Security: It’s what everyone craves. But when Davos-groomed Goldman Sachs errand boys meet with Kabballah-braceleted real estate developers to discuss “security guarantees”, what are these weirdos actually discussing? Security for whom, exactly? Or maybe it would be more appropriate to ask: Security for what? Let’s not forget that yachts and gas pipelines also need security guarantees and are clearly more deserving of them than you or I.
There are no “security guarantees” for the peasants, especially if their security interferes with Gazprom’s God-given right to sell Russia’s natural resources at bargain-bin prices to whomever wants them.
This is demonstrably true.
The “security” of ordinary Russians and Ukrainians is not even a top-ten priority. Actually, keeping the peasants in a state of perpetual terror is an excellent way to guarantee the security of the people who actually matter (and their property).
It’s important to understand this.
War, even when it is called a “special military operation”, is the most destructive and terrible of all human activities. It uproots life and plants seeds of hatred, bitterness, and sorrow; it breeds decades of despair.
These are the guaranteed results of the SMO for all yachtless Russians and Ukrainians, “one people part of a single whole” (source: Vladimir Putin circa 2021).
The good news is that progress is being made towards fruitful US-Russia economic cooperation:
Of course, the peasants continue to suffer what they must; but they understand the importance of US-Russia economic cooperation, surely?
The peasants should just be grateful that the slaughter will probably have to end, at least temporarily, eventually. And then Moscow and its “foreign partners, including the Americans” (source: Vladimir Putin circa 2025) can strip-mine Donbass together, peacefully, in accordance with the relevant security guarantees.
Putin's ULTIMATUM to Satanic West: Extract Russia's natural resources OR ELSE!
In a fiery speech marking three years since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and Kursk, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that Moscow could “cooperate” with American companies to extract rare-earth metals in Russia and the “new territories” in East Ukraine:
That Russia still pays Ukraine for gas transport thru it's territory is truly mind bending. It calls into question lots of narratives about this war. Funny you never hear these payments discussed anywhere else, at least I haven't. One question I have is why do the peasants on both sides continue to fight this war? It seems so obviously pointless and not worth dieing over. I guess the propaganda still works somewhat for both sides? I've read the Russian soldiers are mostly paid for their efforts and many serve willingly, while the majority of Ukainian soldiers are mostly unwilling conscripts. Is this true? Why do these unwilling conscripts fight and not just leave? Like so much else, I enjoy reading Edward's perspective on these topics.
The soldiers slogging on either side of the front line should turn their guns on their officers.