Unless you are over the age of 45 you likely do not have living memory of the Kremlin “Watching” that accompanied major Soviet holidays. The term “Kremlin Watching” refers to the practice of examining photos like the one above to assess political status in the Soviet Government by identifying the men who occupied the most prominent positions on the viewing stand above Lenin’s tomb. In this photo from 1965 you can see (from left to right) Anastas Mikoyan, Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky, Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin commemorating the 20th anniversary of victory over the Nazis. CIA analysts were keen to look at these line ups in trying to assess who was up and who was on their way out in wielding political power. Brezhnev and Kosygin held the reins of power. Those were the good old days.
The CIA warned Ukraine not to destroy Nord Stream months before an attack on the gas pipelines, after receiving a tip from Dutch military intelligence, according to media reports.
The Netherlands’ military intelligence agency, MIVD, received information about an “imminent attack” on Nord Stream from an unnamed source in Ukraine in June, three months before a series of underwater explosions hit the pipes last September, a joint investigation by Dutch and German news outlets published Tuesday shows.
According to the plan received by MIVD, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, was in charge of the operation against Nord Stream, which involved a small team of divers traveling on a sailing boat and was supposed to take place mid-June 2022.
Politico is not the only one spreading this fable; other more prominent outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times and Reuters, also piled on Zaluzhny. The media is eager to carry the CIA’s water and shift blame for the attack from the U.S., which according to Sy Hersh’s excellent reporting, hatched and carried out the sabotage.
So why is Zaluzhny being made the scapegoat? I can think of several reasons. For starters Zaluzhny is perceived as the guy to blame for the unfolding disastrous Ukrainian counter offensive. The BBC did a slick job this week of sticking the shiv into Zaluzhny’s back by crediting him as the mastermind of the Ukrainian offensive:
Ukraine’s long-awaited attempt to take back the territories in the east and south of the country, occupied by Russia for the past 18 months, is now in full swing.
A key figure in planning and executing this operation is Gen Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s 49-year-old commander-in-chief. Little known until recently, his popularity now rivals that of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zaluzhny already was under a cloud with rumors circulating over the past month that he suffered serious wounds from a Russian artillery barrage and is no longer capable of exercising command. If someone has to be punished ordering the destruction of Nordstream it is best to saddle the General who is no longer relevant militarily and is physically unable defend himself with the onus for this act of economic terrorism. Zaluzhny, fair or not, has the misfortune of being in the wrong place and the wrong time.
Sort of reminds me of the movie, Throw Momma from the Train. Instead of Danny DeVito’s character plotting to terminate his horror of a mother, played by Anne Ramsey, we have Vladimir Zelensky — with the backing of Washington, D.C. — putting the crosshairs on Zaluzhny.
If Zaluzhny is still intact, both mentally and physically, then I am pretty confident he can read the tea leaves and realizes he has a big, fat target painted on his back and will try to figure out a strategy to reassert his authority or salvage his reputation. In any event, the last thing an army in the midst of offensive operations needs is the distraction of its leader being savaged by Western media as the guy responsible for destroying Nordstream. Zaluzhny is strangely silent in the face of this outrageous allegation. Why is that?
Zaluzhny’s silent for one of three reasons:
1. He’s dead
2. He’s too badly injured to ever be able to return to service
Or
3. As the only popular Ukrainian general, and, moreover, one who’s at least professionally competent, He’s become too much of a threat to Elensky and the latter’s NATO owners’ plans for Ukranazistan, which is why he’s been dismissed and imprisoned before he can launch a coup.
The rest of the Ukranazi generals are just glorified office boys, including the Russian born and raised Syrsky. Elensky has most likely nothing to fear from any of them.
General Valery Zaluzhny
Wasn’t he the guy who said he would be able to conduct the Ukrainian counter offensive:
IF he received +600 Tanks, Thousands of armored vehicles, F-16s and a new air defense from NATO?
Essentially a whole new army.
I remember sane military analytics found that his statement to be a clear admission that the Ukrainian Army had ceased to exist.
After that statement Zaluzhny got bombed and is now being resurrected like Osama Bin Laden.
Instead of being a former ally he is now turned into a villain, and we may in the coming year’s se photos of him, where he gets younger and younger for each picture, while being blamed for the 9-11-2023 defeat of the Ukrainian Army, The bombing of North stream, The attack on the Kakhovka Dam and the crucifixion of Jesus.
He may finally end his life by being “killed” by the resurrected Navy Seal Team 6, and be buried in the Baltic Sea, according to Muslim Tradition.
Hey. Stick with what has worked so well in the past I suppose. You can rely on the corporate media not to ask and inconvenient questions.
I swear, US propaganda is as bewildering and entertaining as the very best of Monty Python skits.
Watch a telling tale of how Lancets are decimating Ukrainian assets (PS: no Ukrainians were injured in the making of this decimation) and then at the very end, the narrator ends his tale with “See, my friends and fellow defenders of liberty, justice and the American way. See with their Lancets, how Russia shows all the earmarks of a fascist state. That, my friends is why we must fight with our fellow Ukrainians in defending democracy to the very last of everything we have.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yu3ty5Nu5QJb/
To me, a fascist state is clearly one that spends ten years lobbying shells, mortars, airstrikes and assassinations at civilians and their infrastructure in the Donbass for having dared to say no to a violent overthrow of their government and their legitimate, democratic choice. But that’s just me. What do I know?
It is all good. Lester Holt, David Muir report the Ukrainians are holding their
own and making advances against brutal Russians.
I laugh but it feels disrespectful
to the people really screwed by the west, the citizens of Ukraine.
Of course, Biden and EU/NATO leaders could care less about their own citizens.
I detect an inclination of your part to subscribe to crazy conspiracy theories with regard to Osama bin Laden not being the mastermind of 9/11 (?!)and I wonder if this is not due to a bigotry you may even be unaware you harbor in your subconscious. Perhaps you don’t think Arabs are capable of amazing planning and technologic sophistication. Perhaps you cannot accept that Osama could re-invent himself, rejuvenate, gain some weight, just by rediscovering his true identity. Western men can become women and vice versa but an Arab can’t even become younger?
No, he just understands how the government loves to pull off false flags so they harvest a few more trillion dollars from the plebes.
He also knows how that neocons think. They got caught in Ukraine pulling off a regime change using a false flag.
The deep state doesn’t care how many of us tax cattle get killed as long as their aims are accomplished.
The simple method. ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS assume the government is lying and you will correct pretty much every time.
To go with the Bush/Cheney scenario one must accept that for 9/11 was the only time the government told the pure white truth. The exception that proves the rule? Possibly, but until there is an actual investigation taking Washington’s story at face value is a triumph of hope over experience.
No kidding.
My comment was addressed to A. Dane, in case the indentation does not make it clear.
Dear Ariadna
I’m absolutely confident that Osama Bin Laden was not the mastermind of 9/11.
I believe Dick Cheney was.
I have no bigotry against the Arab population, but Arab unity and amazing military planning haven’t been their best quality since Commander Saladin.
Reality is that Osama had a kidney problem while living in Afghanistan.
He was treated on a US military field Hospital during his last years of his life.
He was already dead and buried when the ”Seal Team 6 raided his camp”.
Unfortunately a week later the Seal team 6 crashed in a helicopter and all aboard were killed, so we can no longer ask them if they actually killed Osama bin laden or not.
Besides I have never heard that Muslims has the traditions of being buried at sea.
Maybe you can cast some light on that tradition.
People usually changes appearance by the age and especially when they are sick.
Their hair turns gray, and they lose weight. But somehow the pictures uploaded by the CIA of Osama Bin Laden presented a Younger Bin Laden for each passing press release, and long after he actually died.
But you tell me:
Does Arabs become younger looking by the age?
And don’t Arabs understand sarcasm?
If Zaluzhny is DEAD, or mentally incapacitated, then what we have here is the “Stolen Chicken Scene” from Schindler’s List:
Schindlers List – Stolen Chicken Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXkO3JkM8bk
Where a bright kid blames someone Amon Goeth already shot to stop the killing.
Isn’t this where all investigations into US corruption coincidentally lead? To the corpse of a dead man.
As for the title of the article, I think the USA & USSR have reversed, where the world now needs “Washington-ologists” to understand who runs the West.
“…the world now needs “Washington-ologists” to understand who runs the West.”
Because the USA are the (neo) Marxists now, and the new comintern is in Washington DC with the powers-that-be-hidden among the huge, bloated deep-state. the USA is promoting a globalist, collectivist, post-modern – and absurd ideology. the USA expands its empire by subterfuge and military intervention, where small nations of the world are the battleground. Control and manipulation of (social) media and propaganda are key
The logical result is that that world will create a new “containment policy” – against the USA
Does it all sound familiar?
The US’s Gerontocracy is actually much older than the old CCCP’s old Gerontocracy.
What’s their secret?
Blood Transfusions from youngsters (babies)
“Zaluzhny is strangely silent in the face of this outrageous allegation. Why is that?”
Read somewhere that Zaluzhny is a vegetable, however, even a dead vegetable is good for a soup.
Vegetables can be very useful to the powers that be. Look at Pedo Joe, the “most popular and effective” president in recent history according to MSNBC.
Interesting conjecture. If true, this kind of vicious infighting may presage the collapse of the regime in Kiev. Btw, that’s Alexei Kosygin, not Gromyko.
Thanks. Corrected.
Ya beat me to it, TK. I personally knew Andrei Gromyko when I was deputed to the CIA station in Moscow. Used to go drinking with him. Strangely, he preferred rum to vodka. So, I composed a little blues tune about my experience called
“Sipping Ron Rico With Andrei Gromyko”
Valery Zaluzhny is Ukraine’ s Osama Bin Laden (the CIA agent).
Dead men can’t talk
Dead men can’t talk but they can vote in the US elections!
At least he’ll have the comfort of hearing their cries of pain as they strike him.
with a cry of “anti-termite”, “anti-termite”
I see what you did there… 😉
The real question is which Z gets suicided first?
Yes, the BBC piece is quite nasty, building up the absent friend before pinning the Guilty Man bib on him.
Maybe my eyesight, but Molotov looks remarkably like Mikoyan in the photo.
Thanks again for your work.
Don’t know why Zaluzhny just doesn’t start complaining about spinal pains and is in desperate need of medical treatment abroad.
Won’t work. He isn’t Angela Merkel’s type. Not Ursula von der Leyen’s type, either.
It would be different if it were Zelensky.
Yeah, he’s just such a momma-seeking cuddly bun. Any female would be proud to nurture his venal character.
Just for the sake of being tedious. This is Mikoyan and Malinovsky on the left, not Molotov and Zhukov.
Right, that’s not Zhukov. I couldn’t identify who it was but I knew it wasn’t Zhukov.
Once Gorbachev sidelined Gromyko he could rush into the rash decisions that would make this war inevitable
“Once Gorbachev sidelined Gromyko ”
Useful that the myth of “Great man of history and his sole agency continues to exist.” through various dissertations on the need to piss.
Mr. Gromyko “sidelined” Mr. Gorbachov since he didn’t suffer from bladder problems, although like you Mr. Gorbachov believed that he sidelined Mr. Gromyko, as Mr. Andropov had outlined to a member of another faction of the Politburo ,when he pretended that the schmoozer from Krasnodarsky oblast was his “protegy” who wouldn’t cause friction since he had no blat except with Raisa Maksimovna when he required brain power, thereby preparing the post Mr. Chernenko/Konstantin “miracle”, and the continuing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by the Russian Federation.
That’s definitely not Zhukov but Malinovsky, who was minister of defence at the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodion_Malinovsky
“That’s definitely not Zhukov”
Since he died in 1974 and from his return from “exile” onwards, on invitation of friends he attended through the back door (Moskva river end) when visiting the Kremlin – not drawing attention to himself by standing atop of the Mausoleum even although the Kremlinologists were not present as usual.
Hilariously Wikipedia claims Malinovsky was born (in 1898), in “Odesa” (sic), Ukraine.
It must have been a parallel universe.
Wikipedia’s Gov’t. PR Dept uses geographic regressivism and progressivism as it suits itself.
My favorite’s always been how they manage to incorporate so many of the extraconstitutional geographical edicts reallocating borders by the dictators of the evil soviet empire into the rules-based international order.
Good point of view.
For historical accuracy, first two persons in the picture are Anastas Mikoyan(politician and brother of Artyom Mikoyan, famous MiG fighters designer) and Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky, minister of defense at that time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastas_Mikoyan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodion_Malinovsky
Corrected. Thanks.
I think Gen Zaluzhny predicament (regardless of his condition) can be explained by the following.
Most watched news on BBC’s website as of right now.
1 Mammatus clouds filmed over Texas
2 Speeding police officer pulled over by another cop
3 Rare footage of ‘ferocious’ platypus fight in wild
4 Moment woman found alive in coffin is taken to hospital
5 Explorers excited at sight of cute snailfish
Kiev is out of the picture.
Watch RT, BBC, CNN, DW, Fox etc, you will not get any real news but if you are careful you may get a gimps of intent, or implied intent.
Who stands on the balcony in the US and Russia will also not make much difference. It is the foreign policy change we need to look for, not the front man.
Thanks, RT is competing with their western partners, for leading position of anti-Human propaganda, mouthpiece.
That platypus fight sounds exciting.
Hallo Larry,
if I am not mistaken, the picture does not show Marshal Shukov, but Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky. He also wears 2 orders “Hero of the Soviet Union” – Shukov was awarded with it four times.
Small correction for the people on the first picture. Left to right : Anastas Mikoyan, Rodion Malinovskiy, Leonid Brezhnev, Aleksei Kosygin.
The chaps in the photo are, from left to right: Anastas Mikoyan, Rodion Malinovsky, 4 time Hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin.
Thomas Schulze: “Leonid Brezhnev, Four-time Hero of the Soviet Union”
What beautiful times they were 🙂 first of all, we were young and we laughed at the fact that Leonid Brezhnev practically received all the awards that could be received in the Soviet Union ! Except for two, ” Hero Soviet City ” and ” Hero Soviet Mother ” ! 🙂 But maybe if he had a little more time…
“Brezhnev practically received all the awards that could be received in the Soviet Union”
That was part of why after his exile Mr. Zhukov needed to use the back entrance of.
the Kremlin to visit friends.
Mr. Zhukov mellowed towards his demise and saw the joke but not Mr. Brezhnev.
Bad identification by CIA Larry.
Correction from KGB:
“In this photo from 1965 you can see (from left to right) Chairman of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet Anastas Mikoyan, Minister of Defense Rodion Malinovski, Leonid Brezhnev and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Aleksey Kosigin.”
Three out of four are wrong.
Oh my. I’m human. I corrected the mistake.
It seems these correcting types are missing the main point of the article. Thanks for another great one Larry.
Thank you Larry.
It’s very nice to have communication between humans whose days.
I hope Russia/Belarus and USA/Ukraine will do it soon…
Don’t both sides of the dialogue need to be human though?
Don’t feel bad Larry, you were on the South American desk I thought. Only one I knew was Leonid Brezhnev – those eyebrows give him away & knew of Kosigin.
Thanx for the site & your interviews with the Judge.
Now that the US has achieved its economic goals in the Ukraine, creating customers for life for its substandard but craftily advertised military ware out of the near-entirety of the European continent’s zombie governments, it has marked down the beleaguered country’s value to zero and will treat it as such: no longer a going concern. All’s left is to throw the remaining Ukrainians into the maelstrom of death in the hopes of landing a few punches on the body and spirit of the Russian Federation, and then get to work creating an entirely new class of future sacrificial victims from the populations of the Baltic states, Moldova, Poland, and Romania. The states of Central and Western Europe will follow in time, steadily exterminated over years and decades. Ever the fair-weather friend, the US smiles as it plunges the knife in ever deeper.
I am not sure, Douglas, perhaps they EU gov’ts are more in the vampire slaves categories.
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living.
The EU shows too much enthusiasm and initiative to please the head vampire, and certainly the parasitic relationship with the “life essence” (of the EU citizens) is appropriate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire
even wikipedia has its use!
Otherwise, great comment except that I would add the US is also are working hard to create customers for life (!) for substandard medical care (at great expense, using components sourced from India sources from China). One reason to remain healthy is to NOT have to interact with the US medical-insurance industrial complex.
I take Mr. Hersh’s opinion with skepticism. I have the feeling that he is “building” a case: to protect the British, the Norwegians, the Poles, all of them… or others?
And at his age, why exactly would he do that? Hersh spent his professional career pulling the veil of frauds and suddenly he changes his MO in his eighth decade of life? How likely is that?
Don’t overthink it. Even if those vassals were involved, it was only at the direction of the Americans. Biden and Nuland both said we (America) could stop the pipeline. We did. Americans ships were right at that location in June 2022. The pipeline is a huge steel and concrete device. It took a shit ton of explosives to destroy it. There’s no way that operation was managed from a yacht. Why twist yourself in knots trying to come up with an alternative explanation when Hersh’s explanation makes the most sense?
Hi Alonso and Sentient. I think of onion layers of cover stories. “Russia did it” is the outer layer and the most absurd for strategic reasons (to use the stick against the NATO/EU, all they have to do is turn off the pumps, to use the carrot, they only have to offer to turn the pumps back on). The onion layer below that is that “Ukraine did it”, absurd for technical reasons (how do you fit diving equipment on a yacht?). The onion layer of deception below that is that some General feeds a story to Hersh that is almost true but leaves out the role of the Brits. As I recall from pro-Russian telegram channels, Liz Truss had spyware on her phone, called Blinken to report “it is done”, Wallace visited Milley in person, etc. I think that Biden’s puppet masters ordered it, Biden assented and announced it before hand, but that the Brits actually carried it out.
Indeed. There’s a conspiracy behind every bush and nothing is ever what it seems.
Have a good stiff drink. You deserve it.
There was a great Russian troll job under Obama where they showed some vintage CCCP toy military gear for free recon watching.
The Heavenly Jerusalem project is a go for 2025 in the southern regions of Ukraine, just ask billionaire Igor Berkut.
Spending other people’s money to build new homelands and use the armies of other nations to clear out the natives is kind of clever.
Seymour Hersh has noted that the media, which of course has a very pro Biden bias, has been providing political cover for Biden.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hersh-nord-stream-cover-up
I’d say that the MSM is still desperate to try to get Biden reelected. That could prove a bigger challenge with time, especially in the event of a worsening economic situation and if Russia does make big progress in the second half of 2023 and in 2024.
As for the German people, they have been screwed over.
https://mronline.org/2023/06/08/u-s-prefers-frozen-germany-over-one-not-aiding-ukraine-seymour-hersh/
Zaluzhny makes for an easy target to save Biden under such a situation, and perhaps from the US experiencing blowback. I think that there will be inevitable blowback against the US by the German people as the full extent of the damage to their economy, manufacturing industry, and living standards becomes apparent. It’s only going to buy some time in the short term however.
In the long run, blowback is inevitable and the quality of the relationship between the US and Germany will depend on how the German people react. One logical reaction could be that the Germans conclude that the Russians and Chinese are a better long term set of allies than the US.
If the Germans put their worry beads back in the drawer, they might conclude just that.
I mean really, rallying for the likes of a gang of ethnic-cleansing, fascist loving banderite thugs? Is there some nazi-era nostalgia bubbling up in their dormant psyches?
All the Ukies had to do, to refute those “rumors”, was to bring that idiot in front of a camera, but they didn’t. Since all the Ukies do is lying, the rumors must be true.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck …
What is it about that counter-offensive? Has it started yet or not? Putting the blame on that corpse is telling me, that it has started and didn’t work. In my opinion, this was already the main blow but it didn’t open any breakthrough. Most of those Ukie forces were destroyed before they reached the first line of defense. They put all their hopes into that offensive and since it showed to be a total disaster Nato has to think very hard what to do next. It seems they will postpone everything until they will have more weapons and planes. Otherwise they will loose all what they have now. So far there was no plan B in my opinion. Nato was sure they will succeed this time. Looking for a scapegoat is a sign, they will be forced to change something or even go back and postpone the Ukie victory.
“Nato was sure they will succeed this time. ”
Evaluation is not possible when purposes are “determined” by speculations.
“It is clear that the US is not interested in agreements with Russia.”
That is deemed necessary to attain their strategic purpose, as simultaneously does “pretending” to be interested in agreements with Russia is hoped to facilitate tactics in specific contexts to “regroup” in order to subsequently attain their strategic purpose.
The strategic purpose of “The United States of America” is to sustain coercive relations within acceptable tolerances, and hence are largely informed by and resort to practices based on precedent as is the case in “A History of Ceasefires & Peace in Ukraine” in the hope that others do not pose the question : “Why is it necessary for them to rely on precedents to such a degree of replication to design and attempt to implement tactics, since change is a constant ?”
The western backers are in panic-mode. They don’t know what to do next that could turn that conflict in their favour. So they will provide more weapons and money, because they have to do something anyway. More weapons and money will only prolonge everything, but not change the outcome.
I believe the US has no problem to sacrifice Europe at this time. Therefore escalation is the name of the game. Only if they will see a direct theat to themselves, they will change course. What they miss, is thst the whole world has changed their views about them already. No one really fears the US. That is in fact their biggest problem right now. The foundation of their bullying of other nations into submission to their own will, without any fear of repercussions for themselves has been broken. That, in fact, will easily make the US very vulnerable to their competitors on every level, which in turn will make everything much harder to achieve like their current way of life. More and more pain coming that way.
I too suspect that what we’ve seen for almost two weeks now is “the big offensive.” The 47th Mechanized Brigade is an elite Nazi unit in the Ukrainian AF, and it was mauled during the fighting last week. What regime, even a bad one like Kiev’s, throws its best soldiers into a feint? So, no, I think this charge was the real McCoy. Beyond that, I also agree that Ukraine is the largest concentration of seasoned liars outside Hell.
The possibility of changing statements about that so much hyped counter-offensive was already forseen and plausible. Zelensky himself proclaimed that the offensive has started. Now they are changing that narrative, because their attempt was stopped almost immediately by highly motivated Russian forces, despite all those wunderwaffen that (surprise) didn’t prove to be.
We will see what will come next, but it is not looking good for the west. That may be a very good sign for Zelensky to think hard about negotiations, before Russia won’t be needing any negotiations anymore. From my understanding a big buffezone has to be created now, thanks to western long range missiles supplied to the Z-regime. Big moth Zelensky is slowly running out of time and options. Therefore I expect more selfish, insane and erratic decisions coming from him in the future.
” . . . . . . if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . . then according to Facebooks ‘factcheckers’ . . . . it must be a squirrel !!” Sorry, couldn’t help myself. Not original – saw it on a meme on snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com
Cheers
I’m anxiously awaiting the day, they will tell me that the sky is in fact red and not blue, because they say it so. Following what has been going on the western sphere of influence in recent years, this is not unthinkable anymore.
My mother warned me about bring a ukie home for dinner. I thought she was just joking around. Now I know she was dead serious.
Zaluzhny is either dead, badly wounded or under house arrest, hence vulnerable and makes a perfect scapegoat. I wonder who’d be saddled with Kakhovka. I heard an interesting theory today, that all dams and major bridges in the USSR were mined in the processes of their construction at the foundation, given the WWII experience, re.: critical situations. I also recall that as a university students, were were once sent on a ” subbotnik” as free labor on a weekend to help with a clean up of a newly built subway station in a major city in Ukraine, where the subway station are very deep and are designed as the bomb shelters. I recall seeing the underground rooms the rows of metal cots and shelves full of imperishables- it was 1981. So who knows… maybe there is some truth in the pre-mined dams and bridges…
I doubt explosives could still be reliably efficient after almost 70 years. Even more so the fuses.
Explosives can not be just left to sit in a dam for decades. They probably had some built in demolition facilitating features, like suitable places to put explosives in case it’s needed.
Well, if the Western media is tagging Zaluzhny then we know for certain he had nothing to do with it.
General Zaluzhny is one of the most interesting war stories. First, he was celebrated as a hero of the resistance against the Russians, and then one could read between the lines that he has reservations about Zelensky’s suicidal policy. Then the Russian telegram channels reported that Zaluzhny was in favor of withdrawing from Bakhmut, while Zelensky found the commander of the ground army Sirsky to continue the fight and bring fresh meat to the machine of Bakhmut. Before the Russians took Bakhmut, Zaluzhny disappeared from public view, which was explained as a) being killed or wounded in Russian shelling, b) being removed for disobedience. When the long-announced counter-offensive began, a picture was released, similar to the picture from Hitler’s wolf’s den, of Zelensky and four senior military officers, including Sirsky, discussing strategy. Zaluzhny is nowhere to be found. Now that the offensive is coughing, suddenly the “ghost” of Zaluzhny returns to the airwaves (he is still not physically present), as the “brain of the offensive”, he is even added to be responsible for the destruction of the North Stream. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Nah. I’ve seen porn movies with more interesting stories. I’d say that Hollywood writers strike really took it’s toll on Zaluzhny reality show.
It’s been rotten for a long long time.
The reason Zaluzhny isn’t defending himself is because he can’t talk, even walk and precisely it’s because of his terrible physical condition that the MSM selected him to be the best candidate for NS destruction. We must expect Ukraine announce Zaluzhny’s dead so this case is over, the one who blewup NS is no longer alive.
The blame for Nordstream definitely lies with a guy who can’t walk or talk. And they’re still going to run him for re-election in 2024.
I think the answer to the Zaluzhny saga is very simple. I think he just told momma’s boy that there’s no way momma’s going to pull Ukraine out of the fire because momma’s a pyromaniac.
Say bye bye to Zaluzhny.
“KREMLIN WATCHING”
It was always interesting, but repetitive, to read the products of watching by “pundits” particularly on parade held on Red Square in front of the Kremlin in Moscow every 7th of November.
“Pundits/Analysts” mostly assumed that an indication of who was in favour could be estimated by the time they spent atop the Lenin mausoleum.
On the 7th of November Moscow tends to be cold, the prevailing wind over Red Square traversing from St. Basil’s Cathedral towards the Lenin Museum, the Moskva Hotel then up Gorksy Street.
With generally one exception those atop the Lenin Mausoleum tended to be men of a certain generation whose bladders were not as they used to be.
There was no toilet atop the Lenin Mausoleum but the context required men of a certain generation whose bladders were not as they used to be to regularly empty their bladders.
Consequently they needed to remove themselves from atop the Lenin Mausoleum, leading some “Pundits/Analysts” to interpret this to indicate changes in the relationships of those temporarily missing from atop the Lenin Mausoleum.
The “Pundits/Analysts” productions were known to some as – Dissertations on the need to piss”.
Incredible…a whole pseudoscience has been delineated based on that watching…
It sounds like the current “science” related to “Covid-19”, which oblies consensus and lack of discussion/dissent, which wholy contradicts science in any of its essence and purposes…
I fail to understand why the Russian Federation also fell for this….
Anyway, to rectify is wise, and they made a 180º turn… to the Soviet education system….but, why is it that the same people of “science”, especially those rleated to medical science, remain in their posts…
That is a question that mortifies me, the same way Prighozin is being mortified by other questions…
Is it that the means of governance, through the digital concentration camp, proposed by the WEF, were deemed useful by the current managing team at the Kremlin for to managing the masses on the verge of tectonic changes ( political, social, economic and systemic…) to come ?
Highly likely, why many abstained from migrating from the obvious harsh fascist dictatorship “The Garden” to “The Jungle”….eventhough adventurers themselves….
Why would anyone go from Guatemala to Guatepeor?
” why is it that the same people of “science”, especially those rleated to medical science, remain in their posts…”
The Russian Federation is not “The United States of America” as the following saying illustrates.
When something unexpected happens “Americans”(cultural Americans including but not limited to the Bolsheviks) look for someone to blame/punish, whilst Russians try to build teams to co-operatively explore the unexpected learning opportunity.
Regarding blaming, just read some news coming from broadcasts by the former Trump administration people on some coming flase flag, in the next 48 hours, to be blamed on you related to the European banking system….Beware…This people do not stop at damage and spending, especially if it is others spending….
This was rehearsed two years ago in summer…cyberpoligon…..like they rehearsed the “pandemic”….
If I do not recall badly, both Mishustin and Greff were there…..
Wondering whether Mr. Medvedev´s recent statements just gave them the idea, or it was planned long ago for the proper time…
Some analysts were warning about this, and even central bankers, some months ago, thus, I have cash….
“On the 7th of November Moscow tends to be cold, the prevailing wind over Red Square traversing from St. Basil’s Cathedral towards the Lenin Museum, the Moskva Hotel then up Gorksy Street”.
Is it comparable to the wind blowing from the Neva in winter?
I recall you mentioning that Peter The Great probably moved the Court there to get rid of the boyars….
Correction: should read Gorky Street not Gorsky Street which in Soviet times was the location of the main telegraph/censor centre through which some “Pundits/Analysts” lodged their “copy” for transmission to their audiences which included the censors who broadcast the dissertations on the need to piss to other interested parties.
“Is it comparable to the wind blowing from the Neva in winter?”
No, St. Petersburg is and was always damp from normally November until March hence St. Petersburg was a greater challenge to continued well-being.
Some locals say that is “partly” why Peter the Great built there to get rid of the boyars left after the efforts of Ivan the Fourth, who were required to keep a house in St. Petersburg, although some non-locals continue to make libellous statements that it was built to be a “Window on the West.”
According to media reports?
Your media are not worth toilet paper.
CIA warned Ukraine?
About a criminal organization like the CIA one can only speak with the greatest disgust, and never believe a word of such worst criminals (except the whistleblowers among them).
About the idiot and idiocy, enough for today.
“Your media are not worth toilet paper.”
You are mistaken.
When toilet paper was in deficit Pravda proved very useful except for the adhesion of ink on nether regions, although Izvestia had other uses as a paper of record that many of the nomenklatura collected.
Your post reminds me of a funny story I learned four decades ago from a lady in Tours, France, when I lived there. During WW2, she lived near the dividing line between Vichy territory and German occupied France, and frequently had to cross between one and the other by train. On one trip, she used the WC and “sanitized” the seat by covering it with a newspaper at hand. When she later arrived at the control checkpoint between zones, for some reason passengers were subjected to a police strip search. She was detained several hours while the Gestapo deciphered the ‘message’ imprinted on her derriere!
” For starters Zaluzhny is perceived as the guy to blame for the unfolding disastrous Ukrainian counter offensive. ”
No – hoped to be perceived because it is understood by some that he is perceived as the guy not to blame and hence of “potential” even if no longer living – The Mr. Guevara gambit facilitating the “Condor Years” redux where opponents were rendered their “own worst enemies” facilitating the activities of “the good guys in the white hats/Falcons at your Ford dealership.”
Some are hearing different tunes and hence performing different dances/datastreams, not necessarily dissertations on the need to piss, although encouraged by such for different audiences not restricted to Mr. Metheny’s offramp.
It is very amusing to tease Johnson about his mis-identification of Soviet figures!
The mighty, all-knowing CIA makes some relevant mistakes here and there!!
(Hopefully he takes it amusingly also)
german media are telling something that a Himars would have hit a big russian military unit,
causing serious damage.
Do you have any information about this ?
Bert Huber :
” German media claims ” 🙂
We are talking about the German media, about which Udo Ulfkotte claimed that sensitive press articles are produced in such a way that a secret service officer sits next to the journalist and tells the journalist with a pen what to write ? 🙂
It did, on first of January. After that Russians stopped grouping units in areas close to frontline.
I think it is unfair for Larry to describe Mrs. Lift as a “horror”. She is nothing but a delightful older lady trying to be the best mother she can be to her ungrateful son Owen. She reminds me of Nucky Thompson’s father, the delightful and kindly old Irish gentleman, Mr. Thompson senior who was never appreciated by his worthless son.
I speak the CIA fluently now and I can translate : The CIA planed everything , did everything and don’t tell a mere word about anything to anyone in Kokholistan. They had to pay/threaten the Dutch for them to shut the fuck up when they discover inadvertently the plot.
For the Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Counter Offensive from hell :
What the 404 high command did was sending some of their “old” troops to take at least a few settlements the NATO tourists in Benz were unable to approach. The rest : all that failed, has a too obvious NATO signature on it.
It’s humorous to watch this story about Ukraine blowing up Nordstream unfold. First they put it out there. Then they add layers of substories to make it seem more substantial and believable. I suspect most people are lapping it up. It’s most important for the German population to believe!
“Zaluzhny, fair or not, has the misfortune of being in the wrong place and the wrong time.”
Those that had the misfortune of being in the wrong place and the wrong time were civillians killed and maimed by the army of this Bandera-loving meat-grinding general, not to mention those that were forcefully conscripted and sent to their death. A fair thing for him would be a war crime trial in front of a Russian court.
The Economist too has been sticking it to Zaluzhny. Only a few months ago they had an exclusive interview and were praising him to the skies.
Think Gromyko, took part in the Yalta summit, February
1945, even FDR, his last.
A summit Putin will repeat,
for a new European order,
Yalta was’nt a surrender, but
for to confirm the military fronts of the then Allied’s occupation areas.
The foregn minister, Gromyko they said had only one expres-sion, as the mouth filled of small pebbles, said most Njet, so the americans called him.
” Grim Grom” , but served during very important times, maybe Lavrov will be the new
Gromyko, institutions.
But when the political per-sons change so fast, as today, as in the EU, everywhere, people begin to long for the monarchy, look at Charles III, but that family is as screwed, or more than the politicians, so what to do? They got us….
Updated CIA report has the S.S. Minnow in the location just before the explosion. It’s now reported that the professor was the brain’s behind the endeavor while Gilligan and the skipper ( being old salty dogs) were the diver’s who placed the explosive charge’s. The Howell’s supervised the operation while Ginger and Mary Ann took turns driving the boat.
Ensuciar un poco mas a los ucronazis no cuesta nada, de esa forma los politicos occidentales, al menos en sus propios medios aparecen como relevantes candidatos para un Nobel de la Paz.
And on a positive note? The loons at NATO have not done anything thru the first week of the military exercises. The complete and abysmal failure of the Ukrainian offensive may have stayed their hand. This is very positive news.
While these people are fools, they are not “fools”. They were really hoping the Ukrainians were going to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Which would have been their signal to double down. Now that this scenario is dust in the wind? I think it is time to start taking the tent down.
Whether it is Zaluzny, or the comic villain Budanov, or maybe Zelensky himself? We will need to find a patsy to blame our ineptitude upon. As we slink away and plan for our next debacle in Taiwan. Which will probably be in 2025 0r 2026. First priority is to re-elect Biden. Get thru the first Mid-term, and then the real war.
So actually, my personal threat radar is indicating a safer time. Yes, we will send F16’s. Which will be shot down. Or more likely hid, hoarded, and occasionally launch a Storm Shadow to kill civilians in the Donbas. While the Russians inexorably grind forward.
Winter is key. Putin is not signing the new grain deal evidently. The European economies continue to weaken. Yes, they have procured enough energy. At ruinous cost levels. And their armories continue to empty. And the US recession and a crash landing in real estate is baked in the financial cake. Even the zombie like American voters may halt their shambling when they are out of work, and watch more Billions flow to Ukraine.
And I think the Poles and the yapping Balts may finally be noticing something. How the good ole Americans will throw you in the fire, and then just walk away.
I am feeling rather positive. On a human race surviving note anyway.
Malinovskij, was the Marshal who
captured Budapest, 1945, Pestside with Tolbuchin, Buda-side. Then
the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, rescuing Jews, made
a walk-in to the Red army, for his rescue activities, and protection January, 1945, but then disapp-eared, for ever.
But for what reason, was he too
close to the US. legation in Stockholm,? his principal in fact and the Jewish Joint, and Roosevelt’s World Refugee Board, but the U. S diplomat, in charge, Iver Olsen was even agent for the OSS. The case is not close.
My guess is that Zaluzhny has been fired for opposing the last ditch defense of Bakmut and on insisting there can’t be a counter-offensive unless Ukraine gets air cover and all the equipment he demanded. He is under house arrest and has been replaced with someone who is onboard with the program.
Western intelligence is now much more refined. And ridiculous. Just send someone to write that Putin has 17 cancers, that the Russian economy is on its last legs and that the Russian army is obsolete and should have run out of missiles 14 months ago.
Audience still buys it.
This is too obvious, the man has to be dead. Pin this on the dead guy for a couple of reasons:
1. Dead guys don’t fight back
2. You don’t have the clean-up problem of what to do with him
3. No fear of a counter narrative – see #1
They really do think the public is stupid!
“Dead guys don’t fight back
2. You don’t have the clean-up problem of what to do with him
3. No fear of a counter narrative – see #1”
Like Mr. Stalin before you – you are wrong – even Mr. Bulgakov observed that manuscripts don’t burn if they are kept in a safe place, and that it is not only “winners” who make/write history.
The OnionStein
NOVEMBER 29, 1947
JERUSALEM — Long-suppressed Israeli war documents show USS Liberty was actually attacked in 1967 on orders from Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, our Odessa correspondent recently learned.
Although Zaluzhnyi was not born until 1973, the documents claim that is of no matter, since Post Modernism makes all this possible. Documents appear to claim Zionism follows Post Modern “principals” “as a matter of ‘principal’.”
The White House, in response to a request from OnionStein for comment, referred the matter to Jacobus Sullivanstein.
Sullivanstein declined comment except to say RussiaGate remains real, and integral to the White House “national security” “strategy” to demonize Russia, and all Russians, and hopefully create social conditions to kill as many of them as possible, without remorse, the Post Modern National Security Advisor appeared to intimate.
This is a developing story; more information will be provided as it become available. . . .
-30-
Here is a little reminder of what NATO/Ukrainians/Nazis wanted to do in Donetsk and Lugansk. The same thing they got away with in Krajina and Slavonija. They used the same script, but it turned that Putin knew what was coming, because he read it too.
https://t.me/fiorellastele/4847
“Zaluzhny is strangely silent in the face of this outrageous allegation. Why is that?”
Because he is taking one for the team. If he redirects suspicion back to the U.S. then it threatens Ukraine’s biggest sponsor. Maybe he cares more about Ukraine than himself.
The “Kremlin” in Washington. In the photograph you can see Biden, Pelosi, Fetterman, Feinstein, and the young ones: Bill Burns, Chris Wray, Merrick Garland, General Milley, Sullivan, Blinken … (Nuland is being deliberately kept out of public view these days.) one or two waving to the crowd … but most grimly expressionless or zombie like.
Political dissidents Trump, Snowden, Assange, Carlsen, RJK Jr. are currently being held without habeas corpus in an undisclosed location.
“Zaluzhny is strangely silent in the face of this outrageous allegation. Why is that?”
I suspect he does not want to earn a spot on the Myrotvorets target site.
Thanks again Larry, words of wisdom !
and no one said that wisdom couldn’t be humorous !
Karl Marx said,
“All great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice :
the first time as Tragedy, the second as Farce.”
The disappearance of the honorable General Valerii Zaluzhnyi will be considered in the future as a tremendous Tragedy in the history of war events in Ukraine.
Now, today the fictional narrative of the destruction of NS2 attributed to the late General Zaluzhnyi – historical repetition – is simply a farce !
An entire generation of young Ukrainians has been brutally and coldly sacrificed
– for political decisions – on the front lines..
General Zaluzhnyi -a soldier with lucid intelligence- was and supported a vision contrary to this absurd and useless sacrifice of a professional young Army.
Memory will honor you, Sir !
I prefer the explanation that Zaluzhny stopped believing the “narrative” and woke up and smelled the coffee/started looking at reality. At that point, he was “fired”, declared an enemy by the higher-ups, and scapegoated. He may or may not have been injured but it’s irrelevant.
The U.S. OGUS has opened can(S) of worms it will regret.
We are owed 3 Big Hits.
Not counting the blowing up a russian teenager by CIA.
And I hope they hit the OGUS GOVT and it GD Hurt’s Bad!
It’s just a gut feeling, but I still think that the attack on the pipeline was carried out by Polish Navy special forces, at the behest of the U.S.
It gives the U.S. plausible deniability. They can truthfully say that they didn’t do it. They exploited the Poles historic, and still existing, animosity towards both Russia and Germany. And their desire to be a big player in the game, and to be a good “ally”(meaning minion) to the U.S. It’s part of their desire to satisfy their political ambition, and to take a seat at the table with the big regional powers.
I’m still waiting for the other diving boot to turn up in the “wet market”.
Until then, the intent of the message (not the stories) makes me 100% sure who did it.
Zelensky is appearing more and more unhinged all the time. He even forgets to wipe the yayo from his nose before spewing his nonsense to the media. I think he senses his useful idiot days are coming to a close: His strategy may be to use scapegoats, like Zaluzhny, and create a diversion to buy time. I think he will end up in a bunker with his girl friend, deciding who should take the first bullet.
A little sidestep. Why the Netherlands again in relation with an international issue related wikt Ukrain? The same with MH17, as a Dutchman something what wonders me. What makes that relationship so special?
Danilov interviewed, and there’s
much talk about losses, but no figures, but they had losses since 2014. The meaning of? He blamed the West influenced Ukraine, to turn over their ordnance to Russia during the 1990s, the meaning? The nukes? The Russians make fierce resistance, is it true about the loss of Russian 200 soldiers, for one Himars, or to compensate, for the huge AFU losses? The mood seems low on the Ukrainian front, and Danilov blame some state’s delivery of ordnance, in spite of sanctions to Russia. The
blame-game, a sign of defeat?
Today sanctions are dismissed of most experts as problematic most for ones own nation. Now we must not eat Mondelez chocolate, with some business in Russia, a self-inflicted pain, to punish Putin, of no special value,and Poroschenko, is’nt he a chocolate oligarc?
My take is that Zaluzhny refused to go along with the “counter” offensive (because it’s stupid) so they now need to get home out the way
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/us-government-hit-cybeattack/index.html
Eric Goldstein
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “is providing support to several federal agencies that have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications,” Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement on Thursday to CNN, referring to the software impacted. “We are working urgently to understand impacts and ensure timely remediation.”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/us-fedgov-and-nato-hq-claims-under-cyber-attack-pro-ukraine-group-promises-to-blow-up-kerch-strait-bridge-within-36-hours
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/hackers-promise-to-destroy-europe-s-banking-system-in-the-next-48-hours
I like a good Walla Walla sweet onion slice on my hamburger.
Not to change the subject, but this from Putin:
“We were forced to try to end the war that the West started in 2014 by force of arms. And Russia will end this war by force of arms, freeing the entire territory of the former Ukraine from the United States and Ukrainian Nazis. There are no other options,” Putin said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-lukashenko-address-wests-worst-fears
See ? The ENTIRE territory of the Ukraine, because Putin knows he has NO other options (b/c the West is insane).
And yes, people will tell me I’m reading that wrong. I know. But I’ve been saying this for many months, because all one has to do is consider just HOW INSANE the West is. They make the Joker look like Batman… or even Robin!
It starts with the Bilderberg Globalist Mafia (aka the Beast of Revelation 13) whose enforcer is the US government and their agencies in tandem with their vassal states in Europe (aka the False Prophet of Revelation 13). (see also Revelation13.substack.com)
Perversions and death and human suffering meaning NOTHING to these people. It’s a game to these pyschopaths. Do they have any sense of self-preservation ? We might find out if they keep pushing nukes.
I find it hard not to wish that Putin would start chopping off some of the Beast’s heads before it’s too late !
IMO, all the crap we’re being fed is all about CYA–Cover Your Ass.
All the actors within the USA responsible for this massive crime ought to do what the prison warden in the Shawshank Redemption chose to do when his nuts were exposed–pull their pistol from their drawer, put it to their heads and pull the trigger. That would probably amount to roughly 1,000 actors going back to Paul Wolfowitz’s crew in 1991.
Well! )))
A little bit of Evil Orc music for your listening enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_oNZ3E3kg
“Zaluzhny is strangely silent in the face of this outrageous allegation. Why is that?”
Because the deep state needs puppets, Biden, Elensky, MSM, etc. Zaluzhny is simply more valuable right now as a puppet rather than as a general. They don’t need him to say anything, they just need someone to insert into their lie about NS2. Someone who actually would be in a position to blow things up. How convenient for the State dept and CIA, lie constructed.
n the satellite “socialist sister countries” people did not watch with much interest the succession to the post of Secretary General of the Communist Party in USSR.
They did not expect any meaningful change. In this respect they were a lot savvier than today’s US voters for whom the pendulum swinging from Democrat to Republican is followed with rapt attention and fanatic partisanship.
They had a simple rule: “ Every negative thing we are told on the radio about the “yankee imperialists” is likely to be largely true, and every negative thing Voice of America and Radio Free Europe says about our socialist-building paradise is likely to be also largely true.”
Crude and reductive, but it developed independent thinking and a healthy dose of mistrust in the powers that be and skepticism about the media.
By contrast most Americans trust almost any absurd lie they are told, provided it is a big lie, because, see… if it were a hoax they could not keep it secret, surely somebody would have talked”…
If the CIA had learned about this alleged Ukrainian plan, they would surely have warned the Germans (indeed you would have expected the Dutch to have already done so), so the Germans could take extra precautions to protect the pipeline.
Then, immediately after the attack you would expect the Germans to have been blaming the Ukrainians.
But none of these things happened because it is, in some dictator-in-chief’s words, “malarkey”.
“If the CIA had learned about this alleged Ukrainian plan…..”
It seems that you believe that co-operation and unity exists in “The United States of America/NATO”
How very naive.
Maybe because that the Dutchmen recruited about 30.000 WaffenSS men to serve on the Eastfront, maybe even volunteers for agriculture, and deported about 80.000 Dutch Jews, to Auschwitz, and Anne Frank to Bergen-Belsen,
with the State railways, one of the worst losses of Jewish people, about 75 %. That little innocent nation fighting the ” Bolsheviks”
by all means, as today.
Ala William Casey and Iran-Contragate. Phew – he’s dead, blame it on him.