Of Balloons, Taiwan, Ukraine, JFK's assassination, and World War III (with Hungarian update)

 Friends,

Just a few observations and articles to share.

Ex-CIA/Intel Sam Faddis has two articles below worth reading about the balloons. He's certain there's more to meet the eye than bouncy balls and the Biden Administration's incompetence.

Where Is The Payload?
Sam Faddis

In the world of intelligence, the key is to ask questions. Perhaps the most important of those questions is “Why?” When a Middle Eastern flight school student attending a class in Florida on flying airliners says he does not need to know how to land it pays to ask “Why”?

and
If You Are Sleeping Well At Night You Should Not Be
Sam Faddis 

Faddis goes into detail you simply won't find in the mainstream articles on this. And he makes a thorough case that the US itself has been using balloons to deposit and broadcast special sensors over wide areas since the Vietnam war. He details how they're used and what the Chinese would be up to spreading sensors over the US. This is a lot more information that Congress got from their Defense briefing the other day.

China might be ready to launch its war against Taiwan any day now. This article gives an idea of how absurd America's and NATO's "narrative" about Ukraine. We've thrown away a great deal of our military supplies in Ukraine, and we're delusional about what we can do there. Vietnam-level delusional. It's the kind of thing that even if it is only half true, that's more than enough.

I've recently finished a general history of the Korean War, by English historian Max Hastings. (Highly recommended general history.) What's amazing is how we repeated almost exactly the same idiotic mistakes in Vietnam a decade later. Korea was one thing, but Vietnam, almost the same mistakes, only worse, over again, was jaw-dropping stupid. Just incredibly stupid, (like we were about Pearl Harbor and 9/11, BTW, as Faddis himself points out). Of course, Vietnam was the creation – the way it turned out after Nov 1963 – of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the man who arranged the assassination of Kennedy. I'm currently reading The Man Who Killed Kennedy; the Case Against LBJ, by Roger Stone (in part). The book is thousands of references to various testimony built up over the years, and it is clear Johnson, American Intell, and the Mob was behind murder(s). The Kennedy brothers themselves were arrogant and careless, and Jack was determined above all to deep-six the CIA. The two brothers were about to bring down Johnson himself. Johnson struck first. "LBJ" was probably the worst individual (maybe now Joe Biden, if Biden is really in the pay of the Chinese) to ever be a US president. Needless to note, but it make depressing reading. Kennedy had clearly indicated he wanted out of Vietnam by 1965, saying it was their war and they had to be the ones to fight it; Johnson reversed Kennedy's decisions because he was making large amounts of money via defense contractors, esp those in Texas with whom he was closely connected. (The book details all this misery, murder, and graft and lies.)

Nixon, hardly an archangel, a politician with his own mob connections and dirty laundry, comes out looking like St Francis in comparison to the evil men we've had running the country.

Then, there's this article about WWIII by Frenchman Emmanuel Todd who predicted the fall of the USSR a decade before it collapsed. Not too in-depth in itself but worth reading.

Finally, there's this excellent LifeSiteNews article about Hungary and Orbán's position regarding the Ukraine war. Highly recommended. An "eye-opener", indeed. (No wonder Biden has sent Samantha Power to Hungary to start a "color revolution.")

So, passing these along to anyone who wants to consider them.

St Valentine, and all February saints like St. Brigid, pray for us.

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.

 

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.

 

 

Michaelmas and the doom of nuclear war...

 Amici,

As World War III looms over us – yes, a nuclear World War III – perhaps it is good to remember that today is Michaelmas, as those of us of the Old Rite still celebrate it. It's been a Church Feast for the Warrior Archangel since the 500s, as The Feast of the Dedication of Saint Michael the Archangel, originally a feast celebrating the dedication of a basilica in St. Michael's name. That church itself is long gone, as is another famous St. Michael-dedicated church, the Michaelion, fabulous basilica in Constantinople, demolished to make a fortress as the Turks closed in (St. Michael is not unused to war, is he?). But the feast remains in the West (the West that's not Protestant nor Bergoglian False Church). In the Roman Church, it stood listed as a holy day of obligation from 1234. That obligation was removed in the 18th century. The post Vatican II iconoclasm swept the feast away completely, replacing it with a hodgepodge "feast" for all three archangels. (Yet another Spirit of Vatican II iconoclasm.)

But today, the illegitimate American political regime is pushing for war with Russia. Sam Faddis has the details here. Somehow, the both evil and insane "Powers-that-Be" in the American Security State, the colloquially termed "Deep State" that Eisenhower once warned us about, have decided for war with Russia, even as the American "leaders" are Chinese puppets. When Trump was elected, the Deep State cried it up that he only got into office via help from Putin. They poisoned whatever means had existed for the U.S. and Russia to get along, and they continued – since that anti-Christ Obama's terms in office – to dig themselves deeper into the Ukraine. Now, clearly, they are saying they will not give up Ukraine to be a neutral buffer state (that conditition has not hurt Austria or Sweden or Switzerland) between the West and Russia. Russia gears up for war even as Russian men flee conscription. They're "voting with their feet" in Comrade Lenin's phrase. But Russia has weapons Lenin never dreamed of. To "win", he has only a button to push. (If you call Armageddon winning.)

From the Biden Regime's narcissistic perspective, now is the time to strike. A war often raises support at home for the current government, for one thing. For another, the Democrats are headed for a disastrous Cannae-scale political crash on November 8. The Deep Staters, mostly "war hawks" and promoters of international strife, can't fathom that American are sick to death fighting wars in all the world's corners. They're too "diabolically narcissistic", as Ann Barnhardt says, to have any sense. They foolishly want to fight now on Russia's doorstep, indeed, in it's entry hallway. Russian conscripts may flee, but the American military is depleted in both weapons and morale. It's personnel have been guted by the Biden Regime's crazy Covid decrees. Yet the wealth of Ukraine (and even Russia, if they collapse that government) entices them onward.

So, therefore, pray to St. Michael (after you get yourself to confession) that this war is somehow averted. Unless, of course, it is God's will to eradicate our wretched selves. See this about drag queens in school and little girls, if you can stomach it, for proof of how depraved we've become. 

          AnP

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

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

  

Iran in revolution; Putin and the Ukraine war...

Friends,

The "world in ferment" keeps heading for a meltdown – and no, not a global warming meltdown except in Western nations that remain in thrall to that absolute fraud of frauds: Climate Change.

• Just say no to Climate Change. Say no to Covid. Say no to the 100+ year fraud of virology. Say no to a host of manufactured crises that they keep springing on us.

There's much chatter about the coming "Climate Change Lockdowns" but I suspect that might be the stick to break the camel's back of people's tolerance of this WEF/2030/New World Order fetid putridity. 

Speaking of camels, something interesting seems afoot in old Iran, that Indo-European outpost athwart the Mideast:

Iran

Iran is in extreme ferment after the government "morality police" thugs killed Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, on Sept. 16, for not wearing a hijab Muslim hair garment. The Iranian people seem to have had enough. (Until at least the "government" starts shooting them en masse.) The pointless murder might be the flip of the switch that sends that particular Islamic regime straight to Muhammad's hell, where jinn amuse themselves by pouring molten iron down the throats of the damned.

The Jerusalem Post has details: Iran protests: Casualties rise amid gov't crackdown;

At least 17 casualties were reported as protests spread to over 80 cities across Iran. See also Amnesty. 

Putin and the Ukrainian War

Meanwhile, Russia has slowed or stopped the recent Ukrainian offensive in part by the simple expedient of liquidating Western mercenaries. It's no fun being a merc and have yourself bullet-kicked straight into Hell, is it? (A true merc, fighting solely for money and the adrenaline kick, probably won't get to sing in the Courts of the Prince of Peace, would he? One wouldn't think so.)

From the link above:

• Russian news site Lenta claims Russia has eliminated mercenaries fighting for US Private Military Company (PMC) Academi (former Blackwater) and “Kraken” irregulars attached to the far-right Azov Regiment in the Kherson offensive (Gateway Pundit reported). If true, this may explain why the Ukrainian counteroffensive seems to have stalled. The strikes were announced by Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov...

Meanwhile, as Tucker Carlson reports (he's been outstanding lately, even I, jaded corvine that I am, must admit), that the Western Powers, esp the U.S., seem insanely pushing for nuclear war.

 

As Tucker says, the U.S. could stop the war tonight by dropping funding to the Ukrainians. Yes, that would allow Putin a "win" but then the West guaranteed itself a loss from the beginning. The Western "leaders" maneuvered themselves into defeat by their stubborn and stupid decisions before the war – i.e. they were as smugly stupid about thinking Putin would never invade as they thought he'd never turn off their oil and gas. All Putin had to do was call their bluff and invade – invade with the intention to win – and the West had then to necessarily look idiotic unless they truly pushed for an actual nuclear war, which is what Tucker Carlson says they seem to be doing. In other words, they're still stupid.

We must throw these idiots out of our governments, route them out entirely. I'm praying Italy on Sunday follows Sweden's lead.

   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.

Scott Ritter and Alex Thomson on Ukraine, Russia, the Western military and propaganda

 Amici,

We keep being inundated with this Western gov propaganda about the Ukrainians and Russians. To my disgust, a lot of people I would otherwise respect buy into it wholly, like Streiff at RedState, here and here. 

In any event, check out this Reiner Fuellmich interview for some counter-argument.

Reinder interviews wo experts, American Scott Ritter and Englishman Alex Thomson, who have long-experience in these subects, talk a lot of truth about Russia, Ukraine, and especially the duplicitous West. It's a real eye-opener. Of course, all this is anathema to the mainstream narrative; it's the equivalent of calling out the lies of Covid. They lay it all out. Ritter and Thomson detail how the CIA is manufacturing the lies about Russian military morale and how the stories coming out of Ukraine can't possibly be true – they do so on a technical level, explaining the details so those of us ignorant of how the Russian Army works, especially how they manage each soldier's private communication – to disprove the constant lies about Russian soldiers and their morale. They also discuss how the West cannot possibly fight Russia, how except for the American military, NATO is defenseless, the extent to which the German Army is a joke, etc., and how weak too the U.S. military itself has become.

Scott Ritter has just been banned from Twitter for doubting the Bucha massacre. That Indian diplomat whom I sent around a while ago, M. K. Bhadrakumar, didn't believe it either. Many men with sterling backgrounds in military and espionage don't. I can't forget that 50 such "experts" in espionage swore that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russia deception. So, always always always, there's more than one side to a story. Only far-stretching endless time will reveal the truth.

Here's Scott Ritter's amazing background. He had extensive experience in the Marines in combined arms (that the U.S. is no longer is expert in after all our Mid-East insurgency wars, and in also being a U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Investigator. 

From Treehouse commentator Sherri Young (bf mine):

No great surprise that Scott Ritter would get the ban hammer from Deep State Twitter. He frustrated Cheney/Bush by delaying their incursion into Iraq. Ritter was the UN chief weapons inspector who pushed back against the neocons. They were itching to go into Iraq. The narrative was that Iraqi scientists were not cooperating with the weapons inspections, so there was no point in waiting any longer. Ritter would not be pushed. He continued flying around Iraq, going from site to site and reporting that he was not finding caches of WMDs.

When the narrative changed to say that the inspections needed to end because the inspectors were at risk, Ritter stated that he did not feel sufficiently at risk.

The inspections stopped only after the company that insured the helicopters used by Ritter and his team notified the helicopter company that their coverage would no longer be good for such missions in Iraq. A couple of weeks after the weapons inspectors were forced to pull out, that very same helicopter service was flying the same helicopters in Iraq. At the time, AIG was the largest insurer of commercial helicopters. Five years later in the Great Recession, AIG was bailed out by the Fed. (Funny how those things work./sarc)

AnP

So, in general, my friends, how many times do we have to be lied to before we finally get our minds around reality? Well, the powers-that-be won't let us do that until the entire system collapses, and we embark on a Mad-Max type dystopian world, where life will be, as a certain Englishman once said: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

Another article exploring the same themes is here at The Gateway pundit. 

An Préachán

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.

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Extremely important Tucker Carlson opening: must see about Biden's Ukraine lies

Amici, friends,

More crazy news about Ukraine, and most of it we cannot believe. To go against "the narrative" the MSM and the Biden Regime are promoting can lead to one's "cancellation." Tucker Carlson must be therefore angling for Fox News to fire him. He really lambasted the Mainstream Media and the Biden Administration, and the Republican big shots, too, here. Tucker is all monologue here, and he is scalding. (The guy must have kids; he does, of course.) This is the proverbial "must see" video. (And also see Carlson's interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor here. This will also get Carlson fired. After all, if they fired Lou Dobbs, they'll fire Carlson.) 

One Nota Bene: since Carlson's segments ran last night, so far as I understand it, the Polish government has put a stop to the insane U.S. idea of "gun-running" fighter jets from Poland to Ukraine. Either they were going to and quickly backed out, or the Biden Regime was out-and-out lying. (What else is new?) If that is true, thank God; we might avert a world war yet. It seems the Europeans are going to have to get tough with the reckless Biden regime, one way or another. At least, if the Euros want to continue living. Otherwise, they're going to have a full-scale war in Europe, brought on (so strange to write this!) by Americans. What do they want war for? Wipe out Europe, so it is like it was in May, 1945? Or what? Or is Ann Barnhardt right, and this is the Sodomite revenge on what remains of Christian Europe? And if that sounds "tin-foil hat country, look at these pics. (Zelensky is full abortion, full deviant rights, etc. At this point, my friends, I'm willing to believe anything.)

Carlson brought up a number of essential things, and one of them is food production, but a great article on the upcoming mass famine is here, a Mike Adams article: https://uncanceled.news/global-crop-collapse-now-a-certainty/.

Mainly, Carlson talked about the warmongers' moralisms. I'm beyond repulsed over the faux moral outrage about Ukraine being invaded. Drop the moral outrage, MainStreamMedia, drop the phony pity, American government. It's total hypocrisy. They treat the actual Ukrainian people no better than they treat their own!

And Carlson asks if war is so outrageous for them, why don't we read anything about the war in Yemen or the one in Ethiopia, or the 100,000 killed in Mexico over the drug cartel wars. (In contrast, 50,000-plus Americans were killed in the over-a-decade involvement in the Vietnam war. Mexico is a slaughterhouse.) And other "regional conflicts" exist just as brutal, right now, going on today. We never hear about those. But because Biden and Friends of Biden and corrupt American politicians like the Obamas and the Clintons (the latter have shamelessly restarted their "foundation"), and the RINOs and various business people have an apparently bottomless money pit well gushing dollars from Ukraine into their pockets, we only hear about the Ukraine.

Carlson asks, isn't anyone paying attention? Biden is getting NO push back. Biden apparently and the people who run him, i.e. Democrat, Republican, Deep State, World Economic Forum leadership grads –  for them, it's a Globalist World – so, these people want war. It'll will reduce world population and liquidate the nation-state. But if we crash the Russian economy, stop their exports of food and fertilizer – we will DESTROY THE WORLD. Hundreds of millions might starve, even if no missile is ever fired. In revenge, the Russians will just send both food and fertilizer to China and Iran, and open new markets in other parts of the world, because, or so I've heard it said, people need to eat.

Another Note Bene: some say Putin wants to conquer all of Ukraine, but that's not his stated terms for stopping the war. He could very well be lying, but what, do we continue the slaughter rather than find out? Others say that Russia will never give up Kiev, birthplace of Russian Orthodoxy. Maybe. Still others say that by hook or by crook: total conquest or "Findlandizing" Ukraine, he wants the wonderfully fertile soil of that region. It is as important a breadbasket for the world as is the mid-western U.S./Canada states/provinces. But then Mother Russia herself, as it is, remains a major world foodstuff exporter. And of course Putin sits on incredible oil and gas reserves. So, whatever. Time will tell.

America

But what IS it with the Biden Regime? Is the American government both trying to start a world war and also bankrupt the West – or as much as the world that doesn't go along with this insanity? Already the price of urea fertilizer in the U.S. has gone from $200-something a ton last year to $800 this year. We are all going to starve, thanks to the Deep State. Of course, the Bottom Line almost certain is the World Economic Forum wants to use all this to create a One World Government/Great Reset wherein we're all slaves. But as those people are not elected, we've no way to remove them from "office" (which they don't bother to have). Then again, America's leaders are fraudulently elected, and we can't remove them.

As Carlson says, the American government should be trying to de-escalate this war, but instead we're trying to escalate it. We could STOP this stupid war by stopping all plans of bringing Ukraine NATO or the EU. Simple. Putin only invaded right Ukraine after Kamala Harris, the Hetaira to Priapusian Democrat big shots (well, more a street-corner drachma type), when visiting Germany a fortnight ago, openly encouraged Ukraine to join NATO. This is true. Check the timeline. Putin invaded just days later. And he's warned for at least a decade or more that he would act in just this way were the West to try to get Ukraine into NATO/EU.

Moralizing Idiocy

And enough of this damned "Moral Panicking" shtick. First it was BLM and then Covid for the sake of which we were supposed to be morally outraged for – and in both cases, anyone and everyone who questioned the "narrative" was silenced, deplatformed, made "unpersons", etc. But almost none of the bull excrement propaganda narratives about either of these absolute fiascos were true, and now the new moral panic is "Russia, Russia!" So the solution is crashing the world economy and destroying the dollar and plunging the world into destruction like we didn't see even in the Great Depression!

And all for...hypocrisy, in spades

WHY? Because Putin wants Ukraine to be a neutral buffer state? Jack Kennedy nearly plunged the world into Nuclear War in 1962 because Khrushchev put missiles into Cuba. How is Putin's demand any different? One does NOT have to be "pro-Putin" or a "Putin puppet" to see Russia's point here. One does not have to condone Russia's actions to see that if Jack Kennedy had a point, so does Russia. Putin's issued his terms on what Russia wants from Ukraine to stop fighting, and they are fait accompli: mainly simply that Ukraine be formally politically and militarily neutral. (And formally recognize the Crimea as Russian and those two new "republics" Putin has declared are to remain, with the unstated desire of course for the Ukraine to be Putin's client state.) So...

STOP THE DAMNED INSANITY.

Oh, wait, we no longer have representative government. Our votes are useless. Our will is ignored, and our sovereignty vanished. We're slaves already.

We apparently missed the memo.

As "Jerm Warfare" writes:

"Naturally, those who know nothing about Ukraine's politics and history, are the ones with a Ukrainian flag on their Facebook profile. They're also the same ones who tell others to get the jab.

"It's not about understanding anything. It's about signalling one's virtue. Displaying one's superior sense of morality to the world. Following the herd and looking like a good person. Being woke while simultaneously being asleep.

"In other words, like former KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov warned about during the 1980s in an incredible interview, the West's cultural Marxist shallowness will lead to its own demise."

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Fatima and Sliding into Chaos: Senator calls on assassination of Putin and NATO cranks up operations

 Amici,

First, let's remember Fatima and the prophecy given then, in 1917. Here is Bishop Strickland's tweet:

Maybe the U.S. Trucker convoy, 70 miles long, might get our evil leaders' attention.

Well, well, all this nightmare, and for what? Money and sex, what else? Ukraine is certainly a cash cow that Western Big Shots don't want to lose, and a flesh market for human trafficking for the sexually depraved. It must be, since the unelected, "installed" western governments are so close to pushing us into World War, the Third Edition, over it.

Why do I write this? "Aunt" Lindsey Graham, a supposedly conservative U.S. senator but basically a neo-conservative Deep State apparatchik "war-hawk", is calling for Putin's assassination, as reported on here at The Conservative Treehouse. That is so grotesquely contrary to ANYTHING a senator should be saying.

Graham also called the January 6 protestors terrorists and wants them locked up with the keys thrown away. He is the sort of perverted cesspool drudge the Republican "RINOs" have an endless supply of. Yet you can't help but wonder, with high American officials making comments like these, that Graham and the other evil Republicans in Congress, Mitch McConnell and friends, especially those on the Senate Intelligence Committee, would not hesitate to get the "government's mafia", the CIA, to assassinate Trump, if he runs again, or is elected Speaker of the House. Put nothing past them. After all, they're trying their best to whip up an actual world war right now.

As many bloggers have pointed out, no matter what happens, we will never know the actual amount bribes and graft people like Graham and other "neo-cons" have taken from the "Military-Industrial Complex". Democrats too, of course. Biden himself is merely the tip of the proverbial mountain. It is galling that these bastards, these "right bastards" are now lobbying for Communist China and that country's military-industrial complex.

But think about this: we are supposedly buying 100s of 1000s of barrels of oil from Putin, with the U.S. government flatly refusing to open the Keystone pipeline from Alberta that Biden closed down ON HIS FIRST DAY in office, yet we're also calling on Putin's assassination? Is this all theater, or what? Putin has World Economic Forum connections, as well. Just what is going on? Are we actually as insanely dishonest, treacherous, and conniving as all of that? For you who doubt that, for you who suspect I've gone over into tin-foil hat territory, I have one word, just one: Covid.

Finally, read this article on how NATO seems to be cranking up the pressure toward starting a European-wide war here. This is the extreme pro-Putin side, of course, but use it to balance what you're hearing in most of the Western media. It has a lot of shocking data, like the current head of NATO "retiring" soon to head Norway's Central Bank – showing how intertwined these swine are, you know, like the FDA/CDC and Big Pharma!

Bottom Line

At this point, I honestly cannot say NATO (and the U.S. Deep State) isn't fully, intentionally, trying to start a world conflagration. Just as our Western insistence on bringing Ukraine into NATO and the EU's orbit finally prompted the Russians to attack, so insisting on supplying the Ukrainians with weapons gives Putin the excuse to attack Ukraine's western borders, and that might kill some NATO military personnel. NATO maybe be a "paper tiger" in many ways, but it is not exactly unarmed. And Poland has a strong army, as does France, so in theory they could give the Russians a strong conventional war fight, especially if Whoever-Runs-the US-government throws American military assets in.

With that potential threat, no matter how unlikely we might think of the French hopping Germany to fight manfully side-by-side with the Poles, it does put Putin in kind of in a bind. No wonder he has been talking up nukes. In Putin's calculations, tactical nukes would definitely be an option in this context, based on the idea that the West has absolutely NO will to use to "go nuclear" in return. So, we've no way of knowing how this might go.

Ultimately, though, I think the Treehouse's Sundance is right when he references the absolutely totalitarian governments we've developed in the West during Covid. We need the BRICS to step up to counter-balance this new and abysmal West. (BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China – well, no, we don't need Communist China – and South Africa)

So thanks, Putrid Lindsey and the RINO neo-cons for pushing us to the verge of Armageddon. Thanks all the American Deep State for ditching the internationally cautious Donald Trump. Thanks to the George Soros-World Economic Forum and the "Deep State" of the western world, too, and let's not leave out the popes since Benedict XV for not consecrating Russia. Thanks to all of you for foisting war upon us.

All I can say is, pray, and get to Confession while you have the chance.

An Préachán

The Ukrainian situation as of Saturday night, plus U.S. gov corruption

 Friends,

It is apparently becoming pretty clear that the U.S. Biden Regime is trying to sink the Ukrainians. The British and the Poles, on the other hand, are providing serious material support (weapons). So, what is all this about?

First of all, beware that both the Russians and the American government are masters at deceptive propaganda (anyone remember Covid "fear-porn"?). So we can be sure of nothing. Well, there's an old saying that, "God is on the side of the big battalions." The Russians have the big battalions. Meanwhile, Poland is saying 100,000 Ukrainians have crossed the Polish border and 100s of 1000s more are expected. Other neighboring countries are receiving refugees. Hungary has offered to accept refugees, mostly I suppose ethnic Hungarians, of which Ukraine has a good few. There's not a lot of love lost between the Ukrainians proper and Hungarians, and stories like this one are appearing. Whatever the truth is about these questions, Ukrainian president

Volodymyr Zalenskyy says he is staying and protests continue in Russian cities against Putin's invasion.

But still, considering the British helping the Ukrainians and Biden not, with the White House apparatchiks flood-lighting the gay rainbow flag onto the White House whereas the Brits' PM residence, 10 Downing Street, is colored blue and gold, one has to wonder what, truly, is going on here. Can this be true? Well, Biden took the weekend off to go to Delaware. (But of course his "handlers" are not taking time off.) This is especially odd since the Biden Crime Family has grown fat off of Ukrainian bribes and slush funds over the years.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be in a bit of flux as it looks like Ukrainians are stoutly resisting and the Russian operation to conquer it now stands in some degree of doubt – as of now, at least. I mean, if this news is in any way factual. Can the Ukrainians actually stop the Russian advance? Is that remotely possible? Well, the U.S. tried to get the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zalenskyy, to flee to the U.S. (or somewhere outside of the region), an act that would collapse Ukrainian morale. With "friends" like that, you don't need enemies.

Biden's Deep State

So, again, whose side is Biden's Deep State on, we may well ask. We don't want to do the Ukrainians' fighting for them, or let this "regional" war develop into a world war, which it could easily do, and potentially going nuclear, but if the Ukrainians themselves are willing to fight, we should materially support them. Remember Taiwan, for the same is true with Taiwan, should the Chinese invade that nation. And the People's Republic of China is far more dangerous a threat that Russia is. In general, naked aggression should be resisted in a world as heavily armed and already violent as our is.

Meanwhile, the Brits are providing the Ukrainians with the Swedish (Saab) NLAW. According to SAAB, the NLAW is "(Next generation Light Anti-tank Weapon) eliminates even the most advanced tanks. It is best-in-class for dismounted light forces that operate in all environments, including built-up areas. Key features. Powerful warhead, able to defeat any modern MBT. Combat range of 20-800 miles" or so Saab reports. Military-Today.com says, "The NLAW is a short-range anti-tank missile whose characteristics make it sort of a hybrid. It's armed with a powerful 150 mm High-Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) warhead designed to knock out Russian T-series tanks at short range."

Good for the Brits; this weapon provides the Ukrainians with a fighting chance. Better than Biden, whose multi-billion (6.4) dollar aid package he's promising will be leeched out of money by corrupt U.S. politicians. One has to wonder if Biden is giving Ukraine to Russia and thus what Putin has on Joe Biden via stolen laptops from Hunter?

In any event, maybe this is a only momentary set-back for the Russians? Were it true, it would be truly impressive and the ramifications unlimited. After all, since it's breakaway from the old Soviet Union, Ukraine has been pretty much under the thumb of corrupt American politicians and bureaucrats (more on that below). But were the Ukrainians to actually win this, or put up a far better than expected defense, that could forge them into an actual nation. And again, the same would be true of Taiwan: so one might say, "As goes Ukraine, so goes Taiwan." (China, by the way, is blaming the U.S. for the Ukrainian situation; since Biden and before him Obama came in, that's not without a lot of reason but China isn't doing it to be moral, but to set the stage for their invasion of Taiwan.)

And a Ukrainian victory, or a near-victory that would give the Ukrainians great clout in any future negotiations, would still impress the world. I wonder, too, if the Russian army shows it can't handle the Ukrainians with ease and aplomb, would not the Chinese army be a lot worse? That military is a hopeless morass of moral, financial, and political corruption, with political cronies and time-serving apparatchiks galore in positions of leadership. (I've read where the main occupations of all bureaucrats in China, both military and civilian, is porn viewing on their computers.)  

American Corruption

U.S. political elites (mostly Democrats but not wholly so, obviously) apparently use the Ukraine as an endless source of bribes and payoffs, as in the case of the septic-tank rancid Biden Graft Clan. Many say the Ukraine is now a source of sexual human trafficking, as well. (The insane U.S. border situation in part exists the way it does to allow Democrats easier "human trafficking" kids into the the U.S. for the pedophilia-obsessed Democrats. The true depravity of our political leaders is obscene – to made a bad pun.)

And perhaps the oddest yet most significant story of all is that we now know the Ukraine is full of Bio-weapons labs of all sorts. Apparently the Russians have bombed eight of these. They are seemingly there to serve nefarious U.S. government agencies and individuals outside of the observation actual U.S. located labs are under. This incredible story, all on its own, might result in a major cleaning of "The Swamp", the fetid morass that the U.S. Federal government has become. If Zelenskyy knows "Sunlight is the best disinfectant", and will refuses to back down down, this could well result.

Bottom Line

The American media is reporting or hustling (more like) the spoon-fed U.S. State Department narrative that Kiyev (Kiev) would fall quick, in a few days (96 hours), whereas the U.K. military is reporting that Russian columns are blunted, getting bogged down, and making slow progress. The Brits provide daily briefings whereas the U.S. government hustles yet more "fear porn".

Finally: a major story is the Ukrainian president wanted to enter into negotiations with Putin but the U.S. government (State Department) has tried to stop this, saying Ukraine can only negotiate through the U.S. government. If this story is true, it is an example of how the American government thinks Ukraine is its "cash cow" and has no legitimacy on its own. It is to the American elite what Ireland was for centuries to the English elite. And of course it strongly suggests that the U.S. government has a lot in Ukraine that it doesn't want known.

An Préachán