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“The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.”
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The Russians have invaded Ukraine. As I write this, valorous men are dying on the battlefield, columns of women are fleeing west with their children, and all men 18 to 60 have been called up to fight for their country. We are watching civilized white societies smash against each other at a time with the true threat to all is the rising tide of color.
Regardless, one could see the disaster coming. It’s been three decades in the making. It comes from failing to heed the very genuine warnings of far-sighted thinkers in the early 1990s; it comes from a stiff-necked insistence on expanding NATO eastwards regardless of the known dangers; it comes from a failure to heed the Russians’ genuine concerns, given that they have been invaded from the west many times; and it comes from internal insanity in American society caused by “civil rights,” moral perversion, and Negro Worship.
Samuel Huntington’s Cleft Nation
In 1991, President George H. W. Bush warned Ukrainians that
freedom is not the same as independence. Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny with a local despotism. They will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred.
The issue comes down to the fact that Ukraine became independent having the same borders as those of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine therefore became sovereign with a Ukrainian ethnic majority in the west and a Russian majority in the east and in Crimea. In the west they are Catholic (to put it very simply), and in the east they are Russian Orthodox. It is what Samuel Huntington called a cleft nation in his 1996 book, The Clash of Civilizations. Those in western Ukraine identify with Warsaw, Berlin, and Rome; those in the eastern regions identify with Moscow, Novgorod, and Saint Petersburg. The situation immediately became unstable.
What Bush the Elder was talking about was the fact that an independent Ukraine with the borders of the Ukrainian SSR was ultimately unworkable. The Crimean peninsula was given over to the Ukrainian SSR by Khrushchev for ease of administration within the USSR. Prior to that, it was part of Russia. Until 1991, no nation seriously doubted that Crimea was Russian.
Americans don’t get a great deal of truth about Ukraine from their media or government. What I know of the place is that it is corrupt, filled with ethnic tensions, and poor. It is also undoubtedly true that the Ukrainian news media is every bit as much dishonest infotainment as the American news media. In 2018, a Russian “dissident” staged his own death and the Ukrainian media went along with the scam. What else are they lying about? It is also very possible that the Ukrainians clamp down on their own dissenters.
America’s role in this sordid mess began with a Deep State-backed revolution in Ukraine in 2014. American officials, many of whom were Jewish, poured piles of money into the country to effect a coup that replaced the pro-Russian government with one sympathetic to the European Union and NATO. Along with all those dollars drawn from the sweat of Americans’ brows came Pride parades and other abominations.
The Russians responded shortly thereafter with a hybrid-warfare attack: Troops who were not officially enlisted in the Russian military moved in and captured parts of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. At this point the Ukrainian government should have taken a serious look at its military capability, but it appears that they did not.
Senile Joe’s Insane Asylum Regime
The next factor in this calamity is the American government. The Obama administration had every opportunity to allow for Ukraine’s “Finlandization.” Finlandization refers to Finland’s status during the Cold War, when it was both outside NATO but not aligned with the Soviet Union. Finland did not do poorly with this arrangement. Ukraine could also have been divided along its ethnic fault lines.
Then, in 2016 Hillary Clinton made “the Russians” in general and Putin in particular into cookie-cutter monsters. Her campaign fabricated and exaggerated a massive “Russian hacking” story around the presidential election. No “Russian expert,” such as Fiona Hill or H. R. McMaster, bothered to explain exactly what the “hacking” had been; instead, they allowed the issue to fester. Trump’s own “experts” and “patriots” gave the Democrats, the media, and the political establishment ample ammunition to delegitimize Trump, and thus any chance for rapprochement with Russia was lost.
“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!” The appointments of mattoids like Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton to high government offices are a major signal to the Russians that the Biden regime is unserious and beholden to ideological fads. One of the reasons these perverse men were appointed is to humiliate ordinary Americans.
In 2019, President Trump was impeached by a group of Jews and immigrants over his handling of Ukraine. The impeachment showed that Ukraine is corrupt and that many of the Russia-haters in America’s government were compromised by their dealings in Ukraine. This unjust impeachment alienated half of America from Ukraine.
In 2020, the Democratic Party and mainstream media pulled off a revolution in the United States that was not so different from the one they had carried out in Ukraine. The entire power structure went nuts. Ordinary criminals, especially sub-Saharans, were set free and the-law abiding who opposed them were imprisoned. Mobs tore down statues of American heroes. The 2020 election was rigged in such a way that a senile man was able to usurp the presidency.
The George Floyd riots of 2020 can only be described as evil religious mania. Negro Worship went into overdrive, and while whites didn’t openly revolt in response, they did take note of the fact that the establishment was against them. The military also purged officers who opposed anti-white Critical Race Theory and failed to quell the George Floyd riots. National Guard solders were dismissed for “extremism” while the Department of Defense stated that it considers ordinary whites to be Nazis. These were more signals of weakness.
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” George Floyd’s fentanyl overdose while in police custody led to a terroristic jihad by the Negro-Worshipers.
The fuse for the 2022 Ukrainian War was lit on election night, 2020. Biden’s win was so obviously fraudulent that his presidency received a terrible wound at the outset. On his first day in office he signed a series of disastrous executive orders which destroyed America’s energy independence at the stroke of a pen. This made Russian gas much more valuable and gave Russia considerable leverage on the diplomatic scene.
Senile Joe’s Empty Threat
Then came the start of Russia’s campaign in the Ukraine with the May 7, 2021 cyber-attack on the Colonial Pipeline. The event led to panic-buying of gasoline that depleted supplies across the American South and much of the East Coast. The Biden regime was unable to counter this attack, and they allowed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to be completed. This put Germany at the Russia’s mercy for its energy supplies. The balance of power in Europe had shifted.
The following events came fast. The Russians began to mass around Ukraine and Russia’s Belorussian allies organized a Greenmarch which caused the Polish military to deploy along their mutual border to repel the migrants. Shortly thereafter, on November 12, 2021, Russia destroyed a satellite in order to showcase their new anti-satellite missiles and suppress America’s new Space Force. Each fragment of the satellite and missile added to the space junk that must be tracked by the Space Force to avoid accidents in Earth orbit. Satellites had to be moved to avoid the debris.
This apocalypse comes down to Senile Joe and his handlers’ neurotic hatred for Russia, the expansion of NATO up to Russia’s eastern borders, the lack of internal cohesion within NATO, and the fact that while Ukraine’s political situation is vital to Russia’s interest, it is not in any way vital to America’s. The Biden regime’s hostility towards Putin, hostility towards American whites, and illegitimacy changed the Russians’ decision-making calculus. Senile Joe was issuing empty threats. America had lost its ability to deter.
For as long as America’s leadership was easygoing and polite to Putin, such as Trump had done, there was no point in the Russians attacking Ukraine. But when an illegitimate and senile President started to make threats and got into “fronting,” things changed rapidly.
A Ukrainian woman fleeing Kiev: “My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.”
Lamentations
And so Putin’s infantry advances like the clouds, his tanks and BMPs coming like a whirlwind and his jet fighters swifter than eagles. I believed the American intelligence reports regarding Russia from the outset. The men who staff the American intelligence agencies that watch the Russian military are working in an institution built by Right-wing anti-Communists, and they are not “woke.” They are different from the FBI’s politicized and semi-competent secret police, and their reports don’t go through a Semitic filter as with Middle Eastern intelligence.
From what I can gather through the fog of war and the half-propagandized news reports, many Ukrainians have fought valiantly despite having far less equipment than the Russians. The defiant words from the Ukrainian detachment on Snake Island to attacking Russian warships is the stuff of legend, but ultimately ineffective. Why didn’t they have anti-ship missiles?
In short, why weren’t they more prepared? Prepared enough to deter aggression? Drafting all the men into the army several days after an invasion despite the fact that there had been months of predictions that there would be an attack is a bold move, but possibly too late. Molotov cocktails are sexy, but Russian columns have seen them before in Finland and Hungary.
Many Russian tanks and armored vehicles have been destroyed — along with the men within. But this will probably only slow them down. The Russians can bring in plenty more tanks and reinforcements. They have spilled oceans of blood for this region in the past and they will make that sacrifice again, barring something unexpected. I fear this war could become long, bloody, and sad. It is especially frustrating because this conflict was so avoidable.
I thought I would be hard-hearted and indifferent to the Ukrainians when the time came, but the streams of white refugees, mounting numbers of the fallen on both sides, and dreadful videos of artillery barrages has struck my soul with a terrible sadness. I’ve even donated crypto to the Ukrainians, and I am an America First isolationist — but apparently a bad one. You can do so here. There must be so many sad homes in Russia and Ukraine right now. My only grasp at solace is that this desolation comes under the flag of abominations and the illicit, BLM/antifa-enabled Senile Joe regime.
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27 comments
Well put. Biden is an usurper who did not recieve the support of heritage americans. I just hope his neverending disaster of a presidency ends with the country intact.
I am heartbroken over this whole situation from its being a threat to many of our own European cousins, to the horrid threat of the use of nuclear weapons, which will send clouds of radiation over the whole planet for years. I am directly concerned over three different families with young children that I know through an English gentleman who corresponds regularly with them, through a religious connection. And yes, the world is indeed interconnected. I’ve recently sent money as well, since my English friend has a secure bank connection, but for who-knows how long. They’re running out of food and heating oil already, and I’ve told them — or suggested — to leave with the children ASAP. I haven’t heard back. I think the best we can do here is to contact local Catholic and Orthodox churches to see if they have a pipeline to help the Ukrainian citizens. But that is up to each person to decide.
This article pointed out a great many insights that are not being addressed by our lame media in this country. Many have said ‘It’s not our battle, we should stay out of it”. Sure, that will help a lot when the clouds of radiation appear overhead. And we, as White Nationalists, know very well it is our battle, and we need to spread the word somehow, and this post (and Greg Johnson’s talk on DLive on Saturday) are a good beginning. But it will probably fall on deaf ears overall in America, since the average American can’t even find Ukraine on a map — though the one the author has posted is surely quite clear. We are clearly definitely involved here, because this is clearly another “White Brothers Battle” which is ruining the lives of White families in both countries. However, that concern is of no consequence in the U.S. which is so involved in “Negro Worship”, as the author points out. We are at a really vicious crossroads here, and we need to speak up.
Also, I forgot to mention the DLive podcast by Nicolas Jeelvey and Tim Murdock on Sunday, which will also be re-broadcast on Wednesday, I believe. Jeelvey lives just ‘downstream’ in Europe from Ukraine, so he has a more ‘involved’ outlook.
Your article sums the important things up well IMO.
I’ve even donated crypto to the Ukrainians, and I am an America First isolationist — but apparently a bad one.
Well, I donated $15.00 to an animal shelter in Donetsk because most of the people who are running away can’t take their companion animals with them.
Fantastic! Thank you for reminding us that animals need help and that there are heatbreaking decisions about bringing them when people are forced to evacuate. Your comment made my day. I’m off to donate to a Ukrainian shelter as well.
Would you please send me an address so that I can donate?
https://www.ifaw.org/uk/news/support-animals-ukraine?ms=KONDF220320072&cid=7013k000001a9NM
When you click on Donate, that should take you to the correct site for donating from your particular country. Or you can do a search for other orgs. if IFAW is not right for you.
I go to various pages on their sites and always they refer to Russian invasion of Donbass region. However, to my knowledge, it’s not just Russians invading eastern Ukraine but rather the Ukrainian army, too. Hard to know what the hell is really going on over there, isn’t it.
“expanding NATO eastwards regardless of the known dangers”
Not regardless, but due to known dangers. After more than “300 years together” with the Russians absolutely everybody, except Russia’s paid agents, everybody knows who they really are and what they did, and why women and kids are running from their advance.
Thankfully, the psychopathic genocidal midget in Kremlin made America great again, European Union united, really united the entire white race, with the exception of some white nationalists and many bolsheviks waiting to be saved by some siberian shaman.
Do you really think that if the genocidal bandy midget would have a border with Austria, or France, or USA they would just stop?
If they are doing to their “slavic brothers” what they doing, what do you think they would do to you?
Ahem, yes, well. I can’t seem to tell what’s satire any more, regarding the pics. The time has come for me to unveil my new dissident persona: Boy George Lincoln Rockwell.
Read Kevin Macdonald’s analysis of the Ukraine situation at TOO. That is what I think it’s about. Otherwise I agree with everything in Morris’s article.
Thank you for suggesting TOO. The comments section on Pat Buchanan’s article is pulling no punches. I learned more there in the last 10 minutes about the tragic western blunders leading to this mess than i have in the last 3 days.
Since both countries are considered highly corrupt and beholden to oligarchs, why must USA side with Ukraine? Ukraine was corrupt when biden was point man and his boy making hay. Clintons benefited from Russian corruption after letting uranium slip through our hands. All these alleged connections between trump and Russia amounted to projection from clintons and bidens. I feel no sympathy for Ukrainian people even though we look the same. They’ve had sufficient time to put together a defense system and didn’t do it. USA didn’t help by screwing them out of the nuclear weapons on their turf. I do believe USA should exit nato and choose to intervene or ally when it suits our interests. I would enjoy greatly the globalist heads exploding here and in Europe. Is China not as bad or worse than Russia and yet they are sending us more than goes their direction? USA has no consistency in its anger with alleged unfree societies.
This was an interesting item. The matter of Ukrainian nazis (sic) may be a weapon in the Russian propaganda arsenal and vex us, but in point of fact it may be an indicator of something else and something out of the Biden deep state playbook.
There is a lot of reliable material about the Ukrainian party ‘Svoboda’ formed in the 1990s and the groups that came from nowhere in 2013 and 2013, Right Sector and the Azov Battalion. I corresponded with Svoboda and was interviewed by them about 2010. Something just changed unexpectedly and the group took on a hyper Russophobia and with others played the decisive street level role in the fake Maidan revolution in 2014.
Re Maidan and these far rightists (sic). I read this leftist item: https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea With some allowances for the ideological problems ijn this article, and the concentration on nazis (sic) ect., the story reads true enough.
I might suggest that we are dealing here with a delusional politics sometimes with fatal results, a false-consciousness, counter-ganging on a large scale, a politics co-opted into the service of the globalist forces. To go all marxist (sic) for a moment: one could say that these stormtroops of capital do a job and are discharged. In this case, they do the job and provide a long running irritant whose substance can always be plausibly denied (sic).
The “fake” Maidan revolution was quite real. Labeling it “fake” is one of the central Kremlin talking points. The purpose of such a label is to reduce what is happening in Ukraine to the US vs. Russia. Recognizing that the Ukrainians actually have preferences and agency is not part of Putin’s agenda. Why complicate the propaganda narrative? Putin accuses the Ukrainians of cultural genocide against the Russian minority but denies that Ukrainians are a real people and Ukraine is a real country. Jews are not the only people who cry out as they strike you. Russians have built a vast empire all while playing the victim.
Greg: I should have said that Maidan was manipulated to produce an outcome that ultimately didn’t give Ukrainian independence and identity, but rather a system intent on globalisation. Pro national forces were co-opted. And still are. However, as your writers point out, Putin does not accept the Ukrainian national dialogue and that is not only wrong, but a weakness.
Hi Greg
Have you thought about having Anatoly Karlin on as a guest ? He’s done a number of interviews lately and is very interesting.
Thanks
Now, let me tell you how it really is, while you are telling complicated things, no one, I mean no one trusts, besides Putin on mushrooms.
1. Young Ukrainian mothers with small kids, are crossing the Romanian border, by foot or by car.
2. Ukrainian kids with small dogs in their arms tremble due to the cold and the recent bout of snow.
3. So many blond, blue eyed kids are crying after their papas or djiadjia.
4. Those with cars are fillings the tanks and speed up towards the next border, ASAP. It makes you wonder what you should do with your own family.
5. Ukrainians are giving to the Russian army a spanking for a lifetime. The mighty Russian army is abandoning armored cars and tanks by the hundreds.
6. Instead, the mighty Russians are bombing from safe distance hospitals, houses and blocks of flats. Meantime, the bandy midget is menacing with nuclear war.
7. My own mother watches TV and cries that she was a refugee too, and how grandma crossed with her the Danube (mined by some Bulgarian terrorists – seems under the Stalin’s order). I don’t mention my wife. They simply hate the crazy midget.
Now, please explain to somebody like me how you are able to stir from “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” to this.
By this I mean Putin sending in Ukraine terrorists from Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia to kill and torture whites.
I mean, Ukraine is a fake state, Romanians are a residual population, West is rotted, America is guilty of everything Russia did, and so on.
You know that things will not stop to Wien or Berlin. You know that, don’t you?
So, congratulation, you spoiled another chance to say something good and usefull.
So I have to ask what remains after such monumental blunder. And it’s the second.
We’re not saying that war is pretty or that we are happy about the conflict in Ukraine, but it is understandable that Russia will not allow itself to become encircled and Ukraine to become a part of “NATO”. Why do we even need nato now that communism is no longer the ideology of the soviet empire? But to extend that thread of logic, how do you think the United States would react if Mexico or Canada attempted to join the Warsaw Pact?
Cuba did, but we would have militarily taken over Cuba had the soviets not put nuclear missiles there. We had the Cuban missile crisis over it.
You are utterly naive or a shill.
NATO and US Army exist for only one reason. RUSSIA! Russia invaded or genocided everything in site for a millenia. We have experienced Russia vecinity for 300 years, and we know the score.
You don’t and you don’t care. At this very moment you are vouching for a madman. You know, some psyhic pathologies are contagious.
Count me as naive. But I don’t think even the neocon propagandists are calling Putin genocidal.
I don’t think the Russians are perfect or anything. Look how they poisoned that British guy with polonium! Then again read about some of those Ukrainian oligarchs. It’s like a battle among evil warlords over there!
OK then.
Have you seen any recent list of the Russian government or oligarchs? It is way worse than Ukraine’s. Please do.
Do you think that Litvinenko case is troubling? Ask yourself about the 60 generals that have died before their time. You know, they get shot by their wives, jump from the windows, fall from the helicopters, get hanged, catch a galloping cancer, what not. Check the last two dead GRU bosses.
They don’t call Putin genocidal, this is true. The problem is that Putin IS genocidal. Along with the entire horde of Russian and Soviet rulers.
Putin in menacing the world with the nukes, the thermobaric bombs, the Chechens butchers (no military value but terrorizing civilians – you know, exactly what they have done in WW2 or recently in Syria). Putin is bombing nuclear waste deposits and nuclear plants (Chernobyl and Zaporozhye). As I write the Russian Army is warning the civilians in Kiev to leave the encircled city (!!!) because they will bomb civilian targets.
How would you call Putin? For me is enough to consider him a genocidal psychopath, the last one in a long line.
you justify Putin, who murders Russian nationalists, brings the Asian wilderness to Russia, and is now attacking the white people, then you don’t deserve to live in a white ethno-state yourself
Respectfully, I think you are missing the point. This is a jeremiad – self criticism – the Prophet Jeremiah wasn’t for the Babylonians.
This article was a perfect encapsulation of the whole debacle into an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand story. Why our State Department doesn’t want to understand the Russia-Ukraine problem is beyond me unless they need to make it into something more than what it really is.
For the Democrats hate of President Trump to continue, Russia and especially Putin must be the enemy. As Mr. van de Camp states, “For as long as America’s leadership was easygoing and polite to Putin, such as Trump had done, there was no point in the Russians attacking Ukraine.” It’s the same when Trump went to the DMZ between the Koreas and met Kim Jong-Un. They met face-to-face and Trump went into North Korea. Trump likes to look his competitors in the eyes and talk face-to-face rather than just do online diplomacy. Democrats need Russia to be their go-to bad guy so that any future candidate that even smells of Trump or that may have eaten borscht or caviar, there’s an impeachable connection.
As an aside, this article was another proof of the decline of America. As many of you readers have mentioned, part of what makes America and all other White countries work is the high degree of social trust. We assume all citizens want to do certain things: obey traffic laws, not shoplift, leave a penny for those who really need it, not avail oneself of government programs meant for needy, and a whole host of common-sense traits we have innately as members of a highly-functioning White society. As I watch the Ukrainians both evacuate and defend Kiev, I think that this cannot happen here in the USA. For the most part, the Ukrainian citizens are both sheltering and evacuating calmly and Poland/Romania are accepting them. The Ukrainian males are unquestionably reporting to fight. These things would not happen here now that the democrats have tribalized us into warring factions, each concerned with their own interests. Nobody’s going to pull together behind steely-eyed joe biden, the strong hand on the wheel. He’s the one who told them for years that they’re being “oppressed” and the Whites are the ones responsible. Why help each other out now? Why report to fight for this horribly racist country? The American spirit that got us through so many disasters is severly curtailed under democrat leadership.
And, as has been discussed, there’s an easy way to solve this: fix America’s energy policy, reinstate our energy independence, fire up Germany’s nuclear plants. A sign of a great leader is recognizing good ideas no matter where they come from. Trump’s ideas on energy were good (as were his promotion of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin), but senile joe is too far gone and too far beholden to his handlers to fix our country.
The Snake Island story was a fake; the ukes surrendered and were spared. There is also some fakery with photo ops of moving body bags.
Zelensky is an oligarch puppet, with about $1.2B in the US and a $34M mansion in Miami. He is no boy scout. Easy solution: surrender, enshrine neutrality, and leave eastern ukraine alone. This will end the carnage on both sides.
Because you don’t deserve to have your own country if you have any corrupt politicians.
I want them to have their own country, free from corrupt westerners and puppet clowns like Zelensky. I don’t wish for any occupation, including Russian, but I don’t know that Putin had any choice.
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