Pepe Escobar : Putin's Thoughts on Ukraine/Israel (Judging Freedom)

Pepe reporting from Moscow. A good summary of current events, better than the MSM, omission rife, cartoon version of things, with 'evil leader this, and evil leader that' ..

In response to the first question he says that North Korean troops are not going to involve themselves in the fighting but they will supply missiles. The Kursk incursion effectively ends with 20,000 Ukrainian casualties. The war is set to continue into 2025, but likely not long after that, with the Ukrainians having lost around 700,000 dead and the Russian dead at under 100,000.

BRICS is discussed including military cooperation with Iran. Things could line up with the US-Israel facing off against Russia-Iran. In reality Russia is already facing off against the US neocons in Ukraine. So this situation has already arisen. It's therefor no wonder the Russians are willing to extensively help the Iranians. If the US neocons had not targeted Russian, after Russia stepped in to stop the proxy war against the Syrian Government, the Russians and the West would be partners. 

In relation to an upcomikng summit in Turkey, Turkey is reportedly broke thanks to Erdogan, so they are moving towards BRICS - specifically China, Russia and India. A lot of what is going on with the 'Global South' has to do with making economic deals to improve the wealth of these countries.

The end of the clip deals with the European/UK's strong criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon. However, Pepe points out that the Governments of Europe are all captured entities of the neocons and this is just talk for their domestic audience, where they will ultimately do nothing. Pepe believes that only the US White House could put and end to the fighting, with a phone call, but this won't happen, and not under the next Administration either.  

The questions then is where will the conflicts end? The one in Ukraine is set to end up with a Russian military victory, where the West will try to push terrorist operations after the loss. At the moment, at least politically, Western leaders appear to be dumping Zelensky and stepping back from the unfolding disaster.

Where things go in the Middle East is less certain. Both the Israelis and Iranians cannot effectively knock each other out using conventional weapons. The ultimate ending will likely see the Palestinians removed from Gaza (or most of that area), and from more areas of the West Bank, with the lines on the map redrawn. The question is at what cost? The big danger is the deployment of WMDs, coming from all sides, where they could be used in large numbers in an effort to wipe out their opponents (hopefully only aiming at military targets). 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, October 19, 2024.]