What I find annoying and irritating is how the entire Western media-state machine has uniformly sided with Ukraine and painted them as some kind of freedom loving vanguards defending their homes and livelihoods against Russian aggression
The harsh reality is that Ukraine is a complicated place that is a big mess. They are supremely corrupt, and have significant armed elements that are actual, literal Nazis (hello, Azov battalion?), and the factional problems in the east/Crimea are not new. Everyone forgets that the Ukrainian army in the Crimea basically joined the Russian side. This has also happened to some extent in Donbas etc in the east
Putin cannot and will never be able to occupy and pacify western ukraine. But I don't think it was about that. The two nations have longstanding differences that date back to 1989.
Now, that doesn't make what Russia has done right. War is never the answer. But these sanctions are insane - they will not solve anything; name one sanctions regime that actually resulted in regime change or behavioral change; and the cost will be borne by common folk both in and outside of Russia. It is almost like the covid folk were told "Russia economic lockdown - go!" and proceeded to go to town. Meanwhile, social media and news is absolutely ablaze with every armchair warrior imaginable saying the Russians should be fought down to the last Ukrainian. Just give them Javelins and F-16s, that will do it!
My hope is that Putin & Zelensky come to an accord - let the Eastern regions be autonomous/Russian, declare Ukraine as neutral with a nonaggression pact from Russia, no more Nato expansion, and end the war. The world has enough to deal with.
Putin set out the terms for peace. Recognition of the separatists republics; recognition of Crimea as Russian, and that Ukraine should remain neutral.
Doesn't make it true, but he says with that agreement he would walk away. Ukraine is "thinking about it".
My guess is they're playing for time and hoping they get real military support from the West. Certainly they're winning the propaganda war. They'll have Europeans desperate for nuclear war if things go on as at present.
yes, I almost included this in the post, but I wanted to keep it as abstract and general as possible. Ukraine should obviously accept the terms and it's that they're not. i suspect their western backers urge (or order?) them not to.
That would include George Soros...he is backing the Ukraine, as is Biden Crime Fami;ly and of course the Clinton GRIFTERS through their foundation are now again open for "business"....I weep for my country.
The way they see the world is one where kindness is weakness.
As part of my bucket list that started soon after I realized the GFC was the beginning of the end ... I went on Safari in Africa.
On one excursion we watched a gazelle give birth -- immediately various predators arrived - they surrounded the mother and the baby -- none were big enough to take down the mother but they all tried to snatch (and eat) the baby.... the mother frantically charged at each of them in turn but eventually one of them grabbed the baby and the mother watched in distress as they tore it apart.
All the predators had the same goal - get that baby and eat it --- none of them thought to themselves -- poor mother - poor baby --- I think I'll just give this a pass and hope to find something else to eat.
It is in our nature to fight for more because we are competing with others for a limited and finite resource pool.
If we do not compete and instead allow kindness and sympathy to guide us (koombaya) ... others will snatch the baby and eat it.
They will become strong ... we will weaken... and eventually they will snatch us and we go from a global power ... to scraping along on the tiny handouts from the winners.
'Imagine' and 'Give Peace a Chance' are only songs... they can be dangerous songs if a country tries to live by the lyrics.
I hate that Mother Nature is red in tooth and claw...Am I being silly if I want to beleive that original sin was eating meat and the murder we have to do for it? I want so much to believe that in heaven, everyone eats grass...and it is as good for you and as tasty as meat.
For all their desired end purposes, I cannot see why the west/globalist system would.
Had Putin not foolishly attacked so much of the country and wreaked such havoc he could have probably gotten all the territory he wanted and use the threat of further attacks to get neutrality.
But by going 'large' and invading Ukraine from three directions, he has dramatically slowed his ability to take ground, also he has allowed the West to form powerful reprisals and allowed westerners imaginations to be stirred.
He has directly focused the Western mind / globalist system, who have tremendous attention and leverage that would allow them to shut down his economy and break him.
Since China allied with Russia I think they also see an opportunity to break China ( and nix any ideas China might have for a quick takeover of Taiwan) as well. IMHO I cannot see it in any of the West's/globalists interests in giving Putin anything that he wants as they will use this as an opportunity to take him out of office in a regime change and directly control Xie in China.
I feel the globalists are looking at China and Russia as a two-fer. A chance to tie them together and knock them both back and break their systems for their full control, fun and profit.
But the west's patchy reprisals will only make matters worse for them and bring them to the brink of catastrophic inflation and bankruptcy - Russia has other - better - sources of support.
Biden's team globe trotting trying to find a source of gas and oil from the likes of Iran, Venezuela and Saudi!
Russian markets re-opened did not crash. Ruble up from the lows. I can assure you Putin thought all this through. Contrary to the "narrative" - one thing he is not is an idiot or stupid
You are unfortunately incorrect - it's probably not your fault - I get it there is a massive amount of propaganda. Putin did NOT "wreak such havoc" - he is in fact avoiding that at all costs. It would be so simple for Putin to level Ukraine in a few days, but he is purposely not doing that. Just think about it. Russian army is 1m, plus 2m in reserve. Ukranian army is 200K with another 200K reserve. There is literally no chance there. The US or Nato or any western country is never getting involved all the way. So again Ukraine never stood a chance regardless of what they tell you on TV. I always suggest logic before just accepting the "narrative". Putin has not been slowed (again propaganda) - he is doing things at exactly the pace he wants to do it (he is in control here, no one else), in fact Putin has already won. And the west cannot "shut down" or "break" Putin. I suggest you simply look up what and how much of it Russia exports and where. I suggest you consider what happens if they stop. I suggest you consider what happens if Russia says (already happened) we don't want to accept dollars for our exports, just Rubles. Just think about it - sincerely.
The problem with your analysis is you assume the "West" wishes to continue with the status quo. In fact, a cabal of Western elites wants to restructure "capitalism", and replace it with a system best described as international fascism - The Great Reset.
To implement this system they need to impoverish their populations in a way that does not create internal conflict that is not controllable. You can see it beginning in some Western nations that are in truth no longer liberal democracies. Effectively most of the middle and working class in the West will have to give up owning their own homes and vehicles. Carefully escalating war with Russia might provide cover for such a change.
The original mantra of the Great Reset recorded in video was "You'll own nothing and be happy". The latest incarnation (search YouTube) of the video says "By 2050 will we own anything?".
The moral justification for this change is to reduce excessive consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. The reality is that it will concentrate all wealth in the elites.
If Putin doesn't get what he wants he may well escalate to nuclear. He has the advantage in tactical nuclear.
He has known for some time his military weakness and so targeted technologies that give him the advantage in battlefield warfare. If he wanted he could level Ukraine in an afternoon. But there are millions of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and Putin is a nationalist. (Which is why you haven't see more devastation - not that what there is isn't enough).
In a nuclear war Putin may well have the advantage. And western elites are fully aware.
As for China, sadly you couldn't be more wrong. US elites are completely in bed with China. Everything you see happening makes China stronger.
Check out the investments in China by key Biden backers like Larry Fink and Mike Bloomberg. Not to mention key politicians links to China on both sides of the US Congress.
If war in Ukraine escalates expect an immediate invasion of Taiwan. In fact it could be just the excuse Xi needs. Google "the Theucydides Trap" if you don't believe me.
If there is anyone sane among Western politicians they should be encouraging that Ukraine accept the Russian offer and promise to fund the reconstruction of Ukraine with de facto (if not formal) inclusion of Ukraine in the EU economic area.
There is no advantage in a nuclear confrontation: only megadeath.
I do however suspect that a lot of Russian missiles are in mossy silos, with Cold War controls and aging rusty doors, and that many of them would either be duds, or blow up in their own silos.
I think that if China tries to invade Taiwan, they will be thumped, and very hard. Taiwan is an island state, and quite wealthy, with many friends, so unless China chooses to obliterate Taiwan in a pre-emptive nuclear strike, (and accept the logical response from the USA) they will have to put boots on the ground, and this means a contested amphibious invasion.
I don't think this would be very pretty: Taiwan is armed to the teeth with some state of the art defence technologies.
You would have to ask this: what sane person would even consider this risk?
Agree with you on China oh, the country and the economic Mercantile ztone,, respectfully disagree regarding chairman Xi. I think he wants to run his own system the way Putin does. And I'm not certain they're going to let him
Absolutely wrong. Russian army is 5 to 15 times the size of Ukraine's. Ukraine never had a chance. Putin doesn't need to go "nuclear" - he already won and doing it at his own pace with minimal damage (he could have leveled the place in days).
I wonder how long Putin might be around regardless. This is not playing out the way they thought it would and cannot help but think many people are less than impressed that are right behind him. Apparently Poland has now released their mig's to Nato for use.
In the US look at the mouthpieces for deep State and the globalists, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, both have been openly talking about somebody stepping up as a Brutus. Could not be less surprised than if they were setting up something to help somebody take over with support from the West.
As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times, but holy hell, enough already.
There won't be regime change, Zelensky can't be unseated. Putin would be wise to keep him - the West has hero worship for him, and his populace accepts his government. He has to stay.
It would be nice if someone could whistleblow on how much he is hiding offshore. He was one of the politicians named in the pandora papers. Some truth and transparency could knock the media's new darling down a few notches.
What are you talking about? He is just an extremely successful actor! Worth at least 10 times more than tom cruise, because he is at least 10 times better of an actor :)
Zelensky is a puppet and a talking head, not a real leader. (Hm, someone else comes to mind...) If his masters decide that he must stay he'll probably stay, otherwise he'll surely go.
I know it's basically like a SNL sketch but still - how can anyone vote for a clown with a bad coke habit? I'll never get it. Then again we had Senator Franken. And to think of it we have a clown / puppet as persident now, with a son with a coke habit - so close.
so what's the problem with Zelensky's leadership? That he's defied the common sterotypes of who should be leading a country? That he's inspired grassroots support in his country and many other places?
The problem is that he has $40 million in an offshore account from a criminal oligarch, as a good-faith payment for allowing this oligarch to resume criminal banking practices. The problem is that he jails the opposition and shuts down media criticism. The problem is that he resumed shelling the Donbass during this crisis as a pretext for war and NATO involvement. The problem is that he publicly announced he wants nuclear weapons at the Munich Security Conference on 2/22/22, like a lunatic. The list is much longer. Would you like some more Zelensky problems?
And Putin has no money "saved offshore" and he has never killed anyone who opposed him. He is a saint to be honored. I am surprised by the Putin worship on this thread. Zelensky is a piker in comparison. I am grateful that I don't live anywhere in that region.
Russians don’t care that Putin diverted the wealth of oligarchs to himself while he was exiling them to an island in the Sea of Okhotsk. They are far more gratified that he stopped them from looting the rest of Russian wealth along with the oligarch’s friends from the Harvard School of Economics. That Putin killed his enemies may be true only if comparable to the CIA’s assassins who have been pulling the trigger on America’s enemies since WWII and who are almost certainly making concrete boots for Russian rebels in the Donbass since 2014. Zelensky is a criminal clown working at the behest of oligarch criminals.
Ding ding DING! U got it. A great big money laundering place that Ukraine. The WEF shadow gov’t doesn’t want the apple cart disturbed, but too much focus on the Pfizer papers release is bad for business. Squirrel!!!
Seems pretty inclusive to me... whats your issue with that? In the UK we had a Jewish Prime Minister back in the 19th century: Benjamin Disraeli, though it got a bit sticky:
"In 1847 a small political crisis occurred which removed Bentinck from the leadership and highlighted Disraeli's differences with his own party. In that year's general election, Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the City of London. As a practising Jew he could not take the oath of allegiance in the prescribed Christian form, and therefore could not take his seat. Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild was a member for the City of London, proposed in the Commons that the oath should be amended to permit Jews to enter Parliament."
Disraeli spoke in favour of the measure, arguing that Christianity was "completed Judaism", and asking the House of Commons "Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?"
Disraeli did not have several nazis organizations in his government. Disraeli did not shell his citizens and burn them alive in a building (Odessa 2014).
“…the West has hero worship for him, and his populace accepts his government. He has to stay.”
I do not share your view. The WEF, NATO and EU leaders and their servile media have mad him a hero. The reality is different when reading the alternative well balanced media. Zelensky is an artificial head of state. He is a Jewish puppet who allowes all the fascist movements Svoboda, Right Sector, UPA-OUN, etc…to “legitimize” their government.
The people in charge are Vitali Klitschko. Oleg Tyahnybok, Andriy Tarasenko, Dmytro Yarosh, Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy, Leuko Lukkyanenko and still Fatherland’s Yula Tymoshenko.
Most of these politicians, former ultra-nationalists, are among the most corrupt, dedicated Pro-European after being manipulated by NATO and von der Leyen’s and Merkel’s promises to join the EU.
Zelensky can be unseated like Poroshenko, Yanukovych, Yushchenko many others since 1991.
We have to remember that the first President after the Fall of the Iron curtain was Leonid Kravchuk, who had to resign after George Bush pressured him to accept pro-western reforms while Kravchuk was claiming he was a nationalist for an indépendant Ukraine, did not want any nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil and no Peace Corps program.
I had understood that Zelensky’s approval rating was quite low prior to this conflict. While the global community has lauded him as Winston Churchill, I am curious if Ukrainians are as approving - seems like he has some responsibility for this mess. Thoughts?
I think whatever his approval was, it has likely skyrocketed now as a result of the invasion and the star power that he has attained. W had the same after 9/11 if I recall
Doubt it. He will be removed sooner or later. You don't come back from a loss like this. Putin won't even have to do it - the same oligarchs that put him in power, will remove him for the incompetence.
People are very unclear on what the endgame is. Even pro-Putin Russians I've been reading lately think that he did not have any good choices. The war was the least bad one.
That said, my take is that he decided that now is the best opportunity to mortally wound the Empire.
And, of course, there is a conspiracy theory that he is really in cahoots with the globalists and this is all part of the PLAN.
One wonders what is really going on in Ukraine - where are all the videos from mobile phones of the death and destruction? For the most part I am seeing photos of piles of garbage and women holding children in a queue....
An interesting report done ~ a month ago. Some suggest Kyiv is being somewhat spared because it's quite historic and bombing would make for bad news given that. Putin has been stalled in getting enough forces to use some longer range shells. OTOH, Russian bombers are still worried over Ukraine air defenses which are still functional. Those sat images from the Donbas show a lot of damage. For them the war is more than real.
Malenkly, the conspiracy theory that Putin is in cahoots with the globalists makes as much sense as the WEF PLAN you reference. I cannot get my head around this supposed WEF PLAN that many on Substack believe and accept. This may make me naive, unsophisticated, and gullible in the eyes of the True Believers, and I may be just that. But it appears to me, reading these discussions of the globalist plan, that you (generalized) believe the globalist have already won. What is left is the mopping up. So why argue, resist, fail to comply? Isn't it too late? This may be the root of Berenson labeling Eugyppius nihilistic.
> I cannot get my head around this supposed WEF PLAN that many on Substack believe and accept.
I do not believe it, either. It was sort of a tongue-in-cheek comment.
> you (generalized) believe the globalist have already won
What I personally believe is that the forces being unleashed in the world are so powerful that direct resistance is totally futile and counter-productive. The best we can do is to do our best to understand what is going on, what it is that we are trying to achieve, and "ride the wave", so to speak.
[Tangentially related: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - Sun Tzu]
>This may be the root of Berenson labeling Eugyppius nihilistic.
Here is a good working definition of nihilism: "Nihilism holds that there is no meaning or value anywhere. Questions about purpose, ethics, and sacredness are unanswerable because they are meaningless. You might as well ask about the sleep habits of colorless green ideas as about the meaning of life." - https://meaningness.com/nihilism
Refusal to fight a losing battle for the sake of fighting, or to choose a side in a false dichotomy forced on you is not nihilism. (To be clear: I am not saying that fighting losing battles never makes sense, but it's a different conversation.)
What a wonderful comment. I am glad to find another non-believer. Your "ride the wave" and tangential insight of knowing yourself and your enemy perfectly describe where I want to be.
I was not disturbed by Alex's labeling of Eugyppius. I think it wildly incorrect. I will still read and follow both, as they provide much excellent information and food for thought.
Difficult to work out the game plan but we can see that Europe is struggling with very high LNG prices (this was happening before Ukraine came onto the radar).
Russia is a big supplier but has been unwilling or unable to increase their allocation to Europe because they are prioritizing the home market.
If NATO were to do to Russia what they did to Iraq - namely wreck the country and ring fence the energy installations -- leaving the people with just enough to survive --- then pump the increased surplus out to the EU markets... that solves the spiralling energy prices.
There are no good and bad actors - there are only interests. And these high energy prices are not sustainable so something needs to be done to kick the can.
Of course Putin has seen what happened to Saddam ... as have his generals and other key people running the country. Russia has a very long and proud history and one can imagine that be Iraqi-fied is not a palatable option.
When Putin's defence minister says a world without a sovereign Russia is unacceptable and that if faced with defeat... they will launch their missiles - including 500-sub based nukes... I do not think he is making an empty threat.
So Ukraine is supposed to give up some of his lands to get Putin to stop destroying their country? I sure wouldn't want that resolution in my country - appeasement never works.
The eastern & southern parts of Ukraine used to be part of Russia. Iirc they were given to Ukraine post WW2 without the consent of the local people. Imagine waking up on day & finding out you are now part of Mexico.
Since 2014, Z has allowed actual Nazis to persecute with torture & murder the Russian Ukrainians. The nazi training is our gift via Nuland.
Part of Putin's decision was because things got so bad he was facing an influx of refugees.
my son and his family live in Eastern Europe and are involved in the efforts to get refugees out of Ukraine. They are housing an ethnic Russian family from Kharkiv -these folks want no part of being Russia. and harbor deep animosity against what I'd call the Putin Russians. Sure, it's only one family but it does make one wonder if most of this people in these areas really want to join Putin's Russia - they can see what the West offers. It's also useful to remember how in Stalin's efforts to collectivize Ukrainian agriculture, millions of Ukrainians were starved and slaughtered. Any family with a recollection of that period could hardly think that being part of Putin's Russia today would be better than anything going on in a European facing Ukraine.
One out of three in Texas will tell you that they do not want anything to do with the United States and want to secede. Possibly many more in other states. Also, many were on record threatening to leave the US for Canada and New Zealand if Trump won the election in 2016.
Millions of Russians were also starved at that time, it was not along ethnic lines at all. And one of the most cruel perpetrators was actually Polish with most others Jewish, etc (Nuland's ancestors maybe?)
The western parts of Ukraine were not part of Russia, and don't want to be now. Very few people alive now anywhere in Ukraine were never part of Russia. If I lived in northern Florida and it had been given to Mexico after WWII, I would probably want to go back to being American. If I lived in the southern part I would be more likely to want to stay in Mexico. especially if I spoke Spanish and especially as I'd never been alive when my state was American -- and I'm 57, I'm not in my 20s or 30s. A LOT of countries were created after WWII -- are we now going to say they should all be dismantled?
The situation is very complicated and difficult for outsiders (of whom, I admit, I am one). I certainly have no idea how big or dangerous the Azov Battalion is, although I'm sure it's nowhere near as much of a threat as Putin says it is, and saying that the Jewish Zelensky has "allowed" them to kill people is incendiary. But yes, we've been part of this mess for a long time. And it is a mess. I don't know what the right thing to do is. But I know what a lot of wrong things to do are.
Putin wanted to join Nato back in 2000. He joined France & Germany in voting against some intervention or other, so the US said no & has made him cartoon evil enemy #1 ever since.
If the US had respected Putin's security concerns & honored its promise re:Nato, this could have been avoided. Instead we played chicken for years. Moved Nato nukes closer & closer. And fostered a coup next door with a puppet government in 2014, which was the beginning of a civil war there. And put biolabs right at Russia's border. All so Biden & company could launder their graft & poke the Russian bear.
Putin made very clear what he wanted last winter. Repeatedly . Our "leaders" essentially flipped him the bird.
If Z had negotiated with Putin early on, much of this could have been avoided. Instead, he has held out & tried to get Nato to intervene.
The Nazis atrocities have been on a par with ISIS. Videos exist that have been viewed by independent journalists. I haven't looked at them, the substacker warned not to, but read the description of two. One of a crucufixion/burning alive & a 2nd of a young pregnant woman & a young man with nooses around their necks tiesmd to a car & slowly strangled I can't find my link to it now, but here is another bunch that showed up this morning.
The Nazis have also been in preventing citizens from evacuating through the humanitarian corridors. Either Mark Wauck or Mark Crispin shared a video the other day of an American journalist describing what he witnessed re: evacs
Z let woman & children evacuate to Poland. But stopped men at the border, conscripted them & forced them to Kiev to fight.
I saw a reddit post earlier today by an American vet who joined the foreign volunteers. He quit his 2nd day there ehen he rralized tbis was a suicide mission. He described the conscripted civilians, handed crappy AKs with very little ammo & no training sent off to die in Kiev.
.I saw video last week of a woman who who tried to get her husband out in the trunk of her car. Mark Wauck linked to a couple weeks ago to an American in Kiev who wrote that they are conscripting all male citizens aged 18-65 & forcing them to fight. That they were sneaking into the countryside & hiding on farms, including his next door neighbor & friend.
As to Z being Jewish, so is Soros & that never stopped him from collaborating with the Nazis, both in WW2 & WW3 woth Schwab.
When it comes to buying souls, Satan is equal opportunity.
gee your description of the Zelensky Nazi atrocities, sounds very similar to how Hitler described the Jews! My guess is that those stories are fronts for considerable anti-Semitism. We do know from lots of media coverage that there is wholesale slaughter of civilians and destruction of major urban areas by the Putin Russians. You don't sound like you're too concerned about that at all. And even if the stories about Z were true, Putin's atrocities are exponentially larger. Also, I'm baffled about why Zelensky should have talked/negotiated with Putin? No one has done anything to Russia and Europe is totally dependent on Russian oil - Putin had nothing to complain about.
What was happening in Donbass was / is truly horrible and is nowhere close to anything Putin has ever did. I have seen some of the videos and talked to some people from there - yes, people cannot believe something like that can actually happen nowadays in what is part of Europe, but it did happen for long eight years. The atrocities are absolutely unthinkable, and worst part is that Ukrainian government fully condoned and encouraged it. Since I discovered that was happening, I cannot think of them other than a terrorist state (and I have absolutely nothing personal against Ukraine and Ukrainians and have some Ukrainian ancestry myself). I just could not understand how this could have happened and what triggered it (as usual, looks like CIA was involved).
They are not stories. They are on video & witnessed, including by American journalists & American volunteers +who quit after they saw what's going on . Putin also has rid the world of a bunch of bioweapon labs -- the ones that Welensky claimed don't exist the day before she expressed fear Putin might take something from them & release it.
Putin gave fair warning. Zelensky & the US chose to ignore his warnings. Then chose to escalate. These choices have been going on for 20 years. Now everybody paus the price for American hubris.
To me Z's nazi atrocities look more like how the Jews described their plight at Auschwitz. To belittle 14000 deaths just because the algorithm did not tell (train?) you to be outraged at them is like belittling the torture and murder of innocent jews in Hitler's Germany.
Russia has no interest in any Ukrainian land. Russia wants Ukrainians to be able to chose their own governments without dictatorial control from Nazis.
“Choose your non-Nazi government at gunpoint” was how the Allies governed occupied Germany. Went down pretty well from the standpoint of no further German wars.
My dad was on the British Control Commission, His main obective was to fill starving bellies and bring coal to the people so they didn't freeze to death. His secondary objective was to marry the rather delightful daughter of the house where he was billeted in Hannover. He achieved both aims. They had six kids: I'm number three.
beyond maybe some of the crazy internet neonazi battalions, I have a hard time imagining a lasting insurgency. but, maybe with enough covert American agitation and supplies, they make something happen there.
The Ukrainians in the the central areas seems to be doing well bogging down Russian armor almost as if they had effective leaders. In the East nominal Ukrainians are fighting as best they can slowing Russian advances and forcing Russians into killing civilians to break will to fight. The Azov battalion was small, remains small compared to ordinaries who became armed. There has been a willingness to fight.
The Americans were very aware of the likelihood of a Russian invasion, they worried about it when first introducing anti-tank missiles in 2018. For me, this is all about geo-strategy. The overwhelming trend of the century is the integration of Asia and Europe; and this would far outpace US economic power. Isolating Russia is key, and de-coupling it from Western Europe, and keeping Western Europe within the USA economic and security orbit. As a secondary issue, punish Russia for interference in Syria where we intended to topple Assad. Ukraine is not really about Ukraine, but about the global poles of influence; we are witnessing the end of the uni-polar moment; and the birth of the multi-polar order. The fracture lines between these poles will be revealed. It won't be nice...
Eugyppius is telling us there's more to the story than that. But you certainly speak for most people who support Urkaine--this is what the choice seems to come down to.
I was duped by WMD...but not for long...I thought if Colin Powell, who is really a democrat, believed it, then maybe I was wrong...but I read all the stuff put out by those who were sent to inspect...no WMD. After that it was when I realized that all of 9/11 was propoganda...and then I looked into 9/11...and I doubt everything for the past 50 years of my life. Probably a good thing.
I'd have to correct you on some of this. Ukraine is NOT complicated - it's simply very corrupt for anyone who wants to see it. In fact this is why it's such a useful pawn for the west. The biggest problem and the scariest part with all this though is that the "system-globalists" are very limited in their logic. They never go past step one. What if Russia decides to cut off all their exports? I know you were told, no big deal, but it will literally cause a worldwide famine. Or what if Putin says I want all my exports paid with Rubles (which he did yesterday) - what happens to the "petrodollar"? US's largest export is the dollar - what happens if it's not? The "system-globalists" don't think that far ahead it seems. They can't think past "how does my degenerate drug addicted son keep his payday job at a Ukranian energy company that gets a lof of US taxpayer aid"... I am now convinced that's the extent of their thinking
except as usual they haven't thought past step one. Instead what they will get is a rejection of globalism. It's already started thanks to Russia (strangely)
That's what some people contend - that our present leaders can't think of the second-order consequences. E.g. Robert Barnes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnes_(attorney) ) is of that opinion. "I went to Yale with those people... The best way to model them is to take a very math-smart (not life-smart) individual, and them remove conscience and the ability to think beyond the immediate consequences..."
"Yes, they do realise it. Yes, they’ve thought it all through. I worked with these people for more than 50 years... They look at this and they say, How can America gain from all of this? There’s always a way of gaining what something looks to be bad. Well, one way they’ll gain is oil prices are going way up..."
Here is a speculation on my part: they are talking about different generations. Hudson "grew up" with the elites that were still rational and real-politik. He has very hard time imagining otherwise - that they are religious (in the woke and/or neocon way) hacks, who grew up during total American hegemony and just can't see things through any other lens. Barnes, on the other hand, went to school with that new generation of idiots.
Both are sort of true. It is a generation (or 3) of cuddled idiots, and they did think it through - for themselves - how to get rich in the next 10-20 years. But that's as far as they got. We all know these kinds of people - Robert Barnes went to Yale with them, but we all know people like this too.
What is hidden by the "fog of war" is more than just troop movements and supply lines, or even the (often pitch black) motives of the ward's cheerleaders. Masses of non-combatants hide their private sins and secret shames in that fog. They cheer it not because they're necessarily bloodthirsty, but because they desperately want to offload their insecurities onto a goat and send it into the desert. They want to feel like they are on the right side of some issue that they can pretend they've devoted a great deal of thought to, even though their minds were a pristine blank on the subject five minutes ago.
That's why we saw so many sudden lay "experts" in microbiology and public health policy suddenly emerge during the Covid scare. It's also why we see so many Ukrainian "experts" pop up now, who couldn't find it on an unlabeled map the night before. It's the human urge for moral clarity and collective truth. acted out in its most disastrous form.
The entire Western Legacy Media HAVE BEEN PAID TO DO THIS, in addition they are all leftists and would happily do it for free. Substack is the only place you can find real news now, and a balanced viewpoint.
"Nazi" is meaningless, Communism is meaningless. The only universal categorization of mankind is saved by the grace of God alone through faith in Jesus alone and not. Lenin and his Jewish Cheka tormentors and mass murderers and Stalin and his Jewish torturers and mass murderers are all dead and have a more agonizing eternity than mere man can imagine, but it is difficult not to persecute the children of those who came before. Problem is, that anger and wrath is misplaced. Properly focused, that anger should take the form of cutting off all "foreign aid" to Israel and divesting the Jews of all foreign holdings in mass media and banking. Let them choke on all the fiat currency, the can print, let they sodomize each other in Israel, the source of globo-homo corruption, restrict their pornography and gambling to Israel. In fact, the first step is to realize and make widely known that the collection of demons who call themselves "Israel" are a demonic counterfeit of the Israel of King David and Josiah. There is absolutely nothing holy or glorifying to God about the modern counterfeit, right down to their denial that Jesus is indeed the Christ, very God and very man. The ghettos were created to protect trusting loving Christians from scheming, hating Jews. 200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells of the Russian experience with the unassimilable Jews. Muslims are another story, but insignificant compared to the demonic impact of the Jews upon everyone else in the world. Hitler did not gas any 6 million Jews. The only Jews who went into the crematoriums were the ones who died of typhus and starvation, just like the vast majority of those who died near the end of WWII of starvation and disease. But control of the narrative after WWII has resulted in "Hitler killed 6 million Jews: send your money to Israel!" Now the most demonic people in the world sit on some 200 nuclear bombs and the ability to deliver one to any city in the world inside a suitcase or trunk. Of all the people in the world, the Jews would be the first to nuke another people after they prepare a place to sit out a real holocaust.
I mostly agree with your comment, except for this. War is a human universal. As one dead Prussian famously wrote "war is politics by other means". As long as there is politics there will be war.
I think the example of sanctions against South Africa is helpful: but admittedly there was huge Western, Chinese and even Russian moral support towards the end against the Apartheid regime, and the numbers of Sth African whites was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, so they always looked likely to fall.
By my understanding, there was plenty of "moral support" from SA whites themselves. They weren't actually any kind of "archetypes of white evil" that were only brought to heel through the exogenous pressure of some "enlightened global community," or whatever. The effectiveness or importance of the sanctions as being "the key cause that brought about a (more?) just regime" (or however you want to frame it) is just one of those made up bits of "history" that have no basis in reality.
I concur completely with this comment and your hope. I'm inclined to believe, however, that our hope is not aligned with the ultimate plan of the Global Neo-Fascist Oligarchy that created the conditions for this war, which is our impoverishment and enslavement. But I've been wrong before...
This is one the most objective analysis I've read, so far. Kinda what we used to read👏👏👏
Real news. That’s why I love sub stack.
I couldn't agree more, thanks for insight.
What I find annoying and irritating is how the entire Western media-state machine has uniformly sided with Ukraine and painted them as some kind of freedom loving vanguards defending their homes and livelihoods against Russian aggression
The harsh reality is that Ukraine is a complicated place that is a big mess. They are supremely corrupt, and have significant armed elements that are actual, literal Nazis (hello, Azov battalion?), and the factional problems in the east/Crimea are not new. Everyone forgets that the Ukrainian army in the Crimea basically joined the Russian side. This has also happened to some extent in Donbas etc in the east
Putin cannot and will never be able to occupy and pacify western ukraine. But I don't think it was about that. The two nations have longstanding differences that date back to 1989.
Now, that doesn't make what Russia has done right. War is never the answer. But these sanctions are insane - they will not solve anything; name one sanctions regime that actually resulted in regime change or behavioral change; and the cost will be borne by common folk both in and outside of Russia. It is almost like the covid folk were told "Russia economic lockdown - go!" and proceeded to go to town. Meanwhile, social media and news is absolutely ablaze with every armchair warrior imaginable saying the Russians should be fought down to the last Ukrainian. Just give them Javelins and F-16s, that will do it!
My hope is that Putin & Zelensky come to an accord - let the Eastern regions be autonomous/Russian, declare Ukraine as neutral with a nonaggression pact from Russia, no more Nato expansion, and end the war. The world has enough to deal with.
I assume the plan is partition, with regime change for the Ukrainian-speaking west and then assimilation into Russia for Donbas etc.
Putin set out the terms for peace. Recognition of the separatists republics; recognition of Crimea as Russian, and that Ukraine should remain neutral.
Doesn't make it true, but he says with that agreement he would walk away. Ukraine is "thinking about it".
My guess is they're playing for time and hoping they get real military support from the West. Certainly they're winning the propaganda war. They'll have Europeans desperate for nuclear war if things go on as at present.
yes, I almost included this in the post, but I wanted to keep it as abstract and general as possible. Ukraine should obviously accept the terms and it's that they're not. i suspect their western backers urge (or order?) them not to.
That would include George Soros...he is backing the Ukraine, as is Biden Crime Fami;ly and of course the Clinton GRIFTERS through their foundation are now again open for "business"....I weep for my country.
The way they see the world is one where kindness is weakness.
As part of my bucket list that started soon after I realized the GFC was the beginning of the end ... I went on Safari in Africa.
On one excursion we watched a gazelle give birth -- immediately various predators arrived - they surrounded the mother and the baby -- none were big enough to take down the mother but they all tried to snatch (and eat) the baby.... the mother frantically charged at each of them in turn but eventually one of them grabbed the baby and the mother watched in distress as they tore it apart.
All the predators had the same goal - get that baby and eat it --- none of them thought to themselves -- poor mother - poor baby --- I think I'll just give this a pass and hope to find something else to eat.
It is in our nature to fight for more because we are competing with others for a limited and finite resource pool.
If we do not compete and instead allow kindness and sympathy to guide us (koombaya) ... others will snatch the baby and eat it.
They will become strong ... we will weaken... and eventually they will snatch us and we go from a global power ... to scraping along on the tiny handouts from the winners.
'Imagine' and 'Give Peace a Chance' are only songs... they can be dangerous songs if a country tries to live by the lyrics.
I hate that Mother Nature is red in tooth and claw...Am I being silly if I want to beleive that original sin was eating meat and the murder we have to do for it? I want so much to believe that in heaven, everyone eats grass...and it is as good for you and as tasty as meat.
For all their desired end purposes, I cannot see why the west/globalist system would.
Had Putin not foolishly attacked so much of the country and wreaked such havoc he could have probably gotten all the territory he wanted and use the threat of further attacks to get neutrality.
But by going 'large' and invading Ukraine from three directions, he has dramatically slowed his ability to take ground, also he has allowed the West to form powerful reprisals and allowed westerners imaginations to be stirred.
He has directly focused the Western mind / globalist system, who have tremendous attention and leverage that would allow them to shut down his economy and break him.
Since China allied with Russia I think they also see an opportunity to break China ( and nix any ideas China might have for a quick takeover of Taiwan) as well. IMHO I cannot see it in any of the West's/globalists interests in giving Putin anything that he wants as they will use this as an opportunity to take him out of office in a regime change and directly control Xie in China.
I feel the globalists are looking at China and Russia as a two-fer. A chance to tie them together and knock them both back and break their systems for their full control, fun and profit.
It seems to be their hobby!
But the west's patchy reprisals will only make matters worse for them and bring them to the brink of catastrophic inflation and bankruptcy - Russia has other - better - sources of support.
Biden's team globe trotting trying to find a source of gas and oil from the likes of Iran, Venezuela and Saudi!
Russian markets re-opened did not crash. Ruble up from the lows. I can assure you Putin thought all this through. Contrary to the "narrative" - one thing he is not is an idiot or stupid
You are unfortunately incorrect - it's probably not your fault - I get it there is a massive amount of propaganda. Putin did NOT "wreak such havoc" - he is in fact avoiding that at all costs. It would be so simple for Putin to level Ukraine in a few days, but he is purposely not doing that. Just think about it. Russian army is 1m, plus 2m in reserve. Ukranian army is 200K with another 200K reserve. There is literally no chance there. The US or Nato or any western country is never getting involved all the way. So again Ukraine never stood a chance regardless of what they tell you on TV. I always suggest logic before just accepting the "narrative". Putin has not been slowed (again propaganda) - he is doing things at exactly the pace he wants to do it (he is in control here, no one else), in fact Putin has already won. And the west cannot "shut down" or "break" Putin. I suggest you simply look up what and how much of it Russia exports and where. I suggest you consider what happens if they stop. I suggest you consider what happens if Russia says (already happened) we don't want to accept dollars for our exports, just Rubles. Just think about it - sincerely.
The problem with your analysis is you assume the "West" wishes to continue with the status quo. In fact, a cabal of Western elites wants to restructure "capitalism", and replace it with a system best described as international fascism - The Great Reset.
To implement this system they need to impoverish their populations in a way that does not create internal conflict that is not controllable. You can see it beginning in some Western nations that are in truth no longer liberal democracies. Effectively most of the middle and working class in the West will have to give up owning their own homes and vehicles. Carefully escalating war with Russia might provide cover for such a change.
The original mantra of the Great Reset recorded in video was "You'll own nothing and be happy". The latest incarnation (search YouTube) of the video says "By 2050 will we own anything?".
The moral justification for this change is to reduce excessive consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. The reality is that it will concentrate all wealth in the elites.
If Putin doesn't get what he wants he may well escalate to nuclear. He has the advantage in tactical nuclear.
He has known for some time his military weakness and so targeted technologies that give him the advantage in battlefield warfare. If he wanted he could level Ukraine in an afternoon. But there are millions of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine and Putin is a nationalist. (Which is why you haven't see more devastation - not that what there is isn't enough).
In a nuclear war Putin may well have the advantage. And western elites are fully aware.
As for China, sadly you couldn't be more wrong. US elites are completely in bed with China. Everything you see happening makes China stronger.
Check out the investments in China by key Biden backers like Larry Fink and Mike Bloomberg. Not to mention key politicians links to China on both sides of the US Congress.
If war in Ukraine escalates expect an immediate invasion of Taiwan. In fact it could be just the excuse Xi needs. Google "the Theucydides Trap" if you don't believe me.
If there is anyone sane among Western politicians they should be encouraging that Ukraine accept the Russian offer and promise to fund the reconstruction of Ukraine with de facto (if not formal) inclusion of Ukraine in the EU economic area.
There is no advantage in a nuclear confrontation: only megadeath.
I do however suspect that a lot of Russian missiles are in mossy silos, with Cold War controls and aging rusty doors, and that many of them would either be duds, or blow up in their own silos.
I think that if China tries to invade Taiwan, they will be thumped, and very hard. Taiwan is an island state, and quite wealthy, with many friends, so unless China chooses to obliterate Taiwan in a pre-emptive nuclear strike, (and accept the logical response from the USA) they will have to put boots on the ground, and this means a contested amphibious invasion.
I don't think this would be very pretty: Taiwan is armed to the teeth with some state of the art defence technologies.
You would have to ask this: what sane person would even consider this risk?
Agree with you on China oh, the country and the economic Mercantile ztone,, respectfully disagree regarding chairman Xi. I think he wants to run his own system the way Putin does. And I'm not certain they're going to let him
Absolutely wrong. Russian army is 5 to 15 times the size of Ukraine's. Ukraine never had a chance. Putin doesn't need to go "nuclear" - he already won and doing it at his own pace with minimal damage (he could have leveled the place in days).
I wonder how long Putin might be around regardless. This is not playing out the way they thought it would and cannot help but think many people are less than impressed that are right behind him. Apparently Poland has now released their mig's to Nato for use.
In the US look at the mouthpieces for deep State and the globalists, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio, both have been openly talking about somebody stepping up as a Brutus. Could not be less surprised than if they were setting up something to help somebody take over with support from the West.
As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times, but holy hell, enough already.
It's misleading to refer to the Zelensky regime as Ukraine.
Seen this :) https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220302/14438627/Ukrainian-President-Volodymyr-Zelensky-in-gay-show.htm
Russia also wants to remove the Nazis from Ukraine.
It would be nice if he could remove the Nazis from Russia first.
He could also help out in Canada and here in the US with the Demofascists
Lol I told the hubby the same thing… open invite to Putin to come take our fascist government OUT! He just has to go home afterwards… 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
The Nazis in Russia don't use heavy artillery on civilians.
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The penguins in the Antarctic rarely use machine guns on Polar Bears either: but what is your point exactly?
He did say that in his speech to Russians, but according to TASS that wasn't part of the terms.
There won't be regime change, Zelensky can't be unseated. Putin would be wise to keep him - the West has hero worship for him, and his populace accepts his government. He has to stay.
It would be nice if someone could whistleblow on how much he is hiding offshore. He was one of the politicians named in the pandora papers. Some truth and transparency could knock the media's new darling down a few notches.
What are you talking about? He is just an extremely successful actor! Worth at least 10 times more than tom cruise, because he is at least 10 times better of an actor :)
Zelensky is a puppet and a talking head, not a real leader. (Hm, someone else comes to mind...) If his masters decide that he must stay he'll probably stay, otherwise he'll surely go.
I wonder if he's done any porn movies? He clearly has a serious cocaine habit - he's is sniffling and anxious in many interviews - then there is this https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220302/14438627/Ukrainian-President-Volodymyr-Zelensky-in-gay-show.htm
I know it's basically like a SNL sketch but still - how can anyone vote for a clown with a bad coke habit? I'll never get it. Then again we had Senator Franken. And to think of it we have a clown / puppet as persident now, with a son with a coke habit - so close.
so what's the problem with Zelensky's leadership? That he's defied the common sterotypes of who should be leading a country? That he's inspired grassroots support in his country and many other places?
The problem is that he has $40 million in an offshore account from a criminal oligarch, as a good-faith payment for allowing this oligarch to resume criminal banking practices. The problem is that he jails the opposition and shuts down media criticism. The problem is that he resumed shelling the Donbass during this crisis as a pretext for war and NATO involvement. The problem is that he publicly announced he wants nuclear weapons at the Munich Security Conference on 2/22/22, like a lunatic. The list is much longer. Would you like some more Zelensky problems?
And Putin has no money "saved offshore" and he has never killed anyone who opposed him. He is a saint to be honored. I am surprised by the Putin worship on this thread. Zelensky is a piker in comparison. I am grateful that I don't live anywhere in that region.
Russians don’t care that Putin diverted the wealth of oligarchs to himself while he was exiling them to an island in the Sea of Okhotsk. They are far more gratified that he stopped them from looting the rest of Russian wealth along with the oligarch’s friends from the Harvard School of Economics. That Putin killed his enemies may be true only if comparable to the CIA’s assassins who have been pulling the trigger on America’s enemies since WWII and who are almost certainly making concrete boots for Russian rebels in the Donbass since 2014. Zelensky is a criminal clown working at the behest of oligarch criminals.
Installed by the US Govt and supported by Soros. WEF young leader.
Ding ding DING! U got it. A great big money laundering place that Ukraine. The WEF shadow gov’t doesn’t want the apple cart disturbed, but too much focus on the Pfizer papers release is bad for business. Squirrel!!!
Perfect. Love your comment. Keeping. please? ( look - squirell!!!)
I believe he hero worships Trudeau
Bingo
Nothing is wrong. I like him actually. That's why I hope he stays
He is a Jewish leader of a Christian nation. Not cool.
Seems pretty inclusive to me... whats your issue with that? In the UK we had a Jewish Prime Minister back in the 19th century: Benjamin Disraeli, though it got a bit sticky:
"In 1847 a small political crisis occurred which removed Bentinck from the leadership and highlighted Disraeli's differences with his own party. In that year's general election, Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the City of London. As a practising Jew he could not take the oath of allegiance in the prescribed Christian form, and therefore could not take his seat. Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild was a member for the City of London, proposed in the Commons that the oath should be amended to permit Jews to enter Parliament."
Disraeli spoke in favour of the measure, arguing that Christianity was "completed Judaism", and asking the House of Commons "Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?"
Disraeli did not have several nazis organizations in his government. Disraeli did not shell his citizens and burn them alive in a building (Odessa 2014).
“…the West has hero worship for him, and his populace accepts his government. He has to stay.”
I do not share your view. The WEF, NATO and EU leaders and their servile media have mad him a hero. The reality is different when reading the alternative well balanced media. Zelensky is an artificial head of state. He is a Jewish puppet who allowes all the fascist movements Svoboda, Right Sector, UPA-OUN, etc…to “legitimize” their government.
The people in charge are Vitali Klitschko. Oleg Tyahnybok, Andriy Tarasenko, Dmytro Yarosh, Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy, Leuko Lukkyanenko and still Fatherland’s Yula Tymoshenko.
Most of these politicians, former ultra-nationalists, are among the most corrupt, dedicated Pro-European after being manipulated by NATO and von der Leyen’s and Merkel’s promises to join the EU.
Zelensky can be unseated like Poroshenko, Yanukovych, Yushchenko many others since 1991.
We have to remember that the first President after the Fall of the Iron curtain was Leonid Kravchuk, who had to resign after George Bush pressured him to accept pro-western reforms while Kravchuk was claiming he was a nationalist for an indépendant Ukraine, did not want any nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil and no Peace Corps program.
Also consider why Ukraine was never allowed to join the EU. Exactly because of all this.
I had understood that Zelensky’s approval rating was quite low prior to this conflict. While the global community has lauded him as Winston Churchill, I am curious if Ukrainians are as approving - seems like he has some responsibility for this mess. Thoughts?
I think whatever his approval was, it has likely skyrocketed now as a result of the invasion and the star power that he has attained. W had the same after 9/11 if I recall
Could be… I’ve seen some interviews with Ukranian refuges and they’re pretty upset with Zelensky. I guess we will have to wait and see.
On the other hand Putin has a 70-80% approval in Russia. Hmmm. Maybe they are lying to us. Again.
Doubt it. He will be removed sooner or later. You don't come back from a loss like this. Putin won't even have to do it - the same oligarchs that put him in power, will remove him for the incompetence.
>regime change for the Ukrainian-speaking west
People are very unclear on what the endgame is. Even pro-Putin Russians I've been reading lately think that he did not have any good choices. The war was the least bad one.
That said, my take is that he decided that now is the best opportunity to mortally wound the Empire.
And, of course, there is a conspiracy theory that he is really in cahoots with the globalists and this is all part of the PLAN.
One wonders what is really going on in Ukraine - where are all the videos from mobile phones of the death and destruction? For the most part I am seeing photos of piles of garbage and women holding children in a queue....
Have a look at this
https://twitter.com/LezLuthor/status/1500175827161554946
another way to look at it without using Twitter https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500175827161554946.html
An interesting report done ~ a month ago. Some suggest Kyiv is being somewhat spared because it's quite historic and bombing would make for bad news given that. Putin has been stalled in getting enough forces to use some longer range shells. OTOH, Russian bombers are still worried over Ukraine air defenses which are still functional. Those sat images from the Donbas show a lot of damage. For them the war is more than real.
Use telegram.
I am all over Telegram... seeing next to nothing ...
On https://t.me/UkraineWarReport/891? I haven't looked for a while, no time.
Malenkly, the conspiracy theory that Putin is in cahoots with the globalists makes as much sense as the WEF PLAN you reference. I cannot get my head around this supposed WEF PLAN that many on Substack believe and accept. This may make me naive, unsophisticated, and gullible in the eyes of the True Believers, and I may be just that. But it appears to me, reading these discussions of the globalist plan, that you (generalized) believe the globalist have already won. What is left is the mopping up. So why argue, resist, fail to comply? Isn't it too late? This may be the root of Berenson labeling Eugyppius nihilistic.
> I cannot get my head around this supposed WEF PLAN that many on Substack believe and accept.
I do not believe it, either. It was sort of a tongue-in-cheek comment.
> you (generalized) believe the globalist have already won
What I personally believe is that the forces being unleashed in the world are so powerful that direct resistance is totally futile and counter-productive. The best we can do is to do our best to understand what is going on, what it is that we are trying to achieve, and "ride the wave", so to speak.
[Tangentially related: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." - Sun Tzu]
>This may be the root of Berenson labeling Eugyppius nihilistic.
Here is a good working definition of nihilism: "Nihilism holds that there is no meaning or value anywhere. Questions about purpose, ethics, and sacredness are unanswerable because they are meaningless. You might as well ask about the sleep habits of colorless green ideas as about the meaning of life." - https://meaningness.com/nihilism
Refusal to fight a losing battle for the sake of fighting, or to choose a side in a false dichotomy forced on you is not nihilism. (To be clear: I am not saying that fighting losing battles never makes sense, but it's a different conversation.)
What a wonderful comment. I am glad to find another non-believer. Your "ride the wave" and tangential insight of knowing yourself and your enemy perfectly describe where I want to be.
I was not disturbed by Alex's labeling of Eugyppius. I think it wildly incorrect. I will still read and follow both, as they provide much excellent information and food for thought.
Difficult to work out the game plan but we can see that Europe is struggling with very high LNG prices (this was happening before Ukraine came onto the radar).
Russia is a big supplier but has been unwilling or unable to increase their allocation to Europe because they are prioritizing the home market.
If NATO were to do to Russia what they did to Iraq - namely wreck the country and ring fence the energy installations -- leaving the people with just enough to survive --- then pump the increased surplus out to the EU markets... that solves the spiralling energy prices.
There are no good and bad actors - there are only interests. And these high energy prices are not sustainable so something needs to be done to kick the can.
Of course Putin has seen what happened to Saddam ... as have his generals and other key people running the country. Russia has a very long and proud history and one can imagine that be Iraqi-fied is not a palatable option.
When Putin's defence minister says a world without a sovereign Russia is unacceptable and that if faced with defeat... they will launch their missiles - including 500-sub based nukes... I do not think he is making an empty threat.
Be Burn - You Burn... seems to be the policy.
We are in very dangerous waters.
So Ukraine is supposed to give up some of his lands to get Putin to stop destroying their country? I sure wouldn't want that resolution in my country - appeasement never works.
The eastern & southern parts of Ukraine used to be part of Russia. Iirc they were given to Ukraine post WW2 without the consent of the local people. Imagine waking up on day & finding out you are now part of Mexico.
Since 2014, Z has allowed actual Nazis to persecute with torture & murder the Russian Ukrainians. The nazi training is our gift via Nuland.
Part of Putin's decision was because things got so bad he was facing an influx of refugees.
my son and his family live in Eastern Europe and are involved in the efforts to get refugees out of Ukraine. They are housing an ethnic Russian family from Kharkiv -these folks want no part of being Russia. and harbor deep animosity against what I'd call the Putin Russians. Sure, it's only one family but it does make one wonder if most of this people in these areas really want to join Putin's Russia - they can see what the West offers. It's also useful to remember how in Stalin's efforts to collectivize Ukrainian agriculture, millions of Ukrainians were starved and slaughtered. Any family with a recollection of that period could hardly think that being part of Putin's Russia today would be better than anything going on in a European facing Ukraine.
One out of three in Texas will tell you that they do not want anything to do with the United States and want to secede. Possibly many more in other states. Also, many were on record threatening to leave the US for Canada and New Zealand if Trump won the election in 2016.
Surely you know that Stalin wasn't Russian, right?
Millions of Russians were also starved at that time, it was not along ethnic lines at all. And one of the most cruel perpetrators was actually Polish with most others Jewish, etc (Nuland's ancestors maybe?)
The western parts of Ukraine were not part of Russia, and don't want to be now. Very few people alive now anywhere in Ukraine were never part of Russia. If I lived in northern Florida and it had been given to Mexico after WWII, I would probably want to go back to being American. If I lived in the southern part I would be more likely to want to stay in Mexico. especially if I spoke Spanish and especially as I'd never been alive when my state was American -- and I'm 57, I'm not in my 20s or 30s. A LOT of countries were created after WWII -- are we now going to say they should all be dismantled?
The situation is very complicated and difficult for outsiders (of whom, I admit, I am one). I certainly have no idea how big or dangerous the Azov Battalion is, although I'm sure it's nowhere near as much of a threat as Putin says it is, and saying that the Jewish Zelensky has "allowed" them to kill people is incendiary. But yes, we've been part of this mess for a long time. And it is a mess. I don't know what the right thing to do is. But I know what a lot of wrong things to do are.
Putin wanted to join Nato back in 2000. He joined France & Germany in voting against some intervention or other, so the US said no & has made him cartoon evil enemy #1 ever since.
If the US had respected Putin's security concerns & honored its promise re:Nato, this could have been avoided. Instead we played chicken for years. Moved Nato nukes closer & closer. And fostered a coup next door with a puppet government in 2014, which was the beginning of a civil war there. And put biolabs right at Russia's border. All so Biden & company could launder their graft & poke the Russian bear.
Putin made very clear what he wanted last winter. Repeatedly . Our "leaders" essentially flipped him the bird.
If Z had negotiated with Putin early on, much of this could have been avoided. Instead, he has held out & tried to get Nato to intervene.
The Nazis atrocities have been on a par with ISIS. Videos exist that have been viewed by independent journalists. I haven't looked at them, the substacker warned not to, but read the description of two. One of a crucufixion/burning alive & a 2nd of a young pregnant woman & a young man with nooses around their necks tiesmd to a car & slowly strangled I can't find my link to it now, but here is another bunch that showed up this morning.
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/on-israel-and-the-nazis-in-ukraine/comments
The Nazis have also been in preventing citizens from evacuating through the humanitarian corridors. Either Mark Wauck or Mark Crispin shared a video the other day of an American journalist describing what he witnessed re: evacs
Z let woman & children evacuate to Poland. But stopped men at the border, conscripted them & forced them to Kiev to fight.
I saw a reddit post earlier today by an American vet who joined the foreign volunteers. He quit his 2nd day there ehen he rralized tbis was a suicide mission. He described the conscripted civilians, handed crappy AKs with very little ammo & no training sent off to die in Kiev.
.I saw video last week of a woman who who tried to get her husband out in the trunk of her car. Mark Wauck linked to a couple weeks ago to an American in Kiev who wrote that they are conscripting all male citizens aged 18-65 & forcing them to fight. That they were sneaking into the countryside & hiding on farms, including his next door neighbor & friend.
As to Z being Jewish, so is Soros & that never stopped him from collaborating with the Nazis, both in WW2 & WW3 woth Schwab.
When it comes to buying souls, Satan is equal opportunity.
gee your description of the Zelensky Nazi atrocities, sounds very similar to how Hitler described the Jews! My guess is that those stories are fronts for considerable anti-Semitism. We do know from lots of media coverage that there is wholesale slaughter of civilians and destruction of major urban areas by the Putin Russians. You don't sound like you're too concerned about that at all. And even if the stories about Z were true, Putin's atrocities are exponentially larger. Also, I'm baffled about why Zelensky should have talked/negotiated with Putin? No one has done anything to Russia and Europe is totally dependent on Russian oil - Putin had nothing to complain about.
What was happening in Donbass was / is truly horrible and is nowhere close to anything Putin has ever did. I have seen some of the videos and talked to some people from there - yes, people cannot believe something like that can actually happen nowadays in what is part of Europe, but it did happen for long eight years. The atrocities are absolutely unthinkable, and worst part is that Ukrainian government fully condoned and encouraged it. Since I discovered that was happening, I cannot think of them other than a terrorist state (and I have absolutely nothing personal against Ukraine and Ukrainians and have some Ukrainian ancestry myself). I just could not understand how this could have happened and what triggered it (as usual, looks like CIA was involved).
You may find the videos at this link interesting.
They are not stories. They are on video & witnessed, including by American journalists & American volunteers +who quit after they saw what's going on . Putin also has rid the world of a bunch of bioweapon labs -- the ones that Welensky claimed don't exist the day before she expressed fear Putin might take something from them & release it.
Putin gave fair warning. Zelensky & the US chose to ignore his warnings. Then chose to escalate. These choices have been going on for 20 years. Now everybody paus the price for American hubris.
To me Z's nazi atrocities look more like how the Jews described their plight at Auschwitz. To belittle 14000 deaths just because the algorithm did not tell (train?) you to be outraged at them is like belittling the torture and murder of innocent jews in Hitler's Germany.
Russia has no interest in any Ukrainian land. Russia wants Ukrainians to be able to chose their own governments without dictatorial control from Nazis.
Really? At the end of a gun? That will go down well (irony warning).
“Choose your non-Nazi government at gunpoint” was how the Allies governed occupied Germany. Went down pretty well from the standpoint of no further German wars.
My dad was on the British Control Commission, His main obective was to fill starving bellies and bring coal to the people so they didn't freeze to death. His secondary objective was to marry the rather delightful daughter of the house where he was billeted in Hannover. He achieved both aims. They had six kids: I'm number three.
Riiiiiiiiight.
The ukrainians can resort to a ruinous insurgency which will sap the Russians over time, and impose a blood price to the occupation
And will likely cost the lives of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Ukrainians
beyond maybe some of the crazy internet neonazi battalions, I have a hard time imagining a lasting insurgency. but, maybe with enough covert American agitation and supplies, they make something happen there.
The Ukrainians in the the central areas seems to be doing well bogging down Russian armor almost as if they had effective leaders. In the East nominal Ukrainians are fighting as best they can slowing Russian advances and forcing Russians into killing civilians to break will to fight. The Azov battalion was small, remains small compared to ordinaries who became armed. There has been a willingness to fight.
The Americans were very aware of the likelihood of a Russian invasion, they worried about it when first introducing anti-tank missiles in 2018. For me, this is all about geo-strategy. The overwhelming trend of the century is the integration of Asia and Europe; and this would far outpace US economic power. Isolating Russia is key, and de-coupling it from Western Europe, and keeping Western Europe within the USA economic and security orbit. As a secondary issue, punish Russia for interference in Syria where we intended to topple Assad. Ukraine is not really about Ukraine, but about the global poles of influence; we are witnessing the end of the uni-polar moment; and the birth of the multi-polar order. The fracture lines between these poles will be revealed. It won't be nice...
Putin has repeatably said that Russia has no intention of occupying Ukraine.
Eugyppius is telling us there's more to the story than that. But you certainly speak for most people who support Urkaine--this is what the choice seems to come down to.
"the entire Western media-state machine has uniformly sided with Ukraine"
And Ukraine is the closest today's government can get to white supremacy and neofascism
What I find amazing is that people who were duped by the WMD story many years ago ... are so easily being duped again.
I was duped by WMD...but not for long...I thought if Colin Powell, who is really a democrat, believed it, then maybe I was wrong...but I read all the stuff put out by those who were sent to inspect...no WMD. After that it was when I realized that all of 9/11 was propoganda...and then I looked into 9/11...and I doubt everything for the past 50 years of my life. Probably a good thing.
I'd have to correct you on some of this. Ukraine is NOT complicated - it's simply very corrupt for anyone who wants to see it. In fact this is why it's such a useful pawn for the west. The biggest problem and the scariest part with all this though is that the "system-globalists" are very limited in their logic. They never go past step one. What if Russia decides to cut off all their exports? I know you were told, no big deal, but it will literally cause a worldwide famine. Or what if Putin says I want all my exports paid with Rubles (which he did yesterday) - what happens to the "petrodollar"? US's largest export is the dollar - what happens if it's not? The "system-globalists" don't think that far ahead it seems. They can't think past "how does my degenerate drug addicted son keep his payday job at a Ukranian energy company that gets a lof of US taxpayer aid"... I am now convinced that's the extent of their thinking
I think global famine and dollar collapse is exactly what they want to usher in their great reset and digital currency.
except as usual they haven't thought past step one. Instead what they will get is a rejection of globalism. It's already started thanks to Russia (strangely)
>They can't think past...
That's what some people contend - that our present leaders can't think of the second-order consequences. E.g. Robert Barnes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnes_(attorney) ) is of that opinion. "I went to Yale with those people... The best way to model them is to take a very math-smart (not life-smart) individual, and them remove conscience and the ability to think beyond the immediate consequences..."
On the other hand, here is Michael Hudson - https://michael-hudson.com/2022/03/sanctions-energy-and-independence/ :
"Yes, they do realise it. Yes, they’ve thought it all through. I worked with these people for more than 50 years... They look at this and they say, How can America gain from all of this? There’s always a way of gaining what something looks to be bad. Well, one way they’ll gain is oil prices are going way up..."
Here is a speculation on my part: they are talking about different generations. Hudson "grew up" with the elites that were still rational and real-politik. He has very hard time imagining otherwise - that they are religious (in the woke and/or neocon way) hacks, who grew up during total American hegemony and just can't see things through any other lens. Barnes, on the other hand, went to school with that new generation of idiots.
Both are sort of true. It is a generation (or 3) of cuddled idiots, and they did think it through - for themselves - how to get rich in the next 10-20 years. But that's as far as they got. We all know these kinds of people - Robert Barnes went to Yale with them, but we all know people like this too.
What is hidden by the "fog of war" is more than just troop movements and supply lines, or even the (often pitch black) motives of the ward's cheerleaders. Masses of non-combatants hide their private sins and secret shames in that fog. They cheer it not because they're necessarily bloodthirsty, but because they desperately want to offload their insecurities onto a goat and send it into the desert. They want to feel like they are on the right side of some issue that they can pretend they've devoted a great deal of thought to, even though their minds were a pristine blank on the subject five minutes ago.
That's why we saw so many sudden lay "experts" in microbiology and public health policy suddenly emerge during the Covid scare. It's also why we see so many Ukrainian "experts" pop up now, who couldn't find it on an unlabeled map the night before. It's the human urge for moral clarity and collective truth. acted out in its most disastrous form.
The entire Western Legacy Media HAVE BEEN PAID TO DO THIS, in addition they are all leftists and would happily do it for free. Substack is the only place you can find real news now, and a balanced viewpoint.
"Nazi" is meaningless, Communism is meaningless. The only universal categorization of mankind is saved by the grace of God alone through faith in Jesus alone and not. Lenin and his Jewish Cheka tormentors and mass murderers and Stalin and his Jewish torturers and mass murderers are all dead and have a more agonizing eternity than mere man can imagine, but it is difficult not to persecute the children of those who came before. Problem is, that anger and wrath is misplaced. Properly focused, that anger should take the form of cutting off all "foreign aid" to Israel and divesting the Jews of all foreign holdings in mass media and banking. Let them choke on all the fiat currency, the can print, let they sodomize each other in Israel, the source of globo-homo corruption, restrict their pornography and gambling to Israel. In fact, the first step is to realize and make widely known that the collection of demons who call themselves "Israel" are a demonic counterfeit of the Israel of King David and Josiah. There is absolutely nothing holy or glorifying to God about the modern counterfeit, right down to their denial that Jesus is indeed the Christ, very God and very man. The ghettos were created to protect trusting loving Christians from scheming, hating Jews. 200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn tells of the Russian experience with the unassimilable Jews. Muslims are another story, but insignificant compared to the demonic impact of the Jews upon everyone else in the world. Hitler did not gas any 6 million Jews. The only Jews who went into the crematoriums were the ones who died of typhus and starvation, just like the vast majority of those who died near the end of WWII of starvation and disease. But control of the narrative after WWII has resulted in "Hitler killed 6 million Jews: send your money to Israel!" Now the most demonic people in the world sit on some 200 nuclear bombs and the ability to deliver one to any city in the world inside a suitcase or trunk. Of all the people in the world, the Jews would be the first to nuke another people after they prepare a place to sit out a real holocaust.
>War is never the answer
I mostly agree with your comment, except for this. War is a human universal. As one dead Prussian famously wrote "war is politics by other means". As long as there is politics there will be war.
I hope they hear you
I think the example of sanctions against South Africa is helpful: but admittedly there was huge Western, Chinese and even Russian moral support towards the end against the Apartheid regime, and the numbers of Sth African whites was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, so they always looked likely to fall.
By my understanding, there was plenty of "moral support" from SA whites themselves. They weren't actually any kind of "archetypes of white evil" that were only brought to heel through the exogenous pressure of some "enlightened global community," or whatever. The effectiveness or importance of the sanctions as being "the key cause that brought about a (more?) just regime" (or however you want to frame it) is just one of those made up bits of "history" that have no basis in reality.
I concur completely with this comment and your hope. I'm inclined to believe, however, that our hope is not aligned with the ultimate plan of the Global Neo-Fascist Oligarchy that created the conditions for this war, which is our impoverishment and enslavement. But I've been wrong before...