Our rulers want a nuclear war – now it's up to God whether we're nuked.

Amici,

With great sadness I must admit defeat. I've been trying to be positive about the world avoiding a "nuclear exchange", but every indicator points to Whoever Is in charge of the Biden Regime (WICeBeR) to be primed for such a war. Whether Russia technically "starts" it with a nuke demonstration somewhere in Ukraine or not, it is coming, unless the Lord God doesn't want it at this time. Indeed, it would take a miracle to avoid such a war, now.

For some time, I have been accumulating reasons for and against a war happening, but basically, since the idiot, loathsome WICeBeR (Biden Regime) bombed the Nord Stream pipelines, the launch sequence has been started. And right now, what with places as disparate as Poland and New Jersey gearing up for radiation sickness, there can be no doubt.

See Sam Faddis here for the widespread sale and positioning of anti-radiation drugs like Nplate and potassium iodide tablets in such diverse places in Europe and America. They're serious about this, in other words.

See the monkey (hat tip to a friend) about how the U.S. "did" the pipeline. Lots of detail and indications that the U.K. didn't participate.

In closing, I'll make a few observations, FWIW, and while I still can.

• Had Hillary Clinton been elected in 2016 instead of Donald Trump, we would have had this war five or six years ago. It's been planned for some time now by whoever is running the world. All this Globalism, all this Big Pharma turning the entire human race into drug addicts, and the lies setting ourselves at each others throats: it is all of a pattern. One does no have to be paranoid to see how we always amazingly get what we absolutely do not want.
  
• Getting involved in a war is a traditional way politicians "get out the vote" and "wave the flag" to stir up patriotism and get voters to "rally around" the incumbent. Now is the time to do it, if they are going to try this gambit. A true "October Surprise."
• Historically, we, the collective American people, should have disbanded and forbidden the Democrat Party when we defeated them in 1865 after four years and insanely high casualty rates. As the joke goes, we've never seen Democrats so angry since we freed their slaves. They re-enslaved the Blacks via Jim Crow and the Blacks have been voting Democrat ever since because the Dems "feed them". "Lincoln freed us but Roosevelt (FDR) feeds us," was a Black political slogan. Lyndon Johnson said after the passage of his "Great Society" social hand-out legislation in the '60s "Them n-word will be voting for us forever." (Or close enough. Not surprisingly, it is difficult to find this famous quote.)
  
• As now today with the evil (yes, pure evil, Moloch worshiping baby-murdering evil) Biden Regime, the Democrats have always gotten us into every major war we ever fought. Jefferson and Madison, "proto-Democrats" got us into the War of 1812, James K. Polk lead us in the Mexican War – General Ulysses S. Grant always thought and said the Civil War was divine punishment for the Mexican War – the Democrats made the Civil War an absolute necessity and then, like today, tried to destroy the nation; then they got us into both World War I and II, and the Cold War, then Korea and Vietnam. The two Bushes, RINOs in full, got us into the Mideastern Wars. The ONLY war actual Republican-Republicans got us into was the Spanish-American war, which lasted merely a few months (from April to August, 1898; and then it was William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, who insured Congress voted to annex the Philippines and Puerto Rico).
  
• The biggest political mistake of the 20th century – for the entire world – occurred when Calvin Coolidge, a very successful Republican president (who BTW only assumed the office because the RINO died suddenly), decided not to run again for president in 1928. That decision gave us Herbert Hoover as president during the Great Depression. Mind you, Hoover happened to be a good man and a great humanitarian who TWICE saved the German people from starving! But as president, it turned out to be a role for which he was unsuited; he didn't know how to handle the 1929 Stock Market crash; Coolidge would have known, and he had the absolute, unfettered love and confidence of the American people. Anyway, Hoover made possible the election of "that strange feline man" Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who would open the U.S. government to the Communists. "The die was cast" for the fate of the nation with FDR's election. Today's stark existential crisis follows as the direct result of that election.
  
• Richard Nixon should roast in Hell because he didn't contest the 1960 election, which might have well be stolen. (The chances are high, but not certain, as we are with the 2020 stolen election.)
  
• Richard Nixon was a RINO of RINOs. In the 1960s – the 1960s, mind you – we had real men who could have been president: Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, but the rulers of the Republican Party, then called "The Country Club Republicans" and not "RINOs", gave us Nixon instead.
  
• It was the same crowd who insisted Reagan appoint the first George Bush to be his vice-president. That wast the biggest mistake Ronald Reagan ever made.  
• Republicans who subsequently ran for President, until Trump came along, were all RINOs. The two Bushes of course (the first one lost he re-election bid), then Bob Dole and John McCain and Mitt Romney, the latter simply putrid. Putrid, as he has shown himself to be as a senator. McCain might have won in 2008, but refused to politically attack that wretch Obama, and thus Obama coasted to victory. It is often said the Biden Administration is Obama's third term.
  

So, my friends, it is no wonder the RINOs hate the MAGA Republicans. The two really are separate parties. The MAGA are like Meloni's party in Italy; the RINOs are like the English Tories. And the Democrats are now the full Communist Party (there exists a long-standing Communist Party USA or whatever factions it now has). And the Democrats are poised to face a historic defeat in this November 8th election. A titanic, party-crushing loss, in fact. Were it to happen. We're it to happen, it will be a true bellwether. If. The Democrats will do whatever they have to, including nuke the world, to keep power. (If a nuclear war doesn't occur in the next couple of months, in fact, the next few weeks, they'll arrest Trump and charge him with the Devil knows what. They're truly mad.

Think I'm over-reacting? After watching FBI agents commando-style arrest Mark Houck, that Catholic father of seven, pointing their automatics at him and his wife and doing all the heavy-breathing drama of a SWAT team taking down a Cartel lord – on a middle-aged father of seven of whom the state and local authorities would not bring charges – after seeing that (and only ONE Catholic bishop protesting it!), I'm convinced there's enough SA Camp Guards and Waffen SS-spirited men – enough KGB/Stasi types lurking in our Federal police and bureaucrats – that they would not hesitate to blow the American nation to pieces rather than see Donald J. Trump inaugurated again as president.

And they'd do the same to De Santis or anyone else unless they KNEW such would bend to their will. And anyway, should war be miraculously averted, the RINOs will run De Santis against Trump and split the vote. That's how the RINOs are, like that scorpion in the fable who stabbed frog to death after promising not to, and thus drowning himself as well. With his dying breath, the frog asked why he would do such a horrible thing, and scorpion said, "I'm a scorpion; it's what I do".

I've often enjoined everyone I know to pray till I sound like a broken record. But we can avert this coming catastrophe should we pray hard enough. But that's the only way.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

 

 

How likely is nuclear war, really? Do you really want to find out? Or is this just rope-a-dope?

Friends,

How likely is a nuclear war right now? Sam Faddis has a good article on it here, and Tucker Carlson has said a number of times now that it is very possible, and is actually saying it is likely; indeed, unavoidable. Carlson's biting sarcasm is excellent and I recommend the video for that alone. But at 4:30 in, he says this act of blowing up the pipelines, perpetrated by the Biden Administration, leaves us no off ramp to avoid total war with Russia. "There's no off ramp now, no way out. We are all in, no matter what that means, no matter where it goes."

That's probably true, but maybe not.

Faddis, in his essay, demands de-escalation. The old CIA hand minces no words about the absolute necessity of de-escalation. But of course, Obama or Victoria Nuland (or whoever is running the show) want escalation, not de-escalation. They are FINALLY where they want to be, in a position they've been lusting for and they're not going to give it up. They are the lords of life and death, Sauron come again. They're either monumentally stupid or hand-in-glove with the WEF and the like, whose ogres lust for a nuke war to wipe a large chunk of the human population. THEY'LL be safe in their bunkers in Switzerland, they think. Maybe. And maybe the world's survivors might dispatch them without compunction.

This war was planned years ago

I hope you all realize that had the Hag, Hillary Clinton, been elected in 2016, we'd have had this war four years ago or five. She would have produced bogus "evidence" that Putin tried to elect Trump and pushed it till it exploded. These people are sick. They are demented in the diabolical sense of being possessed or under demonic oppression. They'll do whatever they are told. And China is telling them how to behave, since they intend to benefit from the Fall of Europe and the West. Our government is in the hands of orcs, as one blogger put it. (Where there's a whip, there's a way.) And of course, the Democrats need a war before November. It's the oldest play in their book.

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I think old Colonel Douglas MacGregor is closer to the mark here in this interview. He says the Germans are unanimous in not wanting war with Russia. In fact, in all of Europe, only Poland wants war with Russia, he asserts, and a few people in Washington, D.C. MacGregor says that should Biden try to go to a full war such as Carlson predicts and Faddis fears, NATO will break into pieces. To put it simply: a war like that is NOT why they joined into NATO! "What?! You mean you want us to actually fight?!"

Living here in Europe, I think that's true. The last thing the Euros want is a WWII-style war, let alone a WWIII. Going nuclear also terrifies them, of course, in an "icing on the cake" way; large numbers of Russian men are trying to flee their country for the same reason. Only Poland is straining at the bit, and their hatred of Russia and Russians goes back far beyond WWII or WWI. And are the Americans going to fight it by themselves? Of course the American military is a disaster area, crushed by political correctness, "wokeness", trannies, and Satan knows what else. The vaccine "mandates" alone have gutted the services: they are all short of pilots and sailors and real soldiers. See Gateway Pundit for details. (Look at the picture of the current recruits!) Besides all that, we've emptied our war wallet and our armories to supply Ukraine since February. What weapons are we going to be using? That's how idiotic our "leaders" are!

MacGregor also points out what Faddis does not; i.e. that until now, the Russians in Ukraine have been few, relatively speaking. There's been more (or there was more) Ukrainians in arms against them. Now, I believe the Ukraine's recent offensives that the Western media keeps blathering about are not what the media says they are. These attacks are manned and managed by the CIA and mercenaries. Conversely, Putin has consolidated his Ukrainian holdings and if the Ukrainian government doesn't back down – and they can't because the pathetic little Ukrainian dictatorship stands totally in thrall to the American regime – Putin can pour in a lot more soldiers after performing an American military-style "Shock-and-Awe" attack. Russia remains capable of bombing Ukrainian targets with conventional weaponry to a horrific level; they can destroy Ukrainian infrastructure like the U.S. did in Iraq. Then pour in what reserves the Russians have. Why nuke? And should that mean taking all Ukraine, why not?

So, what if Putin tries this "full-on" American-style scenario, or even used a "tactical nuke" in a specific spot? The United States of America has a demoralized, literally hen-pecked military and NO ACTUAL elected political leadership. And we're out of conventional ammunition. Should Putin go "shock-and-awe", I think the bigshots of the Biden Regime would wet their diapers and bend over and grab their ankles. They're counting on Putin to be bluffing and to be out of mojo. Maybe. Or he might just be playing rope-a-dope.

Do we really want to find out?

As I and so many others keep saying: PRAY!

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Reflections on the Ukrainian War and the Fates of the U.S. and Russia

Amici,

The saddest thing about this war, aside from the casualties on all sides, is that there's no "Good Guys" to root for (see below for a consideration of the Ukrainian government), but the most distressing thing about this war is how our "side" in the West is demonizing Putin and the Russians. The U.S. has invaded all sorts of countries and overthrown all sorts of governments since World War II (before that, we did such mostly in Central America and the Caribbean). Yet despite all that, our cultural betters and MSM 'bots ('bots = robots) demonize any naysayers to our government's official 'narrative'. And before this war, they demonized anyone who didn't buy wholly into the fraudulent George Floyd-Black Lives Matters lies, and then they demonized anyone who didn't wholly swallow (hook, line, and sinker) the faux Covid "narrative".

Now they're doing the same to Col. Douglas MacGregor and Tucker Carlson and anyone who doesn't buy into the "narrative" about the Ukrainian War. Enough of the demonization! There are enough real demons all over the place! See: Mary's Role in Spiritual Warfare | Fr Chad Ripperger [2022] and Fr Chad Ripperger on his new book 'Dominion' | [@TheTerryandJesseShow].

Aside from damning certain American politicians (Mitch McConnell and the RINOs) I refuse to tolerate demonization. It is poisoning our civil society so that the only alternative is brutal, no-holds-barred survival fighting. Pure evil. And naturally the actual demons want that!

Other than that, some observations:

From what I read, and it isn't from the MainStream Media, is that the Poland-MIGS-to-Ukraine idea is flat out, absolutely insane – and suicidal to boot. This action would have created a true casus belli for Russia and the planes would not have "helped" in any event. (That's because Russia has not remotely unleashed it full Air Force.) We ought to be trying to stabilize the situation, anyway, not destabilize it. But our governments in the West are either trying to destabilize or profit off of this mess.

I came across this article, which seems to me to be pretty sound and commonsense, at American Thinker.

An excerpt:

Zelensky could end this in two hours if he wanted. Instead, he seems to have developed a Churchill complex. He's begging for money and arms, which will prolong the bloodshed. No one is reporting the billions in medicines, foodstuff, and other aid the Russians are shipping into Ukraine.

AnP again: about the U.S. and the MIGS fiasco

The essence of this airplane mess is that U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, a fool, a poltroon, an imbecile, (i.e. not a "demon" but a knave) tried to do a "Hillary", i.e. repeat what she did with the then French president to pry Obama into attacking Libya. Remember Libya? Anyone? 

Excerpt:

This dueling scenario was not, and is not, a fracture within NATO. What surfaced in the insanity is a fracture within the United States government as an outcome of a rogue U.S. State Department led by Secretary Anthony Blinken.

This rogue U.S. State Department now represents a key reference point, but the U.S. media will not discuss it. This is another example of how the Fourth Branch of Government, a completely independent national security system, is operating.

A strong previous example is evident in the U.S. response to Libya, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted war with Kaddaffi, but President Obama was not originally in agreement. Clinton sought help from French President Nicolas Sarkozy because President Obama was not on board.

At the beginning of Hillary’s Libya operation, Joint Chiefs Admiral McMullin and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were not on board with Hillary’s intervention plans, nor was Turkish President Recep Erdogan.  Secretary Clinton worked around the refusals by unilaterally going to the United Nations and NATO Supreme Commander General Stravridis. Eventually, Clinton, Susan Rice and Samantha Power created enough international momentum to force President Obama to intervene in Libya. The rest is history.

(And yes, Hillary is pretty darned demonic.)

AnP again:

Thanks be to God that Poland, P.O.L.A.N.D! once again saved the West from utter catastrophe. It must truly be a blessed nation.

An almost final word about those Polish MIGS:

• Putin always controlled the skies and these couple of dozen updated but essentially out-of-date MIGS, etc. would have been burned out of the skies the moment they appeared. They would have made NO difference, except to encourage Putin to unleash his massive Air Force. I think it is unrealistic in the extreme to say we could "fool" Putin's military into not seeing just where these planes came from and who got them there. Thus, I am in no way surprised the Pentagon denounced this as soon as they could. The Department of Defense is an absolute mess and what they've done to our military is criminal, but at least they won't go along with the State Department!
  

Also, finally, about those Polish planes, "thedoc00" in the Comments to the above article at The Conservative Treehouse writes:

Poland already has 3-4 squadrons of F-16’s and those Mig-29’s were about 30 left overs from Poland’s Warsaw Pact days. The Polish Aerospace Company PLZ was struggling to maintain them and the avionics were not compatible with NATO. Those plane’s were being transitioned out of the Polish air force, to be replaced by F-16’s or better. Poland does not have a lot money, so it was likely F-16’s. Other Warsaw Pact nations were doing or had done the same.

Note that the Polish Army and even the German Army still has units equipped with Russian Tanks and other armored vehicles.

The Ukraine is in the same boat and somebody in DoD or State Department was smart enough to notice that Poland and Ukraine both had on inventory the very SAME Russian equipment …. Blinken the Blind was equipped with this knowledge and launched on this dangerous gambit.

AnP again:

In other words, sending those old MIGS to Ukraine stood to be as stupid a ploy as sending Brewster Buffaloes and Devastator torpedo planes against the crack Japanese pilots of the First Air Fleet at Midway. (All the planes and almost all the American pilots were slaughtered.) Don't we EVER learn from history?

So what do we do for the Ukraine?

As for Ukraine, cut if off. That sounds "heartless" and "cruel" but I'm not "romantic" about World War; who could be? Imperial Russia should have cut off Serbia in 1914 because World War I was not worth Serbia. Simple. Cruel to say it, maybe, but necessary. That first world war killed and wounded about 40 million. (Maybe Tsar Nicolas thought about that as he and his family were all shot to death in a basement?) Almost all the dead were Europeans. It nearly destroyed – maybe it did – Western Civilization. Serbia, I'm sorry, but this is true, was not worth all that. Sometimes a war is worth fighting; I think Korea was, but Vietnam wasn't. It's a gamble, always. China will throw the dice and try to take Taiwan, most likely, but that is a massive gamble. Taiwan is a continental landmass: i.e. it is large and chock-full of mountains. Admirals Nimitz and King wanted to invade it in WWII, but Douglas MacArthur talked them out of it.

Second to that, (The) Ukraine (we're not supposed to use the "The" because "The Ukraine" means "The Border", and that indicates the dodgy "nationhood" of that contested "border-land") has been the cesspool of absolute U.S. government and Ukrainian corruption for decades, with its "leaders" drowned to the gills in U.S. taxpayer money in off-shore accounts, and that includes Zalenskyy. This new "Ukrainian aid" bill McConnell is pushing through Congress ("Cocaine Mitch" is a wretched POS if ever there was one, and I think he is true traitor to the U.S.; so yes, I do demonize Mitch), is going to pay-off the Ukrainian government thieves again, and Biden and Family/Friends, also. Not to mention McConnell & Co. as well. But we can't stop it because we do not control our government!

The Ukrainian Government

(The oddest thing about the following is it is true.) This current Ukrainian government consists of a bunch of comedy writers and has-been entertainment types who are feverishly promoting homosexuality and the hellish sex-change dogma and the rest of our dying culture's carnal psychosis. Never forget that the Democrat Party leaders are often sexual exploiters (Biden is exhibit A; his surviving son exhibit B) and one of the major reasons Democrats and Leftists won't control our border with Mexico is they're getting sex slaves from there. Ukraine is a major hub of sex-exploitation and sex slaves – never forget that. I remember reading years ago about Cyprus, how the culture on the island was ruined by "Russian" prostitutes flooding the place. Cyprus! That was YEARS ago! We seem to be helpless before this brutal carnal carnival of evil that is rotting the guts out from our Western world: our lusts are eviscerating our culture, and in the U.S., we can't stop the deviants pushing homosexuality and sex-change even in our grade schools! Look at the pressure DeSantis is under for trying to stop this diabolical sex-perversion propaganda – it's actually called 'grooming' – in Florida schools K-3! C'mon on! K-3! And all because the "Frankfurt School" of Communist ideologues back in the 1920s decided to destroy our culture from with via sexual license and perversion. Seems to have worked.

• Zalenskyy and his Friends of Zelenskyy are the same sick types, and ironically he and his crew came in as "reformers" who were going to fight "corruption" and did nothing of the sort. The whole thing is a grotesque joke. In fact, I would insist Zalenskyy and his government – which you know has locked up his political opposition and instituted censorship (Putin has too, but we're doing the very same in the U.S.!) – so how is Zalenskyy any better? At least Putin pretends (if it is pretense) to support the Church and Orthodox Christian morality (something he doesn't live himself in his private life, to be sure, but I'll take what I can get).

War Estimates (Ukraine has already lost)

As for this war, it was over before it began.

1. Sun Tzu would have told them to make the "Estimates" and see whether there was a chance to fight off what is the third largest military in the world (I assume) after China and the U.S. Japan should have done this rational estimates procedure in 1941 but didn't.
   
2. History is full of examples. I've mentioned Japan, but also Ireland, Scotland, Poland in the 18th century, the Southern Confederacy, and so on.
   
3. Exceptions: The American Revolution worked because A. the distances and terrain involved; the Brits could not surround and cut of the Patriots they way they did in Ireland or Putin is doing in the Ukraine; B. that the British rulers didn't really have their hearts in it (read up on the Howe brothers, Richard and William), and C. of course the Royal French Navy. The Vietnam War we lost because Vietnam was backed by its connection to the landmass of Asia and its allies replenished their supplies, and also our rules of engagement limited what we could do. Or consider Afghanistan: much the same. So, what exceptions exist tend to prove the rule.
   
4. For flat, fertile, and bordering-on-Russia Ukraine, however, it was never a contest, but what exists now is endless lies and propaganda about the Ukrainians beating the Russians. Our MSM news media is in full propaganda mode, and anyone not pushing the "narrative" gets "cancelled" (they've tried to do that with Col. MacGregor, to mention one example again). On the ground, Putin has been going slow to try to save lives, something the Ukrainian Regime is not trying to do.

Otherwise, read also St. Luke 14:31-32 for an exactly Sun Tzu-type parallel expressed by Our Lord himself:

31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.… 

Right now, the Ukrainian army has collapsed and has "gone to ground" among the civilian population, whom it is using as human shields. Indeed, Zalenskyy has imported a few hundred Al-Qaeda terrorists! (Not to mention the CIA flooding Ukraine with mercenaries.) But all these tactics can do is slaughter more people. Considering what Putin has said he wants to stop the war, most of the demands being fait accompli according to the situation on the ground, it is madness to continue. I mean, if one values human life.

And no, I don't believe Putin is trying to recreate the Russian or Soviet empires. If that was the game, he's had Clinton, Bush II, and Obama to maneuver against in major ways, but he hasn't. He's given a lot of interviews and seems honestly animated about the steady approach of NATO to his borders, of course, and Russia has been invaded by not only the East but the West, by Germany (twice in the 20th century) and by Napoleon in the early 19th century, and before that by both Sweden and Poland. (Ever hear of the Great Northern War?) Putin is a thug, in the "strong man" tradition of Russian rulers (and Byzantine and Ancient Roman rulers) yet he has let the situation in the Ukraine go on for decades, the last eight years of which the Ukrainians have been shelling their fellow Ukrainians in the Donbas (the Russian sometimes shell back, but not nearly as much as the Ukrainians do). During the feckless Obama administration, Putin could have invaded in 2014 when Obama (or the Deep State without him) overthrew the Ukrainian government. Or if Putin and Obama were in cahoots, he could have just walked over Ukraine. Didn't happen. Putin finally invaded only days after when that literal "ho" Kamala Harris, went to Germany and openly declared U.S. support for Ukraine joining NATO. 

Thug, murderer, adulterer, all that, but at least Putin isn't destroying his country like the Biden Regime is, or Bergoglio has destroyed the Vatican II Church. Maybe, ultimately, Putin is a World Economic Forum plant, but so is a good portion of the U.S. government. There's a lot wrong with the world, and I'm afraid we're all damned to live in a 'Big Brother' type of George Orwell nightmare. But Poland bought us some time and saved us from a true conflagration. And thank God for that.

An Préachán

Is Russia's invasion a poked Bear's reaction to Globalism?

Friends,

Sad day (and days coming) for folks residing in Ukraine. A lot of people, civilian and military, will die. How many depends on how this develops. If the Ukraine government collapses quickly enough, maybe not too many. Or perhaps Putin will go so far west, and no further. We've no clue. It is doubtful the Europeans will fight at all. The chief German general, Alfons Mais, says the German army's ability to help is "extremely limited". “The Bundeswehr, the army that I am privileged to lead, is more or less bare. The options that we can offer the politicians to support the alliance are extremely limited,” Mais wrote in a Linkedin post on Thursday morning. Mais has bitterly complained of Angela Merkel's military financial policies, and we need to remember Merkel was one of the first graduates of Klaus Schwab's "Leadership School", along with Bill Gates. Hmmm...

 So, we'll see.

We know that Putin has sent his army in, he has sent his missiles in, and he has sent his navy in and already there are (Russian) reports of Ukrainian troops defecting in mass, and non-Russian reports of the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament fleeing with his family and video of thousands fleeing toward Poland. I'm sure the Ukrainian border area with Hungary, a border populated largely by ethnic Hungarians, will be soon flooded with refugees. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has introduced martial law and told his people to remain calm (yeah, right).

As we wait for whoever runs the Biden Administration to act, or not, as the case may be (Biden is picking his teeth over it, as you can see here. 

Commentators and pundits will be flooding those interested with all sorts of information over the next long bit, but I'll just ask two questions:

1. Will this finally kill Covid?
2. Is this invasion – at least in part – a reaction to the Western World's conquest by Globalism? I.e. Has Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, et al, finally kindled a reaction?

I don't know, but I suspect the answers to both 1 and 2 are 'Yes'.

First, of course, I must say Putin is a classic bully, and bullies beat up on the weak. Biden et al are utterly weak: Biden (those who run him) have gutted the U.S. military with Wokeism and Covid jabs. This is because the Left in general (exhibit A: Wokeism) is effeminate; it is NOT manly, and the Russians would run roughshod over our Transsexual/Gay/etc. military like the Romans overran the Greeks. Our entire military is in serious disarray, as the Afghanistan debacle showed, so the world's bullies act. We can be sure China will now invade Taiwan. And this video shows then-President Trump in 2018 berating the Europeans for not arming themselves and for coddling Putin. Trump was indeed quite right; he was right a lot of the time, in fact.

But regarding my two queries, there's truth in both of them, as well.

Nothing like a war, a real war, to shake the somnolent awake, for one thing, and for another, the Western World is basically run by BlackRock (the world's largest asset/money manager) and another whose name I forget. They, and a few other such, mostly banks of various kinds who prop up the world's monetary system (itself all fluff and mirrors and hopeless debt), stand behind a doofus like Klaus Schwab or Bill Gates and their eugenics programs (Covid is just a eugenics program) and they direct the major world corporations, as well, more or less. Schwab in turn runs a horde of local national politicians. Take the case of Canada and Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland. These two, no doubt at the bankers' requests, have rescinded their Emergency Act, something that kneecaps all those helpless Liberal and NDP politicians who had just voted for it! Trudeau has made himself utterly putrid, now not only to the Canadian Right, but the Left, as well. He'll be gone in days. But he was following Schwab's orders.

In such a world, the people of actual countries, like Russia, Poland, France, the UK or US, etc., are just puppets for the most part in terms of their governments' independence. Their politicians are "bought and sold" by foreigners and ultimately do the bidding of this "Big Bosses", the behind-the-scenes guys (Soros is a small fry compared to them). China seems to be in the mix with the big shots (Schwab's son is married to a Chinese and lives in Beijing, for example) in an oddly vectored way, and Russia has recently tried to make alliance with China, but China is nobody's friend. China is not even China's friend! 

So, yes, Russia's invasion of the absolute Globalist puppet state of Ukraine is in part a response to this situation, just as the U.S., under whoever actually runs the Biden Regime (Globalists, to be sure), does what it does under the Globalists' orders. That's why the U.S. would not assuage Russia's fears of the Ukraine entering NATO, or in some other way being used against Russia. The Globalists want that. Badly. Biden clearly did the Globalists' bidding, all right. 

Thus, we'll see how this plays out. Wars have a tendency to get out of control. The American Civil War did. World War I did, infamously. World War II was an Outsiders attack on the Global system of the day, but the Globalists used the Allied victory to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. In general, wars are usually fought for limited aims but mostly never stay strictly in those limits.

So, we'll just have to see. But at least, I think, the whole Covid farce is done. An actual war on the European continent is just too big a thing to ignore, whether it keeps within the corral or breaks out.

AnP 

In Memorandum, Winston Churchill

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a strange one. 

A political opportunist of the first order, possessed of an immense vision along with a genius for disaster – breaking a legal contract with Turkey and keeping what became the H.M.S. Agincourt from the Turks – a "white elephant" of a dreadnought which fired exactly ONE salvo at Jutland – but his seizure of it helped push Turkey in on the German side in WWI. Then he birthed the disastrous Gallipoli campaign to undo his mistake. 

After that, a lonely Demosthenes warning of Hitler and the Nazis, turned to in desperation in May, 1940, and made P.M., wherein he earned undying fame for his oratory about "fighting on the beaches...we will never surrender" but otherwise leaving a very torturous record in WWII. 

Amongst other follies were the terror bombing of German cities, the Singapore fiasco: losing 100s of thousands of men over an empty naval base – and really, ringing the death knell of the British Empire – not to mention redrawing Poland's borders to please Stalin; but worst of all, he fought like a devil to keep the U.S. from invading France in 1943, which would have ended the war a year earlier. See: 1943, The Victory That Never Was by John Grigg, 1980, for an excellent, in-depth discussion about this fascinating, but utterly depressing, scenario.

Yet the man had courage, a genius-level IQ, and an astounding memory, honestly. Just one of history's strangest almost – though never quite – Great Ones; and on top of the rest of it, a miserable father to his son, Randolph – though to be fair, his own father was a pitiful man, and his mother, the American heiress whose reputation suffered (shall we say politely?) of whom Churchill wrote, "I loved her dearly – but at a distance".

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