By Batiushka for the Saker blog
If you are expecting dramatic news and pictures from the Donbass, where Allied troops are slowly but inexorably advancing, destroying thousands of Nazis of all Western nationalities and dozens of their military vehicles and piles of their equipment every week, as they liberate towns and villages (all unreported by the Western media), sorry. This is a story from the home front. It is a human story. I hope it brings it all home to you.
It is about a small town south of Kiev. Two years ago, Ukrainian (though they are Russians, as far as they are concerned) members of my family, a couple with two grown-up children, bought a brand-new house there. I have been there and stayed there. Last year. I know it well and the road from there to central Kiev. I could take you there now.
First of all, it is snowing. Photos sent to me show it. The long Indian summer is well and truly over. And the Russians have decided to use the same tactics as the Americans used in Serbia: launch missiles at the energy infrastructure. Thank you, USA, for your example of how to wage war.
The Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, has dropped by 30% against the dollar, pound and euro. Everything that is imported has increased in price by at least that much. Many things by 100%. Though that is similar to the situation in Western Europe, where I now live. On top of that what you used to get from Russia is now unobtainable because of ‘sanctions’.
Only, in the Ukraine, this is against the background of the bankrupt economy being propped up by the US/UK/EU to the tune of billions of dollars per month. How do you fancy living in a country with a drop in GDP of 40% this year? And there is no sign of any change in the future, at least not until the Kiev regime collapses, Zelensky leaves for Miami from the roof of the US embassy via helicopter (remember Saigon?), Nazis cling to the outside of US aircraft taking off from Borispol Airport (remember Kabul?), other fanatical nationalists leave for Poland (some already have), and Russia liberates the whole country, as now seems necessary and inevitable.
Property prices in central Kiev have fallen. Many are trying to move out, as there are mainly flats and also the explosions are mainly in Kiev. Of course, if you are in a high-rise block, you will never sell unless you are on a low floor. Nobody wants to get stuck in a lift or, almost as bad, if you have to take your groceries up to the fifteenth floor by the stairs every day.
You have to do everything yourself. There are few workmen left because they have been abducted, screaming and kicking, into the armed forces. If they are lucky, they will be able to surrender to their Russian brothers before they get turned into body dust or shot in the back by the hated Ukrainian secret police. The workmen who are left charge astronomical rates. My relatives are very glad that they finally completed everything just a few weeks before it all began in February.
Last Thursday X saw a bad accident on the road nearby: the traffic lights were not working because of a power cut. That is happening all over. The streets are in darkness, no lights.
Many work from home, or used to. That is difficult now, because at best you only have three to four hours of electricity before it goes off for at least the same amount of time. There is no light. And then even the best batteries in a computer mean that you lose power after an hour or two – that is, if you have the internet, which is not all the time.
And remember to charge up your phone as soon as the power comes back on. The power will not last and may go off all day. You have no way of knowing. And when the power goes off, the boiler also goes off. No heating, no hot water. The windows are taped across in Xs against possible missile blasts, which would cause the glass to shatter. My relatives saw a missile going over last May. It landed in Kiev.
And sometimes the washing machine will stop half-way through the cycle. Power-cut. That is inconvenient. And always remember to carry a flashlight in your pocket or handbag and have at least one other one in the house. Many are using Swedish-made primus stoves to cook – if you can get one and the refills. Some Swedes are doing well out of this.
As for shopping, well, the opening hours change with the power cuts, though corner shops remain open, if dark. And of course, Kiev has gone back to a cash economy. The card machines will not work – no electricity. Hopefully, the bank cash dispensers will get restocked often enough. That is, if you have money in your account.
My relatives do not have a car. Many of the Ukrainians who are wealthy enough to have cars drove to the West last March/April/May with their recruitment age sons (bribes of up to $5,000 a time to the border guards, who left last), and now live in cramped quarters in the houses of Western people naïve enough and once prosperous enough to take them.
My relatives are very lucky because they can get on minibuses to take them to their house in the country. Just a wooden affair, but there are vegetables there, especially potatoes, and lots of firewood. They had a busy summer in the large vegetable garden. They prepared for the winter, picking, bottling and pickling. The only way of heating there is putting wood in the stove. No gas, but then you do not need any. And you can even live without electricity, as there is a stock of candles. The only thing – it gets really cold there in the winter, -20 or -30 outside, -10 inside, unless you heat constantly. So you stay inside as much as possible and prepare lots of dry firewood for years before.
All of this is a warning to Western Europe. I know you are being distracted by the World Cup soccer circus. Do not be. You too voted for US puppet-leaders like Zelensky? You too wanted to be Ukrainianised by the US? Then this is your future too. You have been warned. I have friends in Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova. They are already living like this. This is a virus that is creeping westwards towards you.
You are seeing your future – unless you can get rid of your pro-Nazi puppet-governments in time. Elect Russia-friendly governments. Make friends with your neighbours next door, in the east of Europe. (Never heard of ‘love your neighbour’?). Moscow is 1,600 kilometres from Berlin, around 2,500 kilometres from Rome, Paris and London. You know it makes sense. You could be nice and warm soon.
This is very good the “Get prepared it’s coming your way” warning shot we need for a wake-up if we’re napping. Thank you..
True words. Of those of us living in the US how many are preparing for what Ukraine is now facing? Because we live in a comparatively rich economy, many have not connected the dots.
The US is heavily in debt, we produce nothing but gas and oil, some tech., and have a huge agricultural industry. Profits are all that matter with our current economic system. Our oil and agricultural products will be sold to the highest bidder regardless if the US citizens need them. The policies being implemented by the government are those of The Ones’ who control our government, the rich and powerful. These policies are not for the benefit of the people but for making more money and driving their agenda. Currently that agenda seems to be centered around climate control, war, and population decimation.
The US is now making many enemies around the world right now with their continued support to Ukraine because those country’s are now severely impacted by disruption in global supply chains and astronomical prices for competition of basic goods. The US depends upon China, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, etc for almost everything related to technology products and clothing, and off season food production from mostly Central America and South America. Just look at your clothing, appliance, and food labels.
Those very ideas that provided increased profits: just in time production, outsourcing, have now further morphed into risky stock market manipulations to provide investor income artificially, not through physical property production. Stock buy backs by companies are the reasons for maintaining or increasing profits per share. Companies are now increasing prices to consumer because market manipulation is not enough. The whole stock market is an artifice of deception.
There are many more dots in this picture that I haven’t thought of to connect, I’m sure, but to ignore the reality of this situation puts you in peril. What happens when their is limited gas, broken and old power grid failures, fertilizer shortages for crop production, and on going supply chain disruptions.
The realities of this article should strike you across the face and wake you up. It will happen to the US as 2/3 of the world will retaliate for grievances suffered by them by the US in the past and now with the Ukraine war. I see no scenario where the US survives this. Stock up on basic food, extra gas, small dollar denomination cash, buy appliances in bad shape, seeds to grow, clothes you need, etc. It’s not conspiracy thinking, it’s reality.
As an example of reality, I just received a call from my pharmacy that a medication my son takes, Concerta and its generic, is now unavailable and will not be available in the near future. They recommend contacting his dr for an alternative, the situation is so bad. This is a pharmacy wide issue because the Distributor just doesn’t have it. I also have a son with cystic fibrosis and have had trouble getting his specialty meds the last four months. Without these meds and insulin for my other son, they will not live very long. China supplies the world with 80% of its drugs too. Think on that.
Had to laugh. Replace appliances in bad shape not buy them in bad shape. Not enough coffee on board yet.
Concerta 38mg $55 for 30 tabs, 58mg $80 for 30 tabs,
Other generic brands of same medicine is 10 tabs for $2to $4
These are the prices in India. I’m sure they are much much more in US.
Go to 1mg.com it’s one of the biggest online pharmacy in India run by indias biggest corporate brand TATA.
Thank you for this word-painting of life near Kiev.
I’d like to tell you about one word in the story.
“if you are in a high-rise block, you will never sell unless you are on a low floor.”
That “will” carries an implication of “want”; “can” fits better.
In this case “will” indicates future tense, not desire.
A couple of years ago, I was staying at an airbnb apartment in the centre of Kiev – metro Kolvaska. On the 3rd floor. My landlady and her husband and kids lived in an apartment high above the ground elsewhere. I told her that I would never live that high up. She was surprised. I wonder what happened to her?
It is a shame that Russia and the Ukraine will not be able to play against each other in the world cup.
That would have been a much greater alternative to what is going on now.
Also, sounds like it is time to clear out of the Ukraine right now. Let some NATO country take care of you for the while….
“Thank you, USA, for your example of how to wage war.”
This statement is nonsense, the logic of the conflict dictates that any dual-purpose infrastructure should be destroyed to hamper the movement of the enemy’s forces.
Nothing personal.
The Russian army should have done this much earlier, then the war might have been over long before winter.
They were making money, both sides. You can’t do that by destroying duel use railroad tracks.
Back home word came to the military. Some people were spotted with guns. Big guns. Automatics.
So the Brits arrived and surrounded the building. When they finally entered the building they found sworn arch enemies trading weapons and money. The IRA and the UVF were making money off the conflict…….trade and commerce always take precident over human life. Count the KIA….. anyone care?
Cheers M
Excellent warning, and may well be perfectly timed pending Russia’s next moves.
Thanks for your update, and wise warning: this is what awaits the collective west. The US will surely sap each of its vassals pushing them towards conflict with Russia/China. Not living in high density cities, and being closer to food production with limited transport needs is good. As things deteriorate in Europe I expect waves of migrants making their way to Australia and New Zealand.
Australia & New Zealand ?????? Last places to go on planet earth. Both of them completely screwed, already sinking in a big black hole. Africa & Latin America and some countries in Asia are the places to go if you want more freedom.
Forget the 5 eyes countries, I would add Canada to the 2 totalitarians states in the South Pacific.
“I would add Canada to the 2 totalitarians states”
Esp when you have elections outcomes that are themselves demonstrably fraudulent, illegal Constitutionally and literally passed 2 elections now without comment by a Media (all of it including ALT ones? or the Truth to Power Ones’??)…
NOTE: It is a media that nonetheless like the US ran ‘stories’ demeaning US Presidential contest in 2016 with an intense obsession with the implications of popular vote being an indication of state fraud (Esp the news entertainment programmes that run under the guise of political punditry) that are simply state regulated propaganda, which in Canada, is now coupled with an openly fascist Catholic extremist govt run by American agents operating out of a single province and proposing draconian and self-serving broad based ‘first look’ censorship in order to protect itself from having to explain it’s foreign controlled theocratic dictatorship…
2021 Federal Result in my Dictatorship
338 seats in the House of Commons
170 seats needed for a majority
Below is the party name (Liberal is Trudeau’s mostly Quebec based party) and the Tories (Conservatives), their last seat elected seat total in federal govt and it’s popular vote.
Lib -160 – 32.62%
Tory – 119 – 33.74%
BlocQueboise – 32 – 7.64%
New Democrat Party (the American front headed by Orthodox Sikh!) – 25 – 17.82%
Those are the official numbers. A virtual copy of the election result from 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election
You don’t need to be informed about politics in Canada or even a stats hound to see quite clearly see these elections are not legitimate and it’s a grim testament to national and international oversight as to not (among everything else making Canada’s a world class pariah state) even petition a complaint over at the UN let alone wasting time petitioning courts in Canada to uphold the Constitution, even the illegal ‘coalition’ the Liberal Party of Quebec and the Liberal party of Canada.
(Full Stop IF YOU ARE TORY … esp if you are still a Tory? bothering to do what? participate and collude in this rigged process knowing full well YOU ARE directly contributing to anointing a dictatorship…’Going Slow’ at this point is simply an admission that WE won’t have to burn as many calories chasing you and when we hang you under a bridge with YOUR ALLIES)
“Full Stop IF YOU ARE TORY” I am not Canadian but looking from outside, I have the impression that at this point it does not matter if you are left or right or LIberal or Conservative in Canada….just try to run away as fast as possible. (and as far as possible too)
Sobering
Guter Text!
Wie viele Menschen in Deutschland und Westeuropa lesen und verstehen diesen Text?
Wir die “Alten” sind im Osten Deutschlands mit Deutsch-Sowjetischer Freundschaft aufgewachsen? Selbst das war nicht immer selbstverständlich. Seit dem Ende der DDR wurde dieses Stück Deutschland mit amerikanischer Propaganda geflutet. Sei es im Schulwesen, sei es im öffentlichen Leben. Ich denke es gibt auch in anderen Ländern eine Filmindustrie. Geistig anspruchsvolle Filme sind Mangelware und kommen erst nach 22:00 Uhr im Fernsehen. Ansonsten in den Kinos Amerikanische Actionfilme. Warum werden so wenig Filme aus anderen Ländern ausgestrahlt? Große Teile der Bevölkerung konsumieren diesen “Schwachsinn” und identifizieren sich damit. Die Beeinflussung der Kinder; “Putin ist schuld” beginnt schon im Kindergarten. Es ist das gleiche Schema wie in der Ukraine. Was werden dort für Menschen heran gezüchtet? Für einen anstehenden Krieg? Ich wurde erzogen weltoffen zu sein. Dabei war das wichtigste; Nie wieder Krieg. Meine Generation kennt aus den Erzählungen unserer Eltern und Großeltern noch den Bombenterror auf deutsche Städte, die Vertreibung aus deutschen Gebieten, die Vergewaltigungen, das Verrecken von hunderttausenden Soldaten auf den Rheinwiesen 1945, sowie den Beschuß von Flüchtlingskolonnen durch britische Tiefflieger in Dresden nach der Bombardierung. Jetzt werden diese Zahlen nach unten dividiert. Die Jugend von heute interessiert nicht was damals geschah. Sie leben im Heute. Wie soll man diesen Menschen klar machen, dass die Freundschaft mit allen Ländern insbesondere Russland ein wichtiges Gedankengut ist, um zu erwachen um seine wahren Feinde zu erkennen?.
How many people in Germany and Western Europe read and understand this text?
We the “oldies” grew up in East Germany with German-Soviet friendship? Even that was not always a matter of course. Since the end of the GDR, this piece of Germany has been flooded with American propaganda. Be it in schools, be it in public life. I think there is a film industry in other countries too. Intellectually demanding films are in short supply and only come on TV after 10pm. Otherwise in the cinemas American action films. Why are so few films from other countries broadcast? Large parts of the population consume this “bullshit” and identify with it. Influencing Children; “Putin is to blame” begins in kindergarten. It’s the same scheme as in Ukraine. What kind of people are bred there? For an upcoming war? I was raised to be open minded. The most important thing was; Never again war. My generation still knows from the stories of our parents and grandparents the terror bombing of German cities, the expulsion from German areas, the rapes, the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the Rhine meadows in 1945, as well as the bombardment of columns of refugees by British low-flying aircraft in Dresden after the bombing. Now these numbers are divided down. Today’s youth are not interested in what happened back then. You live in the present. How to make it clear to these people that friendship with all countries, especially Russia, is an important body of thought in order to wake up to recognize your true enemies?.
Absolutely. Britain should pay reparations to Germany for what it did. I do remember my mother telling me about Dresden, she was disgusted by what we did. This is a very succinct article about the reason:
https://williambowles.info/2020/02/18/dresden-terror-bombing-like-hiroshima-a-maniacal-warning-to-moscow/
17 February 2020 Strategic Culture Foundation, Finian Cunningham
This weekend 75 years ago, the German city of Dresden was razed to the ground by British and American aerial bombardment. At least 25,000 mainly civilians were destroyed in raid after raid by over 1,200 heavy bombers, indiscriminately dropping high explosives and incendiaries. It took seven years just to clear the rubble.
The destruction of Dresden, a world-famous cultural center of Baroque majesty, has been long dogged by controversy. Official British and American military accounts claim it was necessary to hasten the collapse of the Third Reich; with a reasoning that resonates with US claims for dropping the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Critics say, however, that the mass bombing of Dresden was immaterial in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. It was a wanton act of terror – a war crime – carried out by the British and Americans. Critics point out that most of the industrial and military targets on the outskirts of the beautiful city were largely left untouched by the bombing. British wartime leader Winston Churchill is even said to have expressed misgivings about the morality of this and other indiscriminate bombing of German civilian centers.
Ardent advocates of the terror-bombing campaign said it would exhaust German morale. A classic case of ends justifying means, no matter how vile the means.
There were also claims at the time that the damage to Nazi communication and transport lines would aid the advancing Soviet Red Army.
But there is good reason to believe that the rationale for the obliteration of Dresden was for an altogether more sinister reason. It wasn’t so much an act of terror aimed at Nazi Germany, but rather a show of maniacal power to the Soviet Union.
A British Royal Air Force memo on the Dresden operation noted that it would “show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do.” (See caption 17 in this linked photo essay.) **** click on the link and look at the horrify photos****
By mid-February 1945, the front lines of the Western and Eastern allied forces were such that the American and British ground troops had not yet entered Germany territory, while the Soviet Red Army had crossed the Oder River and were a mere 70 kilometers from Berlin, the seat of the Third Reich. Such was the keen advance of the Soviets that the Western allies were concerned that the Red Army might take all of German territory.
Rather than aiding Soviet forces from the mass bombing of Dresden, Leipzig and other cities in the German east, it seems plausible that, as the above British RAF memo indicates, the Western allies were intent on demonstrating a shockingly brutal, raw power to Moscow. Not just military power, but a will power to ****use any means necessary to defeat enemies.***
Britain obviously saw BOTH
Britain obviously saw BOTH Germany and Russia as enemies.
How about the thesis that one strong motive to destroy “a world-famous cultural center of Baroque majesty” was it was Protestant?
A supporting argument would be that “most of the industrial and military targets on the outskirts of the beautiful city were largely left untouched by the bombing”, no?
Now as a far excusing this repulsive act with suggesting the memos of very architects of this war crime “A British Royal Air Force memo on the Dresden operation … to “show the Russians when they arrive what Bomber Command can do” is not sufficient or admissible …esp the British empire which I believe in it’s 500 year old Anglo-America driven Christendom Empire have trails of complete extermination of entire groups from Huguenots to Five Nations, coupled with the Great Game cover, as President Putin himself refs early and often…would have been already be KNOWN to the Russia Soviets/Non-Soviets (and their very survival) as well the tactics of the American as amiably demonstrated with the Alaskan theft (their a criminal regime) or simply the scorched earth policy of those German fellows tramping around Mother Russia looking for…what? wild mushrooms?
No doubt when the RUSSIANS heard about Dresden, it wouldn’t invoked fear of what the cowardly ‘death from above’ Allies are capable of; it would have invoked cheers and celebrations as they really didn’t have a high regard Germans at that point, so a bit of stretch for British command to think that would scare their ALLY who quite possibly would have done the same thing.
Now the Animals calling itself Yank with their nukes simply covered the fact the US decided that international law be damn and so when the honourable Japanese, who followed international law (esp the part about the US declaring war on them and YOU saying it was sneak attack…WASN’T that message as well?) and HAD agreed to ‘unconditional surrender’ (and indeed tried several times to surrender BTW) but the American ‘pulled the rug” (again another message, no?) and decided that ‘surrender’ meant good old fashioned Old Testament ‘conquest’ (Hello US here with another special message) and would completely occupy, run, colonize and otherwise culturally exterminate/experiment with the Japanese (a colonized skunkwork like SKorea so Yanks can pretend they invent stuff)
The Japanese, thinking surrender meant Treaties and Reparations balked and the Americas nuked them (with some American white supremacist race eugenics message) as planned from day one of the new Truman administration (April 1945) which itself was coming under direct domestic criticism of the continuing Pacific campaign (which actually lasted from ’43-’75), then Korea, then Vietnam with each time a Democrat President got elected as well as continued with National Service that Roosevelt in is first election promised to stop. etc etc
It’s become sickening to listen to Anglo apologists here, there and everywhere in their seemingly endless RACIST Empire cherry picking of their own ‘memos’ THEY WROTE that merely differs from the THEIR public statements.
We know the Brit and the Yank are ruthless animals that will do and say thing…so on that level whatever the British DID in Khartoum in 1905 (re-sealed by Tony the Vatican Envoy Blair a day before the 99 yr security seal was to be broken in 2004 BTW) or the newer revelations of induced famine and British military massacres over Depression era India rice quotas (or Biafra), or etc, I would think would suffice as a ‘propaganda by deed’ OR MESSAGE to show HOW SCARY the Anglo-American empire to those they have exterminated.
Getting back to my opening comment…’Work Will Set You Free’…rather strange bit of Protestantism hung as sign on a Catholic run extermination camp that greeted …. um Jews? I think that joke would have been lost on Jews, no? ;-)
“You are seeing your future – unless you can get rid of your pro-Nazi puppet-governments in time. Elect Russia-friendly governments.”
Wait, somebody thinks that at this point in time we’re gonna be able to VOTE our way out of this mess? Seriously?
You know the day i came across the archaeological find of the century of two girls and a boy exhumed from the top of Mount Llullaillaco and found to be in a perfect state of preservation due to the high altitude of the site I was stunned by what the scientists unearthed. The three children 500 years old by the way were human sacrifices and lo and behold one of the children had been burned severely by a lighting strike that penetrated some five feet into the top of the mountain? Now this of course had an enormous amount of importance for me which i cover in my book on climate change. In the book of Job we find it taught that the way God governs the nations and provides food is with climate change. The Inca apparently didn’t understand this and thought all of the climate change they were suffering was because their idols needed more human sacrifices which they of course provided constantly until that is they lost it all due to the changing climate destroying everything they had.
It is these three children though that really caught my attention because of the lightning strike in the exact vicinity of their bodies? Wow, i thought to myself and they say and argue that faith is blind because God can’t be observed to exist. If any bothered to pay attention to what the bible teaches they would find that is error!!!! A week later though i was having coffee and reading the newspaper and what do i find? In the same paragraph was the mentioning of a huge storm with hundreds of lightning strikes all over the city and guess who was moved to the cities morgue? The three children of course. That both would appear in the same news item didn’t come as a surprise to me. That wasn’t a coincidence that an angry weather system descended upon the place.
It’s a shame you know if people were properly educated in religion and not constantly lied to by the authorizes we would find the solution to so much pain and suffering.
One other thing all those birds deaths falling out of the sky and thousands of fish washing up dead on our shores the bible mentions it to and gives us the reasons for it one being the lack of love for ones neighbor. And the solution!!!!
Go to Hosea chapter 4:3. also read down to verse 14 and see how current and applicable it all is to our own day and age and nations.
Yep, Fear God and keep His Commandments otherwise well enjoy the consequences?
Greatly appreciate this very human story.
Ukrainians are tough but very misguided people. Shame their leadership and civilians have to go this way.
Saw a picture of a woman in Odessa collecting drinking water from a ditch in a road. One would usually see this only in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Wonder how much longer and how much crazier this insanity will go.
Last night in Madrid we had a temperature of 1° Celsius; and we are a couple of thousand kilometers south of Moscow.
Here’s another human story that i heard in an Evangelical Church by a Dr. Peter Kuzmic of Slovenia and of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. He was in Vukovar during the heavy fighting and gave this testimony about that very apocalyptic moment of his life. In the midst of terrible shelling where tens thousands of shells were raining down from the hills and the thunderstorm with hail etc that accompanied it all he was holed up in a Church with some Moslems and Dr. Kuzmic in fear of all of their lives wasn’t sure what to do really. To go into the basement was no go because they would have had to exit the building to go through another door. So they stayed inside the church and prayed to God and he confessed the incredibility of the scene as inside the Church they were hugging and praying for each other while outside they hated and were killing each other.
When scientists say that they don’t understand certain abrupt meteorological events that pop up now and then guess where the answer is found?
The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.” {Nahum 1:3}
he Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. (Isaiah 30:30)
Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury. {Ezekiel 13:11-13}
So imagine this God can be observed to exist after all and faith isn’t blind!!!!!!!!!!!
Another human story was my father who upon learning about my writing topic and books said to me or asked rather why is everything so quiet here in the north of Vancouver Island just too much rain? Back in his native Croatia so noisy from morning till dusk and all night boom, boom, boom !!!!!??? It never stops all of the thundering and bad weather? My father then started to cry about a mill he had built which was completely destroyed by a terrible angry storm. For him that place left a bitterness in his soul and the rasing of the middle finger!
Lastly, there is Martin Luther who on one of his travels to Rome turned around for home so terrified he was of a weather system it filled him with dread.
Now how does it feel to be lied to about climate change? That its the result of manmade industrial pollution? Does it feel good? Or in the words of Sagan bamboozled? lol?
I’m checking the temperature in Kiev and Odessa daily. It’s still too warm for the ground to freeze. It’s a waiting game. In the meantime, General Surovikin is preparing the ground by “fixing” Ukrainian forces in place by denying them an opportunity to maneuver. Russia withdrawing from Kerson was a “fixing” operation similar to the initial Russian threats against Keiv and Kharkov. Yes, it was a trap … and the Ukrainians fell for it.
In the meantime, Ukraine is in the news for becoming a global money laundering emporium for Western politicians. Rest assured, this will be forced into the “memory hole” as quickly as possible; grab the facts as quickly as you can before they disappear. Links to the Democratic Party have already been exposed. I’m wondering if there are also financial links to the UK and EU political parties and politicians. There is fear in the air. EU governments are simply “too well-behaved” as they dance to Washington’s tune to assume they are democratic governments beholden to electorates. The fix is on … and the FXT scandal is only a quick peek into Washington’s artifices to resist fate and retain the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Washington is starting to behave like a wounded predator backed into a corner. It’s fighting for survival. It’s lashing out in every direction to forestall the inevitable. These are dangerous times!
The tragic situation of the Ukrainians is due to their having been designated as a tool of US foreign policy based on the geostrategic doctrine of Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book “The Grand Chessboard”. In 1997 he wrote, “Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played”. Ukraine is according to him a “geopolitical pivot”. He claimed success in bringing a sort of Vietnam to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Is that a success, bringing endless war to Afghanistan?
Brzezinski’s doctrine is false. The US does not need and will not retain global primacy. Certainly not in Eurasia. The Russian Federation and China now see the US as an enemy. But his doctrine has been followed by George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the notoriously undiplomatic diplomat Victoria Nuland. It is championed by a rent-seeking defence industry. We are no longer living in an age of world empires. This type of thinking (related to Britannia ruling the waves) has resulted in the destruction of the proxies Afghanistan and Ukraine. This is the sad fate of these two countries. Most of the rest of the world has woken up and now sees America for what it is, by far the main problem in world politics. It will become increasingly irrelevant in the multi-polar world and that will be a good thing.
The only solution for Ukraine (which has been a nation state only since 1991 and from 1917 to 1922) is to capitulate quickly before the damage is complete and to cede the Russian speaking regions and rebuild. The rest of us Europeans must wake up, ignore the deliberately false narrative in our newspapers and urge the Ukrainians to do these things. Only then can Ukraine resume normal relations with all of its neighbours, both to the East and to the West in Europe. The Minsk process has been botched. Ukraine should be a very happy country, blessed with fertile lands as well as an important industrial capacity. But this requires Ukraine to have good relations with all of its neighbours and not to listen to the false words from afar. It is a part of Eurasia.
Fear is paralyzing. Why would a clergyman want to stoke it?
Generals do not win wars out of fear. They win wars out of military competence put into practice.
Generals and clergy inspire their charges into heroic actions. They do not terrorize their charges with tales of woe.
What army ever won a war working from fear? “Taking counsel of one’s fears” used to be considered unmanly.
When someone tells me to “Wake up” or “Be afraid,” my first response is, “You first.” My second response is, “On what authority do you tell me to wake up or be afraid?” My third response is, “Why should I want to shoulder your fear? Your fear is your fear, not mine, and I’m not carrying your fear for you?”
Defensive warfare, not offensive warfare, is the one which succeeds. Defense kills an enemy in the largest numbers and to the most decisive Spiritual effect.
Russia wins her wars because she uses the inherent and indomitable advantages of defensive warfare. Russia is not an offensive nation.
Neither is The USA, by the way. We are at present hag-and harridan-ridden by a certain habitually offensive Ashkenazy ethnicity. This will end. POTUS Lincoln and The Tzar helped one another. Only since said ethnicity fully laid hands on her powers of government, since 1949, has The USA been taken to make offensive warfare.
Hotheads and fearmongers, the Spiritually dry and empty among us, counsel offensive warfare. They always go down in defeat. Righteousness, Who is wet and full, would allow no less. The harm hotheads and fearmongers do meanwhile, well, which of us does not deserve what we get, which of us has not made our own fate, and which of us has it not in us to be happy heroes rather than fearful failures come what may?
Surovikin and the Russian General Staff appear to me to be in the midst of defensive warfare succeeding superbly, especially in the Operational and Strategic dimensions and more importantly in the Spiritual (breathing, love) and Theological (defense) dimensions. Wars are not won in the tactical dimension but they are fought there most dramatically.
When viewing current doings in Novorossiya, Malorossiya, and Galicia, keep eyes and mind on Operational and Strategic dimensions for sure but mainly on Spiritual and Theological dimensions. This will cause fear to subside. A man cannot live on fear or hate.
” Only since ……. since 1949, has The USA been taken to make offensive warfare.”
You need to take off your rose tinted glasses, or maybe just stop being a gatekeeper.
1798-1800 France Undeclared naval war against France, marines land in Puerto Plata.
1801-1805 Tripoli War with Tripoli (Libya), called “First Barbary War”.
1806 Spanish Mexico Military force enters Spanish territory in headwaters of the Rio Grande.
1806-1810 Spanish and French in Caribbean US naval vessels attack French and Spanish shipping in the Caribbean.
1810 Spanish West Florida Troops invade and seize Western Florida, a Spanish possession.
1812 Spanish East Florida Troops seize Amelia Island and adjacent territories.
1812 Britain War of 1812, includes naval and land operations.
1813 Marquesas Island Forces seize Nukahiva and establish first US naval base in the Pacific.
1814 Spanish (East Florida) Troops seize Pensacola in Spanish East Florida.
1814-1825 French, British and Spanish in Caribbean US naval squadron engages French, British and Spanish shipping in the Caribbean.
1815 Algiers and Tripoli US naval fleet under Captain Stephen Decatur wages “Second Barbary War” in North Africa.
1816-1819 Spanish East Florida Troops attack and seize Nicholls’ Fort, Amelia Island and other strategic locations. Spain eventually cedes East Florida to the US.
1822-1825 Spanish Cuba and Puerto Rico Marines land in numerous cities in the Spanish island of Cuba and also in Spanish Puerto Rico.
1827 Greece Marines invade the Greek islands of Argentiere, Miconi and Andross.
1831 Falkland/Malvinas Islands US naval squadrons aggress the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1832 Sumatra, Dutch East Indies US naval squadrons attack Qallah Battoo.
1833 Argentina Forces land in Buenos Aires and engage local combatants.
1835-1836 Peru Troops dispatched twice for counter-insurgency operations.
1836 Mexico Troops assist Texas war for independence.
1837 Canada Naval incident on the Canadian border leads to mobilization of a large force to invade Canada. War is narrowly averted.
1838 Sumatra, Dutch East Indies US naval forces sent to Sumatra for punitive expedition.
1840-1841 Fiji Naval forces deployed, marines land.
1841 Samoa Naval forces deployed, marines land.
1842 Mexico Naval forces temporarily seize cities of Monterey and San Diego.
1843 China Marines land in Canton.
1843 Ivory Coast Marines land.
1846-1848 Mexico Full-scale war. Mexico cedes half of its territory to the US by the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo.
1849 Ottoman Empire (Turkey) Naval force dispatched to Smyrna.
1852-1853 Argentina Marines land in Buenos Aires.
1854 Nicaragua Navy bombards and largely destroys city of San Juan del Norte. Marines land and set fire to the city.
1854 Japan Commodore Perry and his fleet deploy at Yokohama.
1855 Uruguay Marines land in Montevideo.
1856 Colombia (Panama Region) Marines land for counter-insurgency campaign.
1856 China Marines deployed in Canton.
1856 Hawaii Naval forces seize small islands of Jarvis, Baker and Howland in the Hawaiian Islands.
1857 Nicaragua Marines land.
1858 Uruguay Marines land in Montevideo.
1858 Fiji Marines land.
1859 Paraguay Large naval force deployed.
1859 China Troops enter Shanghai.
1859 Mexico Military force enters northern area.
1860 Portuguese West Africa Troops land at Kissembo.
1860 Colombia (Panama Region) Troops and naval forces deployed.
1863 Japan Troops land at Shimonoseki.
1864 Japan Troops landed in Yedo.
1865 Colombia (Panama Region) Marines landed.
1866 Colombia (Panama Region) Troops invade and seize Matamoros, later withdraw.
1866 China Marines land in Newchwang.
1867 Nicaragua Marines land in Managua and Leon in Nicaragua.
1867 Formosa Island (Taiwan) Marines land.
1867 Midway Island Naval forces seize this island in the Hawaiian Archipelago for a naval base.
1868 Japan Naval forces deployed at Osaka, Hiogo, Nagasaki, Yokohama and Negata.
1868 Uruguay Marines land at Montevideo.
1870 Colombia Marines landed.
1871 Korea Forces landed.
1873 Colombia (Panama Region) Marines landed.
1874 Hawaii Sailors and marines landed.
1876 Mexico Army again occupies Matamoros.
1882 British Egypt Troops land.
1885 Colombia (Panama Region) Troops land in Colon and Panama City.
1885 Samoa Naval force deployed.
1887 Hawaii Navy gains right to build permanent naval base at Pearl Harbor.
1888 Haiti Troops landed.
1888 Samoa Marines landed.
1889 Samoa Clash with German naval forces.
1890 Argentina US sailors land in Buenos Aires.
1891 Chile US sailors land in the major port city of Valparaiso.
1891 Haiti Marines land on US-claimed Navassa Island.
1893 Hawaii Marines and other naval forces land and overthrow the monarchy. Read More | President Cleveland’s Message
1894 Nicaragua Marines land at Bluefields on the eastern coast.
1894-1895 China Marines are stationed at Tientsin and Beijing. A naval ship takes up position at Newchwang.
1894-1896 Korea Marines land and remain in Seoul.
1895 Colombia Marines are sent to the town Bocas del Toro.
1896 Nicaragua Marines land in the port of Corinto.
1898 Nicaragua Marines land at the port city of San Juan del Sur.
1898 Guam Naval forces seize Guam Island from Spain and the US holds the island permanently.
1898 Cuba Naval and land forces seize Cuba from Spain.
1898 Puerto Rico Naval and land forces seize Puerto Rico from Spain and the US holds the island permanently.
1898 Philippines Naval forces defeat the Spanish fleet and the US takes control of the country.
1899 Philippines Military units are reinforced for extensive counter-insurgency operations.
1899 Samoa Naval forces land
1899 Nicaragua Marines land at the port city of Bluefields.
1900 China US forces intervene in several cities.
1901 Colombia/Panama Marines land.
1902 Colombia/Panama US forces land in Bocas de Toro
1903 Colombia/Panama With US backing, a group in northern Colombia declares independence as the state of Panama
1903 Guam Navy begins development in Apra Harbor of a permanent base installation.
1903 Honduras Marines go ashore at Puerto Cortez.
1903 Dominican Republic Marines land in Santo Domingo.
1904-1905 Korea Marines land and stay in Seoul.
1906-1909 Cuba Marines land. The US builds a major naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
1907 Nicaragua Troops seize major centers.
1907 Honduras Marines land and take up garrison in cities of Trujillo, Ceiba, Puerto Cortez, San Pedro, Laguna and Choloma.
1908 Panama Marines land and carry out operations.
1910 Nicaragua Marines land in Bluefields and Corinto.
1911 Honduras Marines intervene.
1911-1941 China The US builds up its military presence in the country to a force of 5000 troops and a fleet of 44 vessels patrolling China’s coast and rivers.
1912 Cuba US sends army troops into combat in Havana.
1912 Panama Army troops intervene.
1912 Honduras Marines land.
1912-1933 Nicaragua Marines intervene. A 20-year occupation of the country follows.
1913 Mexico Marines land at Ciaris Estero.
1914 Dominican Republic Naval forces engage in battles in the city of Santo Domingo.
1914 Mexico US forces seize and occupy Mexico’s major port city of Veracrus from April through November.
1915-1916 Mexico An expeditionary force of the US Army under Gen. John J. Pershing crosses the Texas border and penetrates several hundred miles into Mexican territory. Eventually reinforced to over 11,000 officers and men.
1914-1934 Haiti Troops land, aerial bombardment leading to a 19-year military occupation.
1916-1924 Dominican Republic Military intervention leading to 8-year occupation.
1917-1933 Cuba Landing of naval forces. Beginning of a 15-year occupation.
1918-1920 Panama Troops intervene, remain on “police duty” for over 2 years.
1918-1922 Russia Naval forces and army troops fight battles in several areas of the country during a five- year period.
1919 Yugoslavia Marines intervene in Dalmatia.
1919 Honduras Marines land.
1920 Guatemala Troops intervene.
1922 Turkey Marines engaged in operations in Smyrna (Izmir).
1922-1927 China Naval forces and troops deployed during 5-year period.
1924-1925 Honduras Troops land twice in two-year period.
1925 Panama Marines land and engage in operations.
1927-1934 China Marines and naval forces stationed throughout the country.
1932 El Salvador Naval forces intervene.
1933 Cuba Naval forces deployed.
1934 China Marines land in Foochow.
1946 Iran Troops deployed in northern province.
Since 1949
1946-1949 China Major US army presence of about 100,000 troops, fighting, training and advising local combatants.
1947-1949 Greece US forces wage a 3-year counterinsurgency campaign.
1948 Italy Heavy CIA involvement in national elections.
1948-1954 Philippines Commando operations, “secret” CIA war.
1950-1953 Korea Major forces engaged in war in Korean peninsula.
1953 Iran CIA overthrows government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Read More
1954 Vietnam Financial and materiel support for colonial French military operations, leads eventually to direct US military involvement.
1954 Guatemala CIA overthrows the government of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.
1958 Lebanon US marines and army units totaling 14,000 land.
1958 Panama Clashes between US forces in Canal Zone and local citizens.
1959 Haiti Marines land.
1960 Congo CIA-backed overthrow and assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.
1960-1964 Vietnam Gradual introduction of military advisors and special forces.
1961 Cuba CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion.
1962 Cuba Nuclear threat and naval blockade.
1962 Laos CIA-backed military coup.
1963 Ecuador CIA backs military overthrow of President Jose Maria Valesco Ibarra.
1964 Panama Clashes between US forces in Canal Zone and local citizens.
1964 Brazil CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government of Joao Goulart and Gen. Castello Branco takes power. Read More
1965-1975 Vietnam Large commitment of military forces, including air, naval and ground units numbering up to 500,000+ troops. Full-scale war, lasting for ten years.
1965 Indonesia CIA-backed army coup overthrows President Sukarno and brings Gen. Suharto to power.
1965 Congo CIA backed military coup overthrows President Joseph Kasavubu and brings Joseph Mobutu to power.
1965 Dominican Republic 23,000 troops land.
1965-1973 Laos Bombing campaign begin, lasting eight years.
1966 Ghana CIA-backed military coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah.
1966-1967 Guatemala Extensive counter-insurgency operation.
1969-1975 Cambodia CIA supports military coup against Prince Sihanouk, bringing Lon Nol to power. Intensive bombing for seven years along border with Vietnam.
1970 Oman Counter-insurgency operation, including coordination with Iranian marine invasion.
1971-1973 Laos Invasion by US and South Vietnames forces.
1973 Chile CIA-backed military coup ousts government of President Salvador Allende. Gen. Augusto Pinochet comes to power.
1975 Cambodia Marines land, engage in combat with government forces.
1976-1992 Angola Military and CIA operations.
1980 Iran Special operations units land in Iranian desert. Helicopter malfunction leads to aborting of planned raid.
1981 Libya Naval jets shoot down two Libyan jets in maneuvers over the Mediterranean.
1981-1992 El Salvador CIA and special forces begin a long counterinsurgency campaign.
1981-1990 Nicaragua CIA directs exile “Contra” operations. US air units drop sea mines in harbors.
1982-1984 Lebanon Marines land and naval forces fire on local combatants.
1983 Grenada Military forces invade Grenada.
1983-1989 Honduras Large program of military assistance aimed at conflict in Nicaragua.
1984 Iran Two Iranian jets shot down over the Persian Gulf.
1986 Libya US aircraft bomb the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, including direct strikes at the official residence of President Muamar al Qadaffi.
1986 Bolivia Special Forces units engage in counter-insurgency.
1987-1988 Iran Naval forces block Iranian shipping. Civilian airliner shot down by missile cruiser.
1989 Libya Naval aircraft shoot down two Libyan jets over Gulf of Sidra.
1989 Philippines CIA and Special Forces involved in counterinsurgency.
1989-1990 Panama 27,000 troops as well as naval and air power used to overthrow government of President Noriega.
1990 Liberia Troops deployed.
1990-1991 Iraq Major military operation, including naval blockade, air strikes; large number of troops attack Iraqi forces in occupied Kuwait.
1991-2003 Iraq Control of Iraqi airspace in north and south of the country with periodic attacks on air and ground targets.
1991 Haiti CIA-backed military coup ousts President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1992-1994 Somalia Special operations forces intervene.
1992-1994 Yugoslavia Major role in NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
1993-1995 Bosnia Active military involvement with air and ground forces.
1994-1996 Haiti Troops depose military rulers and restore President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to office.
1995 Croatia Krajina Serb airfields attacked.
1996-1997 Zaire (Congo) Marines involved in operations in eastern region of the country.
1997 Liberia Troops deployed.
1998 Sudan Air strikes destroy country’s major pharmaceutical plant.
1998 Afghanistan Attack on targets in the country.
1998 Iraq Four days of intensive air and missile strikes.
1999 Yugoslavia Major involvement in NATO air strikes.
2001 Macedonia NATO troops shift and partially disarm Albanian rebels.
2001 Afghanistan Air attacks and ground operations oust Taliban government and install a new regime.
2003 Iraq Invasion with large ground, air and naval forces ousts government of Saddam Hussein and establishes new government.
2003-present Iraq Occupation force of 150,000 troops in protracted counter-insurgency war
2004 Haiti Marines land. CIA-backed forces overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
on to Syria, Yemen, and many other, some still ongoing, “localised” conflicts.
“Neither is The USA, by the way. We are at present hag-and harridan-ridden by a certain habitually offensive Ashkenazy ethnicity. This will end. POTUS Lincoln and The Tzar helped one another. Only since said ethnicity fully laid hands on her powers of government, since 1949, has The USA been taken to make offensive warfare.”
Sorry to say but I think this statemnt is BS ! ” Neither is the uS ,by the way ” A ridiculous statement for sure. Look at how many on both sides were killed in the uS Civil war alone. The uS is a predator Nation & has been almost from inception!
Thanks grrr — I see you beat me to it with a lot opf very relevent data!
Billions of US dollars flow to these authorities that buy press, managers, influent people inside society. The people unfortunately buy the speech these guys and fall in disgrace. Opposite voices are declassified and considered a joke.
Of course the hair-splitters and the sophists will say that Russia’s armed forces have entered Ukraine. No-one will deny that but many will conveniently ignore that there are a number of neo-Nazi battalions based in Kiev, that these have committed crimes and that the Minsk process has been intentionally sabotaged. The underlying causes of the conflict go back many years. There was a colour revolution in 2003, in 2014 there was the Maidan coup after which the shooting started. 14’000 people have died since then. There is a persecution of the Russian speaking population and the attempt to erase their cultural identity. Conveniently ignored is the self-criticism in the US of the unstable security architecture which has emerged with the westward expansion of NATO.
Indeed, why have these things occurred? There are people in Washington who have worked and hoped for precisely the present outcome. As was stated by people like Lloyd Austin and Lindsey Graham, the aim now is to weaken Russia and in pursuit of this to prolong the conflict for as long as possible.
The US is wealthy, it has its own gas and oil, it is far removed from the conflict, and it wishes to preserve at all costs its global primacy using Brzezinski’s geostrategy, The Europeans must now, and I think they will, wake up. They must explain to the Ukrainians that the only solution is for Ukraine to capitulate in its own interest and to cede the Russian speaking regions. Nothing else can be done, the situation has been made dire by themselves and their Western false friends. Then and only then will it become worthwhile for the Europeans to help rebuild what today could have been a much happier Ukraine.
I truly believe that my government here in the UK is actively working against the People of these 4 nations, as well as billions of citizens throughout the world. Their greed, corruption, and lust for power have no limits, and they seem willing to deliberately destroy the lives of all who stand in their satanic path. We are continually told that these are the prices of “democracy”, but where is Ukraine’s legitimate Opposition, its free, impartial press, or any voice of dissent. And for our government, with its totally unelected Prime minister, and his illegitimate cabinet to lecture us on democracy is an insult to all of us.
I believe your warning is very valid, unfortunately the complacency and apathy of the majority of western European peoples will keep them blinded and distracted until it is far too late to avert the catastrophe that we are accelerating towards.
Down here in New ‘Ealand there has been absolutely NOTHING in any of the msm (well. any that I have seen) about the calamity that is going to hit Northern Europe especially this winter. On line sites such as this is the only place where you’ll read or see videos talking about the prospects of the approaching human catastrophe. Warmth won’t be the only ‘problem’ – for the homeless & the working poor the cost of food is going to push I believe perhaps hundreds of thousands to the brink. Cries of “bring out your dead” or the woke modern equivalent (I shudder to think how it will be couched) will most likely be ringing out, with bulldozers pushing the many into communal graves while the quakzine rollout adherents/population reductionists at the WEF, etc. will be toasting themselves at what a fine job they’ve done so far. As they await the quarterly notification from their brokerage houses as to how many millions their Pfizer shares have accrued, they will be off in sunnier climes, their ‘carbon footprint’ ignored as those distractions are only for the lower classes, such as ourselves. I wonder if they have factored in all the military aged males flooding ashore in the South of England & Ireland . . . . the locals certainly have & are getting very vocal about it. Or is that just a continuation or perhaps phase 2 or 3 of the roll out of the 4th Industrial revolution.
Cheers, Chris in Ch-Ch