Posted on 11/21/2023 9:32:33 AM PST by Kazan
Many see William Burns as a ‘harbinger of bad news’.
American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kiev yesterday (20) and announced 100 million military aid. While the amount is still a lot of money, it’s way less than the 65 billion that President Joe Biden is trying – and failing – to approve in Congress.
But the visit of an US official that interests us here now is the – almost – secret visit made by CIA Director William Burns, who last week, we can now confirm, traveled to Ukraine’s capital to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky.
An experienced former Ambassador, including to Russia, Burns has been engaged in ‘shadow diplomacy’ on behalf of Biden in many parts of the world, and there is a widespread notion that a visit by the CIA head is NOT good news.
But let’s start with an MSM view of the matter, as Reuters reported, based on a US official source:
“‘Director Burns traveled to Kyiv, where he met with Ukrainian intelligence counterparts as well as President Zelensky and reinforced our continued support for Ukraine and its defense against Russian aggression’, the U.S. official, who declined to be identified, said.”
The official heard by Reuters declined to say when the visit took place, but some vehicles, who has broken the story last week – and we will discuss below – have said it took place on November 15th.
But what was the objective of the trip? According to the Reuters source:
“Burns briefed Zelensky on his expectations on Russia’s upcoming military plans, the newspaper said, adding he also acknowledged that at some point U.S. assistance would be harder to come by.
Zelensky and his senior intelligence officials discussed how long Ukraine could expect U.S. and Western assistance to continue after Republicans won a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the Washington Post reported, citing sources.”
So, there is no getting around the point that the slowing down or stopping of the US military aid to Kiev was in the agenda of the visit.
Pro-Russian analyst and news aggregator Simplicius the Thinker, back on the 16th, wrote on his Substack that ‘the obviously logical explanation [is] that the purpose of the urgent visit is to convince Zelensky to freeze the conflict.’
Any suggestion of this kind means asking Zelensky to ‘commit political suicide, because a truce and a freeze mean the complete and final collapse of his career’.
“If the President of Ukraine agrees, there will be a carrot waiting for him: an honorary pension in Europe or the USA. If he refuses, they will use the whip: the Biden administration will turn on the spigot of military and financial assistance.”
However, the ultimate goal is to keep Ukraine as a thorn on Russia’s side.
“Any American administration – Biden, Trump or the bald devil – will never give up such a bridgehead on the borders of Russia, which is today’s Ukraine. Its appearance is a great foreign policy success for the US. And Washington will fight to preserve it.”
Asia Times also reported on it back when it happened, saying that November 15th was ‘Z-Day for the War in Ukraine’.
The paper says that the reason for the visit is that ‘Ukraine is imploding’.
“Zelensky is setting the stage to have Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhny arrested and purged. He’s likely to prepare the ground by firing three generals tied to Zaluzhny. (Zaluzhny’s top aide has already died in what’s described as an accident.)”
The situation is due to the success of Russia’s ‘attrition war’, that relies on overwhelming firepower to slowly degrade the enemy’s capabilities until they can’t fight anymore.
This strategy had been countered by the massive military aid by US and Europe, but now it’s over.
“Ukraine has gone through three armies, and most of the current army is made up of older men, some women, and boys with no training. They become bodies to fill the foxholes and revetments trying to hold up the Russians. Russia itself is in no particular hurry. The Russian strategy is to bleed-down Ukraine’s armed forces and create a political crisis in Kiev. The Russian effort is ahead of schedule, which has surprised Moscow as much as Washington.”
Parte superior do formulário
General Zaluzhny made clear in his writings that Ukraine’s war needs a ceasefire, but Zelensky opposes any pause in the fighting, wants his army to hold onto key territories – such as Avdiivka – and insists to retake important cities including Bakhmut.
“Meanwhile, Zelensky’s political opponents are well aware of the corruption in Kiev and are saying so. It is anyone’s guess whether that information gets to Congress, but it may.
Burns won’t be suggesting Zelensky talk to the Russians or even change his tune on demanding that Russian forces leave Ukraine. Burns can’t go against Washington’s policy, which is to drag out the Ukraine war until Biden is reelected.”
The Z Man is about to stabbed in the back by the Biden Admin.
Maybe literally
Cue up the Animal House giff -“You f’ed up. You trusted us “
Burns seems to be the only adult and practical thinker in the puppet Biden Administration
The neocons and ideologue fools like Nuland and Blinken get the US into trouble, and Burns has to make quiet trips to still the waters before big announcements are made
I feel Zelensky is protected. The USA has insisted he can’t be killed, even if removed from office.
He certainly may not last in office, but if his “own team” kills him, it basically proves everything Russia says about how corrupt Ukraine is.
He’s much more useful to deep-state propaganda alive for the next 3-4 decades, sitting in exile in Miami or Paris, claiming to be “the legitimate ruler of Ukraine” who took on big, bad Russia.
Then again, I try to be practical, which isn’t common in DC. The stupid, arrogant DC apparatchiks running US policy seem gung-ho to run from one disaster to the next.
We want it badly. Russia not so much. The plan is that we get a “cease fire”. Then we immediately add rump Ukraine into NATO or a NATO-lite. At that point we rush to flood in NATO trainer and advisor formations and every weapons system we can dream up. Then Ukraine starts building up for their next offensive a few years out.
Russia has no incentive to agree to this DC planned cease fire because it is just another Minsk style deception. To get this ceasefire, DC going to recognize Crimea and the Donbass as Russian? If not that means the plan is to somehow regain it. They going to drop sanctions and return the confiscated gold , currency, yachts etc? They gonna rebuild Nordstream and allow it to turn on?
Russia has little reason to grant DC a ceasefire. We have broken our word too much.
Remember Schumer's six ways from Sunday comment re: Trump?
Obama the cypher loosening up domestic propaganda rules?
A 2020 election in the US that looked like a color revolution?
20 some years of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama.
Media talking points across multiple platforms on subjects that sound like they're the day's script sent out at 4 AM?
I could throw up a bunch of data points. Random things to think about.
The coup was on November 22, 1963.
All the rest was just details.
Both sides are stuck in a WWI static trench warfare. My guess is no, he won’t reward aggression.
Diem, 2024.
After JFK’s murder “All the rest was just details.”
Except for the murders of Robert Kennedy, MLK, Malcolm X. and some others. Frankly I was somewhat surprised when Obama made it out alive. Perhaps at that point the right people were happy the MIC was raking in the dollars so he was left alone. Would these same people be happy if trump were elected and made big cuts in military spending?
The almost universal hatred by the deep state/ national media shows how much they feared Trump
If I have a criticism of Trump and I have to cut him some slack is, I don’t think he understood how deep and wide the swamp was his inability or lack of desire to cut spending his hiring of people who were backstabbing him but I think a Trump this time around is a Trump. They should fear even more. Would that fear result in an assassination wouldn’t surprise me tell me what part of DC in the swamp is in step with trumps ideals, and most likely agenda.
If he wins, or should I say, if he can surpass the fraud, they should be afraid
And people who stand a lose the gravy train. The cornered rat syndrome are likely to do anything.
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