The Reset & Ukraine: Same or Different Masters?

Davos, China, Deep State, City of London or do all roads lead to Rothschilds?

Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate have both come out this week with excellent new articles on Ukraine, a topic that’s languished on my playlists. I’ll be quoting extensively from both and asking a question I posted on Aaron’s comment thread:

What I continue to struggle with is whether the Ukraine conflict and Great Reset are at odds or coordinated? And who would those coordinators be? The US strategy of weakening Russia could be used against the US, if the purpose of a third player was to run the US out of money, ammunition and weapons, using Russia as a proxy. The vaccine mandates have also resulted in fewer US military personnel from expulsion for refusal to get the shot or from death or disability among the rest. In the same way that Churchill enabled WWII so that Germany and Russia would bleed each other dry, is there another power that wants NATO and Russia to do the same? And who? The City of London? Davos? China? The Deep State? Or do all these roads ultimately lead to Rothschilds?

Glenn is now broadcasting his System Update on Rumble weekdays at 7 EST, with the transcript available to paid subscribers. Last night’s was a fun one with Jimmy Dore, where they both identified as white supremacists to save critics the trouble, and I highly recommend it. Last week had an episode called Media Rewrites Ukraine’s Dark History, and also featured an interview with David Zweig who has gone through the Twitter dump on Covid narrative control. I’ll be giving some points from both.

Someone who’s recently addressed my question is Jeff Childers of Coffee & Covid. I’ll look at his year-end retrospective that there’s already a One World Government and then Matt Ehret’s research on Russia and China and why this conflict may be leading to a better, fairer world, not the Great Reset, as he’s responded to James Corbett who thinks they’re controlled opposition. And his recent interviews of Jessica Rose are a delight, that adds a grounded, methodical and optimistic view of our future.

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Aaron’s article is Their Blood, Our Bullets: The Cold Hard US Calculus in Ukraine. It starts:

To close out the year of its proxy war against Russia, Washington greeted a visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with lavish praise and pledges of more weaponry. A chorus of voices hailed Zelensky as the second coming of Winston Churchill. The lame-duck Congress approved an additional $45 billion in Ukraine-related spending, most of it on weapons, bringing the official US price tag for the proxy war to more than $105 billion.

A reader named Liam McCollum tweeted that the comparison was apt because Churchill conspired to enmesh the US in WWII. But Zelensky, unlike Churchill, is an actor in someone else’s play, a face card not a player. Churchill didn’t just plot to force US involvement but stated that his geopolitical aims were to weaken two competitors, Germany and Russia, by prolonging the war at their expense. Aaron shows how the pretense of winning for Ukraine has been dropped for an interminable stalemate between NATO/EU and Russia:

In Europe, The Economist estimates that around 147,000 more people (4.8% above average) would die in typical winter temperatures this year if electricity prices remain at current levels. The US response to these woes was recently captured by veteran Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. As Europe “faces a winter of heating and electricity shortages, rising prices and sagging economic growth,” Ignatius wrote, “the message from Washington will be: Stay the course.” …

Oliver North, the former Reagan administration official convicted for lying to Congress about the Iran-Contra scandal, recently explained why he believes so passionately in staying the course. The Ukraine proxy war, North told Fox News, “is very much like what Ronald Reagan did back in the 80s.” Invoking Reagan-backed “freedom fighters”—the death squads in Central America and the mujahideen (later Al Qaeda) of Afghanistan—North added: “Those people were willing, as the Ukrainian people are, to use their blood and our bullets.”

Plus, North added, the Ukraine war will send “the right message” to China over its dispute with Taiwan, where the US should be sending “the same kinds of weapons systems that we’re now providing to the Ukrainians.”

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In Glenn Greenwald’s Media Rewrites Ukraine’s Dark History, he compares what the MSM has written about the Azov Battalion and corruption in Ukraine before and after the Russian reaction. And he talks about their former coverage of Zelensky himself:

This Guardian article, in 2021, just six months or five months before Russia invaded Ukraine, and it became prohibited to say anything negative about Zelensky in the West, as the Guardian noted, “Revealed ‘Anti-Oligarch’ Ukrainian President's Offshore Connections”. They put ‘anti-oligarch’ in quotes because they were mocking the fact that Zelensky was posing as someone opposed to oligarchy and corruption when he himself, as revealed by [the Pandora] papers, had all sorts of offshore accounts.

The article read: “On the campaign trail, Zelensky pledged to clean up Ukraine’s oligarch-dominated ruling system. And he railed against politicians such as the wealthy incumbent […] who hid their assets offshore. … The leaked documents suggest he had—or has—a previously undisclosed stake in an offshore company, which he appears to have secretly transferred to a friend weeks before winning the presidential vote. Before becoming president, Zelensky declared some of his private assets. They included cars, property, and three of the co-owned offshore companies. One, Film Heritage, which he held jointly with his wife … is registered in Belize. … But the Pandora papers show further offshore assets that Zelensky appears not to have revealed. Film Heritage had a 25% stake in Davegra, a Cyprus holding company. Davegra in turn owns Maltex Multicapital Corp, a previously unknown entity registered in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. … Since entering politics, Zelensky has been dogged by claims that he is under the influence of Igor Kolomoisky, a billionaire whose TV channel screened Zelensky’s show. During the campaign, Zelensky’s opponents alleged $41 million from Kolomoisky entities found its way between 2012 and 2016 into offshore firms belonging to Zelensky and his circle, including Film heritage”.

Are you comfortable yet with $100 billion and counting that the United States is sending to Ukraine under the care of these people? 

Here is a chart prepared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about those papers. And you can see here the countries most mentioned in the Pandora papers, documents that prove how extremely wealthy people in politics hide their wealth because they don't want it to be detected. And there you see Ukraine has the lead by far as the most mentioned, as the country with the most politicians named in these papers, with 38, and Russia, who we never stop hearing about in terms of their corruption, corruption, and oligarchs, has exactly half, 19. And then there are the rest of the countries. 

After many more scathing examples of what the media used to report before their Ukraine about-face, Glenn interviews David Zweig on the Twitter file dump regarding Covid. Glenn either justifies the censorship or plays devil’s advocate by saying:

G.G.: … when you're talking about a pandemic that's killing millions of people worldwide, in this case, you could validly say that misinformation actually kills in the literal sense, not in the sense of, say, hate speeches, violence. But, you know, if you have people falsely encouraging others to not take the vaccine because this and that will happen, you could end up causing people to die who otherwise wouldn't. And, therefore, the government would say, our job number one, is to protect the health and well-being, and safety of the population. So why shouldn't we take steps to strongly encourage or even cajole Big Tech to prevent what could be fatal misinformation from circulating all over the world? 

D.Z.: Yeah. You know, obviously, it's a huge and complex question to answer. I think succinctly what my reporting shows is that although that may have been the intention, and particularly when you're dealing with sometimes complex topics like science, that to have bots, you know, through these algorithms, and to have independent contractors, or even, you know, employees at Twitter itself trying to adjudicate something like the granular details of myocarditis or that, you know, the effectiveness of masks in various trial data. There was just an absolute zero chance that they were going to get this right all the time. 

So, I'm sympathetic to the challenge, if you are in a government and you don't want all sorts of wild, crazy stuff going on online that are going to confuse people or can be dangerous. I think the argument could be made—and many people have made this argument—that blocking a lot of information, particularly information which I showed in my reporting that was from published studies, in peer-reviewed data, that when you're blocking that, that's also dangerous. So, the risk doesn't only run in one direction. 

Glenn then points out that, while the justification for censorship is often that these are ordinary citizens spouting dangerous opinions, in this case it was people who were much more highly credentialed than the Twitter censors. And David, to his credit, added:

D.Z.: … for all our talk about credentialed experts who should be able to voice their opinions, you know, there are regular citizens who may not have any credentials, but I saw them run circles around, you know, physicians and epidemiologists, and there are plenty of incredibly smart people. And to me, I don't care who the person is, I care what information they are presenting.

So while Glenn is clear about Ukraine being a ruthless and cynically cold-blooded power grab, with an intentional reversal of facts and history through a compliant media, he voices the position on Covid that misinformation can kill and censorship could be valid. David confirms the position that, essentially, the intentions of government may have been good and it’s risky to have “all sorts of wild, crazy stuff going on online that are going to confuse people or can be dangerous.” So while the means of bots and algorithms is crude, and the extent is excessive, they both see the goal as understandable. There’s no deep dark conspiracy of intentional depopulation.

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For those of us in the dissident community, there’s no question of ‘if’ but only ‘who?’ Jeff Childers of Coffee & Covid points to the Sherlock Holmes ‘dog that didn’t bark’:

What was missing was any POLITICAL DEBATE about HOW to respond to the virus. When the first lockdowns rolled in, where were all the legislators, the parliaments, the ministers, and the delegates? How could such a monumental, universal, economy-wrecking, border-mangling decision be lawfully made, world over, without ONE SINGLE GOVERNMENT VOTING ON ANYTHING?

This was done, in every country, through the mechanism of executive order:

Conveniently, every single nation out of 175 countries apparently had laws allowing unilateral executive action instantaneously bypassing every democratic safeguard.

And, bizarrely, every executive agreed with the same plan. Apparently. Or, ‘someone’ bypassed or overruled them all. It proved that our legislators, parliamentarians, delegates and ministers are merely window-dressing, when push comes to shove. They’re just actors, whether they know it or not.

Someone made a call.

Jeff lists the progress made in 2022, just in case you thought we were losing:

1. Pandemic restrictions ended this year, under public pressure, and over the bleating objections of Public Health germaphobes.

2. Americans — especially seniors — are “forgetting” to take their boosters.

3. Parents aren’t jabbing their kids in any large numbers.

4. Twitter’s little birdie flew out of its cage.

5. Our silenced heterodox doctors and scientists got huge platforms, vexing the “covid experts.”

6. Alternative media is bursting at the seams.

7. Trust in government fell below trust in carnies.

8. The conversation about social media censorship shifted from “did it happen?” to “yeah, it happened.”

9. Republicans took the House, Pelosi lost the gavel, and now fur will fly.

10. Beat cops exposed a sordid mess in the Pelosi home.

11. In a wild display of anti-science, but pro-legality, Florida convened a criminal Grand Jury to investigate covid crimes.

12. The January 6th Committee published its odious report, and nobody noticed.

13. The proxy war closed the deep-state’s crack house, Ukraine.

14. Fauci fled.

15. Florida (and other states) banned pediatric castration and cosmetic mastectomies, outlawed K-3 gay education, and started investigating perverts at “family friendly” erotic drag shows.

16. The Supreme Court defenestrated Roe v. Wade.

17. Free Florida went full red.

18. The Brunsons somehow got a hearing in the Supreme Court. It won’t remove Joe Biden, but still. If the Brunsons can do it…

19. “Christian Nationalism” arose.

20. Satanic pedophiles were exposed from Utah to Balenciaga’s runway.

21. We made major progress against election cheating, even where we lost.

22. Solid information developed about the mechanism of safe and effective jab injuries, like IgG4 tolerance.

23. Elon Musk debunked the FBI by exposing its Hunter Biden laptop scandal and coverup.

24. Russia sanctions predictably backfired.

25. The CDC was attacked from all sides, from the right and the left.

26. China’s covid-zero plan failed miserably under public pressure.

27. Last but not least, nobody regretted not getting the jabs.

While I agree with Jeff’s points on Covid, I’m less enthused about his partisan politics. Glenn and Jimmy Dore are clear that partisan politics are the problem, not the solution. As Jimmy says:

J.D.: My job is to remind people that it's not left or right. It's us against them now. And that obviously, Glenn, not to be hyperbolic, but that is the message that scares them, is that when the people on the left and the right understand that they have a common enemy and that we have actually more in common than the oligarchy wants us to realize—that's what actually threatens them, which is why they have these cultural battles on such high octane right now.

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In many of my previous episodes, which I’ll link below, I’ve looked at who stands to profit from the war in Ukraine. This includes the neocons Victoria Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan, other promoters of US hegemony and the petrodollar, the Ukrainian oligarchs like Kolomoisky, and the US ‘oiligarchs’ who wanted to punish Germany for its dalliance with Russian oil as Michael Hudson chronicles. But none of these have an obvious overlap with the Great Reset.

When I look at what hidden hand is served by prolonging the Ukraine conflict, ala Winston Churchill, Oliver North gives the clue: “the Ukraine war will send ‘the right message’ to China over its dispute with Taiwan, where the US should be sending the same kinds of weapons systems that we’re now providing to the Ukrainians.” So every bullet spent in Ukraine is one less for Taiwan. China might as well fight the US over there, in Ukraine, rather than on its home ground in Taiwan, using Russian blood, Chinese drones or other sophisticated state-of-the-art weaponry.

China has also been an early adopter of the depopulation agenda with their one-child policy (which I mistakenly call two-child in the video) and the most severe lockdowns on the planet. They’ve pioneered the social credit system and facial recognition AI surveillance. A UK website called Winter Oaks has an article called The Great Reset Phase 2: War that elaborates on each of the ways in which Ukraine and the sanctions have accelerated the Davos agenda:

1. The war between Russia and Ukraine is already causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains, exacerbating fuel shortages and inducing chronic levels of inflation.

2. The war’s economic fallout will lead to a dramatic downsizing of the global workforce.

3. The war has significantly reduced Europe’s reliance on the Russian energy sector and reinforced the centrality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ‘net zero‘ emissions which lies at the heart of the Great Reset.

4. Food shortages created by the war will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as the convergence of digital technologies with materials science and biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global scale.

5. Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) foreshadows an economic reset which will generate precisely the kind of blowback necessary for corralling large swathes of the global population into a technocratic control grid.

6. This war marks a major inflection point in the globalist aspiration for a new international rules based order anchored in Eurasia.

7. With speculation mounting over the war’s long term impact on bilateral trade flows between China and Europe, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will catapult Israel – a leading advocate of the Great Reset – to even greater international prominence.

8. It is now common knowledge that Digital IDs are a central plank in the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda and are to be streamlined across industries, supply chains and markets as a way of advancing the UN 2030 SDGs and delivering individualised and integrated services in future smart cities.

9. Europe is directly in the line of fire once a hybrid war between NATO and the Sino-Russia axis is underway.

10. The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that governments and the public sector will require a significant injection of private capital to address the financing shortfall.

They continue:

The main benefactor of economic sanctions against Russia appears to be China which can reshape the Eurasian market by encouraging member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and BRICS to bypass the SWIFT ecosystem and settle cross-border international payments in the Digital Yuan.

This is one of the links that underscores James Corbett’s contention that Russia and China are playing controlled opposition in the Ukraine phase of the Great Reset. Matt Ehret rebuts this in an interview where he says:

… the willingness to believe that every nation is controlled by a sociopathic oligarchy out to kill us is tied to a deep cultural sickness of nihilism, pessimism and the belief that humanity is intrinsically corrupt and doomed. That level of cynicism is attractive partially because it alleviates each of us from having to take responsibility for righting injustices or risking our personal security in order to intervene upon an evil self-destructive system( for how could we make something Good which is evil by its very nature?)

As I talk about in some of videos below, I share Matt’s optimism about China and Russia’s transportation corridors and trade routes, and Sergei Glazyev’s multipolar economic world. Yet I think that we can be neither naive nor nihilistic in looking at the facts, and Corbett’s are compelling. Since I made this video, Matt has come out with an article on Steve Bannon and China’s Deep State, tying together the threads of all of my named players. Matt is reading my mind! But even the Deep State and oligarchs answer to someone. So look at this as a prequel to be continued.

In the meantime, I recommend his interview of Jessica Rose because they’re so fun together. Since this led me to subscribe to Unacceptable Jessica, I’m learning so much, like that cells have their own gut biomes. Jessica makes biology understandable and interesting in layman’s terms.

The conclusion that I’m drawing from the inability to separate heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys, is they’re all playing a role in bringing about—not just a multipolar world—but a polyglot micro-economic world. We are, by necessity, learning to think for ourselves without relying on experts and authorities. And that is worth its weight in rose gold.

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Here are four previous videos on Ukraine: Is Russia a Wrench in the Reset Gears?

Is Putin a part of the Great Reset or an unintended consequence of sanctions gone awry? I take a closer look at the economic policies in Putin's St. Petersburg address: inflation protection for pensioners and families, state support for mothers, low-interest infrastructure loans, reduced expense and bureaucracy for entrepreneurs, and eco-friendly tourism with environmental restoration. He tasks regional governments with increasing self-employment and home ownership, and admonishes large business owners that a good name will mean more to their heirs than money and property.

Ukraine: the Hegemon’s Last Stand:

On Sputnik Radio's Faultlines, Jamarl Thomas asks, "Is Ukraine the Hegemon's Last Stand?" matching the title I'd already drafted. He cites that Putin has already surrounded the Donbass with 1700 Ukranian troops surrendering. His co-host Manila Chan quotes Rand Paul that the US needs to borrow from China the money to give Ukraine, and beg Saudi Arabia for the oil to give the EU. Meanwhile the Summit of the Americas is an embarrassment with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua banned and others not bothering to attend. Caitlin Johnstone supplies stats on how many years of proven oil reserves are left: 1500+ for Venezuela, 300+ for Libya, 200+ for Iran and 11 for the US--which is better than Europe with none. I end with a strategy for what we want when this house of cards falls—microcurrencies that give us control over our properties and labor, and I imagine how that could look.

The West vs. the Rest:

What I learned this week: Aaron Mate on US arming terrorists in Syria, Kanekoa on the Ukranian oligarch funding Hunter Biden, Zelensky & Azov, Moon of Alabama on Russia entering phase two, Scott Ritter on Russian strategy and false flags, Pepe Escobar interviewing Putin's economic czar, Sergey Glazyev on the new global financial system, and Vijay Prashad on "We Don't Want a Divided Planet; We Want a World Without Walls." I end with some hopeful ways in which the empire might be dismantling itself and preparing the ground for a network of small, local economies.

Escape from Azkaban: Victoria Nuland and Ukraine

Ukraine is the latest victim of the Harry Potter villain, Dolores Umbridge, back from Azkaban where she was sent for crimes against humanity (aka Muggles). She's now disguised as Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and wreaking havoc from NATO to Iraq, Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to the Iron Maidan of Ukraine. I examine false-flag dementor/sniper attacks, horcruxes as WMD's, and Voldemort as world death. I explain the relevance of the NATO agreement, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, and the Budapest Memorandum. I end with a lesson from a 1947 Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Dorothy L. Sayer, on why "whole classes and nations are hypnotized by the arts of the spell binder" because we don't know how to decipher words and use logic to resist propaganda.