Lucidly Rethinking the hype about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

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In yet another mature and measured analysis, Andrei Martyanov – corroborating something that Quantum Bird had already commented to us – states that yes, it would be possible, but very unlikely the imminent Ukrainian false flag in the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, in Zaporizhzhia.

The Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in the former Ukraine, which began on February 24 last year, has already changed and continues to change significantly the pieces of the international geopolitical chessboard. It is good to remember that the former Ukraine is fighting now, in its much vaunted and innocuous counter-offensive[1], using its fifth “army”[2], all the previous ones (formed in bunches including mercenaries of various nationalities) having been practically wiped out by Russia.

At this point, it becomes increasingly clear that both environmental terrorist attacks – such as the destruction of Nord Stream 1 and 2, the bombing of the Russian-Ukrainian ammonia (fertilizer) pipeline, and the breach of the Khakovka hydroelectric dam – as well as the enforcement of the 11th package of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation, the sending of war weapons via NATO – whether HIMARs, Javelins or Leopard tanks, whether Storm Shadow or Patriots missiles, or F-16 fighters – in short, none of these warmongering promises de facto affected any significant change or even challenged the supremacy of artillery on the line of contact and control of Russian airspace on the extensive line of the front.

On the contrary, one after the other, gradually, all these armaments endorsed their attestation of technological lag (even appalling, in several cases) compared to the most advanced apparatus employed by the Russians. This persistent strategy chosen by NATO, therefore, of trying to arm the former Ukraine to the teeth, has not caused fissures in the Russian economy and society either. And much less triggered internal civil clashes, like the ones we’ve seen in France.

In this regard, throughout the entire SMO, the USA and the EU have already “sent” more than 80 billion dollars to the “former Ukraine”. And, again, despite the sending of this copious amount, a meagre result of factual, effective advances of the Ukrainian forces on the battlefield has been constantly repeated. However, fortunately, it seems that some sectors of European society are starting a timid demonstration of being fed up with war. After the approval by the EU of aid for the former Ukraine of another 50 billion euros, between 2024-27, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has just said that his country will only send more subsidies to the conflict if the former Ukraine proves where it has destined all the approximately 70 billion euros in funds already received from the European community.

So, for these and other reasons, both the US and EU governments and former Ukraine are now in a hugely embarrassing situation, caused by themselves. In other words, they all need to quickly justify to the world some kind of breakthrough, on some front, within the field of Russian SMO. For now, with nowhere else to turn, all bets are on creating new false flags, continuing the den of atrocities and crimes against humanity or terrorist attacks on the civilian population and attributing them to the Russian government, in the light of those cited at the beginning of the text.

In the midst of this context, the media and Telegram channels have been signalling a possible false flag regarding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), involving a spill of radioactive contamination, probably triggered from today until the next NATO summit, in Vilnius, between 11 and July 12th.

About this, the independent analyst Andrei Martyanov[3] is categorical in stating that:

They [the media] talk about the possibility of a Ukrainian provocation against this nuclear power plant [in Zaporizhzhia]. It’s possible? Yes, it is possible. However, again, people do not understand: even if they produce some kind of false flag, with the CIA and MI6 involved in this, NATO has no strength.

[NATO] has no resources to do anything about [absolutely] nothing and really how are you going to fight the Army that is now writing the new book on [21st century] Warfare and has about 500,000 people in reserve, lagging behind the lines, being already trained and fully armed with the best weapons systems in the world?

And can Russia immediately, if necessary, mobilize another two and a half million people? That alone says a lot about this situation, doesn’t it?

In other words, what Martyanov is trying to tell us – including corroborating our editor Quantum Bird in a private conversation earlier this week – is that the Russian Federation dominates the battlefield due to its tactical, strategic and technological superiority. This translates, among other things, into a competent intelligence acquisition apparatus, which has managed to identify and demobilize false flags. Unfortunately not all, but most likely this one too.

Still, according to Quantum Bird’s analysis, another probable indication that this Ukrainian provocation has already been quelled by Russian intelligence can be found in the recent statements by the Vice-President of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev:

I’ll point out something that politicians of all stripes don’t like to admit: a nuclear apocalypse is not only possible but also quite likely.

Why?

There are at least two reasons.

First. The world is [today] in a much worse confrontation than during the Caribbean [Cuba missile crisis, 1962] because our opponents decided to defeat the greatest nuclear power of all – Russia. They are, without a doubt, complete idiots, but that’s the way it is.

And the second reason is quite prosaic – nuclear weapons have already been used, and everyone knows by whom and where, which means that there is no taboo!

Therefore, Medvedev points to the ignorance and lack of lucidity of the Atlanticist governing elites, especially the North American ones. It’s common knowledge that the US has already dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese soil because it chose to value infinitely more showing itself to the world in its belligerent superiority – than in consider the millions of lives taken and the future Japanese generations who inherited the direct and indirect consequences of such a decision. For Quantum Bird, statements within this script and timing, coming from the Russian high ranks, are not fortuitous: it would be as if the Russians, after demobilizing the false flag, now left a cunning backed record of the fact in the media.

However, as Andrei Martyanov explains to us ad nauseam: the North American supremacy in the field of wars, economy and technology, to name just a few areas that are currently lagging behind or with very serious problems, goes a long way. In almost all of his videos, Martyanov, in addition to having written three books about it, with a fourth on the way, reinforces the absolute cognitive incompetence that plagues elites, the government and the high levels of US armed forces. According to the analyst, they do not have the slightest notion of what a real war is on the current battlefield of war in the 21st century, emphasizing that, for the Russians, the current conflict is not yet a war, but a military operation, on a considerably smaller scale.

In this way, throughout approximately the last 30 years, the Russian Federation rose from the rubble left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and, thanks, among other reasons, to constant Western sanctions, continued and emerged as one of the greatest autarchic powers in the world. In other words, Russia was building an economy that was increasingly independent and self-sufficient in its main sectors, that of military technology, for example, including the creation of unbeatable hypersonic missiles. While in the same period, the US chose to accelerate the de-industrialization and financialization of its economy, becoming a mostly services nation. Still, in the same light, the North American analyst Larry Johnson endorses the current state of collapse – which we can, unfortunately, already consider civilizational – that has gradually been installed and devastates several sectors of the North American nation, when he comments that:

Today the United States stands as the only existing country in the world with a forty-year track record of imperial military misadventures and the squandering of trillions of dollars. Instead of making the world safer, the United States has sown chaos. The United States have more political prisoners languishing in prison than Russia and freedom of expression, especially for Christians, is attacked with increasing ferocity by a corporate media eager to shill for the U.S. Government. The U.S. intelligence and military organizations are a woke, hot mess. U.S. military leaders are fixated on promoting transgender degeneracy, routinely failing to meet recruitment goals and destroying the foundation of “uniformity” which is an essential trait of successful armies.[4]

In this sense, also for Martyanov, the main difference between the United States and Russia resides in the fact that the former, throughout its entire contemporary history, never fought for its own survival, defending the homeland on state soil. Something the Russians have repeatedly been forced to do, from before Bonaparte, through Hitler, and now against NATO.

In essence, in the light of the above-mentioned, new false flags, or attempts to, unfortunately, will continue to be part of the Ukrainian repertoire, endorsed by the Atlanticist elites, within the theatre of the Russian SMO. A solid tip for us to be able to maintain a minimum of sanity while accompanying and witnessing the European conflict, which has been rising and ensuring more and more space for a new multipolar world, can be found in good analysis by independent analysts as a starting point for our own. It won’t always be easy and, like everything that matters in life, we must do our homework, but this is the kind of knowledge that not only liberates but also gives solace. Good reflections[5]!

1. The Ukrainian counter-offensive started on June 4, 2023. Andrei Martyanov reminds us that a counter-offensive needs to achieve its results within the first fifteen days of its launch, otherwise, it is qualified as a failure. ↑
2. This information was confirmed to us by Pepe Escobar, in his lecture How the Multipolar World is being born, last June 25th, in Porto Alegre, during his visit to Brazil. ↑
3. This transcription by Andrei Martyanov is found from minute 31′ in his video Radakin Delusions, Nato copes, dated July 5, 2023. ↑
4. This article by Larry Johnson: CIA Chief Burns’ Descent into Delirium, July 4th, was translated by our community. ↑

5. Thank you so much Andrei Martyanov, Larry Johnson and Quantum Bird! ↑