DISCUSS: What’s really happening in Ukraine?
For weeks now we have heard the US (and, to a lesser extent) the UK screeching about the (allegedly) imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has denied any intention to invade Ukraine whatsoever, repeatedly and at length. Most recently Putin described the US attitude as “peak hysteria”.
The governments of both France and Germany have downplayed any Russian threat to Ukraine, leading the US media to dub Germany a “bad ally”.
Even more unusual, the President of Ukraine has suggested the threats are overblown, and has called on the West to stop “creating panic”.
The US does not seem inclined to stop, and is dispersing panic like an untested vaccine.
They continually refer to Russian troops standing stock-still on Russian soil as “aggression”. They refer to the “build up” of (allegedly) 130,000 troops as if it is new, but it’s not.
Since the Ukrainian colour revolution and ensuing civil war in 2014, there have constantly been tens of thousands of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, many of them in permanent bases in Transnistria and Crimea.
In December 2018, the Ukrainians claimed there were “over 80,000” Russians troops on their border. In spring last year that number was said to be 150,000 thousand – more than are apparently present now – yet there was almost no talk of war or invasion.
And yet the media talk up the “threat”, repeating any baseless claim the military or intelligence agencies deign to float their way.
We get detailed scare-stories about the “lone tank regiment between Putin and Kiev”, and puff-pieces about grandmothers learning to shoot.
There is a constant drip-feed of cod-psychological opinion pieces earnestly asking “what Putin wants” in Ukraine.
It really is “peak hysteria”. Just today, the US has announced they are shutting down their embassy in Kiev and moving all their diplomats further west…based on nothing.
There is almost an element of Chicken Little-like farce to the whole affair, watching the press and pundits talk for hours about something that, as yet, there is no evidence at all will EVER happen.
And I mean literally, no evidence at all, if you doubt that, watch this hilarious exchange between the State Dept’s spokesman and reporter Matt Lee:
Reporter: “It’s an action that you say they have taken, but you have shown no evidence to confirm that. […] This is like – crisis actors? Really? This is like Alex Jones territory you’re getting into now.”
Must-watch exchange between @APDiploWriter Matt Lee and @StateDeptSpox. pic.twitter.com/RPIPb2zwf5
— The Hill (@thehill) February 3, 2022
The Biden administration has even suggested that Russia is waiting for the ground to freeze, and that’s why they haven’t invaded as yet. Because the one thing everyone knows about war in Eastern Europe is its easiest in the cold.
The UK has been little better, if at all. A few days ago the Daily Mail reported Russian warships sailing past Britain “bound for Ukraine”, neglecting to mention that “towards Ukraine” and “towards Russia” are the same direction.
The equivalent of describing US marines moving from North Carolina to Texas as “marching toward Mexico”. Technically true, but not really accurate.
Our MPs are being as bombastic as the US politicians too, not to mention highly unimaginative when it comes to historical analogies.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said there was a “whiff of Munich in the air”, regarding Johnson’s attitude to Russia.
Tobias Ellwood, always a handy weather vane given his deep ties to military, went on Channel 4 to echo this, saying Johnson needs a “Churchillian” attitude to Russia. Repeating himself in the Independent where he calls Johnson “more Chamberlain than Churchill”
Ellwood also called the invasion “inevitable and imminent”…but that was a month ago. It’s “imminent” again today.
Now, obviously, we can’t for certain, 100% say Russia won’t invade Ukraine. We live in unpredictable times, and if Covid taught us anything it’s that countries will co-operate on selling a story, even if they appear at odds most of the time.
But it’s hard to see what Russia would gain from it, or why they would do it in February. Even if they intended to invade before, why would not abandon the plan after the whole Western world is put on early alert?
An invasion just wouldn’t make any sense.
As I write this it appears the press are laying the groundwork for a back-pedal. Joe Biden claimed today a “crucial window for diplomacy remains open”, to which one can only say “duh! nothing has happened!”.
Politico are claiming the Russians are standing down, writing about Putin’s “de-escalation dance”. The Indy reports that Russia is “open to democracy” and Ukraine “willing to make concessions”.
Even the Guardian, long the loudest cheerleader for any kind of war with Russia, claims there are “rare nods towards de-escalation”.
So, will it just all wind down? And if so what is, or was, the point?
It could be as simple as NordStream 2, the new gas pipeline running from Russia to Germany across the Baltic sea.
The US has opposed the project since its inception and regularly pressures Germany to drop out. The pipeline would hurt Ukraine by providing a quicker route for Russian gas to be imported to Western Europe, and hurt the US because they want to sell American gas to Germany et al.
That’s probably why any talk of Ukraine-related sanctions always begins with NordStream 2, and why you see pieces like this one calling it a “geopolitical weapon”, or this one detailing its hidden “Stasi connections”. And that’s just from the last two days.
It could be about the Ukrainian regime ramping up hostilities against the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, and wanting to pre-emptively set up a narrative of “Putin did it”.
It could also be about forcing the issue of Ukraine joining NATO, a project in the works since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It could be about making NATO seem useful and strong, by creating a situation where they can claim “strong Western alliances” have “averted war” by forcing Russia to stop a war they never intended to start.
But what do you think?
- Will Russia invade?
- What would Russia gain from war?
- Is this just Biden playing to his domestic audience?
- Will Ukraine join NATO?
- Is this all a ploy to ramp up the campaign against Donetsk, but lay the blame on Russia?
- Will Nordstream 2 be shut down for good?
- What happens if Russia never invades?
- …will NATO claim to have “averted the war”?
We’re working on a long refresher piece on Ukraine, going all the way back to 2013 and beyond, to review how we ended up here. Until then, discuss in the comments below.
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Liz Truss – pouring petrol onto a fire.
Russia recognises independence of Donbass. Your move Liz.
Putin makes a statement following the Security Council meeting on Donbass recognition
https://youtu.be/GjMnTo85S4A
Despite the recent advances with the Durham investigation (see below), my view is that the likely breakthrough will involve the decertification campaign.
See:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2020+decertification
Patel Patriot on X22 Report
Feb 19, 2022
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8DS2OpntvSGk
At the end of the above interview, Patel Patriot also concludes that the decisive break will most likely be decertification.
Forty minutes of quiet humour as Alex Mercouris soberly reads out the facts.
“Severe measures”: Oil Price approaches $100/barrel as U$/UK war scaremongering yields economic bonanza for Russia.
“Sanctions from Hell”: Sky high gas prices from EU$A restrictions on Russia’s NS2 gas pipeline benefit Russia.
“Russia please! please! invade”: U$/UK forces desert Kiev, leaving East Ukraine open to Russian invasion. EU$A plans afoot to move Ukraine capital West, across the river Dnieper to former Polish city of Lvov. Kiev is practically defenseless; but citizens hopes are dashed because Russia stubbornly refuses to occupy Ukraine. Russians say that to be occupied by Russia is not a freebie handed out with the cookies; it is a right that must be earned – eg, from a plebiscite like in Crimea.
Digital national currencies traded bilaterally whilst closing-the-pipeline-to-profit-from-spot-prices actually makes physical military occupation more, not less, important. How would excess US dollars be absorbed?
Also, as small German municipal banks and cooperative banks accumulate liabilities and the big bankers in New York share in the profits, the neo-Nazi Ukraine is about to become a failed state. The Polish – Lithuanian alliance is about to re-emerge, and the maggots that ate Hitlers brain have emerged from a submarine beneath Antarctica and are telepathically controlling Joe Whats-‘is-name.
Given Putin is a child of the WEF, there is no us and them, just them…..and us….
BoJo uses the term false flag. What a conspiracy theorist.
There might be a typo in para 5: It says ‘ dispersing panic’: I think it should perhaps be ‘dispensing panic’?
Sharp eye.
This is all theater and show, it’s a psy-op. At no time did Creepy Dementia Joe say he would fight over Ukraine. All Biden talks about are economic sanctions not troops on the ground. But sanctions are an act of war so he needs to think before he makes an even bigger fool of himself. The Europeans know what war on their turf is like; unlike the Americans. Western Europe has a vested interest in diplomacy and peace since they will be hard hit by Russian missiles if war breaks out. Biden whose hand is weak is merely showing off. He knows Putin will do what’s in Russia’s best interests and an invasion/occupation doesn’t make sense and is not in the cards!
Biden is in deep trouble here. His poll approval numbers are in the toilet and he has to do something, anything to make himself look relevant. A fake crisis with Russia will do. The problem is there are psychopaths in D.C. and New York who think the US can do a “manageable war” with Russia! Hopefully saner heads in Europe will prevail and this sham “crisis” will be over soon.
Biden’s poll numbers are cratering, even amongst the polls that skew heavily toward his supporters. The Democrats plan on campaigning on ending the scamdemic, but Fauci is refusing to play along so far. And the psy-op was so successful, even in areas that dropped their mask mandate, half the sheeple continue to wear them. In some liberal areas, there are protests to reinstate lockdowns and mask mandates because the lumpentariat are lost without them. Inflation is out of control. And a recent CNN poll revealed 56% of likely voters say Biden has done nothing right in his first year.
So what to do? Go to war. Nothing distracts the populace like a good war. And the RINOs who love the military-industrial complex will gladly unite with the Democrats in a grand battle to “save democracy!” War is normally good for a President’s poll numbers. Plus there is a lot of money to be made for everyone. So with a war, Biden can fulfill his campaign promise to “unify both parties.”
Or maybe it’s just to divert attention away from the sh1tshow of the covid vaccine?
America’s Real Adversaries are its European and Other Allies
The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia
“What worries American diplomats is that Germany, other NATO nations and countries along the Belt and Road route understand the gains that can be made by opening up peaceful trade and investment. If there is no Russian or Chinese plan to invade or bomb them , what is the need for NATO? What is the need for such heavy purchases of U.S. military hardware by America’s affluent allies? And if there is no inherently adversarial relationship, why do foreign countries need to sacrifice their own trade and financial interests by relying exclusively on U.S. exporters and investors?
Instead of a real military threat from Russia and China, the problem for American strategists is the absence of such a threat.”
Capitalism ‘progresses’ by crisis. ‘Creative destruction,’ Schumpeter’s newspeak revision of Marx, is what maintains the imperative of ‘accumulation through dispossession’ (David Harvey). Or to paraphrase Baron von Rothschild’s more eloquent version, when there’s blood in the streets that’s the time to profit.
Should it come as a surprise that our ruling class overlords plan and plot crisis in order to expand their investment opportunities and usher us in to the next stage of our subjugation? From wagging the dog and regime change ops to false flags and propaganda campaigns, war above all stands as clear evidence of what ruling ideology would have us dismiss as sedition or conspiracy theory or domestic terrorism.
War itself, like the rest of our ‘civilized’ society, has been revolutionized by technological advances in ‘creative destruction.’ Those still conceiving combat in nineteenth century terms were not prepared for the industrial warfare of WWI. And those today still conceiving warfare in conventional terms of bombs and bullets remain oblivious to the world war that’s been rolling out against humanity in terms of the ruling class’ plandemic.
But it’s because of the plandemic that the increasing destruction of masses worldwide accumulates profit and power for global oligarchs as never before in history. Rather than risk collapse of social-economic systems more directly traceable to them, most recently and relevantly in 2008, the architects of the covid coup are covering their tracks with ‘pandemic’ pretenses, particularly prison lockdowns revised as public health protocols, primary cause of our new abnormal austerity and immiseration.
And thanks to professional class managers of the “bewildered herd” (Walter Lippmann) dutifully passing on the narrative of lies, the consent of many is manufactured for marching down dead ends any proletarian or peasant on the planet. Whether it be digital IDs and passes and currencies and credits scores, or eugenic experiments in radical modification of our present species with ‘vaccine’ injectables and our present environments, including oceans and space, with 5/6G EMFs, or converting the last of the public commons of land into their private property with natural assets companies, or…war is being waged against us on multiple fronts.
And if now the pandemic narrative turns down new misdirections, there’s ‘climate change’ contrivances to keep the coup on course, perhaps necessitating, for our own good of course, more lockdowns, and providing anthropogenic causes to cover for collapse from capitalogenic ecocide to surveil and control our carbon footprints on the prison planet. Meanwhile, transnational supply chain breakdowns keep insuring there’s more than one way, besides kill shots, to depopulate us useless eaters.
The old abnormal world order is being destroyed for global governance by the biosecurity state and a totalitarian technocracy to put Big Brother to shame. There will be no place for humanity or any life as has been known to evolution on earth in the synthetic ‘solution’ to the ‘problems’ the transhumanists have planned for their gain, whereby our losses amount to annihilation, the final final solution for the “masters (or monsters) of mankind” (Adam Smith).
There’s no need for the Washington consensus anymore in the new abnormal world order. The post-WWII hegemony of the U$ over global capital is being replaced by corporate state fascism now directly assuming full spectrum dominance. National sovereignty of any sort, already made negligible by neoliberalism’s governance by debt, and especially any still maintaining or carrying pretense of liberal democracy, will be made extinct.
And if more than rumor of wars between nation-states be waged as both distraction and destruction for the plandemic, the global coup, the Great Reset, what more time-honored means can be found for moving present subject populations into its death and dystopia?
If we now fail to fight the class war that’s been waged across all the crimes against humanity throughout the “muck of ages” (Marx), we will be irretrievably, forever lost.
+1. The covid super-scam is a good example of creative destruction.
Climate and environmenta destrution is real, but the associated super-scam is meant to make the victimised masses pay for Globocap’s ongoing greed, reckessness and hedonism.
It’s all as genuine as professional wrestling. The game seems to be in determining who will be portrayed as the instigator. This matters little to the puppet masters, who win every war, and who do quite well without war too. There will be plenty to “build back better”in any event.
2010: NATZO invades Syria to stop a pipeline for cheap and reliable Iranian gas to Europe.
2014: NATZO stages regime change in Ukraine to stop a pipeline for cheap and reliable Russian gas to Europe.
2022:
+1
All they need now in the West i
sa usualorganizedsnowfall then they can call it the Beast of the East (again)..Also remember Mogadishu 1993. Those are just the direct defeats, as opposed to the defeats of puppets.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has last month dialled their Doomsday Clock to “100 seconds to midnight”.
That’s 20 seconds closer than the last time they fiddled with it, back when The Donald was trading insults with KJU.
The accompanying article, explaining their rationale, made me wonder whether I’d stumbled upon a GloboHomo, Democrat version of Babylon Bee..
Read & weep (or laugh, or vomit..)
https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
They have crammed as many NeoCon, Global Reset agendas in there as they can justify as a nuclear threat.
Sure, the advances in tech by Russia / China / NK are given the expected column inches, no surprise there.
Somehow the Uygurs got a mention.
As did the “Russian hacking”.
Climate change comprises a large portion but I fail to comprehend how that brings us to atomic annihilation.
(okay. so they simply changed the definition of of what the clock measures, to now include climate change. Angry Greta is trotted out to underline this)
The Jan 6 “insurrection” is cited – they almost captured Mike Pence & the Nuclear Football!
The challenge to the legitimacy of the Biden administration is mentioned at least 3 times.
“False narratives” & “disinformation” & “corrupted information ecosphere” are discussed throughout – this is the Doomsday Clock remember, designed to predict how close we are to all go up in a mushroom cloud – but never fear, “against all odds, both the UN Open-Ended Working Group and the Group of Government Experts have reached some rough consensus on cyber norms of behavior.”
COVID-19 gets airplay, highlighting inadequate masking & vaxxing.
Even though the DDC is all about nuclear catastrophe (& now climate change), Corona could hardly be ignored, “given its demonstrated ability to sicken and kill millions, weaken national economies and global supply chains, and destabilize governments and societies.”
Hmm.. methinks they need to rearrange that sentence, somehow..
And ominously warns that the worst in terms of biological threats is yet to come..
They couldn’t fit everything in – no mention of BLM, rainbow rights, or critical race.
Transhumanism is talked about though, in a positive light of course.
It’s a painful read.
If they had put it in simpler terms, instead of pseudoscientific polyjargon, I would have thought I’d stumbled across a parody site like the Bee.
What’s disturbing is that many learned folk, those who might subscribe to WaPo or NYT yet are smart enough to suspect that those organs be a teensy bit biased, will take the words of the Bulletin (& Graun, Polito, Intercept..) as Gospel.
“It’s a painful read.”
Thanks for sparing us the necessity of reading. By preparing that digest you show that the Bulletin, like many other once worthy publications, has been thoroughly infiltrated by Soros and is now part of his “Attack from the Left”.
Capitalist subversion and infiltration in journalism parallels that in political activism, business innovation (where they buy up promising or inconvenient newbies), etc.
I think Russia’s goals are quite clear. They don’t want NATO on their borders and they don’t want to see unnecessary bloodshed in the east. The don’t want to ‘invade’ Ukraine because its a economic basket case and a political hot potato
We are told a number of half-truths and many people are too young to question them. One is that NATO is a ‘defensive alliance’. To anyone who’s lived through the Cold War in the UK this is a bit of a joke; I refer them to Duncan Campbell’s book “The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier” that discusses the UK in the contest of an armed camp with its population held hostage to nuclear annihilation. NATO is not defensive — its a projection of American offensive power directed at communism but in the absence of that mission its just redirected at anyone or anything that challenges American hegemony.
There’s a lot of material out there about what’s happening in this area but our standard media seems to be relying on just press releases from the very significant lobbying effort being done on behalf of Ukraine. These lobby groups are very articulate but their message is so out of joint with what is readily apparent on the ground that we end up with yet another of those ‘government / people’ disconnects — the lobbyists and the government generate their own reality that’s not real so their efforts to sell that reality, while possibly successful in the US, are generally falling flat. It seems that all Putin — Russia — needs to do to ‘win’ is to do nothing.
Superbly said Martin!
It is quite revealing to know that Sanctions against Russia are in fact sanctions against economic ties between Germany and Russia!
.. and then we have the australians supporting these sanctions (australia is a major gas exporter) and they are mulling introducing their own sanctions against Russia.
And America (with the UK) also fucked over France on their submarine contract with Australia, complete with lots of scary rhetoric about Russia. Seems pretty clear which way the Anglosphere is going (I’d say the language is political at this point, and a second/third etc. reccomended, even just to be able to escape the bubble) and that the US remains confident of bullying other ‘allies’.
This Ukraine thing sounds really random, especially how flagrant it is that the narrative is arranged, with the ridiculous Wednesday date (…please Putin do not embarrass me for having defended Russia by actually invading), but they’ve maybe been ramping it up for a while, proxy wars, Trump claims, alleged voting interference. It could be in part another ‘stress test’: I’d never have believed even the Deep State (whatever that means in reality) could get the Dems and Republicans to flip sides on who distrusts Russia most, but turns out it was as easy as telling them to.
To remain loyal, ally Germany has gone though a terrible and exepensive winter due to fuel/energy. But at least it is not issuing moronic statements. Ally Australia is keeping up the moronic statements. It is trying to “swim upstream” against ever more trade bans from its major benefactor China.
…An excellent summary of the known concerns/agendas of the various players thus far, Kit and no doubt a goodly amount of your surmises are correct… – There’s likely a bigger picture as well, with a long term agenda in play, courtesy of our old friends, Davostan:…
…- Tom Luongo’s latest take is an interesting alternative to every other one I’ve seen on this ‘event’: – A Davostani play to secure the final demolition of US(/UK) geopolitical hegemony whilst replacing it with a pre-eminent EU as the new arbiter of Western foreign policy?… – This ascendant EU hegemon to be aligned as trading partner to the inevitable China/Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union… (- Think: Belt And Road…):…
https://tomluongo.me/2022/02/14/will-lagarde-ecb-survive-inflection-point-geopolitics
…- To address some of the more immediate operational considerations you mentioned, particularly those pertaining to Novorossiya, and the possibility of false flag operations there, here’s PW Laurie’s view of the situation:…
http://www.frombehindenemylines.org.uk/2022/02/putin-and-russia-wont-back-down-us-uk-squealing-reaches-new-level-of-annoying-alternative-media-chips-in-as-always
…- Meanwhile:… – Putin: “Knight to King’s Bishop 3”:… 😉
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-former-chancellor-gerhard-schr%C3%B6der-to-join-gazprom-board/a-60664273
Well here’s a shot in the dark for you.
All this is about giving the EU the ability to disintegrate NATO. I take it its the EU making the move by enticing the Clinton Faction or War Mongers in Washington. I would hazard to speculate, most EU powers have decided they don’t want NAYTO and the costs that go along with it. Who knows perhaps they want to create their own alliance to defend themselves against the US, UK and Canada?
A loss for the “Wild West” as it (NATO) is a primary source of subsidizing their war machine corporations. Mr,Trump took it upon himself to dismantle the US presence of troops in Europe, he saw NATO as a waste of money, money the US could use to rebuild its infrastructure with rather than spend it on military aide amounting to nothing.
There is no threat, at least not from Russia.
With Binden in the White House, and Trump out, the EU required an excuse to dismantle NATO. I think you need to think about this one a bit.What way with the UK out of the way, they could play some counter plays of their own.
NordStream2 was a done deal with the fuck up by Obama in the Ukraine years ago. That degenerate lost the destabilization play, what now translates to one unless wasteland nation called Ukraine or should we finally start calling it by its real name ..”New Russia”. With out Crimea it has no leverage and no value to the US and UK.
Okay so a 30% premium on liquified gas from the US ( or shall we say the gulf states) is not going to happen, thank god. I truly feel for the UK as they are left holding their pencil dicks and raisins. Where pray tell are they going to get their gas from now? I can see the ships arriving. Good luck.
So it comes down to this. A carrot in front of the DC war hawks just so that the EU can finish pissing all over them one more time as they move to abolish NATO once and for all.
Now lets not forget a tidbit of information and it goes something like this…. Russia surpasses Mexico as a strategic supplier of oil and gas to the US before the end of 2021.
Well well well, rant and rave all you want, I suppose that had to hurt Obama a trifle.
…I do believe you’re onto something, Beerman… – I just posted a comment which has gone into pending right now (it included 3 links), and should appear somewhere above your’s in due course… My first link was to Tom Luongo’s latest piece where he echoes your take, but additionaly figures this is ultimately a play by Davostan (whom he equates with ‘old European money’)…
…- The upshot will be the prompt replacement of the US by the EU as (Western) geopolitical hegemon and dictator of Western foreign policy, followed by trading and economic integration with Eurasia (China/Russia) as partners, whilst the ongoing Bankster-led ‘Asia pivot’ continues apace…
Before the “replacement” can happen fully, expect a play on the euro which will see it get decimated in the short term. Its a great opportunity to buy in and settle down for the ride , well my ride at least. Life is about end games after all.
The EU will evolve rather than dissolve. A move into gold and silver is fine but there still needs to be a currency and perhaps the currency du moment is the Euro in due course.
Expect a devaluation of the US dollar sometime in the next two to three years if not sooner and this will destroy what’s left of the Canadian dollar. The pound will survive as a laundering currency, unless cyber currency pulls a rabbit out. depends on how Boris plays his cards in the next few years. yes he will be around. For all his drinking and partying the guy still knows what’s about to happen.
Russia is part of Europe, most forest that or do not realize it fully. Its been absent under communism, but its back and its more of Europe than the UK ever was.
I am not some hard line Russian supporter here, I just call it the way I see it. The only thing I see is a man trying to do the most he can for his country without fucking over everyone else for the sake of a few corporations who would care less.
Mr.Trump, for all his silly rhetoric basically wanted to do the same for the US. Who did not let him? Think about that one. The mobilized the degenerates to follow fake movements like BLM and defund this and that and parallelized a nation with a wok agenda that included a fake pandemic, fake Russian propaganda and like this a fake Ukrainian play.
Who has time for this?
thanks for the Luongo link. A good read it was.
Russia surpasses Mexico as a strategic supplier of oil and gas to the US before the end of 2021.
This is a terrorist nation that robs other nations’ tankers and sells the petroleum on the open market. It may well resell some of that Russian fuel to Europe. Another case of “Do as I say, not as I do”.
What’s in a name?
Zelensky. Surname derived from ‘zeleny’ or ‘green’.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green/translations#Adjective
Putin. Put-in. Put’ (in Russian, Ukrainian,…) being ‘The Way’.
‘The Way’ figuring in multiple religions. The original Jesus movement being known as ‘The Way’. The ‘Tao’ of Taoism also meaning ‘way’.
So we have a Mr. Green vs a Mr. Way. Green agenda vs historical religion
(‘The Way’ of Putin also contrasting with the laziness (len’) of Lenin and the ‘steel’ (stal’) of Stalin? Wasn’t he a steely character??)
From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. Communism to freedom for the Orthodox Church
And now battle of the Vlads with Volodymyr vs Vladimir (Vladimir deriving from Volodymyr).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr
I wonder what Vladimir the Great would have made of it all 🤔
…”The Way that can be told not the eternal Way; The name that can be named is not the eternal name…” 😉
…- Perhaps also, Zelensky is the ‘Green Man’?…
Quite possible. That would be another angle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man
And there’s more: The colours of the Ukrainian flag, yellow and blue, when mixed, become green. If that’s not kind of ominous. 😂
The global oligarchy cannot allow any sober, scientific accounting of the past 2 years, as this would reveal that all the excess mortality, economic and social devastation was caused by government responses, orchestrated at a global level, to a non-existent pandemic. Therefore, the Russian oligarchy needs this distraction over Ukraine just as much as the US & NATO does. We are engaged in a class war on a global scale that is going to get increasingly violent over the next few years
Old Russian Jewish joke: Don’t lie! You said you were going to Minsk because you wanted me to believe you were really going to Pinsk. But I happen to have seen your ticket so I know you are really going to Minsk.
Zelensky to Biden: Calm down! Putin said he was not going to invade Ukraine because he wanted you to believe he was really going to invade Ukraine. But I happen to have seen Putin’s troop dispositions so I know he is really not going to invade Ukraine.
Hehehe A2
Prevent North Stream II or get at least a big chunk of the profits.
The Weapon of Fear: How They Use Fear to Manipulate You
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ~Aristotle
Since the moment we were born, society has imposed on us what to do, what to think and what to feel, and it has conditioned us to believe that if we don’t follow its rules, we’re bound to get into serious trouble.
Parents taught us to behave in certain ways. If we did, they would reward us, and if we didn’t, they would punish us. Naturally, every child obeys its parents, because the child is dependent on the parents — it is a matter of survival, especially in its very early years.
At school we were taught to think in certain ways. They taught us what to think, but not how to develop our thinking. And everyone was taught the same. If we thought in different ways than our classmates, teachers would tell us we are bad students. They would give us bad grades and might even expel us from school. Therefore, as students we learned to compromise our thinking so as to get away with trouble.
Religion taught us to follow anything but our inner voice: scriptures, priests, god. It taught us to have faith in others, but not to have faith in ourselves. Religion taught us that, if we did certain things, we would be rewarded with the bliss of heaven, but if we didn’t we would be punished in hellfire.
Parents, school, and religion used one and the same thing to make us do what they wanted us to do: FEAR, If you want to manipulate anybody, first make him or her afraid. Once afraid, he or she will be ready to accept your offered suggestions.
This tactic is being continuously used in our everyday life, but we are unaware of it. Have a clear look around you, and you will see what I mean. Politicians are being elected by persuading the masses through the use of fear. Companies are selling their products by manipulating consumers’ insecurities in advertising. Journalists influence public opinion by terrorizing people’s minds. And these are just a few examples.
Fear is the best weapon of all great manipulators. It can move people to do anything, no matter how nonsensical it is.
https://sofoarchon.com/the-weapon-of-fear-how-they-use-fear-to-manipulate-you/
Virginia Giuffre Settles Civil Sex Abuse Case With Prince Andrew
Ms Giuffre had been suing the Duke of York, claiming he sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was 17, allegations he has repeatedly denied. According to The BBC:
A document submitted to a US court on Tuesday said the duke and Ms Giuffre had reached an out of court…
Scamdemic is losing its grip on people, so new fear-porn campaign is necessary. But aside this, for a long time we are on a path of destruction and towards Chaos, arrival of New order out of Chaos. Russia scare is just one card in a deck. Look at all self-defeating insanities in a form of tits for tats between US, China, Australia….deranged thinking: they will suffer, never mind we will suffer too. Of course, string pullers won’t suffer and who gives a fuck about peons, voters, cattle.
I’m pretty sure there will be a war by the beginning of summer. Ukraine will go on Donbas, I think Crimea will be spared because it’s very hard nut to crack (look at geography). Now they are armed to the teeth, they had plenty of time to train army. They can count on foreign support, because that means bleeding of Russia. Ukrainian domestic situation is bad and deteriorating, they have nothing much to lose.
Btw, how much Ukrainian regime is outright psychopathic is clearly visible in their closure of North Crimean Canal, that supplied peninsula with roughly 90% of fresh water coming from Dnieper. This effectively destroyed agriculture. Motherfuckers from Kiev cut of Water, hello!!!!! Majority of voters in the West don’t know much about this. Or maybe they get just a little bit of data (not information!!) from inhumane imbeciles like Clara, who deserves to be bitten (not really, that would be cruel and unusual punishment, I’m just pissed thoroughly)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/russia-vs-ukraine-crimea-s-water-crisis-is-an-impossible-problem-for-putin
The most amazing player in the charade is EU acting like good cop bad cop, effectively producing confusion(Chaos). On one hand they would like to calm down situation, on the other pouring gasoline on fire. Germany banned RT, yeah, only domestic propaganda is allowed. They are blocking Nord stream 2, that could be functional by now, despite low gas reserves and soaring prices. Germany even threatened abandoning Nord stream 2. And remember, EU already fucked up South stream. More than 30% of natural gas for EU needs comes from Russia and there is probably not enough capacities to replace it with LNG in short term. The question, beside higher price, is also whether there is enough LNG available. Looks like American tankers shiped Russian LNG to EU.
https://www.rt.com/business/424876-russian-gas-america-lng-failure/
https://www.rt.com/business/409028-russian-gas-sold-belgium-us/
All of this gas shit comes atop of general energy crisis in EU caused by climate insanity.
Damn, if things will go the worst way I envision then bad pandemonium is in front of us, worse than scamdemic. Since EU already shot itself in foot with climate religion, doing it again by abandoning Russian gas is not something impossible.
Day 2 of the 3 day bombing of Dresden, Germany 77 years ago! The war is all but over and the U.S. & England decide to wipe out millions of innocent men, women, & children!
Seems they like using this period for war fear etc
We must never forget the Dresden genocide
And after the war “More than nine million Germans died as a result of deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after the Second World War, including 1.5-2 million German prisoners, which is the alleged number that died in Auschwitz. Architect–Morgenthau.”
Has the Ned Price clip gone viral yet?
I first saw it posted on Twitter four or five days ago. In amongst the majority of comments agreeing that it didn’t paint the US in a good light there were the expected small number of defensive comments arguing that Price couldn’t be expected to reveal high security intelligence evidence.
Apologies to the person who posted this first but, once read, the whole affair becomes blindingly obvious:
NATZO is in Ukraine is to prevent Europe getting a cheap, reliable gas supply via pipeline from Russia.
NATZO is in Syria to prevent Europe getting a cheap, reliable gas supply via pipeline from Iran.
NATZO is obviously a tool for keeping the Russians out, the Yanks in and Europe down.
Democrats claim imminent invasion, Biden imposes sanctions, Russia does not invade, Sanctions a success! Biden the great, all hail Democrats for midterms.
The Dems are taking a beating, Kamala’s approval lower than Darth Cheney, Biden approval tanking, Republican voter registrations rising. Maybe its an election campaign war footing to save their tanking polls. Also frightening, if they are willing to risk a hot war to maintain power.
“Democrats claim imminent invasion”
Interesting Tribal view.
I see numerous “Republicans” and “Conservatives” doing the exact same.
WEAK MINDS NEED STRONG TRIBAL LEADERS.
GOTTA BE A MINDLESS “PARTISAN” FOLLOWER.
The tactic of Divide & Conquer continues to prove effective!
(Ignoring the fact that the most recognized & powerful Politicians of both the “left” and “right” are financed by and personally invested in the same CARTEL of neo-feudal Lords, via various corporate entities/assets).
True that, what you said. I thought Republicans hate Iran and Dems hate RU on average. It is also likely a cover up for failing jabs, failing mandates, and inflation.
Success! the old Yellow Elephant ploy works every time:
“Why do you paint your elephants yellow?”
“So you won’t see them bathing in your custard”.
“There are no elephants in my custard”.
“You see! It works”.
The warmongering coming from the US and the UK is grossly irresponsible.
Clearly, the megaphone is directed at Germany, never mind the damage that is being done to Ukraine (Georgia was similarly instrumentalised and victimised).
Germany is giving up both nuclear energy and coal; without gas, the lights in Germany will go out. And no-one is any longer willing to put up with the Ukrainians’ gross skimming of gas deliveries.
The US thinks the Germans can be bullied into taking the US’ expensive and ecologically disastrous fracking gas … only the US is running out of that itself, so the US is shopping the bazaars of the Middle East for gas to foist on Germany.
Germany’s political class is pathetically weak, so there is no knowing what will happen. But over the longer term, this is setting up an extremely explosive situation.
The story is that the heroic stand led by Mr Biden and taken by Mr Johnson and other Western leaders has victoriously stopped the Red Menace from invading Brave Little Ukraine. I would love to know the real disposition of military units along the Russian border to see if there was any so-called “massing” taking place. The problem is that Western public hysteria has leaked out of the Covid story into just about anything suggested to them. Next China.
The US Military-Industrial Complex must ever be “Ready, Willing and Able” to turn any and every crisis to a profit. It’s been quite a while since the US has had to bring “freedom and democracy” to some resource rich country.
Fear of war is, for them, the next best thing to war itself – a consolation prize. It’s doubtful if talk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine will be allowed to die down until the MIC has managed to put some brand spanking new toys on the playing field.
After all, why should all the blood money go to Big Pharma when there are
greedyhungry MIC mouths to feed?Stories like the following maybe point to the “solution” being one of the favourite Anglo-US-Zio tricks… partition:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/us-embassy-kyiv-closure/index.html
Partition is clever because it looks like a compromise. In reality, it serves several agendas: 1) Justification for mass population movements (if not deaths for population reduction) 2) Creates a permanent source of future dialectics (aka flashpints) that can be easily turned on or off 3) It uses the globalists’ enemies’ main idea, national borders, against them. They love nothing more than to do this (it’s why they love those Eastern fighting techniques that use the opponents’ weight against them). 4) In the long run it all discredits the idea of national frontiers.
Should we be getting ready to welcome Western Ukraine (or whatever name they come up with) into the family of nations?…
At this point, everything is about germ theory and the virus narrative. People are about to figure it out, and that cannot be allowed to happen, at all cost.
‘Change the story, change the lead – its not a new concept …’
simply put the ukrainia was a transition emergency out of covidia
noise noise jaw j`aw rumours of war jaw whatever way you spell it
putin is playing his distraction part well
the heist has happened the farm animals must be kept in fear
drums of war allow time for clean up crews
gladio daddio is back now covid gone
get ready for the same old same old musslamics driving on pavements
fishy fish monger halls city of london merchant red dagger terror
turning up the 5g whats that smell
goy you is cookin
Here we go…no longer a tip toe…
Canadian Deputy PM & Minister of Finance: “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/j7ViQrnViSvy
The state is the presiding terrorist entity, deliberately and blatantly cultivating terror of an imaginary disease.
I think the world has collectively gotten sick to death of the scam culture we’re all immersed in. Though con artists have preyed on others since time immemorial, it became pervasive in the 1980’s, when Wall St’s “greed is good” mantra began seeping into mainstream consciousness. Forty years later, neoliberalism has corroded every institution and now the final Technocracy stage threatens to install a permanent TNC (transnational corporation) scam-friendly global governance, where it will no longer be necessary to scurry off to the few nations known to protect criminals, now all nations will be crime havens… for the insiders. Humanity is better than this level, where the talentless parasites mingle. It will continue only as long as we accept the lies.
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
Vladimir Putin’s speech, delivered July 12, 2021 his views appear to remain as stated here. – prh, ed.
Who cares? That evil bully Putin is sitting on a fortune of natural resources that, by right, belong to us. Let’s give him a bloody nose ……and a black eye (caution-esoteric symbolism).
Something that very much depresses me about the Ukraine/Russia issue is that many of my acquaintances who believe we are being lied to over the ‘pandemic’, have seen the duplicitous behaviour of the UK Government, and support any number of ‘conspiracy theories’, seem to have, paradoxically, bought in wholeheartedly to the mainstream narrative about Ukraine and Russia. Most of them have no idea about Maidan, aren’t aware of the popularity of State sanctioned neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, have no idea about the ongoing Donbass conflicts or the persecution of ethnic Russians in Ukraine or the history of Crimea. I try to educate where I can. I look forward to the forthcoming Off Guardian analysis of the recent history of the region.
Paradoxically, I can think of a few ardent covidians who don’t buy into this latest media confection. The cognitive dissonance cuts both ways.
One would expect ardent Covidians, those who will believe anything the government tells them, to believe, when told to believe, that the Commies are coming.
Yes, one would expect that.
But that’s not what I’m seeing either.
Well, I’m working from a small sample (Aged Father) but…
He can’t stand Boris, or any Tory, know Boris lies but will believe any Boris appointee just as long as they own a white coat and/or a stethoscope. Will assume that the US and the UK are warmongers but will make an exception for Russia.
Beholden to authority figures.
Much of the left are less sold on “aggressive Russia” than they are on “deadly Covid”.
Deadly Covid is being sold by “doctors” and “scientists”. Aggressive Russia is being sold by politicians.
You cant beat a bit of posturing when you’re miles behind in the polls and the midterms are coming up…
https://www.rt.com/russia/549402-troops-withdrawing-ukraine-border/
Just heard the news from Canada.
So what’s everybody’s favourite 3D printer firearm?
Just want to thank you for an excellent article!
Blinky is having a hissy fit and begs China to intervene. Blinky is told to pee off by China. Hissy fit continues…. He needs to appease those who promised to make him very wealthy of he could start a war so they could profit.
Can someone riddle me this…….
So with all that as a background.
> What would Russia gain from war?
A broke country to throw money on. Just perfect because there’s nothing else Russia needs money for.
> …will NATO claim to have “averted the war”?
A big affirmative.
Good one, Kit! 😂
+2
Wag the dog
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
Try this for an explanation:
The DC Swampies and their underlings in the Anglozionist empire are unwillingly but increasingly aware that they have literally zero realistic military response to any possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. There’s simply no military action they can take which doesn’t lead, obviously even to such delusionals as the Swamp creatures and their permanently-attached arse-kissers in the imperial provinces, to immediate disaster; and with a ramping danger of nuclear war to boot.
Even the Swamp-delusionals have a vague understanding that if they push too far in that direction, they’re likely to trigger a coup d’etat by the sane contingent of the US military – backed by a considerable percentage of the US populace – against the Swampies. Even inveterate doublethinkers always maintain a sober idea of the actual realities, locked away in a memory hole somewhere in their subconscious minds. That essential tether to the real world is a necessary component of doublethinking, exactly as Orwell described it originally.
It’s also turned out that the Swampies’ only other hit-back – sanctions – are not now worrying the Russians at all. As one diplomat is reported to have said: “We don’t give a shit about your sanctions!” That’s already been tried, to the limit, and all it’s done in the medium term is to benefit Russia’s economy – and increase its near-autarky. And increasing numbers of countries in Zone B are queuing up to do international trade with rapidly-rising Russia anyway.
So, all that’s left is the one thing at which the Azies are supreme: bullshit propaganda. Their gekaufte journalisten in the controlled media are highly responsive to cues fed to them by their deep-state keepers. Screaming one thing on Monday, and the exact opposite on Tuesday is never any problem for the mediawhores; they’ll do whatever is good for them. Crawling careersworths, every last one of them.
So we get the constant mediawhore/pocket-pol screaming about an ‘invasion’ happening yesterday, every morning. And when – as the Russian poker players have insisted consistently – the ‘invasion’ doesn’t happen, the face-saver get out is: “See! We stood up to the Russians, and they backed down!” As the saying is: Declare victory, and leave. As with Afghanistan and all the other debacles, past and upcoming.
This sorry farce is to be expected as the Az empire fails, and even the most delusional farts in the Swamp (and in little Whitehallette) slowly grasp that it’s happening.
Once Doltenberg and one or two others of his vintage are shovelled off to the Grannyfarms where they’re long overdue, even NATO will come to admit this reality.
Hey, would anyone have a good read about that colour revolution in 2014 please?
I’d recommend Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sawka (Prof of Russian Politics at Kent University) which is great for the background, context and events of 2014.