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Well, Zelinskyy is angry with us once again.  And again for the same reason - he didn’t get what he wanted.  Never enough.  That should be his epitaph.

Last week the leaders of NATO met in Vilnius to consider what to do with Ukraine and Zelinskyy . . . and Russia.  And, as we might have expected, the little dictator of Ukraine showed up in his fatigues costume, looking like a small Castro mini-me, as usual, and stomped around like Rumplestiltskin because he didn’t get an invitation to join the pact.  

Even the addled Joe Biden has come to understand that such an invitation would introduce World War Three, complete, in all likelihood, with nuclear features.  So these globalists met and decided to just maintain the status quo with the advisory that only when the Ukraine conflict is ended would that nation be admitted into this “elite” organization.  It wasn’t, as suggested above, not enough for little Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who figured he had every right to sit at the adult table in Vilnius.

It would be a good time to evaluate just what this tentative and delayed invitation really means, not only to the world, to NATO, to Russia, but to the long-suffering people of Ukraine.  The West just said, “finish this war in Ukraine and we will let you come in”.  Think about it.  And then do what a smart person will do - think in terms of what the other side is thinking.  That’s usually a very good habit to cultivate - figure out what the other side wants, why they do what they do, what will bring about a result you might prefer (especially what you would prefer to a nuclear holocaust).  Russia went into Ukraine because of NATO’s buildup of military weaponry, the development of a massive army (for what purpose, they might well ask) and a lot of evidence of bioweapons labs with the implied threat of their being used on the Russian population.  

We should be aware of how our actions and policies will be received by other nations unless we are stupid.  So with an imminent threat to Russia itself, Putin acted.  He moved into Ukraine to put a stop to the threat.  Keep in mind that with the exception of Russia’s Black Sea port, its only warm-water port in the Crimea - Sevastopol.  Russia has maintained a peaceful co-existence with all of its neighbors since the Soviet Union fell.  And recall, too, that the people of the Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation, after all.  That should not be really surprising, either.  Crimea has been a part of Russia since pre-Christian times and was, in fact, the cradle of Russian Christianity.   So in 2014, Crimea was annexed to Russia.  Since then all has been relatively quiet.

The nations of the West and of NATO have been playing very stupid games for years with Russia.  When Putin expressed concern that ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine were being persecuted, Europe responded with the Minsk agreements whereby Russia would stand down and Ukraine would stop the pogrom against them, allowing them their language, customs, religion, etc., and that NATO would not expand any further.  Well, that was a lie.  Angela Merkel, former German Chancellor, in office at the time, has now admitted this, apparently without any shame.  

Russia has maintained great forbearance in the face of some extreme provocation.  Besides the usual name-calling, the U.S., with a little help from its friends, managed to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline.  Now this act of violence and vandalism, an act of war in any normal times, was met with no reaction.  Putin knows full well who did it.  Biden bragged that he would do it.  It would not require Miss Marple to figure out the culprit on this one. And what were the effects of that?  Well, it cost Russia a lot of revenue, but what did it cost Germany and most of western Europe?  Germany’s economy is twirling down the drain.  The inflation caused by a fuel shortage is terrible.  Germany used to buy enough gas from Russia to be able to retail it to other nations in Europe.  Not any more.  Now Germans are trying to figure out how to keep from freezing to death as their fuel dwindles to nothing.  Their manufacturing has ceased.  Jobs have been lost.  Production has been lost to its trading partners.  It has crippled Germany - which is really interesting, because without German financial heavy lifting, Europe - NATO and the European Union - is hurting badly now.  Thanks, Joe.  They will, at least, be little to no threat to Russian power now and for the foreseeable future.

The CIA is undoubtedly involved in much of the business of the failed “coup” a month ago.  Normally, a nation so attacked would get retribution.  Putin, though, waited to see what NATO would do next.  Officials in our own government have said that the “goal” in the Ukraine war is to basically remove Putin from office, and perhaps from life itself, and take over the administration of Russia through some U.S. puppet.  Like Zelenskyy, presumably.  Well, if you were Putin, how would you take that kind of statement?  What about Lindsey Graham’s famous, “Russians are dying.  It’s money well-spent!”?  If someone were saying this about Americans how would our leaders take it?  

There are, suffice it to say, a lot of reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine and why it’s not folding its tent there and going home.  They know they will not achieve any peace for Russia in that way.  There is no evidence that they wanted to take over Ukraine, but desired a neutral buffer zone between NATO and Russia - in other words, not a NATO build-up on its border, complete with CIA bioweapons labs.  Now we have given Russia one more reason to keep on fighting.  If we are smart enough to think about it from Putin’s perspective, what do we see?  

If the war ended tomorrow and there were a Ukraine left to deal with, it would apply for NATO membership, an intolerable situation for Russia, especially when we have made it clear that we want to remove its elected leadership and substitute our own puppet government to do our bidding.  Until now we might have entertained the hope that there would eventually be a negotiated peace (notwithstanding the history of western duplicity in these matters with Russia).  In fact, it has come to light that back in April of 2022, only two months into this conflict, Zelenskyy and Putin came to an agreement which would have protected the ethnic Russians, ensured Ukrainian neutrality and removed Russian troops from Ukraine.  And then the U.S. sent in its English errand boy, Boris Johnson, to throw a wrench in that deal and extend the war.  How many have died - military and civilian - in that unhappy land since that peace deal was made?  How many have been exiled?  Forced from their homes?  Remember - this was about six months before we blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, so this has impacted the rest of Europe negatively as well.  Thanks, Boris.  How do these people sleep at night?  How can they look in a mirror?  The misery they have been causing seems endless.  Yet they are relentless in pursuit of war.

Well, we all know there is a lot of money to be made in war, right?  

So negotiated peace seems a fading hope at best.  But the NATO meeting last week basically put the last nail in its coffin.  Because now, Russia has only two avenues.  One is to finish Ukraine off entirely, march to the Polish border and stop the hesitation waltz and put an end to Ukrainian plans to join NATO.  The other would be to return to a situation worse than the status quo of January of 2022 - a NATO presence and build-up on its border with the intent of destroying the Russian nation.  If you were Putin, which course would you take?

Putin is not presiding over a ruined economy, like that of Germany (or arguably, the U.S.).  On the contrary, it is in the process of taking down the U.S. dollar.  Russia is in a position of great strength.  Not only is its army eating Ukraine’s lunch every day of the week, but its economy at home is powerful and it has a richness of natural resources unmatched in any other nation on earth.  There is no reason to think that Russia will not be able to win this war.  Putin’s reluctance to go all-out stemmed from the hope that he would not have to destroy a potential trading partner and close neighbor with many personal ties to Russia and spare its infrastructure, and the hope that the West would take seriously Russia’s concerns once he moved into Ukraine and come to the peace table and work out a solution with him - a solution in everyone’s favor.  He miscalculated on the latter.  He apparently was a little naive.  It would appear that there was no national interest on anyone’s part to make war for its own sake, or to destabilize one of the world’s great powers, especially having seen what a success we had with Libya.  He did not count on the influence of the arms dealers and their ilk.  He did not see that for what it was - a controlling factor.  European leaders, like those of the U.S., had no qualms about acting against the interest of their own people in order to pile up their fortunes and expand their own power.  Putin didn’t look deeply enough.  So now he must reassess his options.

Let’s hope that in the coming election cooler heads will prevail in the U.S. at least.  There is little hope for Europe it would seem.  But if we are able to elect an honest, America-first president with any ability and talent and vision, perhaps we can get out of NATO ourselves.  That would be the most favorable outcome we can now hope for.  If we ditched the so-called “peace-keeping” NATO pact, it would fall apart within an hour or so.  This would be the best thing that could happen to Planet Earth.  It might be the key to survival.  

We should end NATO because it is no longer an instrument of peace-keeping.  Instead, it has evolved into a war machine.  If we study history (and I know this is out of fashion in America these days) we cannot help but see the parallels in the approach of World War I, still the most horrific experience to date in international relations.  It began with an insurrectionist, a madman, who assassinated Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo.  The Archduke was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, so it was a big deal.  The rest of the world should have let Austria deal with the guy.  It was only right.  You don’t go around killing world leaders unless you are the CIA.  But because of all the international treaties, one after another nation was pulled into war with Austria and Germany.  The rest, of course, is history - a sad history, to be sure.  The losses to humanity were incalculable from that war and its eternal fallout.  Maybe NATO can out-do World War I with World War III - perhaps this one will be the “war to end all wars”.  

There is no reason for anyone to join NATO unless they want a free pass on national defense on the American tab.  There is no reason for America to be in NATO either.  Unless you simply agree that we should continue to enrich arms dealers and under-the-table deal makers like the Biden family.  I suppose then NATO has its uses.  

The take-away from last week’s Vilnius meeting will be hard on everyone, but on no one more so than on the long-suffering people of Ukraine.  Now they can look forward to no end of war across their country, no peace, ever, until they are vanquished.  The Russians have been very intelligent about their treatment of prisoners of war - they get them medical help, feed them, clothe them, respect them.  It has resulted in an inclination among mistreated, poorly fed, untrained members of a press-gang Ukrainian army to surrender.  Perhaps it will be so with the general population of Ukraine.  They might feel better about resigning their nationhood now rather than continuing to be the patsy and the sacrificial cow for the West.  We hear our politicians (most recently Mike Pence) tell us “better the Ukrainians die than we send our own over there - keep sending the weapons and ammo”.  What kind of message is that?  We are using Ukraine as a cat’s paw to attack Russia.  What’s in it for Ukraine?  Aside from its grifting, ill-tempered and greedy president, Zelenskyy, no one is doing that well there since we began our meddling.  

Ukraine had every expectation of becoming a sound, wealthy and respected nation.  Ukraine was blessed with incredible richness in agriculture and other resources.  The people did not need this war to devastate their land and kill hundreds of thousands of their people and wreck their economy.  We did that.  For our own sinister ends.  Let’s hope we survive long enough to get a government that will begin to remedy this and heal the damage.  And restore peace.

War is not necessary.  NATO is not necessary.  It should have been disbanded in 1992.   

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