Generational Dynamics World View News

[Cool Breeze]

Obvious question: If the Russians are so bent on invasion, why didn't they do this months ago, when they had the element of surprise and Ukraine was less prepared with fewer modern weapons?
Does anyone automatically believe anything Us 'Intelligence' says?

An even more obvious question: Why is Biden claiming an invasion is imminent when the Ukraine's own president is saying otherwise?

It's all a play. Banks use it to print more.

John and others become more and more wrong about "inflation." Or "deflation" that isn't happening, that they somehow think is happening, in bizarro world.

[John]

** 13-Feb-2022 World View: Ukraine receives anti-aircraft missiles from Lithuania

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk ... 022-02-13/

KYIV, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine on Sunday received a consignment of
Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems and ammunition by plane from
Lithuania, the defense ministry in Kyiv said.

Earlier on Sunday two other planes delivered about 180 tonnes of
ammunition from the United States, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov
said. Ukraine had so far received almost 1,500 tonnes of ammunition
delivered on 17 flights, he said on Twitter.

Military officials say Ukraine has significantly strengthened its
armed forces with the help of allies, equipping the army, in
particular, with American and British anti-tank systems and Turkish
drones.

The United States and allies say Russia could invade Ukraine at any
moment. Russia, which has more than 100,000 troops massed near
Ukraine, denies having any such plan.

[Ken]

Knowing how Putin is a dedicated follower of the pseudo-science of Gumilev and his belief that Russia will be great again due to 'cosmic influences', I had a quick look earlier at what a few experienced astrologers were saying about Putin. The summary is: it doesn't look good for him. One of the best I saw is: "Putin is being drawn in by a delusion or illusion, which will result in a serious miscalculation." Now, I do not expect you to take much notice of this; but I'm surprised Putin (given his allegiances to 'fate') has taken such a gamble. Maybe at his age, it is a 'now or never' gamble,

[John]

** 13-Feb-2022 World View: Delusion or illusion

> Knowing how Putin is a dedicated follower of the pseudo-science of
> Gumilev and his belief that Russia will be great again due to
> 'cosmic influences', I had a quick look earlier at what a few
> experienced astrologers were saying about Putin. The summary is:
> it doesn't look good for him. One of the best I saw is: "Putin is
> being drawn in by a delusion or illusion, which will result in a
> serious miscalculation." Now, I do not expect you to take much
> notice of this; but I'm surprised Putin (given his allegiances to
> 'fate') has taken such a gamble. Maybe at his age, it is a 'now or
> never' gamble.

I agree that "Putin is being drawn in by a delusion or illusion," not
because the astrologer said it, but because it's obvious from watching
him. Putin has boxed himself into a corner where he has two choices
(withdraw or attack), both of which are disastrous.

[Guest]

** 13-Feb-2022 World View: Delusion or illusion

> Knowing how Putin is a dedicated follower of the pseudo-science of
> Gumilev and his belief that Russia will be great again due to
> 'cosmic influences', I had a quick look earlier at what a few
> experienced astrologers were saying about Putin. The summary is:
> it doesn't look good for him. One of the best I saw is: "Putin is
> being drawn in by a delusion or illusion, which will result in a
> serious miscalculation." Now, I do not expect you to take much
> notice of this; but I'm surprised Putin (given his allegiances to
> 'fate') has taken such a gamble. Maybe at his age, it is a 'now or
> never' gamble.

I agree that "Putin is being drawn in by a delusion or illusion," not
because the astrologer said it, but because it's obvious from watching
him. Putin has boxed himself into a corner where he has two choices
(withdraw or attack), both of which are disastrous.

Putin is providing the West, and especially Europe, with an overdue wake up call. He is inadvertently doing us a favour because we are in decline and decadent decay.
As the West focuses on a real threat so it begins to ask long overdue questions of itself.
Western Europe is a precious jewel which its citizens have historically fought to retain control of. It is a beautiful, fertile, temperate but small region of great cultural wealth with myriad tribes of peoples who, to their discredit, have spent too long fighting each other. In the last century this fighting reached a sickening and costly crescendo.
But in recent decades the West had done even greater damage to itself. It has pacified. It has exported its industry. It has sold and divested others of its intellectual property. It has made itself dependent on foreign energy and food and it has enriched its enemies and admitted those who despise it in ludicrous numbers while financially and ideologicalky discouraging or disadvantaging its own children.
This is Rome, Byzantium, Troy and Ozymandias all over again. We are in the decadent stage that comes between greatness and decline.
Putin reminds us who we are. How vulnerable and comparatively small we are and what we have that is worthwhile. He does us a favour.
If Putin invades Ukraine he will pay a huge price. It will cost Russia dear on multiple levels and reinvigorate the West which is long overdue a wake up call.

[Guest]

Ukraine is just an appetiser, Taiwan is the main event and Putin’s real audience at the moment is Xi and his emerging relationship with China (that is why he could afford to move his troops away from his eastern borders to face the west).
We are watching the preliminary stages of a new Sino-Russian axis.

[Cool Breeze]

** 13-Feb-2022 World View: Delusion or illusion

> Knowing how Putin is a dedicated follower of the pseudo-science of
> Gumilev and his belief that Russia will be great again due to
> 'cosmic influences', I had a quick look earlier at what a few
> experienced astrologers were saying about Putin. The summary is:
> it doesn't look good for him. One of the best I saw is: "Putin is
> being drawn in by a delusion or illusion, which will result in a
> serious miscalculation." Now, I do not expect you to take much
> notice of this; but I'm surprised Putin (given his allegiances to
> 'fate') has taken such a gamble. Maybe at his age, it is a 'now or
> never' gamble.

I agree that "Putin is being drawn in by a delusion or illusion," not
because the astrologer said it, but because it's obvious from watching
him. Putin has boxed himself into a corner where he has two choices
(withdraw or attack), both of which are disastrous.

Putin is providing the West, and especially Europe, with an overdue wake up call. He is inadvertently doing us a favour because we are in decline and decadent decay.
As the West focuses on a real threat so it begins to ask long overdue questions of itself.
Western Europe is a precious jewel which its citizens have historically fought to retain control of. It is a beautiful, fertile, temperate but small region of great cultural wealth with myriad tribes of peoples who, to their discredit, have spent too long fighting each other. In the last century this fighting reached a sickening and costly crescendo.
But in recent decades the West had done even greater damage to itself. It has pacified. It has exported its industry. It has sold and divested others of its intellectual property. It has made itself dependent on foreign energy and food and it has enriched its enemies and admitted those who despise it in ludicrous numbers while financially and ideologicalky discouraging or disadvantaging its own children.
This is Rome, Byzantium, Troy and Ozymandias all over again. We are in the decadent stage that comes between greatness and decline.
Putin reminds us who we are. How vulnerable and comparatively small we are and what we have that is worthwhile. He does us a favour.
If Putin invades Ukraine he will pay a huge price. It will cost Russia dear on multiple levels and reinvigorate the West which is long overdue a wake up call.

You are right and wrong. The post enlightenment period is the period in which what made the world great (christianity) was shunned by the west, and thus, its inheritance. Putin won't invade and there will be no war. The real problem in the world is communist ideology, most obvious in the CCP, and then in the USA, and then Russia.

They have it all backwards.

[DaKardii]

It's not too late to arm the Chechens. The rebels are still there. Waiting. A fire in Chechnya would definitely draw Moscow's attention.

Many Americans would root for Russia on principle if we did that.

[Guest]

It's not too late to arm the Chechens. The rebels are still there. Waiting. A fire in Chechnya would definitely draw Moscow's attention.

Many Americans would root for Russia on principle if we did that.

Then they would be stupid.

[Ken]

In Putin's deranged view, to sustain the myth of Russian greatness, no lie is too great; no action too monstrous.