Some entity was responsible for drone controlling Biden for four demented years. It is entirely possible this same entity is controlling Trump's four going limp years (note he has history of reality acting and kayfabe as well as history of being bailed out of bankruptcy). Kayfabulous was the word that struck me about the parley between the p***ygrabbing president and the p***s piano playing president.
As an RN who has been well versed with Fauci's activities since 1973 when ,at a wedding I met a Best Man in the Airforce who flew helicopters out of Ft Detrick ,MD ,spraying viruses and bacteria over parts of LI, NY for " epidemiology " studies and later was told Fauci gave lectures he did the same in DC subway stations, by a Professor of Bioethics in Georgetown and Catholic University of America , to solidify with students of Bioethics his false sense notion of justifiable Science experimentation on the American citizens. i was not at all surprised to read that Trump was booed at Mara ALaga recently while laudably introducing the hideous Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, to a group of black Republicans.
The connection between WWII and this present conflict is apt, but not in the way you think. At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies took Germany and absolutely destroyed it, taking lands that were "ancient" German lands and placing them in other countries. This was done out of pure spite. The German industrial powerhouse, Danzig was encircled by Poland. The Polish government, supported by London and France, was encouraged in their persecution of ethnic Germans in these ancestral German lands. Hitler petitioned Poland to stop this treatment of Germans. They were told by the British Parliament to continue. Hitler did not hide his intentions. London either a) didn't think he'd invade, or b) didn't think his force would be that strong. Estimates vary, but the Polish government killed between 10k and 50k Germans who were technically their citizens.
Ukraine is an artificial entity formed by the Bolsheviks (in this it is similar to Poland post WWI). It housed Ukrainians as well as other ethnic groups, including Russians in the Donbas. Since 2010, Ukrainian "nationalist" militia (Banderites, who even the Nazis thought were extreme) started harassing ethnic Russians living in the Donbas. The ethnic Russians petitioned Russia for assistance (like the ethnic Germans did with Hitler). When the duly elected government of Ukraine sought allegiance with Russia over Europe and the US, the US (under the direction of Victoria Nuland) created the Maidan "revolution" and toppled the "pro-Russian" government, installing a US-puppet regime. Since then, the Banderite militias (like the Azov Battalion, which is listed by the US as a terrorist group), were regularized as part of Ukraine's armed forces. Despite the 2014 Minsk agreement, which was supposed to end the shelling of the Donbas, Ukraine continued persecution of the ethnic Russians. Putin has never been silent about his support for the Russian people. He said he'd get involved. On the other side, Ukraine has been supported by Europe and the US to continue shelling. Heck, the US under Obama gave $80 to a Ukrainian oligarch (Kolomoyski?) who gave it to the Azov Battalion.
In both wars, there was a party pushing war that was not immediately involved. Churchill admitted that the London bankers were pushing for war with Germany, so Parliament followed suit. In 2019, the RAND Corporation did a "regime change" study in Russia, arguing that Putin could be overthrown if there was war in Ukraine, coupled with an international anti-Russian media blitz, and sanctions. Regime-change through war was always the plan for the US to get rid of Putin.
This article le is food for thought. What I question is whether WWI isn't a more appropriate way to look at the current situation. It was a war that is looked back on as something unnecessary, deplorable. Europe wanted war but didn't know what would be the result
Never again, they said.
There's a lot of saber rattling these days which makes me nervous.
I think you left out the fact that back in the ‘90’s Russia was promised NATO would not expand into Ukraine. It has always seemed to me it would have been better to make Russia an ally rather than keep them as an enemy. This could have been done in part by allowing them to trade with Europe. There is very little recognition of the fact that the European Union has extremely high tariffs on nonmember countries, which is the main incentive for Eastern European countries to join it. But the cost has been the West’s demand that they adopt woke culture and the cost to Russia is a loss of trade. NATO and the European community’s policies have pushed weak Russia into a corner. It reminds me of the dog that chases a raccoon into a corner only to be killed by it.
I too disagree especially about the title "Saints" for Pope John Paul. The Poles have now recognized that as a Bishop in Poland he hid ad transferred clerical sexual abusers. They also barred Lech Walesa's name from their "Book of Remembrances" commemorating those who fought against the Communist regime i Poland , after discovering that Lech was indeed a communist agent code named "Bolek".
One of my dear friends had an uncle who was a Monsignore in Rome on the commission making the decision for Maria Goretti's canonization. When visiting his sister in PA during that time ,he expressed his anger at the clerics whose decision it was to make Maria a little virgin who fought for her virginity. The reasoning behind this was according to him they, the prelates, decided that women were becoming too promiscuous in modern society and Catholic women needed a role model. ( They missed the fact that Our Blessed Mother was the role model of perfection). Her uncle was furious that they decided to hide the fact that maria Goretti had been repeatedly abused by Alessandro for a long period of time.
Maria Goretti is truly the Saint of children and youth who are victims of sexual abuse.
I document how JP II covered up, as pope, the abuse Wieslaw Walawender reported to him when he was a seminarian in Buffalo. I think you'll find his story, along with the "jucy" facts in the attachments to the story quite interesting. See: www.gomulka.net/Walawender.pdf
Uhm, I’m going to disagree with our perceptions of perceptions by Putin on Trump. I don’t think Putin sees Trump as akin to Reagan. Putin knows and recognizes a fellow narcissist vulnerable to obsequious praise and lacking the self-discipline Putin himself has. As a consequence, Putin has learned to manipulate Trump and Trump, who praises autocrats as “strong leaders,” sees himself like them and pursues their recognition.
History’s lessons aside - for the moment - Zelensky sees that’s what’s happening *now*. So do most world leaders and national security experts. As an informed, private observer, that’s my opinion too: Trump’s character flaws will outweigh any strategic insight he might have and his coterie of obsequious advisers wand congressional enablers lack the courage to question Trump’s policy guidance.
I’m a conservative who believes and defends that old conservative adage, “character matters.” I came to believe and internalize the adage during the Clinton debacle. Now, the “conservative party” is telling me to forget our character, that only untrammeled, haughty strength leveled against adversaries real and imagined is what matters.
I want to prevent future history “past.” Setting aside Chamberlain’s example as irrelevant to this situation is a mistake. The Trump Administration wants to pacify a fascist aggressor by means of land surrender. This comes naturally for Trump for whom real estate is the most important thing and the tenants are nothing but pesky inconveniences, easily removed. Look closely, and he applies this mindset to every problem he seeks to resolve. He isn’t interested in tackling problems exceeding his simple paradigm because he can’t understand them. That’s why he can’t tackle social security reform, and failed to rescind and replace Obamacare. Trump’s instinct to trade land for peace is Chamberlain’s, except that Chamberlain’s character overall was superior to Trump’s.
Bad character, and a lack of a refined, multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving define Trump. Putin knows it, Xin knows it and they’ll leverage Trump’s shortcomings to their advantage.
But I spoke of “future history” too, the history I wish to avoid. My grandsons are coming of age. They’ll be prime recruiting targets in the next European war, the war we would’ve failed to stop now by helping eject an aggressor from a land not his.
If we want to avoid another European war in the near future, we must help the Ukrainians to stop and eject the Russian invaders NOW. It’s as simple as that, for our children and grandchildren’s sake.
I wrote not one, but three articles before Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022. What I predicted, unfortunately, came to pass. I'm going to venture that Zelensky will return wearing a nice suit.
Not that I disagree with you but, we must understand the as Allies WE gave the small independent nations to the soviets after WW2. The Russians shipped 1/3 of these nations citizens out to Siberia and all over Russia and replaced them with transplanted Russians in order to ensure soviet patronization of the nationals. Ethnic people have long memories and always resented this. Lithuanians threw out Russian language curriculum and street signs,
The Russians living in the Donbas region of Ukraine ( Poland and Lithuania ) complained to Putin especially after resentments grew post the so called Peristroika with the so called fall of communism between Gorby and Reagan.
Gorby made it clear to his people this was all a fake deal in order for Russia to enter the world trade market while the US, with the help of the CIA, Opus Dei and the Vatican were led to believe it was all wonderful.
The Soviet Union was not run by Russians. Less than 5% of Bolshevik leaders were ethnic Russians. In ancient times, they would be called "Khazars". Khazars have a long-standing hatred of the Rus, either Kievan Rus or Muscovite Rus. Stalin was a "Georgian", which was used as a euphemism for Khazar.
That was initially . My family came from Lithuania and they knew to get out when they saw what was coming with the Bolshevik Revolution. The majority were AntiChristian many Ashkenazi Jews and their descendants from the
Caucasus. They burned Bibles , destroyed statues and crucifixes and children were propagandized schools to report on their parents if they prayed or preached about Christianity. the Orthodox priests and nuns were jailed and murdered along with other Christian sects and I know for a fact that many Russian Orthodox hid Catholics from the KGB. While others joined the revolution and embraced communism. it was a mixed bag of ideologies and no one knew who to trust just as we see happening here.
Nothing much has changed. My own daughter was taught by Vaganova Russian Ballet Masters, one from the Ukraine was a Russian Jew NOT Ukrainian although he ran the Donestk Ballet in the Ukraine and was a member of the Communist Party as was Irina Kolpakova who was Ballet Mistress of the ABT in NY City who also coached my daughter and who retired with her husband in Tolstoy House in St Petersburg.
It seems (to me) that our foreign policy over the last decade can be likened to a 'roided-out MMA fighter (Trump) and a pot-smoking hippy contemplating their naval (Biden).
Our adversaries are aware of the difference in perspectives and are willing to play the 'long' game in the hopes of getting Cheech and Chong in 2029.
Then they can gear-up their expansionist agendas once more.
As usual with Zelensky, the same few questions spring to mind. How much US money has vanished into your secret bank accounts? Can't you afford a decent suit? And how much coke have you been snorting today?
One particularly cruel Catholic commentator has suggested that Zelensky's behaviour is partly the result of fried brain cells. But the health question hovers over more than one character in your article.
I have a soft spot for Neville Chamberlain. Even Winston Churchill paid him a very generous tribute after his death in 1940. I frequently drive past Highfield Park where he died. How long had his cancer being sapping his vitality and ability to cope with public affairs?
As for Dementia Joe....no wonder that any foreign leader might take liberties in 2022 if the USA was being run by some faceless cabal who would hesitate to take risks.
You have to undergo extensive medical screening before you can control a plane with only 400 passengers. How is anyone allowed to be the senior politician in even a small country unless they have been medically vetted and the results published? But there probably would be many gaps in the UK House of Lords once the gerontologists had given all of them cognition tests.
Some entity was responsible for drone controlling Biden for four demented years. It is entirely possible this same entity is controlling Trump's four going limp years (note he has history of reality acting and kayfabe as well as history of being bailed out of bankruptcy). Kayfabulous was the word that struck me about the parley between the p***ygrabbing president and the p***s piano playing president.
As an RN who has been well versed with Fauci's activities since 1973 when ,at a wedding I met a Best Man in the Airforce who flew helicopters out of Ft Detrick ,MD ,spraying viruses and bacteria over parts of LI, NY for " epidemiology " studies and later was told Fauci gave lectures he did the same in DC subway stations, by a Professor of Bioethics in Georgetown and Catholic University of America , to solidify with students of Bioethics his false sense notion of justifiable Science experimentation on the American citizens. i was not at all surprised to read that Trump was booed at Mara ALaga recently while laudably introducing the hideous Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, to a group of black Republicans.
The connection between WWII and this present conflict is apt, but not in the way you think. At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies took Germany and absolutely destroyed it, taking lands that were "ancient" German lands and placing them in other countries. This was done out of pure spite. The German industrial powerhouse, Danzig was encircled by Poland. The Polish government, supported by London and France, was encouraged in their persecution of ethnic Germans in these ancestral German lands. Hitler petitioned Poland to stop this treatment of Germans. They were told by the British Parliament to continue. Hitler did not hide his intentions. London either a) didn't think he'd invade, or b) didn't think his force would be that strong. Estimates vary, but the Polish government killed between 10k and 50k Germans who were technically their citizens.
Ukraine is an artificial entity formed by the Bolsheviks (in this it is similar to Poland post WWI). It housed Ukrainians as well as other ethnic groups, including Russians in the Donbas. Since 2010, Ukrainian "nationalist" militia (Banderites, who even the Nazis thought were extreme) started harassing ethnic Russians living in the Donbas. The ethnic Russians petitioned Russia for assistance (like the ethnic Germans did with Hitler). When the duly elected government of Ukraine sought allegiance with Russia over Europe and the US, the US (under the direction of Victoria Nuland) created the Maidan "revolution" and toppled the "pro-Russian" government, installing a US-puppet regime. Since then, the Banderite militias (like the Azov Battalion, which is listed by the US as a terrorist group), were regularized as part of Ukraine's armed forces. Despite the 2014 Minsk agreement, which was supposed to end the shelling of the Donbas, Ukraine continued persecution of the ethnic Russians. Putin has never been silent about his support for the Russian people. He said he'd get involved. On the other side, Ukraine has been supported by Europe and the US to continue shelling. Heck, the US under Obama gave $80 to a Ukrainian oligarch (Kolomoyski?) who gave it to the Azov Battalion.
In both wars, there was a party pushing war that was not immediately involved. Churchill admitted that the London bankers were pushing for war with Germany, so Parliament followed suit. In 2019, the RAND Corporation did a "regime change" study in Russia, arguing that Putin could be overthrown if there was war in Ukraine, coupled with an international anti-Russian media blitz, and sanctions. Regime-change through war was always the plan for the US to get rid of Putin.
This article le is food for thought. What I question is whether WWI isn't a more appropriate way to look at the current situation. It was a war that is looked back on as something unnecessary, deplorable. Europe wanted war but didn't know what would be the result
Never again, they said.
There's a lot of saber rattling these days which makes me nervous.
I think you're right. One could also make some comparisons with events surrounding WW I.
What about the Polish-Lithuanian empire that attempted to control Russia? And Sweden was involved in the decline of this empire as well.
I think you left out the fact that back in the ‘90’s Russia was promised NATO would not expand into Ukraine. It has always seemed to me it would have been better to make Russia an ally rather than keep them as an enemy. This could have been done in part by allowing them to trade with Europe. There is very little recognition of the fact that the European Union has extremely high tariffs on nonmember countries, which is the main incentive for Eastern European countries to join it. But the cost has been the West’s demand that they adopt woke culture and the cost to Russia is a loss of trade. NATO and the European community’s policies have pushed weak Russia into a corner. It reminds me of the dog that chases a raccoon into a corner only to be killed by it.
Excellent point!
I too disagree especially about the title "Saints" for Pope John Paul. The Poles have now recognized that as a Bishop in Poland he hid ad transferred clerical sexual abusers. They also barred Lech Walesa's name from their "Book of Remembrances" commemorating those who fought against the Communist regime i Poland , after discovering that Lech was indeed a communist agent code named "Bolek".
One of my dear friends had an uncle who was a Monsignore in Rome on the commission making the decision for Maria Goretti's canonization. When visiting his sister in PA during that time ,he expressed his anger at the clerics whose decision it was to make Maria a little virgin who fought for her virginity. The reasoning behind this was according to him they, the prelates, decided that women were becoming too promiscuous in modern society and Catholic women needed a role model. ( They missed the fact that Our Blessed Mother was the role model of perfection). Her uncle was furious that they decided to hide the fact that maria Goretti had been repeatedly abused by Alessandro for a long period of time.
Maria Goretti is truly the Saint of children and youth who are victims of sexual abuse.
Perhaps the truth hit too close to home?
I document how JP II covered up, as pope, the abuse Wieslaw Walawender reported to him when he was a seminarian in Buffalo. I think you'll find his story, along with the "jucy" facts in the attachments to the story quite interesting. See: www.gomulka.net/Walawender.pdf
Uhm, I’m going to disagree with our perceptions of perceptions by Putin on Trump. I don’t think Putin sees Trump as akin to Reagan. Putin knows and recognizes a fellow narcissist vulnerable to obsequious praise and lacking the self-discipline Putin himself has. As a consequence, Putin has learned to manipulate Trump and Trump, who praises autocrats as “strong leaders,” sees himself like them and pursues their recognition.
History’s lessons aside - for the moment - Zelensky sees that’s what’s happening *now*. So do most world leaders and national security experts. As an informed, private observer, that’s my opinion too: Trump’s character flaws will outweigh any strategic insight he might have and his coterie of obsequious advisers wand congressional enablers lack the courage to question Trump’s policy guidance.
I’m a conservative who believes and defends that old conservative adage, “character matters.” I came to believe and internalize the adage during the Clinton debacle. Now, the “conservative party” is telling me to forget our character, that only untrammeled, haughty strength leveled against adversaries real and imagined is what matters.
I want to prevent future history “past.” Setting aside Chamberlain’s example as irrelevant to this situation is a mistake. The Trump Administration wants to pacify a fascist aggressor by means of land surrender. This comes naturally for Trump for whom real estate is the most important thing and the tenants are nothing but pesky inconveniences, easily removed. Look closely, and he applies this mindset to every problem he seeks to resolve. He isn’t interested in tackling problems exceeding his simple paradigm because he can’t understand them. That’s why he can’t tackle social security reform, and failed to rescind and replace Obamacare. Trump’s instinct to trade land for peace is Chamberlain’s, except that Chamberlain’s character overall was superior to Trump’s.
Bad character, and a lack of a refined, multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving define Trump. Putin knows it, Xin knows it and they’ll leverage Trump’s shortcomings to their advantage.
But I spoke of “future history” too, the history I wish to avoid. My grandsons are coming of age. They’ll be prime recruiting targets in the next European war, the war we would’ve failed to stop now by helping eject an aggressor from a land not his.
If we want to avoid another European war in the near future, we must help the Ukrainians to stop and eject the Russian invaders NOW. It’s as simple as that, for our children and grandchildren’s sake.
I wrote not one, but three articles before Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022. What I predicted, unfortunately, came to pass. I'm going to venture that Zelensky will return wearing a nice suit.
Unlike Churchill during WWII…
TBD.
Not that I disagree with you but, we must understand the as Allies WE gave the small independent nations to the soviets after WW2. The Russians shipped 1/3 of these nations citizens out to Siberia and all over Russia and replaced them with transplanted Russians in order to ensure soviet patronization of the nationals. Ethnic people have long memories and always resented this. Lithuanians threw out Russian language curriculum and street signs,
The Russians living in the Donbas region of Ukraine ( Poland and Lithuania ) complained to Putin especially after resentments grew post the so called Peristroika with the so called fall of communism between Gorby and Reagan.
Gorby made it clear to his people this was all a fake deal in order for Russia to enter the world trade market while the US, with the help of the CIA, Opus Dei and the Vatican were led to believe it was all wonderful.
This is primarily of our own making.
Excellent points! Thanks for sharing.
The Soviet Union was not run by Russians. Less than 5% of Bolshevik leaders were ethnic Russians. In ancient times, they would be called "Khazars". Khazars have a long-standing hatred of the Rus, either Kievan Rus or Muscovite Rus. Stalin was a "Georgian", which was used as a euphemism for Khazar.
That was initially . My family came from Lithuania and they knew to get out when they saw what was coming with the Bolshevik Revolution. The majority were AntiChristian many Ashkenazi Jews and their descendants from the
Caucasus. They burned Bibles , destroyed statues and crucifixes and children were propagandized schools to report on their parents if they prayed or preached about Christianity. the Orthodox priests and nuns were jailed and murdered along with other Christian sects and I know for a fact that many Russian Orthodox hid Catholics from the KGB. While others joined the revolution and embraced communism. it was a mixed bag of ideologies and no one knew who to trust just as we see happening here.
Nothing much has changed. My own daughter was taught by Vaganova Russian Ballet Masters, one from the Ukraine was a Russian Jew NOT Ukrainian although he ran the Donestk Ballet in the Ukraine and was a member of the Communist Party as was Irina Kolpakova who was Ballet Mistress of the ABT in NY City who also coached my daughter and who retired with her husband in Tolstoy House in St Petersburg.
It seems (to me) that our foreign policy over the last decade can be likened to a 'roided-out MMA fighter (Trump) and a pot-smoking hippy contemplating their naval (Biden).
Our adversaries are aware of the difference in perspectives and are willing to play the 'long' game in the hopes of getting Cheech and Chong in 2029.
Then they can gear-up their expansionist agendas once more.
Interesting observation. I predict Zelensky will return to the White House wearing a suit.
As usual with Zelensky, the same few questions spring to mind. How much US money has vanished into your secret bank accounts? Can't you afford a decent suit? And how much coke have you been snorting today?
One particularly cruel Catholic commentator has suggested that Zelensky's behaviour is partly the result of fried brain cells. But the health question hovers over more than one character in your article.
I have a soft spot for Neville Chamberlain. Even Winston Churchill paid him a very generous tribute after his death in 1940. I frequently drive past Highfield Park where he died. How long had his cancer being sapping his vitality and ability to cope with public affairs?
https://www.highfieldpark.com/about/history
As for Dementia Joe....no wonder that any foreign leader might take liberties in 2022 if the USA was being run by some faceless cabal who would hesitate to take risks.
You have to undergo extensive medical screening before you can control a plane with only 400 passengers. How is anyone allowed to be the senior politician in even a small country unless they have been medically vetted and the results published? But there probably would be many gaps in the UK House of Lords once the gerontologists had given all of them cognition tests.
Bill,
Thanks for your insightful comment!
Msgr I forgot to tell you how important Panna Maria TX has been to me since my separation. If you have not seen the Polish History Museum, you should.
Very neat summary of a complex set of affairs.
Thanks, Martin. I could be wrong, but I predict Zelensky will return to the White House wearing a suit.
I agree with you sir.