Novorossiyans, Russia, and President Putin would be innocent of any and all responsibility for the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17.

Cui Bono

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

— John Swinton, Chief of Staff New York Times at New York Press Club, 1953

In the end, the phrase cui bono —who benefits — appears to set a reasonable expectation for determining, at the very least, the probability of the “who” responsible for the MH17’s downing.

The Novorossiya Separatists, Russia, and President Putin stood to gain nothing. Unless, of course, world condemnation, attempted isolation, infamy, an invigorated civil war, crippling sanctions, and the beginnings of a new cold war are considered strategic benefits.

On the other hand, if the Kiev regime, which as detailed above, was losing battle after battle to the Novorossiya Separatists and was poised to potentially lose the war, this incident would have been a benefit to them. It would be a benefit in terms of rallying the West, in the form of NATO, to their cause, and to rallying world opinion.

The US stood to gain (and did) with regard to forcing additional sanctions on Russia, from an increasingly recalcitrant (and financially susceptible) Europe, as well as maintaining dominion over Europe (via NATO). And lastly, NATO would now have a new casus belli (reason for being) to validate its continued existence and to increase its funding.

As of the publication date of this book, the tragic events surrounding Malaysian Flight MH17 have virtually disappeared from discussion in the Western Media. The White House, State Department, the Pentagon, and NATO have not held a press conference and brought to light their findings from the flight data recorder, their various satellites in position at the time, Kiev ATC tapes, or data from NATO’s Black Sea operations, in regard to the MH17 downing. Despite military and intelligence budgets collectively approaching $1 trillion, not a single shred of forensically verifiable evidence has been brought forth to substantiate Western claims. To date, videos from social media have been the only form of evidence used to underpin State Department and White House claims. Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter, it appears, have become the de facto sources of intelligence gathering by the West.

The truth, despite the red-hot wave of high-energy propaganda, which has bombarded us daily, across a range of areas regarding Ukraine and Russia, is easily obtainable. Simply reverse any negative geopolitical statement uttered by Western politicians, pundits, and mainstream media newspersons meant to demonize a group or person, as merely propaganda, psychological projection, or both. This will, of course, have the effect of neutralizing propaganda campaigns large and small, while providing a clear picture of reality and thus reducing the need for mind/mood-altering legal and illegal drugs.

Chapter 7

Russia Checkmates

US President Barack Obama, or at least the warhawk neo-conservatives pushing him to war everywhere, are beginning to get hit with the boomerang of their stupid economic sanctions against Putin’s Russia. A few days ago, Russia’s largest oil company, state-run OAO Rosneft, headed by close Putin ally, Igor Sechin, announced discovery of a giant new oil field in Russia’s Arctic north of Murmansk. The stupid part comes from Obama’s decision to agree to impose sanctions on Sechin and his company and to prohibit US companies from doing business with them.

— William Engdahl, Obama’s Stupid Sanctions Give Putin New Oil Bonanza

What the West sought for Russia, via its reckless incursion into Ukraine, was Russia’s isolation from the world and from Europe and its dispossession from its long-standing military and naval bases in the Crimea. The Ukraine was to be a chaotic nation used as a NATO forward operating base on Russia’s border. The added benefit, however, would be the privatization and plunder of Ukraine, with the loved ones of US government officials sitting on Ukrainian boards of directors and fast-tracked Ukrainian citizenship for US citizens in order to head key government posts in Ukraine.

To this end, the imperial West has chased conquest and plunder across a Grand Chessboard much like Don Quixote chased and fought windmills.

In the past decade this has become apparent to the world, as serial failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Georgia and unintended consequences in Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Ukraine offer stark proof. The West with its ungodly military budget and destructive apparatus has been proved a paper tiger. As Dmitri Orlov states of the US military:

While one might naively assume that the rest of the world is quivering before such overwhelming military might, nothing of the sort is occurring. There is a little secret that everyone knows: the United States military does not know how to win. It just knows how to blow things up. (Orlov 2011)

What, in fact, the West has come away with is failure so absolute as to have imperiled its near-term existence, financially and politically, as well as its ability to project power across the world. The lone hegemon has stumbled and now falls face forward of its own accord.

Yet the West still seeks to challenge rising powers China and Russia, who have been forced into each other’s arms by the West itself. And this newly minted pair, with a combined military capability to literally destroy the West, is rising quickly.

How has the West precipitated its own inevitable checkmate?

Crimea

“Our western partners created the “Kosovo precedent’”with their own hands. In a situation absolutely the same as the one in Crimea they recognized Kosovo’s secession from Serbia legitimate while arguing that no permission from a country’s central authority for a unilateral declaration of independence is necessary….And the UN International Court of Justice agreed with those arguments. That’s what they said; that’s what they trumpeted all over the world and coerced everyone to accept — and now they are complaining about Crimea. Why is that?”

— Vladimir Putin

In the context of the West/NATO’s End Game, as mentioned above, Crimea was, no doubt, a major prize sought by the West in order to deprive Russia of its only warm water port in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet would have been banished from a port it had held for over two centuries, which would have proved a key strategic blow to Russia and a proverbial checkmate.

However, several failed moves made by Western pawns in Ukraine telegraphed the West/NATO’s forthcoming moves:

•A violent coup d’tat that displaced the democratically elected government and installed unelected leaders

•Washington’s newly installed government in Kiev featured ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis (consider historical Nazi atrocities against the Soviet Union) in key ministry posts

•The first act of the newly appointed government was to override the country’s constitution

•The newly appointed government then banned Russian as an official language in the Ukraine

•Former Ukrainian Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko’s leaked phone call hits the internet: “It’s about time we grab our guns and go kill those damn Russians together with their leader.” And when asked what to do with the 8 million Russians currently living in the Ukraine, Madame Tymoshenko had this to say, “They must be killed with nuclear weapons.”