Vladimir Putin has become the pivotal figure of the 21st century. Of that there is no doubt. The size and breadth of the ground operation in Ukraine, despite some mistakes, has been impressive.
Before I go any farther I want to make sure that we’re clear. While the situation seems to be moving decidedly in Russia’s favor, I am willing to remain reasonably skeptical of all the reports I’ve seen so far.
The slowdown in the information flow over the past few days has been as impressive as the stated gains of the Russian military in Ukraine over that same timeframe.
Since what I’ve been seeing is repetition and amplification of the same maps and sources, nothing should be taken for granted about the outcomes in Ukraine for Putin and Russia. That said, let’s not get carried away in thinking the Ukrainian army is putting up much of a fight here, because they are not.
Bill Roggio’s article from the Times of London somehow made it through the media blackout on nearly all things moderately Russia-positive and lays things out for the normies in the audience.
Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstanding of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims from amateur psychoanalysts that Putin has lost his mind.
A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient.
The world has underestimated Putin before and those mistakes have led, in part, to this tragedy in Ukraine.
What’s obvious to me is that Putin put in motion a plan far more ambitious than was originally expected by the West. Their hysterical overreaction to this decapitation of Ukraine is my barometer on this. Because of this hysteria there are now all manner of questions as to why Putin did this and why, in effect, he allowed the West to respond to this war this way. Thus generating some quite fanciful theories.
These rabbit holes are getting dug nearly as quickly as Russia’s armed forces have taken the northern coast of the Black Sea.
And I feel like all of them have a nugget of truth.
But they all lead to the same fundamental conclusion, in my mind. This has become a race between two radically different versions of The Davos Crowd’s plans for a Great Reset.
And what happens in Ukraine over the next few days/weeks will determine which path to the future we wind up on.
More Questions Than Answers
One of the big questions out there is the following: Why would Putin launch such a massive campaign if he knew the response would be so strong from the West?
Is it because he’s really a secret WEF stooge who is accelerating their plans for them by sacrificing Ukraine on the altar of their Brave New World?
In short, no. This is clearly a theory akin to the whole Q-tard, 4-d chess crowd who lap up CIA/MI6 disinformation to feed their growing solipsistic fugues. It’s just dumb. Davos et.al. are openly honest in their hatred of him. He’s stood athwart their plans for more than two decades now. There are factions who hated him less before troops crossed into Ukraine, now all of them have their marching orders.
Putin must be destroyed and MIlosevic’d.
The better way to frame that question would be to make the argument that Putin was their unwitting dupe here; goaded into a war he didn’t want, to give them the excuse to continue the Great Reset by pivoting off the failure of COVID-19 and onto him.
They could then manipulate market disruptions to their preferred ends.
This is where people like Martin Armstrong have landed this week. And I don’t begrudge anyone that conclusion. It’s at least closer to the truth, in my read. I believe they’ve gotten Davos’ motivation correct, but I do not think they have Putin’s correct.
Because it implies Putin did not game plan this out. That, I think, is also wrong, even Bill Roggio begrudgingly admits this.
In fact, I would think Davos going financial DEFCON 1 would have been #1 on his list of potential reactions from his adversaries because that’s the way they have reacted in the past to major challenges to their plans, c.f. The Election of Trump and Brexit.
It would be dumb of you to think Putin so thick.
Do you really think he wasn’t paying attention over the past six years? That he slept through the clear operation to take out Trump through election fraud and societal upheaval in the US in 2020?
The four years of libs lighting their hair on fire over every word that came out of his mouth?
The sham impeachment process of 2019 over a phone call with Ukraine?
Of course not. Putin and his staff are completely dialed in because the survival of their country demands it. They know better than the people making up these theories who exactly they are dealing with.
And for that reason the scenario that makes the most sense to me here is what I’ve been suggesting in my last few posts (here, here and here).
Who Cauldron is it, Anyway?
Putin is upping the operational tempo on the neolibs of The Davos Crowd in Europe and the White House and their neocon useful idiots in the US/UK foreign policy circles, Congress and intelligence services to create the ultimate geopolitical Russian cauldron for their avarice.
Ukraine represents everyone’s existential threat.
If the neocons lose, they are done as an influence within foreign policy circles in the West forever because they will have failed to penetrate Fortress Russia.
If Davos loses, their grand plans for global domination become diminished to, at best, the European Union and some parts of the Commonwealth.
If Russia loses, the entire Global South, as Pepe Escobar calls it, fails to escape the fiat, debt-based slavery of the Western central banking cartel, because they will control the flow of Russian natural resources in such a way that they will not be stopped. More on this later.
If you are wondering why everything about this war feels weird or off, it’s because the stakes are so high for everyone. These are the stakes for the world. And because of that you had to expect the quality of information surrounding it has literally dropped to the international price of Russian sovereign debt, i.e. zero.
Do not let Putin’s focus on finishing off Ukraine militarily blind you to thinking this is his true end goal. This is, as I said the other day, an opening salvo.
We’ve already seen that there is no appetite within NATO, which means both the US military and EU politicians, to go into a direct fight with Russia. That means there is no appetite for nuclear war. That doesn’t mean nuclear war is a zero-probability event.
It means there is no current appetite for it.
And the reason for that is the belief there is a way to stop Putin in Ukraine still exists within the minds of both the neocons at the State Dept. and Davos. That belief hinges on binding Putin in a land war in Ukraine he can’t win against an insurgency of the type and kind Whitney Webb just exposed the CIA has been building around the globe (including here in the US) for years now.
This has now become official US policy, setting up a Ukrainian Government-in-Exile in Poland while sending money there to support an al-Qaeda like guerilla army to harass the Russians. This makes sense since this is what we did in Syria, using Turkey as the staging ground for their assaults into Idlib and Aleppo.
This is likely the reason why Putin has been so adamant about ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine and speaking in absolute terms about their not receiving protections under the Geneva convention. Many of them are, in fact, foreign-backed actors, at least according to his intelligence.
So, regardless of the ‘fact’ that exterminating these men would be ‘war crimes,’ legally, Putin, with his Ph.D. in International Law, either doesn’t care or feels if he wins the war he will be able to make his case in any post-war tribunal.
You can see the attempts to paint Putin as reckless everywhere. The events at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant were reported to put all the blame on Russia while the silenced Russian information sources, including the Ministry of Defense, told a different story. I’m happy to bracket between the two to suss out the truth.
The longer the official war can be prolonged in Ukraine the more time the Davos-backed insurgency gets to form up while resupplying Ukraine’s west. It’s also why Putin has to up the operational tempo in Ukraine soon or he and his army could be in big trouble.
The Race up Oil Mountain
So the race to the end of the ground war is here. And with that shift, it’s time to back off the battle field and look at the capital markets to see what they are seeing. Because there is no military response coming from NATO other than guerillas.
The capital markets are supposed to be Davos’ turf while Russia is financially weak. But that is only if you look at things in nominal terms, nominal dollars, euros, etc. Russia has weapons it has only just begun to deploy here.
So, Act II has to be the financial war because the guerilla insurgency strategy only works if the governments in NATO’s pivotal countries don’t collapse. This is why Putin will have to make a move financially in the next few weeks.
Two minor moves have already been made. First, is the removal of VAT on purchasing gold for Russian citizens. The second he announced yesterday, avoiding default on foreign-held Russian debt by offering bond payments in rubles to bondholders.
But, these are minor moves. They simply signal to the world that Russia has the intentions to make good on its promises and not punish those who are ‘bystanders’ in this war between governments.
If I know Putin well, he will wait for his next big move so as to cause maximal damage in the financial markets and that means waiting to see how the central banks and capital markets respond to the big changes occurring within them right now.
I alluded to one of these moves the other day, saying
Those that brave the waters {Shell at -$28.50 to Brent} will get their {Russian} oil at a steep discount, those that don’t will pay through the nose, further accelerating the decline of those economies as inflation spirals out of control and the people put the blame, not on Putin, but on the people in charge.
Moreover, Russia has kept the gas flows going to ensure that money keeps flowing into the country to finance further expansion of its gold reserves.
And that’s the key, gold. Russia has oil it pulls out of the ground for >$10 per barrel.
If Biden decides to excise Russian energy from US markets (and talking with Maduro in Venezuela is a clear signal here) then Davos is pushing for this to further isolate Russian energy. The JCPOA was supposed to be signed this week to get Iran’s oil back into the market, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov put a monkey wrench in that.
But it’s Iran’s model of resistance to US sanctions that is Russia’s model for the future. Simply put, sell gold for oil. During the pre-JCPOA period Iran did this with buyers depositing the gold in Turkish banks. Iran kept the oil flowing.
Third party oil trades (through Hong Kong maybe?) will also get around any sanctions for Russia and allow them to sell oil while making China a mint in transaction fees.
But the big move for Putin is quite simple (H/T to Luke Gromen for this) which is to offer up its oil at a steep discount to the futures price but only in gold, physical gold. The current ratio of gold to oil is ~17 bbls/oz.
All Putin has to do is begin a global run on physical gold. Oil is the M-zero of global trade. It is the trade on which all of the West’s financialization power is built upon. And that foundation is built on the petrodollar. By directly tying Russia’s marginal barrel produced to the price of gold far below market prices does two things.
First it creates a massive arbitrage opportunity for oil and gold that the market will fill. Second, it follows, it collapses the valuations of all assets priced in paper gold to the price of physical. So, either the price of everything collapses to maintain the fiction of $2000 gold or the price of gold rises to meet the new price.
This forces the West to come clean on just how much gold it actually has, creates a massive short-term run on physical gold and forces a repricing of everyone’s balance sheet.
And, that, my friends is the big weapon Putin is holding in reserve. He can afford to sell his oil at a deeply discounted price. I’m thinking 50 barrels/oz should do it. He forces the world to reprice oil in terms of gold, and then, by extension, rubles rather than the dollar.
This creates positive gold inflow into Russia to create a two-tiered ruble — the long-held dream of Sergei Glazyev — a domestic gold-backed ruble and a global circulating one which floats.
The key to understanding whether things are primed for this is looking not at Europe but at Saudi Arabia.
Y’all realize this is just code for “We are getting ready to de-peg the Riyal from the US dollar.”
And that means the official end of the petrodollar economy in place since the early 1970’s, opening the way forward for a complete repricing of energy by those that produce the lion’s share of it.
Those that are energy importers are the most vulnerable. The US is not nearly as dependent on foreign energy as Europe, which produces almost nothing other than coal. Everyone today virtue signaling about pulling out of Russian energy projects are slitting their own throats.
I don’t care if you’re talking Exxon-Mobil or Statoil.
The proof is in the markets now. Gold is breaking higher alongside oil, meaning currencies are crashing relative to energy and tokenized energy (money). The euro crashed to $1.0886 on Friday. All other commodities are repricing higher from metals to grains to fertilizers to coffee at levels the world has never seen.
Embargoes on food exports are coming in fast. If this was Davos’ plan it was a stupid one. Because Putin and Russia hold all the cards to ensure they decide what these commodities will be priced in, not them.
And that is the ultimate weapon here.
This is why the race is on now to some new Great Reset. But is it Davos’ or Putin’s?
Davos has to destroy Putin and Russia before Putin destroys Davos. They are fighting on his turf now in both arenas — militarily and financially. And Putin, despite the media blitz to the contrary, has a lot of friends across Asia representing more than half of the world’s population.
If I were Klaus Schwab right now, I would be very careful getting what I wished for because I may just get it good and hard.
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Great information. I think in the run up to this war in Ukraine that Putin gained two large bits of information. I’m not sure what the first was but he learned something that made him decide he had to invade the whole country and not just the east. The second was that it was the moment to try and destroy the US, EU, and Davos grip on the finances of the world. As you implied this plan has been in the making for many years, and there is more to come. Let’s hope we all survive it.
Maybe the gold reset was even his priority goal?
More analysts realizing that the endgame was several moves out beyond Ukraine…..de-dollarization and dminishment of western economy….
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/inflation-de-dollarization-and-russias?s=r
While I agree that Putin is certainly not a useful idiot of Schwab and Kissinger, he is way too shrewd, I do not think you made a strong case that he is not controlled opposition. The Anal Schwab has publicly announced that Putin is as much a puppet of his “schooling” as Horseface, Fidelito, Macaroni, die Fettsack, etc. Though Schwab literally works for the Prince of Lies, this claim should not be dismissed out of hand as all his other “Young Global Leaders” claims are provably true. And all the others had corporate ramjets attached to their butts to propel them from obscurity to near or beyond near dictatorial national power. What gets me to lean toward Putin being controlled opposition started with his buying into the cv-1984 scamdemic whole hog. There are strong rumors coming out of Russia that Sputnik V may well be as deadly and debilitating as the Pfizer and Moderna jabs. I have not been fooled for a moment that this “vector” vaccine is a verbal cover for encapsulated synthetic DNA. And s-DNA cannot produce spike proteins on ribosomes, so just how does it work? We have the drunkard, Yeltsin, choosing a young taxi cab driver, formerly KGB colonel lawyer to succeed him in 2000. Schwab wants to destroy the USD and any semblance of a constitutional republic in the USA. A total implosion of the USD and the US financial markets with ensuing hyperinflation should do the job nicely. So I am just saying, your dismissal of Putin as WEF controlled opposition may be correct, but I am leaning in the opposite direction.
I would gladly endure the pain of change if it meant the central banking cartel was broken and countries return to sound money. I want to believe Putin is freeing the world from the money lenders but unfortunately too cynical. We have Zelensky (a Jew installed) as the agitator, we have Putin (a Jew) that is the perfect Patsy for the West and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recent visit that is one of the promoters of the Jewish goal of world domination. Is this the plot for the perfect storm for the Great Reset? The Davos crowd are the fomenters of Communism and hate America. All pillars of society have been slowly eroded away by careful planning. What better way to bring down America (whether by design or as an unwilling co-conspirator) – Putin’s end results are the same: soaring energy prices, food shortages, collapse of the dollar, and ultimately economic collapse of America. Buy gold or oil, but will that save us?
So Putin is a Jew now ? LOL …Does this Jew thing ever stop.
Remember “Winners are grinners.”
CIA….ie the Criminally Insane America, is long/short/and on the fiat, for a coast to coast collapse.
Another brilliant article. Written by one of the few adults on the Web. The list is beginning to grow I do believe.
Very good analysis- but all the talk about “great reset” is both vague and a type of misdirection: What Schwab and what HL Mencken called “The great practical jokers of the race” have in mind is forced imposition of cryptocurrency on everyone, with no recourse to pulling your money from the bank as Canadians did after watching Trudeau freeze bank accounts with a keystroke. Putin comes from a Communist tradition going back to Lenin who said gold was good for nothing but lining urinals. There are Americans still living who held dollars in their hands that read: “Payable on demand for gold.” Now that would be a real useful reset, but it will not come about peacefully, and never for the Russian man on the street.
I would like to add that nothing could be simpler than a return to an honest gold standard (where the gold is in the hands of the people, and not central banks): instead of making the jokingly named “security strip” in what passes for money out of Mylar(!), make it out of real gold, or an alloy or silver. (!!!)
My takeaway from this article is that schwab is going to be confronted with the brutal reality of the commodity vigilantes. I also agree with Martin Armstrong’s statement that he whom has the better economy, ultimately wins. They also fail to understand that their unlimited free lunch from the 4th industrial revolution is very likely another 20 years out. This is a bid for technocratic domination, unfortunately the build back better people have never built anything, and they do not know what it is like to suffer a bloody nose when things do not go your way, and yet the bloody nose plants the seeds of wisdom.
As an addendum, a curtis yarvin interview would be nice. IMHO, he is arguably the best political science guy I have ever listened too.
To me, the whole chain of analysis that you’ve been presenting is Brilliant. Thanks Tom!
Hi Tom,
Thank you. I feel that you and MA are saying similar things about this ‘situation’. As far as VVP goes I firmly believe that he guards his own people and his country. He is not WEF. The problem we have in the West is that our ‘leaders’ do not believe in sovereignty or guard their own people. Australia, where I am, is a stand out example of the government selling out the people and the country for God knows what. Because of the sacrifices involved in war, the quality of the human spirit and faith in your country’s values are key in the struggle. The west needs to rediscover those basic moral values if it is going to survive. Yes, Klaus and the Wef will get their ‘Reset’, but it will not be in the ways they dreamt of. It will, however, involve great change and suffering for all of us, including them.
If Putin has planned this well, as I am sure he has, there will be a peace deal offered to Ukraine that will likely include Belarussian and Russian fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers, an extension of the pipeline usage, a humanitarian rescue package, partly delivered already, and the promise of Chinese investment. It is also quite likely that the ultranationalists, neonazi or not, are much less popular than westerners believe and that most Ukrainians will be relieved to get rid of them.
Don’t be surprised if Ukrainians don’t turn on the West and love Putin when this is over. We could even see them pouring into the streets carrying Russian flags or Putin posters and thumbing their noses at US. Yes, it’s wishful thinking on my part but so is what we’re seeing on MSM now when they claim Ukraine is winning.
Great food for thought, but I would like to issue a minor correction:
“In fact, I would think Davos going financial DEFCON 5 would have been #1 on his list of potential reactions”
It’s DEFCON1 that’s the highest level, not DEFCON5. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON#Levels
Oh yes correct. Will cgaange
Strike while hot. Time to de-dollarize. This conflict made it possible…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-banks-rush-switch-chinese-075456219.html
As always great critical thought analysis reading the tea leaves of the West’s behavior patterns. There is one thing that really jumped out at me as I followed the links/sources (pasted below). $100k per ounce gold Can this be correct? That certainly seems plain enough but that’s quite a jump.
If Russia sold their oil for gold at 1000 barrels per ounce, as
@LukeGromen
ponders, gold would quickly go towards 100k per ounce.
Yup.
What price for bread and gas would that be?
depends on whether they choose deflation or inflation…. either way price it in gold and/or bitcoin… that’s the better question.
Will international rubles be redeemable in gold ?
No… that’s the point.
Thank you!
Here are some suggested transposition edits.
from:
(Russia has oil it pulls out of the ground for >$10)
to:
(…ground for <$10)
Basically the format is a simplification of an equation: Oil < $10. So, Russia pulls oil out of the ground for less than $10 per barrel.
From:
(Simply put, sell gold for oil)
To:
(Simply put, sell oil for gold)
Thank you again for your writing. It is one of the very few sources of good information and perspective. The Reset Race image is powerful.
Tom I remember the last spike in oil back in 2006 and 2007 along with the fed hiking interest rates as they talking about doing now, would you think this would trigger another 2008 collapse now as it did then? Or would you think commodities continue to rise into the stratosphere?
We are on the verge of a collapse far worse than 2008.
OK but in 2008 I distinctly remember cash being king (us dollars) this collapse seems like it’s going to be a currency collapse though. Having a tough time getting my head around it though because so much of the debt world wide is still dollar based debt correct? In my mind this would still lead to ultimate demand for dollars to pay the debt back.
Yes cash is king and you will see all
manner of huge flows into and out of gold and crypto to try and find the pools of it. But in the long run these will win
Regarding international Law, obviously the victors tend to be the plaintiff. This does not bode well you might say, but, as God rules this earth, a bunch of desperado crooks pulling the nuclear levers, I can only hope, will not be permitted.
I suppose if Russia was put before a court, they would argue that the US defaulted on the post-Soviet contract, and furthermore entered into it fraudulently, in bad faith and in order to deceive, and that therefore the situation would simply revert to to its original status, ergo Ukraine is Russia, ergo Russia was simply policing its own territory.
When Powell said there can be two reserve currencies, I thought of Diocletian who split the Roman Empire into East and West in 286 AD. This action eventually paved the way for Byzantium. Perhaps we are at another such historic juncture.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia
Putin is not a friend. He is the bad cop of a god cop vs. bad cop globalist game against humanity.
The WEF has removed their “cyber polygon” page from their website. And that is what it is all about: Attack the internet and blame it on the “evil” Russians.
Shut it down for like two weeks and cause a global collapse of the economy and supply chains with possible even millions of deaths from the chaos. It will lead to militarized countries in order to reestablish law and order again.
More important when internet is coming back, only “allowed” services will be able to operate to “prevent” a repeat of such an event. Thus will make any free conversation and discussion impossible and lead to the total rule of the tyrannical globalists. End of story.
https://truth11.com/2022/03/06/global-internet-outage-is-coming-this-year-this-is-not-about-russia-its-not-about-ukraine-the-real-war-is-between-free-peoples-and-the-globalists-when-they-are-removed-and-their-puppets-are-rem/
I don’t think Putin will or needs to “speed up” operations in Ukraine. As on the other post, I would encourage everyone to open their history books. The US invasion of Iraq took roughly a month (at least until “major combat operations” were finished). Russia is roughly one week into this Ukraine thing; another 3-4 weeks would be on par with the US invasion of Iraq. The Afghanistan invasion took a bit longer than the Iraq invasion.
Unlike the US invasion of Iraq / Afghanistan, Russia wants a buffer state between it and NATO. Russia has clear objectives — even if they are not what the talking heads on western media think. The US was supposedly going to capture or kill al-qaeda leaders, and before major combat operations were completed there was massive scope creep. Suddenly the US had to build schools for girls (something we have trouble with at home, much less halfway around the world). Suddenly the US wanted to impose democracy and build a Kabul stock exchange…. capturing or killing Bin Laden got de-prioritized for more than a decade. Just because the US lost focus doesn’t mean others will make the same mistake.
Its plausible that the losers in Washington / London are hoping to provoke a long term resistance movement in Ukraine. But the Russians have openly stated that the Vicky Nuland Nazis are going to be rounded up and executed; Russia has no delusions of reforming or building schools. And Russia really wants a buffer zone to keep NATO at bay. Whether that buffer zone features livable conditions is Ukraine’s problem.
If the US is going to stoke unrest in Ukraine, might Russia ship crates of weapons to drug gangs in Mexico? Two can play at that game Imagine Biden’s border failure shifting from people looking for work, to people carrying automatic weapons. The US military will face another quagmire, this time on its own soil.
An insurgency in Ukraine also dramatically increases the likelihood that pipelines through Ukraine get destroyed… forcing Germany to approve Nordstream II to survive. Oh, and Nordstream will be a new contract, priced in rubles payable at a Russian bank. F#ck SWIFT; the Germans can apply to join Russia’s payment system. And the Germans can figure out how to buy those rubles; USdollars are not accepted.
Russia no doubt planned for Ukraine operations to take 6-7 weeks, and its only been a bit over one week so far. Who cares about western media’s timeline?
In addition to the EU ending threat from natural gas supplies, many people are forgetting that Russia supplies critical fertilizer components to much of Europe and Asia and the Middle East.
Food crops this summer will have drastically smaller yields — and populations will go hungry — unless the sanctions are ended or bypassed. Push come to shove, expect millions of mothers to choose feeding their children over the wishes of Washington, Hollywood and London.
India has already decided to officially ignore the sanctions. Many other countries have a famine inducing decision to make in the next 6-8 weeks — before an energy crisis next (northern) fall.
The US has its own fertilizer issues. There is adequate supply, but no surplus. Prices for fertilizer have more than doubled from last year.
NATO cannot afford to prolong the fighting in Ukraine. Doing so means 2-3 billion people will face severe food shortages this summer, before facing deadly energy shortages next winter. Time is not on NATO’s side.
Most of the world will face food shortages this summer and energy shortages in a few months — so most of the world will decide its prudent to accept Russia’s actions and move on. Those who don’t will be pre-occupied with domestic famine and energy shortages. Trade with Russia will return to normal very quickly.
Biden will be hearing a lot more about gasoline prices from US voters planning (and cancelling) summer travel plans. Mid term elections happen after that, and even democrat strategists are expecting heavy losses. The grim reaper is following Biden around and may catch him at any time.
Good thoughts. About fertilizers. Russia has already stopped export of their fertilizers and Gazprom has announced that natural gas on european reserves is almost zero, so you make the maths what this is going to mean for the west. I do not think NATO have the time to have an insurgency in Ukraine to bleed the russians, before NATO itself bleed to death in their own countries, but of course NATO leadership cannot see that. They just have tunnel view of reality.
Tom,
This is great work!!! IMHO You are steps ahead of everyone here!
Not too long ago I realized that there was a “problem with money”. Starting with the Canadian government zapping out the trucker’s bank accounts, to the freeze the United States put on the $9 billion of Afghani assets, and now doing the same thing to Russia to the tune of about $500 billion.
What is China going to think about the value of it’s $4 trillion in paper currency reserves? They will become worthless at the stroke of a pen. Isn’t that the same fear everyone has of the Renminbi? That it is a government controlled currency? Is that real money?
China said plainly what that their objective is “to collapse” the US dollar:
Dialogue between American scholar John Mearsheimer and Chinese scholar Wang Yiwei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY-7ZXerra0
And given the policy of the United States, as John Mearsheimer says in regard to Putin and Xi: “they think they are in the crosshairs, and you know what? …they are in the crosshairs, because our basic strategy is to topple regimes all over the world…”
And look at the last 20 years: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria… with likely recent attempts in Turkey, Myanmar, Hong Kong and certainly Belarus last year & Kazakhstan a few months ago. Remember John Bolton calling for the “Libya Option” for Kim Jong-un to sabotage Trump’s attempt at a dialog?
And if you think that is all imaginary, two weeks ago Soros called for the toppling of Xi and a few days ago, Sen. Lyndsey Graham called for the assassination of Putin.
And if you still want more proof, here is the democratically elected President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte in an interview with RT: “If I survive the CIA, I have five more years go”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHjlCmdyesY&t=657s
Even the President of the United States isn’t safe from the “entity” that runs the United States: it goes back as far as John F. Kennedy and extends to the 2020 coup against Trump. And that is what the Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya called it in a speech 4 days ago: “where the legitimately-elected President was overthrown.” He didn’t say that without Putin’s approval.
I don’t know how any world leader sleeps well at night?
So, I think we have arrived at a “Robespierre Moment” in the non-Western world. The night night before Robespierre’s execution, Robespierre naively held up a new “list of the accused” that he promised to reveal the following day… and because no one knew who was on that list, panic set in, and the conspirators acted.
My guess is that this Ukraine invasion is for all the marbles… if the West does not come to it’s senses and make some radical accommodation, I think your thesis will come to pass.
Great work Tom!!! I feel like your columns are a roadmap of the future!
Thanks !!!!
In purely military terms, the Institute for the study of war ISW has been consistently offering level coverage of the unfolding situation in Ukraine.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheStudyofWar
Rather than a Shock and Awe style kill ‘em all and flatten everything invasion, this was a combined arms recon in force police action aimed at minimal pain regime change. But if you want to play hard ball you can have the shock and awe later !
It’s s big Bear Hug that is slowly squeezing the life out of the western backed Ukie regime, which is being forced to set up a new landlocked banana republic in Galicia.
Your observation is accurate really. The point is that pundits in the west judge russian military campaigns style as the westerners/american do; but Russia does war differently. Their philosophy of war is different and more in the way you describe it. It appears for western ignorant people of how Russia thinks militarily, that russian army is lossing, but on the contrary. Russians already game planned this and even the higher losses they would take because this approach and russian soldiers know that but are disciplined enough to accept their role. After all they got in the army knowing that. It is more like you describe. Russians see wars as extension of politics, as Carl Von Clausewitz sees it. So Russians start slow and accelerate and turn up the hit until it they get what they want.
Devaluing the US dollar is a means for the G7 to default on massive debts, which is why Russia’s gambit will ultimately be accepted by all.
The US is sitting on $30 trillion in debt, and no credible means to repay. It has at least another $100 trillion in unpayable entitlement spending promises. Will they formally default? Or will they inflate their empty promises away? (rhetorical question)
A clique of 80+ year olds currently fill all the major positions of US political power. The JV team is made up of people who weren’t smart enough to work at Starbucks (Lizzy Warren, AOC and the moron squad, etc etc). Lindsey Graham just put on his Sonny Corleone costume — hot headed, emotional, rash. The 80 year olds are still in power because they have no competition.
Of course, Washington could go all Zimbabwe and print currency instead of paying. Inflate the unpayable debts away. We can call it quantitative easing, debt financed fiscal stimulus, going full Zimbabwe, cranking Bernanke’s printing press — there are so many names for the same thing.
Americans will get a social security check, it just won’t buy much. Your $2000/month SocSec check will soon pay for two weeks of groceries if you are lucky. That is how to practically default on $100 trillion in unfunded promises without formally defaulting.
The problem is: devalue the USDollar against what? The G7 economies are in a very similar boat as the US. Too much unpayable debt everywhere. The G7 can not all devalue against each other.
So they will devalue against crude oil. They will devalue against natural gas. They will devalue against wheat and soybeans and corn and copper and iron and gold. It also means G7 labor will be devalued versus emerging market labor.
Putin needs to keep NATO missiles out of Ukraine, just like JFK needed to keep soviet missiles out of Cuba. Leadership in both countries was better back then; no one suggested Kennedy was a war criminal. No one suggested trade embargoes or freezing US assets for trampling all over Cuba’s sovereignty. Adults were in charge back then.
There will be several more weeks of chaos, but ultimately Russia will prevail and Ukraine will be a buffer state just as it has been for the last 500 years.
Practical concerns will dominate the ridiculous and infantile virtue signaling. The G7 needs to inflate away unpayable debts, and killing the petrodollar will facilitate exactly that. The need for affordable energy and fertilizer will determine everyone else’s opinions.
And now, back to video of Biden drooling on himself like the Arch Duke Ferdinand near the end of the Hapsburg empire.
You frame it up in a way that makes me almost care rather than where I’ve been to this point which is why should i give a crap about this conflict. Any chance in your gut feel about this Tom will the US blink and find a face saving way out of this?
So many political and Hollywood types want to “do more” for Ukraine… Its fun to send other people’s kids and stunt doubles into harms way!!!!
Lets create a special brigade made up of Hunter Biden, Pelosi’s kids/grandkids, Schumer and McConnel’s grandkids, Lindsey Graham’s kids/grandkids. Jeff Bezos, the Google guys, Zuckerburg’s kids, and of course Bill Gates daughter.
Lets add all the Hollywood “activists” and their kids.
Last year, Mila Kunis said she left Ukraine at age 2 and knew nothing about it. She said the Ukranian language sounded like Kilngon to her. She didn’t want to be the spokesperson for Ukraine…. but now its en vogue to whine about Ukraine and Mila is out there stumping for the Klingons. She needs to put her own safety where her mouth is. Get out of your Hollywood mansions and go fight.
There is a long list of celebs that want to send other people’s families. Maybe if things go well and its not too dangerous, Hollywood might do a USO tour for a week or so. Don’t expect them to suffer any casualties. That is for the little people.
Let’s wipe their self righteous grins off their faces and send the politicos and hollywood. let them die.
Obama and Trump pointed out Ukraine is not our business. Recent polls from this week show 64% of Americans do not want US troops in Ukraine.
Send the politicians’ kids and send hollywood — let them put their lives where their mouths are. Let our troops stay home and recover from Afghanistan.
We have a WEF cyber polygon sponsor bank sighting…..how convenient:
BREAKING: Russia’s state owned Sberbank is to replace VISA and MasterCard with a new “MIR” card system in partnership with China’s Unionpay.
I notice that Russia has been targeted by “hackers”
That provides the final casus belli for a fake cyberattack, which they have wargamed (Cyber Polygon) and rehearsed.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-imf-10-countries-simulate-cyber-attack-global-financial-system-2021-12-09/
Putin won’t have to lift a finger. The Davosians can now switch off the global financial system and claim it was caused by a Russian counterstrike.
If you have anything terribly important you want to buy, now might be a good time.
Blinken has given the green light to involve Nato jets. Oh well, say your prayers, because I think we’re all going to die unfortunately.
Please be more careful and more precise about the “news” that you post.
The story you reference is 12 hours old. What the White House said is — they want NATO (aka Poland) to send their old MIG29 fighters to Ukraine (to be flown by Ukranian pilots).
The US government “promises” to sell Poland F16s to replace the old MIGs. Much like they “promised” to take care of US veterans after they were done using them.
Anyway, Poland already called the story “fake news” — Poland will not be sending fighter planes.
But you can’t ignore the fact that many countries are
starting to provide weapons to Ukraine and are actively
helping in sending foreign fighters. Poland has been a
staging ground for this. So, it’s clear that NATO countries
are clearly involved. And the US is obviously planning on
creating long-term insurgency.
Poland and Hungary have been a thorn in the side of the globalist puppets in Brussels.
This is just the EU trying to drive a wedge between them and Russia?
@Ivan — where is the evidence behind these alleged “facts” you speak of? Opinions and rumors on the news floor of the NYTimes are just that, opinions and rumors.
There have been LOTS of rumors about so-and-so promising weapons at some future date. Rumors are not facts. Political promises would not even be repeated, except that the NYTimes reporters are getting desperate.
The NYTimes used to make enough money to have foreign correspondents in major cities all over the world. The Times has been losing money and closing foreign offices for decades. They have no correspondents in Ukraine. Same for Wash Post and FT and Intl Herald (which is part of NYTimes). These organizations are nothing like what they used to be decades ago. A lot of what they print is fiction, by necessity.
A bunch of interns at the White House claimed (falsely) that Poland was sending MIG29s to Ukraine. More rumors and crap from “anonymous sources”. The official Polish government announcement said the rumors were false.
There is no armada of airplanes or trucks bringing foreign fighters or weapons into Ukraine. Show us the pictures if you have them. I don’t doubt there are a handful here or there, but nothing in any meaningful quantity. Nearby governments are mouthing verbal support for Ukraine, but they are careful to say they can not and will not get directly involved.
Supplying weapons to an army at war (eg Ukraine) is itself an act of war. Its getting directly involved.
I would also highlight the reports in western media about all the Ukranian refugees fleeing their homes. If western media outlets are to be believed — supposedly 700,000 refugees have entered Poland in less than a week.
Where are the refugee camps? Where are the hotels overflowing with 700,000 unexpected guests? Even if the crowds dissipate over the next couple weeks, there should be an incredible mass of refugees at major border crossings…. where are they?
Spreading rumors and propaganda just adds to confusion.
Please stop claiming you have “facts”. You don’t. The information coming out of the region is spotty at best, and a lot of it is wishful thinking from the same western globalists (Obama, Biden, Nuland, etc) that instigated the fiasco in the first place
Sure! But we really don’t know anything. All we are getting
is Western media news, Russians are pretty quiet, so we
are mostly getting propaganda.
The reality is that we don’t know anything.
I have some personal experience with war (in the 90s, ex-Yugoslavia) to know two things:
– everybody lies, information is very scarce
– weapons and soldiers (from abroad) will come in
(there’s too much money to be made)
@Ivan — you went from falsely claiming there were “facts” that we shouldn’t ignore… and now you seem to be conceding that no one knows anything for certain.
Please be more careful in your comments. Its one thing to say you heard a rumor, but when you falsely claim to have “facts” — you need to be able to back them up.
You lied. You have no facts. You might as well be a NYTimes fiction writer.
@Ivan — you claimed to have facts.
Then you admitted no one was sure what was happening.
Now you cite a bunch of media propaganda written by college interns with no sources in Ukraine.
Even if the propaganda is true, what you have is “PROMISES” to send weapons. You don’t have actual weapons being sent.
The only official statements are saying NATO governments will give verbal support, but they will not get directly involved.
You are a liar.
You wrote “But you can’t ignore the fact that many countries are starting to provide weapons to Ukraine and are actively helping in sending foreign fighters.”
Show us these facts you say are being ignored.. The governments in question are very formally saying they will **NOT** get directly involved.
You did not provide facts. You provided some media propaganda.
@Ivan — I know you think your false statement is no big deal.
Actual facts are in short supply, but the one thing everyone seems to agree on is there is a war going on. People are being killed. Buildings are being shelled into rubble. Homes and family heirlooms are being blasted to pieces.
The social justice warriors interning at the White House think this is all a big joke. They launched the Maidan uprisings. They tried to expand NATO. They encouraged Zelensky to defy Russia despite 300+ years of Russia controlling Ukraine (and the Ottoman Empire controlled Ukraine before that).
Its “fun” to instigate war in Ukraine from the safety of NATO headquarters or London or Washington DC. None of the people encouraging this nonsense face any risks themselves.
The people facing all the risk are being given false hope. Weapons and volunteer fighters are not coming — at least not in meaningful numbers. Poland and Germany have said there will not be a no-fly zone, and Germany has changed their tune and said Ukraine will not be joining NATO.
Maybe this was suicide by cop. Maybe Zelensky the commedian is just in way over his head. But real people are getting killed over this mistake.
When the NYTimes finally issues a retraction, those Ukranians will still be dead. Please don’t encourage this.
Your incite gives me hope and strength that there is someone out there who has a head on his shoulders!
THANK YOU!
Oh no! Its all over for Ukraine.
Kamila Harris is on her way to Poland to do the same job she did when Biden made her “border tzar” with Mexico
There is one thing I do not understand in the article. How is it possible to have a gold backed ruble and a floating ruble separated,without an arbitrage incentive nullifying this difference? I am a total newbie on these issues an I would greatly appreciate any clarification on this topic.
Unless these sanctions against Russia are just a cynical attempt at virtue signalling, one thing is for sure: this will be a Great Reset for Russia regardless what happens.
Even if this conflict drags on, will the US/UK really stop trying to weaken if not
destroy Russia?
And China is more than happy to sit back and wait until the US and EU
self destruct, Russia is weakened.
Solzhenicin cryptically said in one of his last and rare interviews that
there will be time when the West will desperately need Russia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market-data
BBC market data for today . Go to the bottom for gas and oil futures and you will see they have gone crazy . click on the to see the graphs going back 5 years. We in the West have put ourselves in absolute dire strats and for what ? Great article as always Tom thank you.
I still not get how China and Russia are enemies to the WEF and their Global Reset. I mean both its leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have attended the online summit of the WEF in 2021. This just makes no sense to me that they are foes. To me it appears more like it is all just a giant distraction from whatever evil they are going to do next.
Putin (and foreign minister Lavrov) seem to be globalists.
They have been for years.
So, maybe the story is much simpler: Putin saw the developments
in Ukraine an existential threat, so his hand was forced and he acted. After all, survival trumps all other interests.
Russia and China are much more free market oriented countries than so called West which is a fascist/antimarket entity.
Your piece on Putin’s role in the Davis – non-Davos war/duel is a masterpiece. I am Polish and 99 proc. of my countrymen do not get it. They try to crucify me for seeing your way but I do not give up. You gave me an additional weapon to support my convictions. Best regards. Jan
Good luck Jan, the Poles are pivotal in this fight.
Good Luck Jan. You and your Polish brethren are pivotal in this fight.
Stand by your convictions Jan, they are correct! I believe that Putin will invade Europe in the next few years. But I have heard from some divine sources that Poland will not be bombed or destroyed in this war, since their goal is farther to the West, and the bombs can simply fly over. Poland will not be a target, if it plays its cards right. In fact, Poland will become a place of peace, reconciliation and brotherhood after the war. Remember that NATO is in place not really to protect Europe, but to protect US/UK business interests, and keep Europe from developing itself economically. Russia is the real natural source for European energy and defense. Once the NATO domination is gone, then Europe can accept is destiny as part of a greater peaceful and prosperous partner with Russia.
Excellent analysis, thank you. In my view this is a winner-take-all battle between existential threats. If the GAE does not take out Russia/China, it will cease to exist, and if Russia/China does not take out GAE, they will cease to exist. Therefore neither side can quit part way, the battle must be for all the marbles. The outcome can only be lose/lose, or the definitive loss of one side. It seems that the West is setting itself up for a great collapse. The world and Davos knows that the fiat money system is only being propped up by extreme measures. Oil has become too expensive to extract, while peak oil has produced peak population which now has a sword of disaster hanging over its head. Undoubtedly the global elites can see an inevitable catastrophic outcome coming for the world population and living standard, so they plan to use Putin to do the dirty work of destroying the GAE. Provoke, back up a few feet on the map, and start again. Notice whenever Putin takes the bait, the West suddenly becomes thoughtful and non-committal in its response? So first draw Putin into Ukraine, then draw him to destroy NATO in Europe (with a pummeling of Israel on the side), then provoke him to destroy the US altogether. Russian and Chinese military combined *can* take out the US, with the support of the entire Global South. America will be abandoned by all allies, since there is no one big enough to protect it. Meanwhile the softening and dismantling of US defenses has begun in earnest under the “Biden” regime. They are scuttling the US oil industry, gutting its military, and have allowed thousands of professional terrorists in through the southern border (single adult males) who are now awaiting further orders. Throw in a few badly-timed natural disasters and America will be a ready target. In the hierarchy of power, there is always room for higher layers of perfidy, and the final weapon in Satan’s toolkit is always betrayal of the lesser loyal elites by any higher level. So I agree that Ukraine is simply “stage one” of something which could unfold surprisingly quickly. You just have to open your mind to the possibility of the outcome to which things are increasingly pointing, and you could say that its really a matter of physics. America is a giant gas bubble, producing the least resources of any developed nation while consuming the most, and no one knows why they should protect it anymore. The simple laws of gravity and efficiency will pull it down. Which does not mean that there will be peace afterward, there will probably be a whole new struggle, or many struggles, for world domination, and the elites may eventually destroy themselves. But the dystopian world after America is really unimaginable at this point. Imagine a medieval-sized population and economy, but surveilled and controlled by genetic and computer technology, universal propaganda and vaccines, a truly nightmarish scenario. But this horrific coming time is spoken of in the Bible in many places, and I can tell yuou that God is now speaking to many people who pray. He promises that He is with us and monitoring it all, He will protect those loyal to Him from the worst abuses, and will end it before it goes on for too long. Letting it play out is the only way to respect our free wills, while purifying the whole mess and saving the most souls. He will restore the poisoned Earth afterwards. But man has messed himself up too much, and the purification needs to happen.
For those unschooled in acronyms…
https://conworld.fandom.com/wiki/Great_American_Empire
kptmwp,
Keyboards are pretty inexpensive. I’m sure you can find one with a paragraph break (Enter) key that isn’t stuck.
Tom,
One thing that you haven’t discussed and it’s a total wildcard is that the US
is trying to bring Iran and Venezuela back into the fold.
It should be obvious Ivan, they are trying to offset Russian exports globally to further isolate Russia.
I literally don’t have time to write everything I see. I’ve discussed it in recent interviews, I’ll make a couple of posts linking to them.
Wow, just read that Whitney Webb peice, truly terrifying. This imaginary “international white supremacy network” is the beginning of what will become the outlawing of Christianity under the coming Obama regime. (Trump will return to the Presidency this year based on election overturning, but he will be killed off before 2024. This will require a Special Election for an “interim President” between popular favorites, presumably Pence and Obama. Obama will of course win, and stay in office by increasing planned terrorism. He will appoint some favorite socialist women to run things officially).
Holy smokes, what a screenplay!
Suicide by Cop. Pure and simple. Finis.
I agree that this is superficially like Syria – the Russians having to deal with a globalist countergang in a country crucial to their LNG interests (Nazis this time instead of ISIS), but “Davos et.al. are openly honest in their hatred of him” is a bit much – I don’t think Davosians are ever publicly honest about anything?
But if he isn’t a globalist stooge, having duped/provoked Putin into this, they can now use some proxies to level a cyberattack at Russia, get some pet churnalists to write a few pieces about the likely Russian cyber retaliation, and then switch off the global financial system.
Everyone will point at Putin and after a short period of us all freezing in the dark we will beg the Davosians to ride in on their Great Reset white horse to save us.
Once the lights are back on they can declare peace and Putin and Schwab will be BFF.
Global Technogulag.
If you think this is the way things are going to work out why are you yapping here and not trying to get out of the Technogulag?
No one will point at Putin, they will point their fingers at their governments. It’s their fault. It’s always the leadership’s fault.
They can try to demonize Putin to that extent, but it won’t work. It’s the reverse of Japan in 1941… we refused to sell them oil…. Europe refuses to buy it.
It’s dumb. Davos is intentionally destroying Europe. Enjoy it or leave. Those are your choices. All Putin can do is collapse your governments to throw off the yoke of Schwab. If Europeans are so far up their own asses that they can’t see this as a fundamental betrayal of their lives, then they will get what’s coming.
It won’t be happening here, Ivor. Biden et.al. will be lynched before that happens.
I agree America might be different – half the population certainly has the tools to resist, in a way that Europeans don’t.
But that’s why the globalists have worked so hard to turn Americans against each other – they intend to fight American patriots down to the last American Millennial.
Here in my corner of the world, almost everyone is ready to blame Putin for whatever the media tells them he did.
Ivor,
I’ve been saying for months now that the best Davos can do is force their Great Reset on Europe and maybe the Commonwealth but no more. Without Russia and the US the whole thing collapses into a simple European depression which ends it as a “thing” for a hundred years
So if I’m right Putin is not part of the WEF, or he is not anymore and has betrayed it? Why would he do that and why is the President of Israel visiting him? To me that indicates that he is still part of the special club of the elites and not made a person non grata yet.
Good thing is that if the Great Reset only works in the EU it will not work in the EU after all as it has to be established everywhere, otherwise people would simply flee/fight the tyranny and it collapses on itself. Still not sure if a European wide tyranny can’t work on its own as Europeans are really quite hardcore sheep.
nothing mentioned about cbdc and venesuela and bitcoin globally taking the subject of that staged conflict it all suits davos, wef, dollar needs to collapse, in fact all fiat currency need to collapse before central banks can turn on new ones, now is time to steal, russia gold us bitcoin at the end it will be the same who had the most of something valuable has a head start, ukraina or not, russia is moving away from fossil like the whole planet, does it means that putin thinks that cows fart to much and he will eat butterflies from now on, outcome of that war will lie ground for universal credits, cbdc universal credits, that conflict also showed that people want to fight, noone said maybe stop only that they are this and they do that, im pretty sure that if they told those soldier to wear masks they will probably do, so cynical and we are so naive
I am certain the Russian intelligence services know a great deal more about these so-called bioweapons labs than will ever be admitted by the Zekinsky mafia or the US government. The Russians regard these labs togeher with the prospect of the Zekinsky mafia of obtaining dirty nuclear materials/bombs as an existential threat to their security and decided to act proactvely to save Russia and Europe from a much greater tragedy. The world will soon understand that President Putin’s military intervention saved all of us from a biological disaster and nuclear disaster beyond our comprehension.
I just love the picture of that old school pushbutton station as us old time electricians call them!
Tom, Excellent analysis. As usual. Thank you.
That being said, for sake of expanding possible perspective, I’m going to take a contrarian position. What if the entire debacle is designed to pull down currencies and decimate traditional benchmarks?
Have you ever played the game Risk, and decided to restart the game? Did you continue to play out the current board? Probably not. Most likely, you wiped everything off the map, saved all of your playing pieces (and probably kept your current colors) and all of the players turned their cards back in. Then, the first step in the new game was to deal out the cards to the players. Clearly you can’t restart (or reset) without first clearing the board.
Yes, Schwab and the global MSM has characterized Putin as Public Enemy #1, but haven’t we seen the very same strategy in the past with one of the elite cronies, where the media and establishment gang up on one of their own, as a means to accomplish certain objectives that would otherwise not be possible?
I’m talking about the Orange Man Bad campaign against insider Donald Trump that was used to falsely characterize The Donald as a racist, misogynistic, establishment outsider. In spite of the fact that Trump appointed Goldman Sachs to control the US Treasury and also brought Rothchild and Co. into his cabinet. I could write a significant piece on the establishment objectives that Trump fulfilled while in office but I don’t want to wear out my keyboard. I can summarize by reminding everyone of Operation Warp Speed. Enough said.
So as part of the reset, you need justification to clear the board. It can’t just happen. Might Putin have been taken for a ride by Klaus & Friends and set up to take a massive fall? I highly doubt it. Putin is more savvy than most and his leadership team has seen it all. They know the game and all of it’s tricks. None of the current affairs and global alignment against Putin and Russia would come as a surprise.
Here’s the contrarian macro view as it might appear from the space station:
To achieve a great reset, all pillars of culture need to be undermined and rebuilt. To save myself some writing, I’ll point everyone to the UN SDG’s:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Ultimately you end up with a smaller world population, with strict controls over all human activity, within a globally integrated system of governance and economics. Under an authoritarian utopia, this would all be achieved under the banner of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which clearly states in Article 27 that “These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”. Which further explains why the social media giants and media (who are aligned with the WEF) actively censor anyone who exposes lies and who values human liberty.
Using conflict as a means to draw the public into supporting elite goals has been so well established that it’s become an art form. This is what we’re experiencing today. Is Putin being used and abused, or is he a willing participant? I don;’ know. Neither would surprise me. Not that it matters, either way. What’s important is that the Ukraine conflict and all possible fallout – economic, militarily, nuclear, etc. – is part of a larger game. The game board is being cleared and a reset is in play. And we’re the pieces on the board, not the players.
I’ve played these scenarios through. I’ve played a lot of strategy games that make Risk look like Yahtzee.
And I can tell you that Schwab et.al. are stupid and are up against an opponent who will use every bit of their ‘strength’ to grind them into a paste.
Their power rests on systems that are failing, leverage that is deflating and a belief that they can just use that collapse to maintain a complex division of labor and supply chain web to produce war machines of sufficient complexity to suppress dissent at home and take on a country with 2 million men, the best EW, missiles, tanks and planes… and 6000 nukes.
You are witnessing the Apotheosis of Davos. They are mad and going out with a bang because of their basic psychological need to feel potent when they are in fact, impotent.
I appreciate the feedback Tom. Just to make it fun, I’d wager you a nickel that we’re seeing a coordinated attack on the current global system, with Russia a proactive participant. Creepy Joe just played another piece of his role by banning Russian oil and ensuring a US energy crisis and $10 gas. No surprises. This is another part of the strategy that neither side would have overlooked.
Serious question (I’d love to win that nickel – I’m going to need it at the pump!): if this truly is Russia vs. the so-called “Rules Based Order”, why is the west responding with sanctions that further cripple themselves, in a manner that more rapidly fulfills the SDGs? There are dozens of reports over the last several years by Atlantic Council, CFR, Rand, and many others regarding the potential for military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine. Why would Biden and EU regimes continue to walk us down the green mile in full knowledge that the current crisis would unfold just as predicted? My career is in strategic planning and risk management. Given the current circumstances I see only two distinct options: 1. There was no adequate plan. Or 2. We’re witnessing the plan. The problem I have with option 1 is that all other aspects of reset and global domination have been very carefully crafted and implemented. Why would Schwab & Friends suddenly drop the ball so badly on this obviously do or die transition component? As much as I want to believe that to be the case, I don’t.
I wouldn’t stake my life on my position (hence the nickel wager) but I’d rather take my approach and prepare accordingly (risk management 101) than to place my faith in the belief that the Davos glitterati have royally fucked up. I’m sure mistakes have been made, but I believe most of what we’re witnessing is part of the strategy. We’re most likely witnessing two sides of the same coin. No matter which side comes out on top, it’ll still spend the same way when all is done: Reset global economy and increased global authority over all things human. I sure hope I’m wrong but this is how I’m seeing it.
They haven’t dropped the ball. They are setting the US up to fail (no Russian energy) while Europe still gets to buy it. Do you see the split? Blog incoming talking about this.
I’ll bet a nickel.
“Are you crazy, or just plain stupid?”
“Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs Blue”.
Having seen the char lady, (Liz Truss), damn near trigger a nuclear apocalypse, I don’t think we can completely rule out the role of idiocy in what we are witnessing.
“Is it because he’s really a secret WEF stooge who is accelerating their plans for them by sacrificing Ukraine on the altar of their Brave New World?”
The answer is yes. The only CIA/MI5 disinformation is here by the looks of things. Putin is not a secret stooge. It is well out in the open and Putin was never ‘unwitting’ or ‘duped’ He is a Henry Kissinger bribed and blackmailed globalist.
So just because ‘Davos hates Putin?’ That’s your reason? So all the hatred towards Trump was genuine was it? And Trump was genuinely a White Hat superhero who the evil cabal wanted to take down? That’s the same logic as saying Putin must not be one of them because they actually hate him. How do you know they hate him? If there is anyone stating QTard stuff it’s you. They did not want to ‘take Trump out’ , no more than they ‘hate Putin’. If they did they would have opened the files on Trump’s sexual assault and paedo accusations. Trump, remember is the ‘Father of the Vaccine’, a mass murderer, a Zionist who studied the Kabbalah and a close friend of Epstein and Maxwell. You think they hated him? Lol. He is one of them. Him and Klaus Schwab are birds of a feather.
This is all about the Pan Eurasian Superstate and the shift of hegemony from the US to China and Russia, with Jerusalem sitting in the middle of it all, as capital of our Brave New World. When you start covering Israel in all of this we’ll understand that you are serious. Who has access to all of the West’s critical infrastructure? Who has been transferring US tech to the USSR/Russia and China decade after decade?
CIA/MI5 disinformation? Lol
Do not accuse others of what yourself are guilty of.
FYI, I allow these comments in order to highlight just how crazy some people truly are, in the name of free speech. It’s that simple.
This is an example of schizo-posting that is laughable on the face of it and prima facia evidence some people need therapy.
Do you have any articles explaining why Russia’s covidism is insignificant, or that Putin was just outgunned policy-wise and wasn’t able to stop it? Or does the argument go that if Putin rejected the COVID campaign, he’d get too much global blowback for being too obvious with his opposition?
No Sputnik V was his way around the COVID insanity
Truth has died. You cannot find it anymore, you think you know what is really going on? You don’t. You have been played and this goes on, you cannot find truth anymore so stop looking it is useless
The U.S. stated for weeks that Russia was about to invade which, Russia denied.
That U.S. intelligence got and reported it right was enough to make me suspicious.
1 min utube where K.W. states that Putin “has been” a Young Global Leader of the WEF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v1pB8l6pQc
Dunno if this is true but, it does make me wonder why does Putin join the madness when, with all the resources at his disposal, all he has to do is wait.
Cheers.
H.
What about all the metal that JP Morgan and other US FED reserve banks own? Wouldn’t the prcice reset help them? I see them as just as bad as the WEF.
See exec summary and pages 6-7. World shifting to autocracies making it easier to control the populations.
https://v-dem.net/media/publications/dr_2022.pdf?.tsrc=372
…Henry Kissinger, who had been one of the people to manufacture tensions between thermonuclear powers over the previous two decades, was now to act as “peacemaker” during the Nixon period. He would turn his focus to the European stand-off and would seek to relax the tensions between the West and Russia. He negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (culminating in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Kissinger was attempting to rebrand himself as a trusted statesman and diplomat…. Schwab and Kissinger go way back to K’s Harvard years… tightly coupled philosophically. Important history…
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/
Tom, that was absolutely fantastic and very accurate in my opinion. Great work.
Seems that a “reset” is coming. Just not the sort the Schwab had in mind.
theft of your content? https://analisagold.com/2022/03/thanks-to-putins-war-in-ukraine-the-race-is-on-for-the-great-reset/