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Poroshenko's Detailed 'Plan B'

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KIEV (Radsoft) — Infamous Rand Corporation seem to have supplied Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko with a peacekeeping plan for Donbass, the southeastern edge of Ukraine especially frightened by the February coup that installed the neo-Nazis of Svoboda and Right Sector in key posts of an increasingly bloody junta.

The Crimeans ran for their lives - and Russia accepted their application for membership in the federation; both Donetsk and Lugansk also held referendums to formalise their distance, but Moscow remained silent: the eagerness of US neocons to engage in all-out war was well known.

Vicious military attacks on Donbass began the very evening of the presidential election, an election marred by the reluctance of Donbass to participate. Many certainly remembered the bestial threat of installed prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, calling them 'sub-human' and vowing to chase them to the ends of the earth, to the end of time, 'scorched earth' beneath their feet.

They certainly remember the massacres in Mariupol, Odessa, and other places. They certainly remember Inna.

The people of Donbass aren't ever going to feel comfortable with Kiev, whilst Kiev must at all costs retain Donbass: Shell have dozens of shale rigs in the region, and US expansionism dictates staying close to the border of the Russian bear.

Therefore a 'Plan B'. This time courtesy the Rand Corporation. The plan could have been personally delivered on any one of countless visits by foreign power brokers - Biden, Brennan, Bildt - who staunchly defend Ukraine against outside influences.

Poroshenko was undoubtedly aware of this plan when he made a statement on his website in the third week of June.

'Peaceful scenario - it is our plan A. But those who expect to use the peace talks only to gain time to regroup should know that we have a detailed plan B. I am not going to talk about it now, because I believe that our peace plan will work.'

There's no indication any 'Plan A' exists: shelling began immediately Poroshenko was declared winner of the election; now, thanks to Before It's News, three successive RT outlets - and of course a whistleblower - 'Plan B' is out in the open.

Rand Corporation are a 'nonprofit global policy think tank formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces'. Sometimes they offer advice to others as well.

Confidential

MEMORANDUM
On the advisable course of action in case the peace plan fails

In case further negotiation with southeast Ukrainian insurgents should prove futile, the only practicable solution should be a swift crackdown on the separatists and terrorists, to be undertaken irrespective of public opinion or operation costs. Procrastination would dramatically reduce the operation's chances of success.

Possible political and material downsides of an operation should be greatly outweighed by the following probable gains:

  • Activists of a pro-Russian political movement get decimated, pro-Russian voters get disorganized.
  • A significant share of the region's coal industries get destroyed in the fighting, or are otherwise designated for a quick shutdown, thus relieving Ukraine's budget of the burdensome subsidy costs.
  • Shutting down Donbas industries will mean a stark reduction in gas consumption, and therefore a lesser dependency on Russian energy imports.
  • Rinat Akhmetov and his clan's political and economic clout is considerably weakened.
  • Ukraine's current economic and social difficulties can be explained to the public as the unwanted yet unavoidable consequences of the military operation, which the Ukrainian government has been keen yet unable to avoid due to the terrorists' intransigence.

The Presumable Stages of a Military Operation

Stage One: Total isolation of the rebel region

Considering that any resident of the Donetsk Region and the Lugansk Region has had enough time and opportunities to leave the area of hostilities provided that they wanted to do so, anyone who has stayed behind should be regarded as complicit in the unrest, or supportive of it.

Martial law shall be introduced in the defiant regions. All local authorities shall have their competencies terminated, the Constitution shall be suspended. Direct presidential rule shall be imposed.

The region shall be encircled with troops and sealed off entirely from any flow of goods and persons, both incoming and outgoing. Special attention shall be given to areas that border on Russia. Broadcasting services, Internet connection, telephone and mobile communications in the region shall be shut down. A curfew shall be imposed between 20:00 and 06:00. International media staff working in the region shall be subject to a special procedure.

Stage Two: Mop-up

The circle of troops around the rebel region shall be tightened gradually. Ground assaults shall be preceded by air strikes against the enemy's strategic facilities, artillery and mortar teams, and bunched-up troops. The use of non-conventional arms shall not be ruled out in certain cases in order to ensure smaller casualties among our own personnel.

Settlements shall be liberated one by one, with armor going in first and wiping out the remaining pockets of resistance, shooting to kill anyone who bears arms. Infantry shall move in next to relocate male adults to intermittent camps. Anyone who attempts to resist shall be executed on the spot. Children under 13 and people older than 60 shall be moved to specially equipped facilities in areas that are further away from the zone of the anti-terrorist operation.

Internment camps shall be set up outside the settlements that have been cleared, and guarded by units who are considered to be ideologically safe. People featuring traces of combat engagement, like bruises, scuff marks, gunshot and fragment wounds, traces of gunpowder and gun oil on the skin and clothes, shall be tried in court for separatism and terrorism. After a two-month period of internment, the remaining individuals shall be allowed to return to places of their residence and be placed under surveillance by security services.

Stage 3. Back to Normal

Military specialists shall be employed to restore water, heat, power supplies and communications.

The borders shall be strengthened, with checkpoints set up to avoid possible provocations by Russia and to prepare for a massive return of refugees. Those who fled the warzone shall be allowed to return to their place of residence. However, men aged 18-60 shall be checked for possible support for separatists in internment camps. The property of convicted and displaced residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions shall be nationalized by the state and later awarded to the servicemen who would be distinguished for valor during the anti-terrorist campaign.

Special focus shall be made on information security, which means that the area of the anti-terrorist campaign shall be made off limits to foreign media. Stories of heroism and courage of Ukraine's armed forces, the National Guard and other armed units in saving civilians in the east of Ukraine from terrorists and armed gangs shall be spread as broadly as possible.

Note: If the active stage of the anti-terrorist operation ends no later than September 1, 2014, martial law shall be lifted no earlier than January 1, 2015.

English RT summarise as follows:

'Stage 1: Suspend Constitution, impose martial law
'Stage 2: Internment camps for male adults, any one resisting to be killed on the spot
'Stage 3: Property of convicted and displaced to be nationalised'


To which can be added:

'Stage 4: media spin.

'The area of the anti-terrorist campaign shall be made off limits to foreign media. Stories of heroism and courage of Ukraine's armed forces, the National Guard and other armed units in saving civilians in the east of Ukraine from terrorists and armed gangs shall be spread as broadly as possible.'


Which pretty much fits the formula used through every conflict, including the second world war.

Verbal's 'greatest trick' was only second best.

The unbelievable dignity that she has maintained in her devastating fatal circumstances - her piercing eyes, looking up at you and her not screaming for help for herself, but in a very pleasant stoical polite voice asking for help for a person (already dead) lying next to her.
 - Vera Filatova on Inna Kukurudza

See Also
Learning Curve: Remember Odessa
Heroes Banquet: RIP Inna Kukurudza
Vera Filatova: There Are Memories That Live in the Heart
Vera Filatova: I Grieved for Western Tragedies But They Will Not Grieve for Mine
Vera Filatova: Official Complaint to the BBC About Whitewashing Kiev's War Crimes
Before It's News: Ukrainian President uses RAND corporation plan in eastern Ukraine
RT English: Leaked: 'US think-tank plan' on E Ukraine suggests internment camps, executions
RT Español: Documento filtrado: Poroshenko borraría Donbás del mapa si fracasan las conversaciones
RT На Русском: План по усмирению восточной Украины для Порошенко подготовило американское агентство RAND

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