Kyiv, Ukraine News Conference - May 12, 2022 - THE NEW FACE OF WAR IN UKRAINE

 

United States military and intelligence analyst/investigator Andy Martin will hold a Kyiv news conference Thursday, May 12 to issue his first analysis on “The New Face of War” in Ukraine. Andy believes the conventional wisdom about the status of Putin’s War is mistaken, and that aid approved by Congress and signed by the President will demolish Russian forces by Christmas. “Russian leaders, who exist in a bubble, have no idea what is about to hit the invaders in Ukraine,” Andy says. Andy is also a New Hampshire, US Republican U. S. Senate candidate who has worked in Washington for many decades.

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NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

Where: Sidewalk in front of the Intercontinental Hotel, Kyiv.

When: May 12, 2022

Time: 3:00 P.M.

Disclaimer: Andy’s presence in front of the Intercontinental does not imply any connection to or endorsement from the hotel (although he endorses Intercontinental Hotels as his favorite place to stay)

(Kyiv, Ukraine)(May 11, 2022)

Dear Reader:

Somewhere, up in the heavens, World War II American super-General George S. Patton, who may have been assassinated by Russian operatives, in smiling. After the end of the war in Europe, Patton stated that the U.S. should invade Eastern Europe to free the captive nations that had been surrendered to Soviet slavery by President Franklin Roosevelt. The backlash to Patton's remarks was immediate and intense. No one wanted more war, even though many agreed that the Soviet Union would some day have to be defeated in a subsequent conflict.

Vladimir Putin said May 9^th that his invasion of Ukraine is a continuation of World War II. Putin has no idea what is about to hit him. Billions of dollars in American military assistance, skillfully employed by Ukrainian freedom fighters, is about to devastate the Russian invasion forces. Putin wants the Second World War back? He is about to get it. General Patton’s vision is being realized, 77 years later, by Ukrainian forces.

The convention wisdom is that Putin has been grabbing territory and pursuing his plan for the south and east of Ukraine, and that at some point Putin will satisfy his appetite for conquest and stop. The conventional wisdom is wrong.

The Ukrainian government has stated its policy is to remove the invaders from all of occupied Ukraine, including Crimea.

My blog, Contrarian Commentary, for decades has been questioning conventional wisdom and exposing the errors of politicians far removed from the battle.

Let me be candid: When I announced my trip to Ukraine in March, if you had told me Congress would vote $40 billion in expanded aid, I would have said “unlikely.” But Congress has now voted an avalanche of military and economic support for Ukraine.

America is moving towards a mobilization to defeat Putin, the second greatest threat to world peace. Weapons factories are reopening in the U.S. Production lines are being activated. America is once again the “Arsenal of Democracy.” The impact of Washington’s votes on Ukraine aid has yet to be understood and digested in Moscow and Berlin. The money amounts to the equivalent of a new post-war Marshall Plan. The free world cannot afford to lose. Ironically, America and the UK are mobilizing but Russia apparently is not.

The role played by the UK has been an incredible one. When America hesitated months ago, Great Britain stepped up to backstop the Ukrainians. British munitions factories are also going to be revived. The coming weapons flow is unlike anything seen since 1945. What is going to happen to all those rockets? Artillery shells? Drones? They are going to be targeted at Russians. Targeted at Russians.

To date, Putin has been playing his old games: changing street signs in Donbas, holding bogus elections to annex territory, the usual type of Soviet enslavement tactics. But Russian forces will subjected to firepower of a kind not seen since – of course – Patton’s Third Army slaughtered Germans, causing the Reich to finally collapse.

The successor to Patton’s Third Army is Ukrainian defense forces. Ukrainian defenders have pushed back Russian troops; as the flood of new weapons arrives, Russians will lack the means to defend their invasion gains.

Starting tomorrow, in a series entitled “The New Face of War,” I will explain how this war is different from any conflict since WW II, and why the conventional wisdom is wrong.

Unlike Korea, Viet-Nam and Afghanistan, American troops are not needed. In fact, Ukrainians have proven so skilled at deploying their exiting weapons that UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said, only half-jokingly, that Ukrainians may need to start training British troops, not vice versa. Ukrainian tactics are already being adopted by U.S. forces.

I began in college as a military cadet, a Cold Warrior. Over the decades, from Saigon to Kyiv, I have been in war zones and conflicts. My experience is that the conventional wisdom usually looks backward. Wrong.

Ukrainians have no place to retreat. It is not Putin who is cornered; is the people of Ukraine whose homes have been destroyed by the most evil invading force since Germany’s Third Reich.

In the mid-1990’s, under brilliant British analysts, I began studying the European Union. Brexit was the product of their pioneering endeavors. Today the European Union has clay feet. French leader Macron is in love with himself; his phone calls to Putin are a travesty. Germany’s “Sergeant Schultz” (Hogan’s Heroes) Chancellor Scholz is a joke, effectively a Russian asset who pays billions of dollars to finance Putin’s atrocities. America and Britain have exposed the collaboration of French and German industrialists with Russia’s war machine. The head of Volkswagen is crying for appeasement and debasement. Sickening and disgraceful. But Ukrainian freedom fighters have called their bluff.

Other EU countries, and solid allies such as Poland, make France and Germany look small and irrelevant, an embarrassment to their own incompetence and impotence. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s Viktor Orban is, well, Orban. Carlson is a foreign policy jerk.

Please stay with us in the coming days for a “Contrarian” view of Putin’s War, from someone who has been right before, while the conventional wisdom was wrong, wrong, wrong.

From Kyiv, the capital of a free Ukraine.

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Rédacteur en Chef,

Andy Martin

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire, United States-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With over fifty (50) years of background in radio and television and with decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

Andy holds both Economics and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind the Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire over 100 years ago; today he is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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