Posted on 02/25/2022 8:19:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Call Russian President Vladimir Putin a dictator. Call him an autocrat. Call him a totalitarian. Call him whatever you want, but make sure you understand he is serious. He also knows the West is not. He has brought war to the West's doorstep.
On Dec. 5, 1989, Putin was running a KGB office for the Soviet Union in Dresden, Germany. The Berlin Wall had fallen, and East German mobs were ransacking Stasi headquarters. They came for the KGB in Dresden. Putin called out to the approaching mob that he and his men would open fire. The mob held off. Putin called a Soviet military unit for help. The military could not come, reported the general, because "Moscow is silent." It was a defining moment for Putin. He has prepared for years and now Moscow will no longer be silent.
Over the last two decades, Putin has taken advantage of the Western world's grievous fixation with climate change. European nations have reduced their dependence on both fossil fuels and nuclear power. As they expanded wind and solar power, their ability to generate a sustainable base load of power declined. This fostered their dependence on Russian natural gas.
In the United States, Democrat politicians and judges have ended drilling permits and leases on federal land, curtailed and canceled pipelines, and reduced our capacity to be energy independent. Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas notes we have gone from providing all our oil domestically a few years ago to importing 595,000 barrels of Russian oil a day. The Keystone XL pipeline, which resident Joe Biden killed, would have generated 830,000 barrels of oil a day. Concurrently, Biden got rid of former President Donald Trump's sanctions placed on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a Russian project to supply even more gas to Europe.
Under former President Barack 0bama, the United States got rid of its Two War Doctrine. The doctrine had sustained the United States military since World War II. It merely stated that the United States must have the defense capabilities to fight two wars on two fronts at the same time. The 0bama administration shortsightedly concluded it was no longer needed and, by downsizing the military, the United States would save costs and reduce the military's carbon footprint. After all, according to the 0bama administration, climate change was a bigger national security issue than Russia or China.
The West focused on climate change and Putin knew he could use energy as a national security issue against Western powers. Additionally, Putin viewed his time in Germany as a lesson on the destabilizing power of populist movements. For decades, Putin has fueled populist movements in countries that oppose him, including the United States, in order to get those nations to stop focusing on him.
Putin did, in fact, interfere in the American election in 2020. Contrary to Democrat mythology, it was not about helping Trump, but about generating a rising hatred between Americans and their fellow citizens. It worked like a charm to the extent the United States is now going through a significant political realignment.
Putin has assassinated his opponents, jailed dissidents, confiscated his rivals' money and invaded his neighbors all while loudly saying he wanted to upend NATO and restore Russia's sphere of influence. All the while, the West has relied on experts and diplomats who believe papers and signatures and sanctions could govern foreign affairs and contain Russia's ambitions. Putin has capitalized on the naivete of Western powers and is now going to war.
Europe is too dependent on Putin's natural gas to stop him. The United States imports oil and fertilizer from Russia. To actually fight him would mean to give that up and force up prices as inflation is already out of control. But none of those things will actually stop Putin. The only thing that will stop Putin is guns and ammo. Neither the United States nor Europe have the will to truly arm the Ukrainians.
Ukraine is just the first domino to fall. Many Americans see no reason to be concerned, but no living American remembers a world in which the United States was not a superpower. Putin intends to show us that world.
Prove to me that Putin doesn’t “own” obama and Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton, too, either as pawns or as ideological fellow travelers, and that he hasn’t leveraged this ownership to his benefit since his taking office.
In my mind I keep asking self, “Is Putin’s Russia the head spoken of and if so, has the fatal wound been healed?” Has the Soviet beast risen again per Rev. 13:3?
“One of the heads of the beast appeared to be mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.”
The Soviet Union spread the marx madness it followed everywhere, as foretold at Fatima, and those errors seems to have taken hold all over the world today, even in Canada where the son of Fidel Castro has spread that marxist mental malware far and wide.
And now Putin’s Russia attacks Ukraine, of all places, after having spilled so much blood there last century.
And in spite of this undeniable wisdom, “we” fell for the obama Trojan horse and brought it inside anyway.
D’oh!
“Over the last two decades, Putin has taken advantage of the Western world’s grievous fixation with climate change.”
Global warming...the Western World’s death rattle.
AND a young woman named Angela Merkel was in the thick of the Stasi and KGB with her youth clubs and political action on behalf of the commies.
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