WHY IS UKRAINE SO IMPORTANT TO THE USA, UK & THEIR EUROPEAN ALLIES?

The first thing to say is that Ukraine is clearly not intrinsically important by and of itself.

Until a few years ago it was hardly mentioned and rarely appeared in any official state document in the West regarding any such importance and even more rarely did it feature in western mainstream news.

In addition, it is clear that the collective west is fully committed to Ukraine even if it causes a complete breakdown of its own economic system, the collapse of confidence in its financial dominance and the abject misery of its people and those of the entire world as energy and food poverty reach levels not seen in centuries.

Why is it then, despite its insignificance in years past that Ukraine has been accorded a status of the highest possible category of importance to just about every western state you could mention to a frenetic degree approaching rabid hysteria?

It’s a story that goes back to the most seminal events of our lifetimes, the 9/11 attacks on the United States and the decisions made immediately afterwards by the most powerful elites on the planet.

In essence Ukraine is important because of Russia. And not because Russia sent a military force into Ukraine on the 24th of February this year… but as a tangential factor, the possibility of a Russian success.

Going back to 9/11, it was quite clearly decided that there existed an absolute necessity that the USA must accomplish in the shortest time frame possible, i.e. the next day if at all possible. Naturally this was not possible but the time frame I have given is my suggestion of just how urgent this absolute necessity was and which would lead ultimately to lowly Ukraine becoming vitally important.

The vital necessity was of course in the furtherance of the 100% security that it was naturally decided that the USA MUST have to prevent anything remotely like the events of 9/11 happening again. This would require not only removing and replacing all regimes antipathetic to the means required for this necessity to be achieved, but due to the zero-limited time frame no such regime or the entities within it must have ANY success that could make the difficulty of unseating it more difficult than it already was.

This is the essence of why Ukraine is important now and why it has little to do with Ukraine, its merits, demerits, attractiveness of its people or otherwise, or any factor intrinsically to do with the nation itself.

Let me explain the fundamentals involved as I see them.

You will perhaps have noticed how those nations that the USA and its allies have targeted have been harried without let or hindrance and quite beyond what might have been expected in previous times when a certain degree of compromise via diplomacy was usual. After 9/11 diplomacy was discarded except as a pretence, used as a tactical weapon, a means of snowing an opponent for a while until the coup de gras could be more methodically applied.

No target was to be granted any leeway and if at all possible was to be demonised to the nth degree and allowed zero successes of ANY kind if this could possibly be avoided.

The fact that the Skripals incident happened just weeks before the Russian presidential elections and the Russian soccer World Cup is no coincidence. The way the Clinton defeat of 2016 was blamed was part of this same pattern, as was the “poisoning” of Alexei Navalny. Neither too were the hundreds of poison pen articles spreading rumours concerning the purportedly dastardly nature of Vladimir Putin however without producing the hard facts required to prove any of it.

The examples are too many to mention and cover every regime change target from the first to the latest. Reams of demonising text and a complete absence of any true diplomacy that might cast the target in anything approaching a positive light.

Russia however is the number one target currently and has been for many years now. Not that it is the ultimate target, that of course is China, but for now until certain objects have been achieved, it is Russia. And therefore wherever and whenever possible no good news of any kind should emerge from that land, nothing positive should be said about its leadership and absolutely no successes are to be permitted. NONE.

THIS is why Ukraine is important, not for itself alone, Ukraine and its people is not of ANY true interest of any American outside of those who have some ancestral legacy there or who have a need for it for money-laundering transactions or those who have some offspring gaining copious money for his drug habit from it.

No, Ukraine is important for the USA, UK and their European allies because Russia, as the long-time number one regime change target, cannot possibly be allowed to successfully protect its border securely. Its border must remain fragile and increasing pressure be placed upon it until something breaks inside the country. This and myriad other means have been applied across the board to instigate regime change in Russia.

And Russia breaking out from this cascade of weapons of all kinds designed to undermine it was absolutely not to happen. And therefore it was completely unthinkable that Russia would win in Ukraine. This would make undermining it, removing its leader and system of governance and replacing them both would make an already hard job much harder.

And the ultimate solution to ensure nothing like 9/11 would ever happen again, global full spectrum dominance, would be just that much further off.

THE FALL OF EASTERN & SOUTHERN UKRAINE TO RUSSIA & WHAT FOLLOWS

There is a town called Poposnaya in eastern Ukraine. It is in an elevated position where much of the surrounding area for many kilometres out can be surveyed. The Ukrainian army has just lost it to the Russian forces slowly making progress toward the towns where the Ukrainians will make their last stand in the Lugansk province, Severodonetsk, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

This breakthrough will lead to sieges of the remaining conurbations listed above. It is not thought that they will pose the same problems or require the same time to liberate them as was found to be the case in Mariupol. In Mariupol the fighters were predominantly irregulars, Azov Battalion ultra-nationalists and of course they are still refusing to emerge from below the Azovstal steel works there.

Severodonetsk, Slavyansk nor Kramatorsk are industrial towns in the same way Mariupol is and neither are there likely to be any ‘fight till they die’ Azov extremists in them, they are almost certainly regular Ukrainian army troops with some national guard among them. For myself I suspect that there is a strong likelihood, though not by any means a certainty, that most will surrender. I can’t imagine they will relish fighting to a needless death.

Russia’s campaign in Ukraine is therefore coming to the end of its second phase. Once the Lugansk region is fully secured all remaining Russian troops will be deployed in dealing with the very last significant Ukrainian positions near Donetsk City. That done, some mopping up around Kharkov will no doubt take place and then essentially Russia’s operation is basically done and dusted.

The question of other regions in southern Ukraine that wish to become affiliated with the Russian Federation as republics such as the Kherson region will either have been resolved or be in the decision-making stage by the end of the main phase of operations outlined above.

How long will it take for the end game scenario as described take? I would imagine three weeks at the outside, potentially as little as two more from the time of writing, May 12th.

It has become clear within the last week or so that the western powers and those who speak for them within western mass media are finding themselves less and less able to put on a brave face talking of endless Ukrainian victories while avoiding all else.

This makes them more grounded in reality than they have been… but it also makes the most powerful of them more dangerous. As the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war’ and as we have seen an already copious amount of false flag operations have already been undertaken by Zelensky and his people. The combination of growing desperation and the reach and scope of western powers along with highly complicit mainstream news platforms almost any atrocity can be arranged in the days ahead and laid at Russia’s door.

However, I suspect there will come a time when the penny finally drops among western elites in general and with a resigned sight they will finally admit defeat. Defeated on the battlefield but defeated also in the financial and economic fields also. They will begin to turn inward and belatedly turn their attention to their increasingly battered, free-falling economies to see what they could possibly do to shore them up.

Russia will get to work also, but more in much more extroverted fashion, with a ruble soaring in value against the dollar and euro, with inflation under control and predicted to fall, with self-sufficiency in energy and food, with a bumper grain harvest forecast, mightily increased profits from its oil and gas and stead, strong and stable links to trading partners China and India among many others… Russia will set to work rebuilding the new republics to the west that were once part of Ukraine.

These are a few of my predictions regarding…

THE FALL OF EASTERN & SOUTHERN UKRAINE TO RUSSIA & WHAT FOLLOWS

TODAY’S DANGEROUS LUNATICS HAVE FRESH FACES, AMIABLE NATURES & LIKEABLE SMILES

Let’s forget the obvious lunatics of Ukraine for a while, those skinhead freaks with the swastika tattoos. Let’s look instead at the lunatics existing among us, those who are completely unaware of the status I am giving them. These are the young, liberal-minded, interestingly coiffured, well-dressed, politically correct individuals who are just as convinced as the American neoconservatives, that they know what’s best for the entire world. The views of such individuals will be well known to you as they are virtually the only young people who you will come across in western media who are perceived in a positive light. Yet I assert they are dangerous lunatics. Why? Perhaps if we take a broad but necessarily brief look at world history you will begin to understand why I have this view. The categories I would suggest are most informative are chapters of world history where one ethnic group or combination of groups from several nations decided that they either knew best about others in nations not part of whatever larger grouping they belonged to. Going back the furthest for our purposes I would suggest looking at what lessons regarding this could be taken from the white settlers who came to the Americas and what transpired there regarding their interaction with the native populations they found there. Then we have the slave trade and its route from Africa via the British Isles to the Americas. Following this we have the attempt at religious conversion of the native populations of Africa by white missionaries. In each case those which the white individuals encountered were seen as either lesser, mistaken or in some other way in need of changing so that they could become more like us, whatever that ‘us’ may have been. Then came the Nazis, another white race with the belief that they were the crown of creation and that various ‘others’ who they singled out as lesser beings and in some cases, sub-humans necessitated a cull which would replace them or put them to useful work for the white race. In recent times we have seen various regime change wars initiated again by the predominantly white-faced brotherhood against almost completely brown-faced peoples. These were all unimaginable in almost any other context except the strong against the weak. Only in very recent times indeed have those who initiated these wars begun to contemplate attacking powers which equate or almost equate to their own power and destructive potential. So it is that as night follows day throughout world history we have the ‘us and them’ situation writ both large and small. Great power politics within what was known in a previous era as ‘The Great Game’ prevailed with a constant chess game of strategic attacks one upon another with that ‘other’ demonised to greater or lesser extent. Within each culture also we have those that demand respect and those that are laughed at, scorned or actively attacked, usually by the general grouping that demands most respect. My general contention is that these chosen divisions, these attitudes of rightness and wrongness, predicated always upon some inherent conception of one group having superiority over others, of being exceptional whereas others are very much unexceptional, that ‘we’ have a duty to change others, ostensibly to be more like ourselves, is at the root of so much mischief in our mutual history that we share with the world. Each war sees the designation of the ‘other side’ as iniquitous and worthy of elimination. How could it be otherwise? And now, in our most modern war of all (no, not the Ukraine war) one group of people once again see themselves as superior beings holding all the right attitudes that they have some duty to ensure is taken up by those ‘over there’. (Referring momentarily to the Ukraine situation, those who have embraced all the narratives on offer concerning Ukraine received from their fellow liberal brothers and sisters that are universally given the only platforms to deliver their received notions that exist in the mass public sphere, hold absolute sway.) The terms of the changes of elimination and replacement offered by those who do so can sound very reasonable. To undermine and replace authoritarian regimes. To force everyone everywhere to adhere to the strict letter of what ‘we’ conceive to be inalienable human rights. And so on down a mutually held list of precepts, tenets and (to them) unquestionably and unarguably ‘the right things to do, the right way to live and the right way to govern’. You may say they are right and that every nation on the planet should be a liberal democracy such as Sweden, Germany or the United Kingdom. You might, who knows, even be right. But this is not my point. My point is the absolute chaos, death, destruction and general mayhem that will be caused by pushing that agenda in the ways we are seeing now, in part through the lens of the Ukraine war. The collective west is clearly determined to create whatever chaos, death, destruction and general mayhem in its attempt to fast-forward this goal. (On this subject John J. Mearsheimer gives an outstanding presentation entitled, ‘The Great Delusion’ in which, in my view he correctly states that this goal of creating liberal democracies everywhere will always fail and due to the greater power of nationalism.)

For these reasons I name the accepted positive face of western liberalism, that seen throughout academia, throughout western cultural hierarchies and deeply embedded within the elite political and media spheres of the western world dangerous and its urbane, comfortably confident, nice-smiling, reasonable and liberal adherents dangerous lunatics.

UKRAINE: THE EVER-THICKENING THOUGHT-WEB OF WESTERN-WORLD ELITES

The thought-trap that western elites have got themselves into over Russia and Ukraine simply becomes more self-entangled with every day that passes.

Not only do they have utterly blind eyes in regard to the strand ends of the web they are constantly weaving around their minds they clearly have zero interest or investment in seeking them. Their business is involved only in reflecting their own obfuscations concerning Ukraine endlessly until ultimately they trip up in their blindness and fall to their long-delayed fates.

There is no incentive whatsoever in trying to undo and disentangle the ties that bind them to the continual arrant nonsense and deceiving pseudo-reasoning they trot out day after day. To do so is to venture into an inspection of all their convoluted delivery of endless tall tales and the very telling signs of their gross incompetence. What good would THAT do them? To put their hands up and say “Mea Culpa, we were all simply reflecting and supporting each others; group-thought delusions rather than confronting unpalatable truths.” How would that go down do you think? I agree. To howls of anger and calls for their heads on plates.

 So the insane masquerade goes on, incorporating reasonably sound minds into this mindless cabal as they go, who are subsequently encouraged to get just as mind-addled as they are.

Everything any westerner is hearing on their mainstream news channels about Ukraine is composed of this mind-bending distortion of reality, each talking head is delivering what they think they are there for which is some PR boost for Ukraine no matter how far-fetched or delusional it may be. They know how to dress it up to sound so it sounds plausible but in reality it is as useful as vinegar in a cake mix.

As George Carlin once memorably said, “It’s bullshit folks… and it’s bad for you.”

But these elite bozos, the politicians, the EU commissioners, the pundits, so-called observers and commentators, they all know the score, on which side their bread is buttered and so forth. To make a shekel or two they must play the game, lie their heads off and sound as if they are intoning Holy Writ. It’s required. I am sure they complain to their wives, mistresses, husbands and gigolos about it nightly, that there is no way out for them. The fix is in. Their mouths flap like those of automatons and they whirl round the same circular track of mass deception on Ukraine day after deceiving day. 

UKRAINE: THE POWER OF AN IDEA AND THE PR PRESIDENT

No matter what anyone’s feelings are regarding the rights or wrongs of Russia’s actions in Ukraine ,you have to admire the success of the public relations campaign behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The level and supreme coordination of the unlimited support he has received and achieved across Europe is unprecedented.

At its source is the power of a single idea, that in this wicked old world of ours there is still an antiseptic and clear division between good and evil. This idea has almost unlimited mileage in this world which was previously ever-rapidly moving toward total cynicism. Like Live Aid in the Eighties the cause of Ukraine has allowed for a vast upsurge in idealism, a cleansing of the soul by a cathartic anger combined with compassionate grief. 

Western humanity has taken Ukraine to its heart, oblivious to any warts that may be transferred in the process. No, it’s warts and all, till death do us part, a marriage ceremony blessed by every liberal institution across the western world. In furtherance of this marriage comes the weaponry to protect it, a sworn duty to assist in the defeat of all those who would tear this great union apart.

Blessed by every high priest that can be found and all those of the secular variety who have newly wiped the blood of the Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans and Libyans from their raiments… to be born again, cleansed by the holy public relations of total, unquestioned belief in their communal rightness.

It is said that up to a hundred public relations companies have been set to work devising strategies and campaigns to deliver the “truth” about every aspect concerning Saint Zelensky and his acolytes, his hand-maidens and supplicants. Every move he makes is choreographed with a precision usually accorded to the high and mighty of this world and to a far greater extent even than for those illustrious figures.

Technology has been brought to bear in every aspect of the bringing of Zelensky’s holy word to an adoring public who hang on his every word. Politicians of all descriptions go dewy-eyed at the mere mention of his name. The only personality that could possible do better and inspire such an outpouring of devotion would be JC himself come down on his fiery chariot to smite the heathens who besmirch his holy name.

For yes, this is a crusade, a mighty army has been recruited, indeed has volunteered. Such is the popularity and public relations success of Mr Z that the entire panoply of great liberal beats of the political, cultural, commercial and social whirls constantly arrive at his feet to touch his hem. (Or perhaps his trouser bottoms… but that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?)

It’s all a tremendous success, a tour de force that social historians will reference for decades to come. A phenomenon to be studied in great detail mapping each triumph along the way…

Meanwhile, in the rather more real world, the Russian military grinds slowly forward tackling each massively fortified village, town and city one by one in Northern Lugansk and the vicinity of Donetsk City. Poposnaya (Popasna), a city of some 20,000 in normal times, the gateway to the more northerly much larger conurbations of Severodonetsk and Lysychank, has just fallen to the Russians. Expert analysis says that these too will fall given time, perhaps a month or a month and a half from now. Russian forces will then descend on the last remaining Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of Donetsk City and they will be eliminated also. That will be it. Game over. The entirety of the Donbass will be secured, one of the prime objectives of the Russian campaign

Will the Zelensky spectacular continue with this news? I don’t know. It’s quite hard to say as the momentum behind it is supremely strong having the near infinite backing of the entirety of western liberal power in both Europe and the USA. Will rump Ukraine be saved by Poland making it a protectorate, a sideways shuffle into the EU? Perhaps.

But in some form or other the show will go on. The power of that idea of good and evil battling it out in a passion play with as simple a plot as can be made possible will have a momentum and dedicated belief system behind it that I can’t see an instant deflation of its big PR balloon happening overnight.

What is most likely is that there will be the briefest of poses as might happen at the greatest party you’ve even been at when someone knocks something over and it sounds like a gunshot. There’s a momentary shocked silence and then the whole shebang kicks off again as if nothing happened, no one got scared, it didn’t reveal any jerks with weak-knees at all, everyone keeps laughing and dancing the night away with gay abandon.

When it is realised that Russia has permanently removed a great chunk from Ukraine I imagine there will be a brief wrinkling of brows and sturdy words of never-ending support for the “sovereignty of Ukraine” and so forth… but the brave willies of the West will certainly do nothing more than pout.

But what a party it will have been! Catharsis will have been achieved. A vast cleansing of the western psyche after the debauchery of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria will have taken place, the communal computer will have had its hard disk memory wiped. What joy. The PR party that saved Ukraine while destroying it will without doubt go on in some form or other, perhaps in a form where a great moral outrage arises due to the sudden influx of gun crimes and terrorist attacks across the most pristine of European capitals. Oh what a party THAT will be!

While, back in Ukraine, a country largely hollowed out, abandoned perhaps by 60% of its original population will have a permanent begging bowl extended to a Europe and USA seeking donors for their own begging bowls.

Perhaps a PR offensive will be called for? But who will pay the piper THEN?

Oh well, it all seemed a good idea at the time.

And what of Mr Z? Where will he end up?

No doubt he’ll be okay. His fans won’t let him down, surely?

I would expect he will become an EU commissioner, or some sort of ‘special adviser’ within that select liberal cabal. They do look after their own you know. So, he’ll be fine. A fresh shirt each day, a chauffeur and sleek black car with tinted windows, a high-security villa or two and a few hundred million euros in the bank.

It just goes to show you what can be achieved these days…

UKRAINE: THE POWER OF AN IDEA AND THE PR PRESIDENT

WHO HAS THE STRONGEST MOTIVATION TO COMMIT ATROCITIES IN UKRAINE?

News is coming in of further Bucha-like atrocities in at least two east-Ukrainian towns.

If you have been following recent events in Ukraine you will know that in the town of Bucha near Kiev there was an atrocity committed whereby scores of people were quite clearly brutally murdered. There were two significant factors involved that I would like you to remember. Many, perhaps all of them were wearing white arm-bands and many of the dead were found with Russian military ration boxes by their side.

The towns currently in question have recently been under Russian control as Bucha was, and like Bucha Russian forces left. In the case of Bucha to reinforce Russian forces in the east. In the case of the two towns now reporting atrocities the Russian army made a tactical retreat.

The primary piece of information which is crucial to understanding what went on in all three cases is this:

The people of Ukraine who tend toward or openly state an allegiance to the memory of Russian victories in world war two or who are simply of Russian heritage, speak Russian and feel positive toward Russia in general are seen as traitors and sub-humans by the most extreme of the Ukrainian military forces.

This is yet another crucial fact in discerning who is responsible for the atrocious acts which have taken place.

The Russian campaign in Ukraine is to liberate these people who are Russian-speakers and who are generally very well disposed to Russian culture from oppression by those in Ukraine who dominate them and seek to suppress and eliminate their pro-Russian culture.

Another crucial factor to bear in mind.

The most crucial thing to use in resolving any crime and identifying its perpetrator is motive.

What motive would Russia or Russians have to torture and kill those who identified strongly with Russia? I would argue absolutely there would be no motive whatsoever for them to do that.

Then what motive could the anti-Russian Ukrainian military forces and associated Nazi-legacy militants have for doing so? As I will show, these motives are multiple in nature.

1. As stated earlier, the millions of Ukrainian who live in the eastern regions of Ukraine who speak Russian and display positive feelings toward Russia and Russian culture are loathed and considered traitorous sub-humans by the most radical of western Ukrainians.

2. The propaganda value of having the western world believe the Russian military carried out these atrocities cannot be undervalued.

What do we know about what happened at Bucha?

You will without doubt heard the Ukrainian take on Bucha, that the Russians simply slaughtered the helpless civilians of the Kiev suburb, just because they were Ukrainians and for no other reason, simply because they were evil and had them under their power.

What are the facts that contradict this narrative? They are as follows:

The Russian military withdrew from Bucha to reinforce other Russian divisions in the east. During their time in Bucha as they had done everywhere on previous occasions they distributed aid, often in the form of military rations. These, if you remember, were often found near the dead bodies of the residents at the scene of the atrocity some days later.

Extremist Ukrainian forces then took the town. One of the first acts was to tell everyone to stay indoors. They then went door to door identifying those who were loyal to Kiev (as they saw it) and those who had had connections with the Russian military. This included of course those who had taken Russian military rations from the Russian troops. Those who were identified as pro-Russian were then ordered to wear white armbands. They were subsequently slaughtered by the radicals and the scene was set for a campaign to put the blame on Russia.

It should be know as a peripheral fact that Ukraine has the advice of some hundred public relations companies in support of their war effort and without doubt the expertise of the CIA also.

Until now almost every atrocity possible has been used as a means to depict Russia and the Russian military as totally evil entities. Civilian apartment blocks, hospitals, schools, even a theatre it is claimed have been actively attacked with intent to kill those inside by Russia and its military. Why Russia and its military would expend such an expensive and limited resource on trying to kill those who it had come to liberate is never explained.

This is a public relations and information war that goes much further than anything previously seen. On one hand the Kiev authorities and their military and militia forces are portrayed as heroic defenders of liberty, hugely brave Davids facing down an evil Goliath that has no scruples whatsoever.

Contrast this portrayal with that of many expert analysts, some of them ex-military personnel who say that Russia’s slow progress in the war is a result of a desire to avoid civilian casualties or damage to vital infrastructure.

Who has the motivation to kill and destroy here?

Who has the motivation to create a PR victory over the other side, a false flag event, knowing that defeat is staring them in the face and that something extraordinary is needed to turn the tide?

Yes, I know that the narrative which has been spread for a month now is that plucky Ukraine against all odds is winning against the behemoth Russia. Not to be too cynical about it couldn’t this be the necessary narrative to offset any accusations that Ukraine may be committing these atrocities out of desperation. The riposte would be “Why would they do that? Ukraine is winning. It’s the Russians that have become desperate enough to do these things!”

However, if you look more deeply and consult the opinions of the most reliable of military analysts such as Jacob Dreizen you will find that a Russian victory in Ukraine is in fact only weeks away.

And in case you wondered, the Russians ARE totally sincere in their feelings toward the Russian-speaking majority in eastern Ukraine. The brotherhood and sisterhood felt is very real between these two who speak a common language and heritage and who shared in the joy of defeating the Nazis across the then Soviet Union in world war two.

The most radical of those from western Ukraine identify wholeheartedly with the Nazis however who the mythology goes created the pathway to full Ukrainian sovereignty and with their nationalist heroes who joined with the Nazis to support Operation Barbarossa to take Russia and so free Ukraine from Stalin and the Soviet Union.

This is the backdrop to the war now raging in Ukraine and it is the backdrop to these unconscionable atrocities which are taking place and used as news-fodder with which to score both political and military points.

I leave the verdict of who is most likely (and in my view certainly) guilty of these atrocious crimes against humanity to you, the reader. Please weigh the evidence carefully before coming to your final conclusions.

WHO HAS THE STRONGEST MOTIVATION TO COMMIT ATROCITIES IN UKRAINE?

WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT OF THE WEST MAKING RUSSIANS MISERABLE?

Western political elites have decided there must be collective guilt in regard to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Russians are to be relentlessly punished, robbed and denied everything possible. One of the first exclusions of Russians was to deny entry to the Paralympic Games to the physically disabled Russians who had been training for years to attend and compete. After this the exclusions came thick and fast, and the daylight robberies with them. Suddenly Russian assets of all kinds became fair game for taking from them… and the reason? Simply that they belonged to Russians. And it was not just the yachts of rich Russians that went, around three hundred thousand million, three hundred billion in cash was simply stolen. By the so “correct” western elites who swear by international law and pose as virtual saints and noble guardians of their beloved ‘international rules-based order’. What wonderful rules these must be, don’t you think? If you happen to be a Russian, perhaps a businessman trading in foodstuffs, maybe caviar, and had built your business up over decades, perhaps even a lifetime, well, sorry pal, what you had by way of assets and cash, that’s ours now. Tough luck. All kinds of cultural activities were denied to you if you were Russian. One notable event, something concerning a ‘Best Tree Competition’ or some such fell foul of this global persecution project. Some glorious Russian tree was entered. No, sorry Sir, it’s Russian, we can’t have that here. We’re just obeying the rules, sorry. Your tree conspired against poor little Ukraine as you clearly did as you are Russian. You ARE Russian aren’t you Sir? Very well, the exit door is right there. This process was repeated all across Europe and in the USA. That little shop that had been selling Russian products for decades, supplying those with a Russian heritage stretching ‘way back… well, it was pronounced guilty of being very obviously Russian. It had to go. A similar situation, though not as extreme, occurred when France stood alongside Russia and China at the UN in opposition to plans to attack and invade Iraq due to its “obvious” possession of weapons of mass destruction. ‘French Fries’ overnight became ‘Freedom Fries’ and the American leadership began to talk of ‘Old Europe’ not being up with the times in supremely condescending terms. But the pogrom against all things Russian is of course far worse than anything seen since the medieval persecution of the Jews that took place time and time again across medieval Europe and of course more recently during world war two. Waging war against an entire people has one very definite result as can be seen in the example above of the Jews. It draws those being attacked together in order to better defend themselves. They tend to then arm themselves as effectively as possible against the attacks against them. In addition they rally round their leaders and specifically their national leader. Vladimir Putin’s support within Russia has recently soared from something around 59% to 83% currently. Naturally a certain small number of Russians, generally those who have had most contact financially or some other prestige-gaining connection with the West, are unhappy with him and berate him for his actions in Ukraine. I suspect they are viewed largely with scorn by the average Russian as people who care so much more for their own interests than for the security of their nation and the Russian people. Overall, the effect of the U.S. and European attacks on Russian culture, Russian assets, history and most prominently on the Russian people themselves, has been to unite Russians and to encourage them to gird their loins ready for the fight of their lifetimes. The West may have become 300 billion in cash better off after its Russian heist and may feel proudly self-satisfied at having hit as many Russians as hard as they could in their pockets, denying their Paralympic contenders the right to compete and cutting all cultural ties they could find to Russia… but as they say, pride goes before a fall. And western Europeans in particular look certain to be about to fall heavily. The Russian economy is far stronger than western politicians gave it credit for. And Vladimir Putin’s advisers are clearly a helluva lot smarter than they gave them credit for also. Of course it was well known that Vladimir Putin was no slouch when it came to tactical matters. And so, Russia’s response to the West’s financial and economic attacks, designed to bring Russia’s currency crashing down along with its economy, further hurting Russians, was soon seen to be rather effective. Due to the various changes made by Putin in coordination with his advisers the ruble is now at a three-year high against the dollar. Not quite the result Mr Biden and his own advisers sought… far from it. In addition, despite prices having risen significantly along with inflation in Russia, no huge emergency ensued, new policies were applied in regard to a replacement to the SWIFT financial system, rubles were to be used to pay for the European consumption of gas and many more changes that strengthened Russia resistance to attack. Prices in Russia have now largely stabilised and I hear in many cases have begun to fall. Products that used to be sources in Europe or the USA have begun to be replaced using other sources in friendlier nations such as India or China, others yet again are beginning to be replaced by Russian entrepreneurs seeing a niche opportunity for themselves. And Russia now has a law allowing the appropriation of some 600 billion dollar’s worth of western assets abandoned by the major companies and mega-corporation who left the country. The western pogrom against Russia and the Russian people is a double-edged sword as you can see. While Russia is virtually united and has a plan for recovery and ever-increased invulnerability to further western attack that appears to be working, western populations are in an increasing economic crisis their elites seem unable to devise any cogent way out of. As the West descends down an economic plughole the indications are that Russia, along with her allies China, India and many others will do just fine thank you. These are just some of the consequences regarding… WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT OF THE WEST MAKING RUSSIANS MISERABLE?