Ukrainian Negotiator Accuses U.S. of Sabotaging Peace Deal with Russia

Paul Collier December 6, 2023

Davyd Arakhamia, the former head of the Ukrainian delegation at the 2022 Peace Talks held in Istanbul, is claiming Americans were the ones that pushed Ukraine to not accept a peace deal. He said the Russians “were prepared to end the war if we agreed to – as Finland once did- neutrality and committed that would not join NATO.” He claimed the Americans pushed Ukraine to not accept those terms.

He went on to explain that “For Moscow, Ukrainian neutrality was the key point…and the biggest thing for them.”

The negotiations happened just a few weeks after the start of the war, which began in February of 2022. Since that time, Ukraine has had at least half a million men killed or wounded, with Russia at 300,000, and those numbers are probably conservative, meaning close to (if not more than) a million human beings have been killed or wounded after the negotiations broke down.

The U.S. would NOT let Ukraine negotiate a peace that did not involve Ukraine being in the West’s orbit, no matter the cost to the Ukrainians themselves.

In this writer’s opinion, this is the war we are being forced to support by both major political parties in America, a war for NATO expansion, not a war for freedom or democracy, as our “leaders’ would have you believe. Russia invaded Ukraine to stop NATO expansion. The West, with America as the leader, pushed Russia into a war they are now using to make defense contractors rich and to grind down Russia using the blood of Ukrainians to do so.

Venezuelans Vote for War Against Guyana

Paul Collier December 5, 2023

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s referendum to invade Guyana was approved by the Venezuelan voters, allegedly. Venezuela’s National Election Council claims 10.5 million plus votes have been cast, but outside observers question the numbers given the paucity of people that showed up at designated polling stations.

Maduro said of the vote, “It has been a total success for our country, for our democracy.” Note the use of the term “democracy” by a de facto dictator running a de facto one-party state. The word has become a dog whistle for authoritarianism, and the “American” left is the prime example of the use of this word as a stand-in for one-party state absolute control over its “citizens.”

An International Court ruled last week that Venezuela does not have legitimate claim on the region Essequibo. Meanwhile, Venezuela’s government, according to the International Court President Joan E. Donoghue “is taking steps intending to acquire control and administer the territory in dispute.”

The claim over the region that comprises more than 75 percent of Guyana came after an oil deposit was discovered within the region.

Brazil has declared its intentions to come to the aid of Guyana should Venezuela choose to attack, having already moved troops to the border in anticipation of a potential war with Venezuela.

Weather War: From Banned Witchery To Military Operations

Michael Cessna November 17, 2023

War is hard. That is an oft-repeated phrase, but it is nonetheless true. People are trying to do violence to you, and to those around you…and frequently, it doesn’t matter if you are wearing a uniform or carrying a weapon or not. There are loud and scary noises, a lot of dirt, mud and bugs (among other unpleasant things), and people screaming in fear. And then, it starts raining…or hailing…or snowing. These things combine to make your life infinitely more miserable and terrifying than it already is.

But – the above are personal things. What about the wider context?

Last week, we discussed the effects of volcanic eruptions on logistics, the field of supplying armed forces. Here, we will look at the wider effects of weather on military operations.

Wars and the battles they are composed of are directly impacted by the weather. Armies, air forces and navies are all at the mercy of the weather. While unexpected “snow days” for civilians may mean an inconvenience in getting to work, and while a levee being breached by heavy rain can be a disaster that destroys towns and homes, for armed forces these events can be catastrophic when they happen unexpectedly. Weather forecasting is so vital to military forces, that multiple manuals are now devoted to it.

Militaries have known this for centuries. But, is in only in roughly the last two hundred years that militaries began to seriously monitor weather conditions across the wider “operational region” versus simply the local battlefield. Indeed, until 1950, meteorologists were not permitted to so much as say the word “tornado”, much less try to predict them before they formed, as this was essentially “career suicide”.

The US Army would not form a weather forecasting service until 1870, with the US Navy joining the program in 1873. The British were no better, not founding a meteorological office until 1854. This very late development was due to the belief dating from at least the Middle Ages that attempting to forecast the weather in any way was a form of witchcraft.

This frequently hamstrung military operations, sometimes in catastrophic ways; Napoleon and Hitler come to mind immediately.

In the context of combat operations, rain is bad, because most land operations are prosecuted off of prepared roads; “cross-country” is the word of the day. Heavy rains will turn normally solid fields into mud pits, quagmires that will swallow vehicles and troops. This is especially true when levees and dams are deliberately destroyed, aside from the sheer destruction inflicted on civilians, and the infrastructure to support them, in the combat area. This us, in fact, the accusation leveled at Russia in June of 2023, when the Kakhovka Dam in the Kherson Oblast of Ukraine was breached and flooded the area.

*Settlements on the left bank of Dnieper River are underwater after the Kakhovka Dam was breached on 6th June, 2023. CCA/4.0 International. Photo credit: Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.*

For air forces, severe weather simply grounds flights. But, those force’s airfields are not immune from damage. Clark Air Base, long a center of US military operations in the Far East, was functionally destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991.

*Remains of Clark Air Force Base, Luzon, Republic of the Philippines, January 1991, following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. The U.S. National Archives. Public Domain.*

And neither are naval forces immune. The US Navy maintains a policy of sortieing its ships and aircraft away from port areas threatened by large storms, lest they be wrecked by the storm’s surge and wind effects. And with good reason – although dangerous, getting ships out of port as quickly as possible is usually the safest option…but not always.

In 1944, during WW2 combat operations in the Pacific, the US Navy’s Task Force 38 was struck by a massive typhoon that nudged the scale as a Force Five hurricane on the modern scale, similar to Hurricanes Katrina and Andrew. The storm actually sank three destroyers, damaged nine more warships and killed nearly eight hundred sailors.

*The U.S. Navy light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27) rolling heavily during Typhoon Cobra, 18 December 1944. US Navy photo. Public Domain.*

And, as both Napoleon and Hitler discovered, snow is a terrible force, occasionally freezing troops to death on vast scales. Snow is like rain, but worse. Some forces can thrive in snowy and icy environments, but most people – and troops – cannot.

*An injured soldier from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in central Alaska during Exercise Timberline, 1963. Photo Credit: US Army photo by Sp4 Kenneth Puckett. Public Domain.*

And weather is not limited to hurricanes, ice, or rain. In 2003, as US and Coalition forces advanced north towards Baghdad, they were struck by a massive sandstorm that forced the advancing columns to halt, because visibility was reduced to zero.

A convoy of U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) in Northern Iraq, during a sandstorm during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Photo Credit: LCpl Andrew P. Roufs, USMC. Public Domain.

Planning military operations on a board game is easy. Doing it in real life is seriously hard work. It is only “witchcraft” to the mentally dense.

To quote the great Chinese general, Sun Tzu:

“Before doing battle, one calculates in the temple and will win, because many calculations were made; before doing battle, one calculates in the temple but will lose, because few calculations were made.”

*The Freedomist — Keeping Watch, So You Don’t Have To*

“Mostly Peaceful” Hamas Rallies Set World On Fire

Paul Collier November 6, 2023

“Rallies” in support of the death cult that is Hamas, an organization whose stated aim is the extermination of the Jew from River to Sea, that is, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan river, turn violent around the world, as “supporters” execute violence as a means of political persuasion from London to D.C. with statues vandalized and even the White House assaulted.

Whatever lowborn character is revealed about the nature of Hamas supporters through these worldwide, planned, and billionaire-funded assaults on the world, it does not remove critique for Israel on how it is meeting this existential threat, nor do the sins of Israel justify the violence expressed by the far-left, who are the predominant supporters of a world without an Israeli state, as they demonstrated wherever they carried the genocide-calling banner “From the River to the Sea” in their “rallies” in “support” of the death cult that is Hamas.

On November 4, thousands of far-left anti-Americanists “rallied” in Washington D.C. calling for an “intifada” as they parked outside the White House gates, threatening the far-left President (who isn’t far-left enough) for his role in supporting the “genocide” of the Palestinian people, all the while carrying signs that say, again, “From the River to the Sea,” a call to purge “Palestine” of all the Jews.

These mostly peaceful protestors breached the outer barriers around the White House and tried to crawl over the White House gate. Had they succeeded, what was their next aim, to vandalize the White House or to break into it, causing as much mayhem as they could in the process? They did this while chanting “Takbir, Alluha Akbar.”

From the Twitter Account RawsAlerts:

#BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters are now climbing up the on the White house fence as they throw objects at the Secret Service⁰⁰#Washington | #DC ⁰⁰Currently, thousands of Pro-Palestine supporters have gathered at the White House after today’s large march against US… pic.twitter.com/dnvjr6bjXz

Then there’s this from the Gateway Pundit:

A U.S. military supply ship was blocked from leaving an Oakland, California, port on Friday by pro-Palestinian protesters who believed the ship was going to carry a cargo of military equipment to Israel.

Protesters locked themselves to the carrier Cape Orlando, which they said was going to bring weapons to Israel after loading up in Tacoma, Washington, according to KPIX-TV.

Demonstrators also blocked the entrance to the berth where the ship was moored, and three others were “holding on to a rope ladder and refusing to let workers close a door” to the ship, KPIX reported.

The protest began before dawn with about 50 demonstrators, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and grew to about 200.

Here is a video of the assault.

This is a direct and deliberate act of sabotage. All involved should be facing capital charges for high crimes and misdemeanors against the state, but one doubts any such actions will take place against the DNC-CCP’s rainbow-shirts, the brownshirts of leftism, lest they lose the terrorists they’ve been employing to rain chaos and terror on the land in the hope that the afflicted will beg the state to take away their freedoms to protect them from the demons that state itself created.

Meanwhile in Europe, thousands protested, with most protectors being recent “migrants” from Islamo-Fascist countries who imported their terrorist ways with them, as the elites hoped they would. Again, this is by design, to frighten people to surrender their freedoms (what freedoms they have left) to protect them from the demons these elites created.

The war hawks in support of Israel seem to come from the authoritarian right. The terrorists in support of the death cult that is Hamas are either Islamists (who align with the left in authoritarianism) or leftist authoritarians. The battle on the streets seems to now be mostly between competing authoritarian factions willing to use Israel as a foil for their own parochial, and mostly violent ends.

Joe Caught Taking $40K from CCP

Paul Collier November 2, 2023

Despite claims to the contrary by the Mass Mailer President Joe Biden Committee also known as Joe Biden, Representative James Comer (R-KY), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, claims he has the smoking gun that shows the President received direct payments from the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for political favors at home.

Comer released a video and a bank records memorandum to back up his claims. He said in the video, “Remember when Joe Biden told the American people that his son didn’t make money in China?” Comer asked in the new Oversight video. “Well, not only did he lie about his son Hunter making money in China, but it also turns out that $40,000 in laundered China money landed in Joe Biden’s bank account in the form of a personal check. And the Oversight Committee has it.”

From amgreatness.com:

The money trail begins in July 2017, when Hunter Biden sent his infamous “shake-down” WhatsApp message to CEFC associate Raymond Zhao demanding a $10 million dollar capital payment. At the time, the Biden clan was working with CCP-linked Chinese energy company CEFC. The partnership began while Joe Biden was Vice President.

“I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled. You will regret not following my direction. I am waiting for the call with my father,” Hunter allegedly wrote on July 30, 2017.

About a week later, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC sent half the amount to one of Hunter Biden’s shell companies, the Oversight Committee said.

The House Oversight Committee claims:

On August 8, 2017, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC, sent $5 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and CEFC associate Gongwen Dong.

That same day, Hudson West III sent $400,000 to Owasco, P.C., an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden. On August 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by President Biden’s brother James and sister-in-law Sara Biden. On August 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall Group.

Later the same day, she deposited it into her and James Biden’s personal checking account. On September 3, 2017, Sara Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment.”

Trump Calls Chutkan’s Bluff on Violently Unconstitutional Gag Order

Paul Collier November 1, 2023

On Sunday, Lawfare Assassin foreign-born DNC-CCP Judge Chutkan reinstated the gag order, but in a limited sense, ordering Trump to not make “public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses,” despite the fact that the DNC-serving prosecutors and many of the potential witnesses are direct political opponents to Trump’s 2024 Presidential runs.

While prosecutors wanted Trump thrown in jail, Chutkan chose not to do that as she rightly fears the backlash that would cause across the country as half or more of American citizens would rightly interpret such a move as a clear sign the Federal government is a direct enemy to their American rights and values in an existential sense of that term. Trump for his part is all-but pledging to defy the order, saying of it that “It will not stand.”

Trump stated, “I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump-Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable! It illegally and unconstitutionally takes away my First Amendment Right of Free Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against BOTH Parties in the Polls. Few can believe this is happening, but I will appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not stand!”

It is becoming more and more evident that the DNC-CCP will stop at almost nothing they feel they can get away with to bury any opposition to fulfil the promise first made by then President-elect Obama, who claimed upon his accession to power he would “fundamentally transform” America, a seditious statement in and of itself that should have gotten him arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay along with the other terrorists seeking to murder their way to power at the expense of our liberty-loving republic.

China Erases Israel from Maps

Paul Collier November 1, 2023

The People’s Republic of China, the fascist state of China, showed more of its Nazi-adjacent tendencies when it released its latest official maps of the world without any mention of Israel. Baidu’s Chinese language online maps show the demarcations for Israel-proper but fail to label Israel as Israel.

In China, it should be remembered that publishing maps not approved by the CCP could land you in jail or with a bullet lodged in the back of your skull. In the recent past, China has used map-making to “take” territory from its neighbors, like Russia and India.

Now, China has decided to use map-making to signal to the world their support of a Jewish genocide in Israel, yet the leftists who call themselves antifascists will continue to support and do business with this violent, imperialistic regime even as they destroy the lives of Americans for daring to call a woman a woman and a man a man.

From wsj.com: Internet users in China are expressing bewilderment that the name Israel doesn’t appear on leading online digital maps from Baidu and Alibaba, an ambiguity that matches Beijing’s vague diplomacy in the region and contrasts with its attentiveness to maps generally.

Baidu’s Chinese language online maps demarcate the internationally recognized borders of Israel, as well as the Palestinian territories, plus key cities, but don’t clearly identify the country by name. The same is true with online maps produced by Alibaba’s Amap, where even small nations like Luxembourg are clearly marked. Neither company responded to questions on Monday. It is unclear whether the development is new, though it has been discussed by Chinese internet users since war broke out.

China’s government has over the years cried foul and levied fines over maps published elsewhere online, such as on hotel websites, for failing to strictly adhere to Beijing’s territorial claims, like leaving off a nine-dotted line stretching around the South China Sea that isn’t internationally recognized.

The move by China follows its recent actions calling for an immediate ceasefire, which would only benefit Hamas, who initiated this latest war by murdering over 1,300 Israeli citizens, including women, children, and infants. It also refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization.

Here we have an openly Nazi state still being supported by far-left corporations like Apple that continue to do business with this regime while at home larp at being “antifascist.”

Israel-Hamas War Coverage Producing Rise in Hatred of Both Sides

Paul Collier October 31, 2023

In Europe and America, antisemitism and “Islamophobia” are on the rise, and the same media identifying this disturbing trend are also the ones behind the rise, with leftist ideologies pushing the world towards greater and greater hatred against their neighbors rather than the ones, the elites who own or control these media outlets, who caused it in the first place.

The Israel-Hamas war has produced hateful screeds against the nation of Israel by the far-left factions that control global mass media, with the DNC-CCP being the most powerful and most offensive among those factions. The result is the rise of antisemitism across the board, and with it also a rise of “Islamophobia,” something that doesn’t actually exist, as phobia implies irrational fear, but there are real rational reasons to fear the spreading and establishing of many (but not all) forms of Islam.

An article by the Guardian about the rise in Antisemitism is quick to also point out a rise in “Islamophobia” almost as a whataboutism or a “no, you too” counter to what publications like the Guardian have directly contributed to, a portrayal of the Israeli nation in the worst light, giving full credence to the propaganda of Hamas whenever it makes Israel look like Nazis.

From the Guardian:

The war that has followed the terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel on 7 October has led to an unprecedented increase in antisemitic incidents. High numbers of civilian casualties caused by Israel’s response have raised tensions further.

Recent figures compiled by the US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) revealed a 300% rise in Austria. In the UK, London police said 218 antisemitic hate crimes had been reported from 1-18 October, more than 13 times more than the same period last year.

In Germany, the antisemitism monitoring organisation RIAS reported a 240% increase in antisemitic incidents since 7 October, a total the country’s antisemitism commissioner warned risked transporting the country back to its “most horrific times”.

Even as they cite these alarming figures, they have to add “[Michael O’Flaherty, the director of the EU’s agency for fundamental rights] added that it was ‘also important at this time to be vigilant and condemn all forms of hatred that manifest themselves in Europe, including hatred against Muslims’.”

Take away the loaded term “Islamophobia” and use the term anti-Islamic and this writer is onboard with calling out the actual bigotry now being directed against Muslims and anyone people associate with Islam. The demonization of what Hamas and Israel represent is happening across the board in most societies around the world, and the mass media is mostly to blame.

Whenever they push hateful lies and over-the-top demonizations against the Jews, as they often do (including the Guardian), they create hatred for both sides, with those predisposed to hate Jews finding more “validity,” more social acceptance for being out and open with their hatred (and to do something about it), and those predisposed to hate Muslims and anyone that looks like they might be Muslim (because we in the West think Arab and Muslim, Semite and Muslim, are the same things) being emboldened through anger to openly express their hatred of Muslims.

In America, we have on one side groups of people celebrating the market assassination of people who support Hamas and/or the Palestinian people, and on the other side we have college students hunting down Jews to physically assault. This writer supports no side as far actual bigotry is concerned as it undermines the American standard that individuals have a fundamental right to be stewards of their own beliefs, their own pursuit of and definition of happiness, even if they’re “wrong.”

The far-left faction in this country in particular is the fundamental driver of hate in an effort to divide and conquer the American people, a people that includes Jews, Muslims, Christians, Arabs, Atheists, Europeans, etc., a nation whose diverse reality makes it particularly vulnerable to bigotry as no one group anymore can dominate the rest. We will all stand together or fall together and, I’m afraid, the far left pushing this hate wants just that, for America to fall.

The rise in bigotry is a direct threat to our republic and to the stability of any nation comprised of diverse peoples such as we are, and that destabilization is just what the planners of the new world order seek, to drive us to seek protection at the cost of liberty from the same people that caused the instability in the first place.

China’s Military Changing to Colonizer Role

Paul Collier October 25, 2023

The Department of Defense’s annual report on China “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” reveals a military that is being transitioned from purely defensive to colonizing offensive roles. The report shows the military’s rapid “modernization” and deployment that seems aimed primarily at one goal, to defeat the United States of America’s military and erase its influence from the Pacific Ocean and beyond.

Another report from Global Data shows military spending is increasing and projected to accelerate dramatically. From globaldata.com: The China defense budget is worth $230.3 billion in 2023, and, is anticipated to register a CAGR of more than 6% during 2024-2028. Territorial claims in the South China Sea and the increasing strength and assertiveness of the US have spurred the Chinese government to enhance its military capabilities.

China’s efforts to muscle America out of the South Pacific can be seen in its aggressive encounters with U.S. planes and ships in the region. From airforce-technology.com: Ely Ratner, the Assistant Secretary of Defence for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, and Navy Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, expressed their concerns about these dangerous intercepts during a press conference at the Pentagon.

These aerial confrontations are not isolated incidents but part of a broader pattern of behaviour by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Beyond the skies, Chinese vessels are harassing US and allied warships in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

From army-technology.com: China’s recent aggressive military actions in the Indo-Pacific, driven by its ‘One China’ policy and territorial dominance aspirations, have raised concerns about escalating regional tensions. The US has recently accused China of conducting a centralised campaign of harassment against US and allied aircraft in international airspace.

Notably, these actions coincided with the rapid development of the PLA’s nuclear, space, and cyberspace capabilities, further complicating the already intricate web of global security.

The main point of contention is whether China’s defence strategy and military build-up is evidence of hegemonic ambition or a strategy to protect national sovereignty by countering US influence in the region, yet another avenue of great power competition….

In addition to conventional warfare, China is also expanding its nuclear arsenal. From ctvnews.ca: A Pentagon report on China’s military power says Beijing is exceeding previous projections of how quickly it is building up its nuclear weapons arsenal and is “almost certainly” learning lessons from Russia’s war in Ukraine about what a conflict over Taiwan might look like.

The report released Thursday also warns that China may be pursuing a new intercontinental missile system using conventional arms that, if fielded, would allow Beijing “to threaten conventional strikes against targets in the continental United States, Hawaii and Alaska.”

It is clear China sees an opportunity to dethrone America and become the new hegemon of the world, and it is also clear that “American” corporatists are still willing to bend their knee to this rising fascist power, including Governor Gavin Newsome, who is currently engaging in a one-week sycophant tour, groveling before his CCP masters for handouts, while Tim Cook of Apple is seeking to gain more market access in exchange for bending his knee to the anti-American power.

Will these new reports cause the anti-Americanists that control our media, our major institutions, including our federal government, to challenge China rather than bend their knee to the genocidal Empire? This writer doubts they will do anything but cover for the violent Empire empowered by American traitors at home.

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