“The surest sign that we are dealing with disinformation is the presence of incongruities in a text.”
Natalie Grant[i]
In his pamphlet, The Coming Order, Andrei Navrozov wrote of a briefing on Eisenhower given to a Southern legislator. The briefing noted that Eisenhower was not a communist but an anti-communist. “Well,” drawled the southerner on hearing this, “I don’t care what kind of communist he is.”
Today, people who might have identified as anti-communists forty years ago are indistinguishable from Russian stooges. Painfully, someone like Tucker Carlson now sides with Russia. A process of political dumbing-down has occurred. It is frustrating that events in Europe are increasingly misunderstood by American conservatives. To clear up confusion about the canceling of Romania’s recent election, I am publishing an English translation of Dr. Cernea’s interview which appeared on the Polish website wPolityce.pl, published in two parts – 24 December 2024 and 1 January 2025. – JRN
Interview With Dr. Anca Cernea
wPolityce: What is actually happening in Romania? Is it true that the accusations against Călin Georgescu’s campaign have been refuted? Will the decision to cancel the elections undermine Romanian democracy, thus becoming a model of action for the dominant left-liberal forces around the world?
Cernea: Before going into more detail, I think it is necessary to say a few words about Georgescu: rather than who he is, it is important to emphasize who he is not. Georgescu is not a patriot. He is not a sovereignist. He is not an “independent candidate.” He is not a conservative Christian. He is not a freedom fighter confronting the Deep State.
For most people here Georgescu simply emerged out of the blue. I estimate that 8 out of 10 citizens who voted for him had not heard about him a month before the elections. His fraudulent campaign on social media, supported by Russia and China, has managed to carefully hide his real face from the public, inside and outside Romania.
A man who relies on his country’s enemies to be brought to power, and will later have to return their favors and serve their interests, is not a patriot. Neither can a man who proclaimed that in our country there would be “no more political parties” be a freedom-fighter. Prior to the first round of elections, not many people here knew about Georgescu’s declared sympathy for Russia, about his contacts with Aleksander Dugin, about his promise to withdraw our country from NATO, or to question the American anti-missile shield installed in Romania.
At the time when Sputnik, the official internet page of the Russian Federation, was still functioning legally, Georgescu’s name was promoted there very often. Sputnik featured him as the greatest chance for Romania, they said that “millions of Romanians wanted him as prime-minister” – which of course was a gross lie, [since] nobody except some journalists or other researchers were interested in the individual at that time. But during his recent TikTok campaign, there was no mention of Georgescu’s Russian connections. And for a simple reason. He wouldn’t have gotten the votes he got.
Recently, when talking to friendly foreign journalists, Georgescu blamed the cancelling of the first round of elections on NATO, who supposedly tries to get rid of him, because he wants peace and they want war. This is a fragment of a Sky News report from December 7th:
“He (Georgescu) claimed the court (the Romanian Constitutional Court) had been pressured into annulling the election by a group of European Union and NATO countries intent on subverting democracy in his country, because of their desire to maintain the war in Ukraine. ‘They need the war and they want to protect their [pay] checks,’ he said to me. ‘NATO went from defensive to offensive and this we cannot accept. Don’t push me to go to war because it’s not in my interests. But they need war.’”
A candidate with an explicit pro-Russian and anti-NATO program wouldn’t have made it into the 2nd round of presidential elections. [So] he had to hide these things, because Russia is the biggest menace to Romania’s sovereignty, and the current-day Russian leaders have formulated very explicit threats against our country. Throughout our history, there has been no enemy occupation as evil and destructive as the Russian one. NATO is the alliance that ensures our sovereignty, our security and our continued existence in the Civilization in which we want to live.
Georgescu also features himself as a conservative, an Orthodox Christian, and many Orthodox priests and Evangelical pastors have campaigned for him among their communities. Most of them, if not all, ignored his New Age ideas, his use of occult symbols, his Osho inspiration (yes, Rajneesh, the pro-Soviet, anti-Christian, sex-liberation guru and cult leader), and the attacks he had made against the Christian Church in earlier statements.
Călin Georgescu is the Romanian public figure who makes the most shameless, bold, and daring apology of the interwar terrorist and anti-Semitic movement “Legion of Archangel Michael,” led by Zelea Codreanu, and the military dictator Ion Antonescu, a faithful ally of Hitler. In the late phase of Ceaușescu’s [communist] regime, in an effort to create legitimacy for the dictator by appealing to some older tradition, certain circles of the Securitate joined these two (rather incompatible) historical references, and added them to communist ideology, in order to create a basis for a national-communist mythology. It served also to erase the memory of the really strong democratic tradition of interwar Romania. Georgescu is the expression of this national-communist synthesis. This same maneuver was later performed in Russia by Dugin and Putin.
Another important piece of information ignored by most people is that Călin Georgescu has also clearly expressed his regret for the collapse of the communist dictatorship. Here is a quote: “Everything that happened in 1989, I tell you plainly, was just an action, namely a coup d’état, for the West to plunder the resources and turn the population into slaves.”
No wonder he thinks like this, because his career is connected with the darkest remains of the communist regime. It was this precise evil system that has grown Georgescu from his early youth, and he has always been part of it. While researching his official biography, one can find, for example, this interesting information, unfortunately without details: “After graduating in 1986, he acquired further experience from assignments in the United Kingdom and the United States.”
This raises a series of disturbing questions. Before December 1989, under the late Nicolae Ceaușescu, when it was very difficult even to get a passport and go to a neighboring fellow-socialist country like Bulgaria to buy soap, this young pedologist (specialized in the study of soil) went to the UK, and to the U.S. on “assignments”! Who gave “assignments” in those times? What did he actually do in the UK and U.S.? What kind of “experience” did he acquire there? After 1989, Georgescu’s career was still connected to people of the pro-Russian group from within the old structures of the communist regime. They managed to seize power by hijacking the Romanian revolution of 1989, under the leadership of Ion Iliescu. These pro-Russians, some of whom were proven as outright Russian agents, had been marginalized by Ceaușescu, who feared that the Russians would overthrow him. They were reactivated by Iliescu and appointed to strategic positions.
This is when Sergiu Celac – former personal translator for Nicolae Ceaușescu, who later fell out with the dictator – became Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania (early 1990). For his part, Minister Celac worked closely with Mihail Caraman, the notorious KGB spy, who was appointed by Iliescu as deputy minister of National Defense in January 1990, and soon after, head of newly-reorganized Foreign Intelligence (SIE). Caraman had been the head of the famous network that bears his name, which spied on NATO for the Soviets during the Cold War, causing considerable damage to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Călin Georgescu was a very close collaborator of Celac at that time.
This is how he began to successively occupy various government positions. Considering these close connections, journalists and other analysts rightly concluded that Georgescu is a product of this self-same entourage, the effect of the Caraman legacy. Those circles are the Romanian-speaking homologue of the WSI (Wojskowe Służby Informacyjne, The Polish Army Intelligence Service. * For non-Polish readers, read note at the end)[ii] circles in Poland. Are the WSI circles in Poland “anti-establishment,” or are they an essential part of the Deep State themselves?
wPolityce: Is it true that the allegations against Călin Georgescu’s campaign have been refuted? Was his campaign financed by the National Liberal Party to discredit him – as many media outlets have reported? How strong are the indications of Russian interference?
Cernea: No. It is not true at all. The investigative journalists, who quoted sources from within the fiscal authorities, only said that the liberals (PNL party), whether knowingly or unknowingly, contributed to Georgescu’s campaign. Nobody said that they financed it entirely. This piece of news has not disproved nor contradicted the reports of our intelligence institutions, followed up by professional and in-depth media investigations, indicating a massive Russian operation in favor of Georgescu, using extremely expensive Chinese assets (being under the control of the Chinese government).
The authors of this recent investigation never claimed that now all the mysteries of Georgescu’s campaign funds are explained. And they certainly never said that now any Russian involvement has been ruled out. It is simply false to say so. In Romanian language media, we find this version only in the pro-Russian zone. Furthermore, such a thesis is strikingly irrational. Why would the liberals create a huge problem for themselves? Why would they throw their money into building up a total nobody into a dangerous political competitor? This is nothing but a Russian-inspired conspiracy theory, meant to cover their unlawful interference with our elections, it has nothing to do with real life. I am shocked to see such an interpretation has been uncritically adopted by the Polish Conservative media and by prominent PiS politicians.
The facts are as follows: PNL has contracted a company, namely Kensington Communications, to hire some TikTok influencers, through the FrameUp platform, for a civic awareness campaign under the hashtag #echilibrusiseriozitate (“balance and seriousness”). The influencers were supposed to record small videos and post them on TikTok. The PNL leaders state that this operation was not meant as a part of the party’s electoral campaign, but only intended to promote Euro-Atlantic values and to encourage citizens to vote.
But later on, by [way of] some strange phenomenon, the hashtag was changed into #echilibrusiverticalitate (“balance and verticality”), which happened to coincide with Georgescu’s campaign slogan. The content of the messages remained pretty much the same, but in the comments underneath the videos, many of the influencers told the users that the message actually was about Georgescu. So the PNL’s civic campaign ended up becoming part of Georgescu’s electoral campaign. The PNL leaders as well as the representatives of Kensington Communications company firmly state that their campaign has been cloned or stolen by Georgescu’s campaigners, without their knowledge or agreement.
PNL’s campaign – most likely illegally hijacked, the authorities will clarify this because the company hired by the PNL filed a criminal complaint – was anyway only a limited component in the huge machine that propelled Georgescu. And it certainly does not take the Russians out of the discussion. Such an interpretation is totally distorted and looks like a Russian smokescreen. It’s as absurd as saying that Poland violates human rights by attacking immigrants on the border with Belarus. Our Polish friends should examine their sources more carefully. They need to understand that the AUR party, that has unfortunately been accepted as an ECR member, and thus has become an ally of PiS, is simply the most important pro-Russian political entity in Romania, and not a trustworthy ally for the Polish patriotic camp. Simply considering the numbers and proportions, it is obviously false to affirm that PNL was the single / or the most important sponsor of Georgescu’s campaign.
We do know that PNL’s contract with Kensington was worth 1 million RON (Romanian Lei), which is around 200 000 euro. From one of the recently de-classified documents of the Supreme Council of National Defense, we also know that at least one of Georgescu’s campaigners, Bogdan Peșchir, paid around 1 million euro to various influencers to promote his candidate on TikTok. This means that we have at least one other entity, completely different from PNL, that has spent five times more than the PNL’s “contribution” (according to the statements of its leaders, unintended and dishonestly misappropriated) for Georgescu’s campaign.According to certain estimations, the total costs of Georgescu’s campaign might have amounted to at least 50 million euros – although Georgescu has officially reported ZERO costs.
wPolityce: Still, what do you think about the concerns, also heard in Poland, that a very dangerous precedent has been created in Romania? Now, if an anti-establishment candidate wins, all you have to do is create a pretext and simply invalidate the elections. Aren’t you afraid that these concerns are justified?
Cernea: I agree that cancelling elections is quite an extreme step, but I think that it was the only appropriate thing to do in this situation. State authorities not only have the right, but the obligation to use whatever legal means they have at their disposal, even exceptional ones, if this is justified by the size of the threat to society that needs to be addressed. In this case, the measure was justified. It has no reason to be accepted as a common practice in Romania or other countries.
I do think that our institutions should have acted earlier, and should have done more to prevent this crisis. Georgescu was known to the intelligence services and should not have been allowed to get to the point where he could steal a whole country, and where the last resource had to be the cancellation of elections. As former Romanian President Traian Băsescu has declared, “this is a serious defeat in terms of national security.”
Now that the crisis had become that serious, the Constitutional Court (CCR) couldn’t pretend everything was fine, they had to intervene. The choice was not between a very risky option and no risk at all. There was no good option here. It was a choice between a great risk and a mortal risk. This crisis is probably the most serious one we experienced since December 1989.
We are the second-largest NATO country on the eastern flank after Poland, strongly supporting our neighbor Ukraine against the criminal Russian aggression, and we were running the risk of being derailed from the alliance with the U.S. towards [and being pushed toward] a pro-Kremlin line. This wouldn’t have been a happy development from the point of view of Poland’s objective interests either. And it was certainly not the will of the Romanian people. Romanians do not want to fall under Russian domination ever again.
Our people want a President that loves Romania and defends our freedom and dignity, one who is profoundly attached to Western Civilization and its values, and would work to strengthen our freedom and security by making sure our country remains a reliable and respected NATO member.
The authors of Georgescu’s campaign knew that and created his false image to fit exactly those expectations. If he participated in the campaign normally and transparently, voters could have found out that he is in fact the exact opposite of the candidate he wants to impersonate. But he practically skipped all debates and confrontations, he avoided real exposure to public scrutiny, any questions about his past and present connections, or about his real intentions. He has been promoted mainly on TikTok, through a parallel campaign, outside of the legal rules. He also got supported by paramilitary groups (that’s how we found out that such groups existed in our country) and by the underworld.
Georgescu’s “success” is the result of a gigantic hybrid operation, an immense fraud, directed from abroad, by the enemies of our country and of Civilization. They could do it because they relied on the collaboration of certain circles within our country, whose origins are to be found in those old structures of the Securitate (the secret police of the communist regime), which still exert an extremely negative influence on our society and institutions.
The more or less informal but still influential networks inherited from the communist regime are the origin of the greatest corruption schemes and most important organized crime groups we have been seeing after 1989, not only in Romania but throughout Eastern Europe. As pointed out by Prof. Andrzej Zybertowicz, these mafia-like networks, resulting from the privatization of the police-state, may at any time threaten our countries’ independence.
The full-scale Georgescu operation was set off abruptly when the campaign was already on. This is one of the reasons why the institutions, starting with the President and the Government, who had to be briefed by the intelligence services … on what was happening, could not take the appropriate steps without incurring the risk of being accused of influencing the campaign. The size of the resources invested in this operation indicates by itself the participation of state actors. As pointed out in the declassified SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service) report, there had been cyberattacks on IT infrastructures used in the electoral process. The scale thereof also leads to the conclusion that the attacker had a mode of operation specific to a state actor.
The SRI informed the CSAT (Supreme Council of National Defense) that a huge number of accounts created in 2016 and later integrated into the TikTok platform had been reactivated just before the elections. The value of such assets is very high, as all were unique IP accounts that had been kept waiting for long years. Their activity started suddenly and was coordinated by groups formed on the Russian Telegram network in 2022. The Russians ran most of the campaign, using the TikTok accounts. China’s involvement is demonstrable by the fact that TikTok, controlled by the Chinese government, allowed the campaign to run.
No ordinary people, no ordinary campaign – no matter how ingenious – could have had access to these Chinese accounts created years ago, as the TikTok application was not accessible to the general public. So, Calin Georgescu’s main campaign on TikTok was not based on the small, marginal party funded by the PNL, but on tens of thousands of Chinese accounts that amplified his videos, under the coordination of the state actor mentioned by SRI – which is Russia.
The mechanism through which the content gets promoted on TikTok is not transparent, users and authorities do not have access to information about the factors that determine its display. The actors involved in Georgescu’s promotion campaign, however, demonstrated a very good knowledge of TikTok’s policies, they had all the necessary know-how, as we read in the SRI report. It is important to note that these opaque TikTok algorithms can be used to support pro-Chinese or pro-Russian candidates not only in Romania, but anywhere else, including Poland. Similar operations were noticed in Germany recently, during the elections that took place in Thuringia and Saxony.
So, our Polish friends should also worry about this other kind of threat. Yes, they are probably right, there may be a risk that, let’s say, Dr. Karol Nawrocki wins the elections for President of Poland, and the deep state in your country simply cancels them under any pretext, with no serious reason. What if on Monday morning, Polish citizens wake up and find out Mateusz Piskorski won the first round of presidential elections?
But what about another scenario, in which on Monday morning after the first round of elections, Polish citizens would wake up and find out that either Karol Nawrocki or Rafal Trzaskowski had qualified for the second round. Instead, their choice would be between Mateusz Piskorski – who used to rate under 1% still days before the voting and now has all chances to win, and some lady, let us say Magdalena Biejat, who would most probably lose.
Would you then analyze this phenomenon in terms of mass psychology, sociology, economic factors? Would you think people are tired of the constant conflict between PiS and PO and simply wanted new faces? Would that be enough to explain such a sudden blow? Or would you consider some other possible explanations? If official reports of the Polish Intelligence told you that there had been a massive Russian/Chinese-driven fraud, would you dismiss that as deep state manipulation against the anti-system candidate? Would you then expect your Supreme Court to validate the elections?
It is not a science fiction scenario. We are in a war context. We know how Russian infiltration works all over the world. Do you really think they could not do it in Poland? Even if they had enough assets within the present-day ruling political group, why wouldn’t they replace it with a more explicitly pro-Russian one, if they had the means and the occasion? It has happened innumerable times in all parts of the world.
Our American allies take these threats very seriously. A bipartisan commission of American senators has issued the following statement about the attack against our Presidential elections. It indicates the real perpetrators in very clear terms:
“Vladimir Putin’s assault on Romania’s elections is yet another example of the hybrid war he is waging on our European allies and partners”, we read in the statement. “As a strong NATO ally, we support Romania as it fights for the integrity of its elections. We condemn Putin’s manipulation of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled TikTok to undermine Romania’s democratic process. The world must wake up to the serious threat to democracy posed by Russian manipulation of TikTok to undermine our free societies.”
wPolityce: However, canceling the elections undermines democracy in the long term. Don’t you think that, especially in terms of trust in democratic procedures, the long-term costs will prove to be extremely high?
Cernea: When a fire erupts in the house, one just tries to stop the flames, making sure everybody stays safe, and then later they will be able to count the costs of wall paint and furniture damaged by water. The biggest threat to democracy was the operation Georgescu and all the things that were behind it, and not the defense against it.
The Romanian people are not stupid. Even if many have been deceived by Georgescu’s campaign, most of his voters will not regret him, as more and more shocking details about the hybrid candidate come up to the surface.
wPolityce: What are the deeper sources of Georgescu’s success? Why couldn’t the traditional Romanian right-wing stop him by proposing an attractive candidate who would respond to the demand you mention?
Cernea: I do not think that Georgescu’s success can only be explained by the dissatisfaction of Romanian people with the current-day political class. It is mainly the result of the huge Russian-Chinese operation that has created him out of nothing. But of course, they made use of every weakness they could find in our society.
There are of course many reasons why people are right to be angry at our politicians. There is a lot of corruption, incompetence, and cowardice. There are also good things that have happened, and maybe they weren’t highlighted as much as they deserved.
What I mean is that a certain degree of discontent is justified, it does however not justify extreme actions, like trying to completely overthrow the democratic system in the hope that something better may emerge after such a complete disaster. It is better to have an imperfect political scene than not to have any space for politics whatsoever. And I think most of my compatriots share this view.
When studying the recently declassified documents, there was a thing that caught my attention in a special way. They say that the Russians had very carefully studied the psychological and sociological trends in our public and had shaped their candidate’s campaign in ways meant to respond to all these aspirations, frustrations, conflicts and interests.
The big problem, the greatest vulnerability we have in terms of political offerings in Romania, is the lack of a coherent political expression (in the media as well as in the political arena) that would be freedom-oriented, Christian, patriotic as well as solidly attached to the West. All the opinion polls show that this is the expectation of the majority of Romanian society. But we only have some kind of “progressive,” “pro-European,” or post-communist left-wing on one hand and the fake patriots and fake Christians (in reality, adepts of Putin and Dugin) on the other. The Russians are trying to “dialectically” use both wings according to the scissors strategy, while making sure no normal conservatism is allowed to become visible.[iii]
For many years, we have been trying to make known Polish conservatism in Romania, hoping it was possible to follow its example here. Through AUR, the Russians have managed to interfere in relations between Poland and Romania and ruin them for many years to come. The admiration that Romanians naturally have for Poland and Poles is eroding with every picture in which Simion, the leader of AUR (a product of the remnants of Ceausescu’s Securitate) is shown with PiS leaders. In turn, we see that the Polish conservative media and the leaders of PiS prefer to give credit rather to Georgescu’s version of the story and to the AUR party, their ECR allies, instead of listening to their real Romanian friends.
Anca Cernea
A doctor by profession, Anca Cernea is the president of the Ioan Bărbuş Foundation, the daughter of the former national-peasant leader and senator. Anca Cernea was vice-president of the National Peasant University Youth and of the Youth Organization of the PNŢCD in the early 1990s. During the CDR government, Anca Cernea was director of the International Relations Directorate within the Department for Local Public Administration of the Romanian Government.
Links and Notes
[i] Natalie Grant, Disinformation: Soviet Political Warfare 1917-1992 (Washington, D.C.: Leopolis Press, 2020), p. 369. (I am quoting from a pre-publication copy.)
[ii] WSI, The Polish Army Intelligence Service, established in 1991 and liquidated following the decision of the Sejm in 2006. According to the report drawn up on this occasion, known as the “Macierewicz Report”, after the name of the Deputy Minister of Defense, who was in charge of investigating and liquidating the WSI (see full text of the report in English here https://archive.org/stream/MacierewiczReportOnLiquidationOfThePolishMilitaryInformationServices/WSI_Report_full_djvu.txt), the WSI not only failed to fulfil their legal obligations (they did not catch a single Russian spy), but acted against the law, using their agents (many of them former workers of the communist political police) to infiltrate politics, the press, diplomacy, justice, industry, trade, tourism, education, practically, all areas of society, in order to promote the interests of the former communist nomenclature connected to Russia as well as foreign interests hostile to Poland. Practically, WSI functioned as a vast Russian agency. They also got involved in downright mafia activities – the fuel mafia, arms trade, contacts with international terrorist organizations.
[iii] This is the classic “scissors” strategy discussed by KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn in his 1984 book, New Lies for Old. We are seeing this strategy applied all over Europe and – to some extent – inside the United States. The left exists, as always, while the right also evolves toward “useful idiot” status. The conflict between right and left oddly makes less and less sense as it wildly departs from the previous pattern. Genuine anti-communists are nowhere to be found. Genuine conservatives, supporters of Christian civilization, are gradually replaced with pro-Russian shills and follows of Alexander Dugin. We are seeing this process unfold before our eyes.
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So, Tucker Carlson’s Russia Mir is rationalizing based on surface conservative ideology summarized in most shallow manner for normies to accept that Tucker is saving us in an actual “conservative” deep state rapprochement with Russia…
Meanwhile psychotic traitors like General Milley’s Russia/China Mir is rationalized on ideology that Trump is deranged and thus giving China a heads up on Trump moves is to save the world and deep-state US-China rapprochement…
What a bunch of clowns we have become in the eyes of the world. This is not serious at all.
I would not be surprised, however, to eventually see Tucker and Milley being buddies, it sure is conspiring this way, even if it were at their depends.
Here is Aaron Cohen, an actually threatened jew with head on shoulders, going off on Milley… https://youtu.be/VOR_k9pJjto?si=AUEKhyK8sipYdewp
Interestingly it would make sense then that anti-traitor Israelies would suffer more or less quiet or proxy antisemitism from the cowardly psychotic accademic camp of Miley/Obama… while the cowardly psychotic populist branch of Tucker would reash stories such as the USS Liberty attack… incidentally occuring under the same drag feet provocative racist and antisemitic Lindon Johnson of the Vietnam war…
Eisenhower might have been anti-communist, but as an elitist of sort. I always took exception to accepting whomever wrote for him the tripe on the “militaro-industrial complex” conspiracy in his final speech. It reeks to me of hypocrisy coming from a demagogue general.
I translate this as Eisenhower not liking veteran group populism, a sort of keeping the soldiers privates under oath even after they leave the military, under key. I guess he was not immune to the schizophrenia of confusing power/potency from authoritarianism and projecting as all officers are more or less suffering from it, rigid military system obliging some officers to compensate with rank and authority when they have little actual NCO knowledge of the terrain. And so they revert to this sort of aristocracy and let NCOs do their jobs even to the point of self-negation. Eisenhower seemed to have self-hated himself a bit there. Suffice to say, the speech is definitely a fabrication by a team, thus making it difficult to analyze off hand the actual author or ghost author(s), in Walter Benjamin allegoric fashion devoid of personally tuned poetry. This injunction in professionalism to the end by generals, communists milk it as sort of convenient Artificial Intelligence agents making the job of that easier… too easier….
For reference, this cynic communist and schizophrenic Walter Benjamin quietly gloated that artists are fascists because they have a unique talent they impose single handedly in their creation, whereas in filmography, the art was a team of technicians with no one having a monopoly on the technique. And so fascism was going to lose to communism because filmography was more powerful conspiracy.
Except here he assumed the fascist artist was devoid of social orientation and had only one dominating technique. This was implicitly refuted later by structuralists like Levi-Strauss, who, although no less schizophrenic, asserted that an art piece from a primitive or a great modern hand was a miniature in a flash of a situation, a sort of revealing trauma as post-structuralists imply.
Allegory fails to real art, and Walter Benjamin was promoting soul selling one’s artistic inclination and instead concentrate on talent. Hence nowadays kids in art school are demoralized and practice ideological/Marxist antropology and ecology in a team of insecure febrile militant cowards with zero soul and zero social orientation, actually hating on the very Indian artist they like to however promote in condescending virtue signaling, as if he was some kind of loner without a Marxist team, desperate, ie a sort of fascist when alone and psychotic yearning to be in a team and tribe.
This in a nutshell is the psychotic schizophrenic situation of American elites and their authoritarianism in universities, their preaching from on high pretending to be grass root from down low, patronizing many natives who often, however, too suffer from acculturating schizophrenia and psychosis shock and fall for it.
To be continued…
Polish political figure Dominik Tarczynski, in an interview this summer with Patrick bet-David, mentioned that what had drawn him to the legal profession was the desire to prosecute the Communists who had subjugated Poland before the fall of the USSR. His professional aspirations were dashed when he discovered that the people he wanted to prosecute continued to be in control of the Polish judicial apparatus. This almost incidental remark supports the claim that Communists are still firmly entrenched in the Eastern bloc nations.
I wonder whether there has been any substantiation of Jean Robin’s claim that arms shipments to Ukraine have been blocked. I found his statement verbatim on a tweet, which has been challenged as false or at least unconfirmed. It is certainly serious if true, but it seems to me that its validity needs to be established.
I think this recent update video by Jake Broe explains the aid situation (minute 14). Military aid to Ukraine is exempt from the 90-day ban but humanitarian aid is not. It’s very unfortunate as it puts a lot of Ukrainian charities and civil organizations under severe stress. Broe makes a good point that, while many on the right see US foreign aid as wasteful, it serves an important diplomatic purpose of extending US soft influence around the world. If the US retreats too much from the world, then China will step in to fill that gap and not just expand their influence, but colonize small countries one by one. Of course there should be audits to ensure that funds are not being wasted, but a blanket cut to all foreign aid may not actually serve US strategic interests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHnC1yo-WLk
Jake Broe – Ukraine Has Crippled Russia’s Oil Refinery Industry
Some other interesting points.
– Israel is likely sending Russian and Iranian-made weapons seized from Hamas to Ukraine, but the Israeli government does not officially acknowledge this. Israel is sending a message to Russia.
– The Kremlin says they have not been contacted by Trump’s people to set up a meeting. Interesting. The Telegraph UK also says that Putin has rejected direct peace talks with Zelensky.
– If Putin holds out too long, Trump could inadvertently destroy Russia’s economy and cause a regime collapse in an attempt to get Putin to come to the table. Dare we hope that Putin could be so stupid and obstinate? Russia has been very smart and patient in playing the political game, setting up various pro-Russian anti-establishment parties in Europe and influencing American conservatives to look to Russia, so all they have to do is play along until their assets/agents come to power in the West. Maybe this is because for the last two decades Putin has been portraying himself as the new Stalin, the anti-Gorbachev, and this is why he can’t play nice with the West even when it’s the only card he has to play.
– Solovyev informs his audience that Russia is the enemy of all Anglo-Saxon countries. He also hints that no one understands the true structure of the Russian economy. What is he talking about, communist structures?
Laura, I watch Broe regularly, and I think this was a particularly useful video, so thanks for taking the time to summarize it for those who do not follow him. It is amusing to watch him temper his virulent anti-Trump rhetoric as he watches cautiously the unfolding of the new administration. It is precisely because of the statement he made and that I have seen elsewhere that military aid continues to flow that I question J. Robin’s assertion about its cessation.
He is talking about China, lol.
Is this airplane tragedy a warning from Russia to congress to approve Tulsi? I know that this sounds out there and a conspiracy theory but after learning about Putin I must question.
Thank you for posting the interview. It diminishes hope but we have to know and understand it.
Whut???? CMA, this is an absolute tragedy. Don’t make this event into some sort of “conspiracy” here. There’s enough of that via media already.
So I’ll say it. The Russians didn’t have anything to do with this. Accidents happen. We all die and there’s always that moment in time your existence is measured. Period.
Geez
Settle down. I do think that it was probably an inexperienced pilot and I certainly think that it was a horrible tragedy but I don’t think that questioning a tragic event in this day and age is offensive. I have kids and grandchildren and if it were one of them I would want this question answered.
What specifically about this crash has anything to do with Putin or Gabbard? I don’t detect the hint, of a smell, of a memory of a wild dream of anything that could have inspired this wild question.
After reading Trevor’s page on Tulsi and listening to his podcasts I think that she could have Russian ties. Her hearing started today and she could help Russia immensely. So, in my brain I thought maybe this was a message to congress to say approve her or more planes will go down. I wonder though why you are so riled about me questioning this?
Hard to convey one’s emotional state through text. I don’t trust Gabbard. But I’m not leaping to conclusions either.
Bogdan,
Can you elaborate on, and describe what Doctor Anca Cernea means when she refers to “Polish conservatism”. Just what is Polish Conservatism? What are the specific characteristics that make Polish conservatism appealing and worthy of adoption by Romanians? Does Polish conservatism have any unique qualities that are especially helpful in battling Communism?
Doctor Anca Cernea says:
“For many years, we have been trying to make known Polish conservatism in Romania, hoping it was possible to follow its example here. Through AUR, the Russians have managed to interfere in relations between Poland and Romania and ruin them for many years to come. The admiration that Romanians naturally have for Poland and Poles is eroding with every picture in which Simion, the leader of AUR (a product of the remnants of Ceausescu’s Securitate) is shown with PiS leaders. In turn, we see that the Polish conservative media and the leaders of PiS prefer to give credit rather to Georgescu’s version of the story and to the AUR party, their ECR allies, instead of listening to their real Romanian friends.”
Excellent question, I would really like to know more. The article makes comparisons between two Polish parties, the PiS and PO, but the name of the parties and their political leanings are not given, which makes it hard to follow the analogy. Is PiS the Law & Justice Party?
Apology, Mateusz (and not Tadeusz) Morawiecki.
Regards
Dear Cicero, Polish Conservatism is deeply rooted in Polish Catholicism and is under strong influence of the Polish Catholic Church. Therefore, it political and social doctrine contains sizable element of so-called Christian Socialism even if it’s economic doctrine and policy but also far- reaching into the future economic plans recognize free market and a free enterprise as a basis for the nation’s wellbeing.
Former Premier Tadeusz Morawiecki who very successfully led Poland before being deposed by criminal syndicate called Citizen’s Platform was pretty blatant in articulating the unique character of Polish economic model as referring to the compassion of the Christan Socialism. To some degree it also resembles the Christian Socialism model prevailing in in the German state of Bavaria even if it is a bit more confused which is understandable considering that Poland is still recovering from the ravages of WW2 and communism.
Unfortunately, under the leadership of Polish Conservative Law and Justice party, Poland was a country of very high taxes, and it was one of the factors which pushed large sector of the younger generation of Poles into the hands of the BANDITS, THIEVS, VANDALS AND TRAITORS as I call the current regime of Donald Tusk and his cohort.
There is also some rational explanation and to some degree excuse for those high taxes that burden the Polish citizen; During so-called “transformation” Poland went through after the false and staged fall of communism the entire retirement, health funds and many other financial assets were stolen by the communist and post-communist criminal “elites” so The Polish conservative leadership embarked on slow and determined strategy of rebuilding those funds and assets, unfortunately, by taxing the unfortunate citizens.
The other factor was and still is the rapidly increased military spendings (now standing at almost 4% of GDP) in the face of mortal danger presented by the neo-Bolshevik Russia and 5% of GDP allocated for the help to Ukraine in various aspects.
This is an enormous burden for Poland. Still, it manages to maintain, perhaps the lowest government debt per GDP ratio in the EU and the lowest unemployment.
This is a huge success, and the main factor was the excellent managerial qualities of former Premier Tadeusz Morawiecki and his team and their success in stopping an enormous theft which was being perpetrated by the previous regimes.
The Big Picture is, obviously, much more complex and it must be also recognized that Polish Conservatives have committed many strategic blunders that also contributed to the loss of power by Law and Justice party in last year’s election.
Regards – Bogdan
Very interesting, Bogdan.
Thank you Bogdan for your penetrating and comprehensive response.
Mr. Nyquist,
Here is Richard Kraemer take on the Romanian Election. which uncovers Tik Tok’s nefarious involvement.
https://lawliberty.org/romanias-election-and-elite-failures/
My question is: Why, during this time of Communist China’s Unrestricted Warfare, do we allow XI to continue to provide Tik Tok to American citizens?
As Dr. Li Meng-Yan pointed out in the last Anticommunist conference, we have basically rendered TikTok non-viable here in the U.S. Financially we have ruined it, so we are not going to have a problem with it. I defer to Dr. Li on this. If anyone knows any different, please explain.
I had trouble understanding the point Li Men-Yang was trying to make about TikTok. Could you elaborate? How does being financially troubled make TikTok non-viable in the US? I would think the CCP doesn’t care about money, and when it comes to influencing the opinion of Americans no expense is too great.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking as well.
Basically the entities managing TikTok do not have the resources to keep it going under Chinese control, so they are not able to revive it — especially as they expect to be countered and thwarted if they invest more money. It’s hopeless.
I certainly hope it is, and remains so. But I have doubts. Surely someone beholden to China, or some front group may possibly buy it. I wish it would be thoroughly dismantled.
Kelin Georgescu, Romanian politician and presidential candidate, called Ukraine a “fictional state” and predicted its inevitable division between neighboring countries. Georgescu expects Romania will be given a slice of Ukraine.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46305
It must have really upset Putin’s plans that Georgescu won’t be at the negotiating table. Hopefully Trump will be smart enough not to allow Putin the pack the peace summit with his stooges.
Such poison … with Ukrainians dying by the thousands.
What did you think of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s public hearing with Gabbard? I think they did a fine job, if only they were sincere and maintain what appears to be sound judgement that she is not the person for the position…by a long shot.
Regarding Tulsi Gabbard,
Indiana Republican Senator Todd Young had some good questions for Tulsi Gabbard during her Senate confirmation hearing. Tulsi Gabbard Responds to Questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVISSRf3vP0
Where’s the rest of your post?
It’s probably a link on Jeff’s actual website. They don’t always show up on the WordPress app.
Tulsi Gabbard Responds to Questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVISSRf3vP0
I thought all the senators did well. There was only one -I can’t remember his name or state- who made an ass of himself asking if Gabbard would withhold funds that Congress had designated for an inspector general to investigate Trump, if Trump so ordered her.
That was the only flaw I saw. But then, the same guy redeemed himself with his follow-up question in the end.
I especially appreciated Senator Lankford of Oklahoma pointing out to Gabbard that the Committee is concerned about the thousands of intelligence agents who also (as well as Gabbard) have sworn an oath to the Constitution, and who also put *their* lives on the line, but aren’t known to the public because they don’t wear a uniform.
He was followed by the Senator from Colorado, who reiterated to Gabbard that it’s not about her. He then got a little heated with her constant refusal to own Snowden as the traitor he is, and very clearly highlighted her lack of good judgement (or, as most of us probably see it, her faithfulness to the Communist cause in parroting the talking points that come from that side).
Even that whacko Gillebrand, whom I wish Hegseth had put in her place during his hearing, made some very sensible and serious points about Gabbard’s stance on Japan and her seeming improper understanding of China.
To me, it seemed the Committee functioned as one would desire this type of Committee to function, and I was actually proud of them and grateful.
The question is: was it primarily fir the cameras? We’ll see. If they vote to approve her to the Senate, then I will feel like it was.
However, I hope they really raked her over the coals in the closed-door session.
I’ve never seen someone more pompous about having served in the military. She acts as if thar fact causes her to be above scrutiny, above questioning, and indeed -above those who didn’t serve in the military. It’s almost like a Barney Fife mentality, isn’t it? Only, it’s not funny, because she has so many people fooled, and the stakes are very high in this situation.
She acts as if she is Wonder Woman from the island of the Valkaries.
I respect people for having served, but it doesn’t make them a god (or goddess).
Benedict Arnold once wore the uniform as well.
Ha! A little insult comes to mind that one of my friends came up with when we were kids and used to see who could come up with the best little jab.
Gabbard may think that she is hot snot on a silver platter, but she’s really just a cold booger on a paper plate.
I couldn’t resist posting it.
That’s pretty low.
Sorta makes me think of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Gabbard. Kind of like a little parody of sorts, lol:
https://youtu.be/k4LrKVoeHyM?si=MOoEKxXJK7T5UiXB
With the recent death of Richard Williamson, have the communists lost an agent? It was he who said that Putin is fighting against the New World Order and the globalists and Putin should be supported… Recently, some religious figures have emerged who oppose the destructive model inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council, and they always appear with an impeccable image, as defenders of the doctrine and opponents of the decadence of the clergy. While Bergoglio embraces pagan idols, these antipopes do just the opposite and repeat the doctrine of the Church, reject syncretism, exude a Catholic purism of Christianity, but lead the masses towards a pro-Kremlin discourse (like Viganò). I know a certain friar here in my country who had connections with this Richard Williamson, they say he was ordained by him, and although he speaks badly of Putin, he defends sedevacantism and says that the Catholic Church could have a new beginning on Russian soil, because “the Russian people still have Christian virtues.” Am I being hasty to classify such people as agents of the communists?
Santana: It is important that we ask questions about Williamson. In fact, I have been reviewing Wlliamson’s recent statements, particularly his positive take on Alexander Dugin where he claimed to know nothing about certain philosophies and political movements. Such a claim of ignorance appears to be absolutely unbelievable. On the one hand, Richard Williamson appears to be a sincere traditionalist Catholic; on the other hand, he cannot be as ignorant of the political landscape as he pretends. His affirmations do not match the facts of his history, past associations and contacts. To deny the Holocaust, which is peculiar enough, and then to give Dugin kudos, and then to have peculiar links to Moscow-connected perennialists while claiming no knowledge of figures like Rene Guenon, is not honest. This places Williamson in the most sinister light imaginable. Williamson, in a recent podcast, was clearly disingenuous in his many statements. He knows perfectly well who Rene Guenon was. The question is: Why would he pretend not to know the famous work of Guenon? Why would he say favorable things about Dugin while disavowing any knowledge concerning Dugin’s philosophy and background? This is more than dishonest. It is devious in the extreme, and inexcusable if we examine Williamson’s larger rhetoric. If you do not know, you do not open your mouth. But he opens his mouth — and what fantastic things come out of that mouth! Williamson carves himself an alibi and proceeds to lie without conscience about Dugin saying good things. I do not cut him slack. He was helping Christendom’s worst enemies. Dugin cannot be a Christian. Promoting Dugin while saying you know nothing about him is too tricky by half.
PS — You are not being hasty to fear the worst about Williamson.
@ Santana: Funny enough – and this is indeed purest coincidence! – I just translated and posted a few hours ago my – AS ALWAYS: TOP-NOTCH! – German translation of Mr. Nyquist’s April 6, 2022 article about (former) Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò justifying Russia’s destruction of Ukraine (as for the proper spelling and pronunciation of the Archbishop’s surname, that “accento grave” at the end of it should NOT be dropped under any circumstances, as otherwise the name would be wrongly stressed on the second syllable rather than the last, and so it has to be VIGANÒ, not Vigano – which sounds like oregano …):
https://jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/monsignore-carlo-maria-vigano-rechtfertigt-die-zerstorung-der-ukraine/
In this context, it may be mentioned that this blog of mine that solely presents Mr. Nyquist’s work AND NOTHING ELSE, http://www.jrnyquistdeutsch.wordpress.com (J. R. Nyquist – Deutsche Ausgabe), in place since 2014 and with Nyquist’s authorisation, presents, as of now, translated material of Mr. Nyquist’s writings worth almost 700 book pages (!!!), if one takes 400 words per book page as a rule of thumb. – NOBODY has even remotely done this amount of work, 90 % of it absolutely for free, as precise and absolutely meticulous translations, all in very fine, flawless and cultured German (not to mention the exquisite online presentation of it all)! No crazed and duplicitous East-German commie blossom from the shores of the Baltic Sea and no provincial dilettante from what once was West Germany (and is now an all-socialist Greater GDR!) comes even close to this huge body of translations, LET ALONE the level of excellence! So why allow all these unqualified (and highly problematic) people to continue to damage one’s work? Is there a subconscious auto-destructive mechanism involved? Opening oneself up to everybody may lead one, ultimately, to welcoming the devil himself.
Sincerely,
Definitely NOT a “house plant off camera” …
P.S. The surname of (Viktor) Orbán, by the way, which belongs to the Hungarian language context, MUST NOT be stressed on the second syllable! This accent only signifies a very open “a” (not “ey”, but “A”) which is a specific feature of the Hungarian language. And so it’s not Orbaaan, but simply Orban, even though with the “a” as a very open vowel. Just for anyone’s information …
Good to see you post, CO!
I never intended to offend by allowing various persons to discuss or translate my words. Probably you are the only “cultured” translator I have in any language. Willingness to communicate with uncultured persons has long been a fault of mine, being uncultured myself. I am not in a position to judge foreign language translations, and I am entirely disregarded by foreign press and academe, with no cultured interest other than yourself. Perhaps I must follow the example of preferring tax collectors, prostitutes, and semi-literates to quote my sayings. Besides, i am not sufficiently cultured myself. I grew up with type-writers, where foreign accents on letters were never written into texts. Our machines had no way of accommodating such. Even in graduate schools, leaving the odd bits off foreign names was understood as an American practice. With computers we can now do it, though one must hunt through the symbol set, find the odd letter, and insert. I often do this, but when tired, overworked, or unable to find the symbol set, I do the bad thing and skip it. No such markings exists on our American keyboards. All our old publications make this error. A crass Americanism, no doubt. We also mispronounce foreign names here in America. Too bad the world must put up with us a little longer.
For Sir Bogdan, the Lionhearted,
Would you like to add your thoughts to expand on and amplify Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea comments regarding Poland’s Example providing Romanian Communist Fighters with Hope?
“…Then we should be brave and not lose hope, because there are victories. For instance, Poland is a very inspiring example. They have had victories and don’t have any doubts that they’re going to win the cultural war.”
What gives them hope?
“They have lost many leaders, not only political and military leaders, but also cultural, religious, and that has been a big, big blow for them. But on the other hand, they could already see in the long term they had chances to win because they had a lot of citizen initiatives, clubs for intellectuals, alternative media groups that are not government-run or funded by [Hungarian billionaire George] Soros. It’s genuine Catholic media, and this media is very, very diverse, and so you have very high-level intellectuals of caliber, but you also have things more popular that are addressed to people who don’t have time to go into depth. [A Catholic Polish philosopher] said, “Look at the libraries; they’re full of our books. And the other side has lots of colorful magazines made with a lot of money. But the books are ours and the students are on our side. We educate them, and they start writing on their own initiative” — and so in the long term, he couldn’t see how we could lose this war. So I think its approach should be taken as a model, because we have no reason to lose. It’s our world, and we have to take it back. It’s created by Christians, this Judeo-Christian civilization. It has Jewish roots and Christian revelation, but it’s ours.”
https://www.ncregister.com/news/the-marxist-roots-of-the-contemporary-family-crisis
Dear Cicero, thank you for your appreciation of my post. It is highly admirable that Dr Cernea points on the Polish heroes as an inspiration for the freedom loving Romanians.
Great majority of Polish heroes are tragic heroes and are product of the Polish history, which is exceptionally tragic. It begins with Polish super-knight from early 15th century Zawisza (Zavisha) the Black through Irena Sendler, Witold Pilecki and so many others tragic figures from WW2 and ending with priest Andrzej Popieluszko barbarically murdered by the communist during the state of war in the previous Century imposed by the commies on the Polish people.
Unfortunately, the Poles who will fight like lions for their freedom when they lose it, they will always fail to close ranks when living in (mostly illusory) peace time.
The latest example is a failure by Polish conservative party, Law and Order (PiS) to nominate hugely popular, even internationally, courageous and outspoken Dominik Tarczynski as a conservative candidate for the position of Polish President in incoming election. His replacement Dr, Karol Nawrocki, albeit equally intelligent and articulate and, in general, noble man is much less known and his chances of victory less secure.
I suspect that the reason is the fear on behalf of the Law and Justice party’s leadership that Tarczynski would outshine them and that includes the PiS current Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
It is regrettable that such trivial personal matters can play role in such a crucial time, however this nasty feature has always dominated throughout Polish turbulent history and to large degree has also been a factor that contributed to the loss of our freedom in the past.
As Marschall Jozef Pilsudzki, who is regarded as the father of Poland’s independence once said with brutal honesty: “Poland is the fabulous nation only the people are whores”.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is regarded as a strategic political genius and was an architect of the glorious victory of Law and Order party in the recent past, however his failure to nominate Dominik Tarczynski could come out to be a fatal mistake.
Fortunately, there some mildly encouraging signs that the popularity of Dr. Nawrocki’s opponent and Citizen’s Platform nominee Rafal Trzaskowski is slowly diminishing so, perhaps, Nawrocki could still win. Trzaskowski is a complete mediocrity, so it is mind blowing that practically half of Polish voters are still supporting him.
On the other side, as Dr Cernea has herself noticed, the Polish, or rather anti-Polish criminal and traitorous elements associated with Citizen’s Platform could use anti-democratic measures to deny Law and Justice party and Nawrocki himself the victory, and they are signaling more or less openly their intent to do so.
Regards – Bogdan
On June 21, 2015 (thus almost a decade ago), I sent an e-mail to the now-deceased Bishop Richard Williamson (complete with all the respective weblinks), confronting him head-on. Here is what I wrote, followed by a brief, stone-cold and totally indifferent reply, followed in return by a very long message by myself:
“Your Reverence,
“As a subscriber to your weekly Eleison Comments, I was surprised to read this Sunday morning that you view Putin as promoting a ‘religious revival’ in Russia. Also you repeat the Russian propaganda of an ‘encircled Russia’ vis-à-vis an ‘elite-controlled’ Western New World Order.
“With all due respect, nothing could be further from the truth. I urge you to study the two books by premier Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation, and The Perestroika Deception: The World’s Slide Towards the Second October Revolution, and to read the top-notch analyses by American political scientist J. R. Nyquist. Nyquist may not be a traditional Catholic, but is still a God-fearing true conservative. What’s more, he is a brilliant mind (now 57 years old) with a unique gift of sober reflection and intellectual discernment. He may well be the leading expert in Soviet & Russian strategy of our time.”
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Bishop Williamson’s response:
“Dear friend,
“I do not think you are right, but I could be wrong. Men have free-will, and they can change, or convert. The Western press hates Putin. Is all of that also part of the cinema?
“Time will tell.
“God bless you, +Richard Williamson.”
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By which idiocy the “good Bishop” earned himself the following very long response from my end:
“Your Reverence,
“But – wouldn’t it be wiser, rather than listening to the (virtually unchanged) Soviet/’post’-Soviet apparat and all its construed disinformation, to properly look into the first-class defector literature so in order to see what THEY have to say?
“Political analyst Jeff Nyquist gives a unique insight into this field, and here is one selected article written by Mr. Nyquist after the dubious death of Boris Berezovsky a year ago that extensively quotes some of the top credible Soviet-/Russian defectors: ‘Why Trading with Russia and China is Stupid’. Also, I would like to bring to your attention a late countryman of yours (you may have known him anyway): Christopher Story. He ran a periodical titled Soviet Analyst, published premier defector Anatoliy Golitsyn’s second book of 1995, ‘The Perestroika Deception: The World’s Slide Towards the Second October Revolution’, self-published a reference work of his own in 2002, ‘The European Union Collective: Enemy of Its Member States – A Study in Russian and German Strategy to Complete Lenin’s World Revolution’, and gave, over the years, a handful of interviews and public lectures (two interviews hosted by American Bill McIlhaney in 1995 (part I; part II) and 2003, respectively; and one very interesting lecture before the Fatima 2000 World Peace Bishops’ Conference in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, that Mr. Story titled, ‘Lenin’s Satanic World Revolution’). Finally, also Jeff Nyquist gave a few amazingly concise lectures, one in 1999 before an American-based ‘Prophecy Club’, another one around 2004 before a more constitutionalist gathering (here is part 1/9); both lectures were of course about longterm communist strategy.
“Our problem may not be ‘anti-Russianism’ at all. Rather, it may well be the ever-same anti-Americanism long since used by all kinds of totalitarian systems in order to crush a freedom of life without which there can be no freedom of religious practice either. The alleged ‘encirclement’ of Russia (also erroneously discussed as such by the late Peter Scholl-Latour in his 2006 book, ‘Rußland im Zangengriff’) is indeed reality upside down.
“As, how could ‘Russia’ (which exited history in 1917 and was never genuinely revived after 1991, meaning our present-day ‘Russians’ are still Soviets) be encircled???
“- Moscow still exerts full control over all ‘ex’-Soviet republics. For that reason they established the ‘Commonwealth of Independent States’, in the first place, which is totally irrelevant in terms of international law, but internally serves basically as a continuation of the old USSR. These ‘successor states’ are in most cases ruled with iron fists by old-style communist nomenklaturists, who still run their countries as de-facto communist dictatorships (just look at Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgiztan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and of course Belarus; with the situation in the remaining ‘ex’-republics – the three Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova – being, at best, confusing, and the Russian Federation itself being still a – thinly veiled – military dictatorship eager to turn the tables on the West and establish, along with communist China, a new eon of worldwide communism).
“- Also in the ‘former’ satellite states of Eastern Europe, the old cadres haven’t gone away, but merely changed their stripes, as part of the overall disinformation offensive launched under Gorbachev (the new ‘party pluralism’ in both Russia and Eastern Europe is a deception). Thus, the European Union’s eastward enlargement has been the final nail in the coffin for Western Europe, as old-style Marxist-Leninists have now positioned themselves side by side with the clueless Western European ‘optimists’ and socialistic do-gooders, by which this eastward enlargement in fact has turned out as a Soviet-/communist westward enlargement instead. As Christopher Story termed it, even prior to 2004/2007: it’s been a ‘mass walk-in’. The communists have literally flooded the West (and certainly not the other way around).
“- To the South East of the vast territory of the Russian Federation (i.e., of the former RSFSR) lies, beside ‘post’-communist Mongolia, the other great communist power of the People’s Republic of China (mistakenly today viewed by the West as ‘pragmatic’ and quasi-‘capitalist’), Russia’s most important ideological and strategic ally for the great battle against Western civilisation soon to come. I beg you: encirclement? (Under Gorbachev and Shevardnadze, and even today, they have been using the phrase, ‘A common European home from the Atlantic to Vladivostok’, meaning an all-communist Eurasia; even shadowy Angela Merkel, at times, uses this insidious phrase!). Then there are the communist states of North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos (in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge may well celebrate a deadly return to power in the not-too-distant future). The other billion-plus nation of India has been drawn, ever since the days of Indira Gandhi [well: already since her father Jawaharlal Nehru], into the orbit of Moscow and is today part of the socialist BRICS alliance (apart from the ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’, which is basically a Soviet/Chinese military structure, with countries such as India and Pakistan enjoying observer status). On the other hand, Pakistan, despite all seeming collaboration with the U.S. after 9/11, still is a Red-Chinese client state. Not to mention the deadly Mullah regime in Tehran.
“- As for the Islamic world, from Morocco all across to Indonesia, we have this aggressive poison of revived Salafism/Wahabism cleverly utilised and certainly actively pushed forward by the Soviet/’post’-Soviet strategists. Following the logic of ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend,’ Moscow has greatly made use of Islam and turned it, not only regarding the militant extremists and terrorists, into a weapon against America and the West. And hasn’t been organised terrorism, Islamic or otherwise, been an invention by the Revolution, starting with the French and Bolshevist Revolutions, and being extended onto the world stage ever, roughly, since the 1960s?
“- Let’s look then to Latin America. It’s been vastly turned, over the last 20, 25 years of ‘post’-communism, into red territory. How come? Russia, supposedly, ceased to be communist (with the same old criminal gang in charge, suddenly presenting itself as ‘democrats’ and ‘marketeers’, and – most ridiculously – as men of Russian tradition and of Christendom), and yet the world revolution has been gaining momentum as never before (and let’s not forget ANC/SACP-controlled South Africa).
“- The EU has eerie similarity with the former official USSR. With former Maoist student leaders (Barosso), and (according to the Mitrokhin archives) likely agents of Moscow (Prodi) heading the Commission. And who is now cherished as the no. 1 political figure in so-called ‘Europe’: a once committed Marxist-Leninist from communist East Germany, whose biography prior to 1989 must have been erased for a reason. At the same time, a determined Marxist radical sits in the White House in Washington, speaking of the fundamental transformation of the United States’ and doing everything to lead the U.S. into fiscal bankruptcy and military nullification.
“Given these undeniable geopolitical developments, we should rather speak of an encirclement (even nearing isolation) of the United States (apart from countries like Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, or the Philippines) vis-à-vis a huge socialist-(Islamic) bloc willing (and able) to establish communist world domination (the duped Muslims – as well as the duped political and religious ‘Right’ in the West – will eventually find out they had been cynically used). In this context, Stalin’s perfidious prediction comes to mind:
‘The withering away of the state, the precondition for the classless society, could not be entertained as a possibility until the encirclement of socialism by capitalism had been changed to the encirclement of capitalism by socialism. That is to say, until those conditions had been established which would assure world-wide Soviet domination.’
“There’s absolutely no doubt we are in the very final stage of the world revolution, including the great possibility of a Russian/Chinese full-scale war against America (and the remaining non-communist world), which they now threaten upon us almost on a daily basis. Moscow’s obvious pre-war propaganda already paints the U.S. as the ‘aggressor’ – which is entirely ludicrous, not the least as they have one of them installed as President of the United States. No war without a propaganda pretext. History, very much, is repeating itself.
“And, as for Putin’s displayed ‘Christendom’, here is a devastating revelation by one of his countless victims, Anna Politkovskaya (who was killed on Putin’s birthday 2006, execution-style), taken from her 2005 book, ‘Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy’ (translated by myself from the German edition):
‘We only get to see him in this role: either he receives officials in his office in the Kremlin and listens to their accounts, or he lets off reprimanding monologues. These recordings are usually well thought through by his PR people, no improvisation, no happenstance, everything’s precisely calculated. For instance, Putin’s appearance before his people at Easter, about a month after his re-election: At the beginning of Easter night in the Christ Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, built of concrete where once had been a swimming pool, there stood, shoulder to shoulder with him, like for a military parade, Prime Minister Fradkov and Dmitri Medvedev, the new grey eminence in the Kremlin, head of the new Presidential Administration, crossing themselves clumsily. Medvedev, a tiny little man with a huge head, made the sign of the cross by touching with his hand first his forehead and then his genitals. Very comical. Furthermore, Medvedev, following the example of Putin, shook the Patriarch’s hand in comradely fashion, without kissing it, as would be suitable. The Patriarch overlooked it. Well, the PR people in the Kremlin are uneducated people and know nothing about the ceremonial, although otherwise they work very effectively. Beside Putin also stood Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov who commissioned the cathedral to be built. Luzhkov was the only one who could properly cross himself. The Patriarch called Putin “Your Excellence”. Yes, Easter is now – with so many KGB men at the top of the state – a very important feast and a duty. In the manner of the May Day parades of earlier times.
‘The beginning of the Easter night had been even more comical than the handshake with the Patriarch. Both government television channels broadcast live the procession around Christ Saviour Cathedral, that preceded the church service and in which the Patriarch participated, although he wasn’t in good health. The TV moderator, a faithful and theologically educated person, told the viewers that according to Orthodox tradition the doors to the cathedral would be closed till midnight. They symbolise the gate to the cave, where Christ’s body had laid. After midnight, the faithful, who have taken part in the procession, await the opening of the cathedral doors. At the fore-front stands the Patriarch, ready to enter – before everybody else – the empty cathedral, where the Resurrection of Christ has already taken place.
‘But when the Patriarch, before the cathedral door, had completed the first prayer after midnight and the door opened, there stood Putin. Our humble Putin. Shoulder to shoulder with Fradkov, Medvedev, and Luzhkov.
‘It made one laugh and cry at the same time. A humoristic evening in the Holy Easter night. Why should one like our President? Because he makes everything banal that he touches? […]
‘Why I don’t like Putin? Because of his cynicism. Because of his racism. Because of the endless war. Because of his lies. Because of the gas attack in the “North-East” Musical Theatre. Because of the innocent people who have been murdered under his watch. Deaths that could have been avoided.
‘Putin, who incidentally got enormous power in his hands, is using this power with catastrophic consequences for Russia. I don’t like him because he doesn’t like people. He can’t stand us. He despises us. He thinks we are only a means to his ends, a means to the realisation of his power ambitions. And because of this he may do whatever he likes, he can play with us as he likes. And can destroy us as he likes. He believes that we are unworthy, he believes that he is Czar and God in one, before whom we have to bow down and whom we have to fear.
‘In Russia, there have already been leaders with a similar weltanschauung. This led to tragedies. To great bloodshed. To civil wars. And I don’t want that. That’s why I don’t like this typically Soviet Chekist, who strides over the red carpets of the Kremlin up to the Russian throne.’”
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And that was the end of that “conversation”. No further response from this suspicious “shepherd” (or possibly wolf in sheep’s clothing) …
Interesting that Williamson would not engage further. He knew more than he pretended.
I just read a post on Conservatives 4 Ukraine about Tulsi calling the Russian Orthodox KGB Soviet front organization a church. The author explains how infiltrated America Christians are and how exposing and dismantling this operation that has taken years and billions of dollars to build could bring it tumbling down and this massive communist infiltration with it. So, seeing that Tulsi is approved is of great importance to Putin and his Stalinist army. I am sticking with the suggestion that they would go to great lengths to see that she is put in place.
There’s no telling what kind of indirect pressure Russia may be putting on these Senators. If any of them have any skeletons in their closets, or gave taken any bribes (via campaign donations), then they will most likely vote to advance Gabbard to the Senate to be voted on. I hope they have conducted their time in office in a way that they are not subject to blackmail or the full frontal assault of the Yennan Way.
🙏🙏🙏
https://jrnyquist.blog/2022/03/29/the-subversion-of-the-not-so-innocent/
One of Jeff’s essays that I go back to a lot. It really stuck in my mind.
Mr. Nyquist,
Are Ukraine armed forces Man Power shortages the most critical factor that will determine the course of the Ukraine War? Why should Ukraine believe that any cease fire agreement with Russia would be adhered to by Russia?
Here is an intriguing Audio discussion regarding these matters.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/putins-fight-wont-end-ukraine
Well this isn’t good. Trump considers China, the ultimate source of all the fentanyl flowing into the US, more of a friend than Canada. Forget the jibes about making Canada the 51st state, this will be the thing that will really hurt Canada-US relations.
I know there was an uptick in refugees sneaking into the US through the Canadian border in the last 2 years (a drop in the bucket compared to the US southern border), but how much fentanyl is really flowing through Canada, as opposed to the vast amount coming from Mexico? Strangely, the White House makes the tariffs sound open-ended, as if fixing the border issues will not remove the tariffs.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-to-impose-25-percent-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-10-percent-on-china-on-feb-1-post-5802206?utm_source=TOP5_article_paid&src_src=TOP5_article_paid&utm_campaign=top5-2025-02-01-ca&src_cmp=top5-2025-02-01-ca&utm_medium=email&est=0Sry8r59frl3JvzFYlgINpaUoIs1Fiw3M62tI4HlktSO52TIs5U%2Bcmucah8rV3z4
The US is imposing 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on China, the White House said
“We’re not looking for a concession. We’ll just see what happens,” he said.
The president also previewed sweeping tariffs in the coming weeks on chips, pharmaceuticals, medicine, steel, aluminum, and copper, as well as against the European Union.
If Trump also imposes tariffs on the EU, I don’t think that will make Europe more likely to buy US oil as opposed to Russian gas. If the sellout of Ukraine also happens then Russia will have a hat-trick, courtesy of Trump.
This is troubling, Laura. It doesn’t make sense to me for him to go about it in this manner. Is he hoping to force Mexico and Canada to exert strong effort to stop fentanyl from entering America through them? Even if that’s the idea, it still doesn’t make sense to put more tariffs on them than on China.
Yes, that was my thought exactly. If Trump wants to stop the fentanyl why not go after China? After all, Xi has been openly boasting that the CCP is deliberately waging chemical warfare against the US. Mexico and Canada are at worst compromised by the same communist mafia that is also operating in America. There is also a lot that Trump could do on the US side of the border to stop the flow, this problem is not 100% due to Canada and Mexico’s laxity on border control. Considering the massive amount of goods coming into the US from China, what’s to stop China from importing the raw materials for producing fentanyl directly into the US and assembling the finished product there? They are already getting away with importing arms, drones and a lot of other dual-use military-civilian equipment into the US, but Trump’s not saying anything about that.
Canada will be holding federal elections this year and the Conservative Party has a good chance of winning given the collapse of he Liberal government in the last month. All of Trump’s complaints regarding the northern border could easily be resolved in the next few months without tariffs, but instead he picks a course of action that could turn the most pro-American party in Canada against the US. Reading between the lines, the fentanyl issue sounds like a pretext and Trump’s real issue is with the trade deficits, which means the tariffs will be semi-permanent. Which means all the hot air rhetoric about Canada ditching the US and growing closer to China could risk becoming a reality. I don’t get it. Trump boasts that his jibes about NATO were intended to get the alliance to spend more on defense, but then he goes around like a bull in a china shop antagonizing allies left and right. Whatever the outcome of the Ukraine peace deal, these moves are almost certain to push Europe and Canada toward the Russia/China camp, if not in a military sense then definitely in an economic sense.
This article makes me think that it’s really about trade deficits more than anything else.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-signs-order-imposing-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-china-5802551?utm_source=BN_article_paid&src_src=BN_article_paid&utm_campaign=breaking-2025-02-01-ca&src_cmp=breaking-2025-02-01-ca&utm_medium=email&est=zwsP927o7rkwt3xfPZXp2voESwWxP2c3yQKmv%2FqGbuWGD3Yh%2BdtIfEp%2BuEQ70DAa&utm_term=breaking&utm_content=breaking
Looks like Gabbard is 50/50 to get elected. Will be interesting to see if any democrats vote for her.
I pray they dont, but if the Democrat party is under control of the Democrats, then I’m afraid they one or two will “defect” and vote for her if that’s what it takes to get her in. The more I think about it, the more I think the Democrats taking her to task in the open session was possibly just theatre. I’m sure if they hadn’t received the party line by then, that they’ve gotten the memo since then.
I meant, if the Democrat party is under the control of the *Communists*.
Same thing nearly.
This is from Catherine Austin Fitts:
A friend asked me to give a speech called “How the Money Works on Organized Crime.” In the middle of the speech, I described the fact that a reporter I was doing research for had been told by the Department of Justice that the U.S. economy and the financial system laundered $500 billion to $1 trillion a year of all dirty money.
So I said to this wonderful group of spiritually evolved people, “What would happen if we stopped laundering $500 billion to $1 trillion a year of all dirty money?”
We had a little interaction, and they said, “Well, the stock market would go down because that money would leave and go to Hong Kong or Singapore or Zurich, and we would have trouble financing the government deficit because we would offend the people who control that money and the accumulated capital for years thereon. Our government checks might stop, or our taxes might go up.”
So I said, “Okay. Well, let’s pretend that there is a big red button up here on the lectern, and if you push that button, you can stop all hard narcotics trafficking in your community, your state, and your country tomorrow, thus offending the people who control $500 billion to $1 trillion of annual dirty money. Who here will push the button?”
Out of 100 people, only one would push the button. I said to the other 99, “Why would you not push the button?”
They said, “We don’t want our mutual funds and our IRAs to go down in price, we don’t want our government checks to stop, and we don’t want our taxes to go up.”
Laura1986,
I had to go to the gym for awhile, and listened to this while I was in there:
https://youtu.be/J–ZUaoV7RI?si=PAlA8rvk2kdwsM46
The tariffs are to be imposed on top of what was already there! And it does seem to be more about the trade deficit between the nations -or more specifically, about giving Americans relief from the high inflation we’ve been experiencing. He’s constantly saying how we’re going to be rich again and all that, and I think he’s trying to accomplish that as quickly as he can, and tariffs are the most obvious way to do it.
However, I don’t think the way to maintain goodwill among allies is by doing it in this manner. At the same time though, I wonder what Canadian tariffs on American goods are? Maybe they’re about the same. Rubio said in his interview with Megyn Kelly that Trump wants to even things up -that if a country charges 50 percent tariffs on American goods, then we will reciprocate that. Then he said, maybe we would make ours 55 percent because Trump believes in having a little leverage. So, maybe this is pretty much tit for tat. He said we currently have almost a $200 billion trade deficit with Canada, and a $250 billion trade deficit with Mexico.
So, maybe this isn’t as bad as it looks considering that aspect.
The thing that is definitely not good though, is the mere ten percent tariff on China. This is what I think is an insult to Canada, and as you said, will quite likely hurt goodwill from Canada to America. This is like a slap in the face to Canada. I just can’t make it make sense.
In one of the antiCommunist discussions right after the election, Trevor Loudon said that Trump declaring war on the Mexican cartels (or designation them as terrorists) would be him just going after the loe-hanging fruit, when China is the one behind them.
Maybe -in regard to the tariffs being because of the fentanyl flow -this is akin to going after low-hanging fruit, and not being as firm with China.
Maybe he’s got bigger plans for China, but I agree -to lump a traditional ally in with China and even Mexico, and to put higher tariffs on Canadian goods than on Chinese goods, is not a good look.
I saw Trudeau was addressing Canada tonight on this issue. I figure you watched that. How did it go?
I sure hope all this ill-advised rhetoric towards different allies doesn’t provide them the pretext to openly align themselves more with China.
The problem with Tariffs on China is that they then pass their products through Canada or Mexico, etc. It seems like a real tangle.
So in other words, whatever China passes through Mexico or Canada, will be like ten *more* percent on them then, right?
On Canada and Mexico I mean.
America has been taken advantage of it trade. But then, we have become lazy getting cheap goods from everywhere. There are social deformations on every side. How to correct them? I don’t know.
To GreyKnight:
I’ve heard that a lot of US companies have branches in Canada. As much as 50% of foreign investment in Canada is from the US. These US-owned companies are involved in extracting raw materials, or manufacturing parts that are then shipped to the US to be used in other manufacturing processes. I don’t know how this will affect prices of goods in the US. I’ve also seen people on the internet speculate that prices for same or similar goods from non-tariff countries might rise to take advantage of the price increase on Canadian and Mexican goods. There is also speculation about a rising black/grey market for certain goods to try to skirt the tariffs.
While Trump claims the US trade deficit with Canada is $200 billion, the US census data has it at $55 billion for the first 11 months of 2024. Is this worth starting a trade war over? Also most of the trade deficit comes from Canadian oil imports into the US, which were only hit with 10% tariffs.
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c1220.html
For what it’s worth, Canada announced a $1.3 billion plan to increase border security, so how long does Trump plan to keep up the tariffs?
Trudeau’s response is to impose similar tariffs on US imports. A trade war between allies is not what we need right now. Some Canadian provinces are talking about decreasing dependence on trade with the US and finding other markets.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/canada-retaliates-with-25-percent-tariffs-on-155-billion-worth-of-us-imports-5802729?utm_source=BN_article_paid&src_src=BN_article_paid&utm_campaign=breaking-2025-02-01-ca&src_cmp=breaking-2025-02-01-ca&utm_medium=email&est=zykiuIf5TF9y0k8an%2FcRz4qssJcZwxArD5qwhqtd0DbZrx37X%2Bp8CN8vRwjq7eNX&utm_term=breaking2&utm_content=breaking2
Thank you. I agree: this is the wrong time to have a trade war between allies -especially allies who share a common landmass. It’s not what is needed at this time in history.
Not sure I understand this strategy either, except as a kind of test.
Test of what?
A bluff might be a test. But also a punch in the face is a test. Also, to find out who is with whom. The Russians use the term “provikatsiya”