By Batiushka for the Saker blog
The Surreal
For one brief moment we thought that Monty Python had made a comeback, starring Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Surreal because of both characters, the former who returned post-haste from the Caribbean dreaming of a victorious return, the latter who appears to have been responsible for the terrorist attacks on the Nordstream pipelines (so said Truss’ mobile phone) and the Crimea-Kerch Bridge. No surprises here, as she represents the same ruthless British Establishment, which carried out the Litvinenko murder (carried out under ‘white man speak with forked tongue Bliar’) and the bungled Skripal murders (carried out under the son of millionaire slave-traders Cameron), making a clumsy mess of trying to frame Russia for them. Only zombies would believe that Russia was responsible for either mishap. Russia may not be populated with geniuses, but, unlike MI6, it is not populated with morons either.
Then we learned that the latest episode of the Great British Comedy Show was over – though only until the next one – with the utterly incompetent Truss backstabbed and sacked by her own. But the surreal was not over: A multimillionaire Hindu took over the UK Premiership and he has already hinted at cancelling Truss’ intention to increase the ‘defence’ budget of the bankrupt UK by 50% by 2030. This same Hindu banker is now responsible for appointing all bishops of the State-run ‘Church of England’! Yes, it is Monty Python again. The most important thing, however, is that Truss’ crazed fingers have been taken away from the nuclear button. Perhaps her American masters ordered it.
As for ‘Richy’ Sunak, his PR people are presenting him as another nice brown Obama (1). (Remember – the one who refused to close down Guantanamo Bay and murdered people by drone, for which the CIA kindly funded and then awarded him one of their Nobel Peace Prizes?). But already, on Sunak’s watch, the not-so-secret UK secret services have co-ordinated a pathetic drone attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Of course, just as James Bond was the one who simply did the US’s dirty jobs for them, it was all okayed in Washington first. Hopefully, friends in India might tell Sunak to start behaving like a morally upright Indian, not like a British moral pygmy. Hopefully.
However, the surreal continued when, on 23 October, with the Russian Defence Minister’s phone calls to his US, UK, French and Turkish counterparts about the Russian discovery of a Kiev/MI6 plot to use a ‘dirty’ bomb and blame it on Russia. Having outed the plot, Sergei Shoigu had alerted the US Establishment to the extremism of the now desperate Kiev elite (and their British MI6 operatives). The US put the Kiev crazies in their place, since, after all, the US are the string-pullers and puppets are not allowed to do anything without their express permission. The US duly stated that it has seen no evidence that Russia intends to use nuclear weaponry and President Putin stated that Russia has no plans to use nuclear weapons. The panic and hysteria of the Western media and of others was unfounded; though the mass media did not report the US admission. Panic and hysteria sell.
The third cause of surreal panic was the news that units from a US Airborne Division had been deployed to Romania. In fact, it was only a partial deployment, a rotation prepared months before, not a US threat to take over Odessa using parachute troops. The concept that the US wants to see its own troops being slaughtered in the Ukraine is also surreal. Even they do not want to trigger World War III against a nuclear power for the sake of Monsanto, Cargill and Hunter Biden. Forget it, Gonzalo, the US are cowards. They are not going to die for a piece of Eastern Europe. That is what they pay the Kiev cannon fodder and mercenaries for. To die on their behalf, ‘for a fistful of dollars’.
The Real
Let us now come back to reality. The 87,5% of the world which either supports the Russian campaign to liberate the Ukraine, or else remains neutral towards it, shows the increasing isolation of the Nazi West. And it is now also crystal clear that ‘the West’ is in fact only the USA, just as NATO is only the USA, the Wicked Witch of the West. The rest is just camouflage, a mirage. In Italy, Germany, France, Moldova, the Czech Lands, Romania (the former Defence Minister), Bulgaria, Serbia, even in the UK, dissident voices are protesting. For God’s sake, negotiate with Russia! The Ukraine is their business, not ours, they’re all basically Russkies anyhow. We want gas and food! Who cares about the Nazi puppets in Kiev? More and more all European governments, apart only from the Hungarian, are being seen as what they are – simply US puppet elites, who do not represent their peoples. EU or Non-EU Europe, there is no difference, apart from Hungary, which alone has, in every sense, a popular government. If Nobel Prizes were given non-politically, surely Victor Orban should have won one of them by now.
Here the hypochondriac French are going crazy because China is sanctioning them by depriving them of paracetamol. Perhaps as many as 20% of Western Europeans have now realised that the whole Ukraine affair is a put-up job, arranged by the US, with its British poodle yapping at its feet. Same as Iraq, same as Afghanistan. Same old, same old. The poodle is more papist than the Pope. Over the last two months it is notable that most Ukrainian flags have been taken down in Europe. It is rare to see one now. The working class were never interested, they always knew it was just another operation by the arms industry, but now even the conformist middle-class is taking down its Ukrainian flags. The mirage is over. This Hell-begotten war must end.
More in Europe are beginning to think that maybe President Putin is right. We do indeed need a common economic home, from Reykjavik/Dublin/Lisbon to Vladivostok. This would not be US-led like the EU. The EU is just the political and economic arm of the US in Europe, just as NATO is its military arm. The USE (United States of Europe) has been USED. It is over. All we need now is for Europe to recover its independence from the US invasion and occupation of the 1940s. Then there will be a new EU, Eurasian Union, or EC, Eurasian Confederation. This would be governed not by unelected Eurocrats, but by the elected governments of the sovereign countries of multipolar Eurasia co-operating together.
The terrorist attack on the Kerch/Crimea Bridge prompted Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, putting at least 40% of it out of action and some of it for a very long time. Those strikes are taking place every day. Today 80% of Kiev is without water. A lot of people have no light and no heat and outside at night it is -2. Wait till it is -2 during the day. Don’t poke the bear, Zelensky.
On 20 October we had an indication of what was going to happen once Russia’s partial mobilization of 300,000 was complete – as it is now. In Kherson, near which large Ukrainian forces appear to be massed, the governor Kirill Stremousov declared that: ‘After defeating the planned Kiev regime attacks on Kherson we plan to launch a counter-offensive towards Nikolaev, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk’.
https://news.mail.ru/incident/53550333/?frommail=1
And on 30 October, the same man stated that they were expecting the mass Kiev attack on Kherson by 40,000-60,000 troops, a third of whom are mercenaries. It is said that mercenary pay is $4,000 dollars a week. But what use is that when you are dead?
https://news.mail.ru/politics/53680125/?frommail=1
Many minor attacks by Kiev troops towards Kherson have been defeated in October. Kiev’s offensive capability is constantly being degraded by attrition. Some say that since February 60,000 Kiev troops have died. Others put the dreadful figure at 400,000, but that may well mean 400,000 dead, seriously wounded or captured. Some say that 1,000 Kiev troops are being put out of action every day. Now 82,000 Russian reservists have already been deployed in the Donbass in order to liberate the frontline troops.
If I were a Western leader, I would be thinking: How can I get out of this mess without losing face? Perhaps I could say: ‘Russia has not dared move against any NATO country. NATO has stood firm against Russian aggression. This is another great victory for us’. Having run away and presented the Western Dunkirk in the Ukraine as a victory, next I would sit down and quietly remove all the sanctions. After all, almost exactly sixty years ago, the crushed US removed all its missiles from the Soviet-Turkish border in order to get the USSR to remove all its missiles from off the coast of Cuba ago and everyone knows that was also a great US victory. There is only one way to deal with bullies: Stand up to them. And then you will see that all bullies are cowards and they can run very fast, as from Afghanistan.
The Meta-Real
According to words attributed to President Putin:
‘Before God I have vowed that I will do all I can for the salvation of Russia. It turns out that the world has to be saved, because the demons who have seized control of the West are trying to destroy everything spiritual on the planet. I believe that I will succeed because I have the power and support of the Lord and that is all I need’.
There are very many and very unanimous Orthodox Christian prophecies, like those of the very well-known and quite recent St Laurence of Chernigov, St Kuksha of Odessa, Elder Zosima of Donetsk, Elder Nikolai (Guryanov) and also Elder Jonah (Ignatenko) of Odessa (+ 2012). The latter, who said that Odessa will be liberated last, said: ‘After President Putin there will come a Tsar and there will be peace for a time’.
Listening yet again to Vladimir Putin’s planet-changing talk in Valdai, I am ready to believe it. Listen carefully. He is a genius. President Putin showed tolerance to all, whereas so many of the careerists who figure in the elite of the Russian Orthodox Church, ignoring the clergy and people, show pharisaical intolerance. Sadly, the upper echelons of the Russian Orthodox Church are still stuffed with those corrupted by the corrupt Western money of 1990s Russia. As the Russian proverb says: ‘A fish rots from the head’. But I am quite confident about the body of the fish. And by the way, the same prophets say that the new Tsar will then cleanse the Church of its corrupt and unprincipled careerist-bishops. It is time.
November is the month when it gets cold, the mud freezes, so tanks and transports can move forward and the leaves disappear from the trees, meaning there is no cover for Nazis. As for Western Europe, after an incredibly warm October, with hardly any need for heating, November will definitely bring cold weather. Something is afoot. The great battle?
Tomorrow is November.
31 October 2022
Note:
1. Remember the so subtle Berlusconi’s so subtle remark on first seeing Obama: ‘Nice sun-tan you have there’.
Hi Batiushka,
I visited the Russische Kolonie Alexandrowka in Potsdam and its beautiful small orthodox church. First time in an Orthodox church – loved it- and it was your great articles which compelled me to vist it. I said a few prayers and lit a few candles.
My impression of Berlin and Potsdam is that all official buildings have Ukrainian flags – ditto in Portugal (Algarve) where I was a month ago. Similarly here in Ireland and Northern Ireland Ukrainian flags on government buildings.
In Berlin, the road opposite the Russian embassy on Unter den Linden is closed off and lots of protesters in the middle of Unter den Linden against Russia. I noticed no protestors outside the UK or US embassies. When the German people realise that the UK and US blew up their pipelines and they are freezing because of it — there will be hell to pay.
I agree with you that we need a new EuroAsia of equal partner states. The EU is a failed political entity and its insane support for the fascist regime in the Ukraine is surreal and condemns it to the scrapheap. I cannot understand how more Europeans cannot see through the propoganda — but I would guesstimate 10% of the people at least here in Ireland can see through it.
What I cannot understand is why Ukrainians believe the propoganda and die for nothing. It is terrible that so many Ukrainians and Russians have to die in this proxy war initiated by the UK and US.
Hi James, I’ve always considered than an Irishman is a Russian with his head kicked in.
That Eire’s Public Debt is bigger than Russia’s would tend to back this up.
What ya thunk? lol
Ireland is going down along with the West in general. I am shocked by how woke and pc the country is. Ireland is truly FUBAR. God is good and we will fix it eventually. I think the first this is to fix 404, reveal that the UK did the sabotage of Nordstream in collaboration with US and possibly Poland, and ensure that this is recognised by most Europeans. We need regime change in the entre West.
I just read an article by John Helmer regarding a new book written by Mary E. Sarotte.
Sarotte has been awarded by the anti-Russian London Agency Pushkin House, for her slander of the now deceased participant to the peace settlement of the Cold war, between Russia, Germany and the US.
Sarotte´s book has been published by the anti-Russian Yale University.
And what a load of crap, Mary has come up with.
Her book is called: “Not One Inch” (The making of the post Cold War stalemate)
The title “Not one Inch” refers to the pledge given by the US, and Germany not to move NATO One inch east of the Oder River, which by then was separating Eastern and Western Germany.
Her book is nothing but an attempt to rewrite History, by smearing:
The Germans Chancellor Helmut Kohl and foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher,
The Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev, Marshall Sergey Akhromeyev, and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
Mary Sarotte claims that the above mentions gallery fully accepted a Russian withdrawal from Eastern Germany, without demanding any concessions from the US, NATO, and Germany.
I don’t doubt her claim that Mikhail Gorbachev was a traitor to Russia, basing my view on his departure from Russia after the collapse of the USSR, and his later membership of the Globalist Trilateral Commission.
However I strongly reject her claim Kohl and Genscher were scheming with the US to betray Russia, Germany was the Nation to benefit the most from an agreement with Russia, by the unification of Germany.
Germany benefited by gaining back its former territories in Eastern Germany (except Kaliningrad) and were able to move the German Capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
Germany also benefited by being able to buy cheap Russian Oil and gas via the USSR pipelines installed throughout the entire former Warsaw pact nations.
Europe needs to get rid of the US, NATO and the EU.
These centers of power are filled with liars who can’t be trusted in negotiations, and they rewrite History.
Very well written. Very nice.
Congratulations. Another great victory won by the heroic Russian forces today, the Russian city of Artemivsk (Bakhmut) is almost fully liberated from the heavily drugged NATO mercenary army. OK this happens before even the winter is in and the Russian military haven’t started their anticipated major offensive yet.
Spot on regarding the UK once again, Batiushka, thank you!
While I have a hard time believing that VV Putin is any sort of Christian, he certainly talks the talk. The breadth and depth of his knowledge is staggering, not to mention his ability to speak clearly and cogently on any subject and answer real questions, not just catch softballs lobbed by complaisant sycophants. If only the west had someone in power with even a tenth of his ability, the world would be a better, safer, more peaceful and more reasonable place.
I’m sure if you met some of Russia’s hardliners, the more you’d realise VV Putin is a Saint.
I’m equally sure there are many solid Western candidates to fill political leadership positions, if only they didn’t have to pass through the steaming pile of Deep State vetting.
Ukrainians at the battle of severodonetsk, the last battle that the remaining professional soldiers of the UAF fought, units claimed 95% casualties. In comparison, “bloody” somme, the british army “only” suffered 80%.
Why I don’t believe in casualty counts less 300,000.
I enjoyed this article and especially appreciated the author sharing a rational take towards the 101st Airborne’s deployment contradicting the seemingly goading sensationalism expressed by others.
Cheers.
This is an assuming take on 101st Airborne “screaming Eagles”
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/10/30/101-st-airborne-threatens-armageddon/
Joe Biden has his Screaming Eagles troupe throwing shapes from across the Romanian border to protect Hunter Biden’s bio labs. It too will not end well. For America.
Though Biden’s deployment of 4,500 stormtroopers, over a quarter of the total strength of the 101st Airborne Division, onto Russia’s doorstep is a statement of intent that will elicit the appropriate answer, America’s organized crime families best be careful with what they wish for, as their Screaming Eagles will not be the first set of marauding gangsters to come unstuck in Russia. Napoleon’s Imperial Guard and Hitler’s 1st SS Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 2nd SS Das Reich, 12th SS Hitlerjugend and 5th SS Wiking, the pride of their respective armies, all got mauled there long before Hunter Biden ever saw a crack cocaine pipe.
Biden would reply that the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles as these clowns like to call themselves, are the best of the best, the crème de la crème, the tip of the spear. But so too were the Hitler Youth reinforcements Guy Sayer’s The Forgotten Soldier recounts. Crème de la crème those brave Bavarians, who could withstand a sucker punch on the jaw. Which was not very useful as they were crushed to death by T34 tanks on their first day of combat.
LOL
The 101st “Airborne” is not the elite force that many make it out to be. They are an airmobile unit that utilized helicopters in their operational doctrine. They are light infantry who are not effective against heavy mechanized infantry or armor. Their primary usefulness is that they can take objectives utilizing their airmobile tactics relatively quickly. They cannot sustain operations for very long especially against a determined enemy. As a former 11BVP “airborne ranger” we used to call them legs on a rope referring to their air assault tactics and their “airborne” moniker. They haven’t been an airborne unit for a very long time. Their real fire power comes from the attack helicopters assigned to their units. These work well for 3rd rate armies but not against a force like the RF.
Batiushka,
We really need this type of high level view of things, in particular in these historic times when the whole world order established after WW2 is being transformed, with the existing power (the real money bags) far from accepting this scénario without fighting . The high level perspective you give us is priceless.
Thanks.
Monty Python is a great reference Batiushka. I wonder though if many non-first language English speakers would grasp most of your little nuances. Monty Python is correct but even more correct in that all the Monty boys were/are upper English class twits who frequented the same educational/indoctrinational establishments as our politicians. Grown men behaving like childish idiots is the recurring theme.
I’ll say it again until I’m blue in the face, unless we, the Great Unwashed, quit voting for Oxbrigge (in America, Yale & Harvard) & other Ivy League political candidates, foisted upon us by Deep State, we can never see a fairer more equitable society.
Whatever the Montys’ background, they were brilliant social satirists and screamingly funny.
My favorite, still: The Stoning, from Life of Brian.
I have seen it at least ten times and I still laugh out loud.
*That* is genius, my friend.
BTW, that film was made decades ago, and it is still, or again, highly relevant.
You can recognize our current crop of “karens” and monitors and self-righteous ignoramus know-it-alls who have infested our lives, and the airwaves, for the past three years and counting.
I’m not really knocking the Monty Python actors who are legendary as a group, several individually. My main point that maybe didn’t come across too well, is that there’s little difference in the satirical content between the camps, actors and politicians. They sat side by side in the same classes, one group recognised their talent as actor/comedians, the ones who didn’t make it went into politics.
Monty Python crew are not planning on making decisions on running the country.
Met Graham Chapman (RIP, not long before his death) at a party when I was a student and enjoy MP & Fawlty Towers
We could – Jeremy Corbyn:
https://bsnews.info/the-labour-files-where-is-democracy-mainstream-media-blackout/
The Labour Files (the complete series), The Purge, The Crisis, The Hierarchy, The Spying Game
That slick City of London banker Brexit tool, Nigal Farage, was the icing on the cake. Pulling his Brexit Candidates (to be fair they were also pissed-off) from marginal Tory Seats, contesting only Labour marginal seats. Talk about a fixed game!
. . . . . and the Brexit low-IQ folks believed Britain would free themselves of Euro shackles, only to be shat on by the self-serving Tories and their Deep State handlers.
@Avirgo on October 31, 2022 · at 4:02
“Why I don’t believe in casualty counts less 300,000”
https://en.topcor.ru/28886-ozvuchena-novaja-cifra-poter-vsu-i-inostrannyh-naemnikov-bolee-400-tysjach.html
“..In addition, on the eve of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Ukraine demanded to clarify the fate of 320 thousand military personnel, but the SBU refused for reasons of national security. At the same time, these data are not documented”
I also estimate about 320,000+ KIA minimum. 400,000+losses may be possible if considering all losses since 2014, captured and wounded.
Elder Jonah (Ignatenko) from Odessa (+2012). The latter, who said that Odessa will be liberated last, said: “After President Putin a tsar will come and there will be peace for a while.”
It is amazing how many Catholic seers have seen the same thing (Maria Luisa Piccarreta, +1947) There is talk of a great King, it does not say from where, who will liberate Europe, in the midst of great calamities, but before that the great Warning will come, Garabandal, Spain 1960 and Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, +1968.
We traditional Catholics have a great affection for our (if I may very sincerely use this word) Orthodox brothers. We are very few [Traditionalists] within the Catholic Church but we fight to maintain the faith that has been transmitted to us with all devotion.
Receive my fraternal greeting.
“If I were a Western leader, I would be thinking: How can I get out of this mess without losing face?”
As Western leaders have no face left to loose, if I were one of them, I would simply quit.
The West is manufactured/concocted dogma.
Today’s “conversos” Tomás de Torquemadas’ run the propaganda and media matrix.
Dissenting is an act of critical reasoning, searching for light within yourself and emulating orthodoxy (correctness, real faith).
Dear Batiushka, you are a fresh re-vitalizing breeze in this hysteric and heretical world.
Un abrazo from the South of France.
better than a Genius Leader would be Systemic Clarity, Systemic Coherence, Systemic Intelligence and Systemic Integrity. Ie. Systemic Genius.
Pressures applied to Russia are encouraging these qualities to thrive (the very qualities we in the West are eliminating because they are a threat to entrenched power and control).
I assume Russia has the vision to reinforce Systemic Genius, rather than fall back on Leader-as-Saviour directed government.
I believe what we are seeing are the preparations by Russia to what will be the equivalent of the Tet Offensive coordinated by the North Vietnamese and the NFL on more than 100 cities and towns conducted in 1968. “The offensive aimed to break the military stalemate, to foment more rebellion among the South Vietnamese population, and to encourage the United States to begin to withdraw”. (Ron Ridenour/The Russian Peace Threat) As pertains to Ukraine…to put an end to the Ukraine military/army once and for all, finally get the majority of remaining Ukrainians to get rid of Zelensky and his minions, along with the capture, assassination of Azov, Right Sector, et.al murderers and degenerates; and to get the US to get the hell out of Ukraine…and stay out. Enough already.
I never fell for the official Russian poisoning of the Skripals story, but I did find it difficult to come up with an explanation for it. Until the story came out at the trial in Spain of the „security“ firm owner who was spying on Assange, that there had been discussions about kidnapping or poisoning him.
What struck me was Pompeo‘s over-the-top reaction to the story, which seemed to confirm it more than anything else: „I can’t say much about this other than whoever those 30 people who allegedly spoke to one of these [Yahoo News] reporters — they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the Central Intelligence Agency,” Pompeo said.
And so with that, the whole story makes a lot more sense for me, because either you believe that during much of 2017 the Trump administration was discussing kidnapping or poisoning Assange in the UK, and just as they’re busy coming up with a plan like that, by complete coincidence, Russian agents, in March of 2018, in front of their very noses, lightly poison their ex-colleague.
Or, you view the Skripals as a false flag operation designed not to necessarily kill anyone, but to firmly draw the connection between poisonings and the Russian government. What was then set to follow was Assange‘s actual poisoning, claiming that the Russians did it so that he wouldn’t spill the beans about their supposed 2016 cooperation.
Which is more plausible?
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/pompeo-sources-for-yahoo-news-wiki-leaks-report-should-all-be-prosecuted-234907037.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmdpbmUucHJlc2VhcmNoLm9yZy9zZWFyY2g_cT1Qb21wZW8rbGVla3MrcHJvc2VjdXRlZCs&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC8j736S0n_1qIHMJN42F3QjEEo-xBPQ2W2eDPyx72Vn4NUkqKVvE1fiXVofiY7nvRFEtXxVPamKoF_RtJendBlw5CkeyEgTTKaMkqynDZd9hzHqLaFsXXdti5a5FbpdDH_l6VEMetckEZMhz3BzT4BWoiesiLxcFt4aTMhcCjFV