Man, there is so much happening, right now!
Trying to make sense of it, is very hard, and forget about telling others about it.
But a few articles I read this week, highlighted by among others Brian Cates (https://briancates.substack.com) , Slag (https://slagfa.substack.com), Andre and Justhuman (https://justhuman.substack.com), to name a few, helped get some clarity.
(Look them up, they are worth following!)
So this thread will serve to present some observations.
So, Putin, and Ukraine.
What I hear, can be summed up in two camps:
A) Putin is a murdering psychopath, dreaming to resurrect the good old USSR in all her glory, over the dead bodies of all who dare oppose.
Or, B) Putin is some kind of white hat, acting selflessly to expose the Deep State, raiding (not so) secret bioweapons labs all over Ukraine, exposing the oligarchs in the process. With the help and support of China!
How to reconcile that?
Perhaps by ignoring this binary that the media peddles, and look further, deeper.
But first, a little side story:
When not even that long ago the Canadian truckers were constantly on the news (what is happening there? What about the US trucker protests? Don’t lose sight here, either!), people in Europe were inspired by their call to freedom and an end to government overreach.
While truckers in Europe are different (they usually are employees, and don’t own their own trucks, as a major difference), they wanted to follow the example of their Canadian counterparts. In the days leading up to an announced protest converging in Brussels, it was remarkable to see in just about every newspaper the very same line told, aimed at both delegitimizing the truckers, and to discourage potential protesters.
The claim: the truckers did not submit a proper request for their demonstration, so the mayor of Brussels was forced to forbid any congregation of truckers or other vehicles with a strongly beefed up police presence.
I spoke with a friend in Belgium, a lawyer, who was aiding the protest in Ghent, one of the other major cities in Belgium. “Flat out lies”, he confirmed: “I know for fact that we DID submit a request for our protest in Ghent, but it got denied, anyway!”
And where border control to stop illegals, or known drugs gangs, always were said to be impossible, suddenly border checkpoints were set up to stop any type of convoy from entering the Kingdom of Belgium.
The complete unison of that one claim, in almost identical terms, was what caught my eye, and made me doubt it, which spurred me to contact my friend, who confirmed my suspicion: a lie, perpetrated by the state.
Why is this important? Because I see the same happen in the media, not just in Belgium, not just in the US, but worldwide, creating a narrative against Russia, pro Ukraine, with too many talking points emerging at the same time in different places, too many similarities.
Planted stories.
Look at the attempt to smear Russia for disregard for global safety, attacking the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and shooting at it! With already increased radiation levels detected! Both claims were quickly proven false, already by the next morning: the attack was at a separate building, and the radiation levels are NOT increased. (I now read that it was the Ukrainians trying to RECAPTURE the installation!)
Or the stories about Putin being mentally challenged and ill. Spread like wildfire.
And the almost complete silence on the role of NATO (or the continued efforts to attack those who dare to point at the responsibility NATO has in this Russian reaction).
Now, all the Rothschilds, and even Soros, have come out, with very strong warnings that Ukraine cannot be allowed to fall, or else democracy and the world as we know it would fall! Well, that makes me very suspicious, in the other direction. What do they care about democracy and the little people’s welfare?
And a French journalist claimed that the Ukrainians were shelling their own civilian population in Russian speaking Donbas, even. Nothing makes sense, anymore, and the media is completely bankrupt.
Just as when I looked for information on the trucker convoy to Brussels, and saw all the articles expressing the same line and argument, I am getting very suspicious looking at the news.
Add to that the complete 180 the Media is making:
Suddenly nationalism is to be celebrated.
Suddenly arming citizens not just with hunting and sports weapons, but with actual full automatic scary assault rifles, is celebrated.
Suddenly, neo-Nazi’s are our friends, and those trying to exterminate them, are bad!
Suddenly, trying to minimize impact on civilians in war, is bad (when the US wages war, look at Iraq and other places in recent history, they bomb the hell out of the country, water, communication, infrastructure, everything!), and a clear sign the Russians are losing!
Suddenly, denying people the use of Twitter and Facebook is a bad thing! (Complaining when Putin bans them, after they themselves banned so many people, even a (at that time still) sitting president!
I mean, really?
Even my boys can clearly see it. Then again, I took them to DC on Jan 6th, and when they saw the news that evening, and the following days, they eyes were opened wide on how the media works and lies and desinforms. The media themselves were much better redpillers than I could be. Much faster, too.
It is very hard to get proper information from Ukraine. It is impossible to vet the news ourselves, as well. I don’t speak or read Russian or Ukrainian, for starters, so source verification is out of the question.
Yet the longer this goes on, the more clearly the image is becoming.
Russia is not out to destroy or conquer Ukraine, nor even the Ukrainian army. They try to CAPTURE it. Huge difference. They appear to be ensuring and guaranteeing train traffic between Kiev and Karkiv.
They encircle the Ukrainians, never really engaging them. They do have full air superiority (why else would they keep such huge column of vehicles in place, if the Ukrainians had any air capability left?). They try to force the Ukrainians to surrender, with as much equipment and troops intact as possible. To that end, they besiege the major cities. There is no need for them to go in, and risk street fighting: simply encircle, close off, and wait until they surrender.
They might replace the regime, but they are going to give the country back to the Ukrainians, as intact as possible. With a proper army and equipment, still in place, to defend the new regime.
I cannot think of another explanation for that.
Now, it seems such courtesy won’t be extended to the neo-nazi battalions. They will be eradicated, wiped off the face of the earth (and good riddance!).
The Russians will force Ukraine to be neutral, or neutral/leaning Russian.
For any insight into the deep state and such, I will refer to people who know that better (some have written about this, showing the corruption, the ties, etc.).
But on a plain level, this is what I start to see. Does that make me a Putin pawn? Absolutely not. I don’t trust him as far as I could throw him. He is not our ally, even if we can align on certain topics. Same with the Chinese. They are not our ally, and are dangerous.
I cannot wait to see proper journalism again. The news about TS and Musk is positive, and I hope that it will turn out as some say.
Until then: don’t trust the news. Obviously, MSN, but also all other alternative sources. I keep seeing the 96hr rule, doesn’t seem like a bad idea. None of us are equipped to properly vet and confirm stories ourselves, regardless how accomplished a keyboard warrior and internet researcher you or I think we are.
And I am very curious to find out the true facts about all this. Something makes me think we’ll all be very surprised.
The news about TruthSocial and Musk is positive, and I hope that it will turn out as some say.
Until then: don’t trust the news. Obviously, MSN, but also all other alternative sources. I keep seeing the 96hr rule, doesn’t seem like a bad idea. None of us are equipped to properly vet and confirm stories ourselves, regardless how accomplished a keyboard warrior and internet researcher you or I think we are.
And I am very curious to find out the true facts about all this.
Something makes me think we’ll all be very surprised.
_____________________________________________________
Some follow-up thoughts
If all those non-traditional analyses I’ve read are correct, this is the image that I see appearing:
Putin is anti-globalist, a thorn in the side of the deep state and their schemes.
Their attack of Georgia is often cited against him, but an international independent report found that it was Georgia who started that war: “In the Mission’s view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked Tskhinvali (in South Ossetia) with heavy artillery on the night of 7 to 8 August 2008,” said Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, who led the investigation. However, Russia went too far, the report concluded, when they pushed into Georgia itself, beyond the borders of South-Ossetia.
At least since 2011, he was the target of color revolution attempts by none other than Hillary Clinton.
All throughout 2016, they attempt to smear Putin together with Trump, even faking the collusion as they went.
For years, NATO and the EU have tried to push the limits of NATO membership all the way up to the Russian border, telling Ukraine they had a chance to become a member, too!
(Even against their constitution, apparently, which requires neutrality)
Putin has been very clear, for years, warning that NATO membership for Ukraine is a very strong red line for him. Unacceptable.
Obama agreed, and said Ukraine is a core interest for Moscow in a way that it is not for the United States. Vox wrote this on Sep 3, 2014, when Russia was annexing Crimea: “President Obama has set a big, bright, clear red line for Russia's military adventurism: the member-states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The country's [sic] inside of that line, he insisted, can count on US military support, and that is a big deal. But the countries outside of it, from eastern European states such as Ukraine and Georgia to Central Asian former Soviet republics such as Kazakhstan, are largely on their own.”, under the title “Sorry, Ukraine: Obama is not going to defend you from Russia”.
In the meantime, the US sets up and funds at least 13 bioweapon labs. Of course, strictly for humanitarian and peace loving purposes.
Also in the meantime, since 2000, the US has invaded Afghanistan, Syria, destroyed Libya, intervened in Yemen, North-West Pakistan, Somalia, the Central African Republic against the Lord’s Resistance Army, and Iraq. Those are examples with proven military involvement, with use of actual lethal force at multiple times. But Putin is a murderous tyrant, obviously.
In the recent build-up of tension, the US could have easily mediated and prevented this from excalating, by providing assurances that the neutrality of Ukraine would be respected. This would take out the main reason Putin seems to have to invade.
We know that Ukrainian oligarchs have funded neo-Nazi groups. That is fact. See this article from September 2014: https://www.newsweek.com/evidence-war-crimes-committed-ukrainian-nationalist-volunteers-grows-269604
“The Aidar battalion is publicly backed by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who also allegedly funds the Azov, Donbas, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2 volunteer battalions, operating under orders from Kiev.”
If you agree that the US had proper reason to oppose Russian missiles in Cuba, to the point of risking nuclear war with the USSR, one also has to accept that Putin has very good reason to oppose American missiles stationed in Ukraine (the NATO label is just that, a label, the missiles are still under US control, and similarly at Putin’s doorstep).
Now, insert all the corruption among the Ukrainian elites, and how the current US administration is fully entangled in it. Insert all the claims by the likes of Soros and several Rothschilds, and top people in the EU, the WEF, Schwab, and so on, supporting Ukraine in very strong language.
Insert the open and brazen attempts to push for civilian casualties by the Ukrainian regime: what else can you call the arming of civilians with weapons of war? Teaching them how to make molotovs? The moment that ununiformed civilians start shooting at Russian troops, or attack them in any other way, all civilian lives are put into danger. The Ukrainians place units and artillery in civilian centers, endangering their own population.
They aim to win this on the media front, and any method is employed, even risking and sacrificing the lives of their own citizens. To me, that shows WITHOUT A DOUBT that their aim is NOT ‘nationalism’, or national pride, or preserving their own country and ‘their people’.
How that all ties together, exactly, is more than I can tell. Others here have made great attempts to chronicle the corruption and the ties between the different players here in the US, in Europe, and in Ukraine.
But some glimpses are given. Ukrainian parliament member Kira Rudik gave a very interesting answer when she spoke on Fox News on Feb 27:
“I’m not surprised. We have been fighting Putin for the last 8 years and we had three other revolutions in our country when we did not agree with what was going on with the direction we were moving in. But right now it’s a critical time because we know that we not only fight for Ukraine, [but] we fight for this New World Order for the democratic countries. We [know] that we are the shield for the Euro. We [know] that we are protecting not only Ukraine, [but] we are protecting like all the other countries that would be next if we failed. That’s why we just cannot fail.”
We fight for this new world order. We are the shield for the Euro. They are a pawn, used by Europe and other elites, for interests that are NOT THEIRS. What do Ukrainians care about the Euro? Do they know that they are fighting and suffering for the Euro?
And ‘all other countries that would be next if we failed’? What is that about? Is she saying Putin would continue invading other countries? Or that the fall of the elites in Ukraine would signal the end for the elites elsewhere, who feel the heat?
A lot of financial and controlling interests seem to overlap in Ukraine, in which all the elites and ‘deep state’ have a huge stake. It is about power, as well, and justification for the ever growing expansion of it.
Putin (who seems to have not only thrown out Soros, but the Rothschilds as well, and has no qualms banning twitter and facebook now, either) has stepped up, and finally invaded in full to end that threat to his country.
I don’t think Putin and Trump are in some agreement to end the deep state. Trump armed the Ukrainians, after all, after Obama only sent them blankets. A ruse? Misdirection? That seems too convenient a catch-all to explain away problems like that. Trump blocked the Russian pipeline, Biden lifted those restrictions, after blocking Keystone and fracking.
And Biden/Obama seemed to play into the Russian’s hands, either out of weakness or a misguided appeasement idea, but Trump seemed to play proper hardball. I believe Putin would never have invaded, if Trump were still in the White House.
Putin is NOT our ally, even if we have mutual enemies.
But that is true for China as well, even as Biden is forcing Putin and Xi closer (apparently Xi asked Putin to hold off invading until after the Olympics, not sure if that is true, but Putin would not have invaded without at least tacit approval and support from the Chinese: he cannot risk total isolation on the World Stage). The Chinese seek global control, with them at the center. There is no place for a free Russia in that view. Putin would never accept playing second fiddle, not under the Chinese, nor under the US.
A world where Putin and Xi are the only grown up players would be a problem. Which is where Trump comes into play, to balance that out. If he can get in his 6 more years as president, as some here theorized, that would be enough time to settle proper boundaries, and set them in stone.