Four reformers met under a bramble bush. They were all agreed that the world must be changed. ‘We must abolish property,’ said one.
Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Four Reformers”
‘We must abolish Marriage,’ said the second.
‘We must abolish God,’ said the third.
‘I wish we could abolish work,’ said the fourth.
‘Do not let us get beyond practical politics,’ said the first. ‘The first thing is to reduce men to a common level.’
‘The first thing,’ said the second, ‘ is to give freedom to the sexes.’
‘The first thing,’ said the third, ‘is to find out how to do it.’
‘The first step,’ said the first, ‘is to abolish the Bible.’
‘The first thing,’ said the second, is to abolish the laws.’
‘The first thing,’ said the third, ‘is to abolish mankind.’
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What a devil wants, in the greater scheme of things, is to destroy. There is, in the cosmos, a creative principle. There is, opposing it, a destructive principle. Thus we find, two opposing tendencies behind everything. And you cannot have one without the other. Look at the policies of any leader and ask if these policies tend towards creation or destruction. Will his policies bring prosperity or bankruptcy? Will they bring peace or war?
Now let us consider, again, the socialists and their New Religion. The first socialist country (the motherland of socialism] was the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, otherwise known as the Soviet Union. Was this country a destructive or creative formation? Under its founder, Vladimir Lenin, millions were killed in the Russian Civil War and the Red Terror. We don’t even have an exact death count. What was then built? Everyone was poor. There was no money. So Lenin embraced “state capitalism” under the New Economic Policy (NEP). In other words, he destroyed the country for the sake of his power, then he rebuilt it with capitalism.
Of course, Lenin died in 1924 and Stalin took over. And once Stalin had built something, he began selectively destroying again; first, destroying elements of the Communist Party itself; second, by destroying the more prosperous farmers (the “kulaks”); third, by instituting a terror famine in Ukraine; fourth, by preparing a massive military buildup in advance of World War II. Stalin killed between 30 and 60 million human beings. Again, we do not know the exact number.
Then, to unleash Hitler on the world, Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. That begin what Stalin called the Second Imperialist War. Moscow and Berlin partitioned Poland. The West declared war on Hitler and the communists under Stalin gloated. They said to themselves. “The fools have given us Europe. All we have to do is wait for the combatants to exhaust each other while we build an arsenal of 30,000 tanks.”
Hitler was too successful in this early phase, defeating France in 1940. Hitler then realized what Stalin was up to and turned on his “partner,” attacking the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. Tens of millions died. But Stalin was saved by the West. And he invaded what is now China and helped the communists come to power there. And once this was accomplished, he contemplated a war with the West. But then he died, or perhaps was murdered by his associates.
These associates developed a long range strategy that involved re-enacting Lenin’s New Economic Policy. They wanted access to technology and money. They wanted to build in order to have a better means of destroying. They wanted also to subvert the West by becoming the West’s partner. And China would play a special role in this.
Now let us consider where we are today. Like Lenin, Gorbachev began a New Economic Policy back in the 1980s. The USSR gave up its empire for the sake of rebuilding itself, for the alleged sake of creation. Thirty years later, President Vladimir Putin has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. In other words, creation was placed in the service of destruction.
Despite what people are saying, Putin has a potent military. And we have only seen a small part of it. Naturally, it is not perfect. As Viktor Suvorov has argued, Moscow’s army is paradoxically strong and weak, effective and ineffective. With every apparent defeat it will move forward. It will win hard-fought battles. This is the pattern. This is already the way Russian history works.
And in this current military scenario, Putin has aligned his country with China and the other communist countries. He has not done this because he is a Christian. Oh no. He is a fake Christian even as he was a fake democrat. Putin is a communist, and his goal has always been to paste the Soviet Union back together – which is why he invaded Ukraine.
Putin stated in his pre-war speech that the breakup of the Soviet Union was illegal. That means he is not actually the leader of Russia, but the leader of the Soviet Union. His objective, therefore, is to lead the communist bloc to victory over the imperialists and capitalists. Therefore, the war in Ukraine is part of a much larger project.
Of course, Putin says he is liberating the Ukrainian people from American imperialist control. But everyone can see that the Ukrainian people are already free, and they are willing to fight and die for that freedom – because they do not want to be ruled by Moscow. And so, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has met stiff resistance. The weather in February was warmer than usual. The Russian tanks and vehicles have been largely road-bound and limited in their ability to maneuver. So Russian casualties have been higher than expected.
So what does Putin do?
He bombards Ukraine’s cities. He destroys and he destroys. Last week the mayor of Kharkiv said one third of the city – Ukraine’s largest city – was rubble. Mariupol has been besieged and its 400,000 residents are said to be without running water or heat. Kiev faces the greatest offensive of all. Elements of four Russian armies are gathering to the north and east of the city. Their objective is to surround it, to bombard it, and to wipe out Ukraine’s center of government.
The suffering in Ukraine is unimaginable. Yet the people bravely fight on against difficult odds.
President Zelensky, addressing the British Parliament, received a standing ovation when he said, “Ukraine has not wanted to become great, but we have become great in the course of this war. We are the country that is saving people despite having to fight one of the biggest armies in the world. We have to fight the helicopters, the rockets. The question for us now is, ‘To be or not to be.’ Oh no, for the last ten days this question could have been asked. But now I can give you a definitive answer. It is definitely ‘yes, to be.’ And I would like to remind you, and the world, what you have already heard, again: We will not give up. And we will not lose. We will fight to the end, at sea and in the air. We will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets…. We will fight on the banks of different rivers … and we are looking for your help, for the help of the civilized countries. We are thankful for this help, and I am very grateful to you, Boris [Johnson, Prime Minister of the U.K.]. Please increase the pressure of sanctions against this country. And please recognize this country [Russia] as a terrorist state. And please make sure that our Ukrainian skies are safe. Be sure that you do what needs to be done, and what is stipulated by the greatness of your country. Best of all to Ukraine and the United Kingdom.”
How can the West resist this plea? Can the civilized world stand by and merely watch? The alternative, of course, is to risk nuclear war. The Russian government has sternly warned the world to stay out. They have put their nuclear forces on alert. They are ready to launch their missiles. And here is a moral dilemma. Does the West remain comfortable and safe as it watches an entire nation destroyed?
I am afraid there is no happy answer here. If we do nothing, I must tell you my honest opinion. We will be bombed and attacked when our turn comes. This is something I came to understand long ago. Putin and his communist allies are destroyers, and they seek America’s destruction even more earnestly than they seek Ukraine’s.
Putin has shown that he is a destroyer, not a creator. The destruction we are now witnessing appears quite insane to us. Yet Putin is not a madman. Destruction is a choice open to all. It is the choice, I believe, of all the totalitarian countries. And we have refused to recognize this. War with these countries has always been in the cards. And if by some miracle we avoid a great war now, it will yet come.
And for that matter, we have communists right here in America, facilitating the work of destruction, aiding and abetting our enemies in Beijing and Moscow. Watch the death and destruction unleashed on Kiev. There are even more destructive Russian weapons aimed at New York and Washington. If the leaders in Moscow are willing to level the cities of their brother Slavs, do you think they will fail to level our cities?
We have no idea how much danger we are in right now. And we have no idea how much our own survival may depend on the survival of Ukraine.
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281 responses to “The Abolition of Humanity”
Jeff, if Putin and Xi’s goal is to take over the world, why don’t they just go and do it already? Why the big delay? They have the superior power, so why are they moving in slow motion? How does that serve them? Why not just nuke and invade the big countries right now that they want to conquer?
They have to attack in a way that does not collapse their own economies, turn their own people against them, or get them killed by American precision weapons. Nobody really knows whose weapons work best until you actually fight with them. War is not as easy as you may think. Clausewitz referred to something he called “friction.” We call it “Murphy’s Law.” Moscow’s little stumble in Ukraine complicates their plans. Does it stop them? Maybe all of this forces them to follow through. By sometime in June we will know where this is headed.
It is headed to the hilt, and Ukraine will survive. Putin has exposed himself as a moral fraud. This invasion will not succeed and it will be his end. Whether through a swift collapse or drawn out deflation, this conflict will massage the people of Russia into owning their future. As tragic and painful as war is, the world will benefit from the interspecial connections this one has allowed. People can now see war playing out in real time, as perception control tactics of the past are proven toothless. Tyrants will flail and pout while the heroes they create are followed. Champions of integrity like President Zelenskiy and Marina Ovsyannikova have already been calcified as human representatives of the new age. People are reaching their potential en masse. The power structures of might and fear that have always reigned are falling, being replaced by reason and temperance. Rejoice for what lies ahead.
Russian ships are shelling targets in the suburbs of Odesa as naval activity ticks up in the Black Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
“We do see increased naval activity in the northern Black Sea,” a senior defense official told reporters on Wednesday.
Jeff, a P.S. to my earlier question: if the answer to “why don’t they just nuke and invade everybody right now?” is that they want to provoke the West into starting something so public opinion goes in their favor, my question then becomes: why would they care if the world approves of them or not if they’re plan is to take over everybody by force?
It is not world opinion they care about as much as the support of their own people.
Just the same way they murdered millions and are destroying whole cities, they subverted and destroyed the western identity and sense of reality. What today we name normalcy is nothing more than deep alienation.
Yes!
Very good comment. It seems to me that the destruction of the western identity has been very successful on the part of the communists and their fellow travelers, unfortunately. On this cultural “battlefield,” they have been very successful. Maybe some good can come of the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine if it serves to wake some people from their slumber and the false notion that “the pendulum swings back and forth” (as many of my conservative friends like to say). I think if the notion of a pendulum were replaced with a wrecking ball, the analogy would be more apt. The conservatives haven’t managed to conserve much of anything and the liberals have become deluded with the more extreme aspects of their own pet ideologies. The end result is a complete detachment from reality.
Rhetoric is heating up after Biden called Putin a war criminal:
A spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, responded by saying that Biden’s comments were “unforgivable,” according to the Russian media outlet TASS.
“We consider unacceptable and unforgivable such rhetoric of the head of state, whose bombs killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world,” Peskov said.
It is problematic for a U.S. President to use that language, especially if you want a negotiated peace.
But let’s face it, it’s better that way, because any peace negotiated with the Kremlin would be unacceptable to Ukraine and would just set the stage for another invasion somewhere down the line.
Now is not the time to be doves pleading for peace. Zelenskyy has masterfully forced the West to continue aiding Ukraine. Biden, beforehand, was refusing to send anti-ship missiles and was only giving the bare minimum to save face politically. With Zelenskyy beating the drums and the entire western public behind him (polls show a supermajority of Americans stand with Ukraine), weapons are flowing into that country and making life very difficult for the Russians.
I have even come to believe that the No-Fly-Zone was, in fact, the correct move. A Ukrainian analyst noted that dovishness on the part of the west just encourages Putin to escalate, as it encouraged Hitler in his day. Dovishness would likely result in fresh outrages and even nuclear strikes on the part of Russia against the west, despite the dovishness being deployed to avoid such a war at all costs. An alleged letter from an FSB analysis, supporting this idea implicitly, claims (per my poor memory) Russia still has plans to unleash cyberwarfare and to up the ante by threatening (and actually carrying out) limited strikes on Poland and the Baltics and declaring their OWN No-Fly-Zone, only one purportedly meant to stop the US/NATO from arming Ukraine. Missile strikes would be announced beforehand with pleas for civilians to evacuate. Allegedly, we may see the foundation for these things begin being laid in the coming days (we will know if the letter is real then at that point).
Whether that letter is fantasy or not, it shows that there is a lot the Russians can do to escalate if they assume the West will simply backdown with each threat made. Instead, Russia should be made to feel that he has underestimated western resolve. It appears he already has: Germany of all countries joining in on sanctions was shocking enough. And now all these countries are suddenly interested in rebuilding their militaries.
We are in a death struggle here. Negotiation is not going to work. Russia has to win or they will be set back by decades. Ukraine has to win or Russia moves on NATO next.
I would not count on Biden to come through with the weapons in a timely fashion.
Or, thru some back channels to let the enemy know when, where, how they will be transferred to Ukraine, and they just happen to fall into Russian hands.
If you watch the video of him saying that, it’s very bizarre. At first he says “no” but about 30 seconds later he comes back to it and says yes. If Russia is looking for “provocation” to spread the war, this might add to it.
I’m reading this about persecution of the Jews from 1880s-1945. I didn’t realize how bad the pogroms in Russia were. They could rival the Nazis really. At least the Nazis kept their atrocities somewhat out of site. The Russians would turn it into a big party and all the Russians would just get together and rampage, killing, stealing, raping, torturing Jews, for days. It couldn’t be about Jews political leanings because when these pogroms took place Jews were barred from politics. Some Jews were more successful than some Russians and the Russians just couldn’t stand it. It was envy and resentment. What Jews were to Russia in the 19th century, America is to Russia in the 21st century. Before I was thinking of this issue as political, or maybe inertia of Russia. Now it makes me think this is a spiritual or emotional problem. Which if true(?) is worse and I don’t see how this showdown can be stopped.
Other countries did it too. I have read of Poland and Ukraine carrying out pogroms as well. I’m not trying to denigrate those two countries, or paint Russias current actions in a good light, just saying it was common in all those countries, and very wicked. Poland was horrible even to Polish Jews who were fighting the Nazis.
I’ve never been able to understand how Russia, Poland, Ukraine, other countries could do such things to the Jews.
All nations have dark periods in their history.
Antisemitism has always been a tool of state craft to control and redirect the anger of the ruled. It has always been fomented from the top.
I have heard it explained that the serf system in Russia was extreme in comparison to other countries in Europe. It was essentially identical to slavery in the USA, with Russian peasants holding no rights despite what was on the law books (the law made it possible for peasants to sue for being mistreated, but actual instances of Russian courts holding in their favor are miniscule) and even being sold. Peasants were also forced into 25 year military conscriptions–a death sentence considering the extreme sadism of Russian commanders (still a problem today, with many Russian troops committing suicide each year due to systematic hazing and rape).
When such an enslaved and brutalized people get the chance to brutalize someone else, I imagine it can quickly resemble a Hellraiser movie.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-globalists-have-fomented-war-in-ukraine-to-establish-the-tyranny-of-the-new-world-order/
Zelensky went through the WEF “young leaders” training with Trudeau, Macron, etc. So what is really going on?
Unless you were there it is hard to say what that means. Guilt by association is only real guilt sometimes.
Mr. Nyquist, you ask me what I think of all this: well, aside from any opinion on your theories, I think that if this has been a mistake, it’s the best ” mistake ” ever in the history of mistakes. You have seen nothing yet. This is the Great Divorce, the beginning of the end of the whole Russian Westernization project begun by Tsar Peter the Great. However, the needle will have to be threaded of not falling into the grip of undue Asiatic and Islamic influences, and actually being an influence on them instead.
The conflict itself is a ” done deal”, looking past the liberal western rage and hysterical ” Baghdad Bob” level propaganda. Poland will be the immediate Western beneficiary, by the way, no doubt restoring Galicia to her dominion eventually, This is what I think.
Strannik; I see now that you do not live in Russia. I had the impression that you did. And I am surprised that you see this as a positive development for Russia, accepting the destruction wrought on Ukrainian cities and the civilian deaths as justified. Honestly, I expected Ukraine to be won over to Russia with gentler methods, with more sophistication. But somehow this was not possible. The Ukrainian spirituality, which the West could learn from, is evident from their unexpected brave defense. And what benefit will this destructive war bring to Russia? I mean, the West is not involved in this war, are not really suffering like your people are. It is Ukrainians fighting against Russians. All the destruction is on the Slavic lands. This cannot be good, can it? And how can you regard Putin as a Christian, or as a legitimate ruler instead of a tyrant? I think you must be under a spell of delusion.
These secretive meetings and groups have a logic that makes sense in Western socio economic and political system. Western politicians and big businessmen cannot speak their mind truthfully with each other in a public forum, particularly concerning difficult decisions that would not be popular to make if discussed openly.
Evidently you have not followed our politics very closely.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/why-i-stand-with-abp-vigano-and-his-analysis-of-the-russia-ukraine-conflict/
I appreciate your comment about guilt by association (Zelensky), and Mr. Quaterman’s comment about answering for calling Putin a false Christian. That’s btwn Putin and God. I thank each one of you who are attempting to be reasonable in such times.
Loooong but interesting article. Thanks Sarah. This is something I’ve also questioned:
“If the world media have so far been able to lie shamelessly on a matter of strict scientific relevance, spreading lies and hiding reality, we should ask ourselves why, in the present situation, they should suddenly rediscover that intellectual honesty and respect for the code of ethics widely denied with COVID.”
Certainly makes you wonder…..
Mr Nyquist, in response to your reply on this war: no, I do take this war as a mistake, a failure, even an abomination. But, it has had the effect of dividing East from West, has it not? This war, as with all wars, occurred because of our sins, and special attention should be noted that few are the wars which work out as intended originally by their planners.
Ukrainians fight as befits Slavs, as the Russians they are, resolutely regardless of the right or wrong of their cause. We need to be united however, because enemies exist all around , and due to the Faith most of us claim. This is a civil war, you see, and like most civil wars, both sides have their point, and good men on either point, much passion and rhetoric, bad feelings and fratricidal bloodshed.
No, I’m very close to situation, maybe too close
I watched Putin’s remarks yesterday and became very concerned. His talk of purging Russia’s Western Fifth Column sounds like Stalinism. I agree with the concerns of former Russian Prime Minister Kasyanov, that this could be bad for Russia. It partakes of an ungenerous paranoia. Here in America we have a Fifth Column, too — of Marxists who collaborate with China, Cuba and even Russia. We have many facts to show this, but I would never recommend Stalinist methods of “purification.” War hysteria, of course, can produce such results. But it is always lamentable when the innocent are condemned with the guilty. A reign of terror is always counter-productive. You have to win people over with reason or you are lost. Right? I think Putin has taken a turn for the worst.
Many experts agree with you Jeff.
For anyone interested:
Putin echoes Stalin in ‘very, very scary’ speech
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-echoes-stalin-in-very-very-scary-speech-185956140.html
@JRNyquist: I would also draw attention to a somewhat lesser-known historical figure, that of Mustafa Kemal, “Ataturk”. After WWI, a little more than one hundred years ago now, he became a patron of the “Young Turk” movement in Turkey, which sought to make a more ethnically- and religiously-homogeneous country, i.e. Turkic and Muslim.
One has to remember that the land now called Turkey had for thousands of years, even after the Turks came from Central Asia, been home to large populations of diverse peoples, like Greeks, Armenians, Jews, and Assyrians, among others. Shortly after the “Young Turk” movement became really popular in Turkey, the Greek and Armenian genocides followed. That’s what Putin’s recent troubling words reminded me of.
As an addendum to my previous reply, another goal of Ataturk’s was to make Turkey secular.
NATO Calls up Hundreds of Thousands of Troops Ready to Begin WWIII
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/nato-calls-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-troops-ready-to-begin-wwiii/
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What Mr. Armstrong should say is : NATO attempts to defend against Russia, who has already started WW3.
Hi Tom,
Maybe the communists in the EU and USA leadership are urging NATO to go to war because they know they can’t win. Maybe they know Russia needs to be provoked before Putin unleashes holy hell on the US. Maybe there is a scissors strategy taking place. Armstrong doesn’t see that of course. Only those familiar with the Final Phase understand the depth of Russian deception and strategy.
Mr. Armstrong certainly doesn’t like Zelensky. I was a bit surprised back in February when he wrote this:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/volodymyr-zelensky-the-man-intent-on-creating-world-war-iii/
These are indications that a larger war is coming.
Much has been made of ‘Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees’. As if they did us all a great favour and as a consequence we’re now in their debt. Isn’t it a fact though, that these weapons were under centralized (Russian) control and would have remained so regardless. These weapons never were Ukraine’s to use.
Actually not true. “Possession” is nine tenths of the law. Terminating links to the Soviet command structure would be easy for the country that built SS-18 ICBMs. And returning the weapons to the Russians did us no favors.
In retrospect, what should Ukraine have done? I would have suggested a call to the Israelis with a “deal they couldn’t refuse.” Of course, this would have never been allowed to happen, it was all probably “rigged” before the “fall’ of the Soviet empire.
I’m no expert, but suppose Montana seceded, could they then have exercised effective control over ‘their’ missiles? Without the personnel,launch-codes,infrastructure ect. These after all arent scud-missiles you just point and then let go…The Southafricans dismanteled their weapons…Ukraine is something entirely different I think
No, they could not do so unless they had experts to reconfigure the weapons.
Nothing existed that would have prevented them from removing the MIRV (and other) warheads.
It is unlikely they would have had much use for “intercontinental” missiles.
That is a complicated question, having to do with the action codes on the weapons. You may be right. I would have to check.
Jeff, excellent post. The situation with us wondering what to do and the Ukranians fighting “to be” reminded me of a quote from Churchill. Winston Churchill once wrote, “If you will not fight for freedom when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Good quote.
Jef do you think Russia would eliminate the European population or enslaved the people in country likes France or Germany?
On your blog the article about the speech of a chinese General is about to exterminate the American people, but how Russia is protect against racial bioweapons? Most Americans are descendant from Europeans.
Theoretically, I expect such a weapon would not be deployed until the U.S. mainland is isolated by some form of blockad, so that the virus could not leave this continent. Perhaps the Russians will be advised regarding an antidote, vaccine or other treatment. I am frankly skeptical of the genetic weapon idea. It may ultimately prove impractical.
Especially when Anthrax is so effective easy and cheap.
If a war became so destructive that the major cities of Russia were reduced to rubble, their objective would be to conquer Europe and move their population there — though that would not be easy, especially as Europe is waking up.
Do you know anything about it?
German News:
How the CIA Prepared the Ukrainian Army for War
After the 2014 annexation of Crimea, U.S. agents began training Ukrainian soldiers for a major war against Russia. According to the CIA, years of training paid off.
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_91846370/cia-hat-die-ukrainische-armee-jahrelang-auf-den-krieg-vorbereitet-details.html
I have read it, yes.
In my seventh decade of life and my fifth as a Christian there is one thing that I have learned that applies here. Be very, very careful in labelling someone who claims to be Christian as a “fake Christian” . While that may or may not empirically seem true, you WILL have to answer for that to someone who knows for certain.
You must judge a tree by its fruits as Jesus instructs. Communism’s fruits are death, destruction, and the wrecking of society. To the extent that Putin is a “former” KGB man who laments the fall of the USSR as a “geopolitical catastrophe,” it is hard to take the lip service he pays to the Russian Orthodox Church seriously. In the Book of Acts, there are many instances where the Apostles called people out for peddling heresies or trying to make a profit (in the material sense) off of religion. Again, the “fruits” of Sergius recognizing Stalin rather than standing firm against communism were manifested in the split of the Russian Orthodox Church with many bishops breaking communion with him as a result. While I don’t pretend to judge the man’s soul, we can certainly evaluate the fruits of this capitulation which resulted in deep and lasting divisions in the Church and also amounted to a tacit acceptance of the atrocities committed by Stalin in the name of his communist ideology. Indeed, it gave Stalin the perfect excuse to intensify his persecution of the catacomb Christians who refused to go along with communism and were either sent to the gulag or executed. To go along with evil is to become a partaker in the fruits of that evil. Again, it’s up to God to judge his soul, but his actions (Putin) show that he is a man utterly without conscience who is willing to sacrifice thousands of lives on the alter of ideology or his vision of a rebuilt USSR 2.0.
A simple question, then. Why is Putin the only leader on the world stage speaking out vehemently against the homosexual agenda? Not even Trump would do that. Yet many are willing to accept his Christianity. As to what Putin is doing now, there is simple observation: Given Putin’s demands for a ceasefire both pre and post invasion; if Putin is wrong then so was JFK. There is more to this than we are privy to but you might lend an ear to Bishop Kirill or Archbishop Vigano. George Soros is demanding intervention in Ukraine… .
Psychological warfare is a powerful thing. Seed the enemy country with corruption, then posture as a conservative who opposes corruption, Putin and the KGB gave this gift of homosexuality through their subversion, and now they want to bomb the Hell out of us to cure us. The word communism is an orphan, says an anti-communist friend of mine. Nobody knows what it signifies.
He speaks against homosexuality in the same way that Fidel Castro did when he locked them up under his regime (and he imprisoned many homosexuals). He saw it as an expression of bourgeoisie excess and depravity, but he did not condemn it from a Christian standpoint and neither does Putin. Again, the propaganda puts a spin on this and makes it into something it is not. Putin is a divorcee, a murderer (of his opponents such as Alexander Litvinenko and many others and now of an untold number of Ukrainian civilians), and an egomaniac, all of which go against the tenets of Christianity. As stated in 1 John: “if there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” How can one make this determination without “judging” a person’s sincerity as a Christian? To suggest that Putin is likely not a real Christian based on his actions, is not inappropriate, especially after his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and targeting of civilians.
See Putin denying God during a Larry Kinv interview. King: Do you believe there is a higher power?
Putin (through translator): I believe in human beings. I believe in their good intentions. I believe in the fact that all of us have come to this would to do good things. And if we do so, and if we do so together, then success is awaiting for us. And both with regards to our relations as people to people, or inter-state relations. And most important, we will achieve the ultimate goal, comfort and joy in our own heart.
King: Thank you Mr President. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/21558.
I wonder what “good thing” Putin thinks he is doing by massacring Ukr. civilians?
I once heard a psychologist lecture that EVERYONE essentially tells himself that he is a good person. It’s the only way each person can rationally function. Self-delusion knows no bounds.
I have watched Putin for a long time, and very carefully. He is not a Christian. And I stand by that.
Jeff, you may find this Twitter article about leaked documents from GRU’s psyops warfare group of particular interest. From Michael Weiss. https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1335951843004997633
Last night, the electronic control system to which most of the church bells of Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral are connected was hacked and from 2:11 a.m. these bells (not the mighty “Pummerin” though) were ringing like crazy for an eternity of 20 minutes!
This is psychological warfare par excellence, and it doesn’t forebode well especially in light of the fact that, back in April 1945, when the Soviet Army was about to conquer Vienna, a fire broke out in the cathedral’s south tower, in the course of which the old Pummerin bell was destroyed.
Listen to the complete set of church bells of St. Stephen’s, with the commanding sound of the new “Pummerin” (consecrated in 1952 and finally installed in 1957) setting in at 1:58:
Correction:
That incident had already occurred the night before, i.e. early Wednesday morning.
It is the sound of alarm. Rapid and insistent.
Disturbing historical fact: March 16, the day earlier this week when St. Stephen’s bells rang for over twenty minutes in the middle of the night, until the Dean of the cathedral was able to turn them off, had also been the date, back in 1945, when the Soviets launched, out of Hungary, their great Vienna Offensive! They only entered Vienna, through heavy fightings against the remaining Wehrmacht units, in April, but the operation as such began indeed on March 16!
So, we have here a very grim, very sinister and deeply intimidating reminder to Austria that it might soon be 1945 all over again – with tens of thousands of mostly super-rich Russians having already set up their residences. particularly in Vienna, many years ago…
This is significant.
Something I’ve been looking at and wondering if I should upgrade a few items soon. Just an FYI:
“Some 45%-54% of the world’s semiconductor grade neon, critical for the lasers used to make chips, comes from two Ukrainian companies, Ingas and Cryoin.”
One company is in Mariupol, the other in Odesa/Odessa. Both are cities that Putin is very interested in controlling. Russia is the top producer of Palladium. also used in electronics. We already have a shortage of chips, so this could get very interesting. I’m wondering if Russia will use Palladium and Neon to secure help from China?
“The stoppage casts a cloud over the worldwide output of chips, already in short supply after the coronavirus pandemic drove up demand for cell phones, laptops and later cars, forcing some firms to scale back production.
While estimates vary widely about the amount of neon stocks chipmakers keep on hand, production could take a hit if the conflict drags on, according to Angelo Zino, an analyst at CFRA.
“If stockpiles are depleted by April and chipmakers don’t have orders locked up in other regions of the world, it likely means further constraints for the broader supply chain and inability to manufacture the end-product for many key customers,” he said.
And:
“According to a Chinese media report that cited Chinese commodity market information provider biiinfo.com, the price of neon gas (99.9% content) in China has quadrupled from 400 yuan/cubic meter in October last year to more than 1,600 yuan/cubic meter in late February.”
I had not heard of this before. Very interesting!
Jeff, watching all of these addresses by Zelenskyy (to Canadian & German parliaments, the US Congress, etc), insisting that NATO impose a no-fly zone, I’m struck at how good his command of history is and how well he has tailored each speech to the history of the country he is addressing. (Apparently he wrote these speeches while evading Russian assassins and defending Kyiv.) I’m also struck by the fact that a) he is a trained actor, b) many people originally believed he was Putin’s puppet, c) he is asking us to take action in a way that might provoke a nuclear strike, d) we are being led to believe that the Ukrainians are almost winning (and that we might be able to help them win), and e) the Russian military is performing much more poorly than expected. Do you think this may be an elaborate scheme by Putin to appear weak, to invite US involvement? What happened to invading five NATO capitals in 48 hours? Do you think Zelenskyy’s speeches might have been written by strategists in Moscow, to convince NATO countries to enter into WWIII, a nuclear conflict that we have no hope of winning?
Putin is more than embarrassed. He is lashing out at his own people. This is very dangerous.
Agreed. His anger may lead him to rash decisions!
“The deputy chief of Russian’s National Guard was reportedly detained Thursday amid news that Russian President Vladimir Putin is cracking down on disloyalty within his ranks following the invasion of Ukraine. “
US fears Putin may threaten use of nuclear weapons if Russia remains stalled in Ukraine
U.S. intelligence officials believe Vladimir Putin may threaten to unleash Russia’s nuclear arsenal increasingly as Ukrainian defense forces continue to thwart his invasion of their country.
Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, revealed the concerns in a new report on global threats dated March 15 and obtained by Fox News Thursday.
“As this war and its consequences slowly weaken Russian conventional strength, Russia likely will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the West and project strength to its internal and external audiences,” he wrote.
There are some things about this war that just aren’t adding up.
Hello K. I am not following the popular narrative by the media that Zelensky is a “hero.”
It’s interesting what you said: “…Zelenskyy’s speeches might have been written by strategists in Moscow, to convince NATO countries to enter into WWIII, a nuclear conflict that we have no hope of winning?”
Instead of Moscow, what about Beijing?
Could the Chinese be egging on both billionaires: Putin and Zelensky?
The difference between those who create in those who destroy is wonderful and I thank you for sharing it Jeff. Reminded me of this verse
Revelation 11:18
18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name, small and great,
And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”
Very interesting interview
https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2022/03/17/weichert-russia-civilizational-state-putins-moment/
He is closer to the conventional wisdom than I. He reckons with states, not peoples or authentic belief systems. Insurgences rarely win, by the way.
Yes, we were one of those rare insurgencies that won. Praise be to our founders and the Good Lord.
And thanks to the French army and navy.
More threats:
“A Russian ambassador on Thursday said Bosnia and Herzegovina could face the same military aggression unleashed on Ukraine if the country joins NATO.”
Russia warns United States: we have the might to put you in your place
LONDON (Reuters) -Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart.
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said the United States had stoked “disgusting” Russophobia in an attempt to force Russia to its knees.
“It will not work – Russia has the might to put all of our brash enemies in their place,” Medvedev said.
The mask is coming off in layers, and it seems right on target with their plan. Governor responds to Russian lawmaker demanding US give back Alaska: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/go … d=msedgntp
Ukraine conflict: Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
By John Simpson
World Affairs editor
Published
2 hours ago
Turkey has positioned itself with great care to be the go-between with Russia and Ukraine – and this seems to be paying off.
On Thursday afternoon, President Vladimir Putin rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and told him what Russia’s precise demands were for a peace deal with Ukraine.
Within half an hour of the ending of the phone call, I interviewed Mr Erdogan’s leading adviser and spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin. Mr Kalin was part of the small group of officials who had listened in on the call.
The Russian demands fall into two categories.
The first four demands are, according to Mr Kalin, not too difficult for Ukraine to meet.
Chief among them is an acceptance by Ukraine that it should be neutral and should not apply to join Nato. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has already conceded this.
There are other demands in this category which mostly seem to be face-saving elements for the Russian side.
Ukraine would have to undergo a disarmament process to ensure it wasn’t a threat to Russia. There would have to be protection for the Russian language in Ukraine. And there is something called de-Nazification.
bbc .com/news/world-europe-60785754
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2022/03/15/vatican-announces-pope-francis-will-consecrate-russia-and-ukraine-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary-will-he-fulfill-heavens-specific-conditions/
Please share and pray, no matter what faith you might practice.
I have a feeling we are witnessing “The Ukrainian Deception,” to borrow a phrase. What if Putin is losing the war in Ukraine to win the much greater battle to come? The mistakes made by Russia throughout the invasion have baffled so many military analysts by their ineptitude, that I think it would be interesting to think through what are the possibilities if we are all being played. The ultimate Pawn Sacrifice.
Some ideas on what Russia may gain by doing so:
1) Get NATO to position more weapons in Eastern Europe that will be eventually used against us after the Perestroika Deception is unveiled.
2) Russia now has cover to fully drop the petrodollar and adopt the Yuan. Perhaps the Saudi/China deal to price oil in Yuan is part of this.
3) Lull the west into thinking Russia’s military is no longer a threat
4) Grab all Western assets in Russia at a fire sale even if not nationalized
5) Enhance China’s prestige in world as Peace broker if they step in
Not fully wedded to the idea but interested in looking at all possibilities
James Howlett, your ideas are intriguing, but Putin’s image has taken a tremendous beating. I don’t think the loss of prestige is something Putin or his government will tolerate. He cannot back down. Ricardo Galvan in the comment section said it well. “We are in a death struggle here. Negotiation is not going to work. Russia has to win or they will be set back by decades. Ukraine has to win or Russia moves on NATO next.” His pride and reputation is at stake.
The entire Perestroika Deception is based on humiliation and lost pride, all for a greater victory in the end. I think Russians are far too strategic and cunning to worry about what we think of them.
There is no way to return to the status quo ante.
The perestroika deception is over. The mask has been dropped. The Soviet Union is being put back together again. What makes you think wars should always last only a few days. Russia will win this war as soon as the ground dries.
The mask has dropped only for those with eyes to see. For others, Putin is just another totalitarian bent on conquest. The West still believes he is a capitalist and still believes Eastern Europe has given up on Communism and are on our side. Otherwise why are giving/moving NATO assets to them?
It’s not the length of time per se but rather the reasons why its taking so long. There only so many self-inflicted wounds and mistakes one can witness without wondering whether something else is going on.
Jeff, I’m a firm believer in the power of our thinking to influence events. If God hears enough of us say “Russia will win this war as soon as the ground dries,” or “A nuclear war is inevitable,” or any other statement that implies blanket acceptance of an evil outcome, perhaps He’ll just say to Himself, “Fine, if that’s what most people are expecting and envisioning, they can have it.”
I think it’s imperative that we hold in our minds hope for a positive outcome, hope that freedom will win out, or as “Praying in Oklahoma” likes to remind us, it’s imperative that we pray. Making hopeless, negative statements only increases the odds of the worst happening.
Let us ask God and His angels to save the Ukranians, stymie Putin’s ambitions, and protect the Earth from the threatened destruction. None of that’s too big for God to do, but we have to board with that intention, or our thoughts and expectations strengthen the other side.
If thinking makes it so, then think a new government for Russia.
Jeff, I am confused. One, I have seen many stories about Russians actively protesting the invasion of Ukraine. Then I’ve read stories that the Russians are told that there is no war and they actually believe this. I have seen two stories where mother or father go as far as to tell their Ukrainian family members that the shelling the Ukranians are experiencing not coming from Russia. So, how do these two narratives fit together? Are Russians able to talk about this? Can they find out what is happening in Ukraine apart from State media. Does this mean the Russians are divided over the war? I realize that was many questions, but they all tie together.
My last question is who stopped Poland from giving the Mig 29s to the Ukranians.?
Thank you so much for your insights and your determination to speak your mind. I wish you still wrote for the Epoch Times.
What do you say to that Jeff?
Man In America:
While more evidence mounts that Putin is clearing out Deep State threats in Ukraine, an important fact cannot be overlooked: the war is pushing humanity right into the hands of the Great Reset. Today’s show will be a sober look at what that means for each and every one of us—and what critical steps we can take to protect our future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAA4c_NtBCQ
This is like believing that Putin is fighting against his own spies and saboteurs.