The deadliest ever Israeli bombardment by land, sea and air on Rafah, Gaza Strip’s southernmost border city, took place while America was sidetracked with Superbowl Sunday festivities. On Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on ABC News “This Week” to announce:
Victory is within reach. We’re going to do it. We’re going to get the remaining Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, which is the last bastion, but we’re going to do it.
Then overnight on Monday February 12th, anywhere from over 100 to 164 Palestinians were reportedly murdered by Israeli attacks. International alarm and condemnation of the Israeli hardline government is growing by the day.
Simultaneously accompanied by IDF airstrikes, offshore IDF ship launched assaults and IDF artillery attacks from inside Israel, an IDF special forces operation launched an incursion in Rafah during the early morning hours Monday local time to rescue two Israeli hostages in Rafah, with initial reports stating 37 Palestinians were killed. At the same time Israeli tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored engineering vehicles are moving further into Gaza’s next kill zone Rafah.
Al Jazeera’s contributing journalist Ahmed Abdullah Mohsen as an eyewitness in Rafah reported:
The screaming and wailing nearly drowned out the warplanes that covered the sky, dropping barrages in a fiery belt that crushed the bodies of the displaced in their tents. About 20 minutes of explosions lit the night like something from an artificial Hollywood film.
While Biden and Blinken have “strongly advised” Netanyahu to tone down civilian Palestinian deaths and most recently not initiate Bibi’s IDF ground invasion into Rafah, according to several unnamed sources quoted by NBC News on February 12th, on at least three occasions Biden called Netanyahu “an asshole,” venting his mounting frustration towards Bibi the Butcher, undoubtedly wrecking Biden’s reelection campaign.
Last Thursday even prior to the Rafah blitzkrieg, Biden went public saying Israel’s latest actions are “over the top.” His bid to stay in the White House already was dealt a lethal blow last week when special counsel Robert Hur’s report leaked Biden too mentally incompetent to stand trial for willfully retaining illegal classified documents. Essentially, Biden has been thrown under the bus by the same Deep State that installed him as Imposter-in-Thief. Using the Texas State Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s phraseology posted last Friday on X:
I’ve said for over a year many times that Joe Biden would not be on the ticket and Michelle Obama would be the likely nominee. It’s clear the Democrat deep state run by Barack Obama knew they had to take him down to give them a chance in November.
Warmongering Washington now finds itself helplessly floundering, standing up for “Israel’s right to defend itself no matter what,” stuck in a downward freefall spiral paralleling its same humiliating, disastrous policy standing up for the Ukraine debacle. Quite a few pay grades higher than Obama sits the City of London atop this Deep State food chain, throwing the US and entire West under the bus.
For months Israel issued directives to Palestinian residents living in north and central Gaza to flee their homes seeking shelter in south Gaza, where now up to 1.5 million of Gaza’s total 2.3 million Palestinians are now refugees, helplessly trapped in Rafah as defenseless sitting duck targets in the IDF crosshairs.
The Jewish State’s coldblooded game plan all along has been to force Palestinians to run for their lives south out of Gaza, and in the end, exiled to Egypt’s Sinai Desert. Yet Egypt has emphatically warned Israel against this sinister ethnic purge as totally unacceptable, driving Palestinians from their ancient Gaza homeland into Egypt.
Now, with no place for Palestinians to safely shelter in place, Israel is fast preparing to launch its major offensive into Rafah right at Egypt’s border to flood desperate refugees completely out of Gaza. In one fell swoop for decades, Israel has awaited this outcome as its “final solution” to its “Palestinian problem,” free to then steal their vast gas and oil reserves and build a Gaza canal shortcutting Egypt’s Suez Canal.
The peace treaty that Egypt and Israel signed 45 years ago today is in total jeopardy in near shreds.
The Cairo government warned Netanyahu if IDF ground forces invade Rafah as clear violation of its peace agreement with Egypt, rendering it null and void, it risks opening up yet another warfront at Israel’s southern border, after almost a half century of peace with its Arab neighbor.
Also, Egypt has been suffering economically from this Gaza war with its plummeting Suez Canal revenue down by a whopping 30%. Hence, Egypt is warning Israel of “grave consequences,” further echoed by regional Islamic powers Iran’s “severe consequences” and Saudi Arabia’s “very serious repercussions.”
The stakes are growing higher each passing day as Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border has stepped up its campaign from southern Lebanon against genocidal Israel while Houthi drone and missile attacks in the Red Sea target US naval warships as well as commercial cargo vessels continue unabated. This Middle East powder keg is ready to burst into full-scale war between Israel and its genocidal accomplice the US, dragged into fighting yet another Greater Israel Project war that has all the earmarks for Armageddon. Israel continues to defy all warnings from the US, UN and the International Criminal Court. With the united Arab Islamic world’s strengthening strategic alliance with Russia and China, and its nonstop warnings and threats to Israel all unheeded, by the day the ominous risk of these deeply disturbing developments is growing exponentially.
As world pariahs Israel and US alienate themselves before the entire planet, digging their irreversible grave, lined up on the wrong side of history, they’ve been perpetrating genocide in Gaza for four straight months. Arab nations showing remarkable restraint not to react to their provocations to widen the regional conflict, have been increasingly vocal in their unified disapproval. But with hostilities growing at Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, now at the southern border with Egypt, and the northeastern border with Syria, the Islamic world is preparing a contingency plan ultimately to crush Israel if genocide continues unchanged. Knowing without war his political life is terminally over, Bibi the Butcher has repeatedly rejected all ceasefire proposals and demands. Meanwhile, the US without an exit strategy, has feebly allowed itself to be dragged deeper into a quagmire, daily growing into a wider regional conflict.
On Sunday Netanyahu illogically claimed “enough” of the 132 remaining Israeli hostages still alive more than justify continuing the war.
In response, a Hamas leader said if Israel launches its intended ground invasion in Rafah, it would “blow up” all hostage exchange negotiation.
Despite repeated warnings against the Rafah invasion, Netanyahu instructed his IDF and security forces to come up with a plan to evacuate over one million Palestinian refugees in Rafah to pave the way for Israel’s ground offensive, ostensibly to destroy four well-fortified Hamas battalions entrenched in the city. With the situation growing tenser by the day, also on Sunday, Egypt spoke of “dire consequences” for Israel if Bibi orders his assault on Rafah. The Egyptian foreign ministry stated:
Egypt called for the necessity of uniting all international and regional efforts to prevent the targeting of the Palestinian city of Rafah.
It’s becoming ever-so dangerously clearer, when IDF inevitably does fully invade Rafah, the Arab world is bound to finally strike back and at that pivotal moment World War III will likely be officially activated.
Meanwhile last Friday February 9th, Syrian air defense systems shot down Israeli drones and missiles outside of Damascus fired from Israel’s illegally occupied Golan Heights. Attacks by Hezbollah militants in both Syria and Iraq have steadily increased since the Gaza war began, resulting in the recent proliferation of retaliatory US, UK and Israel strikes against Islamic Resistance groups throughout the region, especially this month with US aerial attacks targeting scores of Iran army and proxy Resistance targets. In response to US-Israel latest strikes, last weekend Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian traveled to Lebanon and Syria to discuss the stepped up aggression by Israel and United States, on Sunday meeting in Damascus with both Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and his Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad. While al-Assad stressed the more the US sends weapons to Israel, the wider the regional conflict is growing (following the same failed US weapons to Ukraine). Bottomline, all this increasing global conflict is the direct result of Western puppets obediently carrying out Rothschild City of London orders. Syrian FM Mekdad stated:
Syria has fought wars against the Israeli occupation, and is ready to fight wars, but it will decide when and how. [Ending Israel’s Golan Heights occupation remains] at the top of our priorities. Syria is ready to pay the price for all these liberation operations.
The top Syrian diplomat added that the unwelcomed US and Turkish military presence in Syria is also an “illegitimate” violation of Syria’s national sovereignty, and like Iraq, also is demanding immediate removal, specifically the United States from its theft in the Conoco Oil Fields and Turkey from Kurdistan and northeastern Syria. Plus, until the 1967 Arab-Israeli Seven Day War, the Golan Heights was always part of southwestern Syria and the ongoing Jewish settler expansion in that long-disputed territory is still rightfully claimed by Syria near six decades later.
The entire Arab Muslim world has been coalescing as a unified front, busily joining the BRICS alliance, while behind the scenes, in self-defense is likely preparing an inevitable, massive Islamic military counterattack against Israel from every direction to ultimately stop the endless Zionist beast from any further aggressive expansion. With a significantly weakened US no longer Israel’s unipolar kingpin protector, the Muslim world by conventional military means is in strategic position realizing it can defeat the Jewish State once and for all, launching a coordinated multi-pronged offensive from multiple directions at once. Israel would be overwhelmed and destined to lose this upcoming war, and perhaps as Kissinger predicted, Israel would no longer exist as a nation. However, Israel never hesitates to evoke the maniacal threat of its infamous Sampson option, unloading its nuclear arsenal on any perceived foes or friends alike. And with both Iran and Pakistan also nuclear powers, this slippery slope of mutual destruction could instantly slip out of hand against all of humanity.
At this late stage, what appears imminently inevitable is the much larger Islam versus Zionist conflict, just as US Freemason Albert Pike predicted in detail this coming World War III 153 years ago.
The entire world is now in grave peril with this impending conflict seemingly about to erupt.
While Americans are too busy watching the Superbowl and the Swift-Kelce psyops to notice, the global masses are also failing to grasp the dire gravity of this present highly explosive situation. As I keep saying, the shit is about to hit the fan on planet earth and there will be no turning back history from all the ensuing destruction likely to come. Luciferian controllers will celebrate this massive bloodletting sacrifice as their human cleansing, confident they can emerge from the other side and gain absolute dystopian control over what life is left.
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Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder, invariably weeding out the best and brightest, leaving mediocrity and order followers rising to the top as politician-bureaucrat generals designated to lose every modern US war by elite design. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In Los Angeles he found himself battling the largest county child protective services in the nation within America’s thoroughly broken and corrupt child welfare system.
The experience in both the military and child welfare system prepared him well as a researcher and independent journalist, exposing the evils of Big Pharma and how the Rockefeller controlled medical and psychiatric system inflict more harm than good, case in point, the pandemic hoax and kill shot genocide. As an independent journalist for the last decade, Joachim has written hundreds of articles for many news sites, including Global Research, lewrockwell.com and currently https//jameshfetzer.org, Inteldrop.org and https://thegovernmentrag.com. As a published author of a 5-book volume series entitled Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy & the Deep State, Joachim’s books and chapters are Amazon bestsellers in child advocacy and human rights categories. His A-Z sourcebook series fully document and expose the global pedophilia scourge and remain available free at https://pedoempire.org/contents/. Joachim also hosts the weekly Revolution Radio broadcast “Cabal Empire Exposed” on Friday morning at 7AM EST (ID: revradio, password: rocks!).
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Yes, and this is exactly what we are witnessing today. It means that the chief oppressors of humanity are not about to claim victory in their lust for world domination, but are in fact heading for a crash and are blindly living out their final days.
Their madness is already on view to anyone who follows the antics of the despotic globalist regime so brazenly flaunting its self contrived stardom. It’s not a pretty sight.
Drunk on power and super inflated egos, these less than human humans stand as high as they can on the world stage to project their pompous profiles – only to reveal their true colours as obsessed psychotic war mongers caught in the web of their own morbid megalomania.
However these architects of central control are not alone in being sentenced to an inglorious end. The madness bestowed by the gods also falls on those passive couch potatoes who ‘look on and do nothing’, burying their heads in the sand so as to avoid having to stand up against the rank injustices that stare them in the face.
Then a similar madness creeps up on those who turn away from anything which disturbs their ‘faux spiritual’ retreat into a world of passive inner contemplation. The gods do not smile on such misuses of genuine spiritual disciplines adopted by true aspirants striving to evolve into conscious, active and responsible human beings.
There is no route to a higher calling which does not incorporate service to humanity and confronting injustice. To turn away from such basic responsibility is a form of soul suicide – brought about in the mistaken belief that by shirking a natural humanitarian responsiveness towards the collective welfare of mankind one can remain ‘undisturbed’ in moving up some invisible stairway to heaven.
Then there are those ‘apologist’ professional men and women whose all consuming ambitions lead them to unquestioningly play by the rules of the game, trampling on others in order to make it to the top.
Do the gods smile upon such cowardly behaviour? No, they will increasingly cause such individuals to suffer the inevitable pain that results from going against their better conscience, of being complicit in the cause of evil.
Such people will, unless they change their ways, also be subject to a creeping state of madness. One that corrodes away the natural sympathetic qualities that keep mankind responsible, humane and sane.
What about those who accumulate disproportionately high levels of personal wealth and use the great majority of it to feather their nests and further bolster their sense of self importance over others less financially secure?
What view do the gods take about those harbouring obsessions of material gain?
They cause such people to feel increasingly insecure; increasingly afraid of losing the velvet padded ease of their sumptuous life styles. Cut off from the world of real people, real emotions and real human affection.
Perhaps such bloated examples of excess cause the gods to pass a message across their field of vision, such as “It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.”
How tormented such mindless millionaires become by not being able to completely dispel the poignancy of such a message. How empty they feel inside, in spite of all their exterior wealth. How easily they get irritated by small things or any challenges to the worthiness of their indulgences.
Yes, an ongoing form of madness awaits those who who try to deny that their greed is in any way responsible for fanning the flames of social depravation, jealously and ultimately war.
The human race, is spite of what sometimes appears to be the opposite, is evolving. Evolving from crude to subtle; from brutish to sensitive. This process cannot be stopped, only delayed.
We are entering a time when the contrast between the light and dark side of mankind becomes increasingly stark; increasingly recognisable.
So you might think that church/religious leaders would be open receptacles for such rising spirit energies, finding the courage to speak-out loudly about blatant acts of destruction on this planet.
For example, about the horrific evils being perpetrated on the people of Gaza; the vile persuasions of high ranking paedophiles; child molesters and traffickers for profit. The two faced politicians heading for the Masonic Temples in the Halls of Westminster. The producers and distributors of Covid bio weapon jabs. The overall pandemic of deception and lying of the big corporate bankers and news media chiefs; of government ministers and CEO’s of hegemonic global institutions – those who take it upon themselves to claim the authority to control every aspect of other people’s lives.
Of course the list goes on and on and on…but do the ‘holy men’ of the Judeo-Christian tradition – or any other ‘faith’ for that matter – step forward to put a stop to such mass degradation of the moral, ethical and spiritual values of our world?
Certainly not. With a few rare exceptions, they hide away in their vestries and synagogues and turn their heads from taking any kind of responsibility for the world outside – or from displaying the courage to practice as they preach.
The gods respond by publicly revealing these representatives of religious dogma to be fakes, parodies of virtue completely lacking any genuine spiritual convictions. Their particular variety of holy madness comes from suffering the indignity of being exposed as plagiarisers of the teachings of genuine spiritual masters while claiming the protection of their ‘holy church’ and of the State.
Such protection is generally granted, providing the bishops, priests and clergymen keep their side of the deal ‘not to get involved in politics’.
So now that we have dispensed with any lingering attachment to institutions falsely claiming to represent the will of God, we can turn our attention to the real issue: discovering in ourselves and encouraging manifestation of the true expression of our existence as reflections of an omnipotent and omniscient Creator.
This is the only way of gaining sufficient inner resilience to rise above the essentially cowardly manipulators of manufactured darkness – and to finally overturn them.
Going head to head with the villains running this planet should not be a frightening prospect. On the contrary, it should be seen as a challenge to be fully embraced, coupled with a determination to develop one’s latent powers to become a spiritual warrior fully supported by the highest universal forces.
We have arrived at that point now, and there is nowhere else to go – nothing else left to do – other than enter into an honest confrontation with those who so cunningly vampire humanity’s God given powers.
Now we must finally break-out of the spell binding artifice of mass indoctrination that has been allowed to suffocate our fundamental freedoms, in exchange for the generally feckless adoption of an AI/IT ‘culture of convenience’. A spineless, superficial cul-de-sac of life which in turn opens a door to the techno-insanity of the Transhuman agenda.
No more! There is, at this very moment, a great ‘call to arms’ ringing out across the length and breadth of the planet. Respond to it we must. Rise up in unity we will.
Have no doubt that an extraordinary reversal of fortunes lies ahead. A gathering storm that will sweep aside all that which so desperately attempts to thwart the rising tide of human emancipation.
Human emancipation cannot be thwarted. A pulsating new dawn is gathering together its scattered radiances at this very moment. Who would not want to be party to paving the way for its dramatic appearance over the Eastern horizon?
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Julian Rose is an organic farmer, writer, broadcaster and international activist. He is author of four books of which the latest ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind’ is a clarion call to resist the despotic New World Order takeover of our lives. Do visit his website for further information www.julianrose.info
An article written by Alan McLeod and published by Global Research [1] explains in detail how U.S. politicians have been held hostage by the power of the Israeli lobby. Even the incumbent U.S. President, Joe Biden, is said to be the largest recipient of Israel lobby funds. The total money he received from the Israel lobby since 1990 is $4,346,264. In correlation with receiving this money, Biden, throughout his political career, from being a Senator to now becoming U.S. President, has always been a loyal defender of Israel.
When the unconditional defense of Israel is again carried out by the U.S. President, at a time when Gaza is experiencing genocide by Israel –part of which is broadcasted live on the media—and the whole world watches in horror, inevitably, U.S. democracy becomes a big question. Is this the democracy glorified by the U.S. and spread worldwide by persuasion or coercion?
Democracy means “rule by the people” since the term is derived from the Greek dēmokratia, dēmos (“people”), and Kratos (“rule”). When a country claims to be a democratic country, it has a system of government where people have the power to participate in decision-making. However, in a United States-style democracy, it has been proven that the power to participate in decision-making belongs to the people and the money owners.
U.S. Presidents before the Biden also provided support for Israel. Even before advancing to the elections, U.S. presidential candidates will visit Zionist lobby organizations to pledge their support for Israel. Hillary Clinton, in her campaign before AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee), in 2016 delivered this remark about illegal settlements built by Israel in the West Bank and East Jerusalem:
“Everyone has to do their part by avoiding damaging actions, including concerning settlements. Now, America has an important role to play in supporting peace efforts. Moreover, as president, I would continue the pursuit of direct negotiations. Moreover, I would vigorously oppose any attempt by outside parties to impose a solution, including by the U.N. Security Council.” [2]
In December 2016, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2334, which clearly states that Israeli settlement is a “flagrant violation” of international law and has “no legal validity.” Even though the Resolution does not impose any sanctions on Israel and only demands that Israel stop building houses for Israeli settlers in the Palestinian land, it has determined that Israel has indeed violated international law. The Resolution was voted by four members with UNSC veto power (China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom), and the U.S. chose to abstain. It is truly absurd that a country that claims to be the most democratic and has a project to democratize all corners of the earth supports violations of international law.
President-elect Donald Trump also showed full support for Israel, among other things, most controversially, when he unilaterally proclaimed Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017. This proclamation contradicts the U.S. government’s policy, which states that the status of Jerusalem is occupied territory. This decision also contradicts international law, giving rise to criticism from many countries. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi emphasized that Indonesia condemns Trump’s decision.
“We condemn this recognition; democracy means respecting international law, so this recognition does not respect various U.N. Security Council resolutions,” she said.[3]
If we track the record of the previous president, namely Barack Obama, we will see a similar phenomenon. Even though at the beginning of his term, in his speech in Cairo on June 4, 2006, Obama seemed to have a fairer perspective regarding the Palestinian issue, which gave new hope.
“Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern with institutions that serve the needs of its people. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities. To play a role in fulfilling Palestinian aspirations and to unify the Palestinian people, Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, and recognize Israel’s right to exist.
At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel’s right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine’s. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.” [4]
However, in the following period, business as usual happened. In 2016, Obama signed the most significant military aid package in U.S. history to Israel: $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade. The aid will allow Israel “to upgrade most of its fighter aircraft, improve its ground forces’ mobility, and strengthen its missile defense systems.” [5]
Previously, President Bush also launched the Iraq war as a “weapon of mass murder.” However, many analysts view that the Iraq War was for Israel’s sake. James Petras, an academic and U.S. writer, wrote that the party exerting intense pressure on Bush to launch the Iraq War was the pro-Israel lobby. Architects and essential decision makers in the Iraq War were Zionists, such as Wolfowitz and Senator Lieberman. Steven L Spiegel is a professor of politics at UCLA. In his article in the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Israel-based think-tank Spiegel wrote that U.S. troops’ victory in the Gulf War was a victory for Israel because Iraq was a fundamental threat to Israel’s security that had been weakened. [6]
The U.S. system of government provides opportunities for the American people to influence the state’s decisions through various means, such as donating to campaigns (presidential and senate/congress), voting in elections, mobilizing public opinion, as well as lobbying the government team and people’s representatives (in Congress/Senate). What is a lobby? The lobby is a group of people and organizations who work actively to influence political policy. Lobbying has become a primary ‘industry’ in Washington, DC. People who jump in doing lobbying activities are called lobbyists. Lobbyists usually form lobbying companies (lobby firms). The lobbyist profession is much sought after by former members of Congress (Parliament) or former officials because they bring in vast amounts of money. Big companies pay lobbyists if they want the government/Congress (parliament) to pass (or not pass) a law.
Any racial groups (Jews, Chinese, or Hispanics) can also lobby when their interests must be fought for in government/Congress. However, the lobby with the most significant influence in the U.S. is the pro-Israel Zionist lobby. Among the hundreds of pro-Israel lobby organizations in the U.S., the strongest are AIPAC and CPMJO, led by hardline lobbyists who are very pro-policy Israeli expansionists. However, moderate Jewish lobby organizations also stood on their side of the same: pushing U.S. policy to suit Israel’s interests.
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, academics from Chicago University and Harvard University, in a book entitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” provide evidence of how pro-Israel lobby groups have been very successful in diverting U.S. political policy away from its national interests, and at the same time, convincing the public and U.S. politicians that there are similarities in the interests of the U.S. and Israel. As Obama said in front of AIPAC’s members in 2008, “Our alliance is based on shared interestsand shared values. Those who threaten Israel threaten us.” [6]
The Lobbyists’ efforts to hegemony U.S. politicians were carried out long before Bush, Obama, Trump, or now, Biden, became president. In his memoirs, the 33rd U.S. President, Harry Truman, wrote that the prominent Jewish leaders in the U.S. put full pressure on him to use American power and strength for the benefit of the aspirations of the Jews in Palestine. Truman also claimed to have received 35,000 letters and propaganda from Jews throughout America when the U.N. was in the process of dividing the Palestinian territories. When the U.N. finally passed Resolution 181 dividing Palestine in two, Truman wrote a letter to former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., urging Morgenthau to tell his Jewish friends that “the Jews should show tolerance and consideration for other people in neighboring Palestine.” Of course, Truman did not take long to see that his hopes never came true. [7]
So, what kind of democracy produces a foreign policy that only benefits a few parties, in this case, Israel and its cronies?
Sure enough, it is not a real democracy that heeds the people’s voice.
The U.S. – style democracy has proven to have shackled the hands of their presidents. The handcuffed U.S. Presidents can no longer fight for their nation’s interests but continue to spend state resources for the interests of a far away tiny country, Israel.
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Dr. Dina Yulianti Sulaeman is an Assistant Professor at Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia.
“the war didn’t start in February last year. It started in 2014.”
This far-reaching declarationconfirms his earlier statement in May 2023 to the effect that the Ukraine War
“didn’t start in 2022”,“The war started in 2014”.
Speaking on behalf of NATO, what this statement implies is that US-NATO was already at war in 2014. It also tacitly acknowledges that Russia did not “initiate the war” on Ukraine in February 2022.
“The purpose of this is to prevent war”
In a twisted irony, in his presentation to the European Parliament, Stoltenberg portrays “the purpose” of the Ukraine war, which has resulted in more than 300,000 casualties as a means “to prevent war”.
“Therefore, we have already increased our presence in eastern part of the Alliance, to send a very clear message to Moscow. To remove any room for misunderstanding, miscalculation. That NATO is there to defend every inch of NATO territory, one for all for one.
At the NATO summit, we agreed new plans for the defence of the whole Alliance. We also agreed to establish and identify more high readiness troops, 300,000 troops on different levels of high readiness, and also have more air and naval capabilities, ready to quickly reinforce if needed.
The purpose of this is to prevent war. The purpose of this is to ensure that NATO continues to be the most successful Alliance in history because we have prevented any military attack on any NATO Allies. And when there’s a full-fledged war going on in Europe, then it becomes even more important that we have credible deterrence and by strengthening our deterrence and defence, we are preventing war, preserving peace for NATO Allies, because there’s no room for miscalculation.
And the third thing was that NATO Allies have really now demonstrated that they are delivering on the commitment we made in 2014, because the war didn’t start in February last year. It started in 2014. The full-fledged invasion happened last year, but the war, the illegal annexation of Crimea, Russia went into eastern Donbas in 2014. (emphasis added)
What Stoltenberg fails to acknowledge is the US-NATO’s role in triggering the 2014 EuroMaidan massacre which was conducive “in the name of Western democracy” to a “regime change”: namely the instatement of a Neo-Nazi puppet regime in Kiev.
US-NATO is firmly embedded in the Kiev regime’s Neo-Nazi project the objective of which is to destroy Ukraine as well wage war on Russia.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, September 21, 2023, November 8, 2023
NATO Says “War Started in 2014”.
“Fake Pretext” to Wage War against Russia?
To Invoke Article 5 of Atlantic Treaty?
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Michel Chossudovsky
August 27, 2023
Introduction
This article addresses the implications of a controversial statement by NATO to the effect that the Ukraine War “didn’t start in 2022”,“The war started in 2014”
It’s a Bombshell: NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed (speaking on behalf of NATO) that the “war didn’t start in 2022”.
In an interview with The Washington Post (May 9, 2023), Jens Stoltenberg unequivocally confirmedthat “the war started in 2014″.
Jens Stoltenberg’s bold statement (which has barely been the object of media coverage) has opened up a Pandora’s Box, or best described “A Can of Worms” on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance.
What he bears out is that the beginning of the Ukraine war coincided with a U.S. sponsored Coup d’état, confirmed by Victoria’s Nuland‘s “F**k the EU telephone conversation with U.S. Ambassador Pyatt in February 2014. (see below)
Part I of this article examines the legal implications of Stoltenberg’s statement on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance.
Of crucial significance: Having stated that “the war started in 2014”, NATO can no longer claim that Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) of February 24, 2022 constitutes, from a legal standpoint, “an invasion”.
Part I also addresses the issue of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).
Parti II focuses on Stoltenberg’s twisted statement that Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty could be invoked as means to declare war against Russia.
“Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty – its collective defence clause” declaring that an attack on one member state is “to be an attack against all NATO members.” Article 5 is NATO’s doctrine of Collective Self-Defense.
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”.
In regards to the invocation of Article V in relation to Russia, a justification or fake “pretext” was mentioned by Stoltenberg in his interview with the Washington Post.
Were Article V to be invoked, this would inevitably precipitate the World into a WWIII scenario, consisting of a war whereby all 30 member states of the Atlantic Alliance, most of which are members of the European Union would be involved.
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Part I
Legal Implications
The legal implications of Stoltenberg’s statements are far-reaching. Speaking on behalf of NATO, he has acknowledged that Russia did not declare war on Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
“The war started in 2014“, which intimates that the war was launched in 2014, with US-NATO directly involved from the very outset:
Lee Hockstader, Washington Post Editorial Board: How has the war led NATO to recalibrate its defense posture and doctrine?
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014. And since then, NATO has implemented the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.
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For the first time in our history, we have combat-ready troops in the eastern part of the alliance, the battle groups in Poland, Lithuania, the Baltic countries, actually the whole eight battle groups from the Baltic Sea down to the Black Sea. Higher readiness of our forces. And increased defense spending.
Stoltenberg also confirmed that US-NATO’s intent from the outset in 2014 was to integrate the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime as a full member of NATO.
Lee Hockstader, Washington Post Editorial Board: What does a plausible way forward to Ukraine’s eventual membership in NATO look like?
Stoltenberg: First of all, all NATO allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance. All allies agree that Ukraine has the right to choose its own path, that it is not for Moscow, but for Kyiv, to decide.
1. The Legality of Russia’s “Special Military Operation”
Inasmuch as the war had commenced and has been ongoing since 2014 as confirmed by Stoltenberg, Russia’s Special Military Operation cannot be categorized as an “illegal invasion” (under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter). The latter states that members of the UN shall refrain: “from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state” …
Inasmuch as the war started in 2014, Art 2(4) applies to both the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime and well as US-NATO which was behind the February 2014 illegal Coup D’état.
What this implies is that from a legal standpoint, US-NATO on behalf and in coordination with the US sponsored Neo-Nazi Kiev regime had initiated a de facto undeclared war against Luhansk and Donesk.
From a legal standpoint, this was not “An Act of War against Russia”. Led by US-NATO, this was an “Act of War against Ukraine and the People of Ukraine”.
Putin’s February 24, 2022 Statement
As we recall President Putin had defined a Special Military Operation (SMO) in support of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. The stated objective was to “demilitarise” and “denazify” Ukraine.
Article 51 of the UN Charter which was referred to by President Putin in his February 24, 2022 speech confirms the following:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, …
Russia’s SMO complies with the exercise of self defense. Putin in his speech (February 24, 2022) referred to:
“the fundamental threats which irresponsible Western politicians created for Russia consistently, rudely and unceremoniously from year to year.
I am referring to the eastward expansion of NATO, which is moving its military infrastructure ever closer to the Russian border.”
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2. “NeoCons Endorse NeoNazis”: U.S. Sponsored 2014 EuroMaidan Coup d’état. An Illegal and Criminal Act Supported by US-NATO
What Stoltenberg intimated in his interview with the WP (no doubt unwittingly) is that the Ukraine War was a US-NATO Initiative, carried out in the immediate wake of the illegal US Supported February 2014 EuroMaidan Coup d’Etat which was then conducive to the instatement of a Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.
The grim realities were otherwise. The forbidden truth was that US-NATO had engineered –through a carefully staged covert operation– the formation of a US-NATO proxy regime integrated by Neo-Nazis, which was conducive to the removal and brutal demise of the elected president Viktor Yanukovych.
The staged EuroMaidan Protest Movement initiated in November 2013 was led by the two Nazi parties, with Dmytro Yarosh, of the Right Sector (Pravy Sector) playing a key role as leader of the Brown Shirt Neo-Nazi paramilitary. He had called for disbanding the Party of the regions and the Communist Party.
Right Sector, EuroMaidan February 11, 2014
The shootings of protesters by snipers were coordinated by Yarosh’s Brown Shirts and Andriy Parubiy leader of the Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party.
Of significance there was a leaked telephone conversation (February 2014) between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and European Union Commissioner Catherine Ashton, which confirmed that “the snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were hired by Ukrainian opposition leaders [NeoNazis]”.
Video: Leaked Conversation: Urmas Paet and Catherine Ashton
Estonia Foreign Minister Urmas Paet tells Catherine Ashton the following (excerpts):
“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition [Parubiy and Yarosh].”
“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga [Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides.”
“[Dr. Olga Bogomolets] then also showed me some photos she said that as a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new [Neo-Nazi] coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened.” (quoted by Mahdi Nazemoroaya, Global Research, March 18, 2014, emphasis added)
Foreign Minister’s Urmas Paet’s statements (above) are corroborated by A Kiev Post (March 13, 2014) report:
“Former State Security Head of Ukraine Oleksandr Yakimenko blames Ukraine’s current government [Neo-Nazi Kiev regime] for hiring snipers on Feb. 20, when dozens of people were killed and hundreds more wounded. The victims were mainly EuroMaidan Revolution demonstrations, but some police officers were also killed. This was the deadliest day during the EuroMaidan Revolution, a three-month uprising that claimed 100 lives.
Yakimenko also blamed the United States for organizing and financing the revolution by bringing illegal cash in using diplomatic mail.
Yankimenko says that Parubiy [leader of the Svoboda Neo-Nazi Party], as well as a number of other organizers of EuroMaidan, received direct orders from the U.S. government. …
“These are the forces that were doing everything they were told by the leaders and representatives of the United States,” he says. “They, in essence lived in the U.S. embassy. There wasn’t a day when they did not visit the embassy.”…
“From the beginning of Maidan we as a special service noticed a significant increase of diplomatic cargo to various embassies, western embassies located in Ukraine,” says Yakimenko. “It was tens of times greater than usual diplomatic cargo supplies.” He says that right after such shipments crisp, new U.S. dollar bills were spotted on Maidan. (emphasis added)
On a personal note, I lived through two of the most deadly U.S. military coups in Latin America: as Visiting Professor in Chile in 1973(Gen. Augusto Pinochet) and then in Argentina in 1976 (Gen. Jorge Videla and “La Guerra Sucia”).
In comparison, the criminal acts and atrocities (Neo-Nazi sniper killings) committed by the US sponsored EuroMaidan are beyond description.
The Central Role of the Svoboda Neo-Nazi Party
As outlined above, Andriy Parubiy played a key role in the EuroMaidan massacre. Andriy Parubiy (image right) is the co-founder together with Oleh Tyahnybok of the Neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (subsequently renamed Svoboda). Parubiy was first appointed Secretary of the National Security and National Defense Committee (RNBOU) by the Kiev regime. (Рада національної безпеки і оборони України), a key position which overseas the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces, Law Enforcement, National Security and Intelligence.
He subsequently (2015-2019) became Vice-Chair and Chair of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament) shifting into the realm of international diplomacy on behalf of the Neo-Nazi regime.
In the course of his career, Parubiy developed numerous contacts in North America and Europe, with members of the European Parliament. He was invited to Washington on several occasions, meeting up (already in 2015) with Sen. John McCain (chair) of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He was also invited to Ottawa, meeting up with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in 2016.
Victoria Nuland and Andriy Parubiy, 2018
The Role of Victoria Nuland
Victoria Nuland, acting on behalf of the US State Department was directly involved in “suggesting” key appointments.
While the Neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok was not granted a cabinet position, members of the two neo-Nazi parties (namely Svoboda (Freedom Party) and The Right Sector (Pravy Sektor) were granted key positions in the areas of Defense, National Security and Law Enforcement.
The Neo Nazis also controlled the judicial process with the appointment of Oleh Makhnitsky of the Svoboda Party (on February 22, 2014) to the position of prosecutor-general. What kind of justice would prevail with a renowned Neo-Nazi in charge of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine?
Video: F**k the EU. Nuland-Pyatt Leaked Phone Conversation
(Leaked Online on February 4, 2014, Exact Date of Conversation Unconfirmed, Three weeks prior to the demise of President Yanukovych on February 21-22, 2014)
Transcript of Conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, on YouTube
source of transcript: BBC
“Warning: This transcript contains swearing”
Voice thought to be Nuland’s: What do you think?
Voice thought to be Pyatt’s: I think we’re in play. The Klitschko [Vitaly Klitschko, one of three main opposition leaders] piece is obviously the complicated electron here. Especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you’ve seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we’re trying to get a read really fast on where he is on this stuff. But I think your argument to him, which you’ll need to make, I think that’s the next phone call you want to set up, is exactly the one you made to Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk, who subsequently became Prime Minister], another opposition leader]. And I’m glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I’m very glad that he said what he said in response.
Nuland: Good. I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s a good idea.
Pyatt: Yeah. I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok], the other opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this.
Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the… what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it’s just not going to work.
image: Tyannybok (leader of Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party (left), Yatseniuk (right)
Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that’s right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?
Nuland: My understanding from that call – but you tell me – was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a… three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it?
Pyatt: No. I think… I mean that’s what he proposed but I think, just knowing the dynamic that’s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he’s going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they’ve got and he’s probably talking to his guys at this point, so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn’t like it.
Nuland: OK, good. I’m happy. Why don’t you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after.
Pyatt: OK, will do. Thanks.
Nuland: OK… one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning?
Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.
Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.
Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, that the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now,
I’m still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there’s a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I’m sure there’s a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.
Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.
Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.
3. U.S.-NATO Military Aid and Support (2014-2023) to a Full Fledged Neo-Nazi Proxy Regime is an Illegal and Criminal Act.
There is ample evidence of collaboration between the Kiev Neo-Nazi regime and NATO member states, specifically in relation to the continuous flow of military aid as well the training and support provided to the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.
Collaborating with a Neo-Nazi regime is criminal under international law. Anti-Nazi laws exist in a number of European countries.
“In the aftermath of World War II, the National Socialist Party (the Nazi party) of Germany was considered a criminal organization and therefore banned.
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946 likewise ruled that the Nazi Party was a criminal organization.”
Since 2014, Ukraine’s Neo-nazi regime has been generously funded by several NATO member states.
The Nazi Azov Battalion was from the outset integrated into Ukraine’s National Guard which is under the jurisdiction of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Azov battalion has (2015) been trained by the U.S. Canada and the UK. ““The US contingent of instructors includes 290 specialists … Britain has dispatched 75 military personnel responsible for training “in command procedures and tactical intelligence”. (Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2015).
The training program was coupled with the influx of military equipment under a program of so-called “non-lethal” military aid.
In turn, the Azov battalion –which is the object of military aid, has also been involved in the conduct of Summer Nazi training Camps for children and adolescents.
The Azov battalion’s Summer Camps are supported by US military aid channelled to the Ukraine National Guard via the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The MIA coordinates the “anti-terrorism operation” (ATO) in Donbass.
Media Propaganda
The Sunday Times confirms that the children and adolescents are eventually slated to be recruited in the National Guard, which was integrated into the Ukrainian Military in 2016. The Guardian casually dismisses the criminal nature of the Azov Battalion’s Summer Camp for children (which bears the Nazi WolfAngel SS insignia):
“In Ukraine, the far-right Azov militia is fighting on the frontline – and running a summer camp for children. The Guardian visited the camp and followed 16-year-old Anton through his experiences. Is Azov really a modern Hitler Youth organisation, or is it trying to prepare young Ukrainians for the tough reality that awaits them?” (To view the video click here Guardian, emphasis added)
The following image is revealing, from Left to Right: the Blue NATO flag, the Azov Battalion’s Wolfangel SS of the Third Reich and Hitler’s Nazi Swastika (red and white background) are displayed, which points to collaboration between NATO and the Neo-Nazi regime.
4. The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC)
Inasmuch as “the war started in 2014”, Stoltenberg’s statements confirm that US-NATO were supportive of Ukraine’s artillery and missile bombardments of Donbass which resulted in more than 14,000 deaths of civilians, including children.
Stoltenberg’s admission on behalf of NATO that “the war started in 2014” would have required that from the very outset in February 2014 the warring parties including their allies abide by the Four Basic Principles of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) which consist in:
“….respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.” [Additional Protocol 1, Article 48]
Civilian population (children) and civilian objects (schools, hospitals, residential areas) were the deliberate object of UAF and Azov Battalion attacks in blatant violation of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).
In accordance with the LOAC, Moscow took the decision starting in February 2014 to come to the rescue of Donbass civilians including children. Visibly the president of the I.C.C. Piotr Hofmanski in accusing President Putin of “unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children” hasn’t the foggiest understanding of Article 48. of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). Is this an issue of incompetence? Or has Piotr Hofmanski been co-opted into endorsing crimes against humanity?
In derogation of The Law of Armed Conflict, US-NATO bears the responsibility for having endorsed the Neo-Nazi Azov battalion, which was involved in the conduct of atrocities against civilians.
Part II
Is NATO Intent upon
Invoking Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty
as a Means to Declaring War on Russia?
Dangerous Crossroads
There are ambiguous statements by Stoltenberg (in his interview with the Washington Post) which suggest that the invocation of Article 5 is on the US-NATO drawing board.
Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty constitutes NATO’s doctrine of Collective Self-Defense.
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all…”.
Article V was invoked in March 1999, based on a “fabricated pretext” to bomb and invade Yugoslavia.
It was subsequently invoked on September 12, 2001 by the Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels as a justification to declare war on Afghanistan, on the grounds that an unnamed foreign power had attacked America on September 11, 2001.
In both cases (Yugoslavia and Afghanistan), “fabricated pretexts” were used to justify the invocation of Article V.
Fabricating A Pretext to Wage War on Russia?
While Stoltenberg firmly acknowledges that “Russia is not seeking a full-fledged confrontation with NATO triggering Article 5″, he nonetheless intimates that NATO is prepared to invoke Article 5 against Russia, based on a fabricated pretext (e.g attack on “undersea infrastructure”), thereby potentially leading to a World War III scenario.
Lee Hockstader. WP: Would a Russian attack on critical infrastructure like undersea cables owned by NATO members or companies cause the invocation of NATO’s Article 5?
Stoltenberg: That’s for NATO to decide. We are now looking into how can we do more when it comes to sharing intelligence, including with the private sector, to detect any potential threats. …
We’ve seen over the last years that Russia is not seeking a full-fledged confrontation with NATO, triggering Article 5, but they’re trying to operate below the Article 5 threshold. Meaning with hybrid, cyber, covert actions. And, of course, attacks against undersea infrastructure — it’s easy to deny because it’s hard to monitor. (emphasis added)
Stoltenberg’s reference to “undersea infrastructure” intimates that Russia was behind the sabotage of Nord Stream in September 2022, which had been ordered by President Biden with the acceptance of Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
What the above statements suggest is that the invocation of Article 5 as well as the use of “a pretext” to wage war on Russia are being discussed behind closed doors.
Stoltenberg claims that NATO is committed to supporting Ukraine (aka the Neo-Nazi Kiev regime) while “preventing escalation” through “increased military presence” as well as confirming that “we are not part of the conflict”:
Stoltenberg: NATO has fundamentally two tasks in the war. One is to support Ukraine, as we do. The other is to prevent escalation. And we prevent escalation by making absolutely clear that we are not party to the conflict, and by increasing military presence in the eastern part of [the] alliance as we have done — with 40,000 troops under NATO command backed by substantial naval and air forces.
Contradictory statement: Is “Preventing Escalation” contemplated by Invoking Article 5?
Among NATO Member States, there are both “Allies” and “Enemies”
It is worth noting that in the course of the last two years, several of America’s European “allies” (NATO member states) whose corrupt politicians are supportive of the Ukraine war, have been the victims of de facto U.S. sponsored acts of economic warfare including the sabotage of Nord Stream.
The EU economy which has relied on cheap energy from Russia is in a shambles, marked by disruptions in the entire fabric of industrial production (manufacturing), transportation and commodity trade..
Specifically this applies to actions against Germany, Italy and France, which have resulted in the destabilization of their national economies and the impoverishment of their population.
And Germany’s Chancellor was fully aware that an act of sabotage against Nord Stream had been envisaged by the US, to the detriment of more than 400 million Europeans.
A string of corporate bankruptcies resulting in lay-offs and unemployment is unfolding across the European Union. Small and medium sized enterprises are slated to be wiped off the map: “Rocketing energy costs are savaging German industry”… “Germany’s manufacturing industry — which accounts for more than one fifth of the country’s economic output — is worried some of its companies won’t see the crisis through. ….
“Industry behemoths like Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Siemens (SIEGY) are grappling with supply chain bottlenecks too, but it is Germany’s roughly 200,000 small and medium-sized manufacturers who are less able to withstand the shock [of rising energy prices]”
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“Collective Defense”
In a bitter irony, many of the NATO member states (who are categorized as “allies” under the Atlantic Alliance’s Collective Defense Clause) are the “de facto enemies” of America, victims of U.S. economic warfare.
The practice of so-called Collective Defense under Article 5 constitutes a process of mass recruitment by the 30 NATO member states, largely on behalf of Washington’s hegemonic agenda. It was applied twice in NATO’s history: in March 1999 against Yugoslavia and in October 2001 against Afghanistan.
It constitutes on the part of Washington not only a means to recruit soldiers on a massive scale, but also to ensure that NATO member states contribute financially to America’s hegemonic wars: In other words:
“to do the fighting for us on our behalf” or “They will do the Dirty Work for Us” (Dick Cheney).
What is important is to initiate a coordinated grass-roots movement in all NATO member states to withdraw from the Atlantic Alliance
Neo-Nazism and the Atlantic Alliance
This article has addressed the Unspoken Truth, which we have known all along, from the very outset: “The War Started in 2014”. This statement –which is now acknowledged by NATO–, was the basis of my detailed analysis.
My conclusions are as follows:
The Atlantic Alliance has no legitimacy. It is a criminal entity which must be repealed.
US-NATO is responsible for extensive crimes committed against the People of Ukraine.
What is required is a Worldwide campaign at all levels of society, with a view to eventually dismantling the Atlantic Alliance, while promoting an immediate cease fire and meaningful peace negotiations in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 27, 2023
Historical Addendum:
The War against Russia Started in January 1918.
From a historical standpoint the US and its Allies have been threatening Russia for more than 105 years starting during World War I with the deployment of US and Allied Forces against Soviet Russia on January 12, 1918, (two months following the November 7, 1917 revolution allegedly in support of Russia’s Imperial Army).
The 1918 US-UK Allied invasion of Russia is a landmark in Russian History, often mistakenly portrayed as being part of a Civil War.
It lasted for more than two years involving the deployment of more than 200,000 troops of which 11,000 were from the US, 59,000 from the UK. Japan which was an Ally of Britain and America during World War I dispatched 70,000 troops.
Lee Hockstader, Washington Post Editorial Board: How has the war led NATO to recalibrate its defense posture and doctrine?
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014. And since then, NATO has implemented the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense since the end of the Cold War.
For the first time in our history, we have combat-ready troops in the eastern part of the alliance, the battle groups in Poland, Lithuania, the Baltic countries, actually the whole eight battle groups from the Baltic Sea down to the Black Sea. Higher readiness of our forces. And increased defense spending.
Until 2014, NATO allies were reducing defense budgets. Since 2014, all allies across Europe and Canada have significantly increased their defense spending. And we have modernized our command structure, we have more exercises, we have established new military domains like cyber.
So in totality, this is a huge transformation of NATO that started in 2014.
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Hockstader: What does a plausible way forward to Ukraine’s eventual membership in NATO look like?
Stoltenberg: First of all, all NATO allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance. All allies agree that Ukraine has the right to choose its own path, that it is not for Moscow, but for Kyiv, to decide. And thirdly, all allies agree that NATO’s door remains open. Then the question is when, and I cannot give you a timetable on that.
What I can say is that we are now working with them, to help them transition from Soviet-era equipment, doctrines and standards to NATO doctrines and standards, to make their armed forces interoperable with NATO forces, and to help them to further reform and modernize their defense and security institutions.
The urgent task now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation, because if Ukraine doesn’t prevail, then there is no issue to discuss at all.
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Stoltenberg: NATO has fundamentally two tasks in the war. One is to support Ukraine, as we do. The other is to prevent escalation. And we prevent escalation by making absolutely clear that we are not party to the conflict, and by increasing military presence in the eastern part of [the] alliance as we have done — with 40,000 troops under NATO command backed by substantial naval and air forces.
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Hockstader: Would a Russian attack on critical infrastructure like undersea cables owned by NATO members or companies cause the invocation of NATO’s Article 5?
Stoltenberg: That’s for NATO to decide. We are now looking into how can we do more when it comes to sharing intelligence, including with the private sector, to detect any potential threats. That’s one thing. The other is presence, military presence, as a way to deter but also to monitor.
We cannot protect every inch of every internet cable, but presence helps to reduce the risks and reduce the possibility for Russian deniability. We’ve seen over the last years that Russia is not seeking a full-fledged confrontation with NATO, triggering Article 5, but they’re trying to operate below the Article 5 threshold. Meaning with hybrid, cyber, covert actions. And, of course, attacks against undersea infrastructure — it’s easy to deny because it’s hard to monitor.
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The leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Viktor Medvedchuk, revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to flee the country after acquiring a luxury apartment in Dubai valued at almost $17 million. This is another example of how Zelensky continues to enjoy a high-end lifestyle despite his peoples immense suffering.
“A modest 600-square-metre apartment awaits Zelensky on an island with a warm sea. This is why hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dying today,” the opposition leader warned in an article published on the website of the party The Other Ukraine.
Medvedchuk revealed that Zelensky acquired, through his frontmen, a luxurious apartment in Dubai in the Bvlgari Marina Lofts complex for $16.9 million.
“Zelensky apparently lost hope in the Americans and in the mansion in Florida that they promised him,” he noted.
The opposition leader indicated that the Ukrainian president “found a new homeland and luxury housing, while millions of his compatriots live as refugees and lost their homes.”
“Instead of helping the pensioners for whom he whines so much in the West, Zelensky diverts the money ‘honestly earned’ in the war to tax havens and does not plan to invest in Ukraine, in the economy, in the country’s defence,” he said.
As revealed by Medvedchuk, the Ukrainian president registers properties and companies abroad through Serhiy Shefir, his close friend, to whom he transferred all his assets in tax havens before the 2019 presidential elections. In November 2023, it emerged that Shefir and his brother Boris bought two yachts for a total value of $75 million, he said.
The opposition leader alleged that the luxury apartment in Dubai was registered in the name of Serhiy Shefir, and the deal was closed on December 22, according to the ‘Dubai Land Department,’ the government entity that registers real estate transactions.
“This rat dug another burrow to escape (…) What do you care about retirees, disabled people or public workers?” he emphasised. “Zelensky claims that Ukrainians fight for themselves, for their lives, but that is a crude lie.”
Medvedchuk acknowledged that Moscow provides all kinds of help to residents of the former Ukrainian territories that joined Russia in September 2022 following referendums.
“The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, declared on numerous occasions that for the Russians, the Ukrainians were not enemies. That is why Zelensky’s power will be defeated and not the Ukrainian people. Today, Ukrainian soldiers die not for Ukraine that the regime sold to the West, but because of the corruption that enriches Zelensky and his entourage,” he added.
Although Zelensky is unlikely about to flee, the crux of the story is that Zelensky is spending millions upon millions on his lavish lifestyle while Ukrainians are suffering like no other people on the European continent and at a time when the West portrays the Ukrainian president as an anti-corruption crusader.
Zelensky became president in 2019 on the platform of fighting domestic corruption, which meant finding economic and administrative lapses and punishing those who benefitted. However, it is very evident that Zelensky has been benefitting from corruption.
Property purchases in Dubai are far from the only scandals in which Zelensky has been embroiled. He is regularly accused of owning properties overseas, and it is known his wife goes on lavish shopping trips on her travels, such as in New York and Paris.
While Zelensky and his family are living extravagantly, Ella Libanova, director of the Institute of Demography and Social Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, warned that male life expectancy in the war-torn country had decreased from 66-67 years to 57-58 years due to the conflict, meaning that only Chad (54), Nigeria (54), Lesotho (55) and the Central African Republic (55) had lower life expectancies. This reflects the nightmarish situation Ukraine has put itself in by continuing the war, a reality that Zelensky has mostly insulated himself from.
Worse, there are no immediate prospects for improving economic, societal, and demographic issues.
One example is that foreign direct investment in Ukraine has plummeted from $6.5 billion in 2021 to just $570 million in 2022, following Russia’s launch of the special military operation, whilst the National Bank of Ukraine has thus far refused to publish figures on foreign investments in 2023. Ukraine is struggling to find funds for its economy and the war effort, and given that corruption is even at the level of the presidency, it cannot be expected that many foreign companies will invest in the country.
Therefore, whether Zelensky flees to one of his overseas properties or not, he will continue to live lavishly, having extracted what he wanted from Ukraine, while ordinary Ukrainians will continue to suffer.
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The purely Neo-Nazi unit has been involved in gruesome war crimes against the people of Donbass or anyone else refusing to subscribe to their repulsive ideology. The death of such people is surely not something to lament over, but it certainly raises numerous questions. Namely, if the Kiev regime is ready to target its most loyal henchmen with absolutely zero remorse, who else could possibly feel safe?
It seems France just learned this lesson, albeit the hard way, as is usually the case when dealing with the Neo-Nazi junta. According to Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer (specifically in the SBU, from 1999-2018, per some sources), it seems that the Kiev regime has started hunting down some French mercenaries and “volunteers” in its own ranks.
Namely, businessman Adrien Baudon de Mony-Pajol and his associate Guennadi Guermanovitch were killed on February 1. Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson administration, claimed that the two French citizens were allegedly killed in a Russian strike.
French President Emmanuel Macron himself also spoke about their deaths, insisting they were “humanitarians”. However, Prozorov claims to have completely different information, suggesting that the deaths of Baudon and Guermanovitch are much more likely the result of the Neo-Nazi junta’s false flag operation.
As it turns out, Guermanovitch, a man of Belarussian origin, is a highly trained security specialist. He is a retired member of the French Foreign Legion who had close ties not only with various Neo-Nazi organizations in France, but also with the Kiev-aligned Belarussian “Kastus Kalinouski” regiment, currently led by Dzianis Prokharau.
Prozorov says that the two French citizens were consultants involved in organizing the visit of a high-ranking delegation from France. It seems that Baudon and Guermanovitch found themselves in the middle of a false flag operation and that they were supposed to assist the Kiev regime’s intelligence services in carrying it out, the end goal of which was to blame Moscow.
However, having found out the details of the operation, the two men refused further cooperation and essentially tried to escape from Ukraine. It seems that precisely this cost them their lives.
However, the real reason might be precisely the Neo-Nazi junta’s false flag operation. The Kremlin has zero reasons to jeopardize Macron. In fact, it would’ve made much more sense for it to neutralize people like Boris Johnson, who effectively sabotaged the March 2022 peace deal that would’ve ended the conflict in less than a month. However, Russia simply doesn’t operate that way. The Kiev regime, on the other hand, certainly does. Its readiness to sacrifice anyone or anything to hurt Moscow’s interests has been perfectly clear from the very moment it took power.
The false flag almost certainly involved the murder or at least an attack on the French delegation. This would then be blamed on Russia, with the goal of making sure there would be no possible rapprochement or new peace negotiations, as President Vladimir Putin suggested in his recent interview with Tucker Carlson. It would also almost certainly result in escalating tensions between Russia and France (and, by extension the European Union and NATO), further cementing the conflict in Europe. Baudon and Guermanovitch most likely realized just how dangerous it is to be involved in such an operation, so they wanted to get out of Ukraine as soon as possible. However, the information they had at that point was far too incriminating and the Neo-Nazi junta certainly wouldn’t have allowed them to leave the country with it. Any potential public revelations about the abortive false flag would’ve surely made the Kiev regime even more unpopular in Europe and elsewhere.
As for Macron, this should serve as a bitter lesson for his foolish policy of supporting the Neo-Nazi junta. Nearly two years ago, it could’ve cost him re-election in the aftermath of the Battle of Mariupol and the fall of Azovstal. However, even that pales in comparison to the fact that the Kiev regime, a loose cannon(particularly in recent years), is ready to sacrifice anyone and anything to further its mindless goal of “defeating Russia”. According to Prozorov, the fact that the false flag failed doesn’t mean that the Neo-Nazi junta gave up on the idea. He doesn’t rule out the possibility that its intelligence services might soon try to carry out something similar and warns that a new operation could target a high-ranking delegation from another country. What’s more, he claims that, instead of giving up on this deranged idea, the Kiev regime will simply try to draw conclusions and learn from its mistakes so it could conduct more false flags.
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It is called “Predictive Programming” and refers to any kind of warning we are receiving in often very open ways, sometimes in sketchy, opaque, coded ways or camouflaged as something else than what it is supposed to warn us – but the warning, or call it “informing”, is a MUST for the Dark Cult that is currently running humanity, to succeed.
It is visible time and again. Just think of covid — the deadly plandemic – that struck worldwide humanity at midnight January 1, 2020, at the beginning of UN Agenda 2030, and what later joined the UN Agenda, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Great Reset.
As the WEF and its handlers, we may call it the Financial-Military-IT-Media-Pharma (FMIMP) complex, pushes for ever-more control over humans – the survivors, after the eugenists have done much of their job – it aims at ever-more digitization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), becomes ever-more omnipresent in whatever we do.
“Their” plan may or may not include chip implants in brains, or simply the use of the “vaxx inserted” highly magnetic and electronics-sensitive graphite, to transform humans into transhumans. It could be called a modern way of Frankensteinization of humanity.
Hollywood
But first, how many plandemic predictive movies did Hollywood produce?
There were no less than 18 Pandemic and Virus-Themed Movies in the last 60 years, “That Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat”, says Tori Whitacre Martonicz on infectioncontroltoday.com.
These plandemic movies include:
The Mask of the Red Death (1964) – with Vincent Price;
The Andromeda Strain (1971) – starring: James Olson, David Wayne, Arthur Hill, and Kate Reid;
Outbreak (1995) – with Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman;
Contagion (2011) – with a star-studded cast, including Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet;
World War Z (2013) – with Brad Pitt;
The Bird Box (2018 – remember the Bird Flu?) – with Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich; and finally
After the 2019 “Infection” warning, the real “thing” hit – the covid-19 plandemic. Pardon, it should read “pandemic”, but the viral disease’s highly visible planning makes it to a Plandemic.
At the latest since the WEF Davos24 – which closed its doors some 3 weeks ago – we are being told – and repeated ad nauseam – that there is a virus “X” out there, not yet defined, but out there it is, randomly poking around. And to calm us down, Pfizer tells us they are already working on a “vaccine” for the unknown virus. That is perfect, so we can sleep at night.
Who knows, maybe this warning will be followed also by a star-studded Hollywood flick, perhaps with a title like “When Virus X comes to Town”. The more amazing and world-famous stars, the more impressive. Why would a renowned star lend him / her-self for such a movie, if it was not maybe linked to something that could indeed happen in the future?
You bet; these famous actors know what they are doing – and what they are paid for. And you are glued to the screen – scared but prepared to what is to come. So, when it hits, it hits you in the know – and in the knee form behind, so that your bending down comes naturally.
Social Engineering and Mind Control
The warning or “information” comes in different formats. For sure, the entertainment industry is deeply involved in it, aided by the Tavistock Institute for social engineering and mind control – a science that has been “maturing” for the last century.
High in vogue these days are cyber-attacks and transhumanism.
In terms of cyber-attacks, Hollywood has produced at least 20 movies and TV shows in the past 50 years; from The Conversation (1974), with Gene Hackman, all the way to The Net (1995), with Sandra Bullock; and to Westworld (2016-2022), a HBO series, based on a 1970 cult classic. See this for the full list.
And the very latest one is – believe it or not – a Barack and Michelle Obama Netflix production, “Leave the World Behind” (2023) – again star-studded for even better effect, with Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, and Ethan Hawke. It shows a cyber-attack on a large US East Coast city, by an unknown enemy and unknown consequences – really scary. No kidding.
It could happen any time. Isn’t it strange that the movie’s producers are a popular former President and his first lady – who many believe might be advanced at the last minute to become the Democratic candidate to replace Joe Biden for the 2024 Presidential Election?
Well, it is just speculation – Artificial Intelligence (AI) knows better and will tell us when the time is ripe.
WEF’s Klaus Schwab has warned for the last at least three years of a so-called real “Cyber-Polygon”, anytime. In the meantime, a 2021 online computer event simulated a global cyber-attack. The event was hosted by BI.ZONE, supported by Interpol and sponsored by the WEF. The happening took place fully online on 9 July 2021. See this for details.
Remember also a WEF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored Event 201, in NYC in October 2019 – depicting a worldwide Corona virus break out that happened less than 3 months later?
Cyber Pandemics were announced already for 2023. But now, “Going into 2024, ransomware(“ransomware is here to stay, it will never die”) will become even more sophisticated than in 2023. AI is increasingly being weaponized to create smarter, stealthier codes, better able to evade detection using fileless (memory injection based) attacks.” See this.
A new star-studded Hollywood film on trans-humanization, old style – the real Frankenstein-type – just came out end 2023, called “Poor Things”. The flick is a Frankenstein-inspired black comedy, starring famous Emma Stone (“Lalaland”), teaming up with Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, and directed by up-and-coming Yorgos Lanthimos.
The film plays in 100-years-ago London and other European cities, depicting a crazy researcher transplanting brains and other body organs with the most astonishing results. It looks like right out of the Frankenstein series. See official trailer (1:22 min) below.
The movie lends itself to multiple interpretations, but may fit best as an ancient parallel to what Klaus Schwab and the WEF want to do to humanity – not by transplanting body parts, but by implanting chips and using 5G and soon to come 6G to manipulate and control humanity.
If so, it is clearly predictive planning. Klaus Schwab’s predictive programming for transhumanism goes back to 2016, when in an interview with Swiss-French TV, he told the moderating journalist that in 2025 we will probably all have chips implanted so that we may communicate with each other without speaking.
Crazy Predictions
During the WEF’s Davos24 a few weeks ago, Klaus Schwab made similar, even crazier predictions. In five years or so, we may have chips implanted in our brains that allow us reading each-other’s thoughts without verbally communicating. He went even further suggesting that elections would become superfluous, as people’s minds and wishes could be read remotely.
However, Mr. Schwab never said, that with this remote-technique, people’s minds could also be told what to think and do – what you may call driving humanity into a slave-yard. See this for more details.
What is called “The scariest movie ever made”, is an HBO-produced predictive programming flick, called “True Horror” – a reminder of the worst Holocaust times. And since history tends to repeat itself – who knows what might expect us in the maybe not too distant future… the movie first aired on 30 November 2023. Here is the full-length film (59 min).
We are at a point where predictive programming is a serious – but not frightful – matter. As long as we are aware, we can prepare and MUST not fear. Fear is our worst enemy. Those who pretend to call the shots now it.
Predictive planning or programming is a triple-edged sword: Advance-warning is a MUST for the Dark Cult to be successful, it is meant to destabilize society, and – it is also an instrument to instill fear and to make us vulnerable, submissive, massive reduction of our auto-immune system – in short – it is Tavistock at its best.
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First, much credit is due to both Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin for having agreed to speak to each other – or rather President Putin speaking to Tucker, as it was a lesson in Russian history and Russian culture and Russian soul, that President Putin gave not only to Tucker, but to the rest of the western world, most of whom have no clue what Russia is, and what makes Russia tick.
Tucker shared his reflections straight after his interview with Putin…
“You’d have to be crazy to think that Russia will give up Crimea.”
“You’d have to be an idiot to think that Russia is an expansionist power; it’s already huge and doesn’t need more territory.”
“You’d have to be an idiot to think that Russia could roll tanks into Vienna; there’s no evidence of such intentions.”
“We are ruled by lunatics”— referring to the US leadership’s desire for regime change in Russia.
After this widely anticipated interview, announced, and awaited with high expectations, Tucker Carlson has been widely demonized by western media and politicians. “How dare you talking to our prime enemy!” was the common tenor.
Unelected EU Commissioner, Madame Von der Leyen, talked about “sanctioning” Tucker Carlson, by banning him from entering the EU. It is more than ridiculous and will never happen. The sheer propaganda moment in such a statement shows how desperate the EU is – to follow in the boots steps of America – for the EU as well as the Washington Masters, are falling apart rapidly.
In the US, voices could be heard to call for taking Tucker’s US nationality away, to ban him from re-entering the US. And these voices were even louder than those decrying the Biden Administration-made immigrant scandal at the Texas border – that many are afraid could work itself from destabilizing American society into an outright civil war.
This is the state of affairs in a – not crazy, but defunct – world. How to get out of it?
Tucker Carlson has tried an opening to the East, to Russia; preparing for a geopolitical olive-branch, bringing back conscience in the ranks of American politicians. Will it work? It remains to be seen.
For all those who still believe in the mainstream’s vilification of Vladmir Putin, but are ever-more doubtful and would like to know the truth, President Putin tells an extraordinary story of reality about Russia, the country’s history, all the way back to the 8th century, laying out very clearly that not only eastern but also western Ukraine – Kiev – is historically a part of Russia.
If comparing this Russia knowledge of history with the Zionist claim over Palestine – you know who is telling the truth and who is lying through their teeth, just for grandeur, dominance, and power – all to achieve a Greater Israel – stamped out of nowhere – to present themselves to the world as “the Chosen People”.
Fortunately, eventually Light will prevail over Darkness and the Zionists will not achieve their wicked objectives. Unfortunately, though, with the pathologically sick support of western leaders, their defeat could take years – and the death toll during this period could become astronomical.
And who says or believes that Greater Israel would be the endgame?
From what can be seen today, and also read into President Putin’s interview statements, the West, the combination of the dying empire, US of A, and the puppet Europe with her unelected leadership, and the individual EU countries with World Economic Forum (WEF)-implants as Young Global Leaders (YGL), speak tyrants – those who were privileged to absolve Klaus Schwab’s Academy of dictatorship and fascist-teaching – Trudeau, Macron, Von der Leyen, Scholz, Rutte et al – are hell-bent to go to war with Iran for her riches and because Iran, a close ally of Russia and China, is a disturbance for the west.
Iran is a powerhouse for the new BRICS. A western attack on Iran would be as suicidal as an assault on Russia and China. Russia assumes currently the leadership of the BRICS. Under Vladimir Putin, it will be a strong leadership.
Nothing of this was put in words by President Putin – but it is as much of what he did not say and one can read implicitly between the lines – as what he did say, that makes President Putin a formidable diplomat and indeed leading Statesman. The west has none of his kind. This interview may become an extraordinary milestone of history.
Despite being showered with western insults and sanctions for years non-stop, President Putin used not one word of insult against western leaders.
To the contrary, when asked by Tucker, how Putin’s counterparts reacted to his approaches, conversations, or suggestions for negotiations, on Ukraine, for example, Putin said he would not comment, and the good journalist, who Tucker Carlson is, might better ask directly at the source.
It is also clear, Russia does not have, never had at least during the last 300-plus years – any ambitions for expansion. Russia’s territory of some 17.1 million square kilometers (km2), of which about 16.4 million km2 land area, representing about 11% of the earth’s total landmass – and the riches of natural resources it harbors – are so huge, there is no need for more, as President Putin had already pointed out on many earlier occasions.
There is no reason at all for any recently-joined-NATO Scandinavian countries to be afraid of a Russian invasion. The ugly truth is, the leadership (sic) of these countries know it, but they play along with the US-EU-NATO Russia-Russia-Russia demonization.
Do they think, it is good for them?
Or have they been coerced, or even threatened to play along?
What do they get for the lies they spread and fear they plant in their people? For the crime they commit?
When President Putin spoke about the western so-called “invasion” of Ukraine on 22 February 2022, he made clear that the war started already in 2014, when on 21 February 2014, almost to the day eight years before, the democratically elected and Russia-friendly President Yanukovich was ousted by a coup and had to flee Ukraine.
NATO Secretary Stoltenberg recently said the same – the war started already in 2014.
The great diplomat, President Putin, did not say that this coup was inspired and planned way ahead by the US with the help of the European Union (remember Victoria Nuland’s infamous “f*ck Europe”?), but it was obvious to most listeners and, of course, also to the interviewer, Tucker Carlson.
President Putin was visibly and deeply disappointed and disturbed, when he found out that the September 2014 Minsk Agreement, and the “Second Minsk” in march 2015, both sponsored by France and Germany, under which Ukraine essentially had to disarm, become neutral and de-nazify her society, were never meant to be adhered to.
In December 2022, then Chancellor Angela Merkel told Die Zeit, “The 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give Ukraine time; it [Ukraine] also used this time to become stronger, as you can see today.” This was a Bombshell, not just for Vladimir Putin, for most of the “innocent” – still believing – world.
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The 2-hour-7-min interview is maybe best summarized by Scott Ritter who spoke to Sputnik on “X “ (6 minute-video) – providing a brilliant summary of the interview (9 February 2024):
“The most important first step on a journey that can save humanity.”
Analyst and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter praised US journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday, complimenting Carlson’s professionalism and Putin’s… pic.twitter.com/cvPr2Bn9Sm
Mr. Ritter lauded both President Putin and Tucker Carlson for their courage and in many ways audacity – and especially professionalism – to sit together and talk about Ukraine. Though, as we know by now – the interview was much more than an exchange of views, questions , and answers about Ukraine. The interview was more a lesson to the world on the Russian – Ukrainian joint past and – without mentioning it in words – western interference in a clearly internal affair.
Scott Ritter referred to the interview as a tour de force, where the Russian President was introducing an American audience to the nuances of Russian history and the complexity of the Russian soul. Because if you do not understand the basics of Russian history and how Russia functions, then you are on a journey without a map. So, Scott Ritter. He believes this may be the real value of the interview, creating a map.
According to Scott Ritter, Mr. Putin created a map for not only Tucker Carlson to understand, but the entire western world to start grasping, what makes Russia’s heart and soul.
President Putin attempted again to make the West understand what Russia is all about – namely not aggression and expansion, but seeking harmony and peace, while defending eastern Ukraine – especially the Donbass area from Kiev’s Nazi aggressions. He knows exactly what he is talking about.
The Stepan Bandera Nazi Nazi forces were fighting alongside Hitler’s Nazi army against the Soviet Union – causing countless deaths and misery.
Mr. Putin clearly referred in this interview to a MUST de-Nazification of Ukraine – and he also pointed to the other three main objectives of Russia’s intervention, making Ukraine a neutral state, no NATO in Ukraine, and foremost defending the Russian communities especially in Eastern Ukraine, from Kiev’s Nazi aggressions.
Tucker Carlson opened the door into modern-day Russia, into understanding President Putin, into the History of Russia and into the Russian soul.
President Putin’s tireless effort in seeking harmony and cooperation, may be one of the key points shining through in the interview.
Mr. Putin knows, of course, that so far, the west has no interest whatsoever in seeking cooperation and harmonious cohabitation with Russia. To the contrary – the west wants to weaken Russia – hence, the senseless war funded by trillions of dollars or euros of US and EU taxpayers’ money – to dominate Russia and usurp her natural resources.
Despite this recognition, Vladimir Putin’s sending out positive signal and vibes, one day may bear fruit. That is the sense of peace seeking, of cooperation and friendship – that is a major objective of the Tao philosophy.
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According to RT (Russia Today) of 10 February 2024, the two-hour interview gathered more than 46 million views on Carlson’s “X” account (formerly Twitter) and just under a million views on YouTube in the first hours since its release on Friday, 9 February.
In a previous post on “X” earlier this week, Carlson accused Western media outlets of lying to “their readers and viewers” by promoting Kiev’s stance while ignoring Russia’s.
“That’s wrong. Americans have the right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in,” he said.
Speaking to Russia’s Izvestia newspaper on Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said:
“This is phenomenal. Their reaction reveals the mendacity of their approaches so much that, frankly speaking, you can’t believe it.”
According to Ms. Zakharova,
“they’ve had a hysterical fit – the White House, the Department of State, all the mainstream media are shouting at the top of their lungs one thing only: don’t watch [President Putin’s interview], and that an American journalist shouldn’t conduct the interview.”
She added that such behavior takes the wind out of Washington’s sails in its attempts to present itself as a beacon of morality, human rights, democracy, [if there ever was ‘democracy’- PK comment] and freedom of speech.
Ms. Zakharova is more than right. This applies equally to the spineless EU. Let’s stay tuned for further fallouts from this interview – hopefully turning from negative to positive.
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Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
Das Volk soll außer Atem gehalten werden, während die wahren Umwälzungen unaufhaltsam weiterlaufen (Symbolbild:Pixabay/G.Merkuur)
Keine Regierung der letzten 75 Jahre läßt so viele Problemfelder nebeneinander mehr oder weniger unbearbeitet und ungelöst weiterlaufen wie die Ampel-Regierung. Und sie gibt sich von dieser Problemfülle scheinbar unberührt, ja zuweilen geradezu happy. Und dafür gibt es einen Grund: Die Ampel braucht die Probleme, um von der Misere der eigenen Politik abzulenken. Die diversen Problemfelder werden nicht einer Lösung zugeführt, sondern medial am Köcheln gehalten, um die Bevölkerung immer wieder in Aufregung zu versetzen und damit von den beiden eigentlichen und wichtigsten politischen Vorhaben der Regierung: Der Aufrechterhaltung der Masseneinwanderung und der schleichenden Umsetzung der Planwirtschaft.
Zunächst kurz zum Migrations-Vorhaben: Über unkontrollierte Grenzen soll der Zustrom von Migranten permanent hoch gehalten werden. Auf die Frage des “Wozu?” soll an dieser Stelle nicht näher eingegangen werden, dazu ist – auch auf Ansage! – schon etliches publiziert worden. Es bleibt nur festzuhalten, dass politisch nicht die Absicht besteht, die anhaltende Entwicklung zu stoppen; im Gegenteil. Über 2.000 Asylanträge täglich (!) sind im Januar 2024 gestellt worden – und es kommen weit überwiegend Migranten, die keinen begründbaren Asylanspruch haben, die ihren Lebensunterhalt nicht selbst bestreiten können und die absehbar in Parallelgesellschaften entwurzelt und unglücklich ihr Leben verbringen werden. Wer wissen will, wozu die unkontrollierte Immigration seit 2015 bereits geführt hat, der muß sich einmal herauswagen aus seiner Wohlfühlblase und seinem Wohlfühlquartier, und einfach einmal eine normale Kita oder eine öffentliche Grundschule besuchen: Statt Buntheit, Vielfalt und Toleranz dominieren hier eher Monotonie, Einseitigkeit und Unverständnis – schon als Folge der Sprachverwirrung.
Sieben Beispiele für Ablenkungsmanöver
Das nach der unkontrollierten Migration zweite große Vorhaben der Ampel-Regierung hat die Umwandlung der Marktwirtschaft in eine Öko-Planwirtschaft zum Ziel. Kurz gefasst: Der Staat befiehlt, die Wirtschaft soll folgen. Daß die sozialistische zentrale Steuerung von Wirtschaftsplänen noch niemals und nirgends auf der Welt zu Wohlstand und Prosperität geführt hat, wird dabei ignoriert.
Beide Großprojekte sollen durch diverse Ablenkungsmanöver aus dem kritischen Bürgerblickfeld gehalten werden. Grundsätzlich lassen sich dabei alle Probleme von der Regierung als Aufreger nutzen; nachfolgend seien nur sieben Beispiele genannt.:
Aufreger 1: Das “Potsdamer Geheimtreffen“. Die Veröffentlichung des angeblichen “Geheimplans gegen Deutschland” durch die regierungsfinanzierte NGO “Correctiv” und der mediale Hype um eine dort nie diskutierte bevorstehende „Deportation Millionen Deutscher mit Migrationshintergrund“ versetzte große Teile der Bevölkerung in Aufregung. Die “Gegen-rechts“-Demos begannen am 17. Januar 2024 und beherrschen seither die Medien. Damit wurde vor allem vom täglichen Zustrom von Hunderten bis Tausenden Migranten und von den zahlreichen Insolvenzen mittelständischer Betriebe abgelenkt (26 Prozent Zunahme im Januar 2024), aber ganz konkret auch von den zuvor nachrichtendominierenden Bauernprotesten.
Aufreger 2: Der Gender-Wahn. “Es gibt viele Musikrichtungen, aber nur zwei Geschlechter“ stand auf einem großen Banner, das Zuschauer des Bundesliga-Tabellenführers Bayer Leverkusen im heimischen Stadion hochhielten – worauf der Verein nun 18.000 Euro Strafe an den DFB zahlen muss. Die gesamte deutsche Fussballwelt ist in heller Aufregung darüber, so scheinst es, ob es nun 2 oder 72 Geschlechter geben soll. Au diese Weise schafft es die Genderei um LGBTQIA, Trans- und Frühsexualisierung, “Selbstbestimmungsgesetz” und Geschlechtsangleichung wirksam, die Zeitungsleser und Fernsehzuschauer abzulenken von dem, was eigentlich dieses Land bewegen müsste: der tägliche Zustrom von Migranten und den anhaltenden Produktionsverlagerungen ins Ausland.
Scheinbare Realitätsnähe
Aufreger 3: Der “Niedergang des Handwerks“. Mit ungelösten Problemen wird geradezu kokettiert – ein Meister darin ist Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck. Auf der traditionellen Handwerkermesse in Leipzig erklärt er mit fast weinerlicher und mitleiderregender Stimme bei schräger Kopfhaltung, daß mit der deutschen Wirtschaft etwas “grundlegend schief” laufe und die Lage “dramatisch schlecht” sei. Doch die Handwerker nehmen ihm die scheinbare Realitätsnähe nicht mehr, weil sie Habeck selbst als Urheber der von ihm bekannten Misere identifiziert haben: Er wird ausgebuht. Bereits 2022 hatte Habeck geframed, Bäckereien seien nicht insolvent, wenn sie lediglich die Produktion einstellten.
Aufreger 4: Die Klimakleber. Solange die Klima-Aktivisten den Berufsverkehr auf Straßen gestört und den Flugverkehr blockiert hatten, waren die Probleme Migration und Deindustrialisierung blitzartig aus den medialen Schlagzeilen verschwunden. Nichts durfte dieses Ablenkungsmanöver gefährden, und dementsprechend wurde die “Letzte Generation” von Polizei und Medien mit größter Nachsicht behandelt.
Aufreger 5: Die “Kriegsmüdigkeit“. Bundesverteidigungsminister Pistorius wirft den Bürgern “Kriegsmüdigkeit” vor. Die Kriegsrhetorik mit geforderten EU-Atombomben, mehr Granatenproduktion, “Russland ruinieren” (Baerbock) oder 300 Milliarden Sondervermögen Bundeswehr hat Roderich Kiesewetter am Ende letzter Woche mit folgendem Statement nochmals größenwahnsinnig verstärkt: “Der Krieg muss nach Russland getragen werden. Russische Militäreinrichtungen und Hauptquartiere müssen zerstört werden. Wir müssen alles tun, dass die Ukraine in die Lage versetzt wird, nicht nur Ölraffinerien in Russland zu zerstören, sondern Ministerien, Kommandoposten, Gefechtsstände.” Die geschürte Kriegsangst regt die Menschen auf und lenkt sie ab vom gleichzeitigen Zustrom von Migranten und Niedergang der Volkswirtschaft.
Aufreger 6: Die Deutsche Bahn. Die Deutsche Bahn gehört dem deutschen Staat. Anstatt sie einer grundlegenden Sanierung zu unterziehen, wird nur häppchenweise investiert. Zugverspätungen, Zugausfälle, überfüllte Züge, marode Bahnhöfe und kaputter ÖPNV eignen sich wunderbar als Aufreger, um vom Politikversagen abzulenken.
Das Muster bleibt
Aufreger 7: Die Agrarkrise. Die Erhöhung des Agrardiesel versetzte die Landwirte in Aufregung und die Traktoren in Bewegung. Doch hier könnte sich die Ampel-Regierung tatsächlich mit ihrem Spaltungs- und Ablenkungstrick verkalkuliert haben: Denn die Proteste der Bauern halten an, weiten sich aus auf Handwerk, Spediteure, Pfleger, Ärzte sowie den gesamten Mittelstand und haben das Zeug, sich zu einem spartenübergreifenden Aufstand zu entwickeln – nach dem Muster der Gelbwesten 2018 in Frankreich.
Wie immer man es dreht und wendet, das Muster bleibt: Die Regierung nutzt ungelöste Probleme als Aufreger, um von ihrem Versagen in den eigentlichen Hauptproblemen des Landes, der Migrations- und Wirtschaftspolitik, abzulenken – und diese beiden Probleme sind tatsächlich genau das Mittel zum Zweck, um eine Agenda durchzusetzen. Die Migrationspolitik ist auf dem besten Wege, den inneren und gesellschaftlichen Frieden (durch ausbleibende “Integration”) sowie den Sozialstaat (durch das “Bürgergeld” für praktisch jedermann) zu zerstören. Durch gezielte Verarmung und eine Vielzahl planwirtschaftlicher Experimente schrumpft daneben die Wirtschaft, wobei dieser Schrumpfungsprozess nicht – wie früher – konjunkturell bedingt ist (nach der Rezession folgt automatisch eine Erholung), sondern strukturell (der Verlust der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit hält über Jahre hinweg an). Noch mögen die Ablenkungsmanöver funktionieren – aber sicher nicht mehr lange. Denn von den sichtbaren Folgen der Politik und dem elementaren Niedergang des Landes läßt sich die Bevölkerung auch durch noch so trickreiche Aufreger irgendwann nicht mehr ablenken. Dann wird es wirklich “aufregend” – und zwar für die Regierung.
Der Friedensstifter 