By Pepe Escobar
April 15, 2023:
Information Clearing House
-- "SCF"
-- The script reads like a spoof
straight out of legendary Mad magazine 1960’s
cartoon “Spy vs. Spy”: Secret Pentagon Documents
Fall in the Hands of Malign Russia. Well,
actually in the hands of millions accessing
Twitter and Telegram.
So here, at face value, we have a major leak
essentially detailing Pentagon planning for the
next stage of the NATO vs. Russia proxy war in
Ukraine: the interminably debated Spring
“counter-offensive” that may, or may not, start
in mid-April, as well as war plans shared with
FVEY – the Five Eyes.
The leaked intel might – and the operative
word is “might” – be advantageous to Russia were
this not to be misdirection: and the possibility
is quite real.
The inestimable Ray McGovern, who knows one
or two things about the CIA, noted whether the
Pentagon is “falsifying kill-ratio to gild
Easter lilies in Kyiv? Recent leak of an
apparently official NATO document shows 71,500
Ukrainians KIA and only 16,000 to 17,500
Russians, a far cry from earlier Pentagon
‘estimates’. All sounds so Vietnam-déjà vu!”
So this may be Vietnam all over again – never
count on the Pentagon learning from their
mistakes – but could be something way more
alarming, according to a top Beltway intel
source, retired: “Our interpretation of this
breach is that intel sources in the United
States have released critical intel data in
order to avoid a nuclear war with Russia.”
As it stands, the only certainty is that the
spin war has gone berserk. So the leaker may
have been a – disgruntled – U.S. insider. No,
wait: the whole thing may be fake, as the
Pentagon insists. In spin speak, that would be
an attempt to “spread false information that
could harm the U.S.”.
Tweaked or not, the “secret” Pentagon
comparative war dead ratio between Russians and
Ukrainians still does not make sense. The
numbers appear to reflect Bakhmut/Artemovsk
casualties, where Russian casualty ratios were
highest. Yet reliable on the ground Russian
military correspondents assure the ratio is
really 10 to 1, with the Russians employing the
snail technique combined with a formidable
artillery mincing machine.
“Stupefying” incompetence
The undisputable conclusion out of the – real
or fake – Pentagon leaks is that the U.S. is in
a state of war against Russia. And that is
serious enough.
Washington has been feeding information
non-stop on command posts, ammunition depots and
key nodes in the Russian military lines. It’s
such real-time intel that has allowed Kiev to
target Russian forces, kill
senior generals and force ammunition depots
to be moved farther from the Russian front
lines.
Anything Pentagon/NATO stenographers say
about Kiev playing the proverbial “decisive
role” in planning and executing these strikes is
a lie. The U.S. exercizes total, absolute
control of the Ukraine war on a central command
basis. Including from that “secret” underground
bunker near Lviv which recently received a
business card from Mr. Khinzal and has gone to
meet its maker – along with over 200 NATO
high-level operatives.
Fake or not fake, we also have confirmation
that the Pentagon has direct access to
communications of the Russian Ministry of
Defense. And that the Americans listen to
everyone and his neighbor: the sweaty T-shirt
actor in Kiev, all the Five Eyes allies, and the
Mossad.
As for the notion that Kiev has changed its
counter-offensive “military plans” because of
the Pentagon leaks, everyone should feel free to
control the pitch of their roaring laughter.
The Russian non-response response to all this
hoopla could be seen as a classic of
misdirection. Responding to the U.S. de facto
engaged in an undeclared war against Russia,
much hotter than Hybrid, President Putin said
that Russia is interested in “peaceful
coexistence with the U.S. and establishing a
balance of interests” given their status as the
world’s two biggest nuclear powers.
Well, no one can possibly imagine Stalin
saying that Russia was interested in peaceful
coexistence with Nazi Germany in July, 1941 as
the Wehrmacht was rushing towards Moscow,
Leningrad and the Caucusus oil.
From the point of view of valuable military
information, the indispensable Andrei Martyanov
summed it all up: these “documents” contain
none, apart from confirming that the Pentagon is
absolutely clueless on the SMO: why is it
happening, what is the modus operandi and what
it plans to achieve.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov did
cut to the chase:
“We don’t have the slightest doubt about direct
or indirect involvement of the U.S. and NATO (…)
it cannot influence the final outcome of the
special operation.”
As Martyanov stresses, Russia maneuvers an
extremely advanced ISR (Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance) complex,
including human intel on the ground, electronic
warfare and satellite constellations: “In terms
of war correlates and combat statistics – I
wouldn’t touch anything coming from Pentagon
with a long stick.”
There are indeed several serious issues with
the Pentagon “top secret” intel. It oozes the
impression it was redacted based on open data,
and not actual intel. And all that packaged by
some quite shoddy work.
For instance, the insistence to “re-equip”
Ukrainian air defense with missiles is not
supported by data on where such missiles will be
coming from. The name of the NASAMS – the middle
range, ground based air defense system
co-developed by Raytheon – is misspelled.
In official NATO documents, weapons from the
USSR and from Russia are indicated in NATO
codification. There is no style uniformity: it’s
a messy mix of official code designations and
transliterations from Russian into English.
So no wonder the impression is solidified
that the U.S. Army Command in Europe (EUCOM) got
their “intel” from open sources, and is
absolutely clueless on how many weapons, how
much equipment and how many people the
Ukrainians actually have.
And that explains what’s going on in
Artemovsk – with the Russians taking all the
time in the world to calibrate their strategic
defense, and after the orderly abandon of
Kherson, lure the Ukrainians into a non-stop
slaughterhouse. Martyanov qualifies U.S./NATO
incompetence to see it coming as “stupefying.”
A
do-or-die war to control Eurasia
Once again: the most important consequence of
the Pentagon leaks is to establish that the
U.S., de facto and de jure, is at war against
Russia – whatever may be the spin by that
Norwegian piece of dead wood in Brussels. Russia
will establish a war crimes tribunal for
Ukraine, so sooner rather than later, selected
collective West luminaries better take refuge in
their New Zealand bunkers.
It’s also crucial to always keep in mind
Ukraine is a mere pawn in their game for not
losing world power, against China, Russia and
potentially Germany.
The initial psycho Straussian neocon goal was
to cut off Germany from Russia using “Liver
Sausage” Chancellor Scholz, who was briefed in
advance on the terror attack on the Nord
Streams.
Scholz was also involved in the CIA
misdirection scam, channeling the blame for the
terror attack on some obscure Ukrainian
“dissident” and a bumbling yacht – as
brilliantly covered by Seymour Hersh.
The next step is to cut off Ukraine from
Russia – “reconquering” Crimea, the focus of the
current P.R. blitzkrieg, and Donbass, thus
originating a cataclysmic psychological upheaval
in Russia leading to a Putin regime change.
Then the Straussians would finally command
Russia’s massive natural resources – and block
them from China by land and by sea via the U.S.
Fleet.
That’s not exactly clever – but Straussian
neocons do revel in their own intellectually
shallow pond. Cue to that insufferable idiot
Admiral John Kirby saying there can be no
negotiations with Russia until they leave
Ukraine, abandoning Donbass and Crimea.
So the (show) war in Ukraine must go on, to
the last Ukrainian, or all these elaborate plans
will irretrievably bite the dust. This is a
do-or-die war against Russia-China for the
control of Eurasia. Will that imply more
Pentagon leaks? Bring them on.
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