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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    This won't affect Russia's Ukraine Special Military Operation at all, but this doesn't seem like an "accident".

    Will Schryver stated in a follow-up tweet that he believed special forces infiltration was the most likely cause, though he emphasized that much was still unclear. Bryansk is about 100 miles (160 km) from the Ukrainian border, well inside Russia.

    https://twitter.com/imetatronink/sta...25627757453312


    (And more here from Zero Hedge)
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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    A good article from India — where it's well known exactly what's going on! — following Boris Johnson's 22 April visit to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

    What was significant here is that Johnson appears to be facing (and openly admitting) the truth about Russia's Special Military Operation, while Biden is still off with the fairies (and/or faithfully repeating what his handlers are telling him to say).

    https://indianpunchline.com/us-narra...eat-in-donbass

    US narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass



    An extraordinary thing about British diplomacy is that it continually looks for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to its customer across the Atlantic, the United States. That makes the remarks on Ukraine conflict by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at his press conference in New Delhi on Friday highly significant.

    Johnson brought to mind the evocative lines of Matthew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach on the “melancholy, long, withdrawing roar” when faith is receding. He was completely at odds with the focus of the US president Joe Biden’s remarks at the White House just the previous day where he vowed
    • “to hold Putin accountable for his brutal and bloody war”;
    • “to further augment Ukraine’s ability to fight in the east — in the Donbas region”;
    • to “repel Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, to beat back Putin’s savagery”;
    • “sending an unmistakable message to Putin: He will never succeed in dominating and occupying all of Ukraine. He will not — that will not happen”;
    • “to ratchet up the pressure on Putin and further isolate Russia on the world stage”;
    • “further to deny Russia the benefits of the international economic system that they so enjoyed in the past”;
    • “to continue to stand with the brave and proud people of Ukraine.”
    Biden managed to pack all this vitriolic rhetoric in one single speech! In fact, he even rounded off exuding optimism that “There is no evidence yet that Mariupol has completely fallen”.

    But Johnson, in sharp contrast, tended to go along with the forecast by British Military Intelligence that the Russians could win in Ukraine. Without any verbal acrobatics, he straight came to the point:

    “I think the sad thing is that that (Russian victory) is a realistic possibility. Yeah, of course. Putin has a huge army, he has a very difficult political position … the only option he has now is to continue to try to use his appalling, grinding approach, driven, led by artillery, trying to grind the Ukrainians down. He’s very close to securing a land bridge in Mariupol now. The situation is, I’m afraid, unpredictable. We just have to be realistic about that.”

    During his recent visit to Ukraine, Johnson had reportedly advised President Vladimir Zelensky to make a retreat from and form a new defence line but Zelensky had no option but to follow American advice.

    For President Biden, of course, there is good enough reason why the war should continue as a forever war. The war rallies Europe behind the US’ weakening transatlantic leadership. Besides, Biden now has an alibi to explain away the high inflation in the US economy. He is placating the military-industrial complex in an election year. Biden announced on Thursday a new $800 million package in military aid for heavy artillery, 144,000 rounds of ammunition and drones, which will be sent “directly to the front lines of freedom” in Donbass.

    However, the big question remains: How long will the Western unity behind American leadership hold if Biden seeks a protracted conflict with Russia? The successive defeats in Mariupol and Donbass would not only break the back of the Ukrainian army and seriously dent the credibility of the US but discredit the entire Western triumphalist narrative.

    While the western sanctions have hurt the Russian economy, per current indications, Moscow is adjusting to a “new normal.” Contrary to Western expectations, the sanctions have not shifted Russian public opinion against the government. The successful testing last Wednesday of Russia’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat — which “has no analogues in the world and will not have for a long time to come” (Putin’s words) — is no doubt a defiant assertion.

    Meanwhile, Western attempts to “isolate” Russia have no success stories to tell. At the G20 finance ministers meeting in Washington, the “Russia boycott” plank had no takers other than the Western bloc. The US failed to persuade Saudi Arabia to disengage from its OPEC+ cartel with Russia. Above all, in the key area where it matters most — oil and gas — Europe is unable to agree to an embargo. Several EU countries threaten to veto any such move by the Commission.

    European economies are in varying stages of meltdown, as the blowback from sanctions begins to hit them. Germany’s central bank warned Friday that a full embargo on Russian energy purchases could could cost 180 billion euros, take 5% off Germany’s expected GDP this year, and tip the economy back into a severe recession. It warned that even the need to find replacement sources of energy would put a rocket under inflation, adding over 1.5% percentage points to this year’s consumer price index and over 2% points to next year’s.

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Spiegel on Friday that a gas embargo is ultimately about “avoiding a dramatic economic crisis, the loss of millions of jobs and of factories that would never open again.” He said that given such “huge consequences for our country, for the whole of Europe,.. it’s my responsibility to say: ‘We can’t allow that (embargo)’.”

    Europeans are realising sooner rather than later that they are big losers. Aside disruptions in supply chains hampering industrial production, what with the burden of 5 million refugees (so far) and the big impact on food security due to the war in the “breadbasket of Europe” combining with the short supply of the fertilisers that are used to increase crop yields, Europe is feeling the brunt of price hikes.

    Even before the war in Ukraine, fertiliser prices were rising rapidly due to the increasing cost of gas, with nitrogen fertiliser costing almost five times as much as it did this time last year. Experts warn that all this could lead to a food crisis. Agitated farmers have led protests calling for concessions.

    The Gallup International polls have shown that the biggest concerns of EU citizens at the moment are rising prices, fear of a widening war in Ukraine and possible shortages in energy supply. More than half of EU citizens believe that Europe has already provided sufficient support to Ukraine.

    This is where the defeat in Donbass turns into a climactic event calling into question the entire US narrative on Ukraine — NATO expansion, European security, and dialogue with Russia — and, of course, the fixation about Vladimir Putin’s leadership of Russia.

    A poll published Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows Americans’ desire to get involved has waned somewhat. Only 32% say the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict, down from 40% last month. An additional 49% say the US should have a minor role.

    While speaking in Delhi, Johnson all but discarded Biden’s narrative. Instead, he called for “setting out a vision for the future of Ukraine in the security architecture of Europe. Where does Ukraine fit in now?”

    Johnson said Ukraine needs to be able to answer that question eventually — “what the Ukrainians want eventually.” Interestingly, he didn’t use the word “Ukrainian government.”

    Johnson dilated on “a collection of security guarantees from like-minded countries — security commitments about what we can do to back them up with weaponry, with training, and with intelligence sharing.” But he quickly added that this cannot be “like an Article 5 (NATO) guarantee.” Instead, he said, Ukraine should have “deterrence by denial.”

    Per Johnson’s vision, Ukraine’s NATO membership is inconceivable. Britain anticipates new facts on the ground. Johnson appeared to recognise the emergent political realities as the Russian juggernaut relentlessly “grinds” Kiev’s war machine to dust.
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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    Gonzalo Lira has published this concise summary article, which may be very useful for some who've not kept up with (or have not so far been all that interested in) all the complexity and detail.

    It's also an excellent summary to offer to anyone who might not know what's really been happening and who are now genuinely wanting to understand more. I think it's very accurate.

    The only thing that Gonzalo doesn't go into is the backfiring of the sanctions against the US and the EU — truly a kind of weird, obvious-to-everyone-else self-sabotage — and how the world will pretty soon become multipolar (two major power blocs) rather than unipolar (just one), as has been the globalists'/WEF's plan for decades. This certain outcome is extremely important for us all.
    A Recap Of The War In Ukraine

    Quick recap for those who haven't followed what's been going on in Ukraine but want to understand: 02/24: The Russians invaded from the south, south-east, east and north, in a lightning campaign. The Russians invaded with 190K troops—against 250K combat troops from Ukraine.

    The RF {Russian Federation] put 30K troops near Kiev — nowhere near enough to capture the city — but enough to pin down some 100K AFU defenders. The RF also launched several axes of attack, with reinforcements on standby (including a famed 40km long tank column), to see where they might be needed.

    Crucially — the Russian's blitz on several axes pre-empted an imminent UKRAINIAN blitzkrieg. The AFU had been about to invade the Donbas. This was the immediate motivation for Russia's invasion: To beat them to the punch and scuttle Ukraine's imminent invasion — which they did.

    Also, by attacking from the north and south, the Russians disrupted weapons supply chain from NATO. Had the RF only attacked in the east to prevent the AFU invasion of Donbas, there would have been an open corridor for resupply from the West. Threatening Kiev stopped that. So the main AFU army was left stranded in east Ukraine, with the rest of the Ukr. forces isolated and pinned down—with no easy resupply from the West. The RF then went about hitting AFU command/control and resupply links, further isolating and immobilizing Ukrainian forces.

    The Russians soon nominally controlled land the size of the UK in Ukraine — but it was a tenuous control. The south of Ukraine was more fully in Russia's grip. The AFU around Kherson simply scattered. Mariupol became a clear battleground, as did the Donbas proper.

    What the Russians initially wanted was to:
    • Short-circuit the imminent Donbas invasion - which they did.
    • Scare the Zelensky regime into negotiating a political settlement - which they failed to do.
    Kiev had no intention of negotiating a ceasefire because of orders given to them from Washington: “Fight Russia to the last Ukrainian!” Also, the Neo-Nazi goons around Zelensky threatened him if he negotiated and surrendered because they are terrified of the Russians.

    So Zelensky launched a massive PR and propaganda campaign, primarily to motivate AFU forces to fight to the death. Myths were created ("Ghost of Kiev"), false flags were carried out (Bucha, Kramatorsk) and relentless media stories were flogged relentlessly.

    The Russians kept negotiating and trying to NOT destroy Ukraine infrastructure. In fact at first they were even trying to minimize AFU casualties. The evidence for this is overwhelming: The RF did not hit civilian infrastructure - water, electric, phone, transportation. They did not hit AFU barracks, command centers, government buildings, etc.

    The Russians' initial priority was for a negotiated settlement. But by late March, they realized this was impossible.

    This is why the RF withdrew from Kiev. There was no sense putting men near the city when they were not doing what they were supposed to do - putting political pressure on the Zelensky regime to negotiate. This withdrawal was claimed as a “victory” in the “Battle of Kiev”! lmao

    Starting in late March, the Russians pulled back and solidified their control over the area they had captured, ceding to the AFU areas that were either pointless to or potentially too costly to control. The Ukraine propaganda machine called all these pull- backs “victories”.

    There was still a glimmer that the war might end in a negotiated settlement but that ended in early April. After the Istanbul talks of 3/30, the Ukraine side gingerly agreed to some compromises but within a week publicly disavowed those concessions.

    That's when the Russians realized the Zelensky regime was agreement-incapable: Their Washington masters, Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken in particular, wouldn't allow a peace. They want this war to sap Russia dry. It is a classic proxy war and Ukraine will pay the price.

    Something else the Russians realized: Sanctions. They hurt but Russia bounced back with remarkable speed. They didn't really hurt that bad. But the theft of Russia's $300 billion in foreign reserves by the West DID hurt - badly. The Russians realized they were in a total war with the West and since their foreign reserves were lost forever (likely to be pilfered by corrupt Western politicos), the Russians now have nothing left to lose. By stealing their reserves, the West lost all power over Russia.

    This has sealed Ukraine's fate: The Russians now have no incentive to give up what they have conquered. It has cost them too much in terms of men and treasure. And they know that they can't negotiate a ceasefire. The Zelensky regime will simply break it later.

    Which means:

    The Russians intend to conquer and permanently annex all the south and east of Ukraine. This is why their strategy on the battlefield has dramatically shifted: Now they are carrying out a slow, methodical grinding down and destruction of the AFU.

    The war in the first 30 days was speed, feints, nominally capturing vast swathes of Ukraine territory, with the aim of pressuring the Zelensky regime into a negotiated settlement. But the West's total financial and political break with Russia means they have nothing to lose. And they have a lot to gain: The Donbas is mineral rich, the really productive farmlands of Ukraine are in the east and south, Kharkov is a major industrial city, the Sea of Azov has untold natural gas reserves.

    And besides - the people love them. Why would the Russians now give up this hard-won prize?

    And they have won - make no mistake. Ask any military man who is not a system pig, he'll tell you: There is no way for the AFU to retake their country. They have no armor, no air defense, no fuel, no comms - it's over.

    The great tragedy is that so many THOUSANDS of young men will die, and die NEEDLESSLY!!, in order to postpone the inevitable. These brave boys will have fought so valiantly - and died so young, so cruelly -because of the evil of the Zelensky regime.

    That's the hard truth.

    And in the end, this will be the map that will remain—a bitter image of Ukraine's future. Russia will pour billions into their newly acquired territory. It will prosper and flourish. But the rump-state of Ukraine will be left poor, destroyed, forgotten.

    A tragedy.



    I concur with the above except for two minor detail. The move on Kiev was not intended to hinder resupply to Ukrainian troops in Donbas but to 'fix' potential reinforcement around the capital. That enabled Russian troops to open the corridor from Crimea to the Russian boarder as well as to cross the Dnieper in the south and to take Kherson. Those were the most important moves for the further development of the war.

    I also do not believe that Russia will 'annex' the areas it is liberating from fascist control. Once librated the people in those areas will vote on becoming independent from Ukraine and the various regions, Donbas, Luhansk, Kherson, Odessa, will form states that will become part of the Federal Republic of Novorossia.

    That country will be recognized and supported by Russia and its allies.


    Edit to add:
    Fixed the bad link, my apologies.
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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    Goerge Galloway with guest Gonzalo Lira.

    When you express from a fearful heart in the now moment, You create a fearful future.
    When you express from a loving heart in the now moment, You create a loving future.

    Have no fear, Be aware and live your lives journey from a compassionate caring nurturing heart to manifest a compassionate caring nurturing future. Billyji


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    Some significant news. An abandoned archive was found at the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe] headquarters in Mariupol. It contains OSCE field reports from 2014, documenting thousands of Ukrainian war crimes, which the OSCE then concealed in the official reports of the mission in Ukraine. In addition, a warehouse of Italian-made mortar mines was found in the garage of the OSCE building. The markings on the boxes indicate that the mines were packed for shipping by sea on 11 March.

    https://t.me/dtlive/50545

    For anyone who can't see this (or read Russian! ), here's the translated text:

    ~~~
    Urgent! Important!

    Headquarters #ОБСЕ #OSCE in Mariupol.

    The OSCE staff abandoned their archive. All OSCE field reports since 2014 were found, and thousands of Ukrainian war crimes were documented, which the OSCE then hid in the official reports of the mission in Ukraine.

    And also, in the garage of the OSCE building at 25 Primorsky Boulevard, Mariupol, a warehouse of Italian-made mortar mines was found. The labels on the crates indicate that they were packed for shipping by sea on 11 March 2022.

    For a monitoring organization, it is strange, to say the least, to have supplied weapons to one of the parties to the conflict.


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    Default Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

    For my latest Ukraine war post, please see up top at:



    https://thedreizinreport.com/



    Russia’s original war plan vs. the new plan,
    Sooner or later, one of the Ukraine’s nuclear reactors will rapture,
    Civilians blessing and waving to Russian soldiers in Kharkov,
    War crime or TV crime drama?
    No, Russia won’t use WMD’s in the Ukraine,
    Russia targeting NATO arms shipments,
    A lesson from the Russo-Turkish war,
    Azov cries “uncle!”,
    A little about Trump,
    And other splendid tales of action and adventure!

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    There's a new situation arising, which those who have been following all this closely might want to mentally bookmark.
    Transnistria Raises Terrorist Threat Level, Says Three Terrorist Attacks Occurred in Republic
    Earlier, the Ministry of State Security building in Tiraspol, Transnistria has been rocked by a series of explosions.

    The unrecognized republic of Transnistria has imposed a red level of the terrorist threat which envisages taking additional security measures, Vadim Krasnoselsky, the republic’s president, said on Tuesday.

    "The PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky held a meeting of the Security Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic [PMR]. The main issue is terrorist attacks on infrastructure facilities and state institutions of the republic," Krasnoselsky’s press office said.

    The PMR authorities added that three terrorist attacks have occurred in the republic in recent days.

    "The level of danger was recognized by members of the PMR Security Council as critical. A decision was made to introduce a ‘red’ level of terrorist threat in the country, which provides for the adoption of additional measures to ensure the security of the individual, society and the state," the office said.

    In turn, Moldovan President Maia Sandu called for holding a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday due to explosions in Transnistria, the republic's presidential office said.

    "Moldovan President Maia Sandu convenes a meeting of the Supreme Security Council today due to explosions in the Transnistrian region. The meeting will begin at 13:00 [10:00 GMT,]" the presidential administration said in a statement.

    After the meeting, the president will make a statement to the press.

    Earlier in the day, two explosions have rocked Mayak village in the Grigoriopol district, Transnistria, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

    "In the early morning of 26 April, two explosions occurred in the town of Maiac, the Grigoriopol district: the first was at 06:40 [local time, 03:40GMT], the second at 07:05," the ministry wrote on Telegram.

    As a result of the two explosions in Mayak village, the two most powerful antennae of the radio centre have been disabled.

    "Two of the most powerful antennae are disabled: one megawatt, the second half a megawatt. Both rebroadcast Russian radio. There were no injuries among the radio centre staff or local residents," the Ministry of Internal Affairs' press office said.

    According to the ministry, law enforcement officers and emergency services were sent to the scene, Grigoriopol militiamen cordoned off the area surrounding the Mayak radio and television centre, and the Ministry of Defence's bomb squad began to examine all the shrapnel and other detritus.

    A series of explosions occurred on Monday in Tiraspol in the building of the Ministry of State Security of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

    https://t.me/sputniknewsus/12583

    After the incident, the Interior Ministry of the unrecognized republic published a preliminary report, saying that a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher was fired into the building. The ministry specified that windows on the upper floors of the building were broken and the surrounding area was cordoned off by police officers. There were no casualties as a result of the explosions.

    Transnistria, 60% of the population of which are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, fearing that Moldova would integrate with Romania. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the issue by force, Transnistria became a territory de facto not controlled by Chisinau.
    ~~~

    I'd only barely heard of Transnistria, and didn't understand the potential significance. But here, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran assess all this and explain how it could be a dangerous flashpoint should Russia get drawn into this, with Romania/NATO in the other corner.


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    Joseph Farrell weighs in with an occult perspective.


    https://gizadeathstar.com/2022/04/an-occult-war-too/

    AN OCCULT WAR TOO?
    By Joseph Farrell

    First of all I'd like to thank everyone for your indulgence with the fewer blogs last week during Orthodox holy week. Thank you also for continuing to send in such amazing articles. In fact, this has been "one of those weeks" when it is very difficult to make a choice what to blog about... very very difficult, but most of the "rejects" I've included in this coming weekend's "honourable mentions." In the final analysis, I picked three articles and topics that were the most "high-octane-speculatable."

    This week's first story appeared in an article sent along by E.E., and it's one of "those" stories that we're all accustomed to in the internet age: a sensational rumour, lots of speculation, not much by way of corroborating evidence, and massive implications if true. In this case, however, there does appear to be a bit more by way of corroborating evidence. In any case, the story concerns the possible official use, by the Ukraine, of witchcraft and other occult "methods" in its war against Russia:

    WTF 3 Weeks ago Witches In Ukraine (Sic)To Perform Three-part Ritual In An Effort To Isolate And Topple Vladimir Putin

    ROC says Ukrainian authorities use “witches and satanic rites” in war with Russia – video


    Satanic Statues Recovered From Russian Missile Strike in Ukraine — Russia Claims U.S. Mercenaries Fighting in Ukraine “Worship the Devil”

    Now what intrigues me here - as you might imagine - is the fact that apparently there is some corroboration of the idea that the Ukrainian government, or as is more likely, elements within it, is sponsoring or making use of "occult methods and magic" to attempt to reverse the tide of war fortunes, fortunes which as far as I can tell are not running in Kiev's favour in spite of the attempts of the western media to portray it otherwise. In this case, having clergy from the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church making the claim on Russian national television is pretty good corroboration, and here's why: (1) Russian television wouldn't run anything without government approval, and (2) clergy wouldn't be appearing on television making such claims without hierarchical approval, and (3) neither the Russian government nor the Russian Church have anything to gain by lying about such a matter.

    Which brings us to the final article, where we read this:

    Quote Russian news sources have claimed to have uncovered “Satanists from the ‘Forward Observation Group,'” — an alleged U.S. mercenary unit comprised of former military and special operations currently in Ukraine — stating that members of the group “worship the devil in the truest sense of the word.”

    These allegations come as recent video from the front lines of the Ukraine conflict shows Russian military forces uncovering what appears to be satanic statues with the face of baphomet, and cult-like paganistic figurines.

    ...

    While it is no secret many Americans have gone to Ukraine to fight alongside the neo-nazi Azov Battalion, the allegations of satanism bring a new twist to the already convoluted conflict, as Western propaganda efforts intensify — and as shipments of military equipment and billions of U.S. dollars increases by the day.
    ...

    The last article even makes the astonishing and nauseating claim that Ukrainian forces allegedly crucified a man alive, and provides a link to the article outlining the claim. Now, I have no idea if Russian military forces have actually found Nazi and other occult-like paraphernalia including statues of Baphomet or not. After all, in wars, truth initially goes out the window, and combatants typically exercise no restraint in their depictions of their enemies as sub-human, godless, genocidal, and so on...

    ... but here's the problem: like it or not, there are fascist, Nazi, connections behind the current government and military of the Ukraine, and they've been there for all to see since all of this began. See for example, this old interview with Mr. Richard Dolan which I did, from 2018, and go to about 1 hour and 28 minutes into the video for my "take" on the situation back then:

    Watch Dolan/Farrell video here:




    The bottom line here is that the historical connection of Nazi Waffen SS units in the Second World War to the modern Ukrainian military that I mentioned in some of my books provides corroborating context for the contemporary claims. As most readers of this website are aware, I've written several books about post-war Nazi survival, in which books I have also occasionally touched upon the Nazis' secret research and sometimes - oftentimes - its occult preoccupations and willingness to consider weaponizing black magic as a weapon of war.

    All of this puts the Russian allegations not only into the realm of possibility and in my opinion probablity, but it also puts the whole mess into yet another dimension, for behind all the geopolitics, economics, the grifting financial deals of very corrupt and criminal families in positions of leadership in the west, the special deals to turn the rich black soil of the Ukraine into a GMO foods paradise (q.v. the comments of Mr. Dolan in the above interview), the use of the Ukraine as a vital hub for money laundering and I strongly suspect all sorts of human trafficking, there is now a new dimension, that of a real war between two mutually opposed cosmologies and cultures, the increasingly rootless cosmopolitan and demonic "culture" of the west, and that of a nation that spent several decades in that kind of technocratic hell, and is attempting to return to its older traditional and Christian culture.

    And the sad thing is, the deluded materialist "leadership" running the west - and apparently The Ukraine - don't even realize that when one invokes the devil, he has a bad habit of actually showing up.

    So, no, Mr. Zelensky, I won't be praying for the success of your arms. For a swift end to the war and the bloodshed, yes; for the victory of devil-serving neo-Nazis and witches?

    Absolutely not!

    See you on the flip side...
    A million galaxies are a little foam on that shoreless sea. ~ Rumi

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    Quote Posted by Franny (here)
    Joseph Farrell weighs in with an occult perspective.


    https://gizadeathstar.com/2022/04/an-occult-war-too/

    AN OCCULT WAR TOO?
    By Joseph Farrell
    Don't act so surprised Jo', that's what it's all about.
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    http://thesaker.is/the-moskva-riddle/

    comment about sinking of Moskva cruiser
    Was NATO involved ?
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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    The RF {Russian Federation] put 30K troops near Kiev — nowhere near enough to capture the city — but enough to pin down some 100K AFU defenders. The RF also launched several axes of attack, with reinforcements on standby (including a famed 40km long tank column), to see where they might be needed.

    Surprised to see this; wasn't it a misinterpretation? 40km of highway with about 6km of convoy.


    In occult acts of war, we could start with English witches who summoned favorable winds to bog down the Spanish Armada so it would be wrecked when they tried to attack England. Same ones that were soon persecuted and killed.


    In the Orthodox view, any representation of Christ that is not true is anti-Christ. So they have been in conflict with this for a thousand years, at least. Aggression and invasions come from the direction of anti-Christ religions, so what do we make of this? A few guys with pentagrams surely pales in comparison. Enfranchisement of Satanism in the U. S. Army is relatively new, and, does not, to my knowledge, inherently carry the same strategies as for instance Neo-cons. Nothing about it is necessarily racist, etc., until it gets in the hands of those that feel that way. Whether you attack the Orthodox under the sign of a pentagram or cross hardly matters, since the two are about the same in this case.

    This is a conflict of civilization and real religions versus superiority and false ones.

    In the west, we are supposed to recognize "Jedi" as a religion. Again, just...do anything...and complain. Then you get privileges and powers.


    To borrow from Christ's Words:


    The meaning that Satan has today as the name of "the chief of evil spirits" comes from Christian traditions unknown at the time the Gospels were written.


    Satan, therefor, not really even being a name, then Satanism would be like capitalizing "rock", "boat", or "leaf". So what some of those guys are doing is about like saying "Leaf, defeat Russia!"

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    https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/rus...-local-reports

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    Pentagon Chief Admits The Real Strategic Goal In Ukraine: Quagmire For Russia
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    Ron Paul: The Ukraine War Is A Racket

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    reported on NATO strikes on the airfield in Tiraspol

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    Give War a Chance: NATO and Neo-Nazis Want Ukraine Conflict to Go on Forever

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    Increased troop strength around Azovstal plant

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    Tucker: We are at war with Russia


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