War between Ukraine and Russia is now the Geopolitical Event of the Century. That may change in a week. For now, Dexter White and I try to go over the failure of information flow in the Age of Information.
This is a dangerous era we live in today where leaders and media are so ideologically driven they cannot accept any discussion of a conflict in any rational or two-sided manner. That leads us to very ugly potential futures.
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Opening Salvos Thrown – What Are Putin’s Next Moves in Ukraine?
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you guys made some great points. I would disagree with Dexter on one thing. I think Putin received permission from the Money guys in Russia to go ahead with his larger plan. If he can pull it off and destroy the existing monetary system set up by Davos and the US he will be a hero not only in Russia but China and most of the rest of the world. I hate to say it but we do not have many friends left.
Yes. There is a very definite divide between Dexter and I on this issue. He’s being very conservative in his analysis, as is his bent, and I appreciate him deeply for it.
It makes for very lively discussions privately, as we try and work through a lot of this stuff.
More to come, for sure. There’s a lot of things we didn’t even touch on today. Thanks for listening.
Why has Israel enshrined the Right of Return for all g’lut Jewry. Most simple answer: the nations of the world shut and bolted their doors, when Hitler together with his diabolical criminal fiends, initiated the Shoah of European Jewry.
The sages, both rabbi Akiva and Hillel, learned the mitzvah of kre’a shma through its נמשל דיוק, that which you hate, do not project this hate unto others. Judea after some 100 years of Civil War, culminated when Roman troops – our leaders actually invited the Roman Army into the walls of Jerusalem; this absolute disgrace, Judea surrendered her hard fought-for national Independence! Our own divided kingdom, those warring brothers who argued between them, who would wear the crown, both brothers had invited a Roman general, together with his Army, to resolve their dynastic dispute! Nothing could express the exhaustion, the absolute weariness of soul, that hatred without cause had obliterated the dignity of the nation of Judea.
Jews we won our Independence War, and then immediately thereafter – we made war against ourselves. This absolute disgrace has haunted Jewry for 2000+ years of horrid g’lut. Then pop up Hitler, and the world, it too abandoned all its enlightenment ideals – overnight. Scratch a European and behold an uncivilized barbarian. Two European Civil Wars have distorted and scared not only the Jewish survivors.
Europe obliterated its ‘good name’, its Moral mandate to rule the inferior dark skinned sub-humans of Africa and the Pacific. Just as my people bore the burden of our guilt throughout 2000+ years of oppression and injustice, this disgrace directly compares to China’s Century of Shame. Post Shoah, the mark of Cain, it now burns within the souls of all Europeans, all nations who – when the lives of European Jewry hung in the scales of balance – foreign leaders across the world, made the decision to close their borders to Jewish refugees who sought to flee from the Nazis death trap. This judgment effectively condemned European Jewry to the Nazi damnation of Hell.
The refusal of the Allied ‘Big Three’ to bomb the Nazi rail lines unto the death camps, that decision goes hand in glove with the pre-war passage of the 2nd British White Paper. That decree completely betrayed the tenets upon which the League of Nations originally awarded the “Palestine Mandate”. Following the successful destruction of the 2nd German empire, to the British empire. Consequently, David Ben-Gurion and other Zionist leaders understood the t’shuvah payment which Israel must pay. “Never Again ” commands: the Jewish State forever has an open door policy which extends to all Jewish refugee g’lut populations, scattered across the 4 corners of the Earth. The State of Israel must forever bear the burden of Jewish regret for the sin of Hatred without Cause among our people – our golden calf.
Children do not grasp the pain of disgrace and failure. Adults, we all possess the potential to cook our emotional mind, through the heat generated by disgrace and humiliation. The mitzvah of tefillah remembers, the memories of social behaviors among our own people – which produce the consequences of life or death, blessing or curse. Tefillah which lacks k’vanna, remembering tohor and tumah middot; the success or failure of our people to honor the brit, to breath tohor middot ideals – which both our forefathers and ourselves have dedicated them as a holy korban, most holy to HaShem. A man can not dedicate tohor middot without remembering the disgrace and humiliation of tumah social behaviors, made throughout life. Who ultimately bears responsibility for the crimes of the Shoah? We, the chosen Cohen nation alone, we bear responsibility for this horror, this disgrace. Our leaders chose, and kissed the calf of assimilation. Our leaders lead Israel back unto Egyptian slavery and bondage. We see the cause of the Shoah, every time we honestly look at ourselves in the mirror.
Amos 5:4: “Seek Me, and live” succinctly defines the revelation of the Torah @ Sinai as expressed in the First Commandment. Hab. 2:4: The righteous shall live by his faith” confirms this prophetic mussar which Amose commands. Specifically all generations of the bnai brit Cohen nation, either we do or we fail to obey the First Commandment לשמה. Hillel’s mussar “go and learn” directly applies to all generations of Israel living. The lame excuse of doing mitzvot לא לשמה leads to doing mitzvot לשמה – it fails to teach prophetic mussar. The 2000+ years of g’lut serves as the prosecutor’s main witness which condemns my People. The purpose of the תרי”ג commandments, Moshe the prophet stood the Sanhedrin courts upon the principles of Common Law. Mitzvot learn from other mitzvot like halachot function as precedents to understand the k’vanna of a specific Case\Rule Mishna. Avot teaches that Am haʼaretzim can not live modest lives. The freed slave, who bears the scares of slavery, only such a man as this, can truly walk in modesty before his fellow citizens.
The Yigdal hymn shares no portion with modesty, because Ben Maimon did not keep the Torah לשמה. The Creed of the 13 principles, that death creed, it follows the cultures and customs of religions whose people never accepted the revelation of the Torah @ Sinai\Horev. It fails to validate Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס understanding of how to correctly learn the k’vanna of the Oral Torah revelation @ Horev, commonly known as מלכות. To swear an ברכה requires שם ומלכות. This profound interpretation, which separates blessings from tehillem, defines the meaning of faith, the sanctification of Will to do mitzvot לשמה. The supporters of Ben Maimon refer to the Yigdal creed as a “prayer”. But Rabbi Yochanon objects. Tefillah requires שם ומלכות, this pre-condition, it defines the k’vanna of “prayer”. The alien notion – prayer – does not define the k’vanna of tefillah anymore than Covenant defines ברית. The latter, an oath alliance, requires making an oath לשמה. Sinai & Horev serve as the יסוד of שם ומלכות. Ben Maimon organized his code of halachah based upon Aristotelian principles of logic. He did not understand Rabbi Akiva’s פרדס explanation of Oral Torah logic. He did not understand that Moshe the prophet organized the תרי”ג mitzvot as Common Law by which he intended Israel to set up, and establish the Federal Sanhedrin Court system, within the Republic of the Written Torah Constitutional State. This mitzvah, commonly known as – to built the Beit Hamikdash.
Ben Maimon failed to understand the Moshiach dedication of the House of Aaron as the יסוד of the Moshiach anointing of the House of David. Obedience takes priority over sacrifices. Obedience applies to all generations of the brit Cohen nation. No one man can ever encapsulate the k’vanna of the mitzvah of Moshiach. Therefore the Moshiach “tarries” only because we, all generations of our people, fail to take responsibility for our lives, in our walk before HaShem to obey our King לשמה. King does not refer to some glorified monarch. King directly connects with the 13 tohor middot Oral Torah revelation, which Moshe the prophet heard @ Horev. Torah logic not dependent upon Eras or times. All generations of the bnai brit Cohen nation require Oral Torah logic to correctly interpret the Written Torah Constitution of the Republic. Israel does not require the 3rd rule of the Rambam, we have the mitzva דאורייתא known as chanukah.
The sealed masoret tradition serves as witness that Israel accepts the revelation of the Torah @ Sinai. The counterfeit claimants — never once do their holy books include the Name revealed in the First Commandment @ Sinai. Never once do their holy books recognize the moral priority, to rule the land with justice, through the establishment of Federal common law courts. Neither the new testament nor the koran understood that the T’NaCH exists as the first Common Law codification based upon the תרי”ג commandments.
Would have been a nice threesome if Alexander Mercouris had been included…an interplay about Z and VP btw Dex and Merc would have been enlightening. Alex and Alexander have been covering this well with reporting and analysis.
doing a show with alex tomorrow
This just came out yesterday and I think it is very important:
Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Salon | Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer
https://youtu.be/ppD_bhWODDc
Pay attention to Ray McGovern’s timeline… when you see it laid out like that, it appears evident that Putin (and Xi) telegraphed this invasion, but no one picked up on it.
I also didn’t know that if the Russian distant early warning system is very primitive compared to the United States, so if they believe they are under a nuclear attack, they only have minutes to respond, whereas the US has up to 30 minutes. For this reason the US just suspended ballistic missile testing.
And finally, John Mearsheimer does not seem to think Dexter’s thesis will pan out.
Other speakers include President Eisenhower’s daughter.
You are talking about Zelensky should or should not do. Zelensky means nothing, he commands no one. He is finished even as a puppte. If you mean ‘Zelensky’ in the same sense as one talks about ‘Biden’, I really don’t know what there is to negotiate. Can he agree to discuss ‘terms of surrender’, disarm, and begin rounding up the Nazis? I doubt it. I think Putin’s stated aims, demilitarize and denazify are going to be carried out.
Take a look at this report. If true, I think we can rule out Russia compromising in any way.
https://sputniknews.com/20220303/russian-intelligence-chief-says-intel-showed-ukraine-was-working-on-nukes-us-knew-about-it-1093559308.html
Thanks for that link. I think a lot of us figured there was something big going on behind the scenes that nobody was talking about. And I bet there is even more
This is probably the only point of any negotiations.
During the second round of talks in Belarus on Thursday, Moscow and Kiev agreed on mechanisms to establish routes via which to evacuate civilians from combat zones in Ukraine. “The parties have reached an understanding on the joint establishment of humanitarian corridors with a temporary ceasefire. Russia and Ukraine will soon create channels of communication and cooperation to organize these corridors,” Ukrainian presidential aide Mikhail Podolyak said.
Thanks a lot for the informative analysis.
Discovered your blog yesterday, and while I’m not able to contribute to the table, it was a needed breath of fresh air in the middle of this surronding hysteria…
Living in France and having some knowledge of history, this situation feels like a big waste when thinking of what could have been made from here to way beyond the Oural. At last during the 30 years I could feel the earth.
This kind of discussion should be the standard on medias… but instead we get what I guess I should qualify as sociopath voices in various power, putting oil on the fire, without a shred of the humility one would expect them to have.
And seeing the general public reactions… maybe it’s what we deserve.
Hard times were already on the horizon, but I’m sure worried for the time being as some morons seems to have proven capable of going past the point of no return. Can’t wait to hear more of what you couldn’t develop in this one.
In any case, the work is appreciated. A great addition to my feed, while doing catch up !
Putin.Putin. Putin.
Mr White has Putin Derangement Syndrome so bad it sounds like he’s auditioning for Whoppi’s job on The View.
I could hear no difference between Mr White and MSM. I kinda felt bad for him. Mr Luongo managed snap him out of it at the end. But still, yeesh.
I hope Russian’s don’t discover a new fossil fuel called Putin before the energy podcast.
Some serious Putin Derangement Syndrome going on with poor Dexter.
Completely agree.
Tom, I want to seed with you the possibility that the current hysteria being pushed regarding Ukraine is part of a well-planned Davos strategy to:
1. Create maximum pressure to force Putin to the negotiating table, in order to secure some type of modern-day Helsinki accord where various Davos agenda items (including switching from USD to digital SDR as reserve currency) can be progressed, in return for addressing Putin’s security concerns arising from this Davos manufactured crisis.
2. Simultaneously promote genuine fear of nuclear war amongst the general Western population (think COVID-type fear on steroids) to the extent people would be grateful for the West to reach an accord with Putin… even if the Davos agenda items inserted meant further sacrifices to personal freedoms and liberties.
This occurred to me today after listening to the latest Macro Voices podcast, where Erik Townsend unintentionally outed himself a Davos sympathiser/collaborator by going to great lengths to help a thoroughly unimpressive Pippa Malmgren structure her deep state assessment around what is currently happening in Ukraine, and where it could lead to from here.
I must tell you it concerns me that some of Dexter’s comments, promoting the real danger of nuclear war and the importance of a post-Putin Russia, are closely aligned to deep state talking points doing the rounds at present.
All for your very rich melting pot of ideas…
Yes exactly, and I think Putin is being threatened with patsydom.
“Join us at our global governance table, or we’ll ensure you are blamed for the cyberattack we are about to launch on the global financial system. We can convince the people of the world to blame anyone we like. We’d prefer to just blame “hackers”, but if you don’t co-operate, we can make it be you”
They have pulled the same trick with the Chinese and are threatening to blame them for COVID (which they needed to manufacture consent for their Great Reset digital ID systems) – “We’d prefer to just blame wet markets, but if you don’t co-operate, we can make people think it was a CCP bioweapon”
I’m concerned they intend to launch a global currency (the SDR is commonly-cited, but I remain suspicious of Diem) and stampede us all into it with some kind of emergency UBI.
At that point they will need to outlaw private crypto, which they appear to be ready to do (Biden exec order and ECB directives imminent, and Gensler in place at the SEC)?
Of course if Tom is right that the Davosians are just a bunch of tired old Eurotrash perverts shooting for the moon, this is all way beyond their capabilities and we can watch them farcically crash and burn.
Tom, I want to seed with you the possibility that the current hysteria being pushed regarding Ukraine is part of a well-planned Davos strategy to:
1. Create maximum pressure to force Putin to the negotiating table, in order to secure some type of modern-day Helsinki accord where various Davos agenda items (including switching from USD to digital SDR as reserve currency) can be progressed, in return for addressing Putin’s security concerns arising from this Davos manufactured crisis.
2. Simultaneously promote genuine fear of nuclear war amongst the general Western population (think COVID-type fear on steroids) to the extent people would be grateful for the West to reach an accord with Putin… even if the Davos agenda items inserted meant further sacrifices to personal freedoms and liberties.
This occurred to me today after listening to the latest Macro Voices podcast, where Erik Townsend unintentionally outed himself a Davos sympathiser/collaborator by going to great lengths to help a thoroughly unimpressive Pippa Malmgren structure her deep state assessment around what is currently happening in Ukraine, and where it could lead to from here.
I must tell you it concerns me that some of Dexter’s comments, promoting the real danger of nuclear war and the importance of a post-Putin Russia, are closely aligned to deep state talking points doing the rounds at present.
All for your very rich melting pot of ideas.
The West has segued seamlessly from Monty Python to Faulty Towers, and is now goose-stepping to the tune of: “Don’t mention the Russians”.
Whatever stone the Russians have over-turned, (Nuclear/chemical attack plot), it clearly has sent the West into a Chernobylesque meltdown.
Feels like the world is going to hell in a bread-basket.
This is the beginning of the end for Rainbow Globalism.The Russia sanctions will destroy their own economic system. Glad I’m alive to see this hated system in its death throes.
The one thing dexter discounts about Putin, is that he does mention in one of his speeches about the west, the abandonment of traditional values. I do not agree with this twirling mustache villain portrayal that he is being given. I see him more like Boba Fett from star wars and this is not necessarily to idolize him as a hero either. Stoic demeanor, seems reasonable to talk too(unfortunately we have hysterical people in high positions at the moment), but like boba fett, potentially terrible resolve if you cross him while being unreasonable(look into boba fett’s face while he is vanquishing an enemy, this is how conservatives fight, and they do not care about your LGBTQ nonsense). This is a government manufactured crisis.
Tom,
You really need to keep doing these as there are very few voices out there that can cut through the non-sense, and the comment section here adds a lot of nuance to the topic, so also super valuable!!!
The corporate media in the West will send a person down a hall of mirrors that is difficult to escape from. While I am sure the Russian speaking media is biased, (what media can’t be in the age of Color Revolutions, when you can’t distinguish real domestic discontent from that manufactured by Soros NGOs and Western intelligence agencies; you would be incredibly naïve to allow an open press in any country under those circumstances), it contains a lot of very important missing nuance, IMHO, that you will never see in the Western media.
For example, you see all of these headlines in the West about corporations and investors getting out of Russia… but what they don’t tell you is that many of these same entities petitioned the Russian Duma to suspend the transfer of assets out of Russia. This makes it impossible for them to leave and gives them legal protection in the West when they don’t fulfill their obligations. Furthermore, if they do close-up permanently, they will be considered legally in default and their assets will become the property of the Russian state. It sounds oppressive, until you realize these companies asked the Russian government for this protection. And all of this makes sense: if you invested in Russia for the long term, are you going to sell for a huge loss at the current fire sale prices or wait for a more normal time to sell? Thus, all of this talk about businesses and investors leaving is really a “wait and see” suspension of activities.
And here is another contorted example: The headlines in the West are filled with companies declaring that the will “suspend product shipments to Russia to support the Ukrainian people”. That apparently gets them great PR in the West… however, what the average Western reader doesn’t know is that most of the airspaces and ports are closed for commerce in both Russia and the West. So, the company products were not going through anyway. It is a bit like declaring you are going to forego electricity for environmental reasons, knowing that your utility is about to disconnect you for non-payment.
And as far as I can tell, the military situation is not being reported accurately in the West either. You see all of these headlines about the Russian military being caught off guard and in desperate straights by Ukrainian resistance… however, they are still going with the liberation strategy as far as I can tell and that is the reason for the delays. If the Russian military can’t overcome Ukrainian resistance, it is odd to see them unwilling to employ their most destructive military ordinance. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I am not seeing that at all in the Russian press.
All of the above is what I gleaned from the Russian press, so take it all with a grain of salt, as we are in a real “fog of war” situation… but as far as logic and common sense go, it does seem to comport more with reality than the “Snake Island Defenders” and the “Ghost of Kiev” stories, we are getting from Western media.
This guy sounds like an apologist for globalists. Putin has lost legitimacy? With who? What a strange conversation.
I noticed that comment too. And I think comes from the weird, cultural, progressive, echo-chamber that we are subtly and subconsciously exposed to all of the time verses actual reality. Brezhnev ran his tanks into Prague in 1968… and you never would have heard a comment like that.
That is one of the reasons I could not ever stomach listening to Barack Obama, as he used to go on and on about how humanity has moved beyond “20th century thinking” and that we have moved on to a new enlightened technocratic age where Big Government and the technocratic intellectual class can solve everything. There are people (kool-aid drinkers) who actually believe that. But what has actually changed about humanity since the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945? That we all have social media accounts and iPhones now?
I think the comment arose because there is no place in Obama’s progressive ideological world for Putin… Putin lives in a world beyond the American imagination. In the American world we have things like “Defund the Police”, MMT, Net Zero, Project Warp Speed, UBI and the elimination of standardized testing… thus there is no theory to explain or polite way to include Vladimir Putin. And no polite way to include reality for that matter. (lol)
But included Putin will be. We have already forgotten that Xi did the same thing to Hong Kong in 2018… while we all watched the Winter Olympics last month.
Putin governs 1/6 of the world’s landmass, not Luxembourg, so, I can’t imagine this won’t be “memory-holed” like Xi’s Hong Kong adventure. Give it a couple of US news cycles. IMHO
I like Dexter a lot!!! … so I am looking forward to see how Tom brings him to his senses. :)
I’d be interested to hear an analysis of the oil markets Tom. The Saudis, and in particular MBS, seem to have fallen out of love with the US. The Russians are going to block JCPOA. If anyone is bogged down in Ukraine, it seems to be the West in an Oil embargo. (The UK is now even trying to restart its fracking operations).
Coming. I’m aware of the changes happening. I’ll cover it this week
Maybe this war goes beyond the aforementioned themes, Eurasia, PanEurasia, Crimea, global geopolitical games, and the heart of the matter is energy, and that who controls the energy supplies in the great energy crunch controls the world?
It absolutely is about leveraging energy for financial independence. That’s Putin’s big goal
Hi Tom, could you please correct the link to this podcast? It points to episode 102 instead of 98.