There are two main news items this morning – one ‘foreign’, one ‘home news’. The ‘foreign news’ is that Putin ‘has gone and done it’, the other is Johnson’s latest ‘freedom day’ declaration, according to which all covid restrictions will be lifted from Thursday this week.
Not being gifted with the gift of prophecy I cannot predict how events will develop during the day in regard to Russia and Ukraine, but as a keen observer of political machinations in Whitehall and government as ‘presented’ in the MSM, through “sources”, allow me to point out a few, well, let’s say: anomalies.
We remember that US intelligence services and indeed the US president have been ‘predicting’ the day when Putin will invade Ukraine for a few weeks now. There were maps and graphs all over the MSM describing precisely how and what Putin would act. Ukrainian politicians were jumping up and down and demanding immediate action or at least more armament from ‘Teh West’ – since December last year.
Western politicians were flitting about or making important phone calls, especially in the last two weeks – from Johnson and Macron to the German new Chancellor Scholz to various foreign secretaries, two of whom are female and reasonably new in their job: the German Ms Baerbock of the German Green Party who got her post after the German GE in September last year, and our Ms Liz Truss who got her job after Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle, also in September 2021.
For weeks our and the international MSM were full of reports of politicians threatening sanctions against Russia, not least by the EU’s Ms vdL who said that the EU was ready for ‘unprecedented sanctions’.
And now there’s this …: in a first step last evening Putin recognised the two Ukrainian provinces Donetz and Luhansk as independent republics (link). In a second step Putin last night ordered troops into those republics (link, paywalled). He clearly hasn’t read the playbook prepared for him by Washington. He even got the day wrong: this was meant to happen on Wednesday!
So now what? Didn’t the much vaunted intelligence services foresee that Putin might do precisely this: recognise those two regions where civil war between western Ukrainians and the separatist forces has been going on for years? Of course, we are totally against separatists demanding self-determination, such as Catalunya a few years ago. It was different when the West created a new statelet, Kosovo, from a separatist province of Serbia.
All this begs the question: what were all those fabulous leaders doing in the years this conflict has been going on? What were they doing about demanding the Ukrainian governments adhere and implement the Minsk II Protocol? Moreover, don’t the statutes of NATO prohibit the admission of states where civil unrest or war is taking place? I also remember the various reports that the USA was supporting Ukraine in their bid for EU and NATO membership because they were hoping to take over the harbour at Sevastopol for the US Navy.
One might assume that the West was not interested in a solution because it was a festering thorn in Putin’s flesh, that the covert and now overt aim was and is to get rid of Putin and diminish Russia’s power as much as possible. Also, sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2014 when Putin took back the Crimea. And what are the reactions of ‘Teh West’ now? See this:
“The US plans sanctions against anyone who trades with the separatists in Dontesk and Luhansk, the White House said. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said on Monday that the US would also announce “additional measures related to today’s blatant violation of Russia’s international commitments”. (paywalled link)
Perhaps I’m naive when I think that ‘international’ means that other nations beside Russia are involved. What have they been doing to solve this Ukrainian crisis except talk up a war with Russia? Haven’t their inactions helped these ‘blatant violations’ by not insisting Ukraine fulfil their obligations? As for those packages – crikey:
However, it was not clear whether that would include the “devastating” package of sanctions Joe Biden has promised if Russia actually invades. The EU has agreed a “limited” package of sanctions that will target those “responsible” for the recognition of the separatist regions, said Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister.” (paywalled link)
Ahem. Have or haven’t all those civil serpents in the various departments – USA, EU, UK, no matter – worked out a sanctions plan? What were they doing? Did they think that somehow sending Truss to Moscow would make Putin quail? Did they think that announcements by Ms vdL, by Biden, would make Putin shake in his boots? Did they in fact do nothing at all except blowing hot air and posturing? Btw – what, if anything, is actually produced in those two regions where civil war has been going on for eight years?
Never mind, those sanctions will be terrible, we’re told, and the UK ‘will join the US’ in this endeavour (link). Have a heart for Johnson who will chair a Cobra meeting at 6.30am this morning (link). It will be interesting, but don’t expect any words being said about why Ukraine wasn’t and isn’t held to account for fomenting civil war in those regions. Prohibiting the use of and teaching of the Russian language in those regions where most people are Russians anyway must now be internationally acceptable …
And so to the scrapping of all covid restrictions. We’re told that Johnson and Sunak ‘ganged up’ on Javid who couldn’t even prevent keeping the free distribution of covid tests. From April 1st people except the very elderly will have to pay for those tests themselves with a pack of lateral flow tests costing £20 (link, paywalled).
One wonders if all those businesses who insist on daily tests will now scrap that rule or if they’ll pay for those tests themselves. One wonders if NHS hospitals will ‘allow’ patients to enter without tests. One wonders if our own ‘separatist’, ‘breakaway’ regions and their tinpot dictators Sturgeon and Dripford, will follow England.
One wonders if Johnson now regards himself as ‘secure’ because he’s been posturing on the international stage where nobody asked about Partygate. Playing with war and peace, with economic sanctions which might look good in the international press but which will have economic consequences which are necessarily incalculable, is a very heady addictive drug.
Back ‘on the ground’ outside the Westminster Village, we’re still facing the rise in NI contributions and fuel costs. We’re still facing inflation and we’re still facing the fall-out of two years of covid restrictions. Meanwhile, the Canadian government has agreed to keep the ‘emergency’ measures destroying democracy in place for another 30 days. Well, the coalition didn’t want to face a new GE, so they supported Trudeau who threatened he’d resign if they didn’t support him (paywalled here).
Why would we care about all that, from destroyed economies to destroyed democracies! that when we can finally have a ‘little local war’ in Europe – a ‘little war’ which might get rid of Putin, something the Washington Swamp has been working for ever since he came to power in 2000.
Above all – let’s not mention China with one word. You might like to cast your eyes over this article published by the Gatestone Institute, about Chinese influence in the USA. Now that’s something we should care about and be scared of. Time to tighten our belts – not just for the coming international bumpy ride but in preparation for our own depleting home finances.
But then again, we were told, were we not, that we’ll be poor but happy after that ‘great reset’ …
I have just been watching some bloke from the EU outlining the dreadful sanctions the 27 members have agreed between them.
I trust they will be harmonised with British interests, because I would deprecate collateral damage.
In whatever agreement they come to with us, I would hope we insist that the war they are presently waging against us is dropped.
Meaning at least the Protocol which annexes Nkrthern Ireland is replaced, that the ECJ is taken out of the mix permanently, that the European Arrest Warrant will be retailored to terms that agree with our Magna Carta derived justice system
And most of all bad mouthing us internationally will cease
For NATO to work, we have to be seen to be treated as an equal member, originator and in some cases a paymaster
Here is a very short video (2 minutes) that explains the criminals who are in plain sight. 4_5809771505038396538-1.mp4 . I saw a poster recently which said it all in a few words “WE TRIED TO TELL YOU”. As far as I am concerned Viv, you have been brilliant in exposing the criminals and I believe right is definitely on your side.
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It’s been one of those days today! Just finished reading today’s edition and the swamp keeps making my blood boil. How much longer can these fools carry on? One positive, I have been getting a push for about two weeks ?.
Does the Govenor General have the power to remove Trudeau?
I seem to remember such power was invoked in Australia, say 50 years ago
The Governor General position is an honorary role isn’t it, and confers no real power. And even if it does it is not a good idea to interfere in Canadian politics. It is down to the Canadian electorate to dispense with Trudeau at the ballot box, and that’s the way it should be. We didn’t like it here in Britain when the European Union tried to interfere in UK politics, as it still does with regard to fishing rights in the English Channel and with Northern Ireland of course. I want to see our bumbling prime minister spending more of his time and energy in sorting out the problems in this country rather than pretending to be something he is not in Munich and making vague threats against the Russians. However all these politicians enjoy their trips abroad, trying to sound important and relevant which Johnson is patently not, and eating five course dinners and quaffing expensive wines and champagnes at the public expense, with the odd photo opportunity thrown in for good measure….
Apparently, the White House is “dithering” over whether Russian troops crossing an internationally recognised border constitutes an invasion. It seems annexation is not the same as invasion. Thus far, what is happening in the east of Ukraine is straight out of Putin’s Georgia playbook. It may be that the ‘shock and awe’ attack forecast for Kiev will not happen. One can hope so simply because of the human suffering an actual attack would cause. Putin now has a victory – Donetsk and Luhansk – for domestic consumption (and face saving) though I have no more idea than dithering Joe Biden as to whether that will be enough for him. Putin has exposed the fragmented, decadent, leaderless and rudderless West for what it has become, bringing into stark relief the consequences of the West’s self-flagellation (and the provocative hubris of the EU since 2013, as relevant to the Ukraine crisis as Putin). One can quietly than Putin for that perhaps. Alas, he may also have dented the resolve of Poland and Hungary to resist the EU. The Chinese are doubtless watching the West carefully and learning more about us than we about them as usual. It’s the butterfly effect. A small flap of wings in Donetsk yields all manner of consequences elsewhere, consequences that are hard to track and predict. I lived at a time, and am old enough to remember, when I was briefly a freeborn Englishman. I’m not sure whether I have been lucky or cursed to have enjoyed that very short historical aberration, for increasingly it clearly is that now. I do not want to see Ukrainians bombed and shelled, but Justin Trudeau scares me far more than Putin, as do all the West’s leaders who are silent. Western governments are set to take control of our bank accounts. George Orwell’s image of a jackboot on a human face forever is way too close now.
I’d like to underline and emphasise your last three sentences. They describe the situation we’re now in. It’s thoroughly frightening that we’re told to be afraid of war – it remains to be seen how small and local it’ll turn out to be – while those western ‘leaders’ who should have spoken out about Trudeau’s oh so legal measures to stifle and kill of any opposition to his policies.
The silence of the leaders, the connivance of the MSM, their incessant cries of “look at that over there [squirrels, shiny round objects – no matter], don’t look at this” has brought us to this point.
While I’m glad that I’m too old to have to live long with the consequences of what is now slowly taking form (that jackboot on a human face forever), I ma sorry for children and grandchildren who will have to live with that, and i wonder if I’ve done enough on my part to stop it, if not prevent it.
Viv . You can justly look yourself in mirror knowing you have done your bit against the enemy within.
Viv you absolutely need to have NO regrets about not having done more.
You’ve done more than most and given all that could reasonably be expected from you. Most ID readers have been doing their bit along the way. In the few conversations I’ve had with young people they do not know what I am talking about mostly because they know nothing except the Brave New World they march toward. While the globalist’s jackboot may be a conscious strategy for a few I believe many involved are simply naive. Our politicans are not in control. An increasingly independent civil service, independent of poltiical control, is running things these days. Voting is almost illusory. Angus Lapsley – he left top secret papers at a bus stop recall while drunk – although moved sideways away from defence has had his security clearance restored (I know this as I was in a pub last night with the guy who exposed him to the press). He should have been fired or jailed but the Blob looks after its own and is now powerful enough to defy ministers, convention, the law, and the public. The jackboot is our own elite. Historically they served the country, us, but now it is the other way around.
Voting for establishment parties will hasten the march toward the sunlit Brave New World. These credulous people richly deserve their servitude but those of us who refuse to play the establishment ponzi game do not.
Viv I know you don’t have a crystal ball ,but in your estimation is there ANY chance we might escape this horrible fate?
Difficult with a ‘Boris Triumphator’, sunning himself in some sort of make-believe heroism, having defeated both covid and Putin, in his mind.
If change there is to be had, it’ll come on the back of severe economic hardness – but who knows who’ll rise to the top after that.Given the atrocious illiteracy, both scientifically and historically, of the generations starting at age 18 and easily going all the way up to age 60 it will be very difficult for sanity to reappear. Don’t forget that for some time now older people, the despised ‘boomers’ have been maligned so much that they’re simply not being listened to.
No, right now I’m not very confident. But I’ll keep watching and recording …
It was UK Column, I think, that recently showed how fluid the borders of Ukraine have been through history. It is really a jig-saw puzzle of regions that have always been split and geographically morphed among one empire or another. That is not to excuse Putin, just to recognise that people have long memories and can retain ethnically, and through language, different allegiances across generations. Similar in many ways to the artificial construct that was Yugoslavia, which became unsustainable and fragmented.
People are tribal, despite what the globalists try to impose. It is natural for them to wish to live amongst similar folk, and is in no way a source of hate of others, especially with an uninterrupted history as long as ours where culture has slowly evolved, rather than being imposed jarringly by invaders – until now!! The ever stronger push to multi-culturalise Britain, and especially England, is just one of the reasons why I feel ever more a stranger in a strange land in my own country.
Stout Yeoman. Wow, your last 3 sentences resonate. Only 3 of our MPs ( Fysh, Baker and Redwood, as far as I know) have tweeted their shock at what is going on in Canada. Not a peep from Johnson or other G7 leaders. I emailed my MP on the weekend asking him to speak out and I attached a clip of the RCMP horses knocking peaceful protesters at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa to the ground and trampling on them. One of them was a disabled lady in some sort of mobility aid. The RCMP report was that a person had thrown a bicycle at one of the horses but the horse had not been hurt. No one that I talk to has the foggiest of what is going on in one of the Commonwealth countries, and shrug their shoulders wondering why I am so alarmed at it. They’ve not seen it on BBC so it’s not happening of course. Some of the independent news sources that I have been following, such as Rebel News ( a female reporter was injured by the police in Ottawa), and mr sunshine baby to find out what is going on on the ground in Canada seem to have been warned off and it is now difficult to get information. USA’s Fox News and Sky News Australia have some coverage.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10538587/Canadas-mounted-police-investigate-texts-officers-gloating-protesters-trampled.html
Answer:- caltrops for animals, not the self inflating car tyre type.
Who cares about Joe Biden and the USA any longer. They have had their day, and we don’t want them interfering in European politics including our own, and what is more using Britain as an aircraft carrier to threaten the Russians with military action. Didn’t I see on the news last week that four US heavy bombers landed at one of their bases here in the UK. I assume that they are not going to be used for dropping confetti..
Received my first push this morning, thanks.
Good-oh, I’m glad!
—err, push??? What’s that? Not a poke or a jab, I hope?
Nooo. I would like to live a few years more, at least. Just a nudge from Viv.
Don’t use that word “nudge” !!!!!!!!!!
bad connotations !!!!
Yes, the Independence Daily Nudge Unit………