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COLLAPSE

Question some seem to be asking at the moment:

Which side collapses first? 

Confusion sets in when folks realize that the USA and its allies are talking about collapse of the Russian economy and military, which they hope will cascade into a meltdown of Russia’s cartels and mob bosses—called Motherland and friends by “President of Russia” Badimire Sputim.

BS doesn’t talk collapse. He talks apocalypse.

Surrender Ukraine or be destroyed.

In his view, no force on Earth can stop what is about to happen. God is on his side, plus he is deploying nukes and hypersonic missiles.

Who is stupid enuf to argue? 

The United States views things differently. For one thing, it is fed up with Russia’s current crop of oligarchs, who it regards as thugs. 

Anyone guess why?

Well, lots of reasons—here’s three: Russia manipulates the US electorate with bots, which sew chaos to confusion on social media; it gives aid and comfort to a rogue president; it is in bed with more than a few American politicians. Look to Kentucky, anyone who is skeptical. 

Ask Thomas Massie, Ron Paul, and Mitch McConnell about shell games played in eastern Kentucky by aluminum processors who seem to be associated with sanctioned oligarchs. How difficult can it be to understand? 

Russian media drumbeats into the minds of its public an idea that the Kremlin is not at war with Ukraine at all but instead with NATO and the West, which Russo Talking Heads call SATANISTS. Watch Russian media, anyone who doesn’t believe. 

BS sells the fight as spiritual warfare to defend faith and family values. Sound familiar? To a man, priests of the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church push matching narratives. Is it not curious that Iran—run by clerics—agrees? The West is evil. Russia, which everyone knows is “indestructible,” is duty bound to set things right. 

Here’s BS: “Once again we see that Nazism in its modern guise creates direct threats to Russia, and we are repeatedly forced to repel aggression of the collective West,” Badimire said on 2 February 2023—anniversary of the Russian victory over Germany during the WW2 Battle of Stalingrad. 

BS continued, “Again, we are threatened by German tanks marked by crosses. The hands of Hitler’s followers will again attack Russia on the land of Ukraine.”

BS continued with the ridiculous proclamation that Russia has many friends in North America and Europe. He added, “In any event Russia has weapons that make tanks and armored fighting vehicles irrelevant.” 

BEFORE

To avert catastrophe, Church and State in at least two countries have followed Sputim to fight for God and Civilization. Others hesitate. They stand on the sidelines and watch. Some hedge their bets by encouraging BS—secretly, they hope.

Iran, India, China, North Korea—must they wonder, who knows? …Is it possible that when fighting ends, Satanists & Nazis will count Russia’s dead? What are options then? 

Only “true believers” are certain of outcomes, right? As for the rest of humanity, no one knows what happens next except God.  How confident can realistic thinkers be that events unfold as they hope?

The Bible says, “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”  Proverbs 16:33 NIV

AFTER

Strange things happen, right? Read history, anyone who doubts. 

Meanwhile, the BS plan is to restore the righteous empire of Catherine the Great, whatever the cost in lost treasure and blood.  For the past eleven months, top officials led by BS, have threatened western cities and capitals with annihilation, I don’t know, maybe a dozen times? They say they will unleash weapons of war we know nothing about.

All I can say, based on personal experience, is that the USA takes all threats seriously.

I ain’t lyin’.

Until the advent of this particular conflict in Ukraine, didn’t Team USA manage to prevail one way or another every time? Even in Afghanistan, America and its allies turned the country inside out to map every patch of terrain. With modern surveillance and agents left behind, no surprises will likely emerge from that moonscape for decades. With any luck at all, Mission Accomplished.   

Who disagrees? 

Russian evisceration of Ukraine is a Crusade for Christ’s sake, BS seems to believe. Everyone who studies medieval history knows that in the ancient past Crusaders demanded bloodletting. Some histories say blood flowed in Jerusalem streets knee-deep.

How can leveling cities & murdering innocents be wrong when Christian Crusaders did it? might be the BS way of reasoning. 

No way.

Is destroying enemies what modern faith-warriors do?

As for obliterating Ukraine, BS seems to think that he and God are on the same page…! 

Imagine the unimaginable. BS destroys planet Earth to save it from the Satanic West and guess what? He goes to Heaven after, when everyone else is dead.

Almost wonderful.

Heaven is prolly full of madmen and killers.

Heaven is where BS wants to live someday, someone said. Maybe he hopes to meet friends and find happiness. To please God, BS will follow the plan, which is to donate gold to repave streets, apparently.   

Almost perfect. 

Micah 7: 3-6

Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire — they all conspire together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day God visits you has come, the day your watchmen sound the alarm. Now is the time of your confusion.

Quoted by Jesus in the book of Matthew.

Billy Lee

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NUCLEAR WARS

People don’t want to believe it, but Russia can win a conventional war against Ukraine without nuclear weapons. It doesn’t mean they will.

Outcomes of conventional wars are simply not predictable… too many variables, too many unknowns. Another problem is that all sides of a conflict tend to lie—both to themselves and others. During war, it’s hard to know what’s true. 

One thing thinking people seem to know for sure: war always turns into a mess, which ruins the lives of people who experience it up close and personal. People who fight on the ground in war say that combat is loud, remote, confused, and incomprehensible. They are unlikely to meet anyone on the other side until they drive over their corpses.

And that is on a good day.

War wears folks down, weakens physical and mental health, and imprints on warrior-minds vivid sights, smells, and sounds they don’t forget.

A cousin who fought in Vietnam shakes like a leaf when in public spaces. He is unable to stand in lines, even to buy a sandwich. Somehow, crowds, and people standing in lines, trigger bad memories he can’t set aside. 

Of course, he’s stone deaf as well—his ears ring like bell towers. The constant roar doesn’t stop until he sleeps. A Marine helicopter gunner, he blew out his ears with the sound of his own fires. 

As for nuclear war, the most important rumor I’ve heard is that the USA modernized its nuclear fleet during the Obama years. Though classified, reliable people have published reports, I’m told, that money spent on upgrades soared to as high as two-trillion dollars. If true, Americans can be assured that the USA nuclear fleet is modernized and probably works damn good. It’s a staggering state of affairs, which adversaries are wise to take to account.

Maintaining nukes is not cheap or easy, right? It requires frequent replenishing of triggering elements which, unfortunately for war-planners, possess half-lives which last months, not years. It is why nuclear power plants are essential. 

As for power plants, do readers know that neutron-emitting elements tend to poison fuel rods? After rods expend a mere 5% or so of their fuel, neutron-generating elements called poisons gum-up fuel rods to make them useless for power generation. Spent fuel rods typically are stored on-site in cooling ponds until their poisons can be extracted to boost quickly decaying trigger elements essential for bomb detonation.

Need for neutron-emitting trigger materials is why every country that builds nuclear bombs builds nuclear power plants. The secret keys to success hide in spent fuel rods. 

It’s obvious, right?

Why would any right-minded country risk building future Chernobyls and Fukishimas unless it had really good reasons? One good reason is trigger materials. Isn’t it true that almost anyone can make cheap electricity from almost anything? — water, coal, sun, oil, natural gas, wind, or whatever, right?

Why nuclear?

Yes, plutonium lasts for millennia, but triggers don’t. To keep nuclear weapons viable for years and decades, not weeks or months, bombs must be continuously resupplied with reliable sources of neutron-emitting elements, which can be harvested most easily from fuel rod poisons.

It is easy to understand. 

Most Americans assume USA concentrates its intelligence resources to keep up to date on the status of others’ nuclear inventories. What do they have, where is it hidden, how well is it maintained? Some understand that USA super-computers connect with hi-tech surveillance systems to track every piece of nuclear hardware and every kilogram of plutonium and bomb-grade uranium anywhere on planet Earth.

It’s true. 

The technology is not new.

Here is a video from 2017 that lays it out. No excuses to anyone for choosing ignorance. Try to understand. 

Some don’t believe blanket surveillance is possible. Listen folks. The system is already built. Artificial intelligence assesses threats and then tells leaders who it will be who prevails after a nuclear exchange on any given day. 

Hint: most days, it doesn’t seem to be Russia or China.

Prolly not the USA, either.

Joe Biden insists that winning nuclear war is simply impossible. I have no way to know; neither does any civilian or any other person who lacks access to the super AI technologies of the United States. 

Is there anyone out there who believes delusional dictators can be trusted to safely possess weapons of mass destruction? These strongmen threaten to unleash hell, presumably, using anything from viruses to chemical poisons to nuclear fires to cyber implosions that collapse civilizations. Who’s going to tell them, no…

Shouldn’t humanity be working to outlaw dictatorships? Individuals who have accumulated enough wealth and unchecked power to make war are a clear and present danger to humanity and all non-human life on Earth as well.

A line needs to be established; anyone who crosses becomes a felon — subject to arrest by the international community. The line divides those who have seized unlawful wealth and excessive power. The line must be defined and defended by international courts established by free nations. How hard can it be?

Limits are necessary or humanity is destined to be driven to extinction by a handful of folks driven mad by reckless power. 

Can we face some unpleasant facts? Russian and Chinese elites hold at least 1.2 billion people under some kind of house arrest inside their territories, right? It’s a style of living that seems alien to Americans. Doesn’t everyone long to live free and unafraid? Doesn’t everyone want to shout whatever they think is true without fear of prison or worse? 

If Putin and his ilk continue down the path they are on—threatening others with nuclear terror on their Fox-equivalent state media—maybe those who oppose their catastrophic ambitions might, with a little luck and a lot of bravery, prevail to someday see dreams of freedom and peaceful living come true at last.

It’s gotta be possible, right?

Who disagrees?

Does anyone want to live in a post-apocalyptic world—especially one where one side “wins bigly?” 

Some folks say nuclear Armageddon is impossible. One side wins, and life goes on as it always does. 

My problem with such views is fear that survivors of nuclear war might look like jellyfish and live at the bottom of oceans.

It’s why monsters who possess WMDs should be given no quarter in a world where folks plan to live free someday without fear.

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Update: 7 February 2023
Tonight, President Joseph Biden established himself, at last, leader of the Free World. He serves at the hour of Earth’s greatest danger, its greatest need. Pray, those inclined, he gets everyone through unharmed. Speech starts at minute 26.
The Editors

The New York Times surprised some readers by refusing to include the name of Joe Biden (current president of the United States) even once in the first and second sections of its Sunday issue (24 April 2022). 

38 silent pages. 

Think. 

On the second-to-last page of another section—the Sunday Review—Ross Douthat stepped up. He wrote an editorial with the word “Biden” in it. 

Headline?

Biden Saying ‘Genocide’ A Bit Early

Are folks able to field a few unpleasant facts? 

Let’s find out. 

Joe Biden doesn’t like oligarchs, and they don’t like him. They called him Communist when he first ran for elected office. Who remembers? It wasn’t true then and isn’t now. To my mind it had more to do with his Irish roots and connections to other prominent, unpopular Irish Americans like the Kennedy’s. 

How about that?

Is hatred why Americans see Trump in their daily media feeds more than Biden?

Oligarchs own media, right? A half-dozen men, give or take, hold ultimate control over 90% of what Americans see and read. Billionaires have problems with Biden because they don’t control him. It’s why they ignore everything he says and does—when they can. 

Jimmy Carter had the same problem. Who is old enough to remember? Carter holds historical honor for being the only U.S. president who served his term without murdering anyone. But that was then. This is now. 

Is Joe benevolent?

I really don’t know. 

The entitled rich hope Biden will go away and that others more favorable to wealth and its privileges will take his place. Media announced today that a rich man bought Twitter for 50 billion dollars, give or take. The man claims to be acting in good faith to bring freedoms of speech inspired by public forums of ancient Greece.

He calls it digital town square.

Everyone knows he will unleash dogs of Trump on vulnerable Americans who lack protections afforded by wealth and gated living. Who wants to argue loud in public spaces where monsters lurk to harm their families and friends off-line? 

Does anyone believe free speech emanates from the enterprise of unstable manic-depressives accountable to no one? 

Not to pick on any particular oligarch—all pose dangers—but Elon Musk didn’t become a U.S. citizen until age 30—a short 20 years ago. Despite tenuous ties to America, he manages to gather popular support. He plays Congress like a fiddle. Congressional appropriations flow like water. Clearly, he keeps more than a few Benjamins for himself. 

It’s not right. 

Our founding fathers believed that power corrupts those who wield it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s why we govern ourselves with three co-equal branches of government.

Checks and balances are fundamental to prevent fallible humans—whose success blinds them to their own flawed visions—from overwhelming the Constitutional freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights. 

Who disagrees?

To cut to the chase, it is insane for civilized society to permit private individuals to accumulate the wealth and power of governments. What is the point of civilization if not to limit the horrors of jungle living?—to stanch suffering, which always follows when might makes right in those arenas where the strong disrespect and eat the weak.

Proud people create elected governance to protect their rights; they don’t hide behind private cartels who don’t really care about us, Michael Jackson warned. 

Sergei Lavrov is one of Russia’s wealthiest men. Yesterday, this privileged strongman threatened nuclear war. He said, “…we must not underestimate it.”

It is never good to permit dictatorial power and nuclear weapons to mean-spirited bullies who intend to destroy civilization should they not get their way. The USA put leaders of Russia on notice that they will not outlive Ukraine.

Who is brave enough to acknowledge what everyone knows? Ordinary people are fed-up with oligarchs and dictators. People want to breathe free without fear. 

Secretary of State Blinken said, “But we do know that a sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene.“

The most notorious terrorist threatened by the USA was Osama Bin Laden. They fed him to sharks. Later, they killed unrepentant members of his family. Putin might be wise to apologize now and start nuclear disarmament talks. Then again, it might be too late.

Who believes he will take the opportunity? The chance to survive Hell is better, some advisors might argue.

The Russian “president” seems to think that because Bin Laden didn’t possess nuclear missiles or hypersonic technologies of war, he couldn’t win. Is it really possible that Bin Laden could have conquered Earth had he mastered the alchemies of the current crop of Russian leaders? 

Who knows?

The international scene requires x-ray vision. One in five sanctioned oligarchs seem to be Israeli citizens—according to a recent analysis published in the Jerusalem Post.  Say it isn’t true, Joe. Apparently, USA’s closest ally and friend is protecting powerful people who are entangled with Russian wise guys. It’s not a good look.

I’d say it’s terrifying. Who wouldn’t?

Kentucky politicians—readers, some of them, know who they are—sleep in the same bed as Russian oligarchs who control much of the world’s aluminum supply. Reports say they operate a manufacturing plant in Kentucky which employs thousands. Is there anyone who understands how difficult the situation becomes for countries where international thugs accumulate vast monies and political powers? 

The mighty must know that with age comes loss. Everyone they love and know will die before them should they enjoy long life. What good does wealth and power do anyone who is confined to a wheel-chair unable to control even the beating of their own heart? 

What chance is there that the powerful will give all they have to the poor to serve the cause of love for the unlovable, which is what most of 8 billion humans are. Will anyone say it out loud? Most people are unloved and uncared for by those who together have the resources to make a better world for everyone now living and for those who will come after. 

It is incomprehensible to me that advantaged people would shell the shit out of people simply because they are in the way—through no fault of their own. Apart from the love of God, I don’t see how human civilization as we know it today will survive.

Perhaps the powerful have made a calculation that Earth is better off when humans are reduced to a few hundred million souls, not billions. They have the ability to minimize us all—to zero, I suppose.

The United States has the power and skills to get everyone through the current crisis unharmed.

Sounds good, doesn’t it?

I want to believe it’s true. I don’t know for sure.  

Who will save us? 

Joe Biden walks in the gap between civilization and Armageddon. He’s the last man standing able to rescue humanity from the slavery that follows the victory of totalitarianism.  

Maybe it’s time to climb aboard his peace train while all sides still can.  

Billy Lee

EDITORS NOTE: Added 8 May 2022: NYT Joe Biden blackout blooms. No mention of Joe Biden & family in Sunday Edition. In fairness, the Friday May 6 online newsletter published a briefing on page 10 titled, “Biden’s Unpopularity.” 

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