Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, “Divine Victory Speech”, 2006
Following the past few, truly incredible, days which saw momentous developments taking place at an amazingly rapid pace, I think that it is time to take a moment to calmly and carefully reflect about what I consider to be a historical event of an immense magnitude. Formally, this event will be recorded as the “The address of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the State Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin”. In reality, of course, this was much more. This was the address of the New Russia to the entire world and, especially, to the many people worldwide who reject the social, economic and political model embodied in the current AngloZionist Empire otherwise known as “The West”, including those inside the so-called “West”.
The great disconnect between the 1% and 99%
In the hours following Putin’s speech I was amazed to see the total disconnect between what I just had heard, the reaction of the people in Russia, and the way the official corporate media covered the event. In Russia senior political figures compared what had just taken place with the victory against Nazi Germany in 1945, they repeated over and over again that what had just taken place would create a new world order and that the nature of the system of international relations had been changed forever. And yet, the western corporate media spoke about the pomp of the ceremony and how Putin had justified the Russian annexation of Crimea. Had they listened to a different speech?!
But then came the reactions of the readers of my blog who in increasing numbers were reporting that they had listening to Putin’s speech with tears in their eyes. Many even praised Putin in terms that would make even a Kremlin PR officer blush with embarrassment. What was going on here? Clearly my readers were not only apprising the contents of Putin’s speech and expressing their overall agreement with his views, no, they were having a deeply emotional reaction to something which they had felt deep inside their gut and in their souls, something which powerfully resonated deeply inside them. Why? Very few of these readers had any connections to Russia, even less had any Russian roots. Some had even served in the US military against the Soviet-backed Vietnamese. The vast majority were old enough to vividly remember the Cold War and how it felt to live under the bulleye of the Soviet nuclear forces. And yet these people clearly totally rejected the official view of the corporate media and adopted a radically different view. Why?
I have to mention here that every since my blog acquired a better visibility (roughly over the past 6 months) I have been getting a lot of emails from literally all over the world and that many of these emails were extremely emotional, clearly written “with gut and soul” and they often gave me the feeling that my correspondent was baring his/her soul showing an immense amount of pain, frustration and even rage, and an even bigger gratitude and appreciation for what I was trying to achieve with this blog. And, again, this made me wonder – what was it that I was doing that was eliciting such an outpouring of gratitude and emotions?! After all, I had never intended my blog as a crowd-pleaser, but only as the “thinly anonymous” blog of just one guy speaking his mind and trying to foster a free exchange of views. And yet, some readers have even claimed that reading this blog had “changed their lives”. Why?! How?! I was honestly baffled by such reactions.
And then I understood
People were hungry, they were literally starved for truth, and even when they did not agree with what I wrote, which happened quite often, they were grateful for the fact that I clearly had no agenda and that I simply spoke the truth as I saw it. It became clear to me that a lot of people fully understood that they were lied to, they just did not always have the means to get to the real story or just enough facts to connect the dots for themselves. In the case of my blog, the fact that I was fluent in five languages meant that I could help them cross the language barrier and my past as a military analyst who had seen the “behind the scenes” true face of the AngloZionist empire made it rather easy for me to debunk many, even if not all, of the lies of the corporate media. Finally, the fact that I had no political agenda or affiliation of any kind, even if I held strong – and often goofy – views about many subjects, meant that I was not trying to “sell my stuff” – it was here to take it or leave it – and that it made no difference to me what people thought of my views. One of the many positive side-effects of “thin anonymity” (which I define as anonymous enough to have readers focus on ideas and not personalities, anonymous enough not to be bothered by idiots, but clearly not anonymous enough to hide from any person making even a very modest effort to try to identify me) is that I am clearly not even trying to sell myself. No, what was going on here is something far more basic and I will use an image to make my point: it’s not that the food I was cooking was so amazingly tasty, it’s that my guests were truly starved and, as the Irish say, “hunger is the best sauce”.
I very much believe that this “hunger” is also what explains the very strong and emotional reaction that so many people have had after listening to Putin. Clearly, this was much bigger than Crimea, the Ukraine or even Russia. These were just triggers which ended up eliciting a Russian reaction which nobody had seriously believed possible. But many felt that something much more important had just happened.
What am I referring to here? Let’s turn to Putin’s speech and parse some of its most important segments (the full speech is available here and here and I urge everybody who has not done so yet to read it in its entirety or, better, watch the video here).
Putin’s message to the world
Predictably, Putin’s speech began by discussing the recent events in Crimea including the results of the referendum. He spoke about what Crimea and Sevastopol meant for the Russian history, culture and nation, and he recalled the horrors suffered by the Tatar people during the Soviet era. He then outlined the circumstances in which Nikita Khrushchev single-handedly (and illegally) transferred Crimea from the Russian Federation to the Ukraine and how, after the fall of the Soviet Union the Ukraine suffered under the rule of corrupt leaders. And then he explained how the legitimate protests of the Ukrainian people were literally hijacked by very different and violent people:
I understand those who came out on Maidan with peaceful slogans against corruption, inefficient state management and poverty. The right to peaceful protest, democratic procedures and elections exist for the sole purpose of replacing the authorities that do not satisfy the people. However, those who stood behind the latest events in Ukraine had a different agenda: they were preparing yet another government takeover; they wanted to seize power and would stop short of nothing. They resorted to terror, murder and riots. Nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites executed this coup. They continue to set the tone in Ukraine to this day (…) we can all clearly see the intentions of these ideological heirs of Bandera, Hitler’s accomplice during World War II.
This reference to WWII is not just a politician’s rhetorical exaggeration aimed at eliciting a knee-jerk reaction from the audience, it is something much more important – an unambiguous statement that today, just as during WWII, the very existence of Russia as a country, a culture and a nation was at stake. Of course, the threat to Russia does not come from a few baseball bat wielding nationalist thugs in Kiev or from the new regime in power, if only because this new regime is a complete fiction anyway:
It is also obvious that there is no legitimate executive authority in Ukraine now, nobody to talk to. Many government agencies have been taken over by the impostors, but they do not have any control in the country, while they themselves – and I would like to stress this – are often controlled by radicals. In some cases, you need a special permit from the militants on Maidan to meet with certain ministers of the current government. This is not a joke – this is reality. Those who opposed the coup were immediately threatened with repression
So where does the real danger come from and who is the real aggressor threatening Russia at least as much has Hitler did in WWII? Before answering that question, I would like to note that Putin made a rather candid admission about the so-called “polite armed men in green”. He said:(emphasis added)
The President of the Russian Federation received permission from the Upper House of Parliament to use the Armed Forces in Ukraine. However, strictly speaking, nobody has acted on this permission yet. Russia’s Armed Forces never entered Crimea; they were there already in line with an international agreement. True, we did enhance our forces there; however – this is something I would like everyone to hear and know – we did not exceed the personnel limit of our Armed Forces in Crimea, which is set at 25,000, because there was no need to do so.
So the mystery of the “polite armed men in green” is now solved: “strictly speaking” they were an “enhancement” to the Russian forces in Crimea which did not exceed the maximal total number of troops allowed by the treaty with the Ukraine. In other words, the number of Spetsnaz GRU troops sent to Crimea was within the terms of the treaty and the other forces seen were, indeed, local self-defense units and not part of the Russian military. Elegant formulation, for sure.
Putin then quoted the position of the UN International Court and the United States on the issue of the secession of Kosovo: “General international law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence” (UNIC) and “ Declarations of independence may, and often do, violate domestic legislation. However, this does not make them violations of international law” (USA) and added:
For some reason, things that Kosovo Albanians (and we have full respect for them) were permitted to do, Russians, Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in Crimea are not allowed. Again, one wonders why.
Here we are getting at the core of his argument: the Empire has no other use for International Law then to use it as a fig leaf for its project of world hegemony and when that is not possible, then the Empire simply ignores it and uses brute force:
This is not even double standards; this is amazing, primitive, blunt cynicism. One should not try so crudely to make everything suit their interests, calling the same thing white today and black tomorrow (…) After the dissolution of bipolarity on the planet, we no longer have stability. Key international institutions are not getting any stronger; on the contrary, in many cases, they are sadly degrading. Our western partners, led by the United States of America, prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right. They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle “If you are not with us, you are against us.” To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organisations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall. (…) We understand what is happening; we understand that these actions were aimed against Ukraine and Russia and against Eurasian integration (…) we have every reason to assume that the infamous policy of containment, led in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, continues today. They are constantly trying to sweep us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we call things like they are and do not engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.
Amazing words coming from the President of a nuclear-armed superpower: not only does he denounce the complete and total hypocrisy of the AngloZionist Empire, he even places it in the direct continuation of three centuries of anti-Russian policies by Western European powers! Not only does he denounce the Empire’s double-standards, he even openly ridicules the incompetence of its leaders:
After all, they were fully aware that there are millions of Russians living in Ukraine and in Crimea. They must have really lacked political instinct and common sense not to foresee all the consequences of their actions. Russia found itself in a position it could not retreat from. If you compress the spring all the way to its limit, it will snap back hard. You must always remember this.
Indeed, one can only wonder what in the world they were thinking in the “imperial high command” when they decided to use Nazis in the Ukraine just like they used al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: did they really think that Russia would yield yet again? Did it even have such an option? Not according to Putin:
It is at historic turning points such as these that a nation demonstrates its maturity and strength of spirit. The Russian people showed this maturity and strength through their united support for their compatriots. Russia’s foreign policy position on this matter drew its firmness from the will of millions of our people, our national unity and the support of our country’s main political and public forces. (…) Obviously, we will encounter external opposition, but this is a decision that we need to make for ourselves. Are we ready to consistently defend our national interests, or will we forever give in, retreat to who knows where? (…) Russia will also have to make a difficult decision now, taking into account the various domestic and external considerations. What do people here in Russia think? Here, like in any democratic country, people have different points of view, but I want to make the point that the absolute majority of our people clearly do support what is happening.
Let’s sum up. Putin has now openly stated that:
1) There is no limit to the hypocrisy, lies, evil, stupidity and aggressive nature of the AngloZionist Empire.
2) That this Empire represents by its very nature an existential threat to Russia.
3) That the Russian people are united in their determination to resist this Empire.
Frankly, to me this sounds very much like a declaration of war. Not necessarily a hot war with military forces fighting each other, but something more than a Cold War in which the status quo is an acceptable option. Putin is suggesting that the next war will be a civilizational one, a cultural one and even a moral one, a war in which one side will stand for absolute rule of a cynical world hegemon and the other side for a multi-polar world in which all countries are to be subjected to the same set of rules and principles. But even more importantly than a single set of rules, the kind of international system Russia is seeking to establish is one in which each nation, culture and religion would have the actual, not just theoretical, freedom to live as it want. He clearly said so in his 2013 annual Presidential address to the Federal Assembly when he said:
Today, many nations are revising their moral values and ethical norms, eroding ethnic traditions and differences between peoples and cultures. Society is now required not only to recognise everyone’s right to the freedom of consciousness, political views and privacy, but also to accept without question the equality of good and evil, strange as it seems, concepts that are opposite in meaning. This destruction of traditional values from above not only leads to negative consequences for society, but is also essentially anti-democratic, since it is carried out on the basis of abstract, speculative ideas, contrary to the will of the majority, which does not accept the changes occurring or the proposed revision of values. We know that there are more and more people in the world who support our position on defending traditional values that have made up the spiritual and moral foundation of civilisation in every nation for thousands of years: the values of traditional families, real human life, including religious life, not just material existence but also spirituality, the values of humanism and global diversity. Of course, this is a conservative position. But speaking in the words of Nikolai Berdyaev, the point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
It is pretty clear that this last sentence expresses Russia’s view on the level of civilizational and cultural degradation the AngloZionist Empire has imposed upon the people of Europe and the USA. Furthermore, when Putin says that “destruction of traditional values from above not only leads to negative consequences for society, but is also essentially anti-democratic, since it is carried out on the basis of abstract, speculative ideas, contrary to the will of the majority” he is clearly stating that the AngoZionist Empire is not ruled by the people which live in it, but by minorities, special interest groups, behind the scenes lobbies and cabals who impose their warped agenda upon the rest of the people.
Again, the bottom line is this: the President of Russia has made an open declaration of war against the 1% elite which currently is in control the AngloZionist Empire. This war will be a multi-level one combining “soft power” (cultural resistance, religious resistance, informational resistance, financial and economic warfare) with “hard power” (a military ready fight the US/NATO if needed, the use of the “energy weapon” to retaliate against economic warfare). In an ironical twist of history, especially for a capitalist society which has ridiculed Marx and repudiated the concept of class warfare, this war will also profoundly be a class war in which oligarchs from different countries will support each other and in which the regular, 99%, people will work together on, for example, the “virtual battlefields” of the Internet.
The crucial battlefield: “global information operations”
“Information operations” is the term used by the US military to refer to “direct and indirect support operations for the United States Military”. Psychological operations, or PSYOPs, are seen as a subset of IO. For our purposes, however, is to extend this concept to not only military operations, but to the full spectrum of national security policies of a country and, in our case, for the “deep state” which holds the reins of power in the AngloZionist Empire. I will thus speak of Global Information Operations or GIOs the core component of which is represented the western corporate media.
For a while in my life I, like many other military analysts, made my living by, among other things, reading the Soviet press every day. Not just the Pravda or Izvestia, but also even more boring or specialized newspapers, magazines and reviews. I listen to the Soviet radio as often as I could, and I never missed a chance to watch the Soviet TV, especially the news shows. At the time I was young, very naïve and very dumb, and I sincerely believed that the Soviet Union was a mortal threat to western Europe and that the only thing which stood between them, the evil commies, and us, the free world, was the military power of the NATO alliance. Looking back at myself and the utter garbage I had in my brain then, I feel embarrassed and, frankly, ashamed of my total credulity. But at the time I was a dedicated soldier of the Cold War whose motto was “know thy enemy”. And I knew my “enemy” really, really, well. I want to explain all of the above before stating the following:
In all honesty and sincerity, I have to say here that in comparison to the modern western corporate media the Soviet press was far more pluralistic, more diverse and more trustworthy. True, the Soviet press simply did not mention certain topics, but that goes to show that, unlike the western corporate media, it did not feel that it could brazenly lie to the point where even what is obvious is categorically and totally denied. For one thing, the Soviet public was far better educated. We all, including myself, used to poke fun at the obligatory lessons in Marxism-Leninism in Soviet schools, but we overlooked that any halfway decent course in Marxism-Leninism will include topics like dialectics, historical materialism and economics: stuff that makes you think. This is not to say that the Soviet people could not be lied to – they could and they have been – but only that the lies had to be at least halfway credible and present a plausible scenario. In contrast, for a public raised on CNN, BBC or MTV the lies need not be even capable of passing a basic common sense test (as is so vividly illustrated by the western corporate media’s coverage of the 08.08.08 war or the events in the Ukraine): the Doublethink predicted by Orwell in his book 1984 is now fully upon us and black can be called white and vice-versa with no problems at all. I would even argue that, in comparison, even the Nazi Völkischer Beobachter contained more information than, say, the NYT, WSJ or the BBC whose level of brazen lying I could only compare to, maybe, the Der Stürmer.
I first noticed this absolutely unprecedented level of outright lying by the western corporate media during the US/NATO war on Yugoslavia (Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo), but I think that it has only gotten worse since. In contrast, the modern Russian press is extremely diverse and the people in Russia are regularly shown the type of coverage the current events in the Ukraine get in the western press and it leave them baffled. They simply cannot understand how this is possible in a society which externally seems to have all the characteristics of a free and pluralistic society. In the bad old days of the USSR, it was all simple: there was state censorship. But there is no state censorship in the West, no Glavlit and no Goskomizdat, and yet the western press is far more monolithic and dishonest then even the official party press in the USSR. But there is one crucial difference between the USSR and today’s AngloZionist Empire: the Internet.
Simply put, the Internet is the only global media not controlled by either governments or corporations (which is really the same thing). Yes, there are numerous attempts by both governments and corporations to change this, but at least for the time being, information is circulating freely throughout the Internet. This introduced amazing changes:
1) a single citizen with a minimal income now had the means to meaningfully oppose the lies of even major corporations or governments: the case of Alain Soral in France is typical of this amazing trend.
2) the resistance to the Empire is now geographically decentralized: as this blog illustrates so well with the amazing diversity of its readers.
3) information simply cannot be suppressed: the world learned of the massacres and atrocities of the Wahabi insurgents in Syria even though the corporate media tried hard to ignore them.
4) low-level classified government documents do regularly get compromised by various individuals who can then leak it without anybody being able to stop it (Assange, Snowden, Manning).
5) an increasing number of people sever their exposure to the corporate media which now mostly subsists on government grants.
6) even those who still watch TV or read the press are aware that they are being lied to.
All this means that we live in a new reality in which the global AngloZionist Empire is now actively opposed by a global resistance which knows no borders, no nationalities and no religions: people from different countries, nations and religions stand together against a common hegemon not just in theory like in “Proletarians of all countries – unite!” slogan, but in actuality and they actively collaborate with each other.
It is to this global resistance to the Empire and its GIOs that Putin addressed his words yesterday. Sure, of course, he was primarily speaking to the people of Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine, but he was also reaching beyond, to all those, probably many millions, who would make the effort to listen to him on YouTube or read a transcript of his speech. Because, of course, all this is much bigger than just a power struggle over a relatively small peninsula in the Black Sea: yesterday, for the first time, a powerful and determined leader openly told the Empire: we know you, we understand what you are trying to do, and we are not going to let you do it. In fact, we reject everything you stand for and we will never let you rule the planet. And today, we have the means to stop you!
Dust storms reported world wide
I think that we are entering a new era which many of us had been hoping for for a very long time. An era when a resistance which used to be only local has finally found a leader capable not of commanding it, no, but capable of representing and inspiring it. I honestly don’t think that Putin wanted that. He would have much preferred to be in the shoes of Chinese President Xi Jinping who fully supports Putin, but who prefers to avoid an open confrontation with the Empire, at least until such time when China becomes truly powerful. Iran and Hezbollah have been openly resisting for many years, but they simply did not have the means to reach much further beyond the Middle-East. As for the resistance in Latin America (Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia) it has not been able to effectively deal with more lukewarm or hesitating leaders (Brazil, Chile, Argentina) or with outright US puppet states (Colombia). If anything, the recent vote at the UNSC in which only China abstained and every other member voted against Russia goes to show that on the global scale Russia is alone and that no world leader has the courage to openly stand next to Putin.
Even though I had been following Putin’s career very carefully since 1999, it took me until 2008 to fully get a sense of what this man was all about. Still, I know that a lot of people remained skeptical: was he really what he appeared to be or was he simply playing a sophisticated game of “good cop – bad cop” with Medvedev, with each of them catering to their own audience? When Russia was invited to the G8 and when it acceded to the WTO a lot of careful observers wondered whether Putin was really as “anti-Empire” as he claimed to be, or whether he was just conducting a hard bargain for better conditions inside the Empire’s international system. I hope that they today these skeptics see that Putin is “for real” and that he is now the de-facto leader of the global resistance against the AngoZionist Empire.
As I have mentioned above, a lot of readers of this blog, with no personal connections to Russia at all, reported yesterday that they had listened to Putin’s address with tears in their eyes. This resulted in a rather moving discussion of red-eye triggering “dust storms” reported from various parts of the world (Germany, USA, Uruguay, Austria, Canada and, of course, Russia). One anonymous poster though did not want to use a cute euphemism and simply wrote : “Here it wasn’t a dust, it was just a sincere pure cry for the hope of the all humanity around the world, that we can live in peace, mutual respect , abundance and prosperity for everyone around this beautiful earth. I do believe that this is the start of the new era.” In other words: Putin – we heard you!
Conclusion – a victory which belongs to every free person
First, let me be clear about this: what happened in Crimea is definitely a victory, but only one in a much wider war which is far from over. The first rule of warfare is to never underestimate your enemy and to never do what the French call “sell the bear’s skin before having killed it”. This is far from over and if this is indeed the “beginning of the end” for the Empire, this is still only the very beginning of a long and most dangerous process. Some Empires die more or less peacefully, destroyed by economic ruin and over-reach, but others need to be defeated in an orgy of violence. Though on my bad days I sometimes daydream about seeing a private of the Russian army plant a Russian flag on the Capitol as Meliton Kantaria did over the Reichstag, I don’t think that this would be much of a cause for joy in the midst of a nuclear winter. So the task is to bring down the Empire without bringing down the rest of the planet with it.
Those parts of the planet which have been “liberated” (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Iran, etc.) need to resist, if needed by force, and remain free. Those parts which are still fought over (Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, etc.) need to continue their struggle, as for the rest of the world it needs to continue its non-violent, ideological and informational resistance against the Empire and it’s lies. We can use the well-known image of a swarm of bees attacking a large animal – individually the bees can do little, but in a coordinated attack they can defeat and even kill the much larger animal.
In the meantime, yes, we can rejoice over our common victory this week and paraphrase the words of Hassan Nasrallah in his absolutely beautiful “Divine Victory” speech and say: “We feel that we won; Russia won; Crimea won; the Slavic nations won, and every oppressed, aggrieved person in this world also won. It is not the victory of a party or a community; rather it is a victory for true Russia, the true European people, and every free person in the world. Don’t distort this big historic victory. Do not contain it in party, sectarian, communal, or regional clans. This victory is too big to be comprehended by us”.
There is a song about war as a metaphor for any resistance to evil and brutality which is very popular in Russia called “A toast to” which has the following words: (see home-made music video here)
Let’s toast to life, come on brother, until the end
Let’s toast to those who were with us then
Let’s toast to life, and may all wars be accursed!
We’ll remember those
Who were with us then.
A toast to them, a toast to us
And to Siberia and the Caucasus
To light of distant cities
And to friendship and to love
A toast to you, a toast for us,
To the Airborne Troops and the Spetsnaz
To combat decorations
Let’s lift a toast, my old friend!
In the same spirit, I toast to you, all my readers and friends in the resistance, and I wish you courage and steadfastness in the long struggle ahead. But today, let us celebrate indeed!
The Saker
thank you for your work… greetings from Portugal!
Thank you for being a true beacon of free speech… greetings from Canada
Saker, this is your 9th Symphony ‘Ode to Joy’. I was greatly inspired as well, and after hearing it, by chance I happened upon another deeply moving speech, perhaps one of the finest I have encountered to date on international relations and mutual security- not only in what was said, but how it was said. It is a speech by Putin he delivered in 2007 to the 43rd Munich Security Conference, and it can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH0eHekt84g We must assume that Putin and Russia will continue to be demonized by the US-NATO axis and the Western mainstream media, but what I heard was an anti-war and life-affirming message that was brilliant, and frankly it gave me hope that he will keep showing up and doing what he must to improve the lot of his own people and lead the way to a more just, stable and prosperous world for everyone.
The SCO announced all this years ago, and Putin has been acting in accord with it, not putting a foot wrong. This is why I have been a staunch supporter… why I have been celebrating it, and dreading its opposition, for years, despite being accused of starry-eyed idealism many times.
People are hungry for the truth saker
They know in the cells of their bodies that something is terribly wrong
And they search and search for something to ease the both the pain and the longing in their hearts/souls
I am not kidding when I say that
Arevordi from Heralding the rise of Russia told me, I should see myself as a prophet bringing a message to the people that they need to hear
That’s a bit overwhelming for me
but I know what he is saying
I understand his thought line
Still I don’t want to be considered a prophet, by anyone, it is a heavy burden that I do not want.
Rather I want to see and know that people are choosing their own righteous path. A path that enriches humankind as a whole.
People don’t need leaders, they KNOW what needs to be done and they need to have confidence in themselves that they are capable
Knowing they are capable they have to be willing and able
Has every free person won today?
As long as people are gaining awareness and confidence in their abilities I will consider it a win
We still have much work to do
And I am glad you are here to help us all along the way. And we are here to help you
That is, after all, the way human kind should conduct itself
I don’t think you would disagree
Hi Saker, you have persuaded me much on Nasrallah.
However is it wise to group Venezuela or Cuba in the “good” camp? Isn’t Chile better off after Pinochet than say an Allende if the latter ran his country like Hugo Chavez?
America’s power is vast, but some economic ills are self-inflicted. I can see where Russia has legitimate interests in Syria, Iran and China. But why would Russia side with any of those Latin American countries who themselves do not follow law and freedom?
This is so unbelievably wrong.
4) low-level classified government documents do regularly get compromised by various individuals who can then leak it without anybody being able to stop it (Assange, Snowden, Manning).
If this is the low level stuff, i dread to think what the top secret stuff is
Thanks and I think Penny and 99 cover it for me. Please lets keep our fingers crossed the empire dies quickly instead slowly.
Most excellently said. The Western elite are what Yablonsky called ‘robopaths’, dead souls driven by a psychopathic personality based on intense fear and hatred of others. They must always seek out victims to oppress and destroy, and murder is their highest good. The power of life and death inoculates them from their existential dread of cosmic insignificance. You see it also in their ‘religion’, usually fundamentalist and viciously antipathetic to other religions and based on nothing much but worshiping their own ego-projections in the sky in a pathetic attempt to convince themselves that death is not their end, but that they will live on forever.
In Australia, the entire political, MSM and business pathocracies are uniformly loyal stooges of the Zio-American Reich. Dissidence is zero, and the moral and intellectual milieu Stygian. Yesterday, our Foreign Minister, Bishop, a dead-eyed mannequin, always dressed nicely and coiffed perfectly, whose specialty as a lawyer was to delay by ‘legal’ prevarication compensation cases brought by victims of asbestos mining for the short time it took them to die the dreadful death of mesothelioma thus ending the case, signed some piece of toilet paper condemning the evil Putin, as the Reich would expect. The problem for her and her ilk is that,if some proverbial traveler from another planet arrived, and having no knowledge of Putin, only judged him by the psychopathically hysterical hatred for him of the likes of Bishop, he would, certainly, imagine Putin some sort of paragon, so debased, depraved and downright diabolical are his abusers.
Saker, Thank You. And Penny, that was beautiful. My heart is so full (might there really be some hope?) I’m almost not even noticing all the dust.
The ruling elite families have been in control for hundreds of years, manipulating, conspiring and oppressing people the world over.
We now know who they are.
There is a global awakening under way and they cannot stop it – although they will try.
The Internet is firmly in their sights as a target – censorship in the west is coming soon.
This cabal of private interests will not give up their control with attempting to bring the whole world with them.
Putin has their measure. Those who stand behind Putin know the resistance they face and that retribution is coming.
There is a hidden race for dominance being run in front of the eyes for those who care to look.
A toast to you Saker and to all the readers and contributors to this outstanding blog!
Earlier I posted a report about Paul Gubarev being in a coma. His wife is doubtful of this:
Жена Губарева не подтвердила информацию о том, что Павел находится в коме (Catherine Gubaryov not confirmed the information that Paul is in a coma)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrfDr7_ErE
She says he had not been beaten and was fine when she talked to him the day before the reported coma. Their lawyer was going to try contact him, but so far she hasn’t heard back yet. Her opinion is that this leak was part of the fascists’ campaign to intimidate. They want people to be scared so they will be passive. It’s why they publicize so much of their violent intimidation. That’s what I got from the intro below the video, she obviously said much more in the interview, though.
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You are right Saker. Putin was inspiring yesterday. I had the dust in my eye too….
And you are right about the resistance too. It is global and is growing. Anyone can become part of it…
Thanks for your great work
You are right Saker. Putin was inspiring yesterday. I had the dust in my eye too….
And you are right about the resistance too. It is global and is growing. Anyone can become part of it…
Thanks for your great work
@Mulga,
You stole my show! I was intent to send a stinging comment about the performance of the perfectly coiffed mannequin in front of the other perfectly coiffed mannequin with whom she shares the name. Le Grand Guignol!
Good on you,
WizOz
Swineherder from Canada:
Harper and Baird, our PM and Foreign Minister are not representing my views and I would hope many other Canadians feel the same.
I listened to Putin’s speech on the YouTube address on your site. I was remarkably moved. I have read several pieces by Putin and have been amazed at the quality and morality of thought he expresses.
A family member is in the Canadian Armed Forces and awhile back I found myself making a statement to him that I felt we were on the wrong side. That we were in the position of a German Citizen before World War 11 and that the leaders of our Western World might involve him and his fellow officers and soldiers into the positions of many German soldiers in the Second World. How do you rebel from within an Army? You can’t! So you follow your little orders no matter the morality because of the system you belong too. I to was a soldier in the Canadian Army, luckily at time when there was no war but I well remember the restrictions on my personal choices that I had to give up to the military chain of command.
I want to say I bless Putin’s leadership in that it respectfully allowed Crimea to make it’s own choice and that the rights of the minority Tartars was given prominence and respect.
Russia has been much maligned and misunderstood by the West and our leaders have been far from virtuous in their descriptions of that Country. Stalin was not a Communist. Stalin was a dictator who used the philosophical label of communism to justify his tyranny. Just like Germany has/had to live down Hitler, so too has Russia had to live down Stalin. I think they have succeeded under the wise leadership of Medev and Putin
Thank you for the opportunity to express myself.
“In Australia, the entire political, MSM and business pathocracies are uniformly loyal stooges of the Zio-American Reich. Dissidence is zero…”
Australia stands at a cross-roads:
– The “strategic” alliance with the US (aka puppet state as been the case in living memory. See here for one reason why – http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/17/the-forgotten-coup/ )
OR
– The economic necessity of close ties with China.
It will soon becoime evident why it cannot have both.
Dissendence is all around, but right now you cannot see it. The man in the suit on the street corner, the girl on the bike in the gym. Because it is not visible it does not mean it is not there.
It only takes a relatively small number in a community to reach the “tipping point”. This has been studied extensively and it is known by those in control – it is what they fear the most. It is why they desperately seek to subdue, buy-off and confound those they identify as part of the movement as it gathers pace. The need for the NSA (DSD in Australia) total surveillance becomes clear.
Do not despair, change is happening all around – 80 percent of a population will believe anything and go along as long as the time are good.
This is why Australia ultimately must leave the failing US military/corporate empire behind…
Hello, I was directed to your blog by atoll and found that someone akin to my alterego was writing a very similar analysis to my own–Thank you! I’m a historian, specifically of the US Empire, but not just it exclusively, with an extensive background in Russian history. Putin is a remarkable statesman, of a type appearing every 100 years or so. I’ve read his visions, but wish they could be accomplished without further compromising the planet’s climate.
I wish you well and look forward to continuing fraternity.
@Western elite,
One should not overlook the continuity between Neo-Cons and Trotskysts. Between Globalism and Internationalism. The frequent use of the expression “International Community” to refer to themselves is a subconscious give away: Comintern
WizOz
Somewhere, years ago, I heard a kind of prophecy that from Russia would come the hope of the world.
It is all so very complicated and so simple. This is a spiritual battle. Good and evil are so confusing to people and yet it is very simple. In Isaiah it is warned, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put bitter for sweet, light for darkness. Good and evil are mixed up in this world and in our own hearts, thus people can be manipulated and lied to, and fail to discern.
And yet now, in the course of history, the evil is coming to a head, much like in the Lord of the Rings, and thus the admixture is becoming nauseating and people are ready to wake up.
I believe it behooves all of us to think about good and evil – can we tell them apart? Pink Floyd noticed the problem:
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
Would anyone like to know why Jesus said “Why do you call me good? There is just one who is good – the Father in heaven.”
God is existence itself. We exist because God exists. Our existence is really the only thing we have. Our existence is the ultimate good, the bedrock of everything that might follow. What is evil? Evil is parasitic and cannot exist without the good to feed off of. As per Jesus, evil has two weapons – deception and violence. They are used to impinge upon the free will of others, to diminish their existence to take advantage for oneself. To negate another’s positive existence is what evil is. Therefore, the good holds sacred the free will of others.
As the ultimate good is our existence itself it follows that good and evil are not some arbitrary set of rules by a capricious God, but are absolutely woven into the fabric of existence, of life itself, which is of God and is God’s most basic attribute.
While i generally agree with the above, the framing of anything, especially in terms of good and evil, must be done with circumspection, skill, mental discipline and broad and diverse experience in order to counteract the poisoned well that is the fanatical adherence to a given belief system simply because to change is too painful, would require too much effort, ie “religious thinking.”
You have painted a picture with broad brush strokes, indeed the broadest since you included existence itself in the above narrative.
I see no flaw, but at such a level of abstraction, flaws are notoriously difficult to detect.
In the context of the above article, and the current reality of the world, yes the empire has been the most dominant and potent force of evil, but the republic in which it has established itself and like a cancer spread to the rest of the earth, has also been a source of good.
Discrimination is the key here, the contagion is at a level not seen in recorded history, which means that even in Russia, it could still be present, though passive for now.
If evil be an eater of vitality, then within the broad categorization of evil, there is competent and incompetent evil.
Incompetent evil is what we have been witnessing animating the empire.Competent evil and competent good, is what has been lacking, because incompetent good has perenially opened the door to evil, whether competent or not.
Competent evil and competent good have a lot in common, the former having a meal as its end goal, the later a companion, a partner in the common aim of service to fellow beings in existence while all the while respecting the free will of creatures to choose.
By their fruits ye shall know them, time and discernment will tell whether Russia will be a source of both competent good and evil, competent good or competent evil. Of course there are many forces on earth “Russia” being but one.
Congratulations to the author of this blog.Here in Brussels Belgium(EU and NATO headquarters..what a shame I know)the MSM are victims of the so called Stockholm syndrom here.Total censorship(we are supposed to live in a free country?)..all articles published are against Russia,Poutine is Hitler etc..but very interesting,if you read the comments below the articles,they are 95% in our favor..people(young and not so young as well)are tired of the MSM dictatorship.We are approaching a near revolution with internet.Nobody believes what they write or copy from AFP/REUTERS anymore.Personaly I decided not to buy any paper anymore till the end of my life(I’m 54).Why would I buy lies?I hope a new world order made of freedom has just started.I have no special connection with Russia or Poutine,but at least this guy has guts.When compared to the UE mafia and the US govt. arrogance.I hope the neo nazi gov will be over soon in Kiev.But the worst can be expected for real democrats ukrainian people,the IMF and the UE will destroy what remains of their country.They made a very big mistake,they have been betrayed by their ‘elites’.Good luck to this blog.
@Saker: “Putin is suggesting that the next war will be a civilizational one, a cultural one and even a moral one”
This is what Huntington has proposed in 1996. The empire has a need for an outside enemy. But Huntington has probably underestimated the risk that the empire’s key foundations – good old British deceit and cant – are a little worn out by now.
“History repeats: first as tragedy, second as farce” (KM). Or: Repeating the best tricks more than once endangers all gains.
Example: bringing little Svoboda to power to needle Russia has the potential to expose one of the biggest and most disastrous scams of history – the installation of the Nazi movement in German by the Anglo-American elite, namely Harriman, Bush, Dillon, Ford & MI6.
Purpose: fight Russia, exhaust Germany, Mega-Versailles. The NSDAP was the 1920s version of Nuland’s “civil society”. The US meddling was identical: money from the New York oligarchy, Browning pistols for the brown shirts, open attacks on Germany’s democratic gov in 1932 for suppressing the SA.
Getting WWII started however required some serious US manoeuvering since Hitler thought he could take the seed money and rebuild Germany just for the sake of it. In his excellent public response to Roosevelt on April 28, 1939, he pokes great fun at Allied hypocrisy. We know how this ended.
Fortunately the Russian leadership of today is better educated, not possessed, and has better communications.
Best Christoph
This is my first comment here, from Latin America. Though I am left wing, it is absolutely true that Putin, just like Nasrallah, are standing up against the empire and for popular sovereignty. And the “Liberal” opposition in Russia will have a hard time proving his tyrannical tendencies when they themselves, not only support the empire that seeks to oppress the Russian people, but openly support Bandera and the Praviy Sektor!
Regarding your posts on the “Roman Catholic” church, as a lapsed member of that cesspit of hypocrisy and intolerance, I have to say what you revealed in the end just seems like the icing of the cake. Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo (famous for his “La Virgen de los Sicarios”) wrote a lengthy polemic against it called “La Puta de Babilonia” (The Whore of Babylon”), revealing in detail the Everest of stinking skeletons that this abominable institution has been piling up since its not so humble beginnings, thanks to its courting of political power. I don’t agree at all with that aggrieved Portuguese commenter who demanded an apology: to quote his own countryman, the poet Fernando Pessoa (in the form of his heteronym Caeiro), “There’s nothing more stupid than the Catholic Church”.
By the way, what’s the matter with Asia Times, publishing a direct link to an RFE/RL piece whose very title demonstrates the truth of your thesis on the absolute debasement of Western media? Just a day after publishing your superb analysis!
Saker, would it be worth your time sometime to put paid to this propaganda: http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.se/2014/02/pro-russian-network-behind-anti.html
@Nora:would it be worth your time sometime to put paid to this propaganda
LOL! No. As they say in French – the dogs bark, and the caravan passes :-)
But why did the author forget to include me in the list of despicable and nauseating pro-Russian propagandists?!
;-)
Cheers,
The Saker
Last year, after Obama gave his speech saying that, given the course of events, he in fact wouldn’t be launching missiles at Syria, he turned away and walked into a dark hallway in the White House. The cameras kept rolling as he walked away solemnly, silently, and sullenly defeated. At that moment — after Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and global public opinion had just deterred an imperialist attack — I said: “this is the beginning of the Empire’s defeat, this is a turning point in history.” Over the past two weeks, Putin has again smashed the fantasies of US primacy and openly asserted — and established — a new multi-polar reality.
We can see the traces of this resistance in the Zapatista uprising, the anti-globalization protests, the mass movements against war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2nd Intifada, the Divine Victory of 2006, and the Russian intervention in Georgia.
However, Putin’s resolve and determination around Ukraine has punctuated this point in time as a “hinge” of history, and, as such, should be appreciated and celebrated.
A beautiful post. Thanks again Saker, you are doing good work.
I was heartened and inspired by Mr. Putin’s speech for one simple reason: finally here is a leader who acts like a responsible adult and speaks to us like we are responsible adults.
Lots more I could say, but that is the important point I wanted to make.
Here’s more appreciation of President Putin for standing up to American and Israeli bullying:
The Passion of Vladimir Putin
(It includes an assertion that the Russians prevented the Americans from using the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 as an excuse to make a nuclear attack on Egypt. I wonder if that might be true.)
VS said:
…”why did the author forget to include me in the list of despicable and nauseating pro-Russian propagandists?!”
Well, US and EU also did not include everyone who deserves to be in their sanction list either, so don’t be upset.
Putin’s great military strategy (Sun Tzu):
French:
http://www.cameroonvoice.com/news/article-news-14426.html
Italian:
http://aurorasito.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/ecco-come-la-russia-ha-intrappolato-loccidente-e-recuperato-la-crimea-senza-sparare-un-solo-colpo/
A long and victorious career to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah! May Russia find the means to support his valiant efforts in the Levant!
Now we have this: http://rt.com/news/urkaine-cis-visa-demilitarized-917/
Wouldn’t it be interesting, that if as a result of dropping out of CIS, at the time of Ukraninan presidency of same, the countries comprising it chose Russia to head it due to an emergency of one kind or another.
@Christoph: Could you recommend a book or article about this for future study? I have honestly never heard about this before. (I’m ethnically Indian, and I’m not well-versed in European history.)
Regards,
Abraham
“Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not resolved any problems. Moreover, they have caused new human tragedies and created new centres of tension. Judge for yourselves: wars as well as local and regional conflicts have not diminished. Mr Teltschik mentioned this very gently. And no less people perish in these conflicts – even more are dying than before. Significantly more, significantly more!
Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force – military force – in international relations, force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts. As a result we do not have sufficient strength to find a comprehensive solution to any one of these conflicts. Finding a political settlement also becomes impossible.
We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. And independent legal norms are, as a matter of fact, coming increasingly closer to one state’s legal system. One state and, of course, first and foremost the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way. This is visible in the economic, political, cultural and educational policies it imposes on other nations. Well, who likes this? Who is happy about this?
In international relations we increasingly see the desire to resolve a given question according to so-called issues of political expediency, based on the current political climate.
And of course this is extremely dangerous. It results in the fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasise this — no one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them. Of course such a policy stimulates an arms race.
The force’s dominance inevitably encourages a number of countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, significantly new threats – though they were also well-known before – have appeared, and today threats such as terrorism have taken on a global character.
I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of global security.
And we must proceed by searching for a reasonable balance between the interests of all participants in the international dialogue. Especially since the international landscape is so varied and changes so quickly – changes in light of the dynamic development in a whole number of countries and regions.” in Putin’s Prepared Remarks at 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy
Since the Yugoslavia tragedy to Iraq tragedy, i lost all hope in the future, specially for my children, until when i hear this speech. It give be back some hope in the future.
At least, there is a leader of a great nation willing to stand for freedom and peace against slavery of all human beings by an evil empire.
Thank you The Saker. I think you sum it up. There are a lot of people awakening and Putin is growing in respect and stature day by day in the eyes of so many around the world.
The NWO are seething – the way that awful Powers woman spoke at the UNSC today says it all. She has probably never read any Russian literature as she stated “like two Russina writers Tolstoy and Chekov” (a playwright Sam – and a very good one at that)- was just so laughable – they just seem to think they can speak so disrespectfully to Russia and demonise it – but it just exposes them more and more to the world.
As the saying goes if you give people enough rope……
Rgds,
Veritas
Greetings from Singapore:
Absolutely agree with what you state.
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Glory to Russia and to all which try to find a fair, free and sustainable world.
Obama appears to have backed off the escalation ladder today. Here, on NBC Nightly News today, he says: “Look, obviously, you know…a…we do not need to trigger an actual war with Russia. The Ukranians don’t want that…Nobody wants that.”
Let’s hope he’s since and not buying time. After he speaks, you may as well turn the video off. It is pure outrage, and there’s no point in getting upset for nothing.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/washington-makes-threats-russia-gains-ground-n57241
Saker:
Greetings from Brazil!
You forgot to comment on Putin said “sack of potatoes” (how the Crimea was given to Ukraine).
Attended twice a speech in Spanish, I cried, I believe there is hope for this planet.
Brazil is part of BRICS, are a potential target but on the other hand, with half the population of the globe, we have everything to not depend of the “developed” argentários warmongers.
Here in Brazil began some revolts, Rousseff (President) put the Federal Police and the Armed Forces Reserved Service to investigate.
Also found some interesting things very similar to what happened in Ukraine, what is happening in Venezuela etc. .
You Congratulations!
Alexandre.
> Very few of these readers had any connections to Russia, even less had any Russian roots.
It’s even worse here: My ancestors, who around 1820 went from then Prussia, i.e Germany, to what’s now (still) Ukraine, had, after enjoying many freedoms under the tsars, suffered greatly after the Bolsheviks came to power, till after the end end of the 2nd “great” war. Expulsions over thousands of kilometers, Kazachstan, Siberia, Poland, Germany, and back, including the hardships and deaths that go with being locked into cattle wagons. Separation of men, who would be used to toil themselves to death in labor camps, from their families, and so forth. Of course the men later had to do military service in the USSR, even though their pacifist conviction was the very reason what made them leave Germany, for the Russian Empire, after the promises not to have to join the military – although granted, that promise was honored for more than a hundred years, and for some time into the Bolshevik rule.
My parents moved back to Germany in the mid-70s, where I was born. So no warm feelings towards Russia, obviously. But Putin’s speech in the German Bundestag a mere 2 weeks after the “defining moment of the 21st century” aka 9/11, was the first that brought Russian tears into my German eyes. Of course the speech was in German, as Putin had been a Russian spy in Germany, before the wall came down.
Consecutive German governments were stupid enough – or sufficiently “encouraged” from other interested parties – to destroy the healing wounds in the historic relations between Germany, whose aristocracy even provided one or the other tsar (a topic we aren’t taught AT ALL in German history – one wonders why… – and I was just getting aware of this fact literally today). This is one of the 2 things I’m thankful to the otherwise pathetic creature going by the name of Gerhard Schröder:
1) Refusal to participate in the Iraq war
2) Refusal to participate in the bashing of Putin
And I fully subscribe to this post of yours, Saker. The emperor is naked. And “children” all over the world were pointing it out, alright. But now another emperor, by saying it in his own words, has made it presentable to a lot of other, MSM educated people. And, not at all coincidentally, made himself subject to further Hitlerization by the West.
On this occasion, a warm thanks to the Saker, who’s analysis gives you the edge in all geo-political things “Russia”. I could immediately toss out ridiculous claims and theories in the press and other blogs, and was proven right, thanks to Saker’s insights, which he presents in a way that you can retrace them, rather than just having to accept.
Honk
Hello Saker,
You have many good articles and I agree that listening to Vlad speak is a relief because it tells us there is a sane voice in the world that opposes the New World Order.
I BEG you, Saker, please call it the NWO of anything, but NOT AngloZionism. That is too small a view, not worthy of a person like you. Thank you.
I toast to you, Saker, and all the good people who comment on this blog! May the true God bless and keep you all.
Satyameva Jayate! “Truth Alone Triumphs!” (This is the national motto of India.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyameva_Jayate
– Abraham
@Saker: Amin!
Can you imagine the waves Putin’s speech generated in Serbian hearts? Whole quarter of a century summed in one speech – after which the world will never be the same.
I could go on for a week of Sundays now as to what it means for the humanity in general, but let the time do its course. Dostoyevsky explained it the best.
When Russia returns to the delta of Danube, we will know that all of our sacrifices weren’t in vain. Historically, we were the pong that died in order to save the queen.
Long live mother Russia!!!
> I BEG you, Saker, please call it the NWO of anything, but NOT AngloZionism
I totally agree, don’t make it so plain obvious, for everyone to see, Saker ;)
Honk
@Nora
> http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.se/2014/02/pro-russian-network-behind-anti.html
Although that guy is obviously a rabid russophic zealot, his articles on the Russian far-right seem interesting nevertheless, skimming through his blog. Probably totally blown out of proportion, but I’m pretty sure the far right in Russia exists, is organized, and I’d like to know more about it. They are however – even looking at Anton’s blog – far from anything we are seeing in the Ukraine. Especially now that the most violent mobsters are commanding the most important positions of control (intererior, defense).
Honk
Saker
Not had time to sit down and read through till just now.
One word.
Круто!
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Proftel 19 March, 2014 21:40, i have the same suspicions too, because since a few months ago, here in Portugal, the media are making very negative reports about Brasil in every fields, specially about social injustice and the necessity of political reform. It is not usual, but the campaign is still raging on.
Dear Saker, you’ve become my second great addiction in the past few weeks! This is the invincible attraction of the truth.
Mr. Putin (black belt Vlad)is the first one, since the Syria crisis; I knew zionists will never forgive him for that; but their lies were met with the only weapon, that can vaporize any assault: Truth. Psychopaths know nothing about it, so they cannot counteract it, just go on repeating their inanities, looking more and more ridiculous in the world, which is suddenly waking up from the nightmare of banker’s wars and hidden dark powers.
As a true statesman, Mr. Putin will be remembered as a beacon of light in the twilight between old and new reality. For every true human being responds to the beauty of the truth; Truth has the power to transform the world, sending all the minions of Darkness and Deception into the black hole, from which they once emerged…
Good riddance!
@ Abraham; You can find on the net Douglas Reed “Controversy of Zion” as a wonderful study of the roots of present deception.
Anders
I’ve been informed that there was a demonstration in Moscow of 50,000 people against having Russia annex Crimea…has anyone heard about this? I want to hear all sides.
Liz Wahl and what really happened: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_cold_war-hungry_neocons_stage_managed_liz_wahls_resignation_20140319
Bril-li-ant , Saker!!!
Thanks from a Russian!
A small present in return for you and guests of your blog, many of whom, together with you, are, – as far as I can see – still children deep within their hearts and souls:
A group of daring Russian designers and engineers managed to portray all of Russia (basing their vision on pictures taken from the space) on just 800 square meters in St. Petersburg.
Join RT to look at the incredible model of Russia and to hear the story of its creation.
http://rt.com/shows/documentary/russia-miniature-762/
Best Regards,
shed
Despite the internet, the extent to which even (?) reasonably well educated Americans lack sophistication when it comes to world affairs (if not politics in general) is discouraging. I work (as staff, not faculty) in an academic library in a Southwest state of the United States. I have had a colleague with a PhD tell me she “couldn’t live that way” when I expressed doubts about the official account of Bin Laden’s killing. Another colleague cheered on the “rebels” when they were reported to be closing in on Gaddafi in Libya, in tones more appropriate to a sporting event. I overheard various people I work with echoing the joking points related to the Sochi Olympics. I am surrounded by reasonably well educated individuals (certainly many with academic credentials well beyond mine) who nevertheless continue to rely heavily, and sometimes primarily (or perhaps exclusively) on mainstream media for their information on current events. I honestly don’t get it.
Perhaps it is partly a regional cultural issue (affecting transplants as well as natives of this region): my co-workers at a public library back on the east coast were not like this.
Hi Saker,
I find it quite surprising that you did not mention anything about Turkey where -I believe- a similar operation to Ukraine is taking place. People who supposedly adopted western values hitting the streets under the pretext of resisting tyranny, accusing the government of corruption..etc.
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Some may see this as a bit nationalistic, but I thought I would share it nonetheless…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d62_1394995434
Something about this video brings about the same emotions as Putin’s speech and what is described in this letter….
Dear Saker,
Please keep up up the good work for years to come as you have mentioned, the starving is acute. And I also thank BOT TAK for the flurry of information and links he provides, though u have already mentioned that.
GOD bless you.
An Indian Admirer.
@I BEG you, Saker, please call it the NWO of anything, but NOT AngloZionism
Perhaps you should take Anglo out, it is subsumed to Zionism anyhow.
I suggested already to call it Comintern (International Community).
WizOz
Also I think it needs to be emphasized that one of the things that makes Americans dangerous is the fact that so many of them seem to not really the extent to which they have been and continue to be propagandized. They’re so confident in their “free press” that they don’t scrutinize it carefully, and probably end up more deluded than the publics of some countries under dictatorships, with openly controlled media.
Brian,
Thank you for your thoughtful response and I truly welcome any flaws being pointed out.
I by no means intended to imply that all things Russian are good and that America, especially in the past, has not done good and stood for the good. It just isn’t that simple!
Indeed, this is the puzzle that we are here to solve, wallowing in good and evil, being deceived, trying to tell them apart. Even the desire to tell them apart is most often lacking. For to tell them apart is to begin to choose, to restrain, to grow up and give up delusional beliefs.
I gave my treatise on good and evil in the hope that I may help to clear things up for folks; I’ve given the matter quite some thought. And also, I think it is quite wonderful to understand that the good is inherent to reality itself and is utterly unshakeable.
“God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 5)
I was inspired by Putin’s speech and hope I am not disappointed as I was in a certain other president.
That which you call incompetent good is in my (sad) opinion the general problem with mankind, i.e., they are ripe for deception because, having not yet chosen the good, they lack the wisdom and resolve to understand.
http://sputnikipogrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/140318125550_treaty_crimea_512x288_afp.jpg
Yeah. :)
An Indian Admirer.
Thanks
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Sorry to be a downer at this moment (speaking as Anonymous 00:06, that is). Putin’s speech was remarkable, and I did find it moving, though not to the extent of some who have commented here. It is definitely inspiring to find a world leader successfully resisting the axis of unipolarity in this way. Yes, I was affected by it. I forwarded a link to a friend with the subject heading “Defender of civilization” though I added in the body of the email that perhaps that was overstating it. I feel that I need to reserve just a little doubt regarding any statesman, leader of a country, etc. And yet Putin’s speech makes a clear case for the necessity of some other organized power in order to resist the power of empire. And the anarchist squatter down the street isn’t generally going to do the job.
@Saker
> the fact that I was fluent in five languages
* Russian
* French
* German
* English (kinda :P )
* ?
Honk
Anonymous from Portugal :
19 March 2014 22:30
Not only is it your impression , I see with my eyes , I have friends who found the exploit , I live near Brasilia .
Since you’re talking to me here , I think you know well the history Lusa , well, a Portuguese journalist living in Brazil started talking some stuff from here on ” Mad Money ” page here in Portugal .
I suggested to the guy that if Portugal had ” breast” turned ” State D’ Alem Mar ” from Brazil to leave the European Community !
This has happened before when Napoleon invaded the “Crown” sent from Rio de Janeiro , it never hurts to repeat the thing .
Returning to riots here in Brazil , are normal , as in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America , the media ” bankster ” is shown as if there was abnormal but this, our intelligence forces are already caring , believe me.
Another thing , do not be afraid to show your face here, just having made a comment ” anonymous ” , some ” alphabet soup ” in the USA have identified IP . Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk .
Bration there.
Alexandre .
:-)
Anonymous from Portugal :
19 March 2014 22:30
Not only is it your impression , I see with my eyes , I have friends who found the exploit , I live near Brasilia .
Since you’re talking to me here , I think you know well the history Lusa , well, a Portuguese journalist living in Brazil started talking some stuff from here on ” Mad Money ” page here in Portugal .
I suggested to the guy that if Portugal had ” breast” turned ” State D’ Alem Mar ” from Brazil to leave the European Community !
This has happened before when Napoleon invaded the “Crown” sent from Rio de Janeiro , it never hurts to repeat the thing .
Returning to riots here in Brazil , are normal , as in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America , the media ” bankster ” is shown as if there was abnormal but this, our intelligence forces are already caring , believe me.
Another thing , do not be afraid to show your face here, just having made a comment ” anonymous ” , some ” alphabet soup ” in the USA have identified IP . Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk .
Bration there.
Alexandre .
:-)
> every [sic] since my blog acquired a better visibility
I honestly hope you have an irrevocable, permant, un-drone-able visa.
Otherwise you might end up getting it revoked just as they did to Irving’s hard-earned 10 year visa, which means he’s on a 30-day (I believe) temporary visa and making the best out of it until April, before returning to the UK – for good, I assume.
Honk
Anonymous from Portugal :
19 March 2014 22:30
Not only is it your impression , I see with my eyes , I have friends who found the exploit , I live near Brasilia .
Since you’re talking to me here , I think you know well the history Lusa , well, a Portuguese journalist living in Brazil started talking some stuff from here on ” Mad Money ” page here in Portugal .
I suggested to the guy that if Portugal had ” breast” turned ” State D’ Alem Mar ” from Brazil to leave the European Community !
This has happened before when Napoleon invaded the “Crown” sent from Rio de Janeiro , it never hurts to repeat the thing .
Returning to riots here in Brazil , are normal , as in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America , the media ” bankster ” is shown as if there was abnormal but this, our intelligence forces are already caring , believe me.
Another thing , do not be afraid to show your face here, just having made a comment ” anonymous ” , some ” alphabet soup ” in the USA have identified IP . Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk .
Bration there.
Alexandre .
:-)
Anonymous from Portugal :
19 March 2014 22:30
Not only is it your impression , I see with my eyes , I have friends who found the exploit , I live near Brasilia .
Since you’re talking to me here , I think you know well the history Lusa , well, a Portuguese journalist living in Brazil started talking some stuff from here on ” Mad Money ” page here in Portugal .
I suggested to the guy that if Portugal had ” breast” turned ” State D’ Alem Mar ” from Brazil to leave the European Community !
This has happened before when Napoleon invaded the “Crown” sent from Rio de Janeiro , it never hurts to repeat the thing .
Returning to riots here in Brazil , are normal , as in Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America , the media ” bankster ” is shown as if there was abnormal but this, our intelligence forces are already caring , believe me.
Another thing , do not be afraid to show your face here, just having made a comment ” anonymous ” , some ” alphabet soup ” in the USA have identified IP . Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk .
Bration there.
Alexandre .
:-)
@Honk :Spanish :-)
> the lies need not be even capable of passing a basic common sense test
Reminds of the instances when I still watched (German public) TV, over a decade ago, and every now and then had to shake my head in disbelief, when, for example, we were told that we
> have to make sure that country X will not be able to develop and use nuclear power on its own, because it then could break out and develop nuclear weapons in a short period of time. Whereas X was repeatedly threatened by country Y and country Z, the latter countries both stockpiling nukes, one of them being the only one in the world to have actually used them on populations of mostly civilians.
When I talked to most people though, they all agreed: Y and Z are right.
Honk
Dear Saker,
thank you very much for this great analysis, a brilliant summary! Somehow, you mentioned all the experiences that I too have got through. I knew how to “read” the “Pravda”, e.g. along the line of who was mentioned and whose picture suddenly disappeared. We realized far too late the failings of Jelzin and when Putin came, we at first didn’t know what to think of him. But during the Irak war I suddenly woke up out of all the dreams of freedom and started to look for information outside the MSM. I have done that ever since and when I found your website from comments in “Die Zeit” I was really, really happy.
During the last year I saw on the German TV interesting documentaries from Russia –travel reports, apart from the daily soaps – that give a broad picture of how the normal little people live today. These are the dots – together with the pure mention of the facts – that are necessary to understand what is really going on.
The complete speech of Putin was almost simultaneously translated to German by a German website (the MSM only picked up some points in order to distort them) and I was near to tears when I read it. This was on the same level as his stunning editorial in the New York times last year, and like the USA then, our minions simply howled.
But I have a question today: Last night for the first time the Tagesschau presented the video of the Svoboda goons assaulting the TV executive. Why now? Do they understand that they have to get rid of them before their cherished pacts can be signed? Is there infighting in Kiev? Jazenjuk is very closely allied to them – does he think that he can get a clean vest, when they have gone? Does anybody of the dumbheads know how hard it is to get rid of Nazis – you know it was >Hitler himself< who destroyed the SA!
Angelika
@Anonymous 20 March, 2014 00:35
> I did find it moving, though not to the extent of some who have commented here.
I think what you are saying is that some people read into Putin’s speech much more than he actually said. And I agree that what Putin said _explicitly_ wasn’t perhaps as revolutionary as it is made out to be. However, Putin’s style is not the same as Chavez, but if you want to translate Putin’s speech into Chavezian, it would be: “The western world empire is the devil”.
True, he didn’t spell out exactly where his red lines are, and what he’d do to defend his country. But don’t forget he never spelt out that Crimea was a red line for him – correct me if I’m wrong; at a minimum, he didn’t rub it in everybody’s face – but he enforced that red line nevertheless. Same is true for Georgia. Now some may say he better spell it out, for the benefit of the geopolitically and diplomatically illiterate US government incumbents (or how is the word ‘incompetents’ spelt again?). And thus, to get back to your point, everyone would then be entitled to have dust in their eyes, as that would indeed explicate the bounds of AngloZionist power.
I don’t think that would be a good strategy however, as red lines are in general either natural, thus self-evident, or artificial, necessitating their being spelt out in order to stake claims. Think “Syrian chemical gas red line”. Completely arbitrary red line, ignoring the fact that in all likelihood it was a false-flag, at least if Obama had attacked, he would have done with the flimsiest of evidence.
It may be a good tactic to point out a red line in some cases, and often enough there are conflicting “natural” red lines that might benefit from being discussed. However, more often than not, it is very bad from a diplomatic point of view, as verbalizing red lines means setting explicit limits, ramping up the confrontation, and raising the stakes of finding compromises, as it would then mean loss of face.
Putin has so far done a great job in terms of diplomacy, and has proven, not by his speech, but by his accepting back Crimea, that he’s not going to be pushed around. And that, in addition to the power Russia embodies, is a first in decades. Truly hope-inspiring and eye-wetting.
Honk
I completely agree with what you say about this speech.
I read a german translation of it and we listened to the original in russian and at the end all i could say was… everything Putin said i could understand, i agreed with what he said and i clearly realised the massive failures of the “capitalist western system” which has it dark origins in the US and this confirmation of what i was thinking all this years before… my doubts, me criticising the system, my thoughts and understanding of something not right, my hope for something more human, social, considerate regarding people, human, societies…
I tried to express this several times before here in your blog but alas, my english is not good enough…
And here we, the world could see what can be done, a democratic vote, people who can choose, people who give their vote, offical representation of ethnic minorities and languages…
it is like the words of Arundhati Roy on the left side of your blog..
Hope has been borne to the world again.
I cannot yet fully believe in it but I wanted to thank you for deciphering and outlining this hope for us
President Putin seems to somehow become the leader for the free world
The fight against corporatocracy and extreme wealth disparities is only beginning because resource limits are clearly hit
I hope Russia will also see this aspect of our changing world and try to heal our relationship not only with each other but with the natural world.
Of course not everything can be done by a single entity but the forces are there.
I never liked the Manichean view of the world – evil is simply the conscious choice to move away from the light. As such even the worst can have a hope for redemption and a change of heart. Egoism and material affluence seem to be hardest shackles to overcome…
To hope – misty-eyed (not from dust) somewhere in the Middle Region.
BalkanIdentity
I love you Saker. Greetings from Schweden.
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Christoph 19:57 nails it.
History first repeats as tragedy and second as farce.
One can only hope so in our present dire straits.
I’m currently working on Wikipages aimed at countering the mass jingoism being prepared to commemorate the start (yes, the START) of WWI in the UK.
In the run-up to that ‘war to end war’ the British Empire ruled the planet in a manner analogous to the present Zio-US-NATO setup. The Britsh Deep State with its core ‘Society of the Elect’ and peripheral ‘helpers’ founded by Cecil Rhodes and bequeathed to Alfred Milner, embarked on a single-minded project; viz to maintain and spread that dominance. Their preoccupation was in scanning the horizon for threats, however minor, and dealing with them with a practiced, deceitful and vicious ruthlessness worthy of Machiavelli at his most Machiavellian.
Germany loomed ever larger on their radar through the 1890’s and early years of the new century, as did Tzarist Russia. Steps were taken and plans were laid, the most overt being the Triple-Entente, but with its codicils hidden from even non-Deep State Prime ministers and most of their staunchly anti-war cabinets. War with Germany was engineered by these people with steely determination and single-mindedness. Russia and Germany were to exhaust themselves; but it didn’t QUITE work out as planned and Versailles ensured that history’s first repeat (again engineered quite deliberately) would indeed be tragedy – on the grand scale.
One can only hope history’s looming second repeat will indeed be farce because almost any realistic alternative would go way beyond tragedy.
As I’ve mentioned here before – any help with this, or other related topics would be most welcome.