With USA Distracted by Ukraine, China Plots Its Own Invasion

 As many have said within days of Ukraine invasion, China might realize it’s a good time to invade Taiwan.  If they do you would see global events really heat up.

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Xi Jinping is acting out an ancient Chinese stratagem. It’s called “Sitting on the mountaintop watching the tigers fight.”  

Or, as we say in the US, albeit much less poetically: “Let’s you and him fight.” 

From his perch on the mountaintop, Xi is closely following the fighting in Ukraine and the world’s reaction. There is no doubt Xi hopes that Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds in taking the former Soviet country. After all, Xi hopes one day soon to launch his own “special military action” against the island of Taiwan.

China’s strategic alliance with Russia has already begun to pay dividends for Xi: Putin’s Ukrainian adventure has diverted America’s attention from Asia to Europe. President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night hammered Russia on Ukraine for minutes on end. China, where a deadly virus originated that killed millions across the world, was scarcely mentioned.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/05/with-us-distracted-by-ukraine-china-plots-its-own-invasion/

Why a Russian Financial Analyst Was Totally Wrong About Russian Invasion

 I believe this is a very interesting article because it's written by a Russian dude who has a lot of insight into Ukraine and Belarus.  Just a few weeks ago he had written an article explaining why Russia was NOT going to invade Ukraine.  And now this article is titled WAR IN UKRAINE:  WHY I WAS BLINDSIDED.

On February 24th the world changed. What I thought could never happen has happened. Russia declared war on Ukraine.

I have not felt this level of sadness in years. I feel like someone close to me died. But I am sitting in my comfortable armchair, with my headphones on, drinking coffee as I write, while somewhere in Ukraine, people just like me are being bombed by Russian artillery. They went from going to Starbucks, shopping, and sharing carefree meals with their families to hiding in subway stations at the first sound of the siren. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee to other parts of the country or to Poland.

Ukraine is all I can think about. I don’t want to write about investing. For the last few days, I’ve been writing four, five hours a day. This is my way of dealing with this tragedy and stress. Some people drink, some take up smoking, I write.

Eight days before Russia invaded Ukraine, I wrote an article saying there would be no war. I was certain of it. I was wrong. How could I get it so wrong? The more you knew about the situation, the more likely you were to get it wrong.

Let me take you back to my childhood in Russia. I and everyone around me hated the Nazis with every ounce of our souls. Every other movie made in the Soviet Union was about WWII. A lot of those movies were in black and white. I am not referring just to the color of the film but to the lack of ambiguity of the message: Without provocation, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. Russians were good, courageous, honest, peaceful people. Germans were heartless, evil, soulless invaders that slaughtered innocent Russians. Russians were good. Germans were bad.

Reminders about WWII were not just in the movies. We studied the horrors of WWII in school, and then there was the May 9th celebration of Victory Day, when Germany surrendered, on May 9, 1945. Unlike Independence Day in the US, which is just an excuse for BBQ and to sell couches at a 30% discount, May 9th was a day that was truly dear to everyone. We all went out onto the streets to celebrate it. We all knew someone who had fought or died in WWII, and most of our parents had lived through its horrors. WWII is not just an entry in a history book for Russians; its memories and lessons are deeply embedded in Russian culture.

This is the first reason why war with democratic Ukraine seemed unfathomable. Even after it happened, my mind still didn’t want to recognize that at 4 AM – the same hour that Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June, 1941 – Russia invaded and started to bomb Ukraine. This makes Russia just like Nazi Germany – behavior that we despised all our lives.

The Soviet Union was a melting pot. Take my family for example. Three quarters of my ancestors, including my mother, were born in Vitebsk, a small town in Belarus. My father’s father was born in Pavlograd, a city in Ukraine – he was a lieutenant colonel who fought in WWII in the Soviet army. My father was born in Moscow. I was born in Saratov, a city on the Volga River to which my mother’s family evacuated during WWII. From the time I was three months old until I was 18, we lived in Murmansk, in far northwestern Russia. Was I Russian, Ukrainian or Belarusian? Add the fact that I am Jewish to the mix to confuse things a bit more. (I posed this question in the past and tried to answer it here). Most importantly, I am not an exception, but the rule (except for the being Jewish part).

Here;  War in Ukraine: Why I Was Blindsided, Part 1 - Articles - Advisor Perspectives

It's almost like something is dragging Putin around because he has to know this is going to decimate his economy but he seems unable to stop himself!

‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[b] Meshek and Tubal. 4 I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords.  Ezekiel 38

Russian Ruble Collapses

When paper money is issued on “faith and confidence” in the government issuing it, the value of that paper can vanish overnight. Russia is being frozen out of basically all international markets and banking systems.  So the value of the ruble has become worthless overnight.  When no one wants something then it’s effectively worthless.  As one frustrated woman said, “who wants rubles?”

So will Putin apologize to the world for this invasion?  Will he apologize to his Russian citizens for putting them into a bad situation?  Will he call his troops home and sit at the feet of the European Union begging for forgiveness?  I’m gonna guess that’s not gonna happen.  So how much global chaos could he cause if he decides to go “scorched earth”?  Well, the other top headline is that Russian tanks have fired on a huge nuclear reactor in Ukraine and it’s on fire.  That could certainty scorch some earth.

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As markets opened in a panic on Monday, many Russians rushed to local cashpoints in Moscow to retrieve their savings before the damage got any worse.

“It said they had dollars so I came here immediately,” said Alexei Presnyakov, 32, pointing to an app for Russia’s Tinkoff Bank, indicating he could withdraw hard currency. About 20 people were queued in line. “Yesterday [the rate] was 80 [to the dollar]. Today it’s 100. Or 150.”

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“I just made a spontaneous decision today that I would ask [out of work] and go around until I took out all my money,” he said. “Before it was worth zero.”

Within minutes, however, the word traveled down the queue: the dollars were gone.

Nearly half the queue walked off. “Who needs roubles?” one woman said sarcastically as she walked away.

One, the owner of an advertising services company with 100 employees, said that he was about to announce to his employees this afternoon that he is leaving the country for Armenia with his wife and two sons.

“I’m going to tell them that we are going into a crisis that we have never experienced before,” he said. “It’s like flying on a plane with no engines or the engines are on fire.”

His company, which handles contracts for international brands like Pepsi and automakers like Volkswagen, was booming as recently as January 2022, a record month for them. Now many of those brands were pulling out of the Russian market and his business was shrinking “immensely”.

Another business owner with hundreds of employees in the food and beverage and tourism industries felt that he was completely in the dark about the future under Vladimir Putin.

“We have no fucking clue what he will do next,” he said. “No one in the business community has a clue any more. Everyone is so depressed. I have experienced so many economic crises here, the pandemic being the latest.

“But there was always a reason to keep on fighting for your business,” he said. “Now, I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel any more. Even if peace is achieved, the damage is done. How do we reverse it?”

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/the-damage-is-done-russians-face-economic-point-of-no-return

Vatican Using Covid Tests to Identify Messiah so They Can Kill Him

 This report coming out of Israel sounds like an HBO Movie!  Here's the plot:  The Vatican excavated under King David's tomb in Jerusalem some years ago.  They dug until they found King David and harvested some of his bones.  They used these bones to determine his DNA.  They are now checking all the nasal swabs of all the millions of COVID tests in Israel, and other places, to determine WHO matches King David and then will use this info to KILL the Messiah before he can come and redeem Israel and the world!!

Remember the old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction."

Israel is among the most vaccinated countries against Covid. Many people don’t know that Israel is also among the countries that check for Covid the most.

According to one famous rabbi, there is a far more sinister agenda behind the tests. In a recent lecture, Kabbalistic Rabbi Alon Anava asserted that the Vatican is examining all nasal swab tests for Covid-19 to determine whose DNA the tests accumulated matches King David’s.

According to Rabbi Anava, who was at one point in his life was pronounced clinically dead and then came back to life, the Vatican excavated underneath King David’s tomb on Mount Zion to collect his DNA. He added that the Vatican knows that the Messiah will come from the lineage of King David, and so they are trying to see who is alive today that is a match with the Biblical king. He added that they are doing this to preemptively kill the Messiah or messianic candidates before they redeem the world.

In the middle of a lecture last week, Rabbi Anava, who boasts close to 100,000 subscribers on Youtube, said of the Vatican:

I’ll tell you quickly for the ones who didn’t listen or didn’t pay attention because the class was four and a half hours there. They, in a very malicious, evil way, took over the grave of king david in order to dig out the bones to take DNA samples so they can now shove the q-tips in the eye and the nose of the entire world to get DNA samples from everybody to try to track where’s Mashiach and who’s Mashiach because they know Mashiach comes from from the House of David. And if they can get DNA samples from here and then some DNA samples from here, they can narrow down who’s the Mashiach and kill him before he comes to redeem the world.”

There is some legitimacy to his claim on the Vatican tomb raiding the grave of King David.

In March 2021, Israel365 News reported on a motion filed against the Jerusalem Municipality for turning a blind eye to a massive illegal digging project under the Tomb of King David in Jerusalem’s Mount Zion. According to the case brought by the Israeli NGO Regavim, the Jerusalem Municipality has been concealing the existence of an underground tunnel dug by the Church of the Dormition, one of the largest and most recognizable Catholic churches in Jerusalem.

It is believed the construction of the tunnel, approximately 1,970 feet long and 5 feet wide, was completed 12 years ago.  It was allegedly built by the Catholic authorities in Jerusalem as an underground passage from the main building of the Dormition Abbey to the residences of the clergy in the Beit Yosef building, a dormitory/guest house it built nearby decades ago.

Another rabbi, the spiritual leader of the Yanar Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Daniel Asor, believes otherwise. According to Rabbi Asor, that tunnel is a means for the Vatican to exhume the bones of King David, who they allege was buried in Mt Zion. As the church is Catholic, the rabbi asserts that they operate under the guise of the Vatican.

Adding more mystery to the affair, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which should have supervised the digging in the sensitive area, has consistently denied the tunnel’s existence.

Here;  Covid tests are checked by Vatican to determine who Messiah will be, rabbi says (israel365news.com)

"But Dennis, the Catholics at the Vatican would never come up with such a plan because they are good Christians and everyone in the Vatican is a sincere follower of Christ!  Besides that, they already know that Jesus is the Messiah and so would have no interest in a plan like this whatsoever!" 

Please remember that when the Jews start yelling about the Messiah, they ARE NOT talking about Jesus.

So let's digest this to see what might be going on knowing that "the whole world is under the control of the evil one." (1 John 5)

First off, let's remember that lots of prophecy watchers believe that the Vatican and Pope could end up being the False Prophet of the unholy trinity mentioned in Revelation.  Also the Vatican has paid for a huge telescope in Arizona and use it to watch for UFO's and "alien" encounters.  The Vatican's chief astronomer said years ago that when the aliens show up on earth that the Catholic church will baptize them and welcome them into the fold.  So the Catholics are already prepping the world to expect and accept "aliens" coming to earth.  We know they are demons and not aliens.

So is it possible that the Catholic church is up to something like this because they believe that Antichrist is going to come from the House of David?  Could they be trying to identify who the FALSE CHRIST that the Jews are going to accept?  If the Jews are going to accept Antichrist as Messiah maybe he will have to make them believe he comes from the Line of David?

So in the end, we don't have any solid answers for you but we very well could file this one into, "Many will come in my name saying 'I am the Christ'.  We simply don't know but we do think this is very interesting because we do not trust the Catholic Church for anything of truth.  The evidence of their Satanic involvement has been uncovered in the thousands of pedophile priests and leaders that have been uncovered in the past 20 years.  As we have said before, when you see little kids being sexually abused, you can smell for the sulphur because the evil one isn't far away.

One Million Compared to One Billion and One Trillion

 I heard someone say the other day, "I think they were saying 3 billion dollars...or maybe it was 3 trillion?"

Let's try and get our heads around what the difference is because the US Government throws around the terms MILLIONS, BILLIONS and TRILLIONS like they are all interchangeable and they all represent a "whole lot of money!"  But there is a HUGE difference.

So, I think we can all get our heads around a paper $100 bill.  Most of us have held one and all of my readers are going to realize what it takes to earn $100.

And here's how it goes;

$1 million =  $100 bills stacked is 43 inches or 3.6 feet

$1 billion = $100 bills stacked is 3600 feet or about 3 Empire State Buildings tall

$1 trillion = $100 bills stacked 3,600,000 feet or about 682 MILES!!! 

Now understand the the USA has about 30 trillion in debt and you begin to understand that our financial system is very much in limbo.  That's a stack of $100 bills that almost goes around the entire world!!

And finally consider that the USA has unfunded liabilities over the next 30 years that could be as much as $100 trillion when you consider Medicare, VA and Social Security.

So...it's starting to be simply unimaginable for the average brain.

Ukraine Runs Out of Bibles

 Remember when 9/11 happened and all the churches were full for about 3 weeks?  It seems that it takes calamity to get people to turn to God.  Ukraine appears to be no different.  When you realize that you can be blown to smithereens while sitting in your house and it could happen at any moment, it might make you take the time to question what happens when you die.

Robert L. Briggs, president and CEO of American Bible Society, penned a commentary piece Thursday for Christianity Today, explaining how Christians in Ukraine are responding to the Russian crisis.

"As people grapple with unknown, many are experiencing the Bible's message for the first time ever," Briggs wrote. "According to [Anatoliy Raychynets, deputy general secretary of the Ukrainian Bible Society], priests and pastors over the past weeks have been flocking to the Bible Society store in Kyiv to buy Bibles."

The situation has been so intense the store reportedly ran out of Bibles, with Raychynets telling Briggs their biggest challenge is getting enough copies of scripture to meet the demand.

“We need more Bibles,” he said.

Raychynets also revealed another crucial restorative detail about his relationship with Christian leaders in Russia, revealing that they communicate and have been united in Christ.

In a world of such toxic division — and amid tensions that do anything other than unite opposing sides — this is a powerful testament to the fruit of the Gospel in people’s lives.

“We speak to our colleagues in Russia,” he told Briggs. “We church leaders speak to one another, and we pray together. We are united in the Lord.”

As Faithwire previously reported, the Ukrainian people’s faith has been stunning to see.

This week, CNN captured a touching moment during which Ukrainians kneeled in prayer. And Raychynets previously shared how Christians and Jews have come together to pray Psalm 31 over their plight.

“For me, as a pastor, that Psalm … well, I read it differently now, because it’s about our current situation in Ukraine,” Raychynets told Eternity News. “This ancient prayer — written several thousand years ago — now we see is so alive, is living.”

Here; ‘We Need More Bibles’: Ukrainian Store Runs Out of Bibles as People Encounter Scripture For ‘First Time Ever’ Amid Russian Crisis – Faithwire 

We always pray to God and ask them to save our friends and family from hell doing "whatever it takes".  What if it takes a war?  What if it takes financial collapse?  What if it takes Russians and Chinese attacking the USA on the West Coast?  What will it take to open up people's eyes?

Sadly, the Bible says that many people will curse God no matter what happens.

Belarus Warns We Are Heading for WWIII

 Some pretty serious chatter about WWII going on out there.  Belarus would definitely fall into the Russian camp if the war starts to widen, but check out the comments about nuclear war that the President of Belarus just said.

At a referendum on changing Belarus’s constitution on Sunday, President Alexander Lukashenko warned that the conflict in Ukraine was bringing World War III closer.

“In a situation like this, we should be aware that there are such sanctions. A great deal is being said about the banking sector. Gas, oil, SWIFT,” Lukashenko said. “Russia is being pushed towards a third world war. We should be very reserved and steer clear of it. Because nuclear war is the end of everything.”

“Today we must stop the war,” Lukashenko stated. “I would not even call it ‘war’ right now: It is still a conflict. Another day or two and there will be a war. In three days – a meat grinder.”

Lukashenko claimed that Russia had nothing to gain from the war and the “only beneficiary” was the US with the goal of “putting Europe in its place and removing competitors.”

“Russia does not need this. They have ammunition, cartridges, machine guns, and enough people to solve the problems that Russia wants to solve,” he said. 

He went on to claim that Belarusian and Russian people in Ukraine were being beaten and poisoned. 

Here;  Country bordering Russia, Ukraine warns of World War 3 (israel365news.com)

Yes, Russia will turn Ukraine into a meat grinder.  Putin is not just going to walk out of Ukraine with his tail between his legs because of sanctions.

So how does the world stop a bully with nuclear weapons who is already threatening to use them if anyone gets in his way?

Great question with no good answer.

The Bible is clear that the world WILL NOT END in nuclear Armageddon.  But Jesus is very clear that if he didn't return to stop the progression of wars in the very Last Days that NO FLESH WOULD SURVIVE.

It would appear that earth is heading for those days and just maybe this is the last push that's taking us there?  We don't know but we do know that Jesus will be faithful and keep His bride away from those days.  So we rest in that promise.

Macron Speaks Soothing Words About Jerusalem

 This is interesting to watch because Macron is the Vegas Odds favorite for becoming the Antichrist following the rapture of the church.  TheAntichrist will sign a peace agreement with Israel and assure their  defense against nations who hate her.  He also will allow the Jewish Temple to be built during this time.  His words today pave the way for that to become a reality.  We won’t see this because we will be gone.  But we can see all the preparations being made.

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French President Emmanuel Macron came out last week against the description of Israel as an apartheid state recently by human rights groups like Amnesty International.

Macron was supposed to deliver a speech at the annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) but had cancel to an important meeting. Instead, Prime Minister Jean Castex was asked to deliver his speech instead and he read the president's speech.

“Like you, I am concerned about the United Nations resolution on Jerusalem which continues to deliberately and against all evidence remove Jewish terminology from the Temple Mount. You know my attachment to Jerusalem, where I went several times as President or before becoming one. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, I have never stopped saying that. This in no way precludes recognizing and respecting the attachment of other religions to this city, and it is in this spirit that I myself walked through the Old City in 2020 and visited each of the Holy Places."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-698925

If Nuke Hits America Remember to Mask and Social Distance in Bomb Shelter

The government website was last updated February 25 so it’s unclear exactly when this info was added.  But the Biden admin wants to prep you for nuclear war by making sure you remember your paper mask if you are running to a bomb shelter.  While in the shelter you should try and keep 6 feet away from strangers.  Also remember that while you are in the bomb shelter pondering the end of the world, the Covids can still sneak up on you and kill you and your entire family, and that’s no way to start Armageddon!

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“Go to the basement or middle of the building. Stay away from the outer walls and roof. Try to maintain a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household. If possible, wear a mask if you’re sheltering with people who are not a part of your household,” the website states. “Children under two years old, people who have trouble breathing, and those who are unable to remove masks on their own should not wear them.”

The website explains that nuclear fallout is most dangerous within the first several hours after detonation “when it is giving off the highest levels of radiation,” which is why Americans should stay inside for at least 24 hours while continuing to wear a mask and “practice social distancing.”

“Hand sanitizer does not protect against fall out,” the website warns.

“Stay inside for 24 hours unless local authorities provide other instructions. Continue to practice social distancing by wearing a mask and by keeping a distance of at least six feet between yourself and people who are not part of your household,” the website continues.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/biden-admin-says-social-distance-wear-a-mask-while-sheltering-from-nuclear-bomb/?utm_campaign=DailyEmails&utm_source=AM_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Master_List&utm_campaign=dce61c09a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_02_28_11_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9c4ef113e0-dce61c09a6-61619259&mc_cid=dce61c09a6&mc_eid=d4a810d349

Covid Lockdown Gives Folks Time to Change Their Sexual Identity

 The insanity continues!  This BBC article is explaining how people were locked up during the pandemic they finally had the time to reflect and dig into themselves.  The alone time made lots of people uncomfortable in their own skin.  So as they say and reflected on their sexuality (maybe because of countless hours of watching porn?) many decided that they were no longer heterosexual but had really become something else!  Like maybe bisexual or non binary or queer or trans?  The list is limitless!  So exciting to be a woman and change your Tik Tok and dating app settings to “bi”!  Think of the attention they will get!  Think of the fun comments you will get like, “you’re so brave!”  Also of note is that this strange phenomenon has seemed to infect the weaker sex at a higher proportion.  Maybe this points to the lateness of the hour as well because Paul reminds us that societal breakdown has its signs when “even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones”.  Yep

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According to Blair’s research, this experience is relatively common. With people spending more time “courting” online before meeting up in person due to pandemic-related restrictions, “it may have been more likely that people would toy with the idea of ‘checking the other box’ when asked who they were looking to meet”, she says. Dating someone of a different gender than people were used to became “a bit more approachable”.

Both experts and daters alike told BBC Worklife that media also contributed to people re-thinking their sexual orientations, including social networks, podcasts and television shows – which people were consuming at higher rates while isolating indoors. Guttman even advised some of her clients to listen to podcasts and watch shows “with more LGBTQIA+ interactions” to “normalise” it for those newly testing out those identities. 

At the same time, many TikTok users like Violet Turning, a New York City-based sex educator, saw a swell of young women discussing their shift from identifying as straight to lesbian, queer or bisexual during the pandemic.

“My whole feed was young women who were like, ‘I entered the pandemic straight, and now I’m in a lesbian relationship’,” says Turning. Some mentioned having “suppressed” those desires until the pandemic gave them space to explore, while Turning saw others say they’d taken time to discover the history of heterosexual relationships and began newly questioning their sexuality after learning more about female oppression in those contexts. She sees the spread of this information on TikTok as “validating for folks… exploring sexuality beyond the binary”.

This was true for Lauren, who downloaded TikTok during the pandemic, and was immediately confronted with videos of people who, like her, had identified as bisexual before coming out as lesbian. She attributes this to more people getting involved with online conversations at a time when pandemic-based restrictions severely limited in-person social lives. (There are several reasons why more women seem to embrace sexual fluidity than men, a ratio reflected in Guttman’s clients – of the roughly dozen who explored changes to their sexual orientation during lockdowns, just two were men.)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220224-why-sexual-identities-shifted-during-the-pandemic

22 Observations About the New World War That Has Now Started

 This is starting to smell a little bit about how WWI started.  The Nations of the world are starting to take sides.  Are you WITH Putin or AGAINST Putin?  That is the question.

Even Switzerland that prides itself on staying neutral has now come out and said they are against Russia.

How about Belarus?  Are they going to side with Russia in their war against Ukraine?  

Is China and Russia going to agree to look the other way for each other while China invades and conquers Taiwan?

This author below is convinced that WWIII has already started and is just going to keep getting more and more severe and draw in more and more players.  Ultimately the entire world will be brought into it.  Here are his 22 observations about this topic.

Like many of you, I have been spending a great deal of time keeping up with coverage of Russia’s horrifying invasion of Ukraine.  I am very upset with the Russians for choosing to invade the whole country, because now a line has been crossed that will never, ever be able to be uncrossed.  From here on out, there will be endless wars and rumors of wars, and countless numbers of people are going to die.  In the future, some historians may look back and determine that the coming Chinese invasion of Taiwan was the start of World War III, and others may point to the coming conflict between Israel and Iran.  But to me, February 23rd, 2022 was the start of World War III, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Since most of you have been closely following news coverage of the war, I am not going to rehash the basic facts here.  The Russians are winning victory after victory, and it appears that the battle for Ukraine could be over in a matter of days.

But once the battle for Ukraine is over, the real war will begin.

The following are 22 observations about the new world war which just started in Ukraine…

#1 Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, any hope for peace between the United States and Russia is gone forever.

#2 The conflict between our two nations will continue until one side or the other is totally defeated.

#3 Both sides are armed with nuclear weapons, and it is just a matter of time before somebody decides to use them.

#4 As he launched the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin actually warned other countries that he could use nuclear weapons against them if they attempted to intervene.

#5 The Biden administration, the Ukrainians and the Russians all lied to us over and over again.

#6 We should all be very angry at Vladimir Putin.  He completely destroyed the last hope that the world had for peace when he launched a full invasion of Ukraine.  If he would have kept his forces in just Donetsk and Luhansk there still would have been the possibility of a diplomatic solution.

#7 Joe Biden says that he is considering hitting Russia with the biggest cyberattack in history.  That would be an act of war.

#8 If we launch a cyberattack against Russia, they will retaliate with a cyberattack of their own, and we are extremely vulnerable.

#9 The Russians have more than 1,000 different ways of making us feel pain, and they are not afraid to play dirty.

#10 I think that Volodymyr Zelensky is perhaps the stupidest head of state that I have ever seen.

#11 Zelensky pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table when the Russians knew full well that he wasn’t holding any cards.  Now he is going to lose his entire country.

#12 It appears that Zelensky actually believed that the United States and other western powers would come to his aid if the Russians invaded.  After what we have witnessed over the past year, that was an incredibly foolish thing to believe.

#13 Biden and his minions had a plan for what they wanted to accomplish in Ukraine, and that plan failed dramatically.

#14 At this stage, I think that the Biden administration will try to turn the rest of the world against the Russians and will try to suffocate the life out of them economically.  But that isn’t going to work, because Russia is very self-sufficient when it comes to food, energy and other essentials, and Putin has also signed very extensive trade agreements with China.

#15 I don’t think Putin would have made this move if he didn’t have an understanding with China behind the scenes.  The Chinese are allowing the Russians to invade Ukraine, but in return I believe that there is an agreement for the Russians to support China when the Chinese finally invade Taiwan.

#16 Now that the Chinese have seen how weakly the western powers have responded to the invasion of Ukraine, I that that makes an invasion of Taiwan much more likely.

#17 If the Chinese decide to pull the trigger, they will almost certainly do it while there is still plenty of time left in Biden’s term in office.

#18 Putin is not as smart as I thought he was.  He is going to win the battle for Ukraine, but now his country can never have positive relations with western nations ever again.

#19 The global energy crisis is going to get a whole lot worse.  Russia exports a tremendous amount of energy, and European nations gobble it up like addicts.  This conflict threatens to dislocate the flow of global energy to a degree that we haven’t seen since World War II.

#20 Many warned that our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan would embolden the Russians to move against Ukraine.  Those that issued such warnings have been proven right.

#21 The U.S. military is in the worst condition that I have ever seen in my entire lifetime.  At this point, the U.S. military is not at all prepared to fight the Russians or anyone else for that matter.

#22 Many people out there love to criticize President Trump, but even he understood that you don’t mess with the Russians.  Unless they are messing with you, the best thing to do with the Russians is to just leave them alone.  All throughout history, those that have chosen to pick a fight with Russia have ended up regretting it.  The Russians will do whatever it takes to win, and they are absolutely ruthless.

This is truly a sad day, because this didn’t have to happen.

As I have detailed in other articles, it would have been so easy to reach a diplomatic agreement that would have kept the Russians entirely out of Ukraine.

Unfortunately, there is no use talking about that any longer, because the time for diplomacy has passed.

Here; 22 Observations About The New World War Which Just Started In Ukraine (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)

Of course we have no idea if this really is the start of another World War.  We do know that Putin is very unlikely to withdraw from Ukraine without a total and absolute victory.  He really doesn't care what any other nation does or says in regards to sanctions or threats.  His ego and power are at stake. He started the attack on Ukraine using the D-squad of soldiers.  He will next send in his C-squad, then his B and if they haven't fallen by then he will send in his A-squad which is like an entire army made up of US Navy Seals.  They are tough sons of guns.  Also Putin will use bigger and bigger bombs if he needs to.

But Dennis, if the world stands united against him he will have to withdraw in defeat!

Wrong!

Anyone who has ever cornered a raccoon in a chicken coop with a pitchfork knows what happens next.  The coon will come unhinged and throw every growl and bite it has in its arsenal.  It will try to kill you even though you are 15 times bigger and have a lethal weapon in your hand.

We believe Putin will be the same.  He WILL take Ukraine and bring down the world if he can't.

Thank you Jesus that as the creator of the world and everything in it, you have this whole situation under control and going EXACTLY the way you planned it from the beginning.

Russia Threatens Sweden and Finland

 Russia continues to ratchet up the military threats and act like the bully.  Today we read that they are threatening military action against Sweden and Finland if they decide to join NATO and continue to support Ukraine.

Russia is now threatening Sweden and Finland with military action if they join NATO, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.

During a press conference on Friday, Maria Zakharova addressed the ongoing war with Ukraine, as well as Russia’s path forward. Her remarks included a threat of “serious military-political repercussions” against Sweden and Finland if the two nations seek to join NATO.

“Finland and Sweden should not base their security damaging the security of other countries,” Zakharova said, according to Newsweek translation.

“Clearly [the] accession of Finland and Sweden into NATO, which is first and foremost a military alliance, would have serious military-political repercussions that would demand a response from our country,” she added.

Here;  Putin Threatens non-NATO Members Sweden and Finland for Aiding Ukraine - American Defense News

He sure seems like he'd be willing to assume the role of Gog.