{"id":2133,"date":"2022-05-25T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:14:57","slug":"update-on-ukraine-24-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2022\/05\/25\/update-on-ukraine-24-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Ukraine 24 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

What follows is an update on the Russian SMO (Special Military Operation) in Ukraine, now starting its fourth month. Like many readers, we all wonder how much longer it will continue. Perhaps astrology can offer some clues. As of this writing the Azov group has surrendered from their siege in the bowels of the Azovstal plant and the remaining Ukrainian troops in the Donbas republics are being pounded by the Russian and Donbas forces. Their end is nigh, either through surrender or other means.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, it is crunch time in Kiev<\/a><\/span>. The Western narrative about the conflict is beginning to fall apart, reflecting growing divisions among the Western elites. To start, Russia is not at war with Ukraine, strange as that might sound. It is not a conflict that is intended to \u2018defeat Ukraine\u2019 or to unseat Zelenskyy. It is more correctly called a police action<\/a><\/span>. This may seem to be splitting hairs and to be Russian propaganda, but a true war between Ukraine and Russia would look very different from what we are seeing. What we see instead is a slow, boring (to the media) grind every day as the Russians pursue their objectives \u2013 demilitarization and de-Nazification. Russia has stated those objectives clearly from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the preceding in mind, watch what the mainstream media is saying, as well as what they are not saying<\/a><\/span>. There are no new stories about atrocities by the Russians, for instance, and haven\u2019t been for the past few weeks. There have been no stories about atrocities committed by Ukrainians at all in the mainstream press, either, but that is usual for war propaganda. Instead, we are seeing fewer and fewer propaganda pieces about \u2018Ukrainian victories<\/a><\/span>\u2019 which are not true to the facts. What this tells us is there has been a shift in the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

What we have heard instead is Lloyd Austin calling Sergei Shoigu<\/a><\/span> and calling for a ceasefire.\u00a0 And then there was a recent call by Mark<\/span> Milley to Valery Gerasimov<\/span><\/a>, the Chiefs of Staff of their respective nations. One does not call one\u2019s opponent making such demands and talking if one is winning. The preceding is leading us to a point of consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, we just had the report of the Azovstal \u2018evacuation\u2019<\/a><\/span>, which is in fact a surrender to the Russian and Donbas forces, where an estimated 2,500 Azov and Ukrainian forces had been holed up for the past two months<\/span>.<\/a> All 2439 of them have surrendered, which included 78 women of the Azov or Ukrainian military. Then as well, there have been major military breakthroughs by the Russian forces in key strategic cities, and there is a lack of any reports from the Ukrainian side of any major factual military victories, the recent failure of Ukraine to re-take Snake Island and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, on the economic front, Ukraine is broke<\/a><\/span>. Biden\u2019s request for $40 billion in aid to Ukraine was stalled because of Rand Paul<\/a><\/span> in the Senate, with several senators questioning why it is even needed. But it was eventually passed, much to the shame of Congress<\/a><\/span>. Better to spend it on weapons and in Ukraine than on infrastructure and feeding our babies, we are told. But then, the great bulk of that, even, will not be going to weapons for Ukraine. It will be doled out<\/a> as follows<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c$8.7 billion will go to replenish the US weapons stockpile (thus not going to Ukraine at all); $3.9 billion for USEUCOM (the \u2018office\u2019 that dictates military tactics to Kiev); $5 billion for a fuzzy, unspecified \u201cglobal food supply chain\u201d; $6 billion for actual weapons and \u201ctraining\u201d to Ukraine; $9 billion in \u201ceconomic assistance\u201d (which will disappear into selected pockets); and $0.9 billion for refugees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, the 40 billion will be a giveaway to other agencies and arms manufacturers instead of going to help the troops in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army only get 15% of that for their heavy weapons. The total we have spent or tried to in Ukraine (we, being the US taxpayer) is around $53 billion. We are paying the salaries of the Ukrainian military, so of the $53 billion, most of that goes to US arms manufacturers and Ukrainian military salaries and replacing the old weaponry we have sent to Ukraine. That is approaching what the Russians spend on their entire military<\/a><\/span> in a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, Europe has no more sanctions to levy on Russia. The Europeans are now at the limit of what they can do economically to damage Russia and the latest tranche (the 6th<\/sup> lot) has been blocked<\/a><\/span>. As well, Turkey has blocked Finland and Sweden\u2019s accession to NATO<\/a><\/span> and Croatia has threatened to do so as well. On top of that, nation after<\/a> nation in the EU<\/a><\/span> is acceding to the Russian demands to pay for Russian resources in rubles, thus bypassing their own sanctions. And the ruble is now the best-performing currency in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of these remarks paint a picture of a nation like Ukraine that can win a war with Russia, and NATO will not be putting troops in Ukraine \u2013 not openly, anyway. So, what gives? What does the astrology show? The chart for 17 May with directions and transits is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The major points to note are the work of Saturn and Pluto. The directions show the prevailing conditions and undercurrents driving events. We see directed Saturn semisquare the Ukraine Ascendant, showing the heaviness of the public mood and the decisions that have to be made regarding the conflict. The directed Ascendant will begin to square natal Pluto in a month, and that is when the situation in Ukraine will begin to shift more dramatically, as in public opinion beginning to run counter to the government, the government (MC) being \u00a0ruled by Pluto.<\/span><\/p>\n

The direction of the Mercury\/Jupiter conjunction (representing the high optimism and major spin factor in evidence for the past year) to Mars is now all but finished, with the Saturn influence taking its place. A serious reality check is about to take place in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same conjunction, just mentioned, is conjunct Ukraine\u2019s Vertex. In fact, those are also joined in a stellium in Leo in the 7th<\/sup> house with Venus and the Sun, showing the natural high optimism, overt pride in their nationality, and overconfidence. That stellium also shows the beauty of the land and Ukraine\u2019s ability to forge partnerships with other nations. It gives them great attractive power and the ability to draw people into their cause, as we have seen since the start of the intervention. That is now beginning to turn sour. We would again expect the influence of Saturn, and indeed there is, by transit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Transiting Saturn will oppose the stellium (already is, though not exact) and make its retrograde station there in a couple of weeks. Public support outside of Ukraine is waning. Middle class British people, for instance, are starting to turn Ukrainian refugees away. \u2018Ukraine fatigue\u2019 across the West is setting in. Americans, Italians and people of many European nations are questioning sanctions and policies regarding Russia, especially regards sending Ukraine weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was a recent mass shooting in the US, for instance, by a young man who was a fan of the Azov clan. The EU has emptied its warehouses of weaponry to send to Ukraine, and most of it is generally useless to Ukrainian troops anyway<\/a><\/span>. Now the EU faces large expenses to rearm if they wanted to at a time when the EU is really strapped financially and facing huge supply issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

And inside Ukraine as well, we see women starting to protest the conscription of their men, with large numbers of those men unfit for combat, thrown to the front with little training and even less battle experience. The best troops are in the Donbas and were in Mariupol, which is now totally under Russian control.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one more factor to consider regarding Saturn, and probably the most important, and that is the transit of Saturn quincunx Ukraine\u2019s Mars. That transit shows a very jumpy vitality, especially as Mars represents the military in a national chart. The Saturn transit will basically be in effect off and on for the rest of this year and through January next year. The retrograde period of the transit squares the Meridian axis at the start of September.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturn makes its retrograde station quincunx to Mars within minutes of orb on 5th<\/sup> of June. We might expect a collapse of the major part of the Ukrainian military around that time. It is already collapsing in real time, from a lack of leadership and wholly untrained troops<\/a><\/span> being sent to the front lines. Mass surrenders are taking place. Troop losses due to death and injury amount to about 1,500 Ukrainian troops daily<\/em>. To say morale is low among the Ukrainian regular army would be understating the matter. And all the time Saturn has made its transit opposite the stellium it has been transiting on Ukraine\u2019s Moon, one of the more difficult transits one can experience. So, what has just happened?<\/span><\/p>\n

With the collapse of the Azov group in Mariupol this is a very big deal for the people of the Donbas, because Mariupol was the base for the Azov, from which the Donbas was besieged since 2014. The Azov was supposedly the best of the best of the militant groups in terms of their militarism. It is worth noting they were not a part of the regular Ukrainian military. Now that they have surrendered the Russians will step up their efforts against the remainder of the Ukrainian troops in the Donbas. Casualties on the Ukrainian side are expected to be high. And some very interesting information is set to come out from the bowels of Azovstal. This is one indication of the directed Ascendant square to Pluto. Pluto rules the underworld.<\/span><\/p>\n

Try as they might, the Ukrainians and Western news services have spun events at Azovstal as an \u2018evacuation\u2019, with \u2018mission accomplished\u2019. No one in independent media is buying the story. The running meme in social media regarding the \u2018evacuation\u2019 story is \u201cI laughed my Azov!\u201d Those Ukrainian troops have been \u2018evacuated\u2019 to the Donbas, with a few being taken directly to Russian facilities, where they will be treated (for the wounded), photographed, documents checked, identified, interrogated and possibly face war crimes charges. The Donbas is Russian territory now, for all intents and purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The regular marines who were at Azovstal will probably be exchanged for Russian POWs at some point. The Azov crowd will probably find themselves building cities in Siberia, if they make it out of the Donbas alive. Some \u2018evacuation\u2019, but spin is a big part of war.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the Americans and Europeans, what are they to expect? And what is their Plan B, since Ukraine is not working out very well for them? There are many theories floating around about what Western intentions are. One of them is for certain<\/a><\/span>: To bleed Russia dry to the last Ukrainian. This has been openly stated. The intention then is to go after China once the Russians are out of the way, so goes the plan. Some of the other theories are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n