By Batiushka for The Saker blog
Clearly, the only certain thing in the Ukraine is that Western aggression is being ‘monsterminded’ centrally from the Pentagon and Brussels. The current counterattacks by NATO-guided, Western mercenary-led and Western-armed Kiev forces around Kharkov, Kherson and elsewhere in Eastern Ukraine against the Allies, the new attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, the new Special Forces exercises in southern Moldova, the new threat of war against Russia from Georgia ‘by referendum’, the new disloyalty to Russia by the Kazakh leader, the new friction on the Tadzhik-Kirghiz border on 14 September, the constant attacks on Russia and Russians in the Baltic States and all the ultra-aggressive word and actions of the US/UK/EU towards Russia, are not coincidental. They have led some to predict an imminent World War III and a nuclear holocaust.
Inside the Ukraine the war has been escalated by the West. Everyone since March has clearly seen that this is not a war between Russia and the Ukraine, but a proxy war between Russia and the West. The Ukraine is simply the battlefield and the excuse for Western aggression. Indeed, now that most of the elite of the Kiev Army are dead, disabled or captured, it is Western mercenaries and NATO Special Forces in Ukrainian uniforms who are doing the fighting.
Every time the West escalates, so does Russia. The threat of the US to supply ATACMS ballistic missiles with a range of 300 km, will only escalate the conflict further. Russia, which has been remarkably restrained up till now, has been obliged for the first time to attack some general infrastructure, power stations, rail lines, roads. Soon Central and Western Ukraine, mainly untouched and peaceful so far, apart from the destruction of a few military installations, may be targeted. Maybe US spy satellites over the Ukraine will be targeted too. The US will have brought it on itself.
Is this what the West wants?
The fact is that most of the world supports Russia, not least China. Did the West really think when it forced Russia into liberating Russian Ukraine from genocide on 24 February that the Russian government had not foreseen all the Western attack scenarios? They had eight years to prepare and expected all this. On 14 September the spokeswoman for the Russian government, Maria Zakharova, pointed out on Radio Sputnik that (https://rusvesna.su/news/1663156944):
‘Making Western countries totally dependent, forcing them to continue to give such large-scale aid to the Kiev regime, is to burn them up with fire…Imagine, it is proposed to do this to States that are now thinking about how they can survive the winter…because…Washington teachers told the European Union how to live and what to do. And now, developed countries have at the same time fallen to the level of underdeveloped countries that do not know how to heat themselves’.
The possibility that the conflict in the Ukraine could go nuclear was raised only by Western journalists and as soon as March 2022. In quest of sensationalism, the mercenary-journalists had to say that. Russia has never had any intention of using nuclear weapon, however, if the West insists….., as President Putin said a few weeks ago (I give a loose translation): ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’. (literally: ‘We still have not started’). By all means, poke the bear a bit more, but at your peril.
The West still does not understand that this conflict is an existential war for Russia. The Crimea, the Donbass and elsewhere in Eastern Ukraine are integral parts of Russia. They will never be given up, just as the USA would not give up California, Virginia or Florida. And it will not allow anywhere in the Ukraine to be a military, nuclear or bioweapons threat to Russia, just because members of the violently-installed US-regime in Kiev have been paid to agree to that. Would the US allow it in Canada or Mexico? Russia is not going to give up just because of some NATO mercenaries and NATO arms. If the West tries to wipe Russia off the face of the Earth, Russia will do the same to the West. And it has supporters all over the world. Wait till China takes back Taiwan, as it is preparing to do.
Even those who live on Planet Fantasy, also called Planet Neocon, must see this. Russia will give as ‘good’ as it gets, indeed, even ‘better’, as it has the means.
Will sanity or insanity prevail? I hope sanity, but fear insanity. Human stupidity is limitless.
15 September 2022
The west lives in la la land. It is very hard to understand but it is so.
Yes Frank – it is a La La land all right. And it has an unrecognized internal organizing driver. That being the Western construction of the modern rational ego.
An egoism that divorces itself from Being.
The last 500 years of Western history is characterized by the rise to a pinnacle of self unfoldment, and absolute hegemony, of this exclusively mental rationalism. It has generated its own cosmology – the Cartesian scientific paradigm. That being a world view that denies the reality of and the existence of the human soul and its cosmic and spiritual life. Politically it manifests as capitalist imperialism.
In that process the bourgeois ruling class has usurped for itself the dream that the rational ego mind must control and dominate all of creation. This is a hidden consequence of an unbalanced patriarchal religion which was distorted and supercharged to serve the power drive of the Roman Empire. Along the way that Western ego has cut itself off from all fealty to spirituality and cosmic life beyond its own narrow scope of perspective.
This process is well illustrated in the myth of Faust. The legend of Faust has been described as modern Europe’s only myth. And it acutely characterizes this very usurpation of life by the rogue ego. Russia is actually in an existential zero sum struggle with a now insanely senile Faust.
This Faustian egoic obsession is enshrined (unconsciously) in the bourgeois definition of freedom and liberty. Psychologically it really means that the liberty of the rational Western ego to dominate all things is the definition of freedom. It is a bourgeois psychological sickness saturated with internal denial. This is the heart of the Faustian fantasy of worldly power.
My point is that we are now living in the time when creation is closing the curtain on this well constructed Western illusion. Mythically speaking, God is calling Faust home. Consequently the egoism that commands the West is facing its worst possible nightmare. That being the collective experience of what if feels to be its own ego death. Psychologically the ego fears death with greater intensity than does the natural body and consequently, in its desperately insane resistance, will seek to destroy all of creation rather than face its own death. This desperate fear is now a mass force driving the Western response to the new multi polar world. We are now at the point of recognizing that this sick bourgeois motive drives the empire. “Kill everything in order that I may continue to reign.” If the creator would allow it of course. Which She/He does not.
All of this is an unnoticed internal psychological driver that commands the Western response to the Russian initiative. And drives it to an extreme. We can say that for Russia this is an existential survival struggle. For the Bourgeois West it is also an existential survival struggle for its desperate dream of control and dominance. It is not capable of letting go and can only resist to the last.
However in that resistance it can only reveal its own desperately totalitarian nature and in so doing expose itself to all of humanity. Thus hastening it demise and in so doing awakening the masses. La La land is a very good characterization.
Another way of reading this is to recognize it as a global struggle between the (self alienated) mind and the natural life of the body. The Western mind has become detached from its own wisdom body and fears returning to it in surrender to its deeper innate wisdom. By contrast Russia is so much more grounded in the natural world and seeks to reengage the disembodied Western mind with the reality of living inside the world, rather than existing outside of it in its own mental La La land. We all know exactly where La La land refers to.
Hegel once wrote that the choice of weapons reveals the essence of the combatants. The choice of weapons employed by both sides is instructive here. All the West has is massively organized mind control and propaganda, along with the usual violence and hunger for Capital profits. Whereas Russia, less enthralled by the allure of mental projection, de-emphasizes propaganda in favor of the hard facts of grounded material reality. The West is lost in its insane head and Russia is anchored in the reality of its material (military) self organization. Crudely put, Russia embodies the reality of humanity’s real bodily life and is seeking to talk the West out of its self isolating head trip to where it can re-enter the sanity of sharing the World’s natural body based life.
So the trick is to pull our heads out of the 24/7 mind games and control ops of the Western media. The good news is that Creation is not allowing this sick dream to fulfill itself, so we can stay with the process and awaken to our inner lives within it.
Wow Snow Leopard. This is deep and dense. I could reread this a few times and keep unpacking more meaning. I understand enough to see it. Not smart enough to engage it well. Thank you. Den
@Snow Leopard:
Your comments re the ego are spot on, and reach a deeper level than most comments here (or anywhere). I’d like to offer two additions:
1. The corporation, as an institution, is the outward manifestation of the West’s inner, ego-ridden spiritual state. It and the ego are both fictional persons which imagine themselves to be eternal. Both see themselves as separate from the rest of Creation, able to act upon it with no thought as to the consequences, so long as they can profit in the narrow sense. When the ego, as the dominant form of human self-knowing, dies, so will the corporation. Until then the corporate form will be used by the elites to enhance their power and destroy “the other”….nature, women, the poor, the human race, the future.
2. I recommend you read “The Way of Passion”, by Andrew Harvey. The passion he writes of is passion for God. Ostensibly an exploration of the writings of Rumi, on a deeper level it’s a study (and expression) of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of love for God and all of Creation, a form of worship which can obliterate the ego and allow mankind to enact its divine identity. This transformation on a personal and worldwide level is the author’s life’s work, and the book is impossible to pigeon hole as being Islamic, Hindu, Christian etc. It touches the inner mystic core which lies at the heart of all major religions.
except Christianity isn’t a religion
religion is man made attempts to reach up an control the gods {to be gods}
Christianity is God reaching down to pick up { rescue } man
Grace to All
Thank you. Fantastic.
Very interesting observation that Faust is the only myth that “the West” has invented: of a man who sought power and riches by selling his soul, and regretted it. Goethe invented a kinder version, with an evolutionary twist: the Devil reports to the Lord and complains, “I plan bad things but somehow good turns up”.
Hegel’s remark on choice of weapons is also interesting, because it is “the West” under POTU$ Obomba who began a renewed boast of “the nuclear option” — especially Israel, the most “Western” nation on the planet. I noticed talk of using “mini” nukes started around 2013, when things began going badly for “the West’s” ISIS proxies in NATzO’s war against Syria. The Samson Option is a confession of weakness: Samson used only because he had become “eyeless in Gaza, slaving at the mill”. Superman and Super Weapons are fantasies of a weak nation trying to compensate for its own inadequacy and cowardice.
Dr N. G. Did not Goethe’s kinder version of the myth offer that Faust was to be healed by opening himself to the feminine? If so this appears to becoming a consensus.
The feminine is just the obverse of the masculine, no savior per se.
However in restoring the balance between the masculine and feminine which has been lost in the patriarchal era the emerging feminine heals a fractured wholeness. How can that not be salvatory?
Thank you. For the last three years I’ve been saying we’re all addicts now.
There’s a saying in NA that applies here. Change or die MTF.
I like your analysis. Well done.
One point of critique. Who are you talking about? There is a glaring rift between those you see as ” leaders” or ” political figures” and large swathes of the population of any given country you call collectively: The West.
Yes indeed, there will always be differences between peoples with differing attitudes towards the social and the individual. Not one of these extremes is the perfect way. Mankind, simply is a mix of individual, family and tribe.
The real stupidity is to think you can put all kinds of people in one basket and call it the People of a country. It takes at least 4 generation to even be able to let people grow together. And the rate of assimilation is normally quite slow, safe a couple of exceptions on both sides of the spectrum. But in essence, over time, differing populations can grow together between the sheets if geography and politics do not get in the way.
With this in mind, in certain : “western” countries, the population make up is shifting radically. 25% non-western is not a figure that is unusual. The speed and size of this change cause a vector impact on how countries are run. More and more you see in Western countries the emergence of a ruling class of dictatorial power. They call it the rule of law. They may call it democracy, but both you and I know this is all bull-shit.
However, this in turn puts a certain portion of the population, ex the foreign part, off. And as with everything, people always make an estimated guess in terms of cost and benefit over principle unless they reach a precipice, a line, a red line if you will, of which each and everyone says: thou shalt not go beyond.
It is interesting to note that the resistance against the system becomes palpable in all kinds of areas. So, yes, maybe a “cold” winter is indeed what is needed. Perhaps the total collapse of industrial production and thus economy is needed to get people on their feet and realize that .gov can only do that to which it is authorized. And yes, maybe, the trouble that has been brewing since 1945, for all the things left unresolved, must come to the fore to be resolved.
The events we see unfolding are not about the moral high ground in a conflict. Yes, that is nice for public consumption. The point is: there is no support for the leaders and their policies. And the way the democractic system is abused by those in power, is of such amorality hardly to be fathomed by normal people. ” It can’t be”. The only reason people are not yet on their feet en masse is one very simple one: they were born and raised in a system that purported to be a system of value, the human value. And slowly it becomes clear, as one famous President said: the game is rigged. But not only rigged, but rigged against them.
It has gotten so bad, one professor of law wrote a book about the state called: “the citizen without a chance”.
That book is from 2004. Quite a sobering thought to be chanceless against .gov. And truth be told, many politicians profess their adherence to their real religion: the allpowerfull, allknowing, allwise, allpampering State.
And indeed, what peoples of the West, the original peoples of the West need to appreciate is the truth of the matter. But they are not there yet, as they are blinded by an inculcated view of being in a system that is thought to be on average just. So, there is stuff going on in the several jurisdictions in the courts, at the ballot boxes. Injustice has not chance of staying hidden. But it needs to be felt. Pain too is knowledge.
You write that the WESTERN MIND has become detached from the body-wisdom. To a degree I can agree with that statement. But this is not only the WESTERN MIND. Have you checked in other jurisdictions? The enslavement to social media and that damned device you are carrying? And with that, you are open to manipulation. It creates a world of fiction around you, without it being your world of the body. You are incorporating experience beyond your physical boundaries. This is not particular to WESTERN MIND. This is particular to all MINDS in this day and age, including the RUSSIAN MIND.
Of course there is another way to do so. A natural way, by way of meditation (prayer) and focused slow exercise. Or tripping with a shaman. Whatever rocks your boat. The connection to the ALL is there to be discovered on an individual basis. It is a personal path within the context of the physical experience of life with relationships of differing levels and quality of intimacy.
It is not for nothing that the pandemic dies the moment you switch off from television and internet. Prik-spijt? You bet. It became the word of the year. And rightly so. But those who resisted were and are joined by those who feel this way. And every step these WESTERN LEADERS make, will foment resistance, as it will wake people up.
It is indeed a slow process. Drip Drip Drip. Yet, increasing in speed.
Redtoe: You asked “who am I talking about? Good question. I am talking about the dominant bourgeois ruling class that rules the West from its base in English capitalism. Karl Marx taught us that the ideas that prevail and shape a society are the ideas of that societies ruling class. The English bourgeois class have an integrated cultural outlook that preserves the hegemony of their capitalist project. The English bourgeoisie have no serious interest in spirituality or religion whatsoever. The do find it very useful however as an instrument for the control and management of the lower classes, and other social groups. It is a purely materialist and instrumentalist outlook. They are the real “atheists”
This dominating bourgeois class paradigm successfully subjugates all groups who do not participate in its value structure. It intentionally renders all others irrelevant. In short the world outlook of the bourgeois class has dominating governmental and ideological (media) power. The Faust myth is a story of the English (and Western European) Bourgeoisie class. Their mental power, money power and will to power is the dominant Western force. And they are determined to remain so, as I try to point out.
With the permission of Mr. Batiushka I explain the following.
Hello Snow Leopard.
We traditional Catholics, who are not conservatives or worshipers of ashes but worshipers of the fire of living faith, call what you call “patriarchal bourgeoisie” and patriarchal is a very bourgeois term too, because Christ called God father (Abba ) not mother (a mystery for the Catholic Church that only belongs to God).
What you call “Bourgeoisie” the Catholic Church has called LIBERALISM, a blasphemy that has spread throughout the world.
What is liberalism? the supremacy of the SELF above everything, of God and others unless “others are stronger than you” and outside of natural law, is the right to self-determination of the self, that is, I am what I want to be and no one can stop me (idealism): Gender theories, LGTBI +, right to life as long as it is valuable, profitable and if not, abortion, euthanasia, genocide.
The footprint of Satan can be summed up like nobody else by the prophet Isaiah:
«Non serviam! (I will not serve!) I will ascend to the heights of the Heavens, I will establish my throne above the stars of God, I will sit on the mount of the covenant! I will be like the Most High!” (Isaiah 14, 13-14).
That is liberalism and that is why they hate Russia, the collective West, to death for having the courage to come back and be a Christian. In my opinion that is Russia’s existential struggle and it is only the beginning.
Thanks
Very interesting post Snow..as you may know dr.Steiner was biggest fan of Goethe and dissed materialistic science and Darwin..comming not from with-in. His special remark about Faust was, that he had to sign contract with his blood. He stated that blood is connected with persons I, so he havent sold only his soul, but also his Spirit…blood is a special juice!
Apis: Yes, thank you. We can rely on Rudolph Steiner to have a very critical view of Faust. My comments are all intended as an extension of the works of Goethe, Steiner and Carl Jung.
“…Russia … is seeking to talk the West out of its self isolating head trip to where it can re-enter the sanity of sharing …”
Well said. In fact, President Putin already deems the west to be “non-agreement capable.”
It does seem, that they are continually running into obstacles during the course of their “mind games. Even if placed there inadvertently during a fugue state, like that suffered inside an ‘isolated head trip.’ Or forgetting to tell the UN Inspectors it was them bombing ZNPP, before they (UN) found the incriminating evidence.
Must be tough being one’s own worst enemy….
How a Nato country buys weapons?
Slovenia signed a contract 11.5.2022 for 45 8 wheel AFV. The price was 281,5 million euros minus VAT. This was under previous government. This government thinks that they are underequiped and that would cost +13,5 millions. They think the number is too small and we need 24 more vehicles. So they have decided that is better not buying nothing than too little. But they are hidden costs.
We must pay for development costs 7,2 millions and for administration costs 3 million. The bills are here but haven’t been paid yet. And this is not all. Cancelation costs are about 70 millions. So Slovenia is willing to pay 80 million euros for nothing (not even one AFV) and later pay for 69 new AFV.
Very clever indeed.
Not being frivolous – but in Catch-22… during WWII, the US had a corn glut, so the govt. paid farmers not to plant corn. One enterprising farmer used the money to buy more land so as not to plant more corn. And so on.
Australia has paid a huge cancellation fee to France for not buying submarines that weren’t even built. Not even started! War, of lack thereof – is a sweet racket.
I am 65 years old and for the last 20 years have feared that there would be nuclear incidents in my lifetime. This proxy carp just makes me fear it more. There is only one world we have here and some people just want it all or none. These are scary times w e are living in.
Lets be clear here, the West is pseudonym for the U.S, and in particular the “elite.”
Since WW2 Washington has formulated ideas and methods to subjugate nations to its will, through either soft power, cultural destruction, open borders or hard military power.
We have a “Death Star,” its called the U.S, and all aboard her are working toward its ends, weather they are oblivious or complicit.
There is no excuse for ignorance.
…”and all aboard her are working toward its ends, weather they are oblivious or complicit.”
This is a little to black and white. It’s important to understand that ordinary Americans have been lied to and propagandized since the beginning of the country.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, there were seventy-six independent news organizations in the US. Today, there are six, which are owned by corporate oligarchs.
Americans are disturbingly oblivious, because they are brain-washed. Donald Trump is in the news everyday with media hysterics and he serves as a useful distraction to camouflage a nation in rapid decline.
The Federal Reserve since September of 2019 has again provided trillions to the major banks in complete violation of its charter and it is not in the news and there is no Congressional investigation. A quarter of the US military is on food stamps. The educations system is second or third rate. Manufacturing has been given to China and no one objects to this treason. Slums that were there 50 years ago are still there and many more have been added. Yet, there are trillions of dollars available for any military adventure, coup d’etat or invasion. There is no limit to trillions going to wars and international bankers. The population is silent because the population is oblivious.
Yes, some Americans are complicit and they lie to get others to comply, but most are oblivious because the media feeds the population silly distractions constantly except when they are feeding out and out lies.
I like the term the 13%
Saw that somewhere and I think it’s an apt description.
That’s all the West is, the 13% running the rest. Or trying to.
Re: “the new friction on the Tadzhik-Kirghiz border on 14 September”
Yes I agree the satanists are lining up all their ducks, but this specific border clash may be pure spite. It is short distance from Uzbek border which is hosting pivotal SCO meeting right now. In fact, these clashes aren’t far from Samarkhand and will trigger security protocols.. It is next to salafi-central of Ferghana valley where MI6 could send over a couple lads, dress them up in uniforms of one side and initiate a fire fight or lob mortars. In fact both sides accused the other of pot shots. It makes no sense atm. In the past, perhaps bored drunk steppe men livened it up with AK-47 exchanges, but why now? Both their countries host Russian bases, have leaders in SCO, and are currently at this crucial Summit. It smells like an external provocation, to distract and sour the Summit.. unless troops overreacted due to high readiness from current tensions and expected shenanigans.
Instead of snipers on the roof toops shooting demonstrators and police alike, maybe the new scheme is long range snipers on both side of the border ?
Border exchanges? Russia’s got them covered with world’s most accurate rifle to 4200m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8fvmeVLq-U
That video is of US Special Forces decked out in AFU gear. A similar video from 2014 circulated on YouTube for years.
I am in favor of decapitation strikes against the west. Brussels, the Pentagon, Langley, Vauxhall Cross … no nukes, just Kinzhals and Zircons.
Fortunately for all of the above (and many others), I am not making these decisions.
For this 12.000 hypersonics are needed – at least. Plus use of Poseidons or other strike means against US SSBNs – as well as British and French ones.
Will sanity or insanity prevail? I hope sanity, but fear insanity.
— As always, it will be the sanity of the few that will prevail.
Human stupidity is limitless.
— Unbelievably, we’re seeing this, aka ‘reality of our times”.
Von der leyen (unelected EU president), asking tonight: ”to arrest Putin, send him to Hague or even kill him ”.
Fake news spread everywhere (denied by Peskov) that an assassination attempt happened in Moscow tuesday, but failed.
Kremlin spokesman refutes media reports of alleged assassination attempt on Putin
Such claims were first published by a Telegram channel on September 14, and were later reproduced by a UK tabloid, The Sun.
https://tass.com/politics/1508247
They will try again.
According to Meyssan, as they can not lose face, they know Europe is collapsing (banks and energy bankruptcies will quickly reach the US in a few days, and destroy the all western economy)), they decided to kill VVP if it does work, a first strike will happen soon.
Biden and the dems wants THE trophy before the midterms: we killed Putin, we destroyed Russia.
Of course it pure neocon craziness as they forget that immediate retaliation could follow.
A former general on french news tv tonight, said ‘Putin is going to fall soon’, I have my sources.
New narrative is whoever the succesor will be ‘we control him’.
We have nothing against Russians per se (lol)…
Also there will be no nuke retaliation because we cyberattacked them, they will not function, no danger.
Nuke is bad yes true, but it is the new Hitler this will avoid millions Europeans and ukies to survive and live in peace, with limited damages.
Shadow ‘delta forces’ are prepositionned near Russia, cells are ‘activated’.
This from Smoothies blog: nytimes
Do you know who led Ukraine’s suicidal “counter-offensive”?
Army General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (right) and Maj. Gen. John K. Love, US Representative to the NATO Military Committee.
It’s reported by the New York Times, not the Red Army…
“American journalists revealed the names of those responsible for preparing and helping the Ukrainian armed forces to create a counteroffensive plan in Ukraine.”
“Over several months, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and Assistant to the President for National Security Jake Sullivan helped develop kyiv’s ‘counteroffensive’ strategy against Allied forces.”
“The counterattack plan of the Ukrainian troops was prepared on the instructions of the head of the regime in Kyiv, Vladimir Zelensky. Initially, it was assumed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would carry out a “wide offensive” in the south,
they would capture Kherson and isolate Mariupol. However, some advisers from Ukraine and the United States believed that with such a plan, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces would be too great.”
In other words, the idea was to create a great propaganda campaign based on the dead.
“After that, the kyiv army command began to consult with its conservatives in the intelligence services of Great Britain and the United States.”
Sullivan, of the Biden administration, spoke several times with the head of the Ukraine presidential office, Andriy Yermak, about “planning a counteroffensive,” according to the newspaper.
“Milley also discussed plans for the situation in Ukraine with senior US military officials, the parties exchanged intelligence information and discussed military assistance issues.” 🦊+🦊= 0
Finally there are rumours on the web of something bigger than 9/11 will happen on 09/24 maybe 23 th?
Some speaking about a major ‘event’ not related at all with Ukraine: a CME Solar flare, like a Carrington event which could eventually collapse society in the Northern emisphere.
They could use this ‘event’ (if true, I doubt), to finish the job in Ukraine and or Russia with a perfect plausible deniability.
Multiple sanctions taken bu US and EU tonight.
Von der leyen announcing an 8th sanctions package very soon.
They almost voted Hungary out of the EU today as being a dictatorship.
Maximum pressure on Vucic as well.
It is clear for me that they know they are 100 % finished if they don’t double down even to extermination including their own.
They will never capitulate it is too late.
Finally there are rumours on the web of something bigger than 9/11 will happen on 09/24 maybe 23 th?
Yes here in Tehran, we heard about it too, only that it might mean Iran and her allies will be closing off the Hormuz Strait until further notice in order to perform a long overdue environmental maintenance work which will help the EU and the US get – a little bit – prepared for living without oil, gas and now electricity, before winter cometh.
The Nazi granddaughter talking about destruction and killing and gas.
How quaint.
Pot of tea?
Someone who cannot think, can only be stopped by a punch. Trying to talk cost only time to get things worse. The sooner the punch, the better.
I am 72 my father died 12 years ago and the only time in my life that I saw him really scared and afraid was during the Cuban Missile Crisis; I am beginning to feel the way he did right now!
California, Virginia, Florida… Make me dream more, don’t leave it there!
Good quote
“Human stupidity is limitless.”
Reminded me of Asimov’s book – The Gods Themselves:
“against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain”
Thanks Batiushka
I hope and pray for a very “hard” recession both in US and EU, because the only way to have people come to their senses is to touch their pockets and hit them badly in their primary necessities. Spiegel readers harshly commented on Ursula repetitive phrase of “punishing” Russia: people expressed dismay that the “globalist puppet” did not realize how dire the situation for every person was becoming….
Supply weapons to allies and enemy´s enemies, stop fortifying enemies with energy and raw materials, act decisively instead of endless polite talk and empty bluffs, call a spade a spade and gain respect instead of losing it.
“The West still does not understand that this conflict is an existential war for Russia. The Crimea, the Donbass and elsewhere in Eastern Ukraine are integral parts of Russia.”
I see. As I recall the Ukraine upon Independence held this territory and Russia did not care. In fact, after deciding it only needed the Crimea, Russia chose to not incorporate integral parts of Russia. No Russia thought it had a done deal whereby money would flow to Russia from the West and all would be delightful despite Ukraine being a mercenary for the Neo Cons.
Obviously a SMO changes the lay of the land.
I don’t know why Russia decided to only gradually engage the Ukraine when it was quite obvious NATO would be delighted to go all in to back the Ukraine. I get that it would be a thankless and wretched situation occupying all of the Ukraine and therefore having responsibility for the mess. On the other hand now the situation is escalating towards a “limited” nuclear war. Russia will not strike first but. NATO will. That’s pretty special. I am sure Klaus Schwab is very pleased.
Of course they understand. They just don’t care.
Those troops in the video above look like and must be Democrats !
Such is the US Gubbermint & Handlers bad poker-hand, all they have is an all-in gamble, a bluff, which will be called by Russia.
The West’s best laid financial schemes, very survival, have gone awry.
Starve The Beast.
And we have Bucha 2.0 just out:
#BREAKING Mass grave found in Ukraine town retaken from Russia: Zelensky
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1570513328488734720
Failed counter offensive narrative.. failed to keep attention , fake assassination of VP failed, news cycle is usually between 48 and 72 hours, then they move to the next.
About time to declare war to Ukraine decapitate the junta in kiev.
Ukraine just striked inside Russia near Belgorod, it will never end otherwise.
“Redacted” discusses possible attack on Putin motorcade, PLUS possible attack on Zelensky motorcade. So far, inconclusive and no other reports on the matter. Zelensky would be an interesting piece to take off the board because absolutely nothing will change with him in control and acting entirely as Washington’s marionette.
Interesting points on Russia v America industrial bases by the Morris’s. Contrary to conventional wisdom, they say that Russian industry is far ahead of the American bullshiters and America could never keep up with Russian production in a protracted world war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhCAZC5X4oY
Disagree.
American could keep up.
Add up the weapons manufacturing facilities, plus huge US raw materials purchases, plus unlike Russia no strikes on mainland.
This is a red herring. Interesting. But you can’t bet the house on it and I think this sort of underestimation of the west is dangerous.
US has preparation for this war since 2014.
Do not think that they will be honest about stocks or in any way under prepared.
It is so dangerous to play this game.
This war outcome will be based on who has the best strategy and who executes it well.
Russia is fighting 13% of global population on its borders.
It is complete unrealistic to think this is going to be anything other than hell on earth.
It is just starting and it already feels like a decent into darkness.
Wise heads may prevail but unlikely.
US has Russia surrounded with military bases, bio weapons and potent conflicts it can ignite.
Don’t for one minute think they won’t use every took in their box including bio weapons against Russia troops.
They are already got drones that can drop liquid droplets. Ie, they have the capability to use drones to drop bio weapon.
Strategically from my view two things are very important
– Russia needs a good buffer zone on its borders
– Russia needs to show it’s prepared to use serious force
The 13% struck mainland Russia and it’s ships. With no response to their own assets.
If Russia had hit a ship or other asset the 13% may have blinked.
The world was surprised at the lack of response.
America would have responded.
I appreciate Russia has a different mindset. But it’s not what you say it’s what others hear and the 13% heard weakness from the lack of response. This encouraged their civilian leaders. Which escalated matters.
A stitch in time saves 9.
Time and tide wait for no man.
The SMO has run into serious problems. These need to be solved and there are no easy answers as fires are being lit everywhere.
As I said. The 13% are ruthless. Biological and nuclear weapons assassin’s etc they are coming with everything ready.
Neocons and Liberal interventionists have managed to bring together Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Syria into an unwritten “Alliance”. In the peripheral concentric circles or in spiral fashion are India, Pakistan, Turkey, various Stans, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar (OPEC+, Natural gas conglomerates, future SCO, BRICS+ membership etc.) and multiple other previously colonized countries. Countries that were colonized for more than 500 years will do well for a Millennium at least from now IMO. The train has left the Unipolar station some time ago. “Friendly countries” have clear escalation dominance. Hopefully reconstituted U.N. will be located in one of these countries soon. Geopolitical tectonic plates are truly shifting. Excited times.
the west became dominant last 500 yrs via trade and tech advancements by sea routes ,
which brought about the industrial revolution, and the Geo tect plates moved indeed into the 20th century and moved again in the 21st century , and it’s all so sureal!
the book of REV describes the ‘west {US}
Rev.13:11 And I beheld another’ beast coming out of the earth’ : And he has 2 horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
the lamb likeness is a mask hiding the true nature of the beast {dragon=Satan
Rev 13:12 and he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him , and causes the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast.
{Babylon,Persia,Greece,Roman was first beast}
just look at DC buildings all mimic greece/roman design down to the eygptian oblesk and domed’ capital the very same design of Rome’s St.Peters basilica dome and oblesk
Inconvenient facts are conveniently left out. This is also a symptom of “Western civilization”.
Every Scripture in the human history is interpreted numerous ways based on the limitation of understanding of the human mind.
It is more than doubtful that the ‘West’ doesn’t understand that every aggression against Russia is an existential war for her, when its political, cultural ‘philosophy’ is shaped by the goal of destroying Russia, painted as THE perennial existential threat for the ‘West’, the alien, hostile, threatening ”Other”. What the ‘Westerners’ think is that they are engaged in an ‘existential war’ for them and that their survival demands the removal of the threat (with the additional bonus of plundering at their will the riches of Russia). What it doesn’t understand is that it will never be able to do it. Bismarck told them that Russia cannot be defeated, but he was not listened to. Germany, in an act of folly preferred to sacrifice its advantageous relations with Russia on the altar of ‘removing’ the imaginary threat to Germany’s ‘survival’ when in fact Russia was their best security guarantee.
Wars for the US are hobbies. They have no understanding of existential threat.
The Shadow War is expanding. May whatever “god” have mercy on humanity.
May God have mercy on Pakistan currently a third of its country is underwater , millions of desperate people having lost everything and wheres all the Help , wheres their rich Saudi ‘brothers’ aid? who is responding first China ,,, what if the nations had a way to cooperate together to use the forces of the many to help the few in times of trouble we could call it the United Nations or something like that hmm
Karma for removing Imran Khan when he stood up to the West?
But yes, a human tragedy. All those who help should be blessed.
And all those who don’t should be cursed
Instead of slowly escalating, Russia should ho for a kill shot, a KO punch, bit on Ukraine, but on DC, London, and Brussells.
“Human stupidity is limitless.”
In the case of the ‘collective west’, unfortunately so.
Now, Ukraine is shelling deeper inside Russia and hitting power plants there:
As a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, electricity was lost in Valuyki , at least one civilian was killed, and several people were injured.
At least 20 shells were fired at the city, the power plant was damaged, which caused power outages.
This is why the 13% are so confident.
When you talk to British forces they say no one dreamed Russia would not respond with huge force when attacked on its own territory.
They consider this to be the greatest encouragement and sign of weakness. They simply can’t understand why Russia can’t defend or respond.
This has led to genuine downgrading of Russian defensive capability and deterrent.
Ie. They know they can hit inside Russia, supply weapons, target them, and get no consequences on them.
Those British forces will be very surprised soon. One would have to be a very narrow thinker to believe Russia will not respond.
It is frustrating that they haven’t taken an eye for an eye but remember escalation can happen anytime (and they will, devastatingly so). De-escalation not so.
Andrei My Brother,
All we can do is stick by our guns. Stick to the truth and nothing but the truth and give the rest up to God.
“Human stupidity is limitless.”
Did Einstein truly once say “”Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe,” ??
He could have I think.
Thank you Batiushka for your excellent commentary!
Goodness me, when you start looking at all these flashpoints on a map it becomes extremely alarming, as well as exceedingly complicated… especially given the myriad of organisations, treaties and alliances which exist and which are in an ongoing state of flux and development.
Given that this is clearly developing into an existential financial/military war between Zone A and Zone B the potential disaster to me is now beginning to make even the Cuban missile crisis of my childhood era look relatively benign.
Given the class of “leadership” [I use that term in the broadest possible sense] in the 1960’s compared to what we have today, this does not auger well for humanity.
The fact that, apart from some of the Zone B group, the sovereignty of the other countries is now a farcical joke and the will of their populations in shaping foreign affairs policy is nothing more than a quaint historical notion. That was not the case in the 1960’s when Mainstreet still had massive sway on the way Western countries conducted foreign policy.
In this day and age and monumental deployment of a combination of stick and carrot treatment from Mr Global and powerful and destructive 5th columnist movents within all of Natostan, the possibility of them backing down looks to me to be less now than a snowball’s chance in hell.
Mr Global has shown the world that it is clearly bent on eliminating around 95% of the global population and with the Covid-kill coming completely unstuck now, is a nuclear apocalypse to achieve this the alternative back-up plan? I’m afraid to say that these outrageous actions of Natostan are very much signalling this intention.
I took the time this morning to draw some red lines on a map to illustrate the invigorated attempts to create flashpoints on almost the entire border of Russia all the way from Scandinavia, down through the Baltics, to Ukraine… and now across the Caucases and right to the Caspian sea.
Russias underbelly too of course is a huge target with the club desperately trying to get the two Sultans of Swing, Ergodan [Turkey] and Tokayev [[Kazakstan] to back the Zone A agenda.
If you draw a border line from the Caucuses and then apart from a small gap along the Western shore of the Caspian sea, it then joins into the northern boundary of Kazakhstan and runs all the way to the border of Mongolia and the Xingjiang province of China.
CSTO… Collective Security Treaty Organiastion
The 6 members are an inter-governmental military alliance of Post-Soviet States, including…
Armenia
Belarus
Kazakhstan
Kyrgystan
Russian Federation
Tajikistan
SCO… Shanghai Cooperative Organisation… founded in 2001
A political/security/trade/financial alliance.
Member States…
China
Kazahkstan
Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
India
Pakistan
Iran
Obsever States… Afghanistan/Belarus/Mongolia
Dialgue Partners… Sri Lanka/Turkry/Cambodia/Azerbaijan/Nepa/Armenia
Pending Dialogue partners… Egypt/Qatar/Saudi Arabia
NB SCO and CSTO are working on much closer ties, so this is a positive step when you factor in their direct ties with BRIICS+ and the enormous BRI initiatives and investments. Of course these giant econimic strides are the main reason why the Natostan group is actually risking the very survival of humanity itself.
Clearly the wild cards are Turkey and Kazakhstan, and with all the meetings going on hopefully there will be positive developments and some bringing to their senses of these two critically important countries. Perhaps a timely reminder from Putin that not very long ago he more than likely saved Ergodan’s life with his warning of an imminent coup.
Given that Kazakhstan is a member of both SCO and CSTO along with a recent attempted colour revolution coup attempted by the West it is hard to fathom their dithering on which zone they want to hitch their wagon too.
Turkey of course is a member of neither of these alliances and being a neighbour of the Caucases and a Nato member must be of enormous concern to the Russian Federation.
All in all this is hugely troubling and I hate to say it but to me it represents an existential threat to much of the Northern Hemisphere and perhaps, worst case scenario to most humanity itself… apart from the select few creatures that caused all of this that can hide in their bunkers through this disaster.
IMO, hoping for good sense from the Natostan Club is simply not realistic, nor is it a strategy, given Mr Global’s clearly stated agenda’s.
Not good
Col
Thank you.
I try to keep a similar map myself.
The 13% are trying to use Russia’s size against it as you note.
I added USUK military bases and navy presence as well and it’s clear that they are trying to surround Russia and China.
From their bases (thousands) and colonies and allies they have huge strike capacity.
They seem to be trying to stretch Russian forces and put doubt of where attack is coming from.
Search US bases in Asia and middle East and US Navy ships.
China and Russia lack such bases.
This means that they can’t get behind the US lines around their borders. Other than by ships and their navy are not as strong as US navy.
If you count weapons, men on USUK bases it’s a significant amount. And very hard to take them all out.
So you are looking at two powerful nations with strong military capacity surrounded by another nation that has similar military capacity but has the advantage of being spread throughput the world.
So a concentrated 2 nations against a diffuse globally mobile enemy.
Even if the heart of 13% is taken out it has many more eyes and limbs. Like a giant octopus fighting a whale.
So Russia and China need to cut lines through this perimeter and secure them. Plus be able to take out entire USUK chain of command and satellite capability C4ISR.
The wearing of 13% economy is good as it gives the 87% reason to not be bullied by them.
Chess board being set up.
The Brits will be more confident than the US. They have taken China India before and they don’t fear Russia.
The US will have it’s doubts and introspection is greater there.
You have ignored Russia’s stand off hypersonic missiles. They make the bases and ships you seem to be in awe of insignificant.
Iran showed how scared of missile barrages the Yanks (and Brits are too) are when they sent a massive volley in to the illegal US base on Iraq soil a few years back.
Russia’s missile reach is longer, more devastating, and conversely their air defenses are superior.
Stop sowing FUD or people will question your motives.
Well said grr.
Additionally, one way to look at those sacrificial legionnaires on the western bases is that they are HOSTAGES. What happened to the last Brits who found themselves without a supply line and an exit ratline outta Afghanistan?? Kipling gave them some advice..
Perhaps the US remembered and hightailed it out of Afghan a year ago for that very reason?
No, bases are being permitted by the Eurasian landpowers to continue for same reason as Russians allow NATO & Ukies to continue filling “fire-bags” the way my favorite Lebanese delis fill shawarma pita pockets.
We don’t need to overthink this or attribute resources and capabilities they clearly lack. The bs of living in the Meta has its clear limits. World War Z consists of a target-rich environment of HATO walking zombies too ignorant to understand they have already been defeated. All that remains is the manner of putting them down.
@grr
This guy named Truth Seeker appeared on this blog lately, and he’s been talking of Russia’s weak hand always.
I’m 100% sure that this is either a concern troll or a bot trying to scare the pro-Russian commenters here.
Clearly the only certain thing is where Russia was in 90’s and where Putin has brought them to today , God clearly has raised up Russia and not to defeat but to punish evildoers
The Rand plan to destroy and loot the European economy with the war with Russia just leaked:
https://nyadagbladet.se/utrikes/chockerande-dokumentet-sa-planerade-usa-kriget-och-energikrisen-i-europa/
This is the PDF of the report:
https://nyadagbladet.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/rand-corporation-ukraina-energikris.pdf
”A reduction in Russian energy supplies – at best a total stop – would lead to catastrophic consequences for German industry. The need to set aside significant amounts of Russian gas to keep homes and public buildings heated during the winter will further exacerbate the shortages. Shutdowns in industry will cause a shortage of components and spare parts for manufacturing, a collapse of logistics chains and sooner or later a domino effect ”.
“Not only will this deliver a crushing blow to the German economy, the entire EU economy will inevitably collapse .”
shutdowns in industries and all related jobs in countries with already high unemployment in the 18 to 25 yr range {like most of EU } it would seem to be a recipe for disaster,
droughts are normally followed by colder then normal winters , by jan or feb the EU will have to choose pride or survival.
Rand is claiming this report is fake.
What we know is that what it reports is independantly verifiable. The results are the same. One can question whether the US is destroying Germany accidentally or on purpose, but one cannot question that US actions are destroying Germany.
The truth is it’s own authority, and needs no other. It makes no difference whether the report is “fake” or not.
The position of the Wests ego death is construct; as you say, of it’s 500 year ending od western capitalism and imperialism.
Really puts it well; as the Neocons, Zionists and head of one of the dragons is layer to rest and Charles is King of England. In it’s death throughs a most omnist Oman.
There is one more spot that is brewing for conflict. Southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. There are increase activities inside the Bondsteel as well as in Albania with respect to weapons delivery.
I think the West is perferctly aware that it is an existential battle for Russia, after all they attempt to destroy it. At the same time it is also an existential battle for Empire. The road to China goes through Russia, and if Russia can not be defeated all is lost.
With ammo running low in the west after half a year of proxy battle in foreign land, I think it is obvious that Empire have never intended to do a large scale conventional war … not even in the coldwar days. When they are talking about use of nuclear weapons, it is as usual projections … and those projections started comming after a few weeks of the SMO.
Germany is about to freeze to death, still they are going through with closing down their last 3 NPPs this year. Why would they do such a thing ? Assuming ‘sanity’, this does not bode well.
Martin Armstrong also believes things will escalate massively in October. This would fit before the midterm elections in November. I am also afraid that this will be a very hot time. Let’s hope it doesn’t get quite so bad.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/ukraine-carrying-out-assassinations-in-moscow/
Yes, it is a hard time for us still sensible Westerners. We feel powerless and can do almost nothing. What I do in each case, regularly write to members of parliament. It won’t do any good, but it’s better than doing nothing.
The racist Russophobic chauvinists running the EU had better wake up, as they are being led to their own demise by the Washington hegemons who pretend that this is still WWII and that the Russian people are still the Untermenschen persecuted by Hitler. There is no hiding their smug superiority complex and hypocritical double standards to justify their warmongering attempts to all gang up on one innocent country to curry favor with the resident bully which thinks it owns the whole flippin’ world. The ridiculous European dolts think that Washington has done them a favor by destroying their economies and physical integrity in the near total absence of heat, light, power and petrol after Russia had served them reliably for decades. Just lucky that the US was there with its “freedom gas” to pick up the pieces, right? Not! Biggest joke I’ve heard in years!
Kudos to Hungary and Serbia for standing up to the lynch mob that Washington whipped up. Hope they are eventually rewarded generously by the fair and honest people in this totally orchestrated persecution. Sympathies to Armenia for serving as one more victim of American aggression against Russia. Maybe Russia can lend them a few missiles or drones not needed to deliver justice upon Ukraine. Better yet, maybe Russia can deliver them some of the Himars they bought on the black market from the Ukrainian vermin. Wouldn’t that be righteous Karma.
First-time poster – and a few months following your blog,
As a Canadian, born in Romania, I am supposed to hate Russia. Being more mature and studying a bit of history ( not necessarily agreeing with Russia’s conduct over Romanian historical territories ) and the military capabilities of Russia on the ground and in space ( space = very important environment where very recently Russia blew out a defunct satellite and caused a bit of a panic on the ISS because of the debris generated – in my opinion, that was a warning shot) I can only conclude that the powers at be ( USA, Russia, China ) they know exactly what the others can do. One strategic blow ( or more) to satellites in orbit can bring us back to the age when everybody was using maps to get around. It will trigger a domino effect where debris from the destructed satellites will destroy the neighboring satellites and so on. So no matter how many analyses we do, the Achile’s heal resides in space and more precisely where the lower Earth orbit satellites reside and secondarily on the ICBM capabilities of each of the involved countries in my opinion ( recently the USA acknowledged that is providing intel to UKR). The rest is a theatrical dance of diplomacy meant for us to consume and speculate upon. As many have concluded, and if both actors in this conflict are true, we should see an escalation on both sides, because they can not back off. However, I am inclined to believe that this conflict is just a precursor to a bigger event like a WW3 .
The West has plunged into heedonism, stupidity, and virtual reality (okay, not all, but most). Moreover, the majority believe that there is no other way into the future. What is happening – economic collapse, energy problems, poverty, a sea of hunger – is just a God-sent attempt to save people in the West. Not Westerners, but Westerners. Because what is the worst sin, the root of all sins? Pride. Will it work? I do not know . People have free will to do anything – both good and bad. The opportunity is given, but will it be used? Of course, he writes it from the point of view of an Orthodox Christian.
It is not necessary to engage in speculative construction inside your head, following the “Spider’s Path”, to use the expression of Francis Bacon.
Vladimir Lenin: “Politics is a concentrated expression of economics.”
Karl von Clausewitz: “War is nothing but a continuation of politics, with the involvement of other means.”
I liked how Caitlin Johnstone recently defined the economy: “The ruling class continually extracts wealth from the public not so that they can become wealthier than they already are, but to keep the public from having that wealth. They’re not worried that they’ll be unable to support their needs in the future if they don’t extract another billion dollars, they just understand that the wealthier everyone else gets, the less their own wealth matters. They’re not wealth-hoarding, they’re wealth-obstructing”.
The people running the “US State” prevent the people running the “Russia State” from being rich.
Isn’t that the essence of the conflict? If so, which side to take in this conflict?
Very true, but this goes in cycles following generations. They somehow allow for wealth build-up for a while before creating crisis, war, mayhem and reaping out all riches from the one generation which built it.
It is akin to baiting, hooking then pulling out. Every 25 years or so.
“… Every time the West escalates, so does Russia. …”
I do not consider this to be true in this absoluteness .
Claims like “now that most of the elite of the Kiev Army are dead,” and “NATO Special Forces in Ukrainian uniforms” doing all or most the fighting have little to zero evidence. For every video with English accent (could still be Ukrainian born) there are dozens of Ukrainian looking and sounding frontline fighters and commanders. Next thing will be: all frontline reporters showing anything against our belief are into one large conspiracy to fake material? For sure elite forces are shrinking and NATO trained military is involved. But it’s what both sides are admitting. We know about the mercenary groups and thousands of volunteers from Europe and US having reported for duty. Some with Ukrainian blood, some without.
That said, command, control, supply, financing has become in large part indeed another western operation, UK and US especially. They sit with this heavy, hungry baby as heavy anchor while their own internal problems rise. This is how I see the pressure cooker approach of Putin’s “special operation” which is not simple conquest or disposal of Kiev regime, not simply undoing 2014. It’s a war of resources, (energy) supply, endurance and … the logistics of all that of course.
Those Kazakh’s are a weird bunch, Russia saves them from a Western sponsored coup and they repay Russia by now collaborating with the West. Turks.
This conflict looks like its going to be decided by who can last the longest. Definitely Russia has all the food and fuel to fight forever while the West is kind of in a precarious situation, food and fuel wise. Russia can definitely stop its fuel flowing to the West for like 6 months, in addition to stopping the Ukrainian grain exports which all seem to be flowing to the West anyway. Add to that the coming winter, which even the American farmers fear is going to be an extra cold one.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/fear-as-the-farmers-almanac-predicts-an-apocalyptic-winter/
So for the next few months of this year and a few next year Russia has the advantage. Just got to keep blowing up Ukies and their English speaking allies unrelentingly in Ukraine all the while, quite possibly by the end of winter next year the Ukies and their allies will have had enough, if not, just keep on bombing. Russia is not going to run out of shells or vodka anytime soon.
There will be no winners of this war if it escalates to a fight to the bitter end.
If it’s escalates the whole world will lose. This is not the war from 80 years ago. This is something that can be much more destructive.
No one can win this war if it escalates beyond a certain point. We are not fighting with bayonets.
WW1 and 2 are informative but that is old technology. The new technology will kill all of us if it’s used.
The history of man is the history of war. Ain’t nothing thats going to change that. All peace talk just favors capitulation to the West. A wiser response would be to suggest that NATO move back to its pre-1990’s border. But you don’t want that, you want capitulation to the West don’t you?
IMHO: Multiple comments from the US creeps like George Barros (a “military analyst” with the Institute for the Study of War), claiming Russia is on-the-ropes, are made to convince teleprompter Joe to Green Light an all out offensive against the SMO.
Getting the walking cadaver president to sign papers making it “legal” to go-for-broke, would be the greatest show on earth for the US neocons and their allies.
All these lands are yours, except Russia, attempt no landing there.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
I hear Natostan is trying to open new fronts: Azerbaijan/Armenia and now Georgia2 lhttps://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/). Last time (2008) Tbilisi got a spanking Russia did not yet have Ms. Khalibr or Mr. Kinzhal. This time would be different and Moscow would make quick, short, work of the pesky shebang. Why would anyone be so suicidal as to dancing on the precipice of an active volcano? Maybe they are tired of the responsibility of national statehood and want mommy Russia to come and repossess them; but that’s a dumb way to go about it? Europeans used to laugh at Africa’s inability to think and act clearly (they thus supposed themselves more evolved)…Well, who will be laughing now?
This has just leaked on Russian networks. Keep in mind, there’s not a single official source reporting this. But it has been picked up by various high profile figures — get ready for some cocaine delusion, this is a good one:
Ukraine allegedly handed over its “peace plan” agreed with the United States to Russia — through Erdogan.
The conditions of Ukraine are as follows:
1. Withdrawal of Russian troops from all territories occupied by them after 24.02.2022.
2. Legislative transfer of all gold and foreign exchange reserves and seized assets of the Russian Federation and Russians as of 1.09.2022. The law on reparations must be adopted by the State Duma, the Federation Council and signed by the President.
3. Additional payment of reparations of 200 billion euros within 25 years in equal installments.
4. Free supplies of natural gas to Ukraine for five years from 01.01.2023.
5. Holding a referendum on the status of Crimea no later than 011.01.24 under the auspices of the UN and international organizations.
6. Demilitarization of the entire European part of the Russian Federation with the withdrawal of all parts and connections beyond the Urals.
7. Legislative reduction of the Russian army to 600,000 people.
8. Admission of military observers to all military facilities of the Russian Federation, including closed research institutes and design offices.
9. Early elections of the State Duma with the full participation of international observers.
10. Early presidential elections with the full participation of international observers.
Within 12 months, with the full implementation of all items, the international community will begin to partially lift the previously imposed sanctions.
Immediately after the initialling of the agreement, the disconnection of banks from SWIFT, the ban on the sale of Russian coal, oil and LNG will be lifted, flights will be restored and deliveries of vital medicines and aircraft components will be established.
At the insistence of the head of the U.S. State Department Blinken, extreme points on “extradition” of the Russian leadership were removed from the “peace plan”.
😂😂😂😂
Please tell me this is a joke/hoax.
Back in the 1970’s college students would take out student loans at interest rates of single digits and invest it in government bonds paying double digits. Rich boomer poor boomer…..