Thanks again, Graham for a nice dose of optimism. We both are banking on the innate common-sense of the Ukrainian people to avoid the worst of the innovations that the EU would like to force on them. Couldn't agree with you more about the Visegrad countries having their own best interests at heart. Meanwhile, we have shed many tears over the deaths of our friends' and neighbors' sons and fathers during this war. So many have lost everything. Many of the Ukrainians whom we've befriended in Germany would love nothing more than to go back home. Both of us, as Americans who have made Kyiv our homeland for many of the reasons you write about are praying this to end and for the right side to win!
Ukraine won't be in the EU or NATO and the war will likely end in a stalemate without Ukrainians regaining Donbass or Luhask. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are western and there is growing resentment in Poland towards Ukrainians.
You offer a lot to unpack. Can you post links to sources?
Though I am sure that the shell-shocked, displaced and conscripted inhabitants of Donetsk and Lugansk now regret Russia's entry, it could well have been that they would have felt differently in 2013.
You are surely right that the huge influx of Ukrainians has distorted things in Poland. Its generosity is undoubtedly at the expense of the Polish taxpayer. Look forward to what you can post.
The war gave Zelensky the opportunist to reform the government and focus on unity of effort. I imagined he was elected to reduce corruption and we shall see about that. Once the bosses stop stealing from the treasury and the people, perhaps that will bring a better future once Russia goes away. The loss of talent from Ukraine over the years has limited progress.
I received a link to the video earlier but didn't bother to watch it. My assumption was that, in part, it "revealed" Fauci's involvement in and the parallels to the AIDS epidemic. It seems my assumptions were correct. Is that why Judy Mikovits was not part of those selected for Team Reality? Perhaps she is in the movie, but didn't make your list. If she wasn't, I have to assume it is because she was talking about Fauci and his involvement in the AIDS crisis years ago - breaking through at the beginning of the plandemic in 2020. If Mikovits wasn't given any credit for her research and revelation of this information in RFK Jr.'s book or movie, it solidifies my view that he is controlled opposition. It is usually pretty obvious when they leak out info that "we've all known" for two or more years.
You are thinking more deeply than I. Yes, Mikovits' movie Plandemic, with Mikki Willis, certainly opened my eyes. Also absent were Alex Berenson, the Breggins, Bret Weinstein and others. But some of those included such as Celia Farber have been on the case for decades. I'll believe it is coincidence until I hear otherwise.
Perhaps. But it really seems like a gross oversight to not have Mikovits as part of the Fauci story. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but isn't Fauci practically the reason she went to jail? Because the controlled opposition psyop (AKA 5th Generation Warfare) has become so perfected, I do like to dig into the money. Where does this person invest? For RFK Jr., I find it compelling that he is a partner on the CleanTech investment team of Silicon Valley’s VantagePoint Capital Ventures. https://www.globeseries.com/forum/speaker/robert-f-kennedy-jr/
An alternative energy investments advisor? Sounds a little 4th Industrial Revolutionist to me. Not to mention the holiday party snafu where invitations included a requirement for the Covid vaccine as well as testing. He never denied it, but only threw his wife under the bus for it. https://people.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-holiday-party-guests-covid-shots-cheryl-hines/
If the technocratic, transhumanist, 4IR rolls out (with the help of alternative energy investments) as planned, the debate around vaccines won't matter. Mind control is the game and if they can control your mind, it won't be hard to control your medical decisions or anything else for that matter.
I look for the good where I find it. Kennedy's book is very useful. I'm with you on the fourth industrial revolution nonsense. I find it sad that demands for intellectual purity set Breggin against Malone against Berenson. The most important issue is that they all enjoy the opportunity to express opinions.
I'm focused on small victories. We got our butane tank yesterday. The 6th (!) gas station we tried agreed to fill it.
I take exception to the wording of your observation, "The people I know are mostly university educated. It is entirely reasonable that they do not wind up in the military."
Sounds a little elitist to me. And disappointing. Does this mean the university educated in Ukraine are shirkers, leaving the saving of Ukraine to their less educated compatriots? Everything I've heard up to now suggests there is a massive civilian push to fight the Russians in everyway possible. From what you say, the elites don't care enough about their country to do 'bugger all'. Could that really be?
Perhaps it is. The elite in every war seem make sure their sons don't fight and die for their country. It is always someone else's son they want to step up to the plate. Somehow I thought Ukraine might be different. Tell me it isn't so, Graham.
In Japan, during World War II, even top-class university students were conscripted into the army and sent to overseas battlefields as the lowest third-class soldiers and died. (At a time when the percentage of college students was much lower than it is now), to put it bluntly, people who weren't smart were running the army and lording it over the background of force. In Japan, unlike the United States, ordinary citizens do not have weapons, and if they oppose the military, they will go to jail for many years or tortuerd, just like in Myanmar or CCP today.
After the war, when my relative hired a colonel at his factory, he was incompetent and useless.
I think that the use of thinking ability by smart people in strategy and tactics will lead the country to an overall advantage in politics and international relations, whether it wins or loses the war.
I think that unlike the Middle Ages, modern warfare is all-out warfare, threfor in times of war, it is important not only to have a head, but also to have the humanity to bring the people together.
I don't want to see Hitler even if the top put it together, it maybe needed the maturity of the people & society.
It isn't elitist of me, just what I observe. Not just here, but in Western Europe, the USA, and of course Russia. We all support the war, but there was no rush to enlist that I saw. There was a huge push to enlist for WWI, a substantial push for WWII, but very little for Korea, Vietnam or the Middle Eastern wars. 'Fraid that's the case worldwide.
The civilian population here does enthusiastically donate money, clothes, food and all else for the cause. They support the troops.
Thanks again, Graham for a nice dose of optimism. We both are banking on the innate common-sense of the Ukrainian people to avoid the worst of the innovations that the EU would like to force on them. Couldn't agree with you more about the Visegrad countries having their own best interests at heart. Meanwhile, we have shed many tears over the deaths of our friends' and neighbors' sons and fathers during this war. So many have lost everything. Many of the Ukrainians whom we've befriended in Germany would love nothing more than to go back home. Both of us, as Americans who have made Kyiv our homeland for many of the reasons you write about are praying this to end and for the right side to win!
Ukraine won't be in the EU or NATO and the war will likely end in a stalemate without Ukrainians regaining Donbass or Luhask. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are western and there is growing resentment in Poland towards Ukrainians.
You offer a lot to unpack. Can you post links to sources?
Though I am sure that the shell-shocked, displaced and conscripted inhabitants of Donetsk and Lugansk now regret Russia's entry, it could well have been that they would have felt differently in 2013.
You are surely right that the huge influx of Ukrainians has distorted things in Poland. Its generosity is undoubtedly at the expense of the Polish taxpayer. Look forward to what you can post.
The war gave Zelensky the opportunist to reform the government and focus on unity of effort. I imagined he was elected to reduce corruption and we shall see about that. Once the bosses stop stealing from the treasury and the people, perhaps that will bring a better future once Russia goes away. The loss of talent from Ukraine over the years has limited progress.
I received a link to the video earlier but didn't bother to watch it. My assumption was that, in part, it "revealed" Fauci's involvement in and the parallels to the AIDS epidemic. It seems my assumptions were correct. Is that why Judy Mikovits was not part of those selected for Team Reality? Perhaps she is in the movie, but didn't make your list. If she wasn't, I have to assume it is because she was talking about Fauci and his involvement in the AIDS crisis years ago - breaking through at the beginning of the plandemic in 2020. If Mikovits wasn't given any credit for her research and revelation of this information in RFK Jr.'s book or movie, it solidifies my view that he is controlled opposition. It is usually pretty obvious when they leak out info that "we've all known" for two or more years.
You are thinking more deeply than I. Yes, Mikovits' movie Plandemic, with Mikki Willis, certainly opened my eyes. Also absent were Alex Berenson, the Breggins, Bret Weinstein and others. But some of those included such as Celia Farber have been on the case for decades. I'll believe it is coincidence until I hear otherwise.
Perhaps. But it really seems like a gross oversight to not have Mikovits as part of the Fauci story. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but isn't Fauci practically the reason she went to jail? Because the controlled opposition psyop (AKA 5th Generation Warfare) has become so perfected, I do like to dig into the money. Where does this person invest? For RFK Jr., I find it compelling that he is a partner on the CleanTech investment team of Silicon Valley’s VantagePoint Capital Ventures. https://www.globeseries.com/forum/speaker/robert-f-kennedy-jr/
An alternative energy investments advisor? Sounds a little 4th Industrial Revolutionist to me. Not to mention the holiday party snafu where invitations included a requirement for the Covid vaccine as well as testing. He never denied it, but only threw his wife under the bus for it. https://people.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-holiday-party-guests-covid-shots-cheryl-hines/
If the technocratic, transhumanist, 4IR rolls out (with the help of alternative energy investments) as planned, the debate around vaccines won't matter. Mind control is the game and if they can control your mind, it won't be hard to control your medical decisions or anything else for that matter.
5th Generation warfare: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/your-guide-to-fifth-generation-warfare?s=w
Oh - and he was in Jeffrey Epstein's black book...that just looks bad, no matter what.
I look for the good where I find it. Kennedy's book is very useful. I'm with you on the fourth industrial revolution nonsense. I find it sad that demands for intellectual purity set Breggin against Malone against Berenson. The most important issue is that they all enjoy the opportunity to express opinions.
I'm focused on small victories. We got our butane tank yesterday. The 6th (!) gas station we tried agreed to fill it.
I take exception to the wording of your observation, "The people I know are mostly university educated. It is entirely reasonable that they do not wind up in the military."
Sounds a little elitist to me. And disappointing. Does this mean the university educated in Ukraine are shirkers, leaving the saving of Ukraine to their less educated compatriots? Everything I've heard up to now suggests there is a massive civilian push to fight the Russians in everyway possible. From what you say, the elites don't care enough about their country to do 'bugger all'. Could that really be?
Perhaps it is. The elite in every war seem make sure their sons don't fight and die for their country. It is always someone else's son they want to step up to the plate. Somehow I thought Ukraine might be different. Tell me it isn't so, Graham.
A story I heard from my mother.
In Japan, during World War II, even top-class university students were conscripted into the army and sent to overseas battlefields as the lowest third-class soldiers and died. (At a time when the percentage of college students was much lower than it is now), to put it bluntly, people who weren't smart were running the army and lording it over the background of force. In Japan, unlike the United States, ordinary citizens do not have weapons, and if they oppose the military, they will go to jail for many years or tortuerd, just like in Myanmar or CCP today.
After the war, when my relative hired a colonel at his factory, he was incompetent and useless.
I think that the use of thinking ability by smart people in strategy and tactics will lead the country to an overall advantage in politics and international relations, whether it wins or loses the war.
I think that unlike the Middle Ages, modern warfare is all-out warfare, threfor in times of war, it is important not only to have a head, but also to have the humanity to bring the people together.
I don't want to see Hitler even if the top put it together, it maybe needed the maturity of the people & society.
It isn't elitist of me, just what I observe. Not just here, but in Western Europe, the USA, and of course Russia. We all support the war, but there was no rush to enlist that I saw. There was a huge push to enlist for WWI, a substantial push for WWII, but very little for Korea, Vietnam or the Middle Eastern wars. 'Fraid that's the case worldwide.
The civilian population here does enthusiastically donate money, clothes, food and all else for the cause. They support the troops.
A good reply. Honest and forthcoming as usual.