‘Our fearless leader …’

 

 

Oh really, I said to myself when I saw this morning’s headlines in the MSM, announcing that, according to Johnson ‘there’s still a window for peace’ (paywalled link). Right at the last minute! Now isn’t that amazing!

Given that stories about ‘imminent war’ have dominated our MSM, given that the print media have published handy maps detailing of how Putin will invade (e.g. here), I detect the first faint whiffs of rowing back by Biden and Johnson:

“Boris Johnson and President Biden have said that there remains a “crucial window” to avoid a Russian invasion of Ukraine as Moscow hints that it is still open to a diplomatic solution to the crisis. In a marked change of tone the two western leaders agreed there was an opportunity to avert conflict as international efforts to ease tensions increased.” (link, paywalled)

Well, that’s good, innit, and all hail Messrs B and J! However, we’d like to know why these talks haven’t been going on ever since all those troops were being stationed at the Russian borders. Wasn’t it two months ago that the Ukrainian President warned of an ‘imminent coup’ by Putin? Never mind, we’re now given a quote from Mr Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Secretary who said:

“It seems to me that our possibilities [of diplomacy] are far from being exhausted,” Sergey Lavrov said. “[Talks] certainly should not continue indefinitely, but at this stage I would suggest that they continue and be intensified.” (link, paywalled)

And lo and behold, there’s also a quote from the Russian Defence Secretary General Shoygu who said that  “some military drills, which have fanned fears of invasion, had ended or were coming to a close.” (link, paywalled). The strange thing is that suddenly, such statements are ‘a good sign’, even though previously their statements weren’t heard because they’re ‘Putin critters’ and everybody, according to our MSM, knows we cannot believe a word they say.

Now though “we” listen and believe – how interesting! It’s also very interesting indeed to find the first hints of how this brinkmanship, this ‘last-effort diplomacy’, will be sold to us ignorant plebs:

“One senior British government source said there had been a “small but apparent change in Russia’s rhetoric” that had increased hope that it might be looking for a way to end the crisis.” (link, paywalled)

Yay! See – Putin only reacts to ‘strength’! Messrs B and J’s dire warnings of horrible sanctions such as closing the Western banking system to Putin are bearing fruit. There’s also the threat that the Nordstream2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany will be shut down ‘in case of war’, denying Putin income for his gas.

Since there’s still no gas flowing through yon pipeline because Biden wants it stopped and the EU has therefore not given the necessary agreement, one might well ask if this pipeline wasn’t the actual reason for all this warmongering, especially when we read:

“[Biden and Johnson] also reiterated the need for European countries to reduce their dependence on Russian gas, a move which, more than any other, would strike at the heart of Russia’s strategic interests.’ It comes after Mr Johnson had earlier compared European states to ‘addicts’ and called on them to end their reliance on Russian gas imports.” (link)

It’s of course far better to rely on US liquid gas tankers crossing the Atlantic to supply e.g. Germany which has closed down all but three of the nuclear power stations as well as most of their coal power stations: let them freeze in winter! Never mind that the lack of energy will cripple what remains of German industries! China can produce everything, can’t it …!

There’s one other Johnson quote which really makes me question his sanity because it sounds as if not just covid but also green blobbery has done severe damage to his mental capacities. He said:

“’What I think all European countries need to do now is get Nord Stream out of the bloodstream,’ he said on a visit to Scotland. ‘Yank out that hypodermic drip feed of Russian hydrocarbons that is keeping so many European economies going. We need to find alternative sources of energy … and get ready to impose some very, very severe economic consequences on Russia.’ (link)

Ah – ‘alternative sources of energy’ – like wind farms and solar farms, is it? Just to put that Johnson exhortation about alternative energy into perspective, read this report in Tallbloke’s workshop. Apparently the green blob, Johnson at the front, seem to think that we can easily  import our food rather than produce it if we have enough solar energy ‘farms’  … and never mind the CO2 footprint this would entail.

Note also that this quote, in typical Johnson hyperbole, contains the hint that, war or not, this is about imposing ‘economic consequences’ on Putin anyway. The approachement of Putin and Xi doesn’t seem to matter to all those strategic, green-infested geniuses

There’s one other news item which ought to have been given pride of place instead of being shunted to the outer regions of the online papers. Trudeau has announced that he’ll invoke emergency powers to crack down on the truckers’ protest:

“Under the legislation the police will be able to curb public assemblies and blockades. Police will have the power to tow away trucks participating in the “freedom convoy”. Other measures are aimed at cutting off the funding to the rebel truckers including freezing their bank accounts and voiding their insurance. Crowdfunding sites, who have funnelled millions of dollars to the truckers will have to report large transfers of money to Canada’s financial watchdog Fintrac.” (paywalled link)

Trudeau claims that he wouldn’t use the Army or ‘suspend fundamental rights including freedom of speech or peaceful assembly’ it’s obvious that he wouldn’t need to when he can threaten the livelihoods of those truckers should this Act go through parliament. However, the PMs of some Canadian provinces oppose Trudeau’s plan:

“The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec have opposed its use and experts questioned whether the threshold [of serious danger to the lives of Canadians] had been met.” (link, paywalled)

Trudeau has been labelling those truckers as ‘far right’, ‘influenced by right wing extremist groups’ from the USA. What a coincidence: Ms Ardern is now similarly claiming that the NZ Freedom protest has been ‘imported’, saying on TV that she’s never seen anything like it in NZ: “I’ve seen Trump flags on the forecourt, I’ve seen Canadian flags on the forecourt,” she said.” (paywalled link). Have Ardern, Trudeau and in fact the leaders of France and Germany all received a new hymn sheet? 

They are all demonising the protestors in their countries as ‘right wing extremists’. That means they don’t have to address the cause of all these protests: their disastrous covid measures which have robbed their citizens of their civil liberties. It’s quite astonishing, isn’t it, how many ‘right wing etc’ there suddenly are, all across the western world. I do wonder where they suddenly all came from …

We’re watching a performance of Western leaders who’re doing everything they can to distract us from addressing their failed covid policies which have led to the ruination of lives and livelihoods of so many of us. As the Johnsons of this world posture on the international stage they forget that we’ve now seen the torture instruments they have available to enforce our compliance with anything they propose.

Are there any differences between them and the ‘bad guys’ Putin and Xi?   Do tell us if you can see any …

 

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