by Norman Ball for The Saker Blog
“[W]e, as serious people, cannot examine the concrete problems that are thrown when the Russian Federation is accused of all mortal sins without recourse to the processes (norms) created for similar cases,” –from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s October 18th interview with RT France.
Russia labors under a West-imposed Original Sin that can obtain dispensation only with the former’s existential cessation. The root of this Sin is the root itself. Russia is Russia, after all. That cannot be rectified.
In light of this dead-stop, what can only be called an apriori –and fatal– naivete pervades much of the prescriptive analysis we read every day. If Putin would only hop or jump or swagger or dance (it differs from one sage to the next) then, we are assured, the properly calibrated gesture would elicit a jackpot of redemptive good will. Godot would pop over the horizon. The crisis would defuse.
Alas, this is an all-too-human read which, while perhaps befitting of a bygone era, falls short of the present moment’s activated spiritual Principalities.
Speaking of Godot, from the same interview that prefaces this essay, Lavrov resigns himself to a “serious, professional and non-propagandistic” discussion at some later time when the current “outbreak of political rage” abates. Whether or not he believes a terrestrial conclusion will arrive in time, we cannot know. He’s a poet. Is he a Christian? Lavrov, ever the consummate diplomat, is nonetheless obliged to sound the proper notes.
It remained for his boss, on the same day, to access otherworldly coordinates with the most astonishing rhetoric (Radio Free Europe called it, “more biblical than technical”) at a Sochi forum:
Putin is making the remarkable admission that if no honorable approach for Russia remains for recovering a constructive relationship with the West (and since crawling along a contritious path is out of the question), Heaven (or Hell) beckons in the wings for all parties.
For such a circumspect statesman to openly confess to The City of Man’s limitations in world affairs, and allow that God may have to sort it out on the other side, well, that’s a foreboding milestone. One shudders at what information he’s privy to as to warrant such a fatalistic statement of principle. Has the geopolitical tether truly run out?
Archetypes are the prefatory hoops through which all actions spring. With understandable forbearance (some armchair warriors would say belatedness), Putin has finally seized his end of the archetype of the apocalypse. (The gauntlet’s been lying on the ground for some time now; see the late Edward Edinger’s 2002 book of the same name). Nor can an utterances of this sort be retracted by secular communique. There it sits, in the global square, a white-hot psychic ember that must now be contended with.
My fellow prognosticators, this is not our parents’ geopolitics.
Know thy enemy. The snake never alters its stripes, though the prevailing terrain can at times abet its pattern. Like a boa constrictor, the implacable machine (Sartre) always awaits relaxation in its prey as a prelude to further tightening. Demonic eschatology continually splits the distance until it capitulates spasmodically within the claustrophobic space of the capstone. The pyramid is a progressively constricting geometry. There is no placating it. The Beast is an insistent geometric construct.
So it’s a form of madness to continually bemoan the rude particulars of the Beast’s blueprint. Would you kick a car for not being an airplane? The implacability is born of usury, an arithmetic pyramid that must have everything for itself. Debt-money, eternally ravenous, is cursed to roam the earth paying its keep every minute of every day.
Don’t blame the debt-masters. Pity them. They’re the Machine’s most abject slaves. Witness their propensity for throwing themselves off buildings as a measure of unquenchable Babelian despair:
Master, come to my assistance!
Wrong I was in calling
Spirits, I avow,
For I find them galling,
Cannot rule them now.–from The Sorceror’s Apprentice, Johann Goethe (tr. Paul Dyrsen)
What Russians must do, and admittedly it’s a problem, is to get out the way of their own country or else prostate themselves atop it. Andrei Fursov outlines the elite’s long-term interest in ‘Northern Eurasia’ (what amounts to Russia), as a post-apocalyptic, resource-rich life raft; what MacKinder might have called, the Heartland of the Heartland.
Mephistopheles comes by way of Sergie ‘the Snake’ Kudrin and his borrowed, if not outright mutinous, prescription. (Scott Humor translates here):
“Therefore, today Russia’s foreign policy should be subordinated to the reduction of tension in our relations with other countries, and, at least, to the preservation or reduction of the sanctions regime, not to the build-up. Today I would measure the effectiveness of our foreign policy on this indicator.”
Of course selective subordination (of the foreign policy portfolio only) is tantamount to total capitulation further along. Ruslan Ostashko asks the obvious question rhetorically of Kudrin: “What will prevent the West from reinstating these sanctions back, after we make all those changes?” Well yes, what precedent –and please venture beyond Gorbachev’s unilateral dumping of the Brezhnev Doctrine for examples if you must– would compel anyone to think reciprocal accommodations ever arrive?
Anthropomorphic daydreams can never take the measure of the Beast. Left to themselves, human beings rest, commiserate, empathize and trade amicably among themselves with an innate sense of proportionality and fairness. The trouble is Paul’s Principalities, good and evil, never leave us to ourselves. Moreover these forces are vaulting increasingly to the fore as even Putin’s off-world meanderings reveal.
Faustian bargains are the West’s own jealous poison, thank you very much Mr. Kudrin. As such, they’re forever withheld from authentic Russian ingestion. Find your own poison in your own time, we might say, one civilization to another. To jump the tracks for ours would be a form of neo-Petrinism (manifested, in the present era, by doting Atlanticists like, well, Kudrin. Oswald Spengler would recognize him as Petrinism’s “artificial product made of stubborn material”.)
Spengler, more poet than historian, offers the penetrating eye of the stranger. His prescience for the Russian destiny is paraphrased by Kerry Bolton here:
The Russian soul is not the same as the Western Faustian, as Spengler called it, the ‘Magian’ of the Arabian civilization, or the Classical of the Hellenes and Romans. The Western Culture that was imposed on Russia by Peter the Great, what Spengler called Petrinism, is a veneer…The Russian soul expresses its own type of infinity, albeit not that of the Westerner’s Faustian soul, which becomes enslaved by its own technics at the end of its life-cycle.”
Many of those ‘technics’ fall under what Spengler called “money-thinking”. At the twilight of its life-cycle the West threatens to withhold its toxicity from all those who don’t ‘play fair’, plying its financial sanctions like an overused tool-set: fractional reserve banking, impudent debt-money that arrives ex nihilo seeking its keep from God-knows-where, leverage that belabors ever-narrowing denominators of intrinsic value.
When the Beast cannot steal, its existing purloined cache is re-leveraged, pacing frenetically until it can steal again. Somewhere in the bowels of the NY Fed behind iron-clad doors, guarded by an ogre, sits a Leverage Machine, Chartered Accountant to the Beast. The lights are flashing red. How do we know this? Because the 24/7 Russian Demonization Campaign tells us so. The manically repetitive narrative is an audio loop cued to the red-lit console.
The West’s sanctions subtract from its own beleaguered base. The ‘cure’, ever more green-fields, serves only to postpone the patient’s demise. The demands are satanic and mutually self-negating: If you don’t bleed like me, I promise I will kill you.
The various sanctions regimes harbor no rapprochements and coax no favored outcomes. They are nihilistic in spirit and anti-Christian by design. Spengler spoke of Russia’s peculiar historic mission. Could that mission be Armageddon itself?
The stakes, as we like to say, are incalculably high. The potential recoil, fatal. But then, People of the Book already know this.
Might the intelligence complex incite WW3 as a diversionary alternative to exposure and dismantlement? That’s a reasonable bet. After all, where on this planet today are rumors of wars not breaking out in earnest?
There’s a well-ensconced clique on the planet that views WW3 as the crucial next step. Putin seems to have joined them. In lieu of elaborate WMD contexts perpetrated on a sanguine populace, war planners might prefer a war that’s over almost before it starts. Inhuman velocity curtails the need for consensus-building.
NATO’s provocations are endless. However conventional force border-posturing is simply the aperitif. Nuclear escalation will occur with lightning speed.
In his grim but essential work, Eric Zuesse speaks to the current provocations in Ukraine and its Donbass region and the toss-up potential of a nuclear first strike being strategically ‘rationalized’ and perpetrated by either the Americans or the Russians. How perilous and frightening is that? Both sides are strategically obliged go nuclear first, although Putin seemed to remove a Russian first-strike from the table last week, a very noble and statesman-like assertion, to be sure. Who fully understands the dynamic between he and his Defense Minister? Sergei Shoigu might, on strictly military grounds, beg to differ.
Here’s Zuesse:
“Either way would likely produce from Russia a nuclear blitz-attack to eliminate as many of America’s retaliatory weapons as possible, so as to beat the US to the punch. In military terms, the side that suffers the less damage ‘wins’, even if it’s a nuclear war that destroys the planet. The side that would strike first in a nuclear war would almost certainly suffer the less damage, because most of the opponent’s retaliatory weaponry would be destroyed in that attack. Trump is playing nuclear “chicken” against Putin.”
Nuclear Primacy had been America’s post-MAD doctrine since 2006. (Here are the same two idiot-savants, Drs. Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, on paper, proving once and for all that intelligence is a circle.) The Russian nuclear detection system is horribly antiquated and, in an effort to tamp down the reigning madness, US officials are talking naval blockades and preemptive first strikes. Language is always the first bullet fired. America’s nuclear arsenal is to be upgraded over the next thirty years at an estimated cost of $1.2 trillion (October 2017 CBO report).
Paranoid much? You’d have to be a fool not to be. In fact you’d have to be an irreligious fool not to think thermonuclear exchange isn’t poised to occur in some demented parody of well-considered premeditation and forethought.
It’s the midnight after midnight and Doomsday’s tired of walking around the block. The Beast wants Russia either polishing boots in Basel or moving its Orthodox frontage to Mars. There is no middle ground. There is no dialectical accommodation. People are a temporary impediment to the wealth beneath their feet. Bankers eat birthrights for breakfast.
The inestimable trove of raw goodies under Eurasia must be secured or else the leverage-cubed that’s holding up the leverage-squared is going to collapse in a calamitous heap of non-real numbers and exhausted exponentiality.
Before he exited Stratfor, some say for a surfeit of candor, George Friedman laid out the last hundred-years of the game-plan. Mind you (and our German friends too), it’s nothing personal. It’s primordial, which is to say, quite equally of the future, an ‘interest’ that will not abate.
As Shiekh Iman Hosein insists, the repatriation of Crimea represents a huge and rare setback for the Beast’s cordon sanitaire strategy of containment (constriction?) Sixteenth-century Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman (popularly known as the Vilna Gaon) acknowledged much the same:
“When you hear that the Russians have captured the city of Crimea, the ‘Times of the Messiah’ have started, that his steps are being heard”
There are not enough dimension frankly to deploy the appropriate chess game. But then we’re not in a chess game. We’re in an end-game. Finesse is an Enlightenment affectation. In a kingdom of hammers the adroit tactician is just another nail.
So enough please of rehabilitative measures, improved behaviors and well-considered countermeasures. No behavior under the sun will do until nuclear winter blots the sun from the sky. We’ve been staring down the barrel of Oppenheimer’s Shiva ever since some vanguard of Molochian butt-worshippers decided there’s life for them on the back-end of nihilistic cessation.
There is a war on against what Spengler termed, “the world-historical fact of Russia itself”. Putin seems finally to have risen to the existential occasion.
Yes, what you write is true.
But they mean to make of Trump the Southern King of Daniel 8.
Whilst Russia is they think the descendent of the Greek shaggy goat.
I think if one can overcome certain cultural and dogmatic differences a look at unsealed.org and it’s articles on the Revelations 12 Sign and the Great Red Dragon – anyone of our faith versed in scripture will find we are now in the Great tribulation.
God bless every one of you.!
But they mean to make of Trump the Southern King of Daniel 8.”
Chump is the king that worships the god of forces and fortresses (militarism) in Dan 11:36-45. The king of the North is Putin and the king if the South ( China Sea) is Xi. News from the Orient ( Iran plus North Korea) trouble him.
Whereas we have butchers who — because they are now redundant and because their qualifications are right — are in charge of literature and culture. They order us to extol them as legendary heroes. And to do so is for some reason called . . . patriotism.
Public opinion! I don’t know how sociologist define it, but it seems obvious to me that it can only consist of interacting individual opinions, freely expressed and independent of government or party opinion.
So long as there is no independent public opinion in our country, there is no guarantee that the extermination of millions and millions for no good reason will not happen again, that it will not begin any night — perhaps this very night.
A.S. (prophet of our times)
It is amazing how genuine German patriots, professionals, as opposed to Rothschild’s miserable Nazi hags, hacks, proxies – esp. North Americans are indoctrinated to believe the exact opposite, by the way – are increasingly allowed to tell the truth at RT Deutsch in Germany.
https://deutsch.rt.com/international/78100-usa-werden-dann-ruhe-geben/
In these days, nobody can say “I’m sorry, I was indoctrinated to believe this or that in the school” – or elsewhere. The internet is here, whom else if not these young people, have the best capacity to use it and learn ? I wonder how many still fall in the trap of the past, being led by others, it is ridiculous however when even Hitler said that he was ” an autodidact”.
I like to comment on the Polish statement, whoever said it, maybe Friedman “Ukraina to dopiero początek. USA buduje barierę z krajów antyrosyjskich, aby oddzielić od siebie Rosję i Niemcy. Celem jest zaszkodzenie obydwu z nich”
So, the quote says in short, that USA is building a barrier between Russia and Germany with intention to destroy both of them. The barrier consists of Russia unfriendly countries.
My comment:
Similar situation existed after the WWII, but it was reversed, as USSR used those same countries for similar reason. Having said that, Russia has to turn those countries around and make them at least neutral, so that they still create a barrier, but not unfriendly. Those countries (Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, Moldavia and the other Baltic ex-republics) are at this moment Russia unfriendly, only because they are run by a clique of people who are financed by the States, thanks to steady flow of fiat money printed daily. They can be turned around, though . Hopefully before serious conflict erupts.
Dear Anonius:
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, George Friedman, Published on Feb 3, 2015
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/europe-destined-conflict
The quote in the graphic above appears at 53:49.
Other interesting quotes from the speech:
“The question for which we have no answer is: “what will Germany do? ” The real unknown in the European equation are the Germans. While the United States is building the sanitary cordon between Europe and Russia, not in Ukraine but in the west, and the Russians are trying to figure out how to take advantage of the Ukrainians, we are ignoring the German position.”
“By its actions the United States prepares their Intermarium from the Black Sea to the Baltic, which dreamed of the Polish head of state Jozef Pilsudski.”
Apologies. Another relevant quote. Frankly, the entire speech is well worth a watch.
“The fact is that the United States is ready to create a cordon sanitaire around Russia. Russia knows it. She believes the intention of the United States and to shatter the Russian Federation. I think, as [writer] Peter Lorre said, “we do not want to kill you, we just want to hurt you a bit” . Anyway, we are back to the game of yesteryear.”
There is not a full understanding of Putin’s warnings. What will follow a nuclear anihilation of life on earth is the Last Judgement.
There is an overall misunderstanding of the mission of Russia in the world, aggravated by the vapid concepts of German idealist philosophy, caricatured by Spegler, and for which even serious Orthodox thinkers fell.
Russia was relentlessy attacked since she was dubbed with the ‘Byzantine’ imperial mantle and covered with with the Protective Veil of the Mother of God (Pokrov), the only rightful inheritor of the Christian Empire of Constantine.
The Rome of Constantine became the “Katehon” of which Saint Paul was speaking about:
“6And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed when his time comes. 7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will destroy with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders, 10and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false, 12so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned (2 Thessalonians 2:6–12).
After the fall of Constantinople, Russia became the Katehon that restrained the ‘lawless one’ (‘Petrinism’ in reality stopped the assault of the shadowy “Fourth Rome”) and still does after the ‘intermezzo’ of the International Bolshevik, National-Bolshevik, National-Socialist, bloody experiments directed from the ‘Land where the Sun sets’, of the ‘many waters, where the great harlot sits’, where all the enemies of the Katehon have congregated and plan his removal.
The harlot wants to build a ‘Jerusalem on the Dniepr’, to replace the Cave of the saints (blessed by the First Called Apostle, Saint Andrew). The ‘Ukro-Nazis’ are her pitiful puppets, paving their road to Hell.
“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us” (1 John 2:18-19).
Thank you for this.
If you dislike Spengler being the sole draftee herein to interpret what’s better expressed by Russian himself (and that’s certainly fair), there’s Nicolas Berdayev. A case exists for Nicholas II being the final restrainer whose removal (exactly a century ago) permits The Lawless One to run riot over the land.
Berdayev’s ‘The Russian Ideal’ here:
http://www.jesus-for-all.com/fikr/pdf_3190.pdf
I believe that it is just a typo. It is ‘The Russian Idea’.
I will be excused if I take a dim view of the un-Orthodox ravings of Soloviov, Bulgakov, Berdiaev.
Anonymous,
Recently I watched a Greek video on U-tube, more like radio discussion on the subject of Christ’s Greekness, his mother being “nun” serving one of the “Olympus Goddesses do not remember which one” hence the references like “Parthena, Despina, Panagia” and of His name “Issus” being a Doric version of “Iasson” hence the Jewish “Yashua”. Having said all that, they talked at length about St. Paul, who in their opinion was a snake, as he was instrumental in Christ’s death as well as reverting back to be “phariseas” and extremely militant against Christianity after Christ’s death. Yet, we Christians hold him on the pedestal.
The American people will have to eventually wake up and come to the inevitable conclusion that they will have to fight against their out of control military industrial complex for their right to live. Otherwise, they too, will be sacrificed on Satan’s altar for the petty ambitions of those who have chosen to betray Humanity in their demonic quest for power.
The word on the street is this will start happening soon. There is One, a man, who is fated to begin this process. Look for a man to come out of nowhere and start a major anti-war movement in the United States and a new political party directly challenging the will of the occult dark magic practicing elites. He will be supported by everyone who values things like freedom, sovereignty, life, happiness, and who want an actual future for themselves, their friends, their family. It is his fate.
The pieces are all in place, we have everything we need to win. It’s just a matter of time.
Yes, we have everything we need to win and always have. But that is why the social media firms are in open conspiracy with the Atlantic Council, NATO, and the CIA that is running an operation through Ukrainian intelligence (that they control; where do you think Propornot came from?) to control Americans.
We are in phase 2 of the roll-out of Cold War v2. They are taking back control of major narratives in the heads of Americans they had before the Internet. One objective is to suppress the emergence of any antiwar movement. They have used false flag operations including murder inside the US.
They are starting to talk about the next phase: suppression of targeted web sites in the US. Get experience with Linux and a VPN now. Their repression is rolling out quickly and when the next phase starts it will move fast.
Sites like this should consider moving or mirroring to servers outside of the US. I’m not sure Canada or the EU is a good idea. The UK is a definite no.
I have a little hope for a reborn antiwar movement in the US but know that they are very effective in crushing any sprout in that direction.
what is the general level of american consciousness?
what are the chances for spontaneous massive anti war movement..spontaneous any kind of progressive movement, that d no have to be sprouted and grown over time but is ready to roll right away?
US elites use demonization to feed fear of foreign entities to keep Americans unconscious of the reality right in front of them. They also use the illusion of the two party system to keep the people divided and fighting with each other. Via foreign policy and militarism US elites control immense amounts of money that is in a reinforcing feedback loop that keeps accelerating the process and their control.
The level of consciousness in the US is kept at a low level not due to any lack of intelligence potential but by being kept in a state of being split against itself. Out of the few in the US that step outside and look back at the illusion of the major opposites that has an iron grip on the people (left/right, liberal/conservative, democrat/republican, black/white) will come the inspiration and leadership to turn the US around.
The chances for a spontaneous massive antiwar movement are just about nil. The elites are very effective at controlling major narratives and will easily divert the people. It will be a miracle if the movement can get to critical mass. That is why the opposition and resistance of Russia/China/Iran and others is so important. By halting or even turning back the US march it will force the pressure and energy of the opposites in the US to increase to birth the movement. They do not have to outright defeat the US – just stop it in its tracks long enough.
thats right! the american people will have to wake up! but can they?
I see the race card being played heavily in the USA. the Black man better beware, he is the target of the race card
of course such race baiting is diversionary and if successful a huge amount of american blood will flow. but if the ordinary white get caught up in race war they are finished.
the collective whites may kill off the Black people with heavy damage to themselves.
but any damage at all would leave the ordinary white people almost defenceless relative to the rich white man., with whom ordinary white people will still have their day of denouement. that day coming after race war the ordinary white folk will have no chance against the rich whites
wake up indeed they must..all the way up! and soon! all wiggle room is gone
“Putin seemed to remove a Russian first-strike from the table last week, a very noble and statesman-like assertion, to be sure. Who fully understands the dynamic between he and his Defense Minister? Sergei Shoigu might, on strictly military grounds, beg to differ.”
Note in the last ten days how many Shoigu statements emanated.
https://charter97.org/en/news/2018/10/24/310191/
https://russia-insider.com/en/military-cooperation-cornerstone-exceptionally-close-russia-china-relations/ri25134
From Singapore back to Moscow, along his journey to friends and conferences in Mongolia, China and the big ASEAN conference where he met with Mattis, Shoigu was speaking about Syria, terrorism and the contrast between the Russian efforts and US ineptitude and obstruction. He emphasized that the US must leave Syria.
Also, deputies in MOD have been speaking, not just from Moscow. This came while in Beijing, a telling symbolism. The accusation against the US use of Poseidon to control the swarm attack of drones. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/10/25/russia-claims-us-led-drones-toward-russian-base-syria.html
And Shamanov, retired General of great status, on a Security Council, has spoken out about the “medical” laboratories (biological weapons facilities) surrounding Russia. http://tass.com/politics/1024493
What we see and read and hear is the Military leading Russia’s stance against the Hegemon. There is no poetry, no spin. Flat language soldiers speak when they warn with intentions to do harm if their warning is not heeded.
What does this mean if not the Military (Shoigu and the Generals) are pacing the Russian geopolitical message.
Putin is playing catchup. This is by design. Shoigu and Putin are on the same page.
We’ll see how Putin “impresses” the message on Trump in Paris on Nov. 11.
Maybe, they’ll discuss the future for their children and grandchildren.
The FSB has captured a gang of 15 ISIS members planning an attack in Moscow. They had substantial amounts of cash, including numerous bundles of brand new dollar bills (fresh off the prining press). Just for laughs, the Russians should publicly ask the US (eg via Bolton) if the notes are genuine, and if so how did they get from the US to ISIS terrorists in Russia. The US would have to declare the notes to be forgeries which won’t please their lackeys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIhZUUzc8dk
Better would be to declare the whole batch of the currency to be suspicious and that they will not be accepted by Russian banks. Plus anyone holding these serial numbers would be liable to arrest under terrorism laws.
Larch,
I am thinking that perhaps Putin has assurance that Russian defenses are good to the point that there is no reason for first strike. Perhaps they believe that anything flying towards Russia gets knocked out, and if those objects have nuclear weapons on board then “judgment day has come”. I am sure, that Shoygu is on board with that. As for the Putin -Trump meeting is concerned, it’s a waste of time, but it must be done for the sake of satisfying public opinion.
I appreciate your comments Larchmonter both here and elsewhere.
Yes, the IMF treaty implications occurred after this essay was submitted. I think you’re right to presume tight coordination between the civilian and military groups within the government. There’s little room for politicking and personal ambition on matters of such existential import.
The first Trump-Putin summit was practically erased from the public record. Talk of a second summit at Trump’s instigation died a quick death too. Dashed-off meetings in corridors is the best that can be hoped for, sadly. Trump’s latitude is severely curtailed. The decision for WW3 is taken at levels we can barely imagine, let alone see.
In a word, Vanga.
She is the seer who saw as her gift from creator of all ALL creation.
“One shudders at what information he’s privy to as to warrant such a fatalistic statement of principle. Has the geopolitical tether truly run out?
This comment, later described as “other worldly meanderings” I find peculiarly strange: Are not these matters open and reported for every man & woman to read of? Nuclear obliteration? What of already deployed bioweapons? or weather warfare in full swing to likely control the Hydro cycle (Mmm Baikal is quite a Plum) regardless of collateral damage including famine, dis-ease, and death aplenty. But there is more; so very much more. Enough that the Russian President Vladimir V Putins’ words might plausibly be considered tongue in cheek.
The countries in thrall to the Central Banks that are responsible for Russias’ troubles are, in my view, rogue Governments long departed from any pretence at representative politics, while many have suffered coups and are run under cabals fully on board with the US/UK world domination agenda first seriously proposed by Cecil Rhodes.
Truth is, it seems to me, they perceive that retreat is impossible since turning back might result in these monsters being made to answer for their crimes (only secret state of emergency scams permit their atrocities). Those crimes are huge: Deaths in the Millions, including WW1 & WW2. The UK has become the GDDR to suppress dissent, and this will only get worse.
Very excellent point made. “Excellentissime” from an African citizen/s point of view, if you ask me. In my continent, we speak very often about the misery of having oil under your food or walking with diamonds on the sole of your shoes. Thanks to more favorable circumstances (historical, geographical and even racial) Russia managed to avoid that misery, but not without beeing subject to the most horrendous blood spills of them all in our time (in WW one and two). And , more importantly, not without properly naming that doom for what it is, that is Kapitalism itself. How to resist repeating what the author says here :
“The Beast wants Russia either polishing boots in Basel or moving its Orthodox frontage to Mars. There is no middle ground. There is no dialectical accommodation. People are a temporary impediment to the wealth beneath their feet. Bankers eat birthrights for breakfast.
The inestimable trove of raw goodies under Eurasia must be secured or else the leverage-cubed that’s holding up the leverage-squared is going to collapse in a calamitous heap of non-real numbers and exhausted exponentiality”.
Hello AfricanPostman:
I see in the Eurasian Century, when/if it arrives, as marking the final death throes of mercantilism and the repatriation of resources with their rightful owners, those who (as in the case of Africa, should this repatriation spill into that continent as well) were conscripted into domesticated slavery to extract and prepare their own resource wealth for expropriation, and yes essentially the birthright beneath their feet.
The Eurasian Century holds the promise of unleashing ‘democracy’ in the truest sense. Perhaps this is naive. Already, the trade-based Chinese model and its signature OBOR are showing signs of being ‘same as the old boss’. The Chinese are far from altruistic. Who is? But could they bring about a qualitatively superior version of Empire that stresses comparative advantage among nations, the equanimity of trade versus petrodollar submission?
At its essence the western banking model rests upon alienation, which is a very provisional foundation. Morally, it’s an irredeemable model. Taking wealth from over THERE and bringing it over HERE. Structural thievery is a biblical house built on sand. The ‘lubricant’ for this conveyor was of course unrivaled Sea Power. Land Power’s dormant strength has always rested in relative collegiality which delivers geographic contiguity, allowing 21st century, unimpeded rail connectivity. This is why divide-and-conquer has always been the MacKinder mantra, that is, fomenting and fanning tribal divisions. But think about it. Divide-and-conquer is a tacit admission by the manipulator of his inferior strategic position. It’s defense masquerading as offense.
All of this will have no meaning at all to 300M Americans. The remainder are already committed. That’s a shame, because those 300M would have been the only antidote to the “committed” few.
President Putin is simply making it clear that he will fulfill his role in a scenario of assured mutual destruction if compelled to do so. This is necessary to insure that the MAD formula has it’s best chance to maintain a nuclear war free world, if possible. Any doubt in the minds of US planners of Putin’s firm intention for full retaliation, would create a very dangerous situation, where they might be tempted to venture a preemptive first strike. The warning last March about Russia’s advanced weapon capabilities had the same purpose of warning against foolish doubts concerning Russia’s retaliatory capacities.
Paranoia is a mental disease that afflicts those who have turned their backs on conscience and morality, and are hence incapable of trust, and see only enemies everywhere. Russia has repeatedly offered to engage in peace processes to avoid his dangerous situation. The US has repeatedly rejected the offer of entering into such negotiations, thus forcing Russia to play the games of MAD. When a nation like the US embraces the goal of world domination, paranoia becomes inevitable for it’s leaders.
My humble suggestion would be to test drop another Tsar Bomb over the north test site again. Maybe that will bring the West out of its drunken stupor. It did the job back in the early sixties.
Nope, too much damage to our environment. Better to detonate it in low earth orbit over the continental USA at the correct altitude for maximum NEMP damage. That will derail any silly war plans…
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201810291069304609-russia-nuclear-propulsion-spacecraft-key-element-tests/
I have written on this site a number of times that it is my belief there exists a number of sabateurs in the editing and or composition parts of the Sputniknews article production process. I say there are some who translate articles into English language on Sputniknews and RT with deliberate errors. These errors have a negative effect on the English language reader. When one is confronted will ’80 million tonnes’ lift capacity seen in the above article one has their confidence shaken. Spelling, syntax, and composition errors degrade credibility. There is a pattern of these types of errors in articles and that pattern appears always in important stories. Another common yet unbelievable error involves copy and paste repetition of the last few paagraphs in articles from these sites. There is a discrediting crew of operatives and lacing errors into articles to prevent syndi at on of articles and to degrade credibility.