יום ראשון, 27 בפברואר 2022

                             Hopelessness is thy name - America 

The world is paying inter alia for its hypocrisy. I always found it odd – to put it mildly – when the Russians are invited to participate in any “memorial” service for the victims of the Second World War. Yes, indeed, Russia suffered horrendously. Not only because of Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin and his cronies had a lot to do with it. Stalin literally annihilated the Red Army’s leadership before the war. It was Joseph Stalin’s agreement with The Third Reich [known as the ״Molotov Ribbentrop Agreement״] signed on 19th August 1939, that enabled Hitler to commence the attack on Poland which brought about the war. It was the Red Army that attacked Poland from the East, while the Wehrmacht attacked from the West. How “comfortable” it is for the West to forget that the USSR commenced the war as Nazi Germany’s ally and held half of Poland, and ended the war as “a party of the Allies controlling all of Poland. And, no, USSR did not change sides “voluntarily”. It was Adolf Hitler who “encouraged” the Russian to change sides when his army commenced “Unternemen Barbarossa” on the 22nd June 1941. 

This rewriting of History, not by Pravda or Isvestia, but by the West, who gave legitimacy to Russia’s “contribution” to the victory over the Axis led by the Nasiz is a demonstration that Right cannot fight Might. The Soviet Union – usually - manipulated the West to fight against cronies [Korea, Vietnam and the Vietcong, Cuba, etc.]. 

But following the end of the Second World War, all experts assumed that Europe will not see war. Almost, as if to reminiscent “War to End all Wars” [as H. G. Wells’s book was titled] written after the First World War. Vladimir Putin led the KGB office in Berlin during the Cold War. The West was blind as to the personality, integrity and intentions of the Russian President. Such was the blindness that the New Iran Agreement “nominated” Russia as the trustee to keep and guard some of Iran’s uranium. This, after Russia offered Iran – in January, an alternate venue for such energy, this with the knowledge of the USA. 

The whole West is against Russia. All western media is reporting about the invasion of Ukraine and condemning Russia. Sanctions are imposed, and President Biden assumes that this will stop Russia. It will not. Well, why did the West not stop Russia when its army invaded Crimea? I just love listening to Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, condemning the lack of democracy in Ukraine. The fact that Russia is the major supporter of Assad, or an ally of Iran, seems to be irrelevant. How similar his explanations are to those of Joseph Goebbels when “explaining” the problems of Germans in “Sudetland”. 

On 4th December 2021, the Washington Post published a news item according to which Russia is planning to attack Ukraine by the beginning of the year. So, because Ukraine did not make it yet to Nato [may I assume that the delay was initiated by someone in the West, so Nato will not be obligated to save Ukraine from what all intelligence agencies knew was coming]. Putin knows the mentality of the West much better than the West knows the mentality of Putin. All he needs is time. He knows that as long as the West does not initiate military actions against Russia, he has nothing to worry about. No economic sanctions will help. While Biden was announcing the almost meaningless [yes, meaningless] sanctions against Russia, the president of Pakistan Arif Alvi paid a formal visit to Moscow. China will not condemn Moscow’s initiative. Many countries will continue normal relationships with Russia. Putin knows that in the near future the West will “come down”. Frictions will deepen for one reason [energy] or another [wheat]. Like a person who was told he has cancer. He is shocked at the beginning, but then goes on with normal life. So will the West behave. 

And the Western Media is at fault as well. Why did all of them broadcast a statement and Q&R with Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus? Did he have to add anything? Someone whose intellectual abilities reaches the level of wood? Does he have any influence? Of course not. The West media offers him recognition. That is all he needs. The fact remains that all the West’s efforts, the ‘blitz’ of condemnations, the sanctions, and the help that was offered to Ukraine did not have the expected results. Kyiv is devastated. A Pariah is winning against a hopeless West. And not for the first time. It is true that secret agencies annihilate enemies. USSR was known to kill critics of its leaders, even overseas. One of the more infamous “liquidations Russian style” outside the USSR, was the killing of Leon Trotsky who exiled himself from Russia to Coyaocan - Mexico. He was murdered there by NKVD’s agents on 20th August 1940. He was shot. But the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006, was not “just another liquidation” by Putin [He did use the “regular methods” many a time within Russia - the name of the Journalist Anna Politkovskaya murdered in 2006 comes to mind]. He created a precedent after World War 2. 

In the centre of London [a hotel in Grosvenor Square – adjacent to the US Embassy in London], he actually used a radioactive weapon to kill someone who became an English citizen. Many more could have been killed in case of an accident. Is any party in Russia facing the consequences of what might have caused a massive calamity in The Court of St. James? Did Her majesty’s government take any actions? No. A simple “no”. 

Yes, I know. Nazi Germany won at the outset of World War 2 and lost [once decided to invade Russia]. It was not economic sanctions and condemnations that brought victory. It was military might. Putin is no different. And for President Biden to make this stunning statement that the west will not fight the Russian in Ukraine, not even leaving Putin in doubt, is clumsiness at its highest degree. King Solomon wrote in Proverbs, “and good news makes the bones fat”. Jewish interpretation of this statement reads, “nothing is marrier than clarifying of doubts”. Why did Biden clear the doubts? Why did he not – at least – have the Russian fear the unknown? And President Biden was no alone. Mr. James Heappey the Minister of Armed Forces in Her Majesty’s Government made the same confirmation in the House of Common. Even a ”no-fly zone” was - according to him - an impossibility to enforce above Ukraine. The West is crippled. It will not even mislead Moscow as to its abilities. The fact that Russia made it to Kyiv, the fact that Putin will only fall by insiders [and he will] – not by the West - like Nikita Khrushchev on 14th October 1964 - is another demonstration. 

America cannot be trusted. The happenings in Ukraine should serve as a major caveat to Israel, when the West signs the new agreement with Iran [until now, not a word about reconsidering Russia as a trustee according to this agreement]. It justifies the vote of no confidence in the USA by so many countries in the Arab world in general and the Middle East in particular History testifies. Many agreements and unqualified statements made or signed by the USA were followed by embarrassing failures. North Korea is still around; Following the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho “for jointly having negotiated a cease-fire in Vietnam in 1973”, America literally fled through the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon; President Jimmy Carter’s assurances that “The Shah is a rock of stability, months before the latter fled Taharah; or president Biden’s assurances that Taliban will not take over Kabul. The rest is history. 

Let us remember the past so we do not repeat it in the future.

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