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Polish journalist and television presenter Michal Rachon was recently interviewed by Jonathan Fink on Silicon Curtain. At around the 28-minute mark Rachon began talking about the protests of the Polish famers and truckers. “They are protesting for a certain reason,” said Rachon. “The thing is, for two years of this Russian aggression against Ukraine we’ve been taught … about the closing of the Black Sea grain export line, and that the solution we were talking about [was] opening the transportation corridors through my country – through Poland – to the port of Gdansk, to transport those goods to the markets that Ukraine was active on, in Africa and the Middle East. And when the whole world was watching and discussing the way it should be done, when we opened our border to millions of refugees … the European Union decided, silently and quietly, not to open the transfer corridor; but as it was stated a few weeks ago in the same Union conference … that the Ukraine grain market was invited into the common European market of agricultural products; and [this] immediately caused … Ukrainian farmers to pay for this policy.”

In other words, EU bureaucrats incentivized the dumping of Ukrainian grain in Poland, destroying the livelihood of Polish farmers, undermining Polish agriculture and possibly effecting Poland’s elections. Some might call this an accident, but the EU policymakers knew exactly what they were doing. The proof, of course, is that they have done nothing to correct the situation.

It should come as no surprise that the EU is crawling with Moscow’s friends. Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once pointed to similarities between the European Union and the Soviet Union. For obvious reasons, Moscow wants to use the European Union as a vehicle for subverting Europe. And now its usefulness is proven.

Russia has many paths to dominance. Causing economic loss in key countries can be an effective strategy. But there is more to this. As Rachon explained, Polish farmers are not anti-Ukrainian. They are protesting a policy that is collapsing food prices in their country. But the farmers are being depicted as anti-Ukrainian. This is part of Russia’s strategy of making populist or conservative groups appear pro-Russian, or of drawing them into pro-Russian activities. Rachon called this a “chaos strategy.”

According to Rachon, “Those who are doing everything to help Ukraine in the first two years of war are now those who are paying the price for this, and are blamed and framed by Russia, by Russian assets, as those who are responsible for the Russian invasion against Ukraine….” This strategy is designed to confuse and disorient. Rachon spoke of those who play “in the Russian orchestra.” He said their “active measures … frame the people that are difficult for Russia….” He said that Russia’s agents are framing Russia’s enemies, so they look like Russian assets. At the same time, Russia’s real assets pretend to oppose Russia. “It happens very often,” he said, “because Russia understands that framing someone as their asset is basically [effective because] you can hardly operate … in the free world being named as a Russian asset.”

Rachon further noted, that calling someone pro-Russian takes you off the political chess board as an effective player. Jonathan Fink responded by saying that some Polish farmers were linked to Russia, which allows all the farmers to be painted with the same broad brush. “And unfortunately,” added Fink, “the mass of farmers have fallen right into that trap.” Add to this the fact that Russian grain, coming through Belarus, is reaching Poland even as Polish anger over Ukrainian grain has closed the Ukrainian border, further complicating the picture. “The optics are awful,” said Fink.

Rachon was glad to hear Fink touch on this subject, saying, “We are getting close to the true extent of the influence of Russia inside the European Union, inside the states that you wouldn’t even think of as states collaborating … with the Russian regime.” Rachon said to Fink, “You are right, [there are] … minor, I mean tiny … political organizations that are openly pro-Russian. Because, to be honest, in Poland you cannot win any election … being openly pro-Russian. I mean, it just doesn’t work here. We do have memory of 200 years of being enslaved by Russia.” Yet, communist structures still exist in Poland, and they are powerful. According to Rachon, there is a whole pallet of Russian assets aside from the few who are openly pro-Russian. When you’ve had so many decades of Russian control of Poland, you are going to have secret structures – secret agents of Russia imbedded everywhere. Rachon then explained that there was never any “decommunization of the Polish secret services, Polish state…. So those are assets … placed in different places in political parties where you do not have people who claim that they are supporting Russia.” But they are supporting Russia, on the sly.

Therefore, says Rachon, the real problem are Russia’s hidden friends – which even includes those who claim to be Russia’s enemies. This same problem exists in the United States.

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  1. Oh my God! Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted everything right. He said the EU is the USSR reborn with Russian Federation. The Euro-bureaucrats are in the cahoots with the Russian communists.

    1. What do communists have in common? So visible with feminists? Why do feminists act like prostitutes?

      According to Otto Weininger’s characterology, the prostitute and the dictator live the present time of the day. He likes the Will to Power, not to Eternity. His concerns are the everyday barbarian rabble’s latest fashion, believe it or not. This is why Kim Jung watches Hollywood movies. It is all about immediate image forming etc.

      The ideal prostitute (the archetypical character as seen cultivated in modern feminism) is the ideal partner of the ideal dictator.

      More salient and to the point, thus, the dictator and the prostitute sold their soul not so much for profit but for never having to be concerned with having to PAY!

      Now, European powers, after 2 WorldWars, kind of cooled their jets after this expensive war reparation issue… except “Russia”. Why?

      Because COMMUNISTS NEVER PAY! Hence Russia still is communist… for ever. And they are grooming Europe to be the easy prostitute bride… lest she has to pay. And we know how little they enjoy confrontation and seek inherently the dictator pimp as shield,

      QED

      1. A hint is that JRN’s website is blocked by US corporations who cannot fess up. Meanwhile, we have plenty of Wagner trolls in here…

  2. “He said that Russia’s agents are framing Russia’s enemies, so they look like Russian assets.”

    This happened with elections, when people, who opposed Putin, eagerly queued up to vote, legitimizing elections with this picture.

    Another instance is probably farfetched, but it connected in my head nevertheless. Yuliya Navalnaya said that people who caused terrible terror attack in Crocus City Hall have to be found and punished. Then we see a picture of captured men (looking nothing like ruthless Rembo’s from footage), being captured and tortured for the world to see (without proper investigation). Now it seems like she is part of it, because this is what she asked for.

    And even if it was not done for her, any person, who opposes Russian regime is always somehow compromised. All Russian opposition leaders are not united, constantly finding fault with one another. The closer you come to evil, even if you fight it, the more your weaknesses are magnified in everyone’s eyes.

    2. ISIs was on Bashar’s payroll at the behest of Russian advisors, enough said.

      Assad son now ruling was a weak man, raised to become the British doctor, he came to power because his older kgb trained brother died. Then, a few years after accessing power, the younger son now faces unrest and gets scared of losing credibility with the Baath party and thus runs to Russian advisors for help.

      The “arab spring” was a dictator school and eventual final examination.

      So, I hear everyone stupidly saying Putin denies ISIs involvement in order to hide weaknesses in apparatus – despite seeing pictures of “big blue men” in the hall of Crocus watching their cell phone nonchalant while eveyone is scrambling to exits.

      Al Zwahiri was a KgB agent too. Why did the State Department and media make his killing so quiet compared to Bin Laden’s… bogeyman

      1. The Russian special services and their agents were involved in ISIS, which raises questions. How much of ISIS was or still is under Moscow’s control?

      1. I have the same problems with plats and plans. It really is hard to be your own editor. Your eye tends to skip over the errors. I normally set my stuff aside and look at the next day, if not longer, if I have the time.

  4. I recently try to rationalize on why the USSR created the fake collapse in the first place. I re-read all literature of Jan Sejna, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Yuri Bezemov. I realized that the communists were doing the population shuffling. The Western communists in USSR realized that they could not simply conduct the North Korean methods of creating isolation camps to forcefully enslave everyone to communism. Eastern communists have been successful in Asia because their extreme brutality have purged the sympathetic bloodlines to fill with the naive, docile people to be enslaved like a generational Stockholm syndrome. Ukraine was a surprise but not a surprise for the Russian communists because the fiercest fighters against Stalin were Ukrainians. The only obstacle of making white people communist is Ukrainian. Russians would want to erase Ukrainian bloodlines permanently through the ongoing, genocidal war.

    COVID-19 was the first global attempt of trying to create isolation camps to see on what types of people demographically/geographically are sympathetic to communist slavery. The results are mixed but promising for the communists. As expected, most of Eurasia are onboard with being isolated and obedient to the government. For the first time, Europe and Russia are more obedient to listen the government’s every whim unlike the past rebellion against the USSR rules. Africa and Latin America are poor to consider lockdown successes but the communists don’t care much about them in the grand schemes of things as you can brutally enforce violence on these people to enslave them. However, the US and Brazil under Bolsanero were defiant against the global COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination programs. The communists can overlook the US but the case of Brazil was unacceptable because you have a single conservative leader not implementing the global communist plans?!

    About Brazil, I suspect that the communists want to split the country into multiple ones with socialist-leftist leanings. The first things that Lula did when becoming President is to halt the economic activities at Amazon jungles which severely hurt Brazilian investors. After that, he gave more autonomy for indigenous people within Brazil to give grounds for future secessions. Latin America has the most ardent, communist supporters from the rural areas. The global communists will experiment on giving autonomy to the indigenous people in attempt of splitting democratic votes and arming religiously communist minorities (soon be majorities) to be prevent anyone like Bolsanero to rise again! You will dilute the conservative bloodlines with pro-communist, docile, masochist bloodlines! Armed communist brutes will threaten and kill anyone opposing them.

    This model from Brazil will likely be emulated to the US in the future. The ongoing migrant crises are the attempt to dilute the US bloodlines towards pro-communist ones. Let’s not forget that communist judges in the federal courts just granted the illegals the rights to bear arms. People often tell me delusionally that the conservatives with guns will defeat all invaders. Good luck with armed illegals under a brutal mindset of cartel members! Did you see how cartels and gangs brutally kill people in Latin America? Our conservatives, drunk on Russian communist kool-aid, spend more times of opposing Ukraine than actually fighting open borders meaningfully. I mean none of GOP members actually have moved anything meaningfully, legally, powerfully through the federal government to stop open borders. They all did some posturing with states rights but they’re all pointless!

    1. There is a big difference between people in Latin America and the US. Us citizens have a guns, a lot of gun, and a goodly chunk know how to use them in military situations. So, take a wild guess why control is such a preoccupation for the left.

      Do I think private citizens can defeat anything thrown at them? No, but the cartels aren’t exactly military geniuses either. They have preyed on people that can’t defend themselves, and suddenly coming across people that can and will, will be a very large shock for them.

      What concerns me is weapons smuggling and the infiltration of troops across the southern border. Several containers of weapons from China have been caught coming into teh country. It doesn’t take much to realize that only a small amount has been caught and that there are large weapons caches in the US. A bunch of troops that are given the signal to draw weapons, and will then be given targets, is a problem that will hurt severely when put into operation. It may turn out to be fatal to the country as well.

      I had more to say, but then realized that I might be giving ideas to the wrong people. They probably already have the same priorities I would list, But I have no way of knowing.

      1. Thanks to Biden and his goons! Foreign soldiers are already on our soils, while our nuclear arsenals and other WMDs are probably obsolete at this point due to years of de-industrialization. The communists didn’t finish us violently because our elites are stalling through promising more concessions for the communists to prevent total annihilation just like what Western Roman Empire/Byzantinum did back in the days with invading foes.

        Armed cartels aren’t military geniuses but they lived through poverty and rationalized a world where brutality wins. Our private citizens don’t have such mindsets, and many of our conservative friends are pro-Russian fools (probably spies for the communists to help the armed illegals eventually). Our private citizens don’t have murderous mindsets like armed cartel members. The armed illegals are getting numerous each day, so our private citizens will be overwhelmed as our police systems are being dismantled along with any type of security.

    2. “I recently try to rationalize on why the USSR created the fake collapse in the first place.”

      Has been discussed at length by Mr. Nyquist, Trevor Loudon, and Jimmy from Brooklyn. Taking away “the image of the enemy” lulled us into complacency. Nuclear arsenals fell into disrepair, enemy agents had greater opportunities for infiltration and subversion, etc.

      1. Yeah. However, the fake collapse also created an opportunity to get rid of surplus people, who don’t have usage for communists without killing them. At the same time, you can put agents to infiltrate the deepest parts of the West. Reagan presidency coincided with the gradual de-industrialization and infiltration of communists into the West.

        China is encouraging the open borders in the West through electing Biden, so it can get rid of surplus Chinese people as economic conditions worsen. Of course, China-Russia and other communists also sneak their shadow soldiers among the migrants from the US to Europe.

  5. Jeffrey, based on the news I’ve been following, despite Western naivety and corruption, it appears that the likelihood of a surprise attack by Russia and China is diminishing. In this regard, how do you perceive the initiation of the grand war envisioned by the communists for the destruction of the West?

    1. You may be right. The Russian just announced the creation of 14 new division and 16 brigades, to be mobilized at the end of year. This suggests there is no immediate plan to use nuclear weapons against the West in 2024. However, the danger for something happening next year may be increased.

      The strategy of Russia and China at this time appears to aim at destabilizing America’s economy and political system. The Chinese idea of sinking an American carrier is suggestive.

      1. How much do you trust that they will be mobilized “at the end of year”? If not mobilized by this summer?

        The Chinese idea of sinking an American carrier will be a causus belli, i.e. the war will start when they do that. If not before.

      3. This exactly fits what I long predicted. The communists could have totally finished us off in 1980s if Yuri Andropov didn’t stop the Soviet Armed Forces who advocated for total annihilation of the West to implement global communism. Andropov instead proposed to start the Long Deception plan. Overall, the plan has worked as almost of the Western elites are folded under the communists. Just look at California when Xi Jinping visited, then you saw the West is on the verge of being totally subjugated by communism.

      4. True, new division take time to form. What I question is the timeline. I also question the number of new divisions. Western analysts have picked up that the Soviets are expanding their military and the Soviets know it, so instead of denying the expanding of their military, by this announcement, do the Soviets lowball the size of their expansion and delay the date they’ll be ready, so as to lull NATO into a false sense of security that the attack won’t happen until later?

        Of course we won’t know how and when until they act.

  6. As for increasing chaos, sent from Moscow “with love”, do watch everybody the once-East-German communist Sarah Wagenknecht (* 1969), who has recently left her party, Die Linke, which is a mere continuation of the old communist SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany), and founded a party of her own, named “Bündnis Sarah Wagenknecht”. Her husband of nine years, Oskar Lafontaine (* 1943), until 2005 a leading Social Democrat, has joined the new platform as well. By their increasingly rightwing talking points, the two seem to be trying to close the gap between the far left and the far right represented by the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland).

    (Turn on YouTube’s translation function)

    1. Logan sounds like she knows what she is talking about. This “accident” was very damaging, and has long-lasting results — as if planned. Very hard to believe this was merely an accident. It was probably an attack on our critical infrastructure.

      1. The ship suddenly went offline in the last minutes before ramming the bridge. Mr Lude once mentioned about China deploying the technology capability of controlling all types of transportation methods. They used it against the MH370 to kill important people related to Xi Jinping’s secrets. The accident is a cyberwarfare attack but the Biden communists turn a blind eye to help the communists destroying critical infrastructures to facilite a global communist takeover.

      2. JEFF: THAT OLD NUTJOB STEVE QUAYLE TODAY WAS LITERALLY DE FACTO BRAGGING IN A COMMENT ON HIS WEBSITE TODAY THAT RUSSIA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BRIDGE-SHIP COLLISION. EITHER HE IS BEING A HARDER THAN USUAL BLOWHARD, OR HE KNOWS SOMETHING ACUTE THAT IS NOT PUBLICLY KNOWN. YOUR THOUGHTS? HE USED TO BE ONE OF YOUR BIGGEST FANS , BUT NOT SINCE THE UKRAINE WAR BEGAN. HE IS STILL VERY ANTI-CHINA AT LEAST.

      4. Not your fault in the least. I think they just find it easier to give in to the projection of Russia as the good, valiant, masculine champion against the world economic forum, or globalists, or deep state, or whatever boogeyman they want to project as the enemy of American patriots as well as Russians.

      5. The irony is that the World Economic Forum and the Deep State are integral to Moscow’s subversion of the West. Now they have gotten conservatives to think that they ARE the West, and that the West needs to be destroyed. It’s astonishing to watch the political chaos this strategy unleashes.

      6. Yes it is. I have been wondering if maybe the reason the Communist bloc extended the Final Phase for so long, could be because they kept having such great success with all their disinformation operations -with each one allowing multiples of others to develop from it- that they were too tempted to see just how maddeningly confused they could make the West to become.

      7. I think it’s a function of their inability to fully exploit their earlier deceptions. They are almost at the point of building a flexible set of narratives that allows them to say and do anything with the assurance that nobody will react properly.

      9. It does seem very suspicious. I don’t remember if she said anything about it in the clip above, but in a different interview Lara Logan stated that her sources believed that GPS spoofing was involved. If this is true, then that would explain why the ship seemed to be off track well before the collision.

      10. What happened was the result of equipment failure. Power went down twice, and in most cases, when power goes down you lose rudder control. The ship got propulsion back at the end, but the time needed to prevent the collisions was gone. The guy that runs “What’s Up with Shipping” has two videos up on the accident. He’s a former merchant skipper and knows what he is talking about. What he relates is within my personal experience from my time at sea.

        Frankly, Logan claiming it is terrorism or a “strategic strike” is absurd. It was an accident, not a “strike.”

        When power went down the first time, the pilot sent a notice of possible collision with the bridge to authorities and they got traffic diverted/blocked. He also radioed “mayday” as well.

        Original Video:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZbUXewlQDk&t=2s

        Update video:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoPRz7wk3WY&t=621s

        The NTSB has the “black box” but because of power loss, sensors were cut off and conversion is drowned because of background noise. I think there will be changes coming to regulations for black boxes on merchant shipping in the near future. If a proper log was not kept, then there are serious problems. When I went to sea, I kept a log of all goings on on the bridge, which included all conning commands and events such as power loss, which also happens on Navy ships.

        The problem was not a navigational problem, so pointing to GPS spoofing, and similar things, mean nothing. Some port workers have already stated that ship had lost power sitting at the pier several times over the previous 2 days. The captain had come to the ship 30 days before the accident. The Chief Engineer and Captain should not have tried taking the ship to sea until the engineering problems had been solved. This is very likely a career ender for both men.

        Both NTSB and Coast Guard will be involved with the investigation. The FBI sticking it’s 2 cents in is worthy only of being ignored. While terrorism is a possibility, the probability of it being so is vanishingly small. Frankly, it is also far better to ignore Logan. Journalists have too much of a tendency to become instant experts on things they know nothing about and her supposedly “reliable” source are also questionable.

        People over at Gateway Pundit are in full flight about it being terrorism and a strategic strike. People who have actually been to see, and know what they are seeing in the original video, and speak out, are being called idiots. TGP has one of the lowest quality commentariats on the net. It’s a group that thinks Putin is a Christian and is fighting the “deep state.” The same sort of nonsense has gotten around the world while truth still hasn’t gotten its lazy self out of bed yet.

      12. That your former readers are now cheerleading for Russia is not your fault. You are one small voice facing a massive propaganda machine mirrored even in much of the alternate press.

        I first noticed you when you were writing for WND. My background and experiences gave me a picture of reality, and you gave me more information that backed up what I saw. Even so, at times I doubted because of that propaganda.

        I have deep revulsion of the moral depravities pushed by the left here in the States—the murder of infants in the womb, homosexuality, trans, sexual and moral relativism. The propaganda has emphasized how moral are the Russian people—passing laws against those depravities and emphasizing how the Russians are good Christian people. The same propaganda emphasizes how corrupt are the Ukrainians. Unless one looks behind the propaganda, it sounds convincing.

        But the picture I get from other sources, sources that I trust, show me that the Russians are a highly amoral people, not Christian at all. Further, that much of the corruption in Ukraine was left behind by Russian occupation. But how many of your former readers expose themselves to more than the propaganda? How many actually think? How is it your fault when former readers are fooled, or worse, fool themelves, into believing the propaganda?

      13. OHEngineer: Logan is a former war correspondent and likely has a lot of contacts in both the DOD and intel. Unfortunately, coming up with answers and then afterwards finding out the facts seems to be an American past-time. Although in fairness DOD and intel personnel have to make quick decisions when a catastrophe strikes just in case it is something more than an accident and they probably get a bit jumpy at times. Perhaps we now have an idea of one of the many things that are keeping these guys up at night.

      14. If I’m remembering correctly, I think i recall Logan spouting some pro-Putin, or at least pro-Russian nonsense two or three years ago. Maybe I’m remembering incorrectly, but I remember reading something she put out that made me count her among those pundits on the Right who repeat Russian talking points. Maybe it was Q anon type stuff, or on the Lindell bandwagon, but it was something pretty big to me, to the point i became suspect about anything she says. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

      18. She is unless she has changed of late. When I started noticing that rhetoric coming out of her, I quit paying her any attention.

      19. Just read Logan’s “report” on…Gateway Pundit. She refers to the alleged perpetrators of a cyber attack on the ship as “they” quite frequently, without naming exactly who “they” are, but seemst to strongly imply that it is our government if I’m understanding her correctly.

        At any rate, while I think most of us would agree that she’s right regarding all the train derailments, food processing plant fires, oil refinery fires, etc, as purposely and systematically done by our enemies, I donr think she dares name (or even think) who our enemy is.

    2. After viewing the footage several times. It appears that the very large vessel was traveling at at a higher speed than most large cargo ships in that area. I lived near the Puget Sound, and large contsiner ships go through there as well .These ships go pretty fast in open water. But in such a small area where you need to naviagate more slowly and carefully, it is not wise. And it also appeared to me that it would have been turning long before ?… as if it was on a collision course..

      2. Watch the two videos I linked above. The host of “What’s Up with Shipping” goes over what happened. Navigation is not the problem.

      3. Jeff, the last bridge disaster I know of was at the entrance to St. Petersburg, FL in 1980, when a ship hit one of the piers. When teh bridge was rebuilt, they surrounded the piers with enough rock to insure any other ships would ground before reaching the bridge. The shup hit one of the barriers at the key bridge and you can see what looks may be flame just before striking the bridge. That “flame” was made by the concrete barrier shattering.

        The host of “What’s Up With Shipping” knows what he is talking about. he is a former merchant Captain. I say “former,” but he may have kept up his credentials. He is far more reliable than Lara Logan, and is not a “push button” expert with “reliable sources.”

      4. Logan sounds like she knows, but I do not know anything about merchant ships or power outages in ships. If a power outage caused the crash, what caused the outage? I have not really followed this story.

  8. When listening to the Friends & Enemies talk, I was reminded over and again the difference between western philosophy, based on the ancient Greeks Plato and Aristotle, and on the other hand Biblical theology. One important difference is their views on history—western philosophy takes the view that the present is the key to the past. In other words, it is largely ahistorical. Events in the past are sources for entertaining stories (Iliad), moral lessons (Plutarch’s Lives), can be distorted for other reasons or ignored if modern understanding claims that past events couldn’t have happened. On the whole, accounts of the past are unimportant. Biblical thinking takes the past as the key to the present. Therefore an accurate account of the past is important. Therefore, among other things, the Bible is an accurate though not exhaustive history book. A modern example is what happened in World War I still effects us today.

    You touched on conspiracy theories. They’ve been around since ancient times. In a society as infused with lies, as is ours now, it is a society that is ripe for rumors … and conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories especially when people feel victimized and need a scapegoat.

    Do you see a parallel between the revulsion at the unprecedented mass death in battle of World War I and our society’s present terror of the possible use of nuclear weapons? You two didn’t mention it, I wonder if that parallel is there.

    1. People have imagined nuclear war as a senseless exchange of strikes, targeting cities. Such a war would be senseless, and triggers feeling of revulsion. Whether or not a war plays out senselessly, depends on usage and strategy. Those who misunderstand war, who see it as killing and destruction, need to go back and read Clausewitz. Killing and destruction are necessarily a part of war, but killing and destruction are not the objective. If you make killing and destruction the objective, you have unleashed something evil — something that cannot be justified. The objective of war is to impose one’s political will. If this will is just and its confrontation with the enemy unavoidable, and the destruction is within certain bounds, people will accept it and the revulsion will be counter-balanced by an appreciation of its necessity.

      Life and survival is not the ultimate value, politically or ethically. It is high on the list, but there are things men are willing to die and suffer for. They are willing to accept a lot of death and destruction for their freedom, for example.

      1. What if the majority of Russia’s high command, including Putin, were to be eliminated in one fell swoop… might not those remaining take a Götterdämmerung approach and just spitefully barrage every major western city without concern for repercussions? If they suddenly felt their cause was hopeless, Berdyaev’s notion that the Russians are a “people of the end” might align with the deranged talk on Russian TV about a world without Russia not deserving to exist. I don’t know quite how capricious and melodramatic they would be in the face of their plans unravelling, but I suspect it might come easier to them than to us. After all, tyranny begets capriciousness.

      2. There will be no war because the global communists have captured most of the world after 1980s. The US under Reagan made a huge mistake of allowing private interests to take stakes in military-industrial complex. It coincided with the massive migration of Soviet citizens to the West, and many of these people became leaders in companies in the complex. Then the liberalization of China and Vietnam, it paved the ways for Asian communists to dominate the global economy today. Arguably, the communists have controlled the world’s monopoly on violence.

        However, taking over the world is easy but ruling it is hard. You have conservative people and opposing factions fighting all the times. In the minds of current communist rulers, they are treating the current World War is more like a pacification campaign than a conquest. They want to eliminate the rebellious bloodlines and groom the global population to be obedient like North Korea. Xi Jinping and Putin highly adored North Korea for successfully cultivating an obedient population.

      1. Frankly, I don’t se how it can be. We have too many people judging he past by the present, and all they have produced is idiocy. Also, systematic theology is actually a branch of philosophy. Bible theology, for example, takes what the bible says, and does not try to add to it or fill what the theologian feels is “holes” in the theology. Systematic theology leads to places you don’t want to go. Thus the long battle between Calvinist and Arminian theology.

    3. To be honest, I don’t know whether Plato or Aristotle ever thought seriously about the past. Let alone make a statement that the present is the key to the past. Rather the philosophic milieu in which they lived and worked disregarded the past. I have seen no sign that they were outliers to their philosophic tradition in this regard.

      2. I didn’t say “the present is more important than the past”, rather that the present is the key to the past. How we understand the present is the key to understanding the past. This was the philosophical milieu that existed in ancient Greece, and continues to this day. I don’t know where this is explicitly stated, except among those who compare and contrast Biblical ways of thinking contrasted to pagan ways of thinking. Even the belief in progress is based on the presupposition that the present is the key to the past. This presupposition is so engrained in philosophical thought that almost nobody questions it.

        Even recognizing of how the different ways of thinking treat history is based on Biblical thinking because recognition is based on watching how people within the different philosophical traditions react to history. In other words, recognition is based on action, not explicit statements.

        Likewise the Biblical thinking that the past is the key to the present is nowhere explicitly stated in the Bible. Rather it’s just assumed and acted upon.

        The connection between this philosophical discussion and the subject of this blog is that we recognize that Putin and his government are bloody pagans from their actions, not their explicit statements claiming to be Christians. Likewise, we can anticipate his future actions based on his history, his past actions. The past is the key to the present.

      4. PS – R.O. — Let’s avoid tendentious religious arguments, as such may aggravate readers who do not share your views. This is a public forum where people of all backgrounds may come to learn about Western civilization and its enemies. I pray you are not among its enemies. We all have our religious views, and some visiting here are not religous, so let’s not drive them away by claiming this forum as your personal Sunday School. I do not want readers put off by special pleading about this or that interpretation of the Bible, or whether the Bible contradicts Plato or Aristotle. This is especially irritating when someone purporting to uphold “Biblical Thinking,” sets “Biblical Thinking” in opposition to ancient Greek philosophy, or (subtly) against other Christian theological positions, or against the Founding Fathers. This is too controversial, and only serves to separate us instead of uniting us. By harping on this, you are either attempting to bait me or other people. By a strict dictionary definition, “race-baiting” is the act of intentionally angering someone regarding issues of race. I think what you are doing is sectarian-baiting, which is intentionally trying to get people upset over sectarian issues. As you keep doing it, I am asking you to stop one more time. There are more theologies and Biblical interpretations than you or I could count, and therefore it follows there are many fights to be picked on this ground. Please do not pick these fights here. First, it is a bad strategy for it divides us into hostile theological camps. If our unity is broken, we may not survive. For those with children or grandchildren, perhaps we should be thinking of their welfare rather than putting our own particular religious interpretations ahead of the kind of public discourse that brings us together in a common recognition of a common enemy.

        Having said that, many of us have found valuable insights in the ancient philosophers. Believe it or not, our American form of government comes from ancient Greek writers, like Polybius, Aristotle and Plato have influenced our political philosophies and our theologies. This is not something a person of learning can deny. Perhaps the most important politician of the Revolution, John Adams, carried Cicero’s writings with him through the American Revolution, and Cicero was profoundly influenced by Plato and Aristotle. Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton styled themselves in the Federalist Papers as “Cato” or “Publius,” etc. Such were references to those who stood for freedom in the late Roman Republic. Why not have a better appreciation of your heritage, which extends to Greece and Rome as well as Jerusalem? Since you claim that the past is the key, why not show some respect for it?

        The Catholic philosopher, Joseph Pieper, author of “Abuse of Language — Abuse of Power,” has written some very profound things. In doing so he quoted extensively from Plato. Other Church Fathers, like Thomas Aquinas, integrated Aristotle’s thought into Christian theology. So please, let’s not claim that ancient philosophy and Christianity are incompatible when the greatest philosophical minds have declared them to be compatible. If you want to reduce all learning to one book, go right ahead. But there are many important writings, which have been called “classics,” and the best modern writers acquired much of their foresight, and many of their insights, from these “classics.”

      5. Jeff: sorry, it has not been my intent to try to divide people. Rather I have tried to keep the discussion as general as possible. In the latest, I tried to limit myself to what can be objectively recognized, that even non-Christians can recognize and agree to. That’s why I have never mentioned any denominational interpretation or preference.

        The book that had the greatest influence on western civilization is the Bible, not Plato and Aristotle—the latter were mostly confined to the ivory towers and elites, not the man on the street who read the Bible. It was the Bible reading middle class—the farmers, shopkeepers, craftsmen, etc.—that built the civilization. In the old West, many settlers had only two books—the Bible and the collected plays of William Shakespeare. I’m not against western civilization, rather against the destruction thereof that I see going on around me. And I definitely agree that we need to stay together against a common enemy.

  9. I feel it is my duty to mention another version of explanation for what happened in Moscow on Friday, voiced by Valeriy Solovey, who also does not insist it is a correct one.

    According to him, Putin is dead, Patrushev is ruling now, but power struggle still continues because every clan in Kremlin right now is fighting for more power in the future, when “Putin” will declare that he is tired and is stepping away (like Yeltsin did). It is true, that Russia has connections with ISIS on many levels. But there is not a single command center. So one clan, powerful enough to remove a lot of obstacles for this attack to happen, organized it to show Patrushev as a weak leader.

    The reason why Solovey doesn’t think that Kremlin organized it, is because Russian TV did not react for a long time and news agencies did not receive any instructions as to how to portray this incident. When things happen from the central power, they are immediately commented on in the news according to given script.

    Tomorrow I will know more. But I am posting this today in case comments will be closed for this post.

    1. I highly doubt Putin is dead because he is irrelevant in the large schemes. The shadow rulers of Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states are Asiatic communists with bloodlines tracing back to Genghis Khan and nomadic rulers of Eurasia.

      They successfully achieved the perfect communist vision of new USSR (Russian Federation) through offshoring the white people out of Russia to fill them with Muslims and Asiatic people who are more obedient. The prolonged Ukraine War will achieve two goals of wiping out white people (European lineages) in Eurasia through genociding the Ukrainian race and pacifying white people of Russia through eliminating extremist males on battlefields and breeding white women with Muslims and Asiatic Russians/Central Asians. The third goal of Ukraine War is also beneficial for their puppets in the West economically through strengthening the biggest money laundering schemes for China and Russia since the international trades haven’t been halted against China-Russia during the war.

      If the shadow rulers of reborn USSR and their European Union bureaucrats want to achieve the totally new Soviet Union through integrating Russia and EU, then the next step is the continental war after Ukraine. Putting all European males and white Russian males getting killed off in battlefield like WW1, then Chinese men, Muslims and other Asiatic/African males will feel free to raid the wombs of white women to breed a more obedient race of people in the new USSR. This was how North Korea achieved its perfect subjugation of a nation.

    2. My first thought was that this latest attack by Muslims in Rissia was like the Beslam school massacre—how did the terrorists get past road blocks and border posts with their weapons and bombs? It also made me think of the Moscow apartment bombings that were tied to the KGB/FSB. Now Ukraine is being blamed for it. Is this the Russian version of the “Polish invasion of Germany” in 1939?

      Some years ago I saw a documentary made by Al Jazeera of a meeting they had with a terrorist group hiding in the mountains. The terrorists said that their main enemy that they are preparing to fight is Russia, a claim that surprised me. Yet are the Soviets making use of groups like that to make “false flag” attacks?

  10. Years ago, Putin’s wife said that her husband has been dead for years. That in response to questions about doppelgangers. Let’s just wonder for the sake of speculating, ‘what differences would Putin’s replacement or handlers thereof, make in relation to international relations? Would Russia become more amenable to a New World Order, or what Putin has termed, a ‘Uni-polar World’? Or would Russia remain Sovereign?

    1. If Putin is gone, then there is no difference really. He is the puppet that can be replaced at anytime. The global communists currently don’t fight to conquer the world but pacifying the world that they have largely controlled.

  11. The water was not deep enough to kill anybody. I know people who live close by. Nobody was affected in any way. It was done to make earth impossible to travel by tanks. Just paddles. There is also a lot of other fields to grow wheat on in Ukraine. It is a very big country.

  12. Election year. Sadly, the one time our politicians seem interested in the electorate.
    We all need to be emailing, calling our Congressional “critters” and explaining that America needs to support Ukraine’s efforts of fending off Russian invaders. And explain why. I specifically tell each Senator and my Representative that the Cold War never ended. That it was a ruse that the Soviets did to make the West believe the Communists had capitulated to capitalism. I then recommend they do their homework and read Soviet KGB defector literature, listing titles of books that prove this strategy, ie, via the likes of Anatoliy Golitsyn and Viktor Suvorov, just to name a few.
    99% of our elected officials have no idea of this strategy, but if we continue to hammer the fact they should read actual defector accounts? I pray to God a majority wakes up and actually takes the time to see what their respective educated constituents keep writing in about and calling about. It’s our last hope to save our Republic as I fear after November, we are in for some terrible times in our country, not seen before.

  13. It is disgusting that our Western elites are now members of Chinese Communist Party. They are taking notes from the words of Xi Jinping! They study the thought of Emperor Xi.

    https://x.com/Joel_P_Atkinson/status/1772946791455162773?s=20

    This is ongoing as the Western elites visiting China.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-xi-jinping-economy-american-business-apple-blackstone-great-hall-rcna145231

    The US is being prepared to be ruled under the global communists!

  14. I wonder, to what extent is the present path to nuclear war with the West following the predictions of the defectors?

  15. How good the Ukrainian grain situation been handled better so that the Poles would have less negatively effected? Is the problem that the grain has not been equally distributed to the EU as a whole?

    1. Ukraine’s wheat was supposed to bound to Balti ports for shipment. Apparently, it is getting dumped in Europe instead.

    2. Some have suggested that Russia is actually dumping grain in Poland, as bribery and collusion of certain Polish officials has opened the border with Belarus. The transport corridor was an arrangement which put the grain in Poland. Then the corridor was closed — or, this was something Mr. Rachon said. Not sure of the details.

  16. Happy Easter to all!

    Take a deep breath and enjoy Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion, marvellously played by the Netherlands Bach Society under Jos van Veldhoven. A recording of 2014:

    1. Happy Easter to you too, friend. Thank you for sharing the beautiful music, and reminding us of our True and Only Hope -Jesus Christ, whom no man could make up.

    2. Curiously, Easter Sunday this year (March 31) will be at the same time Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, March 31, greg., 1685.

  17. Viktor Suvorov’s book was mentioned on the John Moore show yesterday. The Communists were planning “Accidents” years ago. Sal Mercogliano is an expert on shipping and boats etc.
    I have listened to him since the Suez blockage. He is not up to speed on Communism.
    When the MSM drops the “official” narrative within minutes”it is an accident” is a red flag for me.
    I do not know for sure but it checks off a lot of boxes for the Communists. This will be a big time financial and insurance hit. Like Jeff seemed to be saying…..how often does this happen? Not very often and the timing is interesting.
    Kevin Taylor

  18. The Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key.

    Is a harbor pilot rewarded bonuses for safety? It probably would have been a terrific idea to buy your own generator just to power the rudder control system. Seriously, I would think there would be at least form of alternate emergency control (perhaps not fully manual due to size and weight of the rudder, but battery assisted with hydraulic pumps or electric motors). Especially, for the rudder of a HAZMAT ship of that size? How does one control a ship with velocity of that size with no power? Are they allowed to drop anchor in that area?

    Were there any currents in the water near the bridge, knowing the current flow at that time of the accident would be a simple yet significant detail. Perhaps someone with knowledge of these large ships could weigh in. I wish I knew more about them. We can only hope more details emerge. Prayers for the families and lives lost.

  19. The last insider information on the incident in Crocus City Hall. It was done by islamist puppets, who were previously under Russia’s control, but started to act independently.

      1. Very possible. I will try to make you notes of what was said. Maybe not as much for what was said, but why it was said. I heard some disturbing things.

  20. The Houthi Rebels sunk a bulk carrier in the Red Sea recently. Mercogliano talked about the submarine cables and if the sunk ship would damage some important undersea cables directly below. Mid Atlantic Power Pathway was talking of placing some high voltage line under the Chesapeake Bay. There is likely a lot of submarine cables under that bridge.
    There are submarine cable maps which show stuff all over the world. Researching that
    is coming harder by the day to find.

  21. Hi, I’ve been reading your blog for several years now and I thought I’d support but you have to go through paypal and they wanted me to set up an account which I won’t do. I don’t suppose you have an address I could send a check to. You could send the address to my email. I appreciate the work you do here and I’ve learned a lot.

  22. This one’s 3h+ long but appropriate given the 3hr video on WWI in the main post. Plokhy has a book on Amazon titled “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine”. I started reading but haven’t finished yet, pretty good so far as a basic history. I’m guessing this is a shorter version.

    Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415

    Six months ago Russian and American conservative media had a field day with this story, a WWII-era Ukrainian Nazi getting a standing ovation from the Canadian Parliament while Zelensky was in attendance. Surprise, surprise that was not quite accurate. What are the chances that sides like GatewayPundit will report the correction? The truth comes out much later, after the sensational piece of disinformation has already lodged into most people’s minds. This is why Russian disinformation and shaping of the informational space is so effective. As with the Polish farmers’ protest and many other things, the Russians are genius at controlling first impressions of an event because they know it will be most people’s last impression. Even if the lie is debunked later, the truth will not grab people’s interest like the first lie and by then people will have already moved on to new headlines.

    https://odysee.com/@KievanRus:b/yt1s.com—Dr-Lubomyr-Luciuk-provides-history-lesson-in-Canadian-Parliament-Yaroslav-Hunka-was-not-a-Nazi:e

    Haven’t had a chance to watch this but sounds interesting. I hear Russia has already blamed Ukraine, MI-6 and who knows else. If this is not the work of the FSB, like all the other major Islamic terror attacks in Russia, I would be surprised. If the attack is used as an excuse for Russia to increase its presence in the Middle East or start some kind of operation there, then likely it wasn’t just a random attack.
    Yuri Felshtinsky – Only Thing Certain after Terror Attack in Moscow is that Putin will Leverage it
    Silicon Curtain

    I watched the Conservatives4Ukraine panel discussion. Excellent stuff! Victor Rud was very impressive, he clearly knows Soviet history –not many conservatives talk about how intimately the Soviet Union/Russia was involved with Arab and Islamic terrorism. He laid out a convincing case for why stopping Russia is not only strategically wise but a moral and reputational obligation given America’s post-Soviet foreign policy of disarming Ukraine in the name of peace. So not at all an act of charity the way it is mischaracterized in the popular rightwing media. (It’s funny, all these conservatives who want America to espouse strong, masculine virtues like Putin’s Russia are essentially saying that America should run away from a fight and leave weaker allies to fend for themselves. In this case a man’s word is not his honor.) He makes many of the same points that Jeff has made before, that the takeover of Ukraine by Russia is akin to reconstituting the Soviet Union which will only embolden Communist China to act more aggressively in the Pacific. In short it will be an existential crisis for America and the West. It will mean the diminishment of American power and dismantling of the international trading system that underpins Western prosperity for starters. I’m interested in checking out his other articles, there could well be some good insights there.

    1. I just finished a book by Plokhy entitled “The Man With the Poison Gun”, about KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky, and how his assassinations of Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet were ordered from the very top, i.e. Shelepin and Khruschev.

      It was very well done, except the very last few pages where for some strange reason, Plokhy equates America’s use of drones with the Soviet policy of assassinating leadership of antiCommunist resistance. It was very strange.

      Of course, Plokhy seems not to be very knowledgeable of the Cummunist bloc’s long term policy, though he states a couple times that the Soviets began a new policy, and he mentions Golitsyn one time, but only as the example of another defector as Stashinski was, and nothing about him.

      It’s interesting you said the provocation attack in Moscow the other day could be used to justify increased Russian presence in the Middle East, or an operation there, because I just read yesterday that ships from the Russian Pacific fleet entered the Red Sea yesterday morning, headed for Yemen.

  23. Trevor Loudon’s speech on ‘holding the line vs. taking back territory’ (second half of the video). About preserving liberty and being judged if we refuse to do what is right because ‘the biggest battle of evil in this country, right now, is political’.

    He is giving the speech to us we need, as social conservative Christians, to charge into the election period. Thank you, Trevor!

    https://rumble.com/v4l42tc-trevor-loudon-nature-coast-912-15th-anniversary.html

    1. THOMASFROMGERMANY: you, I and Trevor believe in these things, but how many of those who have captured the leadership of the Republican Party believe them? If they don’t believe them, what do they have other than the financial issues? The civil war within the Republican Party is between the social conservatives, and the elite who tend to be social liberals. Or worse.

      Trevor is also right that many democrats vote social conservative, when given the opportunity.

      1. We saw with the pandemic that some social liberals were worried about free speech and government abuse of power. So there are honest people on both sides of the ideological divide. People who see a real threat can unite, overcoming domestic political differences. Also, they might be able to see — at some point — who is threatening us.

  24. “According to Rachon, “Those who are doing everything to help Ukraine in the first two years of war are now those who are paying the price for this, and are blamed and framed by Russia, by Russian assets, as those who are responsible for the Russian invasion against Ukraine….” This strategy is designed to confuse and disorient. Rachon spoke of those who play “in the Russian orchestra.” He said their “active measures … frame the people that are difficult for Russia….” He said that Russia’s agents are framing Russia’s enemies, so they look like Russian assets. At the same time, Russia’s real assets pretend to oppose Russia. “It happens very often,” he said, “because Russia understands that framing someone as their asset is basically [effective because] you can hardly operate … in the free world being named as a Russian asset.”

    This part reminded me of something about the last Chinese dynasty. Machus struggled to pass through the Great Walls to enter and invade the Ming dynasty. The biggest obstacle was a general named Li Zicheng who bought European cannons and built strong fortifications to bombard the Manchu cavalry armies. This move caused the death of first Qing Emperor who was in the process of conquering China. The second Emperor of Qing came up with a clever scheme as he invited Li Zicheng to broker a truce without the Ming Emperor’s knowledge. The Ming armies were already exhausted at the times, so Li Zicheng agreed to the truce. The second Emperor of Qing was Hong Taiji, and he later marshalled his armies to crush Korea into submission to honor the truce. However, Hong Taiji used his spies and rogue assets within Ming to spread rumors that Li Zicheng was secretly a Qing agent for agreeing to a truce with the Emperor of Qing. The Ming Emperor was furious, and he ordered Li Zicheng and his entire clan being executed under the method of “dying by thousands of cuts”. Without Li Zicheng, Qing armies were happy but they didn’t breakthrough the Great Walls yet as they also encouraged the peasant rebellion under The Dashing King at the time. The Dashing King’s rebellion successfully dethroned the Ming, and Wu Sangui later opened the gates to allow Qing armies to conquer China for real!

    Russians and Chinese study their history seriously. The ongoing scheme in the Ukraine War is very similar to Chinese strategies that Russians learned. Russia is framing innocent leaders of Europe into Russian assets, while real Russian assets are pretending opposers against communism. I can clearly see this is happening in Poland. Duda was the most Americanophile leader in the country as he advocated more cooperation with the US. He even resisted the Euro-communists from flooding Poland with migrants. Nevertheless, the Euro-communists got what they wanted in the end as they used the Ukraine War to flood Poland with Ukrainian migrants which some of them can be Russian assets. They and Russians also bribed Polish elites to accept the dumping of Ukrainian grains to crush Polish farmers who are traditionally conservative and non-Communist. Last but not least, they elected Donald Tusk, who is equivalent to Wu Sangui in Chinese history, pretends to oppose Russia fiercely but his heart worships communism. He is the type who will accelerate the migrant flooding of Poland when Duda’s term finishes, while his globalist policies will decimate the Polish farmers and native businesses through allowing stealthy Russian products (energy and agriculture) and Chinese business dominance.

    The example of Poland is here very small, while the whole of Europe have tons of Wu Sangui and Dashing King who do biddings for Russians and Chinese. Macron and Scholz are the biggest puppets pretending to be against Russia and China – recently, they purposely allowed massive Chinese investments in EVs and renewable energy to take hold, hypocrisy!!! Ukrainians were unwillingly manipulated by Russians, Chinese and Euro-communists to do the biddings for them.

  26. I just read that the Polish secret services busted Russian spy ring. I wonder what is behind this case.

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