As war rages, Ukraine faces a second invasion—one of debt, privatization, and resource plunder. Under the guise of aid, global powers are seizing its land and wealth, threatening its future.
Ukraine has long had no sovereignty, other than when the CIA and State decide it is convenient.
You may recall that Zelenskii won the 2019 election on a platform of peace and reconciliation with Russia, then immediately changed his tune after he was summoned to the US Ambassador.
Elizabeth yet again stuns me with her clarity and purpose. She shares eloquently in this jam-packed article the financial slavery of a nation taking place right in front of our eyes, literally today. She brought to my attention that the word Mortgage is derived from French meaning "Death Pledge" and could not better describe the wholesale theft of the Ukrainian people's right to their own land and resources.
This article offers an alternative path to private bank debt-based funding (which has similarly enslaved most of the West under the guise of free market capitalism) by instead choosing public banking, which works beautifully, profitably (for the people) in North Dakota. We at http://WEconomy.Us have built "an economy for the rest of us" by creating a people's (regional, not crypto) digital currency, a truly FREEMARKETplace and guidance to create jobs, and invite you to inquire how it can be harnessed in your community.
Well said - None of us will see anything in the way of " Free Markets " until the current fractional reserve / Fiat money system is put to the Sword and the World is returned to either a Sound / Real Money - Gold Standard or bi-metallic Gold & Silver Standard .
I firmly believe and all evidence suggests that this in progress right now and we'll not have to wait too much longer before the US Dollar ( Federal Reserve Note ) which is circling the drain right now - ultimately gets flushed away down the sewer of pre-history .
Great article, but this isn't new. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. The game is the same - only in a different place and a different time.
As someone with ties to Ukraine and some first-hand knowledge of the war brought to Ukraine by means of 2014 coup (April 2014 was when the war ON Eastern Ukraine by Kyiv started), the only thing there was to protect in 2022 was the right of Kyiv regime to commit atrocities in Eastern Ukraine and threaten Russia, and, of course, the profits of "Biden", all to the detriment of Ukraine itself. Outside of a very small and rabid self-proclaimed nazi groups from Western Ukraine there was no appetite for any Russia-Ukraine war on either side. Too much common history, culture and family ties for that border to even matter. The war was brought by the people who wanted the riches of Eastern Ukraine (where most of resources are), but did not want the people (who mostly happened to be ethnic Russians with pro-Russia views), so they had to be expelled from their land Gaza-style by all means necessary, political, economic and military. For those people, Russia came too late to help them fight for their independence.
I lived much of my adult life in Ukraine. Of course, the average frustrated Ukrainian was not itching for war.
However, the war has been a boon to the oligarch class in Ukraine. Floods of free money for skimming and fawning MSM coverage, to boot.
So what if Ukraine goes into debt? Zelenskii isn't going to have to pay that off. So what if minerals (which are not especially rare or the rights especially valuable) sold? It won't come from Budyanov's holdings. Their kids are not press-ganged off the streets, as happened to the son of the lady who cleaned my apartment.
Nobody of influence and authority cares, nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev.
Here, I am in accord, Feral. Let's take this a step further and ask the question, Who specifically? No, I didn't think Ukraine was itching for war, but some very nasty people were. They wanted revenge on Russia. Why? Zelensky, the puppet of these nasty creatures, has said Ukraine should be Big Israel. Hmmm, what does that tell you? Yes, there are big money, big Ag, big big, big, but nothing for anyone else only the bigs. The only people who get hurt are the same, the useless eaters just trying to live and they are in the way of the Oligarch's who don't feel compelled to share this planet with inferior, unsophisticated mere humans or are they really sub-humans. who and why are good questions.
If you join all of the dots up - you should see that as the population of Israel - all
( least ways 98% of them ) - Ashkenazi / Zionist imports with no blood or familial ties to the Holy Land but all with Central / Eastern European and West Asian roots- namely - Ukraine / Moldova / Romania / Bulgaria / Eastern Germany ..etc..etc - are eventually driven into the sea and forced to flee Palestine ....that if everything should go to their plans ( seemingly unlikely with Putin's pre-eminence ) that is, or rather would have been a semi-ready made / ethnically cleansed ( of Slavs ..etc )
huge lump of Real Estate with immense natural resource wealth and the most fertile soil in the world ....just sat there ready and awaiting their arrival ....etc...etc.
NOT SO FAST ...BIBI ....NOT SO FAST ...ROTHSCHILD ... There's a new sheriff in town - ' Vlad the Impaler ' and he'll not allow you to play or win at your evil games .
Spot On - Imagine you know this but poor old Zelenski is having to scrape by on an official salary of - USD - £ 11,000,000 PER MONTH and his wife when not in London ,
Monaco or Paris is to be seen swanning around Kiev in a $ 4,000,000 - Bugatti .
Poor Love's ..!! .. String them up & soon ( Mussolini & Clara style )
Ukraine never had any sovereignty. Upon the fall of the USSR Western finance through local oligarchs took control of Ukraine just as they did to Russia. Russia was able to regain most of its sovereignty when the Putin administration took over in 2000.
Robbing Ukraine was not enough they wanted to use as a proxy to wage war against Russia, hence the 2 color revolutions, multiple agreements reneged on, etc.
By the way, the US invested $5,000 million not $65 million as mentioned in the article:
Nuland is lying. She was there herself in Kiev up to the Maidan-coup to bribe the Ukrainians with money and cakes. And even the Western media wrote that the US/CIA had invested 5-6 billion dollar in the regime-change that ousted the legitimate OSCE- monitored elected Yanokovitc.
Yes and no ....The $ 65 x Million was provided long before the Maidan Coup of 2014 with the subsequent $ 5 x Billion ( in fact vastly more ) came later and was divvyed up by ' Nuland '
( Nudelman ) an Askenazi / rabid Zionist and Russia Hater with Moldovan roots - and she for sure also planned , instigated and financed the Maidan Coup and everything that's followed - with of course immense help from the ' Usual Suspects ' . in The Beltway ,
Langley , Wall Street , City Of London , Basel and Tel Aviv ...et al
When Gonzalo Lira made the YouTube video about Nuland... I knew he was a dead man walking.... it was not enough to have him killed.. she had him tortured before
Kwame Nkrumah was deposed for writing that neocolonialism is a dangerous form of imperialism that uses debt to exploit less developed countries. He said the struggle against neocolonialism was meant to prevent the financial power of developed countries, I.e. the axis of genocide, from impoverishing less developed countries through solidarity, like that which Cuba and Venezuela maintain despite sanctions.
Dear Elizabeth, Your precedent analysis of Ukraines fate at the hands of its American friends begs the question…When do we the people of this sacred earth take back our land, resources, collective sovereign wherewithal and the means of our fundamental wellbeing? It’s time to free ourselves from the robotic rabid vultures who control & in-debt us! It’s ‘now’ time and historically potent for we the people to renew our local and regional economies ecologically. Green the means of production away from the merchants of death and greed.
The answer to your question "when ...?" is NOW. It's time for "back to the land". Move to a rural community, grow food, and build resilient land-based community. It needs a tidal-wave of people doing this. Scott McIntyre's comment above re North Dakota looks interesting too. I moved from U.K to very rural Portugal to do just this.
I'm in NY state and can remember the countryside peppered with small farms supporting a family's wholesome lifestyle. Times were good and people were independent until they started getting paid less for their milk because of corporate farms and price manipulating
Where I am, there used to be three times as many people living in this region, on the land in the 1950s. They've moved to cities. There are hundreds of abandoned 'quintas' (small-holdings, usually about 1->4 hectares). Slowly they are being bought up by Northern Europeans like myself, and foreigners are rediscovering a different lifestyle possibility.
Fortunately the rugged, rocky and hilly terrain does not lend itself to Big-Ag (unlike in the Alentejo which now has a serious water shortage). Unfortunately, Eucalyptus plantations have sprung up everywhere here for the paper industry, draining the water table. There are fairly predictable fires which lowers the price of the trees but which are still o.k for paper (toilet paper & kitchen towel).
I'm in Beiras du Nord, between Coinbra and Viseu. Actually am going to Monchique in about a month to visit the grandchildren who will be holidaying from the U.K on the Algarve coast somewhere.
Exactly so - the insidious creep of big government and the likes of all of the vultures within ' Big Ag ' ( Monsanto / Bayer / Cargill ..& gang ) have over many years attempted to eradicate ' The Small Farmer ' - exactly as they are over here in the UK and Europe . If you want to live somewhere that GMO Foods are banned as well as vast numbers of chems and pesticides - and where you can live in a far more free and democratic society than we have in the collective ' West ' - you need to - " Go East Young Man " ....Russia is the diametrical opposite to what all of our own scum bags , propagandists and liars brainwash everyone into thinking it is.
Spot On - I ( sad to say ) still am a subject of the farcical bunch of toe rags that make up the Royal ( not so - Royal ) family and our corrupt and sclerotic political system .
I agree wholeheartedly with what you've noted and have also considered moving to such as Portugal ( high on my list ) , but with an Autistic Son ( 34 ) , rather than leaving ( which I'd do like a shot ) , I feel it's only fair that we stay here and fight against what's
for sure coming - which will include our own farm - down here in Devon & Cornwall
- various of which we've been scoping out for the past couple of years .
Good Luck to you & yours in Portugal - hope it turns out to be everything you hope it'll be .
We lived in Cornwall for a decade or more before coming to Portugal; moved to St Ives in the 1990s when houses were cheap. We were there before-during-after the Eden Project got built. Inspired by this I built one in our 'garden' as a lockdown project. You can view it here on one of my two Substack channels: https://joshuabondyarnshifting.substack.com/p/yarnshifting-chapter-7
Ted - Look around you , all things being equal I think you'll find that we are already some way on in the process of removing multiple jackboots from our collective throats .
As Hemingway's charachter said when asked how he became bankrupt - " At first slowly and gradually - but then all of a sudden " . The " All of a Sudden " moment is already outside and knocking hard on the door . Watch and see .
The US has NO right to anything in Ukraine - period. She is a victim of the US Empire as are so many on this planet. We should be paying them reparations for the damage that We-the-Indefensible Nation have done to that country.
Reassembling the soviet union is a bad idea, particularly after it has become largely independent states. And our dream of corporate domination in the name of capitalism will only end in bitter disappointment for everyone who is not a billionaire
The Ukraine was a part of Russia long before the 'Soviet Union' was formed, and the actions of the Zelensky regime (banning the Russian language and Church) point clearly to one reason Russia felt it needed to help out those former Russians in Eastern Ukraine (who voted to 'secede' and were denied). I'm not so sure that allowing the East to 'go home', or at least become independent, is such a bad idea.
I do, however, totally agree with your second sentence.
I don't believe anything Russia says, nor should anyone else. They have proven to be untrustworthy and more importantly the imprison people who run against Putin and eventually kill them. Yes Ukraine is complicated. Yes this situation is heart-wrenching. But at the end of the day, if eastern Ukraine really wanted to go back to Russia why didn't they make it known and secede in normal diplomatic measures? You see the Kremlin, is looking to reacquire territories lost. And you can cloud it any way you like by implementing any fuzzy logic. But at the end of the day, Russia invaded Ukraine. And that's supersedes any conflict or squabble before this happened.
Actually, those Eastern provinces DID vote to become independent of Ukraine. They were not allowed to secede (as I previously stated). Then (of course), the 'western Ukrainians' began bombing the Russian speaking east, and banning their religion, and closing media outlets that they found 'offensive'.
Don't forget that Ukraine invaded Russia as a retaliatory measure. And the Ukrainians retaliated back by invading Russia In the Kursk direction..
The 'Kremlin' is not happy about having missiles placed a few hundred miles away from Moscow. You know, when the Soviet Union 'split up', a promise was given that NATO would not expand "one inch" to the east, so how can Russia trust anything the US or Western Europe says ? Actions speak louder than words.
So Ukraine allowed itself to be used / abused by western powers in a proxy war against their nuclear armed near super power neighbor for all the wrong reasons, then take hundreds of billions in "aid" and support, much of which was siphoned off by their leaders and now you want us to feel sorry for them because of an unfair or unbalanced deal to pay some of it back? I don't care that Ukraine has to pay back these billions at higher than normal rates or give up territory or even their sovereignty and / or dignity. They sold those rights years ago. This is a lesson in a people that failed to stop western meddling and now it is FAFO time. I do not blame Russia for any of this mess. Ask yourself what we would do if Russia decided to put military assets in Mexico or Cuba? Oh wait, we know all about Russia in Cuba let alone on the Mexican border. Grow up. Ukraine should be grateful for peace and if it takes them 20 years to break even on any deal, so be it.
I can understand why you feel and have commented as you have ....to a point .
' BUT ' if you take the blinkers off , it is all too apparent that never in a million years did any man in the street Ukrainian ( Fascist / Azov / Bandera lovers apart ) ever contemplate or agree to any fight against the Russians - but such decisions as this were never in their power . They elected Zelensky on a purely peace platform but he via his Billionaire Zionist
puppet master ( Ihor Kolomoisky ) were already bought and paid for Agents of the U.S. Hegemon , NATO , The EU , The British Empire and the collective ' Money Powers ' and the ' Corporate Mafia ' ...same old modus operandi worldwide . You are therefore condemning an entire nation who were lied to and rail-roaded into a proxy war by ' The collective West '
and now you're expecting them to pay for the ' Evil ' that we ' The West ' have visited upon them . ' IF ' you can't see or understand this then you've got a highly skewed and ill informed way of looking at things ....May be start your re-education by putting a brick through the
propaganda sat in the corner of your living room and cancelling the daily papers .
THINK ON ......!! ( If you're able ) . As George Carlin so famously and accurately stated ......
" IT's A BIG CLUB AND YOU AINT IN IT " ..neither were the General Public of Ukraine .
With a few minor glitches, this is the culmination of the original plan, Making Ukraine into "Lebensraum" (Eng. Space to Grow) - Hitler's and the Third Reich's dream of land, slaves and resources.
The Fourth Reich (EU) has even been reconstituted - right down to England and the US, who armed and encouraged German Nazism as a battering ram against the USSR, ducking behind the curtain when the end is nigh. Psychopathy has no nationality, it is woke globalism and it never sleeps.
Ukraine is in point of fact the latest part of ' The Greater Israel Project ' - run and infested by Zionists and the Khazarian Mafia ....who are after all Fascists / Marxists to their very evil core .History lays this on a plate for all with eyes to see .
Incidentally and lest I get tagged as ' Anti-Semitic ' - my family comes from one of the
original tribes of Israel with blood and familial ties to the Holy Land . I am therefore part Jewish , but as with so many other (shouted down ) Jews - we are not Zionists and hate everything about Zionism , the modern stateof Israel - Bibi and his murdering war mongering cabal .. and of course the A.I.P.A.C lobby that controls the USA .
Zionism is an evil Ideology and should be expunged - sooner the better .
Unfortunately, Simon, Zionism, is very easily extrapolated from Judaism. Atrocities, not much worse than the ones in Palestine are highly recommended to the Tribes of the Jews. One Psalm comes to mind. By the Waters of Babylon : Hear and Fear O Babylon!
Hear and Fear! Blessed are they who take your little ones and dash their brains out on the stones." No getting around it I am afraid. If you are a Jew you are by default a Zionist. Certainly Bibi assumes that and 97% of Israelis agree with him on that.
Franz - Thanks for this . Just to clarify . I have Jewish blood but my maternal grandfather married out of the faith and for love ( My grandmother - Catholic ) .
Yes - I've for sure seen what you've noted any number of times alongside
much more stomach churning stuff . There is a world of difference between
being Jewish and a Zionist . As I see it in simple terms you can be born into the Jewish faith or with Jewish blood and ancestry but as an individual you can't be born a Zionist as it's something you have to agree with or if you find it evil & disgustingon all fronts ( as I do ), then it's something you choose to reject .
Just because someone is born a ' German ' it doesn't in practice automatically mean that they are born a ' Nazi ' . This applies in countless areas .
And as regards ' Bibi ' and his blood-soaked war mongering Cabal - well frankly
he and the 97% of Israeli's ( 96% all Ashkenazi Euro - Asian Imports ) who are all of the same mind-set can collectively wind their assumptions right up their sphincters
and then some . May they all get what's coming to them & in short order .
Yep, it's all been said before - sadly it has to be forever repeated. Lord Acton basically said it in the 1800s too.
Also John Adams, early in the 1800s said ""All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arises not from deficits in the Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor and virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation, ... ".
Great! They allowed their dogs to board the trains fir the border while telling the Africans to walk. Karma at work. When some of your "wonderful broads" came to the USA, they didn't want their kids (little goats) to go to schools with black children! They should take their racist butts back to Ukraine.
Just like Congo, ever since its independence, or Bolivia, more recently, when Evo was driven out of the country; in Ukraine, It's always been about securing guarantees for the exploitation of *any and all* natural resources. Colonialism unmasked.
I didn't read it ( just heard him reveal it in a YouTube video) but Alex Krainer has said that giving western financial institutions (Blackrock and Company) "access" to the resources in *eastern Ukraine* was a precondition for the IMF bailout of the bankrupt Ukrainian economy, following the Maidan Coup in 2014. When financial collapse seemed imminent and there were two options for a bailout, the one from Russia that might have been less onerous and the one that was forced, following the coup.
By late February of 2022, both sides knew what was coming and the Ukrainians actually initiated the military assault with an all-out, but long distance artillery attack on civilian residential areas in Donetsk. As documented by neutral observers from the Organization for Security and in Europe.
Ukraine is not a democracy "fighting for its freedom and independence." Ever since February of 2014, media has been strictly pre-filtered and controlled, all opposition parties have been banned, and speaking Russian in public was immediately criminalized, to help forestall any potential resistance from the people who happen to live on top of all those mineral resources.
The whole years long Ukraine military project has been like the sharpened tip of a shovel that the western money managers have been using to poke the Russian bear, over and over again, to get what they want.
No matter how many people, on both sides, have to be sacrificed; so that Blackrock and Company's accounting ledgers finally show a healthy balance, in the black.
Ukraine has long had no sovereignty, other than when the CIA and State decide it is convenient.
You may recall that Zelenskii won the 2019 election on a platform of peace and reconciliation with Russia, then immediately changed his tune after he was summoned to the US Ambassador.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
YES .....FUNNY THAT ( or rather - standard operating procedure & not funny at all )
Elizabeth yet again stuns me with her clarity and purpose. She shares eloquently in this jam-packed article the financial slavery of a nation taking place right in front of our eyes, literally today. She brought to my attention that the word Mortgage is derived from French meaning "Death Pledge" and could not better describe the wholesale theft of the Ukrainian people's right to their own land and resources.
This article offers an alternative path to private bank debt-based funding (which has similarly enslaved most of the West under the guise of free market capitalism) by instead choosing public banking, which works beautifully, profitably (for the people) in North Dakota. We at http://WEconomy.Us have built "an economy for the rest of us" by creating a people's (regional, not crypto) digital currency, a truly FREEMARKETplace and guidance to create jobs, and invite you to inquire how it can be harnessed in your community.
Well said - None of us will see anything in the way of " Free Markets " until the current fractional reserve / Fiat money system is put to the Sword and the World is returned to either a Sound / Real Money - Gold Standard or bi-metallic Gold & Silver Standard .
I firmly believe and all evidence suggests that this in progress right now and we'll not have to wait too much longer before the US Dollar ( Federal Reserve Note ) which is circling the drain right now - ultimately gets flushed away down the sewer of pre-history .
GOOD RIDDANCE ...!!
Great article, but this isn't new. Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. The game is the same - only in a different place and a different time.
YES - Agree John Perkins " Confessions of an Economic Hit Man " ..essential homework
As someone with ties to Ukraine and some first-hand knowledge of the war brought to Ukraine by means of 2014 coup (April 2014 was when the war ON Eastern Ukraine by Kyiv started), the only thing there was to protect in 2022 was the right of Kyiv regime to commit atrocities in Eastern Ukraine and threaten Russia, and, of course, the profits of "Biden", all to the detriment of Ukraine itself. Outside of a very small and rabid self-proclaimed nazi groups from Western Ukraine there was no appetite for any Russia-Ukraine war on either side. Too much common history, culture and family ties for that border to even matter. The war was brought by the people who wanted the riches of Eastern Ukraine (where most of resources are), but did not want the people (who mostly happened to be ethnic Russians with pro-Russia views), so they had to be expelled from their land Gaza-style by all means necessary, political, economic and military. For those people, Russia came too late to help them fight for their independence.
I lived much of my adult life in Ukraine. Of course, the average frustrated Ukrainian was not itching for war.
However, the war has been a boon to the oligarch class in Ukraine. Floods of free money for skimming and fawning MSM coverage, to boot.
So what if Ukraine goes into debt? Zelenskii isn't going to have to pay that off. So what if minerals (which are not especially rare or the rights especially valuable) sold? It won't come from Budyanov's holdings. Their kids are not press-ganged off the streets, as happened to the son of the lady who cleaned my apartment.
Nobody of influence and authority cares, nobody in Washington, nobody in Brussels, nobody in Kiev.
Here, I am in accord, Feral. Let's take this a step further and ask the question, Who specifically? No, I didn't think Ukraine was itching for war, but some very nasty people were. They wanted revenge on Russia. Why? Zelensky, the puppet of these nasty creatures, has said Ukraine should be Big Israel. Hmmm, what does that tell you? Yes, there are big money, big Ag, big big, big, but nothing for anyone else only the bigs. The only people who get hurt are the same, the useless eaters just trying to live and they are in the way of the Oligarch's who don't feel compelled to share this planet with inferior, unsophisticated mere humans or are they really sub-humans. who and why are good questions.
If you join all of the dots up - you should see that as the population of Israel - all
( least ways 98% of them ) - Ashkenazi / Zionist imports with no blood or familial ties to the Holy Land but all with Central / Eastern European and West Asian roots- namely - Ukraine / Moldova / Romania / Bulgaria / Eastern Germany ..etc..etc - are eventually driven into the sea and forced to flee Palestine ....that if everything should go to their plans ( seemingly unlikely with Putin's pre-eminence ) that is, or rather would have been a semi-ready made / ethnically cleansed ( of Slavs ..etc )
huge lump of Real Estate with immense natural resource wealth and the most fertile soil in the world ....just sat there ready and awaiting their arrival ....etc...etc.
NOT SO FAST ...BIBI ....NOT SO FAST ...ROTHSCHILD ... There's a new sheriff in town - ' Vlad the Impaler ' and he'll not allow you to play or win at your evil games .
Unfortunately, you are correct 😔!!!
Spot On - Imagine you know this but poor old Zelenski is having to scrape by on an official salary of - USD - £ 11,000,000 PER MONTH and his wife when not in London ,
Monaco or Paris is to be seen swanning around Kiev in a $ 4,000,000 - Bugatti .
Poor Love's ..!! .. String them up & soon ( Mussolini & Clara style )
Isn’t the US taxpayer in a few trillion dollars in debt as well?
@richard cunningham
You are starting to catch on.
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https://youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs?si=ugvsUHm4DDRLEkEF
Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor
Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom
Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament --
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology
North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution
IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
Dear Billy or Richard - nice poem/lyrics.
Artist is Bruce Cockburn:
https://youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs?si=8xq0940qJIsZwKqK
Thank you - I was a bit slow on making the connection with the video.
Billy is the poet.
Thank you.
Quite superb , deadly accurate - and directly over the target
Operation Gladio check out The Colonel's Corner on Rumble explains it all
What ever gave you that idea .....???
The United States debts are all denominated in US dollars.
Ukraine never had any sovereignty. Upon the fall of the USSR Western finance through local oligarchs took control of Ukraine just as they did to Russia. Russia was able to regain most of its sovereignty when the Putin administration took over in 2000.
Robbing Ukraine was not enough they wanted to use as a proxy to wage war against Russia, hence the 2 color revolutions, multiple agreements reneged on, etc.
By the way, the US invested $5,000 million not $65 million as mentioned in the article:
https://www.unian.info/politics/910206-since-1991-us-has-invested-5-billion-to-promote-democracy-in-ukraine-but-they-did-not-finance-maidan-nuland.html
So far more than 1 million Ukrainians have been killed in the war and more than 2 million injured.
The best hope of Ukraine is that the vampire West be defeated and kicked out of Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Nuland is lying. She was there herself in Kiev up to the Maidan-coup to bribe the Ukrainians with money and cakes. And even the Western media wrote that the US/CIA had invested 5-6 billion dollar in the regime-change that ousted the legitimate OSCE- monitored elected Yanokovitc.
How do you know when Victoria Nuland is lying .?? . ANSWER - You see her lips moving
Yes and no ....The $ 65 x Million was provided long before the Maidan Coup of 2014 with the subsequent $ 5 x Billion ( in fact vastly more ) came later and was divvyed up by ' Nuland '
( Nudelman ) an Askenazi / rabid Zionist and Russia Hater with Moldovan roots - and she for sure also planned , instigated and financed the Maidan Coup and everything that's followed - with of course immense help from the ' Usual Suspects ' . in The Beltway ,
Langley , Wall Street , City Of London , Basel and Tel Aviv ...et al
When Gonzalo Lira made the YouTube video about Nuland... I knew he was a dead man walking.... it was not enough to have him killed.. she had him tortured before
Worth watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzR---YDDIQ&t=2688s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPocOUv6G-4
Kwame Nkrumah was deposed for writing that neocolonialism is a dangerous form of imperialism that uses debt to exploit less developed countries. He said the struggle against neocolonialism was meant to prevent the financial power of developed countries, I.e. the axis of genocide, from impoverishing less developed countries through solidarity, like that which Cuba and Venezuela maintain despite sanctions.
And needless to say ........He was exactly right ..
Dear Elizabeth, Your precedent analysis of Ukraines fate at the hands of its American friends begs the question…When do we the people of this sacred earth take back our land, resources, collective sovereign wherewithal and the means of our fundamental wellbeing? It’s time to free ourselves from the robotic rabid vultures who control & in-debt us! It’s ‘now’ time and historically potent for we the people to renew our local and regional economies ecologically. Green the means of production away from the merchants of death and greed.
Sincerely
Ted Dobson
The answer to your question "when ...?" is NOW. It's time for "back to the land". Move to a rural community, grow food, and build resilient land-based community. It needs a tidal-wave of people doing this. Scott McIntyre's comment above re North Dakota looks interesting too. I moved from U.K to very rural Portugal to do just this.
I'm in NY state and can remember the countryside peppered with small farms supporting a family's wholesome lifestyle. Times were good and people were independent until they started getting paid less for their milk because of corporate farms and price manipulating
Where I am, there used to be three times as many people living in this region, on the land in the 1950s. They've moved to cities. There are hundreds of abandoned 'quintas' (small-holdings, usually about 1->4 hectares). Slowly they are being bought up by Northern Europeans like myself, and foreigners are rediscovering a different lifestyle possibility.
Fortunately the rugged, rocky and hilly terrain does not lend itself to Big-Ag (unlike in the Alentejo which now has a serious water shortage). Unfortunately, Eucalyptus plantations have sprung up everywhere here for the paper industry, draining the water table. There are fairly predictable fires which lowers the price of the trees but which are still o.k for paper (toilet paper & kitchen towel).
Which part of Portugal are you in ....?? - Used to have 2 x Uncles ( now dead )
who both lived and farmed up in the ' Monchique ' . There were vast tracts of Eucalyptus and subsequent fires back then - 70's - 90's
I'm in Beiras du Nord, between Coinbra and Viseu. Actually am going to Monchique in about a month to visit the grandchildren who will be holidaying from the U.K on the Algarve coast somewhere.
Thanks for connecting me to your substack - your home built
' Eden Project ' is a testament to the skills you have in your hands - sadly ' DIY ' where I'm concerned = " Destroy It Yourself " ..!!
Exactly so - the insidious creep of big government and the likes of all of the vultures within ' Big Ag ' ( Monsanto / Bayer / Cargill ..& gang ) have over many years attempted to eradicate ' The Small Farmer ' - exactly as they are over here in the UK and Europe . If you want to live somewhere that GMO Foods are banned as well as vast numbers of chems and pesticides - and where you can live in a far more free and democratic society than we have in the collective ' West ' - you need to - " Go East Young Man " ....Russia is the diametrical opposite to what all of our own scum bags , propagandists and liars brainwash everyone into thinking it is.
Spot On - I ( sad to say ) still am a subject of the farcical bunch of toe rags that make up the Royal ( not so - Royal ) family and our corrupt and sclerotic political system .
I agree wholeheartedly with what you've noted and have also considered moving to such as Portugal ( high on my list ) , but with an Autistic Son ( 34 ) , rather than leaving ( which I'd do like a shot ) , I feel it's only fair that we stay here and fight against what's
for sure coming - which will include our own farm - down here in Devon & Cornwall
- various of which we've been scoping out for the past couple of years .
Good Luck to you & yours in Portugal - hope it turns out to be everything you hope it'll be .
We lived in Cornwall for a decade or more before coming to Portugal; moved to St Ives in the 1990s when houses were cheap. We were there before-during-after the Eden Project got built. Inspired by this I built one in our 'garden' as a lockdown project. You can view it here on one of my two Substack channels: https://joshuabondyarnshifting.substack.com/p/yarnshifting-chapter-7
Ted - Look around you , all things being equal I think you'll find that we are already some way on in the process of removing multiple jackboots from our collective throats .
As Hemingway's charachter said when asked how he became bankrupt - " At first slowly and gradually - but then all of a sudden " . The " All of a Sudden " moment is already outside and knocking hard on the door . Watch and see .
The US has NO right to anything in Ukraine - period. She is a victim of the US Empire as are so many on this planet. We should be paying them reparations for the damage that We-the-Indefensible Nation have done to that country.
Reassembling the soviet union is a bad idea, particularly after it has become largely independent states. And our dream of corporate domination in the name of capitalism will only end in bitter disappointment for everyone who is not a billionaire
The Ukraine was a part of Russia long before the 'Soviet Union' was formed, and the actions of the Zelensky regime (banning the Russian language and Church) point clearly to one reason Russia felt it needed to help out those former Russians in Eastern Ukraine (who voted to 'secede' and were denied). I'm not so sure that allowing the East to 'go home', or at least become independent, is such a bad idea.
I do, however, totally agree with your second sentence.
I don't believe anything Russia says, nor should anyone else. They have proven to be untrustworthy and more importantly the imprison people who run against Putin and eventually kill them. Yes Ukraine is complicated. Yes this situation is heart-wrenching. But at the end of the day, if eastern Ukraine really wanted to go back to Russia why didn't they make it known and secede in normal diplomatic measures? You see the Kremlin, is looking to reacquire territories lost. And you can cloud it any way you like by implementing any fuzzy logic. But at the end of the day, Russia invaded Ukraine. And that's supersedes any conflict or squabble before this happened.
Actually, those Eastern provinces DID vote to become independent of Ukraine. They were not allowed to secede (as I previously stated). Then (of course), the 'western Ukrainians' began bombing the Russian speaking east, and banning their religion, and closing media outlets that they found 'offensive'.
Don't forget that Ukraine invaded Russia as a retaliatory measure. And the Ukrainians retaliated back by invading Russia In the Kursk direction..
The 'Kremlin' is not happy about having missiles placed a few hundred miles away from Moscow. You know, when the Soviet Union 'split up', a promise was given that NATO would not expand "one inch" to the east, so how can Russia trust anything the US or Western Europe says ? Actions speak louder than words.
Agree .
So Ukraine allowed itself to be used / abused by western powers in a proxy war against their nuclear armed near super power neighbor for all the wrong reasons, then take hundreds of billions in "aid" and support, much of which was siphoned off by their leaders and now you want us to feel sorry for them because of an unfair or unbalanced deal to pay some of it back? I don't care that Ukraine has to pay back these billions at higher than normal rates or give up territory or even their sovereignty and / or dignity. They sold those rights years ago. This is a lesson in a people that failed to stop western meddling and now it is FAFO time. I do not blame Russia for any of this mess. Ask yourself what we would do if Russia decided to put military assets in Mexico or Cuba? Oh wait, we know all about Russia in Cuba let alone on the Mexican border. Grow up. Ukraine should be grateful for peace and if it takes them 20 years to break even on any deal, so be it.
I can understand why you feel and have commented as you have ....to a point .
' BUT ' if you take the blinkers off , it is all too apparent that never in a million years did any man in the street Ukrainian ( Fascist / Azov / Bandera lovers apart ) ever contemplate or agree to any fight against the Russians - but such decisions as this were never in their power . They elected Zelensky on a purely peace platform but he via his Billionaire Zionist
puppet master ( Ihor Kolomoisky ) were already bought and paid for Agents of the U.S. Hegemon , NATO , The EU , The British Empire and the collective ' Money Powers ' and the ' Corporate Mafia ' ...same old modus operandi worldwide . You are therefore condemning an entire nation who were lied to and rail-roaded into a proxy war by ' The collective West '
and now you're expecting them to pay for the ' Evil ' that we ' The West ' have visited upon them . ' IF ' you can't see or understand this then you've got a highly skewed and ill informed way of looking at things ....May be start your re-education by putting a brick through the
propaganda sat in the corner of your living room and cancelling the daily papers .
THINK ON ......!! ( If you're able ) . As George Carlin so famously and accurately stated ......
" IT's A BIG CLUB AND YOU AINT IN IT " ..neither were the General Public of Ukraine .
Brilliant analysis, Elizabeth!
With a few minor glitches, this is the culmination of the original plan, Making Ukraine into "Lebensraum" (Eng. Space to Grow) - Hitler's and the Third Reich's dream of land, slaves and resources.
The Fourth Reich (EU) has even been reconstituted - right down to England and the US, who armed and encouraged German Nazism as a battering ram against the USSR, ducking behind the curtain when the end is nigh. Psychopathy has no nationality, it is woke globalism and it never sleeps.
Exactly so - Nail's it .
Ukraine is in point of fact the latest part of ' The Greater Israel Project ' - run and infested by Zionists and the Khazarian Mafia ....who are after all Fascists / Marxists to their very evil core .History lays this on a plate for all with eyes to see .
Incidentally and lest I get tagged as ' Anti-Semitic ' - my family comes from one of the
original tribes of Israel with blood and familial ties to the Holy Land . I am therefore part Jewish , but as with so many other (shouted down ) Jews - we are not Zionists and hate everything about Zionism , the modern stateof Israel - Bibi and his murdering war mongering cabal .. and of course the A.I.P.A.C lobby that controls the USA .
Zionism is an evil Ideology and should be expunged - sooner the better .
Unfortunately, Simon, Zionism, is very easily extrapolated from Judaism. Atrocities, not much worse than the ones in Palestine are highly recommended to the Tribes of the Jews. One Psalm comes to mind. By the Waters of Babylon : Hear and Fear O Babylon!
Hear and Fear! Blessed are they who take your little ones and dash their brains out on the stones." No getting around it I am afraid. If you are a Jew you are by default a Zionist. Certainly Bibi assumes that and 97% of Israelis agree with him on that.
Franz - Thanks for this . Just to clarify . I have Jewish blood but my maternal grandfather married out of the faith and for love ( My grandmother - Catholic ) .
Yes - I've for sure seen what you've noted any number of times alongside
much more stomach churning stuff . There is a world of difference between
being Jewish and a Zionist . As I see it in simple terms you can be born into the Jewish faith or with Jewish blood and ancestry but as an individual you can't be born a Zionist as it's something you have to agree with or if you find it evil & disgustingon all fronts ( as I do ), then it's something you choose to reject .
Just because someone is born a ' German ' it doesn't in practice automatically mean that they are born a ' Nazi ' . This applies in countless areas .
And as regards ' Bibi ' and his blood-soaked war mongering Cabal - well frankly
he and the 97% of Israeli's ( 96% all Ashkenazi Euro - Asian Imports ) who are all of the same mind-set can collectively wind their assumptions right up their sphincters
and then some . May they all get what's coming to them & in short order .
Time to reread Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
Yep, it's all been said before - sadly it has to be forever repeated. Lord Acton basically said it in the 1800s too.
Also John Adams, early in the 1800s said ""All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arises not from deficits in the Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor and virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation, ... ".
Great! They allowed their dogs to board the trains fir the border while telling the Africans to walk. Karma at work. When some of your "wonderful broads" came to the USA, they didn't want their kids (little goats) to go to schools with black children! They should take their racist butts back to Ukraine.
Just like Congo, ever since its independence, or Bolivia, more recently, when Evo was driven out of the country; in Ukraine, It's always been about securing guarantees for the exploitation of *any and all* natural resources. Colonialism unmasked.
I didn't read it ( just heard him reveal it in a YouTube video) but Alex Krainer has said that giving western financial institutions (Blackrock and Company) "access" to the resources in *eastern Ukraine* was a precondition for the IMF bailout of the bankrupt Ukrainian economy, following the Maidan Coup in 2014. When financial collapse seemed imminent and there were two options for a bailout, the one from Russia that might have been less onerous and the one that was forced, following the coup.
By late February of 2022, both sides knew what was coming and the Ukrainians actually initiated the military assault with an all-out, but long distance artillery attack on civilian residential areas in Donetsk. As documented by neutral observers from the Organization for Security and in Europe.
Ukraine is not a democracy "fighting for its freedom and independence." Ever since February of 2014, media has been strictly pre-filtered and controlled, all opposition parties have been banned, and speaking Russian in public was immediately criminalized, to help forestall any potential resistance from the people who happen to live on top of all those mineral resources.
The whole years long Ukraine military project has been like the sharpened tip of a shovel that the western money managers have been using to poke the Russian bear, over and over again, to get what they want.
No matter how many people, on both sides, have to be sacrificed; so that Blackrock and Company's accounting ledgers finally show a healthy balance, in the black.
Alex is as ever - right over the target