Kaliningrad is an enclave of Russia on the Baltic Sea, with a population of around 450,000 Russians. Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO countries Lithuania to the north and Poland to the south.
Land access for Russia to Kaliningrad is a matter of treaties between Russia and Lithuania providing transit to the Russian enclave through Suwalski gap where railroads connect Kaliningrad to Belarus.
In an intentionally provocative move, the NATO alliance has now decided to use Lithuania to cut off access to Kaliningrad by land. The NATO alliance is saying this is part of their execution of economic sanctions against Russia by stopping the transport of goods and products through the Suwalski gap.
The blockade began today, and the Russian government is evaluating how to respond to this aggressive effort against Kaliningrad.
This action is being taken as the same time as EU NATO countries are threatening to rush NATO membership for Ukraine into place. There is no other way to look at this decision by NATO member states as anything except a deliberate effort to increase the likelihood of war between Russia and the western alliance.
(Via Daily Mail) – The Kremlin has threatened Lithuania after EU-sanctioned goods were blocked from reaching the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, fuelling fears of NATO being dragged into the war.
Moscow warned of ‘very tough actions’ against the Western security alliance member after deliveries of coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology were stopped from entering the Russian territory. The Lithuanian chargé d’affaires in Moscow was told that unless cargo transit was resumed in the near future, Russia reserves the right to act to protect its national interests.
The Russian foreign ministry said: ‘We consider provocative measures of the Lithuanian side which violate Lithuania’s international legal obligations, primarily the 2002 Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the European Union on transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation, to be openly hostile.’
Loyalist senator Andrey Klimov warned it was ‘direct aggression against Russia, literally forcing us to immediately resort to proper self-defence’.
The head of the parliamentary sovereignty protection commission, he vowed that Russia would solve the blockade ‘in ANY way we choose’.
Any direct Russian attack on alliance member state Lithuania would be seen as an act of war against NATO and could spark a world war.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said his country was simply implementing sanctions imposed by the EU.
He said the measures implemented were taken after ‘consultation with the European Commission and under its guidelines.’
‘Sanctioned goods (will) no longer be allowed to transit Lithuanian territory,’ Landsbergis added.
The foreign ministry emphasised it has not imposed ‘unilateral, individual or additional’ restrictions.
But Russia disagrees, with Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying: ‘This decision is really unprecedented. It’s a violation of everything.’ (read more)
The western motive to provoke a war between NATO and Russia is transparent. In addition to the geopolitical ideology of the West against the country of Russia, the economic situation created by the Western alliance is tenuous.
Inflation is raging in all of the countries who followed the instructions of the World Economic Forum and the massive spending demanded within the pandemic response. The economies of the EU and the United States are now reflecting the results of those multinational corporation instructions known more colloquially as the Build Back Better agenda.
The Ukraine conflict is now being used as a cover story, an arbitrary justification, as politicians in Western government claim the Russian intervention into Eastern Ukraine is the source of the global economic problem. This is a false claim; however, it is being emphasized in a way that indicates fear on the part of the WEF member nation group, to the consequences of the economic damage now surfacing.
Traditionally, only two economic issues have ever been successful in stopping a large global recession: (1) war, and/or (2) housing starts. The approaches of the central banks, including the U.S. Federal reserve, have precluded housing starts from having any value to stop the global recession. That leaves ‘WAR’.
This is a very dangerous time as the Western alliance, driven by NATO following a predictable plan, is now positioning for an intentional war with Russia.
Strategically, Kaliningrad is to Russia as Alaska is to the United States. How would the United States respond if Canada blocked access to Alaska?
We are closer to a direct NATO conflict with Russia than ever before, and we are in this moment because Western government want that conflict.
The U.S. State Department, not the Pentagon, is leading us and the Western alliance into this war…. These are very dangerous moves.
(Reuters) – […] “If cargo transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation via Lithuania is not fully restored in the near future, then Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests,” it said.
Kaliningrad, formerly the port of Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War Two. It is sandwiched between NATO members Poland and Lithuania. (read more)
Hey NATO. You lie down with dogs, you get up with nukes.
You get put down with nukes. There I fixed it for ya.
Euthanized with nukes. seems more likely.
Great analogy regarding our Alaska and Canada.
Just what the Doctor ordered, or should I say, the Deep State ordered. They can’t win the Mid-terms legitimately, they’re worried now that they can’t win it by cheating with the ballot stuffing or mail in ballots using a fake pandemic, so WWIII it is.
That way they can declare a National Emergency, suspend the election and all civil rights. It’s for the country in the time of war. If you’re not for this, then you’re a traitor and enemy combatant and will be detained until further notice.
This isn’t too far fetched. The trial run in Ukraine has worked out famously.
Yes it is far fetched and extremely unlikely. “Our Democracy “ isn’t compatible with suspended elections and therefore an obviously illegitimate government.
The word “ obviously” is key here.
No elections were suspended during any war, including the Civil War.
Or influenza until 2020. New playbook these days. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, right?
That trial run will not apply to the U.S.
There are simply too many men and women who will not allow it to happen. And we are a much larger country.
At 70. I don’t think I’ll be on the front lines. But I’ll be damned if I won’t be seen standing in the breach. Wolverines……….!!!
100%! If NATO’s goal isn’t nuclear exchange, why then to provoke one?
To cover up their deliberate tanking of the world economy.
Democrats just keep doubling down on their mistakes. Unlike, the RINOS, the Democrats never give up on their agenda.
No, the RINOS never give up on their TRUE agenda, which is perzactly the same as the Democrats.
You DO understand,..
RINO =Republican In Name Only=Democrat,.
..yes?
“What part of UNI-PARTY do you NOT understand?”
It is time to remove the “ELITES”
It’s them Elitists or Us!
DemocRats will need a war to cancel sELECTIONS before Nov.
This NWO WAR will impact here in the USA. with real misery.
They will also use a war to ration our food, gas, electricity, etc….
Better stock up. And buy some ammo while your at it before the IRS continues to buy all of it.
The worst part of this is most Americans have no idea that this is going on. So Russia will once again be painted as the bad guy when in fact it is our country and our European partners, that by all ways I look at it, are the ones in the wrong and thus provoking a response. I am past surprise and as far as they have gone see no end in sight to the world wide tyranny that has befallen us. Elections will never fix this because ALL the institutions of Government have become corrupted.
What elections?!
…but Our Democracy….
☠️
Actually the worst part of this is forcing China to side further with Russia. China really needs a war with it’s economy in a free fall. Russia’s response to this ridiculous poke in the eye will be fully supported by China and the western WEF puppet nations have no idea the damage China can do on a worldwide basis
It’s not just China. BRICS.
At the beginning of this mess….more than 30 countries refused to condemn Russia going after Ukraine.
Keep hearing murmurs about BRICS becoming Big 8. Waiting for confirmation. A lot of times its–rumor before fact.
Meanwhile Ukraine has been shelling down town Donetsk. Civilians. No military there. Just Civilians. Also shelled maternity hospital couple days ago.
And we are financing this?
We are condoning this?
And Russia holds up actions like this and says–
The West IS evil.
Watch Patrick Lancaster YouTube.
Where has the media/politicians outrage been about that?
And after the Big 8, the BRICS will add Rutgers and U. of Maryland and become the Big Ten, with two conferences and an annual championship game.
China will move on Taiwan, but the timing will certainly be advanced if we go to war with Russia. The Chinese economy is on the ropes, and Xi has serious opposition inside the CCP Politburo. But why stop there? It would be in China’s interest further to weaken our response by unleashing North Korea to attack the south. And would this be a good time for Iran to adopt a much more directly aggressive profile in the Middle East? There are a lot of agendas in play around the globe.
You are exactly right… most westerners have no clue of international politics……… heck most cant find Europe on a map!
“What is the largest city in the World”?
“Uh, I SHOULD know this,..I am studying to be a teacher,…uh, largest city in the World,…Oh, I KNOW!
Its ASIA!”
They have no idea, Murray, because, they are too busy with Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, the Kardashians, the Depp-Heard pantomime, on and on and on. I regret to say this but we are, in the main, an ignorant people with no interest in learning anything of the world around us, and absolutely no understanding that what is going on in that world has very real ability to completely ruin their lives.
The only think you left out of your list Betsy is “gullible”, “easily manipulated” and with incredibly “short attention spans”.
Yes…didn’t like to heap it on too thick. You are, of course, absolutely correct. For most, the world starts on the US west coast and ends on the right. It’s really the worst indictment of our worse than useless “education” system.
yup. “Putin attacks Poland and Lithuania for no reason at all”
Gonzalo Lira on The Saker has a short video regarding the “Empire of Hate and Lies” (as the man whose site this is calls the Western NATO countries) blatantly disregarding the Treaty which keeps the ” corridor” open. Very interesting, as is the whole site.
I just wonder how much more the eunuch European NATO members will tolerate being the patsies for the US war mongerers. Their “elite” leaders are looking stupider by the day.
The Daily Mail, by the way, is an extremely unreliable source, so far having taken the crown as Chief Propagandist for Nato. Take what they say on this issue as just more of the same. The National Enquirer would be more reliable, that’s how bad they are.
The Mail has absolutely no idea….all propaganda and that fool Liz Truss….
She really is a waste of space, appointed no doubt because diversity…or something. No gravitas or brains. Same with the wretched Home Secretary Patel.
They are and have been in bed with the same global world order agenda as their foreign counterparts.
The USA globalists have ALWAYS been working in tandem with their foreign global elites.
They are global and work with like minded “elites” to push their global agenda. That has nothing to do with keeping any people or country alive or standing as they need to DESTROY all existing countries and cultures to Build Back their Global dichotomy.
Of course they have, Libby. On this the European people are more aware than our populace (in general). The EU is crumbling. And as they are on the doorstep of any retaliation which Putin may decide to take, they will make their voices heard first. To make my point, take a look at this weekend’s election results in France.
Macron might have rigged his recent election,
but he has lost his majority in France’s parliament. This is huge.
Europe has historically seen more revolutions and wars than we have here.
The time will come when Europe’s people will say no more, so loudly that the “elites” there will be unable to pretend they cannot hear their voices. And while no one can predict when that may be, I get the feeling that time is not so far away.
In America we had the shot heard around the World,…
meanwhile in France, they heard the sound of the guiotine.
O.k., TWO things to admire about France,…La Penn and the Guiotine.
And pastrie, and perfume, and,…
A nice list there, Dutchman. Pretty certain they have a guillotine or two tucked away somewhere…
and Lafayette
and the Statute of Liberty
Inspector Clouseau?
Without French assistance we would have lost our war of independence from Britain. Check out all of the French heroes of the American revolution memorialized in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House.
France was the America of two centuries ago, the collosal power of Europe. Two centuries from now will anyone remember America?
Yes, these people are globalists. They have no home country but leech of of their host countries and bleed them dry. After they destroy their economies sapping out all of the wealth they start war which is the most profitable of all. Since they despise their host countries they love war. Obtain more wealth and watch your enemies kill each other. My sons will never fight for the regime in control of the west. No more banker wars. No more brother wars.
SOUTHFRONT . org , has some good reporting. They were covering the bio-labs and ” Pit-404 ” site.
Thank you for that recommendation, SparrowHawk.
Yes…it looks a good site. The short video I just watched about how war is unavoidable encapsulates in brief what Mr Lira said. I’ve bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks again.
I love the Saker…..good honest news.
And I do. Very VERY much.
Plus askeptic.
They have section on daily updates.
Not for those who will be traumatized by the reality of war.
Lots of maps.
Also Patrick Lancaster YouTube. He was at Maternity hospital couple days ago when Ukraine Nazis were shelling it. And during shelling of Donetsk downtown.
He is the only field journalist there that I know of.
A voice said to me, “Watch where the Russians penetrate America.” I saw these words being written: Alaska; Minnesota; Florida. Then, the man spoke again, “When America goes to war with China, the Russians will strike without warning.” The other two presidents spoke, “We, too, will fight for you.” Each had a place already planned as a point of attack. All of them shook hands and hugged. Then they all signed a contract. One of them said, “We’re sure that Korea and Cuba will be on our side, too. Without a doubt, together, we can destroy America.” The president of Russia began to speak insistently, “Why let ourselves be led by the
Americans? Why not rule the world ourselves? They have to be kicked out of Europe, too! Then I could do as I please with Europe!”
-The Prophecies and Visions of Dumitru Duduman-
Another voice said, ” That’s a bunch of rule the world gobbledeegook that means almost nothing.”
Spoiler alert:
Russia is not the Soviet Union.
World communism is the ideology of the WEF and the western elites.
Whoever Dumitru Duduman was, he didn’t forecast 1991 very well.
God chooses his warriors, no matter how unlikely they may be. I am not saying Putin is one such warrior.
But I will say this. How ironic would it be if the man who the debauched and defiled West has been portraying as almost the devil himself was such a warrior, who was the answer to destroying Satan’s WEF acolytes and their genocidal unholy agenda.
As I said…who are we to presume that he is or is not?
Kaliningrad should be part of Germany. Always was.
Umm… you do recall they lost their arse in WWII.
In that case, America should be given back to the Native Indians since it was taken from them.
They weren’t doing much with it, hadn’t even invented the wheel, or learned how to make metals.
If you are talking about the Plains Indians and other North American tribes, they killed and took the land from the actual indigenous people who were here before them.
Every square inch of the earth thats worth fighting for (so, possibly excepting Antartica) has been taken from somebody before, often numerous times.
There have been migrations, all across the earth, throughout its history.
So, WHAT?
Germany may consider itself lucky, considering what they’ve perpetrated in the east!
The red army committed unspeakable and proven atrocities at the end of the war. So did the west with the bombing of Dresden. However, all is forgiven because lesser of two evils right? General George Patton would disagree. Although Germany lost and to the victor go the spoils.
The raid on Dresden was a legitimate act of war according to the 1907 Hague Convention IX, as well as prior custom, Dresden being an industrial city in an enemy country in a time of war, containing at least 127 factories engaged in war-work; it was also an important transport hub shipping troops and munitions to the Eastern Front. Let Dresden’s epitaph be supplied by Lt John Morris (USAAF), one of the aircrew on the Dresden raid: ‘I don’t rejoice at the 35,000 Germans killed there. I doubt there were many Jews in that number. The good burghers of Dresden had shipped them all off to Auschwitz.’
The RAF (but not the USAAF) bombing campaign can be framed in terms of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. We started the war ‘cooperating’, not even allowed to bomb the Hamburg docks due to the risk to civilian dockworkers; meanwhile the Jerries happily flattened Warsaw. In response to Jerry’s continuing ‘defections’ (Rotterdam, London, Coventry, etc.), we gradually loosened restrictions and ultimately ‘defected’ better than the Jerries did.
…That said, perhaps ponder the correlation between the expansion of democracy and increasing savagery of war, as noted by 19th Century contemporaries through to modern writers {link}.
Democracy makes us all active participants in wars against—not governments and their militaries—but entire nations.
War is cruelty, always way beyond justification. We keep covering that up so some can continue to make it.
Well if you want to play that game … no it was not and neither was “Prussia” in general.
The land was “granted” to the Teutonic Knights, as a “reward” for their participation in the crusades, to do as they pleased so long as the Teutonic Knights agreed to act as a buffer to the Tartars. The only thing causing some issue was the aboriginal inhabitants, whom the Teutonic Knights eliminated via a campaign of genocide.
So, the last piece of paper “granting” ownership is the Treaties ending WWII and the 2002 Agreement.
Interesting how NATO seems to be acting afoul of all those pesky treaties and agreements … even the ones NATO ignored to start the whole Ukraine Operation.
Up to the second world war, “Ostpreussen” (east prussia) was a part of Germany.
If you look further into the past, of course you come to what you describe. But this is not only true for the european east, similar things happened elsewhere also. But then came the nation states with their borders.
I am stating this, because the current propaganda makes our kids think that the territories east of Oder-Neisse never belonged to Germany, but were illegal colonies.
The other thing I want to contribute to this (from a german standpoint as I am german) is that the loss of all these territories after WWII lead to death and expulsion of the native german population. A chapter of history, we as the children and grandchildren can still feel, but is not acknowledged.
I am aware Prussia has been “German” for a long time.
Being a student of history, I am also aware of the Price German Citizens paid after the war every where in Germany.
If you want to play the tragedy card … there are the minor details of eisatzgruppen who hunted more the Jews in Russia. Just sayin’.
You start a war, loose a war … you pay the price.
Further, the Russians accurately pointed out, after WW II, that the reason they wanted to occupy and “pollute” the Population of Prussia is that Prussia was the historical heart, soul and brains of a united GERMANY. Historically, without them the rest of Germany were sheep to be lead by a strong shepherd. That was a major compelling reason for their actions as well as revenge.
Got it in one. NATO was instituted to keep Germany down, America in, and the Soviets out. But we weren’t willing to take the casualties that were projected for finishing off Berlin, so the job fell to the Soviets. The postwar map of Europe resulted from that decision.
Because sadly the losers side is never told.
In the case of WWII, that is not true. One has to be willing read to learn the “story” because the History of the Russian Actions upon entering Eastern Europe and Germany are “NOT TOLD” per say, that much is true. Yet, the History is there to be read.
Who for example has ever acknowledged german POWs (aka Disarmed enemy forces, keeping the Geneva Convention out) being starved to death in Remagen, Sinzig and Andernach camps (and many more …)? That was a deliberate move to damage Germany for generations. My father never could talk about this time, just “the worst ever I experienced in my life” (and he was in Stalingrad). Was severely traumatized and I am unravelling being raised in a severely traumatized family.
Well, since they view treatiesas aspitational and non-binding (see all of their “climate treaties” it makes perfect sense that they can violate treaties, since obviously “International treaties” are meaningless.
Russia offered to return Kaliningrad to Germany after USSR dissolved. They said No.
Russia then offered to give admin control over Kaliningrad to Lithuania. They too said No.
Not Germany. Prussia. Which hasn’t existed for quite a whie.
Will Zoll would tell you the Prussians just abandoned their traditional lands and immigrated to a new host (the US). See Prussiagate on Substack.
Kind of interesting that we are suddenly back to the Prussian heartland/Teutonic Knights area as the trigger for WIII.
There are no conspiracy theories, but there are no coincidences either.
This will totally help cut down inflation and boost the confidence of Europeans and other westerns that their governments know what they are doing and are acting in the best interests of people everywhere. /s
So what’s the State Dept’s next move if Russia doesn’t bite……
Blame Trump.
Drag queen story hour and pronoun training
Please, stay the eff out of Ukraine! What the hell is wrong with these people? What can possibly be gained?
Global agenda to destroy everywhere so they can build back their “elite” dystopian dichotomy.
They have been telling you, me, and everyone else what they plan with the people owning nothing, living in grave burial boxes, eating bugs, and being happy.
Of course I want them to lead by example so we have a very long way to go as I still will never comply, but I still demand (like they do) that THEY do it first (which they never will).
They have to crush nationalism everywhere. This is the main reason for the mass immigration. They have a different culture and will not have the same feeling for their new country as natives. Also spoil the blood of the host country as some will inevitably mate with the foreigners. Tyrants always rule over fractured populations
What is more astounding is they have told all ……what they are going to do and we are still too dumb to understand…..
They have to destroy everything to build back better.
The world totally changed after WW2.
What do you think it will be after WW3?
Exclave. Kaliningrad is named after Mikhail Kalinin.
Brother Georgian, you do realize that Atlanta is going to become a “no man’s land” when TSHTF?
Hope your way out in the burbs!
Deep state gonna deep state.
Well, if we can hold out until 2024 the next GOP president will stick a fork in NATO.
Pro tip: If you’re expendable it’s best to not rock the boat.
Pro pro-tip: the Luciferians are not gonna wait until then.
Russian patience has to be wearing thin
They will squeeze the west harder. They know economies in Europe and America can’t take more pressure.
Exactly.
And we are once again meddling in the affairs of other countries.
The Bio-labs and our support of Ukraine Nazis bombing civilians,etc……
Our credibility and leadership….not looking too good.
Putin will be strategically patient. He does that.
When we see 1000 Gulf Stream Jets heading towards New Zealand, we’ll know the war is about to go hot.
This will actually be the trip wire for us to get a bit ahead of what is coming. I wonder, however, if our illustrious Davos crowd has ever seen the targeting list. With some 6,000 warheads in the inventory, the Russians have a lot to spare. The Soviets certainly weren’t going to spare NZ; I doubt if the Russians will give NZ a pass.
Since Little St. James is now available, they may decide on a more intimate setting at a familiar location.
Kaliningrad was known as East Prussia and was German speaking before WWII. It was Hitler’s stated purpose for invading Poland: to unite the German Peoples. After WWII, it was never going to be left a German enclave. Ironically, it is now a Russian enclave.
The city Kaliningrad was known Koenigsburg. The greater region was East Prussia, most of which is now Polish territory.
Lithuania doesn’t get along with China.
Prediction: this move by Washington via NATO will split NATO openly and thus crush it internally. French, Dutch, Spanish, and possibly Norwegians will not follow Germans, Scandinavians, Italians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Americans, and Romanians into the caldron to celebrate Vicky
Nudelman’sNuland’s greater glory. In other words, NATO Article 5 is untenable, which fact collapses NATO.And then there are the popular uprisings that will rip European cities to shreds from the same sentiments causing Ukie “soldiers” and foreign mercenaries to complain, quit, and shoot each other in the back when they attempt to surrender.
What a mess. And all because fascist lenders want to own Russia’s resources so they can get richer lending them out or lending money on the basis of them. Only God knows how to handle this one.
That being the case, pray.
Say it with me,..?
My only route to salvation, is thru Jesus Christ.
My ONLY route to salvation, is thru Jesus Christ.
My ONLY route to SALVATION, is THRU JESUS CHRIST.
And AGAIN,…?
It was only a little while ago the German military had to practice with literal broomsticks, because they could not afford to get them real rifles.
Seriously.
To all you useful idiots supporting the Russian bad man narrative virtue singling your way through your worthless lives remember, innocent children are being shelled by Ukraine artillery every day with support of the corrupt puppet regime you support.
There called war crimes. Been going on since 2014.
But then facts never mattered much to your ilk.
Are you proud of yourselves?
Once a useful idiot always a useful idiot.
“Hey, we napalmed children, 60 years ago, this is nothing new!’
Heck, we NUKED children 77 years ago.
I see a Ukraine flag here…I think-Nazi.
Nazi sympathizer.
Useful idiot.
You are a dumb-ass, spouting that “Ad Hominem”crap, in a blanket way, here in the CTH.
I had/have more to say, but I am not gonna lower myself to being a worm…
Oopps.. I mean , “Your level”.
I have a bit more respect to others here, than you, apparently, have to those who comment or read here.
Grow the hell up.
( I don’t see any “/s or sarcasm”, so ya get only part of what ya deserve from me.)
Admin, Please feel free do dispose of my comment here in regard to JimS comment, but I request that his goes away just as mine might…
Please mister administrator help me . Take both of our posts down. Hey everyone I have more to say but not just at this time. My feelings are hurt.
If you can watch Patrick Lancaster’s YouTube messages and think it is ok to support people who would execute a color revolution in Ukraine install a puppet and systematically exterminate innocent Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens in a civil war supported by the deep state you have every right to be offended . Nobody wants to realize that they are in fact a useful idiot
They ,Zelensky, just banned the second largest political party in Ukraine and seized all their assets.
Zelensky doesn’t wipe his but without the approval of the Uniparty.
Your words in the comment above, make more sense to me than the ones I read last night.
I was under the impression that you were speaking to those of us here who read the comments, and being insulting to all of us, by calling all here, “useful idiots”.
“Trolling” I believe it is called.
Apparently I was mistaken in my interpretation of your earlier comment, and thus reacted
harshly, & returned insults directly to you, to the source of what I thought was the insults.
I will work on doing better to interpret comments such as the one I replied to last night & perhaps read them more than once, to make sure of their intent, before I comment in reply.
I do not support the current Ukrainian regime, nor do I support the attacks on the Eastern Ukraine provinces.
I do not recognize the current Puppet in DC, who says he is president , nor the rest of the clown admin he has had installed to run things, who are apparently supporting that Ukrainian fiasco.
I do support actions by nations who are under threat of danger to their sovereignty & national security, as it appears that the Russians were doing to prevent any more encroachment on their nations borders, prevent possible attack thru biological/chemical means and stop the ill treatment of those who are of Russian heritage living in Ukraine who were unfairly being bombarded & harassed by Ukrainian forces.
I hope my words in this comment make clear that I am not a “useful idiot” regarding such things. I also hope your feelings get better, was it I who hurt them by mistake.
Russian officials have already stated they can and will supply the enclave by sea.
That makes this move a meaningless gesture, unless NATO intends to impose a naval blockade… which will be a meaningless gesture unless NATO intends to sink Russian ships. NATO cannot farm any of these actions out to Ukraine. It has no means of blockading or attacking ships in the Baltic Sea.
The West seemed about to fold its hand last week. Then, four days ago, Macron (France), Scholz (Germany), and Draghi (Italy) made a joint surprise visit to Kiev. After that trip the West started a new round of escalation and provocation.
Something happened during that trip which caused the West to reverse course.
Who met them in Kiev?
Might be interesting to see what billionaire flights went between Kiev and Israel during the surrounding time frame.
Would the US put up with that workaround if Canada was blockading Alaska?
That’s Sundance’s question, and the suggested sea transport resolution bring’s it to the front.
Meaningless was too broad a term.
Tactically, the land blockade is a meaningless gesture because the sea option exists. It reeks of the World War Reddit mentality.
Strategically, the land blockade is a significant provocation.
The Russians will ship by sea, but they will also respond directly to this provocation in some fashion or other. This is not a moment to turn the other cheek.
The old sergeant was right.
Let the leaders who start the wars fight them naked with clubs.
My own thoughts on war is the only way you will get me fighting in one it has to be in my country and with my leader leading the charge in front of me on the battlefield…… no other way!
Yep. Let the Globallists and Rothchilds fight their own wars.
Good Lord. A certain individual will come ah screaming how we must engage Russia in open combat.
Cut the gas off Russia. Don’t even sell it to the EU for gold or rubles. When they start cooking dinner on fire pits in Brussels that should clear the mind.
Of course B-B-B-B-Biden and the criminal cabal will ship ours over there. This could explain Barry putting the extra capacity gas tanks at his beach front estate on the Vineyard (You must say Vineyard with your pinky lifted and your nose in the air).
Again, one must ask “WHY?”
It is being predicted that this winter is gonna be having a lot of power outages…….. gonna be fun eh?
“Play stupid games win stupid prizes”
Cowardly nato’s saber rattling – nothing more!!
Nato weak and decadent- useless!!
Oscumma’s and crew’s continued “failed” Clinton foreign policy!!
Nato is, and will continue to get their collective asses kicked. Arogant and aloof. Underestimating the resourcefulness of others outside their enclave.
Sorry, but “Kaliningrad” does not mean “Little Russia,” neither literally nor figuratively, in Russian or any other language. In Russian, “Kaliningrad” means “City of Kalinin,” just as “Stalingrad” meant “City of Stalin” and “Petrograd” meant “City of Peter [the Great].” Originally part of the Kingdom of Prussia, when it was named Königsberg (Ger., lit. “King’s City” or, if you like, Kingston), it officially passed into Soviet control by the Treaty of Potsdam in July, 1945, having been captured by the Red Army in April. The Soviets soon renamed it after a famous revolutionary Bolshevik, Mikhail Kalinin (1875–1946).
It has a long history in German culture and was the lifelong home of the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Ms. Linsey is horny for war, he said so on tape, he said your war is our war. Send the JAG officer to the front lines then.
China must be chomping at the bit, they won’t get many chances where the US is fighting in 2 fronts.
US State Dept. is calling the shots , not the Pentagon per the article. There was a clip on U-tube of Hillary Clinton while Sec Of State , telling the C.F.R. it was good to have CFR so close in DC so that in her words……
“so that we can be TOLD what we should be doing , and how we should think about things ”
Council On Foreign Relation is at least one of the hydras many heads.
CFRMedia.com
TheNewAmerican.com – CFR : Still the power behind the throne ( 6 months ago ? )
Russia has been invaded seven times. She absorbed or threw back six of them. One was successful, the first one, coming from Sweden at Russian invitation.
A very interesting situation: Putin cares about Russia and Russians, Nuland does not care about America or Americans — or about Europe or Europeans [“F the EU,” said she in 2014.] — Johnson does not care about Great Britain or the British, and Zelensky does not care about Ukraine or Ukrainians. Xi cares about China and Chinese. MBS cares about Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabians. Modi cares about India and Indians. Bolsonaro cares about Brazil and Brazilians.
What might this tell us about where God’s sympathies reside?
NATO did it with Putins approval of course. Fake War Fake Crisis
Entirely possible. The perfect timing of the start of the war right after the Olympics was too polite.
Koeninsburg was the capital of Prussia [Germany], before being moved to Berlin in 1800’s.
Nazis evacuated about 1/2 German population as the red army advanced in WW2. Most of remaining Germans were deported by Stalin to East Germany thereafter. Russians were moved in 60-70 years ago and named changed to Kaliningrad. Civilian population is more like 1million, not 450k.
Also is Russia’s only ice-free port year round and home to the Russian naval command and massive amounts of defenses, radars, etc.
Russia tried to give it back after the USSR dissolved. First to Germany, then to Lithuania, both said “no” bc they didn’t want the russian population now living there.
Treaty signed between Russia and Lithuania guaranteeing free movement of commerce to the isolated enclave. A million people now are cut-off from resupply of food, energy, medicines, etc. Daily necessaries now have to be sent by ship/air, which is much less efficient than rail.
People will die from the shortages. This is an act of war directed at civilians.
This is a major provocation receiving almost no attention. This economic blockade will not last. Likely a bridge from Belurus [about 150km’s] will be opened with military if Lithuanians don’t reverse course. Like Sundance said, it’s like Alaska to the mainland US.
The sanctions don’t apply to all goods, so some things can still be brought by rail. The Russians will still be able to supply people by ship and by air those goods that are sanctioned. I am hoping that Russia does avoid war over this because a war between Russia and the US/NATO/EU would destroy the very things that Russia is trying to build for itself. Plus, Kaliningrad is vulnerable to NATO taking it or shelling it into oblivion.
During the Berlin airlift, the population of Berlin was about 2 million people and that airlift was able to supply and keep alive the population with great effort and cost. I am sure that there were hardships, but the population survived.
Winds of war.
Perhaps “The West™” should stop and carefully consider if they just might lose that “world war.”
You see, if your nation finds itself “at war with the world,” you must possess the singular capability to produce every thing that you might need. You must also possess the viable economic capability to trade with your remaining allies … assuming that you are still able to reach them by land, air, or sea … using your own currency and financial systems.
At the present time, the USA is incapable of producing its own socks, underwear, computers, radios, or pencils.
Russia is (still) able to do that, because it never followed “Western philosophies” of – for example – endlessly printing currency, or relying upon foreign trade while dismantling(!) its own domestic capabilities to manufacture. Russia is a vast, still-autonomous nation which does not … does not at all(!!) … “think like The West™ does.”
Yes, eighty years ago, the USA was an industrial powerhouse – isolated by two oceans – which could, and did, “single-handedly out-produce everyone.” But in the decades since then, the USA willingly turned itself into a “rust belt.” The people who possessed the expertise to operate these abandoned mills and factories have now, literally, died off. There is no one to replace them. It would take decades to rebuild and restart those factories, this assuming that you could survive the “environmental” and “green energy” lawsuits. 🤡
Go ahead. Try to draft a Millennial. Just try to put a uniform on him or her, and tell them that they cannot bring their cell phones with them on the battlefield. Go ahead.
So, let me ask you again. If that “World War III” that you apparently covet actually took place, would you be capable of winning it?
I think … “fatso” … that you would not. Your biceps have become flab, and you couldn’t run a hundred yards without stopping for breath.
In WW2, licences and tax stamps were issued, for cultivating hemp.
ROPE was vital to the War effort, and it was possible the U.S. would be cut off from foreign supplies.
To add to your list of things the US does not produce anymore: medications.
I was speaking with a good friend and he made the great suggestion, why don’t we just say Ph_uck’em and go start building the Keystone pipeline. An army of unemployed pipe fitters, earth movers etc.
Again, you can bet that the people of Lithuania/Poland NATO do not want open war with Russia. These demons are dumb and dangerous and becoming more desperate as the days roll on.
“….fuelling fears of NATO being dragged into the war.”
That’s rich!
NATO better be very careful. They are the equivalent of sand fleas, provoking a Siberian Tiger. It should not let a moment of false courage, force it to take on a superior power.
Saving Europe by killing everyone. Kind of like the Vaccines.
“We had to destroy the village to save it”
Remember that one?
“We are closer to a direct NATO conflict with Russia than ever before, and we are in this moment because Western government want that conflict.”
What kind of sick mind WANTS war? And WHY? I wish more people would seriously stop for a moment and really ponder those questions – everything that has happened in our world in the last decade+ suddenly begins to make sense once you understand the answers that have been right in front of us, if only we were not too afraid to open our eyes and LOOK at them!
What kind of sick mind WANTS war? And WHY?
Same mind that dedicated his whole adult life in hope to destroy Russia and now he is at the end of his life without fulfilling his “destiny”! He is in the rush, before it’s to late for him.
Neocon minds want war
War abroad is the political antidote to the threat of losing power at home. Think the Argentine junta under Galtieri attacking the Falklands. Does Putin remind you of Thatcher in this respect?
And take a look at what happens to our mid-term elections when they unfold in a bad foreign crisis. Try 1962 and 2002 for crisp examples.
It is truly amazing the lengths these guys will go to to start a nuclear war.
First you do not stick to legally binding agreements as the Minsk Treaty…for 8 yrs…… and in the meantime victimize those that want to stay Russian.
Then you say you are surprised when the Russians take over Donbas….. It was to stop non Nazi’s getting killed…and you had three months to react!
Then by a supreme act of coward’s you want to supply weapons…but dont want to fight…declare war and see how long you last… with the US being the worst thinking they are untouchable even though they know they could not stop a Russian strike….. heck even their own government say AEGIS is no good!
Then you have sanctions which will cause blackouts this winter and Russia is getting so much more for its oil with no shortage of takers….. The west goes bankrupt and Russia is laughing after forcing you to pay in rubles or gold.
And today the second polish politician wants to arm the Ukrainians with nuclear missiles……
The West has no chance of winning this battle or the long term war…soon very soon the new petrodollar will be going and the US will be bankrupt!
They aren’t going to be happy until they piss Putin off to the point that he drops nukes on them. The military industrial complex needs a war to ensure their profits. But these morons don’t realize they can’t profit if the world dies from nukes. Putin has nothing to lose at this point.
It’s not about profit. it’s about “resetting” civilization. Of course they, themselves are not going to be “resetted” like every body else, while deep beneath the ground in the bunkers.
Every one of which is known, and targeted, by the Russians. Decapitating heads of state is not generally on the books because you need someone with whom to negotiate a war’s end. But Schwab, Soros, et al are not heads of state.
Does Putin consider Biden a head of state? Does Xi?
Another Putin Price Hike, so if Killingrad makes stuff for the west this backward thinking is on target.
Insanity,. But again, these people don’t give a rats ass about anyone’s suffering. Only holding power.
Best be careful idiots, Vladimir is quite tired of all the false accusations over the last 5 years.
He may just put a nuekey in your soup.
The beginning of Gog vs Magog ?
Thinking that myself….
Another interesting point of view is a historical one.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Germany have been at odds for at least since the days of the Tuetonic Knights in 1200 AD. It was like the Balkans of North, with each country allying and changing sides to gain lands from each other. Then throw in invaders making their way from the East … it was a fun place to say the least.
Even as WWII loomed they fought each other 1920’s to 1933.
So, another way to look at “NATO” presence is to keep them separate and somewhat honest.
Given the performance of NATO goodies to this point I don’t think they want to mess with Ivan’s reserves that are still sitting back.
But, then again, the Western puppet masters are dumb as pocket lint.
I watched Putin’s speech to econ group given 6/18/22. Its hard to find, but its on the nets if you look.
Very, very interesting.
First, what a fricken difference in seeing Putin speak vs. Biden. Putin is undeniably in full command of the current facts [as he sees them], woven into historical events leading to the current state, and tied into econ/political philosophy moving forward for his nation.
Second, he admitted the wounds and hardships Russia is suffering, but then outlined WHAT IS BEING DONE to address it with specific policies that actually made sense.
Third, he announced [unsure if this is the first time] that a New World Order is well along its’ development, one divorced from the West, outside the debt/fiat currency system, that is based on commodity backed money. Think BRICS. 2/3 of the worlds population lives outside the ‘West’. That’s a lot of customers [China, India being the biggest and both are ignoring Western sanctions].
All in all, it was a frank [albeit laced with POV claims] discussion from a major world leader that was offering real solutions based upon actual reality of how the world works. No ‘globul warming’ bullsh*t either.
Don’t like the guy, definitely a strong-man, but he is not without a steely determination and obvious intelligence that was jarring compared to our “leaders”.
oh, and he didn’t look like he was ‘dying of cancer’ anytime soon.
It was a victory speech.
He would not have delivered it if he had felt any doubt that the chess match is won and it is now just a matter of time before the kings are unable to make any move that is not to their deaths.
Did seem he was exuding a fair amount of confidence. That much is true.
So hard to figure this stuff out with all of the censorship and propaganda in our ‘free’ country.
I do note our own commerce secretary also admitted Saturday [same day as speech] it looks like the US Dollar as an exclusive currency of internat’l exchange is on the exit ramp.
Very good point. And it cannot be emphasized too strongly that chess heavily influences Russian strategic thinking. The feigned attack on Kiev was a classic example of threatening a piece on one side of the board in order to buy time and space to organize a thrust elsewhere.
Russians have finally accepted treaties with western leaders are as good as manure. The West’s decision to scuttle it all and pretend history started in Feb. ’22 will make it virtually impossible to reach a deal with Putin without plenty of teeth for Russia to enforce it.
He has always known it.
Heck..we all know that the treaties of The West weren’t/aren’t worth the paper they were written on.
He is now showing the rest of the World…or at least giving another example…refresher course.
Sometimes I just think he is giving us enough rope to hang ourselves.
Minsk agreement – the ink wasn’t even dry before Ukraine violated it.
I love my Country. Just despise Biden and his ignorant kiddies running the show right now. Their arrogance seems to be leading us down a path none of us want to go down.
This is perhaps one of the dumbest moves ever made by the West. European countries are out of their minds provoking the Bear. This will not end well.
A lot of people came to the US because of the constant wars in Europe. They were tired of the constant destruction of their towns and farms. The problem is the Elite wanting to get us into WW3. Let Europe fight it’s own wars and leave us out of it.
They’re failing and falling, all the Western regimes. France, UK, Germany, and the US. These nations are the most suicidal and homicidal. These nations are also “Pride-ful”.
Pride goes before the Fall.
Two salient points…
First, The Russian MIRV Nukes will take out entire eastern seaboard of conus. When the commies in d.c. go nuclear, Putin will, justly, strike.
Second, there is video of the Russian Kaliber(?) bunker busting supersonic missile killing the ukrainian generals(abd probably globohomo advisirs too)
Imagine what it could do to d.c.
Third…Americans have given ample warning to the local cabal what is coming to them…do notbe suprised when Putin has a domestic army, just as well funded and armed here on conus targwtting the traitors
We have had a lot of nuke sniffers and sub hunters out over the East Coast and US waters lately. Especially the Florida peninsula to Norfolk, judging by Monkeywerx sitrep.
This is exactly what the USSR did to the west during the Berlin embargo in 1948-1949. We airlifted in food, coal and supplies to support West Berlin. There was no war.
If I recall, that blockade was condemned and West Berlin was shown to be a reverse prison.
Is that what you are saying is going on here?
I think it is time to put some puzzle pieces together.
As Gonzalo Lira points out, Russia is relentlessly grinding the best supplied, best trained European ground force (Ukr) to a pulp. He estimates about a quarter of the original 230,000 men as KIA, which means that with a wounded ratio of maybe 1:3, Ukrainian forces have been degraded by up to a third or more. Apparently there was a very significant surrender by the Aidar Brigade (?) yesterday.
NATO is running out of Ukrainians.
The American people have no desire to see their loved ones become cannon fodder in a losing ground war in Europe. Recruitment is already in the toilet and many plan on getting out ASAP.
US troops to Europe redux not going to happen.
What does that leave as an option to destroy the BRICS separation from central banker enslavement, which as the rouble strengthens is proceeding apace?
IMHO, this is existential for the WEF crowd. That bunch of insane psychopaths WILL burn it all down before surrendering. Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven is probably their other motto.
We are now at Plan B: Pull the tripwire at Kaliningrad.
If that doesn’t work . . .
Plan C – ??
Remember Uranium One??? Mueller personally transporting a sample? Podesta and his Joule corporation getting a cut? Bill Clinton getting a $500k payoff? HRC leading CFIUS to approve the deal? Slick Willy running around with Canadian pedo (Boys Clubs) Frank whatsisname? American uranium getting shipped out through Canada?
There was some strategy or plan behind all that running around, more than just the usual selling out of American resources.
Plan C – – – false flag?
Operation Northwoods goes nuclear?
I read someplace today a British commander told troops be ready to go into Europe.
Forgot source. So rumor for now.
Nice, clear thinking. Perhaps Sundance will share his thoughts on how this all plays into trillions being at stake.
Think of the CONTROL a wartime footing provides excuses for.
” You are UN-Patriotic unless you do as we say ……”
Reject the PSYOPS
War is THE ONLY thing that will suffice as a faux cover for our government and every other western country facing financial collapse due to their own folly. It has been planned and patiently gamed for years, and with Sell-enski they found the dupe willing to facilitate the crash and burn of the western world, so they can ‘build it back’ in their own image. Insane psychopathic elites will now do ANYTHING, short of literally nothing, with nothing being sacred anymore, to achieve their ends.
I’ve been telling my family back in Poland to be very careful how and who they support in this conflict, but people in Europe are so brainwashed by decades of incessant propaganda and straw man building, that they’ve lost any sense of proportion. It is incredible how much vile, virulent hatred there is against Putin and anything Russian, and I worry very deeply that ‘cooler heads’ are nowhere to be found, and the western powers are willing, and going to, sacrifice any nation.
I had a high opinion of President Duda. I have such admiration of the Polish people. But Duda’s actions have confounded me during this conflict, and I don’t pretend to understand why he has taken them…especially since he has had no trouble standing up to the foul EU.
You are correct. Andrei on the Saker calls the Western governments in charge of this war The Empire of Hate and Lies. All the rest of the countries coopted into supporting it are just so much useful detritus, disposable when necessary.
I’m glad you have alerted your family. I pray they will listen to you. And I pray also they and their countrymen, women and families will remain out of harm’s way.
The USSR’s treatment of Poland is still within living memory in Poland, and it was brutal.
Not to say the Germans treated them any better, huh?
Yes…I know. Memories are long, as they should be for atrocities.
But we are not talking about the USSR here. They as an entity are long gone. Cooler heads need to be in the room, and there simply aren’t any. And the consequences of the absence of them may cost this world a terrible terrible price.
Same, Bet, I’m really disappointed.
I do know that part of the Frankenstate that is the soon to be was Ukraine was Polish, that the Banderista Nazis ethnically cleansed the Poles as hard as they did the Jews, started on the Poles first actually, in a fashion to make Hitler blush, and that Poland wishes to reclaim Kviv and environs when Ukraine is dismembered.
Perhaps certain promises were made to Duda. Not to mention threats.
That’s my thinking as well, Maquis. I mean, who knows what is being discussed or promised behind closed doors? We, the public, are really flying blind here.
Intelligence is pattern recognition capability. Stupidity is lack of pattern recognition capability. Type 1 stupidity (the traditional notion) stems from an excess of mutational loading. The neural hardware simply is not capable enough. Type 2 stupidity stems from an excess of emotion that shackles the reasoning mind, preventing impartial analysis. This kind of stupidity isn’t necessarily permanent.
The Poles (and us, and oh so many other people in the world today who should know better) are being Type 2 stupid. The Poles were part of the old aristocratic Russian Empire, which essentially was run by ethnic Russian nationalists. They didn’t want to be and so when it was overthrown in 1917-18, they went their own way with Polish ethnic national sovereignty backed by Polish arms. The Bolsheviks who took over most of the lands of the old Russian Empire and in 1921 tried and failed to force them into the then new Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks eventually succeeded in conquering eastern Poland in late 1939 in cooperation with Germany at the start of World War 2.
These Soviet Bolsheviks in 1940 massacred at Katyn Forest all of the educated Poles (priests, officers, aristocrats, writers) they had captured. They did this in an attempt to destroy Polish nationalism by robbing the Polish people of the individuals that the Soviets thought that nationalism could not persist without. The communists were wrong, of course. Nationalism isn’t schooling and credentials, but authentic culture rooted in shared ancestry.
The close of World War 2 saw Poland behind the the Iron Curtain under Soviet occupation until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Poles harbor very bitter feelings towards Russians because of their recent experience living under Soviet domination. They are being Type 2 stupid in mistaking the current Russian Federation for another communist Soviet Union.
The old Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the current Russian Federation were and are predominately populated with ethnic Russians of one sort or another. However, this cannot be said of their ruling classes. The old Russian Empire and the current Russian Federation are ruled by ethnic Russians. The intervening Soviet Union started out being mostly ruled by non-Russians and ended being ruled mostly by Russians. A prominent thread throughout Soviet history is the re-russification of those who ruled over the Russian people.
The Russian people overwhelmingly did not support Bolshevism in the early days of the SU. The Bolsheviks seized power because they had guns and organized disciplined killers and their mostly ethnic Russian socialist agrarian reform opponents (who greatly outnumbered them) did not. It is not an accident that there is a temporal correlation between the Russification of Soviet leadership and the winding down of murder and repression. When one is tired of riding a tiger that someone else put you on, one takes great care to get off in such a way so as not to get eaten.
The Poles suffered greatly under Bolshevik communism, but ethnic Russians suffered far far more. It’s not even close. One example is that during the Ukrainian Holodomor millions of Russian peasants were also starved to death in the lands east of Ukraine. That communist murder operation was not confined to Ukraine. The Poles blame ethnic Russians as ethnic Russians for Katyn and see them as an enduring existential threat. It is inaccurate and shortsighted. They are a mild imperial threat, but not existential.
Certainly there were ethnic Russians among the Katyn killers. Regular people, especially after a few generations of propaganda schools, do what they are told by those in charge. This is true everywhere. Poland and America are not exceptions. There were ZERO Russian ethnic nationalists killing Poles at Katyn. ZERO. They had all long before either fled abroad or been killed by the communists. The Poles are thinking with their feels, and feels should have no place in geopolitical analysis.
An excellent post, Horace. Anyone looking at all this should realize a primary tool being used is manipulation. Of information, of emotions (as you note). But the narrative engineered and spewed forth daily by the creative writing students in DC and elsewhere has failed utterly. All has gone very very quiet in the media. My impression is that the war mongers in Washington have completely lost control and are now reacting to events (on a day to day basis). Now Putin has them guessing just how he’ll respond. The military industrial complex which started all this is now, I think, are on the back foot. They swatted a hornets nest to do what? Protect their bioweapon labs? To keep the lid on all the money laundering so many in DC are involved in? I’ll bet there are some sleepless nights while they wait…and wait for Putin to …?
He won’t watch while the West tries to leave Russians starve. Putin remembers the last time. That’s what monsters do. And that’s what’s in charge of operations on “our end”.
But stupid is as stupid does. I hope stupid hasn’t lit a powder keg. I pray very hard that it hasn’t.
Thanks for the complement.
Solid comment, much appreciated.
FDR and Churchil were aware of the Ktyn Massacre and still kissed Stalin.
I recommend Freedom Betrayed by Hoover and learn how Poland was betrayed by FDR. The Polish ambassador gave his friend, Hoover, all the documents of Poland’s Embassy in DC. In part that how the Hoover Institute came into existence, to preserve as many documents as possible on the war.
We as a country seem to have been in the betrayal business for a long, long time. Not the reliable ally we’ve always claimed to be.
It really is no wonder so many people in various countries aren’t great fans of the United States…separate and distinct from America.
I rarely reply but your response is very good. Good insight.
I doubt that the ukrainians themselves are in on the plot. If you have a plot going that require some people to die, you don’t tell the ones who are going to die what the deal is.
Ukraine and Poland are probably the only honest actors in this deal.
Let them eat war.
Good Germans said the same thing…
“Naturally the common people don’t want war…
“…but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
“All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.”
–Herman Goring, Gestapo, Luftwaffe, NAZI war criminal