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As a person from Russia, who follows news, I must say that your summary is most excellent. You have really covered the bases and laid out all the possibilities.

Despite being from Russia, I consider this war -- and starting ANY major war like Iraq or Yugoslavia -- to be wrong. I absolutely hate what is happening and my heart aches at the fighting and innocent people.

We are all assuming that Putin will lose this war. If he wins it, the consequences will be very upsetting to think about.

But assuming that he will lose it, it is possible that he was tricked into it like Saddam was tricked into taking over Kuwait.

The US greatly benefits from today's events and isnow having a chance at extending its global dominance -- if Putin loses.

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Imagine Putin did not attack Ukraine and hence allowed it to join NATO. Then he would have lost already for sure.

I hate what happened and Putin is the guy who did it but Ukraine was for sure literally begging for it. One simple thing Ukraine should have done - declare neutrality meaning no NATO membership. NATO could have also easily deescalated by saying the they would not invite Ukraine as a member.

This was it - the war would be averted.

Given the history of Russia and NATO it was a totally understandable and sensible thing to do. Have a neutral separation line between Russia and NATO.

They tried to play Putin as they did with Gorbatchov back then and he got offended. Too bad for both Russian and Ukrainian people. I know many of them and they are all super fine and smart folks.

I hope it all ends fast and Ukraine becomes a neutral and prospering state.

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But Ukraine was neutral and Russia kept taking more and more of its territory.

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sorry if it was an irony, but no, applying for NATO membership, hosting military NATO 'consultants', US bio-labs, shelling the Donbas region are by no measure actions of a neutral state.

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I said it was. Russia, George Soros and the US decided to foment agitators to break the agreement and they succeeded.

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I'm sure that Putin would have loved it if Ukraine followed your recommendation and just 'rolled over'. You must have lots of experience dealing with bullies.

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LOL. You are certainly biased.

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Yeah, Ukraine was begging for it the last 400 years.

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Ukraine was extremely hostile to Russia in the last couple of years. Not trying to excuse the invasion but refusing to look at the arguments of the other side is not helping.

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Did we all miss the Ukrainian invasion of Russia?

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Russia has likewise been extremely hostile. Ukraine has been stuck in the middle being played like a fiddle by corrupt US politicians and George Soros. Russia has no business incrementally taking over regions of Ukraine and later launching a massive invasion. No country does. Russia is behaving like the US and the little people and weak governments and weak countries pay the price with their wealth being seized and their lives destroyed or killed.

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Before Russia "took" some parts of Ukraine it actually gave all of Ukraine to Ukraine. It never had to. The USSR break-up was a mess that no one voted for and no one asked about. But hosting some secret biolabs right next to your border with accidental outbreaks that spill over to your country and refusing to address is outright reckless.

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I think he was goaded into it by Biden and his clowns to cover up his utter incompetence, his covid insanity and crimes, inflation, financial crisis. Hard to blame Russia when Hillary/Obama/Biden staged a coup in Ukraine to install a euro friendly leader and trying to bring Ukraine into NATO to militarize it. What did the USA do when Russia basically did the same thing in Cuba? We invaded, although more ineptly.

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Obama did a lot of things that didn’t make sense if you mistakenly assumed he was an American patriot - he isn’t. But if you accept the fact that Obama was born a Muslim, raised as a Muslim, then as an older adult attended a radical anti- American anti-white black church in Chicago ( the heart of corruption, socialists and communists) ; moreover he surrounded himself with staff that had grown up in Iran (run by Marxists theologians) and Muslim concerts like Brennan, and john Kerry’s daughter married a high ranking Iranian with deep ties to the Iranian Marxist regime, along with the endless corruption of Biden, Kerry, and the rest of the establishment; Ukraine has been played like a fiddle by them demanding bribes and money laundering along with human trafficking which is worth many billions worldwide and is a racket that US tax payers fund - this racket is the primary source of income for the Catholics providing the Vatican billions every year ( also run by a Marxist)….. just step back and get the big picture. A global canal of corruption primarily being run by democrats but with the assists of some RINO republicans. Mitch McVonnel’s wife’s father and sisters run a billion dollar shipping company that ships goods from China. His wife - Elaine Chao has has been appointed by democrats and republicans to various cabinet posts the last being transportation. Elaine chao McConnell’s father was chairman Xi’s college roommate.

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More like Biden was paid off by Russia and China. Biden is only interested in what’s in it for him and his family. Same with the rest of the establishment. Biden, Kerry, Romney and Pelosi all had sons sitting on Ukrainian energy boards raking in millions. They have done the same with China and other places willing to pay bribes, kickbacks, etc… China has bought off US academia through bribes, sinecures and kickbacks. All of these big politicians have been getting massive kickbacks from book deals and foundations. Massive corruption - a completely corrupt system of enrichment and privilege.

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Read this

Dear NE,

Did you forget Biden is President?

Biden is weak? No Biden is a CORRUPT psychopath.

Biden is on the take

Biden took $1.5 billion or a lot more from China

Biden left $85 billion in Afghanistan for who? The Taliban to give to China or who else? What is Biden’s kickback? Remember 10% for the ‘big guy’ but now the ‘big guy’ is president, surely he gets a hell of a lot more than 10%.

How much did Biden take from Russia?

How much will Biden get from Russia by shutting down US pipelines, shutting down the Israel-Cyrpus-Europe pipeline, ok’ing the Nordstream pipeline, not shutting down energy from Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine and not reopening US pipelines and guess what?

in addition to billions in kickbacks from Russia, Putin invades Ukraine with Biden’s full consent and that also serves as Biden’s payback to the Ukrainians for double crossing Biden and working with Trump and exposing their dealings of Biden, Kerry, Pelosi, Romney, Obama, Clinton and their children and cronies and every other dirty Democrat and RINO involved?

Putin is a WEF member, even though WEF took down his bio, Putin wants to implement Klaus Schwab’s fourth industrial Revolution. Putin could have gotten rid of Schwab and Soros any time he wanted and he hasn’t.

This is the simplest reason and the most likely reason of all.

Remember Zelensky made a point of publicly burning records on Day 1 - that’s exactly what Biden and his cabal wanted to see. They are making Zelensky beg for his life and his families’ life. Zelensky wouldn’t take the US offer to fly him out because the US would make sure he was killed in flight - very easy to arrange.

In the end all the worlds’ megalomaniacs get exactly what they want and Ukrainians are screwed just like all of the little people world wide are screwed by the Globalist WEF Kakistocracy.

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Chances Putin loses 0%

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Read Below ⬇️, Pawsative and Kevin Brink. I am not a putin apologist but I will listen to both sides now.

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Sorry don’t trust Biden at all.. follow the money 💰

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Putin got the Ok from Biden. Biden told everyone to get out of Ukraine because Russia was going to invade. He could have levied sanctions months ago and turned on US pipelines months ago to cripple the Russian economy. He didn’t because Russia has given him and will continue to give Biden and his cronies kickbacks and also this is Biden’s payback to Zelensky’s for cooperating with Trump exposing Biden’s - Kerry, Romney, Pelosi, and others like Adam Schiff’s and Ltcol Vindman’s corruption. Biden and western banks have already seized hundreds of billions in Russian assets. What percentage will disappear into their bank accounts when they eventually return the stolen goods? Just like Obama demanded a cut of the billions he got when he returned billions to Iran - in unmarked bills - and the plane carrying the money made a pit stop in Switzerland and then where did it go after that? Ukraine?

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For sure I cannot possibly know, but to me the important indication is that Putin also pushed vaccine mandates and passports.

The mass covid vaccinations arguably made things worse and the mandates had nothing to do with public health. The fact that Putin walked in lockstep with the west and China on this most important issue makes me think he is rather a part of the plan rather than some sort of contender.

To control the population it is better to split the world again: have two separated superpowers which will be playing enemies so that their respective citizen-slaves do not get those dangerous ideas for self-government, real freedom, equality and collaboration. The timing was perfect as well - the covid scare is unravelling and the vaccine failure and side effects are getting harder to hide. Even the MSM was slowly accepting it because of the sheer impossibility to hide it anymore. Now nobody talks covid, but behind the scenes the vaxx passports are being advanced.

So shortly, I think this is just the next part of the play and Putin is playing according to the script. The real war is not between countries or blocks but rather between the elites, the super rich, and the rest of us.

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Yeah, found it odd...

But it meant IMF gave him a few billion for free.

Also he opened up for Victory Day June 2020. I.e. pretty early. Also gave cotizens own non -mrna russian sputnik vax made traditional way.

Also his Belorussian henchman Lukashenko blew the whistle on IMF bribery, alluded to here better horse's mouth quotes around at the time:

https://apnews.com/article/3f20af7942fee1bdcbd775824ebb3251

So skating on the edge to gain max as far as I can see

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Maybe they made the sputnik V just to show they can too.

Putin looked at the simple facts and as bad as it sounds decided this is the best choice for Russia. Who knows if he is right.

Ukrainian official policy as a state is that they would retake Crimea and use force if needed. Russia couldn't possibly allow Ukraine to become a NATO member in this case. It became clear that there is no point in trying to change Ukraine/West's mind.

Ukraine was constantly provoking and attacking the ethnic Russians in the east.

Russia allowing Ukraine into NATO would be almost a sign of Russia capitulating to NATO.

So Putin for some reason thought it is better now than later and attacked.

Just for the perspective - imagine Mexico joining a Chinese led military alliance and Russia setting up military bases in Cuba. To some extent, what happened is not a big surprise, rather that it took so long for Putin to act.

There was one absolutely 100% effective action that could have resolved the conflict: Ukraine declares neutrality and that it would never join NATO. NATO aligns with this statement and declares to not station weapons and bases in Ukraine.

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You are a lunatic, Georgi. Sorry for ad hominem, by I have no other way of putting it.

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Please take a look and give me your feedback:

Dear NE,

Did you forget Biden is President?

Biden is weak? No Biden is a CORRUPT psychopath.

Biden is on the take

Biden took $1.5 billion or a lot more from China

Biden left $85 billion in Afghanistan for who? The Taliban to give to China or who else? What is Biden’s kickback? Remember 10% for the ‘big guy’ but now the ‘big guy’ is president, surely he gets a hell of a lot more than 10%.

How much did Biden take from Russia?

How much will Biden get from Russia by shutting down US pipelines, shutting down the Israel-Cyrpus-Europe pipeline, ok’ing the Nordstream pipeline, not shutting down energy from Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine and not reopening US pipelines and guess what?

in addition to billions in kickbacks from Russia, Putin invades Ukraine with Biden’s full consent and that also serves as Biden’s payback to the Ukrainians for double crossing Biden and working with Trump and exposing their dealings of Biden, Kerry, Pelosi, Romney, Obama, Clinton and their children and cronies and every other dirty Democrat and RINO involved?

Putin is a WEF member, even though WEF took down his bio, Putin wants to implement Klaus Schwab’s fourth industrial Revolution. Putin could have gotten rid of Schwab and Soros any time he wanted and he hasn’t.

This is the simplest reason and the most likely reason of all.

Remember Zelensky made a point of publicly burning records on Day 1 - that’s exactly what Biden and his cabal wanted to see. They are making Zelensky beg for his life and his families’ life. Zelensky wouldn’t take the US offer to fly him out because the US would make sure he was killed in flight - very easy to arrange.

In the end all the worlds’ megalomaniacs get exactly what they want and Ukrainians are screwed just like all of the little people world wide are screwed by the Globalist WEF Kakistocracy.

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That's basically the answer the people, who were asking questions about the vaccines early on, were getting from MSM and the 3 letter agencies. So you surely could be right, but please do give your arguments. Check the Oliver Stone movie about Ukraine as well.

I honestly do not know what to think: a genuine conflict or just another false war to push us into an Orwelian future. The hard censoring of RT/Russian media speaks volumes.

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Maybe, but pls do say why you think this is wrong. There are just many possible scenarios what is behind the Russian invasion and I simply do not know. What makes you think the above is wrong.

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You're spot on Stalin, Hitler, Putin, and Xi were all built with western capital.

Putin's in ;lockstep' with WEF, & war ends all the criticism of Trudeau and Biden's mandates

by sucking all the air out of the news cycle. Putin is a member of the Young Leadership council of the WEF as is Trudeau, and Biden's Build Back Better initiative is right

out of Klaus's book The Great Reset. This has been the template of European Royalty

for centuries who are all intermarried and related to one another. They conspired to set

their peasants at each others throats usually with war when domestic disaffection was brewing. The second and third sons of the king, because of primogeniture, were

sent to the church as propaganda organs of the state with promises of eternal life

to the laity should they die in a war for the king. The king of course was presented

as god's representative on earth. Vlad's got somewhere between 40 and 70 billion

and I'm sure he could care less if he has to retire to Switzerland. Then they can surround China.

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Very well said. I'm very confident this is all Kabuki theatre.

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Why it seems odd what he is doing because the puppet show is not directed in a sensible way. He doesn't use any excuse because there is none. He is absolutely controlled opposition. This war is the de-escalation of covid BS. Basically Oceania was always at war with Eastasia.

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Vxi7

Yea it's not supposed to make any sense. People praise Vlad for not

instituting any vaccine mandates but what he did do was create vaccine

passports or digital ID which was pretty much the central goal of the entire

covid-op. Next big thing on their to do list is a central bank controlled digital

currency to track spending to fight terrorism of which they are the principal authors.

After that electric cars that you can rent but never own under their control that

can lock the doors and whisk you off to the gulag. Truckers? autonomous 18

wheelers.

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You don't need to implement vaccine mandates publicly to force people to be injected. I can give you some very vile examples from my country for the coercion...

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Is it possible that Putin simply feels threatened by the globalists orchestrating The Great Reset? I don’t see a New World Order as something in which he’d ever willingly participate. Covid has definitely ushered in the threat of global social credit scores and digital currency. I don’t see China going along with it either, but Xi is rumored to be one of Schwab’s “kids”. Who knows.

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The more general 'why now' is to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, the more specific 'why now' is that this is the optimal balance of power; waiting a few months would mean a substantially stronger Ukraine defense in terms of anti-aircraft, anti-tank capacity.

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The Timing, i.e. Lock Step / Great Reset. Covid narrative is quickly falling apart, plus the Central Bankers Cabal

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I'm taking Klaus Schwab at his word when he states that Putin is part of the club. I believe that the global orchestration is so refined that this move now is like the entry of the brass in a symphony. Distraction from Canada? Surely. Maintaining a level of fear globally after a brief respite from the virus wave? That too. Part of a gradual reconstituting of the USSR? Certainly. Propping up the American Administration (despite momentary indications to the contrary) with an ultimate 'success'? Very important looking toward November. And perhaps there's even a predetermined solution arrived at among government leaders in both Ukraine and Russia. Agreements that will further harm the western economies? That would be pleasing to the elites on all sides. And then there's China. Always now, there's China. Of course I have no idea. What I do believe is essential, though, is not to fall for apparent setbacks in The Narrative as being indicative of anything falling apart. The pandemic has served them well and we cannot know where the marionetteers will pull next. This conspiracy is deeply planned.

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Here’s what I think:

Dear NE,

Did you forget Biden is President?

Biden is weak? No Biden is a CORRUPT psychopath.

Biden is on the take

Biden took $1.5 billion or a lot more from China

Biden left $85 billion in Afghanistan for who? The Taliban to give to China or who else? What is Biden’s kickback? Remember 10% for the ‘big guy’ but now the ‘big guy’ is president, surely he gets a hell of a lot more than 10%.

How much did Biden take from Russia?

How much will Biden get from Russia by shutting down US pipelines, shutting down the Israel-Cyrpus-Europe pipeline, ok’ing the Nordstream pipeline, not shutting down energy from Russia after Russia invaded Ukraine and not reopening US pipelines and guess what?

in addition to billions in kickbacks from Russia, Putin invades Ukraine with Biden’s full consent and that also serves as Biden’s payback to the Ukrainians for double crossing Biden and working with Trump and exposing their dealings of Biden, Kerry, Pelosi, Romney, Obama, Clinton and their children and cronies and every other dirty Democrat and RINO involved?

Putin is a WEF member, even though WEF took down his bio, Putin wants to implement Klaus Schwab’s fourth industrial Revolution. Putin could have gotten rid of Schwab and Soros any time he wanted and he hasn’t.

This is the simplest reason and the most likely reason of all.

Remember Zelensky made a point of publicly burning records on Day 1 - that’s exactly what Biden and his cabal wanted to see. They are making Zelensky beg for his life and his families’ life. Zelensky wouldn’t take the US offer to fly him out because the US would make sure he was killed in flight - very easy to arrange.

In the end all the worlds’ megalomaniacs get exactly what they want and Ukrainians are screwed just like all of the little people world wide are screwed by the Globalist WEF Kakistocracy.

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I would just add one thing that is sometimes overlooked, the Burisma

Ukraine energy company is almost entirely comprised of Russian

oligarchs who are under Vlad's thumb.

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Didn’t know that. Very interesting.

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Thank you for pointing out so many of the factors in this conflict that goes beyond the "Good Guy, Bad Guy" thing. As I understand in Chernobyl, it makes sense for both countries to not fight in an area where radiation will indiscriminately kill both sides.

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For the radiation to kill someone, it would have to be a direct hit on the housing dome that protects the damaged reactor.

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1 No

2 No

3 no

4 no

5 no

6 no

7 no

8 no

9 no

10 no

11 watch Caspian Report he's called Yemen, Crimea, Indo-china skirmish all correctly. He basically uses Stratfor Geopolitical analysis... A.k.a. your geography is your destiny. I sponsored him (as I do you) 8 years ago when his channel was small. His "understanding the Russian mindset" video changed my understanding of the situation and ability to predict things. The video's 7 years old, yet it's timeless. https://youtu.be/HE6rSljTwdU

He has other newer more specific ones on Ukraine.

Putin said in his inauguration year that the breakup of the USSR was the biggest mistake in modern Russian history and the piss-head Yeltsin should never have allowed it especially in the way he did. He's been restabilising Russia for 22 years.

I remember 25 years ago when everyone worried how old Russian nukes could get bribed out into fundamental ismalic hands and dirty nukes could level New York. That's how much of a mess Russia was in. No more. Diss Putin all you like the long-play on oil and gas has worked. They subverted Western and EU energy policy, and now are cash rich. I'm typing this from a 5 star resort in Mexico (no vax no test entry) and the place is chock full of Russians.

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This is good friends. It should be pushed in the top. Especially the vid. Good point.

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I, too, question why now. I have Russian friends who can provide any number of reasons and justifications but not one would explain the rush.

Nearly everyone in the west is now proclaiming to "stand" with Ukraine without even realizing they are simply choosing side. You can guarantee there are numerous Russians making the same proclamation but choosing a different faction within Ukraine. Until those in the west realize they have been duped, I see little hope for a true lasting peace.

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The war diverts attention from the failing COVID and vaccine narrative. The Evil Empire Strikes Back!:

https://jeffcuttler.substack.com/p/the-evil-empire-strikes-back?utm_source=url

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Interesting options. Listening to the media makes one feel like we are in a movie.

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Hollywood loves their covid, loves their authoritarian govts, loves making their ultimate fantasy movies like The Matrix, Gattaca and want to make them come true.

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💰💰💰

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Donbas...Ukraine has been stalling on talks. 2) Biolabs...3) its a US state dept puppet government installed 4) Water for Crimea..5) biden's threat to put nato troops on border or in ukraine or accept ukraine into nato...6) smart as a fox...Putin is a WEF global leader..might have decided now is the time to bring down the globalists.

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"Did the Kremlin get intelligence of a biological threat in one of these biolabs?" Well, at least one of the labs stored dangerous pathogens from the soviet era. Check out at about 1:10 here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ9cCqChMLs

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A quick DuckDuckGo search about US DoD biolabs in Ukraine and Georgia is enough to lose sleep over. If Russia knows as much (or more) and decided to take matters into its hands out of desperation, well, good luck to them. We live in the times of sociopathic power-hungry and genocidal madmen with access to the kinds of dangerous technology that no madman in history ever had before, with no responsible party anywhere close to the position of power. We need any help we can find before we destroy any sign of life on this planet.

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Good to know Vlad is the good guy in all of this!

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I wouldn’t go THAT far, but you COULD say he has a healthy sense of self preservation.

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It was just a guess out of many guesses, but not the worst scenario I agree

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Jeez, guys! This was on top of his list since 1997. Don’t make fools of yourself.

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I'm thinking number 6

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Putin is nearly 70 and this is his legacy. He will soon be too old for a major campaign like this to bolster the Russian empire. I think he wants to go down in history as Vlad the Great and keeping Russia's enemies away from the Russian heartland will make him a great hero of Russia. Russian children will be told about him for centuries and admire such a great hero and savior of Russia. Statues will be everywhere of Putin. Maybe St. Petersburg will be renamed St. Putinsburg. That is my best guess.

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It seems he’s too old already. Growing impatient.

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Literally all of the above, just look at what China and Russia have been doing and what this war will cascade off.

https://worldedge.substack.com/p/beyond-mathematical-odds-iii-death

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Feb 24, 2022: Moderna CEO on Russia invading Ukraine, new COVID variant.

In a shocking interview with Maria Bartiromo, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel admits it’s possible that Moderna patented DNA could be in the Corona Virus. The patented DNA was originally designed for cancer research. Bancel has reportedly sold 10 million dollars of stock in Moderna and also deleted his Twitter account which Snopes has said was no big deal.

https://youtu.be/YcgE-5a1Ztc?t=451

Propogranda videos / Kim Iversen Debunks FAKE Russia-Ukraine War Videos Spread Widely On Social Media https://youtu.be/98cXig0hOVw

Corbett Report is using substack: The Ukraine Crisis: What You Need to Know

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need?utm_source=url

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With rising energy prices due to this conflict, Russia will likely recover financially so I wonder if this is an attempt to change public opinion and distraction about Biden/elections.

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