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CIA Director Burns subsequently went to Moscow to endeavor and intimidate Putin into revoking troop buildup on Ukrainian border
[Russell Bentley, a Texan and author of this article, served in the Donbass army. His motivation was to fight fascism; he envisioned himself as an heir to members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain during the Spanish Civil State of war.
In part 1, Bentley's provides an assessment of the current tensions in the Ukraine and the character of the regime. Ranked equally one of the almost corrupt governments in the earth, information technology is a monstrous creation of the U.Due south. empire guilty of large-scale war crimes.
In part two, Bentley discusses three potential military options for Russia. CAM'south position on this conflict is to endorse the Minsk protocol, which focuses on a diplomatic settlement that offers the Eastern Ukrainian provinces considerable autonomy and could aid defuse tensions in the region.
The third military pick discussed past Bentley—the Kyiv programme which would entail a Russian march on Kyiv—has iii main dangers: a) Ukrainian rightists and nationalists would mobilize against the Russians and pro-Russian forces, prompting a prolonged and devastating war that could be a quagmire for Russia (rather than a cakewalk, as Bentley suggests); b) a Russian invasion would potentially ignite World War Three by cartoon in the U.Due south. and NATO; and c) it could even lead to the appearance of nuclear war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be conscious of these dangers and intent on restraining hawkish elements within the Russian war machine—a expert thing. At the same time, he has fabricated it clear that Russia will defend its interests and not be pushed around.—Editors]
Part one
On October 18th, U.S. Secretary of Defense force Lloyd Austin Three met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to assert U.Due south. support for Ukraine'south war against its eastern provinces.
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2014, the United States has provided more than $2.v billion in security assistance to Ukraine, including $275 1000000 in military machine aid that has been appear in the last ten months under President Joe Biden, a staunch champion of the war from its inception.
In early November, President Biden dispatched CIA Director William F. Burns to Moscow to warn the Kremlin almost its troop buildup on the Ukraine border and to try and forcefulness it to back off. Secretarial assistant of State Antony Blinken followed up this past calendar week by threatening Russia further in a joint press briefing in Washington with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Ukraine, still, started the war following the February 2022 U.Due south. backed insurrection and carried out sustained war crimes.
These crimes include: a) the contempo kidnapping and torture of a Russian ceasefire monitor in Lugansk; b) a recent attack on Staromaryevka, a settlement of 180 civilians in the de-militarized "Grey Zone," which included the kidnapping of eight more than unarmed civilians (who were also Russian citizens) by neo-Nazi terrorists; and c) the use of a Turkish Bayraktar attack drone against Donbass defense forces.
All this is in addition to the repeated shelling of civilian areas and infrastructure forth with a hardening of war rhetoric by the Kyiv regime—with U.S. backing.
Readying for War
The chief hope for a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine lies with the Minsk peace accords—which includes a provision that would allow for considerable autonomy for the eastern provinces. Predictably, the U.Due south. and Ukraine take shown little interest in adhering to the Minsk accords.
A no-fly zone is currently beingness enforced by Russia in the airspace over the Donbass Republic. Russian federation cannot recognize the Donetsk Republic because information technology would invite further U.S. sanctions and efforts at political isolation; the Donetsk Republic is considered to exist a renegade and the U.S. wants Russian federation to stay out of the war.
All armed forces units of the DPR are currently on total combat alert. News reports and videos take appeared with Russian armor, including "hundreds" of heavy combat vehicles, and 80,000 to xc,000 troops, moving toward the Ukrainian edge from the Bryansk, Voronezh and Rostov military districts. They are stationed at Novy Yerkovich—a four-hr (250 km) drive to Kyiv—and along the border near Kharkov, which lies a scant 30 kilometers from Russia's edge.
The troop buildup indicates that Russian federation is prepared to defend the Donbass region, which consists of almost a meg Russian citizens, and to potentially become further and liberate the role of Ukraine populated primarily by ethnic and Russian-speaking Russians.
The U.S./EU/NATO and Ukraine have all been pretending since 2022 that "Russia invaded Ukraine"—which information technology never did, though Ukrainian provocations make it more than likely that it soon will.
The war in Ukraine is not a Ukrainian civil war, nor is it a state of war between Russians and Ukrainians.
Information technology is a state of war past resurgent international neo-Nazism, led past the USA against a people fighting for their autonomy backed past a reinvigorated Great Power, Russia, which wants to expand its regional influence and annul a legitimate security threat on its border.
Earth Flash Point
The fight in Donbass is one of the major world'southward flash points alongside Syrian arab republic and Taiwan—where U.S. provocations threaten a major war with China.
If the West forces a military confrontation with Russian federation in Ukraine, it can be sure it will face ane with Cathay over Taiwan simultaneously, neither of which information technology has any chance of winning. The Russians and Chinese have forged a partnership against Western, primarily U.S. aggression in the political, economical, and military spheres.
In Syria, the Turks (a NATO member) take in recent days straight threatened Russian military installations and troops; Should they actually carry out attacks on Russians in Syria, Russian federation has made clear information technology will fire back. Turkish troops are at present besides on the ground in Ukraine, involved in gainsay operations against Donbass Defense Forces. This too, is a major and recent escalation.
Russian federation Prepares Its Saddle
But it is in Donbass that the situation is the most incendiary. In response to recent Ukrainian provocations and acts of terrorism, Russia is again sending a military chore force to its border with Ukraine, every bit it did in the spring of this twelvemonth, which stopped the planned U.S./Ukrainian offensive in its tracks.
Subsequently the offensive was scrubbed and the situation de-escalated, the Russian troops withdrew from the border, just now once again have returned. This fourth dimension, indications are that the Russian formations are preparing to, at minimum, come up into Donbass as peacekeepers, and perchance become as far as Kharkov and Odessa equally Liberators. Perhaps even to Kyiv.
Every bit the recent words of Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev and others accept made clear, the Russians take now decided that the fourth dimension for talking is over. At that place is an quondam saying about Russians that applies perfectly well to the electric current state of affairs—"The Russians are slow to saddle their horses, but when they exercise, they ride very, very fast."
Those horses have now been saddled.
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
If the Russians were to deepen their involvement in the Ukraine, they would not be doing anything the U.S. and NATO have not done themselves on more than i occasion.
Russia not only has therightto protect its citizens, it has the responsibility to do so, under international law.
The "R2P" or "Responsibility to Protect" concept is based on three "pillars" –
Pillar I—Each individual country has the responsibility to protect its population from genocide, state of war crimes, indigenous cleansing, and crimes against humanity.
Pillar II—"States pledge to assist each other in their protection responsibilities."
Pillar III—If any state is "manifestly failing" in its protection responsibilities, then states should take collective action to protect the population" in a "timely and decisive response."
The UN Security Council has recognized and reaffirmed its commitment to the R2P in more than than 80 resolutions. R2P as such has the strength of international law.
The flip side of R2P is that it has been used equally an excuse by the most powerful countries for international war crimes and has resulted in the trampling of land sovereignty.
I of the requirements of R2P is a Un Security Council resolution approving its implementation. Though this will never happen in the instance of Ukraine, there can be no doubt that Ukraine is, in fact, guilty of all the crimes that R2P was created to preclude, including a) war crimes, b) indigenous cleansing, and c) crimes against humanity, all of which have been, and continue to exist, committed by the Kyiv regime and its military on a daily footing.
Russian intervention equally such could be justified under the R2P doctrine–though it is unlikely whatsoever NATO countries would admit this.
Who Will Stop the Crimes Against Humanity?
The list of Kyiv'due south state of war crimes under international law include: a) deprival of h2o to almost 2.v million civilians in Crimea, b) the intentional targeting of civilians, journalists and medical personnel by artillery and snipers, c) random terror attacks on civilian areas, d) kidnapping, due east) rape, f) torture and chiliad) murder.
The Russians have over 2,000 specific war crimes cases open against the Kyiv regime and its proxies, and more are being opened daily. Fifty-fifty the United states has opened war crimes investigations into at least seven U.S. citizens who fought on the Kyiv side in the war.
These investigations into kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder are based on eyewitness, and video and forensic prove. It volition be the start time the U.S. has prosecuted anyone nether the State of war Crimes Act since its passage into law in 1996, a quarter century ago.
The Ukrainian armed services has as of this writing massacred at least 10,000 ethnic Russian civilians. Some were killed in firm-to-business firm searches of civilian homes by paramilitary units wearing Nazi insignia on their uniforms. The Gestapo-like forces were searching for DPR and Russian passports and kidnapped those who had them.
The Russians cannot just stand by and allow this to happen. And neither should Americans.
Western intellectuals accept been quick to invoke R2P to support the bombing of Libya and Syria and a host of other Centre East countries as a cover for U.S. aggression. Merely how many will invoke the same doctrine when it can be applied to actually relieve people from large-scale indigenous cleansing and crimes confronting humanity—if Russian federation is the one doing the saving? Probable none.
Part 2: Iii Options for Russia
The way I see it, Russian federation currently has 3 main options:
1) The Donbass Plan—The Russian Army tin gyre into Donbass every bit peacekeepers, along the current contact line from North of Lugansk to Mariupol, after publicly announcing it to the world a few hours ahead of time, in gild to warn the Ukrainian military confronting resistance, and to explain and justify its humanitarian intervention to the "international community." They would announce that they come in peace to end the war crimes and the war, but that whatsoever military resistance from whatsoever source will be instantly eliminated, with the warning, "If yous shoot at united states of america, you die."
This ultimatum would exist not-negotiable and backed up past Russia's total military machine power, including air and missile forces, and applied not merely to Ukrainian military units, but to U.S. and NATO troops in Ukraine and U.S. and NATO ships in the Blackness Sea, likewise every bit anywhere else. It tin and should too include a reminder of Putin's previous quote that"Russia volition respond to any set on by the devastation not just of the source of the attack, but also the source of the orders for the attack."
This pick would end all terrorist attacks against Donbass, permanently and completely, and would hopefully give fourth dimension for a diplomatic solution based on new political realities to exist institute. It would also non entail the taking of any territory under Ukraine control, only that which has long been alleged nether "Russian occupation".
Once information technology is seen that the Russians actuallyare coming, and they reallypractice mean business, it is unlikely that the Americans, NATO, or the Ukrainians will burn down a shot. This is the least confrontational and to the lowest degree risky approach, as it could exist accomplished in a matter of 24 hours, with minimal bloodshed.
This may seem to be a pragmatic solution, only information technology has the least chance of finding a political compromise or permanent solution, in either the short or long terms. And while information technology would stop war crimes and protect Russian citizens, information technology would fail to resolve the overriding geopolitical problems Russia faces in Ukraine—belligerent war criminals on Russia's borders, the critical Crimean h2o security issue, foreign enemies in control of a neighboring state, etc. One reward to this plan, however, is that could be used every bit a outset phase of the Novorussia Plan.
two) The second option is The Novorussia Programme. Under this program, the Russians tin liberate the area known every bit Novorussia, well-nigh one third of current Ukraine, with majority ethnic Russian populations, running along a line from Kharkov to Odessa (inclusive). This non only protects the vast bulk of ethnic Russians (not merely those in Donbass) from Ukrainian depredations, it solves the critical humanitarian water crunch in Crimea, and cuts Ukraine completely off from the Black Sea. This will likewise eviscerate all that is left of the Ukrainian economy and begin the process of the dismantling of Ukraine forth ethnic lines while eliminating it as a state and as a threat to Russian federation once and for all.
It volition also serve as an instance to the world of the new political reality that Russian federation reserves the right to defend itself, unilaterally, if need be, and that the nation with the most powerful military in the world also has the political will to utilise it, if it has no other option and if it is forced to defend itself. This scenario has the best hope of long-term stability for the region, and even the possibility of a future re-integration of some parts of fundamental Ukraine with Novorussia.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of war criminals would probably escape to the West, at least for a while.
3) The third plan, the Kyiv Plan, would be to go to Kyiv, which may or may not involve engaging in a major state of war. In the all-time case scenario for Russian federation, the U.S. and NATO would desert Ukraine in the face of a real fight and leave them on their own. Even if Ukraine did not capitulate in the commencement few hours, any bodily conflict could be finished in a few days, and the process of de-Nazification and state of war offense trials could begin. In an culling scenario, the U.S. and NATO would launch air strikes and the state of war could devolve into a quagmire for Russian federation, with the take a chance of nuclear state of war intensifying.
My belief is that the effect of the open combat stage of the war would be along the lines of the First Iraq State of war, (with 80% – 90% of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering without firing a shot) but the subsequent "occupation" would really be a existent liberation. With the removal of neo-Nazis and corrupt oligarchs from positions of power, and the comeback of life quality and life chances for a vast majority of the population, most Ukrainians (with the exception of the rabid fascists in Galicia or Poland) will see the Russian Army as their grandparents saw the Red Army, as heroes and liberators from strange occupation—which is exactly what they would be.
This may be the to the lowest degree viable and least attractive of the 3 scenarios, simply it is an option, and it would accept the required event of stopping the state of war crimes against Russian citizens and eliminating Ukraine as an existential threat correct on Russian federation'south doorstep. It would also have the do good of the capture a large percent of war criminals (Ukrainian and otherwise) also as documents and testify that might exist of great interest to history, Russian federation and the globe—an option worthy of serious consideration.
Of all three of these plans, the 2d, the Novorussia Plan has the most benefit at the least cost. Just going to the contact line in Donbass is not sufficient to resolve the festering Ukrainian problem, and going all the way to Kyiv may well cost more than it is worth. The Novorussia Plan resolves all critical bug at an acceptable cost, and can be implemented, if demand be, as a 2nd phase of the Donbass Plan.
With the Voronezh troops coming in through (or around) Kharkov, Airborne and amphibious troops landing in (or effectually) Odessa, the Rostov Army coming upward through Donbass, and the Crimean Army and Black Sea Fleet working along the coast, forth with the Bryansk Army waiting in reserve and ready to take Kyiv if required, the 700 Km Front, running from Kharkov to Odessa could exist formed and held in a matter of days.
One time Russian fuel and human being aid start to flow to liberated Novorussia, grateful citizens will not but not oppose Russian "occupation," they will back up it as genuine liberation, and even be fix to defend it themselves from the cold and hungry Ukrainians who will be begging to be allowed to immigrate to Novorussia.
Incorrigible Nazis and war criminals will be rounded up, tried, and sentenced to work battalions in Donbass, to repair every single affair destroyed or damaged in the war, including the monument at Saur Mogila and all monuments to the Cherry Army Liberators in the newly liberated lands of Novorussia. The majority of Russian soldiers will quickly exist free to render to Russia, and leave the administration and protection of the newly liberated lands to their inhabitants.
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Russians visiting Saur Mogila memorial to blood-red Regular army soldiers who liberated Donetsk from the Nazis in World War I. [Source: inthefray.org] -
Separatist flags fly over ruins. [Source: inthefray.org]
Vladimir Putin has more than once recounted a lesson that he learned every bit a youth on the tough streets of Leningrad."If the fight is inevitable, information technology is all-time to strike first."
If war indeed breaks out, the master responsibility would residue with the U.S. which triggered the current mess through its sponsorship of the Feb 2022 coup in Ukraine and gave a greenish-light for Ukraine to attack its Eastern provinces.
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About the Writer
Russell Bentley is a sometime Texan who holds passports from Russia, the United states and the Donetsk People's Republic.
Russell came to Donbass in 2022 and served in the VOSTOK Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion through 2015.
He so transitioned into the Information State of war, as a writer and video reporter, countering Western propaganda near the situation in Ukraine and Donbass.
He currently works as an accredited war correspondent in the DPR, is married and lives in a small house with a large garden, 5 Km from the frontline in the ongoing Donbass War.
Russell can exist reached at: russellbbentley@gmail.com.
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