Global SITREP A10-22: The Next Level Crisis

The Russian Army or The Army of Gog of Magog?

Update 3 March 2022: The question has been asked about where one could locate Ezekiel 38's Magog on a map. In new searching the short answer to the question is that there are old maps which illustrate Magog being located in two geographical locations, but within the territorial continuity of the present day Russian Federation. One is in the region of the North Caucasus, and the second is in the region of far northern region of Russian East Asia. So from this aspect the Russian Federation can be identified as Magog. And then there's near-antiquity ancient writers such as Josephus, and others as well, who also put the pin on the map in the North Caucasus, and identify the people who lived there as Scythians. Again, Russian Federation.

In the comments section recommended "Potential Wildcard" article from The Jamestown Foundation (well worth the read from an intel perspective) the topic Eschatology Today brought up very recently about the demographics of the Russian Federation emerges yet again. Truly, this is keen insight about the demographics of the army Ezekiel says will be led by hooks in Gog's jaw, like a cloud covering the land, to its destruction on the mountains of Israel. The current warfighting in Ukraine by the Russian Army also provides strong clues concerning the demographic make-up of that near-future army.

And the image above taken directly from The Jamestown Foundation article speaks thousands of words to this same effect. Take a close look. Are those soldiers ethnic Russians (i.e. Slavic men)? They are citizens of the Russian Federation without any doubt. But ethnic Russians they are not. To a very high percentage they are from the Republics of the Russian Federation located in the north, central and east Asian part of the country. Ezekiel noted them as Magogites, but ethnically there are any of a number of Turkic peoples, Chechens, Avars, Mordvins, Buryats, Tungusic Evens and so on. You get the point being made here.

In Ukraine it has become apparent in less than a week of warfare that a great number of ethnic Russian troops have zero desire to be fighting their ethnic kin in Ukraine. A widely publicized letter from a Russian conscript to his mother reveals the nonsense the ethnic Russian troops were spoon-fed by leadership in Moscow about it all being an exercise that Ukrainians would welcome them as liberators from the "Ukrainian nazi's," and so on and so on. The fact is that ethnic Russian forces have surrendered to Ukrainian forces by the squadron, battalion and brigade-size formations. They sabotage their own combat vehicles so they cannot advance further; holes punched in fuel tanks are a common occurrence according to battlefield intel. So, it is the non-ethnic Russians who are continuing the advance into Ukraine; turning cities block by block into rubble despite ferocious Ukrainian resistance. A true juggernaut.

This war has led to a much closer current-day identification of the actual ethnic make-up of the "Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; Gomerites and Togarmah from the far north" who will be brought to their destruction in Israel.

Decapitated Russian T-72B3 Main Battle Tank in Ukraiine

2 March 2022: Regarding the Biden SOU speech last night, it was worthless pablum filled to the brim with platitues and banalities, and nothing that Ukrainians need to roll back the Russian invasion and its indiscriminate war crimes against the civilian population. To her diplomatic credit Ukraine's Ambassador remained at her seat and politely applauded.

Near Kharkiv a Ukrainian army unit composed of footsoldiers and one APC put its Javelins and NLAWs to great effect in causing a Russian armor battalion, including the battalion commander, to flee for their lives from the fight. The net result of this engagement was the Ukrainian Army's sudden acquisition of six, "very low milage," (i.e. brand-spanking new) T-80BVM main battle tanks that were just plain abandoned in full opeerational order. These T-80s MBTs will be dressed in Ukrainian colors and returned to the fight very soon.

Russian losses now total nearly 6,000 troops KIA; 30 strike aircraft shot down, more than 1,000 armored vehicles destroyed; 85 artillery and 9 anti-aircraft systems destroyed as well. In addition to the captured T-80BVM tanks, the Ukrainian Army has also captured 60 fuel trucks and 40 MLRS artillery vehicles.

The Russian invasion has five main lines of attack: Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mariupol and Chernihiv. In all of these the Russian advance has been severely blunted or stalled outright. This is the rationale for expecting Putin to resort to the increased utilization of internationally banned weaponry.

1 March 2022: There are so many rumors, psyops, disinfo campaigns and just plain insanity going on that its been difficult in the last 24 hours to know what has truly taken place. I believe that reports of the EU or NATO sending fighter jets to Ukraine were false; the NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg affirmed as much a short time ago. No troops either. But that could change if certain things nobody wants to see take place actually take place.

President Zelenskyy's impassioned via internaet speech to the EU Parliament was unlike any I've heard from a national leader under similar conditions, except maybe the recording of Winston Churchill during the WWII Battle of Britain. Perhaps Zelenskyy's speech, for which he received a standing ovation, will be remembered similarly. I also believe it to be true that the Chechen Kadyrov assassination squad sent to Ukraine by Russia to take out Zelenskyy has been annihilated. Rumor is the Russian FSB is against the war and gave info to Ukrainian security services that resulted in the killing of all the assassins. Also, he Wagner group mercenaries in Ukraine are also being hunted by Ukrainian forces; several have been eliminated in recents days.

So, pending the content of the State of the Union speech by Joe Biden tonight this keyboard will be silent until then.

28 February 2022: The image above is symbolic of the risk Russia has taken with its ill-advised invasion of Ukraine - Russia has lost its head with this insanity. But the insanity continues and is in fact escalating to a point of potential, if not a probable nuclear exchange. This is reflected in the decision of Byelarus to renounce its non-nuclear state status so it can accept Russian nuclear weapons being deployed in its territory which has a common border with NATO and the EU.

The next 24-36 hours will be crucial in what developments take place, many of which have been noted in the comments of the previous Special Report SITREP A9:22. 

Marana'tha!