Awaken To Nightmare

 Americans “Awaken To Nightmare” Of “Coup We Never Knew”

https://jediknightsquad.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-importance-of-fasting-by-roland_11.html

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine ordered by President Putin on the eve of Orthodox Christmas took effect this morning, and Russia intends to observe the truce for 36 hours, from 12:00 local time on 6 January until midnight on 7 January, says this follows the appeal made by Russian Federation religious leader His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to observe a truce for this Holy Day—a Christmas truce immediately rejected by Ukraine—Ukraine then began shelling a residential area in the city of Donetsk less than a minute after the truce took effect—a Ukrainian attack on innocent civilians that followed Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden declaring yesterday: “Right now, the war in Ukraine is at a critical point…We have to do everything we can to help the Ukrainians resist Russian aggression”—a declaration responded to by Ambassador Anatoly Antonov, who factually observed: “The United States unleashed a real proxy-war against Russia by supporting Nazi criminals in Kiev...Any talk about a defensive nature of weapons supplied to Ukraine has long become absurd...Western arms shipments only encourage Ukrainian radicals to commit terrible deeds, adding to their feeling of impunity...They continue to kill civilians in Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions of the Russian Federation in an extremely cynical way...Nobody should still have doubts who bears responsibility for prolonging this conflict, as all actions by the Biden administration indicate a lack of any desire for a political settlement...All this means that Washington is committed to fighting with us to the last Ukrainian, while the destiny of people of Ukraine means nothing to the Americans”.

At the same time the socialist Western colonial powers supported criminal Nazi regime in Kiev rejected a Christmas truce, this report notes, the Ukraine Security Council rejected any talks with Russia—a rejection of talks quickly joined by Socialist Leader Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirming reports they will donate infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, which comes a day after France announced that it would send Western-designed light tanks to Kiev—are Western-supplied infantry vehicles and light tanks former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter just honestly assessed mean nothing to vastly superior Russian military forces—and in response to a short video message published by the US embassy in Moscow, in which it highlighted the “commonness” of the cultures and achievements of both countries while stating that the ongoing conflict in Ukraine was “unworthy” of the Russian people. Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev accused the socialist Biden Regime of “reaching the limits of moral degradation”, said it was “keeping with the best traditions of the Nazis” and called the United States “the true heirs of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels”.

In “keeping with the best traditions of the Nazis”, this report continues, the socialist Biden Regime well remembered Nazi German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proclaiming: “You can’t change the masses…They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful”, after which he ordered the entire leftist German Nazi media establishment: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”—and is a “Big Lie” tactic the socialist Biden Regime used to perfection against “dumb, gluttonous and forgetful” Americans to foment their 6 January insurrection farce they branded as “worst than Pearl Harbor and 9/11”. 

With today being the second anniversary of the so-called 6 January “insurrection”, this report details, it was just revealed: “The Department of Justice has charged nearly 1,000 people with crimes...However, nobody has been formally accused of "sedition", "treason", or "insurrection", according to officials”—unlike the dangerous criminals socialist Democrats allowed to walk free without bail, those accused of minor 6 January crimes have been kept imprisoned in solitary confinement for two years while awaiting trial—that doesn’t include main 6 January instigator Ray Epps, who in a partial transcript admitted “I also orchestrated it”, but remains uncharged, and whose lawyer was an FBI agent for nine years—and whose real truth about this “Big Lie” is documented in articles like “Jan 6 Committee Sealed All Important VIDEOS And Documents For 50 Years – So They Can Continue To Lie About J-6 Protests And Fed Involvement”.

On 27 February 1933, this report concludes, the German parliament Reichstag building burned down, which the socialist German leadership used to claim that a violent uprising was imminent, but in reality, was a “Big Lie” designed to launch a coup to install a Nazi dictatorship—a fact noted by Republican Party lawmaker United States Congressman Tom McClintock, who took to the floor of the House of Representatives to warn the American people that socialist Democrats were replaying the Reichstag fire “Big Lie” using 6 January to launch a coup—and this week it saw world-renowned American military historian Professor Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, in his open letter “The Coup We Never Knew”, revealing: 

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?

What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent to dirty coal? How did prized natural gas that had granted America’s wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas—furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices’ homes, with placards declaring “Off with their d—s”?

Since when did Americans create a government Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organizations to censor stories it did not like and writers whom it feared?

How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television? Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked? Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?

Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports? Did Congress enact such a law? Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women? Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

When did the government pass a law depriving Americans of their freedom during a pandemic? In America can health officials simply cancel rental contracts or declare loan payments in suspension? How could it become illegal for mom-and-pop stores to sell flowers or shoes during a quarantine but not so for Walmart or Target?

Since when did the people decide that 70 percent of voters would not cast their ballots on Election Day? Was this revolutionary change the subject of a national debate, a heated congressional session, or the votes of dozens of state legislatures?

What happened to Election Night returns? Did the fact that Americans created more electronic ballots and computerized tallies make it take so much longer to tabulate the votes? 

When did the nation abruptly decide that theft is not a crime, assault not a felony? How can thieves walk out with bags of stolen goods, without the wrath of angry shoppers, much less fear of the law?

Was there ever a national debate about the terrified flight from Afghanistan?  Who planned it and why?

What happened to the once trusted FBI? Why almost overnight did its directors decide to mislead Congress, to deceive judges with concocted tales from fake dossiers and with doctored writs? Did Congress pass a law that our federal leaders in the FBI or CIA could lie with impunity under oath?

Who redefined our military and with whose consent? Who proclaimed that our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could call his Chinese Communist counterpart to warn him that America’s president was supposedly unstable? Was it always true that retired generals routinely libeled their commander-in-chief as a near Nazi, a Mussolini, an adherent of the tools of Auschwitz?

Were Americans ever asked whether their universities could discriminate against their sons and daughters based on their race? How did it become physically dangerous to speak the truth on a campus? Whose idea was it to reboot racial segregation and bias as “theme houses,” “safe spaces,” and “diversity”? How did that happen in America?

How did a virus cancel the Constitution? Did the lockdowns rob of us of our sanity? Or was it the woke hysteria that ignited our collective madness?

We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare to a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup we never knew.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

 

 

 

 

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This is pure Satanism

 Ukraine Money Laundering Scheme For Western Satanists Becomes Bloodbath

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Russian Chechnya Region leader Colonel-General Ramzan Kadyrov stating this morning: “I see that some are worried about the foreign aid to Ukraine...Do not worry!...This is a working money laundering scheme...Western and Ukrainian officials will embezzle these funds, and no more than 15% of the entire aid will reach the trenches...These are our regions, which opted to join our state for the sake of protection of their people from Satanist actions of Ukrainian and NATO nationalists”, says after this factual statement, Colonel-General Ramzan Kadyrov announced he was deploying more of his region’s feared commandos to join the “Special De-Nazification Operation” to liberate Ukraine, revealing: “Today, to help their brothers on the frontline, about 300 OMON Akhmat-1 fighters of the National Guard directorate for the Chechen Republic have been deployed from Grozny International Airport named after Hero of Russia Akhmad-Khadzhi Kadyrov”. 

Shortly after the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Europe’s largest journalist association, expressed concern about a new Ukrainian law that could arbitrarily censor media in the country yesterday, with EFJ President Ricardo Gutiérrez stating: “As we see it, this law will allow arbitrary censorship on the part of the Ukrainian government”, this report notes, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who is best known for playing the piano with his penis and dancing while wearing women’s high heels in gay videos, stunned the world when he stripped away the citizenship of 13 Orthodox Christian priests—a demonic act that caused Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to exclaim in shock and horror: “And this is on Orthodox Christmas!...This is pure Satanism”.

While the Satanic socialist Western colonial powers support penis piano playing and women’s high heels wearing Ukrainian President Zelensky, this report continues, this morning in the Samara Oblast, its residents said goodbye to the 89 Russian soldiers who died last week during a shelling attack by Nazi forces in Ukraine—immediately following the goodbyes given to these fallen Russian soldiers, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced: “More than 600 of Kiev’s troops have been eliminated in a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian-held city of Kramatorsk in the Donbass...The bombardment on Sunday was a retaliation operation carried out in response to a criminal attack by Ukraine on a temporary housing area accommodating Russian servicemen in the city of Makeyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic on New Year’s night”—and was an announcement quickly joined by the Western defense article “Second Wave: Masses Of Russian Forces Enter Kleshcheevka And Northern Soledar – Control 80% Of The city – Over 1,000 Dead Ukrainians”, wherein it reveals:

The second phase of the Russian operation began, this time from north of Soledar.  Russian airborne forces entered and occupied the first buildings.

Russian troops took full control of the high-rise building in the northern part of the center of Soledar and cleared the northwestern part of Karpinsky and Nosov Streets.

The Ukrainian Command rushed units of the 46th Brigade to Soledar to balance and hold the front, but to no avail.

Events in Soledar are moving much faster than anyone would expect.

To stabilize the situation, the Ukrainian Command hastily moved reserves into the city. T he reserves managed to hold the main line of defense but could not protect their "flanks".

All roads are under the control of Russian Army artillery. To the south, Giatsint-B and Giatsint-S artillery systems control a section of the route between the settlement of Blahodatne and the NW suburb of Soledar near Sovetskaya Street.

Because of this, the reinforcements of the 17th Ukrainian Armored Brigade cannot reach Soledar.

Ukrainian forces withdrawing from Soledar are going to Paraskoveevka, where a defense line is urgently being built.

It is a wonder how the Russian forces managed to get through minefields and trenches in the northern part of Soledar so quickly.

Are the Ukrainians out of ammunition? They have such great losses.

Within 3 days Russian and allied forces control 80% of the city which may indicate the significant fatigue of the Ukrainian army in this area.  We had pointed out since yesterday that the situation is now irreversible for the Ukrainians.

The Ukrainian 1st, 2nd, 30th and 4th Battalions of the 46th Airborne Brigade have suffered very heavy losses.  At the end of December, this formation was reinforced with mobilized soldiers from the Kirovograd, Sumy and Ternopil regions.

However, due to the lack of combat training, more than half of the recruits died six days after arriving at the front.

On 3 January, due to a large number of irreparable casualties, the Ukrainian COMM brigade sent a radiation, biological and chemical protection company to the front line of defense.

24 hours after being sent to the front line of battle, the unit stopped communicating and is currently missing.

At the same time, the 61st Ukrainian Brigade has the biggest losses in armored vehicles and tanks.

With up to 9,000 Russian combat ready troops and several hundred armored vehicles having just deployed to Belarus on the northern border of Ukraine, this report details, it caused American neocon warmonger Senator Lindsey Graham to scream yesterday: “I am urging the Biden Administration to meet President Zelensky’s request for modern western tanks...The goal is quite simple: Defeat the Russians in Ukraine sooner rather than later...Tanks would change the tide of battle”—a warmongering scream followed by Germany announcing: “Berlin has no immediate plans to send German-made Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine”—and also yesterday, it saw former Bush Regime warmongering neocon officials National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, both of whom were masterminds of the American military defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, releasing their open letter “Time Is Not On Ukraine’s Side”, wherein they called on the socialist Biden Regime and NATO to essentially empty out their entire weapons arsenals for Ukraine, stated: “Both of us have dealt with Putin on a number of occasions, and we are convinced he believes time is on his side...For Putin, defeat is not an option”, and assessed: “Although Ukraine’s response to the invasion has been heroic and its military has performed brilliantly, the country’s economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed, and much of its mineral wealth, industrial capacity and considerable agricultural land are under Russian control”.

Most critical to notice about all of the American neocon warmongers calling for the defeat of Russia “to the last Ukrainian”, this report concludes, is that they’re all linked to and profit from Western arms industries, which can’t be said about decorated Vietnam War combat legend retired US Marine Colonel Richard Black, who back in June assessed: “Ukraine has lost the war”—an assessment now joined by famed American financier James Rickards, a top adviser to the United States intelligence community and the Pentagon who, in his open letter “Time To Get Real About Ukraine”, assessed this past week:

Don’t believe the incessant U.S. government and media propaganda about Ukraine.  Ukraine is not winning the war; they are losing badly.

But wait, hasn’t the news been talking up Ukrainian gains in recent months, while Russia is retreating and being badly beaten?  That’s the mainstream, pro-Ukrainian narrative. 

Here’s the reality:

Most of the Ukrainian gains were against lightly defended positions that the Russians quickly abandoned because they were not worth fighting to defend.

Those Russian troops (really Donbas militias) were ordered to retreat to fortified Russian lines while Ukrainian forces rushing to fill the void were slaughtered by Russian artillery bombardments.

Most people think of war in terms of territory. If you lose territory, it must mean you’re losing the war.  But it’s not always that simple.

The Russians will willingly cede territory in order to fight again at a later time under more favorable circumstances.  They’ll simply retake it when the terms favor them.  They’re not primarily concerned about the territory per se.  The primary Russian objective is to grind down and destroy the Ukrainian armed forces.

And if the Ukrainians want to keep hurling themselves against Russian positions in order to recapture land and score a propaganda coup, that’s fine with the Russians.  They’ll just grind the attacking forces down with heavy artillery fire (artillery kills far more people in war than bullets or bombs).

And despite Ukrainian government claims, the best intelligence says Russia is presently enjoying an 8–10:1 casualty rate.  In other words, Russia is inflicting eight–10 casualties on Ukraine for every casualty it’s suffering.

That kind of ratio isn’t sustainable for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russia has reinforced its positions with 300,000 or more fresh troops (about 30 divisions) who are rested and resupplied.  That’s in addition to the number of troops already in Ukraine.

Evidence indicates they’re backed by at least 1,500 tanks, 5,000 armored fighting vehicles, 1,000 rocket artillery systems, hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters plus thousands of tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.

Now Russia is taking the gloves off.  It’s already launched heavy, sustained attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, including the power grid and energy nodes.  Its army is also regrouping and preparing for massive counteroffensives.

It’s not interested in bringing Ukraine to the negotiating table anymore. It’s focused instead on destroying Ukraine’s military forces and imposing a settlement on Kyiv.

A major winter offensive will begin soon, likely when the ground in southern Ukraine is fully frozen (muddy ground will bog down Russian forces).  A successful counteroffensive will consolidate Russian control of Donbas (the heartland of Ukrainian industry and natural resources), give Russia control of Zaporizhzhya (the largest nuclear power plant in Europe) and possibly include the conquest of Odessa, the most important Ukrainian Black Sea port.

The cost on the rest of Ukraine from Kyiv to Lviv will be horrendous, including the near-complete degradation of its power-generating capacity, transportation lines and food supplies. U.S. and U.K. weapons supplies won’t mean much because they are too little, too late and the Ukrainians are scarcely trained to use them.

But these prospects make no impact at all on the anti-Russian warhawks, both Democrat and Republican, who are determined to prolong the war at all costs — even if it means fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

 

 

 

 

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Blessed Are They That Trust Christ

 Blessed Are They That Trust Christ

January 5, 2023 / Kneel Charles, Latest Posts / By Managing Editor

by Marlen

Dear Charles Philip Arthur George Battenberg/Windsor,

I hope this finds you well, well-rested, in good spirit, and having a good day.

I am writing this letter in support of the ROYAL DECREE BY THE BRITISH KING OF ISRAEL that you come to Gibraltar, lay down His crown and kneel at The Feet of The Gibraltar-Messenger, CHRIST, on 22 April 2023 in St. Michael (Christ)’s Cave, Gibraltar, The Rock of His Defence.

Please Charles, for the sake of everyone, including your self and your loved ones, take Christ’s COMMAND extremely seriously. If you don’t, you will forever regret not doing the right thing. Change the road you’re on before it is too LATE (Matthew 7:13-14)!

Christs.net has already been cast into the sea of restless people (Isaiah 17:12-13). Think of the multitude of restless people suffering under your fraudulent rule, who yearn for the freedom that only Christ can provide, through The Law that you obstinately refuse to maintain to the utmost of your power, just as your mother refused to do, and which you both rule/d in defiance of.

As you already know, or you should know, Scriptures and the current circumstances provide irrefutable proof you are NOT the RIGHTFUL King, just as your belated mother Elizabeth was NEVER the rightful queen. Elizabeth was NOT coronated/crowned on the REAL Stone of Destiny/Throne, which was taken away on 25th of December (a clue of Christ’s return) in 1950, from Westminster Abbey, through a Divine act of God, to hide and preserve The Real Stone of Destiny/Throne for Christ’s crowning and His ONLY, which could happen the easy way, with your help, or the hard way (for you) without your help.

Ezekiel:-
21:26 Thus saith the Lord “I AM”; Remove the diadem (sovereignty), and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low (Line of Zarah), and abase [him that is] high (Line of Pharez).
21:27 I will overturn (1), overturn (2), overturn (3), it: and it shall be no [more], [overturned] UNTIL he come whose Right it is; and (4) I will give it [him – Shiloh / Christ (Genesis 49 v 10)].

There is ONLY ONE TRUE Prince of Light, (Matthew 24:27): Prince Michael/Christ/God’s Anointed ONE, our TRUE KING and Saviour. He is the ONLY ONE, who can turn this evil world around with His rod of iron, His Father’s Law, which He came to fulfill (Matthew 5:17-20).

Charles, God has NOT given you ANY power or authority to rule here on this planet; ONLY God’s Eldest Son has been granted all power in heaven and earth (Matt. 28:18).

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

You and your mother have deceived the whole world, and made them turn away from GOD’S precious Commandments and Laws, resulting in this mess the world is in today, which makes God VERY sad.

Take this as a HUGE opportunity to repent and turn away from your sins, and give Christ His RIGHTFUL Throne back today, so that it may go well with you and yours, or God will do it for you and against you.

Psalm 2:1 Why do the unenlightened rage, and the people imagine a futile thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the “I AM”, and against His Anointed, (2 Esd. 13:34) [saying],
2:3 Let us break Their bonds asunder, and cast away Their cords from us.
2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall make fools of them.
2:5 Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and terrify them in His fury.
2:6 Yet have I set My King (to govern – Isa. 9:6-7) upon My Holy Hill of Gathering (Isa. 33:16; 2 Esd. 13:35).
2:7 I will declare the decree: the “I AM” hath said unto me, Thou [art] My Son; this day have I created for thee.
2:8 Ask of Me, and I shall give [thee] the unenlightened [for] thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth [for] thy possession.
2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel (Rev. 12:5).
2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
2:11 Serve the “I AM” with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 Kiss My Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish [from] The Way, when his wrath is kindled just a little (Luke 19:27). Blessed [are] all they that put their trust in him.

Please, also read The Way home or face The Fire to see that Our Lord is Who He says He is.

Can You See Christ in His Second Coming?

Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

May peace be upon you and within you.

Marlen.

This letter has been added to Crown Prince Michael in Gibraltar.

Lies Don't Win One

 Biden Forgot Vietnam Lesson: “Propaganda Doesn't Change A War And Lies Don't Win One”

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Russian Federation religious leader His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called for a Christmas truce: “I appeal to all parties involved in the internecine conflict with an appeal to cease fire from 12:00 on January 6 to 24:00 on January 7, so that Orthodox people can attend services on Christmas Eve and on the day of the Nativity of Christ”, says swiftly following this appeal, President Putin ordered Russian troops to impose a cessation in hostilities in Ukraine.  [Note: Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on 7 January]

While Ukraine seeks to escalate the present conflict, this report notes, Federation Council Senator Alexei Pushkov factually observed: “The course of the United States and its allies, as well as the state of relations between the West and Russia, is now much worse than during the Cold War...The United States does not want to be accused of seeking to return to the Cold War...But in reality they are waging an Ice War against Russia”—after which State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin warned: “The German government has decided to shift problems created by their predecessors on our country...With this goal in view, they are planning to confiscate Russian assets to help Ukraine rebuild...This decision would give a start to a process where all countries may ignore international law and seize what they think fit...Germany should remember from its own history how attempts to infringe on others’ property rights ended”—and in noting that Nazi Germany ally Italy during World War II also illegally confiscated property that didn’t belong to them, it caused Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to declare: “Obviously, with regard to the biased position taken by Italy, we cannot view it either as an honest broker or a possible guarantor of the peace process”.

As leader of socialist Western colonial powers “Ice War” against Russia, this report continues, yesterday it saw Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden proclaiming: “Our best days are ahead of us…Are not behind us…I've long said…I mean, this…I have never, ever, ever been more optimistic about America's prospects…And am today…Never…Never…I've traveled over 140 countries around the world…I was the paraphrase the phrase in my old neighborhood…The rest of the countries the world is not a patch in our jeans…If we do what we want to do, we need to do”—a bizarre proclamation whose most charitable response about was: “That’s almost profound…If only anybody understood what it means”—and stands in sharp contrast to newly re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu articulately proclaiming to the West yesterday: “Our voice will be heard in the world...Instead of giving in to dictates from the international community, we will proudly uphold our interests in the State of Israel and the Land of Israel”.

In response to President Putin’s deputy chief of staff Dmitry Kozak holding meetings in Europe, this report details, Secretary Oleksiy Danilov of the Ukrainian Security Council said the increased activity of Dmitry Kozak holding meetings in Europe were in order to force Ukraine to sign peace agreements, then declared: “We will not go for it”—after which Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in his nightly video address: “We have no doubt that the current masters of Russia will throw everything they have left and everyone they can round up to try to turn the tide of the war and at least delay their defeat...We have to disrupt this Russian scenario...Any attempt at their new offensive must fail”—according to Atlantic Council analyst Peter Dickinson, however, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing forces for a large-scale offensive in the winter, who predicted that this offensive would be crucial “in the fight to maintain international support for Ukraine”—yesterday when the leftist New York Times noticed that Ukraine was firing Western supplied missiles costing up to $500,000 at Russian drones costing $20,000 they asked: “How long can Ukraine sustain its effort when many of its defensive measures cost far more than the drones do?”—and in the just published Western defense article “General Russian Attack On Soledar: Town Falls – Ukrainian Forces Enter Salt Mines Under Fire – New Azovstal!”, sees it revealing today: “The developments in Soledar are rapid as the Russian Army together with the Wagner forces launched a general attack along the entire front putting the city in semi-encirclement...The Ukrainian forces, under the weight of the Russian attack, were forced into the salt mines...The Russians launched the attack on Soledar from 3 axis”.

In a just released interview, this report notes, American decorated combat tactical legend retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Ph.D. estimates Ukrainian military losses are over 450,000, then he slams Western non-governmental organizations for doing nothing about Ukraine sending boys as young as 14-years-old into the meat grinding front lines—in another just released interview, it sees former US Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter calling Ukraine a “humanitarian disaster” because of its hundreds-of-thousands of war deaths, and in the just published article “US Is Not An Anchor Of Stability For Anything Anymore”, it sees Ritter factually observing: “Had the Minsk records been accepted and been implemented in full, there would not have been a war...This was a very simple solution, one that the West did not seek, because I don't believe they thought Russia was serious about a military operation...Likewise, in December, when Russia provided the West with two draft treaties, one to NATO, one to the US outlining their concerns about the need for a new European security framework...If the West would only read this and sit down and talk with Russia, then a conflict could be avoided...We now know that neither Ukraine, Germany, nor France was ever serious about Minsk, that they were only using it as a sham, as a cover to build a NATO army capable of solving the Donbas problem militarily...And the Russian attack preempted the Western plans”.

As it pertains to these “Western plans” for Ukraine that are now indistinguishable from America’s failed war in Vietnam, this report concludes, it was interesting to notice one Western military analyst revealing yesterday: “Over Christmas I had a short talk with a relative about the war in Ukraine...He asked me who would win and was astonished when I said: "Ukraine has zero chance to win"...That person reads some German mainstream news sites and watches the public TV networks...With those sources of 'information' he was made to believe that Ukraine was winning the war...The 'western' propaganda is still quite strong...However, as I pointed out in March last year, propaganda does not change a war and lies do not win it”—a revelation joined by internationally recognized strategist Dan Steinbock of the Difference Group, who, in his just released strategy and risk document “The Long-Term Economic Implications Of The Ukraine War”, assessed:

The human suffering in Ukraine is predicated on massive U.S. military aid, and is transforming an ailing country into a bankrupt failed state.

Douglas Macgregor recently argued that Washington’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and to negotiate an end to the war will cement “the path to protracted conflict and human suffering”.

 As Macgregor observed, even while the tide is now turning in Ukraine, Washington’s foreign policy continues to be fueled by the ideological self-delusion of the true believers: “Like the ‘best and the brightest’ of the 1960s they are eager to sacrifice realism to wishful thinking, to wallow in the splash of publicity and self-promotion in one public visit to Ukraine after another”.

It is indeed a spectacle eerily reminiscent of events over half a century ago, when Washington’s proxy war in Vietnam was escalated even as it was failing.

The U.S./NATO-led proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has already bankrupted the Ukrainian economy, an outcome some observers saw nine months ago.  It will also accelerate the decline of the U.S. international role and global economic prospects.  When great powers fail to balance their economic base with their military power and strategic commitments, they risk imperial overstretch.  That is America’s key global risk in the 2020s.  And due to the U.S. role in the world economy, the global repercussions of such overstretch will be adverse, extensive, and long-lasting.

In The Best and the Brightest (1972), David Halberstam argued that it was the refusal of U.S. elite policymakers and intellectuals to recognize the true economic and human costs of Vietnam escalation that led them to sacrifice realism for wishful thinking.  As the idea that South might not win against North Vietnam was simply dismissed, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, “We will not pull out until the war is won”.

Ideological self-delusions come with a price.  Just as the Vietnam escalation of President Johnson’s true believers demolished his domestic “Great Society” dream, President Biden’s blind faith in his advisers is undermining his domestic agenda.

In the proxy war, economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine has been abundant and historic.  By late fall, Congress had passed three aid packages, which totaled $68 billion, while the Biden administration submitted a new aid request of $38 billion, which would bring the total to $106 billion. Although designed to last through September 2023, it will be depleted by May at the current rate of spending ($6.8 billion per month).  By then, the Biden White House must ask for additional funds amid recessionary global prospects.

Internationally, America provides the bulk of total aid to Ukraine (62 percent).  Aid from non-U.S. sources amounts to $41.4 billion.  The international total of over $110 billion accounts for more than half of Ukraine’s pre-war GDP ($200 billion).  Moreover, due the kinds of equipment being procured to support Ukraine, the “money Congress appropriates in year one does not get fully spent until year five” (read: in the late 2020s).

The good news: Ukraine would have been a failed state without the aid. The bad news: The very same aid will prolong Ukrainians’ suffering.

Even as international media touted the mirage of Ukraine’s military triumph, the country's real GDP declined over 35 percent on an annual basis in the third quarter of 2022—before Russia's recent massive infrastructure attack.

In 2022, U.S. GDP growth on a year-to-year basis is likely to remain stagnant between 0.1 percent and 0.2 percent, which, however, is predicated on unsustainable debt-taking that is accelerated by the proxy war in Ukraine.

The key role in this debt belongs to military expenditures; as with Vietnam escalation, the best and the brightest serve mainly as enablers.  For decades, the U.S. has used partnerships and proxy forces to wage war under the radar in at least 17 countries.  In the past two decades alone, the cost of its global war on terror to the U.S. and its partners stands at $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths.  The costs in target countries are far, far higher.

From the economic standpoint, these military expenditures, including U.S. Ukrainian aid, should be seen as massive, recurrent, multiyear bastard Keynesianism: a series of military stimulus packages to prop up the American economy—not Ukraine's!—amid deepening secular stagnation.  Unlike Keynesian stimuli that can have an accelerator effect in the civilian economy, these packages mainly benefit the Pentagon and Big Defense—the military–industrial complex and its revolving-door elites.

The high and rising debt as a percentage of the U.S. GDP will slow economic growth, push up interest payments to foreign holders of U.S. debt, and heighten the risk of a fiscal crisis. As the Biden administration is extends its Ukraine doctrine from Russia to Iran, Taiwan, and elsewhere, defense allocations are soaring, which will further contribute to rising debt, twin deficits, and real interest rates.

In a recent Foreign Affairs commentary, veteran economist Mohamed A. El-Erian warned that we are not facing just extraordinarily challenging business-cycle fluctuations, but structural and secular long-term pressures.  As a result, “the global economy may never be the same”.  

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

 

 

 

 

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