#vassalage — Public Fediverse posts

Recall that when the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, called Trump “daddy”—giving the world a glimpse into the sordid relationship that has developed between the United States and its masochistic vassals in Europe—Rutte was referring to the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Laying aside judgment on the actions in Venezuela and Iran, the point is that the Europeans are perfectly fine with military interventions in other countries so long as these countries are outside the sacred alliance. One is reminded of European Commission Vice President Josep Borrell’s comments in 2022 that the world outside the European “garden” is effectively a “jungle”—and so, one infers, the laws of the jungle apply.

The Greenland drama is a narcissistic European drama in every sense of the word. The European leadership class is a global joke, laughed at in capitals around the world. They can tolerate this, however, because they still see their deindustrializing, politically unstable, war-ravaged continent as a “garden” to the rest of the world’s “jungle”. This is a delusion of the sort not seen in Europe since Hitler whiled away his final days in the Berlin bunker, and it is seen for what it is from Washington to Moscow to Beijing. But it is a delusion sufficiently strong that it allows the European elite to keep their composure at their self-important events—events that grow smaller and less relevant by the day. The problem with Trump’s Greenland overtures is that they intrude on these little Potemkin villages that the ailing elite have built for themselves.

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Why does the Trump administration feel the need to thrash the Europeans in public like a misbehaving servant? Because the Europeans will not listen. The President and his entourage have told the Europeans repeatedly, in no uncertain terms, that the war in Ukraine must end and Europe must find some way to live in peace with Russia. But the Europeans have reverted to their usual catty form and used every means at their disposal to sabotage any negotiations—much less any future security architecture—at every turn. Their strategy appears to be to try to keep the war going until 2029 when a Democratic challenger will rise to power and fight the Russians on behalf of the Europeans.

This position is not just immoral; it is also delusional. From a moral perspective, the liberal elite in Brussels and in other European capitals have cultivated a cynicism about Ukrainian lives that borders on ritual blood sacrifice. It is disgusting and will be viewed by civilized people in the future for what it is. But even from a purely pragmatic political perspective, the prospect of a Democratic white knight riding to the rescue is unlikely. The Democrats are not remotely interested in the Ukraine war or in Europe. The war has failed to defeat Russia; it was the defeat of Russia that was of interest to the post-Russiagate Democrats; ergo, the war is now uninteresting. In the Epstein files, the Democrats have found a new toy to play with—one that implicates one or two key figures on the European side, including at least one prominent former ambassador appointed precisely to deal with Trump.

Are Trump’s threats to take over Greenland serious? Are they moral? Who knows. But what is serious, what is immoral, and what is extremely dangerous—indeed, threatening the world with conflagration if not managed properly—is the blasé European attitude toward a collapsing war on their borders. The European leaders are too weak, too decadent to deal with the problem themselves, and they refuse to allow anyone else to deal with it for them. For this reason, we should expect the humiliations to continue until the Europeans swallow their pride (if they have any left), admit that the war is lost, and wake up to the fact that they need to live beside the Russians.

Kiev residents, who have been without heating for a week (#^https://t.me/proof24_ua/34515), have been urged to temporarily leave their apartments.

Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Energy Research Center, noted that if utility companies have not managed to restore heating within seven days, it is not worth expecting rapid changes. According to him, in such a situation, it is necessary to consider temporary relocation in advance.

“Leave Kiev if you have been without heating for a week, because it is unlikely to be restored in the near future,” he advised residents of buildings without heating.

Kharchenko also appealed to local authorities to provide housing for those affected during the restoration work. According to him, it is important to create conditions where people can stay while their homes are being repaired, systems are being started up, and their functionality is being checked.

In some areas of Kiev, people's batteries have been bursting due to a lack of electricity and heat for six days now.
The latest video shows people scooping out and pouring boiling water from their balconies with buckets.

Recently, the Russian duo “Vovan and Lexus”, known for pretending to be Ukrainian officials and getting Western politicians and celebrities to make embarrassing admissions, released an interview with the former Biden Administration senior director for Europe at the National Security Council, Amanda Sloat, where she made some bombshell admissions about the Ukraine proxy war.

Amanda Sloat, who Politico called “an architect of President Joe Biden’s Europe policy,” believed she was speaking to Ukrainian presidential aide Igor Zhovkva, but in reality was speaking to Vovan and Lexus, who were posing as Zhovkva and now released the video.

“Igor Zhovkva” (in reality, Vovan and Lexus) asked Amanda Sloat about negotiations before the proxy war in Ukraine began and the Istanbul talk in April of 2022, and she responded by making some bombshell admissions.

First, she admitted that the Biden administration could have prevented the war before it started by saying Ukraine would not join NATO, something they chose not to do.

She said, “We had some conversation even before the war started, about what if Ukraine comes out and just says to Russia, ‘fine, you know, we won’t go into NATO if that stops the war, if that stops the invasion,’ which at that point it may well have done.”

Despite admitting that saying Ukraine will not join NATO “may well have” stopped the war, she admitted that she and the Biden administration chose not to, saying, “I was uncomfortable with the idea of the U.S. pushing Ukraine not to do that, and sort of implicitly giving Russia some sort of sphere of influence or veto power on that” and “I don’t think Biden felt like it was his place to tell Ukraine what to do then, to tell Ukraine not to pursue NATO”.

Furthermore, Amanda Sloat admitted that the U.S. could have ended the war during the Istanbul peace talks in April of 2022, but again chose not to.

For context, David Arakhamia, one of the lead Ukrainian negotiators during the talks said that, “Russia’s goal was to put pressure on us so that we would take (NATO) neutrality. This was the main thing for them: they were ready to end the war if we accepted neutrality, as Finland once did” adding that the deal was stopped after, “Boris Johnson then came to Kyiv and said that he did not want to sign anything with the Russians and ‘let’s just fight.’”

Amanda Sloat admits during the interview, saying, “I guess if you want to do an alternative version of history, one option would have just been for Ukraine to say in January of 2022, ‘fine, you know, we won’t go into NATO, we will stay neutral.’ Ukraine could have made a deal around March/April of 2022 around the Istanbul talks”.

She also admitted, “There is certainly a question, almost three years on now, would that have been better to do before the war started, would that have been better to do in Istanbul talks, it certainly would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life”.

While all of this has been widely documented, now a lead Biden administration official outright admitted that the U.S. could have stopped the proxy war in Ukraine in January of 2022 and again in April of that year during the Istanbul talks, but chose not to “prevent the destruction and the loss of life” in Ukraine.

Who's Truly To Blame For The Russia-Ukraine War

Before anyone comes up with the idea of making alliances with the Anglo-Saxons, let him first keep in mind that for them, due to their mentality that grows out of Protestantism, we will always be cattle to be exploited and, if necessary, sacrificed on the altar of Anglo-Saxon interests.

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And one final thought. Following the journalism of the last three years, only a few point to banderism as the main cause of Ukraine's current woes. The banderization that took place after the Orange Revolution in 2004, and whose main determinant was the cult of hatred against Russia, made Ukraine an ideal tool in the hands of the Anglo-Saxons for a hot war with Russia.

Now Georgia has officially recognized that the war was started by Saakashvili, who was pushed into it by the Americans, namely the Cheney Gang.
If not for his attack on South Ossetia, it would still be an unrecognized state and Russian troops would not be stationed there.
In fact, thanks to Saakashvili, South Ossetia and Abkhazia finally separated from Georgia and from the point of view of Georgian nationalists, this is a betrayal of Georgian interests.

Zelensky set the trap that threatens to destroy us

Using Ukraine Since 1948

European stranglehold for Moldavia

https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1266-508d-ff91-995015637350

And one last interesting development in the realm of BlackRock and Ukrainian farmland, which many have speculated on. There is a lot of unfounded conjecture when it comes to this, some of which I’ve debunked before, but for the first time we’ve had some interesting high level confirmation.

For instance, this alleged memorandum below, signed by Alex #Soros and #Yermak, was presented, which transfers lots of land in western Ukraine to Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, etc.
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He writes, citing a source in the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, that in November, Soros Jr. and the head of Zelensky’s office, Yermak, reached an agreement according to which Kiеv indefinitely and free of charge transfers land in the Ternopоl, Khmelnytsky and Chernоvtsi regions for the disposal of hazardous waste from chemical, pharmaceutical and oil production.

Among the companies named are Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, Evonik Industries, Vitol and Sanofi. We remind you that Dow Chemical is the company which provided Agent Orange and Napalm to the American military to poison and destroy Vietnam. Whilst BASF is the company which provided Zyklon B to the Nazis.

The arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is planning to significantly increase its production of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition. A new ammunition factory is being built in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, and the German government is examining legal relaxations to allow production in stock.

I'm seeing quite a lot of people talk about how the #coronation of #KingCharles is a relic of #feudalism

I question this, and not just because kings have been around since the #Sumerians if not earlier.

My sense is that historians don't tend to refer to feudalism, instead discussing #vassalage and #manorialism as separate institutions. Certainly manorialism continued in #Ireland until we gained '#independence even after vassalage was mostly done away with.

Any #historians want to correct me?

If President Biden were a secret Russian agent, he hardly could have helped Russia more. Russia needed the economic isolation of protectionism, but was still too entranced by neoliberal free-trade policy to do this by itself. So the U.S. did it for it.