The event corresponds less to expectations in war than in any other case whatever.
Livy, History of Rome XXX, c. 10
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, says that Wednesday will be “the day of the attack.” The Russian Duma will supposedly vote to recognize Luhansk and Donetsk. When that happens, Russian troops will move in to Ukraine.
Key points to follow: (1) The United States is evacuating its Embassy even as Americans have been advised to leave Ukraine; (2) Russian troops have surrounded Ukraine from three different directions (i.e., north, east and south); (3) Russia is demanding that Ukraine promise it will not join NATO; (4) President Zelensky says he will not make this promise; (5) Russian military bases near Ukraine show increased activity with units deploying to attack positions; (6) six Russian amphibious transports have left port in Crimea, moving up Crimea’s west coast, headed for the Ukrainian coast; (7) Russian rocket artillery units seem to be preparing to strike; (8) Ukraine is not seriously preparing to repel an invasion.
It therefore appears that an invasion of Ukraine will occur within hours. Sources indicate that if the United States puts sanctions on Russia, the Russians will commence a cyber-attack on the U.S. East Coast. If you live on the East Coast, you might want to prepare for a major power blackout. I have no idea how serious such an attack could be.
My own thinking has always been: (1) Moscow was always gong to take back Ukraine; (2) Moscow was always going to ally with Beijing; (3) the United States was always going to miss all the cues; (4) the West does not understand that the military balance of power is now shifting in favor of Moscow and Beijing; (5) the United States cannot win by dropping refrigerators and cars, along with other consumer goods, on Russian cities because China will soon cut off our supply.
The West will shortly learn that money is not the sinews of war. As Machiavelli said, good soldiers are the sinews of war. Or as Oswald Spengler said, “Caesarism breaks the dictature of money and its political weapon, democracy.” Almost all the discussions we have been seeing on American TV are beside the point. These folks do not see things realistically. They are still moralizing. War is not about moralizing. It is about violence. WONDER, if you dare, at the following shameful exchange.
After citing Tulsi’s Christmas greeting to her fans on Twitter, I wrote that if she had been in the Garden of Eden, she would have gotten the snake to eat the forbidden fruit. In this exciting episode, Tulsi blames the U.S. military industrial complex for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is such a cliche, and so thoughtless, that I can just see all these Pentagon contractors petitioning Putin to invade. “Please, Mr. Putin. Invade Ukraine. We defense contractors in America will starve if you don’t!” So Putin, apparently, has a heart after all. He just loves our defense contractors. And this baffles me, because you would think that Tulsi would not like Mr. Putin for being so soft on those nasty people in America who make all those nasty weapons that endanger the peace of the world.
We all know that evil dictators never invade their neighbors. It is evil American defense contractors who make them do it! I believe that Tucker Carlson’s pro-Russian stance will come back to bite him. In fact, it will take a giant chunk out of his back end. We are entering an era in which misjudgments about Russia and China will undo a person’s reputation. Permanently. To misunderstand what is happening now, after the situation has become so crystal clear, is unforgivable. The Russians are putting the Soviet Union back together. But more than that, they are doing so rapidly even as communism has America by the throat here at home.
And what is this nonsense about Ukraine joining NATO? Please! That is not in prospect right now. In practical terms, it is not remotely possible. Everyone in Europe knows that such a move would invite a war with Russia, and nobody in Europe wants a war with Russia. The real issue is NATO’s weakness and America’s weakness. This is the ideal time for Moscow to force Ukraine back into a union with Russia. NATO is an alliance of frightened little countries huddling under the dwindling U.S. nuclear umbrella. Their idea of threatening Russia is cutting off credits when, in fact, they will have their heat turned off when the Russians stop sending natural gas to Europe.
Need I remind anyone that it is mid-winter. Not only has Russia mobilized its forces, but NATO has done very little in response to this mobilization. Hand-wringing is in vogue. From what I’ve read, even Ukraine has not mobilized her trained military reserves. Even as Zelensky pronounced a “unity day” in response to the expected invasion, we have to wonder what that actually means. Patriotic slogans will not stop invading armies.
The Russians, of course, promised that they would not invade. Perhaps all this is a tremendous misunderstanding. Perhaps the Russian troops will turn around and go home. Nancy Pelosi says that if Russia does not invade Ukraine, then President Biden’s political genius will be proven. Logically, on its face, that just about guarantees that Russia will follow through on its invasion.
Here is the real question: Why wouldn’t Russia invade and take Ukraine? I have heard people say that there would be guerrilla war there, and the Russians wouldn’t like it. Well, Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of jungles and forests for guerrillas to hide in. And the kind of weapons the Ukrainians would have to fight back with simply would not stop Russian tanks and air power. I’m sorry. It’s a fantasy.
The Russians have 11 times zones, and they did not get them all through peace. They got them because the Russians have conquered, and conquered, and invaded, and subdued, over and over again. Ukraine was subject to the Russian Empire for a long, long time. And the current conquest of Ukraine will not even give Russia another time zone. Therefore, the folks in Romania and Poland had better look to their options. Let us see if NATO holds together. Let us see what kind of resolve the rest of the world has.
Of course, it is one more fiasco for the West. One must ask whether we are serious people.
Seriously.
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297 responses to “Hurried Notes on the Pending Invasion of Ukraine”
Reading through these posts, it occurs to me that most of you seem pretty well informed. I’m just curious what news sources you all monitor for what’s going on in the world?
To me, history and analysis is more important than news, news is only as good as the contextual frame you can place it in. As such, anti communist analysis like Jeff provides is invaluable, since it is so rare.
Sure, I agree with that. You need to be able to sort through the spin. And understanding context, and being able to read between the lines helps you to do that. But are there news outlets that you have found to be fairly reliable, truthful, and accurate? I realize everyone has their bias, but some are less biased than others.
Guy, I know you weren’t asking me, but I know of some decent sites. Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse are pretty good, but I feel they dont truly grasp the overall picture like Mr. Nyquist. Gates if Vienna is pretty good. Pamela Geller is a fighter. On Twitter, Ann Coulter andJesse Kelly are good. Rebel News is good with Ezra Levant. But who really has time to keep up with everything everyone puts out there? That’s why I always, always read what Mr. Nyquist writes. He and his sincere commenters are very good. Like someone said above, it is good to read history, then you can understand the present better. Last, but preeminent, the Bible. We can learn all about human nature there.
One of the sites should have been Gates *of* Vienna.
I like Gates of Vienna.
Do you ever read the Conservative Treehouse? He is really good on some things. He doesn’t have the grasp on Russia being the center of so much that is happening in the world like you do though. Also, he thinks Trump is our savior and can do no wrong. If any commenters point out something negative about Trump, or question his motives or actions, Sundance (the blogger) and many of the commenters will really attack them. I’ve never seen such devotion to Trump. But many of the things Sundance analyzes are informative and helpful.
I have posted comments there two or three times, encouraging people to check out your blog.
Thank you. I have read it at times.
Guy, answering your question below, “But are there news outlets that you have found to be fairly reliable, truthful, and accurate?”
No. there really aren’t. You have to read widely, and work to understand the particular bent and bias of what you’re reading. And find the best people on a given topic. And maybe find news aggregators that tend to reach to the corners of the internet for interesting stuff. And then just start sifting. And know how to read, and read between the lines, of official narrative purveyors.
For example – I read CNN, NYT and WashPost the same way I read GlobalTimes (China State media for English speakers) RT and Tass (Russian media for English Speakers): those sites tell you the “official line” from a given government or power center. Interestingly, RT has a habit of picking up left-wing journalists dumped by MSNBC, NPR, CNN, usually because they are too critical of democrats from the left. Probably part of a strategy to ingratiate Russia to the disaffected wings of US politics.
Greyknight mentioned Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse — I frequent both of those. I consider Gateway to be honest, if sometimes over their skis or hyperbolic. Treehouse in particular is unusually smart on domestic politics and the US administrative apparatus. It’s more news analysis than news reporting outlet. A bit too uncritical of Trump, but still the smartest analysis I’ve read on the technical aspects of government/politics.
I get most of my insight on Russia from Nyquist, who I consider reliable, truthful and accuratee’s not . He’s an analyst, not a news outlet, but my main person on Russia. I watch Bannon’s podcast for Covid and China information — he’s always out front of the pack — but sometimes I wonder who’s funding his show and if some guests have an agenda. I also read Epoch times.
As I write this, trying to think of good sources, honestly a lot of it is trying to read between the lines of mainstream media and “group think.” For example, I learn a lot about what’s driving our policy by listening to dip-s–ts at the Atlantic Council (they hold a lot of webinars!) — but if I didn’t also read people like Nyquist, I might be woefully misinformed, thinking those doofuses knew what they were talking about.
Upshot is, smart people telling you the truth tend to have a focus — gotta find the best people on important topics – and usually the mainstream won’t touch them, so you gotta work to find them, and have antenna for posers. It can be tough!
There are a few news aggregators I go to: Revolver news, Citizens Free Press, Populist Press, Zerohedge. All of these have an angle — but they help fill in the gaps from generic mainstream.
So anyway, I don’t consider myself among the most informed here, but I try, and since you asked, I thought I’d share. I know I am always looking for good sources!
Very insightful post. It is hard to find good information.
Putin probably got tired of hysterical harassment.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/russia-expels-senior-u-s-diplomat-from-moscow-as-tensions-over-ukraine-rise/
[ Russia has expelled the second-most senior American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as tensions between the two countries continue to rise over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said Thursday.
“Russia’s action against our [deputy chief of mission] was unprovoked and we consider this an escalatory step and are considering our response,” a State Department spokesman said after U.S. deputy chief of mission Bart Gorman was ordered to leave the country despite having a valid visa.
“We call on Russia to end its baseless expulsions of U.S. diplomats and staff and to work productively to rebuild our missions,” the spokesman added. “Now more than ever, it is critical that our countries have the necessary diplomatic personnel in place to facilitate communication between our governments.” ]
Western media fails to report. I thought I’d search for something along these lines:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/17/russia-will-be-forced-to-respond-if-us-does-not-engage-on-security-demands-a76439
Russia Will Be ‘Forced to Respond’ if U.S. Does Not Engage on Security Demands
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Russia first sent its list of demands to the U.S. and NATO last December. MFA Russia / flickr (CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0.)
Russia on Thursday said it will be “forced to respond” with military-technical measures if the United States does not agree to its security demands.
In an 11-page document presented to American officials, the Kremlin slammed the U.S. for not engaging with Russia’s security concerns and called for “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never become a NATO member.
“In the absence of any readiness from the American side to agree on firm, legally binding guarantees to ensure our security … Russia will be forced to respond, including through the implementation of military-technical measures,” the document says, according to text published by the state-run TASS news agency.
Western governments have boosted supplies of hi-tech military equipment to Ukraine since the standoff with Russia first escalated last year. Intelligence agencies have said Moscow has amassed up to 130,000 troops and that an invasion of Ukraine could be “imminent.”
Moscow has denied it is planning an invasion of Ukraine, a statement it repeated in Thursday’s written responses.
“There is no ‘Russian invasion’ of Ukraine, which the United States and its allies have been announcing officially since last fall, and it is not planned,” the document said.
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Russia also called on the U.S. and NATO to “stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine, withdraw all Western advisers and instructors from the country, stop participating in joint exercises with Ukraine’s armed forces and withdraw all foreign weapons previously supplied to Kyiv.”
Moscow’s recent announcements of a troop drawdown have been met with skepticism. The U.S. and other NATO allies continue to warn of a possibly devastating Russian invasion and say they have seen little proof of Moscow’s announced withdrawal.
Russia first sent its list of demands to the U.S. and NATO last December. Western governments responded in January, but Moscow has said the answers “ignored” its key points.
Russia said its proposals were a “complete package” which could not be discussed individually. The U.S. had offered compromises on areas such as limits on missile deployments — an offer Russia dismissed on Thursday.
“The Russian proposals are of a package nature and should be considered in the whole, without focusing on individual components. As for the issue of arms control, we are considering them only in the general context of a comprehensive package approach to resolving the general problem of security guarantees,” the document said.
Russia also repeated its demands that the U.S. pull its troops out of all NATO countries that joined the alliance after 1997, such as the Baltic states and several other eastern and central European members.
Russia’s response came as it expelled the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Moscow in another sign of potentially escalating tensions between the two countries.
AFP contributed reporting.
Western media is reporting. I was able to read some of the documents pages provided by European media. Especially central and eastern.
Russia has responded to their December 17 ultimatum. Based on this, I would guess there will be no full invasion now. They might formally incorporate those two provinces. Of course I could always be wrong.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/17/moscow-s-package-deal
The U.S. is saying invasion is imminent. But there are obstacles to invading. My guess is the ground is no good for armor. The invasion will be postponed until a window opens for dry or frozen ground. Rasputitsa looks to be early this year. A rainy spring is likely. Postponement until June is possible.
They will likely use this time to see how far the west is willing to go in meeting their demands.
What’s wrong with pulling back to pre ’97 boundaries, if Russia gets out of US waters? Putin didn’t offer that, but why don’t we?
Barf: I never took you as an advocate for gun control, but Russia’s proposal would effectively open central Europe to invasion.
Jeff, can you expound on why you think it is critical that Russia annex Ukraine? I always assumed the communist coalition would eliminate the US first and then mop up the remaining countries. Can you explain why you think Russia needs unification? Does Ukraine have strategic resources that Russia needs for a bigger war? Thanks.
The Kremlin has to crush the growing spirit of liberty and independence in Ukraine. This spirit inconveniences their operatives there, and the ruling elite (which is still functionally Soviet). Furthermore, they cannot allow that spirit to infect Russia. Also, they need full access to Ukraine’s resources and communications infrastructure.
The ground conditions are the main reason why I mentioned above as the tactical reasons for delaying the invasion. Especially if the goal is not to stop with Ukraine alone.
Secondly, if the Russians invaded Ukraine then stopped at the western border of Ukraine, would that not finally waken up the people of western Europe to the danger in which they find themselves? But if the Russians delay the invasion, after making such preparations, how many Europeans will conclude that all this talk of invasion was like the boy crying wolf, only to be caught by surprise when the real invasion comes? Who believes anyway that the Russians will stop with Ukraine?
On February 17, 2022, US Ambassador John Sullivan, invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry, was given the following reaction to the previously received American response on the Russian draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on security guarantees.
TASS publishes the full text of the statement.
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We state that the American side did not give a constructive response to the basic elements of the draft treaty with the United States prepared by the Russian side on security guarantees. We are talking about the rejection of further expansion of NATO, the withdrawal of the “Bucharest formula” that “Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO”, and the rejection of the creation of military bases on the territory of states that were previously part of the USSR and are not members of the alliance, including the use of their infrastructure for conducting any military activity, as well as the return of military capabilities, including strike, and NATO infrastructure to the state of 1997, when the Russia-NATO Founding Act was signed. These provisions are of fundamental importance for the Russian Federation.
The package nature of Russian proposals was ignored, from which “convenient” topics were deliberately chosen, which, in turn, were “twisted” in the direction of creating advantages for the US and its allies. This approach, as well as the accompanying rhetoric from US officials, reinforces legitimate doubts that Washington is truly committed to fixing the European security situation.
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https://tass-ru.translate.goog/politika/13744013?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://tass.ru/politika/13744013
TASS, state run media. Meanwhile Lukashenko, Russia’s vassal, has been expounding on attacking the Baltics and even using nuclear weapons. Russia has nuclear hypersonic missiles in Kaliningrad right on the borders of those NATO nations. it has been militarising that area for decades. It has military defense treaties with China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, all armed, and all at western borders. Its demands are very one-sided wouldn’t you say? and like a criminal they are holding a nation hostage, while already having killed a member of the family, to force acquiescence to those demands.
Scroll up and see what I said about Russian and Chinese warships in US waters.
If Jeff tells me that Biden makes me wear a mask and tries to make me take a lethal injection, because Russia and China tells him to, I can accept that. Now tell me why Biden pushes NATO to Russia’s border. There are more than two sides competing for World domination, and if the US isn’t deliberately one of them, tell me who is controlling the United States. Why does Biden patrol the South China Sea and the Black Sea, if he’s a Russian asset. Biden is against the American people, making them take lethal injections, but he’s still adversarial with Russia and China. He isn’t trying to fool the American people, he orders them around.
Fr Malachi Martin, PhD, writes that The United States, Russia, The European Union, and The Vatican, all compete for World domination. He makes no mention of, Great Britain and China.
Professor Olavo de Carvalho used to call this attitude “The Tweety Bird Syndrome”:
“I tawt I taw a puddy tat.”
i. e. I thought I saw a Russian Army at my border.
[ There is no and is not planned any “Russian invasion” of Ukraine, which the United States and its allies have been declaring at the official level since autumn last year, therefore statements about Russia’s “responsibility for the escalation” cannot be regarded otherwise than as an attempt to put pressure on and devalue Russia’s proposals for security guarantees. ]
[ At the same time, the United States and its allies were moving their military infrastructure to the east, deploying contingents in the territories of new members. They bypassed the CFE restrictions and rather loosely interpreted the provisions of the Russia-NATO Founding Act on the renunciation of “additional permanent deployment of substantial combat forces.” The situation that has developed as a result of these actions is unacceptable. We insist on the withdrawal of all US armed forces and weapons deployed in CEE, SEE and the Baltics. We are convinced that the national potentials in these zones are quite sufficient. We are ready to discuss this topic on the basis of Art. 4 and 5 of the Russian draft treaty. ]
https://tass-ru.translate.goog/politika/13744013?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Yes, we saw what Russia did with the “national” potential in those “zones” (nations) in 1940 and 1944.
Barth believes in a Putin. 🙃
I believe that Putin will not invade Ukraine. He will coerce Ukraine into a new union with Russia and Belarus, to defend against invasion by NATO.
Barf: Slow down, take a deep breath, and try to come up with something more believable while you let your fingers cool down.
I don’t think there is any question any more about the intentions of Russia, the real question is how will they undertake actions to achieve their goals. Also what are the intentions of France and Germany and how easy would it to be to convince people in other western democracies to do anything especially after the vaccine mandates. Personally I think the western democracies particularly Canada have made a deep error by going too hard on covid as it has created a space for the tyrannies’ around the world to act and also demoralised the very people you would want to participate in any future military action
British Commonwealth countries, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, make China and Russia, look good. Royal Mounted Police in Canada recently entered a pub and told truckers to present their trucks to The Crown.
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https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/02/military-set-to-crush-truckers-communist-crown-threatens-forces-versus-protesters/
Move to Russia if it looks so good, Barf.
I was in contact with New Zealand before Covid. I’m glad I didn’t pay them the million bucks. I’m saying that Putin acts less of a dictator and more civilized, than Australia, New Zealand, and Canadian leaders.
Biff Barth. Your nonsense is getting on my nerves. Leave off, please.
Barf: Was New Zealand sufficiently humbled by you being in contact with them?
I don’t think so. So far as I know, Western leaders don’t, as a matter of course, send operatives around the world to eliminate dissidents and political opponents. We (in the West) typically are not subjected to long prison sentences for merely exercising our right to protest as is routinely the case in Russia. No one is imprisoned for belonging to the wrong religious sect as the Jehovah Witness adherents are in Russia.
Journalists are not kidnapped and beaten by state actors on the flimsiest of pretexts as is the case in Russia today. The West has its own share of problems, but these still pale in comparison to the sort of things that happen in places like Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. I know people in Venezuela and there the government actually sent buses around during the height of the pandemic to round up people caught outside after the curfew. These people were then sent to “render service” in the local hospitals in the Covid wards. Of course, we don’t hear much about this in the West, because these other places are closed societies. Yes, our own governments have become more tyrannical in recent years, but this does not mean that Russia and China are shining bastions of freedom. That is simply ridiculous.
GreyKnight says:
February 17, 2022 at 7:29 pm
Jeff deleted the link I posted to immigration New Zealand where anyone, even you, can apply for economic citizenship, if you gotz da dough. It used to be a pretty nice place. One Summer they had a flood, though. Power was off for six months. It was a test for the pending Carbon Lockdowns, which you can read about above where I posted the Rockefeller Foundation link to Lock Setp.
Your posting on New Zealand was very long and off topic. And you were wasting my time with it.
Tired of the trolls and ideological debates. We really need to stay focused on what’s going on. The world is on the verge of a world war. We need to hear what Jeff is hearing and thinking concerning the latest information that he’s receiving.
Update: Moscow demands U.S. to withdraw US troops from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, warning that it will take military-technical measures if Washington is unready to negotiate.
It seems to me there’s a lot more going on than Russia wanting to take eastern Ukraine. This sounds like a declaration of war against the United States.
Barth
Putin needs to respect the US sphere of influence and stop building military bases in Nicaragua and Venezuela. Period.
Thank you. My guess is, they are threatening us with a crippling cyber attack or even an EMP.
Jeff.
Any opinions on the recent statements by Dr. Li Meng Yan ? Concerning possible bioweapon no. 2, hemorragic fever being sent out from Olympics.
I,m not sure what to think about that.
I do not know whether her information is valid. There are some very knowledgeable, sharp, analysts, who think she is not a reliable source.
I understand. I used to follow Jones many years ago, but once bitten twice shy, as the saying goes. Jones appeals to people on a visceral, emotional level. That is, he correctly identifies many issues that get folks’ ire up, and then spins a sort of all-encompassing hodgepodge of conspiracy theories and not-too-subtle innuendos that provide a tidy explanation of the cause of all of these ills — the globalist cabal. Mainly, he is an entertainer and opportunist. I actually met him once when I was living in Texas, and frankly he is one of the most arrogant, obnoxious people I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. The most important thing to Alex Jones is Alex Jones. Yet, despite his being wrong over and over again, he remains popular due to his folksy appeal to people on an emotional level. He expresses their anger and frustration and then identifies a nebulous enemy against which they can direct this anger. Unfortunately, many if not most of his claims are inherently unverifiable. It’s a clever business strategy, actually. Above all else, he is an entertainer and I suspect that the majority of the people the listen to him rant and rave, if they were to be honest with themselves, do so for that very reason. Who needs analysis when you can shout your guests down? I don’t know if his style has changed, but that’s they way his program was many years ago.
I heard her interview on JD Rucker and Jones. FWIW, she’s saying release at Olympics is something CCP would have contemplated and could have done — not that they necessarily DID do it. The claim that it happened has been amplified – but it’s not exactly what she said.
Back in early 2020, I read her paper on the origins of Covid, and was pretty blown away (though the science was over my head). And frankly, what she claimed about lab origin has been borne out, was always believable, and honestly if that much is true, who can honestly rule out that it was deliberate.
The thing is, for a scientist, she pretty quickly started filling in the political narrative too (ie, CCP wants to take over the world through bioweapons), and frankly I wonder how she was able to safely move to the US just in time to be a whistle blower. I don’t know what to make of her. Impeccable credentials, her facts are very specific, and historically have largely checked out … but something about her situation — being able to safely airlift into US covid-skeptic culture — just seems fishy. Given what we’re living through how can we not be cynical.
I have learned — the hard way — that the best way to analyze people like Yan is to write down their predictions and statements and then make note of whether or not these things actually materialize or not. When I see that a person has a track record of making false or inaccurate predictions or statements, I tend to discount what they say as misinformation and analyze their comments from that perspective. I don’t know about Yan, but I also heard about her information that the Chinese were using the athletes to potentially spread a virus with a long incubation period causing hemorrhagic fever.
I am not sure she was that precise in her claims. I cannot now remember her latest interview.
Good point. In her case, I saw a clip and then the analysis of someone else, so possibly her original claim was exaggerated. I should also add that even when someone has proven to be incredibly accurate, such as Golitsyn, who, as you have stated elsewhere, made over one-hundred and some odd falsifiable predictions, with an accuracy rate of over 90%, and yet most don’t believe him. On the other hand, when someone like an Alex Jones makes wild, unverifiable claims, people are quick to accept these things as the gospel truth. I’ve even heard people say ‘such and such prediction didn’t come to fruition, because I alerted the public, thereby averting certain disaster.’ This explanation for failed predictions and prognostications tends to wear thin after a bit.
I was told by a “friend” the other night that my work is not of interest to him because Alex Jones has predicted everything that is now happening. One only has to follow Jones to understand the world. I said, “Excuse me?” But this is what I continually run into. Of course, I could never get this fellow to read anything. He says reading books is unnecessary since the Wikipedia came along. He just looks everything up and it saves time.
He just didn’t want to have to criticize your narrow opinions, because knows how thin skinned you are.
Barth: If I was thin-skinned would I be allowing you to post nasty comments about me?
Not if people have time to read them before you do, you don’t.
I scroll through all but a few of your shortest comments, Barf. It only took reading a few to realize what an arrogant bore you are. YAWN.😴
Hi guys, just wanted to chime in. I, too, am interested in Dr. Li-Meng Yan’s latest allegations. I admit I am very partial towards her – but ultimately the true test is whether any of her predictions come to fruition. So far as I understand them, her allegations are:
(1) The CCP will use the Winter Olympics to disseminate a new round of biological weapons – specifically, modified hemorrhagic fever viruses (eg. ebola, hanta, Lassa, Marburg…)
(2) The viruses have been modified to increase their incubation period, so as to avoid detection until the vectors (athletes) return to their respective countries
(3) The CCP has identified a cancer-treatment drug manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, that is also effective in combating the deleterious effects produced by the viruses.
I believe that is the gist of it. If nothing else, we will soon have an answer as to how reliable the good Dr. Yan is as a source.
Now I remember her saying this. Yes. One wonders how she knows. Who is feeding her this. Hope she is wrong.
Is there some NSA technical means to observe when a nuclear device is set off on the earth ?
I saw a picture on a website of a couple of supposedly nuclear explosions. Article writer thinks in Syria but some say Ukraine.
For real ? Or just confusion / fear mongering ?
Your opinions would be interesting Jeff.
More likely thermobaric detonations. We have mistaken such for nuclear detonations in the past.
Of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/17/russia-mocks-press-after-day-of-no-invasion-passes-without-attack/
This could go on and on and on, like the Iran hostage crisis, with extensive daily coverage of nothing new to report. Again, everybody benefits from the high price of oil due to mass hysteria. Unless, of course, you drive a car. Next stop, a new, mini, Soviet Union.
I did not post that link simply to elicit an out-of-touch response from you, troll!
Since the Russians were failed to invade by having so many tanks stuck in the mud, it’s good to divert attention from the fiasco. Hope nobody noticed the banana peel under Putin’s left shoe.
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Mr Nyquist, all jokes aside, I take you for a serious person, and I’d like to think that you see me as one also. I have not been attacking you, nor presenting you with strawman arguments. Whereas, you try to place me in a binary choice mode, constantly. I framed it rather simply before, so I will do so again: can you imagine a Alexander Solzhenitsyn being welcome here, with his expressed public views? I think not. For I haven’t said much more or less than he would have. I am not a ” Putinist” or a Communist for protecting my civilization and what I hold dear. You want to hold to your thesis, fine. But you know as well as I do what dark forces can hide behind almost any idea, even good and correct ones much less the bad. I saw the dismemberment of Serbia, and now I am seeing the same attempt in the Russias for similar reasons. Time will tell which side is right, and which side has more scoundrels and fools than the other.
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