Zelensky Howls at the NATO Moon

but neither are within reach

Since the US blew up the Nord Streams, I haven’t written about Ukraine or Russia, and most of my ten articles are over a year old. But sad to say, they’re still just as relevant as they were before. Things have intensified and new information has come out that confirms what we knew at the start, but nothing has changed the basic premise. The US is still forcing Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian in a battle they can’t win and are not winning. Because that was never the point.

In this episode, I’ll be updating some of the recent revelations from Scott Ritter, Aaron Mate, the NATO Vilnius Summit, and Moon of Alabama. I’ll also read the summaries of my previous ten episodes, which look at Zelensky, his sponsor Kolomoysky, Victoria Nuland, Putin, his economic advisor Sergei Glazyev, Michael Hudson on de-dollarization, and whether Ukraine and the Great Reset were coordinated by the same people, a question I still haven’t answered. These are linked individually in Substack or as a playlist on YT at the end of the video.

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Scott Ritter has put out Part One of Agent Zelensky. He talks about the oligarch Kolomoysky and the Pandora Papers that I wrote about back in April 2022 in The West vs. the Rest. But he’s also added photos, maps and multimillion dollar price tags to all of Zelensky’s worldwide estates, including one in Crimea. And he has some tantalizing details that connect Zelensky to both UK intelligence and the Vatican.

It’s a very accessible and nicely edited presentation of this history that can bring someone up to speed or just put all the details into a cohesive narrative. Someone else who’s done this in a well organized, written format is Brad, who writes Euphoric Recall, in an article called Ukraine Should Not Be Allowed to Join NATO. Brad also has an article called "A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ." It combines a lot of research into suicides and overdoses during the harsh days of lockdown with personal writing and experience that is heartbreaking. I recommend it.

And on Capitalism, Democracy and the American Empire, Part V, Robert Orwell Hand has done a masterful job of connecting ALL the dots on NATO’s encirclement of Russia and the futility of negotiation.

Capitalism, Democracy and the American Empire

​Zelensky’s Crimean mansion adds sinister overtones to Aaron Mate’s article called Shunning Diplomacy, Ukraine Plans to Take Crimea Hostage. He writes:

The prevailing disregard for Ukraine’s security needs and survival can be seen today in the unfolding counteroffensive. The West has pushed Ukraine into an assault despite a rushed training schedule, a lack of air superiority, and facing well-entrenched Russian positions. In a recent interview, Ukraine’s chief military officer, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, openly complained: “Without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all.” Zaluzhnyi also dispelled the notion, pushed avidly by US neoconservatives, that last month’s short-lived Wagner rebellion created a military opening for Ukraine. “We didn't feel that their defense got weaker somewhere or anything,” Zaluzhnyi said.

The US response is to now send more weapons systems that had previously been ruled out, namely indiscriminate cluster munitions and escalation-threatening ATACM long-range missiles. For his part, Zelensky appears desperate to appease his NATO sponsors in advance of next week’s NATO meeting in Lithuania. “Before the NATO summit we have to show results, but every kilometer costs lives,” he recently explained.

And now those “results” will apparently come by attempting to take millions of Crimeans “hostage,” as the one-time “president of peace” continues along the Western-driven path of prolonged war.

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Emmanuel Pastreich has published the Vilnius Summit Communique of NATO. It welcomes Finland and Sweden, confirms its Open Door Policy, and keeps Ukraine outside that door begging to come in. Here is the curiously worded #6:

6. Strategic competition, pervasive instability and recurrent shocks define our broader security environment.  Conflict, fragility and instability in Africa and the Middle East directly affect our security and the security of our partners.  The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values.  We remain open to constructive engagement with the PRC, including to build reciprocal transparency, with a view to safeguarding the Alliance’s security interests.  We continue to be confronted by cyber, space, hybrid and other asymmetric threats, and by the malicious use of emerging and disruptive technologies.

So Africa and the Middle East, while not NATO members, affect ‘the security of our partners.’ I think that would be Partners, Inc. And it’s only asymmetry in one direction to have all of the countries in the world aligned against Russia and China. It continues:

9. We are committed to achieving a just and lasting peace that upholds the principles of the UN Charter … this cannot be realised without Russia’s complete and unconditional withdrawal.  While we have called on Russia to engage constructively in credible negotiations with Ukraine, Russia has not shown any genuine openness to a just and lasting peace.

19. NATO does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia.  In light of its hostile policies and actions, we cannot consider Russia to be our partner. 

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For a different perspective, Moon of Alabama had an open comment thread to which ‘b’ contributed the following back in January:

The stocks of two complete armies have by now been destroyed in Ukraine. The resources for a smaller third one will be delivered in the next rounds of 'western' equipment deliveries during the next months. Russia will duly destroy Ukraine's third army just as it has destroyed the first and second one. It is doubtful that the 'West' has enough material left to provide Ukraine with a fourth one.

That then leaves only two options. Send in 'western' armies with the equipment they still have or declare victory and go home. …

The West is failing to grasp the reality that Russia believes it is winning the war in Ukraine and that it is not suffering economic or political damage at home. And, when you factor in the international arena, the war has proven to be a boon for Russia’s efforts to help create a new international financial/trade system that circumvents Washington’s control. In other words, Russia has little incentive to entertain negotiations that would require Russian concessions.

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Here is a retrospective of my episodes on Ukraine from the most recent back to the beginning of the conflict:

Connects the Seymour Hirsch bombshell story about Biden blowing up the Nord Streams with Michael Hudson's article from a year prior, "America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century." Is the bomb train in East Palestine, Ohio, connected to the bomb cyclone in No. California and the freak lightning that sparked dozens of fires in a night? I ask if there's a 3D Reset of depopulation, dispossession and destruction. And then I conclude with the movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

As the bill for the proxy war reaches $105B, Aaron Mate writes about Their Blood, Our Bullets and Glenn Greenwald shows how The Media Rewrites Ukraine's Dark History. Zelensky is presented as the second coming of Winston Churchill but they don't mean his prolonging of WWII so Russia and Germany would "bleed each other dry." I quote David Zweig on the Twitter Covid dump and Jimmy Dore on right-left politics. Jeff Childers asks if there's already One World Government. And I end with Matt Ehret on China and Russia's multipolar alternative and Jessica Rose on thinking for ourselves.

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.

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 and 1700 Ukrainian troops have surrendered. 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.

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.

I look at what Zelensky should keep, such as his campaign promise and Ukraine's international agreements, and what he should give up. I examine whether Putin has a weapon more powerful than nuclear bombs that he's already detonated—the petroruble. In particular, I delve into the intricate funding of the biological labs and their connection to people like Hunter Biden and Jeffrey Epstein. I begin with how American are learning to love being lied to, and end by asking if Zelensky has either the power or the incentive to negotiate peace. A correction to the video is that Zelensky is in Kiev "committed to pressing for peace" and renewing his plea for countries to send more weapons.

Adds new info on Ukraine from Aaron Mate, the US Peace Council, Scott Ritter and Michael Hudson. Asks whether there were diplomatic options that Russia could have pursued but didn't. Examines Putin's strategy in having $650B of Russian gold in foreign banks subject to seizing and freezing. Was it a trap so he could repudiate the petrodollar? Has the US done him a favor by bankrupting the Russian oligarchs? What does this mean for Germany and France that they'll need to buy oil and gas in the petroruble? And how much trickle-down pain will there be when petroleum-based fertilizer factories shut down? Lastly, could this be a catalyst for taking back local economies and making them productive?

In Russell Brand's interview, Yanis states that we must always support the defenders and the sovereignty of the invaded. I question who the aggressors are and if Ukraine is a pawn. Sovereignty and the right of secession are discussed, along with whether this is Russia's war or just Putin's, as Yanis claims. I examine the role of Russian oligarch money in the demise of Greece and Cyprus, and quote Yanis from my book, How to Dismantle an Empire. I end with the hope that we're not being played by all sides, comparing them to rats at a chickenfeeder.

What are the Russian terms for Ukranian peace? Could US economic sanctions on Russia backfire for the petrodollar? These are questions you won't hear discussed in either mainstream or liberal news. After I look at what Matt Taibbi & Caitlin Johnstone got right, I get the scoop on peace negotiations from Tom Ozimek of the Epoch Times, relayed through Robert Malone. Greg Palast reports on How Billionaires Picked Putin as 'Russia's Pinochet', and Pepe Escobar quotes Michael Hudson in Say Hello to Russian Gold & Chinese Petroyuan. Ends with socio-spiritual advice to enjoy the ride because we're about to enter the rapids.

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.