The problem with sanctions

What people usually mean by sanctions is this: “If you behave contrary to my expectations, I will not trade with you”. A normal, expected answer to this is “Ok, suit yourselves, but good luck trying to heat your homes without gas, and trying to sell all those luxury goods in your oversaturated markets.”

What America means by sanctions is something else: “If you behave contrary to my expectations, I will not only not trade with you, I will also forbid you to use the agreed upon world reserve currency in trade with other countries, I will forbid international banks to do business with you under threat of blocking them out of the world reserve currency and payment systems, I will order financial institutions to confiscate your money, and forbid everyone to trade with you if they don’t want to share your fate.”

Basically, America is pressuring other countries to enforce their arbitrary sanctions, or else. This means that the sanctioned country can’t just exchange unpleasantries with America and proceed to do its thing with third parties; the third parties are threatened with exclusion from international financial system and trade, which is a dangerous thing if you have debt, and today everybody does; America controls the agencies that assess one’s creditworthiness, and if someone’s credit rating suddenly becomes “risky due to sanctions”, that would be too bad, wouldn’t it?

In a situation where the sanctioned country is militarily much weaker than America, it can’t really do much other than starve and resort to covert means of conducting trade. But in a situation where America tries to sanction a military peer (Russia or China), such sanctions are de facto a declaration of war, because it is much more effective to destroy America with military means, than to have your trade restricted, risking economic suffocation.

Ukrainian story

You might ask, what’s actually going on in Ukraine and who’s behind all this corruption and shady dealings with the West. Well, it’s hard to know the entire story, but I’ll drop a few hints:

Who is Ihor Kolomoyskyi? Let’s check Wikipedia:

Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi (UkrainianІгор Валерійович Коломойський; Russian: Игорь Валерьевич Коломойский, Igor Valerevich Kolomoisky; Hebrewאיגור קולומויסקי; born 13 February 1963) is a billionaire businessman and the former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[9]

Kolomoyskyi is rated as the second or third richest person in Ukraine (after Rinat Akhmetov and/or Viktor Pinchuk) since 2006.[10][11] and 1941st richest person in the world according to the Forbes magazine list of billionaires (as of 2019).[8] In March 2015 The Economist listed his net worth as $1.36 billion.[12] Kolomoyskyi is the leading partner of the Privat Group and a de facto chairman of the FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.[13]

In 2019, Kolomoyskyi was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by Focus magazine, taking the 3rd place.[14]

Analysts have listed Kolomoyskyi as an ally of Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko and her bloc of political parties called Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.[1] Although according to RIA Novosti (in January 2010), Kolomoysky relations with Tymoshenko “were soured some time ago, probably due to his refusal to finance Tymoshenko’s election campaign” in 2010.[20] Croatian newspaper Nacional claimed in September 2007 that Kolomoyskyi had become an ally of (then) Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and had financed Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine–People’s Self-Defense Bloc.[17]

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kolomoyskyi was perceived as being one of UDAR‘s main sponsors.[21] This has been denied by UDAR.[22]

On 2 March 2014, amidst the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov appointed Kolomoyskyi Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[23] Two days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin described Kolomoyskyi as a “unique crook,” and said that the citizens of Dnipropetrovsk were not happy with his appointment as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[9] According to Putin, Roman Abramovich has been cheated by Igor Kolomoyskyi. Putin claimed that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Abramovich, saying “He [Kolomoyskyi] even managed to cheat our Roman Abramovich two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: “Why did you do it?” he said: “I never thought this was possible.”[24] In contrast, The Daily Beast, a US publication, wrote in mid-June 2014 that Kolomoyskyi enjoyed the local population’s strong support. “I don’t care if he’s like Hitler, as long as he prevents war coming here,” says a local restaurateur.[25]

In April 2014 Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty for the capture of Russian-backed militants and incentives for the turning in of weapons.[26] He also is believed to have spent $10 million to create the Dnipro Battalion,[25][27] and also funded the AidarAzov, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2, and Donbas volunteer battalions.[28]

Russia asked for Kolomoyskyi to be put on Interpol‘s wanted list.[29] On 2 July 2014 a Russian District Court authorized his arrest in absentia for “organizing the killing of civilians”.[30]

As of 2019, Kolomoyski owned 70% of the 1+1 Media Group whose TV channel 1+1 aired “Servant of the People“, the comedy series in which Volodymyr Zelensky played the role of president of Ukraine. On 31 March 2019 Zelensky won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine’s real presidential elections,[60] resulting in Yulia Tymoshenko being eliminated from the next round.[61]

In November 2019, the New York Times reported that Kolomoisky was behind plans to build a controversial ski resort in Svydovets, Ukraine. In the article, a professor at a local university was quoted describing Kolomoisky as “a leech who sucks our blood here and puts it in Switzerland.”[62]

Basically, there’s one corrupt thieving bastard financing most of the politicians, street thugs, fascists, son of the American president, and having the current Ukrainian “president” as his sock puppet. I read this shit and my head hurts.

America is obviously involved in all of this to the point where it might be behind it all, because the guys Kolomoisky props up end up being the ones America supports and props up in their media as “democrats”, and there are more than hints of Israeli involvement, too. This bastard personally organized systematic shelling of Donbass where 15000 people were killed in eight years of siege warfare, where the entire situation is comparable with the siege of Vukovar or Sarajevo, only on a larger scale, and nobody in the Western news gave a peep about it. It all happened under the radar and was reported only in the Russian news, so that when the Russians had enough of those bastards killing Russians, everybody in the West thought the Russian response was unprovoked and “out of the blue”, probably because Putin is a crazy hitleroid invader who will invade because that’s what hitlers do. I find it particularly despicable how Croats identify with the Ukrainians in a sort of national-politic cosplaying, where the Russians are supposed to be some kind of Serbs fighting against Croat/Ukrainians who want independence and freedom and EU, where Donbass is supposedly roleplaying the SAO Krajina. No, you stupid fucks, you got it all upside down. Ukraine is the multinational state similar to Yugoslavia, where one nation (Ukrainian) wants to extinguish all others, the way Milošević tried to run over everything in Yugoslavia, causing an uprising in the constituent republics. Crimea and Donbass are the equivalent of Slovenia and Croatia having had enough of that shit and deciding to go their own way, Donbass is the equivalent of the parts of Croatia that were surrounded and shelled for fun by the Chetniks and the JNA every time they got drunk and wanted to “have some fun”, and Russia, in that picture, is something we in Croatia wished we had, but did not – something akin to the Austria-Hungary empire that would side with us and help us. But no, the Croats as always side with the fucking losers. They are so stupid they would join Hitler in the summer of 1945, and they unerringly side with the villains of history, and then pay dearly for their mistakes. If the Russians decided to nuke us for our government’s role in this whole shameful ordeal, I would have no objections, despite personally being on the X.

Also, I’m sick and tired of all the Western newspapers universally condemning Russia “because invasions of other countries are always wrong”, and whining about poor Ukrainian children having a hard time. First of all, if they read St. Augustine, they would know that there is such a thing as a righteous war, and a righteous invasion – it’s where you intend to stop a terrible slaughter that’s taking place, you design the war in such a way that it prevents more evil than it causes, the violence is focused against the perpetrators of violence, and civilians are not targeted. If you want to whine about poor children, start whining about the dead and maimed children of Donbass, you disgustingly hypocritical pieces of shit. Ukraine is not some innocent country that got invaded by the bad wolf, Ukraine is the most disgusting fascist shithole in the world, who spent eight years killing children for fun and financing fascist thugs who keep the entire civilian population in the state of terror. The entire political scene is either nazified or murdered, the entire shitpile is profoundly interlinked with American and probably British intelligence services and the military, the whole country is full of labs that research biological weapons for the American department of defense, they were on the brink of having nuclear weapons, and I watched how they speak on the social media – I describe them as the turds of hatred. They are vile, slanderous, murderous scum of the worst kind, enemies of all truth, virtue and goodness. If hell didn’t exist, it would have to be made for their accommodation. From what I can see, the Russian invasion is a classic “by the book” example of Augustinian just war, and anyone opposing it either doesn’t know the facts of the matter because he’s been fed bullshit by the CIA controlled media, or he’s consciously siding with evil.

 

Dirty bomb test?

A pilotless Soviet Tu-141 drone launched from Ukraine crashed in Zagreb tonight.

The simplest explanation that makes sense is that some Ukrop fool aimed it at Moscow and entered azimuth 180° opposite to the intended one, and when you check it on a map, assume the launch site somewhere in Ukropistan, plot the radius and angle to Zagreb, invert the azimuth and you get Moscow.

Manevychi base is exactly halfway:

The only intended purpose for such a crazy exercise would be some terrorist weapon of radiological, biological or chemical kind aimed at a population centre, and this was a test to see if the thing could work. This is not good, and I’m afraid that the Russians have allowed those bastards to buy too much time, they should have wiped them out completely by now, regardless of the civilian casualties. The Ukrops are the worst people on Earth with absolutely no regard for human life, including their own civilians, and they should be dealt with immediately or they’ll actually figure out how to kill millions of people just for shits and giggles.

Radiation here is baseline normal, 0.09 µSv/h.

Edit: I just found something very interesting; formally, it’s a Ukrop request for equipment from NATO, but if we know how those things work, NATO told them what to request. In case the PDF disappears I uploaded a copy and also converted it to images. The equipment requested contains radiation dosimeters for 31000 soldiers.

Body language reading errors

I’ve been periodically reading Croatian newspapers to get the sense of the level of propagandistic nonsense they are spewing, and I’ve seen one thing constantly repeated as if it were an absolute, undeniable fact they are working with.

It’s about this video:

Supposedly, minister Shoigu is “visibly uncomfortable” at the end of the video and that’s supposedly because the “crazy dictator Putin is giving him doomsday orders”. “Can he resist those orders if push comes to shove?”

I initially laughed when I first read some clinically stupid “psychologist” analysing their body language, but then I saw that this bullshit is taken seriously.

First of all, this recording is a standard part of Russian media circus, where they act if the orders are given on camera. What is actually happening is that Shoigu is thinking “ok, is this media thing done now, I have to get back to the command post”. He is actually uncomfortable, but because he doesn’t have time for that shit because there’s an actual war going on and he has other, more pressing things to do. The actual orders to raise the alert level were probably given more efficiently earlier, and if I’m reading things correctly, it’s actually Gerasimov and Shoigu who are advising Putin on military matters and are offering him options. Raising the alert level was a military recommendation to Putin, he greenlighted it, they had to record the command on video for publicity purposes and then the military guys really had other things to do.

That’s how I read it, but what do I know. 🙂

Five views under the veil of darkness

There’s a war the Americans think is going on, the war the Russians think is going on, the war Ukrainians think is going on, the war American propaganda made the world convinced is going on, the war I think is going on, and the war that is actually going on. All in all, there are five perceptions and one reality. Since the noise is terrible, let me try to cut through it and make a coherent analysis, as hard as it may be at the moment.

The Americans think the things are going great for them. They think they successfully baited the Russians into a quagmire that is Ukraine, where they had a decade or more to prepare the situation just the right way, so that it can never actually be solved, and anyone trying to solve it will expend endless resources to no avail. Combined with international isolation and sanctions, they see it as a check-mate situation for Russia in the long run.

The Russians understand that America has complete control of the media sphere in their vassal states, and, unfortunately, this means almost everything outside of Russia, China and few possible exceptions, which is why they are not really even trying to win the “information war”, because at this point it would be a futile effort. The fact that their athletes were prohibited from competing under their flag at the Olympics could tell them everything there is to know – Russia is not just not allowed to win, it is portrayed like a designated international criminal state, a country that’s always doing something wrong and nefarious, for instance when America didn’t fulfill its obligations to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, they just spun the story around and began inventing false stories that connected the Russians with illegal use of chemical weapons, until the association was burned into the minds of ordinary people who just watch the news. The reality is that America is the one that does nefarious things with chemical weapons while Russia destroyed their own stockpile, but nobody watching and believing the news would know or believe it. Basically, the Russians understand that the Americans completely control the way most of the world perceives things, and it can’t be helped at this point. They can either feel victimized, or go solve the problem, and I think there’s a bit of both in their thought-space. Their perception is that America is trying to wage a coward’s war against them – suffocate them slowly in all kinds of destructive ways, but avoid nuclear retaliation or open war. In case there is an open war, pre-position all kinds of proxy forces at Russia’s borders, that will attack them in all kinds of hybrid ways, including terrorism, “democracy movements”, civil wars and so on. Deplete their wealth, blackmail other countries to break ties, and bombard the world with false perceptions of what’s going on, to convince everybody that Russia is actually the one that’s the threat, that it’s aggressive and needs to be stopped. Like all bullies, they have it down to a science: make the victim look like the aggressor while you snicker in the background. The Russians understand that open war is the only thing America and their vassals actually want to avoid at all cost, so they waited until their military was ready, until their economy was ready, until their new weapons were mass-produced and deployed in the arms forces, and now they started cleaning up the festering shitpiles the Americans and the British installed at their borders. Kazakhstan was the first one, and very important one at that, if you take a look at the size of their border with Russia. Considering how disproportionally pissed the British are, I would guess that the Russians wiped out hundreds of their agents there and completely neutralized their ability to attack Russia on that vector. The next, much bigger threat (due to both population density and the degree of foreign influence) is Ukraine, and as far as I can see, the actual threat to Russia was neutralized very quickly into the intervention, and now they are having a problem; either they try to completely pacify the country, which would be deadly, because the entire population is deeply indoctrinated to both hate and fear them, and to aspire towards the West as some sort of undefined salvation. In any case, if the goal was to stabilize the situation while utilizing the minimum of military resources, this is in the process of rounding up the stragglers.

What Ukrainians think doesn’t matter. Their “government” is a sock-puppet prop for Western intelligence agencies and foreign tycoons who control and finance the fascist thugs. Everything they have been hearing since their “state” was established was a lie, and by now they are so used to the lies they hate the truth in any form. Everything that’s going on there is a combination of lies and violence. They believe in a lie that Russia is a threat, they believe in a lie that they are somehow very distinct from the Russians, they believe in a lie that they have a future in Europe and NATO, that they will be a part of the West. What is actually true is that the Western intelligence agencies have been feeding them those lies to manipulate them into being a tool against Russia, so that when they die fighting Russia the Westerners won’t have to, and Russia will be fatally weakened. Their purpose was never to join NATO, their purpose was to fight and die for NATO; they are seen as sacrificial. As for the EU, the dream of joining the EU is just that – a dream. They were given loans instead of money, promises that kept them in the European sphere of influence just enough to keep them away from Russia, and this unnatural economic and political alignment fatally impoverished Ukraine. Combined with the foreign support for the most corrupt and violent pieces of shit that exploited and terrorized the populace, you have a more-less complete picture. It’s a country that made a fatal mistake of following a quasi-nationalist impulse to leave the Soviet Union, and then ended up the way Russia was headed under Yeltsin, and where it would have ended up without Putin. Ukraine isn’t a nation anymore, it’s a disease-ridden corpse of a province that failed to become a nation, and instead was robbed by both internal and foreign thieves, governed by idiots and scum, and completely controlled by America against its most fundamental interests. As I said, at this point what Ukrainians think doesn’t matter. Their fate was controlled by America since they became a country, and now this fate is being fulfilled by them all dying in the process of strategically harming Russia. They are seen by their “friends and allies” as sacrificial tools, and by their “enemies” as brothers. What an irony.

The propagandized world populace thinks the evil Russia is finally showing its true colors, that Putin is finally showing that he’s Hitler, and that the Americans were right all along. What they forgot is that a few months ago the China was the designated Hitler, and the beer flu was the reason why they must give up all their rights. What they fail to understand is that they are as much the victims of the actual war that is being waged, as are Russia and China. They are seen by America the way they see Ukraine – a mere expendable tool to be used and cast away once it’s no longer of use. Incidentally, that’s exactly the way they are seen by Satan – mere tools to be used in an attempt to show God how smart and important he is, and how wrong God was in His judgment of him, or whatever it is that embodiments of sin think.

What I think is going on is that the remaining latent/potential aspects of satanic evil that propagate the world are being expended, and that this process is coming to an end now and what we’re left with is the manifestation, the way some plants consume all their energy to produce a flower, and die. This flower now has to be cut off and thrown into a fire. The actual war was always that of Satan against God, and the souls and their enslavement and corruption were always merely the means of inflicting spiteful harm.

What is actually going on – that’s something we are very unlikely to see during this life, because we are under the veil of ignorance by design, but as things are heading, we might finally get to know.