As always, the neoconservative American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) was the main sponsor of the “security dialogue.” The steering committee for this year’s event consisted of three AFPC leaders, at least four OUN‐B members, and three Banderite proxies from the corrupt Ukrainian Congress Committee.
The small list of patrons included two additions featured in the latest post of the “Bandera Lobby Blog” — the Vovk Foundation and Civil Military Innovation Institute, based in Morgantown, West Virginia. The Banderite brothers behind this new support for CUSUR have also tried to reactivate the ODFFU in nearby Pittsburgh, and one of them (a subscriber of this newsletter) said that I should be hearing from their attorney.
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Volker, the moderator of this panel, chimed in, “I would add to that [analogy], not only shoot the archer, but shoot the arrow factory.” With Breedlove nodding along, Volker chuckled and continued, “or maybe you don’t have to shoot it, maybe you can go right up to it and blow it up, with a little help from some friends in the Middle East.” He laughed again but got serious. “So I think that’s something, frankly, we should be talking with Israel about.”
A few minutes later, Volker said to Mucker in the audience, “as you take up your new duties, I hope you’re able to make a persuasive case about how some active duty [U.S.] personnel embedded in Ukrainian forces as observers—not participants, but observers—would actually help us give much better advice and much better equipment.” After the lunch break, the deputy chief of mission at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington predicted that “American soldiers will have to be engaged, sooner or later.”
The second half of the all‐day event inadvertently dedicated about thirty minutes to the scenario that Ukraine collapses, and the West is faced with the question of supporting a nationalist insurgency. The main speaker, Paul Goble, is the Jamestown Foundation’s “specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia.” His apocalyptic obsession with breaking up Russia rivals any Banderite.
According to Jamestown, “he served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.”
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He vented about Zelensky’s conflict with Zaluzhny, months before the general got fired, “it has to stop, and American friends of Ukraine need to say, cut it out!” Ukraine’s conflict with Poland made him even more upset: “What IDIOT would attack that benefactor?!” This time, Karber reported that men at the front now “call themselves meat,” and sounded bewildered that conscripting young people is an “extremely sensitive” issue in Ukraine. “This is not sustainable, they’re gonna have to call a national draft.”
Stephen Blank, a former senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council, is another regular speaker at these events. “That’s a Russian operation,” he said about the Houthis in Yemen potentially cutting internet cables in the Red Sea. “It would not be surprising to see Russian drones or missiles coming from Russia, or Iranian missiles subcontracted from Iran, and so on […] to create a second front, essentially, and ties us down.” Two days before the Hamas‐led uprising in Gaza, this Cold Warrior from Brooklyn could hardly sound more excited for World War III.
All of these links to the neoliberal establishment are important to know. Less important—but more stunning—is that these neofascists are so resentful of this weblog’s antifascist author that somebody went so far as to suggest that he was (partly) responsible for the Russo‐Ukrainian conflict!
“Iryna from ODFFU,” as she introduced herself in one session, has assisted Phil Karber for years, among other things as a translator during many of his trips to the front line in Ukraine, which for him started in 2014, and for her in 2016. Just over a month ago this Banderite traveled with him to NATO headquarters in Brussels.
She has said that I “started the Russian propaganda that led to this war.” It’s plausible that she put Karber in touch with the “Capitulation Resistance Movement” led by OUN‐B in Ukraine. The former “International Secretary” of this far‐right “Resistance Movement” arranged the meetings for the AFPC delegation in January.
(Emphasis added in all cases.)
Click here for events that happened today (March 9).
1891: José Laurel, Axis collaborator, existed.
1932: The Imperialists named Zheng Xiaoxu the State of Manchuria’s Prime Minister, Xi Qia its Director of Finance, and inaugurated Puyi as its Chief Executive.
1933: SS leader Heinrich Himmler became the president of the München (Munich) police commission as members of the SA and Stahlhelm rioted against Jews.
1935: Berlin announced the establishment of a new national air force: the Luftwaffe.
1936: Koki Hirota became the 32nd Japanese Prime Minister.
1938: With the failure of the Spanish Republican attack upon Teruel, the Spanish Nationalists were now able to launch a new eastward offensive towards Aragon and Levante with the intention of cutting Republican Spain in half. The assault launched with General Fidel Dávila in command. Aside from that, Austrofascist Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced that a plebiscite was to take place on 13 March 1938 to decide Austria’s fate regarding the Reich’s threat. Upon learning the news, the Reich’s head of state became furious.
1939: Jozef Tiso temporarily lost his fascist government and Slovakia came under martial law due to the Czechoslovakian Presidency’s intervention. Haruki Isayama stepped down as the Chief of General Affairs Section of the Imperial Japanese Army and became the commanding officer of the 11th Depot Regiment.
1940: British forces released the Fascist coal ships detained on 7 March 1940 and announced that the United Kingdom would allow Fascist Italy to continue to import the Reich’s coal as long as it was through overland routes! Coincidentally, Fascist submarines U‐14, U‐38, and U‐28 all sank British, Irish, and Greek ships, respectively, massacring thirty‐one Britons, eleven Irelanders, and thirty Greeks.
1941: The Axis established an intelligence network in San Diego, California to observe the transportation of war materials! Less surprisingly, Benito Mussolini visited Tiranë, Albania; he announced on radio that he would personally lead a renewed offensive against Greece. On queue, twelve Axis divisions assaulted Greek lines through the Trebeshinë heights between Osum and Vjosë Rivers, yet the Greek First Army was generally able to hold the lines. Vichy France announced that authorization was now needed for Jews to vend or rent a company, and the Axis began to deport Polish Jews from the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) to the town of Chrzanow in southern Poland.
1942: Axis troops entered undefended Rangoon, Burma, abandoned by British ones two days prior.
1943: Erwin Rommel departed North Africa on account of health reasons. Likewise, Axis submarine U‐586 sank a U.S. merchant ship of Allied convoy RA‐53 northeast of Iceland, slaughtering nearly the entire crew. (The only survivor was fireman August Wallenhaupt, and he eventually lost both of his feet and most of his digits.) The Imperial Japanese Navy Kure 6th Special Naval Landing Force landed between Bairoko and Enogai and near the Munda airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands, and Rear Admiral Minoru Ota, commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy 8th Combined Special Landing Force, took responsibility for New Georgia’s defence.
1944: In a letter to Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler noted that by this date, about 36,000 prisoners were employed for various purposes for the Luftwaffe. He informed Göring that plans were being considered to increase the number to 90,000. Gusen II, a satellite of the Mauthausen concentration camp, opened at Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Austria. The Axis used prisoners of Gusen II to build underground aircraft and weapons factories. The Reich issued an order to build the prototype of Type XXVIIA submarines to Germaniawerft of Kiel, but Berlin suffered another bombing raid.
1945: The Eastern Axis invited French military officials to a banquet at Lang Son, Tonkin, French Indochina. At the banquet, a Colonel Shimizu ordered the arrest of all French invitees, while at the same time Imperial troops assaulted French military positions all across French Indochina. Similar events occurred across French Indochina as the Eastern Axis removed the French colonial leadership. By the end of the day, the Eastern Axis would declare the former French colonies of Tonkin and Annam as the newly restored independent Empire of Vietnam. Cochinchina in southern French Indochina remained under Imperial control with a nominal French commissioner. Apart from this, the Kriegsmarine laid down the keel of U‐3062 on Building Ways IV at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen while Axis troops launched an offensive toward Striegau (now Strzegom). In eastern Pommern, Berlin relieved Colonel General Walter Weiß of command of failing to halt the Soviet offensive, replacing him with Dietrich von Saucken. Tōkyō also suffered a horrendous and overly harsh incendiary bombing from the Western Allies.