'Going, going, gone!' At auction the 'Collective West' bought Ukraine for around five billion Dollars in 2014, Victoria Nuland told a meeting sponsored by Exxon at the time. There was no longer any requirement to hide her involvement in that regime change operation, after the hacked telephone conversation was released which had Nuland and the American ambassador discussing who was to do what after the elected president was removed from power. The ambassador pointed out that the 'Europeans' might object, but Nuland was blunt about what Europe had to say in the matter concerning things that went on in their back-yard: 'Fuck the EU!'
On September 17, 1787, Benjamin Franklin responded to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question on what exactly was being proposed for an independent United States of America, a Republic, or a Monarchy: 'A Republic, if you can keep it', Franklin famously said. The difference at the time boiled down to the question of whether the citizens were free, with only a Constitution to limit their actions, including their actions when serving the State, or that they would be ruled by a 'Despot' in a way he or she saw fit.
A 'Despot' is not necessarily bad for a country, and one could argue that a Constitution is a 'Despot' too, 'dictating' what rules the people ought to observe. In fact, because of its rigid nature, and our inability to 'petition' the Constitution, whereas a human 'Despot' might be lenient so as to accommodate us when we lean on him or her, there will always be people complaining that a 'Constitutional Republic' is 'inhumane' because of this 'tyrannical' nature of the Constitution.
History teaches us that 'Despots' are vulnerable since they rule by the grace of acceptance. The moment they lose their grip on the people, they are at risk of losing their life as well as their riches and power. But bending to popular will so as to please most people is no guarantee that these 'happy campers' will come to the rescue if their principal is being met by an angry minority. In fact, this is why our rulers insist that they will take care of the minorities in our midst. In the end we're all a minority, right? Based on that general idea, 'outside forces' poured money into the 'Maidan Movement', stepped on the Ukrainian Constitution, and took over. Back in 1787 the term 'Democracy' was synonymous to 'Monarchy' or 'Mob Rule', as debated in ancient Greece. Franklin addressed the objections to this concept of a 'Constitutional Republic' explicitly by asking the members of the Convention to doubt their own infallibility. No such wisdom bothered Nuland, or any of the people in power backing her up.
Ten years later we're looking at the terrible mess they made, promoting 'Democracy', to be understood as 'Despotism' they could get away with. When an elected Putin, during the Munich security summit in 2007, warned his 'friends' at NATO to stop expanding in an Easterly direction, because it would lead to war, he was not bluffing. But the Nuland-clan was convinced they could use that threat against him. And that is where Ukraine came in, but since the elected president was not interested in joining them, and the Constitution said the country wouldn't join NATO, they both had to go. Putin wisely said that if they would have allowed history to run its course, Yanukovych was unlikely to win re-election anyway. But since the Nuland-clan tried in vain previously, during the 'Orange Revolution', which only brought instability, and gave Yanukovych a leg-up at the next elections, with this provision of not joining NATO in the Constitution to boot, they wanted to make it final this time.
The ultimate goal for the Nuland-clan was not Ukraine itself, but Russia. As the Rand Corporation, in charge of US foreign policy since its inception, wrote in their 'policy paper' published in 2019, where it exposed how to use Ukraine to overextend and unbalance Russia, Ukraine itself was merely a pawn in the game. A chip in a bet that couldn't go wrong. 'Going, going, gone!' And here we are. Nuland herself fled some time ago, as it became clear Russia's military strength, and cunning counter moves, had been misjudged and the whole thing was coming apart. In and of itself bad enough, with yet another war lost, but taking Russia and shredding it to pieces was not even the final objective either. That was always China from the day Obama launched his 'Pivot to China' policy.
It is extremely revealing to read the comments of those 'on the team' who keep nagging about the consequences if NATO will lose the war in Ukraine, since that would 'embolden' China to 'take' Taiwan. I'm not suggesting that those people are 'insiders', since the bulk of the people 'on the team' are nitwits bought and paid for to advertise NATO's policies, no questions asked. But the US, and most countries all around the globe, are married to a 'One China Policy', which states that Taiwan is part of China, and that differences between the two of them are an 'internal matter'. Clearly China (Beijing) is not looking favourably at 'outside interference' by the 'Usual Suspects', which are bringing weapons to Taiwan, hoping for a clash, using the island in a similar manner as NATO used Ukraine, which is cynical beyond imagination.
It is fascinating for me to see how both Russia and China are handling this threat posed by the 'Globalists', and how China managed to 'corrupt' a tycoon like Bill Gates into joining them, after his 'Microsoft' business model failed to attract sufficient traction among innovators in the US itself. Selling out to China, with its unrivalled potential of churning out more engineers than any other country by a significant margin, was actually a smart move, business wise. And China did subsequently help him to become a dominant power in the pharmaceutical sector, in the processed food sector, and in the 'Climate-business', while becoming the biggest owner of agricultural land in the US. It is not clear to me yet how all of that will work out, eventually. But nothing in our world today makes sense in a 'classic' kind of way. Wait for my closing remarks to get a feeling of how I've come to see this power struggle as something aking to a Hollywood production focussed on organised crime. China is clearly not an aggressive military power, yet. But their military potential is growing at an exponential rate, and if they are made to go to war, things do look ugly for NATO as its most likely adversary.
Now then, let me remind you how we ended up with Covid, according to Robert F. Kennedy, as he detailed in his last book. Obama outlawed 'Gain-of-Function'-research in the US because of the risks, since it is really bioweapons research, and a leak may have horrible consequences. Fauci exported the research and associated training to labs elsewhere. Ukraine, Georgia and China, among many other countries, and kept funding it, with Bill Gates right behind him. China was not an innocent bystander, although the jury is still out on what the party leadership knew, and when, as this Covid pandemic broke. The US warning NATO member states and Israel before panic struck in China, and a Bill Gates initiative to prepare for exactly such an event, made me suggest that it was likely a deliberate release of a man-made virus, ordered through Eco-Health, and produced at Wuhan, rather than a lab-leak. But will we ever know?
'Going, going, gone!' Putin proposed a change in the country's nuclear doctrine this week, reflecting 'red lines' that were not there, but which featured in comments in the Western media, including on 'X', which are about Russia hitting Ukraine with a nuke if it used long range missiles/jet powered drones to target objects deep inside Russia. The moment these changes are adopted, such strikes are to be considered as strikes launched by a nuclear powered adversary, if the country launching them is seen as a proxy of NATO. We're inching closer to nuclear war, and like Willy OAM on his vlog I do not subscribe to this concept of a difference between 'tactical' nukes and 'strategic' nukes, or 'limited nuclear warfare'.
I do struggle with this frivolous approach to warfare and 'Big Power Games' as if we need to be grateful if our lives are sold at auction at a higher price than what we paid for Ukraine. I'm presently watching a Netflix series by the name of 'The Gentlemen', where a member of the British aristocracy is dragged deeper and deeper into criminal undertakings, somewhat akin to 'Breaking Bad', but this time sold as a 'comedy'. As a Hollywood production I find it entertaining, but not in real life, thank you.