The recent murder of Samir Kuntar by Israel has, yet again, inflamed the discussion about Putin’s relation to Israel. This is an immensely complicated topic and those who like simple, canned, “explanations” should stop reading right now. The truth is, the relationship between Russia and Israel and, even before that, between Jews and Russians would deserve an entire book. In fact, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has written exactly such a book, it is entitled “200 years together”, but due to the iron grip of the Zionists on the Anglo media, it has still not been translated into English. That should already tell you something right there – an author acclaimed worldwide who got the Nobel Prize for literature cannot get his book translated into English because its contents might undermine the official narrative about Russian-Jewish relations in general and about the role Jews played in Russian 20th century politics in particular! What other proof of the reality of the subordination of the former British Empire to Zionists interest does one need?
I have already written about this topic in the past and, at the very least, I will ask you to read the following two background articles before continuing to read:
- AngloZionist: Short primer for the newcomers
- How a medieval concept of ethnicity makes NATO commit yet another a dangerous blunder
Before looking into some of the idiosyncrasies of the Russian-Israeli relationship I want to stress one very important thing: you should not simply assume that the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Russia is similar to what it is in the West. This is not the case. Without going through a detailed discussion of the emancipation of Jews in the West and their long track from their rabbi-run shtetls to the boardrooms of the biggest western corporations, I will just say that for Russian Jews this process of emancipation happened in a much more violent and catastrophic way. The second big difference between western Jews and Russian Jews is that roughly between 1917 and 1939 a specific subset of Jews (Bolshevik Jews) were in quasi total control of Russia. During that period the Bolshevik Jews persecuted Russians and, especially, Orthodox Christians with a truly genocidal hate. This is a fact of history which most Russians are very much aware of, even if this is still considered crimethink in most western circles. It is also important to stress here that the Bolshevik Jews persecuted not only Orthodox Christians, but all religious groups, including, by the way, Judaics. Putin is very much aware of all these facts which he addressed when speaking to a group of Judaics in Moscow:
In the 2nd article mentioned above I discussed these issues and all I want to do know is to show you that Putin is very much aware of this past and that he has the courage and intellectual honesty to remind Russian Jews of it.
The other absolutely crucial fact about the relationship between Russia and Israel is the immigration of Russian Jews to Israel. Here I will just submit to you a bullet-point list of why this is a crucial factor:
- Regardless of whether they ended up in Israel, Austria, Germany, the USA or Israel, the immigration of Russian Jews to Israel made it possible for those Jews who did not want to stay in Russia to leave. Conversely, those who did not leave stayed by choice. This means that the vast majority, if not all, of the rabid russophobes and Christianity-hating Jews have left Russia. Those who stayed in Russia did so because they decided that it was their home.
- A large number (some estimates go as high has 20%) of so-called “Jews” who left Russia are not Jewish at all, including some of those who settled in Israel. The truth is that the economic and social hardships which faced the Soviet society under Brezhnev & Co and Russia under Eltsin made a lot of non-Jewish Russian invent themselves some (non-existing) Jewish origins just to emigrate. Thus there are many real Russians, as opposed to Russian Jews, in Israel.
- As a result of this big immigration there are innumerable personal ties between individuals and families living in Israel and Russia. This means that when, say, Iraq or Hezbollah rain rockets in Israel there are folks in Russia who are personally concerned about their friends in Israel even if they don’t necessarily approve of Israeli politics.
- The so-called “Russian Mafia” is, in reality, mostly a Mafia of Russian Jews. This is particularly true in the West. In Russia there are Jewish mobsters, but not really a Jewish mob as such. Russian and Jewish mobsters get along famously and that also creates, shall we say, strong “business” ties between “Russian” oligarchs and Israel.
- Under Eltsin the country was de-facto ruled by what was called the semibankirshchina, the “rule of the Seven Bankers”. These were the seven top bankers of Russia who owned about 50% of the entire Russian economy. All of them except one (Potanin) were Jews.
- During the Eltisin years, the vast majority of the members of government and, especially, their advisors were Jews. Jews also were in control of almost all of the mainstream media. To give you an idea of how prevalent this trend was in the 1990s, here is a (machine translated) list of top-level Jews in Eltsin’s Russia I have found on the Internet: (source: https://goo.gl/jZlazH)
The lists of Jews in the Soviet government from 1917-1939 look exactly similar. You can find them on the Internet yourselves.
In truth, folks who compile such lists are rarely motivated by purely scientific purposes and they often don’t feel constrained by strict rules of evidence. So it is quite possible that a certain percentage of “Jews” listed above are not Jews at all. But even with a wide margin of error – you get the picture. Just as between 1917 and 1939, between 1991 and 1999 the reins of power in Russia were firmly in Jewish hands, and in both cases, with truly catastrophic consequences. The big difference is that if in the early 20th century the Jews in power were ideological opponents of the Anglo Empire, in the late 20th century the Jews in Russia were practically an extension of the AngloZionist Empire.
Speaking of extensions of the AngloZionist Empire.
I have already explained many times in the past that the candidature of Putin to succeed Eltsin was a compromise reached between the Russian security services and Russian “big money” who pushed Medvedev as a counter-weight to Putin. I usually refer to the forces backing Putin as “Eurasian Sovereignists” and the forces backing Medvedev as “Atlantic Integrationists”. The goal of the former is to fully sovereignize Russia and make her a key element in a multi-polar but unified Eurasian continent while the goal of the latter is to be accepted by the AngloZionist Empire as an equal partner and to integrate Russia into the western power structures. Next is something so important that I will single it out on a separate paragraph:
The Atlantic Integrationists are still in full control of the Russian financial and banking sector, of all the key economic ministries and government positions, they control the Russian Central Bank and they are, by far, the single biggest threat to the rule of Putin and those supporting him. Considering that roughly 90% of Russians now support Putin, that means that these Atlantic Integrationists are the single biggest threat to the Russian people and Russia as a whole.
How is that all linked to Israel? Simple!
Putin inherited a system created by and for the AngloZionist Empire. He was a compromise candidate between two radically opposed parties and it took him years to first get rid of most of the Russian (Jewish) oligarchs and then, very gradually, begin cleanup process in which slowly, step by step, the Zionists were booted out of their positions of power. According to Mikhail Khazin, the balance between these two groups has only recently reached a 50/50 point of (unstable) equilibrium. That also means that the “Putin people” need to watch their back every day the Good Lord makes because they know that their so-called “colleagues” are willing to stab them in a blink of an eye as soon as they get an opportunity.
I happen to think that the rumors of a coup in Russia are greatly exaggerated. Not only because Putin does enjoy the support of the “power ministries” (Defense, State Security, Internal Affairs, etc.) but, much more importantly, because of the 90% support he has with the Russian people. To overthrow a man with such a cult-like following, a man truly loved by the vast majority of people, would be too dangerous. But that does not mean that the 5th column is not willing to sabotage every effort of Putin and his supporters.
The truth is that Putin has been forced to compromise many, many times. Here are just a few examples:
The oligarchs: when Putin ridded Russia of the semibankirshchina he did not really crack down on all the oligarchs as such. He only got rid of those oligarchs who, like Khodorkovsky, had tried to basically stage a coup against Putin by buying the entire Duma. The oligarchs were told “stay out of politics and I will leave you alone”. The deal is still on today.
The economy: even in his last speech Putin had to declare that he fully supports the Central Bank and the economic Ministers of the Medvedev government. Considering that literally ALL Putin allies openly and vocally are screaming bloody murder about the way the Russian economy is mismanaged, this is clearly a coerced statement and not something he believes in. By the way, I am observing a systematic vilification campaign on the central Russian TV channels against the Central Bank and the economic Ministers and this cannot be a coincidence. I predict that Putin is preparing a purge of these circles, but that he needs to line up all his ducks in a row before taking action, especially by inflaming the public opinion against them. Right now the Russian economy is still run by IMF-stooges, by “Washington consensus” types, hence their crazy policy on interest rates, on buying US obligations, on keeping inflation low, etc. etc. etc. Putin, by conviction, is not what I would call a “socialist” but he is most definitely a proponent of “social markets” and somebody who is trying hard to decouple Russia from the western financial system, and not play by the rules of the Empire.
Foreign policy: right up until Putin’s latest re-election when finally Russia began to have a fairly consistent foreign policy, the policy of Russia has been one of zigs followed by zags. This was especially true during the times when Medvedev was in charge of the Presidency and when Iran and Libya were betrayed by Russia at the UNSC (something Putin openly called “stupid”).
Personalities: remember the hyper-corrupt Minister of Defense Serdiukov? Guess what? He has still not been formally charged with anything. Even the woman he did most of his dirty dealing with still lives in her luxurious apparent in Moscow. What does this tell us? That even when Putin got the hard proof of Serdiukov’s malfeasance he had enough power to replace him by Shoigu, but not enough to power to stick such high-profile “Atlantic Integrationists” into jail.
Nazi occupied Ukraine: Putin had enough control over the government to provide the vital Voentorg and to even send some special forces and artillery strikes across the border to help the Novorussians, but he could not force the economic Ministries to use the Russian economic might to strangle the Ukrainian economy. This resulted in Russia sending artillery shells across the border in Saur Mogila and (basically free) energy across the border to Kiev.
Russophobic propaganda: when recently some third-rate sport journalist, Alexei Andronov, posted a viciously anti-Russian comment in Twitter he was criticized for that by Alexei Pushkov, a journalist who is also the head of the foreign-affairs committee in the State Duma on his own TV show “Postscriptum”. The TV channel which airs the show, TV Tsentr, the censored the segment criticizing Andronov. Then, the famous Russian movie director Nikita Mikhailkov recoded an entire show discussing this event, the TV channel running his show, TV Rossia, also censored the entire episode. As for the director of the TV channel where Andronov works, Tina Kandelaki, she gave Andronov her full support. Bottom line: while Putin did immensely improve the overall quality of the Russian media, the russophobes are still very influential and can spew their hateful venom in total impunity.
I could continue to list example after example, but I think you get the idea: Putin is a very good man in charge of a very bad system.
Now let’s really get back to Syria, Hezbollah and the murder of Samir Kuntar.
First, consider that the decision to militarily intervene in the Syrian war was already a controversial one. Putin pulled this one off by doing two things: explaining to the Russian people that it was better to deal with the terrorists “there” (in Syria) rather than “here” (in Russia) and by promising that he would not send in ground forces. When Daesh and the Turks fulfilled the promise made by Obama and Biden and blew a Russian airliner and, later, a SU-24 bomber out of the sky, the Russian public continued to support Putin, but most Russians, including myself, were acutely aware of the dangers of the situation. At the end of the day, it is Putin’s personal “street cred” which allowed him to stay the course in spite of real fears.
Second, it is clear that Putin and Netanyahu struck a deal when the latter traveled to Moscow: the Israelis don’t interfere in Russian operations in support of the Syrians as long as the Russians don’t interfere in the combat operations between Israel and Hezbollah. This made it possible for both sides to pursue their main interest even if it was at the cost of their secondary objectives. You don’t like that deal and you question its morality? Good! So do I. I am, in fact, intensely uncomfortable with it, but I expect no less from ruthless realpolitik practitioners like Putin and Bibi Netanyahu (good thing you and I are not in power!).
There is, by the way, another precedent which I am just as uncomfortable with: the Russian total backing for the Egyptian military’s bloody repression against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I accept the argument that to support the Egyptian military made sense in the context of the war in Syria, but the ethnics of supporting such a regime intensely bother me. This is why Putin is a ruthless but successful politician and I am a little quasi-irrelevant blogger: it takes a ruthless bear to fight ruthless wolves.
This being said, let’s not pretend like Hezbollah is any less cynical when needed. I remind you all that when Imad Mugniyeh was murdered in Damascus by the very same Israelis in an operation which could only have been executed with very high level accomplices in the Assad regime, Hezbollah promised “retaliation” but never peeped a single word against the regime. Neither did Hezbollah have any objections when Assad was torturing Muslims on behalf of the US CIA for the infamous “rendition” program.
As for Putin, he simply has other priorities than to protect Hezbollah or fight Israel:
Surviving inside Russia and not being overthrown by the still very powerful Zionist Power Configuration (to use James Petras’ expression) in Russia being a top one. Another priority would be not to give his (internal and external) enemies the political argument that “Russia is attacking Israel”. Not having a shooting match with Israel and not to have the small and isolated Russian contingent have to fight on two fronts would be crucial too. Ditto not to be accused of having the Russians contingent turned into the de-facto “Hezbollah Air Force” like the US is the “Daesh Air Force”. These are all obvious priorities for Putin.
And then this: while the Russian S-400s can easily shoot down any Israeli aircraft, the Russian AirSpace contingent does not have the materials means to fight Israel or, even less so, NATO and CENTCOM. As for Russia, she most definitely cannot pick a fight with Israel not due to the inherent power of this tiny Zionist Entity, but due to the fact that the US Empire has been thoroughly taken under Zionist control. So those Americans who now complain that Putin “does not have the courage” to take on Israel should first ask themselves how it is that Israel seems to have transformed the USA and Europe in a voiceless Zionist protectorate and what they are doing to liberate themselves from that yoke!
Speaking of the West: one ought to compare the position of the AngloZionist Empire one one hand, and of many influential Russian Jews (in Russia and in Israel) about the war in the Ukraine. While the West has been in total support of the Nazi regime in Kiev, many Russian Jews, especially the very famous ones like Vladimir Soloviev, have taken a categorically anti-Nazi position. And while in Israel the popularity of Putin and Russia is still extremely low, most of the anti-Putin opposition in Russia is not formed of Jews. Finally, the Russian general public is, sadly, extremely poorly informed of the horrors perpetrated by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people while Israelis and dual-nationals (like Evgenii Satanovskii or Avigdor Eskin) are constantly peddling the notion that “we Russians and Israelis are the only ones standing up to Muslim terrorism” thereby capitalizing to the max by the current war between Russia and Daesh. In other words, Putin would have one hell of a tough time selling the shooting down of an Israeli aircraft to the Russian general public.
I understand that none of the above will have any traction with bona fide Jew-haters or with those who like simple, black and white, arguments. For them Putin will forever remain a sellout, an eternal shabbos-goy or a puppet of the international financiers. Frankly, I am not addressing this to them. But there are those who are sincerely bewildered and confused about Russian policies which do appear to be confusing or even contradictory. To them I will conclude by saying this:
Putin advances his cause one step a a time and he knows how to wait and let events take on their own dynamic. He is also acutely aware that he is literally fighting with one hand tied behind his back and the other one busy defending against external and internal enemies (the latter being far more dangerous) at the same time. I am sure that Putin fully realizes that,at least potentially, his policy of resistance, sovereignization and liberation can lead to an intercontinental nuclear war and that Russia is currently still weaker than the AngloZionist Empire. Just as in the times of Stolypin, Russia desperately needs a few more years of peace to develop herself and fully stand up. This is most definitely not the time for a frontal confrontation with the Empire. Russia vitally needs *peace* and *time*: peace in the Ukraine, peace in Europe and, yes, peace in the Middle-East. Alas, the latter is not an option and, when cornered, Putin did take the decision to go to war. And I am absolutely and categorically certain that if the Empire attacks Russia (from Turkey or elsewhere), Russia will fight back. Russia is willing to go to war if needed, but she will do her utmost to avoid it. This is the price Russia pays for being the weaker side. The good news is that Russia is getting stronger with every passing day, while the Empire is getting weaker. And the power of the AngloZionists and their 5th column in Russia is also weakening with every passing day. But this process will take time.
The big event to watch for is a crackdown on the Central Bank and the economy ministries of the government. Everybody in Russia is waiting for this, Putin even got directly asked this question recently, but he is sill denying it all and saying that he fully supports these saboteurs. Considering Putin’s track, it is plain stupid to say that he really supports them – this is clearly a delaying tactic until the time is right.
Make no mistake. There is no big love between Russia and Israel. But neither is there a lot of hostility, at least not on the Russian side. Most Russian are aware of the ugly role Jews played already twice in Russian history, but this does not translate into the kind of hostility towards Jews which you would see, for example, in the Ukraine. At most Russians can be suspicious of Jewish *power* but rarely does this translate into hostility for Jews as regular people. Some of the most adored Russian public figures, like the bard Vladimir Vysotskii, had Jewish blood. Most Russians also make a distinction between “their” Jews (russophobic Jews in the West) and “our” Jews (Russian Jews who love Russia). But since russophobia has also been widespread amongst Russian elites, before and after the Revolution, it can hardly be described as a Jewish phenomenon. The Russian culture having always been multi-national and multi-ethnic does not really separate people by their ethnicity but judges them much more readily by their actions and ideas. For all these reasons, the hatred of the “Yid” is much more a Ukrainian nationalist phenomenon than a Russian one.
And while most Russians would not want to have a return to power of a new version of the Bolshevik commissars or the “democratic” oligarchs inside Russia, there is a closeness and an anti-Nazi solidarity between Russians and Israelis which should not be dismissed.
Concerning Palestine, Russia will support all the relevant UN Resolutions and thus be the typical and rather unimaginative “two state solution” proponent. At most, Russia will “deplore” or “regret” the abuses of Palestinians by Israelis, but Russia will never become a systematic defender of Palestinian rights like Iran or Hezbollah simply because the future of Palestine is not a Russian priority.
I hope that the above is helpful in understanding why Russia does not take any action to protect Hezbollah against the Israelis (and why she will not prevent Hezbollah from retaliating from Syria, should Hezbollah take that decision). Simply put: there is no compelling internal or external reason for Russia to get directly involved in this while there are plenty of compelling internal and external reasons for Russia to stay out. If in the past the USSR supported the PLO on both ideological and geostrategic reasons, modern Russia today will not follow the same paradigm. Besides, it’s not like Fatah or Hamas are attractive, or even credible, partners for Russia, being in bed as they are with Daesh. Ditto for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
As for Hezbollah, it is not like they need Russia’s protection. Symbolic as they may be, the murders of Imad Mugniyeh or Samir Kuntar will in no way weaken the Resistance. In fact, if the history of the murder of Abbas al-Musawi teaches us anything, it is that sometimes Israelis murder a Hezbollah leader only to find out that the next one is even a more formidable adversary. God willing, this will also be the case this time.
The Saker
Putin is NOT the savior of the world. You all are falling for the East vs. West dialogue like it is manna from heaven. ALL OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD ARE CORPORATIONS AND THEY ARE ALL PLAYING THE GAME OF GOOD COP / BAD COP. At the end of the day there is no difference between any of them. The globalist plan is to bring America to her knees. She will be intentionally reduced to the equivalent of a third world country. And, you will only have yourselves to blame, because there is NO ONE coming on a white horse to save the day. That was your job as an American and you blew it.
“And, you will only have yourselves to blame, because there is NO ONE coming on a white horse to save the day. That was your job as an American and you blew it.”
I am sorry, but you are so full of it. Tell that to the millions of killed and dispossessed people around the world by the ‘white horse America’. Maybe you can unite them in saving this noble ‘white horse’ because (supposedly) an alternative would be worse? I think not. Pathetic.
“Tell that to the millions of killed and dispossessed people”
Since at least some of them are dead, do you suppose that they will hear?
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Russia is just a vagabond homeless guy carrying a big stick… and a bunch of rotting carrots..
One analyst’s reflection on the common analytical sins and questionable assumptions that bedevil the field of Russia analysis.
Experts and policymakers who deal with Russia are living in a high-tempo environment, keeping pace with military interventions, crises, and the frequent twists in bilateral relations. However, in any such endeavor, it is possible to learn lessons that are not true. This is my own attempt at presenting a list of questionable bits of analysis and assumptions that exist within the community. In doing so, I hope to push people to critically examine how they look at Russia. Why do we say some of these things, and more importantly why do we think them?
1. The Russian Government is Brittle. Or is it?
Presenting Vladimir Putin’s regime as brittle is often analytical shorthand for arguing that his regime is dangerous in the near term, but equally likely to implode in short order, with Russia descending into turmoil and instability.
2. The United States has a Putin Problem, not a Russia Problem. Or Does it?
The individuals in power matter, and another Russian leader may not have chosen to annex Crimea or invade Ukraine in response to the Maidan’s victory.
3. Moscow Cannot Keep This Up. Or Can it?
Current discourse on Russia’s economic frailty folds into the broader discussion on whether or not Moscow can sustain the current state of confrontation. In other words, how long can Moscow keep this up? The underlying question is whether Russia will cease being a problem in the near- to mid-term by succumbing to its economic woes.
4. Russia Cannot Sustain Military Operations. Or Can it?
Following closely the discussion of economic weakness is a general sentiment that Russia is unable to sustain military operations due to financial or force constraints. Going back to early 2015, the notion that Russia’s armed forces are tied down or “stuck” in Ukraine seems to have dissipated.
5. Russia is Still a Power in Decline. Or is it?
I fundamentally believe that Russia is a power in structural decline.
Despite several years of economic growth and a new dynamic leader, Russia remains a power in decline. Neither its recent economic success nor its vigorous leadership is sufficient to make up for the long-term losses the country has suffered or to compensate for the contemporary shortcomings that belie key elements of Russian power.
The Washington Quarterly published in late 2003.
6. Demography Will Determine Russia’s Fate. Or Will it?
Russia’s demographic problems are commonly referenced as one of the drivers of its supposedly assured structural decline. Analysts often mention demography to either blithely support the notion that Russia will simply cease to be a problem for the West in the long term, or worriedly speculate that the country will become dangerously unstable.
7. For Putin, It’s All About Regime Survival. Or is it?
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, invasion of Ukraine, and launch of operations in Syria are sometimes explained as the throes of a falling political system engaged in a “survival project.”
Here I believe the starting point should always be Bismarck’s observation that “Russia is never as strong as she looks nor as weak as she looks.” When it comes to decision-making analysis, Putin is regularly cast in stark terms as either a brilliant strategist, outfoxing the West at every turn, or completely incompetent without any notion of what he will do next.
http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-russia-analysis/
Solzhenitsyn’s book is available in French.
Some of the points in this analysis seem a bit off.
First, Putin really got played for a fool by Netanyahu if a “deal” was struck along the lines suggested above. Syria is a sovereign nation with a right of self defense. Russia, as Syria’s invited ally, has every right to conduct military operations against the terrorist scum. They don’t need Bibi’s blessing. In exchange for this unnecessary “blessing” Putin gives Netanyahu the “right” (or at least turns a blind eye) to attack in a allied sovereign state. Go to your Syrian friends house — I will give you this right — in exchange I want the right to throw rocks threw his window. Seems silly when you put it that way.
By what authority does Putin authorize Israeli strikes in Syria? Is this consistent with international law and the multi-polar world Russia claims to stand for? Can just any country authorize these strikes, or just the “big boys” like Russia and America? Does Russia want to stand for a world order different then today’s, or do they just want to be able (and recognized as such) to violate international law and confer that authority on others?
Lastly (on this point) Russia is giving up something they could actually do, stopping Israeli attacks, and Israel won’t interfere with Russian strikes (on ISIS etc.) that they can’t interfere with to begin with? Would Bibi really shoot down Russian planes bombing terrorists?
Second, while it is true that Putin has priorities other then fighting Israel, Israel probably doesn’t want to fight Russia. If the Russians “painted” the Jewish state’s planes, or at least warned the targets on the ground that they got some incoming ordinance, would Israel then try to shoot down (or otherwise interfere with) Russian planes? That seems pretty unlikely. In so far as Hezbollah is concerned, maybe next time Russian pilots don’t get rescued, Hezbollah has other priorities.
Third, Putin’s purported fear that the RuAF could be considered “Hezbollah’s air force” just like NATO was ISIS’s air force seems misplaced and downright insulting. Daesh, in Libya and now Syria, is waging an aggressive war of sectarian and social annihilation and can in no way be compared to the defensive actions taken by Hezbollah. We all know what the fall of Assad would mean to Syria and then Lebanon.
Sorry for putting a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, but those are three discordant notes in an otherwise harmonious and enlightening article.
Hopefully Putin is not being played for a fool and the prize he seeks is not some unneeded Israeli acquiescence to the legal actions by Russia, but instead part of an attempt to get the Jewish state to “flip the script” on Syria. Maybe Israel starts to tell their American sayanim that ISIS/Daesh are a larger threat to the Jewish state then Assad. For this to work it is important for there to be no hostilities between the two states (Russia/Israel) that are apparent to the Americans, otherwise the Christian Zionists could go off reservation. Israel, of course, will do what they think is in their best interests. If they believe it is in their best interests to lay off Assad they will — even if the Russian have shot down a dozen of their planes. If the Jewish state’s planes are shot down you can bet the sayanim will be barking at the bear in the tree. Once they (sayanim) get “locked on” it may be difficult for the Israelis to call them off, and if they can call them off, the short and sharp switch may expose their power to the light. That is an alternative take on Putin’s failure to protect his friends — in the long run they may be better off.
Question for you bottom of the thread readers — do you think the recent Israeli admission that they are treating wounded terrorists was forced by attempted blackmail by Russia? If you are blackmailed you pay, you let the blackmailer expose you, or you expose yourself. Did Israel take option three? Anyway don’t put it past Israel to make like the Italians in WW 2 and switch to the winning side.
Blessed Christmas everybody!
The international study of prostitution on crack whores… by the institute of war.. created some mumbling and gibberish on Russia.. Which supposedly imperial head honchos looking for pimps pay a lot of money in endowments…
Here is their unbiased opinion or maybe musings and dreams and drunken stupors put into words of great importance supposedly to some unimportant imperial minions..
Russia Security Update: December 15-22, 2015
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Russia%20Security%20Update%2022%20DEC_0.pdf
http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-security-update-december-15-22-2015?utm_source=Russia+Security+Update:+December+15-22,+2015&utm_campaign=Russia+Security+Update:+December+15-22,+2015&utm_medium=email
Remember to support their habit and donate a few kopecks to buy some Chablis’s to keep them warm in their castles…
Thank you for widening our understanding of Russian internal dynamics, it is easy to think of Putin as a totalitarian leader but like all leaders he is constrained so although I would like nothing more than for him to call a spade a spade he is acting as wisely and as smart as can be.
It is also inspiring that groups like HizbAllah in Lebanon or AnsarAllah in Yemen realize that though they share much with Russia and its leader they can only depend on themselves as there are no invincible superheroes in the real world.
My best to all the free peoples of Russia and Putin!
My Brother
First article I have ever read from you under Pepe Escoba recommendation and has an absolute beautiful analysis inside.
May God Bless you and all other TRUE people in the world
Love from Muslim Albanian British Human being Scouse lad
Can anybody enlighten us on the technical side of the Kuntar murder?
If the plane released its payload from Jordanian airspace, could the Russian air defence in Syria still
radar paint the planes or give warning or destroy the missiles? What if the missiles were stealth?
Dear Saker,
I wish to thank you for another excellent article. I’ve been following you for about a year and, for me, this is probably your best to-date.
There is one passage near the end that kind of hits home for me and, I’m certain, many others:
“… those Americans who now complain that Putin “does not have the courage” to take on Israel should first ask themselves how it is that Israel seems to have transformed the USA and Europe in a voiceless Zionist protectorate and what they are doing to liberate themselves from that yoke!”
We who would enjoy freedom must take it for ourselves and stop all the hero worship. The hero is probably too busy fighting his own battles to be worried about our little problems!
Al Jazeera has an article claiming that Kantar (a Druze) was working to foment an uprising among the Druzes in the occupied Golan. This should be Assad’s revenge for Israel supporting the Syrian uprising.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/real-story-killing-samir-kantar-151222062315355.html
Absolutely bull****…
Kantar was a political figure because of his popularity, he was not a military commander.. He was trying to organize a safe zone for the druze on both sides of the border.. Israel also according to an annonomous western expert put out this crappola.. No one cares about israel now.. Not US, Not Russia, Not Lebanon and Not Syria… and least of all, not Hezbollah.. They all have bigger fish to fry.. Israel wants to mow the lawn again.. Does not matter whos lawn or where.. as long as they can create a ruckus and in the background kill a few more Palestinians.. Actually no once cares about the Palestinians any more either.. The Syrians dont and neither does Hezbollah or Iran..
Add this to Saker’s outstanding analysis. The combination of these helps those of us trying to understand what (and why) is really happening in the world. I’m not good with links so here it is.
“http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html”
very useful and clear. I just have a couple of points that bother me and it’s the second time I read them in your blogs. It’s about the paragraph where you say:
“This being said, let’s not pretend like Hezbollah is any less cynical when needed. I remind you all that when Imad Mugniyeh was murdered in Damascus by the very same Israelis in an operation which could only have been executed with very high level accomplices in the Assad regime, Hezbollah promised “retaliation” but never peeped a single word against the regime. Neither did Hezbollah have any objections when Assad was torturing Muslims on behalf of the US CIA for the infamous “rendition” program.”
– what evidence do you have that accomplices of the Syrian state (please don’t use the word “regime” like the anglo-zionist propaganda does) were involved?
– what evidence do you have that the Syrian authorities were really involved in the rendition programme? this sounds to me like a propaganda hoax.
I’d love to see these evidences or a reference I could consult.
One last point is missing in this nice account: the weird vote of Russia at the UN approving the anglo-zionist intervention in Yemen (by way of their local puppets, the Saudis).
Damascus did not send a representitive to Imad Mugniyeh’s funeral. The message was clear, as acknowleged by Hezbollah at the time.
This does not consitute ‘proof’ of Assad’s participation but it does indicate ‘satisfaction’ with the result.
Thanks for the effort – much appreciated. I read this and the back links the otherday and hoped someone would comment on ‘Yeltsin being Jewish’… So I have to ask…really?
And for all those – well some anyway – who think Putin/Russia has made a choice of Shia over Sunni I think you will be wrong, wrong wrong. Thats not how it works.
( Did you write reports on Bosnia way back then?)
hoped someone would comment on ‘Yeltsin being Jewish’… So I have to ask…really?
No, I have never seen any indication that Eltsin was Jewish. He was, alas, 100% Russian, at least as far as I know.
As for Lenin, he only had 1/4 Jewish blood, just as much as Russian (also 1/4).
Let’s not get fixated on this or that guys origins, what matters are the general trends.
cheers!
I am not prone to wild, reckless, speculation. However, with regards to Samir Quntar’s brutal assassination, I had an epiphany of sorts. Since there are some good minds lurking about (both good and bad). Here, is something to ponder. Quntar’s jailing exposed him to Israeli control freaks. I am talking about Quntar’s being “chipped”. Perhaps not in the conventional manner but through other means. Specifically, through exposure to either nano particles in his food and drink or a radioactive type of substance in his food and drink. With this “chipping” he was tracked constantly. Upon release from Israeli prison, Quntar was monitored by some method which allowed for is eventual killing. Take this or leave it. I find this possibility extremely plausible.My suggestion to anyone dealing with released Palestinian or resistance folk, have them medically examined blood tests etc.., for unusual substances in the body. Apologies to the Saker if I went off tangentially.
You might be wrong on that. But still I have heard of the possibility of something like that. And if anyone would be vile enough for it. That would be the Israelis for certain. So better safe than sorry.
Thank you for a very interesting article. However, as an Egyptian who has directly experienced the events of the past five years, I strenuously object to your extremely inaccurate characterization of the current Egyptian government, and to your implication that the Muslim Brotherhood are victims of oppression.
You clearly have no idea how frightening and painful it was for Egyptians to live under the Muslim Brotherhood’s thuggish rule for nearly a year and a half, nor of the MB’s history as a tool of the Anglo-Zionist empire since it was formed by the British colonial authorities in 1928. Nor do you seem to have any knowledge of the overwhelming support the current Egyptian president enjoys among most Egyptians.
It seems most of your information about Egypt is coming from Soros- or CIA-funded organizations, Zionist media and the Muslim Brotherhood’s own propagandists. Glib, false characterizations such as the one you included in your article diminish your credibility, and call into question the other statements in your article. I understand that we Egyptians have largely failed to counter the message so professionally and loudly disseminated by our enemies. But that doesn’t make the truth less true, nor does it change the fact that a tiny gang and its foreign patrons nearly succeeded in enslaving and eventually destroying forever a nation of 90 million people.
Thank God, we were able to rise up and overthrow them, but not without a great loss of life and enormous destruction, including among other things the burning of many government buildings, the smashing and looting of museums, the burning of university departments, electricity towers around the country and around 80 churches (some of them dating back to the dawn of Christianity), as well as the lynching and mutilation of innocent people. If it weren’t for our army, we would have been powerless to defend ourselves against the armed terrorist gangs that were unleashed against us.
Instead, just over two years later, we have an elected and enormously popular president who has accomplished more on behalf of Egypt’s people economically and politically, than has been done in the past 40 years. I’d be delighted to discuss this in more detail, and to demonstrate how truly revolutionary these changes have been, if you’re interested. The vast majority of Egyptians are very, very proud of their president and for the first time in decades are truly optimistic about the future of their country. At the same time, they fear that the Anglo-Zionist empire has not abandoned its goal to fragment and destroy Egypt, simply because the instruments of this destruction, the Muslim Brotherhood, failed the first time. Their propaganda is still being pushed, full steam ahead. They are being portrayed as victims, and their many horrific crimes are being suppressed in the media. Their bold and open rigging of the presidential elections that brought their stooge, Morsi, to power, is being written out of the history, as is the expressed will of tens of millions of Egyptians who rose up to take their country back, and he is described as “democratically-elected”.
I truly respect you, and find your writings very informative and valuable. That’s why I’ve written this very long response, in the hope that you will dig deeper and be willing to consider that the relationship between Russia and Egypt is based on genuine mutual respect between our two leaders, and also on the fact that both are trying to save their countries from the same fate, planned by the same enemies.
ou clearly have no idea how frightening and painful it was for Egyptians to live under the Muslim Brotherhood’s thuggish rule for nearly a year and a half
No I do not. But here is my problem: the MB came to power backed by a majority of Egyptians, did they not? So the coup against them was the action the military saving the minority from the oppression of the majority. Furthermore, the kind of methods used to put down the MB do bother me. But please do not misunderstand my difficulties in supporting the military rule with ANY kind of support for the MB. I do not support them in the least.
My 2cts
To answer your question: no the MB came to power by using every way possible to rig elections, including terrorizing Christians at gun-point to prevent them from voting. It was an orgy of in-your-face, flagrant cheating, which they got away with by threatening “rivers of blood” if Morsi was not made president, and because they knew they had the full backing of the Zio-American empire.
Second, there was no “coup”; 33 million Egyptians took to the streets to demand their country back. One of Morsi’s first acts as “president” was to flood the country with terrorists and weapons. These armed terrorists and criminals had taken over entire regions of the country, including northern Sinai, parts of the Delta and even suburbs of Cairo and Alexandria. If the army hadn’t stepped in on the side of the Egyptian people, Egypt would have collapsed into a bloodbath to eclipse the horrors in Syria.
Third, we do not have “military rule”. That’s why our president had to resign from the army and take off his uniform when he announced his candidacy. We have a civilian government, a civilian constitution, civilian laws and courts and judges that are totally independent and constitute the highest legal authority in the land.
Finally, ours is a “people’s army”, comprised of conscripts from every Egyptian home, who fulfill their national duty to defend their country. Our armed forces don’t constitute a “junta”, but are us.
Like Putin in Russia, our president has thwarted the Zio-American empire’s longstanding plans to fragment not only Egypt, but every Arab state. This is why he, like Putin, are targeted for destruction by all the Zio-American empire’s resources, from proxy terrorists to economic warfare to media defamation. Our enemies want us to be led by individuals like Mubarak, who rely on US support, rather than the support of the Egyptian people. Sisi is the opposite, a president who truly represents the will of the people, and who strives to keep them on board. In other words, he is very powerful only because the people are behind him. Without them, he is helpless, something he readily acknowledges.
Complicated relationship or not, can we just drop the proverbial horse manure and just admit that Israel attack on Hezbollah within Syria doesn’t look good for Russia, nor Putin in particular? Maybe he had his “complicated” reasons to allow it to happen or not, who cares?!
Basic, simple truth is that it – does – not – look – good.
Another thing that looks even less good than that, is an article that someone dropped in here a few threads ago…
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The man who married Putin’s daughter and then made a fortune
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/The-man-who-married-Putins-daughter-and-then-made-a-fortune/articleshow/50231755.cms
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I’ve read it and even if a fraction of what that article claims is true, it can do no favors to Putin’s image.
I mean… the company he keeps is questionable to say the least. Never a milkman, a primary teacher, a nurse, a plumber, a bus driver, a miner… they’re all bankters, heads of business, CEOs, give me a break!
Not to mention the heads of state (or ex-heads of state) he befriends; Burlusconi, Sarkozy, Merkel, the Bushes, Kissinger, might as well become BFFs with the Italian mob and call it day, already!
And I’m not saying he’s not allowed to socialize with important figures or wealthy people, but does it have to be every single last one of them?
Surround yourself with only ‘them,’ and you’ll begin to think like ‘them,’ their concerns will become your concerns and you’ll be more and more detached from the interests of ordinary people, which just happens to be, like, 99.9% of the people on this planet.
So, no biggie, uh!?
Then there’s this article…
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Putin Blues
“[..] These are protests from the pro-Putin crowd, from people who supported his takeover of Crimea and his entry into Syrian war. They could bear some deprivation, but they are upset by Putin’s condoning thieves, by his apparent cronyism, by his oligarch friends. Until now, the critics avoided attacking Putin, but these are the early swallows. Dr Stepan Sulakshin, the head of a Moscow think tank, publicly accused Putin of knowingly leading Russia into further degradation.
This bubbling dissatisfaction of Putin’s supporters may yet turn more dangerous for the president than the 2011 Fronde of his hipster enemies. Meanwhile, head-strong Mr Putin does not wish to yield ground, sacrifice some of more hated ministers and CEOs, or attune internal policies to public expectations. Perhaps he is right, and things are not what they appear, but justice must be seen, not only done.”
http://www.unz.com/ishamir/putin-blues/
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Maybe the author of the above article, Mr. Israel [talk about unfortunate names, uh?!] Shamir is a 5th column Putin disser, maybe ALL Putin critics are unpatriotic Russians or crypto Russophobes… who knows!?
Despite all the signs warning me to do otherwise, I will continue to support Putin (and more importantly: Russia and her people) mainly because is the best thing we’ve got to fight against this evil that is threatening to envelop the whole world, but not because they’re “without sin” nor beyond criticism.
I had a dream months ago (and yeah, I know a dream is a dream! But hear me out) where Putin opened his crisp white tailored shirt and had a huge chunk missing on the left side of his torso, big enough to slide your hand in between the heavy scar tissue (as I did in my dream). It baffled me for weeks… but now I’m starting to interpret it as if the guy has been compromised.
By who? How? When? Via what? Don’t ask me, because I don’t know. All I know is that this ominous feeling is not going away despite my best efforts to dismiss the whole thing as a silly dream and nothing else.
-TL2Q
You said: ” I will continue to support Putin (and more importantly: Russia and her people) mainly because is the best thing we’ve got to fight against this evil that is threatening to envelop the whole world, but not because they’re “without sin” nor beyond criticism. ”
I want to modify by replacing ” I ” with ” We “.
Truly, The dark evil forces of AngloZionist plutocrats can be only defeated with Russia as central force of the resistance ! Having said that, I find, President Putin and his team has been fighting to establish Russian sovereignty WITHOUT a solid socio-economic IDEOLOGICAL base for their political party – UNLESS and UNTILL their party has a sound ideological base, Putin will be drifting aimlessly with more mistakes and compromises which you mentioned …
@Mr. Israel [talk about unfortunate names, uh?!]
Talking about unfortunate names:
“In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שמיר) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the First Temple in Jerusalem in the place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed.
It is actually a very appropriate name. What he does is a typical case of black propaganda (“Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy”).
He is not to be trusted!
thank you. you have answered the issues surrounding the Rothschild Central bank in Rissia and why Putin allows this to remain. you have also answered the issues surrounding Israel and Palestine.
Israel will go up in smoke eventually, more and more people are awakening to the Zionist World Order, the more light that is shone on the Zionists the more people will awaken to these treacherous demonic individuals.
Ukraine’s Looming “19 Fukushimas” Scenario
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 – 18:50
With all the action in Syria, the Ukraine is no longer a subject for discussion in the West. In Russia, where the Ukraine is still a major problem looming on the horizon, and where some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees are settling in, with no intentions of going back to what’s left of the Ukraine, it is still actively discussed. But for the US, and for the EU, it is now yet another major foreign policy embarrassment, and the less said about it the better. In the meantime, the Ukraine is in full-blown collapse – all five glorious stages of it – setting the stage for a Ukrainian Nightmare Before Christmas, or shortly after.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-24/ukraines-looming-19-fukushimas-scenario
Christmas eve here reminds me that Jesus was a Jew. Therefore he hated the Empire of his time.
The gospels paint him as a Greco-Roman as much as they could. The name Jesus in Greek, e a zeus, is Greek gematria resulting in 888.
The real Jesus is a composite figure of Jewish fighters against empire and an empire defender who betrayed his own country (which would have got him killed by his own if it were not literary).
Christ-ianity is a Roman creation to co-opt Jewish zealots who had to be destroyed twice at great cost to Rome. Psyops at its best.
Like everyone else, I read into Jesus what I want to see. I call him She’sus because he had a woman anima-soul bigger than all empires combined. And you think Putin is a puzzle.
I want to use what’s left of this thread to wish all of us a true Christ-Mass. I’ll do the same in a couple weeks at the Orthodox Christmas. Julius and Gregory differed on dates.
The Pope will be soon giving his “urbis et orbis” address. I’m sending “spooky actions at a distance” thoughts to Francis about apologizing to the Orthodox to try and hug and make up. Apologies won’t do but miracles do happen in the quantum-Jesus world.
The birth of a savior is a universal archetype and a crying need. We’re lucky here in the vineyard; we can have two Christmases. We’re in such a mess it’ll take two saviors, two sexes and two calendars to do the job.
Anything is possible with love. The impossible just takes a little longer. Jesus has grown up in two thousand years and learned much along the way. He’s a real man with a womam within called S/he’sus, a new name to fit the greater game of a different age.
I love you all: red and blue, Gentile and Jew, old and new, tried and true.
Couldn’t have you spare us the Zealot BS?
You might find
http://www.faithfuleye.com/simp/files/pdf/Karen.Armstrong.-.A.History.Of.God.%28Religion.-.Theology.-.Judaism.-.Chritianity.-.Islam%29.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/History-God-000-Year-Judaism-Christianity/dp/0345384563/ref=sr_1_1/178-5851895-4329057?ie=UTF8&qid=1451180212&sr=8-1&keywords=armstrong+history+god
interesting
Looking for Armstrong, I also came across the following fascinating 3-hour documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNtF1-Y-JJM
History Of Christianity – How Christianity Was Invented
Take it as you will, but it has a lot of material in it one can start from.
Here’s a very good video from Armstrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEoAdopw_-A
The Case for God: Karen Armstrong at St Paul’s Cathedral
Published on Oct 19, 2012
Karen Armstrong, acclaimed author and religious scholar, speaks at St Paul’s Cathedral on the topic of her book The Case for God as part of the St Paul’s Forum autumn series of events.
About an hour and a half.
That last video link ‘how Christianity was invented’ seems to be a ‘part one’ repeated so that the video is twice as long as should be — but I haven’t found a part 2.
close but not very. His name is Ye-Sha, forget any other version. and His name translates into “i am the one who is” or “i am the one who is walking”. His Father is Yah-Veh, which translates into “i who am (not) (and) want”. and i don’t think you need to consider any other version. better think about it, for a time. you may find it satisfactory, even for… you :)
888 is a Beast. one of the Beasts. if Christ took for a while the name of That Beast, with that He most probable said “i am not bringing you peace, but destruction” (which you may as well find somewhere in The Good Book, don’t ask me where, am not that good). the same with this. i don’t think you need this to mean something else. the more you’ll think about it, the more likely is that you’ll find it satisfactory, even for… you :)
on Christ i can recomend a good nice divertisment, “Master i Margarita” – the series (10 parts), after the book with the same name by Bulgakov. it is a divertisment, don’t take it too seriously!
Worth a read (well researched, not crazy, and fairly fair all, from least to most dense/scholarly):
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
http://www.culturewars.com/2003/RevolutionaryJew.html
And
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_mafia.shtml
I’ve meant to recommend ‘softpanorama’ to Martin in S.E.B. a few times – seems like the perfect site for him both professionally and politically.
Very good site.
What a fantastic essay and wonderful explanation.
Thank you so much Saker. Thank you! I am really grateful to you for enlightening us all about this and I intend to post it far and wide for some time to come so that many people can understand not only Putin and what he is doing, but also that we can realise that it just is necessary to be ruthless sometimes.
Just need to say – I object to anyone using the term “Nazi”. It is so obviously an ugly way of vilifying the Germans. National Socialism was never called “Nazi” by the Germans – only by the Zionist Anglo Empire. I just hate people being manipulated so by such false words.
“Besides, it’s not like Fatah or Hamas are attractive, or even credible, partners for Russia, being in bed as they are with Daesh. Ditto for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.”
Good analysis till that ^ very careless mistake.
Fact is nobody’s in bed with DAESH as much as Israel, because BOTH’S primary victims are Muslims. That’s why DAESH never, ever target Israel, only Muslims.
Putin’s given Israel the green card to overfly and bomb Syria.
Where will this end?
Excellent informative article, about Russian internal politics.
The Jewish dominated central bank/private banks (charging unneccessary high discount rate= counter production) is the Medvedev sector. That certainly needs reforming: a public bank issuing money interest-free.
Like Amschel Rothschild said: “Give me control of a nation’s money
and I care not who makes the laws.”
OMG removed. No being rude/attacking/unnecessary.ModTR! There is no “Anglo-Zionist Empire” – there is still and only one, Anglo Empire, today with new clothes, and some lipstick on this pig. Zionism is and always has been a Tool of that Empire – and never the other way around – used as a foil, and patsy in exactly (not “quasi totally”, but EXACTLY) the same manner as Al Quaeda:
1) Created by the Anglos
2) Perpetuated by the Anglos
3) Sheep-Dipped in some ginned-up religious rationale, unrelated to Anglo culture (except for the Megalomania).
4) Used as Pretext to destabilize the Middle East (on the way to Africa, Russia and China)
5) Blamed for creating “problems” whose “solutions” are exactly the assaults and depredations sought by the Anglo Empire.
Al Quaeda is the patsy to distract the Loyalists: to hate and attack Muslims, in a War without End – even at the expense of their own country, their standard of living and their children’s lives – along the way, also dividing the populace to alienate Western Muslims.
Zionism is the patsy to distract divert the Opposition: to hate and attack Israel, instead of the real Axis of Empire, Washington/Wall Street and the City of London – along the way, also tapping into latent antisemitism to divide the populace to alienate non-Israeli Jews.
This is the same diversionary we’ve been seeing now for a decade – sponsored by MI6/CIA: the same people who also just happened to have evacuated Nazi covert agents to the USA. Funny how that dovetails just perfectly, huh? As well as preserved Nazi “stay behind” units all over Europe, after WWII – including the ones today making a re-appearance in Ukraine.
What an incredible coinky-dink!
stop your rude comments – you are new to commenting and obviously haven’t read everything this site has to offer or other commenters have to offer – Zionism and Terrorism – for the two-sided diversionary ploy, operated by the Anglo Empire to further its objectives – at the expense of Muslims and Jews, along with everybody else – alike, that these two represent?
removed. No patronising – please read a bit more of the site and note there are various moderators and during my time – I make the decisions. I don’t moderate other moderators.
– Matty in FL
Putin could grab the Jewish-dominated West by the throat, and take a couple of Iskander missiles with nucleair warheads to a Damascus military site, and point them to West-jeruzalem and/or TelAviv!
The unequivocal message would be: any large scale attack on Russia means, destruction of Jeruzalem.
That would scare the Israelis and keep the US out.
The vicinity of Palestine is a Russian opportunity.
And a merry christmas to you! What an unkind and unhelpful comment on a day of peace and goodwill……and what about all the innocent and good people? Your next comment will go to the trash.
This is a terrific informative article. My one problem with you, and not the article, is your reliance on Gilad Atzmon. He’s an opponent of BDS, and for example, his “three kinds of Jews” thesis is whack. Anyhow, keep up the good work. I understand Russia and Putin much more than before, thanks to you.
I also see no point in the BDS delusion and I full endorse his differentiation between the meanings of the word “Jew”. As for his latest book – The Wandering Who – I consider a must read. IMHO Atzmon is the most sophisticated and astute analyst of Jewish identity politics. The man is a friggin genius, a superb philosopher and a great musician too :-P
can somebody translate to english more of igor strelkov’s latest interview? ; particularly the ones where he talks about the fifth column in russia etc..
Has there been a reckoning? Has Putin answered his critics? ***Top Syrian Terrorist Leader Zahran Alloush Killed in Air Raid in Damascus Suburb***.
Samir Quntar’s assassination, festering in Putin’s side, in my mind, has been resoundingly resolved.
To the Atlantic integrationists (Zahran Alloush’s sponsors). Your move.
Good article. Clears many doubts. I had always felt there was something fishy about Medvedev & Co’s actions. Your article has clarified my doubts.
I think Sameer Israel will do well to read your article.
Really enjoyed reading this piece. As you so rightly say, there is no black & white here. It’s as complex as it gets. I can relate to this because I’ve had several arguments with people who I normally consider to have good judgement. However, with Putin, the brain shutters come down. Woe betide if I ever give him credit for being a smooth operator because I’m duly rounded upon for being a Putin worshiper as if I’m oblivious of the skulduggery & ruthlessness it takes to get to the top. Thankfully Putin has handled the tricky situations he’s faced with remarkable coolness & restraint but what impressed me was he did so while remaining resolute. it’s not easy finding the balance where one doesn’t react to outrageous slurs & accusations yet remain tough in the eyes, not just of his people but his adversaries too. The one thing I will add is I’m convinced the big break for Putin is having a guy like Sergei Lavrov to ride shotgun. Lavrov is as hard as nails but he’s as smart as they come. The two make a formidable team. In contrast Obama & Kerry is a total mismatch! If it’s okay with you, I would like to post this on my website – GMMuk.com
Much has been said about the Russo-Israeli relationships ever since the early mass Jewish migrations of Russian Jews to Israel. The subject is complex and multifaceted. The Saker in his latest article is not mincing words and not paying any undue attention to political correctness either. He is saying it as it is. A wonderful and quite informative read.
Seems obvious that if incoming missiles were detected it would be hard to arrange for the crews to let them pass, or unlikely that such a decision was made. Why wait for WW3?
I saw at syrianperspective that “Hussein Murtada and other Lebanese sources close to Hizbullah has denied that any Israeli raid took place.”
A new investigation in the London Review of Books by renowned American journalist Seymour M. Hersh exposes the divide between the US top brass and the politicians in the White House when it comes to dealing with Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq.
The remarks of Hersh about the role of the US concerning the relation between Syria and Israel fits exactly in the history of zionism which I describe down here. ” The American journalist alleges that, in return for the US Joint Chiefs intelligence-sharing arrangement, Damascus was to accept four conditions: restrain Hezbollah from attacking Israel; renew dialogue with Israel over the Golan Height……..”
It is a plan which long exists. It started with Herzl when he wrote his “der Judenstaat” ( The state of the jews ) back in 1897. It says:
“If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we
could offer to resolve
Turkey’s finances. For Europe, we would form part of a bulwark against Asia
there, we would serve as the advance post of civilisation against barbarism. As a neutral state we would have relations with all of Europe, which would guarantee our existence.”
And that is exactly what happens today. This plan came really in existence with the Camp David agreements. So Egypt was neutralized. After that came Jordan with US pressure and money. Than Iraq with the US & UK invasion. This took place because of the pressure of israel. Look for that episode: deWalt&Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy. When Iraq was eliminated there were only a few states and one organisation which were threatening the colonial jewish project. Lybia, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. Lybia was dealt with not long ago with the bombardments of the western powers. Syria is dealt with right now. By overthrowing Bashir al Assad and splitting up Syria in tiny states it will be hard for Iran to sustain Hezbollah which is considered a serious threat by israel. Israel remembers well it’s nearly defeat by Hezbollah in 2006. It is wellknown that israel is supporting al Nusra on the Golan heights. By military supplies, food, medical care and military interventions on behalf of al Nusra elements against Hezbollah units and the Syrian Army. See UNPROFOR GOLAN reports which confirm the relation between al Nusra and Israel. Now it appears that israel is supporting IS by buying illegal oil stolen out of Syria and Iraq. The recent US approval for more sanctions against Hezbollah and al Manar by the US are in line with the lines which Herzl wrote back in 1897. There is only one diference. Today it is not Europe which supports the israel colonial project at most. It is the US. I only hope that Iran, Syria and Hezbollah will be able to continue its resistance against the western colonalizers.
I do not share Saker’s some anti-Communist views about Russian history, but about the presnt, I see this post very clarifying. A masterclass post, very well reasoned and with the ideas very ordered explaining the distinction between wishes and real-politik.
russia was set back 20 years by mostly Jewish financiers
Mostly jewish neocons led the us to war in iraq oer The Oded Yinon / A Clean Break line of plans.
Zionist Jews set up the Office of Special Plans to fwbricate the pretext for a war “Zionists” long wanted.
For all the effort to distinguish ‘Jews’ from ‘Zionism’ this is a category mistake. The term Zionism means Jewish state nationalism – not all of them are fascists, just as most Jewish people are not.
But Zionism can not be separated from Judaism, and judaism can not be separated from its core texts.
The core texts are a mixed bag, but what is absolutely clear, viewed as the Cult of Yahweh it is, is that racial and moral supremacism are primordial. This surely affected Jewish culture, and frequent ‘persecutions’ (collective punishment of Jews for the actions mostly of a few/elites) buttressed both their parocialism and xenophobia.
‘zionism’ seems to me to muddy the waters as much as the deliberate semantic hijacking of ‘anti-semite’ for a people that intended to ethnically cleanse Arabs while playing the victim card.
While surely we should remain honest, decent and fair, and that means not falling into the trap of group-blame or hate, this is a general rule anyway.
The conversation that should happen regards not Zionism but the International (or transnational) Jewish Elite. From Russia to The US Jewish power is wildly disproportionate, and likudnik Israel has no desire for anything but more Lebensraum.
jewish power is excessive. It has tended to be a force negative for the natives. the Oded Yinon plan was written by a Jewish ultra-nationalist and is pursued by Orthodox Jews with great zeal and subterfuge.
This conversation is ever precludedby the Pavlovian whisper of ‘jew hate’ – this is nonsense. Bona fide Judeophobes may discuss such matters but so what?
This is about justice and stopping decades of war. Those who, earnestly or not, demand that we never discuss Jewish power and privilege, and the existence of Organized and Transnational Jewry largely acting in concert with an expansionist colonialist settler state are in fact tacitly saying they’d rather see hundreds of thiusands dead than see Abe Foxman offended.
But Abe Foxman’s JOB is to preserve and obfuscate Jewish power, for their benefit and that of Likud Israel.
The devil take his ‘offended’ feelings. they are a sinister fraud promulgated to ensure that the Jewish stare can continue to use US tax dollars to murder children while declaring itself the victim of mindless jew hate.
Use ‘judeophobe’ not ‘antisemite’
Use ‘transnational organized jewry’ not zionism, or ‘Jewish settler-nationalism’ if it pertains to the settlement, ethnic cleansing, and/or occupation if Palestine – which is being wiped off the map with great suffering because so many are so frightened of the word ‘antisemite.’
The most vile hateful people are those eho whitewash state terrorism and the racial/religious supremacism which is replete in the Torah.
Ps you may not wish to post this but I do think youd want to read it. I think it is not ‘anti-semitic’ but it is rather… Blunt…its also very cogent.
https://migchels.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/why-do-people-have-difficulty-seeing-the-jewish-question/
Also see:
https://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/capitalism-is-jewish-usury/
Cheers,
FN
Fantastic analysis, and one of hope.
But
To equate the “cynicism” of Hezbollah’s leadership in their silence regarding the CIA rendition, and their silence regarding zionist within the Assad government collaborating with the IDF, with the “cynicism” of Putin is false.
Putin and the Kremlin are equally exceptionalists as D.C. is – they have a permanent UNSC seat they could (!) use.
Why has not Putin demanded sanctions to be slapped on GCC and bedfellows for their illegitimate war against the Yemeni people?
Why does Putin practically never demand SANCTIONS AGAINST the CAUSE of this evil INSTEAD of FIGHTING the SYMPTOMS?
The reach of Hezbollah is not equatable to that of the Kremlin.
You should study how the UN works!
Someone can bring a complaint but the president has to accept it and then create a report and put it to a vote. Russia brought many when they were the president but the draft never even went to a vote as the US/France/UK rejected it. permanent seat or not, they dont have much power and the general assembly are a bunch of spectators at the zoo.. 50 years of votes to remove sanctions on Cuba by over 150 members and what? Syria cant even get anything in.. at all… They cant even present a report let alone discuss or get a ruling..
Thanks for clarifying that!
But
Kremlin has a moral obligation to do two things:
1) File each complaint for the sake of it, and for exposing this undemocratic world government.
2) Reform the UN – democraticize it – which demands public cognition of ^^.
While this analysis from Saker further clarifies the inner power struggle inside the top echelons of the Russian body politic, and explains the Zionist power inside Russia, it does raise the all-important question: What exactly is Russia’s goal in Syria? Mr. Putin is no doubt a very able leader and thinker but, if the Saker’s analysis in this article is correct, Russia seems to have gone in weak and with ill-defined goals. I pose the following questions to voice some concerns:
1.) Is it or is it not Russia’s goal to uphold the sovereignty of Syria? Such a goal would be both ethical as well as in line with Russia’s interests. But if Israel can continue its bombing inside Syria, Syrian sovereignty will remain precarious.
2.) In that region, there are wheels inside wheels, factions inside factions, and the whole of that region is currently a battleground for so many interests: American interests, Israeli interests, the Saudi-Qatari-Sunni ones, Iraqi factional interests, Kurdish interests of at least 3 varieties, Iranian and Shia interests, Turkish greed, and god knows how many other nefarious interests and half-crazed religious rivalries . Any outside power going in first needs to do an ethical and realpolitik analysis, demarcate foes and friends, then show commitment to friends. A wink-wink, nudge-nudge arrangement with Israel, to the detriment of Hezbollah and Iranian interests and Syrian sovereignty, are not likely to lead to a strong Russian-led alliance. Israel can – and will – prolong this so-called war on terror for long; so will the US. As long as chaos and strife prevail, they remain the winners – and in control. Are the Russians prepared to be there for the long haul? If so, policy and actions have to be bold, not wishy-washy, not based on foreknowledge that Russia cannot counter Israel, least of all Nato. Did the Russians not realize that such countering is exactly what they will have to do?
3.) What are Russia’s exit strategies? You need a set of several pre-planned ones, ranging from worst case to best case. It does not look like such clarity exists.
4.) The intervention initiator – in this case Russia – needs to direct and set events rolling, not react to them. But events are being driven by US, Israel, Turkey, others; Russia simply reacts. Not a recipe for success.
200 Years Together
Two Hundred Years Together was written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the famous Russian dissident who won a Nobel Prize for Literature. It is about the time of the Russians and the Jews inside the empire. He wrote in Russian of course but various publishers decided they were not going to put out an English version because they were Jews or frightened of them.
The together of the title refers to Russians and Jews. The first volume was Russian-Jewish History 1795-1916. The second was called The Jews in the Soviet Union. So it is clear enough why the Jews were never going to like what he had to say.
Alex knew them close up and personal. Alex tells the truth about Jews so they hate him and his book. Oddly it has been put out in German and French. One might think the Germans would not be allowed access to the truth about the shysters marketing the Holocaust® story. Perhaps they have been brain washed into acceptance. A little of the background is at May Regulations.
The Wikipedia’s article at Two Hundred Years Together ex Wiki is an example of their worst kind of work. The use of words like allege, claim, admit and purports indicate the use of Words as Propaganda Tools. The Wiki has an agenda. Naturally they do not link to Professor MacDonald as a source. Truth and agenda are out of synch again. But read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself.
More chapters are being translated as a private venture and being published on line. http://www.sunray22b.net/200_years_together.htm
As I understand (I may of course have got it wrong) a number of scholars in the field did review the book. They said it is not at all to be dismissed as mere anti-Semitism. They indicate where it appears to be at odds with the evidence, and so may be said to mistake what happened. Is this not how the discipline of history works? Solzhenitsyn ne solgaet, but nor does he have anything like the last word. In this work, he is a (fallible) historian, not a seer.
The subject seems to me one of great interest, not to be left to nostalgia for a lost community or vilification of all for the faults of some, but requiring meticulous scholarship from historians, from a variety of positions.
“To Jew or not to Jew that is the question.”
Saker, you have written an insightful description of the complex relationship between Jews and Putin. However, you have left many unanswered questions around the identity of the subjects.
I will list a few definitions here to attempt to explain that the definition of who is a Jew is not universally accepted in spite of what the MSM demands us to believe.
Jew according to first century definition is one born in Judea, circumcised on the eight day according to the law of Moses (Lev 12:3) and belonging to the tribe of Judah per patrilineal affiliation. At the time of the first century, there were Edomites among Judahites who had been forced to circumcise by Yochanan Hyrcannus. Herod and the herodians were infamous Edomites dispersed among the Judahites.
In contrast, a Jew according to twenty first century cultural and political definition is anyone, particularly of non-semitic Ashkenazi turko-slav stock, who called a Jew by rabbinical laws (halakha). The patrilineal tribal affiliation to Judah is no longer required but instead a matrilineal descent from a Jewess mother is required by rabbinical halakha.
Jew according to a cultural construct is anyone, particularly non-semitic Ashkenazi turco-slavs, who belongs to a social community identified with Judaism. It doesn’t require an observant faith as long as the subject is not associated with christianity. At the end of the day, according to “them” you are only truly a Jew if “they” allow you to be buried in the Israelite cemetery.
Today, there are semitic and non semitic groups associated with Judaism. The semitic groups are called Sephardic and Mizrahi. The non-semitic groups are turco-slavs Ashkenazi. The largest proportion of Jews in Israel are of the latter group and come from Russia, Germany, Ukraine, etc.
The apostle Paul says that a Jew is not a Jew because he displays it outwardly but inwardly. So no amount of yarmulke, kippah, tzittzit, philacteries, black hats and black trousers makes you a Jew.
The prophet Hosea said that where there were called not my people (Loammi Hosea 1:9) the Most High calls them My people (Hos 2:23). So there has been a role reversal where dispersed Israel among the Gentiles became His people (Hos 1:10; 2:23)
Dear Saker,
As multi-layered and intricate the relationship between the two ( Putin & Israel) it may look in your analysis is missing a sensitive ingredient that is largely inexistent in all main stream narratives.
I would have been more than happy to find it, at least, in the comments’ section. Since I did not I decided to humbly bring up my rationale here with your community and I hope the alegged subject shall not be smudged and hacked in a series of unproductive attacks that, by the way, will not make it go away.
Let us assume for the sake of this argument, although this hypothesis is largely spread through a certain type of skeptics of the official post World War version of events, that the German camps did not possess gas chambers dedicated to a genocidal plan, mostly but not exclussively directed at Jewish population of Europe. Having that assumption granted, would we have then the right to ask: Which is the true reason that determined Russian authorities (since 1991) not to give access to researchers to certain World War II Russian archives, especially to the ones that would show us all in what state were the German concentration camps, in the East, when the Soviet Army entered them early in 1945?
Whether or not the Russian Army and officials found gas chambers is uncertain to this day. However the certainty is that, whatever the content of those findings’ reports from early 1945 from the German eastern camps, the Russian officials from early 1990’s chose not to disclosed. The choice is hardly making any sense, not to mention the forty six year delay for which the Communist Russian officials bear responsibility. No one can point out of why any of the alegged German atrocities in regards to the concentration camps in the East, where only Russians entered, wouldn’t have been let out to the public as these disclosures would incriminate the Third Reich and partly the German people for eternity.
The only explanation I would hint to, so far, is that the Russian state had realized at some point in time that disclosing the details of the camps would be a ravaging blow to the Zionist State and to the whole occidental narrative which, in essence, serves the the foundation of the western world domination and control. Not disturbing the secrets of others would certainly be useful at least as a blackmail tool. I think the Russians assessed this particular tool as the ultimate type of coercion towards the Zionists. How is all this working for Russians? Again, a hypothesis I dare to bring forward. There is a particulary strong theme in Russian propaganda (in general, not necessarily an evil thing!) and that is the Great Patriotic War and a whole subset of idealizations in regard to events around the end of World War II. This theme is of a vital importance to form a wide coalition within Russian nation in case any danger becomes an imminent threat to its existence as a sovereign nation, just as we’ve seen many in recent years. This particular narrative of the Great Patriotic War serves as an example for the Russian people of how its survival may depend on channeling all its resources towards a great threat.
The Great Patriotic War narrative also does remind the West of the decisive role of the Russian Army to bringing the end of their common enemy.
In order for this narrative to still be effective and useful in our times, when, I have to admit, Russia needs it badly to successfully repel external threats, it needs to be untouchable by critics of communism, it needs to be idealized. To be effective in avoiding to taint this narrative by communist regime’s wrongdoings and crimes (especially when we consider the post war time in eastern and central Europe, the soviet regimes imposed on these countries, with their repressive aparatuses overwhelminly dominated by Jewish commissars) I may suspect that Russian State would need an indispensable ally that would help along and that is the great power of controled media which is mainly in the hands of Jewish individuals or Jewish controled enterprises.
This is how I see it, “one hand washes the other” works just fine with, on one side, Russian State keeping tightly a lid on the most sensitive secret of Zionist affair, on the other side Zionist’s tight grasp on media (to be fair, not just the main stream one) keeping silence on the horribly pestilent crimes that accompanied the Great Patriotic War.
It is important to notice that I believe that, in general, the hard work was done by Russians while the crimes against whole peoples in Eastern Europe was done by bolshevik Jews. One of these remarkably atrocious crimes is described as the greatest communist horror by the author of the “200 years together” and is called “Pitesti experiment” (Pitesti, a city in Romania where a famous torture experiment took place in a political prison). I would add that I do despise communist Russia and its exports in late 40’s but I still do make a difference between the true, profound Russia and its other, alienated or horrific masks.
I found this blog to be helpful but I must address your closing statement about the PA and Hamas being “in bed with Daesh.” This is 100% FALSE. I am a journalist and pro-Palestine activist and campaigner. I know the politics in depth in the region and I’ve also lived in occupied Palestine for one year.
Daesh has tried to infiltrate Gaza for the past 3 years. There have been a small handful of Salafists (extremists) sympathetic to ISIS. Hamas has arrested a dozen or so and it’s been a thorn in their side. Daesh has also attacked and bombed the property of Hamas members multiple times. I could not allow propaganda against Palestinians in your blog to slip by.. and being that the media is controlled by Zionists in Russia, I understand how you had this misconception.
Please follow my website to learn more about Israel, Zionism and Occupied Palestine at: http://www.middleeastrising.com
Here are a couple articles I published on this subject:
ISRAEL SHELLED GAZA TO WEAKEN HAMAS, STRENGTHEN ISIS GROUP IN THE AREA! http://www.middleeastrising.com/israel-shelled-gaza-to-weaken-hamas-strengthen-isis-group-in-the-area/
AND –
ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THREE GAZA ROCKETS FIRED INTO ISRAEL: REPORT : http://www.middleeastrising.com/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-three-gaza-rockets-fired-into-israel-report/
There have been a small handful of Salafists (extremists) sympathetic to ISIS. Hamas has arrested a dozen or so and it’s been a thorn in their side. Daesh has also attacked and bombed the property of Hamas members multiple times.
Sorry but by the same logic you could say that al-Qaeda is not in bed with Daesh because they fought each other. I personally don’t see the point in going into this kind of discussions. The SS and SA also fought each other, yet they were all Nazis. The fact is that the Palestinians (Fatah, Hamas) have backed the anti-Assad war waged by the AngloZionists and that after throwing their political weight behind Saddam Hussein they now are backing an anti-Assad coalition which is 80% Daesh. Now they can have their disagreements and even fight each other here and there, but the sad reality is that they are not backing the Syrian government and the Syrian army and that puts them in bed with Daesh and the US CIA.
I really sincerely wish the Palestinians well, but most of all, I wish them a better political leadership because the current one has this ability to always be on the wrong side.
Reading this article makes me wonder when Russia will be strong enough to challenge the West; perhaps never. It must accept reality and submit to the west and stop pretending that Putin can ever be the strong man he wants the world to believe he is. My money is on the Chinese to be the ones to really stand up and challenge the neocon globalists!
I’m manifestly (and proudly, for 52 years) a black and whiter. I say Viva Palestine/Filistina! Palestine Is Still The Issue!
Some chapters were translated by private citizens several years ago. The Barnes Review released a special publication on the book.
https://200yearstogether.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/
http://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/05/most-banned-book-in-the-world-200-years-together-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/
Saker : This is one of your better articles .
Cheers
Brilliant analyses.
The blindnesses between Russia and the US were shown on the video of Cynthia Mc Kinney, a fine black ex-US-Congresswoman interview with a Russian professional moderator
Cynthia is a struggling overburdened intellect-in-waiting, assuming her interview is a breakthrough, which it is.
This paper illustrates what she has no clue about, and the facts Russia does not yet know on the US governing bodies. Russia desperately needs these in clear form. Cynthia is confused but close.
Brilliant analyses.
The blindnesses between Russia and the US were shown on the video of Cynthia Mc Kinney, a fine black ex-US-Congresswoman interview with a Russian professional moderator
Cynthia is a struggling overburdened intellect-in-waiting, assuming her interview is a breakthrough, which it is.
This paper illustrates what she has no clue about, and the facts Russia does not yet know on the US governing bodies. Russia desperately needs these in clear form. Cynthia is confused but close.
No. I have not already said this!
Will Zionism and Pan-Turkism Use Terrorism to Replace Russia?
There is serious conflict between the supports of Yiddish, who see the future of Jews as being in Russia, whereas the Zionists see the Jewish future is in the Jewish homeland of Eretz Yisrael and the Jewish intelligentsia is split over this aspect of Jewish ideology. Zionism cannot operate just in Israel but it must have a wider living space like in Russia. https://tariganter.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/will-zionism-and-pan-turkism-use-terrorism-to-replace-russia/
Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea
There’s a new national ideology forming in Russia—and “the Jews” play a big part in it.
http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/06/anti-semitism-and-the-new-russian-idea/
[To survey the vast recent output of “anti-Zionist” propaganda by Moscow publishing houses would be a heroic undertaking. Fortunately, given how repetitive such works have become, focusing briefly on just one work by one author will do the job before we move on to more formidable figures.
Vladimir Bolshakov is the author of Blue Star against Red Star: How the Zionists Became the Gravediggers of Communism (2014). This is the final installment of a trilogy, the first two volumes of which, With the Talmud and the Red Star and Khazaria and Hitler, were published in 2013. The latter titles alone are weird: the Talmud was never seen together with the Bolshevik red star, and what possible connection could link the medieval kingdom of Khazaria, which briefly adopted Judaism, and Adolf Hitler who in all probability never heard of it?
The trilogy’s third volume only deepens the mystery. Its back cover announces that, in the early 1970s, international Zionism, operating through the offices of Golda Meir—then Israel’s prime minister but originally, Bolshakov claims, an ally of Communism—launched a subversive campaign against the Soviet Union and eventually became its “gravedigger.” These are indeed sensational allegations, and one wonders how such remarkable facts and world-shaking events could have escaped notice by contemporaries and historians alike. Why on earth would Golda—around the time of the Yom Kippur war and at a time of terrible danger to the young state of Israel—have taken the reckless and politically suicidal step of declaring war on a superpower?]
Judaism is an idolatry as ethno-worship and self-worship , i.e. worship of the creation instead of the creator. Even leading jewish kabbalists , such as for example rabbi Laitman , maintain that Judaism will eventually go defunct along with the rest of the religions as man-made perversions of the one true original religion from which kabala is derived aka hermetic alchemy.
https://jewise.wordpress.com/two-hundred-years-together-1795-1916-xxx/
Salman:- Mr. Netanhayu, I had a bad dream. Putin secured a place in history as the greatest Russian leader. He revitalized the economy by challenging your Anglo-Zionist military and financial empire. He made a laughing stock of Washington and has become a potent enemy of Tel Aviv. You may want to sort him out!
Netanyahu:- Relax Sal, the Frisium is in the mail. Early 20th century we instructed our Bolshivieks to take the Kremlin and become ‘ideological opponents’ of our Anglo-Zionist empire. In the 21st century the same fellows in the Kremlin have been instructed to make Russia an extension of our empire. Putin and his banks are in the tank with us.
A truly excellent article, best I have read in quite a while. The only thing I would disagree with is your take on the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. They weree taking a really bad turn, Christian/Coptic persecution en masse, burning of churches and on a smaller scale the rest of the horrors we see in Syria.
Approx 15 million people took to the streets because of this and the army had no choice ,the rest is history. We would be worse off today with a Mursi government in charge I am sure,
Falsifying Putin`s speech,makeng him the anti-semite, you does not help his image in English speaking world. Dirty Jew-haters should demonstrate your lies devided from the Russian leader.
Dear Saker,
As such this is a very comprehensive analysis, and in my list of starting/boundary conditions I would have all of your points (plus a couple more, as I’ll shortly explain).
However, the main criticism of mine, whenever discussion of the “Jewish connection,” “Zionist conspiracy,” “(Anti-)Semitic whatever,” etc., is this: Whether or not Jews are involved, it is irrelevant. Mankind’s current problems are systemic. Chasing the “Jewish connection” is deflecting our attention from the core of the problem. The problem is that the prevailing current form of Representative Democracy has degenerated into what I call Nomenklaturocracy. The main reason for that is supplanting the previous moral code and substituting it with the one and only (very American) “value” – money. Hence creating “the business of politics” and attracting to the “profession” the most ignorant and easiest to corrupt mediocre performers at best IS the core of the problem. I have discussed that in some detail in several papers at https://independent.academia.edu/IvanDaraktchiev – you can start at https://www.academia.edu/4439386/Nomenklaturocracy_or_what_exactly_was_Orwell_right_about. The way out of this is pointed to in https://www.academia.edu/5804006/The_Revolution_within_Democracy.
So, when you write that Putin is the good guy in a bad system, that is very close to my assessment. For those who understand a bit about USSR and its Russian derivatives – Russia (Black Russia), Belarus’ (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia) – it’s easy to assess the change of attitude of the (extremely hostile, predatory inclined) Western (US dictated, that is) analysts and “well-wishers.” And the gradient is telling: in Ukraine, where the plundering of the state assets and ruining the existing economy went full swing, the “leaders” were mostly “heroes” (even Yanukovich, until he started realizing what a hole he and those before him have gotten his country into); in Belarus’ , where Lukashenko has halted the ruining, he got immediately the honorable title of “dictator”; in Russia the drunkard who was a primary culprit for the destruction on massive scale, the prevailing gangsterism and the impoverishment of multiple tens of millions, was hailed by the West; enter Putin, and until he could consolidate his grip on power he was a highly courted man. Once he realized what the real goals of the “center of democracy” are, he became a “pariah” (see for example https://www.academia.edu/20045616/USA_s_semi-hot_war_for_control_of_Russia_s_natural_resources_the_Syrian_episode).
So, in my assessment, in line with the thesis of Nomenklaturocracy, Putin is one of the exceptional Nomenklaturchiks (such are, in my estimate, 1-2% of the total, varying from country to country). His “guilt” within the clan of WW Nomenklatura is, that he is aligning his own interest with the one of his country: contrast that with the behavior of the rest of the European “leaders” who don’t mind that their country is getting enslaved, potentially brought into war for foreign interests, just as long as they can get career advancement into the “clan of the big ones” – here UN high Commissioner, there EU President, NATO GenSec, what have you…
Please realize (and I keep repeating this to all my friends) that the Jewish connection is just a distraction. We need to focus our full attention to the culprit of our very common problem, and to unite in solving it. Your mind is being constantly bombarded by noise presented as useful information. Example: every brainwashing worker will tell you about how the key bolshevik figures were all Jews, ergo… BS for mentally retarded or ignorant or both, that’s what I’d say: the bolsheviks were all internationalists, they had disavowed nationhood, they were struggling for the establishment of one country on the whole world, whereby – after the victory of the Revolution – there would be no nationalities, meaning no more wars, peace, brotherhood of man, etc. (almost like NWO, ain’t it, except that it won’t be Uncle Joe’s way but Soros/Rockefeller’s). I have more arguments on above in articles at https://independent.academia.edu/IvanDaraktchiev; probably those on Russia and Ukraine would be of interest.