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Thanks for this EXCELLENT blog. Found out about it via my friend Tessa Lena. Totally antagonistic to the policies pushed by US elites, been so for 50 years. But also antagonistic to the many in the Great Set "resistance" who think Putin is a good guy simply because he's confronting the US elite.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

The most intelligent analysis I have read so far. Thank you Mr. Waggaman.

Yes, NATO has been pushing for this scenario. They have poked the Russian nationalists and the Russian military pride, they have let ordinary Russians know that they are the last destination in a path that goes from Baghdad, Belgrade and Damascus, straight into Moscow...It is a very convincing narrative, one that can easily fool those who see NATO for what it is, but one that falls apart the second that one forgets about narratives and looks at real life, at the actions and consequences.

And it is the oldest trick. These days I am remembering facts that I overlooked throughout all of those years that I (regrettably) spent as one of those cheering for the coming multipolar law based order™ lead by Russia and China:

-The support and funds given by the banksters to Lenin and Trostky to support their revolution.

-The transfer of technology to Russia and China by the Western cabal, during a supposed arms race, in the middle of a cold war

-Putin being placed by western stooge Yeltsin, with popularity boosting false flag terror attack and everything

-All those closed door meetings between Putin and Kissinger

It all became transparent with the pandemic™: they are all on the same side. They all might their dog to win the fight, but above all, they all want dog fighting to keep going.

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Don't forget Putin is a "young global leader" in the WEF: https://www.bitchute.com/video/veOe4Iu4LvgR/

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

“War is an ideal way to close past accumulated contradictions and clear the building site for new achievements”

Sounds about right to me. Interesting how many countries and states, all at about the same time, claim to be ramping down the previous moronic shit show to make room for the new moronic shit show.

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Brilliant post, as usual. Of course, this war is not meant to lead to a brighter tomorrow. I, for one, wanna scream at the top of my voice "People, stop the madness, stop killing each other, stop hating each other! You are being played! You are nothing more than cannon fodder to ALL governments in the world!"

But, alas, people won't listen. They have lost their senses, and to them, Putin is the devil (I'm talking about Ukrainians now). Well, I don't deny he is, but he's hardly the puppet master in this show and hardly the only problem for Ukraine.

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What's the latest, Natalie? Any updates? Stay safe!

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Mar 4, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

It's quiet in Rivne for now, apart from frequent air raid alerts. I've almost got used to them.

Civilians are now permitted by law to use firearms against the Russian army https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/general/806086.html

I can't see it leading to anything good.

And today I woke up to the news of fighting and fire at Energodar nuclear plant... it's madness. What's the Russian media take on this?

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Mar 4, 2022·edited Mar 4, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Okay, it's not so quiet here...

Today a man started firing a gun at passers-by through the window and killed two people.

https://radiotrek.rv.ua/news/posered-zhitlovogo-kvartalu-u-rivnomu-zastrelili-lyudey.-shcho-kazhe-policiya_284615.html

https://rivnepost.rv.ua/news/rivnyanin-z-balkonu-pochav-strilyati-po-lyudyakh-dvokh-vbitikh-foto?fbclid=IwAR2uXC386pUAO4w04JsvImUAt1r_8PK4n9MRXrRQI1YQTLfkuzCx3z64tkA

I mean, there aren't even any Russians here yet...

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horrible! stay safe and keep us updated!!

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Mar 4, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Will do my best.

Riley, do you understand Ukrainian btw?

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a little. I can cheat though and machine translate :)

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Whatever you do, DO NOT engage in attacks against RF forces. An inexperienced civilian vs even remotely competent infantryman will result in total destruction. You cannot compete, it is suicide.

Home defense is another matter. See previous advice on this subject.

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Sure, I know that. Unlike my countrymen, who seriously believe they can stop Russian tanks with Molotov cocktails.

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

I know several people who have replaced their Facebook "I Got My Covid Vaccine #Myocarditis" selfie frame with an "I Stand With Zelensky and Ukraine" frame. They couldn't find "The Ukraine" on a map two weeks ago. It's typically American to join a side, particularly when the media is making the decision for them.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Exactly, haha :) At least they've learned some geography :)

I'm Ukrainian btw. Zelensky somehow went from an object of constant ridicule to a national hero in a matter of days. It's truly amazing what the media can do.

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

My wife is Russian and has friends from Ukraine. Like you and the author of this outstanding article, she sees this for what it actually is.

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022

This reminds me of Blade Runner 2049, where one android kills another of the opposing army, only to discover they were both made by the same corporation.

The superficial messaging of the film is definitely a trans-humanist one, but if you reverse the metaphysics and understand that we are made into robots by our masters, to fight wars for their unconditional profit regardless of who wins, or whether anyone wins, a better point is made.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

That was Major General Smedley Butler’s basic point in War is a Racket, written in 1935.

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Thx, had not heard of this person.

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you go, girl!

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This is one of the best lines i've seen anywhere on the Web this year so far.

"The Russian government is the greatest threat to the Russian people, just as the British government is the greatest threat to the British people, and the German government is the greatest threat to the German people; probably the Eskimo government is currently the #1 killer of the Eskimos."

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Thank you for this superb article Riley.

Are you familiar with Charles Eisenstein's writing on a concept called "Gift Economics"?

I feel like in this time where we have been raised in a world of hyper-consolidated, centralized and monopolized systems (that many of us have become dependent upon) which are controlled by self serving/mentally disturbed individuals, the radically decentralized nature (and often low tech mechanisms) which comprise ancient "gift economies" can offer us some wisdom in these challenging times. Mind you, I am not implying this concept offers 'the solution to all our problems', but rather that it offers one pathway to how we might alter how we live, perceive and interact with each other, and in doing so, empower ourselves (and others) to be able to avoid the digital shackles of a totalitarian technocracy (at least at the scale of the local communities we live in).

Keep up the great work. Much love and respect from Canada.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Yes! Sums it all up perfectly! I like it that everyone is an asshole on this blog, enough with taking sides

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You being on The Corbett Report is like Tim Dillon being in Toronto!!! That’s how excited I am for you! Us! BTW...excellent article, I will be sharing it widely. It’s very important.

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They are ALL in it together. The goal - destruction of the current world order to usher in a new order of the ages. The entire scenario was written years in advance together with Corona Op.

The world is a Stage

A Staged Russia/Ukraine Conflict Is Part of the Plan To Take Down the Current World Order

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/a-staged-russiaukraine-conflict-is

The Olympics Rituals of 1992/2012 "Predicted" The Corona Operation

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-corona-end-game-addendum

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"The world is a Stage"

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

- This has been in my head a lot over the last few months.

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All the world’s a killing field... some areas better disguised than others.

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Only a few are players; the rest are merely befuddled spectators.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Good reading, Edward. However, I would still like to at least hear mention of the crazy people who are being tolerated in their ranks by the ukrainian government. As weird as it sounds, it still seems to be true: there is a significant number of prople in Ukraine who hold a fascistic, destructive and evil world view, who glorify german naziism and identify themselves with Hitler's SS special forces by wearing identical emblems. I am talking about the Azov Batallion which nowadays is integrated into the National Guard of ukraine, and which supposedly has in its ranks some of the most cruel, and wicked and merciless people this world has brought forth (supposedly, they recruit fighters in black metal mucsic concerts). Easily on par with ISIS, if the reports are true.

The interesting thing is that all this is not disputed. The wikipedia documenation is quite extensive and informative, and it shows that once upon a time even american democrat delegates considered the Azov Batallion a terroristic organization. Again: an organization which still exists and is now integrated into the ukrainian National Guard!

I think this does warrant mentioning in any analysis of this situation. Are they really part of the same game?

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022Author

Neo-nazi and far-right elements in Ukraine certainly exist. I wrote about them back in 2014: https://www.wonkette.com/ukrainian-nazis-seem-nice

and many times since then. Fact is, these creeps (like Andriy Biletsky) are not nearly as prominent as they were even 5 years ago. Biletsky left parliament in 2019, for example. This doesn't excuse their existence but it does make one wonder why suddenly now they warrant a military op (war).

All governments provide rationales for military interventions. the question here is: is the Russian government trustworthy, and does it actually care about the health and safety of Russians? Given what I've witnessed over the past two years, in my opinion, the answers to both of these questions is no. (edit: I should add that I feel the same way about ALL governments.)

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so, your reply boils down to the assumpton that the Azovs and the Nazi activities in ukraine exist but are not relevant and Putins reference to them is merely a fabricated rationale.

That may be true. But it may also not be. I for my part never took the Nazi reference seriously until I recently decided to at least give it a short moment of research. And I was totally shocked. A government that integrates this kind of people (as I understand, they are still part of the National Guard) will simply never get my support.

I certainly don't think Putin is a freedom fighter, but I at least continue to consider the option that there were developments (behind the scenes) that caused him to take this (desperate?) step. I heard that Soros has openly declared him enemy of the New World, and the WEF has removed his and Gref's entry from their page. Just hearsay, not verified.

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Isn't propaganda always working this way?

You have some facts to work with and inflate them to present a narrative your victims can relate to?

Isn't it always a matter of weighting?

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Putin removed, Gref not, he's more essential/central.

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Verified.

Does not work (please read the link): https://www.weforum.org/people/vladimir-putin

Merkel works (please read the link): https://www.weforum.org/people/angela-merkel

But Schwab confirmed he was a ygl: https://www.bitchute.com/video/veOe4Iu4LvgR/

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Hello! I recommend following the analysis of the former Indian diplomat, M.K. Bhadrakumar, on his website IndianPunchline.com with a gorgeous photo of the backwaters area at the tip of the Indian peninsula, his home state of Kerala, with the democratic-communist government...sort of a social democracy, where I've spent about a week in the course of my extensive travels in India and found it to be the most appealing...in terms of quality of life for its people...though not the grandeur of the architecture of Rajastan with such as the Taj Majal & so much more. That's to set the stage for Bhadrakumar, who writes beautifully from the soul...even as his brilliant mind analyzes the geopolitical chess game. Today's piece provides an awesome narrative with superb colored maps to help us better understand what's going on in Ukraine...or "Why Russian Operation Focuses on Donbass, Black Sea Regions".

Also, I just watched/listened to a splendid Tablet Magazine Webinar with Glenn Greenwald and Lee Smith with moderator, Jacob Siegel: "Ukraine and the Deep State" to begin to grasp what's going on behind the scenes. Tablet is an extraordinarily diverse Jewish on-line journal based in NYC with a great array of extremely intelligent and talented writers...whether one agrees with some of them or not...as we witness what may be the birth pangs of a Eurasian-led "new world order"...perhaps the insane drive toward extinction or some other equally unimaginable...as yet.

(It wasn't clear whether a re-play of the Greenwald-Smith discussion will be available for replay later on the Tablet site.)

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Oh dear! Slav squat... I know you wouldn't care much but, just watch your back, will you! At least until I can find another source of non fake-news from Russia!

BTW, just let you know. Some days ago I watched the RT flagship "Cross-Talk" with all the usual "stuperts" who were trying their best to gaslighting their audience. I felt sick the whole day! Now the only RT show I would watch is Boom Bust. Please do not mention the Press in the "Free world."

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Good post, and i like your handle (posting name).

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"You can’t say: “The Donbass republics should negotiate with Kiev—one of our main trading partners—with the aim of rejoining Ukraine” and then after eight years declare: “this is an illegitimate western-backed neo-Nazi regime that is committing genocide and we will forcibly remove these freaks.” You can’t say that after eight years. That’s insane."

- Why did the West overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in the first place? Because this was all a placeholder for NOW. The whole thing is yet another psyop (with the Ukrainian population again as an unfortunate casualty). I am really starting to wonder if any history of the last 100 years plus is credible at this juncture. How deep does the rabbit hole go?

I'm a historian btw!

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Also, because I watched your interview with Tessa, YouTube served me this:

https://youtu.be/mN3z3eSVG7A

As a connoisseur of Soviet jokes, I thought this was pretty good, although a couple were below the belt.

My favorite remains:

Sometime in the 1970s a shipment of meat arrives in a town in the Soviet Union . The townspeople line up at the town store to wait to be given their rations. After about an hour, a man comes out of the store and announces, "Comrades, I'm sorry to tell you, but there isn't enough meat for everyone, so the Jews have to leave." The Jews in the line leave grumbling.

About an hour later, the man comes out of the store and announces, "Comrades, I'm sorry to tell you this, but there isn't enough meat for everyone, so anyone who is not a member of the Communist party will have to leave." More grumbling as the non-Party members depart.

Another hour goes by and the man comes out of the store again and announces, "Comrades, I'm sorry to tell you this, but there isn't enough meat for everyone in the line, so anyone who wasn't a member of the Party before 1956 has to leave." More grumbling as all the younger Party members leave. A few old people remain in the line.

Another hour goes by. It's now getting dark and it's cold. The same man comes out of the store and announces, "Comrades, I'm sorry to tell you this, but there isn't any meat. Go home."

One old lady in the line turns to her neighbor and says, "See? It's like I told you. The Jews always get the best treatment!"

(BTW this joke is featured on many Jewish websites, so spare me....).

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Also, The Simpsons predicted this:

https://youtu.be/z77JFw2D6f8

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How deep does the rabbit hole go? James Corbett shows this SO WELL in his documentaries on his website. Like there is NOTHING that we have been taught that is accurate historically IMO knowing what I know now. Like NOTHING. Prove me wrong.

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I tend to agree. The only question is how far back in time has this been going on?

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I honestly feel like FOREVER. Christopher Columbus was a lie you know what I mean? It just goes on forever and those corrupt lines have kept it spinning and have gotten more powerful. We’ve gotten weaker but grown in number so it was inevitable we would eventually find out what was going on….but jeezus what shit storm and poorly told history. Not that we learn from history so does any of it matter anyway?

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"Not that we learn from history so does any of it matter anyway?"

Wow, that's deep. Excellent comment.

I'm moving ever closer from "skeptic" to "cynic". This definitely activates my almonds as they say.

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How old are you, this may be key. I remember visiting my grandmother in Germany and she would talk of the war often and it made me sad how she tried to justify surviving. So there were always two sides for me and I was lucky enough to have had that exposure…and now this. Thank God all of my family who lived through WWII are dead. They don’t have to see….wait for it: History Repeat Itself

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Ah ha. I knew this would move the wheels. Moves mine all the time and then you fly all over the place grabbing your head going “Why!? Why!?” Or better “How?”

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подтверждаю, прием.

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How long have things been documented, there’s your first tangible lie.

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Mar 3, 2022·edited Mar 3, 2022

This sounds an awful lot like the Black Iron Prison from Philip K Dick's VALIS.

"The Black Iron Prison" is a concept of an all-pervasive system of social control postulated in the Tractates Cryptica Scriptura, a summary of an unpublished Gnostic exegesis included in VALIS."

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Interesting. Must go read.

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VALIS will blow your mind. Like quite a few of Dick's novels. I highly recommend.

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Oh My God. My dad LOVED that song. On top of THAT I just found the love letters that he wrote to my mom…😭😭😭

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Donask about Donbass!

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Ok enough of you Smartass!

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PS i have great admiration for one willing to write out a joke.

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Always enjoy reading your perspective from Russia, it provides a good perspective to balance the view of these events from the west. I suspect that this is an epic 5D chess move though just not in the way and by the people that most think:

https://jernaumoratgurgeh.substack.com/p/russias-ukrainian-adventure

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So happy to read your blog! I'm sharing widely.

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Mar 3, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Thank you for this much needed cold shower

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