I support this “BIG PICTURE” sentiment and delivery.
… The battle has just begun.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave a press conference today again emphasizing that an attack on Ukraine was likely. Sullivan also recommended that all U.S. citizens in Ukraine depart within the next 24 to 48 hours. However, for reference, the White House has been making this “imminent” claim for over a month.
When pushed by media for how these determinations were made, Sullivan reiterated his position that “it’s not his responsibility to convince anyone.” Overall, the entire situation still looks like a manufactured White House distraction from domestic criticism.
Russia has previously scheduled military exercises in the region. This could be cover for Russia for the increased military presence prior to a cross border incursion, or the exercises could be the justification, or cover story for the White House to pretend that an invasion into Ukraine is likely. The latter seems most likely.
Regardless of all of it, the White House has not made a case for why Americans should be worried about what happens between Russia and Ukraine, other than to say the financial interests of a lot of people and groups in Washington DC are connected to U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – National security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Friday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come before the conclusion of the Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, but he did not say whether U.S. officials had determined whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had made a final decision on a course of action.
People are starting to catch on. First, how it is surfacing:
(Zero Hedge) ...”traders are paying bumper premiums for immediate supply” … “Commodities are severely undersupplied” … “The shortage of, well, everything has translated into record price of virtually all commodities: the Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, which tracks 23 energy, metals and crop futures, has touched a record this year. That has been driven in part by surging oil prices, which have hit their highest level since 2014.” (read more)
CTH readers are specifically well positioned to understand what is happening in the background we have discussed two specific issues:
(1) In any era of hyper-inflation, we always see the advanced purchasing of inventory for profit. Meaning, when prices are quickly rising multinationals use their size and power over commodity goods to store, physically or through contracted future purchases, goods that are held until a specific target price is reached and then sold for a bigger profit. In 2022 the “supply chain disruption” is being used as a cover.
(2) In the modern era, the major multinationals control the supply of originating products. There’s no such thing as a free market. In the modern era it is a controlled market.
Long before the word “inflation” hit the 2021 headlines, April/May of last year, CTH specifically identified where we are right now.
In the background right now, the multinationals are exploiting the two issues above. The Zero Hedge article “Shortages of Everything” is discussing the surfacing symptom, i.e. goods traders willing to pay premium prices to secure inventories, not necessarily the root cause.
The dynamic between the Joe Biden administration and the government of Ukraine is very interesting and thoroughly corrupt. President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to avoid being the 2022 version of Libyan President Muammar Gadaffi, circa 2011.
Meanwhile, the entirety of the corrupt and manipulative Joe Biden administration, the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon and the U.S. Congress are all saying, “Nice country you got there, it’d be a shame if something happened to it“, while simultaneously poking the Russian bear to attack. Biden and the deepest state want them their proxy war, and they will not be denied.
Following a phone call last night where Zelensky told Biden to stop telling everyone the Russians were going to attack, a conversation the Biden administration desperately is trying to hide from the American people, Zelensky smartly calls a media press conference so the global media can see him telling Biden, in essence, to ‘chill the hell out’.
Full credit to Euronews who is being an honest broker about the dynamics at play. This is a great encapsulation, but pay attention to the part at 02:15, of this broadcast. It is quite remarkable.
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Given the nature of how corrupt the U.S. administration is on a globalist scale; and considering that Biden Inc, which is really the Hillary Clinton foreign policy establishment, would give Zelensky the full Gaddafi treatment if it helped them gain wealth, power and influence; it really would be in Ukraine’s best interest for Zelensky to open a dialogue with Vladimir Putin.
For those who think the conflict is not being orchestrated by the Obama-Biden administration, consider this. European countries and our NATO allies are not as worried about Russia entering Ukraine.
The people closest to the situation including France and Germany, are not asking for the U.S. to get involved. Indeed, you can make the argument based on their public statements, that European NATO countries are not that concerned. Even Chuck Todd (NBC) sees this.
It is the Obama-Biden foreign policy team that is creating anxiety over the potential for Russia to enter Ukraine, not our NATO allies. If we end up in a conflict in Ukraine, it will be because the professional political class in Washington DC want us to be in a conflict in Ukraine, not the American people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin can easily see this dynamic.
(Via ABC) – The State Department ordered diplomats’ families Sunday afternoon to depart the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, amid heightened fears of a Russian attack on the country. The embassy has also authorized non-emergency employees to depart, according to an internal cable obtained by ABC News.
In an updated travel advisory issued later Sunday, the State Department confirmed the drawdown and urged U.S. citizens in Ukraine to consider departing the country now using commercial flights.
What they envision (left) and where they are (right).
Right on track…
History rhymes, with Austria as the center of where the worst of bad things originate.
Earlier today the lower house of Parliament voted 137 to 33 passing a law mandating COVID vaccinations for all adults 18 and older.
VIENNA, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Thursday making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for adults as of Feb. 1, bringing Austria closer to introducing the first such sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate in the European Union.
Faced with a stubbornly high number of vaccine holdouts and a surge in infections, the government said in November it was planning the mandate. Since then, it has raised the age as of which the mandate will apply, to 18 from 14.
The bill must now pass the upper house and be signed by President Alexander Van der Bellen, steps which will be largely formalities.
A guest on the Tucker Carlson show outlined the answer to this question {Direct Rumble Link} which has been stated in these pages and a multitude of conversations for well over a year. Why has there been this massive disproportionate push for vaccination against a virus which, all things considered, is NOT that deadly?
For two years, as we have watched the various governments around the world pushing the COVID-19 vaccination, many have asked this question? The demand and effort is wildly disproportionate to the risk. So why has this vaccination program been so severely pushed, including the mandates and requirements that everyone must follow in order to participate in society? Why this scale of effort?
Tucker Carlson and Eva Vlaardingerbroek explained the motives and intents last night. Yes, in essence, this is the quiet part being said out loud.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the global protests against tyrannical government overreach. These mandates all stem from the goals and directives of the Great Reset movement by the World Economic Forum (a movement which the Biden Administration is a part of). WATCH:
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If controlling human activity is the goal, and yes, the various climate change and global planet survival frauds are at the heart of this effort, which would include the long-term goal of removing anonymous online or digital activity, then a larger reset to register all persons would require a massive global movement and need some justification. The pandemic provides that entry point. The COVID passport becomes the digital ID.
The virus provides the fear needed for a global vaccination program. The mandatory vaccination program then provides the tool for registration of identity. The registered identity then becomes the gateway for a digital identification… which, as outlined, is then used to register, monitor, track and ultimately control, a global population.
However, we enter a phase of hard-line non-compliance. Meaning, if the worry of the virus itself begins to subside, if people start to realize the fear is disproportionate to the risk, if people start to reject the vaccination program because the never-ending contrived fear of variants lead to a never-ending booster shot program to continue the registration demand, then something else is needed in the equation to continue the registration drive. That something else becomes the fear of another essential element for health, “food insecurity.” That appears to be the phase we are entering.
In the Netherlands the typically high-brow, polite and social society has been a little shocked at how the Dutch proles have begun to express anger toward the totalitarian dictates of the professional political class.
Amid this class-driven über-sensitive social fabric, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is now in the tenuous position of holding a governmental system together with a coalition of disparate leftist groups who are, well, a little eclectic all things considered.
As noted recently “One of the biggest challenges for the new government is the rise in public mistrust and anger towards politics and politicians. The Netherlands has seen some of Europe’s biggest opposition and protests against government COVID-19 policy. Many Dutch lawmakers say they don’t feel safe. Some of them now have to be protected by police around the clock – a shock in a country where ministers often ride bicycles rather than use their official cars.” (link)
The land of skinny pant beta males has, as the most sensitive progressives would expect, put women into all of the systems of government to showcase their civic investment and high-minded multicultural progress. The Netherlands is the type of place where Davos attendees feel comfy sipping filtered dew from the petals of spring tulips and discussing the best way to save the planet from the scourge of the shallow working class. Okay, so that’s the context…
Into this mix comes a young Dutch wolverine, a new Member of Parliament named Gideon van Meijeren; who appears to be a rather cheeky rebel, quite comfortable telling the elite they look silly. THIS you have to watch to appreciate (Direct Rumble Link):
The Australian Open is scheduled to begin January 17th in Melbourne, the epicenter of Australia’s totalitarian COVID mandates. However, one of the biggest and most important sporting events in the country has turned into a national embarrassment as the world now sees the arbitrary and nonsensical nature of the Australian rules and regulations surrounding their COVID response.
Judge Anthony Kelly dispatched the government argument, squashed the visa cancellation and further ordered the Australian Government to pay legal costs and release Djokovic from detention within half an hour. An overwhelming victory following well-presented legal arguments based on reason and logic from Djokovic’s lawyers.
In court the lawyers for Djokovic outlined all the steps their client had followed to ensure he complied with all of the government rules and regulations before being granted his visa entry to compete in the Australian open. [Court filing Here]
The judge heard about all the steps Djokovic had taken, and also heard about the ridiculous, and consistently changing rules and arbitrary responses from border authorities when he arrived at the airport, presented his approved visa and was then put into prison because he was not vaccinated. [Read interrogation transcript here]
Judge Kelly asked the court the same question that Djokovic asked the border authorities: “What more could this man have done?” in relation to fulfilling the expected requirements for a medical exemption. The Australian government did not have an appropriate answer for the eloquent, commonsense and matter-of-fact delivery presented by the Djokovic team.