By Katerina for the Saker Blog
In this one, which I promise to be the very LAST of my essays, I would like, first of all, to do a short re-cap on the responses to my three previous ones – feedback so to speak. Always useful.
Although in this essay the main subject will be the reflections on a rather unfortunate current relationship between Russia and USA, in the same vein as I did in my last essay regarding England.
First, here is my brief feedback on those three essays’ commentary.
Quite a lot of comments were highly informative and also supportive in what one was trying to say; quite a few provided the necessary backgrounds and the all-important details; there were also those who were trying to show off some knowledge but unfortunately totally missed the whole point; on the other hand, we also had a few that were attempting to discredit the author by any possible means. Difficult to know what motivates and compels these people to act in such a way. Here, someone who took the trouble to analyse and then write something about the subject that concerns them, not doing a full blown historical or whatever essay, just trying to highlight some concerns and to share those with, hopefully, some intelligent readers. And immediately we will have some people here who would be vying among themselves to pull the author down. Why? What are you hoping to archive? Is it the lack of understanding, the lack of manners, the lack of self-confidence, the sheer mendacity or just trying to prove something? What is it? This site is all about analysing the current events and providing some answers. In my opinion those who can take in the offered piece of writing, understand its context and can respond with some degree of intelligence by providing some valid and knowledgeable comments, need to be here. We want to learn a lot more of what is going on in our world and this is a great forum for it. As for the rest of you, the likes of CNN, WaPo, NYT, BBC, etc would do you just fine. For the closed minds to be reinforced by daily propaganda from the above-mentioned media outlets, would be perfect for supporting your attitudes.
What is obvious with those people – if any incoming information does not fit with these ingrained attitudes, that information will be totally ignored, mocked, and dismissed. Sadly, we see it here again and again.
Let’s move on.
Here is the main subject – relations between two global superpowers. (And this one, without any doubt, will also have those commentators showing lots of their ingrained attitudes. Let’s hope some stuff might actually sink in).
For a start, those relations between Russia and USA have NOT been based on unresolvable animosity as exists between Russia and England, on the contrary, USA and Russia were firm allies in the past, right from the beginning. As I have already pointed out in one of my comments, Russia was totally behind the fledging USA in their fight for independence. Russian Tsar Alexander even sent a naval task force to block the English troops heading for America’s shores. Russia has helped a GREAT deal in America’s fight to get its independence from the English Crown. Not that you will find any of that in your “history” books now. What’s more, for a very long time that relationship was friendly and cooperative.
During WWII Russia and USA were close allies once again, this time help was coming from the other side. Russia very much needed the essential supplies in their fight with Nazi Germany and that help came at the right time from one of their closest neighbours, USA. There is only less than 90 km, about 50 or so miles between those two. That’s about the length of the Bering Strait, between Russia and Alaska. Many people forget that.
Now let’s look at the USA from the beginning of the 20th Century. By then some of that country’s vital organs were already taken over by this Anglo Zionist cancer. The Great Depression, at the beginning, was a planned destruction by that very same Banking Cabal that I had described in my previous piece. US recovered from that horror show thanks to some outstanding Presidents that Americans were very fortunate to have at the time. After WWII, the US economy absolutely boomed, as the rest of the world was laying in ruins and needing everything they could get to recover and to re-build, USA was there to provide, but of course at the price. Some of those countries were still paying that debt LONG after the war.
In US, 50s and 60s were the GOLDEN years. It produced great stuff. Even now, when my husband and I need to buy some tool, I would first look for a second-hand one that was made in USA – these were absolutely awesome in their quality and longevity. It was then that the USA was at its best . Unfortunately, they had spoilt a lot of that with their Korean and Vietnam wars.. sadly.
Then came the 70s – the Hippy Era, with drugs and sexual freedoms and from then on, the rot has established itself and then taken hold of that great country. I am saying “great”, for despite its rather unsavoury beginning, starting with the genocide and then slavery – since then it has tried to make up for it to some degree, well, at least, tried. Blacks in USA have been given every opportunity to advance themselves, unfortunately the lack of motivation on their part was not the white Americans fault. Doesn’t matter how those blacks are trying to spin this now – the self-reflection is the hardest thing. One can only help those who want to help themselves. They haven’t shown that.
Here, for simplicity sake, I would call the US citizens “Americans”, with no disrespect to other Americans, in the south and the north.
As people, the Americans, well, the ones that I have met, were quite genuine, open and friendly, with a good sense of humour- much like the Russians in that respect. Stuff that interested them they knew very well and in depth, although they did possess a very American view on the world affairs, but willing to listen to the alternatives to these views. We had no problems whatsoever in communicating, resulting in having a mutual regard and respect.
Why is it so difficult now to do that between the two nations?!
But let’s continue.
Russia, in the 70s had largely escaped that Hippy Era, being very much under the very strict Socialist Communist control. But there were some other major developments appearing – after decades of such oppression people wanted to have some freedoms – to write and to say what they wanted, to express themselves, without being censored or prosecuted, to have some say in the matters that affected their lives, and also, of course, to see the rest of the world. In Russia that rot had set in for the ENTIRE SYSTEM that was in power at that time.
The late 70s and 80s was a strange decade. Lots of thing were obviously happening under the surface but in the visible part it was rather uneventful. No great culture-social movements, the only exception was the appearance of the ghastly Punk Era, thankfully, a short one. Music scene was also rather uninspiring with just a handful of outstanding talents, like Queen, ABBA, Michael Jackson and a few others. (Here I would probably have an avalanche of rebuttals from those for whom that was their time. That’s all right, as long as you had the good times in those days. : )
But things were happening, the mood was changing.
The late 80s-early 90s had suddenly seen the collapse of USSR, something no-one was expecting, thanks to a few traitors, like Gorbachev and Yeltsin plus some others in that power structure. After 75 years it had basically run its course and had to be replaced with something else. People wanted something different. But what? No-one knew.
Enter the USA’s willing and highly motivated “helpers”! Thousands of them poured in – company executives, “experts”, “advisers”, banking specialists, business managers, you name it –they were ALL there. Bringing Instant Capitalism!
Buying Soviet-built industry, resource production, like oil and gas, mines, etc for pennies – everything they could lay their greedy and grubby hands on was looted in this way. Aided and abetted by local scum, feverishly helping themselves to all of that as well, to become the so-called “Russian oligarchs”, with lots of them immediately running to the West with their stolen loot.
With American (read cabal) “help” the new Russian Constitution was duly written, where Russia, obviously, did not have much say in their own national interests. And, of course, the setup of the Central Bank, to control it all! For them it ALL came true at last – their old wet dream has suddenly been realised. Russia was under their control. Or so they though.
These were the terrible 90s in Russia, when it was on its knees, in the gutter, raped, robbed and abused..
In this dire and practically hopeless situation appears a relatively young man, an ex KGB Colonel, who slowly and carefully, over the years, nurses Russia back to health, being surrounded by dedicated group of Russian patriots. This remarkable man has all the necessary skills and abilities that were absolutely needed at that time. His name is Vladimir Putin.
In 90s in Russia, it was a dangerous time. The vultures were not ready to abandon their feeding frenzy – our Colonel had to be extremely careful, smart and clever among that lot and had to be well protected. The vultures sensed the threat.
Add to this the purposely instigated war in Chechnia and the destruction of the “Kursk” submarine, and the young President had an incredible lot on his plate, right from the start.
He had to make that start by seemingly playing along, to a point, with those that managed to get to some levers of power and control at the time, and then slowly, but surely he eliminated all of them from there, one by one. In the West it is known as ”draining the swamp”. He actually did that!
In Russia at present, no State Power or Control belongs to any of the so-called “oligarchs”- they are allowed to have ownership in some business enterprises (paying their taxes of course), but absolutely no power in top political structures. There are a few leftover liberals who still want to hang on to the western idea for Russia, but these people are very much marginalised now. Russia is a democracy not a dictatorship, in Parliament there are quite a few different flavours of various politicians, some quite colourful and entertaining, but the man in charge absolutely knows what he is doing.
The Russian President’s very first task was to re-build Russia’s military power, which he has done truly spectacularly. Russia is now several generations ahead of the rest of the world in its military capabilities. The Russian Constitution has been reviewed and necessary changes made through the people’s referendum. The economy is growing and so are the gold reserves. Next on the list will be the Central Bank, the globalist’s last hook that is still in Russia’s body. Believe me, VVP is working on that as we speak. All takes time. He is against a very powerful and evil entity that wants to be in an absolute control. Careful steps needed.
He is the President of the biggest country on the planet, with 11 time zones, a vast number of nationalities, with infrastructures that other countries cannot even imagine, he has former soviet republics taken over by the western interests that are trying to cause him as much headache there as they possibly can, good examples are Georgia and Ukraine. They are also trying to whip up as much Russophobia as possible, as well as doing other nefarious things, such as building Biolabs. He has an on-going military operation in Syria to eliminate the remnants of ISIS terrorists, which are still being supported and supplied by various players. He had to protect Belarus from the same fate as befell Ukraine, he has the deluded and “ the loose cannon” Turk to deal with, the pathetic EU quislings with their constant inane verbiage, and now he has another instigated war in South Caucuses.
For those who wonder why Russia is having so much trouble with the former Soviet Republics the answer is very simple. These, at the time of USSR break-up, had enthusiastically embraced their newly-found “independence from Russia” thinking that now they can be the ”little kingdoms” with their own “little king”, which is wonderful for one’s ego. Until then, as Dmitry Orlov had wryly observed, they were ”14 greedy little piglets” suckling on emaciated sow, Russia. Once that teat was taken away from them, they were left to fend for themselves and since such was obviously impossible to do – having their own “little kingdoms” and nothing to feed on, they all ran to look for a replacement teat, which was readily offered by the West. With lots of strings attached, obviously. In my previous essay I have already described what these former republics had become since then, so I will not repeat it here, but just to make a point–Russia does not interfere in their affairs, as far as Russia is concerned they are well and truly on their own. There is, of course, a high price to pay for the ungratefulness and the betrayal and that is something that all of them are paying now. Also, sometimes a hard lesson has to be learnt. I believe they are slowly learning that lesson.
At present, any Russian military involvements in these former Republics would be the absolute last resort, I have already explained what a provocation is.
On top of it all the Russian President is also facing the Anglo Zionist Cabal, with their agenda. And that agenda is to start a war with Russia; he is not giving them that chance, as the consequences for the world would be unthinkable. Through all of this he is holding steady and is in control. Meantime, he has re-built his Russia from the ruins, back to being a superpower once again.
Many in the West cannot understand or see that, as their MSM is feeding them something else with regard to Russia. Even here, on this site, we still have some people who are simply incapable of any comprehension as to what the Russian President has to deal with. To them he is either “not doing things fast enough” o,r not doing what they expected him to do, so, “he must be weak” or even some kind of the “western sell-out” then. Really!? Having closed minds has never been a great attribute.
Meantime in USA, there was a different kind of “fun and games” being played on those poor Americans by that very same Cabal. The late 80s – early 90s had also seen quite a lot of changes for US of A. This is when the cabal had decided it was the right time to take over the West’s mass media and education. The Cold War was over, Russia was not in position to be a serious opponent on the global chessboard anymore so, they made their move.
Some people, being adults in that time, no doubt will remember the sudden changes taking place in the large media organisations and what’s more, corporations, appearance of new cable networks, amalgamations, takeovers, sacking of journalists, editors, even directors – it was all happening at once, in USA, in UK, in Europe..
In schools, there suddenly appeared lots of new teachers and subjects, for example something called “social studies” and similar ones that were being introduced, and the subjects that actually gave kids some proper knowledge were taken out and replaced with this weird stuff.
Following that development, (and again some people might remember), was a sudden wave of most disturbing and strange accusations from the kids that their parents had sexually abused them in some ways. Lots of parents had been put through hell at the time. This is what THIS EVIL was doing to those kid’s brains. That was just the beginning, after three decades of such “education” we now have at least two generations of the horrendously brain/mind damaged people, unable to think objectively or even rationally, not looking for facts, unable to have a debate or even effectively communicate with each other face to face. They have been turned into something that can only be described as, yes.. sheeple or even zombies. No other words for them. Looking at them, everyone is with that phone in hand, either lost in that screen or holding that phone above the head to film something so that later they can post that on their FB or Twitter account. All of them doing that, all at the same time, as if some invisible power is controlling them. Which it is.
It is actually quite scary to think that this is the future generations that will soon be in “charge”.
For the Cabal, owing this Mass Media, it is now relatively easy for them to control and manipulate those minds, where they can get them instantly out on the streets, protesting or demonstrating against whatever, (as in “colour revolutions”), most of them probably wouldn’t even know why, but that doesn’t matter. It is that herd mentality.
Such total control of Mass Media also allows this Cabal to easily shape people’s perceptions on various situations and happenings in this world, let alone on issues back in the good old USA. How many Americans think that Iran is their enemy, that Russia is an even bigger enemy and now so is China? Unfortunately, I would say, quite a lot. Where do these perceptions come from? The MSM. All pervasive, powerful, unrelenting. The brainwashing goes on non-stop. Russia has been demonized to such an extent where it is now being made out to be some kind of caricature – on one hand, an all-powerful evil entity that can control your lives and even “influence your elections”, it is “an aggressor, invading Ukraine and annexing it’s territories”, it is planning to “control Europe through its energy supplies there”, “ it’s “bombing sick little children in hospitals in Syria”, but at the same time it is also nothing more than “a gas station masquerading as a country”, “its economy is going down the drain” and “its military is a joke” – all that sounds familiar? This Cabal must be thinking that Americans are absolutely dumb, ignorant and stupid morons, since they continue to feed them this garbage day after day. EVERY SINGLE THING they hear about Russia, or any other country that is supposed to be an enemy of US is a mind-numbing, made-up BS, which is being fed to them CONSTANTLY, and lots of them are swallowing this stinking pigswill. I assume that most of them don’t know any better and I actually feel sorry for them, being subjected to this kind of cruel mental tyranny. No other way to describe it – one can honestly feel sympathy for them as it is obviously very hard to shake yourself awake from that constant, induced, long-term stupor. We can only hope.
Here are few more words that I want to say, this time to the Americans – Russia, as I have said before, is NOT your enemy and never has been, all it wants from you is to STOP this aggressive posturing and provocations – that is not going to end well. Not for the Americans, not for anyone else in this world. Just stop it!
If this insane, deranged doctrine of “maximum pressure” and “containment” (!?) continues towards Russia, Russia will eventually respond. Those imbecilic “Dr Strangelove” characters, that should have been removed from the so-called “administration” long ago, are recklessly and stupidly provoking a very powerful, nuclear armed country and guess what is going to happen to YOUR country when that line is crossed. You, Americans, need to stop these madmen who actually BELIEVE that they can win a war against Russia!! Stop them before it’s too late. You had a great tradition of demonstrating against US instigated wars around the world – bring back that tradition. Right now this is needed more than ever!
You can also go out on the streets and demand that the mind-boggling, trillions of $ worth of military spending budget be spent on adequate health care, on crumbling infrastructure, on proper education, on re-building your economy, reducing massive unemployment (what figures you are fed there is another BS) and to reduce the hardships for the families that lots of them will be facing after this scamdemic is over. This is YOUR MONEY.
The world’s big hope is for US to get itself back to what it used to be. By that, to be once again, just another country on this our planet, the country that looks after its own interests and its own well-being, without trying to control all the others. Not being the world’s belligerent Hegemon that nobody wants and everyone hates. (You, Americans, have no idea just how much you are absolutely hated and despised around the world.)
If there is a will there is a way. Surely you must still have some honest politicians left there who love their country and who have not sold themselves to the Zionists. Commissions that can be set up to clean out your Banking and Wall Street rackets – the way it was done before. Cooperating, trading and dealing with the rest of the world in good faith and with good intentions, without any demands or impositions – you might even get some genuine allies at last, instead of having nothing but pathetic vassals. Closing hundreds(!) of your military bases all around the world and bringing these men back home to their families. Most imperative is to stop this deranged, insane and extremely dangerous “POWER PROJECTION” all around the globe. Tell us what is that all about, for Christ’s sake?! That will bring you nothing but grief.
Both Russia and China have embarked on a great journey of good will cooperation with mutual benefits, also for all of those that want to join in, and my absolute belief is that you, Americans, will do very well by joining them on that journey, as an equal partner. It is THE future for this world.
In conclusion I will repeat it once again – we ALL have ONE COMMON ENEMY, the parasite that needs to be destroyed before it destroys all of us. We must stop fighting among ourselves and concentrate our efforts towards THAT.
May God help us and give us the strength we need for the task.
Good essay. Let me add that regarding Trump, myself not being American, it was not at all clear in 2016 how it is possible that standing USA President is exposed to such unprecedented levels of hate and scorn in practically all mass media. Together with his wife, children…Nobody was spared, I remember reading “liberal” media opinion, that his child Barron Trump will grow to be a rapist (like his dad and all that…). Also free flow of secret information from administration, even conversations with President on important state tasks, to media and Trump opponents, where nobody seems to have been punished, in spite of USA having pretty effective legal system regarding state secrecy. Not to mention dark signs of Kennedy-like demise , when secret services heads openly contradicted Trump and showed clear disrespect to a guy who is their boss, actually.
That Trump indeed is lumbering idiot, liar, womanizer, without morals, thief, vulgar fool-it was clear that was not it. Many American presidents were worse in all those regards- and many were even war criminals and mass murderers, which Trump is not.
It became clear to me, that only but only reason for establishment wanting to get rid of that guy was that maybe in the beginning, he had , to some extent, at least some, unclear, nascent plans that MAYBE he is going to reduce USA military presence across the planet, agressions, demonizing of “rogue countries”, and that maybe he even wanted to improve relations with Russia.
It was enough for entity Americans call Deep State to treat him as mortal enemy. For some time I had been sure Trump was going to be assasinated. Sure, then he changed tune, killed Soleimani, showed allegiance….
Mind you, I am not saying that he is a good president, leader, honest, etc…I am no expert on American politics. But I truly think if he was a war-starting maniac, establishment would be perfectly content with him.
“But I truly think if he was a war-starting maniac, establishment would be perfectly content with him.”
Correct!
Congratulations, Igor for keeping your balance on the Strategic High Wire…………where the slightest breeze throws a great many into panicked misjudgment, loss of ALL patience and balance…cynicism……..and costly errors of judgment….in order to seek company and comfort…….with other poor souls, doing more or less the same…..fundamentally out of fear….and herd or flock……….mentality.
As profiled by the Empire Masters of Discourse.
Who also penetrate the Alt-Media, of course.
According to Harley Schlanger, who has been immune to such “popular” stampede’s for more than a half century (he’s over 70 and was engaged in this fight fulltime, right out of college) Trump and Putin have spoken several times in the last 2 weeks………..and nuclear arms limitation treaty negotiations right after Red Wave November 2020………….plus cooling out Azerbaijan-Armenia-Turkey NATO intrigues and the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh ………… was their main, joint concern, he asserts. According to this, of just a few days ago:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DKaI8yRLjHji/
Completely agree with Katerina about the our friendship with Russia during the WWII years. My dad was in the US Army and was one of those American soldiers who met with the Russians at the Elbe in 1945. They were truly comrades in arms at that point. Sadly, the relationship went downhill from there. He came home and worked in a paper mill in northern Wisconsin until he retired in the late 1970s. That was truly a wonderful time to be working class with pensions, medical care, vacations, etc.
The 1980s began the decades-long neoliberal process of dismantling US industries and sending those good-paying jobs to China. The paper mill he worked in was taken apart piece by piece and the machinery shipped to China where there were no environmental regulations and labor was cheap. It was the end of the American Dream and the beginning of the new American Nightmare…
That’s why I wanted to see Trump elected the year that he in fact was, although it was pretty clear even then that he lacked refinement and had an ego the size of Los Angeles. I figured he would be a much better choice than Hillary – God, anything but that – and would be much less likely to start a major war, yes. But more than anything else, I wanted him to get across that line because I wanted to see the cycle of leaders exclusively from the political class broken – the old families like the Bushes and the Clintons, where it is assumed the children will go into politics and they are groomed early to avoid behaviors and events which might be used against them years or decades from now when they are campaigning. The practice stinks of entitlement and the casual assumption of the mantle of leadership, and I wanted to see that cycle upended. And it was, although Trump was not a success. I expected he would be a bit of a buffoon, but that his weakness in foreign policy was actually an asset as he would be less likely to sign on to regime change and wars of choice. Unfortunately, he was a disappointment on trade, winning lots of short-term satisfaction with his ‘deals’, but bullying former allies in a manner which will not be forgotten by future administrations and the populations of those countries.
For whatever reason or combination of reasons, the experiment was a decisive failure, and it will be an easy matter for the political class to argue against ever electing a working-class president again during our lifetimes, although Trump was always a wealthy man and it’s difficult to describe him as truly ‘working class’. But future leaders of the USA will be from the class which is born to politics, and never really does anything else, just as they have been for generations.
Mark, I completely understand where you’re coming from. The working class in the USA has been superseded by the political class, pretending to support working people while all the time promoting rule by the oligarchs. It is hardly a democracy at this point and we are cursed with the choice between the lesser of two evils. This will only change with the whole corrupt system going down. We will have to get local, with local production for local consumption with local sovereign money and local public banking This is already happening with the new Belt and Road Initiative. The AngloZionist Empire is dead and gone, only problem is… They have nukes.
One of the reasons Churchill was defeated in the post-war election was due to the people recognizing what “Uncle Joe” and the Soviet Union did in WWII.
Being an American who refused to vote in 2016 (first time in 60 years I refused to vote) nor will I vote this time around for the simple reason it will change nothing for there is no one to vote for,Trump has his problems he likes to be stroked like a cat,his oversize ego gets in his way, and Biden’s nothing but a political hack who has years of beholding to other parties.
As far as his cry about the so called deep states, all presidents have had to contend with it,Ike when he had a conference coming up with the Russian leader had ordered all U2 flights canceled, but the CIA ordered a U2 fight and in the plane were numerous espionage equipment and papers which were never in a U2 plane before.that of course was the Francis Power flight which was shot down by Russia and was the end of the up coming conference,the only question did someone in the CIA tip off the Russians as to his flight pattern.Nixon who had a meeting with North Vietnam in Paris saw that canceled when the CIA put out false information on subjects that would be covered and would not be followed thru on,then of course you had the murder of JFK which many believe was a CIA operation as tools of the 1% which are the deep pocket boys.So yes all president have had their trouble with the so called deep state but yet managed to still get their programs thru,rather then whining and crying false news, false news as he does nothing.
He has said nothing about the large poverty problem there is in the U.S. the ever growing homeless problem the huge difference between the income of the working class and the the top percent,the jobs still flowing out of the country while they continue to increase the budget for the MIC and the trillions he dumped into the financial system to protect their wealth,and in a recent survey 56%of those surveyed stated that this government and its institution no longer works for them which in itself is a problem.!!!
“there is no one to vote for,Trump has his problems he likes to be stroked like a cat,his oversize ego gets in his way, and Biden’s nothing but a political hack who has years of beholding to other parties.”
Deng Xiao Ping “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.” It doesn’t matter if you have are left or right, capitalistic or socialist, or “democratic” or “authoritarian” government, what matters is if you deliver good governance for the people.
US is such a fertile garden full of radishes and turnips yet sadly there is no comedy on any of the major US networks. Is it true that a diet of carrots and drinking only white turnip maliu float has the side effect of hormonal imbalance as well as an increased desire for cameras, My short video on the ‘Lesser of Two Weevils’:
https://youtu.be/j0Bm9dOL-Wc http://www.cowdisley.com/videos/twoweevils.mp4
I have been playing with the idea of “the lesser of two evils”, but in my conscience I cannot vote for anyone of the two candidates…..the lesser of two evil is nevertheless EVIL! and NOTHING GOOD can come from evil. This is the foundation of Moral Theology in Catholic ethics.
Hi Katerina:
Excellent article! You should be aware that the media is owned and operated by the JEWS. Here is a detailed list of their names and positions. The stories and info we get from the media are fed to us by the Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople_in_media#Newspapers_and_publishing
Good luck and may God bless you.
Steven
To Steven Beresford
My dear Steven, I am well aware of that! Have been pointing that out for a while now. Thank you!
Katerina
Excellent article, as the previous ones. I would like to add a few points:
You have stated “USA and Russia were firm allies in the past, right from the beginning”. Well, not quite. This “alliance” was insincere, as in 1776 the North American colonies simply changed masters, from being controlled by the English Crown to control being taken over by the Rothschild’s, whose five pointed star is on the US flag. The Rothschild’s always finance both sides, like in 1776, when they financed both the English Crown and freemason George Washington. Russian support in 1776 was accepted, as it helped Washington take over the colonies on behalf of the Rothschild’s (not that Russia was aware of this, of course).
In 1861 the Rothschild’s financed the Confederacy, when they decided that having two entities on the territory of the US was more prudent than having one, as then they could more easily control both. Russia again gave it’s support, but this time the Rothschild’s were not amused. They have Lincoln assassinated, and later on his friend and ally Tsar Alexander as well. Why ? Because of two reasons. Tsar Alexander was very impressed with Lincoln introducing a Government controlled dollar, something the Rothschild’s wanted to prevent, as they wanted sole control of currencies in every country.
The second reason was that Lincoln and Tsar Alexander were on the way of establishing a Russian-American economic and political partnership, which would have been a deadly threat to the British Empire. Had this partnership been established, then you would not have had two world wars and all the wars which came after that, including the Russian “revolution” before them all. The bankers wanted the US to be used as an anti-Russian weapon. Why so much vilification of Trump by the Zionist corporate media in the US ? The bankers and US corporations are afraid that Trump could succeed where Lincoln failed, and he failed only because he was assassinated. Don’t forget that the Russian “revolution” was financed and backed by Zionist bankers, who after World War One financed a certain character by the name of Adolf Hitler, and they did so by opening the Bank of International Settlements in 1931 in Basel, right next to the German border. The bankers received solid help from US corporations, who invested in German industry. Well, as we know, Hitler failed, just like Napoleon, who was also banker controlled and financed (the largest armies Napoleon and Hitler raised were used against Russia, which bankers wanted invaded and broken up). After World War Two NATO took over from Hitler.
As for Vladimir Putin, I am simply amazed by what he achieved. In the 1990’s I met Russians, who told me that it remained to be seen if Russia would survive, or if it would break up. I can tell you that I was extremely worried of Russia breaking up, as I knew what that would have meant for Serbia, where I live. Luckily Russian patriots came to the political scene. They offered Yeltsin a deal: If he accepted VVP as a replacement, then he would not be prosecuted for treason. Yeltsin agreed, and the deal was honored. The rest is history. Putin saved Russia and brought her back to the status of a super power. If only I could have all the details of how he managed all that, which is just incredible. And yes, the West will constantly try to subvert him, like the latest comedy with Navalny, but it’s not working. The only thing that worries me is who is going to be Putin’s replacement. Apparently the West is working on that, too.
Some years back descendants of the Romanov’s, who live in the West, started returning to Russia, specifically to Crimea. The moment I read that, I understood what was going on. This “project” was unquestionally a joint MI6-CIA endeavor, who were preparing for the post-Putin period. The Romanov descendants were brought back just in case Russia reinstated the monarchy. And of course they were ‘housed’ in Crimea, to prove that they are ‘patriotic’ Russians (a cheap psychological stunt). I fear that this Anglo-American venture, placing a Trojan Horse in power, will fail. The rumor over here in Serbia is that the Russian Orthodox Church has already picked a Romanov, born and raised in Russia. No doubt you will be more informed on the matter than I will.
Finally, you have stated that “The world’s big hope is for US to get itself back to what it used to be … Surely you must still have some honest politicians left there who love their country and who have not sold themselves to the Zionists”. Alas, it’s virtually impossible for your honest wish to be materialized. The Zionist control of the US began in 1776, to be solidified over the 19th and 20th centuries, when the Zionists took control of the US media and introduced the Federal Reserve, a private central bank. The HQ of the freemasons is in Washington DC, and it controls the politicians and Government institutions. The media has turned many Americans into anti-Russians. Worse for the US, it does not possess Russia’s history and traditions, which contributed to Russia surviving the 1990’s. Americas culture is based on West European cultures, with many alterations. This culture could not assimilate all the ethnic groups in the US, as proved by the 1861-1865 civil war, provoked by the Rothschild’s, who were aided by the fact that the culture in the Confederacy was basically Celtic, while the culture in the North was basically Germanic. As the old saying in the US goes, ethnic groups in the US do not live together, only side by side. The current riots in the US are proof of this. Worse, the huge transfer of wealth to the US elite during the last 20-30 years has only made the situation volatile, as it has increased the gap between the rich and poor, creating social tensions. The secessionist movements will make the situation even worse.
Analysts and commentators are stating that the social and political situation will explode after November 3rd, no matter who wins the elections. Prognosis is made that we shall see either severe political, social and ethnic disturbances, or civil war. Well, something will happen. We shall see what exactly will happen and to what extent it will happen. Поздрав.
Well stated and spot on! This coming from an American.
The end of this essay is wishful thinking
American elite will NEVER stop this strategy, behavior and this way thinking
They will continue this lunacy and they will end with this only when America completely go to hell, into garbage bin of history.
There is not any hope that western and especially American and British elite will ever come to their senses.
They simply think that they have right to rule the world, the right given to them by God himself.
And they think that anyone who stands in their way has to be destroyed
And the rest of the world can only pray God that American elite will not take entire world to abyss with them
Bosnian Croat: “They simply think that they have right to rule the world, the right given to them by God himself”
Ever heard the saying: “Pride comes before a fall”?
We’ll witness the dissolution of the USA in our lifetimes – indeed its been prophesied decades ago
Regards
I commented on a similar post regarding Bolivia … shortened:
When a country reaches a point where no political figure can command the population and the breakdown of law and order is a threat to national security the choice is between a continued oligarcy (with the support of the military) or a military takeover. In the case of the USA that would make General Mark Alexander Milley Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a major player. At 62 Milley is due to retire. Milley has sufficient medals to prevent his survival should he fall into a swimming pool. He is not alone in that regard as most high ranking US military non-combat officers would also suffer a similar fate.
https://youtu.be/rR786qcBUaY http://www.cowdisley.com/videos/coup.mp4
To Bosnian Croats
We are not appealing to the American elite. We are appealing to the American People. What is totally underestimated is the wrath of these that have been completely disinfranchised and subjugated over many years. That wrath is coming and make no mistake..
Russia helped the US during it’s struggles with England. England dreamed up ‘communisim’ then set the Bolshivicks to task, begining with the assassination of the Tzar. Pay back? That ‘england’ has issues with Russia is well known, as to the reasons why……..both kings were related……..familia dispute? That’s my oversimplification following the KISS principle…………..but the Puritins are still in controll of the US and we know where they came from ‘pilgrim’…………..said with a Marion Morrison drawl.
Cheers, great read btw, hopefully not the last from you.
Lol, Marion Morrison. That rings a bell. You wouldn’t be referring to John Wayne would you?
guilty……………wasn’t sure anyone would catch it………….cheers:)
In this one, which I promise to be the very LAST of my essays[…]
You need to break this promise, because your content is very interesting! :-)
Thank you. It is always good to hear truth.
Excellent essay once again, Katerina. You’ve nailed down all the main points very succinctly. However, I think you’re a little overly optimistic when it comes to this point:
Surely you must still have some honest politicians left there who love their country and who have not sold themselves to the Zionists. Commissions that can be set up to clean out your Banking and Wall Street rackets – the way it was done before.
Sad to say, but I think we’ve already achieved critical mass in the Zionist takeover. Not only have they completely taken over every critical lever of power in the U.S., they’re already implementing legislation to ensure that it’s illegal for even private citizens to challenge them publicly in any way, all backed up by the now ubiquitous financial sanctions that are already so familiar to those who dare to challenge them overseas. This pretty much ensures that any wayward politicians with an actual backbone who might challenge them will be locked out, much as any successful malignancy first hijacks and then eliminates the immune system of its host. Ditto for Wall Street and the banking rackets as well, of course. The plan this time is to crash the host currency altogether and reorganize it under globalist auspices, so the hyperinflation – this time smartly largely confined to asset prices and critical commodities such as healthcare – is actually a feature, not a bug. Their ultimate goal is to remake society the world over into something much smaller, leaner, more efficient, more profitable (of course!), and more controllable.
Is the situation therefore hopeless altogether? No, I don’t think it is, although one should most definitely not underestimate the tremendous struggle ahead to unseat it. What I do think is that it’s going to require plentiful amounts of external “assistance” to rid the U.S. of it’s a Zionist infestation, and by that I mean warfare, as the Zionist scum are definitely not going to go down peacefully. Make no mistake about it, this will be an existential struggle for the future of mankind, which, unfortunately once again, only one side is currently preparing for (the wrong side).
Will the U.S. ever get back to “what it used to be?” No, and thank god for that (truth is it was always in the state of becoming what it is right now), but with a little luck and a whole lot of courage and perseverance it might one day become something much better.
You’re onto the “great reset” that Katarina was writing about. The only way that the USA can become a “normal” nation again is to disavow the “chosenness” that springs from Zionism and to do as Peter Koenig says, “de-dollarize and de-globalize and turn to local production for local consumption with local sovereign money and local public banking, directed by a sovereign local central bank that works for the socioeconomic wellbeing of her country’s people, not for the faraway shareholders of a Wall Street or internationally affiliated banks.” But, the AngloZionist Empire will not go peacefully into that dark night.
My only hope is that they will not resort to WWIII as an option, that the Zionists and Likudniks who now surround Trump will not avail themselves of an attack on Iran and Russia which would be catastrophic. They talk like they have a hard-on for Armageddon, that transformative apocalyptic war that will be the end of civilization as we know it, but to them not be a bad thing. How crazy is that? May Heaven help us all…
Yep. Gaining control over the U.S. nukes and all their other WMDs will be of the highest priority. And yes, Armageddon has long been an infatuation for the Zionists, or at least the threat thereof. I have no doubt that they’ll use whatever means at their disposal either (ahem… 9-11, anyone?); as for the Zionists, even more than the rest of us, this is an existential struggle. Dedicated extremists like this can’t be negotiated or reasoned with, they can only be utterly defeated. It will be a multi-generational battle.
To Disaffected
Wishing the US will get back to “what it used to be” was meant for it to become once again just another country in our small world, NOT trying to be the world’s aggressive and unwanted HEGEMON. The hope is for the average Americans to have the fog cleared and be able at last to see what needs to be done to actually survive. Russians after 90s came back from abyss, I see no reason why Americans would not be able to do that as well, as right now they are staring into that same abyss. Human spirit and especially survival spirit is increadibly strong in most people, regardless in what country they live in. Americans absolutely deserve better as most of them are actually decent, hard-working, smart people, caring for their families and wanting a better future for their children. As we all..
Katerina,
Congratulations on another great essay. I surely hope that it is not your last.
‘Wishing the US will get back to “what it used to be” was meant for it to become once again just another country in our small world’
My analysis is that this is what Trump is trying to do in his efforts to isolate the U.S. Isolation is the first necessary step in order to repair their country, and for the U.S. to become once again what it used to be.
But the ‘Cabal’, as you refer to them, will never allow this. For the ‘Cabal”, losing power is suicide. And the ‘Cabal’ has no plans of going down alone. They will take the whole country down before ceding power.
I do see a reason and it is called, health.
The health of a nation determines its ability to sustain its self over a long period of time, the health of the nation probably peaked in the 80’s and once driven off track, has had a slow yet steady decline from which it can not instantly reverse.
Chavez, the former president of Venezuela, gave Obama a book : “The Open Veins of Latin America,” by Eduardo Galeano. I recommend that book to anyone on this blog , including Katarina, who thinks that America was any less imperialistic than the English, French and the Spanish. They were just as brutal. WWII was an attempt by Britain to save her Empire but it bankrupted her so America took over where Britain left off and it’s been as bloody as the past. .
Disaffected,
Excellent analysis. One hopes your guarded optimism about a future U.S. (and hence future world) is merited.
Katerina this is a wonderful article on so many levels, I have one paragraph that I would love to see you rethink.
Black Americans like Native Americans Have never had equal opportunity! Natives were slaughtered or had biological warfare used on them, they were removed from their lands and dumbed in the most inhospitable places in the US.( these were the real prison camps vs the so called chinese camps) Their children were removed and put into horrific boarding schools where they were abused. These are kids of my generation! Black americans were removed from their homes, dragged across the ocean loosing many before ever landing on these shores then sold off. Women who became pregnant would raise their kids to the age of 7 then were sold off. Women were regularly raped by their white masters. No families lived together. The end of Slavery was no end. This was just the beginning of the police force who would arrest freed blacks for any cooked up charge and they would be put into forced labor. In case you are unaware this is a practice still occurring to this day just ask Kamala Harris. Black americans had their families ripped apart for generations and the assumption that they are choosing their road now is wrong. You would do well to talk to average black americans. Black men on average are stopped by police once a month for no reason or bs reasons that a white would not experience. The terror that black men in particular experience growing up is on going. When young black men start going to school they have to think about where they walk( not through a white neighborhood), how they dress, how they walk. Then at school they have to think about where they sit and where they look and what they say. They have to avoid police at all times and to this day they have to be careful of white women. To brush black people off as not pulling up their boot straps is really being ignorant of the life of average black families in america, who’s schools our massively underfunded. Who often have no healthcare, who often are discriminated in housing and jobs. The thing that amazes me the most is that people think you can go through generation after generation of not having family, being slaves then indentured servants not being aloud in white businesses or public bathrooms and then in one generation just step up and be like every white person. This thinking sadly adds to the ongoing horror most black americans under go on a daily bases. They are not treated equally to this day.
Other then that I think your article is wonderful and would add that my great uncle spent time helping in Russia during the famine, he and the other americans that were their, all loved their time some even staying on to live.
Susan, my lady, would you care to tell us where you were raised and roughly when? Your description does not match my eyes on growing up in Deep South. Our area was too poor to have ‘separate but equal’ education systems so we all went to the same school, we all knew each other, colour didn’t matter, we were friends, we worked together and when a family fell on hard times colour didn’t matter either, everyone helped everyone, we just didn’t intermarry.
As a reminder, slavery ended before the ‘War of Northern Aggression’, as the locals, black and white, call it, ended, and our little village graveyard to this day has headstones and markers for those who fought the Yankees during the war and when the Yankees came to our village. Everyone knows who fought and everyone knows who was white and who was black in the fighting and it don’t matter to any of us. If my memory is correct, the youngest who died fighting the Yankees was 9 years. Why would it matter to you?
Auslander
Author http://rhauslander.com/
He Auslander,
I live on the west coast, but was raised in the Midwest and lived on the east coast, my husband grew up in the Deep South, lived on the east coast and west coast. Both of us lived in Asia with our kids. I bet if you spoke to many of the black kids you grew up with you would hear a different view. My experience in the south was racism was very much on the surface. My husband would say: you know who is racist in the south but on the west coast it is just as bad but more subtle. My daughters fiancé would tell you it is an every day experience where ever you are in America. Yes “slavery “ended a long time ago Indentured servitude prison free labor, white only, ended in my life time. The prison pipe line is on going if you take a look at Kamala and her record on the prison pipeline you will see the on going push for free labor. Biden a segregationist running for president. What I am really asking here is for us white people to stop the pull it up by the boot straps BS until you understand from a black person in particular a male how easy it is. When for a good part of 400 years Black families have been ripped apart raped, slaughtered, beaten, shot for minor crimes where white kids would have been driven home and reprimanded treated as second class, and we this in one generation all that is gone and they should have no problems. I think if you sit down and really listen to Black americans and what life is like really listen you would see people who are in constant fear.
Susan,
my observations are just as you describe. In health care it is covered up, but nevertheless strong racism. I was personally witness – as a eminent doctor commented to me -we were alone on the elevator and the door opened on a floor and nobody came in, but in that moment we saw a black janitor woman, scrubbing the floor early in the morning, – the elevator door closed and the eminent doctor, after whom an institute has been named, said to me quote “good for nothing people” … I said nothing and i feel ashamed to this day.
Thanks, what you wrote needs to be said. Destroy a culture and keep it constantly under pressure is a huge problem. You probably know that various Black Nationalist movements for self help, were undermined. African American leaders assassinated and the worst elements, such as gangsta rap encouraged.
It’s the same in colonized countries around the world, especially in Africa, where colonial claws were never really extracted.
I was in India and an upper class college girl approached me with a survey to fill out. I was in Bodhgaya, where it is said the Buddha was enlightened. There is a very important temple there, but outside the temple, the poverty is appalling. When the woman disparaged those people who just won’t work, according to her, I said, it’s not that they don’t want to work, it’s that they have no hope.
It’s the same with oppressed classes, in this instance, Blacks.
Flint Michigan, a largely African American city still has poison, lead contaminated water, due to the criminal, racist negligence of the government. The white government just can’t seem to find the money to fix the poisoned water.
So who is incorrigible?
Some people, being adults in that time, no doubt will remember the sudden changes taking place in the large media organisations and what’s more, corporations, appearance of new cable networks, amalgamations, takeovers, sacking of journalists, editors, even directors – it was all happening at once, in USA, in UK, in Europe.
You have such “powerful” UK+US shows like Queer As Folk and The L Word. Every new show in the West seems to have a mandatory requirement for a homosexual character, whether it be alpha male shows like Arrow, or teenager coming-of-age shows like Riverdale. The CW network is really pushing the homosexual agenda. It has come to the point where regular men have said they cannot get a white girlfriend, because the girls say they currently have a lesbian partner.
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That said, there are 5 pillars of a country’s strength:
*Military power
*Science & Technology
*Economy power
*Diplomacy
*Culture
The superpowers have to master at least 3 out of 5 pillars, usually 4.
In 1992, I believe Russia was only strong in 2 pillars:
*Military: #2 due to its nuclear weapons, and solid designs from Soviet era.
*Science & Technology: solid foundation from Soviet era. (My Russian friend, who grew up in Soviet Union, joked that USSR had world’s best mechanical engineers, but the worst computer & electrical engineers.)
*Economic power: Destroyed
*Diplomacy: Damaged but still OK due to its permanent UN seat
*Culture: Severely damaged
In 2020, Russia’s standing in these pillars:
*Military: #1 due to hypersonic missiles, and solid Soviet-era designs (e.g. MiG-31, Su-27) that were able to modernise & keep up with the times
*Science & Technology: Still rock solid/Top 3; most notably, Kaspersky & Telegram are good examples of how Russian computer science has leapfrogged from backward to cutting edge.
*Economy: Middle of the pack globally, but nearly debt-free with huge gold reserves.
*Diplomacy: Top 3
*Culture: Resurgent
How does USA/Anglo Empire stand in these pillars? I believe it is:
*Military: #3 & falling, because all of NATO cannot even achieve decisive victory in Afghanistan! Furthermore, NATO is unable to develop useful & cost-effective fighters (F-35, Rafale), ships (Zumwalt & Type 45 destroyers, or LCS), air defence (Patriot), or tanks (Leclerc, FCS).
*Science & Technology: #2 in patents. Still #1 in microchips (e.g. Intel.) Decline of Motorola, Cisco, GE, GM, & others indicates loss of technology leadership.
*Economy: Despite propaganda, it relies on laws protecting its monopolies, coercion (SWIFT, US dollar hegemony,) & frivolous lawsuits to collect fines.
*Diplomacy: World’s worst diplomats.
*Culture: Still a propaganda superpower, but quickly losing credibility; its hypocrisy (e.g. Julian Assange) is finally catching up. Hollywood has lost most of its respect, due mostly to pushing its homosexual agenda.
Mr. Lenning;
With regard to:
How does USA/Anglo Empire stand in these pillars? I believe it is:
*Military: #3 & falling, because all of NATO cannot even achieve decisive victory in Afghanistan
Could not the absence of decisive victory in Afghanistan be due to the fact that there are more profitable financially, strategically, & tactically alternatives? I believe Smedley Butler might have thought so.
Could not the absence of decisive victory in Afghanistan be due to the fact that there are more profitable financially, strategically, & tactically alternatives? I believe Smedley Butler might have thought so.
Afghanistan is estimated to have as much as USD$1 Trillion worth of various minerals. Its location in the heart of Eurasia allows whoever controls Afghanistan to control pipeline & transportation routes, plus the potential to project military power into Iran, the entire former USSR, China, and India. Expanding on Smedley Butler’s observations, a successfully conquered Afghanistan is a wet dream for bankers & lawyers, because it would allow them to put US$1 trillion into their pockets!
As tragic as it is for the Afghan people, the Taliban tying down the Anglo-Zionist empire actually benefits people outside of NATO, because it:
*Reduces the power the AZ empire can project against others.
*Exposes the actual weakness of AZ military forces, i.e. proves the AZ emperor has no clothes
*Buys time for China, Iran, & Russia to develop its strengths required to fight the AZ empire
Imagine if Putin’s government was forced to deploy 3 tank armies of T-80s & other Soviet equipment, instead of just 1 tank army with advanced equipment & using the savings to develop S-500s, Kinzhal, Sarmat, and the other advanced weapons? If NATO did not invade Afghanistan and Iraq, I believe NATO would have used those $2+ trillion to deploy vast armies on Russia’s western & southern borders, and fund 500+ political & terrorist movements. China could have been in a worse position, because its technology base was further behind.
Excellent post, Ye’katarina, very well said and spot on. I will give a little information on the Russian point of view of current events, this from someone who is an American citizen and a resident of Russia.
I am in a unique position in that I’ve lived in what is in essence Russia since 2006. President Putin had been ‘in power’ for not very long when I arrived in our bucolic little village on the Black Sea, but even when I first came here I noticed a change in the Russian military stationed in this berg from what I knew of them from ‘before’, someone put some bounce back in their walk and some steel in their backbones. Gone was the ‘hang dog’ look many of the serving soldiers and sailors had, even the conscripts, replaced with the beginnings of pride in their country and their armed forces. As time passed this pride only grew, actually exponentially, but it was not an arrogant pride nor was it ‘we are invincible’ pride, it was simply pride in their service and their abilities, said abilities they knew personally and knew quite well.
Since my lass and I were active from the very beginning with various historic entities in this little village we were constantly in somewhat ‘casual’ contact with local military, both Russian and Ukrainian. The difference between the two was stark, and even more of a difference between Russian military and the steadily increasing numbers of ‘nato’, read US, military as they were quite open and openly arrogant of their plans for our city, especially our area, Sevarnya, North Side. From the west end of Ulitsya Bogdanova, the main east-west drag on north side, all the way west through Radio Ghorka, Radio Hill, along Ulitsiya Simonok, aka Simonka of ‘Incident’ fame, down to the finest beaches in all Sevastopol, all was to be ‘appropriated’ and the plan was ‘nato’, read US Navy, was to have their Black Sea Fleet HQ on Simonka with all infrastructure, base facilities and service housing with schools, shops and magazines, everything, and all the locals were to be summarily ‘put out’ for ‘security reasons’. In essence most of North Side was to become ‘Little USA’. What they, ‘nato’, didn’t figure on was the Russian mentality of this little village, ‘nato’ assuming that since the orc flag was flying hither and yon, the village was orc. They could not have been more wrong.
Come the coup in Kiev in late ’13 to early ’14 all h//l broke loose in this berg, although actual violence was almost negligible. The catalyst of the coup as far as Sevastopol is concerned turned on what some would regard as almost ‘afterthought’ events, but to we locals each even is indelibly etched in our memories. When the serving government of Ukraine collapsed directly due to lies and pressure from Washington, read kankles and Biden, Yanukovich ran for his life and our Berkut and Militsiya, with no orders, took the situation in hand and fought, literally fought, their way home to Sevastopol bringing their dead and wounded with them. The civilian demonstrators in Kiev did not fare so well, resulting in the Korsun Massacre. As news of Korsun became known, when our Berkut and Militsiya arrived to Naxhimov Square in City Center the welcome was tumultuous, so much so that the showers of affection and flowers moved many of our Berkut and Militsiya to tears. And the square was awash in Russia and Sevastopol flags.
The icing on the cake was 09:00 23 February 2014, Channel 5, Kiev, owned by poroshenko, a live interview was aired with Oleg Tyagnibok, a sitting parliament rep in Kiev and leader of Svoboda Party, an avowedly Nazi party, and Dmitro Yarosh, leader of Right Sector, another Nazi party, both the commanders of Maidan, vowed to bring their 5500 ‘fighters’ to Sevastopol, teach us to be ‘proper ukrainians’ and make our streets run red with blood as they ‘put every Russian to the knife’.
That was the day that Sevastopol citizens had a mass meeting in Naxhimov Square, seized the government and installed our own government. Did VVP know what would happen? I don’t know, we haven’t chatted of late, but from what I do know the events in Sevastopol, and Krimea, moved so fast that Kremlin could not control and did not know how deep the resentment of Kiev was. It was not the ‘polite young men in green’, many of whom VCO and I knew, and know, personally, who ‘took’ Sevastopol, it was the citizens themselves who locked up the orcs in their bases and ships and would not let them out. After Kremlin understood what was going on with blockposts being installed on Krim and Sevastopol borders, orcs locked down in place and things generally not in turmoil considering what was happening, it was only then that, by my understanding, arrangements were made to have the polite young men in green ‘arrive’ and take the situation in hand.
So, what does this ramble say about Russia today? Virtually ever ‘Russian’ we know, and we have friends all over this vast country, is proud to be Russian and happy with the turn of events and the return of Russia to order and sanity. Yes, there are lots of problems but compared to what VVP inherited in 2000, it’s heaven on earth.
It’s the little things that tell all. We are in Victory Day Parade in Sevastopol every year since ’14, and while this year’s parade was held late, 24 June instead of 09 May as usual thanks to the virus, I still posted the usual clutch of photos on a military forum I frequent. The vast majority of forum members are westerners and a good number of them don’t think much of VVP, and us, for what we did. However, this year one of the most virulent anti Russian posters seems to have had an epiphany. I could see he was looking at the photos on forum but I said not a word, I just waited. The next day he said it all after up voting every image I and others posted of our proud soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen and women in parade. His comment? Worth it’s weight in gold.
“Pride doesn’t quite describe it, does it?” This says it all. President Putin has restored the pride Russians have in their country.
Auslander
Author. http://rhauslander.com/
Never The Last One, ebook edition. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
An Incident On Simonka, ebook version. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU March 2014. NATO Is invited to leave Sevastopol, one way or the other.
My friend, Auslander,
Indeed it is the little things, the personal anecdotal history, the details of living through historic events you share.
Thanks for another “front porch” tale that records the mood, psychology and motivations of Russians.
Threats from two psychotic nazis to slay thousands of your neighbors and you is of course the bell ringer!
Sadly, the people of Odessa didn’t have the same preventive action and paid the horror of the Trade Union inferno which covered up the murders and rapes in the building, and raised the total over 125 souls. Their crime was refusal to embrace Bandera’s followers and accept slavery to the Ukie horde.
I would recommend the new to your voice and this blog that they partake in your books for them to grasp that spirit and soul of Russia and your fellow Sevastopol citizens.
Larchmonter, my good comrade and friend. Odessa lost a bit more than 125 that fateful day, it was closer to 300 killed in and around the Trade Union Building and on the streets.
When Tyagnibok and Yarosh made their threats, we viewed them not as threats but promises and armed up. While the locking down of the orcs in their bases and ships was relatively peaceful, what few know is that behind the locals penning them in, the growls emanating from the shadows and alleys behind them were deadly serious and promised unbelievable retribution if one single citizen was harmed. In the end no one was harmed, the Ukrainians were released from their bases and ships and allowed to return to Ukraine. However, all offered the possibility of staying and joining Russian Navy and Army at their current rank and seniority. Over 80% took this deal, much to the screams of Ukraine and nato.
Auslander
I completely agree with Larchmonter. The history provided by Auslander is very important, it is a story *never heard* before here in the MSM controlled media matrix of the West. I have made many more efforts that most people I know to understand what happened in Sevastopol after the US-led coup in Ukraine, but I had no idea that this was the sequence of events in Sevastopol prior to the appearance of the “polite green men”. And I appreciate Larchmonter’s comment about the events in Odessa . . . such a vivid contrast to those in Sevastopol.
I would like to suggest that the Saker make Auslander’s narrative into an article that can be read by those who do not take time to read the comments section.
And, of courses many thanks to Katerina for this blog post. I will say that a great many more “ordinary” people here in the US Midwest (i.e. the “deplorables” as they were described by Hillary Clinton) are finally having their eyes opened up (at least to some extent) to the false narratives constantly put out by MSM, but I am afraid that the Russophobic stories tend to go unexamined, as the US educational system does not inform of the sacrifices of the Soviet Union during WW2, etc . . . In other words, there is no counter-narrative these days that questions the neocon versions of evil Putin/Russia. RT is sort of a “Radio Free America” but it’s reach is limited compared to CNN, MSNBC, NPR, etc. It is hard to know exactly what to do these days, as the US financial system collapses under the weight of endless debt and endless trillions of digital dollars, amid the ruins of a post-industrial society.
To Auslander
Same as from Larchmonter, I was hoping to see a response from you, as you are another one that I look forward to – to see your comments. An American married to a Russian and living in Russia – it just encapsulates it all! Not only that – a very intelligent and totally switched on American! Or boy, I wish we could replicate you! My grateful thanks to your wife, it is not that easy for a Russian woman to be married to a foreigner, lots of thing to overcome but the main thing is to have an absolute trust, regard and respect for one another to make that last. Your wife has obviosly have given you all of that, as I have given that to my Scottish born husband. I would only say that you guys are both been very lucky! : ) Russian women are an absolute indisputable gold when it comes to marriage and family – they know very well what it’s all about. And their men totally respond to that. My husband and I, we will be celebrating our Silver Anniversary soon. Very happy 25 years together. I just want to wish you all the best. Thank you!
Ye’katarina, my dear lady, I almost blush at your compliments. While 14 years of marriage to my charming, and take no prisoners, bride have been the best years of my life it certainly is not unicorns and fairy dust every day, but then what life is? Still, reality is if we were any more happy we’d be arrested for ‘unsoviet hording of happiness’ or some such.
My best wishes to you and your husband for your coming Silver Anniversary! Attached for you and your husband are links to our belated Victory Day Parade of 2020. As my fellow commenter on the military forum said, ‘pride doesn’t quite describe it’. None of these soldiers are ‘parade ground’ soldiers, each and every man and woman is currently serving in Sevastopol and performing their duties. While they go through some pretty strong rehearsals for parade, the fact is they are all serving and their service comes first, and if you pay close attention to the details you will from time to time see some of the men out of step as they march. The women? Good Lord did they put on a show! Absolutely perfect in every move, and please notice the smiles on most of the participant’s faces. It’s an honor to be in this parade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRdV2XIk3k Complete parade less Red Army.
Парад Победы. Механизированная часть. Севастополь, 24 июня 2020 Complete review of antique and modern vehicles, tracked and wheeled, and with Red Army at the end. Red Army, all the vehicles, equipment and uniforms belong to us, not a kopek comes from any government entity. It was Red Army that armed up first back in ’14, we smelled a rat from the beginning.
Kindest regards
Auslander
Hard link for review of antique and modern vehicles. My mistake in not proofing the post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxv4Q7HR7cA
Auslander
You obviously got your takes on American culture from books, right wing books at that. The 60s were the Hippie era, dear. Punk was anything but ghastly and is still out there, having successfully changed music for more than 40 years. The 70s were drooling excess, disco biscuits, real estate as drugs, the final hippies laying down and packing it up over 4 dead in Ohio. Had these same peeps been around at the beginning some bone head would have put three lanterns in the church tower.
As a native american I love to be glossed over and dismissed as “that genocide thing”. We’re still here. We haven’t sloughed off this mortal coil nor gone gently into that good night.
Your summarily dismissive, and racist, take on american blacks is worthy of an ‘All In The Family’ episode which you’ve treated with all the beery, leery frivolity of the red nosed music hall comedian and subsequently boxed your trash for us to dispose of, all that pompously platitudinous pork butchery of the english language.
Getting past you knebbish views of everyone and everything one finds nothing. Thanks for these ten or twenty minutes I will never recover in my life.
Ruben I have seen America close up and I have lived the sixties and seventies American culture and not to be a prude much of it is smut. At the same timer America has produced some great music, literature and theater but if anyone attempted to change the political culture they found the way to eliminate them with a bullet.
North of the Rio Grande some ten million Native Americans were murdered and disposed of their land. Similarly, the same happened north of the 49th parallel. The theft continues to this day..
Her comment on the African Americans is reprehensible. I liked “All in the Family” and was never tired of seeing the reruns. I think that Archie Bunker did more to end racism than Obama or any policy of the American government.
I have responded to Katerina with a similar critique, but she only likes applause even when it is not deserved.
Katerina, excellent article. You are knowledgeable and well understand my country. I know that Russia, Iran, China and all the others that resist us are not my enemies.
But as a general rule Americans here have become so intellectually lazy, that they continue to listen to the lies being told to them. Refusing to question or consider the reasons behind it.
I usually ask folks, do you allow anyone or have you allowed anyone in your life to choose your friends for you? Always they say no, never. So I ask, why do you allow the mainstream press and devilish politicians to choose your enemies for you? Of course silence ensues.
Please keep writing Katerina. You always enlighten me, I learn things from you. Thank you.
What I want to ask is why do the Jews have such a problem with Russia?
I know of the pogroms but from what I can see the Russian Jews are in fact Russians who took the religion up, or they were an ethnic group in Russia like the Hensetiacs league who were in Novgorod and may have needed an identifying feature.
It would be interesting to do some more research on the subject.
To Cokie Boy
Perhaps you would consider reading my previous essay the “Mortal Battle of Perfidious Albion”, where I had tried to describe exactly what you are asking and hopefully that could give you some answers. Cheers.
Yes, that is interesting question. Why do Jews hate Russia so much.
They are always the first ones in any anti-russian action.
Anti-Jewish Pogroms …as far as I know, all of them happened in Ukrajine and especially in Western Ukraine. Some of them in Poland.
They were parts of Russian Empire then, but not Russia.
In WWII 1.5 million of Jews escaped to Russia and they found in Russia salvation from Germans.
That’s why I really cannot understand Jewish hatred toward Russia.
Not all Jews of course but most of them are always the first ones against Russia
in Russian there are two different words for Jews
ЕВРЕЙ – nationality
ИУДЕЙ – religion
and there is the term “Zionist” ( СИОНИСТ ) – a specific political orientation
question: – which of them hates Russia
Yiddish anti fascist song…with a tip of the hat to Stalin and the Red Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpeIy-MoKgQ&list=WL&index=17
I meet many who come from former Soviet Republics who also hate Russia, even though their parents like the Soviet time better than now. I know a devout young Russian Orthodox woman from Belarus, who gave me a Russophobic book to read.
It’s just that propaganda is so successfull.
Well, I was with this essay until the switch to harangue. I suppose if I start with, ” you don’t understand… I will be labeled a “hater”. sigh. What happened to good old polemical arguments? Lenin was nastier than nasty in a very erudite, insulting kind of way if you read his essays. But, generational attitudes change.
Let me share some lived experience with educated/or intelligent Americans when I have tried to “break the spell” that everyone is under here. The person who seems to understand this most on this site is Amarynth who understand the idea of “entrainment technology”. It is unremitting here. ceaseless. treacherously subtle at the same time blatantly obvious.
I was in a discussion with a firm true believer in the deep state hype via NBC -her hero is ( barf) Rachel Maddow -and when I backed her down to “this is a fact, look it up” she very defensively said, ” Well, I CHOOSE (the emphasis in capitals is necessary to my point, moderators) to believe MSNBC.” And this is from a person who 3 years ago would ask me my opinion on Ukraine, Syria etc. etc., but after she saw her beloved Hollywood give the White Helmets an award for their “propaganda-mentary” work in Syria, she started being imprinted big time. PBS did a soft political porn presentation the other day showing Trump as a troubled teen and Biden as a good-guy and she tried to present that to me as fact, worthy of basing one’s political position on.
Next person is a very intelligent ( in fact she prides herself on being more intelligent than most) person who believes in the technocratic future and has home schooled her 21 year old daughter to become a willing enforcer for the technofascist state. Yep, she thinks 5G is unquestionably great and believes the scientism around it just like those who defended the tobacco industry with their slanted studies for years and will take whatever vaccine Bill Gates comes up with and loves the idea of the “internet of things”. Oh, and LBGT is the new “civil rights” fight. She was hinting around about making sex with children OK under some circumstances, but we have mutually decided to vacate the friendship so I was spared that disillusionment.
These are not stupid or ill informed people–That they are misinformed and deliberately manipulated yes. There is much more afoot here than can be approached by hectoring lectures but I can understand how that makes one feel better.
I live here in the belly of the beast, California.
I have to deal with people not constructs. In the social club, my position is, ” We cannot become enforcement agents for masks and social distancing in our community –that will destroy what solidarity that we might eak out of the times we live in.”
We have yet to come to a point where this issue will be voted up or down. Sooner or later I might have to leave the social club, disconnect from the neighborhood or even flee the state I live in.
If you think what Russia went through in the 1990’s was rough….well, I see what America will go through as far, far worse. Many people don’t” get it”. And that is not going to happen until they have to go “through it.” So, Kathleen, my unsolicited and probably unwelcome advice is: Save your breath!. Remember also, for future reference, that Schadenfreude is an ugly emotion.
teranam13;
Could you kindly write a bit more about “entrainment technology.” All is find with Yandex Search is self-development material.
Thanks
TheTrumanShow
To teraham13
Here is the response that encapsulates a lot.. of these attitudes and views that has shaped the american mass psychology- the fervent belief in their own infallability, sadly.. AND without any basis. Please get yourself to the reality – you as a nation is very much despised by the rest of the world and to overcome that you seems to be totally incapable of realising one simple thing – an unexplainable and inexcuseable aggression that your country displays towards everyone else in this world, and world’s response to that, and for you people, you are not even doing anything to contarract that..! What would it take?!!
As I see it: America is built on social foundations based on pagan characteristics – masters and subordinates. In labor relations, domestic and foreign policy. Constant competition, wars, domestic violence, lack of empathy, greed imposed as a kind of social value. Cooperation is only possible in space when it suits America. Otherwise, there is still competition and sanctions. I never got the impression that the same was the case with Russia. It seems to me, however, that they tend to cooperate on an equal footing because it is fairer, more economical and more moral. This is probably due to a longer history, acquired wisdom of the national being, culture and family upbringing. That is why it seems to me that America and Russia will never fully understand each other. Unless some horrible event unites them. Essays, like this one by Katerina, are good because one can feel the same thing said in one’s heart, but I am afraid that we have unnoticed entered a phase of inevitable consequences where great misfortunes await us for the next few years. And the future could, to our great astonishment, change completely. And I think the future will depend on the people themselves and their pure heart and intentions. It will not depend on flags and coats of arms.
Katerina,
You reveal yourself with what you write. You both display your arrogance, and refusal to take on, and try and understand any of the criticism of what you wrote from your previous post. I did not reply, because I can’t write as well as you, but others did.
I have no idea where you come from, and I don’t care.
Your Knowledge of English Culture and Music is almost Non-Existant
So you claim to have met a few Americans too….And you think You know your History?
You Ain’t got a clue, How old are you??
Us English don’t Hate You..It’s not like a group hug, but I am sure I would like you if I met you,
You write a great essay, and you display fire in your words. You care.
Meanwhile Lemmy – Motorhead – and I have met him – he says come on guys
Our next gig is in Moscow – shortly before he died. You probaly didn’t know that.
Your dismissal of almost all Western Culture -You didn’t even like Elvis, nor Cliff Richard, nor Jimi Hendrix???
Where have you been living girl to write such stuff?
If you are a Ballet Dancer, then you are excused
We love Russians in England. It’s most of The Americans we can’t stand.
https://www.classicalballet.org/
Tony
I live in Australia for 21 years and I have met many people from all English-speaking countries.
My experience is very positive.
Ordinary people, Americans, Englismen and other British, Canadians, New Zealanders and of course Australians…I can say only the best things about them.
But their so-called political elite is different thing. OK, Canadians, Australians and N. Zealanders not very significant. But American and British so-called elite are the worst imperialists and the biggest danger for the future of this world.
These are the strange times we live in. An old boomer redneck, Trump loving Texan can agree with you. The one recent event that contradicts your support of China is, recent comments to stop the exit of US nationals from China if the government has legal proceedings against an Individual or corporation. This announcement is in response to the jailing of 5 chinese nationals that submitted fraudulent visa applications. China, at present, is very vocal about international law. They are petitioning all the world courts to condemn, sanction or punish the US for trade violations etcetera. If China wants the world to respect international law, then China needs to respect international law and that includes visa laws. This is the real cause for contention between the US abd China. China to this point has been allowed to have a trade advantage enshrined in international law. That has to end.
Vladimir Putin is a man for his time. Hats off to him. What progress he could have made for Russia and the world if only America was not dominated by an irrational fear of all things Russian.
To Marcus Chapman
Thank you Marcus for your comment but if you would allow me, I would like to make some of my comments with regard to yours. First of all your take on China and what they have proposed to do with US nationals in response to what US has done with those 5 Chinese nationals shows a certain prejudice. If these people have submitted a fraudulent visa applications, well, they should NOT have been in the USA. The reason they were there, and then arrested and IMPRISONED, should surely be flashing a red light for most people. You, Americans, for some reason have stopped given analysis to what you hear on your MSM. In situations like this, the said individuals should have been simply put on the next flight back to China, not thrown in prison! This was done specifically to provoke and inflame the situation. Why you, Americans, cannot see that?! International law? That ship has sailed a LONG time ago as far as US is concerned – they have absolutely no regard or respect for the International law. They make their own rules that override all these International laws, the rules that suits them. And you still cannot see that? Please, save your sanity and stop listening to your MSM! Get the facts and get to the truth. It will make you a very smart and clever American. We need more like that! Thank you.
Marvelous!
We have “ONE COMMON ENNEMY” and that “parasite” unfortunately has a revengeful religious angle to his actions and is fraught with anger: the rise of the Orthodox Church and the strengthening of it’s ties with the Catholics, the Chinese and the Sunnits – only brings them to resort to extreme actions.
Maybe it’s because they see the writings on the wall.
As long as we keep our minds set on the right ENNEMY and act accordingly to eradicate this cancer., the world will be OK. We just have to set-up a new modern “Massada siege”.
I very much enjoy these essays Katerina! Filled with the honest truth.
To Robert Rogers
Thank you Robert!
I truly appreciate what you have said as it is absolutely coming from my heart. Thank you.
Everything is well said. However, the cabal take over of mass media, education, culture, academia happened much earlier than late 80s and 90s. Read The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders. It gives a good summary. The counter culture, the hippie movement, the civil rights movement, the new left/non-communist left, the feminist movement, the drug culture, all came from CIA as controlled revolution, diverting strength from communist student movements. Homosexual agenda, transgender agenda, BLM is the straight forward continuation of this strategy.
“This is what THIS EVIL was doing to those kid’s brains. That was just the beginning, after three decades of such “education” we now have at least two generations of the horrendously brain/mind damaged people.”
It is sad to see such a powerful state that held so much promise decline. To list the things that prevent America from being Great Again may require a page larger than the Declaration of Independence.
Legacy news media consumption and grievence studies education is about as healthy for your brain as eating a cigarette sandwich is for you body. ‘No legacy is so rich as honesty.’ Shakespeare. “Tonto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
My short video:
https://youtu.be/ZL-MTP3vD3I or http://www.cowdisley.com/videos/education.mp4
LOL…I don’t think the Lone Ranger and his native American sidekick ever made to Oz…wish they had but…now that would have been entertainment! Dorothy’s pooch’s name was, of course, Toto.
Thank you Katerina for a fine essay….and your honesty — you write from your heart.
I particularly like your assessment of VV Putin, it’s spot on. I’m an admirer of Putin — warts and all — a Putin ‘fanboy’ as described by one of his detractors here. But when we consider what Putin has done with all the bear-traps and landmines in his path, how can we not admire him? The man is a true patriot and has done wonders for Russia in a relatively short span of time. I have said earlier that VVP has helped Russia find its feet, what the country really is about and what it stands for — Russia’s vision of itself as a nation of peoples and not merely a country — much, much faster than the other post-Soviet republics.
As you say, Russia is not the US’s enemy. Unfortunately, again as you rightly pointed out, the ‘Cabal’ that’s fully entrenched in American public — and increasingly, private — life, is intent on making Russia the enemy. In fact, to borrow a phrase from a sheikh who’s a friend of the Saker’s, they are ‘lusting’ for a US-Russian war. Unhappily, I happen to think the war has already started — I dislike the term ‘hybrid war’ because it implies that this type of warfare is something new when it is actually not, and it blurs the starting- and end-points. Further, we are lulled into believing that there’s no war because it is not ‘kinetic’. Thus to my mind, the term is, frankly, misleading [apologies for digressing].
In conclusion I will repeat it once again – we ALL have ONE COMMON ENEMY, the parasite that needs to be destroyed before it destroys all of us…
May God help us and give us the strength we need for the task.
Amen.
ps. You may want to break your promise about not writing more articles.
Katrina is a fabulous thinker and writer, and I have read most of the comments until this point, but no one has mentioned the fact that US policy toward Russia was set in stone in the nineties, after the USSR collapsed, in The Wolfowitz Doctrine, Bill Clinton’s foreign policy document (each president has one). This detailed ‘bible’ is available on the internet. It states from the get-go that the main objective of US foreign policy is to prevent any nation or state from ever being in a position to challenge US world hegemony. Further, it signals that RUssia ‘with its mineral trove’ could one day be in that position. Hence, on-going Russophobia, in which a media that never heard of Wolfowitz participates. Trump’s one saving grace is that he prefers deals to wars (except those against ‘inferior’ races). He like most other white people around the world, while ignoring the actual ratio of ‘Caucasians’ to ‘others’ (16%), senses that their hegemony is ending and cannot accept it. The notion of a multi-polar world has not been given the slightest hearing by the media, although it is clearly illustrated by the Russia-China-Iran entente and the reality of the BRICS. I urge Saker readers to discover The Wolfowitz Doctrine on-line.
As an ethnic slav, but Argentinian, retired in France and with 70 years of watching the world, let me congratulate you on your article.
Russia and China, together,combined, are economically and militarily way ahead of the decaying US empire.
The neoliberal West was bankrupt prior to the pandemic (check the national ratios of debt to GDP over the last years) and now everything is worse.
The western madness will continue until the day people find out that the US Dollar has no value, no value whatsoever.
Meanwhile, the mafia which runs the West, will continue their racist attacks on Russia, China and whoever dares to dissent.
I have the greatest respect for Putin, I admire him, but I do not see a political solution with the West.
Eventually, much to my regret, China and Russia will have to force rationality to the West, this is the only way to deal with lunatics.
Cheers from France
Mario J. Medjeral
Well written. It seems you understand the US culture, their political system, financial frauds…you sound advise of co-operation with the rest of the world will be well received by those Americans who are thinking. The cabal didn’t realise that President Trump would win, and also they couldn’t control him.
Katerina
Very clear eyed and heartfelt. My mother would have loved your writing. Best wishes.
A terrific article. I only recently learned of the bond between Lincoln and Alexander II & of the Russian support against the British desperate to hold their Empire, as is now being repeated via the assaults on Trump to prevent co-operation between US & Russia and US & China. The Anglo Zionist Cabal is a good term for part of the MICIMATT. It is now even more important than preventing wars, which is what drew me to support Trump, but now we have the NWO & the Great Reset to fight off. China & Russia are not involved in it. The US and UK need to combine with those two to keep madmen Gates & Fauci taking over.
Dead right there Andrea.
What those pushing this great re-set fail to realize at the next elections there will be a similar great re-set where people like Macron, Merkel, Johnson etc… and their parties all get turfed and wont get back in for very long time if ever.
Won’t be long before there is civil violence directed at them too.
One needs to realize EU & UK interests made the US the world policeman because it suited their commercial interests and they couldnt afford to do it.
As such the US has been, and is being, manipulated.
I don’t know what the situation in Russia is but if I were Putin I would ban Facebook and Twitter and all other similar western tech media there if they havent already.
The US and EU are in collapse mode now – like Rome was in 400 AD – due to internal corruption and nothing much can stop it.
That contrasts with Russia which is steadily moving forward.
So the west is re-setting into the abyss while Russia and Eastern Europe climbs from it.
Thank you for another very enjoyable essay Katerina. I don’t think there is much I can tell you that you don’t already know. Your lengthy description of the responsibilities of young V.V.P. up to the present time gave me a smile. He is without equal as a leader in this world. Maybe God is with him. Next, the bankers in Russia. So, he saved the best for last! I agree with you that they have every intention of starting a war with Russia. I hope it can be averted.
The corruption of the west was very deliberate, done over a period of time. Television played an early roll. At first the programs were all wholesome family shows. But as we moved into the 60s this started to change with themes and situations inserted that were not then suitable for open discussion. Then the mass media was taken over completely and the education system was changed. There is a woman who wrote a book called the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. Charlotte Iserbyt whose father and grandfather were members of a secret society (Skull and Bones), worked in the Department of Education under Ronald Reagan. She discovered this plot to change education into communist dog training, producing graduates who were unable to think critically but knew how to do a few obedient things for their masters. When she tried to warn Reagan she was fired. Older people can’t use this as an excuse. They have fallen for the propaganda of the ‘indispensable people’! At some point the idea was floated that the collapse of the U.S.S.R. was all staged and at the right moment they will reassemble and try to conquer the world, even invading the U.S. I hear this teaching often. Russia is our enemy and are dirty communists! The same goes for China. And the dummies never stop to think that all the accusations made against these countries are actually committed by their own country.
I hope we will be hearing more from you again.
The US need a Major General Smedley Darlington Butleresque character and honest men.
I do not have much hope that such men exist in positions where they could make a difference in our time.
The west will only learn “the lesson” when our women sell them selves for food, men fight and our children starve.
I might be pessimistic, but i think my pessimism is deep rooted in history and by observing the fall of Sovjet and the GWT toppling governemts in the M-E as they happened.
We used to skip school to watch bUsh destroy Iraq and i know several Jugoslavians and quite a few Bosnians/Serbs/Albanians. They came to Norway at 2 different times in modern history, so few years btween yet they made so much difference😢
I hope you will write more for the Saker blog Ms Katerina.🌹
Per
”Most imperative is to stop this deranged, insane and extremely dangerous “POWER PROJECTION” all around the globe. Tell us what is that all about, for Christ’s sake?!”
Here is exactly what it is all about. VIP George Kennan said the following just a few years before the completely unexpected dissolution of the USSR.
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
Read Kennan’s words ten times before proceeding, because what Kennan said waaay back in the 1980s is even more true today — that if world peace breaks out; if Trump, or any other POTUS who wants to improve relations with Russia, should actually shake hands with Putin and Mr. Xi and Mr. Kim, and Mr. Rouhani and Mr. Maduro and sign some peace treaties, the US’s Fed-funded, war-spending-based economy would literally, and I do mean LITERALLY, collapse almost instantly. The USD would be instantly de-throned as the de facto world reserve currency. Political and social chaos would ensue in the US that would make today’s situation in the US look like a wedding reception.
Trump’s campaign speeches about making nice with Russia and then, after he was elected, his shaking hands with Mr. Putin and saying that he believed Putin when he said that Russia had not interfered in the US election, even though US intelligence agencies agreed (that’s what they said in public, anyway) that Russia HAD interfered, caused the US Elite and their MSM slaves to accuse Trump of being a traitor, Putin’s puppet, etc. You remember. Just exactly WHY did they do that when they absolutely KNEW that Trump was right, and the recently-revealed House Intelligence Committee transcripts now prove that Trump and Putin were right?
Not only that, but a short time ago, Pelosi and other Ds and Rs demanded that Trump get with their program and believe that Putin had put a bounty on US soldiers in Afghanistan and to do something to punish Russia. Then we had/have the Navalny poisoning.
All of it is just plain absurd. But just exactly WHY do the western intelligence services do this when they absolutely know that what they are saying is not true and that what Trump is saying is true?
There is one, and only one, explanation that “fits” absolutely everything — as Kennan said, the US economy requires enemies that justify the annual (forever) war budget that, directly or indirectly, employs tens of millions of US voters and provides fabulous profit to investors in US war corporations.
What is also important to understand is how all of these politicians like Schiff, Clapper, Comey, etc. and the MSM “legally” get away with all of their lies. They get away with them because of legislation that was passed a few years ago that allowed the US government to legally propagandize (lie to) American citizens within the US and, not only that, literally pay the MSM to also do it. It was called the “Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012” Do yourself a big favor and read it.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr5736ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr5736ih.pdf
A small part of the above:
“112TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION
H. R. 5736
To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 10, 2012
Mr. THORNBERRY (for himself and Mr. SMITH of Washington) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes.”
Etc.
With the above relatively new legislation in mind, it is easy to understand why and how high-level politicians in America get away with (stay out of jail for) lying to Americans 24/7. Essentially, as long as the liars tell the truth while under oath in secret testimony before a judge, they can say whatever they want in front of TV cameras. And boy, do they do just that. What other possible reason could there have been to amend that act?
Once again with even more feeling, the purpose of this VIP+MSM propaganda is to maintain in the minds of US citizens the belief that the US has existential threats to its national security in the form of Russia, China, Iran and, believe it or don’t, Venezuela and Nicaragua! (Again, this is all done to maintain the war budget and its millions of jobs.)
What the wise elderly and not-so-wise younger US Elite oligarchs apparently want is for the US to “go out” with a great big bang while it is still “on top”. They would prefer that they and everyone else in America and the world be dead than for them to play second fiddle to the Elite of China or Russia or any other nation or group of nations. In the words of 1960s, “great silent majority” Americans, “better dead than Red”. The Fed will continue to do print a literally infinite number of printed-out-of-thin-air USD to fund the military-industrial complex, which is the one and only thing supporting the “drone-standard” USD and forcing other nations to accept them as payment for their REAL goods. The reality is that the Terminator US is an existential threat to Russia and China, not the other way around and that it is politically incapable of stopping itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0rP2VWLWw
While I’m typing, Russia, China, the US and all the other, for lack of a better word, “capitalist” nations have one common, ultimately fatal problem – the systemic need for perpetual population/economic/export growth, which is why China and Iran dropped their one-child policies a few years ago and Mr. Putin is congratulating parents of large families and actively promoting large families with various financial incentives. This issue is too off-topic to go into here, but I bring it up because even if the US were to miraculously completely abandon its effort at full spectrum dominance, close all its bases and turn all of its weapons into plowshares and never produce another one again, what would all of its former adversaries do with their weapons industries and all of their employees? What is China’s belt and road initiative really all about? Growth. Perpetual growth. What Russian population will be enough to satisfy Mr. Putin? Someone should ask him. Just exactly how much more do nations have to grow their economies? Is there a number, a percentage? If humanity is miraculously able to avoid a nuclear war, IMO, the issue of the SYSTEMIC need for perpetual growth will have to somehow be cured, and technology is not going to be the vaccine to inoculate against that need. Only fundamental systemic change can do it. One thing is for sure, the oligarchies of the US, Russia, China, etc. are not going to willingly provide any solutions, because a real solution would/could not allow a parasitic class of oligarchs to exist.
To Ishkabibble
Well, you have provided the answer to your own question. The US economy SHOULD NOT depend on wars and finding enemies to “arm itself” against. As you have absolutely correctly stated it needs that MIC industry to enrich their investors, in other words, to line some very deep pockets. I would not put much emphasis on keeping some workers in the jobs. USA economy does not and should not depend on just producing weapons. The USA is a much more than that. The real problem is that goods manufacturing and production has been off-shored and the very expierenced and highly knowledgeable working population has been put on social benefits. If this continues I can only see the great upheaval ahead as the disenfranchised workers will eventually say “enough is enough!” Never forget to include the “peoples” factor in the assestments, as that has an amazing power when it’s senses the threat of total subjugation. We have seen that time and time again in past history. Never underestimate that.
Dear Katerina, the following was your question, not mine.
”Most imperative is to stop this deranged, insane and extremely dangerous “POWER PROJECTION” all around the globe. Tell us what is that all about, for Christ’s sake?!”
I told you exactly why the US is treating Russia and other countries all over the world the way it does, yet all you can say is that “the US economy SHOULD NOT depend on wars and finding enemies to ‘arm itself’ against.” Yes, I agree that it should not, but it does. Then you go on to compliment the people of a nation that is threatening Russia and you express your hope that the US can, and even will, turn itself around to something that it maybe was back during WWII. IMO, this is seriously false hope to the point of self-delusion.
Look, US voters go to the polls on Nov 3. Among those voters will be Mainers and Virginians. I was born in 1950 and was raised in a small town in the state of Maine, about 15 miles as the crow flies from Bath Iron Works (BIW) — a place that for many, many decades has manufactured, and to this day continues to manufacture, warships (which the locals who work there worship). (In the late 1950s and early 1960s my family used to drive by the place on our way to Reid State Park and ignorantly marvel at those warships.) Like the tens of millions of people living in The Greatest Nation On Planet Earth who are directly or indirectly employed by the MIC, the 6 thousand or so human beings employed at BIW will do absolutely anything to keep their well-paying jobs, and that includes voting for proven warmongers when they enter the voting booth in November. They always have. They always will. (The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, is another well-paying war-employer that employs thousands of voters lving in both Maine and New Hampshire. They’re also going to do their solemn duty in November.)
Then there are Virginia’s voters. Let’s look at a few Virginia statistics.
Population of Virginia = 8.4 million
Number of Registered Voters in Virginia = 5.7 million
Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded to Contractors in Virginia in 2019 alone = $50.5 billion
Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded to Contractors in Virginia from 2000 to 2019 = $781.6 billion
Number of Defense Contracts Awarded to Contractors in Virginia from 2000 to 2019 = 1,291,034
Number of Defense Contractors in Virginia = 17,877
(To confirm my above statistics, go to https://www.governmentcontractswon.com/ and select “contractors by state” on the right side of the page and then select Virginia on the drop-down list.)
So, what is the likelihood that the vast majority of voters in Virginia are going to vote for a peacenik for POTUS in November? 0%
What is the likelihood that the vast majority of voters in Virginia are going to vote for a warmonger for POTUS in November? 100%
Is the reason that voters in Virginia and Maine select warmongers for POTUS election after election after election that they are brainwashed, or is it because, in Virginia’s case, they vitally depend upon that yearly DoD injection of well over $50 billion dollars, literally forever? It’s the $50 billion!
The awful truth that people living outside the US, especially those living in Russia and China, must fully understand is that Virginians and Mainers know exactly what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. As far as they’re concerned, Biden or Trump are both perfectly qualified to hold the title of POTUS because BOTH will increase the war budget from here to eternity. They don’t give a shit how many people are killed by the weapons they help to produce and they are not going to vote for a peacenik during the next thousand years! They’re perfectly willing to risk nuclear war rather than vote for their unemployment.
Katerina, Maine and Virginia are a microcosm of the USA. Americans say they want peace, but what they, the vast majority of voters,vote for time and time again is perpetual war and what you call “POWER PROJECTION” which, again, justifies the annual DoD money-injection. Again, IMO, they will vote for perpetual war and POWER PROJECTION yet again in November and will, as they have many times in the past, ignore any candidate who wants to seriously cut the war budget.
Hopefully you now know the answer to your question, not mine.
To Ishkabibble
I hear what you have said and that is very depressing – “perfectly willing to risk nuclear war rather than vote for their unemployment”?! Oh my God – is it really that bad? Or simply no real understanding as to the end result? Surely they most have families, children – is there absolutely no comprehension that what they are helping to build is going to destroy other people’s lives, families, other people’s children? Which is exactly what US military has been doing all over our world. Do you condone and approve this? How about producing something else at these shipyards – something really useful for the country, like freighters to transfer goods or tankers to transfer oil or gas? Does it HAVE to be the warships? I really don’t know what to say to you, it is something truly disturbing to have that kind of mentality as you have described. I am sure that most Americans do not want to perish in the nuclear war, but having NO realisation that they are helping to bring that about, really says something regarding total disconnect from reality. I don’t believe that most Americans can be categorised as such.. Sorry.
Your right, most Americans should not be catagorized as disconnected from reality, unfortunitly the crazy end timers, ‘let God sort it out’ Puritin Americans are in control and one only need to look at Occupied Palestine to see how a minority of rabid rabbinical fanatics can control governmnets of ‘undisconnected people’ in other countries through sheer control of education, media/entertainment disinformation and good old, ‘seen ya wid dat kid’ blackmail. No Us citizens wants to die for GOOP, especially on US soil, (Greater Occupation Of Palestine) so they’ll happily build weapons to kill the rest of us on behalf of their Tel Aviv overlords, controlled through The City Of London and payed for by Wall Street hedge funders using 401ks, if any are left that is.
Cheers, M
Dear Katerina,
I do not condone and approve what the US has been doing to the entire world since the end of the 19th century.
The ordinary American people/voters living in 2020 America are as exactly “connected to reality” as the ordinary German people/voters were who were living and working in the industries of the “economic miracle” of 1930s Germany.
Even a blind person should be able to see that the US is, knowingly or unknowingly, marching down a short road to nuclear conflict. Knowingly or unknowingly, ALL US citizens are supporting this march.
In the following video, substitute the word “sanctions” for “laws”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BwK51YFgQ
Katerina no one is trying to put you down. You put yourself out in a public forum and you must understand that you are entitled to your opinions but not to your facts. It is your evidence that is being questioned here, not your character or motives. It is no different from the fact that many of us question CNN, CBC, or BBC. In fact, many of us should be embarrassed if we admitted that we listened to anything that CNN publishes. Human progress does not come from agreement it comes from disagreement if that disagreement is polite, measurable, and verifiable. So, lets move on to your last essay.
This forum is not just about Russia and USA, it is, as I see it, about Global issues, and the human species in the Global environment. I am not sure what you are defending by demeaning your critics with non-substantiated verbiage but I know that I am defending the truth and so are many others who read your essays and criticize them. What makes your essay worth reading is the fact that people disagree with you and you should be proud of that. They are asking questions, and that is what this forum is all about. As for Russia helping the US to gain its independence you must have read “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. The virus of “nationalism” remains the main threat to the laws of nature because it represents “self-interest” both at the “micro” and “macro” level has brought the world to the brink of human extinction.
Your premise that US and Russia were “close allies” is not correct. Before 1775 North America was Great Britain and there was never any love between Russia and GB and once the Revolution ended America gradually inherited the anti-Russian phobia from the mother country which remains to this day. America opened its doors to the historical enemies of Russia (Catholics, Nationalists, Fascists, monarchists) whose self-interest opposed anything collective which was part of Russian culture. It was not accidental that the US benefited from WWI and WWII, it was planned. The Monroe, Truman, and Eisenhower Doctrines were part of that plan. In 1942 Truman while a senator said “ If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”
Yes, it is true US and Canadian made products were durable and of good quality, but self-interest destroyed all that. Read some of Tesla’s letters and writing from his correspondence with Morgan and Westinghouse you will understand why we do not have free electricity today and why the Laws of Nature are pushing back with a vengeance. Read Newtons Laws of Motion to understand that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Your paragraph on the African Americans is “deserves contempt” when you write “Blacks in the USA have been given every opportunity to advance themselves, unfortunately the lack of motivation on their part was not the white Americans fault.” Blame the victim for their victimization. How appropriate. If I may suggest two books and a movie for you, they will illuminate a small section of the dark hole in your understanding of American history.; Zinn “Peoples History of the United States “ its on the web, “The First Chinese American” by Sleigman and a wonderful movie “The Green Book”
My interaction with many Americans at all levels of educational ladder and many are narrow-minded half-educated, unintelligent individuals with degrees carried away with their fear and hate of Slavs, particularly Russians. You know what Katerina as Putin said some time ago how you can discuss an issue with someone who does not know the difference between “Austria and Australia”.
You write that in the 70’e Russia was. “Under the very strict Socialist Communist control” I will not comment of this since socialism and communism has never existed as a political entity. Socialism as it was parroted by the UK ‘Labour Party” and Northern European countries represented a class dominated economy and with it a class dominated political system that did not provide a seat for the working people at the decision-making table. As far as THE USSR being communist it was nothing of the sort but state capitalism with a political dictatorship at the top.
As for you
r analysis of the last thirty years of the 20th century is somewhat thin on accuracy. USSR fell apart from the inside out. I was in Moscow in 1980 and I sat at a table in the Cosmos Hotel listening to some Yugoslav students while they talked about school and home. One of the participants had just returned from Belgrade, and he said that he brought with him 15 wash and wear shirts which he was going to sell and pay for his semester at school. Consumer goods were ignored Afghanistan became Russian Vietnam, trade had to be done in gold, adventures in Angola and elsewhere were not sustainable financially the Pope and his Polish Prussian Brzezinski found the Achilles Heel in the Russian underbelly, the Muslim lands, the foxes were let into the chicken coop with Yeltsin and the rest is history.
The issues that you mention which faced Putin were daunting., The worst problems were the home-grown quislings who stole and stole while the Russian society slid into the Third World Status. Putin was the right man for the time. He remains the right man for the future as he has a vision, recognizes Russia’s weakness and is attempting to rectify by priority Russia’s future. Military, industry, people’s livelihood, and the environment. He said, “we don’t want anything from others, but we will defend everything that is ours”.
Similar quislings that attempted to take Russia down have penetrated the former soviet republics. The color revolutions which were organized on the Yugoslav model succeeded but were not. Sustainable. USA came in to prop them up not because they were interested in building democracy they were interested in preventing the oil producing countries from joining the BRICS end undermining the US Petrodollar which allows Americans 25% higher standard of living because the dollar is overvalued. US has won some battles, but they have lost the war.
Your comments about sexual abuse of children and how school curriculum is used to destroy children is convoluted and presented without any evidence. Historical brainwashing in elementary and high schools is present, sexual abuse existed in residential and denominational schools, however, this is an institutional problem which is being exposed and particularly now corrected.
The Media as we know it is close to ending on the “dust bin of history”. Mostly they know nothing, absolutely nothing about the country that they write about, so they just create moronic inventions and speculate so that the thoroughly brainwashed writers and the readers think that they have the answer, so they demand to be listened to. We have been brought up on rubbish, violence, racism, drivel, political chatter, guns and more guns and Hollywood degeneracy of all kind. Children’s imagination is lost in the surreal reducing our children to intellectual zero. This kind of media, upholds the status quo and drive progress into the garbage heap of Bidenism..
It is imperative for the media to describe our social and economic reality and to criticize objectively. When you ignore this, we are creating a collective ignorance where knowledge, and more importantly its understanding is not a guarantee, not even if you have a diploma provided by universities where critical thinking represents agreement with the status quo.
The Media ignores the most blatant injustice done to their own, like Julien Assange who exposed assassinations, treachery, war criminality and corruption of the ruling class. Oh yes, he is different he tells the truth unlike most others in the media who are compliant and act to justify the psychological and physical violence against the likes of Assange by their silence on editorial pages. We who read this media, or we who purchase items made by underage children are as guilty as the ones who write and produce what we consume. Journalists like Assange. Snowden, Ellsberg, and Manning are people of immense courage, the best amongst us, and not a word from you in their defense. We are with Trump on this one.
You end your essay with “May God help us and give us the strength we need for the task” You are asking help from the one who gave you the task. If he/she intended to help you he/she would not have created the problem in the first place.
To Walter
Very lenghtly and detailed but without much substance. My essays provide information that a lot of people need to know. Such as the true situation in Russia, and the actual relations it is having with the other states, including USA, and other issues that cover what the western presstitude media would not. You have managed to find the fault with ALL of that.(?!) Is it to massage your own ego? Well, good luck with that. You have provided nothing important or useful in this your comment, unfortunately. It is just a collection of some rather strange musings without any importance. Sorry that you did not get anything of that was written, all of that must have went right over your head. I really don’t know why you had bothered commenting..