New research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to develop a needle-less vaccine that can spread like a virus rather than have to be injected, leaving no way for anyone to remain unvaccinated.
The goal is to create a vaccine that people “catch” without their consent, and without the need for any injections. The vaccine would be passed from one person to the next like a cold, in other words.
A paper on the subject claims that contagious vaccines will be slightly less deadly than traditional injections, “but not non-lethal: they can still kill.”
“Some people will die who would otherwise have lived, though fewer people die overall,” it further explains. “The other issue is there is no consent (for vaccination) from the majority of patients.”
Those in support of the concept say it is no different than artificial water fluoridation, which involves mass-medicating of the general public with a drug that supposedly prevents tooth decay.
Like fluoridated water, needle-less vaccines would be administered by force using methods that leave people unable to opt-out.
“Nobody is asked whether they give consent, even those who disagree with it,” says Prof. Dominic Wilkinson, a medical ethics specialist at the University of Oxford who apparently supports the idea.
“Instead, we entrust elected officials to examine the likely health benefits and make decisions based on the evidence. I don’t think that there is anything intrinsically different when it comes to the idea of self-spreading vaccines.”
Self-spreading “vaccines” could easily be turned into bioweapons, warns scientist
All of this is music to the ears of Bill Gates, who has been working diligently for decades to force-vaccinate the entire planet through any means possible.
Gates has long promoted any and all vaccines, including Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections which he intends to pair up with subcutaneous quantum dot technology. This concept has parallels with the “Mark of the Beast” concept outlined in the biblical texts.
“Such a self-spreading weapon may prove uncontrollable and irreversible,” warns Dr. Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London.
Lentzos says that unleashing self-spreading vaccines would make it possible for hijackers to turn them into biological weapons, assuming they are not already biological weapons to begin with.
Prof. Jim Bull, an infectious diseases expert at University of Idaho who monitors developments in transmissible vaccines, has said that it still remains unclear whether or not self-spreading vaccines are even possible.
“The big hurdle right now is knowing whether we can make them,” he is quoted as saying.
The Department of Health and Social Care at Bull’s school told Good Health that no trial for any self-spreading vaccine “would take place without undergoing stringent regulatory and ethics approval.”
Uh huh, sure.
“If he did do this – I doubt this is true – I will go after him myself,” wrote one reader at Newspunch referring to Gates.
“I don’t doubt this at all,” responded another. “Just remember, Gates is one who also once was a big fan of massive world depopulation.”
Someone else wondered at the ease with which monsters like Gates just continue to unveil death device after death device, all cloaked as things that supposedly help to “save lives.”
“Let me put it this way: I am sure the elites would love to make a bug that will cause harm to others without fail, but God made the human body with an awesome, powerful immune system that is a very hard nut to crack if your body gets what it needs nutrition-wise,” said another person offering a glimmer of hope.
Russia is not waging war on the Ukrainian people, but on a small group of people within US power who have transformed Ukraine without knowing it, the Straussians. It was formed half a century ago and has already committed an incredible amount of crimes in Latin America and the Middle East unbeknownst to the United States. Here is their story.
Leo Strauss
At dawn on February 24, Russian forces entered Ukraine en masse. According to President Vladimir Putin, who was speaking on television at the time, this special operation was the beginning of his country’s response to “those who aspire to world domination” and who are advancing NATO’s infrastructure at the gates. from his country.
During this long intervention, he summarized the way in which NATO destroyed Yugoslavia without authorization from the Security Council of the United Nations, going as far as bombing Belgrade in 1999. Then he covered the destruction of the United States in the Middle East, Iraq, Libya and Syria. It was only after this long presentation that he announced that he had sent his troops to Ukraine with the dual mission of destroying the armed forces linked to NATO and putting an end to the neo-Nazi groups armed by the NATO.
Immediately all the member states of the Atlantic Alliance denounced an occupation of Ukraine comparable to that of Czechoslovakia during the “Prague Spring” (1968). According to them, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has adopted the “Brezhnev doctrine” of the Soviet Union. This is why the free world must punish the resurrected “Evil Empire” by imposing “devastating costs” on it.
The interpretation of the Atlantic Alliance aims above all to deprive Russia of its major argument: certainly, NATO is not a confederation of equals, but a hierarchical federation under Anglo-Saxon command; however, Russia is acting the same. It denies Ukraine the possibility of choosing its destiny as the Soviets denied it to the Czechoslovaks. Admittedly, NATO, by its functioning, violates the principles of sovereignty and equality of States stipulated by the Charter of the United Nations, but it must not be dissolved, except to also dissolve Russia.
Maybe, but probably not.
President Putin’s speech was not directed against Ukraine, or even against the United States, but explicitly against “those who aspire to world domination”, i.e. against the “Straussians” within the power of the United States. It was a real declaration of war against them.
On February 25, President Vladimir Putin described the power of Kiev as a “clique of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”. For the Atlanticist media, these words were those of a mental patient.
On the night of February 25 to 26, President Volodymyr Zelensky sent Russia, via the Chinese Embassy in Kiev, a ceasefire proposal. The Kremlin immediately responded to him with its conditions:
arrest of all Nazis (Dmitro Yarosh and the Azov Battalion, etc.),
filing of all street names and destruction of monuments glorifying Nazi collaborators during the Second World War (Stepan Bandera, etc.),
deposit of arms.
The Atlantic press ignored this event, while the rest of the world, which knew about it, held its breath. The negotiation will fail a few hours later after intervention from Washington. Only then will Western public opinion be made aware of it, but the Russian conditions will always be hidden from them.
What is President Putin talking about? Who is he fighting against? And what are the reasons that have blinded and mute the Atlanticist press?
Paul Wolfowitz
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STRAUSSIANS
Let’s dwell for a moment on this group, the Straussians, about whom Westerners know little. These are individuals, all Jews, but absolutely not representative of American Jews or Jewish communities in the world. They were trained by the German philosopher, Leo Strauss, who took refuge in the United States during the rise of Nazism and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. According to many accounts, he had amassed a small group of faithful students to whom he gave oral instruction. So there are no writings about it. He explained to them that the only way for the Jews not to be victims of a new genocide was to constitute their own dictatorship. He referred to them as the Hoplites (the soldiers of Sparta) and sent them to disrupt the courts of his rivals. Finally, he taught them discretion and praised the “noble lie.” Although he died in 1973, his student fraternity continued.
The Straussians began forming a political group half a century ago, in 1972. They were all members of Democratic Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson’s staff, including Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. They worked closely with a group of Trotskyist journalists, also Jewish, who had known each other at the City College of New York and edited the journal Commentary. They were called “New York Intellectuals.” Both of these two groups were closely linked to the CIA, but also thanks to Perle’s father-in-law, Albert Wohlstetter (the US military strategist), to the Rand Corporation (the think tank of the military-industrial complex). Many of these young people intermarried until they formed a compact group of a hundred people.
Together, they drafted and passed, in the midst of the Watergate crisis (1974), the “Jackson-Vanik amendment,” which forced the Soviet Union to authorize the emigration of its Jewish population to Israel under penalty of economic sanctions. It is their founding act.
In 1976, Paul Wolfowitz was one of the architects of “Team B” (Team B) charged by President Gerald Ford to assess the Soviet threat. He delivered a delirious report accusing the Soviet Union of preparing to take “global hegemony”. The nature of the Cold War changed: it was no longer a question of isolating (containment) the USSR, it had to be stopped in order to save the “free world”.
The Straussians and the New York Intellectuals, all on the left, put themselves in the service of right-wing President Ronald Reagan. It must be understood that these groups are neither really left-wing nor right-wing. Some members have also switched five times from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and vice versa. What is important for them is to infiltrate power, whatever ideology it may be. Elliott Abrams became Assistant Secretary of State. He led an operation in Guatemala where he placed a dictator in power and experimented with Israeli Mossad officers on how to create reservations for the Mayan Indians in order to eventually do the same in Israel with the Palestinian Arabs ( the Mayan Resistance earned Rigoberta Menchú his Nobel Peace Prize). Then Elliott Abrams continued his abuses in El Salvador and finally in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas with the Iran-Contras affair. For their part, the New York Intellectuals, now called “Neoconservatives”, created the National Fund for Democracy (National Endowment for Democracy —NED) and the US Institute of Peace; a device that organized many colored revolutions, starting with China with the coup attempt by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang and the subsequent repression in Tiananmen Square.
At the end of the mandate of George H. Bush (the father), Paul Wolfowitz, then number 3 of the Defense Secretariat, drew up a document around a strong idea: after the decomposition of the USSR, the States States had to prevent the emergence of new rivals, starting with the European Union. He concluded by advocating the possibility of taking unilateral action, that is to say putting an end to the consultation of the United Nations. Wolfowitz is undoubtedly the designer of “Desert Storm”, the operation to destroy Iraq which allowed the United States to change the rules of the game and to organize a unilateral world. It was at this time that the Straussians valued the concepts of “regime change” and “promotion of democracy”.
Gary Schmitt, Abram Shulsky and Paul Wolfowitz entered the US Intelligence community through the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence’s Working Group on Intelligence Reform. They criticized the assumption that other governments reason in the same way as the United States. Then, they criticized the lack of political leadership of Intelligence, letting it wander into unimportant matters instead of concentrating on the essential ones. Politicizing Intelligence is what Wolfowitz had already done with the B team and which he will do again successfully, in 2002, with the Office of Special Plans): inventing arguments for new wars against Iraq and against Iran (the “noble lie” of Leo Strauss).
The Straussians were removed from power during Bill Clinton’s tenure. They then entered the think tanks of Washington. In 1992, William Kristol and Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland, quoted extensively in previous articles) published an article in Foreign Affairs lamenting President Clinton’s timid foreign policy and calling for a renewal of “benevolent state hegemony” ( benevolent global hegemony ). The following year they founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) at the premises of the American Enterprise Institute . Gary Schmitt, Abram Shulsky and Paul Wolfowitz were members. All the non-Jewish admirers of Leo Strauss, including the Protestant Francis Fukuyama (the author of The End of History ), immediately joined them.
Richard Perle
In 1994, now an arms trafficker, Richard Perle (alias “the prince of darkness”) became adviser to the president and ex-Nazi Alija Izetbegović in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was he who brought Osama Bin Laden and his Arab Legion (ancestor of Al-Qaeda) from Afghanistan to defend the country. Perle will even be a member of the Bosnian delegation when the Dayton Accords are signed in Paris.
In 1996, members of the PNAC (including Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser) wrote a study within the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), on behalf of the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This report recommends the elimination of Yasser Arafat, the annexation of the Palestinian territories, a war against Iraq and the transfer of the Palestinians there. He is inspired not only by the political theories of Leo Strauss, but also by those of his friend, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of “revisionist Zionism” of which Netanyahu’s father was the private secretary.
Robert Kagan
PNAC raised funds for the candidacy of George W. Bush (Jr.) and published its famous report “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” before his election . In it, he calls for a catastrophe comparable to that of Pearl Harbor which would throw the American people into a war for global hegemony. These are exactly the words that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a member of the PNAC, used on September 11, 2001.
Thanks to the attacks of September 11, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz installed Admiral Arthur Cebrowski in the shadow of Donald Rumsfeld. He held a role there comparable to that which Albert Wohlstetter had had during the Cold War. He imposed the strategy of “war without end”: the US armed forces should no longer win wars, but start a large number of them and make them last as long as possible. It would be a question of destroying all the political structures of the targeted states in order to ruin these populations and to deprive them of any means of defending themselves against the USA; a strategy implemented for twenty years in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen…
The alliance of the Straussians and the revisionist Zionists was sealed at a major conference in Jerusalem in 2003, which Israeli political figures of all persuasions unfortunately thought they had to attend. It is therefore not surprising that Victoria Nuland (the wife of Robert Kagan, then NATO ambassador) intervened to proclaim a ceasefire in 2006 in Lebanon, allowing the defeated Israeli army to not be prosecuted by Hezbollah.
Bernard Lewis and Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister’s Press Office
Some individuals, like Bernard Lewis, worked with all three groups, the Straussians, the Neoconservatives and the Revisionist Zionists. A former British intelligence agent, he acquired American and Israeli nationalities, was an adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu and a member of the United States National Security Council. Lewis, who asserted halfway through his career that Islam is incompatible with terrorism and that Arab terrorists are in fact Soviet agents, later changed his mind and asserted with the same aplomb that this religion preaches terrorism.He invented the “clash of civilizations” strategy for the US National Security Council. It was about using cultural differences to mobilize Muslims against the Orthodox; a concept that was popularized by his assistant to the Council, Samuel Huntington, except that he did not present it as a strategy, but as a fatality against which action had to be taken. Huntington had started his career as an adviser to the apartheid South African secret service, then he had written a book, The Soldier and the State , asserting that the military (regular and mercenary) form a separate caste, the only one capable of understanding the needs of national security.
After the destruction of Iraq, the Straussians were the subject of all kinds of controversy. Everyone is surprised that such a small group, supported by neoconservative journalists, could acquire such authority without having been the subject of public debate. The United States Congress appoints an Iraq Study Group (known as the “Baker-Hamilton Commission”) to evaluate their policy. He condemns, without naming it, the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy and deplores the hundreds of thousands of deaths it has caused. But Rumsfeld resigns and the Pentagon pursues inexorably this strategy which it has never officially adopted.
In the Obama administration, the Straussians found themselves in the cabinet of Vice President Joe Biden. His national security adviser, Jacob Sullivan, played a central role in organizing operations against Libya, Syria and Myanmar, while one of his other advisers, Antony Blinken, focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. It was he who spearheaded negotiations with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of key members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s staff in exchange for the nuclear deal.
The regime change in Kiev in 2014 was organized by the Straussians. Vice President Biden is firmly committed to it. Victoria Nuland comes to support the neo-Nazi elements of the Right Sector and to supervise the Israeli commando of “Delta” on Maidan Square. A telephone intercept reveals his (ER: or ‘her’?) wish to “fuck the European Union” (sic) in the tradition of the Wolfowitz report of 1992. But the leaders of the European Union do not understand and protest only weakly.
“Jake” Sullivan and Antony Blinken put Vice President Biden’s son, Hunter, on the board of a major gas company, Burisma Holdings, despite opposition from Secretary of State John Kerry. Hunter Biden is unfortunately only a junkie, he will serve as a screen for a gigantic scam at the expense of the Ukrainian people. He will appoint, under the supervision of Amos Hochstein, several of his stoned friends to become other straw men at the head of various companies and plunder Ukrainian gas. These are the people that President Vladimir Putin called the “drug gang”.
Sullivan and Blinken lean on the mafia godfather Ihor Kolomoisky, the third fortune of the country.Although Jewish, he finances the big guns of the Right Sector, a neo-Nazi organization which works for NATO and fought on the Maidan square during the “change of regime”. Kolomoisky took advantage of his acquaintances to seize power within the European Jewish community, but his co-religionists fought back and ejected him from international associations. However, he managed to have the head of the Right Sector, Dmytro Yarosh, appointed deputy secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council and to have himself appointed governor of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast. The two men will be quickly dismissed from any political function. It is their group that President Vladimir Putin has called a “neo-Nazi clique”.
In 2017, Antony Blinken founded WestExec Advisors, a consulting firm that brings together former senior officials from the Obama administration and many Straussians. The activity of this company is extremely discreet. It uses the political connections of its employees to make money, what anywhere else would be called corruption.
Joe Biden is not a Straussian, but he has been doing business with them for about fifteen years. Here with Anthony Blinken.
THE STRAUSSIANS ALWAYS THE SAME AS THEMSELVES
Since the return of Joe Biden to the White House, this time as President of the United States, the Straussians have held the entire system. “Jake” Sullivan is National Security Advisor, while Antony Blinken is Secretary of State with Victoria Nuland at his side. As I’ve reported in previous articles, she was heading to Moscow in October 2021, threatening to crush Russia’s economy if she didn’t comply. This is the beginning of the current crisis.
Under-Secretary of State Nuland brings Dmytro Yarosh back to life and imposes him on President Zelinsky, a television actor protected by Ihor Kolomoisky. On November 2, 2021, he appointed him special adviser to the Chief of the Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi. This one, an authentic democrat, rebels at first and finally accepts. Asked by the press about this astonishing duo, he refuses to answer and evokes a question of National Security. Yarosh gives all his support to the “white führer”, Colonel Andrey Biletsky, and his Azov Battalion. This copy of the SS Das Reich division has been framed since the summer of 2021 by former American mercenaries from Blackwater.
This long digression having made it possible to identify the Straussians, we have to admit that Russia’s ambition is understandable, even desirable. To rid the world of the Straussians would be to do justice to the million deaths and more that they caused and to save those they are about to kill. It remains to be seen whether this intervention in Ukraine is the right way.
Be that as it may, if the responsibility for current events lies with the Straussians, all those who let them act without flinching also have a responsibility. Starting with Germany and France, which signed the Minsk Accords seven years ago and did nothing to ensure that they were implemented, then with the fifty or so States which signed the OSCE declarations banning NATO’s extension east of the Oder-Neisse line and did nothing. Only Israel, which has just got rid of the revisionist Zionists, has just expressed a nuanced position on these events.
This is one of the lessons of this crisis: democratically governed peoples are responsible for the decisions taken for a long time by their leaders and maintained after alternations in power.
“The CIA infiltrated the media.” That statement wore out its welcome decades ago. The media ARE the CIA.
The only proviso, if you want to call it that: most reporters are too stupid to realize who they slave for.
During a SHTF situation, pain could become an annoyance for some, but unbearable for others.
If doctors are scarce and medicine becomes even scarcer, this one little weed, found all over North America and similar to morphine, could be a saving grace.
I mention this because we’re not getting war news, we’re getting CIA news.
Now on the other hand, here is a WRITER—I don’t know who he is; his handle is Good Citizen on Substack. I’ll tell you this. If I could, I’d appoint him to head up negotiations between Russia and the Ukraine in a New York minute. Screw in your brain tightly and read what he recently laid down in one of his carpet bombing runs:
“Imagine this scenario of aggression. Russia has established something called SATA. (Surround America Together Alliance) with the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada and all of Central America. Article 5 of SATA says if one goes to war, they all go to war. Putin is trying to get Mexico to join. He orchestrated a coup there in 2014 and installed a puppet dictator who helps enrich Putin through Putin’s crack head son. He keeps assuring Mexico they will join SATA one day, even though the other countries would not approve the vote and they don’t meet some minimum requirements. Other politicians in the duma send their kids to be on boards of Mexican companies to collect paychecks of $50,000 per month. Russia keeps sending weapons to Mexico who has a neo-Nazi force of nationalists near the border who take shots at English speaking American separatists who would prefer to be part of the United States. Cease fires are broken 2000 times over 8 years, leaving 14,000 dead in the conflict. The U.S. has taken a patient stance, trying to reason with the Mexican coke-head dictator but he keeps accepting SATA weapons and money. Last week the Mexican dictator said he doesn’t just want SATA membership, he wants Russian nukes in his country aimed at the United States. That was the final straw. Tuesday the U.S. launched air strikes across Mexico and declared those English speaking American states as independent republics.”
It’s hard for Americans to consider that they’re living in a news bubble cut off from reality. That grisly fate is supposed to befall lesser countries.
And when American news involves foreign policy, the bubble is double, because that’s where American oligarchs have traditionally stolen a great deal of their money, and “don’t tell the children” has always been the motto of the CIA.
For readers who’ve been following my 2-year assault on the medical bubble surrounding the non-pandemic called COVID, think of the CIA as the CDC of political criminality. The CIA locks down countries. They “vaccinate countries and improve their immunity” by staging coups. They tell you which countries are viruses. They “stop the spread.”
We only see the least clever CIA people delivering the news on television, because those anchors have to be dumb; they have to believe they’re dispensing truth. They have to be unaware that cover stories, limited hangouts, false trails, appeals to authority, and straw man arguments are the stock-in-trade of standard intelligence operations.
If you told anchors Lester “Lurch” Holt or David “Sears underwear model” Muir that the puppet-comedian President of the Ukraine was handing out thousands of weapons to ordinary untrained citizens with the inevitable effect of many of them dying—for television coverage—Lester and David would have no idea what you were talking about.
Here’s a CIA-CDC parallel. The first great signal that the CIA had captured American news came in the wake of the JFK assassination—when US media unanimously agreed the Warren Commission had the facts straight: Oswald acted alone. This, despite nagging evidence (which piled up in future years) that the CIA itself had engineered the President’s murder.
In 1986, in a notorious deal between the US Congress and vaccine manufacturers, a law was passed which ruled out a citizen suing a manufacturer for toxic vaccine damage. Instead, the plaintiff had to appeal to a Kafka-esque federal “court” for compensation. At that point, the truth began to dawn. The CDC was in the big business of buying and selling vaccines; it was also in charge of reporting statistics on vaccine damage; and it was also conducting studies to assess vaccine safety and efficacy. News media took no notice of any of these facts—which when you added them up, amounted to mass murder by vaxx.
Two giant news bubbles, inside which the American population lived. Unaware.
Just as the CIA travels to distant lands, subverts and topples governments, paves the way for mega-corporate takeovers, and then feeds fantasies back to news networks, the medical CIA—the CDC—has it own crew of invaders. They’re called the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS).
These trained medical personnel carry out several hundred missions a year, to foreign lands where possible “outbreaks” are occurring.
They are the virus hunters. They’ve never met a non-existent virus they didn’t love.
Graduates of this EIS program, as proudly stated by the CDC, have gone on to occupy key positions in the overall medical cartel: Surgeons General; CDC directors; medical school deans and professors; medical foundation executives; drug-company and insurance executives; state health officials; MEDICAL EDITORS AND REPORTERS IN MEDIA OUTLETS. —Power, at key junctures.
It’s a loyal insider’s club. They collaborate to float prime-cut, A-number-one cover stories of extraordinary dimensions. They invent reality out of thin air.
They front for the medical cartel. And they provide cover for the crimes of mega-corporations. There’s a foreign town where poverty-stricken people are dying, because horrendous pesticides are running into the soil? No, it’s a virus. There’s a city where the industrial pollution is driving people over the edge into immune-system failure? No, it’s a virus. Dead fish are floating on a yellow and purple river next to a factory pipe that’s pouring steaming poison into the water? No, it’s a new virus no one knew existed.
And here’s the capper. Their propaganda is so good most of the EIS people (just like the news anchors) believe it themselves. You don’t achieve that kind of robotic servitude without intense brainwashing. The first installment of the mind-control program is called medical school.
We’re doing a Day 6 (March 1) military update from military expert and analyst, The Saker (below), starting with this short summary from former German intelligence officer Moon of Alabama:
Disarming Ukraine – Day 6
Just a few points (which I may add to later on):
Russia’s military operational security seems to work well as little is leaking out about the positions of its forces.
Mariupol in the south is now encircled. The Ukraine has lost all access to the sea of Azov. (ER: See map below. Mariupol, south of the Donbass region, has a serious contingent of neo-Nazi forces to contend with.)
After a warning that it would attack ‘psychological operation’ infrastructure in Kiev, a Russian plane bombed the electricity substation that feeds the studios and media centers around the TV-tower of Kiev.
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Below, The Saker will remind us that it is the neo-Nazi contingent, both found as a separate militia(s) and within the Ukraine military itself, who are fighting hard, and who are allegedly taking local area residents hostage, who have limited supplies of food (this last detail from Benjamin Fulford yesterday). Let’s remind ourselves of what these people look like:
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See this very short video report from an American living in Kiev, walking on the empty streets this past Monday, Feb. 28. He talks with frustration about how the Ukrainian govt has supplied known criminals and other local people with weapons, a strategy designed to create chaos and injure civilians, not to stop the Russians:
ER: This map is our own contribution so that the military map below might be more clear. From this and previous days’ accounts we’ve published, it is clear that the Russian military is progressively covering the region from (more or less) Chernobyl on the Belarus border (including Kiev), going EAST (Kharkiv is a critical city), then going SOUTH and right round to Odessa on the Black Sea. Of course, this encompasses the key regions of the Donbass (in red/orange).
Day 6, a couple of quick points
THE SAKER
First, let’s begin with a pretty decent map of the situation today:
Here is a small commentary on what we see in this map:
In red the most recent Russian movements today. The only major progress is inside the purpose square when Russian forces have penetrated deep in the rear of both Odessa and Kiev. So I have to wonder – are they planning a strategic cauldron??? Dunno, but I decided to add a black bar to show where we might want to look closer in the coming days.
Mariupol is, as already mentioned, totally closed off and heavy fighting is taking place. This city will be forcibly denazified in the next couple of days.
The (much awaited) operational cauldron in the east is still not physically closed by Russian forces. But, as I already mentioned, the no man’s land between the two Russian prongs is completely “shot through” (to use a Russian expression) which means that while small groups can still make it out, it’s over for the heavy Ukie armor, artillery and Nazi death-squads, who are STILL shelling Donetsk(ER: within the Donbass area) which, of course, nobody reports about in the Empire of Lies.
I suppose that they want to kill as many Russians before the inevitable outcome…
On this topic, I got an email from a Chinese friend today, and he made a very astute observation. Here is what he wrote:
——- Have you noticed how many Battle of Berlin style Wehrmacht tactics are being used by the Kiev regime? We’re less than a week into the war, & so far we’re already seeing:
1. Volkssturm in Kiev (granted an even more half-assed version thereof) (ER: volkssturm is about raising a civilian fighting force from among the local people); 2. Preventing civilians from leaving the warzone 3. Holding festungs down to the last man (e.g. Kharkov, Mariupol, etc.) (ER: ‘festung’ is a German word meaning ‘fortress’); 4. Forced conscription of military aged men; 5. Strafbattalion (ER: means ‘penal battalion’. Meaning that prisoners would be used in military combat.)
Am I missing anything else? 😀 ——-
He *does* have a point, doesn’t he?
But he did miss one thing: The Ukie “Wunderwaffe” of course! (ER: wonder weapon – being used ironically here since Russia is acknowledged to have the most superior military in the world)
Possible candidates include:
Javelins!!!
Bayraktars!!!
NLAWs!!!
Western fighter aircraft!!!
ISIS fighters!!!
Wooden Kalashnikovs!!!
Assorted Soviet era weapons with new names!!!
Nazi volunteers from all over Europe!!!
Polish, British and Estonian special forces!!! and, of course,
Ze’s “nuke!!!! (ER: ‘Ze’ is Zelensky)
So not one, but TEN Wunderwaffen for the Ukies.
Will “Ze” end like Adolf did or will he run?
I bet you he will run.
They mostly already have…
One more thing.
The Ukie Volkssturm is turning into a very serious disaster which might get much worse in the near future. Here is what is happening.
In some cities, the local authorities were contacted by Russian forces and an orderly change of command took place. The civilians authorities are working (almost?) as normal and law and order is (mostly?) secured.
The problem are the hardcore Nazi volunteer death-squads who distributed military weapons to anybody and everybody, including convicted felons and criminals. These gangs are now mostly fighting each other because they are taken over by paranoid hallucinations about “Russian Spetsnaz” (ER: special forces) everywhere, and since most Ukies speak Russian, unless on video, even the hardcore ones, they have a MAJOR “IFF” (Identification Friend or Foe) problem.
They are also more getting desperate and even more violent than usual: Russian POWs are being tortured to death as a matter of course (Russian special services are tracking down all their names, there will be a big Nuremberg like trial when this war ends).
I have heard of only one instance were the Ukie Volkssturm engaged a column of Russian national guard troops. They were all killed in minutes.
But here are two very real dangers:
Ukrainian civilians are now at risk all over Banderastan (ER: supporters of WWII Nazi sympathizer and fascist, Stepan Bandera)
Ukie Volkssturm atrocities will be filmed by the western presstitutes and blamed on Russia
Frankly, this could turn into another MH-17, but at a much, much bigger scale.
I hope and pray that any and all Ukrainians who are not Nazis now (finally!) stop waiting for Russia to clean house in their country (yet again!) and do something to disarm the marauding Ukie Volkssturm gangs. May God help all those who are innocent and preserve them by His Might.
The Great Depression of the 1930s is burned into most preppers’ minds. The horror stories from that grim time are a stark reminder of how fast things can go bad, even in a country that seems rich, strong and confident – and of how bad they can get.
As a motivation to be prepared, the Great Depression takes some beating.
But what if, as well as a reminder of why prepping is a good idea, it’s also what we need to be preparing for?
Many economists believe that another Great Depression could throw the world back into the poverty and chaos of the dustbowl era, and some think it’s likely to happen this year.
Paranoid? Alarmist? Well, they have a lot of evidence on their side – too much to just dismiss.
Technically, the Great Depression lasted for four years, from 1929 to 1933. In reality, it took until 1940 for US GDP to recover to its 1929 level, and even then unemployment was still at 15%. Only the militarization of the economy for World War II finally swept away the Great Depression’s after-effects.
Is A New Depression Coming?
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, it threw the US economy into recession in a matter of days. In the second quarter of 2020, US GDP fell by 31.4% – one of the fastest and deepest falls ever.
However, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the 2020 recession was also the shortest ever; officially, it lasted just two months. Technically it was too short to qualify as a recession at all.
There’s a lot more to the story than that, though. Our economy has bounced back a long way from the damage lockdown did, but it’s still in deep trouble – and the government is storing up even more trouble for the future. There are a lot of pieces moving behind the scenes, and if they line up wrong a depression could hit us fast and hard.
A lot of Americans are still jobless. In June 2021 the unemployment rate stood at 5.9%. That’s a long way down from its 14.7% peak last April – but a long way up from the 3.5% we had last February. Millions of Americans who were working 18 months ago are unemployed now, and the growth in jobs seems to have slowed.
Unemployment fell by 7% in the six months after the April peak, but only 1.9% in the next nine months. The June 2021 figure was actually slightly up on May, which alarmed economists who’d been expecting another small drop.
Despite unemployment that in normal times would be a national scandal, the government is paying people to sit at home. In many states, the jobless can still claim an extra $300 a month in federal assistance. If you were in a low-paid job, regular unemployment plus an extra $300 might just be enough that you don’t really want to go back to work.
Unfortunately, businesses need low-paid employees too – and having so many of them out of work is slowing our economic recovery.
The Danger of Inflation
Of course, all that extra unemployment benefit has to be paid for, and the government is paying for it by printing money. The stimulus checks sent to every American home also had to be paid for, and the government printed the money for those too. The huge “stimulus” and “infrastructure” bills the government is enacting? A lot of that money will be printed, and the rest borrowed.
The trouble is, creating or borrowing that much new money doesn’t make the country richer; it makes each dollar less valuable. There’s a shortage of vacant homes, so people have to pay more to buy or rent one. That causes inflation and a weaker dollar.
As the dollar gets weaker, imported goods cost more. We import oil, so that means gas costs more. And that’s if you can afford a car to put the gas in, because we import a lot of cars too.
As imports get more expensive, the supply of domestic goods can’t keep up – so prices rise. Employers have to pay more for energy and raw materials, which pushes prices up more. High gas costs for transport get added to prices, which go up again. There are more dollars in the economy, but we can’t buy as much.
So, the government passes laws to raise the minimum wage – which means employers have to raise prices even more. After a certain point it all starts to feed on itself, and inflation isn’t just rising anymore; it takes off like a rocket.
Debt
Right now, our money supply is inflating by about a billion dollars every hour. Our national debt is rising so quickly that, if you look at it in real time, the last five digits are changing too fast to follow. By 2025 we’ll be spending more on debt interest than we do on defense.
Sometime beyond that, maybe in the 2030s, debt interest will match, then exceed, tax revenues. We’ll need to borrow – or print – more money just to pay the interest on what we’ve already borrowed.
But will we even make it that far? On July 28, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell admitted that inflation is rising – and could go further than the Fed had predicted. If the government keeps pumping new money into the system inflation will spiral out of control this year. There are signs that it’s already happening.
House prices are up 23% in just one year. Used car prices are up 45%. Farmers say even the cost of a bale of hay has risen 20% in the last twelve months. That’s all pushing the inflation figures upwards, and it might already be too late for the government to push the lid back down.
How Bad Could It Be?
The original Great Depression was bad – but if one hits now it will be much, much worse. In 1929 the global economy was nowhere near as interconnected as it is today. If inflation keeps rising the weak dollar will cripple the US economy – and we can’t pay for a New Deal-style program to get it moving again.
On top of that we’re much more dependent on power and communications than our ancestors were.
Well, if you want to survive the next depression you need to figure that in. Can you work without the internet? Can you access your bank account if your cell phone app stops working?
Final Words
Getting through the next depression is going to mean prepping for the long term. Three months’ worth of food won’t be enough, because the depression will last for years. You need to be looking at livestock, and the ability to grow your own crops.
When you look at electricity generation, consider wind, water and solar power – they don’t rely on fuel that might become unaffordable.
If we want to make it through a crash like the 1929 generation, we’ll need many of the skills and tools they had. Are you prepared for that?
Soros Helped known Actor and Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy become President of Ukraine by Brainwashing the Country with a TV Series called “Servant of the People”
Poster of the TV show “Servant of the People.”
George Soros’ involvement in Ukraine is well known; his name is linked to the Orange Revolution and regime changes in the country. Like in Georgia.
George Soros acknowledged in an interview with CNN that he actively contributed to the overthrow of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. “I created a foundation in Ukraine before it became independent from Russia. The foundation has functioned since then and has played an important role in current events,” explains the financier who established the International Renaissance Foundation, in Ukraine, as part of the Open Society Foundations, in April 1990.
The infamous foundation originally placed in Ukraine by the New World Order with the aim to assist the transition to democracy, to a market economy became a sort of parallel government immediately starting a series of projects in different areas without ever truly helping the country and ultimately giving the role of President of Ukraine, serving since May 2019, to a comedian/clown called Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who made his apparent fortune with a Ukrainian political satire comedy television series but was secretly financed by a friend of Soros, the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. His name appeared in the revelations made thanks to the Pandora Papers investigation, the world’s largest-ever journalistic collaboration, involving more than 600 journalists, that unmasked the hidden owners of offshore companies, secret bank accounts, private jets, yachts, mansions, and precious artworks of a bunch of influential people from the New World Order elite. More than 100 billionaires, 29,000 offshore accounts, 30 current, and former leaders, and 300 public officials were named in the first leaks in October 2021 that pushed many governments to launch their own inquiries into the financial activities revealed in the papers.
The worldwide probe was prompted by a massive journalist exposé put together by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), that included work by journalists from the Ukrainian media Slidstvо.Info, which connected the shady financial dealings of Zelensky’s television production company Studio Kvartal 95 to the aforementioned Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. Slidstvo found that the laundered money passed through the Cyprus branch of Kolomoisky-owned Privatbank, according to law enforcement officers.
Ten years ago, the popular Kvartal 95 started their shows on the Ukrainian TV channel 1+1 owned by Igor Kolomoisky. Their shows and programs were hits on the channel owned by Kolomoisky, who will later support Zelensky and the team, not only as entertainers but also as politicians, allegedly under suggestions made by none other than George Soros himself. Today, Kolomoisky is a person of interest in investigations in Ukraine, Britain, and the United States, who will probably ignore the results.
Of course, it was Soros’s Foundation in Ukraine that wanted to fight corruption by strengthening transparency and accountability in Ukraine, supporting the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine in 2014, but nothing really happened and the following year, in 2015, The Guardian called Ukraine “the most corrupt nation in Europe,” and according to a poll conducted by Ernst & Young in 2017,experts considered Ukraine to be the ninth-most corrupt nation in the world.
Soros Foundation also said it wanted to support investigative journalism projects, as well as the development of independent media outlets in Ukraine but in 2010, and again in 2021, Freedom House perceived “negative trends in Ukraine,” with government-critical opposition media outlets being closed, demonstrating the authoritarian nature of the pro-Western government led by a former comedian.
As you can see, Ukraine is governed by a clown financed by George Soros, who made his fortune with a TV series called “Servant of the People” in which Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy stars as Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, a high-school history teacher in his thirties who is unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine after a viral video filmed by one of his students shows him making a profane rant against government corruption in his country. Unfortunately, Zelenskyy’s claim made during his political campaign that he will clear his country like his fictional character in the TV series, was propaganda, as Ukraine is becoming a bad joke crafted by Soros and Kvartal 95 Studio, the television entertainment production company, operating in Ukraine since 2003, officially owned by Zelenskyy, but allegedly financed by Soros’ buddy Igor Kolomoisky, whose leading figures later joined Zelensky’s administration as Deputy Heads of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, and one as Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Secret Service.
Now you can understand why Vladimir Putin does not take Zelenskyy and his administration too seriously as they are literally a joke produced by George Soros and friends, to control and brainwash into submission the people of Ukraine now left in the middle of a possible bloody war.
Ever since the fall of the Communist system and the fracturing of the old Soviet Union in 1989-1991, the globalist foreign policy hawks in the American state department and their dutiful minions in the media and amongst both political parties have actively pursued a program of what the late zealous Neoconservative Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer termed a “unipolar” world. By that Krauthammer meant a post-Communist (and essentially secularized) world in which the established form of American “liberal democracy” would now succeed in imposing a new world order. In the words of prominent Neocon author Allan Bloom: “And when we Americans speak seriously about politics, we mean that our principles of freedom and equality and the rights based on them are rational and everywhere applicable. World War II was really an educational experiment undertaken to force those who do not accept these principles to do so.” [Allan Bloom, quoted in Paul Gottfried, War and Democracy: Selected Essays, 1975-2012 (London: Arktos Media, 2012), p. 110] (my Italics in the text)
But, in fact, as the late Sam Francis explained in various books and essays (e.g., Leviathan and Its Enemies, 2016), this Neocon vision of a new world order is nothing less than a form of managerial kleptocracy, the control by powerful elites in our (permanent) government and big corporations who talk incessantly about democracy, but in fact use that term to disguise the increasing dominance they exercise over every facet of public and private life, whether in the United States, Western Europe, or since 1991 over most of the former Eastern Bloc.
Do we need further examples of this closer to home than the recent authoritarian actions by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the extra-constitutional actions by what is euphemistically called “the January 6 Committee” in the US Congress? Stand in the way of the Deep State administrative managers, and you get suppressed, cancelled, and arrested, and held in a Federal jail for months without bail or trial.
The present crisis in Ukraine has everything to do with the objectives and maneuvers of this managerial kleptocracy, and its attempts to force post-Communist—increasingly anti-Marxist—Russia to accept such a template.
Recall a bit of history: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Secretary of State James Baker (representing President George H. W. Bush) solemnly agreed in principle that the old USSR would disintegrate into various new “republics,” and in return NATO would not advance beyond its current borders, that is, would not take in those former Eastern Bloc countries (e.g., Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Baltics, etc.), an action which would be seen as directly hostile and offensive to a greatly reduced Russian Federation. Indeed, after the end of the Soviet Union, its dismemberment, and the rise of an avowedly traditionalist and pro-Christian leadership in Moscow (no less a figure than the Reverend Franklin Graham noticed this), was there any reason for NATO even to exist, as President Trump once mused…other than as a means for continued and increasing managerial control (following the Bloom paradigm)?
Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, UK), in his excellent and very detailed study, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (December 2014), has termed what happened after the fall of Soviet Communism the triumph of “asymetrism,” by which he means that instead of welcoming the new, post-Communist Russia, which had now publicly rejected and repudiated the seventy years of brutal years of Marxist domination, as an equal partner in a “Greater West,” our foreign policy and Neocon managers in Washington and Brussels demanded that Russia give up any pretense of real independence or true partnership with the West.
This process occurred in steps, each time with agreements or protocols or memoranda, which were solemnized between the parties, but then essentially undermined by the US or by our client regime in Kiev. During the Clinton administration, and continuing on until 2020, one by one the former Eastern Bloc countries were admitted as members of NATO, including the Baltic states. In effect, the promises of Baker and the elder Bush meant nothing. What then were the Russians to think?
Much is made of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of December 5, 1994. Through that protocol Russia, the US and the United Kingdom “confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenals to Russia.” In return, Russia recognized the integrity and sovereignty of a neutral, non-militarized, non-hostile Ukraine. And accordingly, despite political turmoil and internal conflict within the Ukrainian state, from 1994 until the violent, American-sponsored Maidan coup d’etat revolution of February 2014 (again, recall US Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland’s direct involvement), that agreement held. But with the flagrant violation of a truce between organized Kiev protesters (who had received from the US over $5 billion to foment revolution) and the popularly-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych (who was seen by the Ukraine revolutionaries as pro-Russian), and the subsequent seizure of power by US-backed Ukrainian irredentists who then proceeded to severely persecute Ukraine’s very large Russian-language and ethnic minority, the Budapest protocol was effectively abrogated (cf., Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine, pp. 86-88 et seq).
It should be noted, as well, the United States never considered the Budapest Memorandum legally binding (Statement of April 12, 2013) or in the category of a concluded treaty.
Russia responded by acceding to the overwhelming vote of citizens of the Crimean peninsula, which had never been Ukrainian, only forcefully “given” to the artificial “Ukrainian Socialist Republic” in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (allegedly after a night of riotous drinking). For the Crimea includes the major Russian Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol, supposedly guaranteed by agreement to Russia, but which after the Maidan coup, the new American-sponsored regime in Kiev now threatened to take.
Russian president Vladimir Putin responded via a press conference on March 4, 2014, to a question about Russia’s supposed violation (in Crimea) of the Budapest Memorandum, describing the current Ukrainian situation as a revolution: “a new state arises, but with this state and in respect to this state, we have not signed any obligatory documents.” The Ukrainian state as envisaged by the Budapest Memorandum had, effectively, ceased to exist, and in its place an American-CIA-US State Department-created state had been forcibly implanted in its place.
Further, Russia declared that it had never been under obligation to “force any part of Ukraine’s civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will,” including the two newly-independent heavily-Russophone states of Donetsk and Lugansk in what was eastern Ukraine (those provinces, like Crimea, had never been a part of any independent Ukrainian nation, but were forcibly given to the artificial Soviet republic by Vladimir Lenin in 1922).
Once again, whether through the so-called “Rose Revolution” in Georgia, or the American debacle in the Balkans, which only succeeded in creating an Islamist republic—Kosovo—in the heart of Europe, the “Orange Revolution” in Kiev must be seen in context as part and parcel of the overall Neocon and globalist effort to advance their internationalist aims. And those goals, let it be said, have nothing to do with traditional Western and Christian beliefs and values. Rather, they were and are a manifestation of what globalist Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, defined as “the Great Reset,” the “window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”
In fact, the Russian incursion into Ukraine comes as a direct and cumulative result of actions which our State Department and intelligence community, with its minions in Western Europe, have engineered for thirty years: to, as it were, “put Russia in its place—at the back of the bus.”
President Zelensky of Ukraine, most recently implied that Ukraine might well go back and reconsider its decision to de-nuclearize. This, then, along with the violent persecution of the huge Russophone minority within Ukrainian borders, precipitated Putin’s decision to take action. After decades of broken promises, broken treaties, and violated protocols, whether at Budapest or the Minsk Agreements (which could have settled the issues equitably), which Ukraine, encouraged by our globalists, never implemented, the Russian bear had its back against the wall: either stand up to those who would subjugate you, or fight back.
Recall again the words of that great anti-Communist novelist, anti-totalitarian and fervent Christian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Moscow News, interview with W. T. Trietiakov published 28 April/4May 2006):
“Events in Ukraine, ever since the time of the referendum in 1991, with its poorly formulated options, have been a constant source of pain and anger to me. I have written and spoken about this often. The fanatic oppression and suppression of the Russian language there (a language which polls show is consistently the preferred language of 60% of the people there) is a beastly methodology aimed primarily against the cultural prospects of Ukraine itself. The vast territories which were never part of historic Ukraine, such as Crimea, Novorosiya and the entire southeast were forcibly and arbitrarily consumed into the territory of modern Ukraine and made hostage to Ukraine’s desires to join NATO…. It is all a simple minded, indeed simpleton and cruel joke perpetuated against the entire history of XIX and XX century Russia. Given these circumstances, Russia will never, in any way, betray the many millions of Russian speaking peoples in Ukraine. Russia will never abandon the ideal of unity with them.”
No one—no one—wants war, with the resultant terrible destruction, loss of life, and mayhem it inevitably brings. But as I have written in previous essays, if you search for the profound cause for what has happened, it is not the invading Russians, it is not really the regime in Kiev, but rather it is the sponsoring apparatchiks in Foggy Bottom along the Potomac, in Brussels, and in the houses of Congress (the Lindsey Grahams and Roger Wickers who actually urge our potential use of nuclear weapons against Russia), and what Dr. Paul Craig Roberts calls the “pressitutes” in American media, from Fox News to MSNBC (which now are like an indistinguishable, foaming-at-the-mouth phalanx in their defense of the aggressive managerial world revolution).
The blood spilt will be on our hands, that is, on the hands of our elites. As cartoonist Walt Kelly once put it: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”
Political leaders in the US, Canada, Germany, and France – all NATO countries – got back on script yesterday. They could not wait to get to the microphones. They all seemed to have new energy and purpose in life. Politicians are made for this moment! They are vastly more talented at dishing out righteous opprobrium directed at foreign beasts, which make far more compelling enemies, than inveighing against invisible viruses.
As Russian bombs rained down on Ukraine, Western leaders – having spent the better part of two years bullying their citizens and quelling protests – spoke in soaring tones about freedom, democracy, peace, and human rights. They condemned the brutality of Putin and his revanchist vision of Tsarist restoration. They had a new sense of resolve in their moral superiority as leaders of the free and modern republics that do not invade their neighbors.
The part we do not see is that many of these people – together with media organs and administrators of many deep-state bureaucracies – are absolutely thrilled to start a new season.
Away with the appalling mismanagement of the pathogen. Away with public anger toward the lockdowns and mandates. Forget the collapse in children’s literacy, the rise in cancer, the waves of depression, the trucker protests, the collapsing polls of many elected leaders, and forget too the inflation, the federal debt, supply-chain snarls and goods shortages. Forget all the astonishing botches of everything.
Life was never as good in living memory as when we had a solid foreign enemy named Russia with a leader with a name and a face. Everything wrong with the world could be personalized, and with storybook thematics: good vs evil, freedom vs despotism, democracy vs dictatorship. This great struggle was so good for both sides that they made it last 40 years. There must be a certain nostalgia for those days alive in the hearts of incumbent political establishments today.
And so, Putin has given Western political elites a wonderful gift. He has created a template that allows them all to say in unison: there is something even worse than us. They can hope for a turnaround in their sagging polling numbers, new respect and appreciation for their strong leadership in a time of crisis, and more reliably depend on a deferential media machine that knows the ways of wartime require parroting whatever powerful foreign-policy experts say in public and private.
There is some powerful symbolism here with Putin’s outright military invasion. He knew that he could count on both India and China to look the other way, even tacitly approve his move. And he knew for sure that NATO countries would bluster and impose sanctions but were not in a position to do anything beyond that. He further knew that Ukraine was an easy win for him personally and politically. He has finally pushed back against NATO expansionism into Russia’s traditional sphere of influence, and caused the opening of a new chapter in world affairs. He has made it clear to the world that the American century is over.
Even more extraordinary, he has a clean path to retaining that power at home. Anti-war protests broke out in many cities in Russia. God bless these protestors, their resolve, their courage, their love of peace.
If Putin is looking for a way to deal with them, he need only look at how Justin Trudeau dealt with the protests in Ottawa. Dox them, seize their bank accounts, tow their trucks and cars, and send in heavy armed military-style cops without badges and faces to clear the streets. Use facial recognition technology to follow up with people later, inquiring about their political loyalties.
The “free world” has lost the moral high ground to preach to the “unfree” world about rights, liberties, and democracy. For two years, most every government in the West experimented with new forms of servitude in the name of public health. They showed how emergency powers can be deployed to lock people in their homes, shut businesses, cancel church, close parks, ban travel, censor speech – massive attacks on essential freedoms all justified simply because the people in power said it was justified.
Further, the pandemic response revived the utility of nationalism (with travel bans and even vaccine approvals), class demarcations in policy (essential and nonessential businesses and workers), segregation and discrimination based on biology (vaccine passports), and the unquestioned hegemony of the administrative state over the whole of society. The experience further proved that there need be no limits to state ambition: even the absurd promise to eradicate a respiratory virus can serve as justification for a power grab.
Even the courts went silent, and the media could be relied upon to quell dissident voices and push out propaganda from the bureaucracies. Big Tech, once decried by the establishment for its libertarian ethos, also enlisted on the side of control, censoring and canceling accounts that raised doubts concerning the competence of the managerial elite.
What a lovely example to display to would-be authoritarians the world over! The pandemic response was brutal. It contradicted all law and tradition. It flew in the face of public-health science from the past. It was an enormous flop from a scientific point of view, of course. But the enterprise did create a political precedent that will resonate for decades. It firmly established that states can do what they want, when they want, provided the leadership maintains a posture of infallibility and the population is sufficiently fearful.
This was the West’s gift to Putin. Putin is now returning the favor. He has volunteered for the role of scapegoat for political establishments that are desperate for a change of topic, something that enables them to once again reclaim the vocabulary about freedom, no matter how implausible it might seem at first. Everyone knows that the best environment for controlling public opinion is the fog of war. All the better if it involves a far-away dictator with imperial ambitions.
The last two years have revealed to us what we would rather not have discovered, namely that freedom and rights, along with enlightened ideals and good science, are extraordinarily fragile. They are only guaranteed by a public that believes in them and is willing to stand up for them. When the cultural consensus in favor of liberty decays, terrible beasts are unleashed on the world.
There are two dates in my adult life that truly seemed darkly shattering of every enlightenment ideal. The first was March 12, 2020, when Donald Trump announced, under cover of emergency, the end of travel from Europe, the UK, and Australia, all in the name of virus avoidance. The second was February 24, 2022, when Vladimir Putin took the first major steps in the restoration of the 19th-century Russian empire, thumbing his nose at the once-mighty US empire and its pretensions to rule the world.
It’s a new chapter in a story of what could be a very dark age of barbarism – unless and until enlightenment ideals once again ascend to commanding heights.
The two reports below are from yesterday (Russia ready to negotiate with Ukraine), the 24th, and early this morning (Ukraine ready to discuss neutrality).
First, the former German intelligence officer at his site MoonofAlabama.org gives his impressions and information on troop movement from yesterday, the 24th:
Disarming Ukraine – Day 1
On February 15 Professor John J. Mearsheimer gave a talk (video) about the Ukraine crisis. He starts out (at 3min) by explaining who has caused it:
The United States, mainly, and its allies are responsible for this crisis. I recommend watching it in full.
Like me and many other analysts, Mearsheimer did not expect that a Russian move into the Ukraine would happen. Why the Russian government finally decided to take that step is not clear to me. I believe that Zelensky’s loose talk about acquiring nuclear weapons for the Ukraine was one of the decisive factors. Who told Zelensky to come up with that?
The Russian operation started with a volley of cruise missiles that destroyed air defense radars and missiles, military airports, ammunition depots and some military harbor. The followed ground attacks by armored forces from Belarus southward, from Russia westward and from Crimea northward. These progressed well, though some tanks got destroyed by anti-tank missile fire. The ground moves have air cover and heavy artillery moving up behind them.
This map does not show the progress of the operation but a likely operational plan the Russian military might have.
The plan seems to be to a. take Kiev, b. encircle the 60,000 strong Ukrainian force that was preparing to attack Donbas, and c. take the coast.
A large fleet of helicopter with Russian parachuter took the Antonov / Hostomel airport some 20 miles from Kiev. They did not even bother with CNN filming them. (ER: the tweet of this is below) A fleet of transport planes from Russia will soon land there and deliver more forces.
The nuclear reactors at Chernobyl have been secured by Russian troops.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims Russian aircraft have destroyed, 83 ground targets, 2 Ukrainian Su-27s, 2 Su-24s, 1 helicopter, 4 Bayraktar TB-2 drones. One Ukrainian Su-27 has landed in Romania. The pilot was probably not interested in getting killed.
The Ukrainian air-defenses, airforce, navy, most large command and control elements and depots have ceased to exist. The moral of its ground troops will be generally low, though some of the Nazi battalions may still be willing to fight.
It is not know yet how far the attack from the north has reached towards Kiev. The attack from Russian mainland is currently fighting around Kharkiv, the Ukraine’s second biggest city. The most successful attack was from Crimea as it has progressed significantly. The canal which provides water to Crimea, and had since 2014 been blocked by the Ukraine, has been liberated. Dnieper water is again flowing to the island.
Russia has so far only committed a relatively small ground force. More troops will follow when the first echelons make more progress. Russia has held back from using ballistic missiles and only used cruise missiles. That is probably a message to the ‘west’ that Russia could escalate if needed. There has also been little use so far of Russia’s electronic warfare elements. Internet and telephone are working in all of the Ukraine except for Kharkiv, which seems to have Internet problems.
The Russian stock market is down but gold, oil and gas are up and Russia has so far lost zero money.
The U.S. is pushing its European ‘allies’ to commit economic suicide by sanctioning everything Russia. The U.S. should be more careful. Its is one of the biggest buyers of Russian oil, and its aircraft industry depends on titanium from Russia. Russia surely knows who is trying to hurt it the most and it surely knows how, and has the means to, hurt back.
We highly recommend The Saker’s detailed, step by step take on the situation so far (up to the 24th). (‘Banderastan’ refers to followers of Stepan Bandera, historical far-right figure who was a Nazi sympathizer.) See
The collapse of Banderastan: tomorrow will be a crucial day.
Moscow is willing to negotiate terms of surrender with Kiev regarding the ongoing Russian military offensive currently taking place in Ukraine, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
According to Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart, with a focus on obtaining a guarantee of neutral status and the promise of no weapons on its territory.
These are terms that, according to Peskov, would enable the achievement of the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, and eliminate what Russia currently views as a threat to the security of its state and people.
“The president formulated his vision of what we would expect from Ukraine in order for the so-called ‘red-line’ problems to be resolved. This is neutral status, and this is a refusal to deploy weapons,” Peskov clarified.
The press secretary added that Putin would determine the timing of the negotiations, but gave assurances that Russia would only engage “if the leadership of Ukraine is ready to talk about it.”
“The operation has its goals – they must be achieved. The president said that all decisions have been made, and the goals will be achieved,” Peskov continued, suggesting that, if Kiev were to agree to meet the demands, the current military attack on Ukraine could be called off.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, Putin instigated a “special operation” in Ukraine, with the supposed aim of “securing the peace” in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in the Donbass region.
The leaders of the republics have made claims in recent days of attacks on their territory by the Ukrainian army.
Throughout the course of Thursday, the operation has become a full-scale assault, with Ukrainian airports, military bases, and cities, including the capital Kiev, all being damaged in air strikes in an attempt by Russia to cripple any Ukrainian military response.
Accusing the West of leaving Ukraine to face Moscow alone, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he was not afraid to negotiate about ending the Russian “invasion,” but would need security guarantees to do so.
Speaking in the early hours of the morning from Kiev, Zelensky said he had reached out to “partners” in the West to tell them Ukraine’s fate was at stake.
“I asked them – are you with us?” Zelensky said. “They answered that they are with us, but they don’t want to take us into the alliance. I’ve asked 27 leaders of Europe, if Ukraine will be in NATO, I’ve asked them directly — all are afraid and did not respond”
“We were left by ourselves. Who is ready to go to war for us? Honestly, I don’t see anybody. Who is ready to give Ukraine guarantees of NATO membership? Honestly, everybody is afraid,” the Ukrainian president added.
Russia sent troops into Ukraine on Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin declaring a special military operation to “demilitarize and de-nazify” Ukraine. Moscow has since told Kiev that it would consider negotiating with the Zelensky government if it agrees to discuss neutral status for the country, among other things.
In an address on Friday, Zelensky said that he is open to talk about Ukraine’s potential neutral status, but insisted that his country needs third party guarantees.
“We are not not afraid of Russia, we are not afraid to talk with Russia, talk about everything: security guarantees for our country and a neutral status. But we are not in NATO now – what security guarantees will we have? Which countries will give them?” he said, before adding that there should be talks that could bring an end to the Russian military offensive.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that “neutral status and rejection of hosting [offensive] weapons systems” are Putin’s “red lines” for Ukraine and that the ball was now in Kiev’s court.
Trudeau’s COVID regime is a symptom of a much deeper problem that transcends political parties.
On February 8, the popular YouTuber Viva Frei came across a woman in downtown Ottawa with a large picture of her son taped to her car. She didn’t give her name, but she was eager to share her story.
“This is my son Jake,” she said, pointing to the picture. “He was 34 years old, he died January 1, new year’s day of 2021. His little girl turned a year old Christmas eve, he died at home of a fentanyl overdose, his cocaine was poisoned with fentanyl. He had been in recovery, he had been working, he had been having a really good year, one of the best years he’d had in a long time. And then these shut downs came along, and then no more work, no more gyms, no more AA meetings.”
Sadly, her story does not end there.
“Seven months later I lost my older son, 36 years old, the same thing, a fentanyl overdose. His job was gone, couldn’t leave the house. This is what Trudeau has done. This is what these lockdowns have done.”
This woman’s story is a vivid reminder of the tragic toll lockdowns have taken, a toll that has all too often been invisible. But while stories like hers were largely overlooked in the past, the Canadian Freedom Convoy is determined to bring them to light. In recent weeks, thousands of people have flocked to Ottawa, each with their own personal stories of how lockdowns and vaccine mandates have impacted their lives. Some have been merely inconvenienced. Others have lost jobs, family members, everything.
Canada’s Great Smear Campaign
In light of these losses, one might expect a degree of sympathy from those who sit in the ivory tower that is Parliament Hill. Unfortunately, sympathy has not been forthcoming, at least not from Trudeau and his caucus. Instead, Trudeau described the protestors as a “small fringe minority” who are “holding unacceptable views,” and later referred to them as “a few people shouting and waving swastikas.”
The media, for their part, haven’t been much better. Indeed, the disconnect between the establishment narrative and the truth on the ground is about as stark as it gets. This Globe and Mail Op-Ed, for instance, argues that “the alt-right has weaponized ‘freedom’ to undermine democracy.” Yes, that’s an actual article about the trucker protests. Meanwhile, the Washington Post has called the convoy a “stunt,” and numerous other outlets have been similarly disparaging of the movement.
It’s hard to say whether the mainstream narrative is wrong merely out of ignorance or whether it’s intentional propaganda. Most likely, it’s some combination of the two. Either way, the good news is that more and more people seem to be waking up and developing a very justified cynicism toward politicians and corporate media.
We Don’t Have a Trudeau Problem, We Have a Government Problem
As heartening as it is to see people standing up for freedom, the sad reality is that government interference in our lives has become a regular occurrence in recent decades. Even if we successfully protest certain measures, governments always seem to come up with new excuses to raise taxes, burden us with red tape, and restrict civil liberties.
Unfortunately, most political movements opposing these kinds of measures only target the administration of the day and not the system itself. The trucker protest is no exception. Of course, Trudeau has been particularly overbearing. But the truth is, all government power is a threat to freedom—not just when it pertains to COVID, and not just when it’s wielded by Trudeau. When the government keeps trampling on freedom no matter how many times it gets new management, there comes a point where one must consider the possibility that the problem goes deeper than the current management.
So if new leadership won’t stop the State from violating liberty, perhaps a new voting system is needed, or even a new form of government? It’s an interesting idea, but as Murray Rothbard points out in his essay Anatomy of the State, even that is unlikely to solve the problem.
“Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries,” Rothbard writes, “of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. Perhaps new paths of inquiry must be explored, if the successful, final solution of the State question is ever to be attained.”
Rothbard’s point is hard to swallow, but it’s worth taking seriously. If we want true, lasting freedom, it’s going to require genuine structural change. The system we have is broken. The “checks and balances” we thought would protect our freedoms aren’t working. If the past two years haven’t made that clear, I don’t know what will.
So rather than seeking salvation in Constitutions, Charters, politicians, and judiciaries, we need to step back and reevaluate the system as a whole. We need to take this movement as an opportunity, not just to call out Trudeau and end the COVID regime, but to rethink the principles upon which this country is founded.
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