By Batiushka for The Saker Blog
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ,
Moves on: And neither Devotion, nor Wit
Shall make it cancel a Half-Line of it,
Nor Tears shall wash away a Word or Whit.Omar Khayyam
Introduction: The Distant Past
In 1945 the US and the UK betrayed and turned on their ally, the Soviet Union, which was far too victorious against Nazi Germany for their taste (1). For the war-crime bombings of Dresden, ordered by the half-American Churchill, and of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by the full-American Truman, were warnings – issued not to the already crushed Germany and Japan, but to the USSR. Then, from 1945 on, a series of covert and not so covert operations were carried out by Western spies and terrorists in order to undermine further the Soviet Union, notably in the Baltics and above all in the Western Ukraine (right up until 1958). Many so-called ‘former’ Nazis were employed by the Western Powers to do this dirty work for them. (2).
The Near Past
Even after losing its wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, in 2014 the United States organised and financed a violent, anti-democratic regime-change operation in Kiev, at a cost of $5 billion to the US taxpayer. It had now finally bitten off more than it could chew. As a result, the Russian Federation, a Superpower, though mocked and despised at the time by the arrogant Obama as a political and economic ‘regional’ minnow, had to take back the Crimea after its 60-year loan to the Ukraine. Otherwise, it would have lost its key Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol to the Pentagon, just as it had briefly lost it to the Anglo-French Fascists in 1856 and the German Fascists in 1942. It also had to defend Russian-speaking Eastern Ukraine by setting up a buffer zone, so buying itself time to prepare for a possible full-blown campaign of liberation there.
From 2014 on, Russia made eight years of highly meticulous preparations, ideological, political, diplomatic, economic, military, energy and agricultural, implementing a policy of import substitution to increase its independence and sovereignty. For Russia knew that the US would flood the Ukraine with NATO instructors and weapons in order to attack its people there and Russia itself, even if Russia did not launch a campaign to liberate the eastern Ukraine. The US will have a high price to pay for the foolish arrogance of this militarisation, carried out together with its NATO minions. Once the Crimea had voluntarily and democratically returned to Russia after the Western annexation of the Kiev regime territories in 2014, Russia experienced the illegal sanctions imposed on it by the Evil Empire. These would be implemented in even greater numbers, if Russia was forced to take back its ancestral territories of Novorossiya and Malorossiya and again set up a demilitarised and denazified zone in, at the very least, Eastern Europe.
The Present
The names of the neo-feudal elite of this Evil Empire are, like those of the demons, legion: The West/US/UK/EU/NATO/IMF/G7/UN/WTO/WHO/NGOs/ MSM/Anglo-Zionists/Anglo-Saxons/Washington and London/Neocons/New World Order/Globalists/World Bank/Federal Reserve/Banksters/Big Pharma/ Bilderberg/Trilateral/Davos/Soros….The above, who represent not even one billion of the world’s human-beings, are opposed by the Allies, who represent the seven billion human-beings of the Free World, the international community of the True United Nations: Russia, China, India, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Free Europe.
Of the Allies of the True United Nations: the Russian Federation is now the ideological, political, military, energy and agricultural leader; China and India are its manufacturing leaders; Iran, the Middle East, Indonesia and Venezuela are energy leaders; Latin America, Brazil and Mexico, Bolivia and Argentina, Peru and Ecuador, are industrial and resource leaders; Africa, from Egypt to South Africa, is a resource leader; Free Europe is about to be launched, with Serbia and Hungary, and perhaps Slovakia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Cyprus and others to follow, are the human leaders of Free Europe. There will be alternatives to the Evil Empire’s obsolete institutions: A true World Bank, a true United Nations, a true European Union, a true WTO, a true West and a true New World Order.
The Near Future
Since the campaign of liberation of the Ukraine was launched on 24 February, the world has changed. Our Great Reset has begun. True, most, though now no longer all, Western ideologues still refuse to accept that their private fantasy of a tyrannical unipolar world order is dead. Despite their delusions, that fantasy has been destroyed, not by those who opposed it, but by their own over-reaching hubris, that is, by their refusal to consider the rest of the world as of equal worth. For the liberation of Ukraine is just the beginning of the collapse of the ‘West is Best’ ideology. The struggle is also economic, as the West through its anti-Russian sanctions (3) is committing economic suicide. And the struggle is also ideological and political in its second, third and fourth phases.
In the second phase, there must follow the denazification of Eastern Europe, especially of the pro-Fascist Baltic State establishments, and the demilitarisation of Europe, initially of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Finland and Sweden, then gradually further west. Only then can the tiny and spiritually isolated European peninsula be integrated back into the Eurasian heartland. In the third phase, the rest of the world will be affected: China will take back Taiwan – and may also colonise and take control of North-Western Australia and the eastern Pacific, moving out from the South China Sea: Korea will be reunited; Syria and Libya will be rebuilt; the Palestinians will have their own homeland; Latin America must receive justice after a century of the disasters of its US-imposed banana leaders.
Conclusion: The Distant Future
Then will come the fourth phase of our Great Reset: the regime changes in the oligarchic territories of the Evil Empire itself, starting in the USA, founded on the Anglo-Saxon elite’s genocide of its native peoples and then a bloody Civil War. However, we should recall that the history of the USA is merely a repetition of the history of Western Europe. For here too, though long, long ago, the present European establishments were founded on the barbarising and feudalising Frankish, Norman and Teutonic elites’ genocides of its native peoples, of Romanised Celts and Gauls, Old Saxons, Old English, Bretons, Basques, Mozarabs etc. And then those establishments reinforced their positions in internecine Civil Wars, atrocities and artificial famines, which patterned the history of Western Europe, almost continually, from the twelfth century on, through the Hundred Years War, the Thirty Years War, the English Civil Wars, the Seven Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Irish Famine, right up to the First and Second European Wars, which became worldwide. Yes: History is being written before our eyes.
Notes:
1. Only eleven months before the end of World War II, the US and the UK finally launched D-Day. Why so late in the War? Simply because the Western Allies had underestimated the fighting power and sacrifices of the Soviet Union. D-Day took place on 6 June 1944 only because without it the Soviet Union would have liberated all of Continental Europe as far as the Channel coast, reaching not just Berlin and Vienna, but also Copenhagen and Brussels, Paris and Madrid. The Anglo-Saxons would not accept that and it was that realisation which finally prompted them to invade north-western Europe.
2. All of this is detailed by historians, for example in books like: Killing Hope, US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, 1995; MI6, Fifty Years of Special Operations, Stephen Dorril, 2001; Overthrow, America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Stephen Kinzer, 2007.
3. Instead of admitting the truth that it has created the problem, the West blames not its own anti-Russian sanctions for its economic disaster, but instead the Russian liberation of the Ukraine. In the same way it blamed the economic catastrophe of 2020-22 not on its Fascistic lockdowns, but on covid. The West, blinded by the arrogance that comes from its corrupted will and so technical ability to loot and pillage the world, always blames others for its self-imposed predicaments.
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Today marks the third trimester (90th day) from the beginning of the resistance against the 2022 U.S./NATO plan to destroy Russia’s sovereignty.
The ebb and flow of the SMO (Special Military Operation) to liberate Ukraine rages on; the enemy suffers much defeat but Lucifer’s armies continues to feed weapons of war into the country. Russia is defeating the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) but not U.S./NATO.
Russia has no peer military allies in Europe; she stands alone, brave, undaunted, knowing full well the evil that surrounds her. The imperialistic wolves wait to attack the bear at the opportune moment as she depletes material and men in the Ukrainian boiler. She must be on guard all the time and not falter if her strategy is strictly defensive.
The MOD (Russian Ministry of Defense) looks at more than strategic, tactical and operational military matters; they are also concerned with the larger global landscape beyond the current battlespace. We read last week that Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership. Turkey has expressed reservations to the membership application however Erdogan always self-serving, looks for a tangible bribe if he withdraws his objection. Of course the United States approves the two Nordic countries joining NATO to expand its ring of death around western Russia.
See: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_195468.htm
Russia is aware that U.S./NATO has a significant influence on a member’s government using money and promises of regional power to allow offensive munitions installed on its soil pointed at the Motherland under the pretense of “protecting the nation from an aggressor.” She also knows that despite the diplomatic and heroic statesmanship of Foreign Minister Lavrov, the flaming peacocks in the UN preen themselves and do the bidding of the U.S. They will offer trite platitudes while their lips remain zipped regarding the glaring threat to Russian citizens.
U.S./NATO is like a virulent pathogen, it swells and spreads its influence further into the Asia-Pacific region to offer security guarantees and its concept of a “rules-based international order.”
See: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_183254.htm .
The inevitable economic, monetary and political collapse of the U.S. will not deter the globalist warmongers in control of Washington, DC foreign policy. They will press on because Americans are too distracted with their personal lives in the current recession and the coming depression to envision the ominous realty poised on the event horizon.
The western based globalist agenda rolls forward; it desires to take Russia wholly, impoverish her people, rewrite its thousand year history, bury the Russian Orthodox Church and wipe away our fellowship and communion with Christ.
President Putin clearly sees what will evolve by the end of 2022 if U.S. imperialism is not stopped cold and right now, nothing impedes it. NATO-Europe is emboldened as long as the U.S. ability to make hemispherical war continues unabated.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gave a briefing to the press in Moscow on May 18,2022. She was asked this question about steps the MOD would take if Finland is accepted into NATO and the terms it agrees to with Brussels.
Question: “What kind of military-technical measures does Russia plan to apply to Finland, and what might their timeframe be?”
Maria Zakharova replied: “It will be a surprise. A question is for the Defence Ministry. The corresponding decision will factor in the full scope of details and specifics of how Finland’s membership in NATO will unfold. The decision will be made based on all these parameters, and primarily, it will be up to the military.“
See: https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1813888/#44 .
What might that “surprise” be that Ms. Zakharova spoke of, I wonder?
I wrote my first post on March 5, 2022 and the accompanying thread regarding this historic event where I stated that Russia would decide on May 24 the future outcome of its fight to exist as a sovereign nation against the U.S.A.
That day has arrived.
See: /extremely-important-statements-by-putin-must-see/#comment-1036609 .
China refused to make a military presence in the Black Sea region as a show of tactical support, which would have stalled the U.S. calculus. Russia cannot afford to wait much longer to neutralize the fangs of the seven-headed hydra in Washington, DC. NATO-Europe will politically disintegrate without the U.S. war machine to back it up.
The Stavka has now decided what it must do; it is the ‘when’ that depends upon the sum of all the negative and positive metrics that may force Russia to unleash a deadly maelstrom against the largest military threat in the modern world. The enemy will be more than “surprised,” it will fall into a catatonic state. The central government will not be able to triage the American war machine for every emergency is life and death resulting in a paralysis of leadership.
Negative Metrics
1. Is the Russian Federation Still a Communist Dictatorship?
The majority of Americans are preoccupied with their own existence and the social “bread and circus” pushed by the media entertainment industry to ask that simple question. They have been led to believe Russia along with China are the antagonists of the world as portrayed in Hollywood screenplays but always get bested by the vulpine skills of the Pentagon generals and admirals.
2. The National Media Continues to Promote Russia Phobic Propaganda.
Regardless of the political party in power, the globalist owned MSM dominates the airwaves and suppress any alternate voices that exist. The masses shrug their shoulders but lack the curiosity to seek out the truth on their hand-held mobile devices.
3. America Cannot Fathom the Malevolence of Washington DC.
The people still trust their congressmen and senators, reelect them to office and the idea of a national revolt is beyond their comprehension.
4. The Tolerance For Lies and Deception Remains Medium to High.
Most of the population is indifferent to the machinations of the two party political system and the permanent presence of the U.S. Military outside the continental U.S. There is no national movement or charismatic leader at this time strong enough to force the central government to halt its plan to restructure the Russian Federation into an Eastern European satrapy of the western powers.
5. Illegal Immigration Secures Washington, DC’s Powerbase.
The majority of immigrants illegally enter the U.S. in violation of federal immigration laws, which the President of the United States is constitutionally required to faithfully uphold. They are poorly educated and will adhere to any domestic policies that will give them a better life than in their home country. These invaders represent a voting block that is easily swayed because they lack the knowledge or cognitive impetus to learn the historical and contemporary truths about U.S.-Russian history. This is a detriment to any attempt to politically move the masses in the direction away from imperialistic goals against Russia.
6. Americans Have No Fear of the Destruction of Their Homeland.
It’s not even conceivable to them; they have the attention span and short-term memory of a lower life form and are even unconcerned with frequent domestic terror attacks that happen around the nation. The country lacks a collective awareness about the dangers they will face due to the insane militaristic policies deployed by the globalists.
7. The Ukraine War is a U.S. Petri Dish, an Observation of Warfare
The SMO is a proving ground to probe and evaluate the capabilities and breadth of MOD. It is possible in the coming months, one or more NATO countries will be sacrificed (e.g., Romania, Poland, a Baltic State, Finland) to use as a pretext by the U.S. to launch its own nuclear ambuscade against western Russia.
February 28, 2022
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov on the Rossiya-1 television channel, “The US deployed its nuclear weapons on the territory of European countries. It’s not France and the UK that have their own nuclear weapons. This is Italy and many other countries that possess the US nuclear weapons but they do not have access to them. The US controls them there. It was a golden dream that it would appear in Ukraine.“
See: https://tass.com/world/1412847
May 10 – 12, 2022
NATO CSEL (Command Senior Enlisted Leaders) visited Romania for three days to meet with Romanian Air Force leadership. U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Benjamin Hedden said, “Romania plays a large role in our strategic positioning and it’s great that we are here seeing firsthand how the NATO alliance is coming together to effectively accomplish the multinational operational efforts of the organization.”
See: https://www.usafe.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3038417/nato-us-command-sels-visit-romania/
May 21, 2022
Poland’s Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak stated on Saturday “the Polish army would become “even bigger and stronger” than today, to guard against the Russian threat. Our aim is to have a combined force of 300,000, including 250,000 career soldiers and 50,000 territorial army soldiers,” the defence minister told the gathering in Kraśnik.
See: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/2963044,Polish-army-will-be-boosted-in-response-to-Russia%E2%80%99s-war-on-Ukraine-defence-minister .
May 22, 2022 (Wall Street Journal archive)
“U.S. military and diplomatic officials are weighing plans to send special forces troops to Kyiv to guard the newly reopened embassy there, proposals that would force the Biden administration to balance a desire to avoid escalating the U.S. military presence in the war zone against fears for the safety of American diplomats, U.S. officials said.
Over time, and depending on how the conflict in the east unfolds, U.S. officials envision a larger presence for the U.S. to administer the tens of billions of dollars of weaponry that have poured into the country in recent months. And some U.S. military officials would like to return to Ukraine the special forces and other troops that were conducting train-and-advise operations for the Ukrainian military.”
See: https://archive.ph/btVQr
Positive Metric
1. Despite all the weekly bloviation coming out of Brussels, NATO-Europe is a “Potemkin village”, a yapping poodle and poses no serious military threat to the Russian Federation without U.S. support.
The U.S. plan to create a provocation unfolds right before our eyes, step by step by step. Russia has to know it comes to unleash death and destruction so why does she wait? Is it to rally her people to a national war footing when the first nuclear bomb detonates on her soil? It will be too late by then.
President Putin took preemptive action on February 24 (some say not soon enough) to stop the AFU from launching a massive attack along the Donbass LOC (Line of of Contact). If he authorizes a nuclear response, it must bypass NATO-Europe and hit the U.S. mainland directly. This has to occur before the Russian Federation faces waves of U.S/NATO conventional, biological and nuclear weapons that will overwhelm its ability to prevail.
The “nuclear shashka” will ultimately have to be unsheathed and as I wrote two months ago, “Go first and go hard,” fully, completely and without remorse, for the survival of the Motherland and our Holy Orthodox Church is paramount.
Unless by divine intervention, there is no other way to end the epic war against Satan’s armies but to kill the beast in his lair. To not act is to betray a sacred duty and the memory of the sacrifices of the immortal regiment.
This moment in time weighs heavily on Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, he knows he will have to face God in the end and answer for what he must do to save his nation and our Christian faith from Satan’s dominion.
A coward cannot bring himself to do what is necessary but a hero answers the call despite the spiritual cross he will bear. We will ask Christ through prayer to show Putin mercy, for he will be remembered as a man worthy of God’s compassion if he chooses to risk his soul so his people can live and worship the Lord with free will and without fear in the emerging multipolar world.
Dear “PokeTheRurh”;
You ask “What might that “surprise” be that Ms. Zakharova spoke of, I wonder?”
I have a suggestion: Send thousands of Laningraders (eh-SaintPeterburghers) on vacation trips to return the Åland (Ahenmaa) Archipelago to its neutral status, and on fun trips to Hankö (Hanko) west of Hälsingfors (Helsinki) to a great summer camp experience there in the woods, lakes and the fiord. No need for military action: Just do like the character “Snusmumriken” (Snufkin/Nuuskamuikkunen) who returns to the Moomin Vally in Finland (just west of Borgå(Porvoo) each summer to snjoy Moomin.Mammas Citchen and play withMoomintrollet, The finns will be delighted with all the bliini, borshtch and cheap vodka thay will provide those Sisulainen Finns with!
Trimester = 3 months.
End of 1st trimester.
Russia has to and will denazify Ukraine. We have awaken all the “woke” people in the West and have regime change and a new beginning based on national sovereignty and mutual co-operation.
The Great Reset has to be terminated and the sooner the better
Batiushka
What do you think the “Native” Americans were doing before Anglo Saxons arrived? Were they gentle Lotus Eaters? How about the Russian Empire? The “Native” Americans believe you stole Siberia from them.
And did you know that the Democratic Party=The Black Lives Matter Party?….not the Anglo Saxon Party…that’s for sure.
We have no such illusions Siberia was stolen from us. We also have no illusions regarding the karma that is hitting whitey and the buffalo soldiers at this time. We do chuckle from time to time.
Dems are racist, don’t care about BLM, it’s window dressing to cover their lily-white imperialism. They only exist to render the brutality of imperialism more palatable.
As for the time before the Angos arrived … really no one’s business. We fought F’d hunted had lives like any one but we don’t need YOU to speak for us even though we are all on the Rez now.
Good post. I copied your quote from another post where you explained the difference between nationalist and patriot. I’m quoting you far and wide.
Sing! Sing Oh Morning Bird! Sing…
Sing Your Love Song…
The Song that warms the hearts of lovers in the morn…Sing.
Bravo! You have adopted the right lingo. The right language. The right discourse and narrative.
If there is going to be a revolution that overthrows the Evil Empire we must first adopt a new language. We must adopt a new narrative, a new discourse. And in order to do that we need to first stop consuming and regurgitating the discourse, narrative and verbiage of the Evil Empire. And your narrative in the above brief text has done just that. Bravo.
Stalin was not and never was a friend of the US. The error was that we should have stayed out of the war.
This be crazy talk. Soviet Union, very bad place, run by very bad people. They hate you but shoot you for trying to leave. Oops, forgot that. A 200M+ insane asylum.
this is a very simplistic view, isnt’t it?
calling the USSR a 200+M insane asylum “implies” rather strongly the people themselves were insane.
which is beyond arrogant.
my parents have visited the USSR several times during the 1970s (from west (!) germany). and i can tell you that they did by no means encounter an insane population. on the very contrary.
the ordinary people were very open and very kind to them. they travelled privately in their own car. of course closely watched by the apparatus. :)
keep in mind that practically everybody back then lost family-members due to the german invasion of the USSR (27 to 30 million deaths on the soviet side). and still no hostility to those two germans driving around there.
this is quite impressive. it speaks volumes about the common soviet people. it is a lesson in humility, isn’t it?
to me at least it is. i am humbled be the stories i hear from that time.
considering the hypercorrupt failed regimes of latin america, the full lockdown totalitarian ant collective of china, the left behind third and fourth world etc the free human world saving us from the evils of the western degenerate collective seems an excess of cynicism and frivolously mocking those actually living there, not just romanticising about it from their safe spaces in Western comfort. Really just shows the total dead end humanity has arrived at. Nothing will save us from either the perverted Western world or the wannabe catchers up still trying to get there. Lasciate ogni esperanza.
Abandon all hope ? Hardly. The future is in the East, the degenerate West is finished. How does one emigrate to Russia ?
If the East is Orwellian Communist China, then we are lost.
From east will come the hope. it always has. Rama, Krishna, Buddha, spiritual giants with real knowledge of the universal spiritual truth and access to universal powers had come in every age, to show the path of righteousness to the lost humanity. From east, From the land of the sages, from Bharat (known as India) will come the hope.
By the way, I am not Latino, I am Hispanic, born in Venezuela, and my homeland is Hispanic America, not Latin America.
The kilo of Corrupto Traitor Dragged in hispanoamerica has always been (Baratisimo), very cheap from Mexico to Argentina and from the Caribbean to the Pacific.
Socialism in my country is spread hunger less for the head honcho.
In China persecute Christians, fells our crosses of churches and removed the portrait of Jesus Christ and put in place the Xi Xianping, and bibles and priests are all almost since the Chinese Patriotic Church controlled by the Communists. If as you say enough is enough … Catholic who stop you as Cardinal Zen has over ninety years and hardly know him.
That language of pure dialectic of class, poor and rich full of bitterness and hatred .. why not download it with a psychologist a gym or start to become Christ will do you much good.
I have read your chaotic summary that you summarize from an atheist and materialist point of view, because seen in this way, men and machines are the same: things.
The conflict for you is summed up as a dialectical struggle between imperialist atheists against proletarian atheists, what a waste of war.
The war of the future is cooked in bio-laboratories that use the latest in nanotechnology to control all men in the world. Do you think it’s my stuff? see here https://www.ynharari.com/he/
Harari is the BRAIN of Davos not Schawb. Harari is the author of the book “Homo Deus”, an obligatory text for all the presidents of the nations that belong to the WEF and by his figurehead Klaus Schawb.
We are witnessing the end of the great weapons and the rise of nanoweapons, integrated into the human body as a cyborg, you don’t believe me again, do you? They say it openly and in public Harari and Klaus Schawb call it “Post-Humanism” using nanotechnology to “recreate” the human being without forgetting his mind.
The mega-oligarchs Western (and you know who) with an investment equivalent to what Russia spends on defense, for example what Bill Gates invests through its Foundation invests billions of dollars in research and development in new biotechnologies … . This was what was found in Russia and Ukraine with horror because they go far beyond what they have. This is not a war of atheists against atheists this is a war for control of the human spirit.
Harrari is an idiot. Read his bio. Read the article he wrote for the Guardian 1 week into the SMO. Hint: he totally misread Putin’s goals & strategy.
He also either swallowed or wrote all the propaganda, from Putin expects to quickly take over Ukr to Zelenski the hero to Snake Island.
Meh.
Hannibal, Gingis Kahn, Alexander the Great, Caesar (who invented “the Germans” to disguise his non-success of beating the distributed indigenes on the right side of the Rhine river), to mention a few other conflict parties before.
Yeah, life goes on and war thrieved through all the times because of some idiots in power and the many patridiots.
Rather build tools, instead of weapons – transform those swords into ploughs!
Remember: the Moon’s orbit was fixed long time ago for us who live now…
I have read Batiushka’s writings published in The Saker with great attention and also, I must admit, with great affection, even though I fundamentally disagree with them.
The vision of a Multipolar World is breathtaking, with its promise of peace, justice, and prosperity among Nations.
But we must not deceive ourselves, nor must we deceive others. There will be no multipolar world.
At least as long as an economic system that makes profit the supreme value prevails. Either life or profit: that is the question.
A multipolar world requires that life itself (and not even restricted to human life) be the fundamental and ultimate value.
Only then will we all, nations and individuals, be humanly different, socially equal and totally free.
A simple adage. If it doesn’t kill, you it will make you stronger. Our Empire is dependent on a corrupted media megaphone. Where would we stand if the truth where suddenly revealed to all the sheep? Knee deep in sheep poop!
Frankly speaking I don’t like this adage. Suppose you have a road accident (touch wood) and you loose your leg in consequence, but mircaculously you are kept alive. Would you be stronger?
I would rather say what doesn’t kill you make you more experienced, thus everything we receive through our senses make our life more fulfilled so to speak. I bet any money …..with intrinsic value :-)….against nuts what doesn’t kill you it will keep you alive :-) Cheers!
I got a brother who broke his neck decades ago and is quadriplegic. He was pretty tough before but mentally is way tougher now. My point is sanctioning Russia has not destroyed them. They went from a grain importer to the worlds largest exporter for instance.
Now we force them to make their own computer chips. They put a man in space before us, you think they are weakened enough to give up defending their country from us? Their arms producers are motivated, we are threatening them and they, with all their history, take that very seriously. Our producers only worry about profit! It shows.
In reference to note 1:
The west didn’t underestimate the USSR’s military strength, they just preferred to let them do the heavy lifting and take the bulk of casualties.
The US and UK supported Hitler and aimed him at the USSR. The blowback was the war in Europe. Whoops!
Despite that the original plan remained: have Germany beat the crap out of the USSR. The allied invasion was delayed until the USSR had destroyed the bulk of German forces and were working their way into German-occupied Europe.
Any similarites to events today are exactly on point as the stratgey has not changed.
US&UK, they couldn’t bear the thought of the Russians getting all the gold Hitler collected (for them)…
There is something in Russia called “Conception of Social Security”.
Back in the day of the Soviet Union, a collective of authors calling themselves the “internal predictor of the USSR” wrote a book named “dead water”. It claims that there is a group of very rich and powerful people called the “global predictor”. Apparently, they started their work at least in ancient Egypt. They were the priests and therefore had a good education and lots ot time, so they were thinking about how to deal with limited manpower, land and resources. For centuries, these psychopaths have been plotting behind the back of humanity to achieve their goals. They don’t care about us. We are just tools in their eyes. They use hard and soft power to reach their goals and they love divide and conquer.
They use their knowledge about psychology, their funds and influence to manipulate a country’s elites.
Thanks to the law of time (progress coming faster and faster + modern communication), they got into trouble. We now have the internet and access to knowledge like never before. Moreover, the US elite is causing trouble for the global predictor as they think they could do a better job. We are living in interesting times.
Even Russia is not fully sovereign. There are many Zionists and US boot lickers in high positions. Before the new constitution, there apparently were special clauses in the old one favoring the USA and their minions. At least that’s what Fjodorow claimed.
Great article, but I am afraid the author is unnecessarily warmongering. IMHO “suffice” to make order with Khazarian mafia residing on the other side of the globe and its European offshoots (initially it was another way round). Cutting them off from the European umbilical cord and making it independent will be the best way to restore normality on the continent. Same will ensue for other continents as well. One must always remember, and certainly consummate diplomats of Lavrov’s stature know this, that it is better to spend months negotiating than a few days at war. However, If diplomacy fails, one may have to make them finally feel what Europe has experienced in so many wars. I do not know whether it is feasible to make it work in white gloves. Let’s leave it to experts with a hope that some day the evil will be finally smashed and yet the planet and human kind saved….. and true historic classes finally introduced in schools across the globe as history of human kind as opposed to “history written by victors” or by specific nations.
The picture of the Finnish Ambassador to NATO Klaus Korhonen, the Swedish Ambassador to NATO Axel Wernhoff, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg remind me of three preschoolers at a Christmas concert who are looking at mom USA and dad UK for approval. Stoltenberg knows that they are there for a very solemn occasion. Poor Great-Uncle Adolf has gone the way of the dodo bird, soon to rot in Ukraine like all their former ancestors at Berezina, Kursk and Stalingrad.
This article draws a rough sketch of the future multi-polar world, thanks to Russia for confronting the evil Anglozionists dressed as NATO right now in Ukraine, face-to-face. The world is too big a place for us to predict every little feature of what the future new arrangement would look like. Nevertheless, there are important priorities fundamental for the birth of the new system that replaces the current one. Namely, taking away from the US its privileged status of dictating the $ on other countries’ international trades. Next- Kick the US and its minions out of the world energy business completely. Rein in the Zionists/jews historic aptitude to ever again control the world central bank and the global money. Relocating the UN HQ, out of that filthy lgbtq infested city called New York to a more decent location.
Basically Batiushka makes sense to me.
– The West, blinded by the arrogance that comes from its corrupted will and so technical ability to loot and pillage the world, always blames others for its self-imposed predicaments.
If we are using Pepe Escobar, there are some uber-masters who are pulling the strings, not Klaus Schwab and those public figures.
What will happen then to the Parliaments then? They have to consist of some corrupt people easy to blackmail.
This analysis seems to mix up a variety of different actors, motivations, and activities. If we can’t have sober analysis realistically critiquing the empire then we’re really not any better (or more effective) than the empire itself. A few specific highlights:
First, 1945 is an unhelpful place to start things, as is the characterization of the UK and USSR as ever being allies. If there was a betrayal – quite a strong implication in English – it was refusal to become allies in the 1930s against the fascists. Also, the UK was far more belligerent in the first half of the 20th century than the US, which had substantive internal power struggles between interventionism and leading by example.
Second, the overall tone that attempts to portray the USSR as some kind of liberating force is inconsistent with the experiences of the people being liberated, to put it tactfully. It is laugh out loud funny, to put it bluntly. To really drive this point home, one of the pillars of strength upon which the empire continues to stand even today is how much better it was to live under US occupation than USSR occupation. Japan, Germany, and South Korea are major bases of imperial support. Poland, to use a counterexample, is not exactly friendly to the modern day RF. The imagery of the Berlin Wall alone continues to be etched in a lot of minds – Communism was so awful as an economic arrangement, and the petty autocrats so thin-skinned as rulers, that they had to physically prevent people from leaving(!). Today, immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America are quite free to choose China over the US (or Europe). How many do?
Third, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan are fundamentally different conflicts engaged for different reasons that are not very helpful to lump together. The latter two were successes, not failures, entered into due to American neoconservatism meddling (unlike Vietnam, which was one of the last remnants of European colonization that parts of the US power structure had spent years helping to undermine rather than support). And even Vietnam, which should have ended the empire after just a couple decades, instead ushered in the Zone B approved modern monetary era of the past 5+ decades of fiat currency emission which has been brilliantly, astonishingly rewarding for the globalist ruling class (see Iraq and Afghanistan as prime examples thereof).
Fourth, the groupings of “Evil Empire” and “Allies of the True United Nations” are way messier than this dichotomy. There is more opposition to some of the globalist institutions listed in this posting within the US than there is within many of the Zone B countries who are supposedly such great allies of the present day RF. This is one of the reasons why the globalists don’t want information shared directly between ordinary Americans and Russians – we actually have a lot more in common ideologically and pragmatically with each other than with the transnational ruling class that occupies/controls USUK (and with whom many elites in other governments seem quite happy to work as long as they can maintain plausible deniability to blame the Americans when it suits them).
Fifth, and this has been much of my interest in commenting during the SMO, nothing (yet) changed on Feb 24. Rather than some major inflection point, to date what has happened is consistent with the entire post-Cold War era where the globalist fascists are testing limits, seeing where the RF will allow USUK to create chaos and where things are existential to Moscow. We seem to have found an (unofficial/informal) understanding that Tartus and Sevastopol are a bridge too far for the empire to push. Russia can have whatever part of Ukraine it wants; it makes no substantive difference to the formal/official part of the empire if the RF pushes back against the off-the-books efforts of intelligence/paramilitary activities within the Ukraine.
Is it possible that another shoe will drop, that at some point the SMO will dramatically change the global economic order? That Russia will publish publicly – or even directly arrest – the top echelon of the globalist fascists, the people who actually make the important decisions? That claims about Zone A national monetary stores (like gold) will be challenged and found wanting? That we’ll wake up one day and the PRC will substantially revalue the CNY/USD peg that has been stable for decades? That specific horrible policies like the drug war and corporate friendly IP law will end?
Of course it’s possible. The present international monetary and financial system is not great for all but the wealthiest people on the planet. In both Zone A and Zone B we contemporary humans allocate resources to remarkably inefficient and downright useless projects. But these past three months have not changed the world. And while that is unfortunate for many of us for a whole variety of reasons, dealing with the reality of the world as it exists is important to ongoing problem-solving and assessing where/how things might actually change to bring war criminals to justice and reinvigorate an approach to international relations based on local control, self-determination, and sovereignty.
You raise some interesting points here. But explain this: East Germany was invaded by the USSR in 1953…Hungary in 1956…Czechoslovakia in 1968…and today, East Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks are the most pro-Russian citizens in Europe.
My own explanation to this phenomenon, is the reality that these countries experienced life under the Soviet system… as well as from 1990 to today, the western capitalist system…so they have had a good basis for comparing both systems…Many journalist have dismissed this as naive ‘ostalgia’ but the reality remains: there were massive benefits for the citizens of Eastern Europe, which they have been unhappy to lose under the western capitalist system. My east Berlin girlfriend was harrassed by Honeckers regime but having lived under the west German system since 1990, she is resolute in stating that the DDR offered a better life than what is available today. My own experiences too, in travelling to Hungary from 1990 to 2003 showed me already then that Hungary would take its current path…
I venture to suggest that the Russian population went through the same lessons and there is considerable merit in combining many of the structures that communism and socialism developed such as central resource panning, and state control of utilities and housing with state regulation of pricing mechanisms together with free enterprise capitalism, where the Russia of today can develop a new system that is a better match than the soon-to-be-bankrupt casino capitalist western system. So the development pace of Russia is slow and systematic and flexible but will benefit its people in the long term…and the western system is collapsing on its own hubris as the current system is unreformable due to the rigid power structures….the other nations observe the process and will pick the side which is most successful…
so i disagree with the observation that within the last 3 months nothing has fundamentally changed. The changes are evident each day that passes but an observer has to perceive what each short-term change signifies for the longer term. Just because there is an element of calm observed at one point and in one place, does not mean that there is not a raging war of two clashing systems going on…
IMO 1945 is a well chosen starting point as this was a singular most traumatic period in history which changed the dynamics of politics in Europe for the next 77 years.
I imagine much of this will be ongoing conversation. Time will tell, as they say. My point isn’t that Prague is the biggest cheerleader on the planet for the empire but rather that there is an asymmetry that lingers to this day where DC/London gets more benefit from the immediate post-WW2 environment than does Moscow – even though the Soviets did most of the actual fighting against the Nazis.
To your main query, here’s how I would explain:
First, the former East Germany, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia are relatively minor players, with the biggest simply being swallowed by the former West Germany. That makes them both less important recipients of imperial propaganda and less included in the contemporary power structure. Second, the issue is about the ruling class, not ordinary citizens, unless/until citizens can rise up en masse and actually threaten the power structure.
Third, I would draw a distinction between the Soviets (and related communist governments) and the modern day RF. Here I’m getting a bit out of my core expertise, but my general understanding is that a fair amount of the stuff that happened in central Europe was driven more by non-Russians than Russians themselves. And then fourth main point, the issue isn’t about who is more or less ‘pro-Russian’ in some generic sense. The issue is participating in systems that either support the economic power base of the ruling class or degrade that power base. It will be very interesting indeed when the central Europeans withdraw from NATO and the EU and the WHO and the IMF and the BIS and the WTO so forth and vote with the RF in the UN (or join the RF in an alternative UN). That is not, however, what has happened with the SMO so far.
And then more broadly, I would offer the systems lens that this is no longer about learning from communism and socialism and free enterprise. The ruling elites today are fascists, not capitalists (or more generically they are simply authoritarians and petty thieves). Really, for the ordinary person, what is the difference between being a target of the Stasi or a contemporary western intel agency? That makes this kind of analysis a lot more complicated about what popular opinion actually is. Market-based economics has been stealthily replaced by ever-growing merger of corporate and state power. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if central Europeans would be better placed to have a gut sense that something is off about that trend than counterparts to the north, west, or south.
I would respond with a query of my own. What has fundamentally changed in the past three months? At a micro level, the SMO has been very important for the Ukraine, transitioning it from a nation that would collapse at some point in the future to a nation that is collapsing now. But how does that affect history beyond the immediate residents? The author claims “the world has changed”, not “the world might possibly change if X, Y, and Z happen”.
The collective West hmm, 0.1% incl. The Central Banks (Federal Reserve, ,BoE, Banque du France, Bundesbank – Collectively known as The Lords of Finance ), Rothschild & Co, majority controlling/minority stakes in all, the Financiers of the genocide, land/resource theft using their Military Industrial Complex to subjugate wherever, whenever.
The British who once ruled the waves had the template/best racket through the East India Company in early 19th century right up to the beginning of WW11 (although waning influence decades before ). Bleeding India dry for the Industrialists of The Satanic Mills in northern England. Inside the EIC you had your private buccaneers (Pirates/Smugglers ) Jardine & Matheson who seen a gap in EIC’s Asian Markets for their opium using the proceeds to purchase prime Hong Kong coastal assets.
Nothing has changed under the sun, Cecil Rhodes-Rothschild & Co brutalising Zimbabwe, confiscating millions of hectares of prime agriculture lands with the kind of weaponry used today by Russia of the time. 5000 Matabele died in just 4/5 hours of an afternoon, cannon and maxim machine gun. See Russia are killing 500 Ukrainian AF per day. You don’t bring sword & spear to a automatic gun fight.
Still the secret weapon of maintenance of their Empire are the individual and group collaborators of the Sovereign, the Elite who have no problem shitting on their own for personal gain. They send their off-spring to the US-UK-EU military academies to ensure the survival of the token figurehead. As Nasrallah stated yesterday, without the collaboration of the Saudis, UAE, Qataris ( seeing the light like Turkey ) America-NATO-Israel are toast. If Saudi are turned, this would be like turning Germany in Europe.
It’s a puzzle to me that Russia, China, India, Iran & Allies who account for 70-80% of the world population and 60-70% of its energy resources are not dictating matters rather than being dictated to. The weakest link, threat to this alliance’s ultimate/degree of success is India-China where various internal & external factions/forces sour relations at every opportunity. Russia must intervene here and read the riot Act For The Greater Good.
No one can be trusted more than Iran who even in hard times supports its Axis of Resistance far and wide. Hell how many more Afghanis fled over its border and are fed, housed, maybe twice as many as Ukrainians fled to Russia since 2014?
The Alliance above should be talking REPARATIONS for Iran housing the fallout from American-NATO skulduggery but no they are under Sanction . . . .ludicrous.
Russland hat gewissermaßen einen Quantensprung in nicht nur militärischer, sondern auch wirtschaftlicher und finanzwirtschaftlicher Stärke vollzogen. Nur hatte es keiner so richtig bemerkt, außer dem Stab um Putin, Lawrow, Schoigu in dem großartige Fachleute (Glasjew etc), zugleich STRATEGEN, die neue Sicherheits-Struktur in ein kurzes, in ein Drei Seiten ULTIMATUM verpackten. Quantensprung? Ach ja. Den von der “regelbasierten” westlichenWunschvorstellung hin zur REALITÄTSBASIERTEN WELTORDNUNG.
In a way, Russia has made a quantum leap in not only military, but also economic and financial strength. Only nobody had really noticed it, except the staff around Putin, Lavrov, Shoigu in which great experts (Glasjew etc), at the same time STRATEGEN, packed the new security structure into a short, into a three-page ULTIMATUM. Quantum leap? Oh yes. The one from the “rule-based” wishful Western thinking to the REALITY-BASED WORLD ORDER.
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Just wondering if the Chinese lockdowns are also fascistic? Asking for a friend.
There’s an important aspect of the Cold War that is not generally discussed. What was presented to the public as an irreconcilable divergence among Soviet-German-American interests was not always what war planners knew was true. After the war, US Army Intelligence assessed that the Soviet Union posed no military threat to the United States, having been severely mauled in its epic fight with Germany. Unfortunately the rival OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, had recruited many German intelligence officers in the closing days of World War II, including Hitler’s chief of intelligence, Reinhardt Gehlen. With them came the Third Reich’s unquenchable fear and hatred of the USSR.
For their own purposes, certain Republican congressmen championed the OSS view of the Soviet menace, which came to dominate the media and eventually the political discourse. But this faction’s goal was not protecting the country as much as it was the creation of a wedge issue to split the reigning Democratic coalition. GOP strategists were determined to return to national power after twelve long years out in the cold. And like most scare campaigns, the plan worked just fine, enabling war hero Ike to recapture the White House for them in 1952 despite his utter lack of civilian political experience. By 1980 their conquest of the federal establishment was complete, and they then began ruthlessly strip-mining the state for everything they could steal.
In a very real sense the forty year long Cold War was initiated and maintained because of a ruthless rivalry between American political parties jockeying for dominance of the home government. As justified as distrust of Stalin may have been for a smaller nation situated next door to Russia, it was an absurd course of action for a massive superpower on the other side of the planet, particularly against a close ally in the late struggle to stymie Germany’s emergence as a rival world power.
It has a tune of a good old Greek tragedy “that pride that comes before the fall”. Hubris > Atis > Nemesis > Tisis. It’s not hard to acknowledge blindness of the mind has flourished across large swaths of “rule based international community”.
I just would like to question the oft repeated term “anglo saxon”. My understanding is that the anglo saxons were destroyed in 1066. Perhaps a more accurate term would be Normans?
Exactly Vince.
It was the Normans who created the elitist and militaristic outlook in which the people were seen as a resource to be plundered.
Steve: Isn’t that why Andrei (the Saker) leans so hard on the Franks? How were the Franks and Normans related?
SL, – The Franks were Germanic; the Normans were vikings that settled in France (normandy)
England was not the only military adventure of the Normans – Sicily, Italy and other places were also conquered.
In my view it was the English resistance that went on for some time, and which forced William to adopt measures that were looked upon with horror by the rest of Europe, that planted the seeds of a ruthless elitism that saw the people, for the first time possibly, as sub-human, as expendable, as a mere resource. The Normans were a minority in a land populated by what they would have regarded as foreigners who were culturally inferior.
To add to this, the loss of Normandy not long after the Conquest would have instilled in the Normans a sense of anxiety due to sudden isolation, and I see that anxiety and paranoia as manifesting itself today in the militarism of the West, and an inability to even consider that co-operative relations with others of a different outlook can be mutually beneficial.
To put it in biological terms, symbiosis is a concept beyond the understanding of the West.
In response to Vince’s question, I think the US/UK axis should be referred to as anglo-norman.
Los mozárabes eran hispanos cristianos que huyeron del mundo musulmán hacia el norte cristiano para evitar el vivir de un modo discriminado.
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The Mozarabic were Christian Hispanics who fled from the Muslim world to the Christian north to avoid living in a discriminated way.
excellent analysis. It is karmic payback through own limited bully-perspective.
Basically a good post!
As to the near and distant futures possibly some of those events will come to pass and indeed many of them should given the history of western aggression.
As if Islam is kind or the Aztec was not cruel or the Mongols humane or China was freedom oriented. Nations are composed of men, not angels. And in the case of Russia and the West, given that the West dances to the WEF tune,I suspect the ending of the unipolar tyranny of Earth will be multi-polar tyranny guided by the wise men of Davos.
“China will take back Taiwan – and may also colonise and take control of North-Western Australia and the eastern Pacific”. Hmm sounds more like meet the new boss, the same as the old boss. Take what you want. The US treats Australia as a vassal, but it doesn’t invade and annex it’s territory.
How would Russia feel if China thought Siberia, in particular their former territories, more enticing than NE Australia? Hand them over?
It would be wonderful, let’s see how this works out in the actual world.
It would go nicely with a saying : XXIst century will be spiritual, or it won’t be.
So far, so good, nevertheless the ordeal, and the violent spams and hollering of the agonising evil.
One thing, though : 1861-1865 US War was NOT a Civil War. It was a SECESSION war of the South, disgusted by the greed and thirst for hegemony of the North, which acted like… Well, you know, like the US always did and do.
it is a good word to remember, Secession : see how US rulers cringe when you say it. Truth has this effect on them, like Blessed water spilled on a vampire. Or a garlic flavored kiss, if you are more of a secular type.
So many pedantic comments, and no one mentioning the threats:
“In the second phase, there must follow the denazification of Eastern Europe, especially of the pro-Fascist Baltic State establishments, and the demilitarisation of Europe, initially of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Finland and Sweden, then gradually further west.”
And: “Then will come the fourth phase of our Great Reset: the regime changes in the oligarchic territories of the Evil Empire itself, starting in the USA,”
I have been worrying from when it became clear to me that the Russian military and economy are FAR superior/resilient than the West’s, USA’s, NATO’s, that once they have Ukraine under control, they would make sure that the EU suffers self-imposed death by 1000 cuts, and then move in and subjugate Europe.
I have also been following the collective West’s, notably US & UK, arrogance, and criminal treatment of Russia’s assets and nationals.
By end March it had become clear to the Russians, but only this week to the West, that there is NO WAY NATO can win a head-to-head conflict with Russia. It will take at least 5 years for NATO to create weapons that match Russia’s hypersonics, and an army of trained – physically, tactically, mentally – men sufficient to take on the Russian forces.
The only way NATO can subdue Russia is by first-strike nukes; and I have been thinking for weeks that Russia needs to do a comprehensive first-strike first asap, because only then will the ongoing permanent US/NATO threat to Russia be discontinued.
And I am not a Russia-lover – too many murders in UK for any Brit to that Russia’s behaviour is OK.
I have just been disappointed by the West’s hypocrisy re the “Rules” (ha ha) Based Order, and thinking what I would do if I were Putin et al.
If you watch Peter Zeihan’s Energy video, that will also be eye-opening re what is coming down the tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWyhKobyM68&t=22s