I am somewhat under the weather today, so I leave you with this open thread to discuss the current developments in the war between NATO and Russia. I would be particularly interested in your opinions and reaction to this statement by Russia at the UN Security Council: http://thesaker.is/extremely-important-russian-warning-to-the-un-security-council-must-see/
Kind regards,
Andrei
It looks as if the Russians are close to ditching the UN as a corrupt and biased Organisation which is incapable of performing any useful function.
The litany of Ukrainian atrocities which the UN continues to ignore is the rope with which the UN will hang itself.
The rest of the World is not saying much, but behind the scenes, they are watching and waiting for the UN to do its job; they doubtless have a plan in mind if the UN remains blind to Kiev’s war crimes.
I don’t think that Russia will formally ditch the UN apparatus even though they see the futility of their arguments in those arenas. Their very arguments are being heard and that serves a purpose beyond just complaint or rebuttal. You know the US and NATO, and all the political players of the world, are listening because Russia presents the truth. Russia knows the value of that and that’s why any presentation to the UN is factual and done with such elocution.
In addition, the Russians constantly contrast the “rules based international order” mandated by Washington with the international rule of law mandated by the UN. In fact, Putin called on Article 51, regional mutual defense, to justify Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
Everyone knows that the current UN is corrupted by the collective West, but that does not mean it is without value as an institution.
Great
Now we have gone full circle. I remember when the John Birchers used to gripe about Soviet Russia having three seats in the UN (USSR, Belarus and Ukraine).
I always thought that the Ukraine Soviet and the Belarus Soviet (along with he Kazakh Soviet) and the Russia Soviet were the components of the USSR. These soviets had seats in the General Assembly? Of course, that would make sense in terms of population.
I don’t know what the Russians will do, but the statement reminded me of the Russian statements before the SMO, when they proposed a security agreement between the U.S. and Russia that was rejected.
I think the U.N. has mostly been a tool of Western imperialism. The U.S. dictates who is Secretary General as well as other positions. These are mostly corrupt people, and this is hardly new. During the 1990’s the U.N. carried out a U.S. policy of genocide against Iraq. Nevertheless, this isn’t good enough for Washington; they complain bitterly when the U.N. organs diverge from U.S. policy.
I know this article is referring to the OPCW but it works the same way for the UN. Basically the US operates as the worlds largest mafia/terrorist state:
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/29/john-bolton-trump-bush-bustani-kids-opcw/
In early 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration was putting intense pressure on Bustani to quit as director-general of the OPCW — despite the fact that he had been unanimously re-elected to head the 145-nation body just two years earlier. His transgression? Negotiating with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to allow OPCW weapons inspectors to make unannounced visits to that country — thereby undermining Washington’s rationale for regime change.
In 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell had penned a letter to Bustani, thanking him for his “very impressive” work. By March 2002, however, Bolton — then serving as under secretary of state for Arms Control and International Security Affairs — arrived in person at the OPCW headquarters in the Hague to issue a warning to the organization’s chief. And, according to Bustani, Bolton didn’t mince words. “Cheney wants you out,” Bustani recalled Bolton saying, referring to the then-vice president of the United States. “We can’t accept your management style.”
Bolton continued, according to Bustani’s recollections: ****“You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you.”****
There was a pause.
****“We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”****
Bustani told me he was taken aback but refused to back down. “My family is aware of the situation, and we are prepared to live with the consequences of my decision,” he replied.
The U.N. is corrupt and is a Western institution now captured by both Globalists and the US war party. But Putin knows that like the US constitution which is ignored by Washington, International Law is still valid even when ignored.
Galearis
The west has made the UN as well as the security council into its own image – absolutely useless. We need a new UN organization, for sure, based not in North America or Europe.
I think CitizenSmith covers the atrocity aspect of the briefing. The extent of the atrocities is eye-opening, and to think that is just the tip of the iceberg. The part that got to me was the presence of commenters who were not part of the Sec Council. They’re astro-turfing out the BS to bury the truth and to also exhaust the Russian delegate. That the U$ and it’s underlings, the EU, and their obvious fabrications i.e., the UN itself and while we’re at it let’s throw in the Atomic Energy Agency. They did the same immature BS. How did westerners, particulary AmeriClones become so retarded? Or were they always that way? Like Australia, is it the country being a penal colony, inhabited by criminals of all stripes with a high number of mental defectives, psychopaths etc. the usual cretins?
For actual progressive countries, countries that care about themselves, their people, the planet and other human beings like Russia, China and others, I can’t imagine why they would bother with the UN, the US, the West and any of their BS organizations any longer. Just a waste of time and money and you never know what diseases you can pick up visiting them or allowing them to visit you.
A kicker for today is SA not inviting the US gov’t to Davos in the Desert and then the US press saying they aren’t going because they’re miffed with OPEC and SA. When lying is a country’s go to place it has to breed the intelligence right out of a country not to mention bleeding off any moral virtue.
“When a country or institution are led by stupid people, the most likely outcome is their destruction, and that is what we are witnessing today in the combined “west”. What a shame! “Stupid” as used here relates to one’s connection to reality.”
“It’s been said that most smart people are just dumb (stupid) people with high IQs. The stuff they believe and insist on foisting on others often satisfies the definition of clinical insanity. Simpler people, who are often quite skilled and mentally able, tend to be much more grounded in reality because they lack the imagination needed to generate these lunatic head worlds.”
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-godlike-barbarity-of-it-all.html
– “Why a Crusade? Many reasons, ranging from the fact that western imperialism was born with the original Crusades …
Right. On their way to Jerusalem they plundered all Jewish settlements, and in Jerusalem they killed the Jewish defenders.
My friend, it is a common mistake to say that the crusades were only in the Middle East, you forget that the fight for the reconquest of Spain was also a crusade, called “Iberian crusades” back in the 11th and 13th centuries and carried out by Portugal (then considered themselves Spanish) and Spain.
Gracias
Last sigh of the moor and ‘Do not cry like a woman for that which you would not defend as a man.’ The Umayyads through to the Nasrids. Al-Andalus. The beauty of those cities, mosques and palaces are unreal. I think it was a time of more peace and enlightenment for all three peoples of the book. Right you are!
Manolo, my Asturian friend in Madrid claimed that the reconquista was carried out by his Asturian ancestors, something like “Asturias…, lo demás tierra do moros.”
Let us not forget the Eastern crusade, the crusade of the Teutonic Knights in order to “christen” the pagan Lithuanians and Livonians but in reality with an eye on the orthodox principality of Novgorod. Alexander Nevski decisively defeated them in the Battle on the frozen lake Peipus in 1222. For a number of centuries the western powers did not venture anymore to go beyond Lake Peipus (border between Estonia and Russia nowadays).
During one of the crusades, I think it’s mentioned by Joinville or Villerhardouin (can’t remember which author) there is an account of crusaders on their way to Jerusalem travelling through the Kingdom of Bulgaria killing Orthodox Christians and burning Orthodox Churches, even though they were offered safe passage. I can see where the notion of “western imperialism was born with the crusades” comes from – sure looks like that’s what was happening.
Except the Romans killed off or sold off into slavery all the Jews from Jerusalem, a thousand years earlier.
The crusades were an attack on the Byzantine Empire, Europes Orthodox Christians.
– Four days later the Crusader hopes were boosted when Genoese ships arrived at Jaffa with supplies. The ships were quickly dismantled, and the timber rushed to Jerusalem for building siege equipment. This work began under the eye of the Genoese commander
“Genoese commander” – I stated Knights Templar has Gono[ese] origin
-In the wake of the victory, the Crusader forces began a widespread massacre of the defeated garrison and the city’s Muslim and Jewish populations.
https://www.thoughtco.com/crusades-siege-of-jerusalem-1099-2360709
The link between the Crusaders and the Conquistadores – mindblowing
– Obviously the Knights Templars definitely had a hand in the Conquista and in destroying God’s people. This is why I ask for all true students of history and archaeology to reconsider the whole fake history wrap they been given us until now because they have not given us the truth of what was really going on in ancient times here in the Americas and elsewhere. Until next time friends, shalom.
– And we would have known about some of these seafaring wonders if it wasn’t for the Spaniards (which some were obviously Knights Templars) who were burning the sacred books of the Aztecs and Mayans which contained their magnificent history of their origins and of their seafaring migrations. Diego de Landa is a perfect example of how the Spaniards destroy the precious writing of these Israelites which contained invaluable knowledge of their past and ours; Diego de Landa justified himself by saying, ‘they were the books of the devils.’ The only devils in the New World were the Spaniards, read what Bartolome de Las Casas wrote about the Conquistadors and you will understand what I’m saying.
https://israellivestoday12.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/the-conquistadors-the-knights-templars/
5GW:
“It’s been said that most smart people are just dumb (stupid) people with high IQs. The stuff they believe and insist on foisting on others often satisfies the definition of clinical insanity. Simpler people, who are often quite skilled and mentally able, tend to be much more grounded in reality because they lack the imagination needed to generate these lunatic head worlds.”
Good psychology on your part and so very straight to the point.
You paragraph reads to me like a useful illustration of why Marx would see the working class as a potentially healing solution to the clinical insanity of the bourgeoisie. Mental crazies in contradiction with elemental people living naturally in their bodies.
It also reads as a partial explanation for Mao’s sending intellectuals back to the rural villages for manual education.
In the inverted political climate in USA now that might push the simple people to vote Republican.
Zen Buddhists refer to “…the imagination needed to generate these lunatic head worlds…” as the ‘monkey mind’. Very clever monkeys are still monkeys.
Schulz must understand that either the US or Great Britain blew up Nordstream.
Is he just afraid to speak up? Or does he owe his loyalty to other than the German people?
And, if so, to whom?
Voltaire said, ‘If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize’
Okay, So he can’t speak out against the obvious culprits.
Do the people in Germany understand what is going on?
I would have to think that those who understand did this must realize that Scholz is selling them out.
Actually, no. It’s a great quote, but not from Voltaire. See here: https://nationalvanguard.org/2017/01/voltaire-didnt-say-it.
Turns out a lot of favorite quotes are either misattributed or just made up. I’ve learned to research provenance before posting any quote.
Yeah my bad. I actually found out he didn’t say it a few years back, but forgot. I’m getting old. But it is a fitting quote as it reflects the reality. David Irving, Ernst Zundel, and many others would agree.
I am not allowed to criticize my parents, but they do not control me. All others though, are fair game.
Gerasimov had talks over the phone today with his UK and US counterparts. This follows the talks yesterday that Shoigu had with US,UK, France, and Turkey.
My sense is that this means that the USA/ West is in a panic mode is trying to reach an agreement wherein they can save face.
It’s not just Scholtz, remember when Snowden revealed the NSA was spying on Merkel, what did the Germans do? Absolutely nothing, it’s an occupied country just like Japan
maskazer2022 wrote:
The west has made the UN absolutely useless.
We need a new UN organization, for sure, based not in North America or Europe.
My Comment:
Yes, we have been here before.
The League of Nations was erected after WWI. The United Nations was erected after WWII, and both institutions were placed in New York. So there is no need we try the same concept a 3rd time.
5GW wrote:
For countries, which care about themselves, their people, the planet and other human beings, I can’t imagine why they would bother with the UN.
My comment:
Yes, it’s a waste of time and money and you never know what pandemic they foster upon your Nation next, when Globalist politicians in our own nations allows the UN to dictate our National health systems.
kjell108 wrote:
“Why a Crusade? Many reasons, ranging from the fact that western imperialism was born with the Crusades. On their way to Jerusalem they plundered all Jewish settlements, and in Jerusalem they killed the Jewish defenders.
My comment:
After the Global wars on terror, and the Global pandemic I would not mind a “Crusade” or end of the UN.
A small add to the Crusader plunder:
The 3rd crusade plundered the Holiest place of the Orthodox Christian Church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople on their way to the Holy Land. I never heard that they plundered Jews. Maybe that part of history was overshadowed by the killing of so many Muslims, that their blood ran down the streets.
Mike from Jersey wrote:
Schulz must understand that either the US or Great Britain blew up Nord Stream.
Is he just afraid to speak up? Or does he owe his loyalty to other than the German people?
My comment:
Schulz knows full well who blew up North Stream, and he is absolutely afraid to speak about it.
First, he is afraid of the Mob who hired him to ruin Germany, once again.
Secondly he is afraid of the German population finding out that he is a traitor.
Germany would have had all the energy they needed if Agent selected by the Bilderberg group or the WEF, were banned from becoming politicians in Germany.
grr wrote
Voltaire said, ‘If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize’
My comment:
Whoever said it was right: And Schultz does not criticize the US, Britain or NATO.
Mike from Jersey wrote:
Do the people in Germany understand what is going on?
My comment:
The population of Germany knows full well what is going on, just look at the mega demonstrations all over Germany.
But the Germans don’t want to destroy their own country via civil war, so the next thing we will see is Nationwide General strikes, bringing all wheels to a halt, and paralyzing the German Economy.
By then the Government may step down or the German military will step in to take over government.
Sajjid wrote:
Remember when Snowden revealed the NSA was spying on Merkel, what did the Germans do? Absolutely nothing, it’s an occupied country just like Japan.
My comment:
Germany is the strongest economy in Europe, if the Germans wanted to throw out the US military, they could do it tomorrow. However the Stay behind NAZIs in Germany, and the NAZI Generations raised by WWII NAZI scientists and migrants in the US, is connected by the hip, and they control Europe, Britain and America.
Putin is right; it’s a fight against Nazism on a Global scale, and we will never have a new global order and a new Global assembly for peace and international law, until the keepers of the current world order is defeated in a major war. We are living in Historic times. I’m afraid.
A. Dane – Maybe that part of history was overshadowed by the killing of so many Muslims, that their blood ran down the streets.
100%. Also, I have read of what may have been the West’s first terrorist bombing of a civilian city. Whoever organized that crusade had made a business deal with the officials of Constantinople that allowed the “Christians” to stop there and reprovision if they promised to behave. This sets up the agreement incapable paradigm and the nontrust factor for the rest of the world.
When the ‘peaceful’ crusaders arrived they decapitated all the outlying peasants they could find, farmers, travelling merchants, wandering minstrels, what-have-you and put them in baskets on their trebuchets and catapults and fired them over the walls of the city, terrorizing the population. Then days and days of rape and plunder – and in the name of God and king, just like now.
The League of Nations was headquatered in Geneva.
You are right.
Check out Jens Stoltenberg’s connections. Now Secretary General of NATO, staying in this position until 2023. Former Prime Minister of Norway. Sat on Gate’s GAVI Alliance as director, I believe, before it became GAVI. Tied into WEF. Has a position waiting for him with Norges Bank in 2023, which just so happens to invest in weapons companies. There’s a fricking web of these elites driving this agenda. Germany and Europe are just casualties in this contest. Jens out in front on this.
1- I think Russia is seeing little or no value for Russia or stewardship of the nations’ affairs in Russia’s remaining in the SC, at least not until reason returns to that room, and by implication to the UN, at least not until reason returns to that body. Tactically this is brilliant: a congeries of bullies turns against itself when their target moves out of range.
2- I think the speech has an inchoate tone of Russia’s not much longer tolerating plans and actions of the aggressively messianic intolerant, aka oligarchs, hegemons of any stripe or money bag.
I think Russians have assessed that JewishAnglicanJesuit oligarchs (financial speculators, political bosses, opinion makers, GO and NGO punishers) are unable to maintain their hegemonic ambitions much less political-economic structures, so therefore, it is reasonable to shift the expenditure of time, money, and energy away from those structures, detaching from them and their minions, so as to husband and spend those assets — time, money, energy — marshaling fresh political-economic ambitions and structures: start afresh, start multipolar, start mutually beneficial, start non-hegemonic. SCO, BRICS are exemplars. The earth’s new electronic envelope fosters that vector of progress in part by making war so patently terrible and inescapable once launched.
On multipolarity, I think there is more to this than is commonly mentioned. Economics is downstream from politics. Politics is downstream from culture. Culture is downstream from religion. So, if we are experiencing multipolarity — aka multi-centricity — in culture, economics, and politics, and we are, that means we are experiencing multipolarity in religion. And that means this:
https://i0.wp.com/theological-geography.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Sarva-Dharma-Symbol-Red-No-Background.png
A complete re-learn-re-think of the duty of government is indicated, followed by a re-founding of government to reflect that re-learn-re-think. Very wide and free-flowing discussion is indicated therefore, a task for moral, intelligent professionals acting under their own names, not for bone-headed bots and trolls using aliases and post-secondary graduates using pedigrees. I submit that a complete re-learn-re-think of the duty of government starts from something like this:
The duty of government is to protect and provide but not to promote.
Diverting a bit from the topic
(However considering it’s an open topic discussion. )
Sarva Dharma concept is a concept from India however it uses a lamp ie fire which is considered the most holy and ritually pure in vedic Hinduism. Thus it’s revolves other religion with Hindu motifs at center.
It’s not a good symbol in that sense.
Explainer: The Hindu name was given by Muslim conquerors of Turkic/Persian/Mongol origins who gave the name to the land beyond the Indu/Hindu river at the base of indu/Hindu kush mountains ( a range of lower Himalayan mountains on border of Afghanistan . The people beyond were called Hindu/Hindi( hindi is also a language in northern India) and the land Hindusthan.
The top powerful religion was Sanatan Dharma but other idol worshiping religions and cults were also lumped under the Hindu identity because Sanatan Dharma originally a vedic religion based on an omnipresent, omnipotent formless concept of creator with natural elements as it’s manifestations being worshipped. Fire, Sun, water, lightning, wind, earth etc being the objects of worship and the fire being most powerful and pure among them.
Idol worship was considered anathema to this orignal Sanatan Dharma ( presented day Hindu religion) but it being a religion ( and language)based on concepts originating from Turkish/Iran border similar religions originated where ( with secret priestly class who worshiped/ considered natural forces pure eg: Zoroastrianism ) However Sanatan Dharma brought local idol worshiping cults and religions into its fold and abandoned original vedas except for ritual worshiping but completely gave in to local religions and cults in philosophy and practical religion through the medium of Calling local idols as Avatars of Sanatan Dharmas manifestation of God.
Thus while Hindu concepts sound good in theory but the religious edifice is convoluted and full of contradictions which require substantial mental gymnastics to make sense. Thus using them is not without pitfalls.
Thanks for that, Masr.
“…using them is not without pitfalls.”
Indeed, as is the case with all spiritual searching, but worth it.
The War: Putin has NATO where he wants them.
They stuck a toe in helping train and arm the Ukies before the war.
They stepped deeper with advanced weapons systems trafficked to Ukraine from all over the NATO bloc.
They are now waist deep in the Big Muddy, caught where they cannot back out and have nothing much left to add to the battle.
They are using Ukie uniforms to cover NATO troops, not just mercs and volunteers. Whole units of Poles and Liths are (half of them killed already) in chest deep.
NATO is discovering that without air dominance, their militaries are merely targets.
Putin wants NATO to bring more to the battle zone.
General Staff is disarming NATO, tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense. What they lose in the Ukraine, they lose from at home.
Soon they will have nothing of a land force but their LGBTQ battalions who are Pride Parade-ready but cannot fight this war.
So, slowly, as the Ukies are attrited, NATO is attrited. And as NATO is attrited, so is the US attrited.
This realization has not escaped the West. This is why they are moving with a terror war.
They want to call it an insurgency, but they still have a government in Kiev, so that doesn’t hold.
They are waging a terror war in Ukraine, in Russia and in the Baltic Sea (NS-1, NS-2) and wherever they can get an IED or explosive placed that will kill Russians. (Belgorod, Kursk, Kherson, Donetsk, Mariupol, Sevastopol)
The war against NATO is going so well, the UK and Ukies are building a dirty bomb to try to reverse the inevitable.
The war is going so well, and the Russians have not even started their main offensive.
All this is in the General Staff’s Operational Plan. It is what Putin, Shoigu and Gerasimov designed to end the NATO thrust eastward using Ukraine and Aegis Ashore missile launchers in Romania, Poland and probably Ukraine if the SMO had not begun.
Russia will get its security. The US will lose most of NATO and all of Ukraine.
The Big Muddy in the black soil of Ukraine is where the West’s military hegemony is doomed to die.
Uncle Sam’s has got himself in a terrible jam.
He needs your help again.
He is offering free sex change operations to every one who enlists now.
The purpose of NATO to date in one word: Russia.
“NATO was designed to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. This statement, made by one of the participants during the discussion, succinctly…summed up the purpose of NATO to date in one word: Russia.”
– 1995 Bilderberg meeting
It is time to dismantle NATO, the Financial Empire and Monetary Imperialism.
Events will escalate until:
– Global order based on multilateralism
– Monetary order of national currencies
– Closer of 800 foreign military bases
– No nuclear weapon outside nation
– All nations sovereign & neutral
The Financial Empire’s LIE will end!
(LIE ~ Lying, Imperialism & Enslavement)
1995 Bilderberg meeting notes:
https://wikispooks.com/w/images/3/35/Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1995.pdf
Damn fine summary.
– General Staff is disarming NATO, tank by tank, artillery by artillery, air defense by air defense. What they lose in the Ukraine, they lose from at home.
That is my impression. NATO will be slaughtered.
Progressive RT version (https://www.rt.com/russia/565235-sergey-poletaev-as-winter-approaches/)
the war is a disaster …
Removed. Please don’t post out of date information. Mod.
That is where the danger lies. If the West cannot win, they will resort to nuclear weapons where they figure they have a better chance of winning.
I always wonder about a future for the Ukraine. For one, if Russia were to “take it over”, she would inherit a badly damaged, deeply in debt, dysfunctional state, complete with ‘stay behind’ Nazi saboteurs. No sane leader would want to take that on. For another, it appears that Poland and Hungary are eager to claim parts, leaving a rump state 1/3 of its former size, but one of which it would no longer be necessary to call “the Ukraine,” but simply “Ukraine.”
The time has not yet come to leave the UN. The turning point of the hybrid world war will be the announcement of an alternative to the $, the IMF and a universal payment system to replace swift. At that point the deep south will be able to default on its debt and vote for Russia and China. A new majority could be created at the UN, free of the deleterious influence of the USA.
The president of the Russian Federation has announced that the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism will be in 2025. Is this an indication that the current struggle will last until 2025? During these three years many things will happen.
Interesting development that Sunak has been slid into the UK PM position at warp speed and cunningly BoJo has not run, however I believe he is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Sad situation for UK as Sunak will be holding the baby on the stage when the curtain falls over the UK Russia situation.
I believe BoJo plans to take over when Sunak is soon forced out.
Sunak should have BoJo placed in custody for the time being.
The good news is that Liz Truss’ tax cuts were stopped …
Sunak was one of the backstabbers of Bojo.
What sources uses progressive RT?
https://www.rt.com/business/565259-chinese-stocks-currency-slide/
1. CNN
2. CNBC
3. Reuter
https://www.rt.com/russia/565266-ukraine-faces-worst-winter/
1. German outlet Handelsblatt
2. The Guardian
RT about Putin
– He accused Kiev of masterminding several “terrorist attacks” on Russian infrastructure,
telling us RT has no opinion about who was behind the “terror”
And like Sunak in UK per my comment above, US military command needs to place Obama, Brennan and all the rats in the woodpile in Washington DC in custody too. Especially those at Langley.
Else things will get out of hand.
I also urge any NATO troops in UKN to not follow any orders to escalate the conflict and instead move to deal with Zelensky.
Otherwise everyone will be doomed one way or another.
In case Kiev was flattened by nukes with 3 mill dead, would Pentagon then initiate bombing of Moscow as retaliation?
It is a question of how much Black lives matter in Washington. Would Nancy Pelosi then donate 100% of her assets to Ukraine?
Mind set?
I know about US, but perhaps someone can clue me in about Russia — regarding the leaves in Autum. It occurs to me that the mind set about leaves, and control, permeates the empire and are broadly related. Around here some people are fanatical about leaves.What is celebrated as the’fall colors’ when on the trees become a menace when they drop to ground, where they must be gathered up, often with a loud gasoline powered machine, and burned or carted away. That pretty yellow, red, and brown blanket for the coming winter must be destroyed, and ‘controlled’. Kind of reminds me how the empire must control the yellow, red, and brown people in the world, or burn them up. Can’t leave them alone or allow for diversity, or proceed according to the patterns and rhythms of nature.
I’m not sure what I’m trying to grasp here — it’s not a well developed idea — but it seems to me at this moment that NATO will not let things be if it help it becuase it has a deep seated crazy need to control everything, and take eveything for itself whether it needs all that stuff or not. It needs lots of gas and oil to power lights to chase away all the nightly darkness, to heat everything up to avoid putting on a sweater, make a zillon silly toys to distract one from sleeping at night, and to blow leaves into oblivion — and say that anyone who does not folow along is uncivilized and unworthy of existence. More is never enough. There is something about that mindset that disturbs me.
I see the phone calls by shoigu to the u.s and u.k, as preempting MI6, CIA, mossad plots for a nuclear false flag. The west is in a checkmate status, the only western move to accept defeat, or go nuclear, intervene and face defeat.
Some may not realize it but Russia/Putin has dealt NATO it’s deathblow, NATO as an organization is useless in todays geo political environment. NATOs original purpose I suppose was the containment of the USSR, it succeeded in one way or another and it should have disbanded when the USSR.
The geopolitical situation today makes NATO obsolete, Russia is not trying to forcibly expand beyond its borders and into Western Europe, it didn’t even really want to go into Ukraine but had to and it doesn’t even seem to want all of Ukraine.
The redefined NATO mission of turning it into an offensive organization and tearing up mainland Russia into pieces that it got in the 90s was going to run into a brick wall the minute Russia got militarily serious and said no more. This has now happened with the Ukraine situation. NATO got the chance to send in armies to Ukraine but article 5 became its biggest weakness as if the Poles got involved officially with a large presence Russia would have to respond with strikes against Poland which would trigger article 5 and end the game.
I suspect with the new geopolitical reality in the world, NATO is not long for this world, it serves no real purpose and is in fact hamstringing countries like Germany/France/Turkey/UK, etc from following their own independent goals. In the coming years it won’t be the Russians the Europeans are fighting but yet themselves.
I imagine Germany asking for Russian gas – and opening of Nord Stream 2 – as a death blow to NATO. First some German elderly have to be reported dead …
Then Stoltenberg would dare to arrest German politicians?
I saw on pepe tg i think linked from RT that [email protected] damages has been assessed as taking a couple of months to repair and isnt as bad as could be. Well well international waters and all. Just need to kick NATO out and nobody freezes.
Good account of events. It occurs to me that Putin first earned the enmity of the West when he spoiled their finance scheme in Russia by kicking out the Western vultures and getting the oligarchs to work for Russia, not the West. Next, Putin thwarted the American plan to regime change Syria. Now, he has set back, perhaps ended, their plan to make Ukraine into the spear to kill the Russian Federation.
It is no wonder that, as Professor Steven F Cohen has said, “Putin is the most demonized leader in world history.”
Russia is now fully aware of all rat lines, locations of command nodes and satelite communicationlinks both on earth and in space which Nato and USA use.
Russia has trained in mud and snow in dealing with combat scenarios, it has quantities of winter gear to deal with what is ahead. Nato and its proxies are now in a very big trap. Time is on Russias side, being the entire Ukraine. Should Nato inadvertantly expose itself in Ukraine then all those command centres in Poland, Lithuania, Romania, will be hit. As these countries already have soldiers in this conflict. Starlink constelation satelites will be nutrelised. Elon Musk knows this. I may be rambling but this is one way of dealing with Nato. Hit those 3 countries surgically and the rest of Nato will retreat, as their resources are so depleted, as they no longer have the will to be combative.
Seeing how the US sent the M-16, set up for use in the arctic, to Vietnam I don’t imagine they have any GI issue cold weather gear. While they think their LGBTQ troop formations are pretty hot, I don’t imagine Pride Parade butt out chaps are going to hack it during a Ukraine winter, save for the Ukie cannibals and their piquant tastes. I don’t think you can light up a captagon pill to heat an MRE cuppa Joe.
Relocate the UN to Astana, the real centre of the world. I think most would attend and leave ze empire to wither in obscurity.
Astana is pretty much Satan’s new headquarters of operations. UN is a demonic entity, to begin with.
what does Washington , city of London and Dubai all have in common. Dubai the home of Global Government Summit all have replica temple gates to Baal. nothing to see move along
Sure Andrei, here it is……
I am not seeing the UN address as a last chance by Russia, an appeal by Russia, for the UN to get its´ act together. It has the look and feel, so to speak, as an explanation for what is about to come. I don´t think there are going to be negotiations, miracle diplomatic movements, last moment salvation. It is all over except for the soon to be plentiful screaming. Russian troops movements are focusing more on the front now, as in the movement east that is being reported now in the Kherson area.
I see the Russian UN speech, as something that should e stunning for the West. However, they will probably treat it like a joke. Today´s speech was a housekeeping affair for the Russian diplomatic corps.
My best to you Andrei.
Russia won’t ditch the UN. The UN is an important anti-West venue where Russia makes it case to the Global South and it allies, China, India, Iran, the BRICS etc. By continuing to argue in the UN, Russia clarifies the UNs obvious pro-West bias.
Gaming the dirty nuke scenario.. if Ukraine-MI6-CIA do a false flag dirty bomb or low yield nuke, and-if NATO then invades western Ukraine and/or Odessa blaming Russia.. the Russians will engage with precision strike missiles, drones and perhaps a counter-invasion from Belarus towards Kiev and Lvov. NATO may then be forced to use tactical nukes. Then, the Russians may use tactical nukes. Then what???
I think at that point, China gets involved. Perhaps with India and other major countries. China can’t allow a full blown strategic nuke exchange. The Chinese may tell both Russia and the US.. STOP. This message might include a threat to come in on the side of Russia. China can’t allow Russia to lose because the dying US-EU hegemon will then go after China.
In this scenario, China comes in as the stable, wise, global Big Brother which would greatly enhance China’s geopolitical status. Chinese diplomats could be instrumental in forging at least a temporary cease-fire between Russia and the US-EU. Of course, that’s not going to end the conflict. But at least it postpones Armageddon.
Nuclear weapons are not very useful on a battlefield where you want to advance with your own troops afterward. That doesn’t stop the NATO leaders, because their troops on the ground are expendable. What stops NATO from using real nuclear bombs is the drop in public support coming from first use. That is one of the reasons they work hard on all the provocations, including the possible use of a dirty bomb. A regular bomb with radioactive waste strapped to it is perfect for blaming the other side for using “nuclear” weapons.
As for Russian use of nuclear weapons, they have nothing to gain from using them on the ground in Ukraine. There is nothing on the Ukrainian territory that can’t be blown up in a regular way. If Russia uses nuclear weapons, it will be to knock out US and NATO nuclear capabilities. But even here, they might opt for hypersonic missiles with regular explosives, because that would be a bigger victory.
The main role of nuclear weapons in this conflict is that the first one who gets successfully blamed for using them takes a huge drop in support, from their own population and from other countries.
As Ive said before Putin could get on the front foot after retrieving as much of Ukraine as he warrants fit, and offer to
-Poland
-Belarus
-Hungary
-Slovakia
-Romania
their historical lands back that had been annexed to Ukraine since WWI.
But it MUST be done on one-in-all-in basis.
You cant tell me that the ‘jackal of Europe’, Poland in particular wouldn’t be champing at the bit to get Galicia back. Orban’s Hungary also.
It also has the added benefit of making the Neo-Nazis in currently western Ulraine someone else’s problem.
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I’m a little bit more optimistic than Pepe. While I dont disagree with his “Syrianization of Europe” plot, I still suspect that the US (& its proxies) will end up being expelled from the World Island: Afro-Eurasia (& hopefully even LatAm). I suspect that the white-settler colonies of Australia, NZ & Canada are too deeply entrenched for them to escape the A-ZE.
Its hilarious to me how Halford Mackinder still rents a room in their minds after all these years.
This may take another ~30 years, say to 2050, but if you’re middle age, (barring the effects of a catastrophic nuclear holocaust which Fred Reed ably took us through the other day on this site) you’ll live long enough to witness the Empire of Lies demise.
Chin up!
“Syrianization of Europe” plot?
Europe has never been stable. Europe has always been a mess. That is the character of Europe.
What will all the unintented consequenses be?
Came to think that USA still has a big european population… We can probably make a mess of USA…
Wait and see?
@Frank You told us about Sweden
– The majority are slaves under the banksters.
– I guess most people don’t even own their cell phone…
Facts
Real GDP per capita
Sweden $50,700 (2020 est.)
UK $41,600 (2020 est.)
France $42,000 (2020 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
Sweden: 82.70 years
UK: 81.94 years
France: 82.59 years
Income distribution
Sweden: lowest 10%: 3.4%
UK: lowest 10%: 1.7%
France: lowest 10%: 3.6%
What does your statistic means for for this question? Does it affect Russia?
This is some detailed information on the dirty bomb threat about which Mr Shoigu called western counterparts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBMKIe5d0M&t=19s
This could obviously be a horrifying escalation.
A MUST SEE video
Timing is related to Nov election = just be before election
I think it is only right to call out the shameless manipulation of the UN. The Russians speak up for the rest of the World to hear, and for the unheard. It is valiant to speak up against the monsterous crimes and hypocrisy of NATO.
Grim times. That it has come to this. I find little enthusiasm in the daily bombings, the slaughter. So much is truly unpredictable, no matter how just, rational, eloquent, creative Russia is. I am not dooming, but I am not happy that Russia is in this position fighting these psychopaths. It feels almost jinxed to wonder at the beautiful possibilty of truly derailing the relentless control exercised by US/UK/Straussian cabals meddling and aggression.
I keep thinking today, about how at the start of this conflict, the hope of warmongers was another Afghanistan for Russia. Russia seems already much deeper in this war and in Ukraine than it wanted to be.
Another thing I am struck by, is the shear level of US control over Europe’s elites and political system – it’s seems so complete – or is this an illusion? The truly humiliating position Europe is in, and the staggeringly blatant aggression and manipulation that led to this historically, tells a grim tale indeed.
Remember though none of these people playing empires puppets have the qualification to even understand their respective duties. One has to think that there is a backbone to be found somewhere. People who do know what they’re doing. Like the German industrial lobby, other interests finding eachother forging allegiances that may actually bring an end to this as soon as a genuine opening presents itself. Will they be able to outplay the deep state connivances that are undoubtedly directed against them? it’s perhaps false hope, but hope one must…
Once the cracks in empire start showing it won’t take long for the European rats to start jumping ship.
We are in an acute , important turn in world History.
In world History there are a few important, front stage actors.
Russia is one of them, obsviously.
Frankly, are nt there within the worldwide renowned russian Diplomats anyone better, craftier, to-the-point,
defiantly outspoken and trigger-quicker men to occuply this UN position?
Russian diplomats are tough. Standing, or rather sitting, almost alone, they can continue to be polite, and persistent when dealing with a wall of deceit. Any other person in their position would have banged the table or shout expletives or both; or corner the apparently clueless Gabonese president of the UNSC for letting the EU speak as individual countries and ‘shirt-fronted’ him.
Sergei Shoygu picking up the phone when Lloyd Austin rang the first time confirms the real probability of the criminal Kiev regime using a dirty bomb or mounting a concerted attack on Zaporozhye NPP. I’m hoping against hope there are some smart people left in fUKUS military who still have the testicular fortitude to speak plainly to their political masters and prevent the mother of terrorist acts from happening. If it does happen, we can say bye-bye to western Ukraine, Moldova, and parts of Romania and Poland. On the Russian side, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Belarus.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en/3494
Perhaps this is a good time to plug the best book I’ve read on Hiroshima — as a sort of reminder for the pundits, people who like to talk about nuclear bombs — Masuji Ibuse’s classic work ‘Kuroi Ame’, translated as ‘Black Rain.’
I reckon this book is familiar to many members of the Vineyard, but for those who are not familiar with it, ‘Rain’ is not an overly long book (important for busy people). It is a ‘documentary novel’ in the sense that Ibuse used documents written by people who were there as well as material from interviews. It is a harrowing read, more so perhaps because it deals with the lives of ordinary people who survived the holocaust that was Hiroshima. Ibuse writes about death, destruction and untold suffering almost matter-of-factly. No sentimentality.
A sample:
“The boy’s mouth opened wide as he looked up at the sky. Although the cloud seemed at first glance to be motionless, it was by no means so. The head of the mushroom would billow out first to the east, then to the west, then out to the east again; each time, some part or other of its body would emit a fierce light, in ever-changing shades of red, purple, lapis lazuli, or green. And all the time it went on boiling out unceasingly from within. Its stalk, like a twisted veil of fine cloth, went on swelling busily too. The cloud loomed over the city as though waiting to pounce, and my whole body seemed to shrink from it. I wondered if my legs were not going to give out on me.”
“The symptoms of radiation sickness usually began with an unexplained lethargy and heaviness of the limbs. After a few days, the hair would come out without any pain, and the teeth would come loose and eventually fall out. Finally, collapse set in and the patient died.”
Movie trailer:
https://youtu.be/W2MOeUzgsQA
Based on what had happened so far, I say, ukronazis will use the nuke, and push already placed narrative, Russia did it. From that point on, everything is possible. Most likely scenario would be what Gonzalo describes in his latest video post. The less likely scenario is zionazis changing plan A for a plan B (whatever it might be). In any case, we are witnessing escalation, and thruth be told, with or wihtout dirt-bomb, the end result will be the same: someone is going to get hurt. The only difference is how fast it will happen.
Maybe, it is only a spin to push Russia’s right to a “Preemptive moment”?
Dear God, have mercy on us.
Could be a fake.
They are evacuating the city because they are going to nuke it? Maybe. Or they could be giving the planted nuke story credibility so they can move in NATO troops for the winter. Or it could just be a threat to bring Russia to the table.
For now, I will go with evacuating the city as being true with the reasons being open either way.
Some videos for today.
Lavrov confirms that the Kiev dictatorship intends to carry out a dirty bomb false flag attack:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UI1kzZSWRwqv/
The lights have gone out in cites in the former Ukraine still under Zelensky’s control (the Kiev regime itself has admitted to losing 40% of its power production abilities):
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KPsI3vjUdGEy/
Russian VDV troops, using artillery, destroyed an enemy column of tanks and other armored vehicles:
https://rutube.ru/video/46d83273b882879a0c0a3c4f4800ba80/
DPR snipers take out enemy squad:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8PiJIR1O22AW/
Mobilized forces undergo combat training at ZVO training ground in Moscow Region:
https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/trainingZVO:d
” I would be particularly interested in your opinions and reaction to this statement by Russia at the UN Security Council: ”
I was just thinking: If Russia reconsiders its relationship with the secretariat, and I took that to mean its relationship or possibly membership in the UN, is that a veiled threat or warning that it would include to reconsider it’s membership or association with other UN related or associated bodies? I’m thinking of the OPCW, or even the IAEA in particular. And would that translate to reconsider it’s obligations under the NPT (I’m thinking of the onus placed on it to eventually disarm), and the New Start treaty as well? To me, it’s a very nuanced but serious warning.
If we consider that Russia has been at war with the combined west since at least 2014, and if the leadership is as prescient as we believe it to be, and if in that prescience they knew this inflection point was a likely probability, then they must have known that when the direct confrontation came with NATO, the issue of Nuclear confrontation would arise. If we take as a given that the west is non-agreement capable, and the evidence right before our eyes of the west ripping up treaties when it’s propitious and convenient, then I have to think that the Russian leadership must have gamed this out; must have agreed with the west to prolong New Start, in particular, as long as possible, with an understanding that they could or that it would be necessary to dump it when/if the time came. I think that any state would take this approach. This is not to state that the Russian leadership were mendaciously cynical; I think that they were hopeful for a turnaround in the west – not naive, but at least hopefully cynical. I don’t know – I wasn’t there.
I apologize for the long preface, but what I’m getting at is this: the western powers may be rubbing their hands in glee at having Russia out of the UN, and must be salivating at the thought of directing the UN to their own advantage, without Russia exercising a restraining control on their ambitions within the body of the organization. They’d probably pat themselves on the back for a job well done, and then move on to getting rid of China in the UN. But the west will have, through it’s own efforts in corrupting and subverting the UN, birthed the worst Hobbesian world imaginable. With Russia unconstrained by obligations to the “greater peace,” or unconstrained by any notion that it is in it’s interest to keep playing a charade which only serves to lead to it’s own extinction, what is to keep Russia from ditching all cooperation and produce an arsenal so massive as to dwarf it’s current arsenal and 100% guarantee, without out absolutely any doubt, the absolute destruction of everything? Putin himself said it best “what use do we have for a world without Russians?”
Biden is going to lose the November 8th midterm for the House for sure, and for the Senate likely. After November 8th, his Ukraine war will change to the worse at mercy of the newly elected Congress.
Biden’s hope of a Kherson counteroffensive success to sway midterm is hopelessly lost now. So he will go for the dirty bomb to get hopefully votes soon.
Russia needs to make clear to the US/UK the dire consequences of detonating any Ukrainian dirty bomb. If US DOD supports Biden , then we are on the way to a real nuclear Armageddon.
Will US public revolts against a nuclear war, hard to say. They are hoodwinked.
Not sure whether China may see this as an opportunity to unite Taiwan. May be Russia should approach China for a joint reaction to US dirty bomb provocation. Make the dirty bomb costs to US unbearable to the US.
I think Gonzalo is on to something, via the bomb in Nikolaev. But he also missed something. The 101st cannot take Odessa from Romania because Tiraspol is in the way. It has at least S-300 air defenses. And also, the entire corridor from Romania to Odessa is within range of the S-400 in Crimea. The 101st is an air assault brigade that uses UH60 blackhawks as the main transport. The S400 has one set of missiles that are optimized against over the radar horizon helicopters.
I consider it very likely the mission of the 101st is to take Tiraspol to secure the double bridgehead that would allow NATO to supply and defend Odessa.
Both the Biden and Zelensky regimes need a PR win against the “evil” Ruskies. Biden needs a win before November 8th.
Tiraspol is the low hanging fruit. I think that will be their objective.
1. Tiraspol is an unrecognized breakaway province of Moldova which is unrecognized by the UN but defended by Russia since 1994 or so.
Just like Azerbijan and Turkey taking Nagorno Karabakh, if NATO can grab Tiraspol nobody is going to squawk about it.
2. Tiraspol is the most difficult region for Russia to defend. It is sandwiched between Ukraine and NATO in an area that Russia has no supply lines.
3. Plucking Tiraspol out of Russia’s hands would make Biden look strong, which he so far never has. This is Cornpop all over again.
The primary objective will be the three bridges over the Dneister. Taking these bridgeheads would allow a larger NATO force to cross over and prepare to defend Odessa.
Main Bridge Pair:
46°49’57″N 29°29’26″E
Secondary Bridge:
46°55’11″N 29°28’20″E
Without those two bridges, NATO cannot hold and resupply Odessa. Of course Mr. Khinzal would pay a visit to the bridges. But, maybe NATO imagines it has air defenses that can protect them.
I think it is a gamble because of the S-400s. But perhaps NATO will also strike Russian forces in Crimea with cruise missiles in order to tie up the air defenses while the 101st grabs Tiraspol.
To me it makes more sense that the city being evacuated for the “dirty bomb” is going to be refilled with NATO troops. Gonzalo talks about 101st going airborne. It would seem better to bring troops in by sea from Romania to Odessa. Then move 101st light infantry in to support NATO troops by land.
This is somewhat like Russia using the dam as an excuse to evacuate citizens in order to provide housing for troops for the winter.
Frankly, everything is a bad idea. The suicide drones are the new and improved Mongolian compound bow. I think the West’s Iranian drone theory is just hopium spread to make the appearance that Russia will run out. If Russia makes the drones then it comes off as a huge USA intelligence failure.
Chesswise, Russia needs to move while they own the drone surprise sphere and the West has no reasonable counter.
The diplomat raised very legitimate grievances which are not new and are simply ignored by the West. The West/”International Community” habitually ignores any history that does not suit their agenda. So the question becomes, what can be done to establish an international rule of law that all countries must respect? Russia might want to invite other countries to a conference to discuss how international law can be strengthened, or perhaps engage in discussions behind the scenes. This could be a bit tricky because of the messy issue of the legality of the SMO. I think Russia has legitimate reasons for the SMO, and the SMO may have positive results, but it is a complicated argument to make.
This war is a convoluted affair and it is hard to know what is supposed to be legal. I think bridges are supposed to be legitimate military targets. On the other hand, are Russia and Ukraine technically at war? If Ukraine attacks targets inside Russia that are allowed under the rules of war, is this outrageous terrorism or the normal destruction of war? There seem to be these vague rules about what are and are not allowed as targets. Russia seems to be leaving some targets alone because of a NATO presence. There might be a list of actions that are allowed under the rules of war, say a1, a2, a3, . . . for Russia and b1, b2, b3, . . . for Ukraine/NATO. Some subset of these actions seems to be allowed for Russia for various reasons, and Ukraine has its own subset. Now that Russia has annexed parts of Ukraine, is Kiev supposed to give up attacking those areas, or is there supposed to be a separate set of rules for those areas distinct from other parts of Russia?
The possible use of a dirty bomb is very troubling. I really hope Kiev does not do this. I think Biden feels that the future of the U.S. empire rests on the outcome of this war. His administration is not competent. They will not develop good strategies, but they can cause damage.
In this link to a brief video, zelensky is asked about the drone threat to Kiev. His facial expression is almost blank and has an earpiece: is he listening for translation? Instructions for a response? If not, his detachment from reality is obvious and he appears broken.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GxOyPzsLIR6n/
In Mr. Vassily Nebenzia’s address to the UN Council he accurately documents many points of disordered and erratic and criminal behavior observed in the Kiev regime. Including developing patterns of zero response (omission) by the UN members. Repeatedly, and for some time in not addressing RU’s complaints of war crimes against the AFU and its Kiev regime masters, which have fallen on deaf ears. Causing people to die needlessly. UN has cast off its jurisdiction in effect.
Mr Nebenzia goes on to state: “I will not listen to another batch of tirades from the representative of the Ukrainian regime within the walls of the Security Council today, thereby permitting him to experience that bizarre and sinful pleasure, which he [apparently] derives from it, no, I won’t. ”
Furthermore, in support of the Russian Delegate’s response it’s been said: “…some people just want to watch the world burn.”
(“Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders are a class of diagnoses characterized by difficulties controlling emotions and behaviors. These disorders frequently involve uncontrolled impulses leading the individual to violate the rights of others through acts of aggression or destruction, as is the case in pyromania (The American Psychiatric Association, 2013).”)
https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pyromania-dsm–5-312.33-(f63.1)
I watched the two Ganzalo Lira videos today. I’ve also been watching (and listening to) Andrei Martyanov religiously. I think that Moscow needs to declare a No Fly Zone (for NATO) over the entirety of Ukraine and also declare any hostile Naval forces entering the Black Sea will be immediately sunk. I also think it’s high time (if Russia is not doing this already) to start actively targeting NATO commanders and advisors who are in Ukraine right now. Make Ukraine a No-Go Zone for these officers and advisors. Their actions on the ground in Ukraine are getting Russian soldiers and civilians killed. That makes them active combatants and legitimate military targets. I would also warn NATO that if the shooting starts between it and Russia that Russia will immediately seek to create a buffer zone between itself and NATO including not only the entirety of Ukraine, but the NATO territories in Eastern Poland and the former Soviet nations of the Baltics.
If they’re still stupid enough to proceed then WWIII was unavoidable anyways. Russia has done everything possible within it’s power to avoid this war. It has done everything within it’s power to bring the Western Powers to their senses. Russia cannot retreat any further than it already has. Diplomacy has failed. Now it’s time for diplomacy by other means.
Russia has nothing to apologize for. Russia wanted peace and partnership not only with Ukraine but with the West but the Angelo Zionist Elites have made that impossible.
“Russia has done everything possible within it’s power to avoid this war.”
Very well said and absolutely true!
My own opinion is (or at least was, until very recently) that Putin should have demonstrated overwhelming force right off the bat in February 2022 earlier this year. (Or even way back in 2014…)
But I’ve come to see the wisdom of Putin’s admirable Christian restraint, because not only I myself but the whole world can easily see now that YES indeed “Russia HAS DONE everything possible within it’s power to avoid this war”!!!
Many people (especially in Zone “A”) will be absolutely shocked when Putin finally delivers the KNOCKOUT PUNCH very soon!
I think you are right about the Christian restraint. I for one believe that Russia is the last truly Christian power on the face of this Earth. That’s why I became Orthodox. I found in Russia and Russians the True Christian Faith.
wow, AMEN!!!
it all makes so much sense, then, why Satan HATES the Russian culture and people so much…
I would like to know more about Russian Orthodox Christianity. Do they regard Saturday as the Sabbath Day? Do they accept the Apocrypha in addition to the rest of the Christian Bible? Or is the Apocrypha purely a Latin Church addition???
I was blown away the first time I read “Ecclesiasticus/Sirach”… everything it says in there about women is perfectly accurate, from my own experience. And so I instantly decided that the Apocrypha must be also the genuine Word of God.
Am I wrong?
I just want to learn more about the Russian Orthodox Christian faith, that’s all… I am a sincere Truth-seeking believer in Jesus Christ, since 1992.
An explanation of the Orthodox view of Apocrypha – https://orthodoxwiki.org/Apocrypha
Thank you!
My sense is that Russia was not prepared in 2014 to meet the effects of economic sanctions; perhaps she also needed time to develop military equipment. By 2022, she was ready.
You are probably correct.
And anyway, it’s always “better Late than Never”!
@ Jamie
Excellent post with ideas that I 100% subscribe too. Hope the Russians follow comments in this discussion. The time has come to execute retaliation on ascope big enough to bring NATO to its senses ( Knees)
Türkiye has already closed the Straits to non-Black Sea warships under the provisions of the Montreux Convention.
I suspect we are getting close to either the end stages of this whole Ukraine mess or a massive escalation which will mean the end for a lot of people.
Russia militarily does have a lot of time and given a perfect vacuum would in the end grind down the Ukraine military to a fine dust and prevail military. However, escalation wise and politically Putin and the Russian military are running out of runway just as the West/NATO is and there will be a divergence between the military and the political leadership classes in both nations.
It is clear the Pentagon nor any of the Western militaries want to go anywhere near this mess wholesale with their own manpower, the casualty losses would be unacceptable and the Western political leadership class would quickly want to escalate with nuclear weapons given the horrendous casualty losses, end of the game for most on both sides. On the Russian side, Putin has largely accepted he will need to fight this as a “war” instead of the “smo” and has appointed a realistic commander and the war is just getting started for the Russian side, Putin seems to have accepted there will be no negotiations until something breaks militarily on either side. However, the danger now becomes a large provocation by elements within Ukraine that neither side can ignore.
In my opinion Russia’s best chance at buying space and time in Ukraine is to directly call the Western bluff of involvement by downing ISR unmanned assets in the Black Sea followed by progressive escalation in hopes the Pentagon can somehow engineer a stand-down in the West. Putin’s/Russia’s best fried in US/West right now is the Pentagon which is really the only semi clear thinking head in the Western leadership at the moment. Putin’s hand can be forced at the moment by the Ukrainians/Neocons if the false/flag provocation is big enough, domestically he will have to respond if the event is big enough. Putin/Russia has refrained from even threatening NATO ISR assets much less downing/targeting them or any Western asset in international waters there is a sense that Russia won’t go outside “legal” lines and it’s safe to escalate within Ukraine up to and including a dirty bomb and there will not be a response, this is a big big misunderstanding of the Russian position. Putin/Russia is not communicating using the language the Western politician leadership class will understand which is direct limited kinetic action(downing a Rivet Joint/ISR or something along those lines).
This is a dangerous moment in time, somebody is going to lose here and the conflict in the medium to long term is existential for both.
– In my opinion Russia’s best chance at buying space and time …
The dirty bomb will be timed to suit US election, and the Russians know the movement of the bomb?
Now Putin has options like
– Massiv retreat from Odessa direction as a feint operation
– Massiv attack on Kharkov front bringing Odessa into backstage
Then who won election?
The Soviet union tried ditching the UN once, with the result of the USA passing a resolution in the security council legitimating attacking North Korea, and presenting it as a UN sanctioned mission.
On a lighter note:
https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/
Ukraine War Day #243: Zelensky’s Death Must Be Avenged
“Sorry for the click-bait headline. Zelensky is still metabolically alive, as far as I know. However, it is starting to look like he is planning to leave this mortal plane, shuffle off his mortal coil, push up the daisies, go to meet his Maker, etc etc with a bang. A Big Bang!
I saw this rant by KP analyst Alexander Grishin. This is in reference to Zelensky’s performance yesterday on Canadian TV.
remaining article can be read at link provided above … mod
I seriously believe Z saw this hilarious cartoon, 2min, to the last scene!
The Three Piggies in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-fP4djJbM
I do think some in Kiev know the Butcher, and the menu being prepared!
This is what Britain and the US has planned for Germany:
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
In the original proposal this was to be achieved in three main steps.
– Germany was to be partitioned into two independent states.
– Germany’s main centers of mining and industry, including the Saar area, the Ruhr area and Upper Silesia were to be internationalized or annexed by neighboring nations.
– All heavy industry was to be dismantled or otherwise destroyed.
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By 1950, after the virtual completion of the by then much watered-down “level of industry” plans, equipment had been removed from 706 manufacturing plants in the west and steel production capacity had been reduced by 6,700,000 tons.
Partly for the sake of ****lowering German standards****, restrictions were also enacted on food relief imports.
……………….
“There is the illusion that the New Germany left after the annexations can be reduced to a ‘pastoral state’. It cannot be done unless we ****exterminate or move 25,000,000 people out of it.****”
That genocidal Plan was not used because of US objections then.
That is now the Plan for Ukraine – looting is already going on, labor laws are pure neolib – not in the new Russian Regions.
Russia objects to a Morganthau Plan for the RF.
As COP26 keynote speaker Prince Charles said, they must go on a war footing against industry, meaning industrialized nations, the USA, Germany, China, Russia.
The Morganthau Plan was begat in Buckingham, planned parenthood, anyone?
The fact that some maniac would even draw up a plan like that speaks for itself. Britain has always been jealous of German engineering, car, washing machines, dish washers etc. They are my go to for white goods and vehicles because of their reliability, although no so much now they’ve out sourced much of their production in the race-to-the-bottom a la the US who France and Germany feel they must emulate.
We were told as kids (via war documentaries on TV) that Germany was responsible for both world wars. The fact is, they weren’t, they didn’t want them and didn’t start them. There’s the stench of the British in both world wars and the end goal was Russia. Same now.
The problem appears to be that Germany votes in fanatics and then ends up destroying itself, look at the mob they’ve got in charge now. I’m wondering if Ursula von der Leyen is a distant relation to Goebbels.
https://en.topwar.ru/203965-glava-evrokomissii-nasha-cel-konfiskacija-rossijskih-aktivov.html
The head of the European Commission: Our goal is the confiscation of Russian assets
“The EU adheres to the rule of law and therefore it is necessary to create an impeccable legal basis for the implementation of this plan, said von der Leyen. That is, there is a paradox: a European official proposes to create a legal framework for the theft of someone else’s property. Typical colonial policy.
The head of the European Commission, speaking at the conference, also announced the amount needed to restore Ukraine, saying that it is more than 350 billion euros. According to her, the Russian assets frozen in the EU and the US should be just enough for this. One gets the impression that she took the amount based on the volume of frozen Russian funds.
One question remains open why our authorities did not withdraw these assets before the start of the special operation.”
Any German sees the NS2 sabotage is exactly like the T.E. Lawrence of Arabia’s sabotage of Germany’s Berlin-Baghdad Railway. Lawrence, top British operative, got tribals to attack the ONLY piece of modern infrastructure – the rail-stop sheds are still to see there in the sand.
Imagine the insolence of Berlin to bring industrial infrastructure not only to Peter the Great’s Russia, but also the Ottoman Empire!
How dare they, they harrumphed in Buckingham!
Bismarck was removed, warning 1899 “they will start a 7 year war” which indeed King Edward VII’s nephew Kaiser Wilhelm , the aristocrat, did.
Michael Hudson in his ‘Killing the Host’ claims that the fundamental cause of WW I was the conflict of two opposed systems of capital. In this view:
Britain favored the finance capital approach and its major investments were in land and mercantile investments. Industrialists generally self-funded their business. Workers were demeaned and exploited just as sheep were exploited in the wool industry.
In Germany, banks and the state were directly involved in industry, financing and taking part in managing industrial enterprises. As a corollary, the efficiency of developing and caring for the work force was paramount, so that Germany created a social system without parallel in Europe, at least for the working class.
When the war began, the more technically developed Germans ‘cleaned the clocks’ of the French and British forces and they had to transform their industrial system to eventually prevail.
Hudson is actually quite close to Glayzev , EAEU economist :
https://glazev.ru/articles/153-geopolitika/103254-rossija-vojuet-za-sokhranenie-chelovechestva
Glazyev points to irreversible changes of management of the economy.
I think this is here at Saker.
http://thesaker.is/events-like-this-happen-once-a-century-sergey-glazyev-on-the-breakdown-of-epochs-and-changing-ways-of-life/
See Glazyev’s extremely harsh comment on the RCB, even today likely central bankers :
The Bank of Russia has achieved its policy of a new wave of capital exports from our stagnant economy, which is hostile to the goals of economic growth.
Подробнее на https://glazev.ru/articles/6-jekonomika/104744-bank-rossii-dobilsja-svoey-vrazhdebnoy-tseljam-jekonomicheskogo-rosta-politiki-novoy-volny-vyvoza-kapitala-iz-nashey-stagnirujushhey-jekonomik
Looks like the transatlantic central banking has exactly the same problem.
Glazyev is EAEU chief economist.
Many articles on Telegram too :
https://t.me/s/glazieview
In Russian, very easy to access in English…
While I’d hate to malign anybody, I’ve observed that, every time someone in US-occupied Berlin does/says something stupid to/about Russia, there’s at least one reader in the RT comments who blames it on German society as a whole and wishes that the Morgenthau Plan be implemented and the German nation be exterminated, or at least broken up into smaller nations.
I don’t know if it’s ignorance or just plain jerkassery, but I’m left wondering why anybody in the RT comments section, with an otherwise pro-Russian bent, brings up the Morgenthau Plan as some sort of panacea. Because it’s convenient?
Peskov or Medvedev recently said that if the UN tries to change veto, it will go the way of the League of Nations, which fell apart because of secret treaties of colonial powers. Irony or Irony – it was the US that objected to these secret treaties.
It is obvious the UN is undermined by secret treaties – the US UK Special Relationship.
I think NATO is in panic mode with recent failures and losses of Ukrainian/NATO forces in the counter-offensives along with their economic woes. They realize that they are running out of any conventional fightback options. That’s why probably they are planning something nasty to reverse the tide somehow. Russians are now quite convinced about that and they are trying their last bid to avoid this escalation. So we see all the telephone calls, foreign ministry warnings and warning to UNSC. We hope and pray that some sanity may prevail before it’s too late.
I read the representative’s words. I also had a look at Ron Unz’s analysis of the similarities between this current situation and the provocations by Poland of Nazi Germany in the lead up to the invasion. I have no idea how accurate Rons’ views are. They do have the virtue of being different from the mainstream version of events. What links the two is my sense that there are strategies at play that cannot be easily reconciled. America is the provocateur, and in some sense, Russia is the provoked.
Perhaps America believes it will all play out like last time. That is, a ruined Europe is re-vassalised, with the addition of the depleted remnants of the Russian federation.
I can’t see any way this can happen.
The old way of war is dead, in my opinion.
The drone applications are just beginning. The obvious advantages are being field tested. The recent, (three, I think) aircraft crashes on the Russian side merely serve to prove the point, after all, who cares if a £50K unmanned drone crashes? Drones will get better, faster, and cheaper making area denial much easier than it used to be.
Is it an accident that the Russian side is focusing on unmanned drones, hypersonic missiles, electronic warfare excellence? The focus since 2007, to me at least, seems to have been on area denial, specifically of denying American logistical supply of any force on the European continent, screening Russian territory for air attack, and having fast enough missiles with a long enough range to convince serious American military analysts that a nuclear exchange is unwinnable even from a ‘first strike’ posture. VV Putin himself said Russia must concentrate on strategic value for money as it does not have the spare budget, nor the luxury of being a reserve currency issuer, and so it’s military developments over the last 10 years have been geared towards exactly the scenario unfolding now.
With direct regard to the statement itself; I always feel uneasy watching the Russian UN spokesperson because he is such a gentleman it pains me to think he might actually believe decency, fairness and objectivity have any part to play in the West’s strategy. Then I come to my senses and realise that if I know they are cynical murderers, then he definitely knows they are, and his statements are more for the information of allies than actually attempts to change the perspective of the enemy, In other words, these statements are for both the historical record, and to remind other potential victims of the West of how the West wages war.
In the Medieval era, it was common for noblemen to ravage the estates of their enemies in order to force them to come out of their castles. The current methods, from threatening dams, to rape and murder of civilians, to proclamations to the local peasantry of how cowardly their Lord is, and why they should join the invader who will protect them, the burning of homes and theft of livestock and crops, are all straight out of the European way of war for at least 800 years. Everything we are seeing now is just the modern version of that.
For me, the question is; Are the Russians out of their castle, or not?
Trying to make sense of the current huge US chess champion cheating scandal, I kind of think Russia just Castled Donbass.
Your move.
Meanwhile Musk, whose SpaceX system in Ukraine is likely jammed by advanced RF ECW, said chess champion Kasparov is an idiot :
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1584533444444332033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1584533444444332033%7Ctwgr%5Ef9a143bcdbf6b20209682bb861344b8135ff9df9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Frussia%2F565264-elon-musk-kasparov-idiot%2F
Kasparov parades also as a military expert on the Kremlin. En passant by any measure.
When now King Charles III announced at the flopping COP26 in Glasgow, they must go on a war footing against industry, many thought it was babble.
When UN Climate finance czar Marc Carney demanded $150 TRILLION immediate green investment (Bloomberg) some thought it was waffle.
When Biden said NS2 will definitely no go ahead, some thought is was raving.
Now the babble, waffle and raving turn out to be incoherent expressions of their marching orders.
Which is why watch out for babble, waffle, and raving – they actually mean it.
A comment from Germany:
Scholz said himself, that about 20 to 25% of Germans do not want to send arms to Ukraine, do want to have negotiations to end the war and he has to take them into account while doing what he does. He said so in order to defend his decision against the warmongers and the media to not send German Panzers to Ukraine.
My thoughts:
First: I think that not only 25% but more than 60% of the Germans want the war to end by negotiations, and that this should happen now. They see their income and the German economy rapidly shrinking and hope that an end of the war will end that too (in my eyes it will not).
Second: All the media in Germany blast every single day into the horn of: “brutal aggressive war of aggression against the Ukraine”, every day people are bombarded by memes like “insane dicatator Putin”, “barbarious Russian torture, rape and murder of Ukrainian women and children”, “nothing can justify this war” and so on and so forth. People are really being brainwashed. If by chance a different opinion is able to come forward, it is crushed immediately by a social media shit storm and a seemingly coordinated press attack. People who dare to speak out, face the consequence of possibly losing their job and even their bank account.
Normal people do not have a chance of reading media where the Russian standpoint is being explained.
Russian state media like RT is forbidden to broadcast, journalists who worked with RT do not get new assignments with state media. In spite of all this, it is quite astonishing that there are so many Germans who do not believe the lies of their media, at least in their totality. But, and this is a great but, those media specialists who know all the tricks of manipulation have been very succesful of turning German opinion from seeing Russia as more friendly than the US towards Germany (poll of 2018) to seeing it as a threat.
Third: The USA blasted north stream. I think most Germans understood this, but a great part of them are afraid of even starting to think through the consequences. It is against one of their strongest beliefs, which is, that the Americans are their friends. The majority cannot believe that Russia did it, but if they start to think who would then be the culprit, it shatters their security. They still believe, that they as a nation and their prosperity are secured by the USA, of course against the Russians and nowadays against the Chinese. The propaganda turns them also against China.
People are afraid, for now most of all of a personal social descent, but it still is an undirected fear. They know (maybe only instinctively) that Russia will not back down. They think (in their childish belief that then everything will be like before) that Russia should leave Ukraine unconditionally and so “Ukraine should win”. It is not clear to them that even then it will not be like before, for the Europeans and first of all for the Germans. No, the USA and Great Britain are hell bent on using this opportunity to weaken Germany as a competitor.
The Greens think, that this is a good idea: less industry = less carbon dioxide. One of them told us in the media that we are using four times as much as the earth can produce and we should reduce our consumption likewise. What does that mean? If mathematically we have to reduce consumption by 3/4 it would be equivalent of earning only 25% of our wages today. Are You ready for that?
Nobody envisages the consequences, not even the Greens: they are living in a “Wolkenkuckucksheim” where consumption is reduced and prosperity stays almost the same.
Fourth: I believe that Scholz and his entourage know exactly who destroyed Nothr Stream. That is why there was such shocked disbelief displayed in the first days. There were some more very suspicious activities and tragedies in the days before and after the sabotage on North Stream: A few days after the explosion two data cables of the train system in northern Germany (and Berlin) were destroyed by sabotage which led to a total failure of the train system. In my eyes this was a second warning by the US to our government: Do not even think about making any more deals with Russia or there will be more sabotage acts on the infractructure (maybe internet cables, bank data, electricity, IT-security). Also, there were the tragedies of two very rich German industrialists who both happened to die in two separate plane crashes – a known specialty of certain agencies.
Yes, our politicians are deeply afraid. Perhaps, some of them think that only by being a total obedient poodle of their masters that they will be spared of the disaster. No, they will not – think of Afghanistan.
I am deeply afraid also, and do hope against hope, we will not see a complete disaster in the world.
President Steinmeier turned up unexpectedly in Kiev today. No report yet.
Agreed the politico’s are terrified – everyone knows what Bismarck warned about in 1899, why, and what happened. Many still alive saw Germany again destroyed, as Oma said “how could God have left that happen”, and they saw reconstruction.
Asked a neighbor recently who “does something for Ukraine refugees” – simply talk to them, ask about Stepan Bandera, then check Wiki.
Guaranteed he has a serious hangover!
There is a huge social explosion starting in Germany. Maybe the Leipsch know better ´they remember the Monday Demo’s that threw “1000 year regime” Honecker out, brought the Wall down, without a single shot, a World Record. Great placard recently there “we did not do the Monday Demos for this sh*t”.
To bring this up to date – politico’s remember what happened to Deutsche Bank chief Herrhausen, Chancelor’s Kohl’s best friend, 1989, when he planned a Comecon Reconstruction like Germany’s reconstruction. He got exactly the same treatment as Daria Dugina, a car bomb. Again the perps were never named, using defunct RAF waffle.
The Greens are right about the need to reduce consumption, although I do not know what “25%” means. You are right to question “where consumption is reduced and prosperity stays almost the same.” No sane planner of a sustainable future ever has made the claim that what we know as ‘prosperity’ can remain the same.
However, the logic of capitalism’s consumerism is not prosperity. Driving oneself from a suburb to a city is not prosperity. Endless fashion expression, endless insipid entertainment is not prosperity. Meat eating at every table with meat from CAFOs is not prosperity. Factory-farmed food is not prosperity.
There is a lot good in our current system, but more dross than needed, and the trick of sustainable development is to preserve that good and discard the rest.
Whoever, wink, wink, blew up NS2, blew up Green credibility.
As the US, say, wink, wink, collateral damage – sorry, a wonderful opportunity to go full hog Green.
And there the 2 superstars campaigned on being in sync in English.
Wow is that synchronization.
Or as American say, lie down with dogs, get up with fleas….
Bjorn Lomborg (He is former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) in Copenhagen):
The best the world can do is impose capitalism and advanced developement upon people … to handle climate
I.e. just the opposite of what the greenies tell
Food production will increase with temparature and fall when we freeze
After AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Corte,z Member of Congress, Progressive Dem, got called out on camera a few days ago on hypocrisy about the NATO war, apparently 30 Progressive signed a petition to the President :
https://progressives.house.gov/_cache/files/5/5/5523c5cc-4028-4c46-8ee1-b56c7101c764/B7B3674EFB12D933EA4A2B97C7405DD4.10-24-22-cpc-letter-for-diplomacy-on-russia-ukraine-conflict.pdf
They include links, even this one :
Ukraine suffering up to 1,000 casualties per day in Donbas, official says
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/15/ukraine-1000-casualties-day-donbas-arakhamia
This a HUGE victory.
Here is the harsh question , this is exactly how to put politico’s on the spot for clear answers :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVS8VogXc2k
Key point of petition :
“In conclusion, we urge you to make vigorous diplomatic efforts in support of a negotiated
settlement and ceasefire, engage in direct talks with Russia, explore prospects for a new
European security arrangement acceptable to all parties that will allow for a sovereign and
independent Ukraine, and, in coordination with our Ukrainian partners, seek a rapid end to the
conflict and reiterate this goal as America’s chief priority.”.
This is from Dems, so-called new leaders, right before elections.
This is an excellent summary of where we’re at:
October 25, 2022 SCOTT RITTER: Russia’s ‘Dirty Bomb’ Scare
[quote] “If, at the end of the day, the appropriate phone calls are made by the West, and Ukraine backs down, then Russia will have succeeded. And if it turns out that the Russian information is wrong, there was no harm from the effort. However, if Russia is correct, and Ukraine not only is preparing to use a “dirty bomb”, but detonates one, and the West did nothing to prevent it, then Russia is on the record for having provided the West with due warning.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/10/25/scott-ritter-russias-dirty-bomb-scare/
Fair enough, but people still do not get the military difference with any kind of nuke : it is use ’em, or loose ’em.
That means ALL of them, quick.
Understandably people simply cannot cope with such horror stories, even with plenty of Netflix horror.
Scott Ritter, experienced nuke weapons inspector, is fully aware of the danger, as he writes recently, they once got it right, or we would not be here.
How about this :
https://ria.ru/20221025/peregovory-1826500980.html
Macron urged the United States to sit down at the negotiating table on Ukraine
from :
https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/entre-rome-et-paris-les-confidences-d-emmanuel-macron-25-10-2022-2495136_20.php#11
Paris MSM !
Looks like the Vatican is active. Haiti was also on the agenda.
Which is why be wary of media….
Portugal exists as a country long before Spain, so the Portuguese never considered themselves Spanish. When Portugal became independent, there were several Kingdoms, Spain only appeared much later, under the rule of Castile.
During the Christian Reconquest, the Condado Portucalense (Potucalensis County) was formed, established in the 9th century by Vímara Peres, a vassal of the King of Asturias. The county became part of the Kingdom of León in 1097, and the Counts of Portugal established themselves as independent rulers of the kingdom in the 12th century, after the battle of São Mamede. In 1139 the Kingdom of Portugal was established, whose independence was recognized in 1143. In 1297 the borders were defined in the treaty of Alcanizes, making Portugal the oldest nation-state in Europe with defined borders. By that time, Granada (now South of Spain), unlike Algarve (South of Portugal) was still on the moors hands.
The reconquest of Iberia by the Christians had nothing to do with the Crusades: it happened much earlier.
As for the United Nations, they are now obsolete. The Gringos themselves declared it irrelevant before Iraq invasion. A new parallel institution should be created by all who reject Western hegemony. Perhaps the BRICs could be the embryo of this new World Organization.
“The reconquest of Iberia by the Christians had nothing to do with the Crusades”
That is the definition of Crusades.
1492 expulsion of Jews and Moors by Spain’s Isabella is the model for Hitler’s and Ukraine’s ethnofascism.
The UN is undermined by Secret Treaties – the US UK Special Relation.
The BRICS+ is forging ahead as Lukyanov notes with Saudi likely joining :
https://www.rt.com/news/565102-fyodor-lukyanov-saudi-brics/
The UN is something else, especially the UNSC, and there a collective security program is extremely important.
– 1492 expulsion of Jews
It has been revealed all traits of the “Tartars” (some Russians) should be erased from history. The same is true for the “Khazarians” (some Russians again)?
How to disappear a people?
The US-German air battles after 1945 disappeared from history books.
Some newer observation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVYf4o69aPU
video 2:23–
Strangely omitted here is Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the commander of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops,who said. “Moreover, we have information about contacts between the Office of the President of Ukraine and representatives of the United Kingdom regarding the possible reception of technologies to create nuclear weapons. With this purpose, Ukraine has got relevant production and scientific capacities.”
He gives precise numbers and directly implicates Britain.
And as Britain was the first to supply Chernobyl with Radiation equipment then, they will be ready for a Savior’s replay!
Only fly in that ointment, is that Britain had equipment because of the previous fire at their Sellafield NPR which irradiated France, only declassified 28 years later. Plutonium was priority, you see, compris?
“It’s the economy stupid”
The phrase coined by Bill Clintons strategist James Carville 1992.
The economy is behind Natos war against Russia. And Nato is USA.
And USA started this war.
Now, a country, or EU, is more than GDP and GDP is a false measurement. As Disraeli said about statistics…
But, to generalize, Europe seems to be beyond salvation. To tell the truth people are plain stupid.
I was lucky enough to be a post wwII generation. Our teachers in school was really good.
Our teacher in german language had lessons about Kurt Tucholsky. In social science we learned about Herbert Marcuse. About societies repression. The repressive tolerance. We also learned how to analyse media.
This was in a previous millenium.
I was lucky. Young people nowadays seems to have no clue. They know nothing. They have “feelings”.
The tragedy of Europe? In the mid 70s is south England I bought a beer to an old tramp. He had been in wwI. He told his story about the trenches and the ruins. When the war was our he said flowers grew everywhere over the trenches and the ruins. And the flowers was Gods mercy.
Gods mercy.
And now Europe is at it again. When will we ever learn?
Marlene Dietrich singing Where Has All the Flowers Gone in german. Sag mir wo die Blumen sind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AybZIw8BRIM&t=326s
“Über Gräbern weht der Wind…” The wind is blowing over the graves… For some reason it sounds better in german. With Marlene Dietrich. But I guess she also is cancelled. Forgotten.
Where have all the flowers gone in german.
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Was ist gescheh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Mädchen pflückten sie geschwind
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Wann wird man je versteh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Mädchen sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir, wo die Mädchen sind
Was ist gescheh’n?
Sag mir, wo die Mädchen sind
Männer nahmen sie geschwind
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Wann wird man je versteh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Männer sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir, wo die Männer sind
Was ist gescheh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Männer sind
Zogen fort, der Krieg beginnt
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Wann wird man je versteh′n?
Sag, wo die Soldaten sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag, wo die Soldaten sind
Was ist gescheh’n?
Sag, wo die Soldaten sind
Über Gräbern weht der Wind
Wann wird man je versteh′n?”
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Sag mir, wo die Gräber sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir, wo die Gräber sind
Was ist gescheh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Gräber sind
Blumen blüh’n im Sommerwind
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Wann wird man je versteh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Wo sind sie geblieben?
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Was ist gescheh′n?
Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind
Mädchen pflückten sie geschwind
Wann wird man je versteh’n?
Wann wird man je versteh′n?
Actually Marcuse invented the totalitarian “cancel culture” advocated by Bray and rampant in our society today.
Repressive tolerance.
As I understood the book Onedimensional Man if I remember correctly? Marcuse explained how the powers that be used repressive tolreance to rule the populace? Isn’t this what is happening very obviously today?
Anyway it is important to understand the mechanism.
– But, to generalize, Europe seems to be beyond salvation.
It is not the weakness of Europa the Anglo-Saxons fear. The US / UK / Anglo-Saxons are terrified by Europa’s wealth. The Brits cannot keep pace with the Germans. That was obvious 100 years ago.
German cars outperform Britisk cars. Whatever the Brits have done, they could not close the gap.
“German cars outperform Britisk cars. Whatever the Brits have done, they could not close the gap.”
The Brits are excellent engineers and very well educated. Maybe you should have a look at City of London instead?
We are talking about the very fundament of WWII
– When the German Afrika Korps arrived in North Africa, the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun was again pressed into service against the Matilda [the main British battle tank], causing heavy losses during Operation Battleaxe, when sixty-four Matildas were lost.
The US tanks very hardly any better than Mathilda
Carol:
– Britain has always been jealous of German engineering, car, washing machines, dish washers etc. They are my go to for white goods and vehicles because of their reliability, although no so much now they’ve out sourced much of their production …
They all produce caravans / motorhomes (easy). But the German ones are best.
I tried some Chinese version of powertools.
No more. Bosch was another world.
Then we have Japanese Hikoki and American Dewalt. Superb.
You are going off-topic. Any further will go to trash. Mod.
We all know US will never allow their Nazi pet to be destroyed by Russia as it’s the spear of the Hegemony into the heart of Russia.
Therefore, expect everything to be on the table.
Like NATO’s Bin Laden’s spear to the USSR?
Notice how that ended for the spear, sorry, Stinger, throwers?
Everything is indeed on the table , the butchers block :
The Three Piggies in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-fP4djJbM
Bad news
“If you allow yourself to think about a scenario where the United States no longer had access to the chips currently being made in Taiwan, it’s a scary scenario.”
— US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC this past summer.
Apparently two NASAMS, surface-to-air defense sytems, were sent to protect Zelenski.
What are the odds, how long before they are tested, located and taken out?
I also cannot see Russia leaving the UN. Russia will stay to be the grain of sand in the cogs of the Security Counsel.
Not likely any in Germany will freeze …
https://www.statista.com/chart/28548/share-eu-cant-afford-to-heat-home/
It will be the Italians and the French
Italy = stone houses and little insulation.
And the same i Lebanon. You can freeze all winter in Lebanon without heating