Russia initially did everything it could to make sure these disagreements could be resolved by peaceful means. However, the Kiev officials have conducted two punitive operations on those territories; and, apparently, we are witnessing a third escalation. All these years … the people living on those territories have been literally tortured by constant shelling and blockades.
Vladimir Putin, 21 February 2022
President Vladimir Putin spent months deploying Russian troops around Ukraine, on three sides. Of course, he said Russia was not going to invade Ukraine; and many believed him. Last week, when Putin’s spokesmen announced the Russian troops were standing down, many people believed him. But the troops did not leave their deployments. They moved closer to the border with Ukraine. And then it was alleged that the Ukrainians did a bad, bad thing. So, the Russian troops did not go home as advertised. The troops stayed in position; and on Monday, Putin decided to invade eastern Ukraine. And now Putin has asked the Duma for permission to use the Russian military to attack forces outside of Russia. Some intelligence analysts believe that a general invasion of Ukraine will soon begin.
Putin offers many and variable justifications for invading Ukraine: He says America initiated a coup in Ukraine and took it over in 2014. Putin also claims the Ukrainians are committing genocide against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. Putin complains that the West promised not to admit east European nations into NATO,[i] even though there was no treaty or formal agreement on this. Putin further claims that Ukraine is not a real country; rather, it was “created by Lenin.” (Untrue.) Therefore, Ukraine has no right to exist. Over-egging the omelet even more, Putin has suggested that the breakup of the Soviet Union was illegal.
Given the testimony of numerous defectors, and a strategic sense of things, it seems that Moscow has always planned to retake Ukraine, if only to put the Soviet Union back together. There is something inevitable about Moscow aligning with communist China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, communist Cuba, and all the other communist countries. Has anyone bothered to notice this? No. They were all too busy counting their “peace dividend,” congratulating themselves for “winning” the Cold War. The return of Ukraine to the Union and the reemergence of the communist bloc was always in the cards.
When are people going to wake up? The left remains deceived and the right remains deceived. They each have their narratives and each narrative has been wrong. How does one get past the embarrassment of it? Even now the conspiracy hacks are blaming Western elites for the war. Yet the war now begins on Moscow’s order, after Putin’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi on February 4. Most people will never realize what this means strategically; namely, that we are now in the Final Phase of the communist bloc long range strategy. And that means a trap is being sprung.
The communist powers have a special dilemma at this time, however. After fooling everyone for three decades, how are they going to get folks to realize they mean business? What if they cannot, like a highway robber, convince the West to surrender peacefully at gunpoint? Under the present circumstances, the West is threatening sanctions on Russia over this invasion of Ukraine. Sanctions? On the new owners of the world? (But then, does anyone realize who these new owners are?)
If the United States puts sanctions on Russia, I am told the Russians will launch a devastating cyber-attack on the United States. In response to this, President Biden has promised to retaliate in kind. What happens, then? A further escalation? Probably. Is there any way to avoid a wider war at this point? How would that be possible given the dynamic we are seeing?
Our banks, our companies, our trading systems, should have never given Moscow credits or technology or trade advantages. Our leaders should have never admitted China to the World Trade Organization. After twenty years, what is the benefit of this post-Cold War openness toward Beijing and Moscow? We are now on the brink of a war in Eastern Europe, not knowing if it will escalate or not.
Putin’s government has, in recent weeks, threatened Finland, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic States. Putin knows that NATO is weak and has been subverted. He knows that America is weak and unready for war. Also, Putin has China as an ally. Why should he fear anyone? He can threaten and bluster, yes. But he can also carry out those threats. He is powerful now. He has built his military and brags of “deploying weapons on combat duty without parallel in the world.” Ukraine has called up her reserves, finally, at the eleventh hour. If Russia strikes quickly, the mobilization will be too late. The ground is not frozen, but muddy. The sky is overcast with rain forecast for Kiev today. The Russian armor will be slowed. But how much will it be slowed? Ukraine is being abandoned because America and her allies did not prepare, did not take the threat from Russian seriously. And now we are feeding the crocodile in the hope that he will eat us last.
Today the Russian forces have reportedly commenced “radio silence.” Some sources say that a major war will being within two weeks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been told that a full Russian invasion, involving air and missile strikes, might begin in the next 48 hours. Ukraine’s foreign minister, grasping at straws, said that Russia is ready to attack and there is but a short time left for deterrence (i.e., for the West to declare its willingness to defend Ukraine).
The Russian leaders may cynically claim that Ukraine has provoked them and NATO cheated them, but Russia’s leaders are the real cheaters. They cheated on the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Agreement. They cheated on the Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement. Even as NATO got rid of thousands of tactical nuclear weapons the Russians have kept 20,000 such weapons. The proof is now in the pudding. Watch Ukraine.
Interview With Oppenheimer Ranch Project
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Notes and Links
[i] See by M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Stalemate. Sarotte’s research shows that no such promise was made to Moscow. In fact, Moscow signed treaties that brought NATO closer to Russia’s borders.
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What I don’t get is that the United States spends hundreds of billions of dollars in defense, including intelligence. It is hard to believe they do not know what is going on. I can accept that my friends do not know the seriousness of our situation. But NATO and US Army do not know? And now western world is defenseless? Hard to believe.
There is a difference between being defenseless and being outgunned. We have weapons, but we have misspent our money and have fallen behind. We have had corruption in our Pentagon programs. We have become a lax and permissive society. We have lost some of the intellectual and administrative wherewithal needed. We have very little in the way of strategic imagination.
Before the invasion began, I read the reports that Russia had killed five saboteurs who had crossed from Ukraine into Russia. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was surprised that Russia had so obviously taken a page out of Hitler’s 1939 play book, such an obvious false flag event, as a pretext to invading Ukraine. Did they think we wouldn’t recognize the obvious historical parallels? Showing that Putin is no different from Hitler?
Is it true that Putin also parroted the Nazi “blood and land” slogan?
If you fool me once, shame on you. If you fool me twice, shame on me.
I thought the Russians wouldn’t invade before summer, because of mud. That their armour would get mired down in mud. Apparently some of their armour did get mired down, but not enough to stop the invasion. I wrote before that was my expectation, I concluded wrongly on the timing.
The Russian bear has long wanted to conquer westward as well as eastward into Siberia. In the 1700s they took Finland and the Baltic states from Sweden. Later they took most of Poland. Their World War II conquests gained them eastern Europe. I don’t know why they didn’t annex eastern Europe into Russia, like they did their other conquests.
Will the Russians sit on the western border of Ukraine for a time of Sitzkrieg before their final push to take western Europe, or will they just continue on? Anybody have any guesses? Being wrong in one of my conclusions make me hesitate to make another, other than that they will attack western Europe.
Russia may be forced by economic circumstances to further moves. We will see.
Unrelated by symbolic. Russian tanks in Kherson now flying the Soviet flag. There are others besides this one. I never thought I’d see that flag again. My family in both countries is leaving except the men. In Lithuania all of the archives, museums and govt. agencies are making preparations to move archives, and holdings out. They no longer believe that NATO will adhere to Article 5.https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1497117468652982272?cxt=HHwWgMC-ofuZ6sYpAAAA
It is Sensible to prepare for worst.
Mr. Nyquist,
As a seasoned Military and Geo-political Strategist and Analyst; What do you think of the Quality and the Accuracy of the Institute for the Study of War’s (ie.the ISW’s) situational assessments of the Ukraine Battlespace?
Institute For The Study of War. Russia Team February 24, 2022
UKRAINE CONFLICT UPDATE
https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Ukraine%20Conflict%20Update%207.docx_.pdf
Thanks.
That website is a great resources. I used their deployment maps to assess what the Russians were up to last month. They have very good updates that compare favorably to other good sources.
Boris Reitschuster: ·
Gerade in einer Talkshow im 1. Kanal des Kreml-Fernsehens: Das schlimmste, was uns jetzt passieren könnte, wäre eine Kapitulation durch Selenski, denn dann müssten wir stoppen und könnten nicht die ganzen Faschisten umbringen. Und auch Selenski kann sich dann das Leben retten.
Boris Reitschuster:
Just on a talk show on the 1st channel of Kremlin TV: the worst thing that could happen to us now would be a capitulation by Selensky, because then we would have to stop and could not kill all the fascists. And Selensky can also save his life then.
Interview on Foxnews Thursday: Russian-born US intel expert Rebekah Koffler stuns Fox news desk people. I think she has read Jeff’s books!
Fairly incredible interview. Some might quibble that this is a more than 2 decades plan, but at least she’s far more realistic than most analysts. It is about time that Americans put down their toys and woke up to the fact that they are in very real mortal danger from a smart and evil enemy.
I would like to see Jeff interview her for his blog and/or see her interview Jeff on her YouTube channel. She believes America is close to war with Russia and a massive cyber attack and possible first strike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9j1vketEhc
Here is an article she wrote for the NY Post: “Why US sanctions on Russia won’t stop Putin’s blitzkrieg in Ukraine” https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/why-us-sanctions-on-russia-wont-stop-putins-ukraine-blitzkrieg/
Putin started acquiring more power in the 1990’s.”On 28 June 1991, he became head of the Committee for External Relations of the Mayor’s Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments and registering business ventures. Within a year, Putin was investigated by the city legislative council led by Marina Salye. It was concluded that he had understated prices and permitted the export of metals valued at $93,000,000 in exchange for foreign food aid that never arrived. Despite the investigators’ recommendation that Putin be fired, Putin remained head of the Committee for External Relations until 1996.” So he was corrupt, power hungry, and ruthless, likely using the kompromat he had on on people. Enough to keep him in his job, and confirm what tools he could use on his way up. The rate at which he rose in the ranks, and seeing the disintegration of the USSR up close, which he always refers to – I think it was more like a 30 year plan, from the moment of disintegration.
I believe Putin was then operating on behalf of the secret center, on behalf of the KGB and the underground Party apparatus. It is not a simple case of corruption, yet there is self-enrichment there. When Salye went to the Duma to complain to her favorite legislator, a famous liberal politician was there, in the legislator’s office, waiting for her. He spoke to her. She felt the cold chill of death. She then left Russian politics and disappeared into the countryside, into obscurity. WHO WAS THAT MAN WHO FRIGHTENED HER SO BADLY? We need to know who frightened Marina Salye, an heroic woman who was the true champion of the people of Saint Petersburg? Was it Sergei Stepashin? Some other name? Who could it have been? Does anyone know?
The truth is written in the book of reality.
She wrote a good analysis in Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America. Recently published.
She pronounces too many times the name Putin. Putin wanting to “recreate” the Soviet empire misses quite the mark. Truth is, communism and Russian gopnik hoodlum mentality has been systemic and that all they wanted was to expand on the empire. Pointing at Putin is conveniently missing the forest for the tree. And why is she allowed to speak now only, pulled out the hat. Far better people have been out there speaking. Fox News should invite JRN instead. These news outlets disgust me.
Jeff, not sure if you can comment, I was talking with a Chinese dissident who lives in New Zealand during the week and have learnt the departments within the Chinese Communist Party which handle controlled opposition or agents. I was told the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and Ministry of State Security (United Front Work Department) and also the handlers either have connections with the People’s Liberation Army and Ministry of State Security
Jeff, was there any reason you got rid of TFP forum, and are there any plans to bring it back? Discussion and unity is needed now more than ever. Thanks for providing this blog comment section at least.
TFP for nearly 20 years was run by a anonymous retired army guy from Hawaii. Most recent board was closed for various reasons. Trolls dominated, spam, page long posts that rambled off topic, and became too much a tax on Bill’s time.
Trolls are a constant feature and policing can become a full-time job.
I did not get rid of TFP Forum as it was run by someone else who found it a burden. It was amazing it kept going through years when little was happening and people lost interest in analyzing Moscow’s doings.
I sent the following letter to my representatives and I implore others to do so:
There is an individual on YouTube named Russell Bentley, who was born in Texas in 1960 and who left his home in Austin, Texas to join the Vostok Battalion in the so-called breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic in 2014 and fought on behalf of Russia against the legitimate army of Ukraine. Mr. Bentley still lives in Donetsk, and due to his age, is no longer actively fighting, but rather spreading propaganda, lies, and misinformation on his YouTube channel. Since President Biden has recently imposed sanctions on Russia for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Bentley is now officially a traitor to his own country and I implore that you and other senators pressure YouTube to remove such material from its platform. YouTube is providing a propaganda platform to a criminal who has committed the gravest criminal act that an individual can commit against his own country — treason.
One of the Russian tanks is flying a Soviet Communist flag:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1497117468652982272
B..b…but how could this be? Western leftists have told me the communists were defeated and that the Cold War was over!
It must be a rogue soldier, perhaps enamored with the past. Yes, yes, that must be it.
Unfortunately so have certain conservatives ala Putin is a good guy and the Cold War ended decades ago. We from the free former occupied nations (the CIS is not free, Chechnya is sending 10000 troops to Ukraine per Chechen media), even if we are citizens of other nations, have had a continual finger on Russia’s pulse, and in our hearts of hearts, we knew this was coming. We kept warning, but no one listened. Thanks to voices like Jeff’s and others, that provide an independent analytical assessment with similar conclusions to the FON (formerly occupied nations) these nations are being heard albeit late. My cousin called yesterday from Vilnius and asked if we would be there for them upon fleeing. My mother fled. At 100 she is besides herself. After returning from the GULAG and being treated as non-persons, they were able to build successful lives and businesses post-independence. I work with some archives. I’ve been told that the archives in Lithuania are making plans to send everything out which they were not able to do in 1941, 1942 and 1944. is this what our youth should be going through, due to one damned madman?
NATO had better pull together or Lithuania will be attacked next. It is true.
And think how the other madmen will use it!
What is this sarcastic comment even supposed to imply? That it’s “telling” if someone flies an antiquated flag? It’s uniquely symbolic if a rune from history is seen again? Come on now. Swastikas, Dixie flags, and Hammer/sickles are timeless insignia that will represent hatred forever. Seeing one on an invading Russian tank isn’t any kind of significant surprise.
Hi Jeff, is this actually still current that Ukraine is controlled by the KGB? Are they perhaps working together in reality and just want to involve the West and the USA and set a trap for them? https://www.weltoktober.de/lustration.html
Having KGB clandestinely working in Ukraine does not give them real control. That requires tanks and troops. One must always turn behind-the-scenes power into open power. It is the final step.
Jeff was right as usual, Putin threatens nuclear attack:
Journalist Boris Reitschuster:
Just listening to Putin’s speech this morning before the attack. Interchanging certain terms, it’s massively reminiscent of what we’ve seen in history. A politician who considers himself and his country humiliated and insulted has decided to finally strike back. He barely misses threatening a nuclear attack: anyone who tries to obstruct Russian actions will face consequences they have never seen before.
Based on what I’ve read over the years, the top echelons of the Soviet leadership don’t believe in MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). Therefore, is there anything to prevent them from unleashing a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the U.S.? One that will take out our ICBMs, air-force planes while they are still on the ground and much of the navy while in port? And for good measure some cities they deem unnecessary? Then while we’re still reeling, Chinese and their allied troops streaming across our northern and southern borders as well as unloading from ships?
I don’t expect an EMP because I expect the Chinese to want to be able to use the electrical grid post-conquest.
The U.S. is their top target. Why don’t people see that? Every time I try to warn people, I’m met with disbelief.
An invasion of America is far less feasible than that of Ukraine. We’re already seeing the difficulty in taking a country willing to fight, even with superior numbers and firepower. This idea that America is somehow ripe for invasion is beyond laughable.
By military standards, an easy military victory that is pointed to would be Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Hitler lost about 50,000 men and it took roughly 3-4 weeks. Judging by this measure Russia’s victory in Ukraine is likely to be much more impressive than Hitler’s blirzkrieg. Why? It took weeks for Hitler’s troops to get to Warsaw. It has taken less than two days for the Russians to get to Kiev. As for an invasion of America, the model used by China and Russia is Hitler’s invasion of Norway in 1939. Hitler invaded a country by sea while the British navy controlled that sea. How did he do it? Infiltration in peacetime and surprise.
But…it’s 2022. Things happen faster. If this is Putin’s plan it’s not out to a great start. Galvanizing the world against himself sinks his aspirations further by the day. He’s sounding less sane with each speech. Russian allies are balking. Whatever fantasy he is chasing is out of reach. My gut says Putin deluded himself into thinking the American Left would push the party in power towards him. Just look at his use of the term “de-Nazify”. He’s been putting real stock in America’s trendy soft-Communism. Something convinced him now is the time for his big showcase, but he underestimates the modern disdain for true tyranny. The authoritarian is an endangered species being methodically hunted by reason. His days are limited, and he knows it. This is his last hurrah.
Radiofort, where is the Reason you refer to which is methodically hunting the authoritarian? Where is the reason in Canada, where Trudeau just showed himself to be an authoritarian? Or in America, where we have quite a few mini-authoritarians in local, state, and federal positions? Or Australia? And on to Russia and China?
I see no reason in key places of influence and power. I only see madness and lost for control and power in most of those places.
You are very eloquent and express yourself very well, but I fear you have come to many wrong conclusions. Just because it is 2022, does not mean war and invasions are any easier, and thus explains Putin’s quick advances. No, even though we have more advanced technology and weapons, war still requires much planning, sophisticated coordination and timing, and still depends on the will and ability of boots on the ground, and keeping them well fed and supplied.
I fear that Putin, and by extension, China and their sayellites/allies are just getting started.
Any idea that human nature has changed ignores history. Liberty is fragile and always has been. Authoritarianism has been the most common form of government, and is likely to return as conditions worsen.
Updates:
– Many indications (videos and such) of Russians running out of fuel for their vehicles.
– It appears Putin has fired or sidelined his Chief if General Staff for the Russian Armed Forces
– Heavy civilian casualties after Russian forces attacked Okhtyrka
– Ukraine rejects talks with Russia
– Ukraine Ministry of Transport is beginning to move citizens of Kyiv to western Ukraine
– Russia hits a Japanese shipping vessel in the Black Sea with a missile. One casualty.
NATO needs to join in the fight. Prayers are ascending from everywhere on Earth.
You honestly don’t think the speed of information trade has reduced the ease with which people can inflict violence upon each other? Please rethink this idea. Human nature hasn’t changed but executing atrocities against each other can’t go unnoticed as it did in the past. The timeline of every humanitarian crisis has quickened. Tyrants have less time to do their work because global condemnation of atrocities is almost immediate. Authoritarianism can no longer expand in the darkness and trick everyone into not seeing it for what it is. Russia is quickly becoming a pariah state by its own hand. China is next in line. The monsters who have historically taken advantage of humanity’s ignorance have lost their teeth. Nonetheless they will still try to bite, but their ability to harm is steadily waning. (just look at the casualty details of this war so far for proof)
Radiofort, it is true that atrocities cant go unnoticed is they did in the past, but do you really think Russia and China care? If their militaries and training are as far superior to America’s, or any other country’s, as it seems they are, then I dint think it will make a hill of beans what the rest of the world thinks about their atrocities. They have been preparing for this moment for many years. I believe this is a whole different ball of wax than what we might would normally think.
What city can survive a nuclear ballistic missile attack? Russia has extensive ABM defenses. We do not.
Technology is used by tyrants. Read 1984.
And it’s also used to defend people. This whole idea that China and Russia are militarily stronger than America is based on the size of their arsenals, not on the technology. You don’t think they’re afraid of America’s military technology? You don’t think they’re comparable? And of course any country with a nuke could drop it on a metro area, that’s always a possibility. But now there can be swift and coherent opposition to tyrannical national behavior. The human willingness to fight for freedom cannot be contained anymore, as we see in Ukraine. Humanity will no longer be bullied; death is better than submission. As miserable an event as it would be, whoever drops the next nuke will not walk away from it. But it’s likely none of us would.
Ok Radiofort. Where is the swift and coherent opposition to Putin’s invasion, from the world at large as you seem to imply?
The human willingness to fight for freedom cannot be contained anymore? Look at all the freedoms given up (i.e. not fought for) by all the “free” nations of the world under Covid.
Look at the oppression on the citizens of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, etc. People protested, but at the end of the day (or week or three), everyone went home, nothing changed, and they and their freedoms continued to be trampled upon. There was no fighting when the brutality came from the police.
The majority of humanity no longer understands the grave responsibilities that come with freedom, nor the vigilance and discipline required to maintain it.
Yes, Ukraine is fighting, because they have no choice. But while the enemy massed on their borders for three weeks, they did nothing.
As for nukes, just wait. Nukes will eventually be used. It will probably shock most of the world.
I’m not attacking you. Just keep watching. As Mr. Nyquist said, human nature has not changed.
Russia and China have deployed military technology we do not have in our arsenal. The Russian TOPOL-M ICBM is a road mobile ICBM with a possible trans-Antarctic flight capability. We cannot shoot it down. The Russian S-500 is a true ABM that can shoot down whole clouds of incoming ICBM warheads. The Armata tank can be outfitted with a computer brain and could fight without a human crew. Then there are Russia’s hypersonic missiles and China’s new railgun, and the miniaturization of thermobaric warheads as good as small nukes but non-nuclear, and so on. They have a minisubmarine that can go 180 kilometers per hour underwater and can carry a 200 megaton tsunami bomb. We do not have weapons like this.
Many of the videos emanating from Ukraine are puzzling. Photographs of “dead” Ukrainians and “Russian” troops entering behind CNN hacks seem to have been staged. There is little or no blood on corpses, the “blood” that is evident looks fake, etc. If Putin had really planned this “invasion,” the Russians would have taken Kiev back in 2014, when the “weakling” Obama was in power. Putin had every opportunity to take all of Ukraine back in 2014–17 (pre-Trump), yet did not. So far the Russians have not (yet) seized Kiev.
In other news: if Putin is an enemy of the West, why is he on very friendly relations with Israel?
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2220
“Russia and “Israel” are practically allies at this point after Moscow pledged to secure Tel Aviv’s security interests in Syria. Although the Kremlin criticizes “Israel’s” regular strikes against the IRGC and its Hezbollah allies in the Arab Republic, it hasn’t done anything to stop them until recently when it belatedly bolstered Damascus’ air defense capabilities. Even so, this latest development hasn’t harmed bilateral ties.”
Any thoughts?
If Putin read your comment, maybe he would reply with the chorus to an old song:, “If you dont know me by now….you will nevah, nevah, nevah know me, oooooooooo.”
To be fair, I do agree that NATO’s ground forces in Europe, including auxiliaries, are seemingly insufficient to wage war vs. Russia. A West that is ridden with multiculturalism and foreign ideologies is seemingly unprepared to confront a nuclear superpower. But neither is Russia exactly behaving rationally: for a rational Putin would have taken all of Ukraine under a “weak” Obama. If anything, Putin’s hesitancy during 2014–17 (pre-Trump), save Crimea and Donbas’, smacks just as much of weakness as do Obama’s actions.
I dont know why he didnt do it then either. We can only assume that he wasnt ready then. All this ducks weren’t in a row on his end. Maybe our military wasnt sufficiently purged and crippled. Maybe we were still more able to fight effectively. Probably his military wasnt ready. He only revealed his new weapons in the past couple years or so, (at least since 2014). Maybe he had more details to work out with China. Maybe he had to wait on China to finish getting prepared. Did he have Europe as dependent on Russi for natural gas as he does now? We probably cant know just why he didnt attack then, but at any rate, he is doing it now.
I agree, NATO is too weak to do anything. And our military has been so messed up, it can do very little in my opinion. People said Trump rebuilt the military, but I could not see that.
Readiness is all.
Why are you citing antisemitic sources here?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-statement-idUSKCN11K2CI
The source(s), while anti-Semitic, merely derived its information from a non-anti-Semitic one.
According to Reuters, Obama DID sign a then-record-breaking deal with Israel in terms of aid.
Of course, Trump’s offer exceeded Obama’s, but at the time Obama’s set a record.
Your anti-Jewish underpants are sticking up over your WWII-issue military belt.
LOL
😆
“Obama hands Israel the largest military aid deal in history”
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/obama-hands-israel-largest-military-aid-deal-history
Given Obama’s Marxist orientation, what are we to make of this, as well as Russia’s quasi-alliance with Israel?
Russia hates Israel and has funded her destruction via Islamic front groups, while to her face they pretend they are her friend. This is well known if you know Communist history.
hi Jeff, your last interview with Nevin was interrupted and vanished from my YouTube history
It’s back up on Populist Patriot youtube
can you provide a link?
I posted it to a new article up on this site today.
Is it not there?
it reappeared, 1 hour ago, according to my YouTube
Hello All! The interview with Jeff is on the Populist Patriot website. I had to upload it several times because of technical difficulties/glitches associated with Skype and YouTube. Virtually the entire interview was uploaded. Apologies for the inconvenience.
I have posted a link on a new thread.
Follow the latest news as it happens:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/25/russia-attacks-ukraine-as-its-happening-a76553
21 minutes ago
NATO bolsters eastern flank
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance is bolstering its defences with troops and air power on its eastern flank in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
He said allies had activated defence plans and “as a result … are deploying elements of the NATO Response Force on land, at sea and in the air,” including thousands more troops and over 100 jets put on high alert in 30 locations, he said.
Forward deployments without a general mobilization. They are optimistic about NATO’s positions.
Rob Lee
@RALee85
Another video of a large air assault operation with Mi-8 helicopters in Hostomel, Kyiv oblast.
video:
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1496807049203642375
No one but those who understand “The Final Phase” understands what is really taking place right now. This is NOT just about Putin getting the Ukraine back into Russia. We have literally entered WW3 just as surely as the world entered WW2 when Hitler invaded Poland.
Putin is making the move to conquer Europe. To do that he needs to take out the USA. There’s no need to worry about NATO if the US is crippled. There is no hope in the West to counter what Putin is up to because no one really understands what is going on. I see it in Jeff’s writings and hear it in his voice. US leaders have been so duped that they are not prepared for what is soon to come, a massive cyber attack and suitcase nukes. And as Jeff tells us, “Nukes can fly at any time.” That is the reality we are now living in.
Russian subs are close to US shores. The US will have a SOTU address this coming Tuesday. Perfect for a decapitation strike. Maybe we will be given more time. Maybe God in Heaven will intervene. But if He doesn’t hell is coming and nothing or no one can stop it but God.
Get a grip. The next World war isn’t for at least, three and a half years after the internationalization of Israel. Europe is still around at that time, even if the US is not. The US might join the EU, or be wiped out by the Yellowstone and/or Utah calderas. Even though he didn’t delete your use of the term, God, Jeff won’t let me say, The Rapture.
You’re deluded and deceived Barth. I’m sorry
Don’t apologize, Baby Bullet, it’s not your fault.
If Jeff doesn’t strike with lightning, read, The Apocalypse Code, by Hal Lindsey
Lindsey is not a true scholar of those ancient languages, or symbols, or meanings, or histories, that are referred to in his books. His is a populist, sensationalist, best-selling approach is not what we need. Please do not bring that misguided hack into our discussions.
Barth, you are an apologist for mass murderers and psychopaths who want to rule the world and don’t care how many innocent human lives they snuff out. Only days ago, you were saying your Lord and Savior Putin would not invade. Now you say no one will launch an attack against US. Your track record is so reliably false that we should in fact be disturbed when you deny that the communists are planning a surprise attack. Thank you for being a reliable and consistent liar and shill for murderers.
Putin recognized two new independent Republics, which Ukraine continued to attack as they’ve been doing for quite some time already. Russia then activated it’s peace keepers. Seems to me that Putin has conducted a relatively near bloodless coup, with nominal expenditure of resources. He has called for peace negotiations and for Ukraine to cease it’s attacks against ethnic Russian, dual citizens of Ukraine and new Republics. Putin has adamantly objected to threats of sanctions against Russia. What does he care about finances, if he intends to conquer the World? If Zelensky would simply have honored the new Republics and ceased it’s attacks, I doubt if Putin would have taken military action, other than occupation of the new Republics. Now, Russia needs to get it’s war ships out of US waters, but it’s up to Biden to suggest it, in response to Putin’s demand for NATO to retreat to ’97 sphere of influence. Nuclear war is not to be evaded with obstinance
According to the Ukrainian deputy defense minister, Hanna Malar, Russia has lost an IL-76 military transport carrying 126 paratroopers headed for Kiev. They have lost 80 tanks, 516 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), 10 planes and 7 helicopters.
Hopefully, that is just for starters.
PS – Appeasement is the theory that by feeding others to the crocodile first, you will be eaten last.
Your peculiar interpretation of scriptures written in a language you do not read, alluding to historical events you never studied, is not the right way to analyze a war in twenty-first century Kiev.
Barth: I back up Jeff here. I have studied the Scriptures in their original languages, and I know the original languages better than most who claim to know them. I can NOT find your peculiar interpretation of Scriptures.
Huh? We’ll see how that interpretation holds up in the near future. In my reading of the Scriptures, there is no verse where Christians are promised a plane ticket out of here. Quite the opposite: all the prophets were martyred as were all of the Apostles. Once the Scriptures are divorced from the traditions of the Church Fathers, the doors are opened to whatever interpretation the imagination can dream up. Hal Lindsey has made failed predictions in the past and apparently he is still doing so today, from what I see. Goodness, American Christians are in La La land.
Jeff has previously replied that daddy Bush during Desert Storm era, in speaking of, The New World Order, was in reference to the Cold War, which Jeff agrees with Nixon or Kissinger, was WW3. Jeff further asserted that it has nothing to do with the current Globalist agenda, as if something imaginary.
Balance of Power, and Spheres of Influence, seemed to be what effectively kept Europe and the World free of nuclear war. During the, Cold War, the Western World, imposed sanctions against the USSR, which were dropped along with the Berlin Wall.
Whether the West was deceived by the dissolution of the Soviet Union, or if they found it convenient to pretend to buy into the ploy, the West couldn’t wait to drop the sanctions, as sanctions limited economic growth for Western business interest..
Putin calls for return to the pre 1997 Spheres of Influence, sans sanctions. That might be best for all concerned. Putin further considers that Eastern Europe has defenses robust enough to secure their own security, but that Russia is willing to discuss that aspect of his demand, for NATO to exit former USSR and perhaps Warsaw Pact, nation states.
Everything is always negotiable, but not if relevant parties refuse to talk.
Hal Lindsey clearly explains and cites specific relevant Scripture, of the timeline and events of, The Great Tribulation. Those who say that The Bible doesn’t say what I have said that is says, haven’t read Hal Lindsey’s books. I may not have completely accurately accounted for his writings, so read his works and then let me know; but not before. Otherwise, just wait and see.
Let me just ad, that the dismissing of Putin so far up till now, how been proven to be a big mistake. In my opinion, he takes restrained, measured actions, which merit close attention. He’s not acting in an irresponsible manor, or demonstrating any proclivity for World domination. I personally don’t act much differently, when so many fools these days, decide to get in my face, either.
Please do not misrepresent my analysis. Say what you think. Do not attribute nonsensical ideas to me. I do not agree with Nixon or Kissinger’s strategic ideas. I did not say WW3 was the Cold War. Nixon wrote that in a book. The full Cold War sanctions were not completely lifted until Obama imposed the new method of cancelling the banking privileges of Russian officials. That is not sanctions at all. Which major political event of the last 33 years did Hal Lindsay predict? I do not know of a single one.
Hal Lindsey has not and does not make predictions. He amplifies that the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation, state therein, that they are sealed until the End Times, become near; that event’s in the Apocalyptic books don’t make sense in context to ancient days, and that as time progresses closely towards the End Times, that events described by the ancient Hebrew Prophets, begin to make more sense in unfolding context. What Lindsey does, is discuss evolving current events in relation to Prophetic ones, and considers if they might not be relevant or not.
I do not think the message of the Hebrew prophets, in the seventh century B.C., were focused on twenty-first century America.
What do you mean convey, Jeff, with the title of your book, ‘Origins of the Fourth World War’? Or are you too, much of an artist, to say?
You evidently did not read the book. The Origins of the Fourth World War is in the Third World War. The idea is that world wars will continue. The Third World War is not the end.
Hal Lindsey has a doctorate from, Dallas Theological Seminary, and reads Greek and Hebrew. He uses whichever version of the Bible that has an accurate translation of whatever particular Scripture he cites, which most clearly conveys meaning in modern English. That being said, only the King James Version, is an accurate translation of the accurate ancient texts found at Antioch, Syria. All other versions of the Bible are translated from corrupted, contradictory texts, from Alexandria, Egypt. Therefore, as an expert in Greek and Hebrew, Dr Lindsey is able to carefully select only the modern English translations which happen to be accurate. The errors in all Bibles but the King James, are numerous, but there are many correct verses to choose from. If I were Hal Lindsey, I’d sue Jeff Nyquist for liable.
Barth, Lindsey failed the measure of a prophet, as given in Scripture. He has predicted different dates for Christ’s return, none of which came to pass. This makes him a false prophet.
In other words, not worth listening to.
Lindsey has NEVER made ANY such prediction for a date of Christ’s return. In fact he has stated repeatedly that Jesus himself didn’t know the exact date, but the that the season will be obvious.
In matters of religion there are many differences of opinion. The fact that Hal Lindsey has a “degree” from some theological seminary means nothing to me. He has made many failed predictions about his rapture, a doctrine that many Christians, including myself, don’t believe in. I believe in Christ’s Second Coming at the last trump just like Paul stated and the “last trump” occurs at the end of everything in the Revelation of Saint John. Lindsey and those of his ilk are opportunists who sell their cheap books to people who have not studied the Scriptures with any degree of depth. Or, as the Scriptures say, the dead in Christ will rise and then those that remain will be gathered up to be with the Lord, forever. I haven’t seen the dead rising up in their resurrected bodies. Have you? The phony “rapture” doctrine will cause many sincere, but misguided Christians to abandon the faith — the falling away or apostasia — from which the word apostacy comes — that is predicted by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and which precedes the appearance of the antichrist. Your theology is all mixed up.
Name one time that Hal Lindsey ever made a failed prediction of The Rapture; the term coined by the Catholic Church, to describe an event supported by numerous Scripture, if not by the term. Dallas Theological Seminary, may not be what it was back in the day of Lindsey’s attendance, but it is fully accredited and a doctoral degree from any accredited college must meet rigorous standards. JR Nyquist, for instance, doesn’t have even a masters’ degree. Dr Carl Sagan once stated: “If you don’t have a doctorate, you aren’t even in the debate.”
Hal Lindsey wrote an entire book about, The Rapture, reprinted in a different title, where in each edition he answers many critics on each of their particular misconceptions, such as Emilkc’s, regarding The Rapture.
This discussion is pointless. Your comments demonstrate that the strong delusion and falling away — apostasy– are occurring right now. I know where the rapture heresy came from – the Plymouth Brethren and John Darby Nelson.
I have asked you not to bring Bible prophecy here. If you do it again I will ban you.
I won’t argue the point, further, Barth, except to say that your interpretation is radically different from mine and mine is based on the study of the Church Fathers and Saints within the Eastern Orthodox Church, which considers such teachings to be a heresy. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see which interpretation pans out. Regardless, I maintain that the doctrine has had a negative impact on Christians by promising escape from persecution, which has never been the case for the prophets and the Apostles who suffered for the faith. I think Christians in the US are about to get a rude awakening and I hope that their faith isn’t shaken when the “rapture” promised by their huckster leaders does not occur.
These are important points. The danger now becomes greater. Starting in late spring, watch China and North Korea. An attack on the United States must occur at some point in the war.
So goes their script, apparently.
Hall Lndsey in the early 1990’s foretold a german-russian alliance,Look up his book ‘planet earth 2000 ad’.Seems to have been right on target.
Germany and Russia are not allies. Germany is allied to the United States and belongs to NATO. This is not a prediction that has come true.
A new YouTube with Jeff and Cliff Kincade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkSmpQpJfMQ
This was a great interview, Jeff. I honestly think Cliff is a great interviewer – sharp, knowledgeable, a true anticommunist. Learned tons here.
Has anyone read the book, From Russia with Blood, and if so, what are folks’ opinions on that book? I stumbled across the book at a used bookstore and have just began reading it.
I havent. But I just started reading, Only One Year, by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter. I found it by chance at a thrift store for 50 cents. Anyone have any thoughts on it?
No, but it sounds interesting. So, far the book From Russia with Blood has been pretty interesting. It definitely does not show Putin in a good light. The focus is on the rise of Putin from Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg to leader of Russia and his betrayal of those who helped his rise to power such as Boris Berezovsky.
She fled to America. That was voting with her feet. She hated the world her father built.
Looks like Germany is doing an about face and sending in arms. and is now going back on its block of SWIFT block against Russia. https://www.axios.com/germany-weapons-ukraine-russia-156e24ad-b591-421e-9c22-105118adc377.html
So that Russia can use those weapons against, The Balkans?
Germany halted construction of the pipeline to Russia as if higher prices for gas and oil would hurt Russia? Now, Germany sends weapons as England asserts that Russia is low on weapons and money with which to continue it’s adventure. Russia is bound to intercept the arms shipment, as it gets more money for oil with simpler logistics. I guess Russia won’t need to attack Germany.
If Russia were to run out of operational funds and weapons, would Putin resort to tactical nukes?
The distance between Kiev and Berlin is not so great.
This sounds like retarded, wishful thinking, as if Russia has funds in the West, to protect against sanctions by the West? Russia will simply borrow black market and from Germany, with international funds as collateral.
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West Kicks Russian Banks Off SWIFT, ‘Paralyzes’ Central Bank Assets
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[ Russia’s financial institutions that have been sanctioned in recent days, including Russia’s largest banks, will be ejected from the SWIFT network, thwarting their ability to conduct transactions internationally, von der Leyen said in a late-night press conference in Brussels.
She said the bloc would also “paralyze the assets of Russia’s central bank.”
“This will freeze its transactions and make it impossible for the Central Bank to liquidate its assets.” ]
[ Russia’s Central Bank has amassed some $643 billion in international reserves in recent years, largely through sales of oil and gas. The cash pile — the world’s fourth largest — was supposed to be Russia’s insurance policy in the event of Western sanctions. ]
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/27/west-kicks-russian-banks-off-swift-paralyzes-central-bank-assets-a76619