Too Cynical? I Don't Think So

A republic if you can keep it.

It increasingly appears that we haven’t been able to do so, and between Covid and Ukraine the icing is being put on a particularly distasteful cake.

I highly recommend the latest post at CTH:

VISA Suspends All Operations in Russia, We Are One Step Closer to Losing the Dollar As Global Trade Currency

If I had written that post I would have titled it something like—First They Came For The Truckers, Next They Came For The Russians, And Then They’ll Come For The Little People. This is how it starts:

Canada was the beta test when the government targeted the financial networks of the truckers and political opposition. Now, the global governing system replaces Trudeau and uses the private financial industry to target Russians instead of truckers.

When I previously said to pay attention, because we are not going to like the world on the other side of a Biden, NATO, EU, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Word Economic Forum and multinational corporate victory, I was not joking. This public-private merge of government with private financial institutions will never be reversed… ever again.

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The only group who lose are the ordinary people, particularly the U.S. citizen who will be collateral economic damage in the outcome.

That’s where the domestic agenda of Biden/Obama step in to pave the way to take advantage of the crisis.

What we are seeing is a full-blown alignment of interests between globalist government and their partnered multinational corporations and financial institutions.

This is not a good thing to witness regardless of the outcome in Ukraine.

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If this collective group of multinationals and government interests succeed in this approach, everything will change.

If you think corporations, Big Tech and Big Banks, et al, are controlling and politically motivated now? Good grief, just wait.

What’s mind numbing is to see conservatives sucked in by this Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine nonsense.

Now add this to your considerations:

This crisis was not about Ukraine. Ukraine only provided the setting for which this crisis is playing itself out. The point of this crisis, from the US perspective, is to effect a final cut off of Russia from Europe economically, so as to reduce Russian influence and increase US dominance on the continent, while cashing in by way of LNG exports to replace Russian gas deliveries. That’s it. The USA is more than happy in seeing Kiev occupied by Russian forces, because it kills the NordStream 2 pipeline, and opens up new business for American LNG companies, as well as bigger business for US arms exporters.

The ideal situation to them is to see the Russians invade, overextend themselves, and fall into an Afghanistan-type quagmire, in which Ukraine is set ablaze, and Ukrainians, backed by massive arms deliveries from the USA, engage in a partizan/mujahidden guerrilla war with Russian forces to drain Russia and to embarrass it. Who cares how many Ukrainian cities are levelled, how many civilians die? It will all be pinned on Vladimir Putler anyway, at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal that they dream of in their sleep.

The USA already dominates Europe by way of NATO and trade agreements, its scheisskultur permeates much of the continent, whether through popular culture or though academic trends such as wokeness. Why not solidify that control by way of controlling its energy sector as well?

US media has made a fool out of itself, as have American talking heads…..but this is what they are there for. Without any accountability for their words and actions, they have every reason to continue lying to us as they have done now for decades in service to their foreign policy designs.

Nordstream 2 represented a nightmare scenario for US policy planners: Russia and Germany engaging in cooperation outside of US monitoring. With Russia turning towards China, the apocalyptic vision of a China-Russia-Germany alliance begins to unfold in Washington, DC. Not allowed!

Europe: Led By Cowards

Poland, Finland, the Baltic States, Romania, and others all have their historical grievances towards Russia, which must be understood and accepted. Only time heals these deep wounds. Aside from that, Europe’s interests should be in tapping into Russia’s massive natural resources, and to trade with the USA, China, and others. Instead, Europe is once again paying the price for American foreign policy as the US does very little trade with Russia, while Europe does quite a lot!

The Americans are happy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, and to sanction Russia to the last European with five Euros in his pocket. It bears the brunt of sanctions against Russia just like it has with sanctions on Iran.

Much was made of Macron’s shuttle diplomacy these past few weeks, but the Russians saw right through his ‘good cop’ act, which ran in tandem with the US ‘bad cop’. They entertained his overtures due to diplomatic protocol, but that was it. Macron wasted his time and our time.

The Brits continue to yap like the American poodles that they are.

The Germans are the sad figures here. Putting Nordstream 2 on ice due to this crisis politicizes the pipeline, where Scholz’s predecessors insisted on it being independent of politics altogether. Even though it is ‘temporarily’ suspended, this politicization makes it now a white elephant.