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The Christian nationalism behind Putin’s war
Ishaan Tharoor - Yesterday 12:01 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/th ... ar-AAWlQGp

UPDATED WED, APR 20 20228:29 AM EDT
Ukraine pushes back on ‘numerous’ Russian advances in Donbas; Zelenskyy warns Mariupol situation is severe
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/russia- ... dates.html

Battle for Donbas: 3 reasons why Russia is shifting its war machine to east Ukraine
PUBLISHED TUE, APR 19 20226:26 AM EDTUPDATED TUE, APR 19 20226:52 PM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/19/why-doe ... -much.html

Russia pours in more troops and presses attack in the east
By ADAM SCHRECK
yesterday
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 5492889d7b

Stellantis Idles One of Russia’s Last Working Auto Plants
Tara Patel - Yesterday 7:12 AM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compani ... ar-AAWm6xv

US Imposes Ban On Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests To Highlight Russian Malfeasance In Space
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, APR 18, 2022 - 10:05 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/us ... ance-space

Russian victory in looming battle for Donbas 'not inevitable,' defense officials say
https://justthenews.com/government/secu ... icials-say

Ukraine Has Received Fighter Jets From Unnamed US Ally: Pentagon
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, APR 20, 2022 - 09:45 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... n-confirms

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chi ... 022-04-21/

It looks like She-pig King is showing dictatorial delusion with recent actions, especially regarding virus shutdowns. These actions are regarded as defending Russian aggression and laying the moral foundation for their own.

John, can you tell something about what you see as happening with Chinese moves?

Would anyone care to speculate about whether they'll go for it this fall or next year sometime?

** 21-Apr-2022 World View: Spread of Covid in China

FullMoon wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:19 am > https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chi ... 022-04-21/

> It looks like She-pig King is showing dictatorial delusion with
> recent actions, especially regarding virus shutdowns. These
> actions are regarded as defending Russian aggression and laying
> the moral foundation for their own.

> John, can you tell something about what you see as happening with
> Chinese moves?

> Would anyone care to speculate about whether they'll go for it
> this fall or next year sometime?

• A masked Xi Jinping in a lab coat

The continuing spread of Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19) is a personal
disaster for Xi Jinping.

Originally, China purposely spread the virus to dozens of countries by
encouraging travel between Wuhan and other countries, while forbidding
travel between Wunan and other parts of China. Then the Chinese
bragged that they were superior to America and the rest of the world
by claiming that Xi Jinping's brilliance had eliminated Covid in China
in Spring 2020 because of the disastrous "zero Covid" policy, which
locks down any city where even a single Covid case is detected.

Today, we see the results of Xi Jinping's brilliance:

• China's Covid vaccines are not very effective.
• China refused to import the effective Western vaccines, because
  that would humiliate Xi Jinping.
• Lockdowns only work if the people in the city being locked down
  are mostly immune -- because they've had Covid or because they've been
  effectively vaccinated, and that's not true for most people.
• Variants of the Omicron mutation have been spreading more quickly
  than officials can keep up with the "zero Covid" policy.
• As a result, about 40 cities are currently locked down in China.
  Millions of people are locked down, including about 20 million in
  Shanghai.
• The lockdowns have been poorly implemented. Many people can't get
  food delivered, and they're starving to death. Other people can get
  medicines or medical help, and they'll die from otherwise curable
  diseases. If this continues, it could trigger a wider anti-government
  protests.
• This has harmed many segments of China's economy, and has also
  affected the world's supply chains.
• Xi has been embarrassed by Russia's debacle so far in
  Ukraine.

All of this has been so humiliating to Xi Jinping that he may have
sufficiently lost his "Mandate from Heaven," and so that his plan to
be chosen for a third term as leader of China will fail.

How this will affect Xi's plans to invade Taiwan remains to be seen.
Some analysts are claiming that these problems will force China to
delay the invasion, possible for as long as five years. However, this
analysis assumes that Xi and the CCP are rational, which they are not.

But Xi and the CCP are not rational. They're desperate. I'll repeat
the following, which I've posted many, many, many times:

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Insanity in individuals is something rare
- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

I believe that a more likely scenario is the opposite. Xi and the CCP
may be so desperate to regain credibility quickly that they may invade
Taiwan as soon as possible.

It's impossible to predict what the Xi and the CCP will do, but
whatever it is, it will be in the delusional interest of Xi and the
CCP, and never in the interest of the Chinese people or anyone else in
the world but themselves.

---- Sources:

-- China / Zero COVID failure threatens Xi Jinping's 3rd term:
Taiwanese scholar
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4510517
(Taiwan News, 18-Apr-2022)

-- Shanghai hopes COVID tide turning, with fewer cases outside
quarantine areas
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sha ... 022-04-20/
(Reuters, 20-Apr-2022)

-- Taiwan News: 'Omicron' In Mandarin Sounds Like 'I Exterminate CCP'
Taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4368085?fbclid=IwAR2WDEaqjn8qYB1S_bfDgJIQxY2tB_vtrtZt4da5oDT9xNvGohzBZHbKoV8,
(Taiwan News, 7-Dec-2021)

UPDATED THU, APR 21 20222:47 PM EDT
Biden will send more arms and economic aid to Ukraine; Putin cancels plan to storm last stronghold in Mariupol
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/russia- ... dates.html

WORLD AT WARBlack Hole: CNN Admits US “Doesn’t Really Know” What Happens to Weapons Sent to Ukraine
Biden about to send another $800 million.
Published 15 hours ago on 20 April, 2022Paul Joseph Watson
https://summit.news/2022/04/20/black-ho ... o-ukraine/

Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
By CARA ANNA and INNA VARENYTSIA
yesterday
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 0bebc9343f

April 20, 2022
9:14 PM EDT
Last Updated 18 hours ago
UK PM Johnson says Ukraine peace talks are doomed because of "crocodile" Putin
By Andrew Macaskill
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ne ... 022-04-20/

Jeremy Corbyn calls for end to NATO to bring world peace
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/jeremy-corby ... ace/276559

Putin tells forces to seal off last Mariupol fighters - BBC News
776,646 viewsApr 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zppLq0KcpQ

For Civilians Trapped in Mariupol, Fleeing Can Be as Risky as Staying
https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-civili ... 1650566495

Top U.S. officials heading to Kyiv as war shifts focus
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/2 ... s-00027349

Russia Warns Greece of Complete Breakdown in Relations
By
Tasos Kokkinidis
April 23, 2022
https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/23/ru ... relations/

** 23-Apr-2022 World View: Reader comment on the Cassandra Curse

The following is a slightly edited version of a very nice e-mail
message from a reader about the Cassandra Curse:

> "Best wishes to you, Mr. Xenakis. I have read all your
> books except for the one on Viet Nam, and I am going to purchase
> that one too. Especially the books on China and Iran. Very well
> research and very insightful. You deserve much greater success and
> in a better world, you would be praised and financially better
> compensated. I understand your feeling the Cassandra complex. I
> have been following your Generational Dynamics website for years
> and I have yet to hear or read anything that contradicts the
> things you have presented in you writings. I empathize, as I have
> several close friends that when I start talking about these
> things, they shut down in a kind of psychological placing of their
> hands over their ears. They cannot bear to discuss such things and
> so I have to not pursue such conversations with them, although
> they are very dear people. I guess that is an immutable aspect of
> human nature, and hence the Greek legend of Cassandra.

> I have become somewhat fatalistic in the sense that while I cannot
> do much of anything about these important issues, I have come to
> live more in the moment in my life around me, and do find a little
> bit of peace, for what that is worth. I think that must be harder
> for someone of your intellectual caliber. I wish you peace and
> happiness in any measure that you can achieve it. You deserve to
> have a happy life, and your positive contribution to this world is
> greater than you think. You have made a difference."

** 23-Apr-2022 World View: Split in Orthodox church on eve of Easter

• Super-hot Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova threatens Greece

Tom Mazanec wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:41 pm > Russia Warns Greece of Complete Breakdown in Relations
> By Tasos Kokkinidis April 23, 2022
> https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/23/ru ... relations/

This is significant, since Greece and Russia are both Orthodox
Christian countries and have had close relations for centuries. But
it's not really surprising, given that Russia is attacking another
Orthodox Christian country, Ukraine, with almost unbelievable
atrocities and war crimes, including slaughter, rapes and murders of
Russian Orthodox mothers and children living in Ukraine.

Sunday is the Orthodox Easter, a time of great sorrow for Orthodox
Christians, in view of Russia horrific and unjustified invasion of
Ukraine.

Bartholomew, the Archbishop of Constantinople and spiritual leader of
all branches of Orthodox Christianity, has strongly condemned Russia's
invasion.

**** Patriarch Kirill's pathetic pandering to Putin

What's more puzzling is the fact that the spiritual leader of the
Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Mikailovitch Goundiaiev, known as
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, is fully supporting Putin's
atrocities in Ukraine, without a word of criticism of the slaughter,
rapes and murders of Russian Orthodox mothers and children living in
Ukraine.

Patriarch Kirill has portrayed the military actions as a war against
evil, saying in his sermon on March 6 that “we have entered into a
struggle that has not a physical but a metaphysical significance,” a
fight for “human salvation.” Kirill’s rejection of tolerance for
homosexuality seems to be at the heart of his support for bringing
Ukraine back into Holy Russia. His sermons since the beginning of the
war portray the Donbas, whose Russian-speaking citizens Putin has
vowed to “liberate” from allegedly genocidal attacks by the Ukrainian
government, as being subjected to pro-gay rights propaganda and
policies they reject on religious grounds. [Moscow Times]

However, I think there's a much simpler explanation for Kirill's
pathetic pandering to Putin's atrocities. Kirill is afraid that Putin
will emulate Nicolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), who destroyed
the Russian Orthodox church in order to harvest the Church's wealth.
The following is a 1922 memo to the Politburo:

> "We must pursue the removal of church property by any
> means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several
> hundred million gold rubles (do not forget the immense wealth of
> some monasteries and lauras). Without this fund any government
> work in general, any economic build-up in particular, and any
> upholding of soviet principles in Genoa especially is completely
> unthinkable. In order to get our hands on this fund of several
> hundred million gold rubles (and perhaps even several hundred
> billion), we must do whatever is necessary. But to do this
> successfully is possible only now. All considerations indicate
> that later on we will fail to do this, for no other time, besides
> that of desperate famine, will give us such a mood among the
> general mass of peasants that would ensure us the sympathy of this
> group, or, at least, would ensure us the neutralization of this
> group in the sense that victory in the struggle for the removal of
> church property unquestionably and completely will be on our
> side."

Lenin and Putin are the same -- psychopathic, genocidal war criminals
who feel free to commit abominations against their own religion for
their own political gain. Lenin destroyed the Russian Orthodox church
for greed, money and power, and the Church was dead, for all practical
purposes, until World War II, when Stalin begged the Church for help.
Nobody doubts that Putin would destroy the Church again, for the same
reasons, and I believe that's the best explanation for Kirill's
pathetic pandering.


---- Sources:

-- Patriarch Bartholomew says he's 'targeted' by Russia over Ukraine
church
https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/dip ... ine-church
(AFP, 22-Mar-2022)

-- Russia Warns Greece of Complete Breakdown in Relations
https://greekreporter.com/2022/04/23/ru ... relations/
(Greek Reporter, 23-Apr-2022)

-- Russian Patriarch prays for quick end to Ukraine conflict but
avoids criticising it
https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-p ... 022-04-23/
(Reuters, 23-Apr-2022)

-- Human Rights Activists Call For Indictment of Russian Patriarch
Kirill
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/ ... ill-a77461
(Moscow Times, 22-Apr-2022)

---- Related article:

** Russian Orthodox Church reunites 80 years after Bolshevik Revolution
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e070517

How's this for the most unpopular argument ever.

Both sides have white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and radical Islamists in their ranks. And thus both sides will be committing horrific war crimes against each other. And the rest of the world will ignore these facts because they will be focused on taking sides.

Attacking others for correctly pointing out your failure to acknowledge that all major news sources are fake news does not make them Russian trolls, John.

It makes you a cunt.

** 23-Apr-2022 World View: Pronouns

Silenced S wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 9:17 pm > Attacking others for correctly pointing out your failure to
> acknowledge that all major news sources are fake news does
> not make them Russian trolls, John.

> It makes you a cunt.

Sorry. My pronouns are he, him, his. Yours must be idiot, idiot,
idiot.

If you think that hundreds of news sources from dozens of countries
are all cooperating together in a worldwide anti-Russian conspiracy,
simply parroting Unian, then you actually are an idiot. Or, maybe you
actually are a Russian troll.