Here one may wonder why, in a situation of blatant violation of human rights by neo-Nazi military forces and paramilitary apparatuses … against the Russian-speaking population of the independent republics, the international community feels obliged to consider the intervention of the Russian Federation worthy of condemnation, and indeed to blame Putin for the violence.
MSGR. Carlo Maria Vigano [i]
…the message from Moscow was direct and unequivocal: the Russian Federation would resort to full-scale war if the ‘rights of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine continued to be threatened.’ No evidence of such rights actually being threatened was ever provided….
Mychailo Wynnyckyj [ii]
I fear that Monseigneur Vigano, otherwise insightful, has fallen into error. He repeats Moscow’s lies without blushing, without suspecting that he is advancing the propaganda of Christendom’s most dangerous enemy. In Vigano’s message for the April 2nd Reawaken America Rally at Salem Oregon, written at the behest of General Michael Flynn, Vigano suggests that President Putin did not invade Ukraine “to support his expansionist ambitions”; rather, “the main purpose of Russia’s military operation is to prevent the aggression of the deep state and NATO. Putin is fighting against the same globalist elite that holds us all hostage.”[iii]
This is a shocking statement from an Archbishop. Vigano needs to account for Russia’s military aggression. He also needs to account for Russia’s alliance with China, and Russia’s support for North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Vietnam, South Africa, Angola, Congo and Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua. The communists who rule over these countries are the foremost enemies of Monseigneur Vigano’s Church.
From a practical perspective, in terms of American rightwing politics, Monseigneur Vigano has fallen in with a very bad man. His April 2nd pro-Putin message was solicited by none other than General Michael Flynn, a former intelligence official who cozied up to Moscow in 2015. According to the Guardian, UK, “The defense department inspector general has uncovered evidence that Michael Flynn accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign interests and governments, despite repeated warnings from the DoD and the justice department that his conduct might be illegal….”[iv] Flynn accepted $45,000 from RT, a Moscow-controlled propaganda outlet, and $22,000 from other Russian interests. Surely, this cannot be a good thing.
There are many political stupidities today, but conservatives justifying Russian military aggression takes first prize. Here we have a famous American general soliciting pro-Russian statements from an Archbishop of the Catholic Church. Who does Monseigneur Vigano think is responsible for corrupting the global elite with Marxism? Could it be the same KGB that Vladimir Putin worked for? Here Monseigneur Vigano confuses cause with effect. He thinks the leftism of the global elite is the cause rather than the effect of Russia’s doings.
Russia’s armies are bombarding and besieging Ukrainian cities even as Moscow openly threatens nuclear war on America. You would, from Monseigneur Vigano’s telling, imagine that Russia is under attack instead of Ukraine. But no one has attacked Russia. Given Moscow’s nuclear arsenal, who would dare launch an attack against Russia? We dare not even send troops to help the beleaguered Ukrainians for fear of Russian nuclear strikes. How ferocious is NATO, by comparison, shaking in fear, trembling as Russia threatens to cut off Europe’s energy supply?
Yet Monseigneur Vigano says NATO is the big threat. He says NATO has provoked the war in Ukraine. NATO is to blame for dead civilians and wrecked Ukrainian cities. And the man who ordered Mariupol’s destruction is not to blame! The blame is placed on those who affirm Ukraine’s right to join NATO at some distant point in time. Here, collective security becomes an act of aggression. The desire of the Ukrainians for freedom is an act of aggression. If NATO is so dangerous, why isn’t Ukraine afraid of NATO? If NATO is so dangerous why isn’t Finland afraid of NATO? But Monseigneur Vigano turns everything on its head. The alliance that everyone wants to join, because everyone distrusts Moscow, is the instigator of war. The alliance that everyone wants protection from, is sinister and aggressive because the actual aggressor does not like it —wants to break it up and dominate the broken pieces.
It is not the case, as Monseigneur Vigano alleges, that America has used NATO to annex “Poland” and other countries. America does not govern these countries or control their territories. NATO is a voluntary organization that a majority of Ukrainians want to join. Yet Monseigneur Vigano uses the word “annex,” which is disgraceful for a man of his education and position. He also uses the word “puppet,” which is the kind of state we see in Belarus but not in Ukraine. Why does Monseigneur Vigano use inaccurate language to excuse the military aggression of Russia while blaming NATO?
If Russia is the lesser of two evils, as Monseigneur Vigano maintains, then why destroy Mariupol and Kharkiv when you might do better by destroying Los Angeles and New York? Can we not make the argument that America’s cities deserve bombardment more than Ukrainian cities? Does not Monseigneur Vigano’s rhetoric lend itself to the destruction of America? After all, no country should make alliances that Russia sees as threatening.
Think of the threat America poses to Russia, since America has nuclear weapons. We are obliged to surrender these weapons according to Monseigneur Vigano’s logic, since by our armament we are the most blameworthy country of all! America must surrender her nuclear weapons to preserve the peace. In exchange, Russia will promise not to attack us. This, after all, is exactly what Ukraine did in 1994 when Kiev gave up its nuclear weapons. Russia guaranteed Ukraine’s security and sovereignty in the Budapest Memorandum. And now we see how Moscow honors its word. Ukraine gave up her nuclear weapons for a promise. Moscow breaks that promise and attacks Ukraine, bombards city after city.
Is anyone ashamed for being so stupid? Trust the Russians!? What kind of egregious blockhead trusts the Russians? Can we find a treaty they have not violated? Of course, many devout people want to raise the issue of President Zelensky’s homo-erotic dance video. How many decades ago was this video made? Zelensky now has a wife and children. Let us pull the log out of our own eye before we bother with the spec in Zelenksy’s. What is the real obscenity here? It is when an elderly woman returns to her apartment in Mariupol, finding everything destroyed. “What will I do?” She asks. “Where will I live?” What has a greater call on our moral outrage? A comedian’s moral failings of twenty years ago or the destruction of entire cities?
What “aggression” or “transgression” of NATO or Zelensky warrants making moonscape out of Kharkiv and Mariupol? Can we point to a single building in a single Russian city that has been destroyed? According to Monseigneur Vigano, “This is not a war of the Ukrainian people. It is not the Ukrainian people who are persecuting their Russian brothers, but a puppet government supported by neo-Nazi military militias. A corrupt government, desired by the globalist cabal, which today finds itself with a cocaine-addicted President, a former actor and dancer who hides billions in tax havens while the Ukrainian population is among the poorest in Europe.”[v]
Let us answer these charges, point by point. Professor Michailo Wynnyckyj, from Kiev, says the war is being fought by and for Ukrainian people. “I want to be able to raise my kids freely,” Wynnyckyj told American journalists. “My wife and I value that freedom…. We want to be Ukrainians. We don’t want to be Russians.”[vi] As for Ukraine being governed by a “puppet government,” President Zelensky was elected in a free and fair election. For that matter, Zelensky is not Ukraine’s head of government but Ukraine’s head of state. The distinction will be lost on some readers, but the actual government of Ukraine is led by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, an accountant. Furthermore, if Zelensky is evil for having a net worth of $1.5 million,[vii] then what shall we say of Putin who is said to be “the richest man on earth,” with a net worth of $200 billion?[viii] As for the Ukrainian president’s background in acting, I have never heard it was a crime to be an actor or dancer, though Putin is famously associated with 33 assassinations and many poisonings – including the near-fatal poisoning of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who once characterized Putin’s political party as “the party of crooks and thieves.” Furthermore, whatever Nazis exist in Ukraine, they are not representative of the Ukrainian Army or government. As one researcher explained, no more than 13 out of 423 Members of Parliament in the first post-Euromaidan Rada were ultra-nationalists.[ix] And the volunteers who have signed up for irregular military units “did not pay much attention to these formations’ ideological background and to the political views of their leaders.”
I am afraid that Monseigneur Vigano has offered us an absurd picture of Ukraine. On the one hand the country’s president is a Jew. On the other hand, the regime is supported by Nazis. Instead of believing this nonsense, let us examine the actual political program of this Nazified Jew. In his Inaugural Address, Zelensky said to his country, “Allow me to quote one American actor who has become a great American president: ‘The government does not solve our problems. The government is our problem.’” When the parliament responded with tepid applause, he said, “Your applause is pretty light. I guess not everyone likes what I’m saying? Too bad, since it’s not me, but the Ukrainian people saying that.” At the end of his speech he shocked everyone by saying, “I am dissolving the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] of the eighth convocation. Glory to Ukraine!” But that was not all. Zelensky explained his transition from comedian to president with the following words: “All my life I tried to do all I could so that Ukrainians laughed. That was my mission. Now I will do all I can so that Ukrainians at least do not cry anymore.”[x] As it happened, Zelensky was elected with 73 percent of the vote, in an unprecedented landslide. This is what Monseigneur Vigano calls a “puppet government.”
Compare this to Putin’s war speech in February, where Russia’s grim dictator said, “We see that the forces that carried out a coup d’etat in Ukraine in 2014, seized power and are holding it with the help of … decorative electoral procedures….”[xi] Putin pretends to forget that the Ukrainian people do not accept fraudulent elections, as the Orange Revolution showed. Of course, Zelensky might have disappointed the Ukrainian people. But there he was, in the city of Ukraine, refusing to leave the nation’s capital when military analysts were predicting its fall. On close examination, Putin’s speeches about Ukraine are full of lies and misrepresentations, especially when he refers to Nazis committing “genocide against millions of people living” in Ukraine. “The leading NATO countries,” said Putin, “in order to achieve their own goals, support extreme nationalist and neo-Nazis in Ukraine in everything….” Putin added, “The entire course of events … shows that Russia’s clash with these forces is inevitable. It is only a matter of time…. Now they also claim to possess nuclear weapons. We will not allow this to be done.”[xii]
Lie follows upon lie, and Monseigneur Vigano repeats these lies. He echoes them. It does not matter if Vigano has been right in the past, or how courageous he has been. He cancels his own moral authority by advancing the claims of a Russian dictator. Once that authority is lost, once he has hitched his cause to an evil man, nothing remains.
Notes and Links
[i] Statement On Russian Ukrainian Crisis Vigano Mar 7 2022 | PDF (scribd.com)
[ii] Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War: A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2019), pp. 163-4.
[iii] Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: ReAwaken America Rally April 2, 2022 | PDF | New World Order (Conspiracy Theory) | Satan (scribd.com)
[iv] Michael Flynn ignored official warnings about receiving foreign payments | Michael Flynn | The Guardian
[v] Ibid.
[vi] ‘It’s About Freedom’: Professor Sheltering in Place Provides Analysis, Hope for Ukraine – NBC 7 San Diego (nbcsandiego.com)
[vii] How Much is Volodymyr Zelensky Worth? (yahoo.com)
[viii] How Much Vladimir Putin Own In Net Worth — The Richest Man On Earth (dkoding.in)
[ix] (PDF) Irregular Militias and Radical Nationalism in Post-Euromaydan Ukraine: The Prehistory and Emergence of the “Azov” Battalion in 2014 (researchgate.net), p. 108.
[x] Volodymyr Zelensky’s Inaugural Address: full text (empr.media)
[xi] Putin’s Declaration of War on Ukraine [Full Text] – NewsRescue.com
[xii] Ibid.
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196 responses to “Monseigneur Vigano Justifies Ukraine’s Destruction: An Essay and a Further Conversation With Trevor Loudon”
Jeff, not sure if you can comment, do you know in regards to Russian Nazis, by any chance if they are run by Russian Intelligence Services because there is a article called Nazi Exodus: How Russian Nazis ended up in Ukraine was also released at the same time as the illiberalism institute paper as well:
https://violence-marker.org.ua/en/2021/11/24/nazi-exodus-how-russian-nazis-ended-up-in-ukraine/
My apologies if my criticism is extreme
Thank you, Alex. The Nazis that fight for Russia do deserve mention. The greatest supporter of Nazis since the fall of the Third Reich was the Soviet Union, which had infiltrated the Nazi diaspora before it became the Nazi diaspora. The Russian Federation continues to use Nazis even as it pretends to fight them. The Nazis and communists work closely together in South America as they do in Greece. This red-brown alliance is the famous formula of Alexander Dugin and his National Bolshevik movement in Russia. Dugin has fashioned a left-right convergence narrative into a political weapon for Moscow. Today, that narrative flourishes on the American right every time a conservative drops the name “Rothschild” or talks about the “banksters,” or mixes elements of the old Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory into updated variations purveyed by Alex Jones. Of course, there are Masons. Of course, there have been Frankists; but the Russian secret police has employed these old narratives for the last 125 years to support a latter-day Devil theory to spread fear, paranoia, and confusion.
Jeff, what do you make of the Antifa radical left types that are now so vehemently uttering resistance to Putin and Russia? In Germany it was almost as if someone turned a lever and they all went from hardcore pro-vaccine / pro COVID restrictions to support Ukraine. Just after the invasion there was a rally of about 600.000 mainly young leftists in Berlin.
Now some of them are even arguing for deploying weapons to Ukraine for help.
It is misdirection.
A brief comment: When Moscow decided to embark on the strategy of depicting Putin — a secret communist and Soviet exponent — as a Christian conservative, they entered into a dangerous a confusing long-term game. It is only natural that Moscow is trying to get the American right to cheer for Putin and the left to denounce him. The latter denunciation will not harm Putin in the least, since the leaders of the communist movement in America are actually his friends. But the support he gets from the American right will help him to destroy the right even as he advances against it.
Also of interest: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/04/08/report-north-korea-revamping-nuclear-test-site/
“War! Us against you! Until total annihilation!”
The terrible announcements of Putin’s war loudspeaker Zhirinovsky, who was an anti-Semite, the son of a Jew, and always tried to conceal that fact, was a colorful figure in Russian politics. And he was always close to the Kremlin. Amazingly, even in Boris Yeltsin’s time.
As much as he played opposition to the outside world, he was above all loyal to Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin leader could always rely on him. No wonder: It is an open secret in Russia that Zhirinovsky was a KGB man, just like Putin, and that his party formation was the result of a KGB initiative to create a fake opposition.
Only a few weeks before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Zhirinovsky predicted exactly that – in drastic terms. He announced that Russia would destroy London, Washington and Chicago, subjugate the entire West and that states like Ukraine and Moldova would no longer exist. In one of his last appearances on Russian state television, Zhirinovsky predicted the start of the war almost to the day. This appearance with inconceivable threats and announcements in front of an audience of millions (and to the delight of the other guests) is so spooky that I have translated it especially for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YKuO_vQsNQ
Related text: https://reitschuster.de/post/krieg-wir-gegen-euch-bis-zur-voelligen-vernichtung/
(Please, delete my identical comment further above!)
The late British analyst Christopher Story (1938 – 2010) wrote in his amazing 2002 work about Russian AND German longrange strategy, titled „The European Union Collective: Enemy of Its Member States – A Study in Russian and German Strategy to Complete Lenin’s World Revolution”, with regard to Vladimir Zhirinovskiy (p. 52):
“… Similarly, Western analysts might have looked behind the following statement by that caricature of a Russian nationalist, as Golitsyn calls him – GRU officer Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovskiy, as reported in ‘L’Espresso’, Rome, on 21st January 1994: ‘Prague? Let us give it to Germany’. In a similar interview published in ‘Die Welt’, Berlin on 31st January 1994, Zhirinovskiy observed: ‘The Czech Republic should go to Germany.’ Such observations could ONLY have been made by a senior intelligence officer who was aware of the fact that President Gorbachëv and Chancellor Kohl, meeting in Geneva in September 1990, had concluded a secret Ribbentrop-Molotov-style agreement to divide Czechoslovakia, the details and proof of which are presented in Part Two of this book. Under that secret accord, the Czech Republic Republic was to be merged with Germany within 15 years of the agreement – although this was intended to occur within the parallel broader context of European federalisation, in accordance with the long-range strategies of both the Comintern and of the Pan-German élite, which continues to dominate and drive German policy today.”
“Zhirinovskiy, by the way, was described on 13th January 1994 by Mikhail Poltoranin, head of the Federal Information Centre, as ‘just the PROBE they [the strategists; C. S.] use to measure the depth of dissatisfaction in [with?; C. S.] Russia.’ As a key GRU officer with knowledge of Soviet strategy, Zhirinovskiy also provides ‘probe services’ for the Russian Foreign Ministry, anxious from time to time to test whether dimensions of Soviet strategy have been identified and understood by Western observers. The answer is invariably that they have not, as the West is indeed sound asleep.”
Christopher Story’s The European Union Collective can be read, as a free PDF file, here:
https://exopolitics.blogs.com/files/eu-collective.pdf
Also, there is still on the web, unabridged, an interview Mr. Story gave in 2003 on the topic of the perestroika deception:
I like Christopher Story, he sees the Enemy for who they really are, without the Western fluff and partiality/bias.
The Eastern Europeans/Germans are trained by Chinese way of “thinking” by Sun Tzu, and are aligned with communist ideology– having no values/standards for life or sacredness, even if it means harming and killing their own people. That could also be said about the AMERICAN SCHOOLS producing American communists.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit that all the billions of dollars from Congress and euros from the EU are going to a “secret” communist agent, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, who is colluding with the Hordes from the East after all Christopher Story said, that kind of deception was a “Mongol (Chinese) concept.” How do we know Volodymyr will use the money to “help” his own people?
The West is shortsighted and too consumed with virtue signaling with proclaiming “love” for homosexuals, Blacks, Hispanics, or whoever the media/SCHOOL feels “oppressed” whilst the Hordes are taking control of everything and many countries all over the world. They love evil and hate goodness.
Wow. Super helpful!! The video really filled in the blanks and connected many dots for me!! It’s the timeline to the early development of the deep state/communism in our govt/intelligence agencies/corps. I know Jeff and Trevor mention these names and info so much, but said quickly and this is the chronological, slower format my brain has needed for it to click. So clarifying. Thank you!!
Thank you!
Vladimir Zhirinovskiy (April 25, 1946 – April 6, 2022), the alleged “madman” and “outsider”, in fact loyal intelligence cadre, had a veritable state funeral, with full military honours and all the top brass of the Russian leadership attending. Vladimir Putin was shown approaching and paying his respect to Zhirinovskiy’s remains lying in state.
These were Zhirinovskiy’s statements on Russian television not long before the beginning of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, as given in that same video posted by Heike (mind that his function has always been to test out the mood of the people at home and the awareness of the politicians in the West, broadcasting far and wide true Russian strategy, albeit somewhat veiled by his wild rants; also take note that he doesn’t mention the role of China):
(00:37 – 00:44) „If you carry on like this, there will be a preventive strike against you! Of all your divisions, German and NATO, nothing will remain!”
(02:38 – 05:16) “It’ll start on February 22, at 4 a.m. Rise, o you great land! Stand up for the deadly fight against the dark force of NATO! We will be victorious over this cursed horde in our final war against NATO! After that, we will be the only super power in the world. We need to destroy their entire potential so they won’t have any armies, any weapons, any factories left. Some countries will have to be totally destroyed. Henceforth, only Moscow! Moscow will finally hold a monopoly and will dictate its conditions! War! Us against you! Right into total annihilation! We shall apply all of our means of war, including such you don’t yet know exist! Half of Europe will burn! Half of America will burn! You have gotten the world to this point; but it will be your end! If you are suicidal, go ahead! Commit your suicide! The last document that we expect from you is your total surrender! We have idiots here at home who are buying dollars or euros: One shouldn’t do that! It’ll be waste paper. Throw all your dollars on the market so it crashes! After the war – and it will last one to two weeks – Russian gas will cost $3,000! But only under one condition: Total annihilation! Total destruction! In the military sense. Their army! Their power! Their financial system! Their leaders! Arrests! It’ll be very good for us that they won’t expect any of it coming! War! And there will be no more Ukraine! Forget the word ‘Ukraine’! There will be six or seven provinces, which will be immediately part of Russia! Moldova will cease to exist, too! Also, no more Baltics! Not one ex-Soviet republic will remain in the West! As for the Caucasus, we are still thinking it over. We will be respected! They will kneel before us! The whole world! Half of Great Britain will be no more! Also, half of America! The rest of the world will stay in place. Only London will be destroyed! And Washington! And Chicago! The rest will remain. They are destroying themselves with their own weapons. This we have to do! Quick! In the spring of this year! Then we will be able to celebrate yet another victory on May 9th! We have no other choice! You understand? They understand that their end is near. And they understand beautifully. That is why we have to spare Biden. He is the last President of the USA. There are so many contradictions, and so there is only one solution: the war solution! War! It’ll be our last fight. A determined fight, in which one must not retreat! Our men won’t die, but on their side, millions will die!”
Bizarre Russian song of triumph over America (06:18 – 06:57):
“To the little lake in front of the White House came a Russian soldier.
He sat down on top of the white column, and put down his Kalashnikov.
He pushed his helmet back and unpacked his food supply.
And poured himself a glass of tequila.”
(Images of London and Paris drowned by huge tsunami waves.)
Says General Leonid Ivashov, one of Russia’s key military strategists since the nineties, on Russian television (07:17 – 07:26):
“Sits a Russian soldier in front of ruins, holding a saxophone in his hands as a war booty, on his chest a number of medals, one of them for the conquest of Washington.” (And smiles.)
Russian “children’s song” (08:05 – 08:30):
“Slowly, the missiles are taking off; don’t expect them to come back!
It’s a bit of a shame with America. Europe still has it in front of her.
Atomic warheads are a sweeping thing.
One shouldn’t expect anything good from them,
Even if one digs oneself in underground,
One can’t escape their explosive power.”