How NATO “celebrated” the Orthodox Nativity
NATO did “celebrate” the Orthodox Nativity, but in its own way. First, a few headlines:
Remember the truce offered by Russia? It was rejected. Instead we got this:
- Donetsk shelled in first minute of Christmas truce – authorities
- Two Serbs shot in Kosovo Christmas Eve attack
And, just to clarify, NATO uses Serbia as a defenseless victim to show Russia what it can do to its allies, the message being, as Stoble Talbott said, “after Serbia, you are next”, so the link here is strong.
NATO did not stop at that, it also continued its policy of persecutions, see these headlines:
- Zelensky sanctions over 100 Russian public figures
- Zelensky deprives Orthodox priests of citizenship – media.
Speaking of issues of freedom of religion, NATO is planning to completely ban the parishes which used to have an autonomous status under the Moscow Patriarchate, which then turned against Moscow and condemned the SMO. But that was not enough, so, just like in NATO occupied Kosovo, the persecution of Orthodox clergy and faithful is both a “feel good” operation for Orthodoxy-haters and a “message” to Moscow.
NATO did not stop at that, it also announced yet another military aid package for Banderastan: (no translation needed I suppose)
None of that will be enough to make a difference, but there are many more such “aid” programs being discussed, so NATO wants to continue to draw out this war for as long as possible and fight the Russians down to the last Ukrainian.
Not that any of this did any good to “Ze” and his gang: having rejected the Russian truce, the Ukronazis are now losing the towns of Soledar and Artemovsk (see here for details), which are not only tactical victories for the Russians, but this now threatens the operational defenses of the Ukronazis which will have to fall back on what we could call a “third line of defense” if they want to restabilize the front.
Russia has also continued with her strikes, including an absolutely huge explosion at the NATO base in Ochakovo and a retaliatory attack following the HIMARS strike which killed nearly 100 Russian soldiers. The retaliatory attack was aimed at two barracks in Kramatorsk and, according to the Russians, it killed 600 Ukronazis soldiers. Finally, it appears that 40% of the Ukrainian electrical grid is down forever, since nobody (except Russia) can replace the extremely heavy (and costly) transformers needed to reconnect that grid (now all electrical power is local, with no means to distribute it through the grid).
Feel the hatred
I think that it would be fair to say that what we are witnessing is possibly the most intense demonization of a political leader – Putin – and a country – Russia – in history. And it is absolutely *not* only something coming from the West’s ruling class. A few days ago my daughter and I were laughing because she accompanied some kids to an comics/action figures store and, to her dismay, most customers were adults (lots of infantiles in the USA). Then I asked her, just for fun, “was there any Putin action figure on sale”? There were none, obviously, but we decided to check on the Internet, again, just for fun and, we saw what was on offer on Etsy. Here is the link, see for yourself: https://www.etsy.com/market/putin_action_figure
Now Etsy is not a front for the CIA, and items sold there are mostly made by individuals. I suggest you go through a couple of page of items in the link above and see for yourself: Putin-hatred is certainly a very “popular” thing in the West.
Another example, check out this website: https://fightforua.org/. This is about a worldwide recruitment operation to send mercenaries to the Ukraine. The traffic on that site is modest, but the effort is directly linked to the Ukie military “intelligence” service (it goes through their military attaches) and that means that it is run by NATO.
And then there are all the mantric statements from Western politicians expressing their total love and support of “Ze”, his policies and Banderastan.
Which begs the question:
What would it take for the West to see the true (Nazi) face of Banderastan?
So far, the narrative has not changed: Putin is a megalomaniacal dictator who wants to restore the Soviet Union (or the Russian Empire), Russia attacked the Ukraine because that is what Russians do – they attack others for no good reason. Banderastan is a de facto NATO member state who fight in a “NATO operation” (as per the Ukie Minister of “Defense”) and it now protects all of Europe from the Russian hordes. And since the heroic Ukrainian soldiers are shedding their blood, the very least NATO and the EU can do is to supply infinite amount of money and weapons to this freedom-loving beautiful and heroic country. Listening to that nonsense one could be forgiven for assuming that Country 404 is as democratic as Iceland or San Marino.
It is even more amazing, at least at the first glance, to see how strong the Israeli and Jewish support for a clearly Nazi regime has been. Of course, the Israelis/Jews have no love for the Nazis, but they hate Russia even more than they hate the Nazis (which is quite ironic, since all the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire happened in the Ukraine and not in what is Russia today). This is also true of all the doubleplusgoodthinking Western politicians who ban Nazi symbols or “revisionist” books in their own countries, but who fully support the Nazis in NATO and Kiev.
[The topics of “Israel” deserves a separate article, as that country leaders go from bad, to worse to completely insane. Their latest “brilliant idea”: call the Palestinian flag as a “terror flag” and then to ban its public display. In Palestine. Does that not sound Ukie to you? It is not exactly the kind of batshit crazy action which both Banderastan and “Israel” are known for and which the freedom loving and doubleplusgoodthinking Western politicans and media will never see, as their hate-filled eyes are only directed as Moscow. In fact, I would argue that “Israel” is something of a precedent and even an “older brother” to Banderastan – infinitely ugly, infinitely evil, yet enthusiastically supported by the entire West.]
The Ukronazis can burn people alive, torture all their POWs, completely suppress the freedom of information, murder civilians by the many thousands, try to deprive entire regions of water and electricity (they never realized that karma can be a bitch!), persecute people for having the wrong photo on their cellphones, “disappear” many thousands of supposed political opponents, ban languages, close down churches, freely use a unambiguously racist terminology dehumanizing their own citizens, etc. etc. etc. And for all that, they get a standing ovation (in Congress, literally), billions of dollars of “aid”, tons of weapons and thousands of “volunteers”.
And yet, far from being reviled, “Ze” and his gang are lionized by the West while “Ze’s” victims are demonized and Russia, as a civilization, “canceled” (and not only by authorities, most of that “canceling” is done spontaneously and quite voluntarily).
What is being ignored here is this: what does the West’s total support for the Albanian terrorists in Kosovo, the Israeli terrorists in Palestine and the Ukronazis in Banderastan say about the West itself?
Yes, I know, the Neocons who run the US don’t give a damn about what any “deplorables” might think about them as they see themselves as fundamentally superior and entitled to rule the world. What they are completely missing in their narcissistic self-worship is that much of Zone B is absolutely disgusted with the AngloZionist Empire. Just one example:
Are you aware that most of Latin America is taking an increasingly strong anti-US stance? Following the attempted coup against President Lula in Brazil, all of the following countries immediately condemned that (obviously CIA run) coup including: Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador and even Colombia (which is a tectonic change in Colombian politics)! I got that list from this article, but I am confident that we can add Bolivia and Nicaragua to that list. In fact, I wonder if there is any Latin American country who backed the coup (if yes, please post it in the comments). Yes, even Colombia, which used to be Uncle Shmuel’s bitch for decades, now elected its first President who is not a US puppet.
Much of the same is happening in Africa where more and more countries are openly (and covertly) supporting Russia and ditching their colonial oppressors – like France in Mali – see here for details.
And, again, we observe the same in the Middle-East were countries such as the KSA, which used to be joined at the hip with the USA, are now seeking Russian support and through the Russians, a channel of communications with Iran. Again, these are immense geostrategic shifts which the Western free and democratic media tries very hard to ignore.
There is a well-known saying which goes “tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are“. Clearly, racist freaks like Bibi Netanyahu or “Ze” are not only the “friends” of the West, they are the West’s heroes, which deserve infinite support no matter what evil actions they commit, it all goes away under the “our son of a bitch” doctrine which makes it possible to support both Zionists in Palestine and Nazis in Banderastan. As I wrote many times, both Zionism and National-Socialism are twin brothers, born from the same European nationalistic womb; and while they claim to hate each other, they mostly work together as we have seen in the example of, say, South Africa. So yes, these two monsters do hate each other, but they hate Russia even more, hence their current alliance in Banderastan.
Conclusion: the true (Nazi) face of Banderastan is the true face of the West
The Ukronazis used to have a slogan “Україна – це Європа” (Ukraine is Europe). The past eight years have shown us that the opposite is true – Europe is the Ukraine. And since the original Ukie slogan very much includes the USA as part of being “European” (which I would very much dispute), we can basically conclude that “the West is the Ukraine”.
It would be stupid to expect Nazis to condemn other Nazis. That is just not going to happen. Not until Russia defeats NATO, at which point the European “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” (BoJo) will have to quickly rebrand themselves as peace loving “good neighbors” of Russia or live in terror (and poverty!), and not because Russia will attack any EU country, but because they will have lost even the illusion of US “protection” (aka colonization) of the EU. And there will be A LOT of finger pointing, especially at the rabid Hyena of Europe and the UK (nobody will even notice the quite irrelevant Baltic statelets which nobody needs, including Russia).
It goes without saying that the West’s support for Banderastan and “Israel” is a wholesale and very public repudiation of the values which the West claimed to stand for. I would argue that one of the biggest achievements of the SMO was to force the West to show its true (Nazi and Zionist) face. Ironically, this is not unlike what happened in the Soviet Union where Marxist-Leninist propaganda was everywhere, but absolutely *nobody* took it seriously. And here is the crucial factor to always keep in mind: every regime in history, no matter how brutal and oppressive, needs at least some degree of public support. As Talleyrand, Bonaparte’s Foreign Minister, once said “My Lord, you can do anything you like with bayonets, except sit on them“, and this is quite true. Furthermore, history shows that there is a critical moment when the rulers of a regime are seen has hypocrites the regime inevitably collapses. Right now the ruling class which runs the West looks like a gang of meat-eating carnivores claiming to stand for “vegan values”, something nobody can take seriously (except maybe those truly too dull to be able to understand anything).
And then there is this: Russia is arguably the last Christian country in Europe (the other one would be Serbia). The rest of the continent has now comprehensively caved to the “Woke” ideology, yet another reason for their hatred for Russia: compared to Russia, the post-Christian West looks idolatrous and even openly demonic! Remove Russia, and that would be far less obvious (without any point of comparison). Considering this state of affairs, I think that it is quite safe to assume that in the future it will be Islam, brought in by millions of emigrants, which play a much bigger role in European affairs than any remnants of pseudo-Christianity. From a Russian point of view, this would be much preferable than to deal with Orthodoxy-hating pseudo-Christians.
But all that will only happen once NATO is defeated and the EU denazified and demilitarized. Until then, the coven of witches which run NATO will continue to fully support Ukrainian Nazis and Israeli Zionists.
Andrei
I like the coffee mugs with Putin riding the bear. The Putin doll with a noose around his neck is not funny.
Many say that conflict is genetic, the selfish gene idea. I don’t subscribe to this. Conflict is nurture as there are many traditional societies where cooperation and sharing were the way of life. I attribute conflict and exploitation to social stratification or the Great Chain of Being. Why does a poor exploited person take a gun to fight someone when on another day he would sit and have a beer with them. They do it because from birth they were propagandize that their God is the true one, their land is sacred, and others are inferior, which is all learned.
Lots of people tell us that humans are territorial like lions and other animals. That is only true because we subscribe to a superiority complex and teach it from one generation to the next. Humans are not mice; we have intelligence and can learn to cooperate.
The idea that USA is the “A City upon a Hill” a phrase derived from the teaching of salt and light in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Its use in political rhetoric used in United States politics is as a declaration of American exceptionalism to refer to America acting as a “beacon of hope” for the world.
This is absolute “bull shit” when everything that they do exhibits duplicity and betrayal and a lie that they subscribe to international law. Yes, International law only for others but, no international law for the USA, EU and NATO. USA uses a standard pattern, attack the weakest link (Ukraine in this case) , vilify the leader, destroy the economy and then go against the patron in this case Russia.
Even the quislings like Boris Bondarev sing the same song that the West plays through their media every day. They are rehabilitation the Nazis. The Nazi youth “haircuts” are now in vogue, the Nazi grandparents are now “freedom fighters” and anyone pointing to the holocaust or the 14, 000 dead in the Donbas is looked upon with scepticism, and the media ignores them. If one supports the Nazis, one is a Nazi. How far into the past do we need to look to see that 90% of EU supported the Nazis in WWII including the UK.
Vuki,
Why does a poor exploited person take a gun to fight someone when on another day he would sit and have a beer with them. They do it because from birth they were propagandize that their God is the true one, their land is sacred, and others are inferior, which is all learned.””
Yes, and learned in the past from our leaders via (usualy) a colluding priestly class and more recently, by our “democratic” governments and controlled media. Needing to be stated (in my view) is to point to exactly what kinds of people who seem to be in the positions to push we plebes to the non-beer option.
I recall a study (or studies) which showed that some 4% of humans have sociopathis/narcissistic etc. traits, and that people with those traits populate an inordinately high percentage of “leadersship” positions, from governmental to corporate. There is likely an evolutionary benefit (ie: survival of the otherwise collaborative/social clan/tribe) but it is my opinion that it will be very difficult for humanity to progress to very needed egalitarian/just/sharing/caring societies if said societies don’t neutralize the devastating effects of a class who are in real fear of losing what they have if this egalitarian etc…societies were to get a fair share, and seem to not be shy about using the tremendous assets they own to defend and perpetuate (well, and expand also where possible) the status-quo.
Cheers,
J-P
What would it take to defeat empire? Russia must back Iran having nukes, Iran must have nukes, Russia must take control of the remaining gas and oil fields of the middle east (with no interference from seemingly pro empire China) if not by persuasion, then by force. Otherwise, empire will work around Russia and Iran and isolate both. Russia and Iran have together the capacity to put their fingers on the energetic jugylar vein of empire. Saudi, UAE, Qatar stand in the way. Their oil and gas fields should be put out of operation if they stand in the way. Saudi oilfields are in Shia area. UAE is very vulnerable, and so is Qatar.
Iran does not want nukes and it does not need them.
Having a few nukes without VERY high extra capacity AND an early warning system just makes a country a target.
Besides, Iranian conventional capabilities are already sufficient to deter the Anglo-Zionists.
Finally, the Iranian Supreme Leader has officially declared nukes as “haram”.
The Iranians are very smart, and they won’t give the West the pretext.
How does North Korea fit into the nuke scenario as compared to Iran? Would it be that North Korea borders Russia, China , both nuclear super-powers with advanced early warning systems, that could trigger a launch at incoming missiles meant for North Korea? Is the fact that North Korea’s location next to China and Russia is sufficient to deter a U.S. attack?
Iran on the other hand, flattened U.S. bases in Iraq without suffering a U.S. attack (other than the inevitable “color revolution”/CIA/MOSSAD operations) seems to suggest that Iran has military capabilities that the West fear.
The main deterrence capability of the DPRK is its huge military, including a very large contingent of special forces, its immense artillery and geography. Granted, the nukes the DPRK also contribute to this deterrence, but I do not believe that they are the main factor. If you look through the archives, I wrote several articles about why the US cannot attack the DPRK where I explain it all in details.
In Orwell’s 1984, Oceana citizens were persuaded by their rulers to switch their hatred back and forth between Eurasia and East Asia every several years. What I am suggesting is that the Western public’s hatred of Russia is driven more by the marketing, conditioning, brainwashing than by an inherent tendency to hate things Russian. If tomorrow Biden said Canada is now our enemy, the majority of the USA public would hate Canadians within a short period of time.
I personally think that hatred of Russia has both political and religious origins, and both are associated with Marxism. Upper classes everwhere feared the spread of Marxism as its dominant theme was a classless society and end to privilege of the upper classes.
In the West it failed to gain a hold first in Paris, and in post WWI Berlin, Bavaria and Budapest but it gained hold in Russia, in word only but not in practice. Beside challenging the social position of the upper classes Marxism also attacked religion.
Upper class money and religious dogma joined forces to challenge Marxist ideas. In the West money controlled the media; movies, newspapers and radio which the propertied classes used to dominate the narrative while the church hierarchy used the pulpit to spread their anti Marxist narrative.
Marx wrote “that the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves; that the struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class rule. This was a challenge to the archaic government structure in UK where the upper classes robbed the colonial people of their wealth.
On the other hand, Marx described religion as “the soul of soulless conditions” and the “opium of the people.” He called for the abolition of religion.
Consequently, Marxism had two enemies’ money and God. Since Marxism established a home in Russia, money and religion from the west became enemies of Russia and the Russian people. Every typewriter, pen and TV, movie, book teacher and radio voice sang in unison “The Godless Soviets” song
The empire of lies sprung into action and associated Marxism as Jewish (remember the Jews were blamed for the death of Christ) disease which spread from Moscow like Covid 19 from Wuhan. The millions who died in decolonization of Asia, Africa and the Americas was blamed on Russia rather than the rebellions led by progressive thinkers to overthrow the robbery by the Western European colonial powers.
On the other hand, the church hierarchy feared its demise so they ignored the main message of Marx, emancipation of the working class, which the church should have supported as this was the Biblical message as well , instead they attacked the messenger Russia and the Russian people The same forces are at it again but this time its Putin
The only thing that unites the disUnited States of America is self-righteous hatred of an Official Enemy.
Without an Official Enemy to hate, Americans will turn their inbred hatreds towards each other even more than they are already doing such as with the current Red State vs. Blue State low-intensity Civil War.
Throughout the Cold War, Communism (and the Soviet Union) was America’s Official Enemy Image.
Then in the post-Cold War era before 9/11, so-called rogue states, narco-states, and new Hitlers were the assorted enemies that America manufactured.
Then when the War on Terrorism was launched with the oh-so-convenient “terrorist” attack of 9/11, Islamic Terrorism was the Official Enemy Image.
Now, in the New Cold War, Russia (and its strategic partners like China, Iran, North Korea, etc.) are the Official Enemy Image.
For a very long time, America indeed has been following the same playbook as George Orwell’s 1984, with its Two Minutes of Hate and Perpetual Wars campaigns.
America’s true national creed is not United We Stand–it’s United We Hate and Kill.
Only the object of America’s hatred changes.
The self-styled Land of the Free, the United States of America, is in fact Orwell’s Oceania.
With all due respect Andrei, I think you’re asking a wrong question. You asked: “What would it take for the West to see the true (Nazi) face of Banderastan?”
The West is the Nazi! Don’t get roll over by propaganda. By now I think most informed perople have seen through the West’s fraud. Democracy, Rule of law and all those high sounding ideas are for suckers. Larry Johnson touched on that theme in his latest post. It’s worth reading. https://sonar21.com/when-it-comes-to-supporting-international-law-order-the-united-states-is-very-flexible/
What is amazing is that the West has taken the mask off.
“The West is the Nazi! ”
Yes, indeed, that is the point of my entire article :-)
The victorious powers blamed the Kaiser (Germany) for WWI and later Hitler for WWII. Historians started to rehabilitate Germany “the war guilt clause” in the 1960’s and attributed the cause of WWI to Britain, France, Russia, Austria in almost equal proportion. Rightly so, since all of them were to blame, particularly Britain and France who used the war to attempt to save their empire.
Nazism is now being rehabilitated. Boys, sports and entertainment figures in the West are encouraged to imitate the Hitler Youth haircuts, Nazis are called freedom fighters, and the historians are blaming Britain and France for aiding and abetting Hitler to go against Russia. At first this failed as Hitler attacked westward before he attacked Russia causing WWII. Quickly the western media went on to rehabilitate Russia calling them “our gallant allies” and calling Stalin “Uncle Joe”.
Today, the same Western media that once documented and decried Nazism is now playing it down and even rehabilitating its leaders — including actual Nazi killers in the Baltics, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia and even in the USA and Canada where the worst killers found a home. Yes, there are voices against this but they are few.
Such apologetics aren’t doing any favors for world peace and democracy. Fascism is now taking root in Europe and like Hitler who lied with every speech the EU leaders have excused their failures and the people have swallowed their lies on hate of Russia. The only positive thing in this is the exposure of British and French culpability in the cause of WWII and the death of 50 million people.
Is there an issue with comments? Usually they post immediately but this time it was said the page couldn’t be found.
I see my above comment posted normally. I did have some hyperlinks in my first comment, but they’ve never been an issue previously. I do hope my initial comment can be retrieved and posted so these two can be removed. Thanks!
Please could you re-send your comment – I can’t retrieve it. Thanks. Mod.
Sorry, I failed to copy it as I usually do, so I can’t resend. The primary point I made was related to Patrushev’s interview which I’ve translated and can be read here: Who does Russia negotiate with: Outlaw US Empire diplomats or their owners, the CEOs of Multinational Corporations?
Brother K, I posted at Cafe in re the Patrushev interview, specifically asking if he did not telegraph a “diplomatic” message to the men running the TNCs…
BTW Saker, very fine essay!
Best! P
What do Jews in Ukraine call themselves?
Answer: “Zhidobandera”
How many use that word? Not many I expect, but the most powerful among them does.
Here is an extremely biased and white-washed “Israeli” article from Haaretz.
Though it is heavily white-washed the stain and stink of Igor Kolomoisky still remains,
especially if you can read between the lines.
Haaretz titled the article: Is This Man the Most Powerful Jew in the World?
https://archive.ph/Z6N4u
You can read between the lines for yourselves. For example, “Tainted with anti-semitism”, are those that are members of Azov and C-54. Militias that Igor Kolomoisky funds.
Why doesn’t the article just spell it out for the reader? “Tainted with anti-semitism” — for heck’s sake.
He became a billionaire by arming thugs to take over businesses after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
He has major holdings in eastern Ukraine and he will lose a fortune if the Donbas is freed.
He funds Nazi militias like Azov.
Igor Kolomoisky bought Zelensky’s presidential run.
“[2014] president of one of the main Jewish organizations” in Ukraine. With his thugs and money
likely no one dared challenge him for any role he desired.
So much meat in the article. Here is one paragraph that jumped out at me during my last reading.
<BLOCKQUOTE.In the wake of the revolution and the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the country is receiving billions in aid from Western powers, with Privat Group expected to be at the center of any financial action..
Igor Kolomoisky is the “oligarch at the center of the PrivatBank Group.”
He is likely richer than ever with the help of Western tax dollars.
Sounds like Igor Kolomoisky should be taken out for a 1 way ride – – asap.
Andrei
Qual é o seu problema com a existência da URSS?
Não foram os comunistas que transformaram um país medieval numa potência mundial?
Acaso o actual país, a Russia, não herdou as infraestruturas, o ensino, a ciência, a saúde, metodicamente implementados pelo regime soviético?
Porquê a afirmação de que ninguém escutava a propaganda soviética?
Quer convencer alguém que com os dogmas religiosos é mais fácil lidar com nazis sejam eles Americanos, Alemães, Ukranianos ou Sionistas?
Respeito pelos que o povo russo tem feito nos últimos 100 anos de história é necessário e fundamental.
JMF, Portugal
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TRADUTION:
Andrew
What is your problem with the existence of the USSR?
Wasn’t it the communists who turned a medieval country into a world power?
Did the current country, Russia, not inherit the infrastructure, education, science, health, methodically implemented by the Soviets?
Why the statement that no one listened to Soviet propaganda?
Do you want to convince someone that with religious dogmas it is easier to deal with Nazis whether they are Americans, Germans, Ukrainians or Zionists?
Respect for what the Russian people have done over the past 100 years of history is necessary and fundamental.
JMF, Portugal
Weird this attempt to prove the affirmation that “normal westerners hate Russia too”. Every country has a class of nerdish suck-up people who run the country’s administration and large parts of its educational system and media. This class stabilizes whatever regime is in power, no matter whether the regime is communist or fascist or both or hypernationalist. These people dislike anyone who stands in the way of their own “prince” or “king”. These people exist in Russia in exactly the same way as they exist in the West. These people do not act based on fixed/predetermined/absolute moral values. For these people morality is what they are being told by those in power. And this is a purely genetic thing. These people are not evil in the sense that they have the intention to do evil. No, they do evil if they are told to do evil. And they do so without ever feeling bad about what they have done because they have only done what they have been told to do. And that is in their eyes what “moral behavior” means.
So, yes there are westerners who do hate Russia and Putin. But is that due to their “Westerness” or is it simply because these people instinctively (and correctly) perceive that Russia is currently the most important obstacle for their own kings to become uncontested emperors. These people are like parasites who always follow the power. This is 100% genetically predetermined. This is why strong religions are so important. A strong religion can anchor this mass of morally blind monsters.
Imagine a world were this war develops into an open war between Russia and Nato which Russia decisively wins after a few years. Moreover suppose that as a consequence of the defeat the US empire implodes and that the USA themselves end up in a civil war so that everyone in the world understands that the US will not be the leader of anything for the forseeable future. The victorious Russia instead blossoms and becomes the new dominator of Europe. You know which westerners would be the first ones to signal to the Russians that they are totally willing to support them and to help them to control western Europe? It would be the exact same people who were the first ones to put those ridiculous yellow-blue flags up in their yards and had their kids paint them on the sidewalks.
None of which explains why the West had tried to crush Orthodoxy for 1000 years and Russia for about 800.
Greed and envy is why, nothing else.
Why would the rivalry between neighboring countries be a surprise? The elite of one country sees the opportunity to expand its power by stealing what is currently controlled by the elite of the neighboring realm. This is what history is all about. Russia has been there for just slightly more than 1000 years. Well that means that they have been in this game for a 1000 years. And the fact that they are still there means that they have been very successful in playing the game. Russia itself did not gain its own territory by being “the nice guys”. And Russia did not become the empire it is by being “antiwestern”. No Peter the Great has modernized Russia by importing know how from the West. And both Peter himself nor Katharina have put down their own rivals with the help of weapons. And these weapons have brought them to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, into the Caucasus, deep into the lands of finnugric populations in the north and deep into the lands of central asian turkic and iranian populations. None of those regions had ever anything to do with Russia before Russia conquered them and incorporated them into the Russian Empire.
As far as the West is concerned Russia has partnered with Germany and Austria in the destruction of Poland, its long term western slavic rival on its borders. Later on it has become the most important member of the alliance (France, England, USA and Russia) which brought about the division and destruction of Germany as a sovereign country. Germany had been one of Europe’s most important nations for a 1000 years. And then Russia decided to do what it had done in the case of Poland: make an alliance with the guys just to the west of Germany, and repeat the game we have played with Poland.
None of this means that the Russian people “hate” Poles or Germans or Turks or uralic and whatever other populations it has conquered and included in its own empire. What it means is that the Russian elite has exploited its privileged position of not being a small country that is sandwiched between other countries and were every mistake can bring about the end of the existence of the country. Instead they occupy the eastern edge of the civilisation that has dominated the world for at least 500-600 years.
Anyway, all what this means is that Russia is a player in the “empire game” like anyone else is. Due to its position it has become one the three, four main palyers. And we all need to hope that it will be able to resist the openly satanistic elite which currently rules the Western Empire. Not for Russia’s or the Russians’ sake, but for own sake. If the Russians loose we ourself will be the first victims of our satanic elite.
To pretend that the current satanistic attack on Orthodoxy has is rooted in Catholicims or Protestantism is simply ridiculous. Sure, in the past catholics and protestants might have been rivals of Orthodoxy, and I am sure that they have done many evil things to orthodox people. But none of what is happening in the West at this moment in time is inspired by Catholicism or Protestantism. Both have been subverted to the point that even the Pope openly promotes antichristian satanism.
If the Russians focus on this ridiculous “the normal people of the West hate us” then you will be unable to recognize the true nature of the evil that currently dominates the West and an enemy that you don’t recognize is much more dangerous to you than an enemy that you know. So think carefully when you are again overcome by the desire to beat down a strawmen.
My impression is that the majority of Americans are truly Russophobic at this time, and they have been as far back as I remember.
I was so hopeful at the end of the Cold War that we could all be friends. That was the sort of “globalism” I wanted, and I headed off to Russia to start making friends. The distance was too great for most Americans to try that, but those who went in with an open mind and desire to help are probably in a similar position to me now. We are a tiny despised minority.
The American conservatives do not care anything about “gooks,” and though they distinguish between Vietnam and Russia, they do not distinguish very well. The progressives should have been on their toes and caught the vilification in its infancy when it started up the minute Putin assumed office, but they didn’t. Even I was taken in. I went off to Russia again in the summer of 2002 expecting to hear tales of hardship about life under the ruthless dictator Putin. A British lady working for an environmental NGO there said, “Well, he’s not perfect. We see he tries very hard. We wish he could do more quicker to deal with corruption.” Russian citizens invariably told me how their lives were improving under Putin.
No such accounts reached the western press. None. We talk about censorship now. There was always censorship, but it consisted of invisible decisions in the Editor’s office. Now we have alternative views available on the Internet and the elites wringing their hands trying to figure out how to get the narrative under their control again and making complete ***es of themselves in the process.
With Maidan and the uproar over Putin “invading Crimea,” I told all my relatives and friends that the press was lying to them, but by then the narrative was too strongly established. And then there is the effect of the “Big Lie.” People just rolled their eyes when I tried to tell them the real situation in Russia and what kind of leader Vladimir Putin really was. People walked away from me. Stopped communicating, because to them I was supporting evil. The progressives have been the worst. Really deeply offended at my views. The conservatives by contrast just don’t care. They don’t want our taxpayer money squandered over there. That’s all.
Great read Andrei!
Many Europeons will be euphoric at the likely demise of their ruling-class and minions, viewing it as an opportunity for Regime Change, no less.
We’re already witnessing the fallout from their disastrous policies and grassroot activism is a certainty. Their enormous heavily-subsidised propaganda wing will shrink considerably due to funding issues (all those pathetic drumbeaters beaters, jobless, unemployable in the real world having sold their souls) . It’s tighten your belt austerity time again, we’re in it together BS, take your medicine if you can afford it.
Regarding my New Year’s wish for Soledar – Bakhmut to fall, great boost. Not only a cauldron but a hasty exit leaving all sorts of NATO presents for the Allied Forces.
Personally I see this as a blessing
Some videos for today.
Wagner Group takes control of Soledar – reports (RT breaking news report):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/soledar1001:5
Russian forces advance in key areas of Soledar and Artemovsk (another RT report, mentions the presence of mercenaries, especially Polish):
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/soledar_1001:8
Russian Grad launcher operated by mobilized military personnel strikes Kiev regime arms depot:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Grad_1001:e
Russian Iskander missile system carries out combat mission:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Iskander_1001:8
Russian infantry in close firefight at an enemy fortified position:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GsIcnJFxmPTt/
Russian Lancet drone destroys Kiev regime self-propelled howitzer:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kVy0Ej1FAY1s/
Kiev regime shelling hits apartment buildings, killing at least one civilian in Donetsk Republic:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Donbass_10-01:5
Russian Pantsir-S air defense system provides cover on the southern DPR Ugledar front:
https://rutube.ru/video/e4c793ade078b7a8055828c90c52f259/
Well done, Andrei: I think you hit the nail squarely on the head here!
Many years ago — during the W regime, when the Neocons forcefully emerged on the scene — I rapidly dubbed them “NeocoNazis”. I believed that to be the case then, and find it even more evident nowadays. Under their rule, this country of ours has no soul!
“Conclusion: the true (Nazi) face of Banderastan is the true face of the West.”
Exactly, the UkroNazis are not some inexplicable aberration but in fact represent the true values of those nations that are massively arming and bankrolling Ukraine and have helped to spawn the Nazis in that nation: the Americans, Anglosphere, and Europe.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Or as Matthew 7:16 states: By their fruits ye shall know them.
“spontaneous and quite voluntary cancellation”…
They are centuries of massive brainwashing of the entire West, not only “ignoring” Russia, that is, hiding and ignoring everything that could be said about it, but also exaggerating the errors, and blatantly lying about many other issues.
We must not forget that since the discovery of the printing press by Gutenberg (yes, because the Chinese had already invented it) the controllers of the Angles have total control of the narrative, or the story of what is reported to the masses, what which has been exacerbated in the last decades. They manage to convince their own victims of their “guilt” or the opposite of the truth. Proof of this: the black legend about the Spanish empire was so successful that even the Spanish elites are so far convinced of its blatant lies.
Another example, I remember that, as a lover of History that I am, the magazines and books that came into my hands during my adolescence and youth, about the 2nd World War, totally ignored the role of the USSR and, even worse, although they recognized to the Nazis as adversaries, they showed them as superior people, almost glorifying them. Another one: less than 10 years ago, in Spain, with a “socialist” government, on public television (I think it was for the 70th anniversary), they presented a report or documentary on the 2nd World War of more than two hours, which It flagrantly ignores the role of the Soviet Union, mentioning it very marginally in some short paragraph… and it goes on and on… is there anything more successful than the implantation of the unnatural “gender ideology” in millions of people around the world?
So, I believe that the special military operation should not only cover the military, economic and security aspects, but also contingent information, but also information from History, in all its fields, which has been hidden and misrepresented for centuries, and which is which has led us, among other things, to this situation.
where it says: the controllers of the angles, it should say; the controllers of the Anglo-Saxons
“They manage to convince their own victims of their “guilt” ..”
It blows my mind when I see Spain on the same side of the ones who still occupy Gibraltar or put a gun in Spains head in 1898.
Same happens in Latinamerica, by the way. (although I think in Latam you will find more awake people than in Spain)
“In fact, I would argue that “Israel” is something of a precedent and even an “older brother” to Banderastan – infinitely ugly, infinitely evil, yet enthusiastically supported by the entire West.”
I hope there is a follow up article that sheds some light on this statement. Indeed many shtots and shtetels were at one time within modern Ukraine. One of the largest being Lviv, for example. Many pogroms where conducted in this area as well. In this context a man for Odessa, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, came in to being and advocated for a very particular kind of Zionism. The Betar movement and the closely affiliated Irgun are known to be militant and ultranationalists. Some might say Betar is modeled on the Italian fascist youth organization under Mussolini. Jabotinsky spent some time in Italy during Mussolini’s early days.
Mussolini himself “told David Prato, later to become chief rabbi of Rome, that: “For Zionism to succeed you need to have a Jewish state, with a Jewish flag and a Jewish language. The person who really understands that is your fascist, Jabotinsky.”
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/mideast/agedict/ch10.htm#n19
This may shed some light on how Jews could support Banderites and Nazism in Ukraine today.
I don’t know that much about the “Jacobin” as a publisher but I did find this article about the current Israeli government very interesting and I think it helps explain the connection between Israel and Ukraine in this current conflict with Russia somewhat.
“For the Israeli Right, the New Government Represents a Return to Its Fascist Roots”
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/israel-far-right-fascism-palestinians-occupation
A Supremacist sub consiously filters out his flaws, as seeing them will be his destruction.
The West sees Ukraine as itself. The West looking in the mirror, see only perfection.
Heck….idiot Macron’s latest “perspective” that Putin is not an unpleasant person ( strange way of putting it that Pres Putin is not a deranged psychopath?)but pardoxically he should not have started the war(inferring he is schozophrenic…. Macron is self projecting?)….how detatched from reality and reasoning….no wonder Russia keeps saying there is no one to talk peace with….The Ukraine passes law to forbid peace talks….
Nato and EU signs document that will further mobilize the combined set of instruments at our disposal whether political economic or military to persue our common objectives to the benefit of our one bilion citizens.
Uhuh one viewpoint is Nato is forming a “tank alliance” …consolidating with Finland and Sweden too……
Sweden was neutral….joined Nato….thought it was sending more heavy stuff so is now a target????? Where did I see that yesterday….?
Czech sending more tanks…UK sending 10 Challengers… Finland says will send heavy tanks if everybody else does….
Addendum
Brtish genaral says UK Challeger tanks too complex for Ukraine to learn..lot of specialised equipment…controls need new labels …no time for google translate by starlink on the battlefield… Presumably skilled Ukr tankers are fast disappearing due to Rus military success – probably very few with enough technical english language skills to adapt…and too lengthy time to train up new tankers for Ukr tanks let alone eng speakng persons. Hence I suppose Mdvedev outrage yesterday at T72 tank modifications being carried in EU cuntries ….so Ukr persons can more easily adapt.Maybe Ukr have learnt to drive western tanks in all those Nato-Ukr exercises….maybe UK tanks will be used by UK “mercs”…..
Addendum2
On Uk news Poland is going to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine but might need Germany permission…..maybe they will drop demands for WW2 additional compensation if G agrees…?????? Who can assess their ways of working?
Love the last few lines.. It is the destiny of the Muslims and Orthodox Christians to unite.. InshaAllah( God willing).. Putin is playing the most important role in bringing that alliance together. NATO will be destroyed in the great war tht is cmng and only after tht the alliance will come into fore. InshaAllah.