Dont know where that came from. In my eagerness of enraged arguing, I argued “Nato bunkers having been present in Ukraine for years” - as one of the arguments of how the US was instrumental in provoking the Ukraine/Russian war - simply because I picked it up floating around in the past few days.
Double checking my arguments right now, it became obvious, that this seems to have been a largely unsubstantiated claim used by Russian propaganda in the past months.
It seemed so plausible…
After all, by now we know about NATO stayback initiatives, we know about the US initiatives what to do in Germany in case of a Russian nuclear attack during the cold war, we know, that the US directly helped and largely planned the destruction of the Moskwa, we know about the “instructors” being sent into Ukraine. We know about the misuse of the terms “instructors” in military operation planning. We know about the international intervention forces that are send to Ukraine. We know how they are integrated into Ukrainian bataillons. We know that a year before the attack the US tried to talk the Ukraine into fortifying its country with trenches, which Selenskyj back then denied out of economic considerations. We know about the real time battlefield information sharing thats going on. We know about the very strong ties (military educational background in the US) of three fourths of Selenskyjs senior staff, and we know about operational help in key sectors - by NATO military personal, to extend certain capabilities to Ukraine. edit: We also know about the security cooperation initiatives with the soon to be memberstate, and about the initiative to make the legal system of the Ukraine compatible with Nato decision structures. And we know about the military industrial cooperations and sectoral investments in Ukraine, shortly before the war (largely because Nato integration was planned and already on its way).
All of those are confirmed, or de facto public knowledge in military circles by now.
But no NATO bunkers in Ukraine.
I’m sorry.
And to make it worse, I dont even know where I picked that one up, probably “Weltwoche”, but I’m not sure on that one either.
Bad optics.
I’m sorry about that.
Now back to fuck you, fuck you and fuck you for the public orchestration that is “media work” concerning Ukraine topics these days.
I’ll research on the topic a bit longer, but I’m fairly sure that this was a fake narrative, that I was pandering, because I bought it for half a day - without even checking on it.
edit: Might even be, that I filed this news report wrong mentally:
Russia’s NATO neighbors are building hundreds of bunkers and anti-tank ditches in case of an invasion
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(They are building them on their own soil, of course.)
I simply dont know.
edit: Found it!
It wasn’t NATO, it was the CIA.
And it wasnt Weltwoche, it was the Austrian yellow page paper exxpress in an article yesterday, referring to a New York Times report.
New York Times: CIA betreibt seit Jahren zwölf geheime Kommandobunker in der Ukraine
Der US-Geheimdienst CIA spielt schon lange eine maßgebliche Rolle in der Ukraine, berichtet die New York Times. Zwölf geheime Bunker wurden seit 2014 unweit der russischen Grenze errichtet. Sie sammeln Informationen über russische Aktivitäten und trainieren ukrainische Spezialkommandos. Auch Drohnen- und Raketenangriffe sind von ihnen aus möglich.
src: click
Sorry for having mixed up CIA and NATO in this instance, and sorry for having been so naive, that I though I had to correct myself here, because I was inadvertently consuming fake news.
I wasnt.
Well, good to know… Thats actually a relief, because It means, this time it was a simple mistake, and I dont have to vet my media consumption routine more closely than I already do.
Fuck this world.
Diese Gesellschaft ist das absolut grotesk und abartigst Allerletzte.
