If we were to judge the sentiment of the average citizen based upon the enthusiastic approach of the US Congress to send billions to Ukraine, I would think all our minds were made up in unanimity. With the exception of a few, all who have spoken or voted have deemed it wildly necessary and quite pressing to get the Ukrainians more money and more weapons so that they may produce more dead Russians. Their (Congress’) own history of mischievous conduct, agitation, unscrupulous appeals to emotion, venomous speech towards everyday American citizens of contrary opinion, corruption, bribery, and laundering practices all endanger the average American as much, if not far more, than the Russian threat to Ukraine.
Our own economy is in shambles, our own dollar is worth less today than at any time in recent history. Inflation is at 40 year highs, consumer confidence has bottomed out, our Stock Market has shown negative growth for some time now, gas and oil are quickly becoming unaffordable, our supply chains have stumbled and faltered for 2 years, basic food stuffs such as baby formula are nowhere to be found, the global food supply is now in question, jobless claims are on a rapid rise, 64% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, FED printing is so out if control that 40% of our money supply has been printed within the past 2 years, bonds have inverted, we have paid $8trillion in failed wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans, tucked tail in a hastily planned and even more poorly executed withdrawal that saw people falling from aircraft as they raced out of Kabul, and now one half of our population has lost complete confidence in our electoral system and our political and military leadership.
With this, I believe I ask in quite a fair manner, why should we the people support spending $40billion dollars in Ukraine – a nation that hosts the largest Nazi military formation since Hitlers Germany – to kill Russians? Why waste our dwindling treasure and political power on useless proxy wars at the further expense of the American taxpayer? Should it not be seen as objectionable and dangerous to the average American citizen to engage in proxy war, or hot war for that matter, with a nuclear armed nation capable of striking and destroying any and all US cities if they so wish? For even those who push this proxy war (and all its funding of money and arms) have said that Putin is unstable, not to be trusted, and capable of anything. If this be a fact, there should end the question of our actions. As great as it would be to the purses and power of those so in favor of war and profiteering, if we are truly bound to recognize our current reality we must not acquiesce to more funding and arms. And further, should Congress act in violation of its constitutional duty by not declaring war when they are most certainly ensuring that we are active participants in one, this is yet another gross violation of the Constitution and a salted finger in the eye of every American. Going to war shouldn’t require us to make elaborate logical associations or be persuaded by emotional pleas & speeches. What justifies war is an urgent necessity to avoid the immediate death of one’s own society, nation, or people. Until that metric is met, war is avoidable.
Therefore, until the situation at home is remedied – and our homes urgently threatened by an aggressor – and until Congress acts on its own authority to declare war, we must unanimously reject these petitions to fund and participate in foreign proxy wars.
I feel that I might terminate the discussion here. It has been easily and quite simply demonstrated that the petition to fund this proxy war at a time such that our own country struggles at home in a variety of ways and is neither engaged with nor threatened by this foreign adversary on our own shores, has left me wholly unconvinced on any point that we must move forward in this cause. I have been told that killing Russians to the tune of $40billion is an opportunity to expand our hegemony on a shoestring budget. That no better deal exists to kill Russians anywhere at any time, and that further a war between Russian and Ukraine should be seen as an “opportunity” to weaken a nation whom I have been reliably informed that we are in a severe arms race with. The $800billion we spend a year on our own military budget, while dwarfing the Russian budget, is not nearly enough they exclaim! That this $40billion will give us not only an unprecedented edge geopolitically and militarily, but that it will provide for so many dead Russians that we will one day have the opportunity to champion the successes of the Western installed government under President Zelensky in Ukraine.
Well, let’s spend a minute to talk about the Western installed government in Ukraine. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is in no way organic. Go back to 2014 when Victoria Nuland & Geoffrey Pyatt were caught discussing fomenting a revolution in Ukraine to oust the democratically elected government so that they may install a Western friendly administration, as well as their expectation that one day Russia will be forced to act against this Intelligence Coup.
Western outlets referred to this as “Pretty Impressive Tradecraft”. A short examination of the situation shows quite clearly that the 2014 far-right coup in Kiev, instigated by Western Intelligence Operations, overthrew Ukraine's elected pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. This coup was openly supported by US and European governments and implemented primarily by far-right shock troops such as the Right Sector and the neo-Nazi Svoboda Party. The coup represented the culmination of long-standing efforts by the US to install a Pro-West regime on the borders of Russia and brought the world a major step closer to a war between the largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia.
Internationally, pseudo-left forces such as the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in the US, the New Anti-capitalist Party of France (NPA), and the Russian Socialist Movement (RSM) proclaimed this a “revolution”, when it was in fact a Western Intelligence Operation.
The popular doctrine of former US security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski as published in "The Grand Chessboard" helps us understand that those in Washington, DC view Americas capacity to exercise global primacy as directly related to our ability to prevent “the emergence of a dominant and antagonistic Eurasian power.”
Brzezinski is further quoted as saying “Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played.” Zelensky, a man bound to the US by a myriad of political and economic ties gives the US a strategically important, possibly crucial position on Brzezinski’s global chessboard.
While the US government has sought for a long time to remove Ukraine from the sphere of Russian influence, its support for Yushchenko and now Zelensky represent the outward face of a complex web of intelligence ops that have culminated in the largest land war in Europe since WW2. And if we consider that the European Union receives nearly 20% of its oil and 44% of its gas imports from Russia, with 80% of these products passing through Ukrainian pipelines, the significance of the balance of power in Ukraine for the economic future of Europe becomes clear.
Our government cares no more for the average Ukrainian than they do for the average Russian or EU citizen. This is about power. This is about primacy. This is global politics played at the highest, most dangerous level. Any support for either side means we have been played., and dangerously so!
My friends, it is our duty to remove every angle of faulty reasoning, to leave not a shadow of a doubt in the heads of those so preoccupied with “the current thing”, that I must continue with my objections on the subject. As those in favor of the action have spoken at every opportunity, so too must I now expand upon explaining the dangerous course they plot. We have heard from those in Congress and those in what we are told to believe is the majority in many vague generalities and assumptions with little attention to the facts. And it is not that the chance to speak on the facts has not arisen, no my friends, but rather that the facts in this situation are quite inconvenient to the cause they so wish to pursue.
The facts are as follows:
At 40-year high, inflation is expected to hit new records moving forward in 2022 and beyond. U.S. inflation data hit a multidecade high last month (April) as gas prices and rents skyrocketed, climbing to 8.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
US Consumer confidence has fallen to the lowest rate in more than a decade at 59.1%, according to the University of Michigan who has tracked these figures for several decades.
Our Stock Market is in such a decline that almost across the board we see a strict decline. The Dow 30, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Bitcoin have all lost value in 2022. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq are now well below where they were at the start of the year, down 16 percent, 12 percent, and 26 percent, respectively, as of market open on Wednesday May 11.
Gas and oil prices in the US continue to hit record highs. The average cost of a gallon of fuel is nearly $4.45/gal, whereas just a year ago gas was trading under $3/gal. Brent crude continues to trade at over $100/barrel and looks to have no intention of slowing down. And all of this continues while our own irresponsible and inept leadership makes low-effort and clumsy administrative action such as releasing fuel from the strategic reserves and sending that fuel to Europe as opposed to keeping it at home to help our own citizens.
National and Global supply chain issues threaten to bring modern economies to a standstill and set back everything from manufacturing to basic consumerism. All aspects of economy that fall between the extraction of raw materials to the consumption and usage of final products are threatened by the state globally fractured supply chains. Producers are still struggling to keep up with demand, and labor shortages in key industries, such as trucking, durable goods manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade continue to exacerbate bottlenecks. Elevated prices, delays, and general market uncertainty will certainly persist under our current national leadership and the Supranational Communist leadership currently meeting at Davos.
Baby Formula within our own nation has disappeared at an alarming rate. 40% of our supply has disappeared and is no where close to returning. Our own President has resorted to using a War Powers act to airlift baby formula from Europe into the United States. Not only that, but the capacity which we can ship is certainly far short of that which is required in the immediate and no where close to what will be needed in the long-term. The first flight carried 70,000lbs of formula. This sounds like a tremendous sum. Yet when we examine this amount, we understand it is only enough formula for 31,000 6-month-old babies to each eat for one day. And we have 4million children in this country who feed at the breast or via formula. Are we to expect this airlift to meet such demands? Hardly!
The global food supply is at risk. Globally, levels of hunger remain alarmingly high. In 2021, they surpassed all previous records as reported by the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), with close to 193 million people acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according to the findings of the GRFC 2022. Russia, which accounts for around 14% of global fertilizer exports, has temporarily suspended outgoing trade, which is expected to have a strong ripple effect across global food markets. India followed suit and has now banned the export of Wheat. At the same time here at home US Rail Carriers are cutting US fertilizer, grain and coal shipments by 20% or more in an attempt to catch up and meet backlogs. The limits will affect fertilizer deliveries to Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California from its plants in Louisiana and Iowa who produce the bulk of American agricultural receipts. Fertilizer, Grain and Coal are all being throttled in their shipments to these MAJOR producers at what is perhaps the most critical time of year to make sure planting occurs on schedule so that output is maximized. In addition to this, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), which diesel engine vehicles such as semi-trucks require for their mandated emissions control systems are also being limited. Farming relies on semi-trucks for a whole host of end-to-end production and delivery actions. Global food supply prices have risen sharply since 2020, shortages are appearing across the system, major wheat and grain production issues due to conflict in Ukraine loom large, and now 6 of the 7 largest food producing states in the US face new shortages prior to planting.
The labor market remains the tightest it has ever been. The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits risen over the last week to 248,000 according to the Labor Department.
The Federal Reserve has practiced unwise monetary policy and dollar printing, bolstering balance sheets with worthless fiat to the point that 40% of dollars on global balance sheets have been printed in the past 2 years. This concept of printing our way out of collapse is complete nonsense and has never worked for any nation or civilization in decline in the history of humankind. With Quantitative Easing or QE, also known as open market operations the Fed buys an asset from a financial institution and pays for it with money it simply creates out of thin air. We are led by the unwise who are accelerating the destruction of our national economy, and with it the global order.
Bonds have inverted and are in a downward spiraling. We’re currently facing the worst bond drawdown in history as the global bond market dumped $2.6Trillion based on the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index. The drawdown has now edged past the 10.8% drop in the global bond index during the 2008 crisis. The 2s/10s, 5s/10s, and 5s/30s have all inverted recently (or still are inverted) as investors price in an aggressive rate-hiking plan by the Federal Reserve as it attempts to bring inflation down from 40-year highs. In March, the difference between the US 2-year (just under 2.40%) and 10-year (just under 2.40%) yields just fell below 0.0% (or "inverted") for the first time since 2019. Over the past 70 years, this has been a reliable indicator that a recession is coming within the next 18-24 months. There is "at least" a one-in-three chance the US economy will have a recession over the next 12 months, said Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.
We just conclude 2 major wars that resulted in a loss of American treasure and lives that lasted 2 decades. Neither of these wars resulted in a major American victory but left us conducting police actions among a guerilla population keen on seeing us slowly bleed. As we tucked tail in Afghanistan, we saw the images of a small force of Americans surrounded at Kabul International and forced to negotiate with the Taliban. They left behinds hundreds of Americans, $80billion dollars’ worth of equipment, and saw 13 dead service members during the departure. With this we saw hundreds of thousands of Afghans scrambling for the relative safety of the airport and as aircraft were taking off Afghans were falling from the aircraft to their death. This, along with the occupation of our own Capital by Federal Troops, has resulted in much of America no longer having confidence in our political and military leadership.
We are a people led by a President who, for the first time since the American Civil War, has led a standing army into our own streets and occupied an American city for months on end. We saw 2 entire Divisions worth of soldiers patrolling and occupying our nation’s Capital all because our current crop of leaders were afraid of the reaction of the citizenry to what was seen as a faulty and corrupt Presidential election.
All of this is just a brief look at the State of the American Experience. The Social Fabric of America is no more united or sane. As I have said before in “Social Fabric – Religion, Education, Family”:
“The silencing publicly of Traditional Americans be it on Twitter, Facebook, at School Boards, Academia, or in Corporate Environments has produced an atmosphere of repression, which has made the need for actual repressive lawfare mostly unnecessary. The effect has been to reinforce the atmosphere of repression as much as to enforce it as law or fact.”
“The maintenance of Ruling Class power inevitably becomes increasingly difficult to maintain as the world changes and shifts. However, the likelihood of their actions increasing in proportion to the difficulty in maintenance is guaranteed. There is no chance of such a group willingly ceding power. Every effort is made in media, tech, government, and the industries they control to persuade any who are malleable that the people responsible for the growing insecurity and perceived radicalism rests not with the Ruling Class, but with Traditional Americans.”
“The Ruling Class is bound by its own survival to adopt such a stance, rather than face the changing nature of reality.
“As a society whose norms and morays, health and educational practices, family structure and biological existences have now shifted at the behest of the malignant progressive establishment, we have to recognize the elephant in the room harming our children and families: Progressivism.”
The damaged nation I have just described in not unanimous in thought nor is it led by wise or brilliant leaders. The nation I have just described is not ready for foreign action and appears unfortunately for Liberty on the back end of a hegemonic bell curve meaning we are in no place whatsoever to throw $40billion dollars into a proxy war with a nuclear power. We can’t even feed our own babies or come to an agreement on biological sex. We are a broken people led by two contemptable and corrupt parties whose leading members are in service is to international bankers and globalists – the everyday citizen is not their concern.
I take no pleasure in speaking to the most unfortunate reality of our current situation. I have spoken truths that hurt – they hurt as an American, they hurt as an American who wants a simple and kind prosperity for the generations of Americans yet to come, and they hurt as an America who is an ardent lover of Liberty. The Uni-Party Leadership in Washington is prepared to fund war one way or another. In this they seem determined. As responsible citizens, we must stand prepared to meet them for such actions are not in the general interest of our nation. From this position we must not surrender and must make our voices heard. Call, write, visit, vote, put forward a candidate, or run for office – Speak to the State of America as it exists and require responsibility from those whose purpose is Representation. And remember, that responsibility is not to some foreign land or people but to YOU – The American Citizen.
Be Kind To Your Neighbors,
Cultural Husbandry, 1776/2022
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Thank you for all you’re doing to bring truth out from under a bushel. It’s much appreciated.