Has President Putin’s Patience Reached its Limits? All red Lines Crossed – Multiple Times

Ed Note: First an update since Peter wrote this column. Peter’s article is a depiction of what the Western pundits have to offer and Medvedev’s now viral comments are added.

– This morning from the Russian MoD:
“Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the enemy lost up to 2,640 Ukrainian troops, 37 tanks, 32 armoured personnel carriers, 23 infantry fighting vehicles, 206 armoured fighting vehicles, 96 motor vehicles, four air defence systems, three MLRS launchers, 20 field artillery guns, and three electronic warfare stations. The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.”

– Ukraine utilized British tanks in Kursk incursion — Sky News
For the first time, British Challenger 2 tanks operated by Ukrainian troops have been deployed inside Russia, Sky News reports citing sources. While the Ministry of Defence in London declined to comment on operational details, the UK has confirmed that Ukraine is free to use British weapons on Russian territory, including Challenger 2 tanks.

– Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov held a regular meeting on ensuring the security of the population and infrastructure in the border areas of the country in Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod regions.

During the meeting today, additional measures were discussed to ensure the integrity and security of the territory, as well as to protect the population and infrastructure in Belgorod region from AFU attacks.

‘We plan to hear a concrete action plan prepared by the General Staff on additional measures. We talk about, first of all, improving the effectiveness of the military command and control system in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies and administration of Belgorod region, defining responsible officials, and providing additional forces and facilities that are to be deployed to carry out basic tasks,’ stressed the Russian Defence Minister.

– From Andrei Martyanov, this article. Kindly translate with Yandex. “The main result of the Ukrainian attack on Russia turned out to be exactly the opposite of what was planned. They tried to “improve their negotiating position”. In fact, we have reached the point where there will be no negotiations.” https://ria.ru/20240814/ukraina-1965955368.html

By Peter Koenig

A NATO invasion of nuclear Russia is currently underway, and the world is unaware that it is in World War III, as reported by Megatron (14 August 2024).

The Kursk region of Russia is currently full of NATO weapons, troops, logistics, and more, many of them destroyed. See map, below; reference https://eu.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/08/12/ukraine-kursk-russia-map/74765183007/

Video footage comes out of dozens of NATO vehicles, air defense systems, tanks and more; even if destroyed and captured by Russian forces in the Kursk Region.

The Kiev forces of about 11,600 under guidance of NATO troops have not managed to conquer the city of Kurchatov and its nuclear power plant. Apparently, President Zelensky used all of Kiev’s remaining troops, plus extra Polish (NATO) forces.

Russian General Apti Alaudinov noted that the purpose of invading the Kursk Region, was to secure a strong position for upcoming negotiations with Russia. However, with Kiev’s and their western masters’ defeat, the Kiev Regime signed their own death warrant.

Kiev’s losses are more than 2,000.

General Allaudin further predicts that the Kiev Special Operation will be terminated by the end of 2024, with a total victory of the Russian Army, and the surrender of the Kiev Regime and its masters in Washington and London. (Borzzikman Aug 15, 2024 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuohhJ6T–I )

Whether surrender by the west will actually happen, remains to be seen. It is not a habit of the west, even in terminal conditions, losing face – thus, more aggressions, perhaps of a NATO direct attack on Russia, is a possibility.

At this point, President Putin still refuses to declare war, although Russia’s territory has been invaded and Russians are killed on their territory by NATO forces. And more direct NATO attacks may be planned. For now, Washington is getting away with “murder”; literally.

Step by step, Washington and its NATO partners have been crossing one red line after the other. First, NATO weapons in Ukraine; then NATO troops un Ukaine; then F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine; then NATO soldiers commanding the sophisticated weaponry supplied by the west; then NATO troops on Russian territories; then NATO drones and aircraft attacking Russian targets on Russian territory – and finally NATO troops attempting taking over an entire Russian district, taking Russian prisoners, killing Russians.

Airports across Russia have been constantly bombed for several weeks by NATO drones.

On August 9, 2024, Russian state media reported an explosion, followed by fire at the Russian air base in the Lipetsk region, around 280 kilometers from the border with northeastern Ukraine, as if Ukraine / NATO forces attacked the airfield, and destroyed a warehouse and several other facilities with guided aerial bombs; guided by NATO experts.

Some speculate that Kiev / NATO may have used a small tactical nuclear weapon. There is however no proof for such an aggression, and Russia remains silent.

According to Russian military, their own (Russian) offensive involved around 1,000 troops and more than two dozen armored vehicles and tanks. See this https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/09/ukraine-says-attacked-military-air-base-in-russias-lipetsk-region-a85973 . (This page was removed by google – saying the Moscow Times page does not exist anymore – the link is show, to demonstrate western censoring).

The Russian army is constantly advancing in the Donbass, defending the Russian speaking population from the cowardly Azov-Nazi attacks that killed in the last 10 years about 18,000 people, most of them women and children.

Russia, on her own territory receives heavy and painful blows from NATO weapons. NATO is everywhere, with communication, logistics and NATO command.

Over 35 countries are investing hundreds of billions in tax payers’ money to supply Ukraine with weapons to carry out these deadly strikes against Russia – on Russian territory, with NATO soldiers, whom the west likes to call “foreign mercenaries”.

Some 80 years after WWII, when Russia defeated Nazi-Germany, German tanks – given to Ukraine – are again rolling through the Kursk region, where the decisive battle took place; the battle by which Russia defeated Nazi-Germany saving the West from German fascism.

But fascism today is ticking and is well alive, reminiscing the times of the 1940’s. Now neo-fascism is emanating from Ukraine, an erstwhile ally of Nazi-Germany – the Bandera’s Azov Battalions – that killed tens if not hundreds of thousands of Russians during WWII. Mr. Putin was adamant eradicating Nazism in Ukraine, making Ukraine a neutral and NATO-free country, a key condition for Peace negotiations.

Many people are still under the illusion that Russia is in a minor military conflict with Ukraine, not realizing that this proxy-war Washington-NATO against Russia is far more dangerous than the WWII situation in 1943.

NATO is attempting to gradually creating brigades in Eastern Europe, aiming at confronting Russia. It is a game of observation, “how far can we go”, while carefully watching Russia’s reaction. The difficulties they may have, is manning the brigades with soldiers, as young Europeans are unwilling to die for western warmongers and profits of western war industries.

According to Megatron, there is a high probability that NATO may eventually intend to invade Belarus.

Did Mr. Putin and his advisers miscalculate NATO’s boldness, hoping that they will not cross from Ukraine into Russian territories, to avoid further escalation?

What now, that all the Red Lines have been crossed – and that more than once?

In a recent statement, former Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said Russia should no longer hold back:

“From this moment, the [Kiev] Special Military operation should become openly exterritorial in nature,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, argued in a post on Thursday.

“We can and should go further into what still exists as Ukraine. To Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev. To Kiev and further. There should be no restrictions in terms of recognized borders.” – See this https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/08/09/russia-should-no-longer-hold-back-in-ukraine-dmitry-medvedev/ .
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If President Putin is holding out for even more western / NATO aggressions on Russian territory, it may be that he has a strong response in store, one that cannot be accused as a response to a “false flag”, because what Kiev-NATO are doing on Russian territories is clearly no “false flag”, but pure provocation.

Russia has the military capacity to wipe out simultaneously western decision and military centers, as well as financial hubs, with ultra-precise, supersonic tactical nuclear weapons, keeping the loss of life to a minimum, but disabling western power structures.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020) .

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.